Court Order Stops S a Action

UDBBUHBHl A Index Viewpoints pg.3 Arts & Entertainment pg.7 Sports pg.9 Vol.25, No.1, June 25,1980 ly by not setting new election -5 dates by the semester's end. X! The court ordered the Senate to Court order hold hearings "to determine cause for acceptance or rejection of the Election Commission results. stops S A action The senate was also ordered to make provisions for new elections by James E. Plekarskl In an April meeting, a UPS- if the results were rejected. of The Post staff dominated senate rejected the The senate had to act by June recommendation of the Election 11, according to the court. A temporary restraining order Commission to ratify the results. issued by the Milwaukee Circuit Jones and SPC brought suit on Other plans Court fast Wednesday was the May 2 in the Student Court to Jones and Jernberg had other latest development in a battle challenge the constitutionality of plans, however. They informed Carmen Witt, dean of students, to resolve a Student Association the senate action. dispute that began June 1. and acting Assistant Chancellor for Their appeal claimed that the Student Services Meredith Watts The order, from Circuit Judge "constitutional power of the Stu that they intended to take office John McCormick, directed that dent Senate extends only to the the next day, Witt said. Albert Jones and Eric Jernberg, legislative branch of Student Gov According to the complaint filed the president- and vice president ernment and the governance of its elect of SA, "be restrained from in Circuit Court by Cieslewicz own body. It has no jurisdic and others, the outer office doors occupying and running the of tion over the offices in the execu fices of the Student Association." to SA were opened to Jones and tive branch of student govern other SPC members on June 2, ment." Jones and Jernberg, members upon order from Watts. of the Students for Positive Following a nine-hour trial on The doors to inner executive Change party, were the apparent May 21, the Student Court re offices were not opened. A minor victors over Union of Progres leased their unanimous decision. scuffle took place on June 2, sive Student candidates James It stated that "the Senate has the when UPS members tried to en Cieslewicz and Dan Wilhelms power to accept or reject with ter an inner office, according to in SA's spring elections. cause the results of the Elec University Police. SPC won with a margin of tion Commission findings." ' That same day, upon request During the nine-day takeover of the Student Association office, a eight votes, and UPS candidates of Cieslewicz, the Student Court •J^. However, the court held that sign reading "Albert Jones, President" hong from incumbent •fy contested the results. the Senate acted unconstitutional [torn to p.2, col. 1] Jim Cieslewicz* door. affairs contend that this merger legislation is clear-cut and un Walters Administration intervenes questionable. "The problem was caused by a resigns with SA election conflict lack of knowledge about merger on (new Chancellor Frank William Walters, UWM's vice An interpretive report .and by intending to ignore the legislation for the UW-System. Horton's) part," argued Jeff chancellor for the last nine years, by Dick J Peck Student Court and judge the con The merger paragraph appears on Gingold, Chief Justice of Student has resigned his administrative of The Post staff troversy by themselves, UWM ad the front of the SA's campus Court. Students have the right position so that he can return to ministrators have worsened directory, and reads in part: "The supervise their own funds. teaching in the physics depart The controversial and chaotic the chaos. students...shall have the right to ment. situation with the Student Associ organize themselves in a manner Walters, 48, was a physics ation this month has been fueled they determine and to select their That's true, and the administra professor here from 1961 to 1966. by accusations of racism, bias and Perhaps the situation would be representatives to participate in tion will try to avoid meddling in His decision to resign his post conspiracy. even worse had the administration institutional government." SA funding matters, but some* as vice chancellor, the No. 2 done nothing. That's a subjective times intervention is necessary. position at UWM, responsible for And when the Students for Posi issue. But whether the administra That was the opinion, and rational academic affairs decisions, was tive Change executive-elects took tion had the right to intervene— Interference violates ization, of the fund-freezing by announced in a press release over the SA office June 2, that's a legal issue. Any administrative interference, Horton and Acting