Tenure Concept Endorsed in Committees' Reports
Kansan Staff Reporter
By ERIC MEYER
Strong support for the concept of tenure was evident in reports released yesterday by the four committees studying faculty tenure.
The reports generally dismissed concern that the University of Kansas was becoming a national university.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes yesterday urged the chairmen of the four committees to make a strong commitment.
"The greater danger may lie in overreacting to an imaginary tenure crisis than in the crisis itself," one committee wrote. "The only protection that the University must have to weather this storm is a keen eye toward the awarding of tenure."
The "keen eye," the reports say, would
generally consist of periodic reviews of tenured faculty members, earlier retirement, new area committees to review tenure applications and more definite grounds for which a tenured professor may be fired.
Most of the committees denounced quota systems, faculty contracts and collective
The four tenure committees were appointed in June by Chancellor Emeritus Raymond Nichols. Nichols had expressed interest in the University might become "tenured in."
years, the faculty member may remain at the University for only one more year.
Tenure is a form of job security for professors.
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Tenured faculty members are protected from being fired for anything other than serious misconduct or incompetence. Such wrongdoings must be proved at a formal hearing before an instructor can be dismissed.
Being "tenured in" would mean that a large percentage of the faculty was tenured.
This would inhibit the hiring of new faculty members and would limit financial flexibility in the current period of declining enrolment.
shibilities Committee (FRPR) of the Faculty Senate last Tuesday,
The four tenure study committees submitted their confidential reports to the Board. Respon-
FRPR will combine the reports and forward a single report to the University Senate Executive Committee, which will submit a final draft to Dykes by Oct. 2.
Committee on Tenure Policy
In ordering the release of the reports, Dykes said that they still "should be routed to the chancellor's office as originally planned."
The Committee on Tenure Policy recommended that the University "convene an annual tenure committee."
Contract systems and collective bargaining, the community's "not wildly diverse" nature were evident.
tenure to its faculty unequivocally and with renewed commitment . . . . .
"The committee is firmly against the imposition of any quota for tenure," the report says. "It recommends that the grant of tenure be based purely on the intrinsic merit of the individual faculty member and the institution's needs of his program and its necessary library cut-off points or other considerations independent of his discipline."
The committee said that all reasons for not granting tenure should be clearly stated when new faculty members were hired. In the case of the group, the committee said a "clear and comprehensive statement" of
promotions and tenure criteria be written and updated annually.
Temporary, special appointments received committee approval, provided that they didn't amount to a "significant percentage" of total faculty positions.
The committee also recommended lowering the mandatory retirement age from 70 to 65 and providing an optional education package to elderly retirement for persons aged 60 or older.
Demonstrated incompetence, substantial and manifest neglect of duty and grave misconduct were listed as adequate causes for removal of tenured faculty members. In each case, the removal should be "based on academic due process," the report says.
The committee recommends that while
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84th Year, No.11
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, September 11, 1973
Panel Suggests That KU Join Student Lobby
Cost of Living Council let companies increase prices on rolled steel products.
(See Story Page 3)
The increase announced yesterday will amount to $4.50 a ton effective Oct.
1. It is about half the raise 10 major steel companies had asked the council to
proceed with.
Council director John T. Dunlop said the companies would be allowed to increase prices by about a $40.51 Jan. 1. He said the price increases on rolled sheet steel, which is used in the production of such consumer items as household appliances and automobiles, were justified under the Phase 4
Three of the 10 steel companies involved reacted with anger and disappointment to the council's action.
a long step "toward government by judiciary."
The order to release Nixon's tapes called
The President's lawyers told that to the U.S. Court of Appeals, the case was filed in advance of oral arguments, asked the appeals court to nullify the Aug. 29 order by Chief U.S. District Court Judge John J. Sirica that the tapes be turned over to Sirica for screening.
Sirica filed his own answer with the court and responded also to a cross-petition by special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox. Cox asked that the judge's order be changed to produce the tapes in their entirety to the grand jury.
Kissinger said the use of wiretaps in the interest of national security should be rare.
President Nixon's national security adviser and nominee to be Secretary of State said he would have no personal disagreement with a policy of condemnation.
But in reaching a balance between human liberty and national security, "the weight should be on the side of human liberty," Kissinger said in response to questions at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
President Nixon, who came under criticism from some Republicans for failing to assist party congressional candidates in his 1972 re-election campaign, delivered the pledge at a closed reception for committee members at the White House.
He also said he would campaign in the 1976 presidential campaign even though the 1972 race was his last for political office since he is barred from running.
The House voted, 344 to 11, to charge Liddy with contempt of Congress.
The vote turned the charge over to the U.S. attorney's office for prosecution. G. Gordon Liddy, convicted Watergate conspirator, refused July 20 to testify before a House subcommittee probing alleged CIA ties to the Watergate affair.
He also faces an 80-month to 20-year prison sentence on his conviction in the Watergate bugging and indictment for conspiracy in connection with the Watergate hacking.
Conviction would carry up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine for Liddy, who is in jail for refusal to use court-impressed immunity from prosecution to prove his guilt.
Nixon told National Committee he planned to help GOP candidates in '74.
House Speaker Bill Wills suggested a $20-million expenditure to revitalize the prison system and said it could be funded through a 10-year bond revenue bond.
Hagerdorn, stressing that he was presenting his personal opinion, said he thought inmates put their plans into affect after the riot began. However, he said he thought the riot had been scheduled for a month later when the prison rodeo was to occur.
