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Students, Too, Are People by Verkuilen Ager nuts and bolts of the financial The announcement of re bargaining process. In short, trenchment plans at Roger let's keep the machinery func· Williams struck me initially as tioning and try to forget how cutting and slashing of a rather many people get ground up in arbitrary kind. I'd seen "Young the process. Frankenstein" the week before Transfer Credit, Cost and visions came to mind of a c.razed Dr. Gauvey - nee Specifically, how are people Frankenstein - saying to his hurt by the retrenchment de faithful assistant Igor Rizzini, cision. Anyone who is forced " Das ist ein experimental to transfer will probably lose kollege, Igor. So let us ex credit. Most colleges require one or two years on their periment!" Then I realized that campus before they'll grant a Administration members on way to Quill sponsored student rally of March 5th they were removing the heart of the living victim, and with· degree. You can't go tromping into Harvard with six or seven out anesthetic. semesters of credit from Roger It is not the amputation of Williams, attend a semester or certain divisions and the crip two, and depart with a degree. Gauvey Answers Quill pling of the Liberal Arts Col It's bad for business. So juniors lege which I find most disturb· (Editor's note: on Tuesday, transfer will be aided as much personally enjoy fund raising. and seniors could lose one, ing, but rather the callous way March 11, President Ralph E. as the administration and fac It is complicated and personal two, or three semesters of in which the administration has Gauvey submitted answers to ulty can to transfer into other involvement and I enjoy it very credit, money, and time. questions submitted lo him programs or to other insti· much. You have to believe in chosen to ignore the impact of Underclassmen could Jose one weefl before by the Quill. tutions. what you are raising funds for the retrenchment decision many credi ts also, particularly Both questions and answers are and I certainly believe in Roger upon the lives and futures of if they haven't been con reprinted below in their Why weren't the programs Williams College. I need help, students at Roger Williams. It centrating on their core re was not administrative blunder entirely.) allowed to be phased out? however, to build a fund rais-· quirements or their grades All the information is not in, ing attempt in any financially ing which provided retrench· haven't been up to snuff. What is the educational aim ment letters to faculty mem and we will not know if the significant way at Roger People with grants, loans, of Roger Williams College? two or three programs affected Williams and this would cost bers and press releases to the veterans entitlements, or The educational aim of are actually phased out until the College a minimum of media but which left the stu scholarships could find they've Roger Williams College is set such time as pre-registration $40,000 the first year, and this dent body to obtain the news wasted all or part of them forth in the catalog. There has occurs. In general, out of forty is only to detennine what through the grapevine. That because of set-backs in the been, however, some recent majors at this College, four prospects we might have for retrenchment plans were not transfer process. For those who presented simultaneously with developments that are related could possibly be cut from the fund raising to identify po cannot afford to transfer but a.ltemate plans or options for to this question. I refer spe program. It is still possible that tential donors and the causes have not been given the con affected students is no acci cifically to the information I they could be phased out. The and in essence to build the sideration of a phase-out dent. As President Gauvey gave J. Mahoney Monday, question, I believe, is pre ground work for what could period, the only option may be explained at the student rally, March 10 relating to the report mature unti.1 pre-registration become significant fund raising to drop out of school. For the impact on students has of the President's Long-range occurs. efforts after that. This more than one student who Planning Committee which was been considered but emotion passed unanimously by the If the Marine Biology pro (continued on page 4) alism must be put aside for the (continued on page 5) Faculty Senate Wednesday, gram is to be scrapped, as we March 5. (Editor's note: the know now, March 1, why did report referred to will be pub the college spend hundreds of lished in its entirety in the next dollars in November on a bro· Swanson Asks Collegialty Quill.) chure extolling the fu ture of the program? To the Roger Williams College tution, but a society or guy in first, before he gets a Community: Are you going to lower the The College spent money on "body . .. invested with special chance to do you in. We stop academic standards for courses, a brochure concerning Marine I write to express a few powers or rights, performing talking to each other - quite now that required courses for Biology in the hope that it thoughts on the present crisis certain duties .. . engaged in 1i terally. Factions develop maj~rs have been cut? could remain a financially at Roger Williams College. I some common employment or within the faculty and within I really do not understand sound program. write not as a faculty member, pursuit." For our purposes the the student body. Ideas or this question the way it's or ombudsman, but simply as key elements in this definition plans for concerted efforts and stated, however any courses or Does the Administration myself, and I claim to repre are the metaphor, " body," and actions go by the boards, be required courses for majors have a maximum deficit