Page Six THE MICHIGAN DAILY Tuesday, December 2, 1969 P age Six THE MICHIGAN DAILY DRUGS, CoOUNSELING, STUDENT POWER The Seventh Annual Feldkamp's memos stir inaction 1 STAYYIN HOLLYWOOD WHERE YOU STAY IS MOST OF THE FUN{ COMPLETE TOUR INCLUDES: * ROUND TRIP JET VIA THE NEWEST, BIGGEST PLANE IN THE WORLD THE SUPER DC8-Detroit to Los Angeles (we were the first to offer this newest of jets) * 6 DAYS, 5 NIGHTS IN THE BEST HOLLYWOOD MOTOR INNS (AAA, POOLS, TV) where you'll find-: the movie stars, stars' homes, the "in" discotheques, the Sunset Strip and ...ACTION * ALL BUS TRANSPORTATION-To and from Airport, Parade and Game, including luggage * INSURANCE, L.A. 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OUR TRIPS ARE PLANNED AND CONTRACTED ONE YEAR IN ADVANCE GUARAN- TEEING THE BEST OF EVERYTHING THROUGHOUT AT THE LOWEST PRICES AND . . GUARANTEED DE- PARTURES. "INVESTIGATE ROSE BOWL TRIPS." CHECK THE HOTEL LOCATIONS. ARE THEY NEAR THE AIRPORT? ARE THEY ON REMOTE CAMPUSES?.. . THAT'S NOT WHERE THE ACTION IS!! (Continued frou Pagc I bery, assistant resident iireclor of Adams House, West Quad. "I don't know of anyone who has had to report a student in West Quad," he adds. Winbery claims, though, that there is an understanding be- tween his resident director and himself that they would not re- port students to the police un- less a problem were very ser- ious. A resident adviser in Bush House, South Quad, says s h e was told to counsel students first and then report, if neces- sary, to the assistant resident director - who reports to the resident director who informs the building director who re- ports to Feldkamp, who would report the incident to the po- lice if he deemed it necessary. This method of reporting to the next higher authority, she says, takes the onus off a par- ticular staff member and does not antagonize the students against the staff. Although another staff mem- ber thought this amounted to copping out, this staff member said she would only start the process in a very serious case. when she thought the police should be notified anyway. But once the information goes beyond the resident ad- viser, nothing crops up quite so much as buck-passing,. which everyone seems to take part in. Feldkamp sy resident ad- visers should report to the po- lice or to their building clirec- is then obligated to report, the violation straight to the police. "I encourage the directors to report directly to the p olice rather than to me since they a ir:, there and know the situation," Feldkamp l)says. But Feldkamp may find tlhe buck passed to him anyway. Says Leon' West, West Quad building director, "I would not go directly to the police but to Feldkamp first.," THAT DOG ON WHEELS SIS I COMING Ote reSi(Ielt (lirector believes Felditinmp's tIi(t)lOil the power of stiideit governments is unlfounlIdd11and extremely condescend ing; to stildIIits. "I iclsclihose by the stlidiiS," he lmotes. 1li sg ( rei(ng g lfij ith thed irector of llni- VerSIy lousiiig, le ilSists tlt the students (l1so For' all the circumlocution, all the 'higher ups' say they have vet to act ually' lace the problem of reportvin to the police--a situation withich may be the re- sLlt of mutiny from below. 'Any knowledge of drug u'sage which is reported to inc is 110t, for any reason, passed on to my building director,'' says one resident director, "I'm sure he'd report directly to the police." Markley Hall Bluilding Direc - tor Joseph Rossmeirsays the severity of the case would de- (1551 ile~l Ie~j)OllSibility ilk~ailg p)ower. te'rmnn whet her he repor todI the diug usage. 'If the person is not a pusr but a casual drug user I would almost assuredly not report him to tie police." says Rossmeier. Hle believes the resident adviser can do morq for the person in counseling than by reporting him to the police. Carol Castor, assistant build- ing dir'ector at Couzens, believes that "any kind of blatant drug usage must be reported." But she says she would first counsel the student before she decided to go to the housing director or the police. Confidential counseling - as well as the counselors' obliga- tions is the subject of sev- eral contradictory memos from the housing director. sesthat keep- ing ai s tudent's confidence is an important element of housing office policy. One memo, in fact, says only information on illegal drug use obtained "other thana through conidential counseling relationships" should be re- ported. Feldkamp notes, however, that the office's confidential coun- eling policy has "no real pro- tection'' in a court- But he argues for breaking confidence in more places than the witness stand. (iolig 1it-ith lCcisiol- "It is, howvever, inportant that when you accept a con- fidence you do so with the un- derstanding that you will judge whether or