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              loyola maroon Vol. XLVII Loyola University, New Orleans, La., 70118, Friday, September 18,1970 No. 3 A & S dean proposes five new committees Proposals for the formation of five advisory bodies for the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) are about to be submitted to the of that college, according to the Rev. Joseph Tetlow, S.J., A&S dean. The committees include a Rank and Tenure Committee, a Conciliation Committee, a Committee on Procedures, a Committee on Innovation and a Faculty Council. The general purpose of the committees, he said Tuesday, will be "to codify and put order in the faculty's responsibility within the college," and to provide a mechanism for forwarding faculty opinion and advice to the dean. Currently, the University Senate serves a similar purpose on the university level, but no similar mechanism exists in A&S except the Curriculum Committee, which advice the dean on matters of curriculum and course content. According to Father Tetlow, the committees will be composed primarily of faculty, with some students serving on two of the bodies. With a few exceptions, he said, committee members will be elected. Father Tetlow said he would schedule a meeting of the college faculty as soon as the Curriculum Committee which has developed the proposals, feels that they are ready for presentaion. At this meeting, he said, the faculty will vote on the general feasibility of the proposed committees. Foiiowing that, a second faculty meeting will be convened to conduct a closer examination of the proposed structures and procedures. Finally, said Father Tetlow, a third meeting will be held, probably near the end of the fall semester, to elect faculty members to the appropriate committees. In addition to the faculty committeemen, students will serve on the Conciliation Committee and the Committee on Innovation. According to Father Tetlow, the Curriculum Committee has not yet determined the method for selecting student members. "You almost never get real representation when you hold a general election of students," he said, "so perhaps the best thing to do would be to have the Student Council A&S representatives elect them. At least there you have a good cross section of college representation." As proposed by the Curriculum Committee, the Consiliation Committee will be composed of four tenured faculty, four untenured faculty and two students. The Conciliation Committee would serve as the college's highest board in the resolution of conflicts which are now ultimately settled by the dean. According to Father Tetlow, the committee would mediate-usually in academic cases—only as a 'ast resort. He said these disputes might involve anything from conflicts over grade changes to complaints that faculty or administrators are not implementing particular policies. The Committee on Procedures would be established to perform two main functions: to supervise elections and to safeguard the operation of "due process" within the college. Because questions involving procedures and due precess are usually complex and of a technical nature, said Father Tetlow, the Curriculum Committee would probably recommend that the procedures body be composed entirely of faculty-two tenured and one untenured. The Innovations Committee, he said, would "attempt to gather up the hundreds of thousands of ideas generated each year by faculty and students and sift through them." "The idea could involve a way of plugging in the Department of Communications with another department or a new way working the computer in with another department. They might come up with a new way of academic adivising," said Father Tetlow. "I'd kiss them on both cheeks if they did." The committee, he said, would be composed of one student, a faculty member chosen by the Curriculum Committee and another chosen by the Faculty Council. A fourth member, who might be either a student or faculty member, is to be selected by the dean. The fourth proposed body, the Faculty Council, is also recommended for the college by the Council for Academic Planning (CAP). In its report to the Board of Directors, the CAP refers to it as the Dean's Council and suggests that it function as a steering committee, cabinet and docket committee. Finally, Father Tetlow will propose an elected rank and tenure committee to superceed the appointed body now serving the college. Father Tetlow denied that the establishment of the committees marked a major administrative shift toward decentralizing of decision making within the college. Instead, he said, the proposals merely "formalized" such a policy that had been developing informally for some time. "I think this just finishes the job," he said. "Some of the decisions I made last year were unpopular and some of the faculty thought that I had just spun them out of my head. That's not so. They were made with extensive consultation with many members of the faculty, but the consultaions were invisible. These committees will legitimize-put the stamp of approval on-decisions. They will close the legitimacy gap," he said. The