figure sent no other person's opinions the concept of things done in cause of our suspicions of the that are placed on the pre for 75-76? What is it? but my own. common, or together. The persons suggesting them. registration material in April of The budget for the 1975-76 It is common knowledge that relative theory is collegialism. "Watch out! It's a trap!" 1975 will obviously not be fiscal year is still in prepa private liberal arts colleges are A college is an organization Cannot we remind ourselves lowered to my knowledge. This ration. There is no such thing living in perilous times. Econ "with its highest authority rest of our collegiality - our col is primarily a faculty matter as a maximum deficit figure for omic conditions are bad, social ing in its entire membership." lectivity? Is not an injury to and in all probability should be this budget. In fact, there values which have long sup Thus, to think of Roger one an injury to all? Return to referred lo the proper com should be no operating deficit ported humanistic ideas as the Williams College as merely a the metaphor of the body. No mittee which 1 suspect could for the budget involving the keystone and mark of higher collection of programs or per one amputates as a first resort. be the Committee on Aca year which begins July 1, education seem to be changing, sons, isolate and expendable, is Amputation represents no demic Status or possibly the 1975. and the portion of the national to do violence to the concept cure, but rather failure to cure Curriculum Committee. At this population which has tradition of college itself. A college is - failure to arrest disease in college the faculty is respon Deficit accounts in accredit· ally gone to college is on the not so much an expression of a one of the body's members. No sible for academic standards ation. How much deficit is decline. Forces such as these thing, as it is an expression of one pretends that the body, and therefore I think it is needed to hinder ac buffet institutions like our own relationship and interrelation severed of one of its members improper for the President to creditation? continuously. ship. Lose that sense of inter is not diminished by the loss. react in an area which is pri The only people who can Yet these forces seem to me dependence, that basic belief in And no one excises healthy marily faculty prerogative. answer this question are the to be the agents of our greatest the value, or rather the neces· tissue. Doctors have stopped individuals who represent the peril, rather than that peril sity of each part to the whole, letting blood to cure disease. What exactly is the college New England Association. I itself. The continuous battle and the college ceases to exist, The "cure" all too often kiJled. going to do about the students would suspect that any deficit wears us down and we live in though buildings, faculty, and John Donne recognized a fun part-way or almost through in private colleges these days an atmosphere of fear and students remain. Is that not the damental fact about.. human retrenched programs? How has a considerable bearing not fatigue. A kind of group peril which faces us today? community. No man is an much publicity do you expect on accreditation but the actual amnesia sets in. We forget who I recognize three symptoms Island. The bell that tolls for to be believed after this, con· surviva.1 of that institution. we are and what our purpose of our collective peril. The first one of us does toll for us all. sidering the adverse word-of· is. In the struggle to survive we is a growing lack of confidence The second symptom is an mouth publicity that will be Who is in charge of fund lose contact with the concept in ourselves, individually, and atrophy of the imagination. As passed by adversely affected raising? How much bas been of what surviva.1 means. The collectively. Our actions indi our self-confidence has waned, students? raised for 75-76? What are peril is to the spiri t. If we save cate disbelief in our ability to our responses have become This is actually two ques your plans for raising more? the body and lose the soul, meet our problems creatively. conditioned. Pavlov would be tions. The first deals with The president of the college what we save is shadow and Trusting not ourselves we proud of us al.I. Ring the bell, students who are part way or is in charge of fund raising. ln delusion. This is our danger. cease to trust each other. We the dogs salivate. See a fi. almost through retrenched pro fact he is the only person We are in grave danger of expect each other to act out of nancial shortfall - retrench. grams. If there is no recall, and involved in fund raising at losing sight of what it means to self-interest, rather than The parallel is not bad. No we will know that in all prob· Roger Williams College. In an be a college. In the broadest mutual concern and good will. food for the dogs - no ulti ability by the time that we effort to save money, the sense of the word - in its first Out of these expectations de· mate remedy for the college. have pre-registration in April, administration was the first meaning - a "college" refers velops a "head 'em off at the We view the world with a those students who wish to one to retrench personnel. I not to an educational insti· pass" mindset. Do the other (continued on page 4) 0 ~ e~IC~------"'C'lca c.. At the hst College Corporation meeting, a large group night before the resumption of idea of the ignorance of these Open letter classes. We have solicited college students. ...J of individuals, not known to be regular voting Corpora· student reaction to this prac Swine, whether you realize it ...J To Board Of tice, and very little has been or not, this college is one of ::i tion members, arrived to vote. At this meeting, Judge forthcoming. the most unstable institutions 0 Trustees w Thomas Paolino made a motion to have the Corporation ln response to student re· at this point in time for anyone. :I: quests for longer evening whose major is either Creative I- extend the term of membership of the current Board of Open letter to the Board of Trustees: hours, we have been staying Wri ting or Fine Arts. Exactly open until 11 pm on Tuesday Trustees one year. As you may already know, how would you feel if, after four years of your life, all you This poses a question. Is the reason for Judge twelve professors at Roger (continued on page 5) LO had to show is a piece of paper r-- Williams College have recently 0'> Paolino's motion a ploy to keep his power over the with as much value as a sheet ...