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              LOYOLA MAROON VOL. XLVI Loyola University, New Orleans, La., 701 18, Friday, February 6, 1970 No. 16 Rev. Jolley hits actions of senators In an open letter to Dennis Rousseau, Chairman of the University Senate, The Very Rev. President Homer R. Jolley S.J., last Friday criticized the Senate's official conduct in its metting of January 1 5. At that inetting the Senate voted to censure the Rev. Thomas H. Clancy S.j., vice president for academic affairs and asked the Board of Directors to remove Dr. Frank Crabtree as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Additionally, the Senate requested that the Board of Directors accept the Senate's Document of Faculty Rights and Responsibilities as the ranking document where it conflicted with Father Clancy's Faculty Handbook. In his letter, Father Jolley said that by appealing directly to the Board of Directors the Senate had setablished „a most dangerous precedent which impaors my authority" and that their actions implied that he was unwilling to hear their grievances. Father Jolley's letter stated that while he was "seriously concerned about many things that went on at the emergency metting of the Senate," he was not rejecting the idea of faculty participation and "faculty-ad ministration-student dialogue." In order to strengthen the Election needed The Very Rev. President Homer R. Jolley S. J., has announced that he will wait until a permanent vice president for academic affairs is named before a permanent successor to Dr. Frank Crabtree can be chosen as dean of A&S. What this move seems to indicate is that the new vice president will appoint the new dean. The situation was the same a year ago on Mardi Gras Monday when, for all practical purposes, Dr. Crabtree was chosen by the Rev. Thomas Clancy S.J., vice president for academic affairs, and then "ratified" at a hastily called meeting of the A&S faculty. The University Senate representing the entire faculty recently became tired of such action and said so in the form of motions against both Dr. Crabtree and Father Clancy. It is highly unlikely that members of the Senate, members of the faculty in general or students wish a recurrence of the events of the past few weeks. The Maroon believes that the next dean of the College of Arts and Sciences should be appointed by the students and faculty of that college. The authority should come from the students to the administration and not vice versa as has been the case in the past. We believe that a general election would give the students too much of a vote since there are about 13 times as many students as faculty members in A&S. However, we do feel that equal representation of both student and faculty is desirable. The Student Council, as the present representative body of the students, should appoint three students to meet with a like number of appointees from the faculty of A&S, as chosen by the Senate. ■ This body would then interview prospective candidates for the position of dean and select the person An editorial that could lead the college as it should be led in their eyes. Once this body had decided upon the person for the job, we would ask that Father Jolley approve the appointment just as he had approved the appointment when it was made by the vice president. In other words, the decision of the student-faculty body would be final, save for a referendum vote by the students and faculty of A&S that would override the decision of the six-member body. The relatively new idea that students may have something to contribute to the decision-making process of a university may be upsetting to some administrators simply because it is relatively new. However, we believe that students have exhibited on numerous occassions this year they are capable of helping the university. lo date, however, the students' role has been only an advisory one. We see decision-making in the university community as part of the educational process. We believe as Loyola enters its present state of change the authority should be coming more and more from the bottom up. A student was on the Search Committee that named the candidates for the vice presidency more students should have been included then and more student authority should be given or taken now. The naming of the A&S dean is an ideal situation for students to have a hand in administering the university. Other colleges of the university should have the same perogative when a new dean is required. But this is when the precedent must be set. A dean who comes from the students and faculty to the administration should better be able to speak to the administration from the student-faculty point of view, and not to the students and faculty from the administration point of view, as has been the case previously. SC names more students to search committee Acting dean addresses group The" Student ~Touncir this week nominated nine students to sit on university boards and committees, including the recently revamped search committee for a new academic vice president. At the meeting, the Rev. Joseph Tetlow, S.J., newly appointed dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, made his first official statement before students, praising the work of the Council and urging it to "generate fresh ideas." He said he felt that Council's request that the search committee be expanded to give students an equal voice with faculty and administrative committeemen was an example of the fresh thinking to which he was referring. Last week the Council requested that the committee, which had been composed of three faculty, three administrators and a single student be restructured with the addition of two j more students. Tuesday, Council president Bill Guste announced that the Very Rev. President Homer R. Jolley, S.J., had agreed to the Council request and would pick the two additional students from a list of four nominees submitted by the Council. Voting by secret ballot, the Council nominated Dan Sheehan, BA senior, Louis Biondolillo of the Evening Division, F.dgar Chase, BA junior and Ann Donnelly, A&S junior. 