Oklahoma Crime Bureau chief said riot
"Only the date was not set." Hagerdorn told the special legislative task force committee investigating the rob July 27 at McAster that destroyed the store.
A white prison was planneth in advance. A chief Freeman said it might have been early because of an attempt to catch racketeers and
John Connally admitted considering
The comment came in response to a question at a Washington news conference about Connally's busy activity on the political circuit, launched by former president Donald Trump.
But he said he wasn't certain whether "I'm ready to dedicate the rest of my life to such an undertaking."
a run for the presidency in 1976.
Nixon Urges Partnership Congress Asked to Act on Administration Bills
By FRANK CORMIER Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - President Nickel, in an ambitious bid to move out of Watergate's shadow, urged Congress yesterday to join forces to speed enactment "solarization" to ensure enact major legislation.
Submitting an unusual 15,000-word state of the Union message, Nixon held out olive branches to the Democratic-controlled Senate and House as he called for "swift and decisive action" on administration bills that would bring trade to pension and tax reforms.
Repetately pledging his cooperation, Nixon told the legislators that "if we proceed in a spirit of constructive partnership, our varying perspectives can be a source of greater creativity rather than a cause of deadlock."
Welcoming what he termed a "congressional renascence," Nixon said he believed in a strong Congress as well as a strong presidency and asserted:
House Republican Leader Gerald R. Ford
"THERE CAN BE no monopoly of wisdom on either end of Pennsylvania Avenue and there should be no monopoly of power."
of Michigan said he would be willing to work for the President's proposals, citing Nixon's "willingness to work with Congress for the nation in an absence of partisanship."
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield said he would call Senate committee chairmen together to map strategy on why recommendations could be added to the bill.
BESIDES FOCUSING attention on the legislations he wants, Nixon also spotlighted actions he opposes: red ink spending, any tax increase, major defense cutbacks and busing of public school children to achieve racial balance.
Nixon stated that if Congress voted more money than he wanted, he would not hesitate to veto spending measures or impound appropriations.
He also said he would "continue to oppose all efforts to strip the presidency of the powers it must have to be effective"—an attack that would not be powerful if it would restrict his warmaking powers.
MIXING COMPLIMENTS with criticism, the President said Congress has made "commendable progress" in some areas this year but that action on his own
initiatives "has been far less than I had expected."
Nixon said "the battle against inflation must be our first priority for the remainder of this year" and called on Congress to hold appropriations to his spending ceiling of $368.7 billion for the fiscal year that began July 1.
to be adamantly opposed to attempts at balancing the over-all budget by slashing the defense budget. I will veto any bill that would require him to impel our national security," he said.
"In our joint efforts, however, I continue
The President at no point directly referred to Watergate but said, "no subject matter. Our few months has so stirred public concern that we are as the question of campaign practices."
WASHINGTON  (AP) — Senate Democratic leaders rejected President Nixon's criticism of Congress, but yesterday began making a list of bills they hope to pass this year.
Senate Leaders Respond By Mapping Future Action
Although Congress appeared receptive to President Nixon's conciliatory mood outlined yesterday in his State of the Union message, it appeared doubtful that the
In all, during the years of the Indochina war, there were 3,608 ground operations into Laos.
Laotian Raids Revealed
WASHINGTON (AP) - Despite a 1989 law prohibiting American ground combat troops from entering Laos, U.S. soldiers accompanied nearly 450 secret ground operations in that country in 1970, the Defense Department reported yesterday.
Details of the raids were revealed in a white paper provided by Deputy Defense Secretary William Clements to the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Hen. Harold Hughes, D-lowa, who has been questioning secret U.S. military
operations in Cambodia and Laos, said Clement's report was incomplete and
legislators would act on all of Nixon's legislative requests before the end of the
The report said that the National Security Council (NSC) headed by Kissinger approved each of the 3,875 Cambodian bombing raids in 1969 and 1970 as well as the methods for keeping them out of the newspapers.
From the first Cambodian B52 raid on March 18, 1969, Clements said, "the necessity to minimize the likelihood of infection within the closure was established within the NSC."
Pentagon spokesman Jerry Friedheim
said some of the larger operations included blowing up bridges or attacking North Korea.
House Speaker Carl Albert, D-Okaa, said, "i don't think we are at crossroads on general areas for action" because details of many bills are being disputed.
The Cooper-Church Amendment passed by the Congress on Dec. 29, 1969, prohibited funds for the use of ground combat troops in Laos. Friedheim said all operations in Laos after that date were "intelligence type missions."
There were 76 Americans killed in the Laotian missions, code-named Prairie Fire. The white paper said efforts are continuing to notify all the families of those U.S. troops that they were initially told that the casualties occurred near the South Vietnamese border.
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana said, after a meeting of committee chairmen, that housing, energy, transportation and education are given priority before Congress adjourns.
He said the Democratic leadership had reviewed Nixon's message and would meet again today to try for a final list of "bedrock legislation."
Leaders in both parties expressed pleasure about Nixon's plea for less
House Democratic Leader Thomas N'Oeill Jr. of Massachusetts quoted Nixon as saying at a White House breakfast meeting with congressional leaders that there was a principle involved in his dispute with Congress.
O'Neill said he told Nixon in reply, "Yes, there is a principle involved—on both sides."
Mansfield said Congress would "simplify the defense budget and maintain a strong defense posture" by cutting spending on weapons, instead of spending too many instances, turn out to be useless."
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