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Seattle nivU ersity ScholarWorks @ SeattleU The peS ctator 3-8-1967 Spectator 1967-03-08 Editors of The pS ectator Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.seattleu.edu/spectator Recommended Citation Editors of The peS ctator, "Spectator 1967-03-08" (1967). The Spectator. 1034. http://scholarworks.seattleu.edu/spectator/1034 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks @ SeattleU. It has been accepted for inclusion in The peS ctator by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks @ SeattleU. Budget Committee Reveals Cuts In Much of University Spending sharp cut spending by S.U. for the the coming year. However, the budget commit- A in departmental requests equip- year was announced last week tee will review for 1967-68 fiscal ment which is deemed absolutelynecessary. by Fr. Frank Costello, S.J., academic vice president and chairmanof the budget committee. THE PROVISIONS of thenew budget will also The results of the committee's review of the extend to all part-time student help.. The com- budget were announced in a special edition of mittee's report asks that "every effort is made the Faculty Bulletin last Thursday. Biggest cuts to fill the positions through Work-Study Pro- in spending include a 10 per cent cut across the gram." All helpwill be hired through the Place- board in all supply budgets of instructional de- ment Office. partments and a 20 percent cut insupply budgets Priority willbe given to Work-Study students. of all administrative offices. Then, if Work-Study students are not available to meet the criteria of the job, other non-Work- THERE WILL also be a 60 per cent reduction Study students will be considered. Finally, if in all faculty and administrativetravel budgets. qualified help cannot be obtained, non-student The funds available willbe administeredbycom- personnelwill beconsidered. mittees.Dr. David Schroeder, Dean of the School The committee's report also said faculty NEW I.K.OFFICERS: The newly elected I.K.officers for of Engineering,willdirect the faculty committee members, administrators and office personnel next year make plans for next quarter's activities. They andFr. EdmundMcNulty, S.J., willchairman the will receive their normal increments. A policy committee. are from left,back, DanHarkins,RodVetter, Jeff Burgess administration for faculty members who have reached 65 was Summers, The announcement states that there will be no also recommended, but details were not an- and Phil Carstens and, front, Jim Jim Swain, new instructional equipment purchased during nounced. DonNathe andEd Constantine. Educator Leaves Documents to S.U. SEATTLEUNIVERSITY E. Mortimer Standing, an in- ternational authorityin theMon- Spectator tessori method of teaching and director of a workshop in the XXXV. "^@<. Seattle, Washington,Wednesday,March 8, 1967 No.37 teachingof religionat S.U., died Saturday at the age of 80. His books and manuscripts havebeen given to the School of Senate Plans to Conduct Poll Education for the establish- ment of a Montessori Center of Studies. Themethod emphasizes natural growth in learningand To Determine Saga's Popularity the spontaneous needs of the students. The Senate allocated $10 Sun- Mock Constitutional Convention. measure to contribute the sur- day night to conduct a poll to A by Burns to plus from Senate gen- Standing wrote many articles bill introduced left hte Montessori, determine the popularity of conduct a critique of the speak- eral fund at the year's end to and three books on Food Service. Sunday Library. founder of Saga ers at Mass was post- the Lemieux the the method. Sen. Chuck Burns, represent- poned for consideration at a Becauseof finals and quarter The noted educator directed ing the Senior Class, said he later date. break, the next meeting will not Montessori teacher -training doubted the figureof 90per cent Sen. John Rogers proposed a be until April 2. courses in Ireland. Scotland, contentment that Saga gave as England, Italy and India. Since the results of a poll it had con- 1962, when he came to the U.S. ducted. to direct a Montessori workshop Burns stated he intended to Midnight Oil to Burn at S.U., he had lectured and di- E. M. STANDING publicize the results of the poll During exam week from 10 p.m. Monday through Thurs- rected many institutes on the he conducted, "to put pressure March 12-16, the first floor study day, 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m. on Friday, Codd, S.J., West Coast. Fr. William his on Saga to improve its service." of the library open 1-5 p.m. on Saturday and 1-10 workshops, room will be p.m. Sunday. assistantfor the said He mentioned the difficulty ex- 1 on the new center will house many perienced Sunday night when until a.m. to accommodate stu- During vacation the library Last Spectator of the documents that are sig- the food lines in operationwere dents preparing for exams. The will open on a restricted sched- nificant to the method and that cut from two toone. room will also open regularly ule. It will be closed March 19. Friday's Spectator will be it will offer an opportunity for Ina short session, lastingonly at 8 a.m. on Saturdays. This The library will be open from the last one published this further research to graduate 20 minutes, the Senate a'so change will be effective immed- 9 a.m.