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WHEREAS, the responsibility and authority for educational policy-making should remain vested in the Board of Trustees;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT:

1. The Board of Trustees of the consolidated University of North Carolina deplores this legislation as a departure from the tradition of our State.

2. The Chairman be directed to appoint a special committee of fifteen members of the Board of Trustees to determine and implement measures to remove this legislative impairment of intellectual freedom and preemption of the authority and prerogatives of the Board of Trustees.

Mr. Taylor added that the image of the University as well as the image of some of its sister institutions supported by the state, is being viewed by the educational world, and that the action of the Board -whether it supports or does not support its administration and faculties which make the University a great institution - is being observed by the educational world today.

Mr. Larry Moore opposed the resolution. He felt that the law had some good elements as well as bad elements and that the Legislature had no intention of stifling intellectual freedom in North Carolina. He felt that if the resolution condemning the law were passed, the people of the state would say that the Board is against stifling Communism in North Carolina, and he suggested that the Board wait until the next session of the General Assembly and ask them to take out of the law those things that are detrimental to the University.

Mr. Taylor pointed out that this resolution requests that a committee be appointed to study and design ways to relieve the impairment, and he moved its adoption.

Mrs. Burgwyn seconded the motion of Mr. Taylor for adoption of the resolution and in doing so she made the following statement:

"As a Trustee of the University of North Carolina I have thought with a great deal of concern about the matter of the Speaker Ban Law passed by the Legislature in the last General Assembly, and I have been compelled to think about it in the light of my particular experience and position.

"As a guidance counselor who works closely with young high school students every day, I am indoctrinated with the ideas that schools and colleges exist for the purpose of teaching and helping each student develop to the maximum of his capacity.