Other Voices Need Heed
Recent disclosure of a considerable amount of faculty concern
over high rise building plans indicates that a fairly important voice
has not had sufficient say in physical planning.
Faculty members, after all, are
the experts in the field of college
teaching. They are the ones who
will have to function within the
walls of the new structures planned
and approved by administrators.
Perhaps too much thought has
been given to the efficient use of
the space aspect of the building
plan and not enough to considerations of its functional aspects in
terms of the teaching process.
Tall towers, architectually attractive and efficient in terms of
seating space per student per acre,
are of little real value to the University if they provide serious roadblocks to the interchange of ideas
among scholars. This interchange
is indeed the heart of higher education.
We are most concerned, however, with the apparent failure to
include sufficient faculty opinion
in the early stages of planning for
the complex and in the formulation

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of the general physical development plan.
It may be true, as proponents
of the complex claim, that faculty
members are overrating the difficulties of the complex in inhibiting
student-facultinterchange, but
raised certainly seem
objections
worthy of consideration. They
should have been considered at the
heart of the planning process, before final plans were drawn and
contracts let. Would an architect
outside the educational market fail
to consult with tenants of a structure he was building concerning
functional aspects of the design?
We fear the entire physical development plan reflects too much
a "business" point of view with
main impetus for the planning
coming from the financial offices
rather than the faculty and students.
Before the University thrusts
vigorously into the implementation of the campus physical development plan it should painfully retrace an overlooked
of faculty and student
ideas in developing the building
theme of the future.
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Roadblocks To Progress
American Association of
which

Murray's

for University Professors rather fell

out of step with its sister chapters
on other "university" campuses
throughout the nation.
By approving the action of the
Trustees at Western in dismissing
three students for publication of
an article critical of the college
in an
magazine, the
AAUP seemed to endorse
Murray
a stand contrary to the leanings
of the national organization.
off-camp-

The organization, specifically its
committee on student academic
freedom, continually has emphasized the students' right to free
expression of his ideas whether it
be oral, published, or broadcast.
The committee also has emphasized
rights of due process for discipline

clearly
students, rights
were violated in the Western case.
The various governing groups
of the state's
must realize that with
status they must lead
university
inevitably to an attack on the
"we don't want no outside agitators here" philosophy as dear to
the hearts of some administrators
as the title of university.
The new universities must
realize they are open prey for the
watchful eye and public comment
of all, students included.
The sooner faculty members and
administrators realize this open
search is an essential point to a
full education, the sooner these
institutions can begin to develop
a real atmosphere of modern universities.
colleges-turned-universiti-

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Letters To The Editor

Miss Holroyd's Dismissal

Draws Student's Protest
To the Editor of the Kernel:
I am distressed to hear of the
dismissal of a teacher who has
contributed so much to the Music

Department and has greatly influenced her students. SaraHolroyd
is one of the finest teachers I have
had here and no one else has
established such rapport with the
students.
The University has tried to rid
itself of the image as a "party
School" and has been reasonably
successful. If Miss Holroyd leaves,
there will be a gap in the music
education program that will be
hard to fill. It will not be easy
to find someone who can establish

the relationship she had with us.
Our loss will be someone else's
gain, for she will go to some other
school immediately.
I do not know if her leaving
is part of this "publish or perish"
kick or not. But if she leaves,

many students who are receiving
fine training now and would have
later will go elsewhere due to our
lack.
hope my letter will help influence the College of Arts and
Sciences to ask a tremendous
teacher to stay.
WINIFRED ANN JOHNSON
Music Education Senior
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U.S.

Passport Policy

Freedom to travel is a basic
right particularly dear to world-rovin- g
Americans. This attitude
underlies the current controversy
over the State Department's request to two United States embassies to keep watch over the
movements of a Harvard professor
when he goes to Europe this fall.
Does the granting of a passas
port justify such a follow-u- p
shadowing the holder of it as he
goes about his business abroad?
The United States Supreme Court
has ruled on other limitations of
the right to travel, but not specifically on this question. Sen.
Edward M. Kennedy (D) of Massachusetts has done well to question
the propriety of surveillance of
Prof. H. Stuart Hughes of Harvard
as he has in a letter to Secretary
of State Dean Rusk.
It is an issue deserving full
public discussion. The call for the
check on Professor Hughes' movements abroad was issued by the
Passport Office of the State Department at the request of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Why? Some years ago the Passport Office had raised questions

about the Harvard historian's attitude toward communism, but he
had made three trips to Europe
since. He attributed the FBI's concern at this time to his recent
criticism of administration policy
in Vietnam.
The State Department will do
well to establish clearer guidelines
for those of its staff who handle
passport policy, in accord with
Secretary Rusk's new plan. Supreme Court decisions have affirmed the right to "freedom of
movement," lifting a ban on Communists which was enforced for
some years. But this has not prevented restrictions as to the countries to be visited, nor the right
of the State Department to
"shadow" those to whom it
grants passports.
Some controls are necessary in
times of war and national emergency. The important thing is that
they be used with restraint and
not employed to harass citizens
on unproven charges of communism as was done in the McCarthy
era.
The Christian Science Monitor

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