THURSDAY, MARCH 9.1950 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS PAGE FIVE AAUP Advocates More Participation By Faculty Systematic consultation by department chairmen with University faculty members when hiring new staff members and when considering staff promotions was urged this week by the local chapter of the American Association of University Professors. The A.A.U.P. recommended that the following practices be favored as minimum standards for sound departmental administration: "I. Departmental staff meetings at regular intervals for the determination of departmental policy and as a clearing house for administrative problems of interest to all members of the department. "2. All full-time staff members encouraged to participate in the regular departmental staff meetings. "3. A general orientation meeting at the first of the academic year for all departmental personnel—full-time, part-time, or service (e.g., storekeepers)—to make clear to everyone connected with the department the general procedures to be followed throughout the year and to give all a feeling that they have some stake in departmental affairs. This would be of importance primarily in departments with many part-time assistants and service personnel. "4. Choice of new members of the staff considered as a faculty function—whenever possible—with all regular members of the department meeting the candidate and later having a chance to participate in discussing the desirability of adding him (or her) to the staff. "5. Promotions recommended by the chairman only after consultation with permanent staff members of the rank (and of higher rank) to which the staff member may be promoted. "6. Appointment of a staff member without tenure should be terminated only after the chairman has given fair notice to the staff member and has candidly explained the reasons for the action. The local chapter of the A.A.U.P. suggests three months before the end of the current semester as a proper terminus for fair notice." Prof. W. D. Paden, secretary-treasurer of the local A.A.U.P. chapter, explained that ordinarily instructors do not obtain permanent tenure. Assistant professors obtain permanent tenure at the end of their third year, unless they have been previously notified to the contrary; and associate professors and professors obtain permanent tenure when they take up their assigned duties, he explained. Faculty members who have permanent tenure can be discharged on certain specified grounds, such as incompence or immorality. Dr. Paden said. In general the University administration subscribes to the 1940 Statement of Principles made by the national A.A.U.P., he declared. The recommendations concerning faculty participation in University government were presented to the A.A.U.P. chapter Monday by J. E. Fields, chairman of the chapter's committee on faculty participation in University government. Other members of the committee are J. O. Jones, professor of applied mechanics; R. Q. Brewster, professor of chemistry; Miss Mattie E. Crum-rine, assistant professor of Romance languages; and Dr. Cornelia M. Downs, professor of bacteriology. Brakes Miss, Car Doesn't; She Has Own Repair Job St. Louis — (U,P) — A 32-year-old automobile body repairman has all the work he can handle—on his own car. Lloyd Perkins applied his brakes as he approached a stop sign recently. Nothing happened. The car raced past the stop sign, bashed down two gasoline pumps, tore through 16 feet of packet fence, crammed into a floodlight post, and ripped. The more foots of fence, it finally crashed to stop against a concrete-filled boiler. Mr. Perkins climbed out uninjured. Damage to the car, however, was set at $2,000. "It'll keep me busy for some time, I guess," he said. Equipment for floodlighting the Memorial campanile will cost $2,000. Finishes Phone Call Before Killing Snake Walong, Australia —(U.P) —James Lett, garage man, finished a long-distance telephone call before killing a poisonous, 4-foot male snake which slithered into his living room. Lett was on the telephone when he heard a hissing noise at the door. He yelled for his wife when he saw a snake crawling towards his small baby, told her to remove the baby, and close the door. The call was important, so Lett finished the conservation, then killed the snake. It Merely Sounded Bad Ebensburg, Pa.—U.(P.)—Nine-year-old Joseph Seliga said "go to hell" to a judge without serious consequences. He made the statement at an equity hearing when he was asked "what happens if you tell a lie?" Theta Sigma Phi Plans Celebration Plans for "Matrix Milestones," the celebration of the founding of Thata Sigma Phi, national journalism sorority, were discussed at a meeting Tuesday. The anniversary of the organization occurs in April. Several events have been planned to be held during the month. Virginia Coppedge, journalism junior, was appointed chairman of a committee in charge of the "Matrix Milestones" activities. Janice Neibarger, journalism senior, was appointed chairman of a committee to make arrangement for the "Matrix Table," a formal banquet to be held sometime during April. Hospital Has Record Minneapolis—(U.P.) — Staff physicians of the Minneapolis maternity hospital believe their record of 6,845 consecutive maternity cases without a mother's death may be the best in the nation. Dr. Milton Abramson said the figure was for the period from April, 1940, to August, 1947. He said recent statistics showed that a Chicago hospital had 5,641 cases without the death of a mother, and a Madison hospital had 5,500 in the same period. A syllabub is a non-alcoholic drink made of milk and wine. Alaskans Want Bald Eagle Shot; Wildlife Groups Want Live US Symbol An Alaskan, C. R. Snow of Ketchikan, told them that bald eagles —living symbols of the United States of America— ought to be shot He said they were eating up all the Alaskan grouse, spawning salmon, rabbits, and even housecats. Washington—U.P.)—Members of the house merchant marine and Beaches committee sat in stunned silence recently. Mr. Snow was one of four Alaska sportsmen who testified before the committee in protest against the bald eagle in Alaskan territory. "The bald eagle has done nothing to merit idolization or being made the totem of the American people." Mr. Snow asserted. Representatives of the National Audubon society, the National Wildlife institute and the fish and wildlife service made wry faces and squirmed. "The U. S. has become the nation it has because of men, who on battlefield, in congress, and in the courts have fought to establish and preserve the rights and liberties we now enjoy, Mr. Snow went on." The eagle had no part in these activities." statehood while engaged in this extermination of the national emblem," she said. "The American eagle is a sight to stir the patriotism of every loyal American." Mrs. Rosalie Edge, chairman of the emergency conservation committee, could stand it no longer. "It is incongruous that Alaska should ask to be admitted to Kenneth D. Morrison of the National Audubon society appealed for "preservation of the eagle as a tourist attraction." "A bald eagle soaring majestically against a blue sky has economic value, and the sham-appreciated" he said. "The shaw-torn carcass of an eagle has none." 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