£ Micnigan biate i\ews, t,asi Lansiifg, jvncnigan EDITORIAL In the 16th century, the Catholic their own potentials- are not willing Z lathers asked Galileo to recant for to have their energies and interests E what seems today a trivial offense: channeled into socially desirable he merely observed that the Earth and industrially marketable skills. I revolved about the Sun and not Frankly, few students would ob¬ the other way around. T ject to learning such skills in addi¬ % 6 Four centuries later, adminis¬ trators in our country have been tion to learning more about them¬ selves and whatever "trivia" about E asking demonstrators to recant, which they are curious. And it is or at least to keep their observa¬ granted that a vast majority don't I tions to themselves. The sin of the care what kind of an education they S protesters is also an observation get: They will be satisfied with about revolving (revolution): they whatever pap they are fed. as long T have observed that the university as they get a diploma and a corres¬ should revolve about the students pondingly higher-paving job than and not the other way around. if they had not invested four years *roo The basic trend in all innovative at playschool. teaching today has been to center The vocal minority is not going on the student: What does he want to let itself be fed easily digestible to do. what are his interests. What and easily administratable pap. ZEITGEIST Volume II, Number 4 $1.00 Avail¬ able at local bookstores. was recognized for centuries in They are demanding non-metric After reading another review of the current judo-using the energy of an oppo¬ evaluation, classes that are non¬ issue of ZEITGEIST. I went back to re¬ nent to aid vou-is being described terminal. and in fact, a relatively read the magazine. Surely it hadn't been all as "experiments in motivational unstructured curriculum as re¬ that bad. instruction." "organic learning" gards time. This is, at present, Vander Molen's poem American Woman", and the like. Briefly it means that administratively not feasible. for example. So many pages of current lit¬ in the traditional (for us) I-profes- In this issue of Collage you will erature have been wasted on the great Ameri¬ can bitch, and Vander Molen has captured sor - teach-you-student-this-bodv-of- find a number of comments bv the best of all of them in a dozen Jmes. knowledge. the inertia of the stu¬ members of our teaching faculty and you dents must be overcome by the pro¬ regarding tenure, and an article Crowded the doorway With your swaying hips fessor before he can teach effec¬ or two concerning what is going Asking me to turn around tively. on in the "academic system" to¬ So you could use your knife The But no thanks judo (and organic learning) day. and what innovative groups I'll stay under the chair principle merely waits for the oppo¬ are doing to try to break away. With my cat nent to put himself in motion, then We propose no genuine solutions, Until it's dark utilizes his energy, instead of first but really offer this issue as the And you begin to cry Ken Lawless' fables have always escaped trying to suppress it and then re¬ beginnings of a forum within our me. He seems rather more interested in the start it in a new direction. community. Those who demand a sound of his own word-manipulations than in Unfortunately, few people are real education (both faculty and telling the reader anything, or even enchant¬ aware of the importance of the judo students i are to be encouraged to ing him in the time-honored tradition of Yab(ists: - - i(/udiiiK* 'JJI.. dl : organic learning principle), par¬ who don't particularly care should "This was very ordinary, as all men advocate programs by which they will benefit directl>. ticularly the administrators of to¬ begin asking themselves what they though the cleverest often disguise this with day's universities. are doing within an academic com¬ feats of prestidigitation which please and They cannot understand why munity. amaze the gullible." (From "Black Power"! students-increasinglv aware of We welcome comments. It sounds good, but In "Vulgarity And The Shark, it doesn't Promises in basic oat lines even sound good. There are ways of convey rushing through ing senseless slaughter and inexpressible sav¬ I'rom ises. prom ises agery other than "In another ritual of inex¬ oar lirgia land I m erica pressible savagery so qnickh alway> thai ice aerer Of Paul Weinman's three poems. When true bosom baddies sail• the absurdities. You Wonder What To Do" is the most pow¬ erful. Unfortunately, at the pinprick of fear, he I merica and m \ drops a bludgeon on the reader: while girl childhood And I've been waiting three days for that — \ancY Hraekstom embroidered truck to pass. It's true that hundreds of oth¬ ers have crashed by. But not that one. I know it's waiting in some swamp back there, just waiting for me to start out again. And when I do, it will crush me under its wheels. Then I'll need the bandaids. B B. Gasper-Woodford's excerpt entitled "Rape should be read. I don t know, what he's trying to say, or even why. but he readhes freqently into the lyrical Heather Dodge's peoms hint of strange countries one would like to visit, but which Copyright 196S Michigan Stale Vws you wouldn't plan on: Grandfather died in a screaming ward that smelled like elephants director Michael O'Neal cover . Sand\ Moffat too vivid to be forgotten. graphics editor Sandv Moffat pages J. 7, 8, Sandy Moffat editorial adviser David Gilbert page 10 . Jim Yousling ZEITGEIST as a whole is about the same Marion Nowak, Charles Ashjian, Nancy Rich, pages 5. 6 Shelley Sutton as its previous issues, with the usual mix¬ Michael Neiswonger, Valerie Restivo, Clifford Page » Judy Jewell ture of interesting and non-interesting ma Randall, Harold Renn, John Knapp . Nancy photo, jiaec IS rom O'Neal terial. It has seemed to go more out of East Brackstone, Chris Hansche, Ji-nnifV Jon Burbach Lansing for its contributors-only two of the photo, page 8 . . Hitchcock, Stephanie Vaughan. 22 writers are indigenous talent. Perhaps Collage should send over a few manuscripts Tuesday, May 6, 1969 3 . . and that's where it all began' Ii \ciii llnnistimls «#/ bn\s ■r>l »nls in \!n hiwin. t hum ah their nnneeefitiihle Itehnrior. shine thai they run not assume /tro/ter res/ntnsi I i\ /#»/ ilifiiselies. from Program and Services for Juvenile Delinquency.'' a publication of the Michigan Dept. of Social Services. By MICII AKL O\\K AL all began I only stayed out on the run for Can I kick the habit of getting in trouble? Collage Director about two hours after I had stole this bicycle. In the city of Lansing, not l it from Spar Later on that day I was picked up by Detroit It started the 14th day of 1958. My father Police officers and I was taken to the juvenile was mad at my mother for some reason or row Hospital, there is a quiet area of trees home and charged with tampering with un¬ the other Me and my little brother came in and driveways opening up off the residential from school that day and we ate and helped streets Several hundred feet hack, an lawful property which was for the stolen our father around the house raking up the regular group of buildings is strung out \ la rue . bicycle i and upon arriving at the Youth leaves and burning them on the curb. My drab structure ol stone blocks and large i enter I had run away from the officers. Later on that same day I had got together mother was working at an electric company windows dominates tin scene: seveial other buildings, small but equally barren branch with a few ol my friends and has stolen an and my father was working at a steel com¬ out in several directions Ml (it the buildings ■ utomobile 57 Chevy> and we drove around pany in Warren Michigan and my mothers are very old. Theri are no lences. no walls | lie city and later that same afternoon we had shop was in East Detroit. Well my mother got a ride home from a this could be the campus of a small collet got into an auto accident which did not pay. or a convalescent home. I was taken to the hospital (Detroit General* friend of hers every day and dropped her off and was pronounced in critical condition. I in front of the house about 3:30. 