October 6 , 1967 Unionization Won't Benefit Elmendorf Promised Wage Survey • Staff: Dehart • Neugarten Maintenance Despite assurances by President committee and not as an individu John Elmendorf that he would per al. The college maintenance staff for overtime, and are consequently changed, he said, because too sonally investigate working condi Accordingto Neugarten, Elmen would gain no material bene interested in JOining a union. much time-off-due had been ac tions of non-academic workers, no dorf told him 5.mday he would spend fits from unionization they don't Dehart said all workers are earning cumulatedforthe efficient running official investigation has been a day this week investigating work already have, according to Director at least the federal minimum wage of the college. made, and students have once a!?Pin ing conditions in "broader perspec of the Physical Plant Gage Dehart. of $1.40 per hour, that they receive He said workers who had accum been denied wage information by tive, " and might put students in In an inteiView with The Catalyst time-and-a-half for hours woiked ulated time-off under the old plan Vice President Paul Davis, Jerry most or all maintenance jobs. last night Dehart said as far as he exceeding 40 per week and that were paid time-and-a-half in Sept, Neugarten reported to the Student Neugarten said, however, that El knew the maintenance wod<.ers are they enJOY the standard fringe so that a full staff would be avail Executive Committee Wednesday. mendorf has not yet made the in satisfied with JOb c onditions and benefits, such as hospital benefits able in these busy first months of Neugarten, chairman of the SEC's vestigation, and stated Wednesday aren't interested in JOining a union, and group insurance. the school year. Student Financial Investigation only that it would be made some anyway. He also was emphatic in denying All workers whose work-weeks Committee, said he was "very dis time this term. Dehart's statements contrasted charges that college hiring prac were cut to 40 hours were given tressed" with his latest talk with N eugarten asked SEC members sharply with charges by second tices and Job benefits discriminated raised so that weekly take-home Davis. Neugarten reported Davis for advice, stating, "I don't know year student Jon Shaughnessy that against Negroes. pay was not reduced after the tran told him he could not disclose the what to do. " First-year represen college workers are paid below sition. information because Neugarten tative John Esak, along with other the minimum wage, are not paid Charges of rregularities in college came to him as a member of a members of the committee, sug laborpolicywere made by Shaugh The change to the new policy is permanent, Dehart said. gested obtaining the information nessy at the Student Executive from the workers themselves. N eu New Attack Prompts Committee m eeting several weeks garten agreed he would talk to ago. Vice President Paul Davis members of the maintenance staff. refused several times to divulge Neugarten also asked that SEC information in response to an SEC Deadline Is Thursday Chairman Ted Shoemaker contact Stuclen t Guard Ideo investigatory committee's ques Davis and confirm hh statements. tions. Shoemaker agreed. Shaughnessy reported to the SEC The SEC's interest in the working Students will be hired to provide he got his information directly conditions of non-academic em a:lditional security this weekend from some of the worilers. Dehart To Apply for Rhodes ployees ofthe college, and Davis' in the wake of an at t a c k on a said he does not know how Shaugh alleged refusal to recognize this in second-year student last night near nessy could have been mis-in Third-year men students who The selection committee will terest, was also suggested as a topic Hamilton Center, according to As formed. want to apply for a Rhodes Scho assess character and personality, of discussion at the upcoming sist31t De 31 of Students Arthur larship for study at England's Ox as well as academic performance, meeting of the College Council. Miller. Dehart noted no changes in woik ing c onditions have been made ford University must see Professor breadth of interest, creativity, In other SEC business, the proce The student, Mike Curry, was since the c ontroversy erupted. The of Sociology Dr. Jerome Himel social concern, and athletic in dure for the selection of students to beaten by two unidentified men present policies have been in effect hoch by Thursday. tere~ , Himelhoch said. serve on faculty committees was near the end of the bicycle rack since Sept. 1, he said. Interested students should phone Deadlinesforothermajor fellow devised through a motion by third the social science office as soon ship awards are also fast approach nearest the highway. The men Dehart added, however, that as year representative Stev e Hen then ran across the highway. Cur as possible to