Gannett Clinic Seeks Staff Gynecologist CORNELL Cornell University's Gannett Provost Robert A Plane Clinic is looking for a announced. Farnsworth was CHRONICLE gynecologist to join the staff, and contacted. Plane said, after the the University has been seeking search committee for a director the advice of Planned of Cornell health services The official weekly of record for Cornell University Parenthood of Tompkins County. decided that no final decision on Mark Barlow Jr.. vice president existing candidates should be for student affairs, announced made "until the future Vol. 1 No 22 Wednesday. March 18. 1970 yesterday. philosophy and scope of the In the meantime. Cornell has Health Services at Cornell have dropped efforts to find a new been determined." Cornell Trustees Approve director for its University Health Barlow said Tuesday that services until a panel of outside Gannett Clinic was looking for a experts has made full or part-time gynecologist to recommendations for the future Formation of Senate work at Cornell. He also said that use and scope of the he had had meetings with The Cornell University Board.of approval by substantial margins During the period when the health service. representatives of Planned Trustees Tuesday approved of a Senate draft proposal, both amendments are being drafted Dr. Dana Farnsworth. director Parenthood of Tompkins County, formation of a University Senate. by the faculty and in a campus- by an ad hoc committee to of the health clinic at Harvard seeking assistance in developing This new governing body, which wide referendum It clears the cha.nge the board makeup, University. agreed Friday a sex and contraceptive will be concerned with non- way now for a Senate election, trustees suggested that some morning to head the panel. education and information academic matters on campus, probably in April. method be worked out so that program for Cornellians. He said will be composed largely of In addition to adopting the student and faculty members that actions might lead to a students and faculty. Senate, trustees also set up may sit with the board as Skaters Oppose chapter of the organization on The trustee action followed machinery to establish a new nonvotmg representatives. They U. of Wisconsin campus. approved the interim A series of demonstrations appointment to the board of four At Lake Placid demanding changes in health students and two additional After two days of final home- policies at the University faculty representatives to serve ice practice, the Cornell hockey occurred during the past week as non-voting members. The team will travel to Lake Placid's Friday afternoon, some 125 method of selecting the interim tiny Olympic Arena to try to demonstrators, members of the student and faculty members extend its hockey hegemony to a Women's Liberation Front (WLF) was left to the Senate. national level in the National and their supporters, marched to The trustee resolution specifies Collegiate Athletic Association the Board Room on the third the makeup of the Senate as 60 (NCAA) championships starting floor of Day Hall, demanding that student representatives. 60 tomorrow. Dr. Saul Levine be appointed faculty members, five non- The Big Red, winners of two director of the clinic and that academic employes, three close games in the . Eastern contraceptives be dispensed academic employes, and two Collegiate Athletic Conference there also. alumni In addition, ten members (ECAC) tournament last weekend Earlier, at a rally in the of the Central Administration will in Boston Garden, will meet a t Memorial Room of Willard serve as members without a dark horse sextet from the Straight Hall, members of the vote. The provost and one vice University of Wisconsin in the WLF charged that the decision of president will serve as ex-officio semi-final round tomorrow MEET THE PRESS — Cornell Trustees hold news conference following clinic physicians not to dispense members, but with a vote The evening. Board of Trustees meeting Tuesday which approved a University Senate. From the pill and other contraceptive left are: Jansen Noyes Jr.. vice chairman of the Board of Trustees; Robert W president, deans of the colleges Wisconsin, which has been devices was a social and moral. Purcell. Board chairman; and Austin H. Kiphnger, vice chairman of the and schools in Ithaca, and the putting hockey teams on the ice Continued on Page 3 Board's Executive Committee director of the Africana Studies for only seven seasons, won its Division of Campus Life, and to and Research Center will be non- half of the Western College change the makeup of the Board voting members. Hockey Association (WCHA) title Some JV Teams Eliminated of Trustees to include students The powers and duties of the by beating favored Denver, last and more faculty members. Senate, "subject to the power year's champions 3-2, ower the In Sports Budget Cuts Cornell University President reserved to the Board of Trustees weekend. This is Wisconsin's Cornells athletic department Dale R Corson said he is as the University's governing first year in the WCHA. Prior it football game to the season in will tighten its budgetary belt "pleased by the spirit of body and to the President as its played an independent schedule. place of the present, unofficial along with other sections of the practice game, having each cooperation in which all chief executive officer — both as Clarkson. the other ECAC University next year. university provide dorm space for members of the Cornell prescribed in the Charter and By- representative to the nationals, Athletic Director Robert J. visiting athletes, and considering community have now moved laws of the University—" will meet Michigan Tech Friday Kane '34 announced that the Big freshman eligibility for some effectively to changes in include. evening in the semi-finals. Red will not field junior varsity varsity sports are among the University governance, " and said —Policy-making. Review Continued on Page 2 teams in football, hockey, fencing suggestions Kane will present. the trustee action is "a landmark existing policy and make new and polo next year The crew At present, NCAA rules permit in the life of this University." policy in those areas of Spring Has. . . team will retain its jv boats, freshmen to play on all varsity The trustees said, in a Continued on Page 9 however. teams except football, basketball statement issued with the results In a further effort to save funds. and hockey. Putting frosh on the of their action, that this Sprung Kane said that Cornell will no Continued on Page 9 legislation "adopts the proposal longer support spring recess for a Cornell University Senate Southern road trip wa'rmups for made by the Constituent the varsity baseball, lacrosse, Chronicle Assembly, subject only to such golf and tennis teams. Cornell modifications as necessitated by University Athletic Association Capsule legal and other restraints." (CUAA) had paid for the entire TEXT of Trustees Senate The trustees. who had baseball trip, as well as parts of resolutions. Page 4 indicated at their January the other teams' journeys in the OMBUDSMAN reports meeting support for a Division of past. on Senate referendum Campus Life, today asked The . combined physical Page 6 President Corson to prepare and education. intramural and BRAIN collection submit to the board a plan of intercollegiate sports deficit for includes that of a administrative organization this year is estimated at "'murderer-genius." Page 2 which would implement the $420,000 This week's edition of proposal. Kane noted that all the other Cornell Chronicle has been Trustees noted that in setting Ivy League schools were published on Wednesday. up such a division, and in altering considering similar cutbacks. He a day early, because of the the makeup of the Board of has proposed several further important action on the Trustees, changes would be money-saving moves which will necessary in the University's LOOKING FOR A SIGN — Cornell University Senate taken Charter and By-laws, and asked coed has to look hard to find tree be presented to the other Ivies at Tuesday by the University bud, a sign of spring, the season the next league meeting April 8- Board of Trustees meeting the president to recommend which is supposed to begin 9. Limiting the number of in Ithaca. such changes as would be Saturday. coaches per team, adding a tenth needed. 2 CORNELLCHRONICLE Skaters to Meet Wisconsin in NCAA's Ruloff's Brain... Continued from Page 1 Michigan Tech earned the trip to Lake Placid with a 6 5 win over Haunts Archives On a dusty shelf in a gloomy genius" are kept Minnesota last weekend. At last sub-basement of Stimson Hall at winter's championships in Ruloff's evil name crept back Cornell University, the oversized Denver, Cornell beat Michigan into notice briefly last week when brain of Edward H. Ruloff. who Tech in the semi-finals in a 4-3 the University Archives bought a has been called a genius and a overtime thriller. diary of an unidentified Ithaca murderer, rests in a jar of businessman which mentions The winners of Thursday's and alcohol. that Ruloff's escape from jail Friday's games will meet caused consternation among the Saturday night for the A single word scotch-taped on city's residents. The diary championship. Third place in the the jar distinguishes Ruloff's notation, dated May 7. 