policies proposed by the committees should not have any fundamental effects on the character of the college, according to Father Tetlow. But even so, he said that he would have to submit the matter of their formation to the Board of Directors for their approval. "However," he said, "I don't expect any difficulties there." "In the past," Father Tetlow said, "the characte;of the college has been-what's the right word-unexpressed. With these committees we can make the whole process a lot clearer." R & T information sent to Directors The Tom Blouin case may be reopened again due to new information submitted by a faculty committee yesterday to the Board of Directors. The new information is in support of the committee's claim that Blouin may have been fired in violation of academic freedom. The University Senate Rank and Tenure Committee which studied the Blouin case over the summer ruled that the popular English instructor had tenure and stated that Blouin had "established a prima facie case that considerations violative of academic freedom significantly contributed to the decision not to reappoint him." Blouin's services were terminated last semester by the university despite the protest of some faculty and students. While the Board of Directors rejected the committee's findings, the statement on possible academic freedom violation may cause the case to be reopened in the form of a full adversary proceeding. When questioned earlier in the week, Janet Riley, chairman of the Rank and Tenure Committee, mentioned that Father Carter had asked the committee some specific questions. "We are preparing our reply," she said, "which we will send to Father Carter this week." CLARIFICATION  Last week, the Maroon quoted the Rev. James C. Carter, S.J., vice president for academic affairs, as saying that a charge that an English instructor, Tom Blouin, had been fired in possible violation of academic freedom was "the sourse of some embarrassment." The implication was that the charge was embarrassing to the university administration. Father Carter said this week it was embarrassing to the faculty committe;; that made the charge, not the administration, since the committee had initially failed to present evidence in support of its charge. CAP report completed 'Developing and maintaining distinctive community of scholars' By BRUCE NOLAN Maroon Managing Editor Loyola's Council for Academic Planning (CAP) rounded out 18 months of work and study by more than a hundred students, faculty and administrators this week by endorsing its preliminary 65-page report to the university. Additions and minor revisions to the report are still pending, including the development of a more thorough section on financial projections. Researched and compiled with the assistance of the consulting firm of Cresap, McCormack and Paget, Inc., and carrying an price tag of several thousand dollars, the report outlines a long range academic plan for Loyola through 1980 Highlights of the plan, which was to be forwarded to the Board of Directors at their meeting yesterday include: — Proposed construction of a multipurpose building to replace the Loyola Field House. The building would include parking for at least one thousand cars. — Proposed construction of a general purpose classroom building; -Formation of a College of Fine Arts and Communications and construction of a complex to house the new college; -A proposal for a major policy decision to hold the line on the formation of new graduate study programs. In addition to sending the preliminary plan to the board, the council passed a motion asking the board to authorize formation of a standing Council on Academic Planning. The motion also asked that the board establish a permanent information gathering agency to conduct full time research for the standing council. According to the Rev. James C. Carter, S.J., vice president for academic affairs and chairman of the CAP, the standing council if approved by the board, would make annual readjustments in the long range academic plan based on five-year projections. "Other universities' experience with this sort of planning," he said, "tends to show that as soon as the work is completed things begin becoming obsolete. Projected sources of revenue sometimes don't come around, or new instructional techniques are introduced-and if you haven't got some sort of permanent body continually updating your plan you can wind up in trouble." CAP procedures do not call for the board to express any formal approval Excerpts from CAP report on pages 4 and 5. or disapproval of the plan. Instead, says Father Carter, the board will probably accept the report in its entirety, decide which proposals can or ought to be carried out in terms of current and expected revenues, then issue the appropriate orders for implementation. However, Father Carter said that the board was generally pleased with the CAP's work. During the summer he presented the board with a preliminary digest of the information now contained in the final report and found then thai they were "encouraged" by the council's roilgh outline of the academic plan. The