set 31 appointment ing, and third-year students should dricks. far as he knows, college labor with Himelhoch, who, as a former watch their deadlines, E:d Helge ry was not seriously hurt. policies were not oppressive even Hendricks' motion provides that: Rhodes Scholar, is New College's son, assistant to the president, ---The Supervisory Committee before this fall, when he JOined nstitutional Representative for the warns. will compile a slate of candidates Millersaidhewould hire the stu the staff. dents to provide extrasecurity in Rbodes program. from students interested in ~cl'V ing the dorm area. He said they will He said the previous policy had Actual selection of those students on the various committees. not be compelled to report viola differed in that woikers had a 44- to receive the college' s official --- Only ifthenumberof interested tions of student rules. hourweek (the limit under the law) endorsement will be made by an Clas-sics P-rof students exceeds the nwnber of po and were given compensatory time ad hoc faculty committee. sitions open on the committee will Miller said Dean of Students instead of overtime pay. To be eligible a student must be an election be held. George Petrie is presently out of Dehart said he had the impression 18-24 yea:s of age, a male citi ---The student members of the town, but noted a total review of zen of at least five years' residence on committee will constitute a liaison campus security will be made upon wo:Ikers had been satisfied with the To Be TV old system. The policy was in the United States, and unm:r committee of the SEC, and will Petrie's return. ried. make regular reports to the SEC. , The scholarships :re awa'ded for Professor of Classics Lynndon ---The final selection of the stu at least two and sometimes thr~e Clough will appear on WFLA-TV's dents will be made no later than years of st1..dy at Oxford in one of "Perspective" Sunday at 8 am to two weeks after the faculty speci a wide variety of fields. talk about this nation's foreign ad fies the number of students to serve Two Students Caught Only 32 Rhodes Scholars are cho program. on each committee. sen each year, andcandidates Clough has traveled widely and Another clause of the motion, that must have impressive and well hash ad consider:ble first-hand ex SEC meml:ers be buTed from serving rounded records. perience in many underdeveloped on the faculty committees, was de countries which have received our leted by a 6-2 vote. Trespassing on Runway aid. Eric von Schmidt (Continued on page 2, column 1) Two New College students were after the students involved and col arrested yesterday for trespassing lege officials talked with the air on Sarasota-Bradenton Airport pro port manager. perty, but charges were dropped The students were arrested while To Sing Tonight Shoemaker Elected running on a portion of the airport runway near the highway. Repor Nationally known folksinger Eric Graduate Reco rd tedly, they prevented the landing von Schmidt and his wife will pre of a Boeing 727 jet, which was sent an informal program of mu forced to circle the field. sic at tonight's Forum, repeating Chairman of SEC The students were apprehended by a highly successful visit of two years Exam Dead I ine ago. Third-years tude n t Ted Shoe Shoemaker received 121 votes, airport police, who called the Ma defeating third-ye:r student Jerry natee County Sheriff's Department. Von Schmidt, who lives in Sar makerwaselectedchairman of the Neugarten by a two-to-one m~in . Sheriff's deputies made the arrest. asota, will begin his show after Student Executive Committee in a diuner in Hamilton Center. vote of 198 students Tuesday. Neugarten received 62 votes. Is Tuesd ay Following the arrest, the students, Third-year student Steve Orlofsky the arresting officers, Vice Pre received 17 votes, and there was Students who wish to take the sident Paul Davis, Assist31t Dean one write-in vote for third-year Graduate Record Examination to be of Studwts Arthur Miller, and In student Kenji Oda. admnistered here Octol:er 28 should formation Director Furm31 Arthur In an "inaugural address" to the met with Airport Manager Richard register by Tuesday. SEC Wednesday, Shoemaker prom Wolf. Wolf agreed to drop the ised meetings will be more effi Applications with mailing enve charged if the college informs stu cient than they have been in the lopes are available a the Office of dents being on the nmways is "il past. He said committee chairmen the College Examiner. Fee for the legal and dangerous." will be requested to atend every Aptitude Test is $7. 00, and for the Reportedly, there have been other meeting, 31d said only SEC mem advanced test in the student's field bers will be permitted to ask ques of specialization $8. 