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BY RON GIFFORD
The development of an independent
black political party is necessary for
the attainment of black goals, accor-
ding to Ron Daniels, the president of the
National Black Political Assembly
'(NBPA).
The last speaker in a weekly series
presented this semester by the Center
for Afro-American and African Studies,
Daniels told a small crowd yesterday
that the political party should be more
than just an electoral party. "It must
also be a party dedicated to community
problems and struggles, dealing with
all issues and using boycotts, demon-
strations, and other means besides the
vote to reform the system," he said.
THE NBPA WAS started in Gary, In-
diana in 1972, he said, to help develop a
progressive black political
organization. Daniels claims that the
black movement now suffers from an
"illusion of progress. The progress that
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"There are more black elected of-
ficials and black appointed officials
than ever before. We are still a long
way from where we should be propor-
tionally, though," Daniels said. He
noted that there are serious political
and ideological problems with these
black leaders, though.
"We elected them hoping there would
be a change in policy. They thought we
elected them because they are black.
As a result, there are black faces in old
places doing the same thing as whites,'
Daniels said.
DANIELS URGED 60's-type ac-
tivism for today.
"The leaders of the 60's movement
have been effectively muzzled by being
put in charge of the social programs
that resulted from the demonstrations
of that decade," Daniels said. "There
has also been raw, naked police
repression of the black movement, such
as infiltrations, character
assassinations, and violence."
The resulting situation is one in which
students on college campuses today
"haven't the foggiest notion of what
happened in the 60's," he claimed. "The
legacy has not been passed on,
resulting in no movement in the 70's."
The failures of the capitalist system
also creates a need for an independent
black party, according to Daniels.
President Carter was elected with 94
per cent of the black vote, but has
deserted the blacks, he claimed.
"Blacks support the Democratic party,
but get no support from the party after
the election."
CARTER'S FIGHT on inflation is one
example of this, he said. The programs
that help blacks and minorities are get-
ting cut, but the defense budget is in-
creasing. "There is enormous waste
and overruns in the defense spending,"
Daniels said. "If this same laxity was
used in social programs, we would be
living okay."
He said that Proposition 13 "fever"
has swept the country and this also
means cutting out social programs
providing relief and help for the lower
classes. "White America is saying that
it can't afford blacks anymore and all
the cheating on welfare," he said.
There has been a stampede to the right
as a result.
In his opinion, there is a re;
emergence of racism in the country.
"It's more than the institutional racism
that we've grown used to. The Klan is
resurfacing in places, and the serious
question lies in the deep-seated feelings
of racism in the nation," Daniels said.
He stated that a period of reflection
on the past has laid out where the
movement must go in the future.
Daniels said black leaders must get the
attention of their constituents through
educational services, and reform of the
present system.
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felt the proposal for another committee
to review tenure decisions made by
college executive committees would
prove ineffective. They said such a
committee couldn't make reasonable
decisions on candidates from all the
various disciplines.
Yesterday's debate over tenure was
only one of many recent discussions on
the issue. The faculty is now reworking
its tenure policy line by line, and the
appeal for tenure by Assistant Political.
Science Professor Joel Samoff, who has
twice been denied the protection by his
department, is now under review by the
Literary College (LSA).
And discussion will continue as the
several dozen students, administrators,
and professors who gathered for two
hours yesterday decided to set up
meetings between student leaders and
Prof. McKeachie over the next few
months to see what can be done to im-
prove the evaluation of those
academics - typically assistant
professors in their sixth year - who
come up for tenure reconsideration.
THE RECENTLY revised LSA
tenure policies statement reads:
"Tenure is earned by excellent
teaching and outstanding research and
writing, each of which must be relevant
to the goals and needs of the University,
the College, and the Department. Ser-
vice to the University, the College,
and/or Department is expected, and
substantial service will be a factor in
the assessment."
But of the three areas - teaching,
research, and service - students
yesterday were most interested in
teaching, a quality they feel is being
overlooked in tenure appointments.
"The University of Michigan is not a
teaching institution, but rather a
research institution," said Bob
Stechuk, the new president of the LSA
Student Government. Stechk charged
the way University tenure selections
are made in practice denies those
faculty members who primarily want
to teach, the time to do so, while others
who are research-oriented "are able to
devote exclusive time to research."
MICHIGAN Student Assembly
(MSA) member Jim Sullivan said he
thought teaching could be measured
using empirical methods - challenging
the common assertion that teaching
quality is impossible to judge n any
scale. Sullivan told the group their task
ought to be to "figure out what it is we
can do to see that ! teaching is taken
seriously."
Julia Greene, another MSA Member,
listed five possible improvements to the
present system: increasing student ac-
cess to information on candidates for
tenure and their backgrounds; adop-
ting course evaluations now being writ
ten by MSA; making an effort to
separate teaching from research
evaluations in the decision-making
process; giving centers the power to
recommend and grant tenure; and in-
cluding evaluations from people outside
the department before the names go to
the school executive committee.
McKeachie, who has made un-
dergraduate instruction one of his
primary areas of study, suggested a
department-by-department evaluation
of tenure criteria might be the best way
to improve the process since recom-
mendations made by each department
to its school executive committee
carries considerable weight.
In the Literary College, I suspect
there are a fair number of departments
which take teaching seriously and some
which don't," said McKeachie.
When Fleming questioned the ability
of students to judge professors while
still students, McKeachie countered
that studies show people don't change
their minds about professors they've
had once they leave college. McKeachie
also speculated most faculty see
research as being "a little more equal"
than teaching when considering the
balance.
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