1964-04-24; Central Michigan Life

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(OLUME 45
MICHIGAN'S  NUMBER  ONE  COLLEGIATE  WEEKLY
'   CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY, FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1964
NUMBER 24
(LIFE Photo by John Carroll)
"RAIN, RAIN, go away ... etc." The Greek Week com-
punity project, scheduled for Tuesday at the State Home
pd Island Park, was postponed until today because of rain.
% Hornak, Theta Chi, and . Jackie Olnhausen, Sigma
FaPPa. wait vainly Tuesday for the skies to clear.
Of the 19 cases considered
by Student Court on April 16,
six were denied or partially
denied, resulting in a loss of
S126   to   the   business   office.
Some students appealed
more than one ticket so a
total of 23 tickets were considered in the two hour session.
Five students saved $20
apiece by the court's decisions
to approve their appeals of
tickets for failure to register
a vehicle.
Nine appeals were granted
for charges of improper lot
location, which carries a S2
fine. Four dollars was picked
up by the business office when
two of the four appeals for
overparking were denied.
Of the four cases involving
tickets for parking in a restricted area, three appeals
were denied. The final appeal denied was one for improper parking which also
carries a"S2 fine.
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Students completing work
for a degree or degree and/or
certificate in June, 1964, are
expected to report at the
auditorium Thursday at 4:10
p.m. to fill out required forms.
Students earning a certificate
will take the Oath of Allegiance at this time. Graduation
information will be discussed.
Bedore's
onda
,The ethical behavior of
pes Bedore, student-body
President, was heatedly dis-
Fssed at Monday's Student
senate meeting.
• When Bedore sent a "cam-
wgn letter to the dormitor-
es questioning Life's editorial
™°raement, his behavior -was
gwibed as unethical-by Don
Fr**hs, Merrill.
Jjleshs entertained Senate
jj ?n extemporarieous read-
U« oi Bedore's letter used in
elP ♦■ s tu d e n t president
ecuon and stated: "It seems
CZ ?e di§nity of the dff-
W * he student-body presi-
2 to use his title on a cam-
?aJgn letter."
JJe debate started when
"C • kwith> Booster's
2+mtroduced an amend-
|Qnt to the proposed student
.ay constitution involving
Is situation. '     .
h e  proposed   amendment
read, "During all election campaigns at Central Michigan
University, the president or
vice-president of the student
body shall not use their oft-
icial title . . • affixed to any
public communications having
to do with said campaigns
r Beckwith argued that t h e
privilege of using official titles
to speak in favor of a candidate gave the student-body
president too much power
since Central does not have
continual political parties.
Bedore was absent from the
meeting, to § ^ e e t Presideno
Judson'Foust on his return
from Pakistan.
Joe Sweeney, student body
vice-president, stepped down
as chairman and appointed
Robert Gaunt, Washington
Court, to temporarily fill the
position, as the chairman can-
Sot take part in discussion
! Sweeney labeled the amend
ment as "short-sighted and
quite ridiculous" and defended
Beore's action. Sweeney explained that Bedore wrote the
letter completely on his own
so that it was not in the
strict sense a campaign letter.
The amendment was dis-
crimanatory, Sweeney argued,
because it denied the right of
these officials to take a stand
when they were the ones most
qualified on campus to know
who would be best for the different positions.
'Beckwith countered that the
president and' vice-president
could still endorse a candidate
without using their titles to
sway votes.
Discussion ended when a
vote was called for and the
proposed amendment to the
elections article was defeated.
An amendment was passed
which lowered the grade point
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Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett and Dr. Broadus W.
Butler of Wayne State University will" be featured in a discussion of civil rights in the fieldhouse, May 5.'
Their appearance will mark      : ■—:—:	
the second in a series of programs, "Great Issues of Our
Times," sponsored by the Veterans' Club, the University
Center Program Board and
Men's  Union.
Governor Barneti, a key figure- in racial integration disputes in Mississippi, will talk
at 7 p.m. while Dr. Butler, assistant dean of Wayne's College of Liberal Arts, will
speak at approximately 8:30
p.m.
Questions by a panel of
Central students and faculty
members will follow each
talk..
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Members of the faculty voted yesterday on the new University Senate Constitution.
Passage was considered likely.
The tone of Monday's faculty meeting at which the
constitution was discussed indicated a high proportion of
faculty members favored the
new document.
If the President approves
the constitution, which has
been over two years in the
making, it will then be presented to the State Board of
Trustees for final approval.
The main change from the
old constitution provides a
two - thirds • membership o 1
non - appointed senators, a n
approximate 36-11 ratio. Previously the non-elected members accounted for one-half
the senate body.
The 22 existing departments
will each have one elected
senator and two in departments with over 20 members.
Each school of the university
will have one elected senator
for its first 60 full-time faculty; two for 61-100; three for
101-140 and four for 141 and
over.
The university President
and vice president of academic affairs will be automatic
members. The President will
appoint nine others bringing
the total to 11 non-elected.
Organizational uniis holding elected representation
would include the Division of
Business and Finance, Student
Personnel and Public Services.
Methods of electing representatives also received revision. At the present, faculty
senators are elected at large.
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Before coming to Central
Barnett is scheduled to speak
at Albion College at 10 a.m.
BarneM was elected governor in 1959 as a champion of
white supremacy and during
his first year in office carried
out his segregationist pledges
by helping to provide funds
for the Association of Citizens'
Councils, a Southern pro-segregationist group.
Chairman of the State Sovereignty Commission, set up
in 1956 by the Mississippi legislature to preserve segregation, Barnett believes that
segregation is divinely instituted.
One of his campaign slogans during the 1959 election
was, "The Negro is different
because God made him different."
Barnett was the only Southern governor to buck the Kennedy-Johnson ticket in the
1960 presidential campaign because of the strong civil rights
plank adopted by the Democratic Party at their national
convention.
In May of 1961 Barnett sup-
ported John M. Patterson,
then governor of Alabama, a-
gainst the Freedom Riders
who attempted to desegregate
bus terminals and rest rooms
in Montgomery.
When the Freedom Riders
entered Jackson, the capital of
Mississippi, Barnett had them
thrown in jail, keeping his
promise to Attorney General
Robert Kennedy that Mississippi could take care of the
situation without federal intervention.
Born in 1898 in Cathage,
Miss., Barnett attended Lena
Agriculture High School by
operating a barber shop and
working part time as a janitor.
For two years after graduation from Mississippi College
Barnett coached athletics and
taught at Poutator High
School in northern Mississippi.
Receiving law degrees from
Vanderbilt University and the
University of Mississippi, Barnett was admitted to the Bar
in 1926.
A member of Barnett, Montgomery, McClintock and Cunningham law firm of Jackson
he belongs to t h e American
Bar Association, having served on its law reform committee, the legal and lawyer reference committee and the agriculture committee.
Dr. Butler received his B.A.
from Talladega College in
Alabama, the state in which
he was born.
He has a M.A. and Ph.D.
from the University of Michigan. /
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