00. incidents of New College students trespassing on the unways. tions about committee reports. Shoemaker said remarks during The Educational Testing Service, Miller issued the following state publishers of the tests, will send discussion of motions should give ment on the incident: "Trespassing facts, not state opinions, and said scores to the graduate school the on legally restricted airport pro_ student specifies if a "Transcript he would use the gavel if necessary perty, specifically the nmways, 1s to keep order. Request Form" is included with the highly dangerous. In the future, GRE application. A fee of $1. 00 such trespa;sers will most likely be See inteiView, page 4 should be included for each tran arrested and may well be subject cript requested. to discipline by the Dean of Stu The new chairman said the func tions of the SEC include social re Information for students in1£rested dents' Office. The student body gulation, the expression of student in taking the Graduate Exams for should consider this announcement opinion in regard to all areas of the Law or Business School, or the Mil as a general warning, and antici college, a:td other interests, such ler Analogies Test is available in pate that further violations will be as the Stop the War Committee. the office of Assistant to the Presi treated more severely. 11 World Series Blues dent Earl Helgeson. The two students will receive New College base b a 11 fans were disappointed this week to find they Shoemaker stated thesecond The GRE will also be adminis warnings which will be placed in could not watch the first two games of the World Series on the east cam function is the most important. tered at New College December 9 their files. No notice will be sent pus television set, as classes continued to be held in classroom H-5, the "Everything in the college is our and January 20. to their homes, however. TV room. A couple of lucky souls tuned in their own port a b 1 e s, but business, " he said. most had to settle for radio play-by-play. Page 2 Editorial Candidates Need Time We were pleased with the attitudes of the candidates for Student Executive Committee chairman, who conducted brief and low-key, but very thoughtful, campaigns. Two candidates posted conscientious statements of their general philosophies of student government, and all three offered to speak personally with interested students at meals and in their rooms.
Of all student government elections, that for the SEC chair is the one in which campaigning is most important and crucial--both because the chairmanship is the most im portant student government post, and because first-year students must vote for candidates they have not had the op portunity to know personally.
We think in the future more time should be allotted be tween the closing of nominations and the balloting--for all "GIRlS HAVE FELT THREATENED BY POTENTIAL MOLESTERS AND ACTUAL VOMITERS" elections--in order to allow for some serious campaigning. The two days now allowed is not sufficient, and the situation --from The Catalyst, May 6, 1966 will certainly get no better as the size of the student body increases. We are not bucking for rah-rah speechmaking. We simply Letters seek to ensure that students who want to know their candidates before voting have the opportunity. Davis Explains Position In order to clear up some appar of their employment. This we visor or foreman, or to the appro ent confusion, The Catalyst pre conscientously attempt to do with priate outside authorities. sents the full text of Vice President in the limits of the resources avail Davis's letter to Jerry Neugaxten able to us and the work that must I would appreciate it if you would SEC concerning the college's labor pol be done. Any employe who be include the full text of this memor icies. comes dissatisfied with the condi andum in any report you may make (Continued from page 1) tions of his employment here is to the SEC. A motion by Hendricks that the Assistant Dean of Students Artl1ur September 27, 1967 free at any time to bring his griev SEC request they be given control Miller reported two floodlights had ances to the attention of his ruper- Paul D. Davis of campus pets was passed. been purchased, and asked the SEC The concern shown by the SEC Hendricks said he had discussed for advice on where to place them. for the welfare of the maintenance the matter with Dean of Students The committee passed a motion by staff at New College is commend Pigs George Petrie, and reported Petrie Hendricks that the 1ights be placed able. Furthermore. I appreciate Mill m: Ex-F>Iains tl1e reasonable tone of your written feels the greatest problem is the first in the parking lot, since there To the Editor: control of flea:. Hendricks said he is now temporary lighting outside request for specific information the dorms. about the wages and working con "Dismay" Remark has received suggestions for flea I read with interest the lead story control. Miller also reported the entire ditions of these employes. I am in your issue of 9/29, expressing prol;>lem