1875, nation will be decided in an brain from that of several others says Ruloff's jailor was afterrioon consolation game at in the Wilder Brain Collection. suspected of being implicated in Olympic Arena That word is "murderer." The dark, bearded Ruloff has the murderer's escape and that a ' The Big Red won undisputed been dead for more than a $500 reward had been offered claim to the top spot in Eastern century but his memory still for the killer's return. hockey by edging a tenacious haunts the shelves of the Clarkson sextet, 3-2 in the Ruloff. whose name has been University Archives where many ECAC's Saturday in Boston It spelled in various ways, had letters referring to the "mad was Cornell's fourth straight already embarked on a criminal ECAC championship — no other life when he came to Ithaca from college has won more than once his home town of St John. New Brunswick He had spent some To get to the title. Cornell had time in jail in Canada for robbery to push past a vastly improved and arson But the Ithacans Harvard squad Friday evening didn't know this and accepted The skaters rallied twice to win him as a learned person. He the uneven contest, 6-5. soon became a school master Earlier that evening. Clarkson and shortly after that he married clawed its way to the finals in a 5- one of his students — a 17-year- 4 upset of Boston University, on old black haired beauty na,med a goal scored with three seconds Harriet Schutt. The couple had a left in the game by Luc St Jean. little daughter — but they did not Saturday's final fully lived up to live happily ever after. expectations, as both teams scored in the first two minutes in Ruloff was known for his what looked like another free- violent temper and few Ithacans scoring match were surprised when his wife and daughter vanished from Both teams settled down sight. Few believed Ruloff's story immediately, however, as that they had gone visiting — but Cornells fast-skating, precision- nobody could find any bodies, passing lines battled the heavier, either Without bodies, Ruloff hard-checking Clarkson squad TOP — Big Red defensemen Gordie Lowe (left) and Dan Lodboa flash the familiar victory sign could not be tried for murder, but Clarkson went ahead by a goal BOTTOM — Clarkson's Bruce Bullock (left), tourney MVP. shakes hands with Cornell's John Hughes after the final he spent ten years in jail after late in the opening period. game Bullock put in an amazing performance in the nets, turning away 48 shots, but Hughes managed to slap a rebound past him with 14 seconds left being found guilty of abduction Red skaters were unable to get anything past stingy Clarkson After serving time for his wife's netminder Bruce Bullock until disappearance, he was tried for 12:38 of the second stanza Tower Road Study Shows Opposition the murder of his daughter. A when Ed Ambis. one of the Now Open verdict of guilty by a lower court sophomores on Ned Harkness' To Voluntary Sterilization was reversed by the Court of fourth line, tied the game with For Parking Appeals and Ruloff walked out a A survey of more than 1,000 professor of animal physiology; his first goal of the season Cornell University's Division of free man faculty and students at Cornell and Frank Rosenblatt, associate Bullock, later named the Safety and Security has But Ruloff's murderous past University has shown professor of neurobiology and tourney's most valuable player, announced that parking will be overwhelming opposition to behavior. Continued on Page 17 put on an incredible performance permitted on the south side of voluntary sterilization as a means in the third period, turning away Tower Road between the of population control Green Dragon Rides Again 24 Cornell shots. intersection of Tower Road and Only six per cent of the male A goal by captain John Hughes Garden Avenue west to a point respondents to a questionnaire was called back by referee Giles near some temporary wooden said they would submit to Threadgold on an offside charge stairs and a fence vasectomy, the sterilization with 38 seconds left. But, after Parking in this area will be operation for males, as the Bullock stopped a flurry of Big permitted for cars with U stickers preferred means of contraception Red shots, Hughes slammed a only from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. After 5 once they have achieved a full rebound through his legs with 14 p.m., open parking will be family. The percentage was even seconds showing on the clock. permitted in this area. lower among women Only two ;sp**s;K '•:•• sssssg| The remainder of Tower Road will continue to be closed due to per cent of the female CORNELL construction on the site of the respondents said they would former Day Hall parking lot. submit to ligationof the oviducts, CHRONICLE the operation for sterilization of Published weekly by the females, as the preferred means Office of Public Spring Dining of contraception. Information of Cornell The Cornell University Quite surprisingly. the University and dis'nbuted Department of Housing and scientists said, from a group of free of charge to faculty, Dining Services has announced educated persons presumably students. and the dining schedule for the aware of the population crisis. 1 employes. Mail spring recess which runs from 65 per cent said they wanted subscription $ 1 0 per year March 28 until April 5. three children or more This was Editorial office. 110 Day The schedule is: the result although 84 per cent Hall. Ithaca. NY 14850 Willard Straight Dining — agreed on the desirability of Telephone 256*4666 Regular Cafeteria Service 7:15 limiting family size. Only 30 per Editor, Arthur W Brodeur. a.m. to 7:00 pm Normal cent of the respondents favored Editorial Assistant. Michael schedule resumes Sunday, April two children, and five per cent S Rosenbaum. Photo 5. Elmhirst Dining Room open Editor. Sol Goldberg. St, said they wanted one child or Statler Club — Student Photographer. Russell I none at all Cafeteria open for lunch only Hamilton Regular service at Statler Inn. The survey was completed Dairy Bar — Regular schedule earlier this year by Thomas MARCH 17, 1970 — Traditional green dragon of the students of the College Monday-Friday 7:00 am to Eisner, professor of neurobiology of Architecture, Art and Planning made its usual St Patrick's Day appearance 4:30pm and behavior, An van Tienhoven, on campus Tuesday. Here it coils in front of the new Campus Store. CORNELL-CHRONICLE 3 Sidney Hook Lectures Cornell Buys Cayuga Lake Site On EducationChaIleng e For New Research Fruit Orchard Philosopher Sidney Hook will "The Future of the University.' discuss the topic "Current The series is sponsored by the Cornell University has The site, described as ideal for In announcing the purchase. Challenges to Liberal Education" University Committee on purchased a 100-acre tract on fruit tree growing because of its Arthur H. Peterson, university at 8:1 5 p.m. Tuesday. March 24, Lectures and was developed by the east side of Cayuga Lake to climate, soil, and topography, is controller, said the new orchard in a lecture here. an ad hoc committee of students establish a new orchard for located about 1 5 miles north of site was selected in line with the Hook, professor of philosophy and faculty selected for its variety research and instruction at the Ithaca, off Rte. 34B on the east over-all campus expansion plan. at New York University, is of perspectives on the subject. New York State College of side of the lake across from The present orchard, scheduled to speak in Martha Hook, head of the Philosophy Agriculture. Taughannock Falls State Park occupying some 90 acres along Van Rensselaer auditorium in the Department at New York Dryden Road (route 366) in the second of Cornell's new five part University's Graduate School of southeastern section of the lecture series on the subject of Arts and Science, is considered campus, is expected to be used one of the leading philosophers for other purposes when the new Spring and educators of his generation orchard is ready for fruit in America. producti*r Varsity Melvin B. Hoffman, head of He has expressed in his many the Department of Pomology at wntings; the belief that Schedule the College of Agriculture, said democracy can become a living Cornell varsity teams will that the new site is much better faith for America in this age of compete in 95 spring events. than the present orchard in many social and scientific advance. He Robert J Kane, director of ways. is one of the chief targets of athletics, has announced The gentle breezes from the philosophical and political Forty-one games have been lake, for one thing, help keep attacks by the Communist press scheduled for the baseball away crop-killing freezes and team, including 12 on a spring Among his publications are: frosts—a major factor in locating recess tour of Florida. "The Metaphysics of any orchard, he said. The peach The schedules: Pragmatism," "From Hegel to trees at the present campus Baseball — March 28. Florida Marx;" "John Dewey: An orchard were killed by severe Southern at Lakeland. Fla.; 28. Intellectual Portrait;" "Reason. winter weather in January. 1969 Detroit Tigers Farm at Lakeland. Social Myths and Democracy;" "This kind of trouble should Fla.; 29. Fairfield at Tampa, Fla. Hook joined the NYU faculty as not happen at the new site (2); 30. U. of Chicago at Winter an instructor in 1927 and because lake breezes create a Park, Fla.; 31. Rollins at Winter became a professor in 1939. In kind of climatic environment Park. Fla.; Apr. 1. Brown at addition, he has taught at conducive to fruit trees." Winter Park, Fla.; 1. St Leo at St. Columbia University. Harvard Hoffman pointed out. Leo. Fla.; 2. Rollins at Winter University, and for many years, at Because of this and other Park. Fla ; 3. U of Chicago at the New School for Social factors. New York's apple Winter Park, Fla.; 3, Stetson U. at Research production is concentrated in Deland, Fla.; 4. Brown at Winter areas close to large bodies of Park, Fla.; 8. East Stroudsburg; Born in New York City on Dec. water — Lake Ontario. Lake 10. at Fordham; 11. at Army (2); 20, 1902. he attended the city's Champlain, and the Hudson 14, Scranton; 17. at public schools and took his River The state ranks second in Pennsylvania; 18. at Navy (2); degree at the College of the City the nation in apple production 21. at Colgate; 24. Princeton; of New York, where he studied with the annual crop ranging 25. Columbia (2); 28. Cortland; under Morris R Cohen In 1926 from 22 to 24 million bushels. May 1. at Harvard; 2. at he received his masters degree The new orchard, selected Dartmouth (2); 6. Syracuse; 8. and in 1927 his doctorate in after a six-month search Brown; 9. Yale (2); 12. Buffalo philosophy from Columbia throughout the areas U.; 15. Temple; 16. Montclair St. University after intensive study APPLE ORCHARD — Cornell has purchased a 100-acre tract of land on east surrounding Cayuga Lake, will be (2); 19. at Rochester (2); 21. at with John Dewey and F.J.E side