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An Independent ■ewling Green, Ohio Student Wednesday, January J3, 1974 Voice me BG news Volume 57 Number 58 Senate urges rise in minority hiring Faculty Senate vesterdav implications and uphold the principles department must be withdrawn and recommended the University allocate embodied in the recommendations" returned to the fund 160.000 annually "exclusively (or the approved yesterday in further dealings Further, it states that the fund is to purpose of employing minority racial with the provost on tenure matters be used to "support departments which and ethnic groups which specifically In addition, it resolved that the SEC have little or no success in attracting includes women of all races " appear before the I'niversity Board of faculty from minority racial and ethnic The recommendation will be Trustees to represent Faculty Senate groups and women of all races presented to University President in any future discussions of tenure Several faculty senate members Hollis A Moore Jr. and the Advisory The minority funding recom- opposed passage of the measure Committee on the University mendation, submitted by Faculty Dr Paul Haas, associate professor Educational Budget, formerly called Senate Chairman l)r John T Creene. of economics, said such a fund would Budget Council. states that funds may be used to pay only perpetrate the scarcity of The senate also completed approval the salary of a person in a newly qualified minority members, and of a seven-recommendation ad hoc created position, to supplement suggested the funds be used to train committee report criticizing Provost departmental budgets so that a person minority persons Kenneth W Rotbe's recent may be hired at a higher rank than Another recommendation was that interpretation of faculty tenure policy available departmental funds permit, Dr Moore, the Board of Trustees and The first three recommendations and to allow a department to anticipate the Advisory Committee on the were approved at the last senate a retirement and hire an available, University Educational Budget give "a meeting Jan 8 when the Ad Hoc highly qualified person " high budget priority" to increased Committee to Study the Provost's Dr. Creene said the recommendation academic scholarships Statement on Tenure submitted its was prompted because "there has been It calls for report substantially no change in minority -The formation and funding of The senate also reworded a pre- employment in several years " twenty new scholarships, to be called viously-approved recommendation The recommendation also states that Board of Trustees Scholarships, to that had been criticized as vague, and if a person hired by the fund ceases cover room, board, books, tuition and resolved that the Senate Kxecutive employment the allocation to the fees. Committee (SEC) should "clarify the -Formation and funding during the next three years of 48 new scholarships, to be called University Achievement Scholarships, to cover Laos official claims tuition and fees: -Additional funding of the existing program of President's Scholarships pilots still prisoners sufficient to make two additional awards annually to each incoming WASHINGTON (API Eight to ten Foreign Affairs Committee on Jan 6 freshman class American pilots still are being held as Oilman said Lao Gen Vang Pao. It was estimated that the cost of the prisoners by the North Vietnamese. commander of a military region in new funding would be approximately The sculpture, Bridge Over Troubled Waters," built as a memorial to the Kent Kep Benjamin A Oilman said he has Laos, told him of the prisoners (55.000 Kent State killings, is only one of the works designed by Don Drumm, a former been fold In other action, the senate approved University artitt-in-residence. See related story and picture essay on page The New York Kepublican said Pao could get no information on the a resolution by Dr Frank Baldanza memorial seven. yesterday he learned the information identities of the men. when they were Jr., professor of English, thai any on a trip he made to Laos for the House shot down or how long they have been reductions in teaching staff be held. Oilman said accompanied by a proportionate Pentagon officials said the report reduction in .idiiiiius.ii.nive suit, and was new to them and they would thai the administration make public investigate and explicit" statistical models Vice president defends Nixon leading to such action REPEATEDLY OVER the past year The senators also resolved that it there have been reports of US. should express "great pleasure and WASHINGTON lAPl Vice President Gerald H saying" and what some organizations are doing. Ford since I believe he is not guilty " servicemen still alive in Indochina, but deep gratification lor the thoughtful Ford said yesterday he knows President Nixon had added -The energy crisis, which he said is "painfully none has proven true It is considered kindness and sincere generosity" of nothing to do with the 18'; minute erasure of a key Ford also said "I have not indicated there was an real" rather than contrived is "the No I concern" of likely, however, that if any Americans Mrs Frazier Reams Sr . who has Watergate tape organized effort in the Congress." Americans He added that "unsubstantiated charges do turn up alive, it will be in Laos established the Reams Public Affairs The reason, he lold a news conference, is a one- I have no knowledge of that." Ford added "I know that it is contrived threaten to undermine successful Undergraduate Fellowship Program in hour. 45-minute conversation he had Monday with certain members believe that I know of no organized voluntary efforts to conserve fuel "Gen. Vang Pao informed me that he memory of her late husband Nixon Based on whal Nixon told him. Ford said. "I do effort" in Congress to impeach Nixon FORD WAS asked about his statement last week had reliable information that nine know the President was not involved in the erasure that impeachable grounds were lacking, even if Nixon American pilots are now being held by FORD SAID: were involved in the 18' 2 minute erasure of a tape of a the North Vietnamese for providing The vice president defended last week's speech in conversation between the President and former aide any technical information they might Weather which he said a small group of political enemies was It would be unwise and improper for the White H R Haldeman possess. Rain changing to snow flurries out to impeach the President as "the truth, laying House to release" transcripts of conversations "I do not believe that the President was involved at "He had no information relative to "As long as I tell the truth my credibility is not between President Nixon and former presidential all. I do not know who was involved I do know the today ending tonight. High today the identities or condition of these in the mid to upper 30s. Low eroded at all " aide John W Dean III that Senate OOP Leader Hugh Presidenl was not involved," Ford said men, except that they were young He said he told the President there is "a Scott said show Nixon's innocence Asked how he knew, he referred to the Monday tonight in the upper 20s and low pilots who had been flying in Southeast 30s. Fair tomorrow, high in the coordinated, well-financed, skillful effort on the par! The reason. Ford said, is that these matters are meeting and said that "I know from these Asia," Oilman said. of some organizations to oust him before the courts and grand juries conversations that the President had no prior 40s. Probability of precipitatipn 60 -"The President is not going to resign," and Ford knowledge of the Watergate break-in, took no part in per cent today and 30 per cent The information came as a surprise tonight. "I THINK HE is fully cognizant of the various polls, added "the President would be very unwise to resign the coverup and was not part of any of these to American officials in Laos, he he is fully cognizant of what some members are II would be very wrong for him to do so, particularly allegations that have been made by some " added New crime legislation sparks comments Editor's note: The following article is While House Bill 1219 dealt with anti- ORIGINALLY, HI! 1219. under the "We hope students will give thought few problems for students." he said "The Board of Regents doesn't know the lest in a two-part series on the Ohio not legislation, sections of the revised old criminal code, contained 22 to what they're doing. But the trouble "But the most important thing is for the situation on each university Criminal Code as it relates to campus Ohio Criminal Code pertain primarily "trigger offenses." Under the new really starts when they're arrested." students to recognize the fact that this campus. In the past, the ■Brest. to acts or threats of violence code, some offenses have been deleted he said. law expects them to be responsible for administration has been able to Two University administrators and while others have been added.