In March 1970 UNC students voted 4,817 to 1,078, in a record turnout, to keep paying for the Daily Tar Heel through student fees. After the paper's April 1971 page on gay life, Sen. Julian Allsbrook introduced a bill to bar the state universities from paying for student publications out of activity fees, and a Senate committee reported it unfavorably. On July 25, 1972 four students, all Young Republicans, filed a class action in federal court arguing that fee support of the paper made them support opinions they rejected. Judge Eugene Gordon postponed the case that November to await an appeal in a like case over the North Carolina Central University paper, and in July 1973 he refused it class-action status, so the plaintiffs went on as individuals. In late August 1974 he ruled that fee support of the Daily Tar Heel did not violate students' constitutional rights, and the plaintiffs appealed. Meanwhile, on June 13, 1974, two law students sued to stop fee support of the Black Student Movement, which they called a separatist organization; the BSM reworded its constitution to make plain that any student could join and, at its own request, was added as a defendant that September.
On September 17, 1975 Chief Judge Eugene A. Gordon dismissed the suit against the BSM's fee funding, holding the main issue moot because the BSM had opened its membership, though he condemned University officials for having funded a group open only to Black students. On February 23, 1976 the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal in the Daily Tar Heel case, leaving the district court and Fourth Circuit rulings for the paper in place; the paper had spent more than $8,000 on its defense. On February 22, 1979 three students sued in federal court in Durham to bar the paper from student activity fees, about $70,000 of its $280,000 yearly budget, and to refund fees already paid, on the ground that it endorsed political candidates; they named Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor, President William C. Friday, the trustees and the Board of Governors as defendants. By April 1982 Judge Gordon had granted summary judgment to the University in the 1979 suit, finding nothing arbitrary in its decision to fund the paper as a learning tool; it was the second time in eight years the University had won such a suit. On March 10, 1983 the Fourth Circuit affirmed the ruling, holding that the fees supported an independent student paper that widened the exchange of ideas on campus, not the University's own views. The suit had been paid for by the Fund for Individual Rights, and one plaintiff said he would seek a Supreme Court review.
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Print news and raise hell: the Daily Tar Heel and the evolution of a modern university
Zogry, Kenneth Joel · 2018
Kenneth Joel Zogry's history of the Daily Tar Heel, the UNC Chapel Hill student newspaper, published by UNC Press in 2018, 361 pages with illustrations, online edition. Zogry follows the paper from its 1893 start as organ of the Athletic Association through the eras his chapter titles name: 'Crack-brained professors and baby radicals' (1923 to 1941), 'The truth in eight-point type' (1941 to 1959) and 'A free press must prevail' (1971 to 1993).
Reviewed in The Southeastern Librarian (2018), American Journalism (2019), Journal of American History (2019), The Journal of Southern History (2019).
Toward a conservative campus : a textual analysis of news coverage in the Carolina critic, the Carolina review, and the Daily tar heel since 1987
Sopp, Brian · 2007
Brian Sopp's 2007 textual analysis of news coverage in three Chapel Hill student publications, the Carolina Critic, the Carolina Review and the Daily Tar Heel, from 1987 onward. It concerns college student newspapers and periodicals in Chapel Hill. A piece of student research rather than a trade book, useful to anyone studying campus journalism and student politics at the university.
100th anniversary.
1993
Centennial edition of the Daily Tar Heel, the University of North Carolina student newspaper, produced at Chapel Hill in 1993 to mark one hundred years of publication. Jen Pilla is named as centennial edition editor. Topics include the paper's history along with college student newspapers and periodicals in Chapel Hill, which makes the issue a source for the paper's own record.
The rightish : the conservative editorial p(l)ag(u)e of the Tar Heel.
1984 · U.N.C. Committee to Liberate the Tar Heel
Conservative sheet aimed squarely at the campus daily, published in Chapel Hill from 1984 by a group calling itself the U.N.C. Committee to Liberate the Tar Heel, whose subtitle turns editorial page into editorial plague. Volumes measure 28 to 36 cm, and student political activity at the University of North Carolina runs through it.
William Friday
Link, William A. · 1995
Biography of William C. Friday, president of the University of North Carolina system, by historian William A. Link, published by UNC Press in 1995 with the subtitle power, purpose, and American higher education. It covers Friday's career and the history of the university at Chapel Hill and statewide. Part of the Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection.
William Clyde Friday and Ida Howell Friday
Kyser, Georgia Carroll · 1984 · North Caroliniana Society
Georgia Carroll Kyser's brief biographical tribute to William Clyde Friday and his wife Ida Howell Friday, published by the North Caroliniana Society in 1984. It runs 25 pages with eight pages of plates and illustrations. Friday led the consolidated state university from Chapel Hill, where the couple made their home.
Oral history interview with Bob Scott, April 4, 1990 interview L-0193, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007).