-4 p.m. March 20-23 and quarter. Deadline for stories students. passed a resolution lauding iately. will againbeclosed March 24-27. is 5 p.m. today. The first suggested that Chuck Taylor, former senator These changes do not effect Students are urged to return paper quarter It is remem- pay of next wffl be brances be sent to the Montes- and president of the Political the hours of library service all books and fines on or March31. sori Center. Union, for the success of the which continue to be 7:30 a.m.- before March 18. Students, Leaders Tell of Need for Revision New Constitution To Grow, to Live Washington Call for Revision For Delegates to S.U.s Mock ByKERRY WEBSTER Constitutional Convention A Mo c k Constitutional heard four of the state's convening on Convention top officials warn this campus week- the S.U. this weekend that unless Wash- end called for a new consti- outmoded 189 8 of ington's tution for the State constitution is changedfun- Washington. dementally there is real The delegates from six Puget danger Washington cit- colleges in a of Sound area said losing all their power memorandumto the state legis- izens lature, passed unanimously in to the Federal government. the final session, that "the con- Gov. Daniel Evans, keynoting stitution of the State of Wash- the convention, told the conven- ington by its specific character tion that revision of the consti- and restrictive nature prevents tution was vital to the survival the exercise of the powers re- of effective state government. served to this state rather than promotes the general good of GOVERNMENT sh o v Id be people." Students discuss constitutional revisionat weekendconference strong at the local and state level," he said. "Our Federal THEY ASKED that the state provide for a unicameral legis- every 12 years, definition of the resolutions and the delegates system should not be distorted. a initiative, legislature "issue a call for lature with regular annual ses- role of local governments giving ploddedin a business-like man- If we do not take the state constitution providing that sions and one blockbuster five- more power to them, definition ner through the four all-after- we might have, instead of 50 the election on the question of pa g c resolution constituting of the state's taxation powers, noon sessions. laboratories of government in callingsuch a conventionshould wholesale revision of the judici- orovision for a shortened bal- Some variety was added by- our states, 50 administrative be voted for at the first oppor- ary branch of state government. lot drasticallyreducing thenum- the convention's "Liberal-in branches of one all-powerful tunity." The most important revision in ber of elected officials thereby Residence," Steve Norton of Federal government." The delegates also passed 13 the judiciary resolution was the giving more appointive power Shoreline Community College. Evans cited the enormous resolutions constituting sugges- abolition of the election of jur- to the executiveand a resolution Norton introduced resolutions growth rate for the state in changes to be made in ists making them appointive defining responsi- dealing with subjects from the population,urbanization and in- tions for the state's among the constitution. offices. bilities in the area of natural right to speak in public places dustrialization the over- new riding for constitu- Among them were resolutions resources. to of capital punish- reasons a The convention was generally abolition tional convention. to lower the legal and voting OTHER RESOLUTIONS ment, only to frustrated as convention," ages 18, have lieuten- passed included provisions for orderly; there was more waving be "A constitutional to to the they by said, give ant governor elected on the inclusion of a call for a con- of the little red-backed Robert's were shelved the con-" he "will us the chance same ticket as the governor, to stitution convention on the ballot vention hs ''stfltutorv msttcr 8, 2 THE SPECTATOR Wednesday,March 1967 Editorial Soundings Welcome Changes Seattle The national spotlight is once again focused on the Selective The following night, Friday, excerpts from Service System. But there is a hopefulglance changes By CATHLEEN CARNEY ' now toward Wagner s Gotterdommerung" as well as — ones which would bring an end to thenumerous inequitiesof the Spring break is a convenient compositions by others, will be performed by the University Symphony in a free concert.