Miami Hurricane, October 9, 1970

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meeting on the patio was proposed by sophomore representative David Smith, who requested that all rules be suspended Monday to let stu-dents participate freely throughout the session.
Council, however, accepted an amendment to the motion which will limit gallery discussion to open forum after the regular business session.
The amendment was proposed by senior representative Reid Brown.
Most objection to suspending the rules entirely was raised because representatives said it would be difficult to conduct regular business.
Some councilmen thought suspending the rules entirely for one meeting would have been a good experiment, ¡however.
One person in the gallery suggested that USG meetings be held each week at different campus locations in order to let more students see USG in action.
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After the vote to hold Monday’s meeting on the patio, council voted to form a committee that will look into the possibility of arranging a USG-sponsored peace festival within three weeks.
Sophomore representative
Steve Chaykin proposed the festival as an afternoon of entertainment and an explanation and discussion of the charges pending against several UM black students for sitting in at the Financial Aid Office last February.
Chaykin said the festival
would educate students through discussion with involved faculty members and administrators. He said students would take up a collection during the festival to help pay for the black students’ legal fees.
Junior Representative Joe Neureuter questioned Chaykin on how he planned to prevent the festival from getting out of hand.
Interfraternity Council President Ron Stone said the
festival would open the door to people outside the university community. He said USG should take strict precautions.
“I agree with Mr. Stone,” Neureuter said. “No matter how objective or sincere you are, it will get chaotic.”
Finally the proposal was tabled until a committee could meet to make all arrangements and discuss security precautions. The com-
mittee is expected to report its findings to council next week.
At the end of this week’s council meeting USG President Mark Krasnow set up a committee at the request of senior representative Bill Liz-ewski to form a UM student-tenant union. Lizewski proposed that the committee produce a landlord “black list” that will aid off-campus students in their relations with apartment house owners.
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Voi. 46, No. 7
Friday, October 9, 1970
284-4401
4On his own initiative Gropp undertook to reaffirm the procedures by which tenure is granted’—Henry King Stanford
4It wasn9t a policy bulletin. My friend in thei College of Arts and Sciences made a polie; bulletin out of it’—Armin Gropp
4Gropp Wrote Tenure Memo’
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Dean of Faculties Dr, pnin Gropp presented his fe of the faculty tenure me-Srandum controversy ’ednesday afternoon at a ssion of the UM Academic >und Table in the Ibis cafe-ria.
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Gropp said. “I’ve worked pretty hard for academic freedom programs at this institution.”
Gropp added that, “Academic freedom is identical to academic responsibility.
“People are extremely sensitive about tenure, as they should he. They (faculty members) interpret this their way because of fear of reprisal at the tenure level.”
Gropp also remarked that he didn’t feel tenured faculty should be free from review. “They should be reviewed after four or five years,” he said.
Gropp cited the SUMMON program as a “component of the peace movement” which was doing something constructive at UM.
When Dr. Gropp was asked if he felt the Concerned Faculty had been instrumental in keeping peace at last Spring’s demonstrations he said, “Very much so. I worked with them then, and I’ll work with them again.”
“He was instrumental,” affirmed Dr. Shepard Faber, Coordinator of the Physical Science Department and member of the Concerned Faculty
“I was the guy that the Concerned Faculty came to first for a solution to the problem of ending the semester last Spring,” Gropp said.
Gropp also noted that in the last paragraph of his memo, “I isolated three items — arson, bombing, and looting,” and added that he did not refer to dissent or protest that was peaceful.
Gropp also took issue with the title of “Policy Bulletin 28-70” that was at the top of the letter circulated by Dean Louis McQuitty, as the original statement issued by Gropp’s office had been in the form of an inter-office memo.
“It wasn’t a policy bulletin. My friend in the College of Arts and Sciences made a policy bulletin out of it, he said.
Dean McQuitty issued the memo in the form of a policy bulletin and said he did so because “The way I transmit any directive to the lower echelons is as a policy directive. I included it as policy in the sense that we use that (policy) in this college.”