Assistant Chan June 19. defying a Student Court order, the such as that exhibited by Chapman cellor Meredith Watts. Walters was on vacation last UWM administration felt it had a Hall in this case, appears then week and could not be reached responsibility to intervene Those who say it didn't—the to violate a student government's "As the custodian of the for comment, Student Court, SPC and the Union constitutional right to independ University funds, it was 4 UWM's new chancellor, Frank By allowing SPC to take over the of Progressive Students, for ence. And those who say the ad Horton, said Walters will stay on SA office, by freezing all SA funds example—point to the 1974 merger ministration should stay out of SA [turn to p.6, col. 1] as vice chancellor until a replace ment is found. The search and screen procedure for finding Wal Unger's cartoons usually consist of very bizarre people—his ters' successor could last a year, typical Herman looks like a cross between a wart and martian, Horton said, but the chancellor Hot tub is heaven and says ordinary things in very strange situations. Which, hopes a replacement could be not coincidentally, fits in very well with Unger's philosophy found by January. of life. When asked whether Walters' to Herman' artist "Since I was very, very young decision was voluntary or not, I have been somewhat unable to Horton pointed to the words in understand reality, almost to the his announcement. by Gretchen Schnldt point of being an existentialist. "I regretfully inform you that of The Post staff To me, most of the things we dis (Walters) has asked to be re cuss, talk about, accept as normal assigned to the physics depart (fi\ Jim Unger, creator of the comic strip "Herman," doesn't in our everyday lives are utterly ment," the announcement stated. understand "Doonesbury" and hates beer. So what was he doing ridiculous," Unger said. on the UWM campus, where both reign supreme? Administrators of other cam "There's confusion, irony, puses regard Walters as one of Unger was doing what it takes to get his dream: "a big everything," he said. "Every kid the most knowledgeable officials California-style house on the ocean with a hot tub and pool, can sit and watch cowboys blow concerning the UW System. with a school of Japanese nurses who come in every Saturday ing off the heads of Indians or Certain UWM faculty members to play 'find the soap'." Indians shooting arrows into cow have criticized Walters as being To get this vision of "heaven," Unger was promoting his new boys. But to see people in the arrogant and unresponsive. Last book, "The 1st Treasury of Herman." act of embracing, let alone love- semester, the department of cul "I'm not interested in the cash," Unger, 43, said. "I'm making (which is probably the tural foundations of education fac interested in the goodies the cash brings." warmest, nicest thing human be ulty filed a grievance against him ings can encounter in their short y Unger for his unresponsiveness to their If there is a difference between the two, it isn't big enough lifespan) is a no-no." recommendations. to keep Unger from leaving his home in Ottawa to do the talk Unger said he saw no contradiction between his philosophy, show, newspaper interview circuit. Unger's. tour was the deluxe Walters has conceded that such "don't hurt anyone," and his position in the dog-eat-dog criticisms might be true from the version, with stops in exotic cities like Pittsburg, Cleveland world of commercial publishing. ^ [turntop.12, col.l] and Milwaukee. viewpoints of certain faculty members. • • . t . • . page 2 UWM Post ward, ordered that the Election The restraining order by Circuit Commission's findings be imple Court names UW Board of Re Civil, student courts mented. gents, UWM Chancellor Horton, Jones, Jernberg, Gingold. and The next day, June 9, Horton Woodward as defendants. officially recognized Jones and untangle SA conflict Jernberg as the officers of SA. Cieslewicz, Wisniewski and Brad Paulsen (executives in the [from page one] A Student Court hearing sched A motion to find that the Elec The vote of 16 yes, six no uled for Friday did not convene UPS administration) sought the ordered Jones to vacate the SA tion Commission acted irresponsi and three abstentions was one because of the circuit order. order. offices in compliance with the bly failed to reach the necessary vote short of the necessary two- The Student Court announced that court's May decision. two-thirds for passage, thus ap thirds of the 25 senators pres its June 8 order was no longer A hearing is scheduled in Cir Jones ignored the order, and parently ratifying the election of ent. in effect. cuit Court on June 30.

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