Show THE STUDENT LIFE PAGE FOUR ( Publications Board Names Olsen Nelson To Staff Positions Local Scribe Wonders Whether Board Should Resign Instead 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 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 meeting and zigzags out of a closed-dostrikes the president of Utah State or Agri-cultur- al college These are wartimes and colleges are time bridging the gap a student next year and has been having prettyoftough to the next sanity active on both the Buzzer and from one era But in the midst of these trying times Student Life throughout her first some man or a group of men shoots a shaft two years at Utah State at the heart of Utah State They bandy imRenewing her position as business editor of the' Student Life is portant decisions about as if those decisions Dorothy Jeanne Nelson She has involved nothing more than whether they also been active in publications and should go fishing June 15 or June 17 Not proved herself worthy of reaponly do they hammer upon the foundations her of present because pointment of a fine institution that has been more than business Assistant work year’s in development but they a managers to both staffs will be swing their hammers at a particularly inopmade in the near future portune time so far as the institutions web is concerned Peterson Establishes fareFurthermore they lacerate— apparently Brilliant Record without adequate reason— a fine personality has conscientiously and brilliantly servAs College President who for 28 ed the U S A C as its In examining the record of the of his life Without presidenteven to years catabothering college during the 28 years it has log their charges or formally explain their been under President E' G Peterreasons for wanting Dr E G Peterson’s son the casual observer is surprised by the progress that he resignation they carelessly give the order: “You must go” finds Building on the substantial And then in adolescent clumsiness they foundation created by his preattempt to keep their infamous action a decessors President Peterson with secret the aid of an excellent faculty The Utah State Agricultural college has wise board members and a vital student body has created an been hurt by its board of trustees’ action of May 15 The state of Utah has certainly institution of unquestioned status The college has grown in every not been benefited The current state adphysically scholastically ministration is getting a good deal of the way and with a fine statewide influblame from thousands of indignant citizens ence When President Peterson who suspect that some political boondoggling there is behind accepted the presidency the deal Logan will feel the ill were 640 college students with 235 effects for seasons to come The board of special students most of them trustees certainly has earned an ungallant with a high school status At the And Dr Peterson a prominent peak of enrollment there were reputation figure in national educational circles a man 3393 students This was in 1939-4- 0 It was found in college records who has been so vitally concerned with the that the USAC drew more students welfare of the institution he serves has been from the counties of the 'state outgiven an unceremonious kick in the pants side of the home county of any for his devoted efforts! particular institution than any Undoubtedly statewide reaction to the other college or university in Utah ouster is one of indignation and protest not Through the history of the colonly against the board’s request for Dr lege to the present year 6590 stubut against the dents have graduated Of this Peterson’s resignation ignoble manner in which it was planned and number 6040 of them have graduated since President Peterson executed According to Governor Herbert became head of the college The B Maw not even he knew of the action excellent record of the graduates until some time after the foul deed had been cannot be duplicated by any other perpetrated land-gracollege in western People in the state are becoming sick of America They have proved emhaving official decisions which concern them inently successful in every field and their institutions and their tax monies and recent graduates are demonsecret from them They are tired of strating a quality in the armed kept the hedging and dodging in high places services Particularly are they nauseated with the half-centu- ry nt Scribble Makes Hit In Campus Debut USAC affair After weighing the stated though 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 student the Scribble contains 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 un- official 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 should go and Dr Peterson should stay Courtesy Herald-Journ- Another Editorial Describes The Whole Vague Situation What is wrong with Utah’s higher in- stitutions 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 b State Agricultural college The at Logan exploded when th° planted board of trustees of the agricultural time-bom- college announced that Dr E son president of the college G Peterhad been asked to resign Like the recent flafeup at the state university this newT 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 thq blame on the institutions themselves is obviously unfair Their governing bodies the regents and the trustees are at fault and to go back a step farther the state administration to which they are responsible must also bear its share of censure The method employed by the college board of trustees is particularly deplorable In this case the request for 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 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 indicates 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 state so admirably that the loss of yo vision and leadership as head of the ins tution would be no less than a calamil not only to the college its faculty a students but to the people of the st£ as a whole” There is no known reason why the sc timents expressed in that resolution cs not be indorsed by every resident a taxpayer of the state When a man hoi an important position for 28 years wi the confidence of the closest to him and for whose advanceme he labors the trivial objections offer his against continuance in the good wo certainly smell of personal animus or P litical chicanery The situation calls for thorough and prompt investigation a housecleaning by the governor ever-increasi- ng Courtesy Salt Lake Tribune al ( 3 - — I 1 - i w nciz-TO- I |