Mass Media, The (Newspaper) - September 18, 1972, Boston, Massachusetts IND p 2 6 4 p S 6 S p 6 MEDIA CITY EDITION Free classifieds and noti ces are available to members of the University community starting today Details pg 6 VOL VII No 1 UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AT BOSTON MONDAY SEPTEMBER Faculty Claiming that our golden 4ge has Acting William R Hamilton welcomed back Boston faculty at a faculty meeting ast Wednesday We shall have to face up to Hamilton said He refered specifically to both the existing and the proposed budget the drop in applications for admission and the move to Columbia Point next year We have not greeted such large numbers of faculty since 1965 Hamilton noted He went on to repeat his earlier remarks to the University Senate where he expressed his desire for swift passage of formal college governance Also addressing the meeting were acting Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Dorothy Marshall and Senate Executive Chairman Leonard Kirsch Difficult Vice Chancellor Marshall said that she viewed the coming year as a difficulty one in a transitional stage with respect to personnel governance and location She termed the present budget restrictions as terrible and said that she saw continued hard times ahead for state supported higher education New Positions She also announced to the faculty the appointment of Donald Babcock as Associate Provost He will serve a three year term as her direct assistant Although he will continue to teach in the English department Mr Babcocks special area of concert will be university and collegiate governance and administration FACULTY Page 2 Past and present chancellors Hamilton and Broderick at last weeks faculty meeting College I Constitution Assembly Posts Slated For September 27 Vote President Wood Attacks Sec Cronin Letter Defends Budget Request by Paul Tooher The battle of the budget began last week as UMass President Robert C Wood fought back against Secretary of Educational Affairs Joseph M Cronins criticisms of the proposed Fiscal 1974 budget Calling Cronins recommendation that the UMass Trustees reconsider their recommendations hasty unconventional and Wood said that the cuts recommended by Cronin in a letter sent to Mr Joseph Healey Chairman of the Board of Trustees would effect no substantial savings for the Commonwealth Recommended Cuts Cronins letter recommended several areas that the Trustees should review again Among them were the proposed Law Vannicelli Criticizes Computer Registration by Barbara McCarthy Associate Dean of College II Primo Vannicelli has taken on the crusade of making registration more Unless the bugs are sufficiently worked out of the new computer system Vannicelli has threatened to fight against its continued use to the point of resigning from this damn The chaos which prevailed during the first week of school as students tried to get into a class in some cases any class could have been avoided ft the system had not been initiated according to Vannicelli He feels that the system is not appropriate for UMass Boston at this point The new registration done completely by computer was inaugurated this fall against the advice of the developers of the system at Amherst This system had previously been untested and untried UMass Amherst did not use this procedure because of the bugs in the system and suggested that UMass Boston wait another year before instituting it in order to perfect the process The Registrars Office defended the use of the computerized registration declaring it vital and essential in order to assign the students now attending the university classes Registrar Eleanor Silverman stated that there would have been no way to manually schedule the new students attending UMass this year as has been the procedure in previous years Supporting the use of the computer to facilitate registration Mrs Silverman stated that the system had to be used this year in order to work the bugs out of the system before it was tried at Columbia Point Despite assurances by Mrs Silverman that the students would have a chance to adjust their schedules this phase of the registration was not carried out Students did not receive their schedules until late in the summer when there was no chance that they would be able to make changes and had to settle for one add day where confusion became the procedure REGISTRATION Page 3 oat Of iMf of 72 Center to be established in Amherst new office space for the Presidents office and new course offerings at the Worcester Medical school Cronin also cited the proposed scheduled to be operational by the fall of 1973 as an area the Trustees should consider in making their budget request Wood along with Chancellor William Bromery from the Amherst campus Acting Chancellor William Hamilton from Boston and Dean La mar Souter from the Worcester Medical School presented their case for the proposed budget before a special meeting with the campus press from both University of Massachusetts at Boston Fiscal Requests and Recommendations o a M I 17 14 12 10 1971 1972 Request 1974 FISCAL YEAR Boston and Amherst Of special concern were the recommended cuts at Worcester Dean Souter noted that at the present rate of funding the Medical School will open in 32 years and I will be over 90 years old making me the oldest dean in the He stated that the major budgetary increases were to bring on line the power plant and the Basic and Clinical Sciences Building both facilities becoming operational later this year Faculty Increases Another substantial increase will be in the area of faculty positions Plans now call for the Medical School to offer a full four years of medical training during Fiscal 74 Student enrollment is scheduled to increase by 40 students and with the average ratio at an increase of 40 faculty