oi campus securitv is un sorry that I cannot comply with student concem over, and interest Assistant Dean of Students Arthur A suggestion by second-year stu der re-evaluaion. He said an ad your request. I do not question the dent Jon Shaughnessy that the stu in the wages and working condi Miller, who was quoted in The ditional proctor on weekend morn genuineness of your concern, but I tions of the New College mainte Catalyst last week as expressing dents evaluate the perlormauce of ings from 4am to sunrise may be do contend that this is a manage faculty members was referred to the nance staff. "dismay" at the witholding of non hired. ment area in which there is no prac I would like to mention an ele academic wage information to Student Academic Committee c.m Library Committee Chairman Don tical way for the administration to a motion by Hendricks which passed ment of these working conditions students by Vice President Pa.tl Aronoff said the committee was share responsibility with the stu in which students could contribute Davis, explained his remark at 8-1. Second-year representative "greatly dismayed" at the attempt dents. Lee Crawfort opposed the motion. a great service if they wanted to. Wednesday's meeting of the Stu by depaxting Professorof Political There is nothing secret about the I call to your attention the gar dent Executive Committee. A motion made but not voted on Science Dr. Rollin Ibsey to remove information you are requesting. bage and trash which accumulates Miller stated, "There is little a number of books he had donated The individuals concerned are per last week by sccond-~ar represent daily around the dorms, in the educational validity in restricting it ativ e )on Lundell that the SEC en to the library. Aronoff said would fectly free, if they wish, to give courtyard, at Hamilton Center, in information only to those who have dorse a stril
By KIT ARBUCKLE are really valid and operative to Q: When opinions meet head-on and what we think is important, and dayhavetofacethefact that many and principle opposes principle, can at the same time trust and love the Behind the flannel-covered door of the old bases for saying "These the SEC really play a role in the other people we deal with. It's un of room 338 live Ted Shoemaker values are the correct ones" are confrontation? Or do you see the fortunate that they will sometimes andhiswifeBeverly. A third-year gone. Committee as a more superficial do things that a-e injurious to us. philosophy major, Ted is the newly organization that doesn't extend in It's detrimental to the school. But elected chairman of the SEC. Q: Could we nail down some of to the interplay of personal values? !feel it's even more detrimental to I knocked, and he led me into a these polarities of principle to A: One of the main things that the keep split off from them, main home croooed with books, general something specific? SEC should aim for, I think, is the taining this defensive attitude that bits and pieces, and the strains of A: The obvious one, especially ere ation of a community at New we've got to protect ourselves from "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Chili to students, is the difference be College. W, need to strive to worl< "them, " whatever "they" are. Band. " Turning off the record tween traditional American morals together despite our differences. This "we versus they"thing is very player, he settled himself in a chair and the personal morals of many It sounds a little crass, but I think important to me. I think that the and the interview begm .... of the kids here. it means something. The idea is clash of values is the most funda Then there is the much discussed to keep as much as possible of the mental problem of modern society, Q: Did you feel that the student question of what education con plurality of value systems here, but not the war or poverty or the starv government needed another philo sists of. Some think th a this should have them in harmony. We have ing people of India. Andwe don't sopher in its ranks when you ran for be an ac:demically-oriented in to tolerate and cooperate even if seem to be willing to work the dif office? stitution. I person aly feel that it we can't accept what the other ferences out. A: Not at all. My training does should be educationally-oriented person thinks is important. In a We must learn to harmonize our help me to cut away a lot of the but that not all education is aca way, that's saying that the person principles. That is one essential verbal garbage that attends discus demic. But you have to realize Shoemaker is more significant than the other function of educ a ion. That is why sions. I think I can see through that these are just a personal judg there and it ha; to be clear--! think values involved. it is so important to create a com some of those confusions when bias ment. It would be wrong for a that's the only way a