MRS BERNIE TUCKER OFFICE OF SEC OF FAC EAST WING LIBRARY 003 010 Vol. 2, No. 19 Michigan State University March 2, 1971 --------------------------------------~-- Council faces an agenda crowded with two amendments, four reports The Academic Council faces a busy agenda for its meeting this afternoon at 3: 15 in the Con Con Room of the International Center. and include: Reports from Curriculum, Faculty the Items Honors University Programs Affairs Committees; a proposed amendment to the Academic Freedom Report; an amendment to the faculty bylaws ' to incorporate the Graduate Council; a report on the document on academic rights and responsibilities of graduate students; and a report on the Feb. 19 meeting of the Association of Michigan Collegiate Faculties. FREEDOM REPORT The proposed amendment to the Academic Freedom Report pertains to that the amending procedures document and will be presented to the Council by the University Committee on Student Affairs (USAC). for Current amending procedures grant initiatory authority to ASMSU, USAC, living unit or group governments, and to any group of 100 student petitioners. Proposed amendments now must be channeled through ASMSU, USAC, the Academic Council and the Board of Trustees. "This procedure," the new USAC proposal states, "would seem to clearly require approval of all of these bodies before an amendment could become operative." Faculty Club in ,an effort sets minimum charge to maintain dues rate The MSU Faculty Club's board of directors has voted to require all club members to pay a $12.50 minimum monthly charge, effective March l. The minimum charge applies to food and beverage expenses. The $12.50 amount will be credited toward any such monthly charges incurred by members. Gale E. Mikles, president of the board, said the new requirement is an attempt to hold monthly dues at the current $17.50. He pointed out that most club members now spend more than $12.50 a month on food and beverages. The board has also told members that further refunds of membership deposits Hoerner to talk The speaker for today's Faculty Club luncheon will be Bob Hoerner, sports editor of the Lansing State Journal. He will discuss newspapers and intercollegiate sports. New faculty (No.5) MIKLES, will be delayed until the club reaches the membership_lev:el for which its new building was planned. " -- of health, professor physical education and recreation, said that the club faces fmancial problems primarily because its membership has not reached the antic~pated-level: When the new building was planned several to it was years accommodate about 1,100 persons who signed as members. designed ago, Mikles said the board was that optimistic about the club's future, and he noted that increased membership by the summer season would help ease the financial squeeze. A-P committee is named; first meeting March 9 When it was opened and dues were set, however, membership fell to about 850, Mikles reported. Additional membership is necessary in order to provide funds for such fixed expenses as the building's mortgage payments and taxes, he added. In a letter last week to Faculty Club members, Mikles asked them to contact colleagues and encourage them to join the club. He said that the board plans to increase the membership deposit after July 1. Twelve persons have been named to a committee that will begin a study of the 'administrative - professional classification system at MSU. The c ommi ttee to discuss its aims, and objectives at a meeting next Tuesday (March 9). is scheduled Chairman of the classification study committee is J. Henry Backus of the Personnel Center. Other members are: Robert Bissell, public safety; Gerard Bush, continuing education; Theron Downey, veterinary clinic; Elaine Frank, Knowing a man by his heroes (Editor's Note: Terry Smith, a graduate student in political science, is an admirer of faculty member David Meltz. Here is a portrayal of Meltz he wrote for his class in Journalism 415.) If you know who a man's heroes are, you know a lot about the man. For David B. Meltz, assistant professor of political science, the great man in history was Beethoven. "Beethoven had guts," Meltz says. "It took a real man to thumb his nose at the entire Eighteenth Century and all it stood for, like Beethoven did in his Eroica Symphony." Meltz is soml'ihing of an iconoclast as a social scientist. His academic background - B.A. from Brooklyn the College, Ph.D. in 1970 from University of Rochester - suggests good professional preparation but tells nothing of the man. David Meltz: Making students challenge him. "I LOVE to teach," he says. "I'd rather teach than do research. I'm an "I also exhibitionist - every teacher is if he'll admit it to himself - and teaching provides me with an audience. love to turn people on intellectually. When students come up after class for elaboration of a lecture topic or additional reading about something discussed in class, I