Recount Begins Today for Student Presidency
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U.S. Postage PAID VOL. 55 NO. 12 Bronx, NY. Permit No. 7608 Non-ProfitOrg. TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1973 Shea approves student request l ».*:!»= • LAC students to join board by Brian Tumulty will be selected by evening "It is not so much that we are As a result of an agreement school delegates of the LAC reached at the special meeting of in a position to save X-amount of council today. dollars as one of presenting an the Liberal Arts College Council Shea agreed to the settlement efficient, well-run college," he last night, 10 student after the council members asserted. representatives will join in responded to his announcement The dean added, "There is no Saturday's meeting of LAC Dean that the advisory committee secret plan for what will happen George Shea's advisory com- planned to ask students to attend to the college." Shea assured the mittee on restructuring the their next meeting, with an council that "there exists no college. affirmation that the council threat" from the administration The day students will be should determine the moans of uptown regarding action the selected at the Wednesday selecting the students. LAC must take. meeting of the Liberal Arts Also, LASG representatives However, some council Student Government, while the Frank Vernuccio, president, and members continued to question evening school representatives Marguerite Cortez. LAC '74, the ambiguity surrounding the reported their group's resolved financial imperatives that the BUCKLEY; the FC freshman RAULINTIS: thought Pachnos protest on the exclusion of college faces. will face Raulintis in the run-off would be "the one to beat." Faculty give students from the committee. Modern languages instructor They also requested that the M.A. McKissick questioned the LASG select student necessity of "cutting expenses to thoughts representatives to the com- the bone" if the college is not Recount begins today mittee. actually a financial liability to the Upon hearing these proposals University. productivity Shea saggested to the council Although Shea said he for student presidency by Jim Cavanaugh that if an addition were made to believed the task of evaluating Executive Vice President the 16 member faculty com- the individual colleges in such by Tom LaSala parties. The parties had Joseph Cammarosano's mittee, it consist of 10 students. terms near impossible, the dean Recounting will begin today in originally filed for the recount statement last week that an The dean said he did not oppose said he would begin checking for the presidential election of the since Anne LeBlanc finished increase in the number of students on the committee "in such statistics. United Student Government. seven votes shy of the 40 percent courses and students served by principle," but forewarned the Saturday's meeting of the The recount was called for after figure needed for election on the faculty may be necessitated by council of possible problems "if advisory committee will include the three presidential candidates first ballot. Offer noted that the worsening financial conditions we turn something which is an a discussion of core-curriculum in Gary Tulacz, Bill Hamilton and vote difference had been too has drawn a variety of faculty honest search for facts into terms modeling the day school's Frank Iorio finished within four wide to make any correction comment. something political." core after EXCEL's majors,. votes of each other. necessary. Rev. Harry Sievers, dean of The reason for forming the career programs and thccycle of Elections committee chairman Tulacz, who garnered 412 the Graduate School, agreed advisory committee was not courses. Justine Offer stated that the votes to Hamilton's 410 and that a productivity increase is primarily for financial Already, the committee has recount initially granted con- Iorio's 408, commented that he needed, saying, "I think there reassessment, Shea told the reached a consensus to propose a cerning the Vice President for was "shocked at the closeness of will be efforts in some depart- Council and an audience of ap- consolidation of the day school's communications positions had the race." The Fordham College been withdrawn by the ments to increase productivity." proximately 60 faculty and 10 departments into five junior is "fairly sure" that he will students. (Continued on page 3) Something New and Reality get into the runoff after the He was not sure, however, recount. that the increase should be Commenting on the fact that achieved by increasing in- Clohessy addresses Council all six of his Something New structors' course loads. ticket made the runoff, Tulacz He explained that "a four said, "Anytime you get all six in credit course requires extra there, that means you have six student and faculty input. The Registrar discusses grading great people." Other Something present course loads are a fairly tation that the student was "have been academically New members include Marje ideal situation." University Registrar John Raulintis running for executive, Sievers was