0 The Council also nominated two students to the Board of Appeals and three to the Board Communications. The nominees for the appeals board were Ralph Adamo, A&S senior, and Clem Kennington, a law student and not a member of the Council. The Council also nominated Danny Hynes, A&S sophomore, Pat O'Keefe, A&S sophomore, and Joe Meng, A&S freshman for membership on the Board of Communications. COUNCIL PRAISED In his talk before the Council, Father Tetlow addressed the group as "the oldest democratic institution within the university," having a history "full of honor." "We are in the course of becoming a notable university," he said, "but we lack a generation of fresh ideas from the bottom up." While praising several members of the University administration, Father Tetlow cautioned the Council that without student help any administration's efforts are hampered. He urged to the group "to pressure deans with fresh ideas and innovations." "I would ask you to allay suspicions that you are a button and peanuts group," he said. "You are not." Father Tetlow also indicated that he intended to meet from time to time with the A&S representatives of the Council "to keep information and commitments coming into the faculty." Father Tetlow sees need to restate aims of A&S By MIKE LANGE (Maroon Kditor) The Rev. Joseph Tetlow, S.J.. led a peace movement earlier this year at Loyola. Now, as the newly appointed acting dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, he "must search for peace agaiir. The Very Rev. President Homer R. Jolley, S.J., appointed Father Tetlow to the position last Friday after accepting Dr. Frank Crabtree's resignation from the deanship. He has wasted little time in his effort to redirect A&S. He has called a Curriculum Committee meeting for today and has said that he hopes to start carrying out some of the programs initiated by Dr. Crabtree. He said the agenda of this meeting will include the report of the sub committee of the core curriculum, plus a discussion of the religious studies, university fellows, honors and American studies programs. Father Tetlow, an assistant professor of history, said the progress made by the A&S faculty in these areas indicates that the colleges' faculty is capable of working together. He sees this as a possible solution to the negative attitude which he seems to think is present in A&S currently. "Certainly something has to be done to give the faculty of A&S some purpose other than destructive purposes," he said. He was referring to the action taken by the University Senate, the official representative body of the faculty, at a Jan. 15 meeting. There were motions by faculty members from A&S at that meeting to have Dr. Crabtree removed from office and to condemn "procedural misusage" by the Rev. Thomas Clancy, S.J., vice president for academic affairs. RESTATE POSITIVE AIMS "What that meeting was called for. . .was to tear down that was its stated purpose." Father Tetlow said. "1 don't see how a university can run for long on merely negative purposes. "I'm not leveling criticism at anybody, I'm not saying that they should not have done what they did or anything. All I'm saying is that right now A&S does not feel any real, positive purpose, it seeems to me. "Maybe the college does, " he continued. "I feel that we have to restate the positive aims we have. . . .We have been moving in an excellent way. We have set up one program already this year, the other one has already been accepted by the Curriculum Committee, and the cooperation on both was very good. The cooperation among the faculty in general was very good." He cited interest thai has been shown in the religious studies program, which the Rev. Patrick Phillips, S.J., established, the American studies program, the honors program and the university fellows program. "We already have recruited quite a number of people for next year," Father Tetlow said, "and many of them seeem quite exciting. So there is a tone to A&S which has been under a cloud because of the action that has been taken (by the Senate)." "Yes, there is a problem," he said, "but I think the problem can be solved. All we have to do is remind ourselves of what we are really doing. I don't think it's going to be any trouble." NOR EDITORSHIP Father Tetlow, who was appointed interim editor of the New Orleans Review in December, said he plans to continue in that position and that he sees no major problems. "I've talked with Mr. (Ralph 1.1 Bell (NOR Associated editor) and Dr. (John W.) Corrington. and from my lirsl day as editor we have worked together very closely. In fact Mr. Bell and I talked before I accepted the position (as editor) and we both lelt very strongly that there would have to be real cooperation. And I felt that Dr. Corrington as editor-at-large should be much in on the counsel of how the magazine is going. These men are editors-Mr. Leonard White is the art editor and we have often asked him to the office to talk about we're doing. The magazine is really being run by the editors," he said. TOO EARLY TO SAY' Father Tetlow said it was "too early to say" whether he would like to continue as dean or not. "It depends on what I can do, how effective I am, how much the ideas I have and the