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N. Ferebee Taylor

Nelson Ferebee Taylor was chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1 February 1972 to 31 January 1980. His office's records cover desegregation, the federal Health, Education, and Welfare lawsuit and consent decree, and campus development.

Source: UNC University Archives: Office of Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Nelson Ferebee Taylor Records #40023

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StorylineSmith Hall becomes the Playmakers Theatre, 1850–19821850–1982 · 9 events · Alexander Jackson Davis designed Smith Hall, built from 1850 to 1852 as the university's library and ballroom and named for Benjamin Smith. The Carolina Playmakers made it their theatre in 1925, and it reopened after a 1938 fire. It became a National Historic Landmark in 1974, and a federally funded restoration reopened it in January 1982. StorylineAdmitting women to the University, 1894–19781894–1978 · 18 events · The University opened its graduate and upper-level courses to women in 1897 but long kept them out of its first two years. In September 1897 four women registered, which The Tar Heel called the start of coeducation, and Sallie Walker Stockard took her degree with the class of 1898. Women joined the Philanthropic Society in 1930, and new women's dormitories opened in 1937 and 1939. In 1936 the Chapel Hill Rotary Club asked that local young women be let in, but in 1937 the trustees' executive committee reaffirmed that women should not be admitted to the freshman and sophomore classes. In March 1963 The News of Orange County reported that the university would admit 24 freshman women that fall. Women outnumbered men in the entering freshman class for the first time in 1975, by Pamela Dean's account, and in 1978, the Daily Tar Heel reported, they outnumbered men among all students. StorylineWomen’s hours, visitation and coed housing at UNC, 1965–19741965–1974 · 31 events · Between 1965 and 1969 UNC's women students, and the men in the residence halls, pressed against the University's rules on closing hours and visits. Nursing students staged a lie-in in 1965, and in 1967 senior and older women won the right to live off campus. In January 1968 about 500 women marched to the Women's Residence Council over closing hours; Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson at first rejected self-limiting hours, but in November junior and senior women won them with their parents' consent. After a petition with 3,904 names and marches to Lenoir Hall and the chancellor's house, Sitterson allowed experimental open houses in December 1968, though President William Friday kept the open-door rule in 1969. From 1970 self-limiting hours reached all women students, Morrison became a permanent coed hall, and students pressed for each hall to set its own visitation, which the University turned down in 1971. Coed housing spread through 1973, but in 1974 the dean of student affairs ended room-by-room coed living in Winston, and the trustees upheld him. StorylineThe Thomas Jefferson Award at UNC, 1965–20041965–2004 · 9 events · UNC's Thomas Jefferson Award, a cash prize paid from the income of a gift, went to the faculty member whose life best reflected the spirit of Jefferson. Winners included historian Fletcher M. Green in 1965, former chancellor William B. Aycock in 1967, physicist Eugen Merzbacher in 1972, Walter Spearman in 1978, political scientist Richard Richardson in 1987 and orthopedic surgeon Frank Wilson in 1992. Law professor Charles E. Daye won it in 2004. StorylineFrom campus buses to Chapel Hill Transit, 1968–19901968–1990 · 162 events · Student-run buses began crossing the UNC campus in 1968, and a bus system for the University and the two towns was planned from 1970. Town buses ran for five weeks in 1971 before their money ran out, and voters then turned down a bus tax. Carrboro refused to join a later plan, but in February 1973 Chapel Hill voters approved bonds and a tax. With a federal grant, a University contract for bus passes and used buses from Atlanta, Chapel Hill Transit began running on August 1, 1974 and carried about 259,000 riders in its first eight weeks. The drivers formed a union in 1975, the town leased University airport land for a bus garage, and the buses carried more than two million riders in their first year. Service was cut in 1976 and night buses gave way to shared-ride taxis in 1977, and in 1979 federal aid lowered the bus tax and paid for 17 new buses. From 1980 the town replaced its aging buses with new General Motors buses that knelt at the curb and carried wheelchair lifts, finished a maintenance and operations facility and reshaped its routes, running nine from the fall of 1982. Ridership slipped in 1981, fares rose, and the drivers petitioned against the town's purchase of uniforms until they began wearing them in 1983. Ridership, down to 1.81 million in 1984-85, rose again from 1985 to more than 10,000 riders a day as the system added routes and buses. In 1988 a Blue Line began running to Duke, and in 1989 the council approved a park-and-ride lot on N.C. 54, the University opened one on Estes Drive, and the state funded 14 more buses and more park-and-ride lots. In 1990, after carrying more than 2.1 million riders the year before, the buses began running from a new park-and-ride lot on N.C. 54 East, 14 new buses arrived, and drivers complained that tight schedules forced them to speed. StorylineDroughts, the Durham lines and Hillsborough water, 1968–19901968–1990 · 79 events · In the fall of 1968 drought dropped University Lake to its lowest level since it was built in 1930. Durham agreed to pipe water to Chapel Hill, and the University paid for nearly all of an emergency line, begun on October 1, that began delivering a million gallons a day on October 27. Chapel Hill's aldermen banned lawn sprinkling and car washing, the University suspended physical education classes, and Carrboro protested a 40 percent rise in its water rate. The ban was lifted in November, and winter rains refilled the lake. The University raised the lake's dam two feet in 1970 and drew Durham water through the pipeline again in the dry falls of 1970 and 1973. A drought in 1976 brought mandatory water restrictions and a second line from Durham. In 1977 the new Orange Water and Sewer Authority bought Durham water with federal drought aid until Durham's own lake ran low, then built a pipeline to buy treated water from Hillsborough, finished in April 1978. Drought returned in 1980, when OWASA drew on its quarry reservoir and bought Hillsborough water, and in 1983, when mandatory restrictions took effect on September 6, Orange County was declared a farm disaster area and the Chapel Hill council asked OWASA to halt new water connections. In 1984 the council tightened the conservation ordinance. In the 1986 drought, in the driest season since 1890, mandatory restrictions ran from July to September and again from October to December, OWASA bought water from Lake Holt in Butner, and the Chapel Hill council moved to hold back building permits in severe shortages. Durham sold OWASA water again in the dry summers of 1987 and 1988. In the dry fall of 1990 northern Orange County's water users were under the county's conservation rules until October rains brought University Lake back to normal.
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StorylineThe trustees’ disruptions policy, 1969–19741969–1974 · 16 events · During the March 1969 food workers' strike the UNC trustees' executive committee made disrupting the University grounds for expulsion or dismissal, and over the following months the trustees adopted a full policy against disruption by force, threat or intimidation, with hearing boards on each campus. Student leaders said it ran against the student-run judicial tradition at Chapel Hill. The full board made the policy permanent in October 1969, and in November a hearings committee took up the case of a lecturer who had skipped a class on Moratorium Day. In May 1970 students sat in at South Building against the policy's use after the December cafeteria strike. The University brought its first charges under the policy in April 1970, the trustees revised it that October, and the UNC-Chapel Hill trustees rescinded it in October 1974. StorylineCampus radio: WCAR, WXYC and WUNC-FM, 1969–19941969–1994 · 17 events · The student station WCAR began broadcasting to UNC's dormitories in 1969, and students voted in 1973 to fund its move to FM. The Black Student Movement twice protested to keep the program Black Sounds on its schedule, in 1973 and in 1974. The University's WUNC-FM, silent for lack of money from about 1970, won grants in 1974 and returned to the air as an NPR affiliate in 1976. In 1975 the FCC granted and then set aside a permit for a student FM station after the chancellor withdrew University backing. WCAR went off the air in 1976, and the student station WXYC signed on at 89.3 FM in 1977. StorylineHonoring Martin Luther King Jr. in Chapel Hill, 1970–19931970–1993 · 46 events · Mayor Howard Lee proclaimed a Martin Luther King Day in Chapel Hill in January 1970, though UNC declined to close, and the aldermen named the day again in 1973. UNC's Faculty Council struck King's name from a proposed yearly observance in 1977, but a King Memorial Lecture began in 1978 and a campus-wide celebration in 1982. In 1984 Chapel Hill made King's birthday a town holiday. Andrew Young, Max Robinson and Randall Robinson were among the King Memorial Lecture speakers of the 1980s, Carrboro's mayor proclaimed a King Day in 1981, and King's daughters Yolanda and Bernice spoke at UNC's celebrations in 1984 and 1989. UNC held classes on the first federal King holiday in 1986 but, after students petitioned, closed for it in 1988 under new state legislation. Rallies and marches on Franklin Street marked the holiday in 1987 and 1988, and Maya Angelou and June Jordan spoke at UNC in 1988 and 1989. In 1991 a King holiday gathering at the post office opposed the Persian Gulf war and UNC's tenth annual celebration brought C.T. Vivian, and in 1992 an NAACP march and a service at First Baptist Church marked the day. In 1993 UNC housekeepers held a Unity Day dinner in King's honor. StorylineUNC, HEW and the desegregation consent decree, 1970–19881970–1988 · 48 events · HEW pressed UNC from 1970 to do more than open its doors to Black students. The university system's desegregation plan was returned in 1973, and HEW approved a revised plan in June 1974 with a goal of raising Black enrollment at Chapel Hill to 7.1 percent. The Black Student Movement opened its membership to all students that fall, and in 1978 the Board of Governors ratified an agreement with HEW to strengthen the five historically Black campuses. Federal court rulings in 1977 had called for tougher requirements, and HEW rejected the system's plan in 1978 and again in 1979; the Board of Governors sued to block a cutoff of federal funds, and a 1981 consent decree ended the 11-year dispute. The NAACP Legal Defense Fund appealed the decree until the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case in 1984, and in 1987, with the decree's enrollment goal for the mostly white campuses unmet, the Board of Governors extended it two years. Chapel Hill's Black enrollment kept falling, to 7.48 percent in 1987, and the extended decree expired at the end of 1988 with minority enrollment at the mostly white campuses at about 8.5 percent. StorylineChoosing Sitterson’s successor, 1970–19721970–1972 · 8 events · Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson announced in July 1970 that he would return to teaching. A committee chaired by Ike Andrews sent President William Friday three names in 1971, but Friday held back his choice while the General Assembly restructured higher education, and Sitterson stayed through the fall. In December 1971 the trustees chose N. Ferebee Taylor, who took office on February 1, 1972 and was installed on University Day that October. StorylineRestricting smoking in Orange County and at UNC, 1975–19941975–1994 · 16 events · UNC's School of Public Health banned smoking in its classrooms in 1975, but after a student vote for a classroom ban Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor left the matter to the faculty. In 1988 Orange County, the city schools and Carrboro restricted smoking by their employees, and a UNC library and the journalism school went smoke-free in 1989 and 1990. In October 1991 Chapel Hill adopted an ordinance restricting smoking in public places, University buildings included. Before a state cutoff in October 1993 the county board of health, Chapel Hill, Carrboro and UNC all adopted smoking rules, and in 1994 UNC barred smoking in Kenan Stadium's seats. StorylineBlack admissions at UNC: Bakke, Dean Renwick and the university affairs office, 1977–19831977–1983 · 26 events · In 1977 Chancellor Ferebee Taylor made Dean Hayden Renwick his adviser on raising minority enrollment. In 1978, as two white applicants sued the law school in a case likened to Bakke, Renwick charged that UNC was turning away qualified Black applicants. The University answered with its largest Black enrollment to date, and Taylor denied the charge before the Faculty Council. A faculty committee in 1979 found Black enrollment growth unsatisfactory but did not uphold most of the charges. In 1980 the Faculty Council asked for a minority affairs post reporting to the chancellor, and Chancellor Christopher Fordham created a vice chancellorship for university affairs, which Harold Wallace took up that December. Renwick sued two newspaper companies in 1981 over an editorial on his 1978 column; the suit was dismissed in 1982 and revived on appeal in 1983.