- been retrenched. On Wed Uniting Gays of Charmin? Board of Trustees? It states in the by-laws of the Board nesday, February 26, they re "": Dear Editor: You may not want to do .J;; ceived letters informing them u that each· member must, after a three-year term, step anything but sit down and be .... that thejr services would no I have spent many hours ca milling over the problems of fed information like a com· ~ down for a one-year period. Not only has Judge Paolino longer be required as of the puter, but there are people end of the spring semester gay /bisexual repressi.on at >ca been a board member for the last three years, but that Roger Williams College. Al with something called talent "C 1975. Given the present state ·;: and sensitivity that have the majority of members who seem to support the judge of the. economy such occur though discrimination on the u.. basis of sexual preference does ability to create and in my ences would hardly seem un have also served their three-year terms. If the present not seem to be rampant, I have opinion, their capabilities can usual. However, additional knowledge of several incidents only be stifled in an environ by-laws are not changed, the judge stands to lose all this facts, possibly not well pub which reflect the mood of ment of an attjtude like yours. apparent control for one year. licized but pertinent to these many students (including those No one is trying to be a retrenchments, raise crucial Is this the reason Judge Paolino has made that motion involved with student/dorm radical extremist, but when the questions with regard to indi government), faculty and students see what is going to the Corporation? vidual people and the college as administration. These have wrong with society and start to a whole. Was the Corporation voting membership stacked for shown an underlying fear of react instead of sitting back It hardly seems an accident gays/bisexuals stemming from with their noses in their text this particular meeting? that all of these professors, an ignorance of such. I have books and their fingers up their save one, represent fields from Perhaps we see at last that retrenchment is just part also found many gays/bisexuals asses saying profound philo the liberal arts and pure sci crying out for an identity, but sophical things like, "Un· of a larger problem; the logic we have failed to see ences. In fact, several areas are they can find no place on chained liberalism has been b eing eliminated entirely: behind three years of retrenchment; the logic we have campus where they can openly shown up as the farce it is," all Creative Writing, History, meet. Also many of them are they receive from that latter failed to see behind the strangulation of the Liberal Arts Music, Language and Mathe afraid of themselves and do not faction are empty quotes. matics. At lea5t two majors are know who to turn to for such The only way any action will College; the logic we have failed to see behind the included in this list: Creative simple purposes as to rap or for be taken concerning any prob· Writing and History. For stu division of the faculty union to the benefit of the counseling. !em is if the students get in· dents in these majors currer'ltly Paolino junta. Last Tuesday, March 11, I volved and actually care about in the first semester of their what's happening not only to senior year this is disaster. called for the gay/bisexual Is Judge Paolino trying to cover up a personal or people on this campus to get themselves, but to thosP. They will have invested seven corporate problem? Is he trying to protect himself in his together and express their around them. semesters of time and money Everything I have just said is only to be denied the oppor views on themselves, and the fight for a higher judicial position in the state? Is there not new, it's been said many tunity of the degree they college community. The response was minimal, not be times before; the problem is it an illegal or unethical operation going on behind the sought at the college they cause of the lack of gay/bi· hasn't been realized. facade of an incompetent administration? selected. If the administration Get into the Seventies your should offer alternative pro sexual people on campus, but because of their fear of repres· self, Swine, try paying some Let us turn to the larger dilemma. Let us investigate it grams in the salvaged areas of sion. attention to what is going on English and American Studies, with vigor. For those who would like to around you and finally, think then the affected seniors will try and become aware of their about what you say before you be forced to take second best Note: because we have been kept in the dark so long, sexuality, or just get together spew Midtown Spa Philosophy. in only related fields of study. with their brothers and sisters, we can only believe these are the facts. If they aren't, The students will study among Love and Kisses, get in touch with me at ex Unkle Funky we leave it to the Board of Trustees to correct us. teachers they themselves