UM University of Missouri system Vol. 6, No. 21 Jan. 24, 1980 Olson reviews the 1970's Unseasonably balmy weather seems anticipates the 1980's to be as compressed UM President James C. Olson into this telephoto new procedures to insure input from delivered the following remarks at the shot of the UMC faculty , staff and students. Externally, Dec. 14, 1979, meeting of the Board of journalism school we entered a new era which Curators. That was the last curators ' arch as the demands-and rightly so- a high meeting held in the 1970 's. permanent degree of credibility and accountability landmarks do. The to the citi zens of this commonwea lth As a hi storian, perhaps I can be stone lions at right, and their elected and appointed forgiven for noting that this is the last carved 531 years ago representatives whose support and meeting the Board of Curators will during the Ming understanding are vital to our have in the decade of the 70's. It has Dynasty, were a gift existence. Having made these crucial been a remarkable 10 years. from the Chinese adjustments, we now have additional Everyone can recall that th e government and strength and confidence with which to were dedicated in decade began with much national deal more effectively with the future. dissent and frequently frightening and 1931. As we begin the 80's, we must The columns confusing turbulence. It was a time of realize that higher education faces a marker at left gives testing-sometimes through new set of chall enges-perhaps not so the history of the red violence-virtually all of society's potentially explosive and volatile-but campus' columns. established institutions. None felt this challenges which are likely to change The sundial marks conflict more than the colleges and the very character of our institutions the 1921 addition to universities. Not only did campuses just as dramatically as those of the past the journalism become the focal points for the protest 10 years. Higher education will take a school. and opposition to their traditional roles, very difficult test in the 80's. We will but also they bore the brunt of the have to deal with such problems as the dissent resulting from the larger and ravages of inflation , impending more encompassing problems of society e nrollment declines and shrinking itself. The latter included controversy governmental revenues resulting in part over the Vietnam War, debate of from the "proposition 13 syndrome. " materialistic versus humanistic valu es, More importantly, we have many and a general loss of confidence in the tasks left over from the 70's. T he nation national leadership's ability to deal with is asking its colleges and universities the issues of environment, energy and, to provide the essential expertise and perhaps the most divisive of all , civil leadership to help solve such pressing Governor's proposed budget and human rights . problems as maintenance of the delicate In short, it has been a trying balance of energy and environmental decade from which we still bear the concerns; the accommodation of scien­ pleases UM administration scars. Fortunately, during this period tific and technological advancements we also learned a great deal about with the associate social and economic Gov. Joseph Teasdale's University staff would continue to ourselves and, through a kind of forced pressures, and a continuance of the recommendation for state support for communicate, in the House and Senate, introspection, made some significant accelerated struggle for civil and human 1980-81, if approved by the General UM's need for additional funding. and dramatic changes. rights. Assembly, would enable the University The governor's capital Throughout our trials, the I am confident that our educational to make substantial progress, UM improvement recommendation fo r the University was able to maintain a institutions will survive the 80's just as President James C. Olson said Jan. 15 UM system totals $23.8 million. forum for free discussion and sustain they did the 70's. Indeed, we should be in a Columbia news conference. Teasdale's recommendation includes the principle of academic able to draw sustenance from our The $169.4 million for the UM updating existing UM facilities, energy freedom-basic to the University's successes over recent struggles. We system's general operating budget conservation improvements, revamping purpose of the pursuit of truth and free must be worthy of the trust of those represents a 12.4 percent increase, the for handicapped as well as three new inquiry and the extension of who have encouraged and supported us " largest proposed by the executive buildings: agricultural engineering and knowledge. in the past. We must continue to meet branch since the 1960's," Dr. Olson animal science facilities for UMC and Certainly we should not leave the the expectations of those who believe pointed out. the proposed U M system library 70's without mentioning perhaps the in our ability to meet, with courage and Included is a 9.5 percent increase storage facility , which would be located most dramatic and enduring change of determination, the challenge to in the University's salary and wage on the Columbia campus. Funding for all dealing with the revamping of the contribute to a better life for all in the base, compared to 10.6 percent the latter two buildings is contingent decision-making process by establishing decade ahead. requested by UM in an effort to upon the state's continuing to receive improve its ability to compete with Big federal revenue sharing funds, Teasdale Eight and Big ten institutions as well said. Former UM professors accept settlement as other markets for faculty and staff. Even though the Teasdale capital Cash settlements from UM have In letters to Dr. Mindel and Dr. "I am encouraged by the gover- improvements recommendation for UM been accepted by former Columbia Miller, UMC provost Owen Koeppe nor's recommendation," Dr. Olson is " the best we've had in years from campus faculty members Charles offered one-time cash settlements "to said. "Having said that, I should point the governor," Dr. Olson pointed out Mindel and Ronald Miller. They were correct any inequities that may have out that we are still $6.6 million short that there still were "some very among seven UMC professors denied resulted from the denial of a salary of our request, $6 million of which important projects not included" in the salary increases in 1970 after they increase .. because of events related to accounts for program improvements recommendation. dismissed classes to protest events the dismissal of classes for reasons of that are very important to us. Obvious- The president specifically cited the related to the Viet Nam conflict. protest during the spring of 1970." ly we would like to have our entire lack of planning funds for the proposed Settlements from the University Dr. Mindel now teaches at the appropriation request approved." health sciences library and law school were accepted earlier from the other University of Texas at Arlington , and Dr. Olson said that even though he buildings at Columbia, and planning five faculty members involved. (See Dr. Miller at Brooklyn College of the is pleased with the way this year's funds for a science building at St. Spectrum, July 21,1978.) City University of New York. budget process has gone so far, the Louis. Summary Status to. date of the 1980-81 UM Appropriations Request for Operations 1980-81 CBHE Governor's UM Request Recommendation Recommendation UM General $175,940,481 $171,369,544 $169,363,147 Increase 25,280,983 20,710,046 18 ,703 ,649 V 'll HAVE NER RALp·il--f S JR Percent 16.8% 13 .7% 12.4% 7'01 LEWI S HALL "These days the mai nstream of ou r literary cu Itu re is the small presses." -from "The Pushcart Prize, IV" Extension Division, reach listeners Marian Ohman: Extension's through special side band frequencies of the University's four FM radio stations. Interpretive information about envoy for the humanities the color, texture, line and other aspects of the artwork would be Narthex and transept, or presentation, which is available in broadcast through these channels. cruciform? Bellcast gambrel, or slide-tape or video cassette form , is If the project is funded , Dr. truncated hip? Center ogee, or center directed not to architects, but to the Ohman plans to enlist the cooperation UMKC's New Letters, New Letters on the Air pointed? Entablature, or arches local contractors, carpenters and of museum curators and musicians to radiating voussoirs? masons who work with small town help put into practice some theories The Tramp's Cup, the latest book poetry by combining literature with says: "It's a rigid convention that Through a three-year program store owners and small business related to musical equivalents of of poems by David Ray, UMKC music. It often features either there'll be no poetry at [a] called "Sacred Stones and Stained interests. various color tones for those who have professor of English and editor of New accompanied readings on a theme symphony-why can't the city Glass Windows," over 20,000 women Dr. Ohman published "Oh! never experienced color. Letters literary quarterly, was awarded developed from the magazine, or symphonies include a poet or two on in chapters of the Missouri Extension Justice ... " in 1979. This is a 44-page "What instrument is orange? Or the William Carlos Williams Prize by readings by authors such as John their programs, between Brahms and Homemakers Association located what color is the cello's deepest the Poetry Society of America this past Gardner and Brendan Gill.