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Show Letter to the Editor Students awake Editor: Upon reentering the University Graduate School after 12 years interim since undergraduate days, I was astonished at the growth that has taken place on the campus. cam-pus. New buildings, walkways and fountains had sprung up everywhere. every-where. Not only new buildings but a whole new generation of turned on, tuned in, really hip students. Feelings about national and international affairs was high and very vocal. Organizations such as Women's Lib, S.D.S., and Cezar Chavez Groups could be spotted all over the Union. It has been very encouraging to this student who grew up in the sleepy, hypnotized Eisenhower Era to see how active and really concerned todays students stu-dents are. Even with the rising cost of university education most students manage to get loans, grants-in-aid, scholarships or work part time for their education. I salute the University of Utah student stu-dent body and all of its allied organizations. Dana L. Wodtke Image counts Editor: ASUU primary elections proved that personality of the presiden tial candidate is what counts. When voting for the assembly, a candidate associating his name with presidential candidate was a reflection of how his presidential candidate did in his college. Of course, if the presidential candidate candi-date did poorly, the assembly candidate also showed poorly. But he could rejoice in the streets if his presidential hopeful made it though. Just like "Hot Pants," "Slating" is the "in thing." But what happened to the independent? inde-pendent? Disaster. To be unaffiliated unaffil-iated with a party was to confess that you had small pox, for the independent hardly made a showing. show-ing. People not knowing candidates candi-dates figured anyone not on a slate was not with it, and therefore there-fore not qualified for the assembly. assem-bly. Whether this argument is true or not, there are very few orginal true independents on the final ballot. What hope does an independent inde-pendent have against the mighty slate? None unless students realize that those on slates are not models mod-els of the presidential candidates, being equally good or bad as their party image. We urge the studentbody to vote for individuals on their own qualifications, not for the image of the slate. There still are a few qualified people who have not joined a slate, and who are running run-ning independent. Dean W. Carver Susan Olson Report corrected Editor: The Chronicle for Feb. 11 has made several errors in reporting my statement on tenure and academic aca-demic freedom at an AAUP luncheon. lunch-eon. I am anxious to correct two of these errors. I was quoted as saying with respect to academic freedom, "It is seen as a responsibility placed by society on the community when in actuality it is a privilege." What I said was just the opposite- that whereas academic freedom is often regarded as a faculty privilege, it is in fact a responsibility responsi-bility placed upon a University by the community. Its protection is important not simply to the University, Uni-versity, but to the total community commun-ity which the University serves. Another point: The case mentioned men-tioned of the administration not accepting a department's decision on dropping a faculty member did not result in the administration reversing the departmental position, posi-tion, as the article suggests, but rather in supporting it. Contrary to the implication of the Chronicle's Chroni-cle's report, the administration action supported the department in dropping the non-tenured instructor. in-structor. My point was that in this case the administration erred in becoming involved in an appeal beyond the department and dean of the college. Sterling M. McMurrin |