4:00 every¬ From one of the buildings steps a young was also knocked unconscious when I had day. My brother and I was waiting for my boy He is whistling an idle tune, his hands went through the winshield of the car. mother to get home because we waited on in his pockets, as he walks casually to another After all my experience I found out you the porch for her every day and was happy building. He pulls open the door and disap can't fool police officers, so it just doesn't to see her get out of the car and walk over pears inside. He isa juvenile delinquent. pay. listen to my advice, please! and kiss us and hug us because it make us The Lansing Boys Training School Age 14 feel that she really loved and cared for us. housing 300 such boys, is one of Michigan's Our father was standing on the porch at the facilities for the care and retention of juvenile Girls, Girls, Girls, and more girls time and he pulled out a cigarette and broke delinquents. The boys who are staying there Well, let s start at about 19 or 20 months it in half and told us to put it in our mouths have all been officially committed as wards and then he lit it and we started coughing ago. of the state on delinquency petitions The in¬ stitution attempts to create an environment that will enable them to return to their home community and behave in what society consid¬ ers a responsible way. Often, however, their home environment fights vigorously against them: 75 per cent come from broken homes: most come from an urban ghetto or a hostile rural community: a great number have mini¬ mal brain damage caused by malnutrition and 'consistent, almost deliberate neglect of the child." as one BTS staff member put it As the Department of Social Services pamphlet quoted above states. •"Delinquency has its origins in the homes and local communities " The prob¬ lem must finally be resolved there The insti lotions and facilities provided by variors agencies m the st.it. can only begin the j»or munity where eithei failure or success a.H be realized. ' Still. Ilu tout -months to two years that a '>oy spends at BTS is a significant part of his lite. The boy must adjust to an entirely new lite style. His daily life is structured and coin plete: he puts in a normal school day i well as organized recreation periods in the r noon and evenings. II.' no" lives with 2"> t ) other bovs in a uormito type cottage \o fences lock him in. but uie boy knows that those who run away aren't gone long before the police pick him up. It's a new life tor him. and however brief is his stay, the buy is affected by it. Well I vas at a party and there was this and chocking. I told my dad we didn't want What kinds of voices come from a school it because we didn't like it and it didn't pretty girl and I happen to be at this party for juvenile delinquents? The following with my two brothers Richard and Lonnie. taste good But he said to smoke it or he'll articles were written by boys living in two Beverly this girl, was sitting in a far lonely- whip us with a belt, so we went ahead and cottages at BTS and were made available by- corner by herself. I went over and said what tried to smoke it but didn't like it. Charles Ashjian. an MSI' student and BTS staff member. Perhaps they shed some lieht you uselly say to a beautiful girl. Hi I say. 1 introduced My mother looked at us and then looked on the human side of juvenile delinquents and myself and she did the same I sat at my father and starting yelling at him and talking to her for about two hours, and keep the issue from, becoming depersonalized then my brother and me ran off the porch in sterile statistics. PerJvipj lpr> re-mit*' suddenly I kissed her and the usual thing and down the street to my we ever heard I talk to her torabout the next four days hundreds of children each year becoming or seen our parents argue or fight. We got and weeks later I ask her to go with me. "state wards.'' Perhaps, also, they reveal She excepted and we made love, and had in front of my cousins house and went and something about the boys who wrote them, fun for about months and knocked on the door but no one was home, 13 or 14 then I in terms of personal growth so we didn't know what to do so we walked But above all. these are the writings of boys came up here to BTS and I have been on down the street and then went to the here for about 8 months Oh the 2 19 69 who, just like all boys, are children becoming Skating Rink and we saw two boys about our she wrote and broke tip •with me Well that's adults in a difficult world age and went and asked them if they lived about all until I get out. around here anywhere, and they said they My Life as an Adolescent Age 14 lived on the same street as us. and then they asked if we wanted to go with them walking It all began on my 11th birthday, which My Dearest Naney around. was three years ago. Well I asked my par¬ ents for some birthday gifts and my mother One day as we walked and talked going down the street from school i asked her They asked us why we were hear and we said I could have any three gifts 1 wanted. to go steady and then we laughed at what told them the whole story about our parents \ few days later, which was August I ■ my and they there for the same reason. she said to that question but i told her that were parents had an argument and they re i was telling her the truth about wanting to So we walked on down the main street and seperated from each other. I was taken 1 a walked into a store and bought some pop and go steady but she said it would take some¬ nearby Childrens Home where I spent three chips and when we came out we all saw a months before any truancies. I had I r.illy thing but my looks to get here to go steady with me so i asked her to come to my house brand new bike sitting in front of the store, sat down and had thought about thi> just and then one of the other boys said he had wasn't the place for me so being so hard- one day and when she did i showed her that i an Hea. he said that he was walking all day headed I went to go truant from this place. knew how to drive and she said she would go hat he was tired of walking and wanted I was always thinking about my bicycle but steady with me so now i'm happy about that an*.. but now she wants to quit me and go