of Cayuga Lake to establish a new orchard for research and instruction at the New York State College of Agriculture. Present orchard on Dryden operated as a primary source of Hartwick; 23. at Syracuse (2). Woodbridge. Road (Route 366) pictured above, will be phased out fruit supply for classroom use Heavyweight Crew — Apr. 25. and for storage research at the Goes Trophy (Navy and Syra- college cuse) at Annapolis; May 2. Clinic Seeks Staff Gynecologist Carnegie Cup (Princeton' and Continued from Page 1 Director of the University Health have been determined The basic Also serving essentially as an Yale) at Princeton; 9. Eastern not medical decision Services held Friday. March 13, sources of difficulty lie in a lack experimental farm, College sprint regatta at Worcester; 23. researchers will carry out a Barlow told the group at Day the committee members of clarity and a division of Pennsylvania; June 11-13, IRA. number of research projects and Hall that the University will make recommend that no final opinion as to how the rapidly at Syracuse field experiments to achieve every effort to develop a specific decision should be made on the occurring changes in University technical advances comparable Lightweight Crew — Apr. 11. plan for the health services existing candidate, Dr. Saul life, society at large, and the to those that have kept New Pennsylvania; 18. at Princeton; based on the new panels Levine. or any potential practice of medicine should York's fruit industry out in front 25. Geiger Cup (Columbia and recommendations. candidates until the future affect the role of a University down through the years. MIT.) at New York; May 2. "On the basis of a meeting of philosophy and scope of service Health Service on our campus Dartmouth; 9. Eastern the Search Committee for the of the Health Services at Cornell A leading proponent of championships at Worcester. "To this end the Search constant technological Lacrosse — Apr. 2, Virginia at Committee recommended that innovations. Hoffman thinks that Charlottesville; 3. Denison at .the President appoint a panel of "shrinking" apple trees to Baltimore; 8, at Cortland; 11. experts from outside the "squeeze" more trees into Long Island Athletic Club University to survey the present limited space is the wave of the ^exhibition); 18, at Harvard; 22, practices and to recommend future if the state's apple industry Dartmouth; 25. at Pennsylvania; future directions for the is to stay competitive in years 29. at Colgate; May 2. ,Yale; 9. development of the University ahead Brown; 16, at Princeton; 20. Health Service This panel will be Hobart; 23. Syracuse. With this goal in mind, the new expected to consult broadly and orchard will be used extensively Track — Apr 18. at Colgate; to obtain as wide a range of 24-25. at Penn Relays; May 2. for long-term experiments with views as possible from within our what pomologists call "spur- Pennsylvania; 9. Heptagonals at University Community. New Haven; 76. at Princeton; type" trees which were 20. at Syracuse; 29-30. IC4A at "Once the panel has reported discovered in recent years in the Pennsylvania the University must promptly Northwestern part of the United Tennis — Mar. 30. at determine the future course of States. Maryland; 31. at George development for its Health Because of the compact, non- Washington; Apr 1. at Notre Services and develop specific suckering growth habit plus early Dame; 71. Pennsylvania; 14. plans and proposals for its bearing and high productivity, Rochester. 18. at Yale; 25. at implementation At that point the spur-type Mclntosh and Dartmouth; May 1. Harvard; 2. and with reference to these plans other strains will probably mark a WOMEN'S LIB — Members and supporters of the Women's Liberation Front Brown; 5. at Colgate; 8. at Army. and proposals the search for a march to Day Hall after a rally in the Memorial Room Friday The turning point in the history of 9. at Columbia; 13. Navy; 16. demonstrators want Dr. Saul Levine appointed head of the University Health Director should actively be apple production, the Cornell Princeton; 23. Syracuse. Services and a change in Gannett Clinic policies. resumed " pomologist said 4 CORNELLCHRONICLE Trustee Senate Statement and Resolutions SENATE RESOLUTION students from foreign countries income and expense within such grievance procedure officers shall have such powers Here is the te\t of the Senate and similar categories of areas but not including a detailed b To define the academic and duties as may be prescribed Resolution adopted Tuesdax b\ students or faculty having special examination of line items. calendar for the colleges and in the bylaws of the Senate the Cornell Universin Board of concerns. c To study and maintain close schools of the University at 3 Meetings. The Senate shall Trustees: 3 General The term for and continuing interest in Ithaca meet regularly as provided in its University Senate elected membership in the educational quality and 3 Communication The Senate bylaws. Special meetings may be Article I Membership and Senate shall be from March 1 to innovation Educational policy shall have the duty, and it shall held in accordance with the Election March 1. Only registered full- and procedures, experimental be its right, to transmit its policy- bylaws of the Senate and shall 1 Membership The University time students shall qualify for educational projects, and the making and/or administrative be held on the call of the Senate shall be composed of the student membership. Only full- creation of new colleges, centers actions, as appropriate, to the President of the University. following members: time faculty or other employees or interdisciplinary programs, President and/or the University Article IV. Amendment a Student members Sixty shall qualify for membership and to make public Faculty or the faculties of the This enabling resolution (60) students elected from several colleges and schools at establishing the Senate is among students registered in the "The Board of Trustees . . approves establishment of a Ithaca as the case may be subject to further action by the several colleges and schools at Cornell University Senate proposed by the Constituent Any Senate action transmitted Board of Trustees by way of Ithaca on a proportional basis for Assembly." to the President shall be amendment or otherwise. The terms of one year each. implemented by him .as chief Senate may present b Faculty members Sixty (60) from those categories. In recommendation on such executive officer — unless he recommendations to the Board faculty members elected from October of each year, the matters to the appropriate faculty determines that review by the of Trustees with respect to this among the faculties of the Freshman class shall elect ten or other body In this connection, Board of Trustees is required In resolution in its discretion several colleges and schools at (10) of its members to serve until the1 Senate is empowered to the latter case the President shall RELATED RESOLUTIONS •Ithaca on a proportional basis for the following March 1, with all create and maintain a so advise the Senate, setting Subsequent to adopting the terms of one year each For this rights of participation except that subordinate agency for forth his reasons for such action Senate Resolution, the Cornell purpose, the University bylaw of voting Freshman members innovative projects and to The Senate shall have the right University Board of Trustees definition of college and school may be voting members of provide continuity to such to obtain written and/or oral Tuesday adopted the following faculties shall be applicable committees of the Senate studies, the agency to be reports appropriate to its areas of related resolutions: c. Non-academic employee Article II. Powers and Duties financed from available concern from such academic or Concerns of Campus Life members Five (5) non-academic The powers and duties of the University funds. administrative officers as may be The Board of Trustees employees (two exempt and University Senate subject to the d. To examine and make designated by the President. responds to the Constituent three non-exempt) elected from power reserved to the Board of recommendations with respect Any Senate action transmitted Assembly's proposal for a among the non-academic Trustees as the University's to overall policy considerations in to a faculty of the University shall Division of Campus Life by employees of the University at governing body and to the such matters as military training, be placed on the agenda for the requesting the President to Ithaca and Geneva for terms of President as its chief executive student financial aid, and next meeting of that faculty or on prepare and submit to the Board one year each. officer — both as prescribed in disadvantaged groups. the the agenda of the appropriate a plan of administrative d Non-teaching academic the Charter and Bylaws of the admission of new students, committee of that faculty in organization which would employees Three (3) academic University — are: student financial aid. local accordance with established implement the Constituent employees elected from among 1. Policy making. community relations. public procedures, with an appropirate Assembly proposal. the academic employees at a To review existing policy and safety, policies of the Safety response being made to the Further, such plan of Ithaca and Geneva who are not to make new policy in those Division. University field Senate in due course. organization will ta'ke into members of the several college areas of University affairs which programs abroad and the broad The Senate may. by a majority account the following guidelines: and school faculties (to consist of are non-academic in nature and social implications of the one professional librarian, one are of direct and joint concern to University's programs of "While the Trustees may revoke any delegated powers at any research associate, and one students, faculty members and teaching, research and public time, such action would be taken only in an extreme situation, representative from some other other employees of the service, and the University's and then only after all efforts