Scott, Robert Walter · 2007 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Robert W. Scott (1929-2009), North Carolina's governor between 1969 and 1973 and son of Governor Kerr Scott, interviewed by William Link on April 4, 1990 for the Southern Oral History Program. Scott discusses his student years at North Carolina State College in the early 1950s and his dealings with university president William Friday, including the food workers' strike at Chapel Hill, college integration, and the consolidation of the state's universities into the UNC System during his term. One hour thirty-seven minutes. Electronic edition 2007.
Oral history interview with William C. Friday, December 18, 1990: interview L-0049, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Friday, William C. · 2007 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
William C. Friday, UNC system president from 1957 until 1986, was interviewed by Cindy Cheatham in December 1990 about Anne Queen (1911-2005). Queen came to the campus YWCA as associate director in 1956 and led the merged YMCA-YWCA from 1964 to 1975. Friday recalls working with her through the years of student political activity in Chapel Hill and reflects on the place of the Y in university life. About forty minutes; electronic edition from the UNC library, 2007, through Documenting the American South.
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.
Wider background: News, Journalism & Broadcasting · the most widely held histories of the theme this storyline is filed under; they may not discuss it
Making News
Bowers, Thomas A. · 2009
Thomas A. Bowers's history of a century of journalism and mass communication teaching at the University of North Carolina, published by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication in 2009. It runs 282 pages with illustrations and portraits.
A village voice : collected columns from the Chapel Hill news
Seymour, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1925-2020 · 2003 · Chapel Hill Press
Robert E. Seymour's columns for the Chapel Hill News, gathered into a 192-page book by Chapel Hill Press in 2003. The short pieces offer anecdotes and reflections on Chapel Hill history, local manners and customs, and North Carolina life. Seymour (1925 to 2020) was the longtime pastor of Olin T. Binkley Memorial Baptist Church.
The first 25 years : WCHL 1360
1978 · WCHL?
Anniversary booklet for the first twenty-five years of WCHL, the Chapel Hill radio station at 1360 on the AM dial, published in 1978. Topics include radio broadcasting and Chapel Hill history, with advertisements included. 20 unnumbered pages with illustrations and portraits.
Celebrating 50 years on the air and 50 who made a difference : WCHL 1360
2003
Anniversary booklet marking fifty years of WCHL 1360, the Chapel Hill radio station, with profiles of fifty people from Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Published in 2003, 36 pages with portraits. Contributors include Roland Giduz, Jim Heavner, Jonathan Howes, Neil Offen and Rosemary Waldorf.
The origins of journalism education at UNC-Chapel Hill
Bowers, Thomas A., 1942- · 2009
Thomas A. Bowers gave this talk on the beginnings of journalism teaching at the University of North Carolina on October 15, 2009 in Wilson Library, part of the Gladys Hall Coates university history lecture series. It was printed the same year.
Goodbye Howell Hall.
Simpson, Richard Hunter · 1999 · R.H. Simpson
Richard Hunter Simpson filmed this seven minute farewell to Howell Hall in 1999. The film concerns the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication, its buildings and its history, and the teaching of journalism in Chapel Hill. One videocassette, color with black and white sequences.
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1360 WCHL : commemorating forty years of excellence
1993 · Village Sports, Inc.
An illustrated volume, with portraits, published by Village Sports in 1993 to mark forty years of WCHL, Chapel Hill's radio station at 1360 on the dial. Its writers were Jim Heavner, Roland Giduz, Jim Shumaker, Zora Rashkis, Dan Dunlop, George McCall, Lee Pace, Beth Tatum and Larry Stone.
NBC Nightly News : Jones report from Chapel Hill.
1975
A television news report of three minutes and fifty six seconds by Kenley Jones, broadcast on NBC Nightly News in 1975, on the spelling and grammar test journalism students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill had to pass for the major. John Adams, a former dean of the journalism school, is interviewed.
The evolution of the magazine
Willis, Stuart, active 1914 · 1914 · Dialectic and Philanthropic Literary Societies of the University of North Carolina
Stuart Willis traces the history of the North Carolina University Magazine, the student periodical published at Chapel Hill since 1844. His article was detached from the magazine itself in 1914 and printed by the Dialectic and Philanthropic Literary Societies, which ran it.
The magazine for fifty years
Thompson, Holland, 1873-1940 · 1894 · Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies
Holland Thompson's history of the North Carolina University Magazine at fifty years, written while he was a student of the class of 1895. It ran in the magazine for March and April 1894 and was issued separately at Chapel Hill by the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies.
Southern broadcast media history initiative
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1995 · The Collections
Leaflet on the southern broadcast media history initiative of the Southern Historical and Folklife Collections at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, printed in 1995. The project concerned the history of broadcasting in the Southern states and the business records that document it. Five pages on one folded sheet with illustrations.