steady to ride that bike, but we told him that our neither mv mother or father was around with a good friend of mine but i said that she parents would kill us if we stoled anything. the neighborhood to buy me my bicycle so was free to do what she wanted to do while I was on my truancy I had stole me a (continued on back page) Age 16 bicycle (Sting Ray and thats where it Tenure: standard or standstill? ♦ation to consider other educative failures B> MARION NOWAK is not good In addition to the tradition¬ al'' than moral turpitude would be a step to col¬ question of incompetence Garskof has The idea and rationalization of the tenure here raised a new objection that diversity lecting the extant problem ot an educator's opinions is not re.illy con¬ system in the American university has been .1 sidered; that it is indeed stifled. For these Limitations, however, exist to such a suu source of discontent since long before the ac to really achieve diversity and to gestion. For example, the domain ot such a tivating of interest in the many specifics of reasons, committee demands definition. Students cannot academic freedom. The idea of tenure is quite ensure that everyone will have equal job se¬ curity. tenure should be eliminated Nice enter the realm of hiring of faculty The simple: to protect. .lob security in the teach¬ criteria for such a choice are so esoteric, old men shouldn't get kicked in the snow ing profession is considered as necessary, pos¬ but neither should radicals.'' he said. and the abilities of applicants so vague as sible even more necessary, than such secur Several objections can be raised to (lars- to increase difficulty almost beyond the im¬ ity in other vocations. E C. Reynolds, chair kot's solution The most obvous is the rea¬ mediate realm of student perspective, i For man of the Theatre Dept said tenure the instance, the school could attempt to buy emerged as a result of the arbitrary prac¬ son system Was created: as protection from Richard Hofstadter. foremost historical writer tices relative to hiring and firing in the aca¬ public hysteria. The arbitrary actions of such hysteria have in the past gobbled from Columbia. But the schools would wind demic community Most importantly, it es¬ tablished a buffer of protection between out¬ up socialists, middle-of-the-road politicians up with a historian of status who ignores and motorcycle freaks alike. Why the classroom situation to concentrate on side forces and the University as a whole. solve the problem with a great leap backward'.' research: intellect and status, yet ultimately This concept of job security in the face of Several other alternatives, two of which are a lemon. • controversy is emphasized by nearly all ten¬ ured faculty members as perhaps the most cen¬ already to some extent in working action, But the realm of tiring is the most apt tral idea of the system. Without it. several exist The first of these stands on a very domain for student participation. Evolving point out. they could very well be driven out i very long term scale. Specifically, this in¬ of their jobs merely by the vagaries of pop¬ volves nn intern training program for sen¬ ular opinon With it. they can offer the di¬ iors and graduate students wanting to teach at a college level. Students in the program versity of opinion considered essential to edu¬ cation So quite wholeheartedly the major¬ are familiarized with the "jobs" a professor fills. They prepare lectures, write and grade ity of MSl's faculty endorses this idea of the security of the tenure system exams, plot courses and lecture, all the time under closer supervision than the average Any system, of course, quite inevitably contains a flaw There is no perfect system. graduate instructor. One of the most success¬ ful aspects of the program is that it has con¬ Reynolds said The flaws are a moot vinced some students that teachi. is not point ." But are they'1 The most glaring flaw of this particular system is its protection of for them Said one. "Otherwise. I might the undeserving, that is. the bumbling in¬ never have found out until it was too late A second solution, on a short-term scale competent One anonvmous professor said. of effect, depends heavily on the idea that results of the test'' are grounds for review of tenure. As in operation at Stanford, the A, V<* •> i program essentially is a final examination Vc not just of students but of their instructor. Finals are given by instructors from outside schools who are qualified to teach the course they are examining From student results on such an exam can be fairly well predicted / the efficacy of an instructor. This is beneficial beyond the necessity of making do" with in two ways: not merely does it virtually inferiors, such a plan ultimately incorporates v* force a faculty member to- teach .well, but the university idea of learning- on a borader " Vvno-famn atmnenKwre ot *K^ V,v • to? irarnirjf! <*( exam situation into a one-camp situation, bility The situation cannot be allowed to uniting student and instructor against the stagnate further. The students of the incom¬ common enemy of the " outside man." petents are indeed eminently qualified judges Yet a third solution, an untested one. exists They are not. however, ultimately qualified to the tenure problem; the voice of the stu¬ judges. This, largely, all goes back to the dents. As the unwilling audience of the in¬ reason for tenure's creation: free speech In competent. students are in effect forced into the McCarthy era. oven this could not protect a position of abject acceptance. Creating a many tenured professors. And if Elaine Mishler review committee with equal student represen- loses her tenured job in the Wilson fiasco, it " The mistake of tenure is that it assumes may well herald a McCarthy era. The varia¬ that everyone being protected merits protec¬ tion of popular conceptions of "morality", tion True, attempting a working definition coupled with the fact that the students are of incompetency in a profession where min- certainly not immune to mob vindictiveness nimum-maximum" should not (witness the 1966 ATL controversy• precludes properly exist is impossible. But ultimately the incompe¬ We want crashing through dandelions. their having the final say in firing Such tency question is facetious: incompetents are Enjoying the night sunshine dominance destroyed many medieval uni¬ Of the children's flower. versities. and has corrupted too many Latin usually overtly, glaringly incompetents How to eliminate these bumblers'' I'nder Painting each other with butter. American schools. But the voice, one of egal- the system, if they are tenured, there is vir¬ Crossing wet fields and muddy furrows: ite. is needed, and needed desperately We chewed the stems of tall grass. The tenure system, then, must be revised. tually no way. So there they sit. protected Then stretched to watch the stars fade In admitting its protection of incompetence in the name of improvement of education, and making no gesture to solve the problem, wrapped in the doctrine of the sanctity of the robe (which cannot be revoked by human I won't cry for dandelions that the system has only made a grotesque irony Turn to fluff that floats away out of "protection. hands i and polluting their own atmospheres Too many things, at o^ai-adtiifta'. afiT'i'ufivc.