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Vol. LXV No. 80
Friday, November 30, 1973

an independent student newspaper

University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY. 40506

 

Flawed tapes

create
controversy

in court

By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON —Presidential lawyer J.
Fred Buzhardt said Thursday he thought
there was “no innocent explanation" for
an 18-minute voice-killing buzz in one of
the Watergate tapes until he succeeded in
nearly duplicating the sound.

As the testimony on the flawed tape
continued in federal court, special
Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski said
he was studying the possiblity of asking
that all White House tapes—recorded
continuously for more than two years—be
turned over to the court for safekeeping.

“I think if I were the White House,"
Jaworski said, “I would like to see them
placed in custody so that there couldn‘t be
anything happening to them."

THE WHITE HOUSE said later that
Jaworski‘s suggestion that all tapes be
placed in custody was “just nonsense.”

Seven of the tapes required by a sub-
poena because they are thought to bear on
the Watergate cover-up—and three sub-
mitted voluntarily by the White House—-
already are in custody of US. District
Judge John J. Sirica, who has expressed
fears about their safety.

A White House spokesman said,
meanwhile, that all seven tapes are intact
and claimed that the staff Jaworski
inherited from fired special prosecutor
Archibald Cox, but not Jaworski, sdisplay
“ingrained suspicion and visceral dislike
for this President and this ad-
ministration." -

BUZHARDT SAID he ran the recorder
used by President N ixon’s secretary, Rose
Mary Woods, next to her switched-on
selectric typewriter and a high-intensity

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lamp and “we got a very similar sound” to
the 18—minute buzz.

The White House claims the segment
was obliterated when the recording button
on the machine was depressed while it was
in the proximity of the typewriter and
lamp. Miss Woods testified she may have
accidentally pushed the record button, but
for about five minutes and not 18.

Experts selected by the White House and
the Watergate prosecutor will begin
examining the 10 tapes Monday for
possible alteration, at the same time
seeking the cause of the gap in the Sept. 20,
1972 tape and new conversationless spots

disclosed by Buzhardt Wednesday.

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THE WHITE HOUSE spokesman, Press
Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler, noted reports
of the conversationless spots in saying the
seven subpoenaed tapes are intact. He
attributed some of the White House
problems in handling subpoenaed
materials to an overworked White House
staff and also to “somewhat sloppy” work
on the part of the prosecutor’s staff in
preparing subpoenas.

The buzz in the June 20 tape—a time
when the prosecutor believes Nixon may
have discussed the Watergate affair with
aides John D. Ehrlichman 'and HR.
Haldeman—is in two distinct levels.

 

University

not affected
by market
decfine

By RON MITCHELL
Kernel Staff Writer

News In Brlet

I, the AW Preee
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eFord approved

‘ e War continues
e Economy shrinks
00H for Vietnam
eArabia's all cut
OExecutive killed

e Today's weather....

THE CURRENT DECLINE in the stock
market will have no immediate effect upon
corporate stock held by the University
although the market price is on the down
side for some of the holdings.

The stocks are held for a sustained in-
vestment period, and although the price
may fluctuate, the result at the end of the
long-term period will determine the
success or failure of the investment, ac-
cording to Clay Maupin, assistant
University treasurer.

Maupin handles the day-to-day
management and monitoring of both the
stocks and other University investments.
Actions on corporate stocks are stipulated
by the Board of Trustees investment
committee but carried out by Maupin.

THE ASSISTANT TREASURER follows
policy and procedures established by the
committee to purchase and disperse of
other University investments, including

0 WASHINGTON The House
Judiciary Committee voted 29 to 8 Thur-
sday in favor of House Republican Leader
Gerald R. Ford's nomination to be vice
president.

Overwhelming approval is assured when
the House takes final action on the
nomination next Thursday. The Senate
confirmed Ford 92 to 3 last Tuesday.

OWASIIINGTON Israeli and
Egyptian negotiators broke off their truce
talks Thursday. Mortar shells thudded and
machine gum chattered only about two
miles from the conference tent on the
Cairo-Suez road.

e WASHINGTON -— The energy crisis

. will push the nation’s economy down to

near-recession levels next year and force
the unemployment rate up to nearly six
per cent, President Nixon's chief
economist Herbert Stein said Thursday.

certificates of deposit, federal government

securities and federal agency securities.
These are referred to as fixed income type
securities.