did tension 2977 or watch the not choose. Quill for an announcement of a I am a graduating senior in meeting to rap about gay/ Creative Writing and studied at bisexual life. How long, Indeed? other institutions during the winter and summer of my David McCullough Dear Editor: sophomore year. I came back I am a second semester senior HELP I AGAIN I to Roger Williams College be Engineer's at this college and have seen cause I could not find another many changes take place in the Creative Writing program that Plea course of my attendance here The Guill needs was even comparable to the - few, if any, for the better. one at RWC. Although I am Dear Editor: We now have a very nice a Managing Editor able to graduate this year, I It seems very unfortunate to Student Center, but who runs still have a direct stake in this me that at a time when student it? Two years ago we tried to affair. I find it difficult to unity is so important there is a have an efficient fire fighting believe that a graduate school large group that seems to have brigade; that has died. There APPLY OUICKL YI (continued on page 5) no concern. I'm speaking of then came the controversy of the engineers. At the rally of former Dean Uehling's tri Help Form March 5 the physical repre mester curriculum. That ended sentation of the students in a compromise, not a victory, library Policy showed the administration the for the students. Then there concern of the students. Where was the first retrenchment Dear Editor: were the 240 engineers? Most that, fortunately, got settled I am writing this letter to of the commuters followed without much firing, but it was answer one written by Mitchell their everyday routines and, also a compromise. THE QUILL Now there is a new retrench· H. Miller concerning Library after leaving class, scurried to houxs on holiday weekends the parking lots to drive back ment battle being waged by You Know Who, and this may Published Weekly in Prov. & Bristol printed in the February 28th to the safety of their homes. Quill. I thank him for writing it Other students went back to culminate in the loss of the because it proves what we have (continued on page 5) Music, Marine Biology, and by Student Publications, Inc. been hoping is true: that there Creative Writing Depts., and are students who are interested some excellent teachers. What Undergraduate newspaper published for the students of in helping form Library policy. Funky the hell kind of place are they RWC Providence and Bristol, R.I. It shall be organized to running here any\liay, where is provide a news service to the student body. It shall also be In past years we have en considered legally autonomous from the corporate struc· joyed having students on the Midtown our money going to, and what tufe of Roger Williams College as it is supported totally by Library Committee. Last fall is being done with it? I would the students through the student activity fee and outside we asked for a student member Dear Editor: like some straight answers to advertising revenue. In this sense it must be responsible my questions, and no beating only to the student body of Roger Williams College. but none was chosen. Just last In this letter, I address my Unsigned editorials represent the views of this paper. They week the Student Senate self to Mr. Michael Swine, a around the bush or throwing of do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the faculty, selected a student to serve on three year student at RWC that the bull. Some of the students administration, or student body as a whole. Signed editor the Librarian Search Commit· it would seem, has been living here may be apathetic, but I'm ials, columns, reviews and letters represent the personal not. Thank God I'm leaving views of the writers. tee and are now considering in his own Utopia for three their representative to the years. As part of the left-wing this place in May, because it's Editor-in-Chief ...... , ...... , . ... Derek Mccants Library Committee. The utopian staff of the Quill, I was depressing to see this college go Sports Editor ...... Pete Bouffidis Library Staff welcomes their aware of the general apathy in the direction it has been Contributors this Issue participation. It is, indeed, and the "don't get involved" going. O.K., so now we're ac Richard G. Arango, Carol Hathaway, Ralph Gauvey, Geof time! attitude of most of the stu· credited - how long will that frey Clark, Robert McRoberts, Donna Iacono, Susan Davitt, The Library has always been dents, however, until I read the Brian McDonald, Jack Mahoney. closed on long holiday week· letter written by Mr. Swine last? ends, opening at 6 pm on the (Quill, Feb. 28, 1975) I had no Tim Hosmer Ql
149 Bradford Street Cover charge $1.00 Fri. - Sat. 253-7949 x Vi <1l O> ro £~tP~e------Cl. Emer9ency Sessions 2. Students hiring an attor ney to explore what rights, if RWCFA _, (continued from page 8) based bargaining has been used any, they have. _, expenses and $8,000 for pro successfully by the admin 3. Help the school raise The Faculty Association's with RIEA and NEA legal :::> fessional development. This istration in past years. In reply, money through donations position in regard to the action counsel, the possibility of 0 solicited by students and w last item refers to courses and Mr. Venditto restated the recently taken by the admin court action. Informally, the ::c: programs designed to increase administration's position, that through things "like a car istration to retrench twelve Faculty Association is attempt I- the professional expertise, and, the faculty must either reach a wash". members of the faculty is ing to communicate to the ultimately, teaching ability of settlement through nego 4. Continue picketing at clear: the Association believes members of the Board and the faculty. 