Unresolved Issues Faculty Senate Will Hold a Special Meeting by Dan Ileneghan S,T up in the Graduate School of Social on May 16 to Discuss Accreditation
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U.S. Postage PAID VOL. 56 NO. 27 Bronx, N.Y. Permit No. 7608 Non-ProfitOrg. TUESDAY, MAY, 7, 1974 University Wilson, Huston to talk Speakers announced by Clare O'Neill will award 21 masters degrees. my dissolve At the downtown campus, Fordham Approximately 1,350 degrees will be Law School will award 332 degrees, and awarded at the University com- the School of Social Service is expected to mencement exercises June 1 on the Rose confer about 209. Two hundred and grod major Hill campus. thirteen students will receive their by Dan Brennan Fordham College will confer ap- degrees from the School of Education, and proximately 518 bachelor degrees, while 378 degrees will be awarded to these at Thomas More College graduates will the Liberal Arts College. The Russian Institute graduate masters' receive 249. Rensalem will graduate 8, and Malcolm Wilson, Governor of New York decree program is currently facing the the College of Business Administration and a former member of Fordham's Board prospect of possible dissolution, effective plans to award about 156 degrees. The of Trustees, will be the commencement after the upcoming academic year. General Studies Program will graduate speaker according to Robert Brown, The Graduate Council of trie University 14(i students. director of University relations. s(.t up a committee on April 19, chaired by WILSON: The Fordham graduate and The Graduate School of Arts and Wilson served as Lieutenant Governor history department chairman Joseph New York governor returns to Rose Hill Sciences will confer 258 degrees, while the of the state for fifteen years under the O'Cillaghan. to make a recommendation to in June as commencement speaker. Graduate Institute of Religious Education Rockefeller administration, and since has the council on the fate of the program by assumed the governorship vacated by the end of this semester. Rockefeller in December, 1973. The committee report was requested by He is a graduate of Fordham Prep, and Graduate School Dean Harry Sievers in also a Fordham College alumnus, class of Committee to submit '33 response to moves by the administration calling for a recommendation on the He went on to receive his law degree program's status. from Fordham in 1936, and later became a University trustee, resigning this post Seivers notes three possible avenues final dean nominees after becoming governor. the program may take: "continue in its The Fordham College dean search expressed confusion on whether or not the Brown also announced that five people present form, be abandoned, or continue in committee, will also submit recom- will receive honorary degrees at the some other form." committee may make its final nominee choices this week, according to committee mendations on the general nature of the ceremony. Academies Vice President Paul Heiss The commencement speaker, according member, Academics Vice President Paul dean. notes the program has been under some to Brown, is chosen by the University Heiss. Hennessey indicated some appraisal of form of scrutiny for the past three years, the type of dean needed by Fordham "will President, and the honorary degree Reiss characterized the current stage of beginning with a a report by the then dean be in there" but noted it is undecided as to recipients by the Board of Trustees. the committee as "very close" to selection, of the graduate school James Finlay, call- what form it will take, explaining it may Dr. Irving Cooper, currently director of having scheduled only one or two ad- ing for its end- be implied in the individual committee the department of neurosurgery at St. ditional candidate interviews for this Heiss stated, however, that it was member comments. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, will unrealistic "to expect the faculty to agree week. Reiss, calling committee discussion on become an honorary doctor of science. to the termination of their program" and The committee has been searching for the question very general, commented Cooper is also a research professor of the administration agreed to allow the a new dean to head the newly merged that general recommendation on the type neuroanatomy at New York Medical program attempt to find some means of Fordham-Thomas More College for the of dean will probably not be included. College, and is the author of a book strengthening itself. Since then the past two months. Reiss also described a Ram list of detailing his experience as a surgeon, The program's status has been characterized Another committee member, chemistry candidates published Friday as in- Victim Is Always The Same. Edward Skillin will receive the by voluminous correspondence between professor Douglas Hennessey, stated, complete, although acknowledging all honorary degree of humane letters. A the administration and the program, and however, the committee may work for as were at one time under consideration. He staff member for Commonweal since 1933, the initiation of a committee to study the long as another month before a list ot noted the committee presently has about Skillin served as editor from 1938 to 1967, situation last year. nominees is submitted to University ten names before it, which has to be pared President James Finlay for his final down to the five or six requested by and is presently its publisher. O'Callaghan expects the present The bishop of Brooklyn, Rev. Francis committee to have its first meeting ,„,„, .