1978-02-22; Central Michigan Life

              Deans split over
realignment plan
Alley Oop! Ken McDougall, Redford junior, is tossed into the air by the brothers of Lambda Chi Alpha
after accepting a bid into their fraternity. About 80 prospective members accepted bids during
Fraternity Bid-Signing Day in Finch Fieldhouse (LIFE photo by Steve Fecht).
byPAULRAU
LIFE Managing Editor
Although It may be hard to
*get CMU's academic deans to
agree   on   everything,   on   the
subject    of    the     proposed
University-wide  reorganization
it    appears    the    deans    find
themselves on common ground
— at least on some issues.
j;    Deans contacted during the
• last   two   weeks   agreed   the
gpl reorganization is not inevitable;
the Provost's position paper is
'not written in stone; and, that
the reorganization could benefit
the University.
They also agree the topic of
reorganization has raised
substantial concern, even fear,
among faculty members.
Beyond these common areas
of agreement, the multiplicity of
academic opinion asserts itself
<£  and nagging doubts about the
j reorganization, as proposed, are
-    expressed by each dean.
"I'm not adverse to
reorganization, and the
Provost's    position    paper    is
"Every little bit and piece ofFTBis going to follow
whoever got it the hard way."- Frank S. Stillings,
dean of the School of Fine and Applied Arts.
Volume 59 No. 59
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Wednesday, Feb. 22,1978
Department faculty approve
BCA to jump schools?
certainly one possibility,"
Robert L. Branyan, dean of
CMU's Graduate School, said.
"I think the problem with any
reorganization is that it
frightens people — they think
they will be out of a job.
"It's important the committee
recommended by the president
has a long time to calm people,"
he added.
Branyan said' the an-
nouncement of the
reorganization caused apprehension because "nobody had
the document when the
j, president announced it to the
Senate. There was the feeling it
would be imposed without input,
which I'm sure was not the
president's intention."
Provost John E. Cantelon
released his position paper
showing his suggestion for the
reorganization Jan. 27, 10 days
•^ after President Harold Abel
outlined the plan before the
Academic Senate.
A 20-member faculty panel
has been commissioned to study
the proposal, which would
realign CMU academic units into
two colleges and four schools,
replacing the current seven
schools.
One proponent of the
restructuring is John D. Hogan,
dean of the School of Business
Administration. "It's
unavoidable to reorganize
without causing some people to
see sinister intent or some kind
of manipulation.
"It requires talking it out,
getting the fears on the table. I
don't know how much more
anyone could ask — it hasn't
been shoved down around our
by JIM FISHER
LIFE Copy Editor
Faculty from the Departmentof
Speech and Dramatic Arts
recommended Tuesday the Area
of Broadcast and Cinematic Arts
(BCA) separate from the School
of Arts and Sciences.
At a meeting Tuesday afternoon, Speech and Dramatic
Arts faculty approved a
department committee recommendation that BCA seek
departmental status within the
School of Fine and Applied Arts.
The approved recommendation states: "The committee recognizes (BCA's)
problems of student demand,
marketplace attractiveness, job
placement and faculty
recruitment might be better
resolved from a closer proximity
to related disciplines and the
salience of department status."
The committee's report also
said BCA might experience
"potential improvement" in its
equipment     purchase     and
utilization if moved to the School
of Fine and Applied Arts.
BCA, currently one of five
areas within the Department of
Speech and Dramatic Arts, has
experiened rapidly rising
enrollment in recent years,
resulting in a failure to meet
student demands for courses
required for BCA majors and
minors.
Since its five-year plan of
1972, the department has advocated moving the BCA area to
another school within the
University and has suggested
forming a BCA department.
The recommendation Tuesday
followed BCA's most recent
attempt to gain departmental
status Jan. 12, when the area
presented the department a
document citing rationale for
the creation of a BCA department.
A committee consisting of
Speech and Dramatic Arts
faculty was formed Jan. 23 to
study    the    document.    The
committee released its
recommendation Friday that
BCA form a separate department in the School of Fine and
Applied Arts.
The committee's * recommendation was approved
Tuesday by a secret vote of
and Dramatic Arts
with    no    additional
Speech
faculty
changes.
The department did not
suggest a timetable for implementation of the BCA move,
but stated proposals concerning
the move should be subject to
procedures adopted by
Academic Senate Feb. 7.
According to Albert Lewis,
SDA department chairperson,
these procedures state the
recommendation now must go
before the faculty from the
School of Arts and Sciences and
Fine and Applied Arts for approval.
If the two schools approve the
recommendation for a BCA
move,   the   proposal   will   be
presented to Academic Senate
for approval and finally, the
Board of Trustees.
Lewis said the process of
studying a possible BCA move
depends in part on the result of a
committee comprised of
Journalism Department faculty,
whch currently is studying the
(See "BCA move—" page 9)
necks," Hogan said.
If Cantelon's position paper
were explicitly followed,
Hogan's school would lose the
Department of Business
Education, which amounted to
14 percent of the school's total
semester credit hour production
this semester.
Even though Alan F. Quick,
dean of the School of Continuing
Education, said he is "all for"
the proposed reorganization, he
expressed doubts about the
inclusion of the graduate school
in the proposed College of
Graduate Studies and Extended
Learning.
