1965-03-26; Central Michigan Life

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MICHIGAN'S  NUMBER  ONE  COLLEGIATE WEEKLY
Central Michigan University, Friday/March 26,1965
Number 2§
Office
ommunkaiions
ulty Unrest'
|*No officer of the Central
jchigan University chapter
!' the American Association
i University Professors has
hi any personal or official
contact with any member of
§8 legislature -regarding the
Illation on campus," was the
segment released Tuesday by
Hr. George M. Blackburn,
president of the local AAUP
("chapter.
"Nevertheless, the members
if the CMU chapter of AAUF
$1 cooperate fully with and
toish any information we
:an to  any   administrator,
|?::mber of,the Board of Trus«*
!:cs, legislators, or any other
lason or agency which is
legitimately concerned  with
the university."
Dr. Blackburn stressed that
one of* the primary goals of
the local chapter was to establish workable procedures
through ;which the faculty can
play a significant role in the
operation of the university.
The statement released Tuesday reads in part, "Four years
ago on our campus there was
no effective, organized machinery for the expression of
faculty views at any level of
the university. The President's
Council had and still has no
faculty members. Only half
of the members of the old
Senate was elected by   the
faculty. There was no faculty
organization of the two largest
schools in the university, Arts
and Science and Graduate. The
faculty handbook then and
now lists no responsibilities for
faculty at the departmental
level.
"The members of the CMU
chapter of AAUP, working
through established procedures arid in cooperation
with their colleagues, have
achieved major breakthroughs
in altering the structure of the
university.
"The new Senate adequately
reflects faculty opinion. There
is now an Arts and Science
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The Michigan Senate Tuesday passed unaminously a resolution commending Central
for receiving the 1965-66 Distinguished Achievement
Award for Excellence in
Teacher Education.
Previously, Sen. Edward J.
Robinson, D-Dearborn, asked
that the resolution be delayed
for what he termed "a great
deal of faculty unrest and dissatisfaction under the present
administration.
Robinson, a, member of the
Senate Appropriation Committee, was part of a group of legislators who toured CMU in
January as an investigating
team to gather information
pertinent to the budget.
Robinson was quoted by the
roves
l Student Senate, after a heat-
i«d forty-five   minute   debate
jMonday night, passed the rules
;governing the  Student   Academic Policy Board.
| This Board   is designed   to
|ve students a say in academ,-
!K policy formation.   The' preamble reads, "A university is
;S joint enterprise of students,
faculty, and administration. In
jaich a proper academic community there must be recognition of democratic organiza-
jWi and procedure.
t "Democratic   administration
fang   that    administrators,
jfeeulty and students should .all
participate   in   policy-forniing
™d institutional planning...
Since the heart of a univer-
fs"y is its academic structure,"
J ana since students are the primary objects of the education-
! J Process, it only follows that
[Jdents in a democratic in-
IjMutum should play an active
| WJ. in academic policy-formation."
f The resolution wilf now he
e«t to Faculty   Senate   for
"tfher study.
Joe Sweeney, student 'body
President, will- appear before
faculty Senate Tuesday to ex-
\»fi what the Student Aca-
■«juc Policy Board would en-
. ™u and answer any questions
1 *cl% might have concerning
tlle Board.
of ti!U other act*on* 'the results
hv Ii? 1uestionnaire completed
y the committee on Cheating
m presented.     It was -an-
students answering the questionnaire, few said they had
never observed cheating on
Central's campus.
A President's Breakfast to
he held tomorrow was announced. This breakfast provides an opportunity for presidents of campus organizations
to discuss common problems.
Senate will sponsor a "Meet
the Candidates" program Monday at 6:45 p.m. in the University Center Ballroom:
Student Body, Classes, MU
Will Beet Officers Tuesday
Between 2,000 and 2,500 students are expected to go to
the polls Tuesday in a general
student election involving 23
offices.
