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  • Tuesday, September 24, 1968 THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN Page 3 Administrative and Faculty New Personnel Toke Office Blount Speaks On Disorder By GERALD MATHENY Gerald N. Hardy will fill a newly created position in the VVCL administration staff this fall. He will serve as director for university development at Western. Dr. Alex S. Pow, WCU President, said Hardy, a specialist in public affairs, government management and institutional development, will have primary responsibility for representing the university with business and industry. He also will have a principal responsibility in the GERALD N HARDY development of federal and other contract and grant support for Western Carolina programs. "We are pleased to bring to Western Carolina a man of Mr. Hardy's experience and ability," Dr. Pow said. "He will be a valuable addition to the university administration at a time when the institution is entering a new stage of development," Lt, Col. Merrill M, Lemke, post engineer at Fort MoClel- lan, Ala., has been appointed plant enginner for Western Carolina University. His appointment to the staff of the Division of Business Affairs was announced by Dr. Pow as being effective Aug. 15. Lemke will be in charge of the operation and maintenance of the physical plant, and supervision of construction and engineering projects. According to James E. Kirk- Patrick, business manager and head of the division, "Lt. CoL Lemke's experience in the construction, operation and maintenance of military facilities will be of great value in the supervision of Western Carolina University's own rapidly expanding physical plant." Academics Dr. Taft Botner, head of the Department of Teaching at WCU for a number of years, became the dean of the School of Education and Psychology July 1, according to an announcement by past president Dr. Paul A. Reid Dr. Botner succeeded Dr. Carl D. Killian who retired, The new dean is widely known in the state, region and nation for his work in the field of teacher education. A member of numerous professional organizations, he serves as a consulant to educational associations, public schools and to other colleges and universities. Also on July 1, Jim Gudger, head basketball coach since 1950, became acting director of athletics. Gudger succeeded Tom Young, long-time WCU athletic director who assumed other duties at his request, Gudger will continue to serve as head basketball coach. He is first vice-president of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Basketball Coaches, chairman of the NAIA National Tournament Committee and a member of the United States Olympic Basketball Committee, Dr. John J, Chapman, Arkansas geologist and educator, has accepted appointment as head of the Department of Earth Sciences at WCU, according to Dr. J, G. Filer, Dean of the school of arts and sciences. He will begin his duties at WCU this fall after leaving Southern State College in Magnolia, Ark. According to Eller, Cnapman is a highly trained and widely experienced scientist who will strengthen the earth science program greatly. Chapman has served as a consulting geologist to industry in oil and gas, water supply, mineral survey and engineering geology as well as his academic responsibilities at Southern State. Art Department A new Department of Art has been organized from the old Department of Fine and Industrial Arts. Dr. Perry Kelly of Raleigh, state art supervisor of the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, has been named head of this new department, Dr. Rodney L. Leftwich will continue as head of the Department of Industrial Arts. The new art curriculum, Dr. EUer says will seek to adequately prepare students who have a serious interest in studio art careers, as well PERRY KELLY as those who plan to teach art at the college, secondary or elementary school levels. Dr, L Ann Buntin, one of the leading home economists in the United States, will join the W'JU faculty this fall as head of the Department of Home Economics, Her appointment is the first step in developing a broadened Project She has also held significient posts at several other well-known universities, program of home economics education and service to the region. Dr. Buntin served for three years (1959-62) in Tel A/iv with a U S, aid mission as home education advisor to the Research Foundation, State University of New York-Israel Pre-Session . . From page I be allowed in the dorms with a study made of U.N.C. at Chapel Hill. 9. That the regulations governing the transportation of alcoholic beverages in cars on campus be the same as those on NX, highways. 