■ iuiotre sell-perpe-ter.- Qr foi ,t«n,|)rowning gr^s ickiB#..'«.<>o' wnjyi«'fier'»s .of. the prohlem. That packs on the moist ground feasibly be enacted to call it ting muck. But they like it. they like it can perfect The chill doesn't last long enough Most tenured instructors, from E.C. Rey¬ Refusing to alleviate even a small And dandelions will grow again degree of this stagnation stands as not merely nolds to Acting President Walter Adams, -Jennifer Hitchcock academic arrogance, but practical blindness do not want the current system changed this best-of-all-possible-worlds attitude can at best be termed a bold charge forward into the 19th century. Yet the tenure system cannot be allowed to stand as it is. merely in.tprms of what is supposedly the ultimate sanctity Allowing waste to intrude on this (supposed' sanctity admits not just apathy but deliberate avoidance; and can human waste be in any legitimate terms avoided'' There are indeed several proposed solu¬ tions. both long and short term, that could alleviate various aspects of the tenure prob¬ lem. The most obvious solution, ot course, is to eliminate the tenure system in entirety Q I guess I'm against it. B%t Garskof. asst. professor of psychology, said. don't think there ought to be job security for teachers I guess I This he largely believes to be because the tenure system in practice seems £ )T to function as a blackballing mechanism for / a very comfortable social club. And nobody has the right to security when the product Pfmm Tuesday, May 6, 1969 5 On teaching Robert . . a. Gertrude Nygren Uphaus Professor, Textiles, Clothing and Related Arts Asst. professor of English Tenure slows down the possibility of a I would find the system of granting tenure ac¬ coup in a department However, there are oth¬ ceptable so long as the conditions of tenure are er subtle ways to encourage unwanted faculty clearly stated and are very visible-conditions members to remove themselves: counseling such as teaching effectiveness, a minimal kids out of courses, not giving raises or recog¬ amount of publication, committee responsi¬ nition bilities. In the last analysis. <#i a day to day basis. 1 think non-tenured faculty have sufficient I think everyone is his own prodder. but you protection through the AAUP. Although it is do need evidence of support from time to time. slow-moving, it is efficient. For graduate as¬ Tenure is a tangible way of showing support, sistants, I very definitely believe that they as is a raise in pay or rank should have the rights of collective bargining In my experience, the people that are good The non-tenured faculty person is in limbo. don't pay much attention to tenure I think students do have a voice, if they are What students sometimes define as relevant responsible enough to fill out those critiques or not relevant is a very curious personal de¬ of professors. Those things ore read. finition. You can't rely completely on student evaluation because with less experience stu¬ dents are limited in certain insights. Charles Cumberland JlflESflfTY Professor of History CREffwny. In all our discussion with respect to promo¬ PERSONflUSBiEf tions and salaries, the functioning of a faculty member as a teacher is an element as impor¬ TENURE tant as any other, as important as publication APWNIS- record or committee work. TRftHOM- People who are not performing as well as they should generally get the cold treatment Harold A. McFarlin -they don't get a promotion, their salary isn't Instructor in History raised. There is no such thing as academic free¬ I do not believe that students should sit dom in large public universities today. The on tenure committees. First of all, there is term, if it ever had extension in the real no way for a student to be representative of world, applied to a kind of educational prac¬ student body opinion. Secondly, hiring and tice now largely gone from America. The rea¬ firing is a question of professional judgment. son it is gonei hardly visible > is that few I respect students. I respect their intelligence really desire to find academic (formerly "in¬ But-when it comes to a question of professional tellectual freedom in the universities. The judgment of this sort. I don't believe they-have (hp. uniVPrQlt V tndav is. thp.reSlllt. Ot o^oeripnrp npcp«.«^arv "external"' interests which have had the pow¬ er. money and influence to rape the schools. The ASMSU evaluation is only part of a gen¬ The interests are legion but some of the most eral pattern. It is not very helpful. It doesn't successful in the recent past are primary ask the right questions in the right way. I can and secondary professional educators, farm¬ find out a whole lot more about my colleagues Thomas Greer ers. business corporations, the medical and by sitting here and talking to my students and legal professions, governmental bodies, and. advisees. Professor of Humanities the most recent entrv. Black America. What When I came to MSU in 1947. students were these interests seek in the universities are There is a great misunderstanding as to what cadres, cadres not primarily intellectually constitutes teaching. I do some of my great¬ not very critical That was a time when there est teaching right here in the office. Unless I'm was a lot more to be critical of. We now have a free, but properly trained. Expressions ot desire for academic freedom seldom if ever available to students. I'm not doing effective far better MSI . but studentsare more critical Students today sometimes lack perspective. come from any of these interests; in any case teaching. such expressions would be spotted as dis¬ They would be a bit happier with themselves There is if they could keep perspective A bright young ingenuous without delay. These interests have no system that can guarantee good succeeded in etablishing the principle that the teaching. I'm sure there are many people who person of today ought to be having a happy ex¬ university and higher education are instruments abuse the tenure system in exacty the same perience on a campus like this. However. I am which they can use to achieve their own way some medical men abuse the Hippocratic very pleased that students are expressing them¬ goals, regardless of the impact of all this upon oath. The only thing you can do is to try to catch selves instead of the pantv-raid atmosphere the instrument itself. Higher education is unar- them early. It's an excruciating process. of the past." guably relevant to the goals of all these groups, or. it seems, in the case of Black America The tenure system is devised primarily to do "Students wanted autonomy and options. and dissident students, soon will be. Now the two things for the individual professor. One is They got that but now complain of confusion to relieve him of some anxiety. Most of us are imd the X1:" -w i '< fWK %t tfwviit V»edom is a hardly vis- h.i\rv iiu" imrtV\f.il V tttf ofalltt V .... aM.