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  1. University trustees elect N. Ferebee Taylor chancellor at Chapel Hill On President William C. Friday's recommendation, the Consolidated University Board of Trustees unanimously chose N. Ferebee Taylor, the University's vice president for administration and a 1942 Chapel Hill graduate, as chancellor of the Chapel Hill campus, to succeed J. Carlyle Sitterson on February 1, 1972. A trustee committee headed by Ike Andrews had worked on the choice since fall 1970, a search delayed by the fight over restructuring higher education. People: N. Ferebee Taylor, William C. Friday, J. Carlyle Sitterson Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: Ike AndrewsSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, January 13, 1972, p. 1
  2. The Faculty Council adopts an amended report on student involvement in University decisions In the last of four sessions on it, the Faculty Council passed a heavily amended report of its Committee on Student Involvement in University Administrative Structure, endorsing student participation in academic, curricular and student affairs decisions but setting no rules for it after earlier sessions struck the committee's safeguards, and sent it to the chancellor. Chancellor-elect N. Ferebee Taylor addressed the faculty for the first time at the meeting. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Murphy Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, January 15, 1972, p. 1
  3. N. Ferebee Taylor serves as chancellor of UNC-Chapel Hill Nelson Ferebee Taylor was the chief administrative officer of the Chapel Hill campus for eight years. His office's records deal with desegregation, the federal Department of Health, Education, and Welfare lawsuit and consent decree, and campus development. Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Ferebee TaylorSearch the index · UNC University Archives: Office of Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Nelson Ferebee Taylor Records #40023 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, February 1, 1972, p. 4; The Daily Tar Heel, January 29, 1980, p. 1
  4. Chancellor Taylor names Sarah Virginia Dunlap to the new post of secretary of the University Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor appointed Sarah Virginia Dunlap, assistant secretary of the University trustees since 1970, to the newly created post of secretary of the University, to serve as liaison among the chancellor, the president's office, the Board of Governors and the new local board of trustees. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: South Building, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: Sarah Virginia DunlapSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 5, 1972, p. 1
  5. UNC's traffic committee backs two campus parking garages, and the Faculty Council defers a decision Meeting behind closed doors, the University Traffic and Safety Committee approved over student objections an administration plan for two parking garages costing $3.95 million, with 1,000 spaces in the Bell Tower lot and 500 south of Manning Drive, paid for by higher permit fees with faculty and staff choosing first. On February 11 the Faculty Council heard both that plan and student body president Joe Stallings's cheaper alternative of fringe lots at Horace Williams Airport and on Mason Farm Road with shuttle buses, took no action, and in a straw vote favored the student plan about 20 to 5; Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor said no decision was imminent. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Bell Tower parking lot and Manning Drive, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: Joe Stallings · Also mentions: Horace Williams Airport, Manning DriveSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 12, 1972, p. 1
  6. Frank Porter Graham dies at North Carolina Memorial Hospital Frank Porter Graham, former president of the University, U.S. senator and U.N. mediator, died at 4:30 a.m. in North Carolina Memorial Hospital, where he had been in intensive care since a heart seizure five days earlier. His funeral was set for University Presbyterian Church on February 18, with the University suspending all activities for an hour that afternoon for a memorial service in Memorial Hall. People: Frank Porter Graham, N. Ferebee Taylor, William C. Friday Place: North Carolina Memorial Hospital, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Memorial Hall, University Presbyterian ChurchSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 17, 1972, p. 1
  7. C. O. Cathey resigns as UNC's dean of student affairs Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor accepted the resignation of C. O. Cathey, dean of student affairs since 1963, effective June 30, 1972; after a six-month leave Cathey was to return to teaching history. Two days later Taylor named a faculty and student search committee chaired by law professor Robert G. Byrd to recommend at least three successors by April 21. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: South Building, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: C. O. Cathey, Robert G. ByrdSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 23, 1972, p. 1
  8. Chancellor Taylor waives the rule that sophomores live on campus Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor announced that sophomores and junior transfers would not have to live in University housing in 1972-73, keeping the requirement for freshmen and waiving it for one year only. The same statement approved a room rent increase from the 1972 summer session, with a special equipment and program fund and less housekeeping, and a 20 percent rent cut for students assigned three to a room. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: University, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 6, 1972, p. 1
  9. Chancellor Taylor names Elizabeth Koontz to speak at UNC's commencement Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor announced that Elizabeth D. Koontz, a former Salisbury teacher and a deputy assistant secretary of labor, would address the May 14 commencement in Kenan Stadium, which the Daily Tar Heel called the first time a Black speaker and only the second time a woman had addressed a UNC commencement. A faculty-student-administration committee also moved the ceremony to 2 p.m. and dropped the baccalaureate sermon in favor of services at local churches. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Kenan Stadium, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Elizabeth D. KoontzSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 4, 1972, p. 1
  10. UNC dedicates Cary Boshamer Stadium The University dedicated its new baseball stadium and lighting on Ridge Road across from Navy Field, gifts of Gastonia textile manufacturer Cary C. Boshamer, before a doubleheader with Clemson. Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor presided, and former chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson and President William C. Friday spoke before Boshamer; the stadium had been in use since the previous summer. People: N. Ferebee Taylor, J. Carlyle Sitterson, William C. Friday Place: Boshamer Stadium, Ridge Road, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Cary C. BoshamerSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 8, 1972, p. 1
  11. Faculty Council receives its athletics report and asks that Student Stores profits stop going to athletes The Faculty Council heard the special report of its Athletic Committee, formed after a varsity football player's death in 1971, which called for a sports medicine program under a director in the Student Health Service, an end to spring football practice and the five-year eligibility rule, and no required athletic dormitory. The council backed a motion by physics professor Wayne Bowers that none of the $45,000 a year in Student Stores profits go to the Athletic Department, sending the profits to non-athletic scholarships, and left the decision to Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Faculty Council, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Wayne Bowers · Also mentions: Student Stores, Student Health ServiceSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 27, 1972, p. 1
  12. Physicist Eugen Merzbacher receives the Thomas Jefferson Award Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor presented the Thomas Jefferson Award to Kenan Professor of Physics Eugen Merzbacher, who had chaired the committee behind the new undergraduate curriculum, along with the Salgo, Tanner and Standard Oil teaching awards. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Faculty Council, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Eugen MerzbacherSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 15, 1972, p. 1
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  1. Survey for the chancellor finds many Black students dissatisfied with UNC A survey by biostatistician David G. Kleinbaum for the Chancellor's Committee on the Status of Minorities and the Disadvantaged, answered by 301 of nearly 600 minority students and 131 white students, found 30 percent of minority students would not come to UNC again, against 9 percent of whites, with discontent centered on social life. More than 90 percent of minority students said there were too few Black faculty and advisers, and 55 percent said they had met some discrimination from instructors. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: David G. KleinbaumThe Daily Tar Heel, April 25, 1972, p. 1
  2. Four students sue in federal court to end student-fee support of the Daily Tar Heel Four UNC students, all members of the campus Young Republicans Club, filed a class action on July 25 arguing that paying for the Daily Tar Heel out of mandatory student fees made them support opinions they rejected, in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments. They named Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor, President William C. Friday, Vice Chancellor Joseph C. Eagles Jr., the trustees and the Board of Governors; the case was expected to wait on the appeal in the North Carolina Central University newspaper case. People: N. Ferebee Taylor, William C. Friday Place: U.S. District Court, Greensboro (Daily Tar Heel, Carolina Union, Chapel Hill) · Also named: Joseph C. Eagles Jr.Search the index · The Daily Tar Heel, August 3, 1972, p. 1
  3. UNC begins a 21-month self-study for reaccreditation Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor began the University's ten-year self-study for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, headed by Kenan Professor C. Hugh Holman with a 25-member steering committee and about 147 committees, ahead of a visiting team due in March 1974. People: N. Ferebee Taylor, C. Hugh Holman Place: University, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 11, 1972, p. 1
  4. N. Ferebee Taylor is installed as chancellor on University Day At the University Day convocation in Memorial Hall, President William C. Friday installed N. Ferebee Taylor as the fifth chancellor of the University at Chapel Hill, before Governor Bob Scott and former chancellors Carlyle Sitterson, Robert B. House and William Aycock. Friday also gave the second Distinguished Alumnus Awards to William T. Couch, E. J. Evans, Charles Kuralt, James C. Wallace and Capus M. Waynick. People: N. Ferebee Taylor, William C. Friday Place: Memorial Hall, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Bob Scott, William Aycock, William T. Couch, Robert B. House, Charles Kuralt, James C. WallaceSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 13, 1972, p. 1
  5. Student Stores reports a $458,385 profit for 1971-72, most of it for scholarships The UNC Student Stores reported a net profit of $458,385.68 for the year ending June 30, 1972, of which $195,000 went to undergraduate scholarships, $45,000 to graduate fellowships and $35,000 to athletic grants-in-aid. Net sales were $3,863,640. Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor chose to review the athletic grants each year rather than phase them out as the advisory committee had recommended. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Student Stores, University, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: UNC Student StoresSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, December 7, 1972, p. 3
  6. Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Orange County agree to study buying the University utilities together On the recommendation of Chapel Hill's citizens' task force, the Carrboro and Chapel Hill boards of aldermen agreed on January 30 to look into buying the University's utilities and running them on a non-profit basis, and on February 5 the county commissioners joined, pledging $22,000 toward a $66,000 study limited for the county to the water and sewer systems. The governments told Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor they needed 90 days to finish the study before bidding. People: George Watts Hill, Sandy McClamroch, N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Chapel Hill, Carrboro and HillsboroughThe Daily Tar Heel, February 7, 1973, p. 1
