University Senate to discuss changes
Raymond Nichols, Secretary of University Senates and Councils and Secretary of the Senate Executive Committee, announced today a special meeting of the University Senate Thursday, February 5, at 3:30 p.m. in 409 Summerfield Hall.
Nichols said the meeting will consist primarily of discussion on changes recommended by the Committee on Organization and Administration of the University dealing with newly proposed rules and regulations of the University Judiciary as outlined in the Senate Code. The proposed changes have been drawn up as a result of last spring's ROTC Review demonstrations.
The changes recommended provide for a University Judiciary consisting of a Hearing Division and an Appellate Division. The Hearing Division would consist of a panel of 12 students and 12 non-students, excluding the Law
School faculty, and four members of the faculty of the Law School. The Appellate Division would consist of one member of the Law School appointed by the Law School dean. Also included would be another member of the Law School faculty appointed by the Committee of the School of Law and Chief Justice of the Student Court.
The committee's proposal would give the Hearing Division original jurisdiction over any charges brought by any member of the University community against another member, excepting parking and traffic regulations cases. Also the Hearing Division would have jurisdiction to again review disciplinary proceedings.
The Appellate Division would have appellate jurisdiction to review all proceedings conducted by the Hearing Division. The review would consider whether the Hearing Division afforded the
parties to due process of law and acted within the powers granted to that division.
If adopted the new University Judiciary would abolish the present Disciplinary Board and the Board of Disciplinary Appeals. Nichols said this action would improve formal and informal hearings and erase possibilities of vagueness with past proven unflexible and inadequate operations of the boards.
In order for the committee proposal to be a success it must be presented to the University Council consisting of 39 faculty members, 11 students and the Chancellor. Two-thirds or 34 of the 51 members of the council must vote in favor of the proposal on Thursday in order for it to pass. If the change is approved it will then be recommended to the University Senate.
Other proposals include changes in the terminology of the Senate Code and a proposal
to change the present three-point grading system to a four-point system.
Education to play large role in controlling pollution crisis
Nichols said the reasoning behind the grading change was because more schools throughout the U.S. are using the four-point system.
Dr. James E. Allen Jr., the U.S. Commissioner of Education, has urged a major effort forthwith to create environmental ecological education at every student level and for adults.
As President Nixon put it in his State of the Union message, "the great question of the 70's is shall we surrender to our surroundings or shall we make our peace with nature and begin to make reparations for the damage we have done to our air, to our land, to our water."
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Environment clearly will be the burning issue of the 1970s in America.
Education has a stake in this—a big one.
He calls it "education for survival" and his reasoning is that education is the key to survival because "in a free society it is always the citizen who must bear the ultimate responsibility for the choices that are made and the actions that are taken."
Critics attack Vietnam war
In an address to the American Council of Learned Societies, the
Goodell said if the committee did not clear his bill in some form, he would find some other way to bring it to the Senate floor for a vote.
Fulbright said that additional hearings would be scheduled sometime after the current two-day session. Secretary of State William P. Rogers will be a witness at later hearings, he said.
Goodell urged the committee to approve his bill requiring total U.S. withdrawal by Dec. 1. He said the measure would be "shock treatment" to encourage the Saigon government to negotiate with the Communists.
Members of Fulbright's committee gave Goodell no support, some of them saying any such withdrawal would lead to anarchy in South Vietnam and end all hope of a negotiated peace favorable to the United States.
However, he questioned whether "it might not be judged as safe and wise to negotiate a prompt end to American participation in the war, leaving the Vietnamese factions to fight it out among themselves."
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former President Lyndon B. Johnson in March 1968 and continued by President Nixon were "far preferable" to previous military buildups, Fulbright said.
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nation's top education official said;
"We must begin to teach not just one but two generations of Americans, simultaneously, all that they must know to revive the earth on which we live."
Dr. Allen challenged American education down to every local school district "to replace confusion with knowledge . . . to replace concern with commitment and action.
"The teacher we intend to send into our public schools in 1980 is today a sixth grader somewhere in America." Dr. Allen said. "He or she must be taught, beginning right now, along with every American boy and girl, about environmental quality, about ecology and about all of the complex and interacting elements that go to make them up.
The commissioner noted that some universities now are establishing departments of environmental sciences but he said similarly oriented programs are needed in grade schools, high schools and junior colleges so that all students "know the basic facts about environment just as you and I learned addition and subtraction."
"We and they must learn together—and in the spare time we have left, we must begin to write the textbooks for this new educational enterprise. That future teachers will enter college in 1976 and textbooks will have to have been written and published, courses mapped out and instructors trained in this new disciplines."
Abernathy fails to appear
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said he had traveled through
"sleet and snow to tell what I knew, only to be refused the right to do so because I was 16 minutes late."
"My heart goes out to my brothers on trial," Kunstler read from the statement.
The statement said Abernathy had "just returned from abroad as an ambassador of goodwill for this country.
"After my experience yesterday in this court I can no longer defend my country against such attacks."
"When I was asked difficult questions about my country's system of justice and equality I groped for words to explain that both existed," the message said. "When foreigners said 'You have no democracy, no justice in America' I attempted to prove that we did."
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