10. That we investigate the legality of the Universtiy administration's ability to charge a student for a parking ticket (The complete list of recommendations passed by the Pre-Session Conference will be made available to the Student Body at a later date.) According to most of the delegates to the convention, the 34th Pre-Session Conference was a great success. Bob Thomas, Vice-President of the Student Body, stated, "Although most of the recommendations passed by previous conferences have not been carried out, I feel that we really accomplished something this year." Dennis Perry, President of Men's House Government, replied, "We had a lot better organization this year, and we also had much more representation from the students," Although there was better organization this year that in the past, the conference was not without faults. The last day of meetings was marked by a flair of tempers. One of the student delegates made a suggestion that the faculty and administration guests at the meeting be asked to leave, because of the disturbance they were making. Due to this suggestion Taylor Huskins, Vice- President in charge of Student Affairs and sponsor of the Pre- Session Conference, threatened to dissolve the conference if the suggestion was accepted by the rest of the delegates. Mr. Baxter Wood, Director of. the University Center,said that he would lock the doors to the building and not allow the delegates to return, Charles Sutton, who presided over the meetings, stated, "If we had been put out of the University- Center, we were prepared to finish our conference on .the lawn in front of the building." The recommendation for th% guests to leave was not passed by the members of the conference and the visitors were asked to return for the remainder of the meetings. However, the delegates to the convention did take a hard line stand in regards to the administration's failure to accomplish any of the recommendations passed by previous Pre-Session Conferences and stated that more pressure should be brought to bear in order to see this year's proposals accepted, The Brothers of TAU KAPPA EPSliON Welcome All New Students America is a nation in conflict, the president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States said here recently, but its problems are arising from success rather than failure, "We need to remem'oer that this is a growing, prosperous nation , , , and nrt a nation coming apart at the team* or on the brink of disaster, Winton M Blount declared At the same time, he warned that "derisive and demagogic elements of leadership--both on the left and on the right - are doing irreparable harm to our nation " These leaders, he said, "arouse vast passions -both of support and opposition—and out of those passions arise an atmosphere of violence and anarch}," The greatest challenge facing America toda.\, Blount said, may be "the serious spiritual problems that are beginning to emerge in our society." The symptoms of these major social problems, he said, are everywhere: "dissension, distrust, violence, assasinations, rising crime rates, irrational protest, and anarchism," Blount, president of Blount Brothers Corp,, a giant in the construction industry, spoke at summer commencement ceremonies at Western Carolina I niversity. A total of 287 students received degrees. He declared that "a rising ride" of protest, urban riots, student revolts, strikes by public employees, threats from the Poor Peoples' March has been seen in recent months. Now, he said, crime, delinquency and disregard for law have increased to an extent "That people in big cities often fear to take an evening stroll,'" In the face of these conditions, Blount said, "whether we like it or not, I believe our first step must be to use police power and authority whenever order i s threatened by mob action of any kind "This is absolutely necessary to the democratic process in a highly populated so ciety. Human rights, in the final analysis, cannot exist in a chaotic and disorderly society." Frustration in the cities and even on the campus "may be understandable, but its expression in irrational mob action cannot be tolerated by the larger society," he said, "The most disturbing thing is that much of this disorder in the civil rights movement, campus revolts, and labor strikes is condoned by intellectuals and opinion leaders as a method of progress. It is high time for our leaders to reassert order and reason as the best method of progress," he said Blount said he believes the student generation "must discover some firm and meaningful values to guide it, Many young people are slipping anchor on most of the guiding principles of earlier generations, but have yet to find their own." In the midst of national conflict in ideas, ideals, identifi- WINTON M, BLOUNT cations, and in the cities, on the campuses, and in beliefs, Americans, Blount said, must keep their perspective. "Don't lose sight of the fact that we are dealing with the problems of success and not the problems of failure, and I assure you that the situations are vastly different." Unemployment is a problem, he said, but "96 per cent of our working population" is employed Better housing and a better way of life is a national concern, he said, but "The vast majority of Americans live rich and rewarding lives," Blount said "I do not mean to discount the tragedy and degradation of those who live in squalor, despair, and hopelessness, but I submit that our system has provided for the vast majority of our people a way of life unparalleled in the history of the world" Business, labor, government and virtually all sectors of society, he said, must achieve greater flexibility, and must become more adaptable to CONDINUFD page 7 , . , The Brothers of DELTA SIGMA PHI Welcome All New Students rhe Brothers of * PI KAPPA ALPHA Welcome All New Students
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