  7. UNC trustees take up a University-owned corporation to run the utilities Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor told the Board of Trustees that the Utilities Study Commission, at the request of the Board of Governors, had invited the University to propose a University-owned corporation to take over its water, sewer, electric and telephone systems, and the trustees unanimously referred the invitation to a reactivated utilities subcommittee of Henry Foscue, Lunsford Crew and Henry Redding. Taylor also reported the towns' and county's work toward a local non-profit buyer, with a decision due by March 1. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Morehead Building, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Henry Foscue, Lunsford Crew, Henry ReddingThe Daily Tar Heel, February 12, 1973, p. 1
  8. Chancellor Taylor asks for $5.5 million in state money to replace federal cuts Facing a possible loss of $9 to $10 million in federal training and research funds, Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor asked the UNC General Administration to request $5.5 million more in state funds for 1973-75, mostly for health affairs, to keep graduate training programs and faculty. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: UNC General AdministrationSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 9, 1973, p. 1
  9. UNC dedicates Berryhill Hall, its basic medical sciences building About 400 people attended the dedication of the $6 million, eight-story basic medical science building as Berryhill Hall, for W. Reece Berryhill, dean of medicine from 1941 to 1964, who won the long fight to make the medical school a four-year school. Dr. Erle E. Peacock, a former student who chaired surgery at the University of Arizona, gave the address; the building had been in use since 1971 for classes of about 1,000 students in medicine, nursing, medical technology, dentistry and physical therapy. People: W. Reece Berryhill, William C. Friday, N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Berryhill Hall, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Erle E. PeacockThe Daily Tar Heel, March 23, 1973, p. 1
  10. The Faculty Council asks UNC to create a vice chancellor for minority affairs On the recommendation of the Chancellor's Committee on the Status of the Minorities and the Disadvantaged, the Faculty Council resolved that the University create a vice chancellor for minority affairs and fill an associate dean of student affairs, an assistant vice chancellor for health affairs, an associate dean of arts and sciences and an assistant to the provost with members of minority groups. It also asked for plans for a tutorial service and academic skills center open to all students and for an effort to recruit American Indian students, then about 0.1 percent of the student body. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Hamilton Hall, University, Chapel HillThe Daily Tar Heel, March 26, 1973, p. 1
  11. Chemist William F. Little is named vice chancellor for development and public service Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor named William F. Little, professor of chemistry and chairman of the Division of Natural Sciences, to a new post of vice chancellor for development and public service, created in a reorganization to direct development, research administration, the University News Bureau and WUNC-TV. Little was also to run the proposed Continuing Education Center if the General Assembly and the Board of Governors approved it. People: William F. Little, N. Ferebee Taylor Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: WUNC-TVSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 26, 1973, p. 2
  12. Chancellor Taylor names an affirmative action committee headed by John L. Sanders Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor set up an Affirmative Action Committee, chaired by Institute of Government director John L. Sanders, to study the campus's hiring and employment of women and report to President William Friday by April 20, ahead of the sixteen campus plans due at HEW by May 1. University Women for Affirmative Action said it was disappointed that only two of the seven members were women and that all held administrative posts. People: N. Ferebee Taylor, John L. Sanders Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: William Friday · Also mentions: Institute of GovernmentSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 2, 1973, p. 1
  13. Chancellor Taylor refuses University Women for Affirmative Action a seat on the affirmative action committee On April 9 Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor met University Women for Affirmative Action, took their list of grievances, and refused their request for a seat on the new Affirmative Action Committee, a working group of seven administrators (five men, two women) chaired by John Sanders that would study University employment practices. The women also asked for a woman director of the program, University day care, a women's studies program, equal room rent and graduate aid for women, more women faculty and women advisers for graduate students. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: South Building, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: John SandersSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 10, 1973, p. 1
  14. About 500 Black students march to South Building with the BSM's grievances On April 24 a Black Student Movement rally in the Pit against Nixon's student aid cuts, fewer Black admissions and the end of the Afro-American Studies curriculum ended with about 500 Black students marching to South Building, where chairman Willie Mebane gave Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor a list of demands. They asked for the promised Afro-American Studies Department, more Black courses, at least one Black teacher in each department and the reinstatement of Project Uplift with waived application fees; Taylor set a meeting with Mebane for April 26. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: The Pit and South Building, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Willie MebaneThe Daily Tar Heel, April 25, 1973, p. 1
  15. The Kenan Charitable Trust gives UNC's chemistry department a $1 million endowment Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor announced a $1,000,000 endowment grant to the Department of Chemistry from the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust, whose trustees said it was meant to help build and keep a facility of outstanding quality. The new chemistry laboratory complex had been named the William Rand Kenan Jr. Laboratories of Chemistry in May. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Kenan Laboratories of Chemistry, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: William R. Kenan Jr., William Rand Kenan Jr.Search the index · The Daily Tar Heel, June 21, 1973, p. 1
  16. The university starts an affirmative action program for women and minority faculty Federal officials had found the university out of compliance: a September 1972 report by the Atlanta regional civil rights office of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare said the state university system fell short of equal employment standards. UNC's affirmative action plan went into effect on July 1, 1973, when women made up about sixteen percent of the faculty and Black faculty 0.8 percent; it set goals of 18.71 and 4.34 percent by June 1976. Chancellor Taylor gave the officer's duties to Vice Chancellor Douglas Hunt on top of his other work. HEW rejected the plan in a letter of September 21, 1973, and Hunt set mid-January 1974 for a revised one. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: Douglas HuntSearch the index · Pamela Dean, Women on the Hill: A History of Women at the University of North Carolina (1987), scan p. 31 · Also: Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), October 1, 1973, p. 1; Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), October 1, 1973, p. 6; The Daily Tar Heel, July 12, 1973, p. 2
  17. Blyden Jackson becomes associate dean of the UNC Graduate School Chancellor Ferebee Taylor announced at the August 1973 meeting of the UNC-Chapel Hill trustees that English professor Blyden Jackson, a scholar of Black literature who had been dean of the Graduate School at Southern University, was named associate dean of the Graduate School, in charge of the progress of enrolled graduate students. The Daily Tar Heel headlined the appointment as that of a Black professor; he kept his English professorship. People: Blyden Jackson, N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Graduate School, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Ferebee TaylorSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, August 28, 1973, p. 10
  18. Chancellor Taylor spends a night in Winston Residence Hall On the night of September 5, 1973, Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor and three other administrators, Dean of Student Affairs Donald Boulton, Director of Housing James Condie and Director of Admissions Richard Cashwell, stayed in a four-person room, 402 Winston, to see the overcrowding in student housing at first hand. The same year Winston became UNC's first room-by-room coed residence hall. Place: Winston Residence Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Donald Boulton, Richard Cashwell, James CondieSearch the index · UNC A to Z: Winston Residence Hall · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, September 5, 1973, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, September 7, 1973, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, January 31, 1980, p. 6
  19. Chancellor Taylor names Douglass Hunt affirmative action officer and an advisory committee On September 14, 1973, Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor confirmed Vice Chancellor Douglass Hunt as UNC's affirmative action officer under the plan that took effect July 1, and named an advisory committee of nine men and nine women, seven of them Black, among them Barbara Schnorrenberg of University Women for Affirmative Action and James H. Brewer of Afro-American Studies. UWAA, which had sent federal officials a critique of the plan in August, said on September 16 that it was disappointed a white man was chosen and no students were named. People: N. Ferebee Taylor, Douglass Hunt Place: South Building, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Barbara Schnorrenberg, James H. BrewerSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, September 15, 1973, p. 1
  20. Chancellor Taylor names Claiborne S. Jones vice chancellor for business and finance At a meeting of the general faculty and the Faculty Council, Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor announced that Joseph C. Eagles Jr. was resigning as vice chancellor for business and finance effective November 1 and that Dr. Claiborne S. Jones, assistant to the chancellor and a former associate dean of the General College, would succeed him. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Claiborne S. Jones, Joseph C. Eagles Jr.Search the index · The Daily Tar Heel, September 24, 1973, p. 1
  21. HEW finds UNC's first affirmative action plan unacceptable The Department of Health, Education and Welfare told University Women for Affirmative Action in a September 21 letter that the plan UNC had sent it on July 1 was unacceptable, and a five-member HEW team met UWAA and University officials that week, faulting the lack of students on the advisory committee, missing data and Douglass Hunt's part-time role as affirmative action officer. Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor received HEW's formal letter of deficiencies on September 27 and on October 5 reactivated the Affirmative Action Working Committee under Susan E. McDonald to revise the plan by January 1974. People: N. Ferebee Taylor, Douglass Hunt Place: South Building, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Susan E. McDonaldSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, September 27, 1973, p. 1
  22. The state utilities study commission approves the prospectuses for selling UNC's utilities The State Utilities Study Commission, known as the Church Commission, approved revised prospectuses prepared by the American Appraisal Company for selling the University's water, electric, telephone and sewer systems, dropping the requirement that a water bidder finish the Cane Creek reservoir project but requiring a commitment to enlarge the water supply. It let bids cover all or part of the utilities and let the University keep its Cameron Street substation, while County Commissioner Bill Ray and Mayor Howard Lee told members a county reservoir in central Orange County was being planned. People: Howard N. Lee, N. Ferebee Taylor Place: University utilities, Chapel Hill · Also named: Bill RayThe Daily Tar Heel, September 29, 1973, p. 1
  23. The Faculty Council approves majors in Peace, War and Defense, Urban Studies, Linguistics and Portuguese The UNC Faculty Council approved four new curricula as majors, Peace, War and Defense, Urban Studies, Linguistics and Portuguese, sending them on to the University president and the Board of Governors. At the same meeting it unanimously set a limit of seven pass-fail hours a semester for students entering in fall 1974, replacing the four-hour limit adopted in February, after a student government survey of more than 2,100 students. People: George Vanderbeck Taylor, N. Ferebee Taylor Place: University, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 22, 1973, p. 1
  24. Chancellor Taylor names the grievance committee for UNC's non-faculty professional staff Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor named the EPA Non-faculty Grievance Committee called for in the affirmative action plan, to hear complaints of racial and sexual discrimination, suspensions and discharges from employees exempt from the State Personnel Act, with library humanities head Louise M. Hall as chairman. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Louise M. HallSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 3, 1973, p. 1
