Show rr?2 c Aay y ' i Wl —7 fl n IK 3GC (Q The following excerpts are from a recorded interview with President Taggart discussing questions from policy to student entire interview Ralph Huntsinger "V Steve ' - 'V Seidman administrative relations The conducted by Miles Jensen and Wiedermann will be aired 7 Wednesday on KUSU '5' i '" ! ‘ V4" ' V' ' ' 'dl VnK ' "4 4 'ITO'-- t '"x -- r ' ' In the communications Eric pm gap between administration and students could more contact on a basis with students and on an official basis in making statements which the students know about be established? cae-to-e-ne ''' TAGGART: There has been an attempt on the part of the administration to meet with a number of different student I" FwHDUTT TAGGART feds that USU is not so large a uni-vczzl- ty thxt there cannot be much personal contact with the statists and their problems He discusses this and other issues with 'Life reporters ZJGyS CcojJ GO tool Cluub CCjjS AP — If certain medical ills and conditions are hard to prove or disprove mental disorders can be even more complex "If a man tells me as one did that he will commit suicide if he is inducted I have to act if I believe him” one New York psychiatrist said in explaining how he got a deferment for one patient Although Selective Service says all such cases are carefully screened the New York psychiatrist says he was never challenged on the deferment Great emphasis is given by Selective Service to duration ol treatment and the more persons who fill out affidavits the better ar'--n O OuwJ vj? 6 say men with phony disabilities do get through and some official sources concede privately that this is probably ture American folk tradition holds that there are few troubles so deep that a smart lawyer can’t pull off a successful rescue operation Lawyers say the draft is no exception MONEY PAYS William Smith a Los Angeles attorney and former Air Force Captain says if a youth or his family can afford $250 a year "I can give them 999 percent assurance he won’t be drafted” In the Berkeley San Francisco area some 140 lawyers take draft PLEAD HOMOSEXUALITY cases after their clients are homo- declared paupers and the atSome men plead sexuality in an attempt to torney’ S' fe is guaranteed by the beat the draft state a Selective Service official “He has to prove it” a draft said Antidraft groups in many official said without elaboration parts of the country have from Homosexuals not able to prove it one to whole teams of lawyers are inducted often to be working with them Many of War discharged less than honorably these are latter when events establish their activists and work for a small fee claims or none at all The "dental cop out" as one Any doctor or lawyer caught potential draftee with unneeded attempting to press a phony case braces said "is both very exhowever would be subject to the anti-Vietna- m pensive and very uncomfortable Cut it sure beats KP getting up at 4 am and goln’ to Vietnam" FEW ESCAPE Selective Service and Pentagon ''"tztcz tree that the over-a- ll cf fake medical mental rd dental cases is too small to :r:3 serious concern since the j f rm such a small portion r:‘ much less than 1 per- cf the over-a- ll draft pool Tt counselors nonetheless tr ' same prison-th- at get the graduate degrees Do you fed a mterriiy kel-i- rg prtrmwhocf ccdd net meet itsoxrd entrance requirements would be grad TAGGART: I believe each university should be fairly flexible in developing programs which meet the needs of many of our social and economic sectors I think when you make this kind of effect you must be able to put in high components of counseling I think it is a good thing to do - Why does It seem that there are large percentages of townspeople and faculty wives employed at the university when these jobs could be filled by students and student wives thereby making It so that student could have a groups We have encouraged other administrative members better chance? such as deans to have more student involvement in a lot of TAGGART: I understand that academic we have a very high employment basic their deliberations rate of students and student With the kind of a schedule wives There are some positions which I carry it becomes vir- that have to be filled by people tually impossible to do much on a who have continuity in their role basis I suspect for efficiency and continuity comparatively speaking Utah How much voice do you think State still maintains a fairly students should have In the hiring personalized approach and firing of teachers? Should it' How do you respond to the go beyond faculty evaluation? charge that USU has a TAGGART: Student evaluation disproportionate number of who have some influence in are should graduates professors from universities in Utah? one-to-o- izx 251970 ve years in a draft dodger could penalty-fi- The attorney’s main function is to research the law and draft regulations for any possible ground for deferment and then to file refile and appeal the case from postponement to postponement until either a deferment is granted or possibly the man is dropped by the board as too old or his case too difficult to handle ne TAGGART: I do remember going over our faculty about a year and a half ago in the origin of their degrees and I found that a very large percentage of them did have at least their graduate degrees from outside of the Utah institutions but we do have a very large percentage of our faculty who do have cultural backgrounds from this part of the United States When I was at Michigan State we had the same tendency I suspect that we are not as bad off when you consider how a man is rewarded both in terms of promotional and economic reward I can’t see students sitting down to decide which man should be promoted or get an increase in salary in terms of carrying out the administrative process itself Is the administration con- sidering the development of a vice president of student affairs for next fall? TAGGART: Although it would be premature for me to say we are going to do it I can say that we are giving it very fundamental consideration What has been your greatest disappointment thus far at USU? 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