Davis may
Michael Davis said Tuesday
night that he has not yet
received a letter detailing the
reasons why the Board of
Regents last August blocked his
appointment as a philosophy
instructor.
The Regents, at their Monday
meeting, announced they have
mailed the letter but would
leave it up to Davis discretion
to make it public or not.
The Regents said if Davis
would make any part of the
letter public, they would
release all of it.
"Maybe in tomorrow's mail,"
Davis said. He said he "was
somewhat certain" he would
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release letter
make the entire letter public.
At the Tuesday afternoon
Faculty Senate meeting, a
report from the Liaison Conv
nuuee on uie ljvu waat was
accepted with only a bit of
discussion.
The report said substantially
the same thing as a document
released last week at a public
hearing the Liaison Committee
The Davis case falls in the
"area in the hiring process
where subjective judgments
must be made and where
reasonable men may
disagree," the committee said.
The report continued: "We
have concluded that the action
was taken within the borders of
the legitimate discretion of the
Board and that there is no
threat intended to the fragile
fabric of academic freedom.'"
In response to a question
from the floor, Campus
President Joseph Scshnik said
that the acceptance of the
report does not indicate Senate
approval of any statements in
the report.
Rockets play to
help huy 'Samly'
Centennial College will spon
sor a dance Saturday in the
Cather-Pound cafeteria with
Rick and the Rockets from 9
12 p.m.
Funds from the dance will
help purchase "Sandy in Con
fined Space", a bronze statue
for the Sheldon Sculpture Gar
den. 4-1 1 Club to meet
The University of Nebraska
4-H Club will meet at T p.m.
next Tuesday in the C. Y.
Thompson Library on East
Campus. The meeting was origi
nally scheduled for Oct. 13.
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BEAUTY SAION
White student at black college
criticizes exchange program
At least one student thinks
his experiences with the
ASUN exchange program
with predominantly black
Stillman College in Tuscaloosa,
Alabama, may not have been
worth his semester of time.
Ron Whitten transferred to
Stillman, a teachers' college
with about 700 students enroll
ed, in the spring of 1970.
Whitten didn't have to go
through much red tape to get
into the program. "I filled out
one form," he said. "The at
titude was 'if you want to go
you can go.' I dont think they
had too many applicants that
semester."
Whitten noted that when he
arrived at Stillman College
"they weren't expecting me.
They knew somebody was
coming, but they didn't have
my name."
According to W h i 1 1 e n
Stfllman's orientation program
for white students like himself
was rather incomplete. "They
just tossed me right into
general registration," be
said.
Stillman is "run like a high
school," continued Whitten.
ASUN can pick committees
The appointment of student
members to Faculty Senate
Committees which have student
representation is now the sole
function of ASUN because of
action by the Faculty Senate
Tuesday.
In the past, student govern
ment suggested two names for
every student vacancy on such
committees, ASUN President
Steve Tiwald said. Campus
administrators then selected
the actual nominee.
"It got down to the question
of who was picking student
members of these com-
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before school starts. Talk
"Their relevancy classes, like
Black History and Black
Literature, are all mickey
mouse. I got all A's, and the
three students who were there
the semester before me got all
A's. None of us are A students
here."
Whitten added that NU gfves
credit for work done at
Stillman, but not grades.
The curriculum also left
something to be desired, ac
cording to Whitten. "The whole
thing was covered in three
mimeographed pages," he
said.
Roger Rinne is co-ehairman
of the ASUN committee in
charge of the Stillman ex
change program. Rinne has
participated ih the program
himself.
"I agree that Stillman is run
like a high school," he said. "If
you are after an academic
education you might as well
stay here."
According to Rinne the pro
gram is designed to enable
white students to work with,
relate to and live with black
students in their own environment.
mittees," Tiwald said. "Do
students pick them or aid
ministration?" Generally, but not always
the administrators appointed
the person ASUN considered to
be the top nominee, Tiwald
continued.
So, with the approval of
Tiwald, the Faculty. Senate
recommended the change in
appointment policy.
Now, student representatives
on Faculty Senate committees
need only to be full-time
students in god academic
standing who have been ap
proved by the ASUN Senate.
In other action, the Senate
Announced that the 1971
Summer Sessions wul begin
June 7 and July 15, slightly
earlier than last yea. Final
registration for the summer
sessions will take place during
Regents'
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$9.6 million. The Regents'
orginal strategy was to
separate the $9.6 mill km from
the regular capital construction
budget since the fnnds
represent projects already ap
proved by the Legislature.
However, Gov. Norbert T.
Tiemann told the University
that it must put all its con
struction projects in a single
budget.
In other action Monday the
Regents:
Ap roved $133,000 for
remodeling and equipment
replacement in the residence
kalis. Most of the fnnds will be
wed to renovate the main
ranges of the residence halls.
Directed aO University
campuses to report at the
December Resents meeting
want U being none to Improve
the quality of teaching.
Approved Edwin B. Steer
as professor and chairman (
"It was very successful in
my case," Rinne added.
Whitten is not sure if it
worked in his case. "Some of
the students there went out of
their way to be friendly, and
some of them went out of their
way to antagonize me," he
said.
Whitten found that most of
the discussion of current issues
on the campus involved a
minority of students, most of
them from the north. On the
whole "there was no academic
atmosphere" at , Stillman, he
said.
"If most of them were in
volved it wasn't apparent,"
said Whitten. "All that went on
was fun and games."
Whitten thinks an exchange
program with a black school
more up to NU's academic
standards, such as Tuskegee
Institute in Alabama, would
provide a mora fruitful ex
perience for ; exchange
students.
"That is dinifcely something
we should consider, com
mented committee co-chairman
Rinne.
the last two days of the final
exam period. '
Re-elected 6y acclamation
Robert Narveson, associate
professor of English, to a se
cond one year term as
secretary of the Senate. It is
traditional that the secretary,
who handles the Senate's
voCumnous paper work, be
elected for two successive
terms. i
Heard that the Report of
the Committee on Com
mencement is "continuing a
study in an attempt to arrive at
a reasonable comprojmise in
the matter of graduation ex
ercises predicated on the
changing environment of the
University community."
The next Faculty Senate
meeting is scheduled for Tues
day after noon. Nov. 3, at the
Nebraska Center.
action
electrical engineering, effective
July 1. 1971. Stenr is currently
an associate professor of elec
trical engineering at the
University of California, Santa
Barbara.
Endorsed a constkuthiaal
amendment on the Nov. 3
general election ballot which
would nutke revenue bond
financing for dormitories and
other student facilities clearly
legal.
Agronomy club
trips out
Three Agronomy Club members-
are attending the National
Future Farmers of America
convention in Kansas City, Oct.
13-15. President Charlie Hav
licek, Jim Reeder and Ken
Brums will present a slide
show and the .Agronomy Ca
reers Display. ',
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WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 14, 1970