  25. Chancellor Taylor refuses campus facilities for the Young Democrats' tribute to Lady Bird Johnson Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor refused to let the Orange County (LBJ) Young Democratic Club use Carmichael Auditorium and the Tin Can for a dinner and ceremony honoring Lady Bird Johnson, citing trustee rules that limit speakers to recognized campus groups and bar outside fund-raising events, and on October 12 the trustees left the decision to him. The club, led by John W. Hamilton, moved the November 8 dinner to the American Legion building on Legion Road. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Carmichael Auditorium, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: John W. Hamilton, Lady Bird Johnson · Also mentions: Tin CanSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 15, 1973, p. 1
  26. UNC's Affirmative Action Advisory Committee votes to add four students The committee recommended that four students, including at least one Black student and one woman, join it, and Chancellor Taylor agreed to choose them from a list prepared by student body president Ford Runge. When the list of eight came in with no white men and only one health affairs student, Taylor asked on Dec. 3 for more names, and student leaders agreed to add four. People: N. Ferebee Taylor, Douglass Hunt Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Ford RungeSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, November 7, 1973, p. 1
  27. Student body president Ford Runge reinstates the Minority Court After the student attorney general dropped the Minority Court on taking office, BSM chairman Willie Mebane pressed Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor, who opposed the court, to restore it. At a meeting on Monday, November 12, the attorney general pointed to a clause letting the Student Legislature correct inequities affecting minorities, and the next day, November 13, 1973, student body president Ford Runge announced that the court, created by the legislature in 1969, was legal and would stay. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Willie Mebane, Ford RungeBlack Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), December 1973, p. 2 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, November 14, 1973, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, October 25, 1973, p. 6
  28. UNC trustees keep a 1.6 predicted grade average for athletic and other grants-in-aid The Board of Trustees voted to keep requiring a 1.6 projected grade point average for grant-in-aid scholarships, though the Atlantic Coast Conference had dropped the rule after the NCAA abolished it, while letting the Admissions Committee admit students with special talents selectively. Athletic Director Homer Rice said his office did not want to recruit students predicted below 1.6. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Homer RiceSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, November 19, 1973, p. 1
  29. The local NOW chapter files a federal sex discrimination complaint against UNC The Chapel Hill chapter of the National Organization for Women filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of all women faculty, staff and employed students, charging the University with discrimination in salaries, assignments and promotions and with nepotism and harassment, backed by ten signed affidavits and figures from the spring report on the role and status of women at UNC. Chapter president Miriam Slifkin said it followed dissatisfaction with affirmative action officer Douglass Hunt's progress. People: Miriam Slifkin, Douglass Hunt, N. Ferebee Taylor Place: University, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, November 16, 1973, p. 1
  30. Chancellor Taylor approves a student judicial reform that writes in a minority court Taylor approved the overhaul of the student courts begun in 1969, which would merge the men's, women's and honor courts into one Undergraduate Court with at least 12 of its 42 judges from a minority race and let minority and women defendants ask for a trial panel with at least four of seven judges of their race or sex. It would also separate student court records from academic records; it still needed the Campus Governing Council, a student referendum and the Faculty Council, and Taylor set the end of spring 1974 as his deadline. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: University, Chapel HillThe Daily Tar Heel, December 4, 1973, p. 1
  31. The Campus Governing Council asks that Douglass Hunt be replaced by a full-time affirmative action officer The student council adopted by consent a resolution asking Chancellor Taylor to let Vice Chancellor Douglass Hunt return full time to his administrative post and to appoint a full-time affirmative action officer, after the women students' newspaper SHE called for his resignation. People: Douglass Hunt, N. Ferebee Taylor Place: University, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, December 6, 1973, p. 1
  32. Dickson Phillips announces he will step down as dean of the UNC law school J. Dickson Phillips said he would leave the deanship at the end of the academic year after two five-year terms, having asked as early as April not to be considered for a third, and would stay on the faculty; Chancellor Taylor named a search committee for his successor. The Daily Tar Heel credited his deanship with substantial growth in enrollment and national standing. People: James Dickson Phillips, N. Ferebee Taylor Place: School of Law, University, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, December 5, 1973, p. 1
  33. Federal civil rights officials meet privately with UNC officials and student leaders on desegregating the University system Seven officials of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare met separately with Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor's administration and six student leaders, part of a review of desegregation efforts in ten states. No public notice was given; University officials said HEW asked for no newspaper publicity, while HEW staff gave differing accounts, and Black Student Movement chairman Willie Mebane said afterward the administration painted a positive picture that the students countered. People: N. Ferebee Taylor, John L. Sanders Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Willie MebaneSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, January 22, 1974, p. 1
  34. Second-floor Winston residents sit in outside Chancellor Taylor's office over the end of coed living About a dozen residents led by Residence Hall Association president Janet Stephens sat outside the chancellor's office after the Charlotte Observer quoted Dean Donald Boulton as saying the room-by-room arrangement had led to sexual activity. Taylor spoke with them and set a meeting with Boulton and the residents for the following Monday, and a table in the Pit sent 183 protest letters to Boulton or the housing director that day. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: South Building, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Janet Stephens, Donald A. Boulton, Donald BoultonSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 1, 1974, p. 1
  35. UNC awards an athletic scholarship to a woman, a 17-year-old tennis player from Lexington UNC officials confirmed a grant-in-aid for the state's top-ranked woman tennis player to enter that fall, the first since the North Carolina Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women dropped its ban on women's athletic scholarships the previous September. The Daily Tar Heel called it the first athletic scholarship awarded to a woman in North Carolina history, and Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor called it part of the University's leadership role toward full coeducation. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: University, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 1, 1974, p. 1
  36. UNC trustees unanimously uphold the end of room-by-room coed living in Winston Residents and Residence Hall Association president Janet Stephens asked the Board of Trustees not to reverse Dean Donald Boulton's decision outright but to set up a committee of administrators, faculty and students to study room-by-room coed living. The board voted unanimously to sustain the decision, with chairman Henry A. Foscue saying many North Carolinians would be shocked by the arrangement; student body president Ford Runge, the only ex officio member, disagreed. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Henry A. Foscue, Donald A. Boulton, Ford Runge, Janet Stephens, Donald BoultonSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 11, 1974, p. 1
  37. UNC submits its expanded affirmative action plan to HEW and puts copies in the libraries The 200-page plan, rewritten after HEW returned the first one in September 1973, set out steps for equal employment with special attention to women and Black employees, created equal opportunity officers in each department, projected a three-year implementation period for faculty and staff exempt from the State Personnel Act, and provided for job openings to be posted every two weeks. Copies reached Wilson Library and the Health Sciences Library on February 11. People: Douglass Hunt, N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Wilson Library, University, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 12, 1974, p. 1
  38. The Faculty Council approves the student judicial reform with its minority court provision The Faculty Council unanimously approved the Instrument of Student Judicial Governance, the last step after Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor's approval in December and the students' 2,773 to 804 referendum vote on February 27. Taking effect in the fall, it merged the Men's, Women's and Honor courts into one Undergraduate Court of 42 members, 14 of them minority students, let a defendant ask that four of the seven judges share his or her race and sex, and put students on the new University Hearings Board that heard appeals. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: University, Chapel HillThe Daily Tar Heel, April 1, 1974, p. 1
  39. Chancellor Taylor names Robert G. Byrd dean of the Law School Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor appointed Professor Robert G. Byrd, a member of the law faculty since 1963, dean of the School of Law from July 1, succeeding J. Dickson Phillips, dean since 1964, who was returning to teaching. Taylor said he chose Byrd after interviewing every law faculty member and the two students on the selection committee. People: N. Ferebee Taylor, James Dickson Phillips Place: School of Law, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Robert G. ByrdSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 20, 1974, p. 1
  40. Chancellor Taylor denies the campus police officers' grievance over shift rotation Following the unanimous recommendation of the University Staff Grievance Committee, Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor denied the appeal of campus police officers against an exchange program, begun in February, that had each officer work two weeks a year on each of the other two shifts. Thirteen of the 28 officers had signed the January 31 petition that brought the case to a third-step hearing on March 18, saying they had been hired with an unwritten promise of fixed shifts; their spokesman, Officer Eunice Sparrow, and their attorney, Roy M. Cole, would not say whether they would appeal to the State Personnel Board. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Eunice SparrowSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 4, 1974, p. 2
  41. UNC campus police officers carry their shift grievance toward the State Personnel Board After Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor denied their grievance at its third step, three campus police officers asked University personnel director Jack Gunnells to arrange a hearing before the State Personnel Board. The grievance, backed by 17 officers who had petitioned in February, protested security director Ted Marvin's new arrangement rotating officers through other shifts; campus safety director Arthur Beaumont said it also reflected poor rapport between officers and the police administration. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: University Personnel Department, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Jack Gunnells, Ted Marvin, Arthur J. Beaumont, Arthur BeaumontSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 9, 1974, p. 1
  42. UNC trustees commit $300,000 a year in bus passes to Chapel Hill's new transit system and adopt a new campus parking plan The trustees approved a contract committing the University to buy $300,000 in passes from the town bus system due to start August 1, in return for buses on two campus routes and shuttles to fringe lots at University Mall and Horace Williams Airport. They also adopted, with seven amendments, a parking plan that roughly halved the permits sold and bundled a bus pass with each $54 academic-year permit, and voted $1.75 million from the telephone reserve to retire the telephone company's bonds ahead of its sale. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: UNC Board of Trustees meeting, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Horace Williams Airport, University MallSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 15, 1974, p. 1
