Mass Media, The (Newspaper) - May 6, 1969, Boston, Massachusetts The MASS MEDIA the truth shall make you VOLUME III NUMBER 22 U MASS BOSTON MAY URBAN CRISIS by Rich Hogan On Thursday April 30 Kevin H White Mayor of Boston was sponsored at UMB by the Political Science Union The topic of his discussion was the modern urban crises The mayor declared that we as a generation cannot survive the destruction of our He added We are a nation of cities we cant turn our backs on them for our cities are our White delineated the four fundamental problems of our cities as 1 the lack of financial resources 2 the growing alienation between people and the government 3 the archaic systems under which our cities function and 4 the political ostracism on the part of the suburbs White stated that our problems know no end and that Boston is subject to all these Speaking on the financial crises in our cities the mayor averred No city has sufficient monies to meet the basic demands which are thrust upon them We can turn only to the federal White pointed to the fact of our tax dollar goes to Washington while less than comes back to meet municipal White an unannounced gubernatorial candidate stated that in order to reform the basic structure of city government it will take immediate action It will take courage Unless we do it everything else we do will be too slow and too The former Secretary of State went on to say that neither Kevin White nor J anyone else has any ultimate hope that hes going to reside in a city which can solve its own On May 5thj 1969j nine days after ifs initial meeting the Special Committee on problems which caT University Governance issued a new plan for the governmental structure of the University of with common answers and The Mass Media fully supports this plan and strongly urges its common sol White adoption this spring by a referendum of both the Faculty and the Student Body stated v Tire Grammar of Warning The administration faculty and staff of the University of Massachusetts at Boston on the occasion of demands made by the Society this past November have committed themselves to the hiring of additional balck faculty and the establishment of additional courses in Studies Yet in several of their actions since that time it has become painfully apparent to students that the University has been speaking with the grammar of the subject of black professors and black studies 1 Representatives of the have been negotiating since October first with the Government Department and second with the Sociology Department for a course entitled The Evolution of Black The Society the Students for a Democratic Society and the Social Relations Club suggested a Mr Hay ward Henry as instructor for the course a brilliant black theoretician of social ecology and an exciting leader in the vanguard of the black movement in America In addition Mr Henry received recommendation to the University by the most knowledgeable black professor on the subject in Greater Boston and an expert on the national level Dr Willard Johnson jof furthermore Mr Melvin King leader of the black community in Boston and an instruct at recommended Mr Henry But because Mr Henry lacks the by UMB Society formal PhD degree in social science the advice of those who know was ignored The Government Department voted down the course the Sociology Department after attempting the ruse of a noncredit arrangement offered Mr Henry an advanced tutorial which would be open to a few black students to be taught along with several other members of the faculty as a safeguard against Mr Henrys lack of preparation and his radical views Big Brother is watching With the offer made to Mr Henry by the Sociology Department has offended important elements of the black community Furthermore it has dillydallied and thrown away a unique opportunity for the University Mr Henry has just been approached by the three leading colleges and universities in Greater Boston He has just accepted an offer reported to be at Harvard by sources close to Mr Henry to teach a course similar to that proposed by U Mass students at a salary of per course U Mass has been offering per with research facilities graduate assistants control over the number of students in the course plus the right to interview and select students to be enrolled course Big Brother is watching you since the University felt Mr Henry could not be trusted as properly qualified Professor Johnson is so angered by the treatment of Mr Henry that he has made it known he will not even acknowledge correspondence on the subject There are believed to be no other black instructors with superior qualifications available for the course in Greater Boston 3 Turning to the scene in the English Department a Mr Mike Thelwell was hired for last summer and the 196869 school year to teach a course entitled Black Literature in Mr Thelwell is a black writer and author of the wellknown critique of William Styrons Nat Turner After completion of teaching the summer coursein which few students were enrolled because they had not been informed about the who had been commuting from Amherst confided to interested blacks that he did not feel the Deparment was committed to black studies due to lack of publicity given the course and the meager size of his salary Mr Thelwell is now engaged elsewhere and is much in demand as a lecturer 4 Upon losing Mr Thelwell the English Department then hired Mr Floyd Barbour to teach the course Black Literature Mr Barbour is a black The main features of the plan are the establishment of a University Senate and the establishment of Departmental Advisory Committees With forty per cent of its membership elected from the Student Body this new structure would replace the existing Faculty SEnate and Student Council The plan will give students control over student funds plus a strong all areas of the University Policy Although senior faculty is numerically less than twenty per cent of the Faculty fifty per cent of the faculty members on the University Senate will be Senior Faculty This ratio reflects the great university experience that the Senior Faculty possesses The remaining fifty per cent ofthe faculty representatives will be Junior Faculty thus the Junior faculty will also participate in University v April 26th the Special Committee on University Governance meets in an allday session to establish guidelines for the construction of a new University Constitution The Committee then appointed Hank Wojcicki Mr C Knight and Mr as a subgroup for the actual drafting of the constitution Working long hours into the night the subgroup had the first draft of the constitution in the hands of the committee late Friday On Monday the subgroup met to revise the plan in light of the comments and criticisms mady by committee members By Monday afternoon the plan was distributed to the University Community This published in its entirety hi this issue of the Mass Media 2 Further Professor writer and the editor of Black Willard Johnson of the fact approached at the suggestion of the course the University to assist Mr questioned by the have Henry in the teaching of the Continued on Page 6 Mr Knoght Hank Wojcicki and the Constitution
