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Volume 52, Number 2
Mount Pleasant, Michigan, 48858
Wednesday, September 1, 1971
Trustee seats for students sought here
By MARK RUMMEL
LIFE EdifoHn-Chief
and
By DARRYL SCZEPANSKI
LI FE Student Affairs Editor
A group presently being formed is
asking for student representation on
CMU's Board of Trustees - and at the
same time is creating an alliance with
other state-supported s schools to accomplish such representation on a statewide basis.
In an exclusive interview with CM
LIFE, Bill Joyner, Mt. Pleasant senior,
today announced the formation of the
group to effect a change in "the existing power structure here, which isn't
ready now to accept students as part of
the governing body." according to Joyner.
He said, "With the 18-year-old vote
becoming effective in January, we hope
the Board,of Trustees and the administration will take another look at this idea
to provide better representation for student persons directly affected by the
trustees' actions*" J
"Throughout    the years    the power
structure within our university system^
has operated under the basic assumption that it must cater to what it feels
is its true constituency—private donors,
alumni and state legislators," stated
Joyner.
Now, however, as the world of academia
enters into a new year, it is time to
re-evaluate  this  assumption,  he  said.
The true citizens of the academic com-
minity, and those citizens who have most
often been ignored, are the students,
according to Joyner.  *
"If the university power structure does
not want a repeat of the turbulent 60's,
men there must be change in terms of
academic reform," he said.
The first step the group proposes in
academic reform would be the allocation
of two students on CMU's Board of
Trustees.
"For these and other reasons, " said
Joyner, "I am announcing a state-wide
drive to create student representation
in a voting position on each of the state
universities' Board of Trustees.
"This  drive
including
shall   take four forms;
The only way to travel across campus!
In Academic Senate action
BIS committee established
ByJUDYSAMELSON.
LIFE Academics Edilor
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Although "the old and the new" were
discussed at Academic Senate Monday
night, the "new" promises to be of
great interest to students researching
possibilities under the Bachelor of Individualized Studies Degree.
The new degree Was approved for Ceh-
tral last March by the Board ©^Trustees.
Since that time, it has been facing necessary structural organization. Aeommittee
of seven members wiU initiate guidelines
for accepting or rejecting students' proposals for degree requirements.
The committee wilt include two mem-
oers selected by Academic Senate, two
selected byStudent Government, twomera-
aers selected by the Council of Deans
and one chosen by Provost Charles J.
These members include Stanley Walter,
associate professor of $hlstoi% Robert
Rankin, professor of psychology, Frank
s. sailings, Dean of the School of Fine
and Applied Arts and Jerry M* Anderson, who is interning tthfough the Pro-
vost's office as ah American Council
on Education FeUowrstudent Government
«as not yet selected their representa>
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The Bachelor of Individulized Studies
Degree is designed to offer students the
opportunity of selecting his own field
of study, according to Provost Ping.
He must outline his goals, objectives, and
methods of attainment under the auspicious
of a faculty advisor*
Once developed, the student will present his proposal to the committee of
seven persons, who will in turn discuss
1) A massive letter writing campaign
the  governor,   state legislators and to
]he trustees themselves,
*  2) A caravan to Lansing during October
to lobby, for the change,
3) The formation of an alliance with
other schools in Michigan to create a
unified and strong voice, and
4) A petition drive to present at the
first.. CMU   Board  of Trustee: .meetings
of September.
As the legal age is lowered to 18
and as students desire to seek change
within the area of educational reform,
said Joyner, "I ask the state legislature
and the governor of Michigan to place
two students on Central Michigan University's Board of Trustees."
Joyner said the. group would like action
immediately on the idea, and set January
as a target date for implementation of the
new policy. A similar drive has been
- underway for about two years at Michigan
State University. -
More information will be available from
group members at tables in the University
Center each Tuesday and Thursday, beginning tomorrow. Interested persons
to grant the BIS Degree along with the may join group efforts by contacting
other degrees presently offered at this the Student Government office at 774-
University, concludes Ping. 4644, Joyner Concluded. -
FBI agents join
for Poii talc dy nam iters
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«   /earifHi catifrercf
the stofoat aai th$ university,"
attd criticize the program before accepting
or returning • it for further development
by the student* Once approved/'the program can go into effect* -. ■
"The idea is to provide a learning contract ^etWeeny the student and the university/* says Ping. "This, contrary to
some belief, is hot an easy degree to
obtain."
On September 6, Central will take the
Bachelor of Individualized Studies Degree to a state Board for.Extefttion of
Degrees,' Its approval will allow CMu
PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) - - FBI Agents
joined today in a hunt for dynamiters who
blasted 10 Pohtiac school buses Monday
night - a week before federally ordered
integration and busing was to go into effect
in Fontiac schools.
Gov. William Milliken Tuesday called
the destruction "a haunting'reminder of
the Ugly consequences that Michigan and
the nation have suffered from past violence and polarisation."
Milliken appealed to all citizens,'
"whatever their personal interest or
concern in the busing controversy, to"
banish rancor and malice,-to respect
the law and to be guided by reason?
not rage,"' '/ "'  .
No one was injured in thg series of
fiye explosions which ripped a -large
portion of the fleet of SB school buses
parked oh a board of education fenced
and light lot a half mile from downtown*
Pontiac school officials reacted quickly
to the bombing by announcing that armed
guards would ride the buses, next week
when schools reopen*
"We didn't have any threats and I
have no idea who did it," commented
School Supt. Dana P* Whitmer, who was
called from a school board meeting, to
see the fiery pile of buses.
School officials said the scheduled Sept.
~7 school opening wNould go on as planned,'
despite the bus burnings. They said
4,0 new buses had been scheduled previously for delivery this Thursday.,
Milliken said _ he Was "sure all of
Michigan joins me in deploring the senseless destruction of school I>uses in Pontiac."
He urged that as children prepare to
return to school, citizens "prove to them
that we have learned our lessohs from
the past-that We can achieve nothing
by lawlessness, " devisiveness and
violence."
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