  43. The Faculty Council puts four students on its committee on minorities and the disadvantaged Acting on proposals from Daniel T. Young of the UNC chapter of the American Association of University Professors, the Faculty Council required four students, appointed by the student body president, on the committee on the Status of Minorities and the Disadvantaged, and asked appointing authorities to consider color, age, sex, rank and tenure in making up faculty committees. It rejected four other proposed changes, among them student seats on the Athletics committee. People: James Dickson Phillips, N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Hamilton Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Daniel T. YoungSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 22, 1974, p. 1
  44. State Personnel Board upholds UNC's shift rotation for campus police over the officers' grievance Ruling on a grievance brought by campus police officers, the State Personnel Board wrote that setting hours was management's right and upheld the exchange program under which officers rotated off their regular shifts every four weeks, though it urged better communication between officers and their superiors. Seventeen of the 29 officers had petitioned against the program when Campus Security Director Ted Marvin began it in February, and they had lost at each step through Marvin, the University Staff Employee Grievance Committee and Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Ted MarvinSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, September 30, 1974, p. 2
  45. UNC's new student court system replaces the Honor Courts With the Campus Governing Council's approval of 24 appointees to the new Undergraduate Court, the Instrument of Student Judicial Governance took effect, replacing the men's and women's courts and Honor Courts with residence courts and a 42-member Undergraduate Court with at least 14 women, 14 men and 12 members of non-majority races, and putting students on the appeals board. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 14, 1974, p. 2
  46. UNC trustees approve a five-year academic and building plan for 1975-1980 The trustees unanimously approved a 189-page long-range plan for 1975-1980 carrying about $57.5 million in proposals, among them air conditioning for Carmichael Auditorium and Memorial Hall, a $5.37 million educational and intramural building, a 5,000-seat field house at Kenan Stadium and a public health and environmental sciences center costing more than $8.5 million. They declined to write in a limit on undergraduate enrollment; Chancellor Taylor said total enrollment would grow by only 434 from 1974 to 1979, and the plan went to President William Friday on October 15. People: N. Ferebee Taylor, William C. Friday Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Carmichael Auditorium, Kenan Stadium, Memorial HallSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 14, 1974, p. 1
  47. UNC trustees rescind the campus disruptions policy The UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees rescinded the disruptions policy the former board adopted in the Vietnam War years, which let the chancellor expel or suspend students and faculty who occupied or blocked buildings, stopped traffic, damaged University property or carried weapons. Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor proposed the repeal because the Board of Governors had taken faculty out of the policy in April and the same student offenses now came under the new Instrument of Student Judicial Governance; only trustee Charles Jonas voted no. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Charles R. JonasThe Daily Tar Heel, October 14, 1974, p. 1
  48. The National Park Service presents a National Historic Landmark plaque for the Playmakers Theatre Before the University Day exercises, R.J. Rogers of Atlanta, regional landmark coordinator for the National Park Service, presented Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor a bronze plaque and certificate marking the Playmakers Theatre, the Smith Hall of 1849, as a National Historic Landmark. Interior Secretary Rogers Morton had named it one of 17 new landmarks that March, and Vice Chancellor William F. Little told how the building began as a ballroom the students had sought for years, served as the library and became a theatre in 1925. People: N. Ferebee Taylor, William F. Little Place: Playmakers Theatre (Smith Hall), Chapel Hill · Also named: R.J. Rogers, Rogers MortonSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 14, 1974, p. 1
  49. The University library receives its two millionth volume on University Day At the University Day exercises in Hill Hall on the University's 181st birthday, Frank B. Hanes, whose family had given the millionth book in 1960, presented the library its two millionth volume, a first printing of The Book of Hawking, Hunting and Heraldry, one of only eight known, which the paper said an anonymous St. Albans schoolmaster compiled in 1481. The exercises also gave Distinguished Alumnus Awards to Archie K. Davis, the speaker, and to Holt McPherson, Thomas B. Stroup, Katherine Way and Tom Wicker. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Hill Hall, Chapel Hill · Also named: Frank B. Hanes, Archie K. DavisSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 14, 1974, p. 1
  50. Chancellor Taylor reports UNC's Black faculty grew to 36 in a year An affirmative action progress report Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor gave the Faculty Council counted 15 more Black and 24 more women faculty members in September 1974 than a year earlier, bringing Black faculty to 36, or 2.1 percent of the faculty, and women to 17.6 percent. Black enrollment stood at about 6 percent, above the 5.5 percent target of the plan approved by the Board of Governors and HEW; the report faulted the division of health affairs, and Student Body President Marcus Williams objected that it did not show new faculty by department. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Marcus WilliamsSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 21, 1974, p. 1
  51. Protesters stop Klan leader David Duke from speaking in Memorial Hall Black students filled the pit of Memorial Hall and kept Ku Klux Klan representative David Duke, invited by the Union Forum, from giving his speech. Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor called the disruption a transgression of one of the university's highest traditions. Place: Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: David DukeSearch the index · UNC Libraries: Ku Klux Klan Representative David Duke (A Right to Speak and to Hear) · Also: Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), February 1, 1975, p. 2; The Daily Tar Heel, January 17, 1975, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, February 18, 1975, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, February 9, 1994, p. 5
  52. Sam Ervin accepts a visiting professorship at UNC Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor announced that former Senator Sam J. Ervin Jr., who had retired from the Senate in December, had accepted his invitation to come to UNC as a William Rand Kenan Jr. Visiting Professor and would teach a week of law and political science classes beginning March 31. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Sam J. Ervin Jr., William Rand Kenan Jr.Search the index · The Daily Tar Heel, January 17, 1975, p. 1
  53. Local NAACP protests Sam Ervin's UNC visit, then calls off a picket of his award banquet Robert Kelley, president of the local NAACP chapter, met Chancellor Taylor on January 20 to protest the invitation to Sam Ervin, whose civil rights voting record he called one of the most racist in Congress, and announced a picket of Ervin's North Carolina Public Service Award banquet at the Carolina Inn. On January 22 Kelley called the picket off, citing the potential for violence, and Ervin received the award after defending his record at a news conference; Mayor Howard Lee attended to welcome him. People: N. Ferebee Taylor, Howard N. Lee Place: Carolina Inn, Chapel Hill · Also named: Robert Kelley, Sam J. Ervin Jr., Sam ErvinSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, January 23, 1975, p. 1
  54. UNC trustees endorse a new physical education building The Board of Trustees unanimously supported a proposal for a new physical education building after Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor told them Woollen Gym, built in 1938 when the University had 4,000 students, and the Tin Can were crowded with today's 20,000. The proposal went next to the Board of Governors for a budget request to the General Assembly; at the same meeting two affirmative action proposals by student body president Marcus Williams died without a second. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Marcus Williams · Also mentions: Tin Can, Woollen GymSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 17, 1975, p. 1
  55. The FCC sets aside the student FM station's permit after UNC withdraws its support The Federal Communications Commission notified Student Government that it had rescinded the January 24 construction permit for WCAR's proposed FM station and placed the application in pending status. The action followed the retraction by Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor and Dean of Student Affairs Donald A. Boulton of letters accepting ultimate responsibility for the station, which they said would also have meant University control of student media. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Donald A. BoultonSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 24, 1975, p. 1
  56. Chancellor Taylor withdraws the University's backing for the student FM station Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor wrote the FCC retracting Dean of Student Affairs Donald Boulton's January letter accepting ultimate University responsibility for the student FM station, saying WUNC-FM was the University's whole effort in public radio; WCAR manager Gary Rendsburg made the letter public on February 11. WUNC-FM director Donald Trapp said he had raised the matter with University officials, and student body president Marcus Williams said students would keep trying. People: N. Ferebee Taylor, William F. Little Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Donald A. Boulton, Donald M. Trapp, Gary Rendsburg, Marcus Williams, Donald Boulton · Also mentions: WUNC-FMSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 12, 1975, p. 1
  57. 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
  58. Chapel Hill leases 34 acres at Horace Williams Airport from UNC for a bus garage Mayor Howard Lee and University officials announced that the town would lease 34 acres in the northeast corner of the University's airport property, by Glen Heights and N.C. 86, for $1 a year for 30 years as the site of a bus garage and public works building. Lee called it a highlight of his term; the town had been ready to pay up to $250,000 for a smaller site, and the Plant Road tract planned for the garage could become recreation land. People: Howard N. Lee, N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Horace Williams Airport property, Airport Road (N.C. 86), Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, August 25, 1975, p. 10
  59. University grievance committee finds Carolina Inn workers denied equal merit pay The University Staff Employee Grievance Committee ruled that a Carolina Inn dishwasher denied a merit raise in five years deserved one and that Inn employees were treated less favorably than other state employees; only 10 of 40 eligible workers had received raises. Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor rejected the ruling on the individual case on October 21 but ordered every University unit to give merit raises to its most deserving two-thirds, and the worker's raise was granted in November. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Carolina Inn, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 30, 1975, p. 1
  60. UNC trustees approve plans for a new central library on the old Emerson Field The UNC Board of Trustees approved plans for a 438,000-square-foot central library on the Union parking lot, the site of the old Emerson Field baseball stadium, to hold the central research collection, library administration and more than 3,400 reader stations, with completion set for 1981. Student Body President Bill Bates objected that it would take North Campus parking and looked for other sites, while Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor backed the Emerson Field site. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Union parking lot (Emerson Field), UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Bill BatesSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 21, 1975, p. 1
  61. UNC gives Distinguished Alumnus Awards to Gordon Gray, Shelby Foote, Guy and Guion Johnson and Frank Borden Hanes At the University Day convocation in Memorial Hall, marking 182 years since the Old East cornerstone, UNC gave Distinguished Alumnus Awards to former University president Gordon Gray, novelist and historian Shelby Foote, the Chapel Hill sociologists Guy B. and Guion G. Johnson, and author Frank Borden Hanes. History professor William S. Powell spoke on past University Days. People: Gordon Gray, Shelby Foote, Guy Benton Johnson, Guion Griffis Johnson, William S. Powell, N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Frank Borden HanesSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 13, 1975, p. 1