to reconcile divergent views had category of such academic University (exclusive of matters investment policies. failed." employees) for terms of pne year of educational policy, the control e. To examine and initiate each. of which has been delegated to recommendations with respect vote, suspend new legislation a. The composition, powers e Alumni members Two (2) the University Faculty and the to the University's 'Short and long- adopted by the University Faculty and duties of the University members elected from among several college and school term plans, including the broad ' pending a reconsideration by Senate as established by the the alumni of the University for faculties.) These areas of allocation of University that Faculty. Such suspension Board of Trustees. terms of one year each For this concern shall consist of student resources may be lifted by the University b. The existing administrative purpose, the University bylaw union facilities, housing and 'f. To participate in the Faculty with a second affirmative organization and operating definition of alumni shall be dining of students, registered process of selecting a new vote on such legislation procedures of the University applicable campus organizations and president of the University in The Senate shall have the right pursuant to its Charter and f Members from central activities, recruitment of students accordance with the procedure to present its views directly to Bylaws. Administration. Ten (10) by outside organizations. established in the University the Board of Trustees concerning c The substance of the University sponsored religious members to be selected by the Bylaws any question which may arise Constituent Assembly proposal programs for students, physical President from among the * This new bylaw, yet to be within, its areas of concern. Membership of The Board of education and athletics central Administration of the formulated, will be mutually Arrangements for such Trustees (excluding degree requirements). University for terms of one year acceptable to the Board of presentation shall be made An ad hoc committee of University Health Services, the each, and without vote Trustees and the Senate. -through the President Trustees is appointed for the Campus Store, non-credit public g Ex-officio members 2 Administrative. Article III Senate Organization purpose of preparing and lectures and performances, (i) The Provost and one Vice a To enact and enforce codes and Administration. presenting to the Board policy vehicular parking, orientation of President selected from among of personal conduct on campus 1. Bylaws and committees. recommendations in response to new students. general the Vice Presidents at Ithaca as for students, faculty members, The Senate shall have the power counseling services for all the Constituent Assembly's voting members and other employees. Such to organize itself and to make all students and non-teaching proposal for changes in the (II) The President, the deans of codes and their enforcement such bylaws and regulations for functions of museums Other non- membership of the Board of the several colleges and schools procedures shall provide its own proceedings as shall not academic areas of concern may Trustees The ad hoc committee at Ithaca and the Director of the appropriate protection to the be contrary to the Charter or be added by a majority vote of will give consideration to a Africana Studies and Research individual's right of fair hearing. Bylaws of the University or of this the full Senate membership and provision whereby appropriate Center as non-voting members. They shall be subordinate to enabling resolution. Such bylaws with the approval of the Board of faculty and/or student personnel 2 Method of election. The regulations adopted by the Board shall be enacted and may be may sit with the Board as Trustees. of Trustees pursuant to Section Senate shall prescribe the amended by the affirmative vote nonvoting representatives method of election for its elected b. To establish budget pending those amendments to members and shall conduct such priorities by the following "As the governing board of Cornell University, we want this the University Charter necessary elections. Such method of procedure The executive officer Senate to work, and to work well." to provide full voting election shall include a provision of the University having memberships for general and appropriate administrative responsibility for 6450 of the State Education Law of two-thirds of those present The Board accepts six interim, proportional representation (a) those areas of University affairs (Henderson Law). Any and voting. Such bylaws and non-voting appointments to the among tenured and non-tenured for which the Senate has policy- disciplinary action involving regulations shall provide for an Board during the time of the faculty, (b) among graduate and making responsibility shall dismissal of a faculty member executive committee and may committee's study. Four will be undergraduate students, and (c) prepare annual operating shall be subject to review, at the provide for such other students and two will be among the major areas of budgets for such areas within option of the faculty member, in committees of the Senate as may additional faculty discipline in the several colleges guidelines approved annually by accordance with the Faculty be necessary or desirable representatives The method of and schools the Senate or a committee Dismissal Procedure adopted by 2 Officers. The Senate shall selection is left to the Senate Special provision may be made thereof, and within a total sum the Board of Trustees. Any elect from its membership a The University Counsel is specified by the President The to provide representation to disciplinary action involving a Speaker or other presiding officer instructed to assist the ad hoc Senate may examine particular groups such as non-academic employee shall be and may elect such other officers committee and to draft subordinate categories of lents m the COSEP program. subject to any applicable as it deems necessary These Continued on Page 5 CORNELUCHRONICL'E 5 Trustee Action on Senate The Arts This Week March 18 — Luis Bunuel Film Graphics of the German Continued from Page 4 responsibility in the interest of appropriate or necessary to Series. Nazarin. 1 and 9:15 p.m. Expressionist Movement Brucke. appropriate amendments to the effective administration, and this enabling legislation. It is Goldwin Smith D. White Museum of Art, until University Charter and Bylaws in in turn demands effective 'assumed that these matters will March 18 thru 21 — Cornell March 22. implementation of those channels of communication. The be determined by the Senate in University Theatre production. — Recent Work; Jud Fine. recommendations. Board looks to the President for establishing its own bylaws. Tango, by Slawomir Mrozek. Franklin Hall Gallery, until March Recision of Present Legislation executive leadership of the Financial support for the 8:15 p.m. University Theatre, 27. Once the University Senate University. We are, accordingly, operation of the Senate will be Willard Straight. — Exhibition of undergraduate has been established, the March 19 — Poetry Reading sculpture. Sibley Exhibition area, University Counsel is instructed "The adoption of these new procedures and shared Prose—Cornell Writers, 4 p.m until March 21, A memorial to prepare appropriate responsibilities is a landmark in the life of this University. That Temple of Zeus exhibition of the work of the late amendments to the University we are undertaking reform and innovation on this scale through Prof A. H. Detweiler. Assoc Bylaws and other Trustee — Andre Delvaux's The Man the use of democratic procedures supported by the great Dean of the College of legislation ' to bring such majority of all of us, is a source of pride and satisfaction." • Who Had His Hair Cut Short. Architecture, Art and Planning, legislation into conformity with with Senne Rouffaer 7 and 9:15 p.m. Goldwin Smith D will run from March 23-March the Senate resolution. instructing the President ' to provided through appropriate 28. TRUSTEE STATEMENT March 20 thru 22 — David recommend a plan of University financial channels. Leans Doctor Zhivago. with The following statement organization within the The Board of Trustees Omar Sharif and Julie Christie regarding passage of the Senate administrative structure of the expresses appreciation to the Friday at 5 and 8:30 p.m. Employes Resolution was issued Tuesday University in such manner as members of the Cornell Saturday and Sunday at 2:30 afternoon by the Cornell best to integrate and coordinate community who participated in and 8:30 p.m Statler Auditorium. Elect Board University Board of Trustees the formulation of the Senate the many existing agencies and March 22 — Concert Carl The Association of Cornell The Board of Trustees, by the proposal We look forward with functions which contribute to the Orff's Carmina Burana Evelyn Employes-Libraries. a labor accompanying enabling optimism to an early creation campus environment and which Mandac, soprano; David Lloyd, organisation formed and legislation. approves and successful operation of the the Constituent Assembly has tenor; William Metcalf, baritone; governed by the nonacademic establishment of a Cornell University Senate. We pledge identified as a Division of Cornell University Glee Club and staff of Cornell University University Senate proposed by continued work toward early Campus Life. The President is the Chorus, and children's choir; Libraries has announced the the Constituent Assembly, establishment of a Division of medium of formal Cornell Symphony Orchestra, result of elections for subject only to such Campus Life and broadened communication between the conducted by Karel Husa. 8:15 membership on its executive modifications as necessitated by representation on the Board of Trustees and the faculties We p.m. Bailey Hall board. legal and other restraints As the Trustees. expect him to have a similar The results are: Mrs. Lynne K. governing board of Cornell March 23 — Informal responsibility with respect to the STATEMENT BY CORNELL McLewin, president; Gennaro S. University, we want this Senate Concert: Arthur Wenk, piano Senate and the Vice President for PRESIDENT DALE R. CORSON: Damiam. vice president; Mrs to work and to work well. Our 4:30 pm. Kaufmann Auditorium Campus Affairs In this instance, "I am pleased by the spirit of Alice A. Olsefski. secretary; Mrs. enabling legislation is directed to — Del Jack's The Committee therefore, we are proceeding on cooperation in which all Joan M Mason, treasurer; this purpose. The Board believes A satiric revue by "The the principle that the Vice members of the Cornell Charles H Rote Jr. sergeant-at- that the University Senate Committee" Repertory Players. 