After Maupin takes action on a certain
fixed income type security, he files a
complete report with the committee. He
noted all of the decisions must fall within
the realm of policies and procedures
established by the body.

“The differential between the actual
market value and the original cost is not
evaluated at one—, two- or six-month in-
tervals, but we look at the value in-
crease over the sustained period," Maupin
said.

”IN THIS bear market our market value
has decreased but we feel our diver-
sification by industry and by security is
sufficient that we are in good order,” he
explained.

e WASHINGTON — Despite anticipated
fuel shortages at home, the United States
is continuing to send oil to its allies in
South Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand,
the Pentagon said Thursday.

Officials said the Arab oil embargo has
reduced the amounts the United States can
deliver, but emphasized the policy of
providing fuel remains unchanged, at least
for now.

CLONDON Saudi Arabia's oil
minister promised Thursday that Britain,
France and Spain would be exempt from a
5 per cent cut in oil production that Arab
states plan in January.

Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani told a news
conference the three countries were
among the nations the Arabs View as
”friendly.”

Most of the corporate investments have
been pooled to provide for greater
diversification and security should a
particular industry take a sharp decline.
The overall impact would not be too great
due to the diversification, Maupin said.

The corporate bonds are actually en-
dowment funds-most were given to the
University by estate settlements, par-
ticularly that of the late T.T. Jones—and
the dividends and profits realized are put
into student aid.

MAUPIN EXPLAINED when a stock is
purchased (the University still purchases
a few corporate bonds as the result of
dividends and liquification of others), the
committee establishes a price objective
for future maturity. A reassessment is
later made and if the first objective has
been realized, usually a higher rate is
established.

Continued on Page to

OBUENOS AIRES, Argentina — The
Ford Motor Co. has secretly moved 25 of
its U .S. executives and their families out of
Argentina to a vacation resort in neigh-
boring Uruguay, informed sources said
Thursday.

An American executive of a Ford sub-
sidiary here was assassinated last week by
terrorists.

...tun in the sun

Warm weather will return once again to
save some more energy before winter
finally sets in. The skies will be partly
cloudy today with a high near 60. The low
tonight should be near 40. The high
Saturday should be in the 605, so have fun
in the sun while the warm weather is still
here.

 

  

 

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It is time to accept
President's challenge

With each new scandalous revelation, President Nixon
seems to dare the American people to remove him from
office. It is time the citizenry met his challenge, and
spurred Congress into action.

It is obvious that the House, recently renounced for its do-
nothing posture, isn’t going to undertake impeachment
proceedings until people threaten representatives with
removal from office.

One can’t blame the co‘untry for feeling a bit queezy about
vice president-designate Gerald Ford's possible ascen-
dancy to President. His dull, unimaginative record in
Congress doesn’t inspire a nation sadly in need of moral
leadership in the highest level of government. That Ford is
a basically honest man (since he seems to lack the
capability for detailed criminal thinking) at least brands
him as a fit substitute for Nixon. The President, America
has found is very much at home on the shady side of the law.

His attacks on the press, the economy, political op-
ponents, and American allies have labeled Nixon as a man
incapable of leading this country along the path marked by
the Founding Fathers. Nixon, instead, has led America
through the swamps of illegality, suspicion, vindictiveness,
and coercion.

Gerald Ford, if he is ever allowed to replace Nixon, may
take a while getting the White House back in order.
Hopefully, he would have the good sense to surround
himself with competent advisers, who could help him ex-
tricate the country from the worst moral corruption in its

  

  

 

DONEIUT...‘ ‘

LCN’CIS

 

Much to be done

As a new student senator, I am very
excited about the new possibilities of
working for the students of this great
university.

There is much to be done: budget cut-
backs, dorm-lifestyle living, Appeals
Board, etc. All these important issues face
the Senate and the students.

But it is important that we work together
to solve thsese issues. Granted the
majority of the students feel that their
voice is not heard and nothing can be done.
Well, let me assure you, nothing is ever
accomplished with that kind of attitude. I
believe that the Senate if motivated can
accomplish many things.

