Page 14-Tuesday, March 14, 1978-The Michigan Daily CLARK TO APPEAL DECISION: C 0 N G R A T U L A T I 0 N S D.B. and R.I. A2 School Board fires teacher By MARGARET JOHNSON After five months of controversy, the Ann Arbor Board of Education, discharged Community High teacher Jerrel Clark in a six-to-two vote last Tuesday. The Board of Education concluded that Clark maintained an "un- professional relationship" with a 17- year-old male student and declared the relationship was cause for dismissal. DURING TESTIMONY, Clark and the student denied the Board's charges. The student's 14-year-old brother and a friend testified, however, that they saw Clark and the student engaged in an intimate embrace" last summer at the student's apartment.- The Board also unanimously dismissed charges that Clark kept a' female student over night at her house without informing the student's paren- ts. Among the spiders, the master weavers are the araneids, whose unique orb webs have distinctive car- twheel designs that often measure over a foot in diameter and are unsurpassed in delicacy. Their silk-spinning organs can produce threads of different thickness, as well as fibers that are sticky or dry. Voting in favor of the dismissal were school Board -President Wendy Barhydt, Vice-president John Heald and trustees Clarence Dukes, Cecil Warner, Peter Wright and Paul Weinhold. Trustees Kathleen Dan- nemiller and Mary Pence voted against dismissing Clark. Trustee Terry Martin who had not attended the hearings did not vote. "I DON'T THINK that the ad- ministration proved their case," said Pence. Weinhold disagreed however. "I felt the evidence supported the charges," he asserted. Larry Stewart, the president of the Ann Arbor Education Association was disappointed by what he called the board's "almost inevitable" decision. He said thecase will be appealed to the state Tenure Commission and said he thinks the decision will be reversed. STEWART MAINTAINS that the hearings were unfair and likens them to the Salem witch hunts. Weinhold, however, said "the Board has leaned over backwards to give due process." Barhydt backed him up saying, "The Board did everything possible to make it a fair hearing." Clark's attorney, Mike Moran, said he was "disappointed" by the decision. "I don't think there is any question that the board acted in an unfair way," he commented. MORAN ADDED that Clark was "disappointed and tired," He expressed concern that Clark, whose pay was terminated Wednesday, may have trouble supporting herself. "She is a fairly resourceful person and has lots of friends but she has a small child to sup- port," he said. Matt Mendel, a student at Com- munity"High who was instrumental in organizing student support for Clark said he wasn't surprised by the decision. "I'm hoping that they'll over- turn it," he said. Sean McClellan, another student at Community High School, agreed with Mendel. If the tenure commission is halfway intelligent they're going to throw it out," he said. McClellan added that the whole hearing process has had a bad affect on -- I f/. Clark Community High. "There's a very bad feeling about the school between students and staff." T I, ~2iZi The Office of Major Events Presents. \N Profs vote to keep open distribution plan -4 Concert JIMMY BUFFETl' -- And The CORAL REEFER BAN Ii, D Friday, March 24th 8:00 Pm-Hill Auditorium COLLEGE STUDENT STUDY PROGRAM:'At Hayim Greenberg College in Jerusalem for a semester or one year. Curriculum includes Hebrew Language, Literature, Bible, History, Educa- tion, Philosophy, Sociology, Talmud. Credits by leading uni- versities in the U.S. Also, tours, cultural and recreational programs. Scholarships available. UNIVERSITY SEMINARS: 6 weeks of study at Israeli universi- ties. 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