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Tom Bello is sworn in as student body president
Tom Bello, who ran as an independent, was sworn in as president of the UNC student body, with Bill Blue as vice president and Ann Rothe also among the new leaders of Student Government.
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Student Legislature passes a resolution calling a class boycott over the invasion of Cambodia
On the night of Nixon's Cambodia announcement the Student Legislature passed a resolution urging students to boycott classes on May 6. Student Body President Tom Bello called the strike and a student body meeting the next day, before the Kent State killings turned the one-day boycott into a general strike.
People: Tom Bello
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UNC student strike of
After the Kent State shootings and the invasion of Cambodia, UNC students began a class boycott on May 5, 1970, and more than 4,000 people marched through downtown Chapel Hill the next day. Classes were not cancelled; the faculty instead voted to let striking students take grades on work completed or finish courses later.
Part of UNC’s student strike against the Vietnam War, May 1970
People: J. Carlyle Sitterson · Tom Bello
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The student body meets in Polk Place and more than 4,000 march through downtown Chapel Hill behind four coffins
Tom Bello chaired an emergency meeting of the student body in Polk Place, then led a march half a mile long down Franklin Street behind four coffins for the Kent State dead; estimates ran from 4,000 to 6,000. That night 900 students planned the boycott, 2,500 held a candlelight memorial at McCorkle Place and marched again down Franklin Street, and strikers camped in Polk Place for an all-night vigil.
People: Tom Bello
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Student Government's 'The Strike Continues?' release turns the strike toward canvassing and calls a Memorial Hall teach-in
Tom Bello's Student Government press release declared that rallies alone would not end the war and redirected the strike, which it said now involved well over half the student body, toward canvassing, petitions and visits to Congress. It announced a faculty panel on the war for 3 p.m. Monday, May 11 in Memorial Hall with Samuel Wells, James Leutze, Andrew Scott, Daniel Pollitt and David Lapkin.
People: Tom Bello
Subject: Memorial Hall
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Students sit in at South Building and hand Chancellor Sitterson a petition of 800 names confessing to the disruption policy
Seventy-five to 100 students occupied the South Building lobby for over an hour to protest the trustees' disruption policy and its use against three students charged after the December cafeteria strike. Three were admitted to Chancellor Sitterson's office with a petition of 800 UNC students indicting themselves for violating the policy during the strike's first days; Sitterson said the matter lay with President Friday. Bello and the strike steering committee condemned the sit-in.
People: J. Carlyle Sitterson · William C. Friday · Tom Bello
Subject: South Building
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Tom Bello asks students to nominate candidates for chancellor
With Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson returning to teaching, student body president Tom Bello issued an open letter asking students to send names to the Advisory Committee on the Chancellorship, chaired by state Rep. Ike F. Andrews, by November 1.
People: J. Carlyle Sitterson
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Chapel Hill aldermen approve a student Christmas street party on Franklin Street
At student body president Tom Bello's proposal, the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen unanimously approved a Christmas street party on Franklin Street for Saturday, December 12, 1970, run by Student Government with the town and the Merchants Association, on condition that the students set it up and cleaned up afterward.
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Chancellor Sitterson tells Tom Bello the university will control student activity fees
A dispute over student activity fees began when Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson told student body president Tom Bello that the university would keep control of spending all student activity fees. In March Student Government took a 90-page report to the trustees' executive committee asking it to confirm Student Government's authority over the fees.
People: J. Carlyle Sitterson
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