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TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1970
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
VOL 93, NO. 98
No grade sanctions
Faculty Senate postpones vote
by CAROL ANDERSON
Naferaskan Stall Writer
The Faculty Senate Tuesday
postponed a vote on .students'
request for a "new University"
while endorsing faculty action
last Tuesday urging instructors
not to sanction students who
honored the strike.
The Faculty Senate okayed a
liaison committee report con
taining the student resolution
and doled out portions of it to
several faculty committees.
The Academic Planning com
mittee in consultation with the
teaching council and ASUN will
consider the request for
reforming the University to
deal more effectively with
social issues like the Indochina
war.
The Calendar committee will
deal with the part of the
resolution asking for a two
week recess of classes before
the elections next fall in place
of Thanksgiving vacation. Both
committees are to hold well
publicized public meetings
before reporting back to a
special senate meeting May 21.
The Academic Planning
committee will hold its open
public meeting today at 3 p.m.
in the Union Ballroom.
The student demand for
suspension of ROTC until
Dean Ross
withdrawal of all U.S. troops
from Indochina was referred to
the individual colleges. The
colleges could withdraw credit
for ROTC, according to Robert
Narveson, secretary of Faculty
Senate.
The Senate passed & resolu
tion strongly urging faculty to
listen sympathetically to stu
dent requests for grades of in
complete due to political ac
tivity. But the decision to grant
grades of incomplete is still up
to the individual instructor
although students can appeal
faculty sanctions to college
appeal boards, Narveson said.
One faculty member at
tempted to keep the student
resolution passed at Monday's
town hall meeting from being
discussed at the Senate
meeting. He claimed the item
was not legitimately on the
agenda. But Senate chairman,
President Joseph Soshnik, rul- .
ed that the resolution was ;
legitimately part of the liaison
cununuiee s repgri. . i
The resolution also survived
a substitute motion introduced
by John Braeman, professor of
history. The Braeman motion
affirmed the duty of faculty to
fulfill their teaching duties and
to determine the content of their
courses.
Braemen objected to the part
of the student resolution asking
for classroom discussion of the
Indochina war and the Kent
murders. He called the request
"an incitement of students to
take over the classroom."
Braeman advocated sticking to
present rules for giving in
completes and pass grades
Academic council
The academic planning council will told an open
searing at 3 p.m. Wednesday to consider the call for a
New University passed by stadents at the Monday town
hall meeting. All members of the University community
may present to the ceancfl ideas for changes in curricula.
In the storm's center
by GARY SEACREST
Nttratkaa Stan Writer
G. Robert Ross, executive
dean of Student Affairs, is a
man with many problems.
The Lincoln campus has been
In turmoil for nine days. Ross
has been severely criticized for
his actions during last week's
occupation of the Military and
Naval Science Building. Now a
petition is being circulated
among University students
demanding his resignation.
"OBVIOUSLY it can't be
very satisfying th,-.t someone
wants you to resign," Ross
remarked Tuesday. "On the
other hand when you get in a
controversial situation you
can't expect everyone to be
happy about your actons. I
know I wasn't happy about the
actions of many students last
week."
Despite the current student
unrest on the Lincoln campus,
Ross said that the extent of
student participation in
decision-making will depend on
the students. He added that all
possibilities of student involve
ment have not yet been ex
plored. ROSS NOTED that the
resolution passed by a
University town hall meeting
Monday has many inconsisten
cies. "I'm completely opposed
to ceasing all normal
classroom activities," he add
ed. However, Ross said that he
favored starting school a week
early next semester in order to
give students a week recess
prior to the November elections
to campaign for candidates.
Ross supports the week recess
as long as the academic year is
not shortened.
ROSS DEFENDED his ac-
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tions last week during the
occupation of the Military and
Naval Science Building. The
University sought an injunction
to remove the students from
the building.
"Once the decision was made
that disruption wis taking
place, it was agreed that the
injunction would give the
students time to appear in
court that day to state their
case," Ross remarked.
Ross reaffirmed his earlier
statement that some of the
demonstrators had trj-eatened
violence to anyone coming into
the building in uniform.
"I HEARD a demonstrator
say that if a ROTC student
came into the building that
there was a good chance that
he would be thrown over the
railing into the pit," Ross said.
Ross also said the injunction
was sought because of property
damage that occurred in the
building early Tuesday morn
ing of the occupation.
HE RECALLED that he
alerted an attorney at 3 a.m.
Tuesday that an Injunction
might be necessary, but the
University didnt start the legal
process of seeking a restraining
order until 7 a.m., after the
threats of violence and the
property damage.
saying he was against "giving
wholesale passes no matter
what."
Paul Olson, English pro
fessor, replied that the resolu
tion "doesn't advocate any
disruption of classes or
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