The spring • arrlves; so does a new lSSUe • This issue of the Faculty News is an attempt to inform faculty on the events and rationale of those faculty members and graduate assistants who have chosen to join the student call for a strike. It focuses on the events of the past week; it is not an attempt to those opinions, but simply to propagate inform the University community of those opinions so that any response can be based on specific points. We make this statement because it is obvious that the events and comments of those supporting a strike are more evident in this Faculty News than are the statements and stands of the University administration and others who oppose the strike method. The Report from the President, dated May ii, presents the University's position, and it has been distributed to all faculty, but statements of those advocating a strike or shut-down have not been systematically distributed. We attempt here to help systematize a variety of positions. Our position is that our readers should have access to as many points of view as possible in order to respond most intelligently to the isslies at hand; The Faculty News welcomes reactions and comments from persons who oppose the strike and from persons who support it. Responses, preferably written, may be to our office, 296-G, Hannah directed Administration Building. Two years ago at MSU, disruption resulted from the fmals week "bust" of a handful of students' that prompted a brief takeover of the old Administration Building. Last spring, it was the occupation of the Wilson Hall cafeteria by black students protesting alleged discrimination against black dormitory employees. So when May bowed in this year, it seemed not a question of would any "incidents" occur, but which issues would provide the most fuel. There was the materialization of MSU's own "people's park," called "Free," there was concern for the environment; there were several episodes centered on the issue of ROTC, the most destructive of which (May 1) resulted in extended damage across the campus. But when word spread last Monday (May 4) of the deaths of students at Kent State University, and when this became coupled with the issue of ageographlcally expanded war in Southeast Asia, Michigan State was confronted with the possibility of a campus shut - down. (Some students call it a strike; others, including faculty who support some sort of suspension, prefer more accurate terms, such as boycott.) By week's end, there were confIrmed reports of some class cancellations, instances of major absenteeism. There were several rallies, attracting as many as 6,000 and 7,000 persons. A number of statements were issued by the central administration, ~cluding one authorizing suspension of classes for a teach-in last Friday. A later statement from President Wharton outlined University policy regarding the status of students and faculty who chose to skip, cancel, defer or otherwise alter the normal procedures of class meetings. Today's Faculty News attempts to look at some of the events of the past few days, .events which constitute an exceptional period on the campus, and which contribute to an increased concern for the actions at colleges and universities everywhere. Vol. 1, No. 27 Michigan State University May 12, 1970 To strike or not: Responses vary Last week was, as characterized in a statement from President Clifton R. Wharton Jr., a period "traumatic on the Michigan State University campus." And whatever else occurred, it must be reported that most departments and most faculty and students did not have apparent overt support for a strike. But the words and actions of those calling for a strike conunanded significant attention. The University's own position, outlined in the May 11 report of the president, emphasized its "responsibility to the State of Michigan to provide educational opportunities" was clear and couldn't be abdicated. It added, "Students who are here for that purpose cannot be morally denied their rights to attend classes because some of their fellow students may feel that a closed university somehow will hasten an end to the war in Indochina. Similarly, faculty members with appointments to teach at MSU have their responsibility clearly defmed by the Code of Teaching the Responsibility adopted by Academic Council and Academic Senate in 1969." At least four departments in the College of Social Science met and issued statements supporting activities that conflicted with "business as usual_" arts and letters colleges, Class attendance in the social science and as examples; ranged from near normal to almost zero. And one instructor in the University College that a Thursday class meeting in his required course had only six attendees out of 90 enrolled. reported Although daily enrollment figures are not kept for all closed - circuit television courses, one CCTV spokesman said that there were reports of absenteeism in some classes. But no televised courses were cancelled, he added. Some classroom disruptions were incidents serious few noted, but occurred. of Admissions One of last week's casualties was an armual counselor's day conducted by the Office and Scholarships. Scheduled for Thursday in the Auditorium, the eVent was cancelled in anticipation of possible disruptions. Cancellation meant telephoning more than 270 high schools throughout the state and getting word to some 2,500 freshmen on the campus. * * * the departments with reportedly wide support for a strike, there were concerns voiced for students who chose to miss classes, their grades and their credits. And some faculty EVEN IN were concerned about how they could the needs of ~udents who meet boycotted classes as well as those of students who wished to continue having class as usual. The UniVersity Business Office reported getting several calls from students who requested tuition refunds for classes suspended in favor of last Friday's teach-in. to