wary that added Clohessy explained the problems really sick or caught in the resolved," Clohessy reported. In courses might cut into research associated with absent and late elevator," he stated, explaining addition, there have been 153 (•Continued on page 3) time. "This is important," he marks and deferred that a student does not have to grades raised and two marks said, "because the effect of your examinations at Friday's College give an explanation for missing lowered. Clohessy believed that some of the grade increases research goes into your Council meeting. the exam. Reactions to teaching." Rev. Donald Matthews of the resulted because the instructor There were 629 absent and 333 should have given an absent or The answer might lie, thought incomplete marks recorded last communications department submitted a proposal for changes incomplete mark, but didn't Severs, in the consolidation of semester at Rose Hill and 269 know how to do so. activities fee li'ss popular courses. These absent and 559 incompletes at in the deferred exam 1 An incomplete mark indicates be taught on alternate Lincoln Center, the registrar regulations. The proposal ars in that a student, has not completed ' order to cut the man- reported. Clohessy asked for a suggested, "no application for a set of guidelines for absent and deferred examination will be the course requirements while differ widely ner needed for a given course. an absent mark means that the incomplete marks and for accepted until after ' the Cammarosano agreed with his student was not present for the Student leaders, ad- suggestion saying that "instead deferred exams in order to originally scheduled date of the ministrators, and faculty examination." final exam, the registrar ex- "' « professor holding two lec- eliminate some of the abusers. plained. members expressed mixed (Continued on page 3) "There should be documen- Last semester, a few ap- reactions to the new student plications for deferred exams activities fee of $15 per were handed out before semester, which was announced Christmas, Clohessy pointed out. last week by Dean of Students William J. Crawley. According to Clohessy, the United Student Government basic question was, "Does the President John Buckley said, "If instructor have the right to give the students get control of the a student a final grade without a money then I think it's a good final exam?" idea. If not, I don't see the dif- McMahon added, "Does the ference from what we had this student have the right to a final year," in reference to the exam?" Student Activities Budget Rev. Edward Brande ISfc, Committee. quoted the instructor's Frank Vernuccio, president of procedure book, which states, "a the Liberal Arts College student teacher may give a student a government, expressed strong deferred exam, he does not have criticism of the fee. "It's a tuition to." increase in disguise. As far as a My concern is for the students referendum goes, it is not a who do meet the deadlines, while referendum, but it is blackmail," others have much more time," he commented, referring to the stated McMahon. CLOHESSY: explained the student-held referendum that At the present time, 473 of the problems with late and absent would lower, raise or abolish the dean sees the need for faculty absent and incomplete marks marks. (Continued on page 3) increase. Environmentalist Congress' role examined to speak today Hatfield calls for reform In a speech sprinkled with the power of Congress." environmental protection. references to classical and neo- Citing the recent "phenomenal The legislative branch of the on mayor race classical political thinkers growth of the Presidency" as a government lacks an adequate Montesquieu, Jefferson and cause for public concern, the staff, has little computerization Mayoral candidate Jerome Madison, Oregon's Senator Mark Oregon senator attributed this and no information storage units Kretchmer will speak about his Hatfield presented innovative development to the American according to the Republican mayoral candidacy today in a ideas such as limiting the terms tendency which values "ef- senator, and it is just beginning program jointly sponsored by of U.S. Congressmen and ficiency over consultation." to take advantage of modern the Young Democrats and the Senators, and having the Vice He added, "We have made a technology. political science club. President, Attorney General and virtue of efficiency, and ef- More fundamentally, the !jThe Democratic candidate's other department heads elected ficiency right now is on the side senator-from Oregon felt thai political experience includes independently of the President. of the executive." most congressmen think several terms as a state Hatfield, a co-sponsor of the The frequent use of executive primarily in terms of con- assemblyman from Manhattan McGovern-Hatfield amendment order and the invocation of stituency interest and ap- and three years as city en- to end the Vietnam War, in- executive privilege along with propriate funds, accordingly, vironmental protection ad- troduced during the 1970-71 popular "enthronement of the which somewhat validates ad- ministrator.