Show lUILII I U I 7I J raae “72 years of free expression” ? f Vol 72 No 55 Utah State University Logan Utah March 7 1975 PIRG officials concerned about lack of support by Dave Kingham staff reporter Unless there is a sudden surge support from students at USU is finished Barb Abraham USU organizational of G committee chairperson said Tuesday The organizational committee has scheduled an emergency meeting for Monday at 1:00 pm in UC 326 to organize a last attempt to prepare to go before the Board of Regents for approval The state directors of G and Colorado PIRG will be at the The name total is emergency meeting to help currently standing at over 2200 coordinate the final G efforts still below the set goal of 40 per cent of the studentbody Also prior to the Board of Regents presentation the committee research wanted to get formal statements The discouragement of the of support from the adcommittee and the lack of ministration and the faculty student interest was evidenced council Ms Abraham said by the turnout of three at the U- “We just don’t have the PTRG meeting Tuesday manpower to lobby the faculty “Three people can’t goal 9000 the administration and the students into doing something studenbody” Ms Abraham said even if its for their own good” It is conceivable that USU’s Ms Abraham said could get the necessary If the emergency meeting is endorsements go before the successful in generating enough Board of Regents and be apGrimshaw Geneology Librarian proved but the problem would not support to enable USU’s said a floor plan for the new be solved Ms Abraham said to make adequate preparations been has the After drawn the Board of Regents for library up approval chapter She said the move has been would have to organize elect presentation the joint U of U talked about for years “Planning officers and draw up contractual USU effort will be this month has come to a head as a result of agreements with USU for the Ms Abraham said the ACLU” she said The ACLU chapter in Logan started this fall will still file suit regardless of the proposed move said Lanner “We had planned to make our presentation to the Board of Regents this montlfwith the U of U chapter but we just are not ready” Ms Abraham said G may file suit against Cache Genealogy Library ACLU by Tim Gurrister staff writer The American Civil Liberties Union anticipates filing suit for the ceasing of “welfare” to the Cache Genealogy Library Ron Lanner Chairman of the Logan Chapter of the ACLU used the term “welfare” in referring rent lights to the free and heating accorded the Genealogy Library by the Cache Public Library Lanner did not know exactly who the suit would be filed against but said it would not be the Mormon Church Library Board is willing to go to court to settle it L Brent Hoggan a lawyer who is Chairman of' the Genealogy Library refrained from an- on the swering any questions matter Williams said the Geneology Library is planning to move out of the Public Library Building within the next year Thelma G G -- Instructor appeals tenure decision by Kent Perry staff wjJ&j The ACLU’s concern is that the Genealogy Library is owned by Communications Instructor the Mormon Church and governed only by church Arthur Y Smith who was denied tenure earlier this year has appealed the decision to the faculty grievance committee Smith is appealing his case on the grounds he was denied due in the tenure process was His tenure proceedings denied because Smith had “failed to make reasonable progress members but is partially supplemented to public taxes said Lanner The of the Genealogy bills Library footed by the Public Library reach nearly $5000 a year according to Lanner Lanner has stated that it is the ACLU’s opinion that this is against the first amendment of the US Constitution which calls for a separation of church and state Lanner said the ACLU contacted the Cache Public Library in November He said that A Cache Valley resident looks up his genealogy at the Cache Genealogy Library in Logan The library partially subsidized by public taxes is the subject of a current controversy involving the separation of church and state The local chapter of the ACLU is contemplating legal dCfton to force the LDS library and the Cache public library to separate operations initially there was “complete confusion” in the Public Library when the ACLU demanded that the Genealogy Library’s unique situation end J Stewart Williams General Chairman of the Public Library Board said the board sought legal opinions on their position soon after the ACLU got in touch y The board talked to City in Blaine Zollinger Pricmoer who - found - nothing — Kl iNlrml vJlUVLAl II rxonstitutional in the situation said Williams The board felt that the City Attorney’s opinion was said not specific enough Williams so the board went to the state Attorney General’s office in Photo by Ron Rico and never understand that all the while I was quite happy by Jean Johnson reviewer At-tor- II Black January in a Student Life interview read a part of Utah’s Williams Constitution over the phone which read: Section 4 Article “No public money or property can be appropriated for or applied to any religious worship exercise or instruction or for the support of any ecclesiastical 1 establishment” Homer Holmgren of the attorney general’s office said this clause had “no application to the question here” according to Williams He said Holmgren gave a more considered opinion which also supported the Public Library’s position Lanner said he felt that these opinions “did not address themselves to the first amendment” Williams said that “this was the question and that the was quite and reading Jiappytalking Nikki Giovanni -- & Woman & Beautiful collection of funds she said “As things look now we don’t have the people to carry out an election or enough interest from the students to provide issues for to Wednesday USU students “This slate is almost serene” she said ’’the stars are part of the city in the sky If you’re from Chicago or Pittsburgh I want to urge you to breathe the air here” she remarked laughingly but with poetry mouth as an involuntary reaction a reflex that need not be tempered Her poems are feelings the words don’t get in the way “Why should there be serenity only in Utah? Why is serenity only for those who can afford it for whites but not for the world?” Nikki cares and her caring is Documents provided in the toward a terminal (PhD) hearing indicated that Smith was it degree" Marian Nelson acting told in December 1973 that to for him be would of of get the Department head important Communication said in the his PhD in order to receive 1974 Dean grievance committee hearing tenure In December of the College of M Harmon Judd Tuesday Smith claimed he was unaware Humanities Arts and Social of the terminal degree Sciences told Smith it was a tenure necessary to have a PhD to until requirement meeting in December 1973 Smith receive tenure “In the first week I become acting head (July 1973) I talked to Art about his PhD before receiving tenure” Nelson said Smith said he was told by Rex our lives into the former ComRobinson sensitivity we’re afraid of the streets munications Department head that a PhD was not required for subways the buses I’m only 31 What if I live to be 75? That tenure and it would be “foolish to is too long to be afraid I’ll get a PhD because the departhave to go crazy to cope with ment could not afford ta hire it ” him’ Larry Stevens Smith’s lawyer said the lack of notice for six years about the terminal degree needed for tenure would constitute the lack of due process and therefore would be the grounds for Smith’s appeal Burrell Hansen professor of communications said that the seriousness And just when you really think that she’ll be “serious” and you can stop laughing — “But I’m a city person not a county person and I could be very happy in Utah if it were closer to Chicago or LA!” Nikki Giovanni has strong opinions and expresses them well Phrases flow out of her was tentatively approved for tenure at the university at that time Smith said he then enrolled in a doctoral program at Idaho State University He dropped the ISU program in favor of one at Brigham Young University when he found he could complete it in less time Nelson said he did not know of or give approval to Smith’s enrollment in the BYU program Masters Degree is sufficient drawing by Ron Rico “I think Pittsburgh is the ugliest city in America It has no right to be so ugly! We’re perpetuating ugliness it is the state of the union” says Nikki and her body sends the ugliness into her audience so they may rub their hands over it and say ‘ah yes I truly (Cont on pg 5) qualification for tenure Another communications instructor Barbara Hales said she had received tenure with a Maaters Degree only In July 1973 the faculty code was revised to say the terminal degree should be sought because of its more favorable pay and tenure considerations The grievance committee met again Wednesday to continue consideration of Smith’s case No was decision committee available as of press time Smith has indicated that he would resort to civil action if he lost his appeal case before the committee i i |