Some colleges held meetings discuss the implications of large - scale Business not as usual Business did 'not go on exactly as usual last week, as thousands of MSU students joined students from more than 400 college campuses across the country i~ a gener2.l strike. Classroom attendap.ce here was about 23 percent below normal Wednesday, May 6, and 31 percent below normal (i_e., some 11 ,000 absent students) Thursday, May 7. There were no classes held Friday, May 8. Attendance percentages were compiled by the Provost's office, based on figures obtained from deans. Attendance the Colleges of Veterinary Medicine, Natural Science, in Engineering and Agriculture and Natural Resources was "essentially normal," Provost John Cantlon said Saturday. Justin Morrill College had the lowest attendance with 75 percent of its students out, he said. An estimated 25 faculty members were not meeting their classes last week, also according to figures gathered by the deans, based on faculty who reported that they were stiking, Cantlon said. "We assume they have some obligation to report that," he said. A report from President Clifton Wharton Jr., issued Monday, May 11, pointed out that faculty responsibilities in the 1969 Code of are defined Teaching Responsibility. And he pointed out six consequences of a closed university, including extension of the school year beyond June 14 if class days were lost to strike action; students would have to be sent home; payment of wages and salaries would come under question; jeopardized financial aspects, such as fellowships, and the adverse influence a closure of the University would have on the current budget negotiations with the state Legislature. The statement emphasized that "the absenteeism and possible suspended classes. its student The College of Social Science, for example, met last Thursday at the request of advisory committee to clarify policy toward faculty who "unilaterally cancelled toward students who classes" and "absent themselves" from classes to participate in strike activities. The meeting's consensus, according to Associate Dean John C. Howell, was that the college did not yet need to issue a "blanket statement" to remove any consequential effects on striking students. He said that most department chairmen agreed that there had been no cases of students penalized for absences, to be and that discharging to provide instruction. faculty their responsibilities seemed a statement reiterating The Department of Communication issued its acceptance of the University's public obligation educational to provide service. The statement pointed out that students have an option on class attendance, but faculty have contracts to provide services. that Faculty and students in the College of Home Economics held a meeting (Continued on page 3) (Continued on page 2) Responses varied to strike. • • (Continued from page t) Saturday morning at which both campus issues were discussed. and national the And there was inevitable appearance of "coWlter - strike" groups, such as a faction calling itself "Students for Rational action," which Friday issued a statement opposing moves to "force the University into the political arena." Another group distributed ''The Bulletin of Strike Tactics," nine tongue - in - cheek suggestions ranging from "ignore your legislators" to "prohibit all fuearms from campus" ("knives, clubs and molotiv cocktails are far more spectacular"). The group calls itself ''The Ad Hoc Committee to Eschew Obfuscation and to Prevent Mental Pollution." in reported * * * _ LmLE OR NO support for a strike the College of was Agriculture and Natural Resources. Chairmen in agricultural economics, animal husbandry and horticulture said class attendance was at or near normal. John Carew, professor and chairman of horticulture said that attendance was good in this department. We assume ''that the student has an class choice individual attendance," he said. regarding D. Ronald H. Nelson, professor and chairman of animal husbandry, reported that everything was normal last week in his department, "except for disruptors who stand in the door ways and shout." All was reportedly near normal in the College of Engineering. The chairman of chemical engineering, M. H. Chetrick, said classes in that department were reporting about 100 per cent attendance last week. "We are very sympathetic to the cause;" he said, "but we don't think the way to solve the situation is to strike. As long as there are students who want to have class and who have paid their tuition, we'll meet." * * * THE DEAN of the College of Business, Kullezyo Louhi, said that the college had experienced no class cancellations "to my knowledge." He reported that about 100 business students met Thursday and voted not to strike. A spokesman for the College of Natural Science said that his group had not had any meetings or issued any statements as of last Friday. But he said the topic would lijcely come up_ this week in a meeting of the .college's department chairm~n. He said that attendance in the natural science college seemed to be good. "Let's be practical," he noted. "If you were a chemistry major and you knocked out a week of work, you'd be be in a ftx." - And he questioned the propriety of discUSSing political matters in a science Class. "I have an apolitical science class," he said. ''Politics can play no part in it. You can't drag in politics, unless you're conducting a class in political science." - GENE RIETFORS Campus-wide meetings look at issues their Announcements have come - taped in doorways, announced at rallies - from various departraent faculties wishing to . meet with student majors concerning stands to he taken on the issue of a strike. Other student departments have met just as faculties. the departments on campus are listed below, primarily as reported in printed statements from the departments, some according to announcements at the Faculty - Graduate Assistants Strike Committee meetings. taken by some of Actions College of Home Economics: An opinion poll was conducted Monday (yesterday) from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and a meeeting was to be held last night to discuss the results of the poll and to discuss and organize action alternatives. (Results were not available at press time.) Psychology department: A resolution passed Friday, May 8, expressed outrage at "the continuation and expansion of the Indochina War and the violent suppression of political and racial dissent in the U.S.," and expressed support for the both the local and national student strike. The resolution further stated that: ''While recognizing the right of individual faculty members to decide on procedures for their own classes, we call on our colleagues in our deparmtment and in the University to postpone classes indeftnitely, _ pending later review, in order for students and faculty to engage in effective policital action." School of Social Work: Faculty, graduate and undergraduate students moved to shut down formal operations as of May 7. The school is also working on a community education drive and sponsoring an all - night vigil tonight. English department: A policy adopted Suriday (May 10) afternoon did not cancel classes but stated that striking stuaents might receive a 2.0 or 3.0 grade, no less, hopefully to be changed to credit or non - credit, according to the reporting faculty member. The policy also stated that striking faculty should continue the educational process, .conferring with students to satisfy both those who strike and those who disagree, allowing the to complete course latter requirements. to engage in (Wednesday) outlined Anthropology department: A statement from the chairman of the department advisory committee, dated May 6 the department's stand on the Indochina war, on events at Kent State and stated that: the conditions now prevailing ... any assumption that classes is can be conducted [normally [ "Under obviously misleading. Most members of the faculty will not hold students responsible for material dealt with in classes this week." Individual faculty members in the department are handling the situation in various ways: Conducting normal classes, discussing the issues of the strike in classes, not meeting classes at all. A report at the SWlday night meeting of striking faculty, however, was the anthropology department was "shut down." that class "in good conscience" to make up any missed work. History department: A meeting with graduate students was to have been held last night; the representative hoped that a statement similar to that of the psychology department might be adopted. Sociology department: Each faculty member and graduate assistant is free to to his conscience; act according academic amnesty is not guaranteed. Physics department: A meeting was to Justin Morrill College: Classes be held today. postponed indefmitely. African Studies Center: Business interdisciplinary activities suspended; courses closed down. . Chemistry department: Classes are not cancelled. Two resolutions were passed Friday by faculty - to support a ban against loaded fuearms and to make an attempt to allow students who miss Art department: Passed a resolution Saturday, May 9, supporting "wholeheartedly the humanitarian intent of the demands of the MSU strikers," and stating that "we find 'business as usual' an impossibility." The resolution proposed that Kresge Art Center remain open "and that each teacher, in consultation with those of his students who wish to attend classes, find means to address the issues." that Political science department: Graduate students adopted a resolution May 9 (Saturday) similar to that of the psychology department, but further if "any academic, resolving occupational or financial action is taken by the Department of Political Science against any graduate student in this department for suspending either his in assistantship or course activities support of the strike, that we will strike in support of his right to do so." The Council of Graduate Students issued a stat~ent last week supporting the strike and urging graduate students and graduate assistants not to cross any to engage in dialogues picket lines, concerning the issues of the strike, to not conduct "business as -usual" and to "seek alternate ways to cOminunicate course material to students through para - curricular activities." . Sunday meeting devoted to future moves- Approximately 200 faculty and graduate assistants met Sunday night to further discuss problems of and programs for the University strike - or postponement of classes - with which they have joined some 6,000 to 11 ,000 students. About 35 departments of University were represented at meeting. the the The Report from President Clifton Wharton Jr., dated May 11, was read and discussed by the group. CoDlIDittee Statement, page 4 The reaction to President Wharton's statement was summarized by the comment from one faculty member that "to arrange mechanics to protec the rights of everyone, to break down the authoritarian character of the learning than process, will 'business and as usual' and will be more educational, so no one is running away from his responsibilities - that is a red herring, a farce. take more time * * * CHARLES LARROWE, professor of economics and chairman of the steering committee of the Faculty~raduate Assistan~ Strike Committee, read a the New York Times report from concerning actions on grades taken at closed colleges and seven now universities. He five recommendations for faculty action on grades at MSU. These were: then read - 1) Arrange for students to complete take - home exams plus an optional paper "if he wants to be taught by you." 2) Base a grade on the work done up to the point "where the student is called out of class;" i.e. joins the strike, or when the faculty member joins the strike; 3) Give