THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Thursday January 24, 1914
THE MICHiGAN DAILY Thursday, January 24, 19/4
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to growth." While the projection
showed steady growth, "the reality
began to be, 'ypu can't do it',"
Smith says.
During Smith's nine years as
vice president, his power to form
University policy has nowhere been
as evident as in financial decision-
making. Along with Vice President
and Chief Financial Officer Wilbur
Pierpont, Smith makes the Uni-
versity's month-to-month budget al-
locations and prepares far-reaching
financial plans ranging from yearly
budget proposals sent to the state
legislature to trend projections for
years to come.
And although Smith denies that
he plays hatchet.man for Fleming,
his role as a financial officer has
involved saying no to a vast array
of financial requests.
"I HAVE TO say no quite often
but that's not a contrived role,"
Smith says. "Mr. Fleming shares
all the budget decisions. I say a
lot of yeses too, that make people
happy."
Although officials have recently
maintained a eulogistic hush with
regard to Smith's vice presidential
tenure, many still temper their
praise with apologies .for Smith's
detractors.
Social work Prof. Frederick
Goodman, chairman of the Senate
Assembly Committee on University
Affairs (SACUA), the faculty gov-
erning body's executive committee,
says of Smith: "Anybody who
plays that role for a long time can
find a lot of people he's said no
to, but he's also said yes to a lot
of people."
"THERE'S NO DOUBT that he's
been the no-sayer for the Univer-
sity," Goodman adds.
Vice President for Student Ser-
vices Henry Johnson says Smith is
"an extremely fair man, when
presented with facts."
According to Assistant Vice Pres-
ident for Student Services Tom
Easthope, "After historydgets
added up sometime in the distant
future, students are going to find
he wasn't the big bad boogie man
they thought."
i minds of some he's thought of as
negative and the 'no man'."
"This is not true," Haber claims.
"He's a strong man and when he
says no it's not out of weakness."
If these observers damn Smith
with faint praise, the causes lie in
the ways Smith has used his
strength. Well-known to reporters
for a tight-lipped, no-comment
stance on administrative machina-
tions, Smith has acted as a bul-
wark of traditional educational
values against faculty and student
pressure for re-ordered priorities.
too big a term, I hope."
"There's always a lot of non-j
sense about secret meetings and
secret decisions," he concludes.
"For most of the committees where
the decisions are kicked around,
it's hard to get students to stay,
because it's terribly dull work. We
don't get together and make excit-
ing decisions; we worry."
SMITH'S EXPLANATION 'of stu-
dent "worry" about administration
power does not include students'
sense that Smith himself is not
interested in their views.
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THIS FALL, THE student body One student particularly quali-
was treated to a dramatic repre- fied to comment on Smith's han-
sentation of Smith's decision- dling of student requests is Laurie
making style, as the administration Effron, a representative of . the
revealed a series of partial ac- Organization of Teaching Fellowsl
countings for the tuition increase, who participated in negotiations
always holding back a full revela- with Smith.
tion of the figures on the basis of "I didn't really trust him," Ef-
various "contingencies." fron says. "His atitude was a lot
When the tuition increase proved less compromising toward us thanI
excessive, Smith, Fleming and Fleming's. I didn't get the feeling
Pierpont virtually divided the we had any impact."
extras by fiat, sidestepping the
Budget Priorities Committee, the SMITH, SHE SAYS, "didn't seem
only body that through student to be very interested in our prob-
representation could logically have lems."
added student input to the decision. But Smith insists that the admin-
However, Smith attributes Stu- istration followed the correct course
dent distrust of the administra- in preparing its fee schedule. "If
tion's handling of the hike to "an I were faced again with the situa-
inevitable visceral reaction to tion of last August, I'd make the
power-'there must be something same decision," he says.
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go to college without worrying~ ,
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