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  • WesTEi^f QardLiMiaM VOKi: OF THE STUDENTS* VOL. XXXVIII No. 55 Thursday May 3, 1973 Western Carolina University Cullowhee, North Carolina Board of trustees vice chairman Tom Mallonee of Candler, chairman Jack Abbot , Canton and Chancellor Jack Carlton listened as student body president Dwight Nelson told them what he thought about the housing contract. The board adopted it, and Nelson walked out. ,„ ■„ .. _ • , (Staff photo by R. Paul Smith) >♦»»»*»»»»•»»»»»»»»♦♦»»»♦♦»»♦♦»♦♦»♦♦»»♦♦♦♦♦»»♦»»♦♦♦♦»♦♦»♦»»$♦♦♦ Dr. Hendrix Announces Resignation Dr. James P. Hendrix, Jr., assistant professor of history, yesterday announced his resignation effective June 30. Hendrix has accepted a position as head of the history department of Greenhill School a college preparatory school in Dallas, Texas. In his letter of resignation Hendrix said, "I had looked forward to a long and rewarding relationship with Western Carolina University, its students, faculty, and staff. Un« fortunately, the recent administrative direction of the University has become totally unacceptable to my view of the needs of the school." Hendrix, 31, said last night that it was "with incomprehensible regret that we have to leave. "We never would have left this year had it not been for the activities of Chancellor Carlton and Vice Chancellor Wilson." Dr. Ellerd Hulbert, head of the history department, said last night he accepted Hendrix's resignation with "great regret." "Mr. Hendrix is one of the most dedicated and effective teachers in this university. His understanding of and loyalty to the principles and objectives of university education are deep." Hendrix said Carlton and Wilson's actions are "totally antithetical of the needs of this University and the direction it should take." "Instead of going about the business of making this the superior univerity that this can be, we have wasted a whole year," When asked his feeling concerning the Mure of WCU, Hendrix said "Unless some dramatic changes are made, I fear a steady deterioration of the situation with the better faculty leaving, and the better students leaving." Hendrix fears a "general disintegration of the educational atmosphere of the university." "it will take a great deal of effort just to get us back to where we were lastAugust," Deposit Policy Dropped At WCU By Alice WCU students will not be required to pay an advance tuition deposit for next year, W. Glenn Hardesty, Director of Student Aid, announced Tuesday. The $50 advance deposit for continuing students and the $100 deposit for new students have been cancelled after the approval of a resolution to that effect by the Board of Governors of the consolidated North Carolina university system. The requirement for an advance tuition deposit was adopted by the 1971 N.C. General Assembly and was made mandatory last spring for all entering and continuing students in the North Carolina university system. This year, the deposit requirement was repealed and made optional for each institution, WCU officials have decided to drop the deposit policy. The purpose of the early deposit was to give administrators a more definite idea of the numbers of students who would be returning in the fall. According to Doyle Dillard, vice chancellor for business affairs, the mandatory deposit was not effective because many returning students did not make the payment last spring. Students who have already Harrill made the $50 or $100 deposit will have this amount credited to their account and it will be deducted from their tuition fee in September, Dillard said. Jackson To Get Airport By Gay White The Federal Aviation Administration has allocated $686,500 for a Jackson County Airport, according to Congressman Roy A. Taylor, Funds are to be included in the 1974 appropriations, he said. Total cost of the project is set at $1,373,000, The airport is to be located about five miles north of the WCU campus on Berry Ridge at an elevation of 2,854 feet. The facility proposes to have a paved runway 3,500 feet long, with development potential for lengthening it to 5,400 feet, or over a mile long. The ridge consists of one CONTINUED Page 2 . . . . Housing Contract Under Fire The student member of the Western Carolina University board of trustees walked out of a board meeting Wednesday afternoon after denouncing a proposal that would require students to sign a nine-months contract if they live in residence halls next year. Dwight Nelson, student body president, vigorously opposed the contract concept during board discussion. When the eight other trustees approved the "principle" of the contract, Nelson left, About 15 student spectators followed him from the room. The proposal for a housing contract, under discussion in University committees for about 18 months, was developed to bring a stabilized budget to the housing operation, acting vice chancellor for student development Douglas Davis told the board. Although no final contract has been developed, the concept would require that once a student takes a residence hall room, he would be contractually bound for the year. Moving out of a hall to private housing during the contract period would result in payment of a penalty equal to one quarter's room rent, In presenting the proposal, Dr. Ebvis said a stabilized housing operations budget is necessary before needed renovations, repairs, and improvements to buildings and residence hall program activities can be planned for the university year. All residence halls in recent years at WCU were constructed on a self-liquidating basis with the bonded indebtedness to be retired from room rental receipts, paid by students. Among the students leaving with Nelson was Harold Rogers, student body president-elect. Rogers, however, returned to the meeting moments later and remained. He will become a trustee when Nelson's term expires later this month. Nelson told the board that "you're going to lose 25 per cent of your students" if it OK'd the proposal. "Most of your students aren't going to bat an eye at moving off campus . , , (and) in about five years, you're going to have a 3,000-student campus." Nelson said board minutes should show that the reason for the contract is economic, that guaranteed income from room rents is designed to produce a bigger housing budget, Davis denied it, saying there is no reason to believe the budget would be larger and added that the move would be aimed at fixing the budget at some assured level. One draft of a contract that had been drawn during the study period, Nelson said, "is one of the most one-sided documents ever written. "There's not a thing in here that students don't have now," he said, and suggested that the contract should be drawn by William Scott, University attorney. Later Wednesday, Scott was placed in full charge of the matter by Chancellor Jack K. Carlton. In approving the concept of a housing contract, the board authorized its student affairs committee, under the chairmanship of trustee Robert L, Edwards of Mars Hill, to act on a contract after one has been developed by Scott and student representatives. Although Nelson described that action "as giving a blank check," he said later that he was glad Scott was assigned to the task. Proposals by the Student Development office for a housing contract have aroused student newspaper opposition, and in recent campus elections all of the students seeking the offices of president and vice president campaigned against it, The proposal had been scheduled for board consideration last December but was removed from the agenda by Carlton who directed that further study be given the matter by the Student Development office and student and faculty committees. Although approved in principle by the Faculty- Administration Senate's student affairs committee, the contract was defeated by the Student Senate 20-1 April 24. Since then, further efforts to revise the contract to a form more generally acceptable to students had been under way, according to an administration spokesman. Wednesday afternoon, in a letter distributed to students in the residence halls, Carlton informed them that the board, in approving the principle, had delayed action on the contract, and that he had appointed Scott to work further with students in trying to arrive at a contract that "insofar as possible" would satisfy student concerns and university objectives. Nelson, in stating his objections, noted that over 800 students have signed a petition opposing the housing contract. The petition began circulating in the halls Tuesday afternoon, he said. In further board discussion, it was disclosed by Housing Director Tyler Combs that financial reserves for residence hall indebtedness should be about $430,000 but presently are almost non-existent. Nelson maintained that this is not the fault of students but blamed it on "sloppy management," Other board members, however, said the housingbudget's financial problems are real and cannot be ignored, CONTINUED Page 2 . . . .
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