a credit or no - credit grade; 4) No student should be forced to complete the work this term, thus award a deferred or incomplete grade; 5) Award blanket grades. A psychology graduate assistant explained that the 467 students enrolled in his course will be graded according to a decision by the graduate assistants who handle the cou'tse: Everyone has earned at least a 2.0 from the strike alone; anyone wishing a higher grade can by completing a take - home exam or by expressing himself through a paper or discussion. "It is our responsibility," the graduate assistant said, "to contact each student." Theconsensus of the group was that grading is a problem to be worked out by individual faculty members and that they be urged to negotiate with their students. The group voted to propose the the recommendations University community and to request the Academic -Senate to endorse a: University policy not to use grades as reprisals and to use the credit - no credit system more flexibly this term. five to A LETTER written by * * * medical school faculty was read to the group for discussion on supporting its being sent to the parents of all MSU students. Concern was expressed over the breadth of the letter, over the reactions it would solicity from parents, over fmancing and timing of such a project. The proposal to support the project was tabled. A motion to ask for an Academic Senate meeting tomorrow (Wednesday) to present this group's position on the strike's demands and to "legitimize the things we're saying about grades, etc." was defeated, because persons at the meeting said they felt they were not ready for such a meeting, and they felt Academic Counciland Senate members would not be receptive bodies. Three committees were established: CommWlications; educational policies, such as grades; and alternative curriculum, to be planned for the duration of the strike. A meeting of the Faculty - Graduate Assistants Strike Committee was to have been held last night (Monday) to discuss issues of the strike. Meetings of the group will probably be held daily, Larrowe said, A PRINCETON University student addressed the group concerning a nationwide movement aimed at Congressional elections. Students are conducting research on Congressional districts to ftnd candidates running on rights platforms, peace and civil especially like said. Canvassing Michigan," he workshops will be held; then students will canvass Congressional distriCts to support peace candidates. Princeton has arranged its fall academic calendar so that the University has a two - week vacation the November elections. immediately preceding in "marginal areas, Business not as usual. • • MSU FacultY NeWs, r.f*Y"f2, 1970 (Continued from page 1) effect of any course of action which forces closure of the University is to make the university community the target and the victim, not the policy - makers in Washington." Also rather included were references to: ROTC (a May 26 Academic Council meeting on the topic is set); black enrollment ("The University has attempted to develop an intelligent and realistic program of steadily increased black enrollment, set arbitrary quotas or ceilings."); political trials (MSU "clearly has no power to control the trial of Bobby Seale or others, regardless of the feelings held by individuals on the campus"); many Indochina war ("But the point to remember is that it is in Washington where the decisions are made, and not on the MSU campus .. "). than students are supporting "Additionally," the statement concluded, "it is gratifying to note that the many suggestion that petitions be prepared containing the views of the MSU community on this issue. The offer to take these petitions to the Michigan Congressional delegation in Washington still stands." * * * A FACULTY - Graduate Assistants Strike Committee was established Wednesday night when about 200 people gathered in the Union to discuss joining the student strike which began Tuemay. About one - half of the group were faculty members. A meeting Thursday afternoon drew about 400 people to the Con Con Room of the International Center, more than half of whom were and graduate faculty assistants. Faculty at both meetings included a 'Variety of ranks, departments, ages, sexes and races. * * * WEDNESDAY NIGHT'S discussion centered on: To strike or not to strike· alternatives to striking; how to protect both the students who choose to strike and those who choose not to; how to the number of striking maximize students and faculty. strike cOmmittee, and . A steering committee of four faculty and one graduate assistant was elected to establish liaison with the student to be strike steering committee responsible for calling meet~gs of the faculty to organize a meeting of the entire faculty. Members of the steering committee are: Charles Larrowe, professor of economics, chairman; Patrick Doyle; professor of mathematics; John Masterson, associate professor of mathematics; James Trosko, assistant professor of human development and Justin Morrill College; and Jim Lovis, graduate student in anthropology. At the group's request, the steering committee met after the 2*- - hour meeting to draw up a statement based the group's on discussions. The seven - point statement was distributed Thursday and discussed at the Thursday afternoon meeting. the consensus of that The decision to strike was perhaps best explained by the comment of one the Nixon faculty member Administration had chosen to go outside the political process in its conduct of the war in Southeast Asia, and now striking college campuses had chosen the political process. "It happens from the treetops as well as from the grassroots," he said. "Shutting it (the University) down seems to be the only way to get the to go outside 'higher ups' to pay attention," another commented. for faculty members But the.re was concern for allowing flexibility in meeting their obligations to