1967-01-13; Central Michigan Life

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bmmitfee Report Clears Sfarner
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L. 47,
NO. 26
Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan Fri., Jan. 13, 1967
The Student-Faculty Judicial Committee cleared Glenn
Starner, personnel services, of "charges of interrogation,
intimidation and threatening" in the special subcommittee
report it accepted Wednesday,
The three-page report was compiled by a subcommittee
of three who presented the report, containing five recommendations to SFJC on Dec. 13. They had been commissioned to investigate and assemble the facts involved in. the
charges of intimidation in an early semester disciplinary
case made against Starner by Student Judiciary Acting Chief
Justice Wallace Tuttle on Oct. 24 in Student Senate.
Tuttle's accusations were that Starner had "intimidated,
interrogated and threatened" a coed who had gone 'to his
office for disciplinary reasons. In the following Senate meeting C. Milton Pike, dean of students, answered the charges
against Starner and leveled the charge of breaking the confidence of Venue Committee at Tuttle.
Pike then took the issue to SFJC and the special subcommittee was formed. On the committee were Dr. William
Franklin, associate professor of history, Dr. Gerald Poor,
professor of education and David Joslyn, Midland senior.
See —REPORT —Back page
Starner ^Gratified'
At Report Results
(Photo by Gaffield)
II KAPPA PHI FRATERNITY members begin to start shaping their snow sculpture for this
weekend's Snow Carnival. The fraternity is sponsoring the Carnival in cooperation with the
Ai. Pleasant Times-News. See story and schedule of events on page 4.
115 Senator Griffin To Address
Prospective Md-Year Graduates
- ~—i j„ i?™^.    ip.ndslide victory over G. Me
. Eight-hundred   and   seventy     graduate of DearW* Ford-
prospective graduates will take     son High School, where ne n^
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part in mid-year commence
ment exercises Jan. 28. The
group will not only be the
largest graduated from the
school during mid-year commencement, but the ceremony
will mark the opening convocation for CMU's 75th anniversary year
been president of the student
council and a football letter-
mHe has been cited by former
president   Dwight   D.   Eisen
hower as
a productive,
active lawmaker."
He represented the 9th congressional district for 10 years,
SerTor the occasion will    beiore being ■HPC^dto^
be Senator Robert P. Griffin.     United States Senate _™_May
Ceremonies will begin at 10:30
a.m.
Senator Griffin is not new
to the campus. He received his
A.B. and B.S. degrees  and a
teaching certificate from Central in 1947.   Three years ago
he was also awarded an honor-
; ary LL.D. degree.
I   In awarding Griffin the honorary degree,  the  University
[cited him for ". . . his legal
) scholarship, his sustained and
^significant labors in civic affairs, for his high courage in
[rising above narrowly partis-
\ an politics and for his effective
; support   of   higher   education
in America."
Griffin entered Central as a
11 1966 Last November he
was returned to a six-year
term  in  the   Senate   with  a
landslide victory over G. Men-
nen Williams, former Michigan
governor.
In 1959, the 43-year-old senator was named one of the ten
outstanding   young  men   in
America   by   the   US   Junior
Chamber of Commerce.   That
same    year,    the    Landrum-
Griffin  Act  was  signed  into
law.   He has also received the
Tom O'Brian Award from the
International Society of Skilled Trades for "his sincere efforts on behalf of . . . the union member."
Glenn L. Starner said he
was "gratified" with the first
recommendation of the Student-Faculty Judicial Committee (SFJC) report on alleged
charges of intimidation made
against him in October by
Wallace Tuttle, Acting Chief
Justice of Student Judiciary.
Starner, student personnel
service administrative assistant, also criticized the selection of SFJC to investigate
the charges and said that Turtle was "unfit" to continue in
his position as Acting Chief
Justice of Student Judiciary.
