UMBC: the Road Ahead

L.L.61 A.I'Un.IqaJ 8Z 61 .Iaqmnu 11 amnloA UMBC: The Road Ahead 2. UMBC should strive for a diverse 6. Remedial programs must be ex-, For many students, faculty, and staff, student body, fa~ulty, and staff in terms of panded and improved: This means more UMBC is not a pleasant place to study and class background, race, sex, and age. We money. It is essential that both remedial work.. The atmosphere is alienating: call for effective affirmative action and and introductory English, Math and classes are too large, good teachers and recruitment and retention policies. In science courses be available to all in staff get fired, there are · few (if any) addition, more off-campus courses should coming students, particularly those who comfortable places to study or relax, be offered . are products of an inadequate public .tuition is too high, salaries are too low, bus school system. service is lousy, it's hard to find a place to 3. Good teaching should be encouraged park, the bureaucracy seems over 7. We regard research as essential at whelming .... and rewarded. Teaching should be given more weight as a criterion for promotion UMBC. Traditional avenues of research The UiVIBC Alliance believes that this and tenure; students should have more say ought to receive continuing support. But situation must be changed. We want in the P&T process. The university should as a public university in the Baltimore area, we ought to be exploring areas of UMBC to become a stimulating place to sponsor faculty-student counselor learn and work. We want it to become a workshops aimed at improving the research which address the problems ~nd issues of the surrounding commumty. resource for the working people of the classroom situation. Alternatives to the Baltimore area. Admissions policy, traditional grading system should be Faculty should be encouraged ~o sha~e explored. their research with the commumty. ThIS curriculum, research, and extracurricular sharing (via forums, debates, etc.) would programs should all be oriented toward help create a more lively intellectual at the interests of the community. We cannot 4. Classes should be smaller. ' Students mosphere. depend on a new chancellor to solve our are people, not simply enrollment figures. problems for us. We can only achieve our There should be a reversal of the current goals if students, staff, and faculty 8. UMBC should be governed trend toward cut-throat competition democractically. The current situation in organize and work consistently for them. among departments and divisions for the We plan to do just that. Below are eight which administrators are responsible only limited number of students and resources. to their superiors should be changed; principles which will guide our work. Read Instead, students, faculty, and staff should them, think about them, talk them over administrators should be elected and be begin to act collectively to defend and responsible to councils composed of with your friends, and come to our meeting improve the quality of education at UMBC. to discuss with us. The meeting will be held student, faculty, and staff representatives. Wednesday, March 2 at 3:30 p.m. in Fine Staff, faculty, and students should form Arts 006. representative organizations so that we 5. The curriculum must be transformed. may end the fruitless period of "recom Courses should not be based solely on the mendations" and develop genuine in traditional body of knowledge, but must· dependent power. relate this knowledge to current social · 1. An education at UMBC 'should be conditions. Course content should stress within the financial reach of all those who social change instead of the maintenance We commit ourselves to these prin wish to study here. Tuition and .other of things as they are. For this reason, ciples. We believe they reflect the inter~sts student costS should be reduced, and internships with activist commun. ~ty of the majority of the UMBC commumty. financial aid should be decreased. organizations should be offered. Work with us to put them into action. MEETING For more information contact: Wednesday March 2 Fran Anderson 2214 3:30 PM Carol Ehrlich 2161 Fi ne Arts 006 Fred Pincus 2079 University F ebrua ry 28, 1977 Retriever Page 2 University retriever - News volume 11 number 19 UMES .Closing Stifled Temporarily ·Woman By Bob Finlayson undergraduate enrollement at UMES he would "support the statement;" that Assaulted On The recent controversy over the fate of dropped from 956 to 759 over the past two there is.a "pattem of discrimination'.' in, the University's Eastern Shore campus years. At the same time the Donaldson" the states actions regarding the two neigh (UMES) has died down. The conflict was study put UMES in the undesirable boring schools. Richardson feels that touched off, early last week, when John position of averaging the highest cost per UMES was singled