Life demands that some things we do
will not be successful. However, I feel to
try is an accomplishment.

Therefore, this is a call to the general
student who usually would say or do
nothing. I seek your comment on any

issue, new or old, and I seek your solutions
to these problems.

Please do not hesitate to call 255-5642 or
drop by—460 Hilltop Ave. so I can hear
your comments.

Michael Bewiey
Senator-at-Large
A & S—Junior

Letters policy

Letters to the editor may concern any
topics as long as the content of the letters
is not libelous. However, so everyone has
an equal opportunity to respond, we ask
that you limit letters to 250 words. We also
ask that they be typewritten and
triplespaced for the convenience of the
typesetters. All letters must be signed.
including campus address, telephone
number and classification. Each letter will
be restricted to two authors; thou with
more than two signees will be signed “and
others.”

 

history.

One way to tackle a gossip columnl

BEVERLY HILLS—Joyce Haber said it
had once happened to Irene Dunne, but it
was still a minor humiliation to be barred
by the Hertz Rent-A-Cop. On the other side
of the door were Hollywood’s most
powerful executives, their wives, both
young and old, Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra
and the lesser others.

Her place in the hierarchy was restored
when two major studio presidents opened
the way for her so the gossip columnist of
the Los Angeles Times could enter the
room with those who would sit at the
testimonial dinner for one of their mem-
bers. One of her two assistants was
already inside working the crowd for
news items for her five-times-a-week
column so there was no need for her to pay
attention to Darren McGavin complaining
that the velvet evening slippers his wife
had bought him made his feet hurt.

In the days when there were Hollywood
moguls you could imagine these people
paying court to Hedda Hopper or Louella
Parsons. With their columns syndicated in
hundreds of papers, they could help make
or break a movie. Now, as one producer
remarked, when the industry is primarily
dependent on TV, and on blacks and on
whites under 25 for movie audiences,
Joyce Haber has no such power.

STILL. SHE is big in Los Angeles.
Closely knit industries centered in one
’own respond to gossip columnists. The

Times provides Haber as the Washington
Post does Evans and Novak.

Joyce Haber gotwhere she is by years of
hard effort.

In the early 50’s she got a job on the clip
desk of Time magazine because she’d been
smart enough not to learn how to type.
Clippings have been an inseparable part of
her professional life ever since. In her
impressive. Beverly Hills house—which is
really more of a compound with its
separate building containing a private
screening room—she has perhaps 20 filing
cases of clips, all about the people she
writes of, all collected through years of
tenacity.

At Time she was promoted to being a
researcher where they had her looking up
facts for the business section of the
magazine. ”I did it ’til I got a rash,” she
says, and then adds, “but I never made a
mistake. For me it was like never getting a
run in your stocking.” This fidelity to the
goal of accuracy has stayed with her so
that she resents any suggestion of error.

FROM BUSINESS she transferred to
books, “largely because the men smoked
cigars and they wanted a person who
didn‘t object to their smell.” Ultimately
she was moved to show business and from
New York to here where she covered
Hollywood for the magazine before being
hired by the Times. She has earned her
way into the dozens of newspapers that
print her column.

 

Nlcholas Von Hoffman

Kin. natures Syndicate

 

Her home publication is an enormously
rich, good, gray paper that made a stab at
being great in the 60’s but lacked the back»
bone to carry it off. Now it is a decent,
timid organ of large power and little
imagination, respected and respectable,
and conservative, politically and jour-
nalistically. Yet it has a Joyce Haber:
that is, a participant journalist engaged in
thelives of the people she writes about in a
manner that is now ethically out of style in
our big Eastern papers.

There may be no other way to write a
gossip column; but at the New York
Times, getting so close to the people you
cover that you feud with them in print
would be regarded as something ob-
noxious, something they do in the un-
derground press.

HABER, ON THE other hand. goes on
the Dean Martin show, hasa fight with him
about it and then lets him have it in her
column. She has another thing going with
Julie Andrews because “Julie said I should
have open-heart surgery and they should
go in through the feet. I wish I could
remember what I answered—it was
something about her being a Soho
waitress. Anyway, she’s moved to Swit-
zerland because she can’t get a job here.”

