Students contest governance laws
(CPS) — Some people say the protest of the 1960s gave way to the
apathy of the 1970s and cite the mood on campus as the perfect
example. Although some colleges can muster enough students to
gether for a convincing show of force on tuition increases, few schools
are hotbeds of action for more student power. Student power, it seems,
has been lost to the scramble for jobs.
But working within the bureaucracy for more student influence over
university administration, many students have won places for them
selves on schools' governing boards. And statistics indicate that the
impetus to provide a chair for students at the regents’ round table is
increasing.
At last count in 1974, at least 20 states had student members on their
governing boards at public colleges and universities. About seven of
those states allowed their student members to have full voting power.
About seven others allowed their students to participate in the
decision-making process up until it was time to vote. The remaining
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states permitted student representatives to serve on committees but not
to attend full-scale governance meetings. •
But the struggle tor more student representation on these boards
continues in earnest. A bill now before the West Virginia state Legisla
ture creates a non-voting seat on the state's Board of Regents for a
student to be appointed by the governor. Although members of the West
Virginia Legislature thought they were acting progressively by putting a
student in an advisory capacity to the regents, many students believe it
only goes halfway.
“The Board of Regents is afraid students and faculty would take
over if they receive voting rights," said one West Virginia student body
president. "This is unfounded." Without the vote, he added, the bill is a
waste of paper.
Since the 1972 “sense of Congress” resolution which was passed
at the same time as the Higher Education Act, more states have been
considering the idea of putting students to work at governance. Con
gress had indicated that the governing boards of public institutions
should reassess their representation of students and many states even
went so far as to mandate student participation in governance.
But seating those students on boards and giving them full voting
powers has been a slow process. Many university administrators be
lieve that students represent a special interest group and would be
incapable of voting on crucial issues as representatives of society’s best
interests. Furthermore, critics of student representation say, students
are not around long enough to become effective members who can view
the university problems in the long run.
“A student is transient, usually immature and not too knowledge
able,” said one opponent of students having votes on governing boards.
Finally there is no point in trying to appoint a true representative of
students because students are such a diverse group.
But advocates of student regents argue that the decisions of the
governing boards significantly affect the students at the school. Adding
the student voice to regents' discussions would provide regents with a
better idea of how students will react to their decisions.
Where students have failed to seat one of their own representa
tives on their college's governing board, other tactics to keep the re
gents responsive to students have been tried.
Several students at the University of Nebraska have initiated a
campaign to drum out four members of that school’s Board of Regents.
The leader of the group complained that regents were just not con
cerned or sympathetic to the needs of the students after the board
rejected revisions of visitation and alcohol policies for on-campus hous
ing.
Another planet
may have been
in solar system
WASHINGTON (AP) — The or
bits of 60 comets indicate they
originated from the explosion of a
giant planet that once existed be
tween Mars and Jupiter, an as
tronomer says.
Dr. Thomas Van Flandem of the
U.S. Naval Observatory here said
in an interview Tuesday that com
puter plotting of the comet orbits
seems to confirm that the long
theorized planet existed up to
about six million years ago.
“At that time, the planet ex
ploded—accounting for most, if
not all comets, the asteroid belt
and many meteorites." Van Flan
dern said.
What could have caused such
an explosion is unknown.
The astronomer traced back
ward the orbits of 60 comets that
have been seen only once from
earth. These comets have orbits
so large that it takes millions of
years for one swing around the
sun.
"There is a tendency for these
orbits to intersect at a common
starting point in the asteroid belt
between Mars and Jupiter," Van
Flandem said. The asteroid belt is
a ring of rocky bodies orbiting the
sun.
Three quarters of the orbits in
dicate the comets originated in
that area five million to seven mill
ion years ago in a zone about 100
million miles wide, he said
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