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ASB Reorganization Urged by Hendricks 3 .1 Weather or Not Education Act Santa Clara Valley: Fair ex- Prot klOn% of the recently cept for morning overcast. enacted Federal Higher Edu- High: 59-58. Gentle %Inds. cation Act of 1965 %till be dis- The lllll on GI approaching Its cussed by urtabers of the WS last quarter. No morning star. faculty :utd stuff at public It:setting stars are %'enuta, TARTAN DA I LY meeting this afternoon front Jupiter and Sattirn. imi SAN JOSE STATE COLLEGE 2:90-4 ED100. 3 Vol. 53 411111" SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1966 No. 6? Council To View Professor Urges Trial Period 1 Legislative Plan By ROGER ALLEN book for incoming freshmen and For Council Press Spartan Daily Staif Writer transfers; Coverage Student Council today faces a the Co-ordinating Board of mas.sive legislative housecleaning College Recreation which was In By SCOTT MOORE "Then, at the third meeting (un- that remarks made in debate given meeting of the council can plan lanuched by ASB President charge of co-ordinating and main- Editor less horrible experience dictates might be distorted by reporters Is possibly be reported." John Hendricks. taining a college recreation pro- Academic Council meetings an earlier reconsideration,) you "a much more serious objection." In the second place, he said, "it The meeting convenes at 2:45 gram; should be open to the press for a could make a more permanent de- "That this is a danger can be is my belief that some ground rules the Hospitality Committee cision on the basis of expetience, verified by anyone who has attend- in the College Union. three week trial period, according could easily be worked out with The plan seeks amendments to whose function was to provide rattier than mere speculation," he ed a few public meetings and then reporters under which they would to a proposal submitted to the eight of council's legislative acts and conduct hospitality programs said. read reports of those meetings in verify, with the faculty member and outright repeal of four. The for visiting dignitaries. councll by Dr. C. M. Larsen, as- He stated his belief that "the the next day's papers," he said. concerned, any comments which EDWARD acts in question were passed dur- CHAIRMEN APPOINT WEEKS sociate professor of mathematics. benefits which can follow such a they wished to attribute to the . speaks tomorrow SAME MEETING ing the past four years. Under the proposed appointment Dr. Larsen is a member of Aca- benefits which can follow such an faculty member by name." The president said he also pro- procedures the ASB president demic Council and president of action outweigh the problems "All too often, one is forced to Finally, he said, "important as poses revision of ASB appoint- would no longer appoint all mem- the SJS chapter of AAUP, Ameri- which may be introduced. wonder whether he and the re- the council meetings are to us, I ment procedures to give ASH com- bers of all ASB committees. The can Association porter attended the same meeting." doubt that reporters would be of University Pro- GREAT SIGNIFICANCE mittee chairmen the power to ap- appointments would be made by Adanticrhief fessors. "If we wish to have fully open willing or able to sit through all point a.nd remove corrunittee mem- the respective conunittee chair- "Although it may seem a little "VVhile the potential problems meetings, we shall simply have to of them, for the little news they bers. men. Council would not have to strange for me publicly to agree can be minimized, the potential accept the danger of inaccurate are likely to generate." benefits to reporting," Dr. Larsen said. "Lastly, it would always be pos- The purpose of the plan, Hen- approve them, Hendricks said. To Lecture with a dean, while opposing the be derived from open dricks declared, is to "clear up the Either the president or the chair- views of some of my fellow faculty meetings are of great significance "Yet," he continued, "this is not sible for the council to go int deadwood and modernize pro- men could dismiss committee mem- members," he said, "I wish to indeed," he said. so large a danger as it might 'executive session' to hear any grams" to facilitate integration of bers. urge the council to open its meet- "I suspect that considerably seem; for, in the first place, only especially sensitive reports deal- Tomorrow current ASB programs Into the The president would still ap- ings to the press, at least for a more faculty members would know a small part of the debate at any ing with personnel, for example." College Union program. point committee chairmen, mem- trial period." much more about the council if its The distinguished editor of the * ONGOING PROGRAM bers of the College Union Program meetings were occasionally report- * * "Atlantic Monthly," Edward Weelcs SUSPEND RI'LES The