James E. (James Edgar) Wadsworth

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1. August 1965 UNC closes eight Victory Village units as the health affairs campus grows UNC closed eight units of Victory Village, the wooden married-student housing built in 1946, in August 1965; the trustees had allotted the whole village site to the expanding health affairs complex. In February 1966 the Daily Tar Heel reported 13 more units would close in June, with no low-rent housing planned to replace them. People: James E. (James Edgar) Wadsworth Place: Victory Village, UNC, Chapel HillThe Daily Tar Heel, February 8, 1966, p. 1
2. April 4, 1970 UNC orders twelve student families out of Victory Village for a parking lot Twelve married-student families in University-owned Victory Village received notices to leave by June 7 so their units could be cleared for parking while three medical-center buildings went up. Vice Chancellor Joseph C. Eagles held to the order on April 8 and said the University had no plans for more married-student housing; the families said 92 units had been lost without replacement, and village board chairman Gerd Bartsh spoke of an injunction and a student-built cooperative. People: James E. (James Edgar) Wadsworth Place: Victory Village, Chapel Hill · Also named: Joseph C. Eagles, Gerd BartshThe Daily Tar Heel, April 5, 1970, p. 1
3. July 1, 1970 UNC reorganizes student affairs and creates an office of residence life A reorganization effective July 1 made Dean of Men James O. Cansler associate dean of student affairs, moved Fred Schroeder up to dean of men and created an office of residence life under Robert Kepner to coordinate the dormitories; housing director James Wadsworth became housing assignments officer. People: James E. (James Edgar) Wadsworth Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: James O. Cansler, Fred Schroeder, Robert Kepner, James WadsworthSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, June 18, 1970, p. 1
4. September 1970 UNC enrolls more than 17,000 students and runs out of housing Fall enrollment passed 17,000, up 4.5 percent and about 350 more than planned, with some 4,050 new students; the housing office called it the worst crisis since World War II, bedded men in Stacy dormitory's basement lounge and turned singles into doubles, and by September 24 only three undergraduate men lacked rooms. Chancellor Sitterson told the Faculty Council on October 2 that enrollment had doubled from 8,592 in 1960. People: James E. (James Edgar) Wadsworth, J. Carlyle Sitterson Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, September 15, 1970, p. 1