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outsiders to duty
will be evaluated by a faculty against calling
on ad hoc committees, the presiBy FRANK BROWNING
committee assigned to one of four
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areas: biological and medical know
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what credit is given to an
"It should be left to the stuhumanities and the arts,
sciences,
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Vindividual's work outside his indents whether or not the faculty
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physical and engineering scien- stitution.
member stays or goes. I would
and the social sciences.
ces,
be in favor of a student com"Cf course, they could never
This area committee will often make
mittee having a voice in chosing
judgments on a man's
all new professors.
request that the president appoint teaching
he said. "We
ability,"
an ad hoc review committee, a
"The administration should
must accept that responsibility,
confidential and strictly anonyexist to serve students as a proand these opinions must come
mous body to evaluate the varicedural mechanism to run the
from within the University."
ous criteria in regard to the inphysical plant of the university,
dividual.
advise students, and raise money,
At Harvard, ad hoc commitminority opinions to the chairtees which pass on a promotion
students, in conjunction with the
DR. JOHN OSWALD
man of the area committee, and to
faculty, should make all major
must tection
permanent appointment
against mediocrity and ir- decisions."
the area committee in turn subinclude distinguished scholars in
mits a final report to the PresThese are the views of Ed
the candidate's field from out side responsibility.
However, in almost every re- Hamlet, "traveler" for the Southident's office..' Based upon these Harvard. Here at the
University,
naern Student Organizing Commitjudgments, Dr. Oswald submits there is no clause which makes cent incident throughout the
tion, the flaw is apparently in the tee (SSOC) which, he says, "is
his recommendation to the Board it mandatory that scholars from
of evaluation, rather
of Trustees.
unique in the South in that it
outside be a part of these com- yardstick
than the tenure system.
is the only organization which
mittees.
Ad hoc committees, because
The University's system is has as its purpose working with
of their secret nature and their
much like that at other instituall students for social change."
But much of the concern arousreliance upon experts in the
ed by the "hows" of evaluation tions, since it follows the outline
Hamlet, a graduate of Union
field from outside the
centers around the tenure issue. suggested by the American AssoUniversity in Jackson, Tenn., is
institution, are apparently one Professors want the
ciation of University Professors
a full time employee of SSOC.
security that
stimulus which cause opponents tenure
(AAUP). After seven years, inSSOC was established as the reprovides. Generally, once
to bring charges of "publish or tenure is
cluding time served at other unisult of a conference of 45 stugiven the teacher's poperish" against administrators.
sition is secure until he retires or versities, a faculty member dent leaders who met at the
should be granted tenure or asked invitation of Vanderbilt Uni
Such committees are nothing goes elsewhere.
to leave. Some professors coming
new at UK; but, as one dean
On the other hand, tenure from other institutions may be
pointed out, they were not relied can be abused. Methods of evalrequired to serve a probationary
on quite so heavily until the presuation, administrators believe, period of not more than four
ent system was formalized.
will provide a measure of pro- - years.
are not secret just for
"They
the sake of being secret," Dr.
Oswald said. He added that a
man who is asked to judge imUnder New Management
partially the merits of another
man in his same profession must
OPEN TUESDAY thru SATURDAY
be free of pressure, and be assured that what he says will not
FEATURING THE MUSIC OF
later cause friction between him"THE 700 POUNDS OF SOUND"
self and other members of the fa1. Hitting the books?
With TONY WALLACE
culty.
No, I was just
Jam Session Every Saturday from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Commenting on the argument
thinking about what

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SSOC's states its goals in a
bulletin as:
"We hereby take our stand
to start with college communities and to confront them and
their surrounding communities
and to move from here out
through all the states of the
South and to tell the Truth that
must ultimately make us free. The
Freedom movement for an end
to segregation inspires us all to
make our voices heard for a beginning of true democracy in the
South for all people."
SSOC's specific goals are:
Hamlet said that a major concern of SSOC in academic freedom and about the "social and
academic paternalism that permeates almost all colleges. Students whom the university serves
have no voice in decisions which
affect them. The university sets
policies. Perhaps the lucky
school has an administration that
acts as a benevolent despot, but
in many places that is not the
case."
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