"In my thinking, I never involved the graduate school in
my concept of the model. I think
it's very unusual, very atypical.
In none of my visits to other
institutions have I seen the
school of graduate studies incorporated in that particular
model," Quick said.
Adelyn Dougherty, dean of
the School of Arts and Sciences,
said the proposal has "a lot of
potential," but she emerges as
an opponent of reorganization.
"I'd like to be persuaded of
the positive benefits of the
reorganization. We haven't seen
the reorganization fleshed out in
a way for us to judge it.
"The need for reorganization is
not felt. If you do a survey of
faculty, you'll find they don't
feel the need to reorganize,"
Dougherty said.
"I am reluctant to buy
wholesale reorganization when
it can be done by bits and pieces.
I would rather see us tuning
performances which already
exist rather than change what
has been successful for us," she
added.
The School of Arts and
Sciences is CMU's largest, and
therefore has the most
resources to lose. Under the
position paper plan, the school
"would be divided into three
areas, taking from Arts and
Sciences those elements which
are professional and involving a
shift of at least 25 FTE,"
Dougherty said.
FTE means the equivalent of
one full-time faculty position,
the unit used to allocate
resources to CMU departments.
However, the fight for
resources is jiot the only con-
(See "Deans—"page 8)
Wirtz ties job market
to standard of living
Special Olympics open
today with torch run
byPAMJAHNKE
LIFE Copy Editor
Today kicks off the Michigan
Regional Winter Special
Olympics, which will draw about
775 athletes from the Great
Lakes region to participate in a
variety of events.
Highlighting the day will be
opening ceremonies beginning
6:30 p.m. at Schuss Mountain,
Mancelona. Allen Gates,
director of Michigan Special
Olympics, said participants will
form a horseshoe in the main ski
area, while VIPs and some
olympians give' words of
welcome.
There also will be a "torch ski
run" and fireworks.
Mentally impaired athletes
from Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky,
Michigan, Ohio and Ontario will
be at Schuss Mountain and
Shanty Creek Lodge, Bellaire,
participating in winter games
through Friday.
This is the second year
Michigan has sponsored winter
Olympics and, due to the games'
novelty, it has cut down the
pressure of competition, Gates
said. As a result more people
want to be involved, he added.
It is the participation, not the
winning or losing of an activity,
that is stressed throughout the
events. Gates urges spectators to
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attend   as   many   games   as
possible to cheer the athletes on.
"Special activity helps
develop their minds. It gives
them the right of sports,
recreation, and physical activities they deserve and that
we've kept from them in the
past," he explained.
Olympian events will begin
Thursday, but today there will
be various clinics in alpine
skiing, cross country skiing, ice
skating and snowshoeing.
These clinics are designed to
give expert assistance on
background and instruction of
sports unfamiliar to the
athletes.
Other special events slated
this week are the winter
wonderland tour, tobogganing,
sleigh rides and celebrity races.
Celebrities attending the
Special Olympics this year are
Brad VanPelt, linebacker for the
New York Giants; Dave Hill,
tight end for the Detroit Lions;
and Ron Kramer, former offensive guard for the Green Bay
Packers. '.
Other celebrities include Dick
(See "Olympics—" page 9)
by PETE ENGARDIO
LIFE Staff Writer
If the nation ever is to offer an
encouraging job market to
college graduates, the government must adopt new economic
values which emphasize a better
quality of life, former U.S.
Secretary of Labor Willard
Wirtz said Tuesday.
In the keynote address of the
Careers Awareness Conference
before a turnout of approximately 200 persons in
Warriner Auditorium Wirtz
painted two pictures of the job
outlook for youth—one gloomy
and the other encouraging.
Citing a U.S. Bureau of Labor
•report which predicts that
colleges will annually produce
100,000 graduates more than the
job market may absorb by 1980,
Wirtz described the situation
facing youth as "one of the most
serious since the Depression."
The government has been
unsuccessful in aleviating the
dismal statistical employment
outlook primarily because it
adheres to traditional economic
objectives of material and
capital growth, he said.
"The fact that economists are
sticking to frivolous conventional wisdom is about to get
us ' into serious trouble," he
warned. "Economists must redefine their parameters of
economic growth to reflect
people and the quality of life."
Although Wirtz noted the
statistics are "proper warning
the situation is serious," he
added there are positive indications new economic ideals
are appearing in American
society.
''I believe we are moving into
a period of new economics," he
said. "There are signs emerging '
that people are interested in
improving  the  quality  of  life
more than ever before.
"I have seen signs in this
decade indicating the basic
values of work are being
challenged and rejected. People,
especially youth, are
questioning the material aspects
of success."
is
Wirtz, who currently
chairperson of the board of the
National Manpower Institute,
recommended students should
thoroughly re-evaluate their
career plans and should prepare
for several careers, rather than
concentrating on one technical
vocation.
Awaiting a cue to begin his keynote address of the Career
Awareness Conference Tuesday, in Warriner Auditorium, former
Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz (right) chats with Frank
Stillings, dean of the School of Fine and Applied Arts. In his talk,
Wirtz advised college students to seriously reevaluate their
career plans if they are to adequately prepare for the tough job
market (LIFE photo by Ron Nichols).
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