feel the past 50 minutes have been worthwhile." Meltz teaches courses in social science theory construction with an emphasis on game theory. His dissertation and current research apply the theory of games to legislative bahavior. He has been on the political science department faculty since Fall' of 1969. "I'll tolerate anything bui open disrespect in my classes," Meltz says. "My classes, even my lectures, are conducted as discussion sections. I hate boring lectures, even my own. So we talk a lot with each other." HIS VOICE has an enormous range. (Continued on page 4) the also that state current amendment But procedures no amendment may be adopted without approval of the council and trustees, and without consultation with AMSU. is ambiguous, USAC contends, ,and results in different interpretations of whether ASMSU approval of amendments is needed. "consultation," term The be able to propose The proposed procedures to amend the freedom report attempt to delineate review and approval powers. While any member of the Uriiversity community an would amendment to ASMSU and to US I\C two bodies w('uld Gointly), approve, reject or amend - and settle a Gonference in their differences committee the proposed before amendment could be presented to the Council. these - The Council would then have thrt:e (Continued on page 4) College of Natural Science; Harold Hilbert, Cyclotron Laboratory; James Howick, MSU Bookstore; Raymond Hopper, Holden Halls; Richard Lewis, physical plant; John Roetman, married housing; Samuel Wade, personnel; Robert Weber, information services. A - P president William D. Kenney, assistant director of fmancial aids, said he will ask the group to explore the total structure of the University in an effort to produce a proposal that will have "lasting benefits" to MSU. SIXTY-NINE GET REIMBURSED A tO,tal of 69 persons took advantage during summer and fall terms of the new tuition reimbursement policy for A-P employes. The plan, begun last July 1, provides tuition reimbursement for up to five credits of approved coursework a term for an A-P employe who has worked a year or more at MSU. Figures supplied by the staff benefits division showed that 25 persons were reimbursed for summer course work, and 44 received reimbursement for fall courses. Total reimbursements in the summer were $1,118 (at $13 a credit), and the fall term cost was $2,475 ($15 a credit). Professional development forms for the program are available in the Staff Benefits Division in the Administration Building. An A-P employe must complete a form prior to enrollment in a course for which he is seeking reimbursement. Wolverine orders Campus departments which wish to order copies of the 1971 Wolverine should do so by March 8. Requests can be sent to the Wolverine, Room 30, Student Services Building. MSU Faculty News, March 2, 1971 Campus opinion poll results presented Ballots were cast by 7,630 persons in the first MSU campus opinion poll 13st Tuesday and Wednesday. The figure is about 17 per cent of the some 44,300 students, faculty and staff who were eligible to vote. Following is a tabulation of the voting. (The percentages do not add to 100 because of unanswered questions.) QUESTIONS Undergrad. Students Graduate Students Faculty & Administrative A.cIm1nistration Profusional CIeri ca1- Technical Labor Payroll Totals"" Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No l. Should students be permitted to participate in determining faculty tenure policy and decisions? 3061 1088 556 313 20S 527 73 220 256 454 83 176 4468 2994 72.7% 25.97- 63.2% 35.67- 27 .~% 70.7% 24.6% 74.3% 35.3" 62.6% 29.6% 62.9% 58.5% 39.2% 2. Should MSU change from a quarter system to a semester system? Dec. and Jan.-April, with summer course offerings. ) (For example: Sept.- 3. Do you think editorials in the State News generally reflect the views of the student body? 1819 43.27- 2201 31.1% 68.27- 29.0% . I 333 69.5% 38.1% 59.5% 32.47- 63.5% 29.6% 66.6% 32.9% 58.2% 31.5% 66.37. 473 158 532 92 194 268 425 131 137 2971 4232 52.3% 37.9% 53.8% 21.2% 71.4% 31.1% 65.5% 37.0% 58.6% 46.8% 48.9% 38.9% 55.5% \ 1307 2866 255 611 284 443 96 188 215 483 92 163 2400 5062 4. Do you believe the Laotian ~peration is justified as a means of facilitating U.S . military withdrawals from Indochina? 709 3356 206 639 274 430 121 163 241 440 106 149 1789 5478 16.8% 79.8% 23.4% 72.7% 36.8% 57.7% 40.8% 55.1% 33.2% 60.7% 37.9% 53.2% 2·3.4% 71.8% 5 . Should. opportunities for undergraduates to take credit-no credit courses be increased beyond the present 3O-hour limitation? 3094 1048 460 345 318 396 134 136 337 331 116 117 4725 2539 73.5% 24.9% 52.3% 39.2% 42.7% 53.2% 45.3% 45.9% 46.4% 45.7% 41.5% 41.8% 62.0% 33.3% 6. Do you feel there has been improvement in de development of on-campus information . channels between administration, students, faculty and staff? 