*-,. />JL -tbr.uruverity",s .tyjjctiqns. ,Ji iSv. rjedicatetUo teaching an ers. it's mainly because we haven't found the cause you can't complain about nothing Much largely buried beneath the university's volun of the current complaining about the lack of tarily accepted obligations to serve the inter¬ key. If I were here on a one-vear basis. I ests it has shaped itself to please. couldn't afford to experiment in my teaching academic freedom stems from the increase I wouldn't have time. The second thing the ten¬ in freedom. It's the paradox between guidance ure system does is to prevent any kind of out¬ Academic, or intellectual, freedom has little and freedom. You just can't have both verifiable utility, yet because of the enormous side interference-to prevent someone in the The student at MSlT has honestly been the prestige of the word and the institution in which department or someone in the upper adminis¬ it was supposed to be found, no interest has tration from destroying the effectiveness of the focus of unending attention to make education the best that is failed to enhance its own prestige by having professor, and to give the greatest possible possible " the training of its cadres combined with smat¬ intellectual freedom There is freedom for student organizations. terings of general education. That general edu¬ There is academic freedom for students and cation has survived at all in accidental faculty In fact, no other campus offers more freedom for faculty to say what he wants." When you try to force a change on society or on the university, if the time is not right you bring on a fascistic resonse trom society Society will crack down IVs lik<> an organism trv to stop it and it rejects you. l:nfqgtunately. when you confront society outright, you will spu I d like t.. tgain. „ student who is un happy here because of the institution just cheating himselI 6 Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan Harry Perlstadt Asst. professor of Sociology The tenure system doesn't emphasize teach ing. because the people who make tenure de cisions are trying to make a name for the de partment or for the university Quality ol teach Maurice Crane ing is not so visible to the rest of the profession as publication in prestigious journals is Professor of Humanities The tenure system does two things it gives The tenure system gives job security to both job security and it makes it more difficult for good and bad teachers. That makes it better the faculty member to move In this way it than anv svstem whicb would deny security serves both the individual and the organiza to good and bad alike, and worse than any sys¬ tion tem that could really differentiate between the two. Whether students should be on tenure com mttees or not is a problem of trust The stu Differentiating is pretty hard to do. and when dents who actually end up on these commit .1 professor is refused tenure, he frequently tees are probably going to be the conserva disagrees with his department about his quali tive. straight, maybe more professional fications. so that, as in a divorce case, each types. But people who are in the vanguard of party fixes guilt upon the other the revolution are the ones who give the image Barry Gross to students as a group At the transition state The analogy with a marriage isn't perfect. towards student participation on tenure com A professor is free at all times to sever his Asst. professor of English mittees. the faculty would think the radical ties with the university and to go someplace students are the ones who will get on these com else, knowing that in this profession rolling It seems to me that student judgments of mittees. It's a threat stones frequently gather more than their share teachers are too hasty. There's something wrong of the moss The moment tenure is granted the with a students' judging a man's worth on the \s long as non-tenured faculty don't think lifetime contract is binding on only one party basis of one class. There are so many different they're being exploited, and as long as they can the university. kinds of teaching. Somebody who s a lousy grad¬ see hope of getting tenure, they're not going uate teacher may be a very good undergraduate to want to unionize Therefore, the institution is forced into its teacher. You may be a good seminarist but decision during the courtship period, when a lousy lecturer. To judge on that one class dis¬ both parties are free, and must seek out signs regards so much of a teacher's experience and of compatibility or incompatibility before the knowledge. I would hate to be judged on my bad sacrament of tenure is administered. days' or on a bad term Students rarely realize that teachers have personal problems It becomes either Marry In Haste Repent At just as students do. Leisure or reject a hasty marriage land quite possibly repent at leisure i and the choice is I don't know if you can establish an objective sometimes based on insufficient data. And vet. system of evaluation. It would probably be too when the school asks for an extension of the glib and. finally, inaccurate. engagement period, it appears to be stalling, and in fact may be doing the professor a dis¬ service by prolonging his anxiety without Gary Stollak changing its final disposition Breaking off an cxtendedengagement just before it reaches the Asst. professor of Psychology .ill.ir usually causes recriminations on both sides although it's still less messy than a di- Students are naive not to think that poor teachers get some kind of punishment for their poor teaching. s,unnJRe. though that aavone who would The greatest innovations come from teacners lui ce a marriage on someone he knew to be in¬ feeling free to innovate. A great feeling of free compatible would also insist on his right to a dom comes from having tenure I think this lifetime contract in a department which did not is unfortunate, but it's true. Many faculty want him And you know what that kind of mar members without tenure do feel free to inno¬ riage does: it destroys the children. vate. but there are many who need the security Frederic Reeve of tenure. Professor of ATL I heartily approve of student evaluations, though I think that I ieu-poim is not as good as it could be. My suggestion is that every time a I approve of a tenure system, thought I think teacher is outstanding or a professor is derelict it's becoming less and less necessary The more that education is valued in the United in his duties as teacher, the students should States, the more possible it is to get a univer send a reasoned letter to the chairman of the sity position Tenure was original ly instituted department, to the dean of the college, and to the president of the University. I think this pro¬ to protect professors from outside mterfer- ence-from the American Legion. Students for cedure allows students to wield a great amount of power a Democratic Society, and so forth But I hope in tenure decisions administrators are becoming more conscious of the needs of the faculty and of the necessity to defend the faculty against comunity pes sure I am strongly in favor of student evaluation of faculty^ tjiou^h styyJent^ opinion shouldn't Fie taken .is exclusive or final 1 d<& t see why a responsible student shouldn t serve on a ten¬ ure committee if for no other reason, at least so that he can be heard Justin Kestenbaum Edmund Byrne Associate professor of History Hugh Fox Asst. professor of Philosophy Asst. professor