report, which Father Carter presented to the board yesterday, represents the result of a year and a half of work by more than a dozen major committees. Established in April of 1969 by the former president, the Very Rev. Homer R. JoUey, S.J., the CAP was the second part of a joint study that included not only the formulation of a long range academic plan, but an evaluation of the university's administrative organization. The administrative phase of the study was completed last year. Working with the guidance of rpresentatives of Cresap, McCormack and Paget, Inc., the CAP-which is composed of 15 students, faculty and administrators-commissioned "ad hoc" committees to study various aspects of university life. (continued on page 6) Method for selecting A&S dean to be decided with faculty consultation The Rev. James C. Carter S.J., vice-president for academic affairs, plans to consult the faculty of the Collge of Arts and Sciences (A&S) before deciding on a method of selecting a permanent dean. Currently, the Rev. Joseph Tetlow S.J., is serving as acting dean for A&S. He was appointed to a position following the resignation last January of the former dean, Dr. Frank Crabtree. Father Carter siad that he has no definite ideas yet about making the appointment in the immediate future. He said that he has not been receiving a great deal of pressure from any group on campus to make the appointment right away. In an interview last week, Father Carter told the Maroon that the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) handbook procedure for appointing deans includes the acquiring consent of an assembly of the faculty of the college. Besides having the apporval of the faculty of his college, says the AAUP, the appointed dean should be approved by the deans of the other colleges since he will have to work closely with them. According to Father Carter, the dean of A&S should also be able to work closely with he academic vice-president. Unless the dean has the full trust of the vice-president, the vice-president will have to pend too much time checking up on the college, he said. When asked about the possibility that Father Tetlow might be appointed permanent dean, Father Carter said that it is within the realm of possibility, but by no means definite. "I rely heavily on Father Tetlow and he is quite acceptable to me," he stated, "and I know Father Kennelly feels the same way." Father Carter stressed, however, that unless the dean is acceptable to the college faculty, the appointment would be useless in that the new dean would be unable to work effectively. The academic vice-president mentioned that he wished to avoid the controversy that surrounded the appointment of Dr. Crabtree in 1969. Rev. Thomas H. Clancy, the former academic vice-president, was charged by some members of the A&S faculty, with having "railroaded" Dr. Crabtree into office at a hastily called faculty meeting on a university holiday. On that so-called "Mardi Gras Monday," Father Clancy asked an assembly of the A&S faculty to approve the appointment of Dr. Crabtree. Many faculty later charged that they had not been given enough time to consider the appointment. Father Carter noted that since 1965 there has been a succession of deans in the College of Arts and Sciences. He said he would like to reintroduce a measure of stability to the deanship, because a more continuous leadership would help the college. THE REV. JOSEPH A. TETLOW and THE REV. JAMES C. CARTER New members recruited during Union Week Student Union Week ended successfully last Friday with some 75 new members being recruited into the various committees of the organization. Bill Weaver, president of the Student Union said the union members were very pleased to have so many new people willing to help make the union a better place for their fellow Loyola students. The various events sponsored by the union drew large crowds and were termied successful on the whole by committee members involved. In the annual "Ride and Chug" contest, Phi Kappa Theta social fraternity won over Alpha Delta Gamma in the final run. That same afternoon over 500 students listened and danced to the music of "Color" at the TGIF held in the Danna Center. The Student Union was fortunate in that there were few expenses involved with last week's events. The Dance Entertainment Committee spent $100 on the band for the TGIF while other minor expenses were split among union committees. Interviews were held Saturday placing new members on their desired committees. The Hospitality and Dance Entertainment Committees took the most members as they need more people to serve. Wednesday night.' a convocation was held tor Student Union members where plans for ihe year were discussed and new members were able to meet the present committee members. The Student Union will be busy this semester sponsoring such events as "The Boat Dance" to be held October 23 and Homecoming on December 5. The union will also sponsor a famous hypnotist, The Baron, who will appear in the Wolf Pub in the near future and TGIF will be held once each month during the school year. WARMING UP AT THE TGIF