  62. Chancellor Taylor reports uneven progress under UNC's affirmative action plan Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor's annual affirmative action report showed Black faculty at 2.6 per cent of Academic Affairs faculty against a 1975 goal of 5.2 per cent, and women's share of the Health Affairs faculty down from 23.1 per cent in 1972 to 22.4 per cent. Goals were nearly met for State Personnel Act staff (26.7 per cent non-white, 62.1 per cent women) and met for women instructors in Academic Affairs (13.8 per cent). People: N. Ferebee Taylor, Douglass Hunt Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 21, 1975, p. 1
  63. Chancellor Taylor leaves a classroom smoking ban to the faculty after a student vote After students voted 2,801 to 734 on Oct. 15 for an advisory ban on smoking in classrooms, Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor told deans and chairpersons that faculty members, singly or together, should decide whether smoking was allowed in their classes. Student organizers protested, and department heads said they would wait for the Faculty Council. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 20, 1975, p. 1
  64. The UNC Faculty Council bans smoking in all classrooms The Faculty Council overwhelmingly approved an unconditional ban on smoking in University classrooms, rejecting a class-by-class option, after students had voted four to one for a ban in an October 15 referendum. Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor had said he would treat the faculty's decision as final, and faculty members were to enforce it. People: George Vanderbeck Taylor, N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Hamilton Hall, University, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, November 24, 1975, p. 1
  65. Student government remakes its minority affairs committee as the Human Rights and Relations Committee The Committee on the Status of Minorities and the Disadvantaged, set up by the Faculty Council in 1972 and inactive the year before, was remade by the new student government administration, with Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor's encouragement, as the Human Rights and Relations Committee. Chaired by a Black sophomore, it aimed at better relations between majority and minority students. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: University, Chapel HillSearch the index · Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), August 18, 1976, p. 8
  66. UNC athletic director Homer Rice leaves to coach football at Rice University Rice University hired Homer Rice, UNC's director of athletics for seven years and the third person to hold the post in more than 50 years, as its head football coach and future athletic director. Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor said no successor had been chosen, and Rice said he would divide his time between the two campuses until one was named. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Carmichael Auditorium, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Homer RiceSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, January 21, 1976, p. 5
  67. Chancellor Taylor names LeRoy D. Werley Jr. acting dean of the School of Pharmacy After the death of Dean Seymour M. Blaug, Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor named assistant dean LeRoy D. Werley Jr. acting dean of the UNC School of Pharmacy and appointed a 14-member search committee, two of them students, chaired by Harvey L. Smith. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: School of Pharmacy, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: LeRoy D. Werley Jr., Harvey L. Smith, Seymour M. BlaugSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, January 12, 1976, p. 2
  68. Bill Cobey becomes UNC's acting athletic director William Cobey took over as acting athletic director, and Chancellor Ferebee Taylor recommended to the Board of Trustees that he be named to succeed Homer Rice, who left the post that month. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: William Cobey, Homer Rice, Ferebee TaylorSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 2, 1976, p. 1
  69. A bronze bust of Albert Coates is unveiled for the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies The Di-Phi societies received a bronze bust of Albert Coates, founder of the Institute of Government and professor emeritus of law, at a special assembly attended by Chancellor Ferebee Taylor and Duke president Terry Sanford. Gladys Coates unveiled the bust, sculpted by William E. Hipp III, for the societies' chambers. People: Albert Coates, Gladys Hall Coates, N. Ferebee Taylor, Terry Sanford Place: Di-Phi chambers, New West, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: William E. Hipp III, Ferebee Taylor · Also mentions: Institute of GovernmentSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 20, 1976, p. 1
  70. 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
  71. UNC trustees approve selling the University's telephone, electric, water and sewer systems The UNC Board of Trustees unanimously approved selling the University-owned utilities for about $41.5 million: the Chapel Hill Telephone Co. to Southern Bell for about $25 million, the electric system to Duke Power for about $15 million and the University's share of the water and sewer systems to the Orange Water and Sewer Authority for about $1.5 million. The authority, which was also to take over Chapel Hill's and Carrboro's water and sewer facilities at no cost, had been restructured with five Chapel Hill, two Carrboro and two county members. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Orange Water and Sewer AuthorityThe Daily Tar Heel, June 17, 1976, p. 3
  72. A federal appeals court keeps a woman religion professor on the UNC faculty while she sues for discrimination The Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the federal district court to grant a preliminary injunction keeping a woman assistant professor of religion on the UNC faculty while her $1.75 million suit went forward. She had sued UNC President William Friday, Chancellor Ferebee Taylor and members of the religion department on July 16, 1976, charging she was not reappointed because of her sex, age and Catholic faith; the Faculty Grievance Committee had recommended her reappointment and noted a possible history of sex discrimination in religion departments. People: William C. Friday, N. Ferebee Taylor, Ruel W. Tyson, Jr Place: Department of Religion, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Ferebee TaylorSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, September 3, 1976, p. 1
  73. UNC shuts off air conditioning and showers to save water in the drought To save water in the drought, the University shut off air conditioning in academic buildings and the Carolina Union at night and on weekends, banned outdoor watering and painting, drained the outdoor pool, closed the showers in Woollen Gym and Carmichael, switched dining halls to disposable plates and sent its laundry to Duke; Vice Chancellor Claiborne Jones warned classes might be delayed if the lake fell much further. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Claiborne Jones · Also mentions: Carolina Union, Woollen GymSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, August 23, 1976, p. 10
  74. UNC trustees plan to spend the utilities sale money on libraries The UNC Board of Trustees approved a plan to use the University's share of the utilities sale, about $31.5 million, to build a new central library, renovate Wilson Library and add three floors to the Health Sciences Library. The plan still needed the approval of the UNC Board of Governors and the state Advisory Budget Commission. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Wilson LibrarySearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, August 27, 1976, p. 8
  75. The state Utilities Commission approves the sale of the University's electric and telephone systems The North Carolina Utilities Commission approved the sale of the University's electric system to Duke Power and the Chapel Hill Telephone Co. to Southern Bell. Chancellor Ferebee Taylor told the trustees the revenue would not begin to arrive until December; the water and sewer systems were to pass to the Orange Water and Sewer Authority on December 31. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Ferebee Taylor · Also mentions: Orange Water and Sewer AuthorityThe Daily Tar Heel, September 8, 1976, p. 3
  76. Chapel Hill aldermen adjourn without charging UNC for watering a football field in the drought At a special session called by Aldermen Ed Vickery and R. D. Smith, the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen voted 5 to 4, Mayor James Wallace breaking the tie, to adjourn without acting against the University for watering Navy Field from its water system on September 1 in violation of the water ordinance; the next day the University paid the town $100 voluntarily. People: N. Ferebee Taylor, R. D. Smith Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: James C. Wallace, Ed Vickery, James WallaceThe Daily Tar Heel, September 8, 1976, p. 1
  77. The University Space Committee votes to move the Chase cafeteria into Upendo Lounge's space The University Space Committee decided to move the Servomation cafeteria from the second to the first floor of Chase Hall, taking the room the Black Student Movement had used as Upendo Lounge without promising it other space. The BSM, which said it was neither consulted nor told, met Dean of Student Affairs Donald Boulton and Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor and held a press conference, but Taylor declined to overrule the committee. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Chase Hall, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Donald Boulton · Also mentions: Upendo LoungeBlack Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), October 19, 1976, p. 3
  78. University finds less than half of University Lake's usable water left Chancellor Ferebee Taylor released a University utilities study finding that Chapel Hill had 248 million gallons of usable water left in University Lake, 47.5 per cent of the supply, and that the full lake held 670 million gallons rather than the 700 million long assumed, only 523 million of it usable. With no rain and no water from Durham the supply would last 59 days; with three million gallons a day from Durham, 207 days. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: University Lake, Chapel Hill · Also named: Ferebee Taylor · Also mentions: University utilitiesThe Daily Tar Heel, October 6, 1976, p. 3
  79. Chapel Hill aldermen amend the drought ordinance to let pools that use no new town water reopen The Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen voted 6-2 to change the drought water-use ordinance, which had made it unlawful to use any swimming pool, so that it barred only putting town water into a pool. The change answered a petition of more than 3,000 students that Chancellor Taylor had turned down under the old ordinance, and the University cleared Bowman Gray Pool in Woollen Gym to reopen with water trucked from Hillsborough to replace backwash losses. People: N. Ferebee Taylor, R. D. Smith Place: Municipal Building, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Bowman Gray Pool, Woollen GymThe Daily Tar Heel, October 13, 1976, p. 1
  80. UNC Faculty Council approves new majors in astronomy and public policy analysis The UNC Faculty Council approved proposals for bachelor of arts majors in astronomy, built on existing physics and astronomy courses and Morehead Planetarium, and in public policy analysis, drawn from political science, economics, philosophy, sociology, statistics and psychology. Permission to plan them was to go to the Board of Governors on November 12, with 1977-78 the earliest start; the paper said no college in the state then offered an astronomy degree. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Morehead PlanetariumSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 18, 1976, p. 1
  81. UNC's fall enrollment falls to 20,293 Chancellor Ferebee Taylor reported a total fall 1976 enrollment of 20,293 at Chapel Hill, 243 fewer than the 20,536 of fall 1975 and about half of one per cent over the budgeted figure, against a two per cent margin the year before. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Ferebee TaylorSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 15, 1976, p. 3
  82. Louis Round Wilson receives three national awards at his centennial festival At a banquet closing the Louis Round Wilson Centennial Festival, the former University librarian, weeks short of his 100th birthday, received the American Association for State and Local History's Award of Merit, the American Association of University Presses' Distinguished Service Award and the American Library Association's Melvil Dewey Medal. The General Alumni Association also named him one of Carolina's Priceless Gems. People: Louis Round Wilson, N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, December 3, 1976, p. 1
  83. A federal appeals court strikes down UNC's racial seat and jury rules but upholds fee support for the BSM In the suit two former students brought in 1974, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Student Constitution's guarantee of at least two minority-race members on the Campus Governing Council, and the judicial rule letting minority students ask for a predominantly minority jury, violated the Fourteenth Amendment and the Civil Rights Acts of 1871 and 1964. It upheld funding the Black Student Movement from student fees, since the BSM had opened its membership in September 1974. People: William C. Friday, N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Chapel Hill (4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals)The Daily Tar Heel, January 14, 1977, p. 1