students who choose to attend class while allowing them to follow their onw consciences concerning the strike. "Faculty can't be bound to any policy," one said, "because, like most academics, they are individualistic." "When faculty members hold class in a situation like this, it becomes a focal for confrontation. Any class point which meets, is an to confrontation," another said. invitation "Of course more colleagues are needed (to join the strike)," another replied, "the point is, are we willing to start things now?" They were. At about half - way through the meeting the group voted, with only two or three dissenting, to "support strike by the student postponing classes beginning Thursday, May 7, until further notice." issues since * * * THURSDAY afternoon's 2*- - hour meeting involved discussion of the - point steering committee's seven statement. A few of the 400 there said they had come for education concerning the they had not yet decided whether to strike. Ron Horvath, assistant professor of geography, said the assumption of the meeting was "that you are here because you're on strike or you believe we should go on strike." Larrowe drew applause when he declared the filst part of the statement (concerning the postponement of classes until further notice) non - debatable. Masterson said that the focus of the meeting was that "we are here to plan a positive physical dynamic plan in support of the students." A motion to send representatives of the Faculty - Graduate Assistants Strike Committee to meet with the student strike steering committee, and suggest forming an all - University strike steering committee was overwhelmingly approved by the group. After some discussion concerning grading procedures, the group decided to establish a committee to study the striking question of amnesty for students, including grievance procedures. The committee would also be concerned with junior (untenured) faculty members and graduate assistants. One suggestion for grading was to give striking students their prevailing grade - points. Other suggestions centered on the idea of meeting classes informally, but outside the formal classroom area. The comment from one faculty member that "striking students are undertaking an important part of education and that should be recognized," was greeted with applause from the group. The longestdiscussion of the meeting concerned the potential problem of violence. Eventually, a six - point motion was approved by the group, again overwhelmingly. The motion stated that the group disavows violence as a tactic of this strike; that police are not to be used to interrupt the strike; that no firearms, loaded or unloadea, are to be carried by anyone; that city, MSU Faculty News Editor: Gene Rietfors Associate Editor: Beverly Twitchell Editorial Office: 296-G Hannah Administration Building, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48823, Phone 355-2285. Published weeldy during the academic year by the Department of Information Services. Second-class postage paid at East Lansing ' Mich. 48823. that all county, and state police and the National Guard are to be immediately implements of removed; violence, such as tear gas and riot equipment, aJso be removed; and that the body recommend to the all - that a University strike committee system of student marshals be established to prevent violence. Discussion on community action brought suggestions for a national economic boycott ("Because money is the only message the people of this country will listen to") and for social pressure on the people (who were called "warlords") who are the manufacturing controllers who make the implements of war. The faculty member making that proposal said students had gone to the library to look up names and addresses of these people, and he suggested that the national strike movement should move its picket lines to those people's homes. Discussion concerning the Friday teach - in was mixed between the feeling toward boycotting the administration - planned event, or using it to discuss the strike with those who were as yet undecided. "Dialogue Should come where it can come," one said, "so don't plan a battleground." Most of the faculty members and graduate assistants at the meeting reconvened before 5 p.m. Thursday to march together into the student strike meeting in the Auditorium. Many of them sat with the 5,000 to 6,000 students through the entire six - hour meeting, voting on the strike demands. - BEVERLY TWITCHELL Social Work: One group votes on a stand (In several deparrments and in at least one college, students and faculty met last we~k to discuss the issues of a campus strike and a war in Asia. One of those meetings took place last Thursday in the ~nion Building. It is presented here, not necessarily as typical or representative, but as an example of one forum for the questions under consideration here last week.) "I don't want to give you an impassioned speech on why social work should be involved," said graduate student Hal Brown. "If you don't know that by now, well ... " So began "more than two hours of heated discussion - sometimes chaotic always spirited - as about 150 student~ and faculty gathered last week to decide what position, if any, the School of Social Work should take in response to the growing movement to prevent "business as usual" at Michigan State. By time the meeting had the concluded, its members had voted overwhelmingly to approve a motion that "the social work department shall formal operations sh u t down indefmitely." And it voted to give general endorsement, with a few modifications, the five demands to being circulated as of last Thursday by the faculty - student strike steering committee. While the motion called for a "shut - down" of operations in social work, its spirit was evident: Each faculty member and student still had his or her own conscience to follow; no one would be prevented either from holding class or from making "other arrangements." * * * THE SPRINGBOARD for discussion was a two - page statement approved and issued earlier by the Department of the Anthropology. "Indochina war" and stated that most anthropology faculty would not "hold students responsible for material dealt with in classes this week." It condemned statement," social work "I have no quarrel with the responded anthropology one faculty member "except that it doesn't go far enough.'