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Show titration's 'stSiTibrat justified bv actions ..,hninC.Sturges . campus secur.ty. In point of fart. rw . . JUOIIIIGU UV QULIU o comm.ttee which last year developed an Appeals Board to near student complaints, gat,f them' and make recommendations to the President when redress seems necessary. Adopted Statement And last year the Academic freedom and Tenure committee spearheaded a successful move (Perhaps the first in the United states) to get the Board of Regents to incorporate the full statement of academic freedom tor students, formulated by the American Association of University Professors, into the official University Regulations. Now, none of this has been forced upon the "administration." Often it has suggested these changes. I am sure that I will be accused by some, as Dr. Charles Monson was last year, of "whistling in the dark," of blithely assuming that window-dressing pretenses to democratic processes can really prevent student unrest or lead to actual change. To this I reply that the evolving machinery deserves a chance. J " w v rr simply because the University deserves a chance. If the administration then behaves like a separate, inflexible entity, I will join you in cracking its hard old bones. But a shallow thinking which builds a bogey man and then violently attempts to destroy him is really indulging in nihilism. Play Central Role A very attractive, albeit maligned, political candidate of the Peace and Freedom party for United States senator from Utah said over Channel Seven not lon ago that he did not fear unemployment, but rather hoped for the day when men would capitalize on the leisure that technology can bring them and spend more time in continued learning. In such a Utopia the universities would play the central role, Bruce Phillips felt. I share his dream. Of course, the University would have to change a great deai, but it can and will change most effectively if free, democratic dialogue continues to grow between students and faculty-including that portion of the faculty labeled "administration." campus security. In point of fact little of such stereotyping is justified. It has to be said in fairness, that students have more excuse for leaping to such conclusions than many faculty members who fall into precisely the same errors. After all an individual student is here for only a few years and seldom knows what has been happening to the University's decision-making processes and to the people who make those decisions. Principles Remained Intact The story has never really been published. It began some years ago with the efforts of one of the most earnest crusaders for faculty democracy that any university has ever produced, Dr. Jack Adamson, Department of English. He began as a rebel and ended as an administrator-an academic vice president--, but his principles remained intact. Dr. Adamson insisted on short-term rotation in office for department chairmen and for administrators of higher rank. Building on the precedents set by a few officers such as Dr. Sterling McMurrin, Prof. Adamson taught us all to regard membership in the teaching faculty as our continuing prime assignment. He materially speeded up the demise of any separate administrative class. And he himself soon returned to a full-time faculty status. Today no member of the academic administration, from the lowliest (like the chairman of the Department of History) to the provost regards h imsdf a! nythmg but a professor wiS temporary part-time administrative duties. All of them continue to teach. A few S Dean Al Cave, also continue to do research as well. 00 Must Be Full-Time That leaves the president. He has to be full-time, and the pressures of his job do not permit him to teach. At times he must wish that he were surrounded with equally committed lieutenants, but this University's system makes that condition impossible. Most of his Park Bldg. subordinates got r Jfbs because they were noisy and effective critics of University policy in Faculty Council or on various key committees. An inflexible president could not put up with them, nor could he prevent their resignations. At the same time that the Adamson view of the administrative role was being born, the Associated Students of the University of Utah (ASUU) machinery developed more and more student-faculty committees that could deal with important issues. B.I.T.C.H., for example, was led, with some dedicated faculty support, by a student, Russell Cressman, who ended up the following year on the Bookstore Advisory Board where he could hopefully start remedial measures in motion. Student pressures for better teaching and fairer treatment at professors' hands led to the establishment of PhiliD C. Sturges K Chairman of the fSent of History . r must confess to since passed that uritf m. o0 of which we hear l f Lwadays, I believe that I " Enough "morieS f ?y I: 0 e"hfui dreams and crusades me sympathy for yours, I ?nv felt the slightest 'hen have watched your 4 Sht for a voice in this 5s higher councils. I &ite7would never make the ' Also many citizens do , f0 assuming that your 0 6 It of hypocrisy and ossified 1 f tamoral-rather, I 5 the high sense of mora , J'je which prompts that ' Tntte all this only because I (t0 assure you that what I am 1 to say is not prompted by 'Sesire to defend "the s Hablishment" or the status quo. 1 w are yenrs of. tremendous le in the University t iiity: thank God they have come- Teiidency To Label There is, however, a tendency ii several editorials in this year's Chronicle (not to mention the Kent Pillar of Salt) and in mmments that I hear from many students to indulge in a kind of labeling which I can only regard as shallow and even dangerous. It seems innocuous enough to dassify the University's population into "students," "faculty" and administration." lie first two groupings are tons, but it is the third label (administration) that is most vulnerable to unfair stereotyping. To that label of "administration" are ascribed all kinds of inflexibilities and stubborn resistance to change, as nil as occasional motives to dominate even your newspaper or important student-faculty committees, notably the one recently appointed to investigate |