On one of the tables in her living rooms
there is a card that’s signed, “with per-
sonal appreciation for your generous

support of our 1972 campaign, Richard
Nixon.“

“I can’t believe i did it, but I gave $10,”
says Haber, who‘s turned against Nixon
now, although not enough to take down the
picture of’the two of them smiling at each
other. One whom she hasn’t turned against
is Henry Kissinger. She doesn’t mention
his name without using words like brilliant
and genius.

HENRY MUST RESPOND well to this
kind of treatment because she displays a
batch of postcards from him in Peking,
Moscow and who knows where else. Of
those proud mementoes she says, “He
calls Jill St. John on the phone all the time,
but I have something I can show people.”

She can also show them an admirable
career but if she gets her facts straight
their meaning seems to elude her. The
friend of businessmen, politicians and
movie stars, she can’t make much out of
them in print perhaps because she has
become as much of them as she is a
journalist; she feels herself being wat-
ched as much as she watches.

Certainly no detached reporter who
looks without being looked at could say. “I
get sick of having my nails done and my
hair done but you know if they take one bad
picture they use it forever. You know
damn well they’ll use the worst picture
they can get.” Nixon and Sinatra feel the
same way.

  

 

  

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Cars-can't live with them

 

can't live without them

By HENRY FORD ll
THE new YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE

DETROIT—The trouble with cars,
to adapt the old saying, is that you
can't live with them or without them.
We in Detroit are told that we pro-
duce an extravagant luxury that can
no longer be tolerated. We are ad-
monished, on the other hand, not to
push up the price of one of life’s
necessities.

Even before the Arab oil embargo,
policy makers and editorial writers
were concluding that one part of the
solution to the energy crisis, the
environmental crisis and the urban
crisis is to build mass transit with
highway funds and to persuade drivers
to walk, ride bicycles or take a train.
If it persists, the oil embargo will
force a sharp cut in car driving and it
has already added to the pressure to
change national policies in favor of
other ways of traveling.

New car sales in the U.S., on the
other hand, have increased by more
than a million a year during the past
two model years. Nearly one-third of
all American families now own at
least two cars, and 95 per cent of all
urban traveling is done by car. All of
this leads to several conclusions:

The first conclusion is that cars are
here to stay. The idea that cars are a
sex symbol or a status symbol foisted
on the public by the magic of adver-
tising is a myth. It would be hard to
find much sex or status in the Model T
—the car that started it all. Cars are
here to stay for the same reasons that
made the Model T successful—because
people enjoy and benefit enormously
from the ability to move freely when
and where they please.

The second conclusion is that cars
cause problems. They contribute to
air pollution. They use a lot of scarce
petroleum, They are involved in acci-
dents that kill or injure. They congest
the roads and get in each other's way
to an extent that often makes life
miserable.

The third conclusion follows from
the first two. Cars are going to
change. indeed, they are already
changing in ways that preserve per-
sonal mobility but help solve the prob-
lems they cause.

Cars are getting cleaner. 0n the
average, for example, three 1974 cars
produce less total emissions per mile

than were produced by one new car
in 1967. If present Government re-
quirements are maintained, it will take
six 1975 cars, twenty 1976 cars and
twenty-eight 1977 cars to produce
that same amount of total emissions.

Cars are getting smaller and hope-
fully will use less gasoline. Some say
there ought to be a law that would
force people to switch to smaller, more
efficient cars. I say, who needs a law
when people are already doing just
that. Consumers know that gasoline
will never again be as cheap and
abundant as it used to be. They are
buying small cars as fast as we can
build them and all the manufacturers
are expanding small car capacity and
developing new small cars.

Cars are getting safer as well as
cleaner and smaller. So far, the Gov-
ernment’s automotive safety program
has concentrated on vehicle standards
intended to improve the chances of
surviving an accident. A lot of prog-
ress has been made, but I think we’re
approaching the end of that road.

None of these changes will do much
to relieve traffic congestion or make it
easier to get around in cities. Obvious-
ly these problems can’t be solved just
by building more highways and park-
ing places for more cars. But neither
can they be solved just by forcing all
those drivers to take trains and buses.

Cars and mass transit are both here
to stay, but neither one is the best
possible answer to some of the im-
portant travel needs of today’s cities.
For all its flexibility, the car is not the
best possible way to get to or move
around in very busy places. For all
its efficiency in carrying large num-
bers of people along busy corridors.
mass transit is not flexible enough.

