1970-09-25; Central Michigan Life

              Volume 51,  Number 10
Mt Pleasant, Michigan 48858
Ping speaks
U. Ser
Friday, September 25, 1970
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By MONETTA L. MCHEY
Ass't. Ed, - Academics
continually move toward the future.
The purpose of the planning
process, explained Ping, "Is to
define the role given to this University and goals and objectives
adopted by this University corn-
growing faculty,   personal   involvement of faculty in learning
and knowing arid a need for ex-
Charles J. Ping, provost, in   ploration and research.
a speech Monday night* to the       A second point is teacher ed-
faculty, focused attention of the   ucation.    "The   preparation of
role, given to this University   teachers is one of the established    umvw uy «u5 umversitv com
and the future planning for it.   strengths of this University, as    mumty. TMs will Spacoml
Three major points of Ping*s   measured by its graduates," ad-    mon set 7—12
speech were the possibility of  mitted Ping ǣǥ.     u    afsuTmPtions with*n
^ i .       >T  _; "s* which coherent University wide
Nextistoprovideprogramsfor    planning can take place
'SUSS* *^den«   and J**1*'       "Thlrdly t0 assess «>e ^ta-
gr^uate instruction, which ul-    bly and the feasibility of pro-
timately leads to the doctorate.
Ping emphasized the need tor
graduate programs so students
could earn their doctorate from
Central.
"There is a clear need for
advanced graduate programs with
radically different orientation,"
said Ping. "Our role of the
University in graduate instruc-
posed stragedy and action plan
for change, whether the change
reflects growth, improvements
or \ new  program development.
"And finally, to provide ex-
pective allocation of limited resources."   ■
A decision making structure is
required, explained Ping, and a
Steering Committee should be es-
tton may lie in the exploration    tablished. Membership will In-
CHARLES J. PING
granting a Doctor of Arts, the
establishment of aSteeringCom-
of new patterns in graduate edu
cation, more specifically the moment seems right for education
experiments which  focuses on
mittee and a Planning Review   teaching as the end of graduate
Committee,
"We are caught up in a continuing process of change and,
becoming . something ■different,
something new. Right now we are
still a soft piece of clay and
what this University will become
is a product of our intelligence
and imagination," Ping said.
The role of this University^
as outlined by Ping,, is to provide a liberal education, an extensive program of teacher education, provide program for undergraduates, graduates and U1*
timately grant doctorate degrees.
Curriculum design is a basic
and important task in achieving
fee role of the University, said
ping. He gave four major points
of a curriculum.
Teaching and effective learn*.
ing involves a discipline competency, a continual living and
study. Translation into Central's
life, our mission can be broadened to include the preparation
of teachers at all levels from
elude the president of the University and single representatives from the Board of
Trustees, UniyersitySenate, Student Senate, Council of Deans and
Institutional Reasearch. This
committee will be chaired by the"
provost.
After the Steering Committee
kindergarten through the Univer-    has finished its work, a plan-
sity level."
Ping then proposed the idea of
a Doctor of Arts. He read portions of an article from Saturday Review which made a reference to this need and specifically to this University. The
article stated that Central can
"achieve a uniqueness and distinction for itself and may provide a model for other institutions."
ning and review committee will
be established. .
This committee will review and
adopt statements descriptive of
the role of the University and
assumptions on which planning
will proceed.
"These proposals will be sent
to the president for review and
criticism by the President and
outside consultants. It then goes
from the President with recommendations to the academic sen-
Poller stress 'due process'
Ping then proposed afive-year ate. There, actions on the plan
plan that will culminate more in as a whole rather than its sev-
a process than in a completed oral parts and statements will
document.     The process    has be  deliberated.  The  Board of
stages and deadlines and in the. Trustees then receives the plan
end the document will be produced for    final   consideration," ex-
but it is primarily designed to plained Ping.
New policiesforhandlingcases
^olving students charged with
violations of the Code of Stu-
dent Conduct were approved by
the CMU Board of Trustees Wednesday.
The policy stresses due pro-
Ce_s.s for accused students in a
judicial system presided over by
a lawyer who will serve as proceedings officer.
Under the new procedures, students accused of violations may
choose whether they wish to have
■S2T fase heard *ya *** o£
students or at a private hearing
• before a University hearing offi-
er.   The University, however,
does not have the right to de-
■£?_ a frivate hear*»g for an
accused student.
i« ^Ver,.a,period of months and ,
n consultationwith students, fac-
«i y andlegalauthorities, wehave'
tocogrates the highest stand-
^as of due process of the lar-
j£?!'' Resident William
tees SI*014 ** Boara o* trustees Wednesday.
