Release: Friday WOMAN'S COLLEGE OF U.N.C.
News Bureau -- A.A.Wilkinson,Dir.
Greensboro, Dec, 15. — The Faculty Council of Woman's
College today released the text of a statement on
desegregation adopted at its regular monthly meeting
Tuesday night. ( p<eo. 13 H 55)
Presented by Dr. Warren Ashby, associate professor
of philosoohy, the statement was a revised form of a
resolution tabled at the October meeting of the council.
Copies of the statement were sent to Dr. J. Harris
Purks, acting president of the University; Governor Luther
Hodges, chairman of the Board of Trustees; and Arch T. Allen,
Raleigh, secretary of the Board of Trustees. The release
of the statement was held until these officials had received
copies,
Adooted by a vote of 96 to 24, with five abstentions,
the statement is as follows:
"As faculty members at the Woman's College of the
University of North Carolina:
"1. We recognize that the Suareme Court decisions which
make racial discrimination in public education
unconstitutional are the law of the land;
"2, We believe that qualified students of any race
can be incorporated satisfactorily into the University
of North Carolina;
n3. We are confident that the University will continue
in its tradition of giving educational leadership to the
state by showing that the problems associated with
.desegregation can be met intelligently and with good
feeling; and to this end we pledge our efforts to meet
our professional responsibilities in order that the
University may better serve all of the people of the
state.i?