~ (Applause) "I propose that we eliminate the middle man - the mass media - and take our message directly to the people. I propose that we do it this summer so we can use the next five weeks' to prepare. "A strike the answer. Gov. isn't (Ronald) Reagan closed all the universities in California. So "what? What does it accomplish? It just focuses attention on the problem for a short time ... We've got to get out and educate the people of the United States." Two students expressed agreement, but both suggested that the process of education should begin on the campus. Another student, unenthusiastic about a strike, said: "We have a more efficient means open - the petition. President Wharton said he'll take a petition' to Washington. We need to provide this option to students who don't want to go along with the strike." But a young woman questioned the impact of a petition. "It's just a wide circle," she said. "People say ho-hum to petitions; politicians- pigeon- hole "them ~ A young man agreed. "tn a strike we only hurt ourselves." Let the students go to class but refuse to spend their money; boycott the stores. Let's hurt somebody with money and power, not ourselves. " * * * ONE GRADUATE student argued that students and faculty in the social work school constituted a significant power bloc, "even though you might not believe it. If we make a decision today, that means something. It means that another department stands up f01:. what it believes. I think this affects us pretty damned directly; so much of our national priorities are for things that are alien to us as socia1 workers." Some others strongly opposed any attempts at a strike. "I don't support the war," said one student. "But I don't support the strike, either. I know there are others here who feel the same way, but no one seems to have the courage to say so." A member of the strike steering committee addressed the group and urged it to support the demands of the committee. He added: "I can't emphasize often enough how committed we are to non - violence." But one student objected to the demand that no boycotting faculty or students be subjected to penalties. "Isn't this like having your cake and eating it, too? I don't think we can demand these niceties." * * * AND SO it went. Discussion, debate, parliamentary maneuvering, occasional confusion. There was almost universal the war, unanimous opposition condemnation of violence and the killings at Kent State. There was no real consensus on how best to resolve the issues that prompted the meeting. The agreement was that some action, some expression was necessary, and that it be taken "in our way, as our own thing." to MSU Faculty News, May 12, 1970 Debate set for AA UP meeting A debate on student participation in academic government will be featured at Thursday's (May 14) meeting of the the American MSU chapter of Council will meet today Last week's meeting of the Academic Council, postponed by the presence of students who said they wanted the Council to consider abolishing ROTC pn the campus, has been re - scheduled for today at 3: 15 p.m. in the Auditorium. Council members will be seated on the floor of the Auditorium, and space in the balconies will be for spectators. Today's meeting has the same agenda as last week's session: Proposed faculty bylaw changes to recommendations of the implement McKee Report; the report on "policies and procedures on campus revisions of the disturbances;" and Academic Freedom Report. reserved Dale Hathaway, chairman of the Faculty Steering Committee and chairman of agricultural economics, emphasized the agenda requires action before the May 20 meeting of the Academic Senate. that each item on He said that a special meeting of the tentatively set for May 26 in Council - the Auditorium - will be devoted to the question of ROTC on the campus. Association of University Professors at 7:30 p.m. in Rooms 38-39 of the Union. the Taking part in the debate will be James K McKee, professor of sociology and chairman · of the committee that drafted student participation in academic government, and Charles Killingsworth, University professor of industrial relations, and a leading opponent of the McKee Report. report on labor and Also on tne agenda are discussion of a proposal to increase local dues from $1 to $3, and election of AAUP officers. Nominees so far include: President - Sigmund Nosow, professor of labor and industrial relations and in evaluation services; Richard Schl~gel, professor of physics; vice president - Rufus P. Browning, associate professor of political science; Albert P. Linnell, professor and chairman, astronomy; - Paul Bakan, professor, secretary psychology; W. Fred Graham, associate professor, Justin Morrill College; treasurer - Frank J. Blatt, professor and chairman, physics; Ellen Strommen, assistant professor, psychology. Also to be elected are AAUP council members from tenured ranks, non - tenured ranks and any rank. 18 will be cited at awards convocation The 1970 Faculty Awards at which 18 faculty Convocation - members will be honored - has bee!i scheduled for 8 p.m. Wednesday (May 13) in the Anthony Hall Auditorium. the Cited will be recipients of: The six in Distinguished Faculty Awards, recognition of "outstanding intellectual contributions intellectual to development of the University;" six Scholar Awards, which Teacher in recognize "devotion and undergraduate six Excellence - in - Teaching Awards, in recognition of graduate