In   his   statement    Starner
said,
"On Jan. 10, 1967, the report
of the Student-Faculty Judicial  Committee    states   clearly    juuiua^u.   illv.	
that  the  acting  chief  justice    this affair for everyone,"
had no evidence to support his  =====
statement     which     originally
charged    that   I  'intimidated,
coerced, threatened' and  used
underhanded methods with a
student in reference to a misconduct conference held in my
office in October.   The report's
first recommendation   is   also
plain,   and  it  states   that   I
should be cleared of these unwarranted charges which have
been leveled at me."
Starner continued, "Naturally I am gratified at this recommendation. I also appreciate the confidence the faculty,
colleagues and members of the
student body have  expressed
in me during the past months.
"I  denied  the   acting  chief
justice's charges   on previous
occasions   and I again   vigorously deny them to all members  of  this University  community.    In making   such   an
attack  on  any  university  official the accuser must be sura
of his facts.   Because the acting chief justice did not base
the charges on fact, and indeed
has   violated   the   confidence
of his office, he showed himself to be unfit to continue in
this position."
Starner concluded, "I am
sure that the student body in
general will be happy that this
incident has finally been adjudicated.   There is a lesson in
STARNER
Tuttle Ballard, Ciske Approve Recommendations
By MARY LOOK
Life News Editor
"It is inconceivable that a
report that attempts to whitewash a problem by stunning
omissions of fact and irresponsible conclusions can ever be
accepted by any of the parties
' -   -«' moHor what
,         f qtu there was  a "stunning  omis- be fair in carrying out its re-
hnth student members of Stu- tnere   w                    responsible sponsibility.
i    +wlVniitv Tudicial Commit- sion of   tact ana   x   * „w    do feel   however,  the
^r^vidence presented in it. and have failed to repo^Lt some ,a ^^           se
of the evidence pies fects qulte pertinent to giving unwarranted   adjec-
They have issued s stetem n         ^^ account of the slt. of   some   unw
iacts muii.c j^^v—-- -- -       -
^Committee's release o{ the    Tu'Ue of    ,h      recom
Starner  Keport, g*^    ^       ,        c-^ £
rep     - -.a.    ~*  +v,o   report
GRIFFIN
dent   Judiciary   ~«— .
Wallace Tuttle had ^me opti
mistic comment to add also.
"However, there are a num
her of exce lent recommenda-
SoL at the end of the report.
The e recommendations general v account for many of the
votes of approval of the report.
3^ rteSFS
^rtS^BorBaUard,
overall  merit   of  the
rather than the facts and conclusive comments it contains.
•The three maintain that the
report "whitewashes" the
problem it set to investigate
(Starner's alleged interrogation
and coercion of a student who
came to him for disciplinary
reasons).        ■■■•
Ballard, Ciske Concur
Ballard and Ciske concurred
with  Tuttle's   comment   that
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of   some   unwarranted   adjectives . in  Mr.   Tuttle's   report
(before Student Senate in October.)
"Terminology   Unfortunate"
  io m-        "We believe Mr. Tuttle's ter-
of   including    other   . minology was unfortunate, but
making   legitimate     this  does not excuse  the  ignoring of the substance of his
charges," added Ballard and
Ciske.
Tuttle said in his evaluation
of the report's conclusions.
"The report is little more
than a reaction to my report.
The contentions made through
rne, by the young lady, are
met only by chastising me for
the manner in which the case
was handled.
See—APPROVE—Back Page
"It was quite obvious from
the day the fact-finding committee submitted their report
that the committee had no intentions      "   '    '   "■   ^    ~u-~
facts   o r   ... 0
compromises with other mem.'
bers of the committee."
The attitude of the subcommittee is analyzed by the three
in   their    statements.     After
saying   they   feel   the   report
"whitewashes the  entire incident and fails to  deal effectively   with   the   problem   by
merely attempting to say that
a problem does not exist," Ballard and Ciske said, "We feel
the subcommittee attempted to
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