66% of the salary tiation, or lose their comrades, peak hours. that this action was neither Corporation the true facts of lC'l Next meeting: soon. r-- cut was promised to be reim as retrenchment would then necessary nor legal. Perhaps the case and the dimensions of 0') bursed to the faculty by the become inevitable. Faculty Exec. Board Meeting even more importantly, this the impact this action will have ~- administration in the event Next Meeting: today at 3 action was extremely ill on the curriculum. that the year's mean enroll pm. The meeting opened with the advised, since it will resuJt in a It is the intention of the ..c u ment exceeded the admin reading of a letter to President significant weakening of the Faculty Association to work .... All Coll ege Council Assembly "' istration's prediction of 1300 Gauvey stating that the in· college's academic programs closely with concerned stu ~ students. It did.) Much of the discussion at formation requested by the and very possibly a marked dents in a joint effort to re > this assembly referred to the faculty had not been released. "' "5. College ·will rescind all reduction in the overall enroll verse the retrenchment de :'Q.... retrenchment letters. " events at the negotiations on A red-lined catalog was then ment of the college. On its cision and to produce creative LL Friday. There were no mem presente!f by RWCFA Presi After hearing these pro part, the Faculty Association solutions to the perennial prob bers of the Board of Trustees dent Schuyler to demonstrate posals, the faculty went into intends to pursue all the lems o.f poor management and present at the meeting and so, the amount of material (20% private caucus. After 45 avenues open to it as the col declining enrollments which technically, any decisions made according to Schuyler) avail minutes, they returned with lective bargaining agent for the constitute the fundamental at the meeting were invalid, for able this year that will be faculty. The Assoc)ation is fil. issues behind the current these replies (not verbatim the ACC constitution states deleted in the 75-76 academic record): ing an unfair labor practices troubles. In the Association's that to vote on an issue, at year due to retrenchment. petition with the National view, solidarity and joint 1. This would postpone the least one member from each of Also discussed: retrenchment for another year Labor Relations Board and a action are the best hope we the four represented college 1. Informational picketing and not solve anything. grievance under the existing have to turn the college around groups must be present. It was of the administration by facul 2. & 3. The faculty has al contract. In addition, the and make it the kind of place stated that the ACC has no ty members. ready made many financial Association is investigating, we all know it can be. more power than students 2. Newspaper publicity stat sacrifices and cannot afford to alone to obtain information. ing unfair actions of the ad make any more. During the Several channels, however, are ministration. past two years, 30% of the in the process of being ex 3. Pos.sible student/faculty faculty's buying power has plored, but as in all matters assistance to the present re been lost. relevant to this subject, they cruiting system. Assumption 4. The money owed from will take time. There were 4. Faculty has drawn up the the reimbursement of monies perhaps twenty students in "unfair practice suit" which given up by the faculty has not attendance; mamy asked will be presented to the Mutual Life yet been refunded. Insurance questions and commented on Na ti o nal Labor Relations 5. There is no evidence of Company the Council discussions. There Board. financial problems. were a few concrete sug No definite d.ecisions were The conclusion reached from gestions made, but basically it made. Life these answers and other nego was a rehashing of the ideas Before the faculty went into Retirement Income tiation comments is that the already presented; the search closed session, Mr. Hatfield Disability Income faculty needs time for further for information was the (negotiator for faculty) advised analysis, to seek legal advice Owen E. Trainor III Council's only real decision. not to respond to the admin· from their counsellor, and to Next meeting: Monday, April istration with a counter 219 High St., Bristol consult with the membership 7 at 4 pm. proposal until the NLRB Tel: IQ. 728-0750 ofRWCFA. makes judgemen t. Also, he 253-2233 The administration then re l!a!s. 253.4076 Student -Senate Open Meeting advised the Executive Board to sponded to the faculty's re seek further legal counsel and sponse: The student meeting, was, to speak to the Faculty As 1. We have to take things a for t he most part, chaotic. sociation Wednesday, March year at a time. Even if post There was information given 12. ponement was the issue, a year out about the progress of nego Susan Bingham of employment for these tiation and general student Ed Dobkowski 253-3868 BraCfford St. people would be salvaged. ideas, but no concrete course 2. & 3. There is no question of action was decided upon. Bristol about the sacrifices the faculty Several suggestions were made have made to save their col such as: SrKrd~ leagues' jobs. 1. The students writing a ALDERBARAN 4. Monies are earned and proposal and giving it to the ...... ;$9=a: ,; ,_,. z owed but faculty should make administration and faculty, Deadline sacrifices to hold the positions stating the students' view that CINEMA I o'f others. if the faculty should take a pay In 70111111. and Mr. Hatfield then stated that cut, it should be shared by all April 4 the tactic of retrenchment- salaried employees. stcreo1,ho11i<· sound! OA1noo SElZNICKS.. ' ". "'""'~"' "'"'"lllS
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