7 President for Campus Affairs will community have now moved arms; Miss Jacqueline A. Davis, resolution which it has adopted and 9:1 5 p.m Goldwin Smith D take policy instruction from the effectively to the changes in recording secretary; Wilfred C. is a document of implementation March 24 — Fritz Lang's Senate, and will be coordinate University governance Batsford and Mrs Dorothy M. of the essential elements of the Metropolis with Brigette Helm. 7 with other vice presidents and recommended by the Rollins, trustees; and Mrs. Ellen Assembly's document. The and 9:15 p.m. Goldwin Smith D report to the President on Constituent Assembly. In A King. Mrs. Nancy J. McBride. proposals on Board of Trustee — The Lenox Quartette. 8:15 administrative matters This responding to the Senate Mrs. Anna G Bailor, Mrs. membership and the Division of p.m. Statler Auditorium. should not be taken to preclude proposal and taking the Jacqueline M Morns, and Campus Life are to be dealt with March 25 — Luis Bunuel's the Senate having its own necessary first steps to William H. Richards. unit in separate resolutions. Viridiana with Silvia Pinal, administrative officer implement it, the Board of representatives. Fernando Rey and Victoria Zinny. The Constituent Assembly Trustees has confirmed a new While some technical 7 and 9:15 p.m. Goldwin Smith proposal for a Senate calls for a administrative pattern for Cornell difficulties, are involved, the D Comell-OEO major reonentation of Cornell's Board is instructing the and cleared the way for the Ongoing — Paintings and administrative structure for University Counsel to seek immediate creation of the Project Report making policy on matters of Senate. changes in the University's Staff of the Cornell-State Office campus life. The Trustees Charter for the addition of new "The Board of Trustees has Sage Notes of Economic Opportunity (OEO) support its major thrust of members of the Board of done everything in its power to Applications for summer Project in South ' Brooklyn will greater self-determination by the Trustees in response to the adopt the recommendations of fellowships for those report at a public service seminar Cornell community... Senate proposal. We are further the Constituent Assembly, as students who satisfy the from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m., Friday, y directing the Counsel to provide ratified by the University faculty In the instances in which the criteria are now available in Room N2O7. Martha Van for the interim participation of and the campus referendum, enabling legislation conflicts in a in the Fellowship Office, Rensselaer Hall students and additional faculty at subject only to unavoidable legal substantial way with the Sage Graduate Center A cooperative program in provisions of the Assembly meetings of the Board, pending restraints, and to the dictates of All graduate students are home management and document, the Board has revised the necessary changes in the responsible administration. The again reminded of the consumer education, the Cornell- the draft to conform with legal University's Charter legal creation of the Cornell recent modification in the State OEO Project is a joint effort requirements such as those Senate is now an- accomplished We are also instructing the rules about changes in between the New York State stated in the University Charter fact; the necessary Charter University Counsel to prepare the course registration A Office for Community Affairs and and bylaws, and the laws of the changes to amend membership necessary Trustee legislation student may not drop a the New York State College of State of New York on the Board of Trustees are rescinding or adjusting whatever course or change from Human Ecology. A most important element in legislation is in conflict with the being drafted; and I am at work on administrative organizational credit to audit after the The two key components of the Board's Senate resolution is Trustee resolution. tenth week of instruction. the three-year project, begun in the concept of delegation of proposals to establish a Division In the matter of presidential Students are urged to do 1968, are training-service and power and authority by a of Campus Life, as requested of selection. the Board will the paper work for such evaluative research Evaluation governing board. While the me by the Trustees. formulate a new procedure changes now rather than of the project and the continuing Board may delegate its power "I expect the election of the intended to be mutually after you have received an development of the community first Senate to be accomplished F. when it is much more leadership feature will be the as rapidly as possible. I pledge "Financial support for the operation of the Senate will be time consuming. focus for the third year. prodded through appropriate I University financial channels." myself to work out my recommendations for the Students who have not tried the Admission to and authority except when acceptable to the Trustees and to establishment of a Division of Straight Scoop Campus Life without delay, in the Candidacy examination are specifically restrained by law, it the Senate, and which will reminded that this The Department of must bear full responsibility for assure Senate participation in hope that the newly-elected Senate can assume its examination must be tried University Unions the actions of all to whom this most important piece of before the student may announces the following authority has been given. For this University business. responsibilities in relation to the Division as quickly as possibly register for a seventh term events: reason. its delegations of Some matters, such as the after taking office. of residence. Discussion: ''Is authority cannot be irrevocable details of Senate committee Collegetown Obsolete?" "The adoption of these new While the Trustees may revoke structure, a bill of rights Thursday. 8:30-10 p.m.. procedures and shared any delegated powers at any provision, the terms of office. source of pride and satisfaction Willard Straight .Memorial responsibilities is a landmark in time, such action would be taken Senate bylaw amendment "I shall do everything possible Room. Free procedures, the formulae for the life of this University That we to make these new only in an extreme situation, and Concert Folk proportional representation of are undertaking reform and arrangements work effectively then only after all efforts to Coffeehouse Paul innovation on this scale through and to cooperate with the new reconcile divergent views had such special groups as COSEP Geremia, folksmger. the use of democratic Cornell University Senate which failed. and foreign students are omitted Saturday Willard Straight procedures supported by the now come into being and begin A second important principle from the Trustee resolution only Memorial Room. 75 cents. embodies executive because they do not seem great majority of all of us. is a to function " 6 CORNELL CHRONICLE I: Conduct of the Committee faced the need to poll Van Riper of the Assembly. Mrs. the entire Cornell Community for (Kay) Hanna. Administrative Election the first time in the University's Secretary of the Assembly, the From February 16 to February history. The voters were to Ombudsman. Mrs. Alice Cook, Ombudsman Repor 7? 25 Cornell conducted its first include students, faculty, staff, and her assistant. Steven Telsey, this truee If so. how was aa Extramural and speciall (part andd ar aree therefore , community-wide referendum. and administration. The registrar on February 19. it was decided person to know this in advance? . time) students were omitted in was not The vote was a test of the supplied lists of undergraduate to extend the deadline for . If 50 persons overlooked clear accordance with a consistently available University's acceptance of its and graduate students; the postmarked ballots from instructions to make the error followed policy that these are not b) Postal\bi Constituent Assembly's proposal personnel office furnished lists of February 23 to February 25 and then no. real harm is done. But if. properly students at Cornell for the establishment of a new employes Certain questions of an announcement to this effect as I have heard indirectly, the University Students on leave chiefly that institution of government, the eligibility arose Since emeritus was carried in The Sun and in lr number is a thousand or more, after September 1, 1969. seem undependable i c University Senate. professors are voting members The Chronicle. At the same time wouldn't this introduce a definite to have been included on the unforwardable \% of the faculty, it was decided that would-be voters were told that if The referendum was bias into the results?" student list, although those recognized tha'sen conducted under the auspices other retirees should also have they had not received ballots by Finding: As noted above taking leave before that date ballots by first ci8ss the vote. Eligible retirees were February 23 they could present ver and direction of the Constituent instructions to mail were were not included Personnel of have been V ex defined ?s any employe with themselves in the Office of the Assembly's Interim Election widespread and repeated. About several peripheral organizations believed that t^de Committee' which drew up the more than ten years consecutive Ombudsman, who would check a dozen (no accurate record was were not included such as nv 2 do so was u %e service at Cornell. Eligible voters their credentials and issue tn election rules, determined its kept) ballots were received CURW. ROTC. but staff members skimping in e | among employes were defined ballots against their signature. 