positions are budgeted For the major expenditures in the proposed million budget are for the opening of the new Columbia Point campus in Se p tember 1973 and approximately ISO new faculty positions to maintain the present ratio with an increase of students All three campus heads defended their budget by Tom Brady The Governance Task Force has established procedures ant voting dates September 21 28 and 29 fro of student and faculty seats in the University hi y i ml for I he ratification of tho College I Interim Constitution The faculty will elect its similar representatives mail on the same dates From an availability of 12 faculty seats three faculty members from each of the throe academic divisions of the university will be elected T h r e e more faculty representatives will be elected at large On the Assembly students will have eight seats There are two for each division and two at large This establishes a ratio of The academic divisions of the university are Humanities Natural Science and the Social Sciences Nominations for Assembly positions and for the College governance bodies which appeared in the Mass Media were received by the Task Force by September 14 As of September 15 llu Task Force which is overseeing the elections reported that the number of people nominated exceeded the number of seats available to students In past elections lack of student nominees allowed for a large number of candidates to be elected N e x t e e k a short summary of the functions of the Assembly and of students role in decision making will bei made available through the Mass Media Questionnaires have been submitted to all candidates and profiles of the student nominees will be available to the university community at the polling places on voting days and in the Mass Media The Task Force also reports that the nominations for College governance bodies exceeds the number of seats on those bodies as well By the use of posters bulletins and The Mass Media the elections and ratifications of the College Constitutions will be made known along with a summary of the constitutions and describing their nature This information plus Mr Stanley Senate Probes Dismissal At Its Final BUDGET Page 3 CDC Plans Seen Potentially Applicable To Dorchester by Charles C Snyder Jr Thm article is the first of three in a series It was written for a course in Urban Economics at All footnotes have been omitted The past has shown us lhat even with the most feasible Federal program for example the payoffs in terms of overcoming unemployment and poverty seem to be relatively insignificant But now more than ever the poor and the disadvantaged are demanding their equal share Their voices can be effective if they speak together How do poor people gain political power while they struggle for their survival within their communities This article attempts to deal with that question Community Development Corporations also Neighborhood Development Corporation are not new but they do offer a new approach for change they are one way of imparting some identifiable structure to cities by increasing the reliance upon neighborhoods as a focus News Analysis of city I use the example of the I Neighborhood Corporation the largest in the country because of its size land its proportional scope of Ico mm economic ventures It represents among other things the optimum government and private business commitment which if sustained through a Underpass to Link UMass Expressway by Plotkin Globe staff The state Department of Public has agreed to build a million underpass on Morrissey boulevard in Dorchester to serve traffic bound for the new UMass campus from Kosciuszko circle Groundbreaking is expected next spring and construction is to require a full year Originally the job was scheduled to been done by the Metropolitan District Commission in time for the opening in September 1973 of the new university branch with 6000 students initially enrolled But the Legislature left the MDC out of the 1972 highway in the last hours before prorogation in July and the MDC commissioners voted a few days ago to ask the Department of Public Works to lake over the underpass A precedent for such takeover action occurred earlier this year The DPW also at the request agreed to build a replacement for the Prison Point Bridge linking East Cambridge and Charlestown at a cost of The underpass will be L shaped about 400 feet long and part of it will parallel the Boston Globe property line Because of the high water table a four foot thick UNDERPASS Page 3 consistent flow of resources dispel much of the skepticism attracted lo these decentralized entities since their appearance in the Despite a generally agreed set of guidelines each one of the eighty CDCs across the has its own identity based on community need and of resources and constrained by economic and political realities of the particular city or rural This paper will briefly outline the criteria as developed in the Gifford paper and then compare these their positive and negative in a description of a recently established CDC in the predominately Italian working class community of Hast Boston There is for example a mutuality of purpose between the Bedford Stuyvesant corporation and East Boston housing rehabilitation is lop priority for each After discussing CDC concepts and their practicability in the two communities we will take a brief look at CDC in the Dorchester and Columbia Point communities the forthcoming neighbors of the new campus Despite urban continues unparalleled mobility inexorable physical decay we have not moved with any surefootedness to rebuild to reduce the formlessness to assure each individual that his voice is heard to convince people poor and no n poor thai someone cares what they say think and It should be made clear from the start that blacks as a class