THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
AT GREENSBORO
Office of the Chancellor
April 17, 1973
Miss Cheryl Sosnik
Vice President
Student Government Association
The Campus
Dear Miss Sosnik:
I am responding to your letter of April 11, 1973, in which you
reported that the Student Senate on April 10 adopted a resolution
requesting certain information from the Ad Hoc Faculty Committee
that advised me concerning the Senate's reclassification of the
Neo-Black Society.
One request was that "the Ad Hoc committee. . . issue to the
Student Senate an explanation of what evidence they found to be new
evidence that was presented in the executive session of the Student
Senate meeting of March 26-27, 1973, and also why they found that
new evidence to be of 'questionable validity. ' "
I must confess that such action on the part of the Senate is
surprising to me. It was specifically at the request of Senate spokesmen that an arrangement was made so that the tapes of the executive
session of March 26-27 might be heard by the Faculty Committee.
I personally was told by a Student Senator making such a request that
"the Senate acted on the basis of evidence that was presented only in
the executive session, so we want the Faculty Committee to hear the
tapes. " Miss Jacqueline Coleman, then the Vice President of Student
Government, endorsed this request and was herself present while
these confidential tapes were played for the Committee.
Following receipt of your letter of April 11, 1973, I received a
communication from Miss Jacqueline Coleman indicating her intention
to appeal the Chancellor's action of March 31, 1973, presumably to the
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North Carolina State University at Haleigh
[Letter from UNCG Chancellor Ferguson to Student Government Association regarding Neo-Black Society ruling]
Date
1973-04-17
Creator
Ferguson, James Sharbrough
Subject headings
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Topics
UNCG Neo-Black Society
Place
Greensboro (N.C.)
Description
In this letter to Student Government Association Vice President Cheryl Sosnik, UNCG Chancellor James S. Ferguson acknowledges the Student Senate's request for more information from the ad-hoc faculty committee that advised Ferguson in the matter of reclassifying the Neo-Black Society status as a student organization. In this letter he also reports that he understands that his decision to overturn the Student Senate's decision will be appealed by the students.
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en
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THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
AT GREENSBORO
Office of the Chancellor
April 17, 1973
Miss Cheryl Sosnik
Vice President
Student Government Association
The Campus
Dear Miss Sosnik:
I am responding to your letter of April 11, 1973, in which you
reported that the Student Senate on April 10 adopted a resolution
requesting certain information from the Ad Hoc Faculty Committee
that advised me concerning the Senate's reclassification of the
Neo-Black Society.
One request was that "the Ad Hoc committee. . . issue to the
Student Senate an explanation of what evidence they found to be new
evidence that was presented in the executive session of the Student
Senate meeting of March 26-27, 1973, and also why they found that
new evidence to be of 'questionable validity. ' "
I must confess that such action on the part of the Senate is
surprising to me. It was specifically at the request of Senate spokesmen that an arrangement was made so that the tapes of the executive
session of March 26-27 might be heard by the Faculty Committee.
I personally was told by a Student Senator making such a request that
"the Senate acted on the basis of evidence that was presented only in
the executive session, so we want the Faculty Committee to hear the
tapes. " Miss Jacqueline Coleman, then the Vice President of Student
Government, endorsed this request and was herself present while
these confidential tapes were played for the Committee.
Following receipt of your letter of April 11, 1973, I received a
communication from Miss Jacqueline Coleman indicating her intention
to appeal the Chancellor's action of March 31, 1973, presumably to the
X
<->.
3
GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA/27412
The University of North Carolina comprises: The University of North Carolina at Greensboro; The University of North Carolina al Asheville;
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; The University of North Carolina at Charlotte; The University of North Carolina at Wilmington;
North Carolina State University at Haleigh
