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This is K T R U News Rice University, K T R U Radio and News master Tape G for spring of 1970 master tape G report on the German prop being fired from Pat Val time. 70 seconds March 16th, 1970 week, acting President Frank Vandever announced

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a decision by the faculty council that the contract of Chemistry Professor Ronald Maid would not be renewed. What Dr Vandiver failed to announce was that in addition, four other professors were given terminal contracts. The four professors all in the German Department were up for promotion. This

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spring. Professors Milburn Stavenhagen Kipke and Pupa were refused promotion and given one year to finish it. In addition, the anticipated firing of Professor Winkler is expected to complete the purge of the German department. The questionable leadership of professor K chairman of the German Department has been

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the object of discontent in that department for over a year. Professors Milburn and Stavenhagen have long been regarded by students as outstanding teachers. Professor Kipke is an internationally renowned German scholar who left the tendered post at the University of Chicago to come to Rice two years

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ago, an explanation by the faculty council and the administration for their action in cleaning out the German Department will be anxiously awaited by students, faculty and the American Association of University Professors, Pat Saint Patrick's Day Rosen Board from John Doe March 17th, 1970 time, 50 seconds.

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Today is Tuesday, February the 17th, Rusher Publisher of National Review speaks at seven o'clock tonight in the White College Commons. The Student Senate also meets at seven o'clock in the second floor conference room of the R C at a meeting of the right to to end

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the war in Vietnam starts at 7 30 competing with a free R L band concert in Hammond Hall. Take your pit at eight o'clock tonight. Dr Leslie White peaks on the Cultural Revolution in the Fondre Library lecture Lounge but turning to more significant items, the K

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P U jockey in the box contest continues again tonight at 10 and bloody. There's one thing I almost forgot today is Pat Bo's birthday story from the University of Texas about ah the rumor of pre of Hackerman being named President Rice from the editor at the

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U T Daily Text. And this will be the date ah March ah 18th, 1970. University President Norman Hackerman apparently has been offered the presidency of Rush University in Houston, a member of the faculty student Presidential appointment Committee at R said Tuesday that Hackerman had not accepted

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or rejected the position. The source would not elaborate on whether Hackerman had received a definite offer contacted Q the university president said he would make no comment about the rash reports. It's a delicate situation whether the rumors are true or thought Tuckerman said I get offers

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fairly regularly and I weigh each one on its own merits. He said, asked if he had plans to leave his present post. Hackerman said he doesn't worry about his future at the university. Hackerman reportedly has been on the list of candidates for the rice position for

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more than a year but his name has emerged as a serious prospect. Only in the last two months. The president has made several trips to the to the Houston campus since January one of them in connection with the meeting of the American Chemical Society. Hackman's interest

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may have been precipitated by tension between him and other members of the administration has been a lack of agreement between him and arts and sciences, Dean John R Silver on a program for restructuring the college. But perhaps more significant are the differences between the president and

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the university system administration. Deputy Chancellor Charles Lama has indicated dissatisfaction with Hackerman since the Waller Creek incident in November. When trees were carried to the doors of the main building. Lama favored immediate action by outside law. Hackman ignored this suggestion and told the later in the

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presence of a group of students in his office that he Hackerman would make the decision. Although there has been no visible sign that the system administration would ask Haberman to leave. Some observers agree that the relationship of the various levels of administration has deteriorated. I can

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tell you that it was not a student member. It was a faculty member. 46. Yeah, me, I do. Yes, but Houston Peace Coalition activity is scheduled for Houston report by Jim Baker. That is Jim Rollin time of two minutes. 10 seconds. March 13th, 1970 like that

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March 17th, 1970 city council Tuesday granted a parade permit for Thursday, March 19th to the Houston Peace Coalition. The permit was granted reluctantly. In fact, it came only because council was directed by us district Court to issue the permit. The permit does not override the long

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standing city policy of not allowing street parades during peak traffic hours. The permit thus begins at 601 PM. Thursday activities began long before that time. However, the life committed to end the war. A part of the Houston Peace Coalition will furnish rides all day Thursday for

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anyone who wishes to pick up the draft board. Cars will leave from Baker and Wise telephone committees will also be quite busy Thursday, regional coordinator for the Vietnam Moratorium Committee, Mike Siegel put it this way. We want at least for a week and certainly for the

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day on the 19th to stop the draft board from operating just to stop the process of inducting people, registering people, killing people. The activities downtown will get underway and earnest at four PM, there will be a two part parade in a rally of Allen's landing. The

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first part of the parade will be on the sidewalks since it will be during peak traffic hours. Mike Siegel gave me this timetable. We're going to meet at four PM at the Federal Building. After some comments made there, we'll walk on the sidewalk, uh two hours

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around the park. The rally, we begin there at about quarter to five, I suppose. And last until six, at one time at six oh one, we'll march through the streets back to the old Federal building for a moment of meditation and speakers at the rally will