ASB wants to have "an on- Board and members of ASB regu- ed in the student press," he con- In a statement submitted to the going program when the union latory agencies, such as Student will speak at 10:30 tomorrow tinued. council, Dr. Larsen suggested that opens," he added. The student Activities Board and the Election morning in Concert Hall on "A rules excludiog the press be sus- "If that should happen, then Newsmen, FAB Meet center is slated for use by Christ- Board. Creed for itrneriearts.u. pended for the next three meetings. open meetings would greatly ma.s, 1967. It is "no longer efficient" for The lecture, sponsored by the strengthen the faculty's apprecia- the president to have to staff 'rhe president said he seeks re- ASB Forum Lecture Series, is tion of the council's function; and nearly 20 ASB committees with peal of four acts because the open to the college cornimmity the council, in turn, would be In New 150 persons, he added. Agreement functions of corrunittees set up by more than without cost. better able to serve the council." these acts have been assumed by The amendments Hendricks seeks History Professor Weeks has been the Dr. Larsen further suggested other committees or such corrunit- range from word changes to major editor-in. Reporters from the Spartan on that FAB recommendation. Also chief of the "Atlantic" that many of the "so-called prob- tees no longer exist. he explained. revision. Under scrutiny are acts since 1938, Daily, Spartan Spectrum and other no matters of personnel may be the ninth person lems" associated with open meet- Committees in this category are: pertaining to seven committees to hold this To Discuss Book press media are now attending included in articles. position. ings will "turn out to be imagin- meetings of the Financial Ad- The purpose for the the Inter-Cultural Steering and the Election Code. Hendricks "The Polities of Hysteria" by change in He is the author of two volumes visory Board (FAB) by invitation Committee which co-ordinated var- said the proposed structural Edmund Stilltnan and W. Pfaff the "closed door" policy of FAB of editorials of an autobiographical under an agreement worked out is to give ious campus cultural and educa- changes will give the corrunittees will be reviewed today by Dr. QUOTE COLLEAGUE newsmen background nattue, "Open Heart" and "In by FAB, ASB and Spartan Daily tional activities; "more responsibility for their Walter Hugins, associate professor knowledge of ASB financial prob- Friendly Candor." He has written To illustrate this point, he quoted officials. the Spartan From the Start working and processes." of history at the Book Talk at lems and to facilitate more in- two books, "Boston: Cradle of a "respected faculty colleague" Previously no newsmen were depth Committee which published a hand- AFFECI'ED COMMITEES 12:30 p.m. reporting of council action Liberty" and "Ideas of Boston." (Dr. Burton Brazil) as suggesting allowed to attend FAB meetings. on ASB budgets. The committees affected are: The Book Talk, held in Cafe- in a Spartan Daily interview that Weeks has edited several an- FAB is a 10 member student- The student membership of the the College Union Program teria rooms A and. B, is open to "Council members often say things thologies inclucllng "Great Short faculty-administration committee 10 person board has received much Board which would be changed the public without charge. off the top of their heads which Novels" and "Jubilee: 100 Years which makes recommendations on debate in council. Moves have been Spartacamp to facilitate co-ordination and Dr. Hugins, author of "The New would sound disorganized and of the Atlantic." all ASB budgetary matters. made to remove the ASB vice- supervision by the board of the York Workingman" and "Jack- sloppy if printed verbatim." The terms of the agreement president and the student-at -large proposed College Union program; During World War I, Weeks was sonian Democracy" was educated "He (Dr. Brazil) then adds that were outlined in a letter by ASB from FAB, and replace them with Speaker Set the Election Board which IS an ambulance driver for the Mor- at Princeton University. He earned much of this kind of discussion Pres. John Hendricks to FAB two student council members ap- Dr. David Freeman, psychology up for structural changes to im- ocan division. He was awarded his M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia would be missing if members knew Chairman Prof. Jack Holland, pointed by the ASB president professor at San Francisco State prove the board's conduct of ASB the Croix de Guerre and postwar University. that it would appear in print. chairman of the Management De- Last week, however, council College, has been announced as elections and administration of the scholarships at Harvard University He is professionally affiliated "Really, now, would that be a partment.