not the confidence will be shared with more quali- fied staff members . .. No other agreement will give you the needed flexibility to do what is best for the student," the memo states. The reasoning for this con- tradiction, says Feldkamp, be- sides the lack of legal pi-otec- tion, is that the resident direc- tor must be informed of any- thing which might adversely af- fect individuals inthe house or the entire dormitory, Nonetheless, many resident advisers say they are unaware of this "confidential counsel- ing - but" policy, and they firmly assert that they never have nor ever will discuss any- thing learned through counsel- ing. "I would not release informa- tion even if I was told to," says Adams House Assistant Resident Director Winbery. "Not by a long shot," asserts Bauer. He also claims that many staff memos "fail to take into account the human conscience.," Thus. says Bauer, he does not ignore these memos, but puts them in the "proper frame of reference." Adds Jack Myers, president of Inter-House Assembly, the voluntary student vovernment of the residence halls, "The pos- sibility of not keeping a stu- dents' confidence or informing him that anything he says may be told to someone else destroys the idea of counseling." "If a guy tells me he's killed someone, I'd think seriously - it's a different story," he adds. But if a student told him he was smoking grass, he would not tell anyone. The third memo which is a cause of some disagreement be- tween 0te housing office and the dormitory staff concerns t h e extent of recognized student povrin the dorm system. F,,idkamp writes in his memo that, except for the regentally- delegated power of making visi- One memo to resident ad- visers entitled "The advisory approach" states: "Sometimes a student will ask you to keep the conversation confidential. You should tell him that you may have to relate pertinent in- formation to the head of the unit And included in "General personnel guidelines" is the statement: "As a staff member, you are expected to keep con- fidences, discussingtthem only with responsible staff person- nel." tation rules, students do not have any real authority in the dorms, although it may appear that they do. Feldkamp believes this policy is "not talking down to stu- dents, just stating facts." He also cites, as a basis for his directive, President Robben Fleming's letter last summer to Acting Vice President for Stu- dent Affairs Barbara Newell that states the role of a stu- dent advisory group is to advise and that the group does o t have the authority to make policy. Any person applying for a housing staff position is inter- viewed by students, says Feld- kamp. "It'd be folly for me to iun the office without response from the students." he says. "There is no portion of the housing office which is without student involvement." In addition, Feldkamp says students have full access to in- formation and may advise be- fore decisions are made. "But in the last analysis the decisions a-e made by me. SACH Student Advisory Committee on Housing) can be held ac- countable-I'm the guy who's criticized," says Feldkamp. But once again this policy seems to go against the grain of some staff members. One resident director believ- es the memo is unfounded a n d extremely condescending to stu- dents. "I was chosen by the stu- dents," says Bauer, referring to his assistant residence director- ship. But, he insists that t h e students also assume all respon- sibility along with decision- making. Winbery says he definitely dis- agrees with the memo on stu- dent pqwer and in fact tries to encourage student power. "The kids make up the rules," Winbery says. "Because of the students there are no hours. If the kids didn't speak up we'd be nowhere." However, at least one resident adviser. Anita Carlson of Thron- son House, believes students just do not care to have any power in the dorms. The resident ad- visers unsuccessfully are trying to get students involved in house governments, she believes. Feldkamp believes students "want to advise, not control" dorm operations. If they are able to do more than advise, he fearts it would result in the lack of quality of staff and opera- tions. But Myers believes that stu- dent decision-making is "out of his Feldkamp's) control." Myers is, confident the Board of Governors of the Residence Halls soon will approve student selection of staff. And Myers does not really fear the power of the directives. "More overriding than any- thing he says tin his three di- rectives) is the laissez-faire at- titude of the staff," says Myers. Some of the staff is responsive to the directives, says one re- sident director in West Quad. But he adds that there are de- grees of ignoring the memos. 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