1 procedures and conducted its through campus mail at the of the Alumni Association who uneconomica ar count. Shortly before the election as all those on the group life About 75 persons followed this Assembly office. They were all was to take place the insurance plan, to which every procedure. All of these persons deposited in the U.S. mail for Ombudsman was asked to act as full-time employe at the election watcher, to verify the University must subscribe. vote count, to issue ballots under These determinations "The results of the election were so overwhelmingly favorable rules agreed upon with the excluded the following to the adoption of a Senate that it would have taken upward of Interim Election Committee to categories of persons who might 5,500 votes, all in the negative, to have changed the majority, persons who had not received have been deemed to be even bv a narrow margin. their ballots through the mail and members of the community: to certify the final official election extramural and special (part were instructed to mail their postmarks and were all count. > time) students, students whose ballots not later than the presumably counted. Referendum Procedures leaves of absence became afternoon of February 25 for a 2. Undelivered Ballots. "I did The Interim Election effective prior to September. valid postmark. not receive a ballot to vote on the Committee had a limited budget 1969. part time university In spite of repeated C. U. Senate. I asked a few at its disposal. After considering employes, alumni, non-university instructions' including one on people with offices near mine a number of methods of securing employed personnel such as the face of the ballot to return the 3 about this, and half of them also and counting the vote, including CURW chaplains and staff. An ballot through the United States did not receive ballots. If this establishing and manning polling administrative decision at the mail, several persons sent them sample is representative of the places and renting voting time of mailing was not to send through campus mail The four general situation, then the whole machines, it decided to conduct any ballots out of the country or persons named above agreed referendum can hardly be taken the referendum by mail with a to the Arecibo station since they that the Assembly office would seriously and it must be viewed ballot providing for a "yes" or would not be received back in put these ballots in the mail so as under a cloud of suspicion." time to be counted. "no" vote on the proposition, that they would receive the Finding: The Assembly office "for a Cornell University Senate Distribution of Ballots proper postmark About a dozen arranged with the. University as adopted by the Constituent As the Assembly office made ballots were so re-mailed. official in charge of mail in the Assembly on December 15, arrangements with the registrar's Counting the Ballots dormitories to return to the 1969" and personnel offices for Counting began on the Assembly Office ballots These ballots were sent by printouts of lists its staff was morning of February 27 in a undeliverable to dormitory third class bulk mailing to all warned that lists might' not locked room. All envelopes had addresses. 250 such ballots members of the Cornell reflect recent changes of by this time been checked were returned. At the post office community on February 13. address, unless students or against the master list. Ballots the supervisor in charge of Enclosed in the envelope employes had reported them. were fed into a mechanical letter distribution of bulk mail nti6 addressed to each voter was 1) a The Interim Election Committee opener and each envelope and estimated that 500 to 10% (i.e.. COUNTDOWN — Staff of the Office thofe Ombudsma 'D theUniversitVseru ballot. 2) a return postage paid undertook therefore a series of its ballot stamped with an perhaps 2.000) had been envelope. 3) a copy of the advertisements in The Sun, and identical number Ballots and "relegated to waste." The are participants in the group life unwise proposal for a University Senate, on WVBR and WHCU, and envelopes were immediately Ombudsman believes that a insurance plan did receive expediency and 4) a "Memorandum of announcements in the Chronicle separated. Envelopes were maximum of 2,500 ballots may ballots. The Interim Election Finding- urging prospective voters to Explanation." On the face of delivered at hourly intervals to not have been delivered. Had all Committee's secretary above for a each ballot was a directive to report changes of address so that s the Ombudsman's office where of these been delivered and all responded to the request of the ballots. The P° trn return the ballot via United they could without fail receive they were alphabetized and cast in the negative the election ROTC commander for ballots for out that the b States mail to be postmarked no ballots4 results would still have been a u boxed for storage. Ballots his staff, and they were procured received on Valent later than midnight. February 23 decided majority for adoption of r On February 13 evening, two remained in the counting room, from the Ombudsman's office. heaviest maili 9 d, (later extended to February 25). the Senate. batches of mail sacks were were separated into "yes" and These ballots have since been Christmas. that On the back of the envelope was deposited at the post office for "no" boxes, counted into 3. The major challenge checked and those of the staff advance notice a place for the voter's signature bulk mailing. These contained batches of 50. checked by a criticized the election on three with faculty status and on the mailing, that its arr and a printed copy of his name. altogether 50 sacks of mail second counter who banded and counts: university payroll were retained c 6 meant that it °ul< containing 20.000 pieces. The remainder have been voided b As ballots were received initialed each bundle The count a I Eligibility 1. Minimum be delivered efc beginning February 1 7. workers The Assembly officers were checked exactly on the number requirements for voting were not Arbitrariness is a necessity in with other mail Ptlii of ballots. An unofficial tally was promulgated. setting up an election machinery. weekend and havh "Participation in the recent referendum . . compares announced that night. It showed: Finding: Eligibility was Rules have to be made and for delivery ^e favorably with participation in local and national public- apparently not announced or applied across the board. It is "address correct elections. II: Challenges defined in detail. Minutes of the unfortunate that some loyal and could have been , Protests and complaints about Interim Election Committee interested Cornellians were cents per enve'op( in the office of the Constituent clear that in choosing bulk the conduct of the election suggest that certain problems denied the vote because they are would have addec Assembly alphabetized the mailing delivery would be slow, reached the Ombudsman's office were anticipated, particularly the part-time employees or students to the cost of 'he of envelopes and checked the i.e.. delayed if necessary to from six persons and were dated question of how to reach but to the extent that part-time the Assembly 'ic voters name against a master facilitate handling of first class February 19. February 26. March students who first enrolled after attachment suggests a transitory meet this problerr list which was a printout of the mail. and that all mail 1, March 2. March 3 and March February 1. Reliance was placed or less than total participation in advertisements fc lists used for addressing the undeliverable would be 9. All of these complaints, on the completeness of the the Cornell community it is not address The A: envelopes. Those which could "relegated to waste." i.e.. not protests and requests have been registrar's and personnel an irrational determination. The operating on a director's lists (and discussions not be found on the master list forwarded and not returned to examined and the action taken is question which concerns* the budget which wa were conducted with these were checked against a) the Assembly office. herewith recorded and reported. Ombudsman is whether it was exceeded, in Pa' offices to the end of directing the uniformly applied and so far as personnel records or b) All ballots mailed in the return They are listed in order of their number of returns. computer to produce the most information has reached this registrar's records and if found envelopes were first class mail. receipt and followed by a report Probably more inclusive lists possible). So far as office that has been the case tr there were retained as valid Based on the daily payments to on a finding of fact. this respect >ai employees were concerned it ballots Any unbeatable ballots the post office for mail redeemed 1. Return through campus The total number of persons in problems are the p 6 was decided to use the list of ./vere separated in a file of their at 8c per envelope 8.751 pieces mail. A report that "hundreds of these categories who were Cornell offices in persons covered by the group life Wltr own. Each night the of mail were received and ballots have been invalidated disqualified by the decisions of Assembly i insurance plan. This omitted part- redeemed. because they were sent through the Interim Election Committee addresses It aPP accumulated ballots and master time employees and included The office received reports campus mail. Today s Chronicle probably did not exceed 200 Personnel office v were locked in a secure retired employees with 10 or during the week of February 16 reports that the ballots 'must go The possibility that some communicates wi more years of consecutive of slow delivery of ballots. At a through the U.S. mail' I persons who work less than full through campus i Eligibility service to the university Interim Election meeting held between Secretary therefore have two questions Is time are on the