and race are by far the most effected by urban economic deprivation In the The University Senate held its first meeting of the new academic year and its last meeting as deliberative body last Tuesday Acting Chancellor William R Hamilton in an opening address told the Senate that the fitness and strength of UMass Boston as an institution have been tested in certain of its aspects during the past three months Thus far the Campus has demonstrated that it is not flabby rather it is lough It is not irresolute it is Hamilton refering to the actions of ex Chancellor Francis L Broderick and the Senate Executive Committee in response to Dr Brodericks dismissal by University Robert C Wood during the summer Hamilton also congratulate d Ir o t e sso rs James of English and Thomas Brown of History for their work on a pan university governance task force during the summer The committee was established to make recommendations on how to run a campus university Their report will be presented to the campus later this fall He also expressed concern over the of decision making on the campus 1 suggest we begin to make and share some distinctions between legal and extra or perhaps deliberative responsibilities If we do not il is altogether possible that a judge in a court of law will make i distinction which surprises and chagrins I Meeting reter litre specifically to the procedures we now employ to make decisions about faculty appointments promotions and Hamilton thi campus for not having passed the college constitutions yet He indicated that he was anxious for swift passage of the documents rather than see the sampus ourselves with more election efforts during the The Senate also heard a report from Richard Lyons of English who acted as Chairman of the Senate Executive Committee He informed the Senate on what actions the SEC had taken during the summer regarding the firing of Dr Broderick His contention that the SEC had acted as judiciously and effectively as possible was challenged by Carter Jefferson of History Charging that President Wood must be very familiar with the politics of Mussolini Jefferson attacked the SUC for not mobilizing a more effective and vocal protest against the Chancellors dismissal Jefferson also contended that the campus had a right to know the reason for the firing Both Dr Broderick and President Wood have been mute over any specific reason for the action Mr Lyons contended that it was Dr Brodericks desire to resign rather than fight the residents action and that his decision had played no small role in their decision to merely offer a vote of confidence for Broderick and demand a role in the selection of the Acting Chancellor complete copies of the constitutions will he also available at the polling places on election day The polling places will be in the the Main Building and the Sawyer Building The larger poll facility will be in the Main Building Several things being done by the Task Force to try to develop a laiger voter turnout Certain students f a cult y a n i administrators have been requested to encourage voting and to spread information about the elections Coffee and cookies will be available at the polls as an added inducement inf the funds are available for that purpose VOTE Page 3 A Retrospective Of The Senate by Tom Brady With the introduction and establishment of a new governance structure it appears to be the proper time to look into the history of governance at the Boston campus and to describe how this years actions have developed One should begin with the conception of the University campus in Boston the real issue of governance extends from the birth of our campus until 1969 the year of the creation of the University Senate The original governance of the campus was the University Committee on Student A f loirs It held equal representation of faculty students and administrators Beneath it and subject to the approval was a Student Council entirely student run which acted as a predecessor to the Student Affairs Committee There was also a Faculty Senate which acted of the and dually with faculty matters only In 1969 the students and faculty agreed to a new form News Analysis of governance and the senate system thai we use now born Faculty and students were equals on it although there was a ratio in favor of the faculty The reasons for this governance change vary depending on ones source but they are interesting and more involved than those concerning our present alterations Some students faculty and administrators felt that it was a more natural method ot governance Some members of the faculty fell that the students would have more control the university affairs and IVIt that this was only just Others called the Student Council corrupt and It was at times a powerbase for university student politicians For one or all of these reasons a majority of the university community wanted a new system of governance After the usual arguing and preparations and some student a n il I acuity opposition the ofthe Senate system was ANALYSIS Page 3 CDC Page 2 Davidson Reviews Progress In A Studies by Norman Scott Douglas Davidson 30 tall and with an afro and full beard is a new young faculty member at He is leaching a course in Race and Ethnic Relationship But this isnt his only function Added to the list of I la depart ments of the campus is the Studies Concentration Program This program is specifically designed for students interested in experience cultural accomplishments and significant presence of the Black man in Africa and the New World With it joins the ranks of other area universities which give students the option of concentrating in black studies On the fifth flour of the Statler in Km and 580 the new program has opened its doors Walking into the red carpeted rooms all the symbolic DAVIDSON Page 3 Douglas Davidson