1785 2174 417 374 517 189 192 99 413' 285 137 117 3717 3427 42.5% 51.7% 47.4% 42.5% 69.4% 25.4% 64.7% 33.4% 57.0% 39.3% 48.9% 41.8% 48.7% 44.9% 7. Do you ~ink the l8-year-old vote will· influenceq the outcome oFFederal elections? , 8. In general, are you reasonably satisfied with your relationship with MSU? - *Totals include voters who did not Identify therr categones. I: 2433 1738 429 441 284 443 57.8% 41.3% 48.8% 50.2% 38.1% 'i9.5% 141 153 51. n.: 47.6% 453 257 170 99 4177 3338 62.5% 35.4% 60.8% 35.4% 54.8% 43.7% 2822 1317 673 186 642 92 256 · 38 587 128 224 52 . 5549 1943 67.1% 31.4% 76.5% 21.1% 86.1% 12.3% 86.5~ 12.8% 81.0% 17.7% 80.0% 18.6% 72.7% 25.4% Four' seniors have won Woodrow Wilson grants Four MSU seniors are among 305 undergraduates from across the country who have been announced as winners of Woodrow Wilson Fellowships. The University's winners are Louise T. Eareckson, history major; Don A. Howard, Lyman Briggs College (Physical Sciences); James M. Krell, chemical June S. Manning, physics; sociology·. and Seven more MSU seniors were among the competition's 741 finalists, so all 11 nominees from here were cited. The fellowships, now in their 25th 4 to be cited at graduation F our persons, including a retired MSU faculty member and an alumnus of the University, will receive honorary degrees during the winter term commencement Sunday, March 14 at 3 p.m. in the Auditorium. Honorary doctor of laws degrees will go to Floyd W. Reeves, distinguished professor emeritus of education, and Howard James, a 1958 alumnus and Pulitzer Prize - winning Journalist for the Christian Science Monitor. Another honorary doctor of laws degree will go to Wade H. McCree, circuit judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals in Detroit (who will deliver the commencement address), 'and an honorary doctorate of humane letters to Detroit financier' will go philanthropist Max M. Fisher. Before his retirement in 1969, Reeves was for 16 years a full - time faculty member and had been a special advisor to former President John A. Hannah. His career in education and public service has spanriW some 60 years. • - Photo by Dick Wesley year, are, awarded by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. They encourage outstanding college seniors to consider in college service careers, primarily teaching. designed are to Each fellow is supported for a first year of study at the graduate school of his or her choice. Finalists do not receive financial support, but they are recommended and assistantships awarded by graduate schools. fellowships for Finalists from MSU are: Herbert H. Caswell III, Zoology; Glen R. Elliott, Lyman Briggs (chemistry); George W. Fehlhaber, mathema:ics; Catherine M. Hendricks, English literature; Michael L. Hines, mathematics; Robert R. McCraw, philosophy; and William A. Schambra, James Madison College (political science). The University's total of 11 fellows and finalists ranked it in a tie for third among Big Ten institutions. The University of Michigan had 13 fellow;; and of Wisconsin 12 and the University of Illinois 11. the University finalists, Nationally, H;lrvard had 33 fellows and finalists, Cornell 26, Yale 17, and the UniverSity' of California at Berkeley 16, Brown 16, University of Chicago 16 and the University of Texas at Austin 15. M§U Faculty New§ Editor: Gene Rie~fors Associate Editor: Beverly Twitchell Editorial Offices: Rooms 323 and 324, Linton Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48823. Phone: 355-2285. Published weekly during the September - June the Department of academic year by Information Services. Second - class postage paid at East Lansing. Mich. 48823. F acuIty bargaining drives intensified MSU Faculty News, March 2, 1971 Efforts to organize the MSU faculty have become more intensified. The campus chapter of the American Association of University Professors is this distributing authorization cards week to all persons with faculty rank, including department chairmen and directors, and librarians. A spokesman for the MSU Faculty Associa tes, which distributed cards last week, reported that it was still, "too early to tell" how that group's campaign was progressing. He added that the returns were "pretty well following the pattern we had anticipated." The Faculty Associates is affiliated with the Michigan Education and National Education Associations. the Another group involved in bargaining issue, the Faculty for Collective Negotiations, has not distributed authorization cards. FCN chairman Matthew Medick, professor of mechanical engineering, said he was not certain if his unaffiliated group would enter the authorization card drive. He reported that his organization has tentatively scheduled a public meeting on collective bargaining for next Thursday, March 11. The MSU Chapter of the AAUP voted overwhelmingly last week to become active in the collective bargaining issue. Though some 90 persons attended the the AAUP membership voted 48 to 5 on a motion from Einar Hardin, professor of labor and