2 £  ^^ against any stumer whnT ** Pro6^n,s off-
will »S, T    Process   and who
u exP1aln the charges to the
$fees odd lawyer
accused student who may be
accompanied by an advisor of
his choice.
After discussing charges with
the student, the proceedings officer may take several courses
- of action:
—He may request a hearing.
—-He may issue a warning
or reprimand and preceed no
further.,
—He may refer the student
for psychological counseling.
Should a.__ hearing" be recommended, the student Charged
with the violation has two choices
as to how his case will be handled. He may choose to take
it before one of several, university hearing officers who will
determine the student's guilt or
innocence and. set a sanction for
the student if found guilty. Or
he may choose instead to have
his case handled by a student
hearing forum.    *-
In the latter case, a 7-member
student fact-findingpanel, chosen
by random selection, determines
guilt or innocence. If the panel
judges the student guilty, a 5-
member student hearing body,,
presided over by a student chief
justice, sets the sanction.
Students found guilty be either
a hearing officer or student hearing body have the right to appeal
a decision or a sanction to a
three-member appeals board
consisting of the Student body
president, chairman of the University Senate and vice president for Student affairs or their
designees. The University also
has the right to appeal a case.
The appeals board is empowered to order a new hearing, modify or eliminate the sanction, or
set aside previous findings and
determine the facts as it sees
them after conducting its own
fact-finding investigation.
Sanctions, possible under the
new system- include warnings,
reprimands, restitution for
damage or misappropriated property, disciplinary- probation,
suspension from the University,
and expulsion.
The new hearing procedures
recognize the Board of Trustees
as the legal authority for the
control of student conduct. The
procedures are also subject to
change by the President of the
.University at anytime, although
the president is prohibited from
changing the policy in any way
that violates the standards of
due process.
longer
in the
dark!
TODAY in LIFE:
Board of Trustees meet
pps,l,7.& 8
Power Blackout pps, 1 & l&,
Chips to Milwaukee p. 14
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CLASSES, MEETINGS, newspapers and even television sta-
. itions were affected Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday by
' the power blackout which plagued three classroom buildings
and the library. Channel 14's intermittant power losses
forced the station to move its remote telecasting truck to
the base of its TV tower south of campus. There, the microwave receiving disc placed on the truck's roof picked up
network signals which usually arrive at the station in Anspach
Hall and sent them through the transmitter at the tower over
the air, „
Lights PUt
Teachers in dark
For those of you who cut
classes Monday night, Tuesday,,
Wednesday and/or Thursday
afternoons, you didn't miss much
because your instructors were
pretty well in the dark anyway.
Really.
From 7:30 p.m. Monday until
Tuesday 9:30 p.m. and again
Wednesday and Thursday afternoons Anspach, Pearce, Brooks
and the Library were without
electrical power.
According to N. C. Bovee of
the Business Office, the first
blackout -was the result of lightning striking either the power
plant or the construction sight
of anunderground electrical vault
near the power plant. The lightning blew a transformer in the
power plant and some underground cables. Service was restored when temporary lines
were strung to the power plant.
o law will help
Vietnam soldier
NEW YORK(AP) - A U.S. District Court judge has dismissed
a soldier's challenge to orders
sending him to Vietnam, ruling
mat neither President Johnson
nor President Nixon had usurped
the Constitution in waging the
war.
. The case had been brought by
Pfc. Malcolm A. Berk, 21, of
Queens, who contended that, a
1787 New York law barred the
government from sending New
York servicemen to fight in an
unconstitutional war. Berk is
now in Vietnam.
Judge Orrin G. Judd, in a 50-
page dicision, rejected the contention, ruling: "Congress repeatedly and unmistakenly authorised the use of armed forces
of the United States to fight in
Vietnam.
"Whether, this was a prudent
course or a tragic diversion of
men and money is immaterial.
The Vietnam conflict cannot be
blamed upon usurpation by either *of the presidents who have
held office from 1964 to date."
Judd referred to another recent New York case ih which a
federal judge rejected a soldier's challenge and upheld the
war's constitutionality.
The l8m-century state law, an
obscure provision of the New
York Bill of Rights, says noper*
son must leave the state to en*,
gage in combat wlghout the con*,
sent oi the legislature or unless
the action is "specially provided
for" by the UJS.   Constitution*
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