Show AREA AROUSED OVER ALLEGED DISMISSAL OF DIRECTOR NUTTALL STUDENTS AND CITIZENS ASK FOR REASONS FOR ACTION A wave of concern mixed in inmost inmost inmost most cases with resentment and md indignation burst like a bomb over Snow Branch Agricultural C Coli College o 11 e g e campus Friday and quickly spread over communities ties in this area when information information information tion leaked out that the Board of Trustees of the Utah State Agricultural College had allegedly allegedly allegedly alleg alleg- edly taken action at a November Novem Novem- November ber meeting to release James A A. Nuttall as Director of S Snow n now o w Branch The supposed action had been known for sometime in certain circles but persons in lIin the know had been waiting for an official statement from the Board of Trustees So far no public statement has been forth coming coming coming com com- ing and in the meantime a letter letter letter let let- ter signed by some Snow College students has been sent to the Board of Trustees and petitions have been and are be being being being be- be ing circulated asking for more information on reasons for the move Student Council Publishes Article The letter to the Board was written by the students after the student publication Snowdrift Snowdrift Snowdrift Snow Snow- drift was issued Tuesday containing containing containing con con- a statement signed by bythe bythe bythe the Snow College Executive Council and entitled Students Student Want Vant the Facts on Dismissal of or Director Nuttall This Snowdrift article relates how u the news of the November dismissal of Director Nuttall first broke on the campus and then goes on to say Now as students and as open- open minded adults we feel that itis Itis it itis is time that the FACTS in the removal be brought out of the darkness into the rather glaring and honest light where we can examine them In the spirit of democracy as taught in the classroom and in inthe inthe inthe the desire to our own opinions and attitudes we ad advance advance advance ad- ad vance the challenge To th the board of trustees or those re responsible responsible responsible re- re we openly ask the question WHY We Ve encourage everyone to to to- look at the records where they will find a parallel between the growth of Snow Branch College and the administration of Director Di Di Director rector Nuttall We Ve feel that years of service to an institution and community ity ily as well as long devotion to the growth and development of students such as has been rendered rendered rendered ren ren- dered by Director Nuttall de deserves deserves deserves de- de serves instead a sincere heartfelt heartfelt heartfelt heart heart- felt THANK YOU Therefore on behalf of the entire student body we ask for forthe forthe forthe the facts facts' in this most incomprehensible incomprehensible incomprehensible move and md extend our hand of fellowship to a man who has always been a friend of the student Snow College Executive Council Continued on Page 2 1 AREA AROUSED OVER ALLEGED i DISMISSAL DISI OF DIRECTOR NUTTALL Continued from Page One Letter More Specific The letter sent Tuesday by bythe bythe bythe the students is more specific in its requests for information from the board It states stales in part As liAs mature students in this college we are greatly concerned concern concern- ed about the many implications of such announcements Needless Needless Needless Need Need- I less to say it has been and is isa isa isa a blow to our morale and confidence confidence confidence con con- in the stability of the I I Institution and the methods employed em em- by the governing body of the school We Ve ask that we be I informed frankly and with neither neither neither nei nei- ther a passing of the buck or oran oran oran an equivocation of the following 1 Why is such action seemingly seemingly seem- seem I being contemplated against Director Nuttall Who Vho is promoting promoting pro pro- such actions and on what pro pro-I reasons We Ve ask for a copy of the minutes of the meeting I in which such action if any has been taken 2 Why is the matter being handled with such evasiveness and in the manner of a whispering whisper whisper- ing campaign 3 Has lias there been a careful and objective investigation in which the opinions of students Director Nuttall himself and public minded citizens have been interviewed openly and frankly This we are told in our studies in government is the democratic way of life 4 What are the basic principles principles principles ples on which administrators administrator and instructors are hired and fired by the U US USA S A AC C Board of Trustees if this be the body in invested invested invested in- in vested with such powers We Ve have been told on this campus that happy satisfied students students students stu stu- dents are arc the best agencies for increasing the size of this student student student stu stu- dent body This statement has been sharpened in meaning during during during dur dur- ing the past week Frankly Members of the Board of Trustees will you answer answer us so that we may as mature citizens citizens citi citi- zens get a perspective on the problems presented to you |