convictions I feel find resonance in the faculty. "My conception of the deanship is that dean has to always know what the faculty as a whole is thinking or what determinations it's coming to, and what its convictions are," he said. He added that there are not many convictions held in common and that most lie under the surface. He cited interdisciplinary courses as an example of a progressive idea that had been initiated but that had not been brought to light as such. In his eyes, it would be the job of a dean to bring such things to light. "His (the dean's) funtion, it seems to me is a service function. And I think that I have to find out whether what I think about liberal education my convictions-find resonance in the faculty or, to put it another way, whether I can resonate their ideas and pull things along. If I can't, well then 1 don't want to go on. "There are several other things that I am very interested in, and would be very happy to continue doing. 1 have no ambition for office. No ambition for office. I assert that flatly." He said he did not know whether it would be feasible to have the next dean of A&S elected by the students and faculty of that college, but added "I was a little bit closer to certainity before the action of the Senate. VICE PRESIDENCY Father Tetlow would not say whether or not he had been interviewed by the Search Committee, which has been commissioned by Father Jolley to find a permanent vice president for academic affairs to replace Father Clancy. "I have no more ambition for office than I have for teaching nine hours of English or history and writing or editing the Review. I have no ambitions for office," he reiterated. "If it is decided by the corporation that 1 would be useful in a position and I decided that I would be useful, then I will take it as 1 did this. But otherwise not," he said. FATHER JOSEPH TETLOW Rev. Tetlow selected as acting dean By MIKE LANGE and GARY ATKINS (Maroon Kditor) (Maroon Associate Editor) The Rev. Joseph Tetlow, S. J., was appointed dean of the College of Arts and Sciences last week — without the prior approval of the academic vice president. Though the academic vice president usually appoints deans, Father Tetlow was appointed by the university president while the Rev. Thomas H. Clancy, S.J., vice president for academic affairs, was out of tOwn. The Very Rev. President Homer R. Jolley, S.J., said he was exercising his executive authority "in an extraordinary way" when he accepted the resignation of Dr. Frank Crabtree and appointed Father Tetlow to the deanship. Father Clancy, who had left town only a few hours before Father Jolley made the appointment, said the action was taken without his knowledge. Father Clancy had refused to accept Dr. Crabtree's resignation three days earlier. Father Jolley said in an interview that it was within his power to appoint the dean though it was not the usual procedure for him to do so. He said that last week was the first time that Dr. Crabtree's offer to resign had gotten directly to him,though he knew of Dr. Crabtree's offer to Father Clancy to resign. Father Jolley said he had backed Father Clancy's decision not to accept Dr. Crabtree's earlier resignation. However, Thursday, Jan. 29, Father Jolley accepted the resignation naming Father Tetlow acting dean. RESIGNATION ACCEPTED In announcing his acceptance of Dr. Crabtree's resignation, Father Jolley , said, "beginning some months ago, Dr. Crabtree has offered his resignation several times for personal reasons concerning his health and the welfare of his family. It was not accepted. These personal reasons for resigning have become more urgent in the recent disorders caused by the actions of some members of the University Senate. I have, myself, therefore, seen fit to accept his resignation. I do so with great reluctance." The Senate, three weeks ago, asked the university Board of Directors to remove Dr. Crabtree from office for what it said were violations of academic procedure. Asked why he had decided to accept Dr. Crabtree's resignation Thursday and not before, Father Jolley said, "The words (in the statement) speak for themselves." Father Clancy said he had been consulted about the matter before Father Jolley acted, but that the appointment of Father Tetlow when it was finally made, was made without his knowledge. K Father Clancy would not say if, after consultation, he had agreed to Father Tetlow's appointment. "If I'd gone along," he said, "I'd have signed the letter." The letter, signed by Father Jolley, was released early last Friday morning. Father Clancy said he arrived back j( in town Sunday and had not discussed tha matter fully with the president yet. Asked if he had supported the action now that it had been taken, Father Clancy said, "I can't say that until I talk with Father Jolley." Asked about how Father Jolley's action affected his own position and power as academic vice president, Father Clancy said only that he "will make a statement at an appropriate time after I talk to Father Jolley." Father Jolley said in an interview Tuesday he appointed Father Tetlow "because I thought he was the best man for the job as acting dean." He said he did not chose Dr. John Mosier, who has been assistant dean of A&S since September, because, as he put it, "I chose Father Tetlow." Father Tetlow shall remain in office until Father Jolley appoints the permanent academic vice president, according to the statement. He said he saw no particular significance in the fact that a Jesuit was appointed to fill a vacancy in the administration left by a layman. "This FATHER HOMER JOLLEY (continued on page 3) — — ..... • "; — ...» — 'continued on page seven)