comm1.mity These are of course my values, munity at New College. And I keeps people from really talking to person who favors academic insti this large can operate. It's not Butthey'rethe only ones that I see don't really see that the adminis each other. tutions to say that someone else structure that will get us, but rather at this time, so they are the ones tration or faculty is doing too much But on the other hand, there are with a broader or narrower philo the wrong kind of structure. N oth I will attempt to "impose" on the along this line. They're more in philosophical issues before the SEC. sophy shouldn't be here. This ing along the tradition all in es seems situation. terested in creating a school. But I think that there are philosophical wouldn't be the institution it needs to work adequately . That may be Q: How would you relate trust and if we don't build a school which is issues in anything that involves a to be if it were that intolerant. more due to the spirit in which it self-protection among groups on also a community, we won't have choiCe of value systems. was done than to the form itself. campus? anythingparticular. We mayhave Do you share the fear of some There's atremendous plurality of Q: A: I think that in a lot of ways we good facilities and all, but we values among students, faculty, students that this school is solidi Q: To shift the subject to your SEC just have to lay ourselves open for won't have anything I consider an and administration--not just be fying toward death-by-structure, post, what do you hope to do with possibly getting it in the neck. We important innovation. tween groups, but within them too. some sort of educational rigor mor the responsibility of the chair you havetobothfightfor what we w:nt There a-e people with tremendously tis? have accepted? different purposes and goals here. A: During the first years I was A: I hope to make the meetings This has repercussions both in the here, particularly with the charter very efficient. And I hope I can social and the academic spheres. class, structure by any name was direct the SEC away from dealing Petrie Concerned Over A lot of the problems come when a sort of enemy. Any little addi solely with cat laws and student we don't recognize our differences; tion to structure was automatically problems of that sort and get more a lot of it comes when we don't ruled out by the students, at least into dealing with academic policy. want to recognize our differences. bymanyofthem. But I think form We need to make the SEC into a Pamphlet Indiscretion Then we'd see that we were in con is necessa-y and important. It respected and expeditious body flict, and I think that few people needs to be flexible and sensitive, through which students can express Failure to indicate that the Sara mail without Shaughnessy's name know how to deal with genuine so that it can :dapt to whatever their opinions and decisions to the sota Committee to Stop the War in would be returned. value conflicts. Young people situations develop. But it has to be rest of the college. VietNam is not officially connected Later that day, Shaughnessy and who ~mdersta::td what authorities with New College almost resulted a group of other students again con in a term of social probation for ferred with Petrie. At the conclu seconl-year student Jon Shaughnessy sion of the meeting, Petrie agreed this week. to rescind Shaughnessy's social pro Shaughnessy almost received pro bation. bation when Uml of Students George Petrie said, however, that in the Himelhoch Paper Describes Petrie became concerned overcalls future all campus groups should give concerning the Stop the War Com a private phone number and not the mittee coming to the College college's, and mail addressed to switchboard. Petrie found that the the group should include the name collegephonenumberwas listed in of a student. Behavior of Rural Delinquents Stop the War literature, and the college address without Shaugh nessy's name was also given. By MARGE SEDENSKY Calling Shaughnessy into his of of convicted youthful' offenders, bam dance, boozing it up in the Himelhoch used self-report tech parking lot, and finding a couple fice, Petrie accused him of "pcor Rural adjudicated delinquents judgment." Besides probation, are not necessarily products of a niques to identify =detected law of girls for intermission. Brawls breakers in the high school popu over women occasionally rounded Petrie said the switchboard would subculture estranged from society: not take Stop the War calls, and they accept conventional standards lation. These misbehaving youth off the night. As one of the boys and they will probably graduate do not b e 1 on g to the "basically put it: "We have a good time." into the stable working class. So puritanical" high school majority, Many of the offenses involved concluded New College Sociology but tend to "short-run hedonism. " bre