insurance plan attempt to maint CORNELL CHRONICUE i Administration as- to how they postmark at midnight was too home addresses, It must atsc might proceed to implement the short to assure her that her ballot apparently be accepted as-a far' transfers of power asked for in was received and counted of life that potential .voters v ortson Referendum the proposal." Finding: A check of the not respond in sub3taruM ei The Secretary of the Interim ' ^ able to vote mailing lists. Correct mailing lists Assembly's work of framing a envelope shows that her vote numbers to put themselves • Election Committee ruled on substantiated by of students are equally difficult to permanent governmental was received good standing to receive .maitct eligibility of voters in a few cases maintain. Students move structure and a referendum on its 6 Professor (Paul) van Riper. ballots, even when .thqy a where problems were brought to ts>\blems: frequently For a variety of adoption were completed. It Secretary of the Interim Elections repeatedly admonished to do so him. He aimed to "include as ^complaint was reasons many do not wish to filled its own ranks as vacancies Committee and the Assembly 41 So far as definit. many as possible in the ft'"1 Class mail was record the address where they occurred. When Speaker Penney Executive Committee at the community membership artt community" and ruled from that le lr> delivery and actually live; certainly many of had to resign, Dean Donald conclusion of the election on eligibility for voting ts-concernietl principle. The Committee itself le % complainant them leave the dormitories, as Cooke was chosen to replace March 2 asked the Ombudsman challenges have been limited to acted to include new students ^'sending out the the undeliverable count there him. The matter of naming an to review "the procedures of the very few categories On these ttet Procedures were discussed with >st c'8ss mail would clearly shows, without leaving elections committee never came present referendum for two Ombudsman would recommenf the whole committee and ver* expensive but forwarding addresses before the Assembly but was the adopted without objection. • 'decision not to subject of several meetings of "'It is important to establish well l>erore the next electiotuai unv As for an Elections Grievance »ise. "Financial c) Procedures of decision the Executive Committee (See 'elections and Objections Committee independent ot tkt me Committee, the Ombudsman long run is making and powers of the particularly minutes of February Assembly s Executive Committee to supen ise the (election i." al and fiscally Interim Election Committee. 2 and February 12.) Basically the was asked to function as a IEC was an enlarged Executive "watcher" of the vote count and reasons: 1) so that a ruling can for future consideration rh Committee. The decision to an arbiter on challenges and settle any questions as might following proceed in this way rested on accepted that role, as this report remain in the minds of the —extramural students several considerations: The testifies. Cornell community concerning are consistently viewed Committee was under no As to possible influence on the the legitimacy of the referendum as not being Cornell obligation to form a separate election by the statements of and 2) so that we may have your students, i.e., they do elections committee; the University President Dale R. advice on the conduct of future not pay fees: they do Assembly was no longer sitting Corson and the favorable vote of elections." The response to this not receive university to give the Executive Committee the faculty, these might be final request follows: services; there is for the instructions; the only apparatus perceived — as the challenger III: Summary most part no automatic for running the election conceded himself — to have acceptance of their worked either way; i.e., to The recent referendum on the credit. They should not consisted of the persons and persuade some groups to vote adoption of a Senate as the form vote records in the office of the of government of the Cornell the same way or to vote in the —students on I Executive Secretary of the community was without opposite way. have voluntarily oi Assembly and its Executive precedent in dealing with the The Assembly's Executive involuntarily severed Committee. The Executive entire Cornell constituency. It is Committee did not feel it was their connection with Committee had early agreed to not surprising therefore that under any obligation to be the University Their handle all its affairs with as little unanticipated problems arose neutral; on the contrary its leave status entitles formality as possible, avoiding and that it was not possible in all appointed task was "to produce them only to reregister the establishment of its own matters to find ideal solutions to and sell an instrument of under given conditions: bureaucracy. The Assembly had problems which were government. much as the it does not entitle them only one employee, who had to anticipated. The following Founding Fathers were not to university carry the major burden of making matters should however be neutral about the Constitution participation, the detailed arrangements for the noted: should not vote election. they wrote and had to persuade the 13 states to adopt." The 1) The results of the election —alumni as a category The Executive Committee had Committee received no requests were so overwhelmingly are not currently in to deal with the Board of from any group or individual for favorable to the adoption of a touch with the Cornell Trustees as it did on February enclosing statements of support Senate that it would have taken community nor are their 17. These matters were or opposition in the ballot upward of 5.500 votes all in the daily living and interests intimately related to the envelope. negative to have changed the affected by it. They referendum. The establishment majority even by a narrow should not vote. of a second committee would 4. A part-time employee, one margin. Hence the overall validity n —employees of tta jn e|p process ballots in the recent community referendum on have greatly complicated who works at two part-time jobs S of the election cannot be in Alumni Association i'V 6nate proposal. adoption of the procedures in fact, protested her exclusion doubt. from the election. Her questions work for sn I" "*) to argue for —Did the Interim Elections necessary to getting on with the 2) Participation in the recent go to the point at which a part- independent nj Committee have the delegated election The "Memorandum of referendum whether measured association financed'by s time employee is judged to have 9 ee Complaint 2 power -to issue the Explanation" was prepared at the in terms of the absolute number non-university funds ur a stake in the community, the c° >tof undelivered "Memorandum of Explanation" direct request of the Board of of ballots mailed (20.000) or in number of part-time employees Although they are P°stmaster pointed and mail it to voters with the Trustees. Someone had to terms of the number of ballots members oi the e i bulk mail was Senate proposal? respond to this request. It was university's group lite Valentine's Eve. the —Is the "Memorandum of unthinkable to ignore it. The ". . . A serious attempt should be made to conduct the next insurance plan they •Iing day asj(je from Explanation" a part of the Executive Committee, having community-wide election at polling places i rather than by mailed should not vote hat Constitution? If so. did the I EC replied in a formal way, believed t he had no ballot)." —employees and "ice of the bulk have the authority to issue such a the whole constituency should students in distant i's arrival on Friday document and change the know what that reply was. "It locations (Arecibo. -Las t co^ld not possibly constitution? was quite possible for a voter to at the university and why the probably received (17,500) Banos. overseas ftetd i °efore mid-week —If not. why was it included in a) vote for the Senate proposal group life insurance plan was represents 45-55% of the Cornell work, sabbatical leaves, a1' Piling up over the the ballot envelope along with with the interpretation of the used as the criterion for community,- a number which etc.) like voters d having prior claim the Constitution? Would this not Memo; b) for the proposal but determining the list of compares favorably with temporarily non- He added that constitute improper against the interpretation or c) employees. participation in local and national resident in their voting :°rrection" service campaigning, especially since against both." (Minutes of the Finding: The group life public elections. districts should have 3een supplied at 10 other explanations and Interim Elections Committee, insurance plan list was one 3. Nevertheless, the possibility ample opportunity "to February 2.) The chairman of the ivelope. xhis service clarifications were possible, e.g., which could be readily produced that perhaps as many as 2,500 request an absentee added substantially Professor Marcham's letter in the Drafting Committee wrote the by the computer which could not ballots may never have reached ballot They should not jf the operation and Cornell Chronicle. "Introductory Note" stating the within the limits of time and voters is a serious fault in the expect automatically to y offjcers sought to —Was authority delegated to the purpose of the Memo and it was money available select among election Its source rests in the receive one robtern by repeated "chairman of the IEC" to rule on added to the Memo Since the part-time employees on any inadequacy of the address files in its for change of eligibility of persons and groups Memorandum was an official given set of criteria of personnel and the registrars — non-university ie Assembly was to vote? undertaking of the Executive attachment to the university. The office. These in turn are personnel (CURW, Committee with the Board of ROTO fall into two in a very limited — No Election Grievance number of part-time employees, incomplete or incorrect because Trustees it has standing as a categortes 11 'those ;h was m the end