This leads to my final conclusion.
What we need and are now beginning
to see, in addition to cars and mass
transit, are new kinds of vehicles and
systems designed to carry people
quickly, conveniently and efficiently
where neither cars nor conventional
transit can do the job as well. As these
new systems are developed and built,
cars will become more useful than
ever because they will be used where
they work best.

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Legal precedent cited
in Senate coin flip

By MIKE WILSON
and
DAVID MUCCI

We as members of the Elections Board
feel compelled to present information and
considerations not presented in the Kernel
and to correct the erroneous reporting in
the recent editorial on Student Govern-
ment elections.

On November 15, 1973, a Kernel article
made public the Board's decision to grant
Wessel‘s and Cunningham’s request for a
recount. It was unnecessary and in-
feasible to notify all 36 candidates of the
exact time of the re-count, particularly
over Thanksgiving holidays. However,
both candidates who were affected by the
re-count were notified as soon as the
results were known.

A COIN FLIP was used to break the tie
for three reasons:

First, the coin flip has precendence for
breaking ties in all Kentucky county
elections according to KRS 118.400.

Second. a run-off vote would have
allowed those students who did not vote for
either Kleckner or Cunningham a 16th vote
and would have delayed seating the 15th
senator until sometime next spring.

THIRD. T0 follow the Kernel‘s
suggestion would have been illegal and
improper. Quoting the Kernel:

“The board's decision to break the tie
with a coin toss was another major
mistake added to a long list of blunders.
The committee should have done no more
than re-count the votes. The Senate, then,
would settle the tie."

The Board is required by the 86 con-
stitution to certify a winner. The Kernel's
suggested procedure would, therefore,
have been illegal. If we were to ignore the
legality of the issue and take it to the
Senate, two possible results could have
ensued. The Senate could have either
picked between a coin toss or a revote
(which is what the Elections Board did,
choosing the coin toss because of
precedence, equity and feasibility), or the
Senate could have picked the candidate
that they like best introducing par-
tisanship into the issue.

THE SENATE shold make provisions
for tie votes in the SG constitution.
Somehow the Kernel tries to make this
necessity seem like a bad thing and blame
it on the Elections Board or Student
Government. Finally, the Kernel ended
the editorial by attacking Senate at-
tendance records which has nothing to do

'with the recount or election procedures.

Apparently the purpose was either to
throw a general taunt at Student Govern-
ment, fill up space, or both.

it is disheartening to see occasional
unresearched and poorly thought out
editorials in an otherwise good newspaper.
In this case, the Kernel's recounting is a
mockery.

Mike Wilson and David Mucci
are members of the Elections
Board.

  
 
  
  
 
   
    
   
 
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
 
  
    
   
    
 
    
    
  
  
   
 
  
     
   
   
   
   
   
    
     
 
    
 

   

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ANNUAL
ADVENT SERVICE

The Episcopal Student Center
and The Catholic Newman Center
are co-sponsoring a service of

readings. music and a homily.

Time: Sunday. December 2
7:30 p.m.
Place: Newman Center

320 Rose Lane

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Not impersonal

Admissions director finds UK
geared to needs of students

By KAREN KAMILI'CH
Kernel Staff Writer

Despite coming from a small
school, George Gaddie, UK’s new
director of admissions, doesn’t
feel his background is a han-
dicap.

Gaddie accepted the position
after holding a similar post at
Lindsey Wilson College in
Columbia, Ky.

“MANY PEOPLE feel a
university as large as UK tends to
forget about the individual
students,” said Gaddie.

“I haven’t found UK to be large
and impersonal," he added. “In
fact, I’ve found most offices on
the campus are geared to
recognize and serve the in-
dividual needs of students."

Gaddie’s personal adjustment
has been no problem. He has done
graduate work at various large
schools and said he feels he is
acquainted with their operation.

ONE MAJOR difference bet-
ween UK and a smaller school, he
said, is that admissions office
people talk with students before
they are admitted, but usually
never see them again. At a small
school, however, Gaddie said the
student is seen in various aspects
of the university.

