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ByIIENRY GRIX School of Education should be relieved of for Educational Development Inc. "The panel believes that many other iary" personnel be - employed to teach heels of the sc
Editor the responsibility"; Although Ross and some education institutions are qualified to provide the certification programs or that students go - are likely to
A special blue ribbon commission on the * That the school should "seek to in- school faculty members seem pleased with credentials minimally necessary for teach- elsewhere to get certification. designate Wilb
education scshool has issued a harsh anal- pose a greater coherence among the tri the report's recommendation, several of er certification," the report states. "A student who really wants to be a Dean Olson in
ysis of the school's policies, criticizing both partite responsibilities for teaching, service the school's faculty members have already "Teacher education programs of the teacher-who's bright-has to go else- The panel h
the school's faculty and administration and research"; begun to bristle at what they consider to school are pedestrian in concept, mechan- where than the University" complained appointment o
and the central University administration. 0 That the school should "consciously be inaccuracies and the "snide, arrogant" istically tied to certification requirements, Payne. health, educati
The 52-page report. released yesterday and deliberately strive to lower the degree tone of the recommendations. grossly -even ridiculously -understaffed, But another education school faculty Ross promise
contains a barrage of recommendations of parochialism which now seems to per- Prof. Joseph Payne complains the report and quite inadequately supported in member, Prof. David Angus, argues that dertake this y
aimed at re-directing the school's goals and meate faculty attitudes"; is given to "general, globalized statements equipment and curriculum materials," the the recommendation is "precisely what we funds for Dean
re-aligning priorities. " That "the University close the labora- without adequate quantifiers." report adds. "In short, teacher education ought to do. If we want to train teachers, and make the
Chief among the recommendations are: tory school (Uniersity School) as early Payne and other faculty members argue at Michigan is unworthy of the traditions we should put our resources in it and be for next year."
* That "the University allocate greatly as practiable but not later tthan June that the report unduly and unjustly cri- and resources of the University." willing to talk about a limited number However, eve
increased funds to provide necessary ad- 1970," unless it can "become a center for ticizes the present dean, Willard C. Olson, While Ross argues that report calls for of kids." tional funds, h
ministrative services"; innovation, experimentation and research who is retiring June 30. improving and revamping the certifica- Angus, who said he read the report with serious fight a
That "If it is deemed politically neces- in education." However, a more specific disagreement tion programs, Payne and others interpret "excitement," was especially pleased by University Sc
say for the University to certify students The report, commissioned last fall by is likely to develop over the interpretation the recommendation as a suggestion that the recommendation calling for increasing serves as a tea
for teaching-to provide apprenticeship Arthur M. Ross, vice president for state of the recommendation concerning the the undergraduate teaching program the urban education efforts of the school. members inclu
experience and basic vocational informa- relations and planning, was executed by a certification of elementary and secondary should be abolished. None of the blue ribbon commission's report and say
tion about teaching-the faculty of the six-man panel appointed by the Academy school teachers. The recommendation asks that "auxil- recommendations - which come on the the school is ou
Ten Pages
hools own appraisal report
be acted upon until Dean-
ur Cohen takes over from
July.
Lad special praise for the
f the former secretary of
on and welfare.
d "The University will un-
'ear to provide additional
Cohen when he comes in
school a high priority item
n if Cohen secures addi-
e may have to face another
gainst opponents of closing
hool, which theoretically
ching lab. Many faculty
ding Angus agree with the
closing is overdue because
tmoded and its use limited.
STUDE
TS
REJECT
LA
GU
GE
REQUIRE
E
T"
SGC
PRESIDE
TI
L
R
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RE
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DOUBT
A
DISCOUNT BOOKSTORE
RECEIVES APPROVAL
By ROBERT KRAFTOWITZ
Students voted overwhelmingly against the language
requirement in partial returns on the Student Government
Council sponsored referendum yesterday.
The partial returns also indicated overwhelming support
for the second referendum, which proposes that SGC expand
its discount store to include a discount book store. The
referendum called for initial funding of the book store by a
special assessment of $1.75 per student for the fall, 1969
semester only.
With the first day's balloting tallied, the vote was 2194
to 887 for abolition of the language requirement. The vote on
the book store referendum
was 2679 to 685.
