Oregon daily emerald., April 26, 1973, Page 3, Image 3

All-faculty
committee
to design
co-governance
system
The University’s Faculty Senate voted Wed
nesday to recommend to the General Faculty the
establishing of a Senate committee that would
prepare detailed recommendations on the design of
a legislative body at the University which could
conceivably replace the existing Faculty Senate
General Faculty structure.
The vote followed a lengthy discussion between
Senate members on whether or not to allow student
members on the committee. A motion sponsored by
Ron Rousseve, Education, Ken Ramsing, Business,
and Bob Kime, Health Eld., would have established
an Ad Hoc committee of four faculty members and
three student members.
The motion which received Senate approval,
however, limits the committee to Faculty Senate
members only and those members would be ap
pointed by the chairman of the Faculty Senate. The
motion, which was sponsored by James Tattersall,
Economics, does allow for the possibility of student
input into the committee.
“The chairman of the Senate may invite par
ticipation in the deliberations of the committee by
the ASUO President or his representative.”
In presenting his motion which allowed for
student members on the committee, Rousseve said
the existing faculty structure was an “incongruent
mechanism” that had not been functioning ef
ficiently.
“Surely there’s a more efficient way to handle
the business of this faculty,” he said.
Terming student participation in legislation
“critical,” Rousseve said, “It would be most un
fortunate for the Senate to restrict student in
volvement to committee activities.”
Senate member John Reynolds, Architecture,
mirrored Rousseve’s feelings on the issue by
saying, “It is truly a serious mistake not having
students on a committee of this type.” He said
student-faculty bodies have worked in the past and
he felt such a body could be effective in setting up
recommendations to replace the existing Faculty
Senate-General Faculty structure.
Support for an all-Faculty committee was
voiced by Economics professor Barry Siegel.
“The faculty must have an independent voice in
matters of curriculum and other academic affairs.
We are, after all, professional educators and, in
legislating, we are exercising professional
judgments. We should not trap ourselves in a form
of government which confuses the role of professor
and student or which obscures the message that we,
as educators, convey to the President and the Board
when we legislate.”
Tattersall recognized the importance of student
participation! but added that the role of the faculty in
academic government was more important. He said
he fears a faculty-student power struggle would
result on a committee like the one Rousseve
suggested.
The General Faculty will consider the Tat
tersall motion at its meeting next Wednesday.
In other action, the Senate recommended for
approval a motion which would restrict a student
from taking more than six courses in any one
department toward the satisfaction of the group
requirements.
DAY members disapprove
of director recommendation
Norbert Maertens, head of the
department of curriculum and
instruction, recommended
Wednesday that Westbrook
Walker be hired as head of the
Disadvantaged Youth Program.
Maertens ’ recommendation was
met with disapproval by DAY
members who approached
Maertens last Friday to voice
their opposition to Walker and to
C and I hiring practices in
general.
Maertens ’ recommendation
was made after checking with the
faculty screening committee that
interviewed the applicants.
Ranking forms distributed to the
screening committee “were
overwhelmingly in favor of
Westbrook Walker,” Maertens
said Wednesday in a memo to the
C and I faculty.
A letter sent to Maertens
Friday by members of DAY said
the majority of DAY staff and
students were opposed to the
hiring of Walker because he was
not experienced in the area of
disadvantaged youth and “has
not demonstrated knowledge or
If you think the Seminary is a {dace of study and meditation,
you’re right. But there is so much more.
As a Pauiist you became involved from the start.
Wfe were founded with the belief that each man has a place.
Each man has a job. Sometimes, many jobs. And each con
tributes his own unique talents and is given the freedom
The Pauiist is a man on the move. His mission is to people,
particularly the people of North America. The issues and
problems we face today- injustice, poverty, peace, war
must be the concern of the Church.
Wherever the Pauiist student serves the Christian Comrnu
■■■■■■■■I nrty—in a parish or an inner
city scnooi. a youm center
or a campus, car in communi
cations. he is concerned.
Involved. Right now.
When you commit yourself
to the P&uiists, it isn’t a
someday thing, It’s today.
For inure information write:
Father Donald C. Campbell.
Room 1Q2.
particular commitment to the
philosophy of the program.”
In a heated meeting Friday
' Maertens told DAY members
that while Walker did not
necessarily meet the needs of
DAY, he did meet the greater
needs of C and I. DAY is a
program in the department of
Curriculum and Instruction.
DAY members told the
Emerald Wednesday that at
present there were no plans for a
further appeal.
Maertens was not available for
comment.
A DEXTRAL SOLUTION TO
A SINISTER PROBLEM
"Oh, rats on this rattan '"cried Karen,
the college coed, "this bike basket
bulges badly. The rain running round the
ridge ruined it !"
"Keep cool, Karen," calmed Clyde,
Karen's cool campus companion, the
beastly basket is braided badly, but
please be blase, buy a better basket!"
"When one wishes to wrangle a woven
Winner, where would -one
wrangle?,"Karen cooed.
"Go gazing at Gold Cross discount
drugs downtown where the proprietor
pays your parking payment."
Karen, the college coed confided her
conundrum calmly to John the jolly troll
at Gold Cross discount drugs at WO Oak
St. where the basket balcony above
bulged with beautiful baskets John's
breast bore his button of the
organization for the obliteration of the
alliteration.
"Yes, lknow I know what is the matter
with your velocipede basket,"he said,"lt
was made in the Northern Hemisphere,
baskets are woven dextrally, while in the
Southern Hemisphere, baskets are
woven sinistrally. When a sinistrorse
basket is used in dextrose climate, the
basket bulges badly and rain running
round the ridge ruins it,"
But Karen wasn't listening. She had
filled hr>r arms with the baskets, the love
of which she had fallen into As she paid
for each, she hong it on her bicycle.
To this day. people in the overpark
talk about the big pile of baskets that
rode out of the Gold Cross discount drug
store and disappeared, diverging dex
trally at the corner.
Foikssaid/'Thathasgottobethe Last
Straw," but it wasn't. There were many,
many more.
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