„..,, and Hennessy indicate the n^es that the final list may very John Mugavero, will receive an honorary Wednesday and be ready with a committee will use' no numbering pre- likely include at least one layman, doctor of laws degree. Mugavero is a preliminary report at a special meeting ol ference system when submitting he whereas the Ram list consisted entirely of graduate of Fordham's School of Social Same* to Finlay. However, Reiss stated the graduate council before the semester's Service, and was the director of various Iach committee member will provide Jl Catholic Charities units in Brooklyn, and ind. lie notes, however, that the report Finl'av may choose to schedule personal Finlay with individual comments on each may simply call for further study into the interviews with final candidates to aid his King's County. (Continued on page 4) matter. final nominee. choice, according to Reiss. Some committee members, however, (Continued on page 10) Unresolved Issues Faculty Senate will hold a special meeting by Dan Ileneghan s,t up in the Graduate School of Social on May 16 to discuss accreditation. The Service. This semester Dean James future of ROTC on the Fordham campus is I un,pSon, while still officially dean on y at stake as the Air Force unit is likely to ,Cvo ed one day a week to the school leave if it does not win accreditation. Lt. When he accepted the position as the city Colonel George Connors noted the future Human Resources Administrator , most «f din Armv unit is not as dependant upon of Dumpson's duties were relegated to the Senate's decision. Associate Dean Helen Dermody. Unionization State Aid A vote on the long controversy over State aid to private colleges is.still an faculty unionization is not expected before nnreso ve next October. Arguments from both the i still be there in September. "nor Malcom Wilson . administration and American Association ^commendations from a joint Senate of University Professors on the voting ,.w Deans Assembly conference committee on aid to eligibility of librarians and department ^rlU schools. The recommendations chairmen have been heard. The dispute formulated into a bill to be sub- will now be resolved by the National ; l0 both houses for approval, he Labor Relations Board in Washington. EXCEL A committee has finally been set up to choose the full-time faculty which wl staff the newly formed EXCEL division selection. Hnsiness ' next year Members of the committee plus their selections for full-time appointments remaining three years^ will chose a divisional chairman, and decide on questions of future hiring, firing A S( iin h , Fordham community remains •«"»«• ' ' ''" < "form.* Th and tenure. , •i..| ,„, the question of granting a fu" -V'r OT " interim, Mario (Continued on page 8) •IiinM'S,M| I! rthiB an of the college. tud'nie n-,cHt. Consec.uentiy, the : iifrrt1 ditation ranks foremoHt in T (> iMiiin a"v minds among l-'ordhum'H annual rs:; : - >- ^ >« GOING DOWN Committee picks bv Lorraine Piasecki If you missed the fabulous entertainment includes con Driver has spend more than two AAUP nominees Carribean Festival which was tinuous music, dance ensembles, years researching the story of The nominations committee of languages department ,u !; featured on campus two an international food bazaar, Musashi, a legendary hero who the American Association of Hill. weekends ago, take heart! The strolling minstrels, a magician, won over fit) duels in his lifetime. University Professors Ford ham Nominated for first , Bicycle owners: The Grand American Museum of Natural and poetry readings. The festival Chapter has unanimously president is Dr. Ralph MI History is spotlighting the is sponsored by Bronx Borough Concourse is now closed on selected a 16 person slate to fill political science at the l Sundays from 10 a.m. to A p.m. hcr;tl culture of Haiti. The exhibition, President Robert Abrams, the group's five executive and 11 Arts College at Lincoln C nter Bronx Council on the Arts, the from 161 Street to Mosholu entitled "Impressions of Haiti," executive' committee positions. Victoria Olds of the School (l[ illustrates the history and Grand Concourse Neighborhood Parkway South. Until late Additional nominations for any Social Service received the Action Council, and Bronx October, a 3.5 mile bike way is present-day culture of this island of the positions must be ac- nomination for second \i((.