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Hugh Stevens

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February 23-24, 1968 The Daily Tar Heel marks its 75th anniversary The Daily Tar Heel marked 75 years since its first issue with an anniversary supplement and a weekend reunion of former editors and staff members. On February 24 former editors Charles Kuralt, Lenoir Chambers, Sylvan Meyer and Hugh Stevens discussed the paper's history on WUNC Television. People: Charles Kuralt, Hugh Stevens Place: Daily Tar Heel, Graham Memorial, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Lenoir Chambers, Sylvan MeyerSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 25, 1968, p. 1
August 4, 1975 A federal appeals court upholds student-fee funding of the Daily Tar Heel The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected eight present and former UNC students' appeal against mandatory student-fee support of the Daily Tar Heel, affirming the district court's 1974 ruling that the paper is not an agency of the state and that funding it does not establish an orthodoxy. The plaintiffs said they would ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review it; the suit had cost the paper over $8,000. People: Hugh Stevens, N. Ferebee Taylor, William C. Friday Place: Chapel Hill (U.S. Court of Appeals, Richmond)Search the index · The Daily Tar Heel, August 25, 1975, p. 5
February 23, 1976 The U.S. Supreme Court lets stand the rulings that student fees may support the Daily Tar Heel The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal in the suit UNC students filed in 1972 against using mandatory student fees to fund the Daily Tar Heel, leaving in place the district court and Fourth Circuit rulings for the paper. The defendants included UNC President William Friday and Chancellor Ferebee Taylor; the paper had spent more than $8,000 on its defense. People: William C. Friday, N. Ferebee Taylor, Hugh Stevens Place: Daily Tar Heel, Carolina Union, Chapel Hill · Also named: Ferebee TaylorSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 24, 1976, p. 1

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N. Ferebee Taylor 2 entries, including A federal appeals court upholds student-fee funding of the Daily Tar Heel (August 4, 1975)
William C. Friday 2 entries, including A federal appeals court upholds student-fee funding of the Daily Tar Heel (August 4, 1975)

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By Hugh Stevens

Hugh Stevens papers, circa 1930-1960s

Stevens, Hugh, 1944- · 1930

Papers of Hugh Stevens, born 1944, spanning circa 1930 to the 1960s. Topics include the history of the Daily Tar Heel, the student newspaper at Chapel Hill, and the Young Men's Christian Association there in the twentieth century. Part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5637-z.

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