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Show Lawsuit Causes Concern Dean Shuns Comment By SANDRA TELFORD Chronicle Political Editor In a "Chronicle" interview concerning Michael Smith, the University student sueing Dr. James E. Cole, Miss Wilberta Moore, and Mr. Glenn I. Latham for persuading the University to expel him, Dr. Boyer Jarvis, Dean of the Summer School, said the University Uni-versity has a tremendous interest in this case. "THE UNIVERSITY," Dean Jarvis said, "is an almost impossible impos-sible situation, but we are in no position to comment on this specific case before it goes to court." Speaking generally, Dean Jarvis said that if a professor for "capricious, irrevelant reasons fails a student, then that student justifiably should request the University or college for some redress of his grievances." HE SAID a student should first see the professor, then the head of the department to request a review of the problem. If he is not satisfied with the decision deci-sion then, the student should see the assistant to the President. Presi-dent. Dean Jarvis spoke of an engineering engi-neering student who was having problems completing the 1963 state law demonstrating a reasonable rea-sonable understanding of the history, form of government and economic system of the United States. THIS STUDENT had taken the state test and failed. He did not have time before he was to graduate to take History 6 or one of the other courses that would fill the requirement. He had appealed to the petitions peti-tions council and been dismissed. Not satisfied with this decision, the engineering student appealed to the President of the University. Universi-ty. SINCE President Olpin, president pres-ident at that time, did not have enough time to spend with the student, Dean Jarvis handled it. Although the decision went against him, Dean Jarvis said, the student was satisfied. Dean Jarvis expressed the opinion that if a student did not get along with a professor in a department, a professor that he would have to take many classes from, then the best thing for that student to do, would be to change his major. "THAT WAS what I did, when I was in college at the Uni- (Continued on Page 3) Legal Battle Ensues (Continued from Page 1) versity of Arizona. I guess under un-der certain rights I could have asked the Sociology Department to bring in another professor for me, but that would have been a little silly." The "Chronicle" interviewer asked Dean Jarvis if the instructor instruc-tor in a class had the final decision deci-sion as to who was to be in a class. "A PROFESSOR,'' Dean Jarvis said, "has the right to expel a student whose presence makes it impossible for him to teach. Instructors In-structors are human beings." |