industrial relations, to: open meeting, * Declare the chapter's intention to seek recognition' as the exclusive agent for the "entire MSU faculty." * Set May 15 as the target to obtain authorization cards from 30 percent of the faculty. . * Call a general meeting of the chapter membership one week after May 15 or after completion of the card drive, whichever is earlier, to adopt further steps. * Instruct chapter officers and council to take "prompt and effective steps" to reach the targets on time; * Empower the officers and council to make "prudent expenditures of funds conducive to chapter recognition as the exclusive bargaining agent." Hardin did not attempt to define "entire faculty" in his motion. He did specify that faculty hired under tenure rules would be included. There was some discussion at the meeting as to whether any other University personnel should be included. each card to be Also discussed was the number of faculty cards authorization member could sign. While the Michigan Employment' Relations Commission eliminates no cards, so faculty could sign more than one card, one AAUP member said it would be inconsistent to from than ' one sign more organizations the seeking "exclusive" bargaining agent. Several questions were raised on procedures of unionizing, but AAUP chapter president Sigmund Nosow, professor of industrial relations, encouraged discussion on "philosophical and, academic implications of what we're discussing." He said it is inaccurate to equate faculty unionization with the industrial '!lode1. labor and Jim McKay, vice president of the AAUP State Conference and a member of the negotiating team at Oakland University where teaches the AAUP was mathematics, selected as the bargaining agent at Oakland "to continue to strengthen and support governance system." internal said the he "If you use negotiations to get things you haven't had before," McKay said, "I'm a little worried that you begin to take strength away from the internal structure. " Nosow said that. "the AAUP is not agressively seeking to represent faculty, but is aggressively seeking that faculty are represented by some meaningful organization. McKAY, DAVID KLEIN, attorney for the AAUP State Conference, and C. Keith Groty, assistant professor of labor and industrial relations and of higher education, a number of questions. fielded Klein reported on the collective bargaining situation at five other Michigan institutions ( the AAUP is involved at all five). He also discussed the problems an organization is not the first organization to file ("it becomes an uphill fight," he said). And he discussed the varying defmitions of a bargaining unit the institutions .. its cards with MERC involved when at each of Thomas Moore, of spoke against collective professor economics, Collective bargaining is opposed ... the University of Michigan, Minnesota, Northwestern, etc. where the faculty scorn unions? A union is likely to be a divisive force in our community, leading us to regard deans and department chairmen as our employers rather than colleagues in teaching and education. We doubt that many of us want to live in an employer / employee atmosphere, but prefer one where we are all colleagues together. After we have set the pattern the students may follow and form a union to make demands of us and 'the administration .... . . . we believe that faculty members interested in preserving a good university and maintaining a community of scholars should oppose all attempts to unionize MSU. Thomas G. Moore Professor of economics Mordechai Kreinin Professor of economics Jan Kmenta Professor of economics James B. Ramsey Associate professor of economics Jesse Hixson Assistant professor of economics Letter • ... and endorsed by faculty bargaining because the effect of a union, he said, is to level salaries. that Hardin replied that the poliCies of an organization are the policies adopted under unionization, and if a majority of the organization wanted salaries leveled, they could be. But he said he didn't think faculty want that. Hardin also cited the other employe uQions and associations on campus and noted that faculty 'could become the only unorganized group here. Matthew Medick, professor of mechanical engineering and chairman of the nonaffiliated Faculty for Collective , Negotiations, expressed support for the AAUPmove. He also said his organization would like AAUP support "in the sense that we want an exhaustive discussion of collective bargaining." It is not an issue on which faculty can remain neutral, he said, "and if a group gets 30 percent (signature cards), the onrush of panic reaction starts." C.B. STUDY UNDERWAY A three - member subcommittee of the University Faculty Affairs Committee last week launched a study of the collective bargaining issue. The includes Sandra A. subcommittee Warden, associate 'professor in Justin Morrill College;' William" J. Hinze, professor of geology; and Stanley