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HERE'S A SAMPLING OF TODAY'S FARE: 1:15-2:30 p.m. G LOBALVILLAGE with MAURICIO FONT THE DECISION TO STRIKE discussion with GEO-graduate students organization - andsUniversity adminis- tration representatives. CALL IN YOUR COMMENTS-763-3500 4:00-5:00 p.m. THE FILM EXPERIENCE with COLLEEN CHAUVIN featuring ARTHUR LENN I NG biographer of Bela Lugosi (remember those old vampire flicks?) 6:05-8:00 p.m. TUXEDO JUNCTION with GUY LUDWIG featuring excerpts from the movie "The Glass Menagerie" and other nostalgic pre-1950 broadcast ventures! Books Supplies Copying Text Books Yarn Records law Books Lamps Tooth paste Medical Books Clocks Watches Books to Read Calculators Pens More Books Art Supplies Arch Supplies Even More Books UNIVERSITY CELLAR Basement- Michigan Union M-F 9-9, Sat. 10-5, Sun. 12-5 Stop By Sometime Cobb continued IN A DRAMA played out in the highest echelons of the1 University, the administration failed to reach a contract agree- ment with Dr. Jewel Cobb after offering the black educator a two-year no-tenure contract as dean of the literary college - a move that spurred outrage, in- dignation, and consternation among many members of the academic commalty. The only official comment on the now discontinued negotia- tions has been a brief, vague statement from University Pre- sidenit Robben Fleming a n d Vice President for Academic Affairs Frank Rhodes which confirms that Cobb was indeed the Board of Regents' choice to fill the deanship and that ac-; ceptable terms of appointment could not be worked out. Other than that explanation, the administrators have cloaked the procedings in a blanket of "no comments." But the facul- tv and lower-level administra- tors have become more and more restive as The Daily has printed details of the Cobb ne- gotiations. Underlying the emotional fer- vor appears to be a calculating struggle for power involving the eight-member Board of Regents and the University's day-to-day overseers. On most issues - particularly those of significant import - the Regents follow ad- ministration recommendations' rather thai independently de- signing the school's policy. On the Cobb appointment, how- ever, the Regents struck out on their own seemingly to the dis- pleasure of both Fleming and Rhodes. In special Board meeting call- ed a week ago at Cobb's behest, the Regents and the top admin- istrators spent six hours thrash- ing out the contract offer. At that point, Cobb had already re- jected the two-year no-tenure pact. But the Regents, during the session, gave Fleming and Rhodes the power to offer a re- vised contract without stipulat- ing new terms. Thus the second contract offer was identical to the first, acording to well-plac- ed sources. One board member described the marathon meeting as "the roughest I've been in." And one regent remarked, upon emer- ging from the discussion, t h a t Fleming and Rhodes tried to exert a "minpulative" influence on the board. Fleming, in turn, downplayed any suggestion that the meet- ing was laced with hostility and open confrontation: "There was no rancor, no animosity. All differences of opinion were just honestly expressed as differenc- es." Presently dean of Connecticut College, the 51-year-old Cobb offers solid credentials as both an educator and leader. She along with now acting LSA Dean Billy Frye and Cornell Univer- sity ombudsman David Danelski were the final candidates w h o s'lrvived months of screening. After the field had been win- nowed to that trio by a student- faculty search committee, the names went to the Regents who unanimously backed Cobb. But the administrators, in the per- sons of Fleming and Rhodes, made Cobb an offer she had to refuse. In the second week of contro- versy surrounding the deanship, the focus fell on the contract terms deemed to be "insulting and unethical" by those w h o supported Cobb for the post. About 200 faculty and admin- istration members expressed their displeasure with the offer and frustration at being un- able to influence a decision made by those above them on the buresucratic ladder, during a Thursday afternoon demons- tration in front of the ac minis- tration building. "'This is an afront to every ,ninority person,' Ce'lared George Goodman, 0 rec-t r of the Unversity's Oppotunity Program, as he marched with the other placcard ca-:ryig de- 'nonstrators. "It's not pike they were dealing with Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck." Fiery criticism came from other quar- ters as well. Women's Commit- tee Chairwoman Euaice Burns charged that "they are treating affirmative action as if it does not exist." In the long history of the Uni- versity, neither a wom in nor a black has ever served as liter- ary college dean. The school is far and away the largest Isere, serving nearly 16,000 of the 35,- 000 students enrolled in the Uni- versity. Both university groups