of ATL There are only three kinds of people who As Dr. Lee mentioned in his interview with have jobs guaranteed for life kings, federal the State News, this university is more con¬ As my Prussian grandmother used to say judges, and college professors. cerned with the process for making decisions "Arbeit ist Freiheit '-work is freedom work on tenure than with the content of the decisions is salvation. You have to have a sense of se¬ Thre is no way to guarantee good teaching curity; you need freedom from fear in order What constitutes good teaching? Who is to say'.' to create. Department decisions are based on profes¬ Students have more voice than sionalism In two years or five years, the pro¬ they know, fession may change The fact that a professor How do you protect against dead wood in the at least in this department. For the most part, may be relevant beyond a given interpreta¬ department'' By your criteria for selecting those faculty members who are highly regard¬ ed by students are highly regarded by their tion of a profession is not of major considera people in the first place. Look for energetic tion. creative people with high IQ s What kind of colleagues I think that in general, student people have they gotten in the past'' Low opinion »* reflected in decisions about ten¬ The h-.sic dogma in tenure decisions is de¬ energy, conformist, non-creative people-be ure cause they fit in so well to the bureaucratic partment of autonomy. Everybody gets shook if someone from outside 'he department r.in The requirements could easily be altered ministering this maxim A magnificent case¬ to permit that a certain number of hours be in-point is the Free University concept. The MSU Free University grew out of an satisfied by Free University credits, which is idea by Mike Lopez, who set up the Free what is being done at Davis Experimental Free I niversiities exist all around the country University amost single-handedly in winter of College, at the University of California. Davis at the University of Denver, the University 1967. When one of his friends offered to teach •' v Campus ^ i• * «*v : uMKCltr .ti/U.U «/c- ' Pennsylvania and MSU. to designate a n-w of the university and began an orientation ing programs for teachers, perhaps done They have a variety of philosophies, but all toward student-and professor-requested classes through the Free University. When a professor adhere to certain "strategic'' groundrules. The Free University office does little except makes a point in class, I may not be finished arrange for publicizing of desired classes (peo¬ with it To avoid disturbing the class and to fur¬ There are no grades, no report cards and no ple call up and say."I desire a class in ther my own thinking, I would like to leave competitive examinations. ..." or "I desire to teach a class in " > the room. This constitutes, under present sys¬ School is entirely voluntary. and try to get meeting places and occasional tems, a breach of class rules--I must stay Students and teachers together determine supplies. Setting up of curricula, contacting until dismissed-as well as grave discourtesy what is studied, and to a large extent, how. members of a class, setting meeting dates to the professor. On the contrary, I have It is accepted that there is no meaningful and times - these are all the responsibility paid him the highest compliment I could: difference between school and life, between of the class. he has stimulated me to think and dis¬ learning and self. The MSU Free University has found that cover. Professors could be taught to permit the greatest problem has been class atten¬ this type of contribution, based on the col- It will be quickly noted that there is no dance. The time demanded by regular studies rollary that the student will later communi¬ provision made for research grants, elaborate cate his reason for leaving to him. teaching machines or facilities, or even precise makes attendence at Free University classes erratic, but most students agree, nonetheless there are a number of other possibilities. architectural structures. Some Free Universi¬ One is to ignore the obvious efforts made by ties utilize already existing classrooms, others meaningful. students to secure for themselves a better hold classes in private homes and apartments. What is taught'' education. We have only to watch the de¬ monstrations on our campuses today to see There are generally no restrictions on sub¬ ject matter, on who can take courses or who Courses have ranged in aim from counter- that there is a great deal of energy being di¬ can teach courses There is no question of courses set up to c ounter the effect of the rected not only to civil rights causes but t« Wriftrf <•' c»i"i\>irf^)vu'iuV ui a'ieiit'Vici .'SifiiCe" regular uhive'rsm Wft/iementarf course^*" ac&tigmie cnallenge. ' '* ' 4 a teacher is defined operationally as one who which aim t<> explore areas not normally Frankly, there are better ways of improving can teach the course i student, faculty, or other considered in the regular university curricula our educational facilities. The Students for individuals). Courses in the former category tend toward Effective Education have their office in 326 non-verbal communication experiments, sensi Student Services Bldg. at MSU They wel¬ Students will learn best what they want to tivitv training and student power movements come any and all advice and help learn. The purpose of a Free University is*to« provide the resources whereby those who know left PATTERN what they want to learn will be -*ble to find just standing there naked those who can teach them, and those who don't embarrassed Why do we cling to this foolishness know will-have -the opportunity to find out which is at the best This philosophy -is no different from that of And we'rfc not old enough to pay the price. preposterious. most regular universities: the implementation at the worst- is what makes the difference. There are no Methuselahs left a cruel joke? only people like Beginnings and problems which no earthling can laugh at us-people who love and care trying to fill up time. Dartmouth Experimental College was begun because he'd have to tear down That's why we do it by ;in excited undergraduate in November of a mound of paper that he calls 1%6 With advice from friends and the towns¬ law-afkl-order and that's the only reason why we do it. people of the Dartmouth community, he got It would be so damn embarrassing if support enough to put out. with a committee and with it would fly away all i»f committed individuals, a full-scale course those things we've been building for years and years we stopped offering that made the college the fourth (Besides largest in New Hampshire during its first since the beginning of time. term of existence. Classes met in private our nervous systems couldn't stand the jolt. > homes, fraternity houses, dormitories. The And that just wouldn't -By John Knapp II college was able to get a grant of money , do because if it all flies away we're 8 Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan The coffeehouse and me By DAVID GILBERT Collage Staff EDITOR'S NOTE: Former Collage Director David Gilbert is wont to reminisce, and the following are his ramblings on