  84. UNC trustees question the size of the planned central library and put off choosing an architect Hearing that the proposed $22 million central library on the Carolina Union parking lot would have 440,000 square feet, against 260,000 in Wilson Library, the Board of Trustees voted 7 to 3 to have a subcommittee under John A. Tate Jr. restudy the plan and set a way to choose among eight architectural firms. On February 11 the board again put off the choice, to March 11. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Emerson Field (Carolina Union parking lot), Chapel Hill · Also named: John A. Tate Jr. · Also mentions: Wilson LibrarySearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, January 24, 1977, p. 1
  85. BSM leaders tell Chancellor Taylor they will fight the court ruling on minority seats The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on January 5 that the BSM could keep receiving student fees but struck down the guaranteed minority seats on the Campus Governing Council and the Honor Court's promise of a half-minority jury. At a meeting with Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor and state lawyers, BSM chair Jackie Lucas said the organization would do whatever it took to keep Minority Court and the council seats; the university had asked for a rehearing on January 24. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Jackie LucasBlack Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), February 22, 1977, p. 3
  86. UNC trustees choose an architect for the new central library and approve a larger Manning Drive parking deck The UNC Board of Trustees unanimously chose the Wilmington firm of Leslie N. Boney as architect, with Mitchell-Giurgola Associates of Philadelphia as consultants, for a $22 million central library to be built on the Carolina Union parking lot, and approved an 800-space addition to the 621-space parking deck on Manning Drive to replace the 474 spaces the library would take. Student body president Bill Moss cast the only vote against the deck, asking for more student discussion; Vice Chancellor Claiborne S. Jones said ground for the library was to be broken in spring 1979. People: Thomas W. Lambeth, N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Carolina Union parking lot, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Leslie N. Boney, Bill Moss, Claiborne S. Jones · Also mentions: Manning DriveSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 14, 1977, p. 1
  87. UNC's Faculty Council asks for yearly recognition of the racial-equality cause and a merit scholarship for Black students By a 21-19 vote the Faculty Council asked Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor to find a way for the University to recognize each year the cause of racial equality and its leaders, after members struck from the recommendation an annual observance of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday and his name. It then voted unanimously to ask officials to seek private money for a scholarship for Black students awarded without regard to need, which supporters likened to a 'black Morehead'; both came from the Committee on the Status of Minorities and the Disadvantaged, chaired by Charles E. Daye, along with calls to hire more Black, minority and women faculty. People: Charles E. Daye, James Dickson Phillips, E. M (Elie Maynard) Adams, N. Ferebee Taylor Place: University, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 21, 1977, p. 1
  88. Board of Governors confirms Samuel R. Williamson Jr. as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences The UNC Board of Governors gave final approval to history professor Samuel R. Williamson Jr. as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor announced the choice two days later. Williamson, who had helped start the Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense, succeeded James R. Gaskin and took office August 1. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Samuel R. Williamson Jr., James R. Gaskin · Also mentions: College of Arts and SciencesSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 12, 1977, p. 1
  89. Claiborne S. Jones becomes executive assistant to the chancellor and John L. Temple succeeds him Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor announced, and the Board of Governors approved, that Claiborne S. Jones, vice chancellor for business and finance, would become executive assistant to the chancellor on September 1, with assistant vice chancellor John L. Temple taking over his post. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: South Building, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Claiborne S. Jones, John L. TempleSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, June 16, 1977, p. 8
  90. Chancellor Taylor declares UNC will not discriminate on the basis of handicap In a public notice under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor declared it University policy not to discriminate on the basis of handicap in admission, programs, treatment or employment. He named Vice Chancellor Douglass Hunt to coordinate compliance and set grievance routes for students, staff and faculty. People: N. Ferebee Taylor, Douglass Hunt Place: South Building, UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, September 2, 1977, p. 2
  91. Hayden B. Renwick becomes special assistant to the chancellor for minority enrollment Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor made Assistant Dean Hayden B. Renwick his special assistant for 1977-78, to advise him on raising minority enrollment as the federal government pressed the UNC system for more Black students. Renwick called the federal goal of a 150 percent increase too much but said a larger Black enrollment could be reached. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: South Building, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Hayden B. Renwick · Also mentions: UNC systemBlack Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), September 9, 1977, p. 14 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, September 9, 1977, p. 8
  92. Black students hold a silent University Day protest over Bakke and the HEW plan Black Student Movement members held a silent demonstration at University Day against the university's rejection of the federal desegregation proposal and over the Bakke case. Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor said it was done with great dignity; one Black faculty member later said it needed more preparation with the press. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Memorial Hall, University, Chapel HillBlack Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), November 22, 1977, p. 3
  93. UNC trustees hear that the University library has slipped in national rankings A revised five-year plan presented to the trustees showed UNC's national rank in library acquisitions had fallen from 20th in 1964 to 28th in 1976 and in total library spending from 25th to 30th, with officials warning federal research grants could suffer. People: James F Govan, N. Ferebee Taylor Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 18, 1977, p. 1
  94. Chancellor Taylor calls for more Black and women faculty and sets aside recruiting money Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor's report on minority and female presence at UNC found that Black faculty had risen 175 percent since 1972 but were still 2.4 percent of the faculty, and that the 1,269 Black students of fall 1977 were 6.3 percent of the student body, short of the state plan's 7.1 percent goal. Taylor set aside $50,000 for recruiting minority faculty and $40,000 a year from the Pogue Fund for 16 undergraduate scholarships with attention to outstanding minority students. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 26, 1977, p. 1
  95. Chancellor Taylor earmarks Pogue Fund income for scholarships for minority students Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor set aside $40,000 a year of the private Pogue Fund's income for 16 new undergraduate scholarships of $2,500 each, with outstanding minority students to get special consideration. The Daily Tar Heel reported it as part of a push to compete with other schools for Black applicants, along with a new minority recruiter post and an outreach program using Black alumni. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, December 2, 1977, p. 1
  96. Pauli Murray declines an honorary degree from UNC Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor wrote to Murray on February 10, 1978 offering her an honorary Doctor of Laws at the commencement of May 14, 1978. Murray declined, citing the University's dispute with the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare over dismantling segregation and her refusal to share the platform with Governor Jim Hunt. People: Pauli Murray, N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Jim HuntSearch the index · UNC Libraries: Pauli Murray and UNC, 1976-1978 Honorary degree
  97. UNC names Dick Crum head football coach UNC hired Dick Crum, coach at Miami University of Ohio, as head football coach after a 12-day search to replace Bill Dooley, who had left for Virginia Tech. Crum met his players the next morning. People: Dick Crum, N. Ferebee Taylor Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: Bill DooleySearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, January 23, 1978, p. 1
  98. UNC-Chapel Hill trustees back the Board of Governors against HEW's desegregation demands The UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees passed a resolution urging the Board of Governors not to retreat from its opposition to HEW's desegregation requirements, over objections from Walter Tucker, the board's only Black member, and student body president Bill Moss. Moss's amendment recognizing the problem of racial duality in the 16-campus system failed 6-2. The trustees also voted 5-3 that telephone costs should not count in students' financial aid budgets. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Faculty lounge, Morehead Building, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Walter Tucker, Bill MossSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 13, 1978, p. 1
  99. Historian Fletcher M. Green dies Fletcher Melvin Green, Kenan professor of history emeritus, who taught at the University from 1922 to 1968 and helped organize the Southern Historical Association, serving as its president in 1945, died at 82. A scholar of 19th-century, Southern and constitutional history, he was said to have directed more graduate students in his field than anyone in the country; his funeral was held at University Methodist Church, with burial in the Chapel Hill Memorial Cemetery. People: Fletcher Melvin Green, N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Chapel Hill Memorial Cemetery, University Methodist ChurchSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 2, 1978, p. 3
  100. Hayden Renwick's report urges a central UNC office for minority students A report by Dean Hayden B. Renwick, special assistant to Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor, recommended a central office for minority and disadvantaged students, Black counselors at the University Counseling Center, a yearly reception honoring the roughly 135 Black and American Indian students with B averages, and more recruiting visits; Taylor named a committee to study it. Renwick had said that UNC turned away qualified Black applicants, as Black freshman enrollment fell from 270 in 1974 to 194 in 1976 before rising to 223 in fall 1977, and the admissions committee had refused his request to admit every Black applicant meeting the minimum requirements. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Hayden B. RenwickThe Daily Tar Heel, February 15, 1978, p. 1
  101. Two white applicants sue UNC's law school, charging reverse discrimination Two white applicants denied admission to the UNC School of Law filed a $25,000 suit in the U.S. Middle District Court charging that less qualified minority students had been admitted in their place, a case observers likened to the Bakke case then before the U.S. Supreme Court. Named as defendants were President William C. Friday, Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor, Dean Robert G. Byrd and former Dean J. Dickson Phillips. People: William C. Friday, N. Ferebee Taylor, James Dickson Phillips Place: UNC School of Law, Chapel Hill (suit filed in federal court) · Also named: Robert G. ByrdSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 7, 1978, p. 1
  102. Harvey M. Wagner resigns as dean of UNC's School of Business Administration Harvey M. Wagner resigned as dean of the School of Business Administration, effective June 30, less than two years after taking the post; Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor announced the resignation and said a search committee would be named. Wagner was to stay on the faculty, and neither he nor school officials would discuss his reasons. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: School of Business Administration, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Harvey M. WagnerSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 26, 1978, p. 1