K. Ries, professor of horticulture. - . The group is surveying campus organizations that have expressed interest in representing faculty, and is contacting both academic officers and bargaining representatives at institutions where the faculty are organized. Also being surveyed are other Big 10 universities. Committee chairman Warden said that "no recommendation will be made" by the group. "We intend to be as objective as possible," she said, "and we want to provide the faculty with both sides of the issue." She said the group hopes to compile its report by next week. China Week program set of Michigan Highlights of the China Week program presented earlier this year at the University are this month. A film, scheduled here "China: One Fourth of Humanity," will be" shown Sunday (March 7) at 8 p.m. in 108B Wells Hall. It will be followed by a panel discussion. To the Editor: A recent communication to the MSU faculty from certain members of the economics department has drawn several misleading conclusions, the most serious of which - that collective bargaining will ultimately result in a should not go mediocre faculty - unchallenged. Although the economics department is undoubtedly an exception, many departments on campus (departments which, incidentally, have their share of outstanding personnel) could actually benefit by haVing salaries adjusted to the level of Lansing Community College and other unionized institutions, including the public schools. The fiscal problem which has created this circumstance, of course, is a two - headed one, encompassing not only the availability of funds to the University as a whole, but also their distribution to the various schools ;lp,d departments within the University. For a variety of reasons which have nothing to do with faculty merit, this distribution has been inequitable for some time. One could point, for example, to many distinguished professors with years of experience who, because of the nature .of their fields, receive salaries approximately equal to or perhaps just slightly higher than the starting salaries for beginners in other less discriminated - against fields. It is easy to understand the reluctance with which faculty members of a favored department might view any threat to their lion's share of the available fmancial resources. It should be just as easy to see, however, why so many faculty members in other departments have come to look upon collective bargaining as perhaps the only method of alleviating an unjust situation. Theodore Johnson Associate professor of music A program on Friday (March 12) at 7:30 p.m. in 108B Wells will include two documentary films on China and a speech by Robert F. Williams, former president of the North Carolina NAACP and now doing research on Chinese studies at the U. of M. Admission for each event is 50 cents. 'Woman in America' is speech topic "The Idea of Woman in America" will be discussed by a husband and wife team of MSU faculty members Wednesday, 8 p.m., in the Union Building. Albert Karson, a professor of American Thought and Language, and Martha Karson, a clinical psychologist, will speak to the MSU American Stu!iies Association. (Editor's note: Here are" :-excerpts from a statement on collective bargaining circulated last week by five faculty members. A response is contained in the letter that follows their statement.) There has been considerable discussion recently about the establishment of a faculty union at MSU. Advocates claim that a union will benefit the faculty by producing larger appropriations from the state for faculty salaries and by strengthening the faculty hand in the face of administration and student demands. It is our contention that unionization is unlikely to lead to higher salary increases than otherwise would be the case and, in the long run, may tend to lower our salaries by downgrading MSU to the level of other unionized institutions such as Central Michigan, Oakland and Lansing Community College. It is our belief also that faculty prerogatives are adequately protected in the Taylor Report and by the Faculty Senate. We believe that there are a number of serious drawbacks to a union. Unions usually encourage raises and promotions based on length of service. A union will normally lead to increasing the pay of the incompetent and mediocre while holding down the pay of the creative and innovative. The result of this leveling will be that our better faculty will drift to schools that are willing and able to reward them for their efforts and that new good faculty will become difficult to attract. As a result, MSU will eventually be left with only the to imitate junior mediocre, Are we colleges where most of the unionization has gone on, or are we to compete with MSU Faculty News, March 2, 1971 Today's Council agenda • • • (Concluded from page 1) options: Approve the proposal and present it to the Trustees; reject the proposal and return it to ASMSU and to return it recommendaion . amended. the two groups with as approval for The trustees could then approve the proposal, or reject it and return it to the USAC; or amend the proposal and • Affairs committee offers compensation guidelines The annual (1970) report from the University Faculty Affairs Committee, to be presented this afternoon to the A c a demic includes recommendations from three of its six subcommittees. C oun cil, Recomme n.dations the subcommittee on faculty compensation are: from 1. That a 1971-72 cost of living increase of 7 percent be adopted. 