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Enrollment increases prompt the Board of Governors to try limiting freshman class size at NC State. More women and minorities enroll, but the university faces scrutiny over minority pay, recruitment and retention of extension agents. Nearly 50 agents file suit against the university in 1972, arguing that pre-Civil Rights era pay discrepancies between black and white employees have never been resolved.
Also in 1972, enthusiasm and passion stirred on campus by the Vietnam War manifests in a peaceful convocation and a march to the state Capitol by some 2,000 students in May. The following fall, students turn their attention to campus problems. Technician editorials and Student Government investigate the uses of student fees and the declining quality of cafeteria food. After repeated complaints and boycotts of Leazar Hall cafeteria and its operator, Slater Food Service, the university closes both its dining halls in the early 1970s. Students remain dissatisfied with access to athletics tickets, residence hall conditions and campus regulations.
Chancellor's Office Taken Over; Students Hold Officials Hostage
April 1, 1971 | In an unprecedented move yesterday, the student body elite marched on Holladay
Hall and captured the Chancellor’s office in a superb tactical move.
“We have had enough,” stated Student Body President Cathy Sterling,
“and this move is to show our future intentions concerning the Administration’s
unresponsiveness towards student demands.”
Accompanying Sterling in her takeover were John Hester, Student Senate President;
Woody Kinney, Student Body Treasurer; the complete editorial staff of the Technician;
Fred Plunkett, manager of WKNC-FM; Sid Davis and F. Lee Bailey, editors of the
Agromeck; Catherine Mintz and Ruth Grubar, publications secretaries;
and numerous photographers.
Disclaimer: Don't be fooled! This article was reprinted from Technician's annual spoof edition and doesn't contain a shred of truth. For the real scoop on what's happening at NC State, visit the Technician Web site. As a public forum for student opinion, solely funded by advertising dollars, the Technician is the student newspaper at NC State. In the fall of 2005 and spring of 2006, the Technician won its first national award, a Silver Crown from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association, although it had been a finalist for national awards in the past. Individual photographers and designers have also won top national awards, including several first places in the Associated Collegiate Press individual competitions. More information on the accolades of the student newspaper are available here.
The takeover, preceded by a posting of demands on the main door of Holladay
Hall, took place yesterday afternoon at 1:30.
The demands stated: “(1) Our list of demands must be published in the
Green Bulletin immediately; (2) the Green Bulletin must be made available to
all the People; (3) the firing of Earle Edwards; (4) Mrs. Norman Sloan to lead
off All-Campus ’71 with “Do You Know the Way To San Jose?”
and “Indiana On My Mind” (5) the Grains of Time must be added to
the FOTC; and (6) the naming of the new Student Center Theatre shall be Sterling
Memorial Union Theatre (SMUT).”
The Chancellor was unavailable for immediate comment. He had left minutes
earlier for his retreat at Lake Tahoe, Nevada. He said, over the telephone,
“It’s about time those darling children did something like that.
We’ve been waiting for years for them to take over so we all could have
a nice vacation. Bless them all.”
Upon capturing the main outer office of the Chancellor’s suite, the
marauders then bound and gagged the Chancellor’s secretary, Mrs. Nipper,
and turned on the tape recorder beside her which contained 12 consecutive hours
of an emotional reading of “Student as Nigger,” as voiced by Chap
Sewer. [“Student as Nigger” was an essay published in the Los
Angeles Free Press in 1967. It was popular with student activists and reprinted
more than 500 times in the 1960s.]
The Chancellor’s main office was captured soon thereafter wereupon Miss
Sterling immediately plopped into his swivel desk chair, popped her feet upon
his desk and said, “We’ve done it. But, you know, it really wasn’t
worth it. My chair is more comfortable than this.”
The telephone then rang, and Kinney – who had led a separate raid on
the Business Office – reported his end of the revolt was successful and
he was firmly entrenched in John Wright’s office, asleep.
John Poole, former Assistant Dean of Student Affairs, said, “This is
just terrible, terrible. I don’t see how those students could have done
such a thing. I’m glad I am leaving this place. It’s a madhouse.”
Poole is reportedly accepting Dr. Bruce Hellman’s vacated position as
President of Meredith College.
©1971, NCSU Student Media
Rival Coaches Agree to Fight
April 1, 1978 | N.C. State basketball coach Norm Sloan and North Carolina coach Dean Smith
have agreed to meet in a lucrative boxing match that will be held in Greensboro
Coliseum some time next month.
Both pugilists cited their “intense dislike” of one another as
the key reason their negotiations were so quick and successful.
The bout is the main attraction in a tripleheader that will also feature knockout
specialist Komit Washington vs. Ron Behaven for the first time and Bitch Kupcake
vs. Connie Shelton in a rematch. All three bouts will be nationally televised
by ABC’s Wide World of Sports.
Disclaimer: Don't be fooled! This article was reprinted from Technician's annual spoof edition and doesn't contain a shred of truth. For the real scoop on what's happening at NC State, visit the Technician Web site. As a public forum for student opinion, solely funded by advertising dollars, the Technician is the student newspaper at NC State. In the fall of 2005 and spring of 2006, the Technician won its first national award, a Silver Crown from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association, although it had been a finalist for national awards in the past. Individual photographers and designers have also won top national awards, including several first places in the Associated Collegiate Press individual competitions. More information on the accolades of the student newspaper are available here.
“I’ll bash that bastard’s nose in,” Sloan predicted.
“Holy hook, just look at the target I’ll have. Only Mr. Magoo would
have trouble hitting his schnoz—and that’s only because he can only
see about as well as Smith can coach. In other words, he’s blind.”
Smith, of course, had equal words of disrespect.
“Stormin’s the chump and I’m the champ,” he boasted.
“When I hit him, he’ll spin around more than he does during that
absurd helicopter he does every time the officials finally catch one of his
renegades committing another in a series of endless infractions. I’ll
prove that he’s nothing more than a baseline bum.”
Hyperbole aside, this figures to be pretty much of an even fight with Sloan
slightly favored because of his fiery countenance.
“Hell, Sloan has been training for this fight all his coaching career
since he turns his players into sparring partners … er, punching bags,
every practice session.” Smith complained in his nasal twang.
“On the other hand, he just has lightweight over there to tone up on,”
he added. “I’ve got the world’s best heavy punching bag in
Jeff Crumton.”
“He better shut his f***ing mouth,” Sloan retaliated. “I’m
going to make him speechless. And, believe me, that will be a relief to anyone
who has ever heard his god**** voice.
“When I get through him his head will be four-cornered like that sorry
of an excuse for an offense he has.”
©1978, NCSU Student Media