RESULT OBSCURED BY
ERRORS IN COUNTING
Student Government Council's Credentials and Rules
Committee refused last night to declare a winner in the
balloting for SGC president.
A dispute over the counting of the votes threw the elec-
tion into turmoil after elections officials discovered an error
in the method of the tabulation of votes.
The president-vice president slates of Howard Miller-
Mark Rosenbaum, Bob Nelson-Mary Livingston, and Marty
McLaughlin-Mark Van der Hout are apparently still in the
running.
According to Bob Neff, SGC vice president, the error was
Panther White
Joan Shemel
Carol Hollenshead
Shelley Kroll
Darryl Gorman
Jorm long
distane
cancelled
The Universitys experiment
with long distance calling from
dorm rooms is over-at least for
a while.
Communications manager Wil-
liam Turner explained last night
that the experiment is being dis-
continued after one day because
the number of long distance calls
made by dormitory residents "was
jamming the Centrex system com-
pletely."
The counting of the second
day's balloting has been delayed
until today because of the large
number of miSmarked ballots.
Election Director Dale Jurcisin
said the ballots would be gone
through by hand in order to cor-
rect the mistakes.
Literary college faculty members
have been debating the present
language requirement for several
months. No official action has yet
been taken, although a general Howard Miller Mar
studies degree has been proposed* -
which would not require language ELECTED REPRE
SGC set the referendum three --_
weeks ago in order to provide the
faculty with a clear indication of
student opinion on the issueg
professors will be inclined to
change their votes because of a By L:AURIE HIARRIS
student referendum, one college Newly-elected representatives to
the Tenants' Union assembly last
Several SGC members fear the night set up procedure for carry-.
referendum may have lost its ef- ing the rent strike through the
feet because the votes of literary summer according to the recom-
college students were not counted mendation of the strike steering
separately. committee.
Their main concern is that the Assembly members are elected
literary college faculty might not by striking tenants and have final
view the results as an indication voting power to act for the
that students in their college favor Tenants' Union. The assemblyl
abolition of the requirement. members will eventually elect a
A separation of the votes was new representative steering com-
intended orginally.. but an error mittee to replace the strike steer-G
See STUDENTS, Page 7 ing committee.
made in the counting of sec-
ond and third place votes. Un-
der the "multiple transferable
ballot system," the second
place votes on the ballot of the
candidate receiving the least
number of firstr place votes are
added to the totals of the re-
maining candidates.
If no candidate receives a ma-
jority of - votes, the process is
repeated by dropping the next
lowest candidate and adding his
second place votes to the remain-
ing candidates.
" If a student gives his first and
second place votes to candidates
who are subsequentl,' eliminated,
G
k Rosenbaum
Marty McLaughlin
Bob Nelson
Mary Livingston
SENTATIYES:
Fs establish su bletpolicy
i
I"
Turner said engineering
lems will have to be solved
the system can be tried
However, he did not know
would be possible.
prob-
before
again.
if this
Each assembly member is elect- fund, or not pay at all, Denton A vote on' the proposal was de-
ed by ten tenants in the same said. layed until the representatives can
apartment building. If there are The steering committee also take it back to members of the
less than ten striking tenants in asked non-strikers to pay their union for their opinions.
one building, a representative is landlords no more than is received Another issue was the status of
elected for ten tenants of the same for their apartment, even if this present negotiations. According to
landlord. is less than provided for by the Stuart Katz, Grad, a member of
Peter Denton, Grad, presented original lease. the steering committee, "there
the steering committee's recon-i If subletting is impossible the hasn't been any landlord who will
mendation that strikers sublet committee urged non-strikers not recognize the union."
ar tnts andhv the to pay their rent at all. A representative from Ambas-
that voter's third choice is given
to whatever remaining candidates
received it.
,Last night, however, after two
of the six candidates were elimi-
nated, the tabulators mistakenly
counted all first, second, third and
fourth place votes on all ballots.
This resulted in many ballots be-
ing counted two, three or four,
times, if the voter had selected
more than one of the top four
candidates.
Elections Director Dale Jurcisin
announced last night that elec-
tions officials will meet today at
noon in the SGC offices to recount
all ballots and determine the
winner.
Although a computer was not
used to tabulate the vote, com-
puter sheets served as ballots and
were fed through a mechanical
sorter which employed an optical
scanner to read the ballots. Tabu-
lations were done manually by
elections officials.