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include Alan Morris of the G I press service who has just returned from a worldwide tour of military installations. Paul Edgars, a draft resistor nor wilder, a Baytown woman who lost her son in the war and the high school of Chicano representing the Student Mobilization Committee,

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Jim Baker K T R U News, Judy Collins Concern Review by Paul Lavia March 16th, 1970 times. 60 seconds, warmly enthusiastic and surprisingly homogeneous audience saw Judy Collins perform at the music hall Sunday night. The vibrations were good all around as Judy and a three man,

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a rather two man and one girl backup group dipped into the folk bag for something old and something new, something borrowed and something blue. She opened with Ian Tyson someday soon and encountered with light foots early morning rain. And by that time the audience was set

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to smiling, toe tapping and really getting into listening, Miss Collins falls short when it comes to original work. But Sunday's performance showed she had two things going for her. She has a voice so strong and clear that even her few fluffs served only to make her

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more believable. And it seems that Judy can take such diverse sounds as country folk by Ian Tyson and Lightfoot ballads by Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen and her own work and make beautiful and fresh interpretations of them all in a way that really nobody else can

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highlights of the concert two's Leonard Cohen medley. The way she performed songs by Ian Tyson and the very end, the gospel encore which had the whole audience singing including pathetically enough or truly Paula text of the Senate resolution concerning faculty tenure, read by S A Secretary,

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Melissa Crowfoot March 19th, 1970. Rice is more than just an educational or research institute. It is an academic community and as such, it must be exceedingly careful in the selection of faculty administrators and students. Specifically, the granting of tenure to faculty members must be primarily concerned

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with their service to this academic community, including teaching, ability, involvement in the community and active research. We, the Student Association are deeply concerned that when departmental politics lose sight of university goals by becoming overly involved with self centered interests, the whole community will suffer in particular,

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we feel that the recent decisions concerning the dismissals of doctors, Cox Freeman Maggot Milburn and Sten and others were departmentally without due regard to teaching ability or university service. Therefore, we propose that one no further decisions be made by the faculty Council until all the elements

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of the university are integrated in the decision making process. This specifically includes student involvement and two all previous decisions made this year by this council be reconsidered with this total participation. Only when all elements of the academic community are directly participating in the formal decision making

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process, can the best interests of the university be served? Faculty passes the curriculum proposal. March 18th 1970 in a faculty meeting. Pat bomb time 96 a meeting of the Rice Faculty Wednesday afternoon passed the curriculum reform proposal submitted to it by Chemistry Department Chairman Mark Gray

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and the committee on the undergraduate curriculum. The proposal as passed on first reading included an amendment by English Department Chairman Ward that would not require students to take English 100 if they could pass an English school efficiency exam. History Professor Mao's amendment to drop the number

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of courses required from 40 to 38 failed to pass an amendment by French Department, Professor Carrington to require students to demonstrate a foreign language competence by passing a 200 level course or passing a proficiency exam was also defeated. Thus, the health and physical education requirement is

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the only general competence requirement remaining in the proposal, no English 100 unless you fail an exam and no foreign language unless your specific deployment or area requires it. Other notable features of the proposals include one that the department will have the power to decide which distribution

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category of course will fall in. And two, the department or area can specify no more than 20 courses, area majors rather than university majors is the new designation for the new non departmental major open to students. A second reading of the curriculum proposal is scheduled for

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a faculty meeting in early April Sam reports to faculty meeting on the project of the presidential selection committee from Pabna March 18th, 1970 time, 70 seconds. The chairman of the faculty student advisory committee on Presidential selection, Doctor Frances Blot reported to the faculty meeting on Wednesday

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afternoon that he could not confirm or spread any rumors including the story that appeared in today's University of Texas newspaper, the Daily Texan which reported that Texas President Hackerman had been offered the top post here at life. Doctor Blot did report and I quote, we hope

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to have a new president occupying love hall by September 1st. The relationship between his committee and the search committee of the board of trustees has been good. Doctor Dotson reported. He said that meeting with the search committee members have been conducted in a most gratifying atmosphere

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of complete openness. Doctor Dawson added that the board committee is submitting all names being considered to his advisory committee that the candidates are all of high caliber and that the second phase of the search is upon us. That is apparently to say the presidency is being

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offered to certain specific candidates. So it's September 1st says, Doctor Bratton that bomb T R U News Student Association election returns from March the 19th 1970 Austin Bay report. Here are the un official results of Thursday's a general election as we received by the K T

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R Union staff off campus senator will be running on the right in campaign will be John Malden. Business manager will be business manager will be Glider. There's going to be a runoff in the inter college court chairman. Fifth election will be between Stephen Boyd and Dale

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for the three junior honor council positions. Linda Book Dave Elder and Colleen Jennings will be filling those seats. Senior honor council, all four positions, Ted Boner, Tom Green, Bob Jackman and Christy Thomas filling in the honor council slot will be Greg. This is the A K

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