When Dean McQuitty was asked if he felt the section that mentioned “the national pattern in which tenured faculty have openly supported, or led, various student (and non-student) elements in acts of disruption, violence, and destruction . . • referred to UM he said, “It wasn t up to me to interpret it.’
“I’m like a coach — the Monday morning quarter-hacks are all over me, Gropp said.
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—Photo by WARREN ACKER
Dean Robert Allen of Continuing Education Makes His Point
... before Academic Goals Commission
Community Inter-Play Needed for UM Future
By JOHN REILLY
Of The Hurricane Staff
“The problem of UM and the community is a complex and perplexing problem,” Dr. Earl Wiener, member of the Commission on Academic Goals said here Wednesday.
Speaking at the second open hearing of the Commission on Academic Goals Wiener said it is a problem of more action and involvement in the community versus the concept of the ivory tower and uninvolvement.
Wiener described the theme of the open hearing as what the University’s obligation is to the community.
“To survive as a private university, UM must have local and state support; we can only get that support through community involvement,” Dean Robert Allen of Continuing Education said.
Dean Allen said that in the future two out of three adults will engage in some form of adult education.
“UM must be there to fill that need,” Allen said. “The adults will come back to the school of second chance and that is the school of Continuing Education.”
Allen said the school of Continuing Education has had 38-40,000 separate registrations in the past year for the programs Continuing Education offers.
Continuing Education has an extensive program in non-credit courses including bridge, square dancing and astrology.
Dean Allen said these noncredit programs use UM facilities that normally would
not be used at night; thus they help pay for lighting and other costs of the university.
“We are contributing money to UM, not taking it out,” Allen said. “If we provide quality programs we can compete with public institutions.”
Dr. Carl McKenry of the Center for Urban Studies outlined three areas in which the university must take part in the community or lose the support of the Greater Miami area.
The three areas of community involvement he outlined were:
• Academic programs that relate to the community such as the internship pro-
grams in several schools at UM.
•	Research in academic areas and its relationship to the community.
•	Community research as it relates to community service.
Dr. McKenry would like to see the internships expanded and the resumption of the urban workships.
He also supports the “university of the streets,” a program started by a UM graduate to provide a place of learning for high school dropouts.
Ron Delans, USG Secretary of Academic Affairs suggested a Dean of Community Affairs which would coordinate the student-faculty involvement in the community.
By ELIZABETH OSTROFF
Assistant News Editor
UM President Henry King Stanford laid the responsibility for the last paragraph of the tenure memorandum printed in Tuesday’s Hurricane on Dean of Faculties Dr. Armin Gropp. The statement came in a letter issued Wednesday by Dr. Stanford.
“I know of no directive given by this office or by any member of the Board of Trustees to Dr. Gropp to write the memorandum,” Stanford said. “On his own initiative he under-took to reaffirm the procedures by which tenure is granted at the University of Miami.”
The last paragraph read in part, “This reiteration of the responsibility of the Board in the award of tenure is most understandable in view of the national pattern in which tenured faculty have openly supported, or led, various student (and non-student) elements in acts of disruption, violence and destruction — including arson, bombing , and looting.”
In an interview with ’Cane staffer and Peace South Executive Board member Jeff Wollman, Dr. Stanford said “The last paragraph in Dr. Gropp’s memorandum is a kind of obiter dictum, a statement incidental to the purpose of the memorandum in which the Dean of Faculties expressed his views, some of which I do not share. In my opinion there is no ‘national pattern’ of tenured faculty complicity in campus violence.”
In regard to academic freedom, Dr. Stanford told Wollman that “there will be no interference with the expressions of political opinions and no reprisals against anyone who has expressed such opinions.”
“If the Board of Trustees ever denied tenure for political reasons alone, I would certainly resign as president of this university.”
