Five Friday, October 4, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PageF Friday, October 4, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Five *Placement service opposes opening fles to stu dents SRC proposes reorganization of 'U' bail under SGC control By SAM DAMREN A year ago this week Student Government Council and Grad- uate Assembly formed a joint ad hoc committee to study the Bu- reau of Appointments and Occu- pational Information. Much has changed in the past year including the bureau's archaic name-yet there is con- siderable dissatisfaction among committee members with their work. The brunt of student concern centers around the contents of a student's file in the newly-nanied Placement Service., SGC member Tom Westerdale, Grad, fears they may contain faculty recommendations which could adversly affect a student's chances of getting a job. "Student records should be open to the student." Westerdale as- serts. Only then. he feels, can the student be sure there is no detri- mental information contained in the files. However, Placement Service Di- rector Evart W. Ardis insists the files must remain confidential and has refused to allow committee members to inspect them. - "Professors writing the recom- mendations might feel inhibited if they knew the students were going to read them," Ardis said. Despite the disagreement over acces to the files, Ardis believes the committee has had "a drama- tic and helpful effect." As evi- dence of the committee's work, Ardis has released a list of 13 changes that have been made- including the offices new name, as well as alterations in admin- istrative procedures and per- sonnel. However, Westerdale says the student committee had nothing to do with the changes which have been made. "I have no feeling of having contributed anything toward their initiation or fulfillment," he says. "I suspect that other committee members feel as I do." At present the committee is in a state of limbo. It has not met since the winter term and only two of its six original members are known to still be on campus. Ardis, however, has expressed great interest in getting the com- mittee working again. He has asked SGC to appoint new mem- bers if necessary. (Continued from Page 1) amendments and three expressed "concerns." One amendment would elimin- ate the special disclosure privileg- es, granted to the faculty in the original document. A similar amendment was adopted by SGC when it took up consideration of the report last month. Another amendment defined the jurisdiction of the document .so it would apply to records kept by all nine OSA divisions. Another amendment guaranteed the student access to his own OSA records, except those kept by Health Service and OSA's coun- seling division. These two alterations in the document led to expression of concern by some SRC faculty members that -recommendations in the Placement Service would now be opened to the student. This concern was not translat- ed into a further amendment but will be expressed in the report of SRC action to the Student Af- fairs Subcommittee on Disclo- sure - the group which drafted the policy. The policy on disclosure of OSA records requires ratification by SGC, Graduate Assembly and a committee of OSA administrators as well as SRC. SRC was the last of the four organizations to act on the draft. The report will now be revised by the subcommittee on disclosure and returned to the four groups for ratification. Deliberations on the contents and disclosure of OSA records were initiated in 1966. In August of that year, the Uni- versity complied with a subpoena from the House Un-American Ac- tivities Committeee and disclosed membership lists of radical organ- izations. Since the HUAC disclosures, such membership lists have been eliminated from the files and the new policy, when ratified, will proscribe procedures for handling subpoenas. The SRC report to the drafting committee will also inquire as to the contents of the "basic docu- ment" which will be maintained on microfilm after other OSA files are destroyed five years after a student leaves the University. In addition, the report will raise the question of whether counseling records should be gov- erned by professional ethics or oy the new disclosure policy. Originally, all OSA records were to be controlled by the disclosure report. But an SRC amendment adopted yesterday would limit dis- closure of Health Service records only by professional ethics. TEN YEARS AFTER Fri., Sat., Suf.-Oct. 4,5, 6, Grande Ballroom in Detroit at Grand River and Beverly one block South of Joy 8:30 P.M. Must be 17 Admission $3.50 SUNDAY-NO AGE LIMIT 7-11 P.M. 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