assistants for "care and skill in meeting classroom responsib ilities. " skill teaching;" and The Distinguished Faculty and Teacher include - Scholar Awards $1,000 awards, and $500 goes to each Excellence - in - Teaching winner. The Distinguished Faculty Award, established in 1952, had been presented each February during a convocation at which the president delivered his "state of the UniverSity" address. Both the Teacher - Scholar and Excellence - in - Teaching Awards were presented for the first time last spring. The recommendation to present the winners of all three awards at a single convocation was approved by the Academic Council. The move is designed to give greater emphasis to the awards. Committee responds to statement reacted The Faculty - Graduate Assistants Strike to President Clifton Committee Wharton Jr.'s report (concerning the student strike and the consequences of closing the University) with the follOwing statement: "The Faculty - Graduate Assistants Strike Committee shall continue on strike, mindful of the consequences President Wharton cites in his Report dated May 11, 1970. We respectfully the University community that the normal learning process has been rendered inappropriate, indeed, impossible, because of sustained policies of the National repression pursued by insititutional government, and localized submit to practices that form the counterpart to these policies. Simply, basic learning cannot be meaningful when the reality of suppression contradicts its very basis. In the present circumstances, it is hoped the University faculty and administration will concur in this judgement, as has a significant portion of the Michigan State student body already - concur, and join with us in the common effort to reconcile our moral with our intellectual and academic responsibilities. To focus narrowly on the last of these, as we believe Mr. Wharton has done in his report, is to divorce us from our deepest sensibilities, our own defmition of professional standards, An individual responds (Norman Pollack, professor of history, articulated ~is personal analysis of the events on ca.mpus In the form of a typed. sta~ement. He did not know he woul~ be reading It at the Thursday afternoon meeting of the Faculty· Graduate Assistants Strike Committee. But he did, and the favorable reaction prompted an invitation th~t he read .the statement to the Thursday nrght meet~ng of some 6,O~O students where he recellled a second standing, ovation. ~ollac~'s statement is presented here as he delIvered It.) "I. We must be clear on the significance of the strike. The chief issue is the WAR. The Cambodian invasion has finally ·driven home to the country at large the enormity of this sustained moral crime; and has begun to drive interconnections between home international economic and domestic political repression. the "2. Within a university context, we are about the power of frankly undertain - universities viewed candidly in the structure of power in the United States; about how we can fuse opposition to the WAR with the continued pursuit of normal activities; about, the most present crisis is, and whether the time has come to take an irrevocable step in seeking basic social change. just how serious immediately, "3. Several things have become evident in the last week, even - and especially - to non-polidcal people. First, since Cambodia, and then Kent State, faculty and students alike are corning to see that the basic learning process cannot be meaningful when the reality of suppression contradicts its vary basis: That business - as - usual becomes itself willful blindness, complicity, hollow pretentiousness. Second, equally evident, the United States has perhaps not witnessed such widespread, authentic protest in its colleges and universities . . . Third, we cannot, must not, be oblivious to these developments. And here, I submit, we must take the broadest view of this nationwide strike. "There is unquestionably a crisis. One with ramifications. The na tional and world national Administration understands this perfectly, and has determined to continue its present course, both in Southeast Asia and in response to domestic critics. And in the logic of to the situation intensify that cour'se. to continue means "We are a relatively isolated University commuI)ity, made to internalize - and believe in _ our own powerlessness. In a vacuum, the strike tends to focus on what we consider localized grievances: Cptative strategies that attempt to neutralize rather than solve basic problems; these, complemented by the application of necessary force, in not rehiring independent professors, the record of future appointments for hints of unorthodoxy, etc. Academic freedom remains largely an unexamined premise. scrutinizing before now. Ending "But in the nationwide setting, we ARE NOT ISOLATED as a community, and our specific concerns must give way to the war, and to a pattern of conduct most of us regarded as impractical - perhaps unthinkable takes - precedence over all else, over everything else. "I, like many of you, am torn over my normal responsibilities (bred-in through years of when Veblen would called trained incapacity) and my elemental rights to say NO to suppression and seek a humane social transformation. If my sense of timing is correct, the time to act has come. the war to "The University should not be shut down by students, it should be closed down through the organic solidarity of students, faculty, anyone who will join us - not because we itch for confrontations or wish redress immediate grievances, but as a body, a functioning unit im American society, we are declaring our to undoubted resistance t9talitarian trends and policies in our society. "My own course is this: I will not meet my seminars I do, in University buildings. however, want my students to continue - if they see their way clear to. Students who do not share my views must not- be