Committee asks reconsideration of Davis case
by MARSHA BANGERT
Nebraskan Staff Writer
A special student government
investigating team, in a 35-page
report made public Monday,
has recommended that the
, Board of Regents reconsider
their decision not to appoint
controversial Michael" Davis to
a NU teaching post
The Inv estigating committee,
appointed iy ASUN, took issue
with two oi the four reasons
given by the Regents for not
hiring Davis, a teaching fellow
at the University of
Michigan.
And the seven-member com
mittee, headed by junior Dave
Ratliff, makes two recom
mendations: Davis should be given an
instructor's job in the NU
Department of Philosophy, as
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The Regents, in coopera
tion with the rest of the
University community, should
set forth an explicit policy for
the hiring of teachers including
"criteria on the qualifications
and standards" the Regents
expect from prospective
teachers.
The report, scheduled to be
submitted to the Board of
Regents at their Monday
meeting, states: "Open k
discussion of this matter ought
not to be discontinued until
some nature of consensus
within the University com
munity is reached."
The committee's report con
cludes that the Regents have
been misinformed about some
of the information they cite as
reasons for their refusal to hire
Davis.
Davis attended an inaugura
tion reception for the President
Robben Fleming of the
University of Michigan and
made some remarks to the ef
fect that Fleming could not
always be trusted, the Regents
one who would testify that
Davis appeared at the recep
tion could be found, the report
says. Several persons who did
attend the reception have given
signed statements to the in
vestigating committee to the
effect that they did not see
Davis at the reception.
Fleming said in a telephone
conversation, committee
members reported, that he
could not remember seeing
Davis there.
The committee's report also
refutes the Regents' charge
that Davis said in testimony
before a legislative committee
that the University of Michigan
administration had a
repressive, non-communicative
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In the telephone interview,
Fleming said he did not
remember Davis making such
a statement, the investigation
commit! ;e's report states.
Davis has also denied making
the statement
The Regents also said that
Davis' actions in participating
in a four-day fast in the
Michi an administration
building " did not "meet the
standards expected by the
Board of Regents."
Davis was protesting a pro
posal by the Michigan Regents
that he felt would have denied
students adequate participation
in university government. The
ASUN report states that Davis
saw his action as an alternative
to violence, which he felt would
have erupted had the Regents
approved the proposal.
"The committee views the
fast as an individual, victimless
action, as evidence of Davis'
sensitivity to important issues
and his sound judgment with
regard to appropriate means of
expression."
The Regents have charged
that Davis was found guilty of
violating treaspass laws
following an arrest in
November, 1968. This charge
leaves out relevant informa
tion, the ASUiN report says.
The protest occurred because
of inadequate payments to
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welfare mothers, while the
county board held a $100,000
budgetary surplus for that
year, the report says. The pro
test in which Davis
participated did achieve its
goal, as the county board later
reversed its decision, the ASUN
report said.
Also, the Regents' assess
ment cf Da is"' tearing ability
was questioned by the ASUN
committee. The Regents
released "ni public informa
tion" on ho they arrived at
their assessment, the com
mittee says.
Based on course and depart
ment evaluations of Davis, and
on letters of recommendation
submitted by faculty members
at the University of Michigan,
the committee reports that the
Michigan inututiton was more
than satisilied with Davis'
performance in the
classroom.
The committee also finds
questionable the Regents'
charge that Davis is "intellec
tually arrogant and lacking in
tact, objectivity and judg
ment." The report notes that Davis
was immediately rehired by
the University of Michigan
after his rej action by NU, and
that he is now a member of
President Robben Fleming's ad
hoc committee on a permanent
university Judiciary.
Since discrepancies were
frund in the Regents' charges
and supporting evidence, the
ASUN committee found the
"character judgment of the
Board of Regents to be without
foundation."
In late September or early
October, the Regents received
information from an
anonymous source that Michael
Davis was a minister of arms
for the White Panther Pary in
Michigan. Board of Regents
Corporation Secretary G.
Robert. Ross attempted to
check out the report with a
snecial assistant to President
Fleming.
Howaver, according to the
ASUN report, the assistant,
Barbara Newell, said there
were several persons on the
Michigan campus who were
quite active politically and that
the Davis associated with the
White Panthers was not the
sama Davis who had been re
jected by NU.
"This whole case is far from
closed," commented Ratliff.
"Student concern hasn't died,
and we hope this report will
renew interest throughout the
University community."
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