2. That sufficient funds be provided raise MSU's associate and full to professor salary levels top one-third of the Big Ten (They are currently ninth and 10th respectively). salaries be the same basis (10 computed on months) for comparison purposes. 3. That all future the to 4. That the fringe benefits package for 1971-72 include payment by the University of the long-term disability premiums for all faculty, and that the MSU provide professional liability insurance coverage for all faculty. '~" That President Wharton ask Gov. Milliken to establish a blue ribbon committee to study the declining status of faculty compensation at the state's leading universities. 6. That communication affairs Trustees, and office. committee, be the there among greater faculty the Board of the governor's budget 7. That solutions to problems of MSU faculty cOmpensation levels be found in new money from the State' Legislatur~ rather than in "taking a severe attitude toward the spending of monies for purposes budgeted and supported in the past." The subcommittee on "additional work for pay policy" recommended: 1. That an explanation of the present policy be made at the college, division and department levels to be available to each faculty member. 2. That the Continuing Education Service actively seek assistance at all levels to continue present programs. involved in faculty be development and revision of the policies relating to compensation. 3. That in administration 4. That faculty encourage support of opposing the curtailment in off-campus services and to avoid substitution of "sub-standard instruQ,tion in response to challenges from within the and University." outside 5. That the report be made available to the College of Education Advisory Council which requested the study from the faculty affairs committee. 6. That the report be filed with the University Administrative Group as an agenda item. • for non-academic The Subcommittee on "academic employes" rank recommended the Academic that Council establish an ad hoc committee to study whether such employes as librarians and agricultural extension personnel ought to have academic ranking, to - tenure, and full participation in academic governance; and whether such groups as clinical professors of human and osteopathic administrative-professional medicine, personnel, professors, ROTC technicians, counselors and computer should also be specialists center considered for such ranking. right David Meltz • • • (Concluded from page 1) Hearing Meltz speak and listening to what he has to say are two completely unique and separate, although sinrultaneous,' experiences. He is an accomplished debater and a polished actor. "I make no bones about my philosophical position," he says. "The first class I tell my students that my beliefs are 'Often classified as right - wing - re'actionary - fascist - pig. "I also tell them that I expect to convert a number of them ·to my position before the term is over. And I always do. "It's incredible how malleable students are. I've converted far too many of them in my two years here. Apparently many have nei solid values. "Students should be willing - and able - to- challenge a professor. At Brooklyn College when a professor would announce to his noonhour class that it was daytime, half the class would immediately jump to their feet in protest, ready to defend the argument that it was the middle of the night." MELTZ'S DOMINANT facial characteristic is the set of his eyes. Glasses conct:al some, but not all, of Meltz's ability to look at two people at the same time. He may not be talking to someone else, but you can never be sure. "I convert a lot of students because call it libertarianism, my position - laissez - faire capitalism, individualism - is the only philosophy consonant with man's nature," Meltz says. "Man is an individual. Those who would create an artificial entity other than the individual - a class, a society, a state, or anything which enjoys a moral claim- to a man' productivity - ultimately seek to enslave all men. ' "There is no escaping this consequence. It's as sure as - and worse than - death. "Students are probably more interested in freedom than anybody else. Many therefore appreciate the logic of the libertarian argument. "But getting students to think - I mean really think - is most of the educational process," Meltz says. '''Subjects' to think about are a peripheral concern. And for most students this will be their last chance to really know how to question things and people. "If my students leave my classes better able to challenge orthodoxy, I've done~y j"b." Council. THE FREEDOM report amendment grew out of discussions in the Council concerning student participation in academic governance, when concern arose over student (ASMSU and USAC) right to amend the freedom report sections on professional rights and responsibilities of faculty. . (Under the provisions of the student participation report, USAC woul~ con tain a majority student representation.) So the student participation - related bylaw amendments (particularly sectiop. 