See CONFUSION, Page 7
BSU asks
new board,,
for Dail
Ron Thompson, chairman of the
Black Students Union, and Daily
Editor Henry Grix met yesterday
with University President Robben
Fleming 'to discuss the current
controversy over Daily editorial
policy.
At the meeting, Thompson et-
plained the new BSU position-
that a new all-student board for
student publications be established
which would determine editorial
policy and staff appointments.
In a statement issued last night,
Thompson said, "It is our opin-
ion that the Daily does not nor
foes it intend to ever represent
the interests of anyone ion this
campus but the 11 senior editors.
Thompson also challenged the
recent ruling by the Regents
which gave outgoing Daily senior
editors the sole power to appoint
their successors. Previously, t h e
former Board in Control of Stu-
dent Publications selected the new
editors on the recommendation
of the outgoing seniors..
- "If the Daily were owned by
the 11 editors then our Alterna-
tive would be simple, not read
it. However, The Daily is owned
by the Regents of this Univer-
sity. In other words, The Daily is
just as much ours as it is the 11
senior editors'," Thompson con-
tinued. "As all other units of this
University, therefore, The Daily
must strive to be representative
of the University community."
"Unfortunately," the statement
said, "the Regents of this Univer-
sity have passed legislation t h a t
will continue this misrepresenta-
tion. Their ruling allows for the
editors to have complete freedom
in the selection of their successors
and in determining editorial pol-
icy."
Grix responded that The Daily,
"like any other student organi a-
;,, - - -___" rnam .aC4tl4. . nr i
The experiment would have al-
lowed dorm residents to make long
distance calls from their rooms
between 6 p.m. and midnight if{
the calls were collect, credit card,
or charged to a third number.
Dorm residents will now have
to return to their phone booths.
I
amount of the sublease paid into
the escrow fund.
If it is not possible to sublet,
the striker either should pay the
full amount of rent into the escrow
Denton claimed that if a sum-
mer tenant does not pay his rent
most landlords would not find'
it economically advantageous to
bring him to court. If a tenant
does eventually lose an eviction
case, there is still time to pay
before final judgment, Dentonf
sador realty indicated that when
50 per cent of their tenants will
join the union, they will recog-
nize it. Summit Associates held'
talks with strike leaders the past
two days though no agreements
were reached.
Katz said that they are at least
Regents mni
By MARTIN HIRSCHMAN
The Regents are likely to approve a
proposal to abolish the physical education
requirement at their regular monthly
meeting today and tomorrow.
However, the proposal submitted by Vice
President for Academic Affairs Allan
Smith - would , not apply to students
presently enrolled in the University.
In addition, students enrolling on or,
after June 1 would be required to confer
I -
NOT RETROACTIVE
endrequired
approve abolition, but added tl)at he had tional cour
not yet discussed the question with them. which woul
He said he would bring up the question of dividual scl
making abolition retroactive in his con- The Rege
sultations with the Regents today. proposal to
Under Smith's present proposal, the de- halls. The
partment of physical education would Residence
create a Physical Fitness and Sports Ap- Committee
praisal and Guidance Unit which "would Assembly h
interview and test every incoming fresh- crease aver
man." In other
phys ed
ses, and 14 classroom courses
ld be given credit by the in-
ools and colleges.
ents will also take action on a
increase fees for the residence
Board of Governors of the
Halls, the Student Advisory
on Housing, and Inter-House
have all recommended an in-
aging $40.
action, the Regents are ex-
said. beginning to deal with the union
The lengthy and expensive pro-- though not on a recognition basis.
cedure that is necessary to bring
a tenant to trial. for eviction will
also be effective in continuing the"
strike, said Dale Berry, a law stu-
dent on the strike steering com- Et
mittee.
Berry added that there have COUNCIL SEATS:
been 19 summons issued so far Hollenshead (E).
and that these people will come
nto court about two at a time. At White (E)...........
this rate, the semester willmbe over Kroll (I)........
before the court can handle any Shemel (E)..........
additional summonses. Berry said. Gorman (E) ..
Also at the meeting, Nancy Scott (I)
Holstrom, Grad, another steeringK
committee member, and a member Kane (I)...........
of the Independent Socialist Club Hirshon. . ...
returns
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