the theme of an all-day, all-night coffee-meeting place. Some¬ where in the ramble he gives a brief history of coffeehouses at MSI . In those far-away days -of my freshman year. I remember faking long cold walks at 3 a.m.. and waking up dozens of my patient friends at all hours of the night I assume that since the dormitory set-ups have changed minimally since my stay there, the average needs of the average sensitive individuals with intellectual leanings of any kind have remained pie's and now a parking lot. We would crowd close to the front. A warm wonderful, smoky the same, and that there is reasonable per¬ into the Greek's as-vet-unrenovated hole and atmosphere. About every other dorm on campus centage of us now—not in SDS-who would listen to Donald Hall and John Hollander picked up the cue sooner or later, with coffee¬ like a place to ramble to. We need a place, share with us some of their poems I don't house evenings at McDonel and Rather and Won¬ recall the poems, really, just the friends ders. and of course .Norm Sperling's valiant not so much for shelter, as for an excuse to who used the occasion as an excuse to meet with efforts at Wilson. talk to people. The saddest thing about contem¬ porary life is that we need excuses to share one another. If they had a buck Snyder Hall tried for a blockbuster last term ourselves with others. They wanted to pay for a literary magazine, The dormitories tried to pick it up. with and featured John Campbell. Ted and Mark I mentioned this to a friend He began rem¬ checkered tablecloths and candles on the and Bob McLean Crayons and paper were iniscing about the Fat Black Pussycat, a wild tables. Fee Hall was the first to present provided with the coffee and or cider, but the and wonderful coffeehouse before my time It program was '«><» good. We were seated at the was a coffeehouse with real coffee (and cokes poetry-cum-music and chatter, but Akers Cul¬ back, by the door. and people still snarled at tural Committee, under the legendary David whenever we laughed. for the coke-heads' and man' atmosphere us Blombach. sponsored an entire cultural week¬ Imagine' Jesse Colin Young. John Hammond The best of the best was a year ago. Short¬ end. replete with art show. poetrv readings and Spider John Koerner less than a stone's lived (middle of February to end of March. I and musical coffeehouse. The Mad Yak. in throw away from where the KoKo Bar is now believe i. the Pit ran a few evenings of poetry the bowels of Holmes Hall, was the most People met there to talk as much as to and folk music. Now the place is Domino's imaginatively decorated, and was probably listen. the best of the dormitory efforts. You could pizzas, and you'd never know that William Pitt Root or MSI' poet-in-residence A.J M. Naturally, that reminded me of the ZEIT¬ talk quietly to friends, and those who wanted Smith had ever read there .John Campbell GEIST poetrv readings at Spiro's. nee Kew- to listen-to the performers would crowd up and Virginia sang. Larry Iupa read Rod Mc- Kuen sincerely and Dave Gilbert swore he's never read in public again The atmosphere was tangibly coffeehouse. People tuned into the musicians and poets when they wanted to. or when the performers felt they nad something so important to say- that they had to impinge on their audience 1 sat with friends and drank bad coffee, which tasted good with shared cigarettes U | oiin. n liltle auvtv. . v • m II nntini! lo reml. Iii'liili! il /ii'/liccH the uriiins of colfee I tontineil Inn k onto the white fihislic rim. Il liisi I sil before yon. mill for mi instant. I nm hack at my trill, natch ins; myself, like a chilli set on se/umiteil rinks, uilli nlii te-nasheil feel, irnilinu for the liile mill the sky lo drench his shirt—mine—with its terrible month. Naturally, the place went out of business. There are now only three places to meet, outside of the various grills i which do not encourage growing closer*: the Joint, the Love Inn and the poetry room on the second floor of Morrill Hall. The Joint is the prodigious creation of some foresighted people in the MSI Folklore So¬ ciety. They have top-notch musicians (Ted Lucas. John Campbell. Ed Henry. Cedric Smithi. the perennial coffee, and a bit of atmosphere. The only thing is that the art¬ work is much diminished from last year, and if you want to talk, you have to whisper very quietly. It is still primarily a place to go \ '• •»>to music i f*' 4V& .!>: aIn w" HMcn ^ * to music, according to Rob Lawton who runs the place Blacklighting. artwork on the walls and spiced tea give the place atmosphere, but nobody just meets there And there's the poetry room on the second floor of Morrill Hall. The best of these three, it is open only during the dav. nine-to-five. Monday-through-Friday But people meet there I have heard folksinging there poetr\ ridings, heated discussions '1 saw a couple kiss quietly once and even studying. Winch brings me back lo the beginning. There are no places for the nigiit-wanderers We don't require much. Just a room, a coffee- maker. light source and heat in winter. To be honest, we are not very brave, and we need a room that will serve as an excuse for our fumbling attempts to know each ether and ourselves \nvbodv else interested" • I buzz around the social cobweb. and wonder why 1 don't stick. Stephanie Vaughan Tuesday, May 6, 1969 9 m 4iv«> Records By VALERIE RESTIVO State News Reviewer WARNER BROTHERS. The Sallyangie Children of the Sun' From London, Sallv Oldfield. 21 and her brother Michael Oldfield. 16. Theirs is a sweet, delicate weaving of sounds and images. The lyrics are their own-childlike fantasies with ;idult overtones. They are good guitarists Sally a ad Michael exploit the finer quali¬ ties of their rather small voices. The music carefully stays within the capabilities of the performers. COLUMBIA. "Moby Grape 69 The record jacket blurb says that " This album represents all that was once so honest and easy and simple." The Moby Grape has WE HYPOCRITES KILLED A BOY a new beginning It's a Beautiful Day To¬ day- might be the album's theme song. M\ tillage is miking of hue The blurb says " no more gimmicks, no I'tuques and trophies u ish to he pi t en more hypes, no egos, nothing ever again Frequent smiles in reserve credit but the music and . . mutual respect I re sold to wandering people No egos??? Li>oA there nt that steeple It's a good sound-the blandness of instru¬ Dressed in white and carrying a cross mental arrangement is compensated by good It's my soul's contract. musicianship It's not a spectacular album h.xamine my words of efficiency and fact But the Moby Grape has had it with the I nheatuble knifes of tongue spectacular. Hequest anyone to warm your heart Sweating to stop. we start. A and M. Tommy Bovce and Bobby Hart: "It's All Happening on the Inside" Iligh on the land a mighty forest is The sound is gospel-like Instrumental lowering over our two-faced town people. are not distinguished, but adequate for the I spark! material. The arrangements tend toward Flaming in the wind a friend delivers his help dullness The smiles are mil to he found SIDEWALK RECORDS, "Three in the Attic- \olnulv knows he stands alone Soundtrack album from the film. Chad and Mothers of this boy cry