out for a problem Campus Donaldson, a legislative budget analyst, student (excluding the professional which exists through-.out the state, i.e., By Areta Kupchyk suggested that the state consider closing schools) in the state, that is $6,631.80 per duplicty of program. The first reported physical assault on the UMES campus. student. "It really arouses so much emotion campus occurred last· Monday when a In an effort to "calm the waters" William Hytche, UMES Chancellor, when someone comes out and focuses on young woman was approached from Sheldon Knorr, Commissioner of the State claimed that Donaldson's figures were one particular institution; w~en .yo~ ha~e behind by a man attempting to strangle Board for Higher Education, asked for a incorrect. Delegate John · Douglass (D the same problems in the (mstiJutio~ m her. special appejlrance before the Education Balto. City) followed up on Hytche's claim and around the) Baltimore metropohtan The attack occurred at 1: 30 p.m. and Human Resources Committee. The and found that the correct figure was 5,500. area," Richardson said. Monday, on the east-side steps outside the commissioner discussed the master However the readjusted figure did not Chemistry-Physics building. There were planning authority granted the board by change UMES's standing in the state. Dr. Spigler, Director of Special apparently no witnesses. the General Assembly in an attempt to According to Dr. Earl Richardson, Programs at the State Board for Higher The assailant, a white male, came upon persuade the committee to recommend Executive Assistant to the Chancellor, Education, said that the higher education the woman from behind; using a plastic holding off on any decision regarding even the readjusted figure did not take in "Master Plan" will be developed by strap-apparently from the binding wrap UMES. to account three important variables: (1) looking at three major regions, The ping the Retriever papers-attempted to Prior to that meeting the NatIOnal UMES is a land grant college; (2) facilities Baltimore area, the Washington Area and Association for the Advancement of strangle her. The victim, an eighteen year for faculty housing exist on campus; (3) the Eastern shore. Spigler indicated that old white female, managed to slip her hand Colored People presented recom UMES conducts many research projects. the plan had not yet been developed and mendations to Knorr in order to clarify into the noose, twist around, and kick the Richardson insisted that because of thus no conclusions regarding UMES have attacker. The man released his hold, and their position regarding the future of these 3 variables one could not draw a been made. The plan will ultimately ran toward the Cafeteria. while the UMES. direct cost comparison between UMES outline the direction of Maryland's higher Howard P. Rawlings, Chairman of the woman ran up the steps towards the and other state institutions for higher education system for the next 20 years. parking lot. Education Committee of the Maryland education. "It would be like comparing The General Assembly granted the Conference of the NAACP, said that he The UMBC police are presently lookin~ apples and oranges." board, by law, the power to develop such a for a white male with blondish-brown hair, cited to the board a court order in Ten Aroused by the sudden threat of closing plan. When asked if General Assembly nessee calling for the absorbtion of a roughly 5'10", wearing a dark brown coat, the University, UMES officials also made action to close UMES would be breaking and of college age. predominantly white institution into a public their complaints about past that law, Spigler replied, "It's not predominantly black institution, with the The Wednesday following the incident. treatment of the campus. Hytche, in a breaking the law but it sure would bend the the female student was accompanied to recommendation that a similar plan be statement reported by the Diamondback, hell out of it." Dr. Spiglp.r did say that he developed for UMES and nearby Salisbury her classes by a female police officer in an said the major reasons for UMES's feels the General Assembly will allow the effort to spot the assailant. State. enrollment troubles are the new programs board to complete its plan, which is due The report, prepared for the General and construction projects which have next year, before taking any action Assembly, said that continued operation of Bob Neilson, Director of Public Safety, expanded Salisbury State. "During out regarding UMES. has expressed his concern, with the UMES could no longer be justified. Rising formative years, you have allowed UMES was created in 1890 as the costs and falling enrollment were given as limited control his staff has over student someone (Salisbury) to come in and Maryland State College and operated as a and campus safety.

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