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Stanford Discusses Tenure
President Henry King Stanford and Dr. Armin Gropp, dean of the faculties, will discuss “The Awarding of Tenure” on October 15, at 8:00 p.m. in the International Lounge of the Student Union.
Also appearing will be Dean of Arts and Sciences Louis McQuitty, Professor Charles Eyre, local president of the American Association of University Professors, and a member of the board of trustees.
The student body will be represented by members from the UM Gadflies and the Hurricane.
Stanford Reconfirms Free Speech Policy
UM Bomb Threat Target
By MARK BERMAN
Hurricane News Editor
The UM Memorial Classroom Building was target of a bomb threat this week, which resulted in an investigation by the Metro Bomb Squad early Wednesday morning.
The Coral Gables Police Department received a letter Monday saying that the Memorial Building would be bombed on Wednesday.
The building was searched on Monday and Tuesday, but on Wednesday police found a “suspicious-looking object about the size of a 2-lb. candy box.”
The bomb squad was called and found that the object contained no explosive devices.
The “mysterious object” was discovered at about 6:40 a.m. in the second floor men’s room of the north wing.
The building was examined and
cleared and classes began as usual at 8 a.m.
According to Sgt. Lew Mertz, public information officer of the Coral Gables Police Department, the letter is being analyzed and an investigation will continue.
Mertz estimates that there have been approximately 25 bomb threats around the Coral Gables community in the past three years.
UM has been plagued by several bombing incidents and threats during the past two years.
Last year there was an attempt to bomb an Army truck at the armory near the 1968 Resident Complex. A plastic explosive also damaged part of the air-conditioning building behind the campus computer center last year.
In 1969 a bomb went off in the office of the Dean of Men, causing minor damage.
The following is the statement issued by UM President Henry King Stanford concerning Tuesday’s publication of the Gropp-McQuitty letter on faculty tenure.
As long as I am President of the University of Miami there will be no interference with the expression of political opinions by anyone; nor will there be any reprisals conducted against anyone for expressing political opinions. As I have said continuously, the University must ever be hospitable to an infinite variety of views, depending upon competition among them as the surest way to, and safeguard of, truth.
This principle has not remained idle speculation; it has been carried out dramatically in the appearance on campus, during my tenure as President, of such widely differing speakers as Herbert Aptheker, Barry Goldwater, Dick Gregory, William Buck-ley, Benjamin Spock, Strom Thurmond, Martin Luther King, Jr., A1 Capp, Richard M. Nixon, Edmund Muskie, Roy Wilkins, David Brinkley, Jackie Gleason, Jules Pfeiffer, to name a few.
Neither during the time I have been here nor, to the best of my knowledge, prior to my arrival, has there been denial to tenure to anyone on the basis of political views. In fact, not once has the Board of Trustees failed to approve any of my recommendations on tenure.
I know of no directive given by this office or by any member of the Board of Trustees to Dr. Gropp to write the memorandum. On his own initiative he undertook to reaffirm the procedures by which tenure is granted at the University of Miami. Recommendations for tenure are initiated in the department where the candidate’s tenured colleagues, equal or superior in rank to that of the candidate, vote on the matter. The Charter for
Faculty Government specifies that this vote be based on scholarly and professional qualifications. This decision is transmitted through the dean of the school the the Dean of Faculties along with
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Shepard Faber
. . . after answers
Forum Set On Fridays
By IRIS HOROWITZ
Of The Hurricane Staff
University Forum, under the direction of Dr. Shepard Faber, is going to set aside Friday afternoons to invite students and university and community leaders to get together and encourage the honest exchange of ideas in a pastoral, informal setting near the Botany building.
“We’re going to invite experts who relate to the issue at hand who can express professional opinion and offer answers,” Faber said.
University Forum was organized three years ago with the financial aid of the Faculty Senate and UM administration. Their aid provides the budget which allows publicity and speakers.
University Forum has been involued with a variety of programs which (resemble) the Gadflies, an informal session
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