  103. John Adams resigns as dean of the UNC School of Journalism John Adams, dean of the School of Journalism since 1969 and the only academic dean then on campus who had held the post in 1969, sent his resignation to Chancellor Ferebee Taylor to return to teaching, staying on as acting dean while a search committee was formed. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: School of Journalism, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: John Adams, Ferebee TaylorSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, August 24, 1978, p. 3
  104. Ira J. Gordon, dean of the UNC School of Education, dies Ira J. Gordon, 55, Kenan professor and dean of the UNC School of Education, died at North Carolina Memorial Hospital after 14 months as dean. A recognized authority on early childhood and parent education and the author of 11 books, he had come to Chapel Hill in May 1977 from the University of Florida, where he directed the Institute for Development of Human Resources. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: North Carolina Memorial Hospital, Chapel Hill · Also named: Ira J. GordonSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, September 8, 1978, p. 3
  105. UNC reports its largest Black enrollment to date Answering Dean Hayden Renwick's charge that it was turning away qualified Black applicants, UNC released its fall figures two weeks early: 1,385 Black students, up 116 or 9.1 percent, including 297 Black freshmen, a third more than the year before and 9.6 percent of the class. Renwick replied that the University had ignored his evidence and should enroll about 450 Black freshmen a year. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: South Building, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Hayden B. Renwick, Hayden RenwickThe Daily Tar Heel, October 6, 1978, p. 1
  106. UNC trustees leave the end of Student Stores money for athletic scholarships to the chancellor Asked by student body president Jim Phillips to stop using $25,000 a year of Student Stores profits for athletic grants-in-aid, the UNC Board of Trustees left any phase-out to Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor, who said he had cut the support from $45,000 in 1971-72 and meant to end it; trustee Walter R. Davis's compromise to end it while the athletic department ran in the black was rejected. People: N. Ferebee Taylor, Walter Royal Davis, Margaret Taylor Harper Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Jim Phillips · Also mentions: Student StoresSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 18, 1978, p. 1
  107. Chancellor Taylor tells the Faculty Council that UNC is not turning away qualified Black applicants In a prepared statement to the Faculty Council, Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor denied Dean Hayden Renwick's charge that Black North Carolinians were being discriminated against in freshman admissions, saying his review of every one denied for 1978 found no improper rejection and that 80 percent of Black in-state applicants were admitted against 68 percent of whites. Renwick, addressing the faculty afterward, said the 1978 figures did not answer his evidence from 1976 and 1977, which he had been barred from updating. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: 100 Hamilton Hall, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Hayden B. Renwick, Hayden RenwickThe Daily Tar Heel, October 23, 1978, p. 1
  108. The Black Faculty-Staff Caucus asks Chancellor Taylor to meet on Black admissions Following the controversy over the admission of Black undergraduates, the Black Faculty-Staff Caucus wrote Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor asking for a meeting to make sure fair standards were applied equally to all applicants. By October 20, 1978 a meeting of the caucus steering committee with Taylor had been set for October 27. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: University, Chapel HillBlack Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), November 6, 1978, p. 2 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, October 20, 1978, p. 1
  109. Women outnumber men in UNC's total enrollment Figures released by Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor's office showed women made up 50.9 percent of all students at Chapel Hill in fall 1978, counting undergraduate, graduate and professional students, and the Daily Tar Heel reported it was the first time women outnumbered men. Women were 54.1 percent of undergraduates, about half of graduate students and 26 percent of law, medical and dental students. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: University, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 19, 1978, p. 1
  110. Chancellor Taylor recommends a $20 rise in the student health fee Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor said he would recommend raising the Student Health Service fee by $20 a semester, to $63.50, to staff the new student infirmary due to open that summer, over Student Government's objection that the rise broke federal anti-inflation guidelines. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Student Health Service, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: James A. TaylorSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 9, 1979, p. 1
  111. Three students sue to cut off student-fee funding of the Daily Tar Heel Three UNC students filed suit in federal court in Durham asking that the Daily Tar Heel be barred from student activity fees, about $70,000 of its $280,000 yearly budget, and that fees already paid be refunded, on the ground that the paper endorsed political candidates. The suit named Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor, President William C. Friday, the trustees and the Board of Governors as defendants. People: N. Ferebee Taylor, William C. Friday Place: U.S. District Court, Durham; Daily Tar Heel, Carolina Union, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 23, 1979, p. 1
  112. Black students march on South Building as federal civil rights officials tour UNC About 75 Black Student Movement members marched to South Building chanting for federal action on desegregation while Mary Berry and David S. Tatel of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare toured the campus. BSM chairman Allen Johnson and Byron Horton of the North Carolina Black Coalition, who had asked to see the officials, told them in Dean Hayden B. Renwick's office that qualified Black applicants were being turned away; Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor had reported that morning a 33 percent rise in Black freshmen. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: South Building and Wilson Library, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Allen Johnson, Byron Horton, Mary Berry, David S. Tatel, Hayden B. RenwickThe Daily Tar Heel, February 26, 1979, p. 1
  113. UNC's Faculty Council extends the course drop period to six weeks Overriding its Educational Policy Committee, the Faculty Council voted by more than two to one to let students drop a course up to six weeks after classes begin, starting in the fall of 1979. Student Government had pressed for the change since October 1978; the drop period had been cut from 12 weeks to four in 1977. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Hamilton Hall, University, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 19, 1979, p. 1
  114. About 200 students march on South Building and sit in over tenure and Black studies Some 200 students in a Black Student Movement demonstration marched in the rain to South Building to protest what they called the administration's growing insensitivity, after Chancellor Ferebee Taylor told BSM leaders they had no recourse on the denial of tenure to Afro-American Studies director Sonja Stone. When Provost J. Charles Morrow would not come out the marchers held a 30-minute sit-in; Morrow promised to study funding for Afro-American Studies but not a separate department. People: Sonja Haynes Stone, N. Ferebee Taylor Place: South Building, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: J. Charles Morrow, Sonja Stone, Ferebee TaylorThe Daily Tar Heel, April 5, 1979, p. 1
  115. A faculty committee reports on Dean Renwick's minority admissions charges A faculty advisory committee chaired by religion professor Charles H. Long, named by Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor to study Dean Hayden Renwick's charges about Black admissions, issued a 29-page report. It found ten years of Black enrollment growth unsatisfactory but did not uphold most of the charges. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Charles H. Long, Hayden B. Renwick, Hayden RenwickBlack Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), September 24, 1979, p. 1
  116. Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor resigns for health reasons N. Ferebee Taylor, UNC's chancellor since February 1972, announced his resignation on his doctor's advice after a heart attack on June 7, effective January 31 or whenever a successor was chosen. On August 24 the Board of Trustees named its new chairman, Ralph N. Strayhorn, to lead the search, and Taylor said he would stay on to teach corporate law. People: N. Ferebee Taylor, William C. Friday Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Ralph N. StrayhornSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, August 27, 1979, p. 1
  117. Chancellor Taylor's last University Day report counts gains in women and Black students At the University Day ceremonies, retiring Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor reported that since fall 1972 UNC's enrollment had grown 9.5 percent, the number of women students 52 percent and the number of Black students 87 percent, so that the student body was 53 percent women and 7.5 percent Black; women's employment at the University had grown 31 percent and Black employment 50 percent. He warned of inflation, a state budget freeze and fewer high school graduates after 1983. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: UNC campus, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 15, 1979, p. 1
  118. Chancellor Taylor's report finds women faculty down as Black enrollment reaches 7.5 percent A report released by Chancellor Ferebee Taylor found Black enrollment at its highest point in the University's history, up 196 to 7.5 percent of students and ahead of the state desegregation plan's projection, but the number of women on the faculty fell by 10 while the faculty as a whole grew by 20. Taylor called the drop in women a case of going backward. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: South Building, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Ferebee TaylorSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 24, 1979, p. 1
  119. UNC begins tolling the South Building bell each noon for the hostages in Iran After the Rev. Peter Lee of the Chapel of the Cross wrote to Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor, the University had campus police ring the South Building bell for 15 minutes at noon every day, answering the hostages' families' call for the nation to ring a message of hope. The bell was otherwise used for official occasions such as the death of a professor or distinguished alumnus, and it was still rung daily in April 1980. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: South Building, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: Peter Lee · Also mentions: Chapel of the CrossSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 16, 1980, p. 3
  120. N. Ferebee Taylor steps down as chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor left the chancellorship on January 31, 1980, after eight years, having resigned in August 1979 on his doctor's advice after a June heart attack; he planned to teach in the law school. President William Friday named no interim chancellor, leaving the vice chancellors in charge until the Board of Governors acted on a successor, and on January 28 about 425 people honored Taylor at a trustees' banquet at the Carolina Inn, where his portrait was unveiled. People: N. Ferebee Taylor, William C. Friday Place: South Building, University, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Carolina InnSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, January 30, 1980, p. 1
  121. Chancellor Taylor names a faculty committee to rehear the Stone tenure case At the trustees' request, Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor named seven faculty members, chaired by history professor George V. Taylor, to rehear Dr. Sonja Haynes Stone's tenure case. Stone's lawyer and BSM chairperson William Bynum objected that the committee had no one from Afro-American Studies. People: N. Ferebee Taylor, George Vanderbeck Taylor, Sonja Haynes Stone Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: William BynumBlack Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), January 29, 1980, p. 1
  122. Former Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor retires from the law faculty N. Ferebee Taylor, UNC's chancellor for eight years and a law professor since 1980, retired after 21 years at the University, keeping an office at the law school. People: N. Ferebee Taylor Place: School of Law, University, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, August 26, 1991, p. 3

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Chancellor Taylor at Morehead Planetarium

Morton, Hugh M. · 1973

Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor of UNC-Chapel Hill stands before the sundial at Morehead Planetarium in June 1973, on a color slide by Hugh Morton.

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