penalized. Those who wish to strike, on the other !land, ShOllld be helped in any manner we can .. ." and most important, is to divorce us from establishing a humane relationship with our students. "In this strike we are not recommending any fixed formula, save for this: That the rights of each member of the University community must be respected fully, whether or not he supports the strike. To implement this conviction requires serious effort; the Committee accepts this challenge as one of its principal objectives. Shortly, we shall forward to the administration proposed suggestions on how the academic life of this University can be promoted and continued, consistent with the spirit of the strike and a comprehensive notion of faculty and student responsibilities. We will endeavor to realize, as an outgrowth of the strike, a new student - faculty Bill of Rights and a more embracive definition of academic freedom. The immediate situation provides the opportunity to work toward that goal; sutdent relationships that will enhance learning and self - expression, not stifle the authentic impulses that many of us have already noted in this student body. to establish faculty - is "We affmn our confidence in our students, and respect their views that University life in general has supported, even in its conception of learning, many retrograde currents in American society at large. Not least do we fmd these currents reflected in exclusionist assumptions pertaining to admissions policies, and the broader question, whom the University intended to serve? This strike is designed not to close down, but rather, in a democratic transform this University - direction, founded on principles of free, imaginative inquiry, which in turn must be free from political forces of repression. To achieve this, we are compelled to take this larger stance, where the present strike interconnected with an becomes uncompromising attitude of resistance toward antidemocratic trends in the United States. Our students have made this interconnection; we stand with them, and seek the support of the entire University community in taking this step. in "In the final analysis, the strike is both against the war, and for the assertion of our creative possibilities. The two become inextricable. We would not, and we trust the University community would not, have it otherwise. Leaming, the context of legitimized violence from above, at every level of society, makes a mockery of our instincts; training, the very foundations of education itself. The burden of responsibility rests not with those who demand betterment, but with those who, in retarding such efforts, make the prevailing forms destructive of human growth. To countenance the war, even under the guise of insisting that normal life continue, is no to our longer acceptable, conscience, is an unwarranted presumption on our intelligence ... " is an affront of news, sports, Tuesday, May 12 8 a.m. (AM-FM) MORNING REPORT. 60 minutes features, commentary. (Monday - Friday) 1 p.m. (FM) MUSIC THEATRE. "South Pacific." 5 p.m. (AM-FM) NEWS 60. (Monday - Friday) 8:30 p.m. Works of Mendelssohn, Elgar, Beethoven. (FM) BOSTON SYMPHONY. Wednesday, May 13 11 a.m. (AM) BOOK BEAT. Conversation with Adela Rogers St. John. 1 p.m. Mikado." 8 p.m. (PM) THE ART OF GLENN GOULD. Thursday, May 14 (FM) MUSIC THEATRE. "The 1 p.m. (AM) LECTURE DISCUSSION. Postmaster General Winston Blount address Detroit Economic Club. 1 p.m. (FM) MUSIC THEATRE. "Oh Kay!" 9 p.m. (FM) JAZZ HORIZONS. Friday, May 15 10:30 a.m. (AM) THE GOON SHOW. With Peter Sellers. 11:45 a.m. (AM) ENVIRONMENT. 1 p.rn. (FM) MUSIC THEATRE. "Fiorello." Saturday, May 16 a.m. (AM) VARIEDADES EN 8:15 a.m. (AM-FM) THE GOON SHOW. 10:30 ESPANOL. 11 :45 a.m. (FM) RECENT ACQUISITIONS. 1 :30 p.m. (AM) THE DRUM. 2 p.m. (AM) ALBUM JAZZ. 2 Gotterdammerung." 7 p.m. (FM) LISTENER'S CHOICE. C~ssics by calling 355-6540. OPERA. "Die p.m. (FM) p.m. CLEVELAND Sunday, May 17 (AM-FM) 2 ORCHESTRA. Works of Haydn and Ravel. 4 p.m. (AM-FM) FROM THE MIDWAY. Economist Kenneth Boulding discusses "Science as a Sub - Culture." 8 p.m. (FM) FORUM. Administrators discuss campus topics. Questions may be phoned in, 355-6540. Monday, May 18 9 a.m. (AM-FM) DICK ESTELL READS. "Ruffles and Flourishes" by Liz Carpenter. (Monday - Friday). 1 p.m. (FM) MUSIC THEATRE. "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying." 8 p.m. (FM) OPERA. "The Saint of Bleeker Street." 10:30 p.m. (FM) MUSIC OF TODAY. "Igor Stravinsky in the 60s." II Tuesday, May 12 p.m. UNDERSTANDING OUR 12:30 WORLD. Black journalism. 1 p.m. THE GREEN THUMB. Terrariums. 7 p.m. DRUGS: THE CIDLDREN ARE CHOOSING. Wednesday, May 13 p.m. BLACK MAN IN THE 12:30 AMERICAS. 1 p.m. MODERN MRS. 7 p.m. VAN CLIBURN INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION. Pianist Minoru Nojima of Japan. Thursday, May 14 12:30 p.rn. A CONVERSATION WITH JAMES DAY. Archaeologist Louis Leakey. 1 p.m. THE FRENCH CHEF. 7 p.m. LA REVISTA. Friday, May 15 12:30 p.rn. INSIGHT. A college sophomore faces an identity crisis. '1 p.m. SONIA SINGS. French folksinger Sonia Malkine. 7 p.m. ASSIGNMENT 10. Saturday, May 16 10 a.m. INNOVATIONS. 11:30 a.m. LA REVISTA. 12 noon THE SHOW. Father Daniel Egan, the "junkie priest." Sunday, May 17 four focusing programs 11 a.m. NEWS IN PERSPECTIVE. 12 noon ASSIGNMENT 10. 1 p.m. THE FORSYTE SAGA. 2 p.m. THE CONSERVATIVE VIEWPOINT. First of on conservative view of national issues. 2:30 p.m. SOUL! Folksinger - guitarist Len Chandler; The Sweet Inspirations; Gylan Kain; Frank Brents; Charles Hodges; Yvette LeRoy. 3:30 p.m. MICIDGAN WEEK SPECIAL. 4:30 p:m. NET JOURNAL. The conservative with Milton Friedman, Russell Kirk, M. Stanton Evans, William Rusher. 10 p.m. NET FESTIVAL. 11 p.m. NET PLAYHOUSE. "Cathy Corne Home," Drama - documentary about London housing problems. Monday, May 18 12:30 p.m. GERMAN PLAYHOUSE. 1 p.m. FOCUS ON SWEDEN. 7 p.m. SPARTAN SPORTLITE.