Mass Media, The (Newspaper) - September 27, 1971, Boston, Massachusetts jpr A m 1 A THE MASS MEDIA Voi V No 2 f Hfe UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AT BOSTON Monday September 27 1971 Sam Mullins President Columbia Savin Hill Civic Association Snyder Neighborhood Breakthrough In Dorchester Relations housing and traffic problems Community support exist He wanted some t exist He wanted some assurance from the mm businessmen that they will regarding student housing in help in the and around the for a smooth transition to the new Civic Association met Thursday evening to discuss community relations with UMB representatives Through the efforts of leadership a proposal was presented to UMB through cellor Roy Hamilton in which tentatively outlined their desire to campus Two Corporations The actual relationship between Brodericks development corporation and the proposal is not entirely clear however Sam Mullins President of when asked if there was any relationship said No our idea has come about in previous discussions University or Dorchester knows how many students will eventually live in the area there seems reason to believe that additional housing will have to be constructed Sources and Resources The proposal says in part Within the housing DORCHESTER Senate CoChairman Warns Dont Lose Control by Bud Snyder In one of the most forceful deliveries to UMB faculty Don Bubcock faculty CoChairman of the University Senate told faculty last Wednesday evening that they must become more actively involved in a score of crucial matters that face the University Babcock an Assistant Professor of English in his second term as Senate the areas to which he felt the faculty should pay special attention Ho emphasized the importance of total University discussion on the University Year of Action Program The Senate Executive Committee after its initial veto of the student volunteer program accepted the proposal Formal Action Vote The Senate was not given time to debate the proposal although at last weeks Senate meeting a formal vote approved the SEC action two weeks ago It is primarily out of this concern for careful participation by the Senate that I opposed SEC approval of the ACTION Babcock told the group of 200 faculty Presidents Action Also during the recess President Robert Wood appointed a study group to review UMass policy on matters of faculty rights and responsibilities and overall review of personnel matters According to Babcock the SEC was not advised of the action Two UMB faculty were asked to participate on the Faculty Rights and Responsibilities Committee by Chancellor Francis Broderick Max professor of English and Salvatore assistant professor of The committee would its report to the Board ol Trustees A Group did not accept the appointment He could not be reached for comment last Friday But according to Babcock as explained in his BABCOCK page 5 SEC Probed On Independent Action about the potential housing crisis that is going to face f r a n C 1 S unlace Develop merit a Dorchester residents unless Broderick addressed a we the University can Dorchester business group begin to work ony that and a community Mullins aware of Brodericks action added n 156 that most businessmen in the Dorchester Board of Trade dont live in luncheon in Milton came in He went furthe response to an increasing by people the Columbia Point campus in 1973 want to live in the surrounding area and that are commercial absentee Although no one either co n with the UMass Library Request Slashed By Million by Skip Brown Massachusetts Governor Francis W Sargent cut the University of Massachusetts library book appropriation by well over a million dollars University Vice President for Development J Edward Lashman Jr said Friday The Office of the President requested for the Boston campus It will get 28 of what it asked for slightly above the 196768 Mr Grossman allocation of UMB lost in library funds last year this year it will lose Amherst lost both years The trustees approved a library appropriation of for fiscal year 1972 which covers the school year 197172 The Governor sent a request to the Legislature for 30 of the request It passed Following legislative action University President Robert C Wood notified Chancellors at the three UMass campuses that Amherst would receive for books this year Boston and Worcester His requests had been respectively and In 1966 UMBs first year of operation its library received the same amount it received last year Funds doubled the next year and jumped to in 1968069 The following year the Boston campus got When presented with last years budget UMB LIBRARY page 2 There was red criticism and conscience probing when the University Senate held its first meeting of the semester to approve the actions taken by the Senate Executive Committee during the summer The Senate Executive Committee is empowered by the University Constitution to act for the Senate between meetings and this summer the SEC was forced to make a decision on the University Year for Action Program To accept the program and allow credit for field assignments mean t immediate approval because delay would mean probable loss of the program being offered to selected colleges and universities throughout the country SEC Faculty CoChairman Donald Babcock summed up the problem when he said to critics and defenders The SEC was on the spot Whatever it did would have been a matter of He said that disapproval of the program would have brought cries of lost opportunity and approval of the program brought questions of a committee should be able to make independently decisions on matters that so greatly alter the shape of the University English Department Chairman James Broderick described the unusual number of influential persons paraded before the SEC to testify in favor of the program as A phalanx of deans and a covey of department A similar opinion was that of Mr Lynn Dhority Chairman of the German Department who felt that the opposite view was not adequately represented at the SEC meeting Mr Shaun OConnell voiced a discontent shared by many other of the senators when he expressed dissatisfaction at having to get his information secondhand from SEC members Very little discussion however was needed on the actual question before the Senate which sparked the fortyfive minute debate over procedure The University Year for Action Program was accepted by the Senate on a voice vote with PROBE page 3 Mr Babcock Search Fills College HI Agenda by Mitch Corey College III according to reliable sources seems to have developed into three major problems These three problems read like an outline of the recommendations qf the College III planning Committee in its report of last July The Committee envisioned three principal News Analysis recruitment of faculty The report recommends that the Chancellor and the Dean of appoint a committee of faculty members who have u definite commitment to the third college and who would be considered a nucleus of faculty members for the college The first charge of that group would be the recruitment of a dean These recommendations however were set aside and steps in the development ofthe Chancellor has appointed College III to be carried out a Dean Search Committee in this year 1 The search for and appointment of a dean 2 the further specification and development of a curriculum 3 the Harry Brill Views Grassroots Politics by Cynthia Celebrities are nice people Especially the ones who get a story written about them on the front page of a newspaper and who happen to write books There is one such person here at Harry Brill assistant professor of sociology had an article describing his life in the Globe this summer and he happens to have written a book called Why Fail It was written while Brill was at the University of California as a combined masters and doctors thesis Why Organizers Fail is described by him as being a chronical of a rent strike in public housing but the book goes beyond that BRILL page 12 Mr Brill which faculty members are a minority While a committee of his form will undoubtedly produce worthy recommendations for he office it has resulted in needless conflict between administration and faculty Several faculty groups have seen their efforts interests countered by this move The original report of the College IN planning Committee additionally r e c o in in ends that in consultation with the do an Excerpts of the Report of the University to Plan College HI appear on pages 8 and 9 the faculty committee should determine initial Areas first breakdowns of the proposed curriculum COLLEGE HI page 3