half the night Jeremy's songs, particularly "Paxton Quig- Hememhering 'omorrow was the day they must begin his last i lev's Had the Course'" are delightful. Side llis body lies up the hill in its ground two features background music, also by Chad and I his life seemed so short anil harmless. Jeremy. Pleasant, non-stimulating, music-for- an-afternoon. W arring games should be played in the snow Wv little children. COLUMBIA. "Faces" Disappointing soundtrack: an album for those who want to recall the visual experience of the film. Vocals on Side one are the '" — 10 fjsSH>d !K» tening. Much of the album is padded with music not in the film Inoffensive but gen¬ erally boring. The world runs on its circular track dropping Chicago CAPITOL. "Canterbury Tales" and other places in and out of time, Original Broadway cast album. The best and timely material is Chaucer's own. as Martvn Chiseling its meaning into something or other. Green's reading of the Prologue and Epi¬ Some ones of us go carefully to the guard rail logue attests. The music is dull, although cleaning the little window to watch the goings on. Richard Hill's and John Hawkins' blending of modern Other ones of us build our little tools with which pop and medieval rhythms and harmonies often almost succeeds. Not recom¬ we break windows, guard rails. Build windows, guard rails. mended for listening to if you haven't seen the Broadway production. -by Wm. 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" better send an ambulance too. and then I hang All morning I've been silting in my room lis¬ I was in the shower." up and try to decide what I can do with the little tening to that rain and knowing damn well that "Oh. OK. kid. I wonder if I should give him artificial see you.'' this was going to be a Sunday that might as well "Click.' I turn around to go back to the bath¬ respiration? I lean over him. trying to remem¬ be slept through, but I can't sleep. I pace room and just happen to look out the window- ber how to od this, let's see, tilt the head back, around and smoke and look out the window at as 1 go by it What's the big kid doing now'.' when he starts sputtering and opens his eyes. my old Harlev sitting under that plastic drv- Hev! What's he doing'.' Hey. kid. don't do that. I'm glad, real glad, and I notice that the old cleaning bag and I keep getting tenser and ten¬ He's gonna burn down the garage. He can't do lady's OK now. too. I look to see if I've cut ser so when that rain finally stops I go outside that, his brother's in there I can't believe this. my arm and. by damn, it's OK. not a mark, but and sit on the porch. 1 light up a smoke and look I'm looking out and that big kid has got the idiot my chest is singed and it smarts a little. Now. around the neighborhood and nothing much is vyhere's that big kid. Wait till I get my hands bringing piles of paper over to the side of,the happening except across the street where those garage where the kid is throwing them on a fire on him. three kids is torturing that little black dog. The right next to the side of the building. You can't I go outside and there they are. the big- kid older kill should know better and I feel like go¬ do that. Your brother's in there. Hev! and the idiot, watching the garage burn down. ing over there and telling him to quit, by God. I grab my pants and pull them on and run The idiot's never seen anything like this before, pulling that dog's tail, but the dog finally gets downstairs and outside, still wet and cold. By and his mouth is hanging down and from the up enough sense to go smell bushes someplace now. that fire's really growing, gonna take up look on his face I can tell that there's a million else. the side of the garage any minute. I get over thoughts in his head trying to get out. He's there and never, just look at it burn, seen anything like pick up a newspaper and roll it up I look up and the sky's starting to clear up and and start this. The big kid sees me coming and starts to smac king the fire and the little bas¬ I'm thinking that maybe, just maybe, it might tards just stand there. I kick the papers away make a run for it just as the Volunteer Fire clear up all together and the sun will come out. from the building, but the garage is beyond Department drives up in front of the house Across the street the kids are fighting with and starts unloading their gear. I run up and help. I gotta get that kid out. I pull the garage each other now. or at least the little one's fight¬ door but it's stuck. The big kid must have locked grab the kid and shake him. ing with the idiot. The big one likes to handle it. Boy. he's playing for keeps. There's a side "What." I get mad just looking at him. "did these matters, likes to make sure they don't kill door to the garage but it's locked too. and I you start that fire for°" each other, anyway. Likes to be the idiot's keep¬ look through the door window and the garage "I was gonna get him out in a minute." he er. kinda. I feel sorry for that idiot kid. He's is full of smoke. There's Bobby, banging on the says. one of those flat faced and fat kinda idiots, the garage door and coughing and crying and "Whv'd you start it°" I ask him again, but he ones that don't ever say anything but look at you screaming. I push my fist through the door win¬ doesn't answer and I start yelling at him. like they're just waiting on a thought to come dow and reach down and turn the lock from the "Why? Your brother was in there." along any minute now and don't go away be¬ inside, trying to keep from cutting off my And then he starts crying and looks up at me cause it 's comin if they can just think of what it damn arm. I find the lock and give it a turn I calm myself down and ask him again. "Why"'" was. But I feel sorry for him because I'd heard and then bring my hand back out and open the He stops crying long enough to suck in his somewhere that they don't live too long and he door. The smoke jumps out and I can see that nose. "So I could save him." he savs. wasn't really a bad kid. He came over once to the roof is burning away on the other side of the watch me cleaning my bike. Just stood behind garage. I think the little kid's been overcome, me for about an hour and watched every move because he's laying down now. and I pick him and finally when I start it up he begins mak¬ up and run out and run into their house. NOT UNTIL THEN ing this noise, like he's humming with his mouth "Hey. anybody in here'.''' I'm yelling this over open and I look at him and he's moaning like and over, holding Bobby in my arms and trying all get out so I shut it off and he stops. I had to decide where to run next when I hear an an¬ I used to walk around and round to wait until his mama called him home before swer. with my eyes fixed on the ground I could start it again and go for a ride. It just "Who is it0" She's kinda singing it. made me feel bad to make the kid cry like that. It's your neighbor. Call the fire department. until I ran into a tree Your garage is on fire and your kid's been over¬ bumped my head and skinned my knee. So. they're fighting over there and I decide, with smoke." well, if it 's pojuia Quit raining, mavho I cari.ri.de come tkq.OIH iv>.a< Geq^it was a v.m '■ ^ .rr-iJKoifie *>