“In this way,” he said, “we can
watch a student‘s achievements
throughout his college years.”

He said two areas which should
prove timeconsuming for him at
UK are contacting prospective
high school students and meeting
the students’ parents.

(IADDIE REFERRED to UK'S
diversity of programs as a major
factor in his decision to accept
the post. He remarked on the
opportunities for graduate work
saying, “If I decide to do more.
the facilities are right here.“

Gaddie said he plans no im-
mediate changes within the
department. but pointed out a

    

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GEORGE GADVDIE

new admissions program
whereby Kentucky high school
seniors may indicate UK as their
choice of school on their ACT
forms and bypass the customary
application for admission.

“This makes the procedure
much more simplified,“ he said.

Westley offers AAUP solutions
to surplus of tenured faculty

By TRACY GANTZ
Kernel Staff Writer

“It’s like a sports com-
petition,” one' woman said,
describing the tenureship policy,
the discussion of an American

Association of University
Professors (AAUP) meeting
Wednesday.

A panel was supposed to an-
swer questions of tenureship for
non-tenured faculty members.
However, when none showed,
Bruce Westley, journalism
chairman and AAUP chapter
president, attempted to fill the
vacancy.

HE FIRST outlined the actual
procedure of obtaining
tenureship, especially how the

seven-year plan works. This is a

system where the University
must make a decision on a
faculty member’s prospective
tenureship within seven years.

A standing area committee
evaluates a person's work and
makes a recommendation. From
there it goes to the vice president
of academic affairs who makes
the final decision. Westley said.

Westley also talked about the
ad hoc tenure committee which
looks into ways to improve tenure
policies.

THIS REPORT suggests the
possiblity of discounting years
spent atanother institution where
there was no possibility of ad-

vancement or chance to do
research work. A faculty
member would submit his

request to be reviewed by a peer
group to determine its validity.

The major area of concern,
however. is the 62 per cent of
tenured faculty here. This is
supposedly too high for
flexibility.

There are a number of possible
solutions. One would be a quota

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system where tenure is deter-
mined on supply and demand
rather than quality.

AN INSTITUTION could also
make its promotion standards
higher. But this would be a
breach of faith to those in
progress of their seven years.
Westley said.

Short-term employment could
be instituted where a person
would be employed with the
knowledge that it is a limited
position with no possiblity for
advancement. But the professor
would be merely marking time
when he might be elsewhere
working toward tenure.

Replacing retiring professors
with assistant professors is
another possible solution. This
too has its drawbacks because
departments may lose ex-
perienced personnel.

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Communications
be reorganized

A proposed reorganization plan
in the School of Communications
is currently in the preliminary
stages but according to Dr.
Lewis Donohew, director of the
school, the changes will not alter
the current curriculum.

The school consists of four
departments—journalism,
speech, telecommunications and
communications—and under the
proposed organization all four
would fall under one head,
although individual majors will
remain intact.

REASON FOR the merging of
the four areas is to “allow us to be
freer to cross departmental
boundaries in making teaching
assignments and appointments of
qualified faculty." said Donohew.

“All decisions. appointments
and programs will be made by
the combined faculties of all four
departments rather than smaller
units." he explained,

The administration of the
school will be composed of the
director, a director of graduate
study and one chairman of the
four combined units.

THE PROPOSAL WAS
initiated after summer and fall
discussions between a School of
Communications committee and
the faculty. The committee also

met with Donohew for final
proposals.

“Essentially all it does is
provide for a more efficient

operation and broadens the

faculty decision-making process.
It will not wipe out any existing
curriculum although the
curriculum will be reviewed and
may be revised,” Donohew said.

The opening section of the
proposal said “we (faculty) know
we can provide better service to
the profession if we view the
field, not through narrow per-

spective of journalism,
television, or interpersonal
communication alone, but

through the theory and the
precise instruments the study of
communications is providing in
increasing abundance."
“HAVING BRIEFLY
presented our goal of a unified
approach to an increasingly

complex field, the faculty
acknowledges that the
reorganization plan herein

presented is only a way-station to
the organization needed.”

The faculty overwhelmingly
approved the proposal Tuesday,
Donohew noted, and said the final
decision will be made by the
University Senate, Board of
Trustees and President Otis
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