Show THE STUDENT LIFE PAGE FOUR "7J Publications Board Names Olsen Nelson To Staff Positions Recent announcements have been made by the publication council of the appointments of business managers for the coming year’s campus publications According to the council Marian Olsen has been selected to head the business staff of the 1944-4- 5 Buzzer Miss Olsen is a junior student next year and has been active on both the Buzzer and Student Life throughout her first two years at Utah State Renewing her position as business editor of the Student Life is Dorothy Jeanne Nelson She has also been active in publications and proved herself worthy of reap- pointment because of her present year’s work Assistant business managers to both staffs will he made in the near future Peterson Establishes Brilliant Record As College President examining the record of the college during the 28 years it has been under President E G Peterson the casual observer is surprised by the progress that he find Building on the substantial foundation created by his predecessors President Peterson with the aid of an excellent faculty wise board members and a vital student body has created an institution of unquestioned status The college has grown in every way physically scholastically and with a fine statewide influ- ence When President Peterson there accepted ) the presidency were 640 college students with 235 special students most of them with a high school status At the peak of enrollment there were 3393 students This was in 1939-4- 0 It was found in college records that the USAC drew more students from the counties of the state outside of the home county of any particular institution than any other college or university in Utah Through the history of the college to the present year 6590 students have graduated Of this number 6040 of them have graduated since President Peterson became head of the college The excellent record" of the graduates cannot be duplicated by any other land-gracollege in western America They have proved eminently successful in every field and recent graduates are demonstrating a quality in the armed services j nt Scribble Makes Hit In Campus Debut The Scribble campus literary publication was distributed this week to students of the college Editor of the successful publication is Ann Murdock who has worked together with Anna Theur-e- r to bring the Scribble into print Decorated with a cover done in shades of blue and designed by a the Scribble contains student some two dozen literary contributions by students of the campus both prose and poetry Copies are available in the main hall and will be presented to students holding student body cards rl -- & Local Scribe Wonders Whether Board Should Resign Instead At a time when the average college in America is struggling to maintain its faculty as' near intact as possible and a reasonably fat curriculum a figurative bolt of lightning zigzags out of a closeddoor meeting and-strikes the president of Utah State Agri cultural college These are wartimes and colleges are having a pretty tough time bridging the gap from one era of sanity to the next But in the midst of these trying times sofrie man or a group of men shoots a shaft at the heart of Utah State They bandy im -portant decisions about as if those decisions involved nothing more than whether they should go fishing June 15 or June 17 Not only do they hammer upon the foundations of a fine institution that has been more than but they in development a swing their hammers at a particularly inop' portune time so far as the institution s web fare is concerned Furthermore they lacerate— apparently without adequate reason— a fine personality who has conscientiously and brilliantly served the US ACas its president for 28 years of his life Without bothering even to catalog their charges or formally explain their reasons for wanting Dr E G Peterson's resignation they- - carelessly give the order: “You must go" And then in adolescent clumsiness they attempt to keep their infamous action a secret The Utah State Agricultural college has been hurt by its board of trustees' action of May 15 The state of Utah has certainly not been benefited The current state administration is getting a good deal of the blame from thousands of indignant citizens who suspect that some political boondoggling is behind the deal Logan will feel the ill effects for seasons to come The board of trustees certainly has earned an ungallant reputation And Dr Peterson a prominent figure in national educational circles a man who has been so vitally concerned with the welfare of the institution he serves has been given an unceremonious kick in the pants for his devoted effortsl Undoubtedly statewide reaction to the ouster is one of indignation and protest not only against the Loard's request for Dr Peterson's resignation but against the ignoble manner in which it was planned and executed According to Governor Herbert B Maw not even he knew of the action until some time after theToul deed had been perpetrated People in the state are becoming sick of having official decisions which concern them and their institutions and their tax monies kept secret from them They are tired of the hedging and dodging in high places Particularly are they nauseated with the half-centu- ry -- -- USAC affair After weighing the stated though unofficial reasons the board of trustees had for firing Dr Peterson against his record at the college— a record reflecting consistent growth of the institution— the normal citizen of Utah can come to no other conclusion than this: the board was ignobly and overwhelmingly wrong in its action If the board can not gracefully rescind its action— and it doesn't appear that it can —then every board member who voted 'in favor of ousting Dr Peterson should hand in his own resignation ! They shpuld go and Dr Peterson should stay Courtesy Herald-Journ- al ? Another Editorial Describes The Whole V ague Situation What is wrong with Utah's higher institutions of learning? No sooner does the tumult of internecine warfare subside on the University of Utah campus than a new outbreak is heard from the Utah State Agricultural college The time-bom- b planted at Logan exploded when the board of trustees of the agricultural college announced that Dr E G Peterson president of the college had been asked to resign Like the recent flareup at the state university this new occurrence is marked by extreme reticence — one might call it secrecy — on the part of the governing body as to the reasons lying behind its action Although the agricultural college is not seeking to establish an accredited status for any of its departments as was the case in the university dispute such as announcement will neither add repute to the institution nor foster confidence in the conduct of campus affairs But to lay the blame on the institutions themselves is obviously unfair Their governing bodies the regents and the trustees are at fault and to go back a 4 1 I 1 i i F r step farther the state administration to which they are responsible must also bear r its share of censure The method employed by the college board of trustees is par- ) ticularly deplorable In this case the request lor Dr Peterson's resignation was voted at a meeting held on May 15 and such secrecy was maintained that it is even claimed Governor Maw himself was not informed for several days Dr Peterson is one of the state's outstanding educators and has held the post of president of the college for 28 years No reason has been assigned for the board's summary action except for an unsubstantiated rumor that differences in opinion on the scope of the educational subjects taught at Logan caused the rift i The prompt reaction among members of the faculty and the student body who expressed confidence in Dr Peterson and indignation over the board's action indi- y cates emphatic disapproval of the mys- terious move At Logan the deans' council speaking for the college faculty denounced the ouster action and urged Dr Peterson to refuse to submit his resignation Furthermore their resolution said: Under your leadership the development of the institution in its various fields of endeavor has been so harminious and has met the expanding needs of the state so admirably that the loss of your vision and leadership as head of the institution would be no less than a calamity not only to the college its faculty and students bpt to the people of the state as a whole" There is no known reason why the sentiments expressed in that resolution cannot be indorsed by every resident and taxpayer of the state When a man holds an important position for 28 years with the confidence of those closest to him and for whose advancement he labors the trivial objections offered against his continuance in the good work certainly smell of personal animus or political chicanery The situation calls for a thorough and prompt investigation and housecleaning by the governor ever-increasi- -i f ng Courtesy Salt Lake Tribune I |