Committee was provided for. who are permanently employed, on the one hand student mobility document, to knowledge of who hold faculty status, n Paying for the —The public announcement of is probably under 200 After is high and students delinquent which voters were entitled. This and their supporting turns. the faculty vote and President considerable discussion of for a variety of reasons in leaving is a position distinct from staff who are employed m°re important in Corsons statement prior to the alternatives the Personnel Office notice of change of address and arguments for or against it or the by the university. and 21 t than the postal election may have been improper advised the Elections Committee on the other hand because the Constitution. that the group life insurance plan those .who are paid "by ! the problems of the election practice. personnel office can criterion would give the most communicate with employees an outside agency es in providing the Finding: The officers of the The "Introductory Note" Wlt inclusive list of employees. more efficiently through campus Category (1) should h up-to-date Constituent Assembly were the pointed out unequivocally that "it mail than through home vote; category (2> t appears that the Speaker, the Executive is not intended in any way to 5. An employee complained addresses In the future these should not ffice which typically Committee and the Executive change the substance of the that the time between her receipt lists must be recognized as —postdoctoral fellows ss with employees Secretary. The Executive Senate Proposal itself, but rather of her ballot in the Ombudsman's inadequate sources for iPus mail does not Committee once elected to respond to concern by the Office on the afternoon of the who are not o> community-wide mailing to maintain up-to-date continued in office until the Board of Trustees and the 24th and the deadline for Continued on Page 8 8 CORNELL CHRON'lCllE Ombudsman's Report Cuando School Barton Blotter Continued from Page 7 2) The total group numbers about Set Up in NYC 700. many of whom live outside A group of Cornell University Fire, Theft, Women, Trustees... university payroll but Ithaca and even abroad. students has joined with Here is the week past as seen ignited it. The head resident who are stationed at the 3) The Schools of Medicine and educators in New York City to from the pages of the Division of unlocked the dormitory office Nursing in New York City by their university for a year as and used a fire extinguisher to own action, announced at the establish the Cuando School, an Safety and Security morning members of a experimental "school without report: put out the fire Damage was department should Faculty Meeting on February 11. and recorded in the Chronicle. February walls" for children of East First —an administrative aide in confined to the mailbox and vote. 12. decided not to participate tn the Street in the Bowery. the Department of Conservation smoke damage to the wall —part-time employees Senate The school opened the first reported the theft of nine who have been 4) Ads appeared in the Sun on week of March under the enlarged black and white photos —a Psi Upsilon fraternity employed at the February 2 and February 3 and on direction of Barbara Hawkins, a in frames from the hallway in member reported that the the two radio stations there were university for a period of volunteer of The Catholic Worker, Fernow Hall. window in his room had been spot announcements throughout the broken by what appeared to be a perhaps five years and Mabel Denmison, who with —an administrative assistant week of February 2. On February 6. BB pellet. Investigation revealed should be deemed to be the Suns Daybook carried a note her husband. George, operated in the Department of Materials the pellet was probably members of the that February 6 was the deadline for the First Street School, which is Science and Engineering discharged from University Hall community and should reporting changes of address The the subject of the book "The reported the theft of a radio, a 5 but no one in the area at the vote. Chronicle of February 5 earned a box Lives of Children." stereo tape player and a camera in italics containing the same time had any knowledge of the —retirees, whether staff The Catholic Worker is an from rooms in Bard and Thurston information incident. or faculty, have severed organization of Catholics who Halls. their immediate 5) Interview with Postmaster live in voluntary poverty and run —the director of the University Wilkinson and Supervisor Morse. —the Ithaca Fire Department connection with the •services for the poor Telephone Service reported the university. They should Ithaca Post Office. March 5. 1970. responded to an alarm from communities in which they live. theft of two tables and a chair Sage Infirmary No fire. Air not vote. 6) Actually a few envelopes weighed The Ithaca-Cuando Project from Olin Hall. pressure in the sprinkler system —professors emeriti over one ounce and therefore cost arose from discussions between —a coed reported the theft of dropped, allowing water to enter retain faculty voting 14 cents for redemption Hence this the staff of the Cuando School her wallet from her room in the system, activating the alarm. rights. They should be count varies slightly from the official vote count and the Rev. Daniel Berrigan and Risley Hall entitled to vote. Joseph Gilchrist of the Cornell —a technician in Phillips Hall —A secretary in the 5. The difficulties encountered 7) Ads in the Sun on February 18. United Religious Work (CURW) 19. 20 and 23 featured this point reported the theft of an amplifier Department of Pomology with the mailed ballot strongly 8) Based mainly on an interview with staff. and a FM tuner from a Phillips reported the theft of a sfmall light suggest that a serious attempt Professor Paul van Riper, Executive The Ithaca group will help Hall lecture room. from over the bulletin board should be made to conduct the Secretary. March 10. 1970 solicit money and supplies for —a coach reported the theft of outside the main office in Plant next community-wide election at the school and hopes to have five his wrist watch from the coaches Science polling places. This or six Cornell students on East locker room in Teagle Hall. recommendation is reinforced by First Street during the summer to —the Ithaca Fire Department —the Ithaca Fire Department the information from work with the children They also responded to a fire in the utility OFFICIAL TAtlY Of VOTIS responded to an alarm in Government department experts plan to fund and staff a farm near University Halls 2. No fire tunnel between the Campus on voting that balloting by mail Store and Day Hall. The shoring, FrtST TALLY Ithaca, which would be a Students playing in the hall generally produces lower rates of TOTAL VOTIS CAST »,777 summer retreat for the children tripped the alarm. insulation on the pipes and a participation than balloting at the canvas covering were all "Y»»" 7,013 Assistance from the Ithaca —a graduate student reported damaged by fire. The fire was polls. It is further strengthened area has already come from the the theft of his radio and tape by the consideration that the past Abttontlon. 33 ignited by workmen who were VoM 139 Ithaca City School System recorder from" the Chemistry election was a simple yes-no 3 using a torch to dry a work area. >lt*f»fc 2 textbook division, the Ithaca Research Building. referendum, whereas the next unMwwirtod ' 4 The flame got out of control and Neighborhood Center. CURW, —seven vehicles were towed • llMinMod on chalkrtp 8 ignited other flammable material election will be of candidates by M CIVITAS. the East Hill School IrauduUti. 1 for parking violations. The categories, a more complicated potMd loM 32 and the Cornell Human Affairs r757 violators all had an accumulation —a group of 25 women from matter. Program. of tickets for parking violations or NOW and the Women's The Ombudsman recognizes Gilchrist. coordinator of failing to register which they had Liberation Front marched into that this proposal will be neither summer service projects of failed to acknowledge. Willard Straight Hall, read a cheap nor easy to implement, CURW. is recruiting staff for the —an administrator in Ives Hall statement in two rooms but the investigation we have so Intl Students: project. A detailed description of reported the theft of a occupied by dining members of far conducted on this point the project is available upon microphone for the Ives 120 the Board of Trustees The group suggests that the practical Tax Problems? request from Gilchrist public address system. then marched to Statler, did the problems, great as they are, are A representative of the The Cuando School and the —the Ithaca Fire Department same thing and disbanded not so severe as the ones raised Internal Revenue Service (IRS) summer projects depend on responded to a fire in the in our experience with the mailed will be available for consultation community support for their mailboxes in the office of — 36 requests for ballot and that they will submit to with international students and financing. Donations of money or University Hall 1. Unknown transportation were received practical solutions. The staff concerning special income materials should be sent to person(s) had placed some paper from persons seeking medical Ombudsman is available for tax problems in Room B-2 Ives CURW in an unlocked mailbox and assistance. consultation on this proposal and Hall on Wednesday, March 25, has reason to believe that and Wednesday. April 1. CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES experts in conducting such an Schedule of Hours Considerate use of the service Spring Recess election can be made available March 26, 1970 through April 5, 1970 to the Interim Elections may enable the International Committee. Student Office to establish this arrangement on a permanent Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 6. It is important to establish Library March 28 March 29 March 30 March 31 April 1 April 2 April 3 April 4 April 5 basis, David B. Williams, I*PA« Clo
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