Voting will take place between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. in the
University Center, Warriner
Hall and all campus dormitories. Voters wil be required to
show their activity cards before being allowed to cast
their ballots.
To be elected Tuesday will
be class officers for next fall's
Senior, • Junior and Sophomore   classes,   student   body
president and vice president,
Men's Union president, and
three senior and junior-representatives for Men's Union.
Student Senate officials said
Wednesday that a light voter
turnout could occur Tuesday
because several of the candidates for major offices are
running uncontested.
' Final results of the elections
are expected to be available
by 8 p.m. Tuesday, according
to Student Senate officials.
They expect to announce running totals throughout election day.
Times-News as saying that at / •
the time he had talked  with
8-10 faculty members at a private home and listened to complaints levied against the ad- \'
ministration. '.
Robinson was quoted as "
claimling that -a great deal of
resentment has arisen because
the Faculty Senate has not
been given the opportunity to
take part in, teaching and pol- '
icy decisions.
.Cited also as an area of, unrest by Robinson was the resignation of Dr. Victor' Coutant,
former foreign language department head. Robinson said
that he felt there is not
enough "freedom for department heads to act."
President Judson W. Foust
commented, "I would like to.'
have the specific charges, and
have a chance to give him the
full information on the Coutant affair, which has been entirely misrepresented as being
a matter of academic freedom
. . . I'll be happy to give Robinson the facts—if he wants
the facts.
"I doubt if we can accept
the statement of a small number like that, that has something to sell, as speaking for
the entire* faculty," Foust stated* *' ' »
• Robinson made his remarks
at the time the House resolution commending Central for
its Teacher Education Project
was introduced for Senate
passage:
Robinson said that he would
contact the faculty members
he talked with and • ask for
more specific charges.
— presented, it was -an-
I?fd that faculty Senate
"act been presented with the
results ---■■   - ■ "   ■■   -
S i and futu*e meetings
till !ue entire faculty to dis-
.uss the problem of cheating
entire faculty to dis-
,„    — prob* "   '     ■*
.*£ Planned,
pne survey showed a defin-
'e concern of the students for
ille Bvihl  „       . .. irT'_
jjeexxstence of cheating. His-
K^> Physical education and
np,,c,h were indicated as the
ri,„  ,areas where cheating oc-
Ragland Asks lor Mandate
mfereme
ttirei
'         i t~u~ Tn'ti'.qon discuss -     -
"We challenge you to give
us a mandate to follow!" was
the appeal of Gene Ragland,
candidate for student body
student body president, at
Tuesday night's Life press
• conference.
"We are prepared to listen
to your ideas at anytime on
anything," Ragland added.-
Ragland stressed that better s
communication is needed and
that he plans to talk with the
executives of AWS, Men's Union, and Senate in an effort
to correlate efforts. He also
hoped for the continued cooperation from Life and prom-,
ised a more effective Student
Government Bulletin.
Hie stated that student government under his administration would not be a "bunch of
people standing behind closed
doors drinking coffee."
'John Johnson, candidate for
vice-president, began his address by saying, »"Forty-one!
Forty-one people! That is the
number that I see right now
as I look aroiind \ the room."
Johnson concluded that this
was indicative of the interest
• frost often.   0£ the 732    two.
and support given by the student body to their leaders.
Johnson said that the university is supposed to be run
democratically and added,
"But I tell you tonight that we
run this University in a most
undemocratic fashion!"
When asked what could.be
done to make the ^Student Ju-
diciary more meaningful,
Johnson replied, "More pressure by you people will make
these things (student court
system) function."
After Johnson's address, the
candidates for class officers
gave a short address on their
platforms with the exception
of one "ambitious" candidate
who didn't think it "worthwhile," Aftepthe platform addresses each candidate * was
questioned by members of the
Life editorial staff and then
questions were asked from the
audience,    ■
The purpose of the press
conference was 5to provide information for the endorsement
made on page two and to aid
students in making an in£offia<*
ed vote at the polls 'Tuesday.
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