5.4.08.3) Spt cified that the sections on faculty right: could not be amended by USAC. But 11at was in conflict with the Academic f ceedom Report's current procedures. A move to delete the faculty rights section from the freedom report was then tabled in favor of an amendment to 5.4.08.3, specifying that USAC proposed amendments affecting the faculty rights sections be approved first by the Elected Faculty Council ~efore consideration by the Academic Council. That amendment further calls for review by the faculty affairs and faculty compensation committee, and approval by the Elected Faculty Council before the Academic Council may approve any revision of the faculty rights sections. The amendment was approved by the 80 faculty members attending the Special Academic Senate meeting last week. GRADUATE COUNCIL ALSO NOTICED during discussions on student participation was the omission the of the Graduate Council from faculty bylaws. The original student participation (Massey) report recommended that the Gtaduate Council's role be specified in the bylaws. The Graduate Council proposed bylaw amendments to the steering committee nearly a year ago. Since then, the proposals have been reviewed by the educational policies committee and by the committee on committees. Reasons ,for incorporating the Graduate Council into the faculty bylaws, as' explained by Harold D. Hafs, professor of dairy and physiology, and chairman of the Committee on Committees, are to "expedite Graduate Emerson talk Gay Wilson Allen, professor emeritus at New York University, will speak at 8 p.m; Thursday (March 4) in the Gold Room of the Union. He has written biographies of Walt Whitman and Herman Melville, and his biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson is scheduled for publication. His Thursday topic: "Emer,son's Revolt Against the Establishment: A New View of Emerson." 'Boyfriend' opens "The Boyfriend," a spoof of the twenties, is being staged this weekend and next by the New Players. ,This weekend's shows, in the McDonel Kiva, will be Friday and Saturday at 7:30 and 10 p.m. Next week, in Wonders Kiva, the schedule is 8 p.m. on March 11, and 7:30 and 10 p.m .. on March 12 and 13. PAC this week The Performing Arts Company will perform Jules Feiffer's satire, "White House Murder Case" Today through Sunday (March 2-7) the Arena Theatre. Curtain time is 8 each night. in Council actions which requite Academic Council approval, provide a vehicle for input to Graduate Council for University standing committees and hold the Graduate Council accountable to Academic Council." GRAD STUDENT RIGHTS The document on graduate student rights and responsibilities comes to the Council nearly two years after its development began with a student - faculty committee. The document,which pertains to all post - baccalaureate students except those enrolled as profeSSional students, is designed to "alleviate the defiCiency" in the Academic Freedom Report of not bringing gra-Baby" is a look at psychological effects on infants of deprivation of physical contact. 10 p.m.: Varying opinions of marijuana and its effects are explored on the imal program of ''The Turned On Crisis." 11 p.m.: Bette Davis, Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell, Olivia de Havilland and Pat O'Brien reminisce and discuss illm clips from the '30s. '1I18R Wednesday, March 3-1 p.m. (AM) Sidney Jourard discusses "Unpolluting the Human Environment." Thursday, March 4-11:30 a.m. (AM) The 1970 census is the topic on "Federal Case." 7 p.m. (FM): The University Chorale, conducted by Robert Harris. Friday, March 5-1 p.m. (AM): David Halberstam of Harpers Magazine discusses "U.S. Foreign Policy." 7:25 p.m. (FM): MSU-U of M hockey from Ann Arbor. Saturday, March 6-1:30 p.m. (AM): "A Brave New World" is a look at the future influence of medical research on society. 2 p.m. (FM): The Metropolitan Opera offers "La Boheme." 2:04 p.m. (AM): MSU-U of M basketball from Ann Arbor. Sunday, March 7-2 p.m. (AM-FM): The Cleveland Orchestra performs "The Magic Flute" by Mozart, Violin Concerto No.3, K. 216 by Mozart, Symphony No.4 by Bruckner. 8 p.m. (FM): The Los Angeles Philharmonic performs Beethoven's Symphony No. 2 and Mahler's "Des Knaben Wundcrhorn. "