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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 12-6-1972 The BG News December 6, 1972 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "The BG News December 6, 1972" (1972). BG News (Student Newspaper). 2786. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/2786 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. An Independent Bowling Gmn, Ohio Student Wednesday, Ommbo 6, 1972 Voice ■me BG news Volum. 56 Numbtr 45 Moore protests charges of discriminatory policies By Mmry Wey the News). Indeed we have moved." dards of competency as we define it is written into the record Slmfl Reporter Dr. Moore said a condition which I fervently hope we The statement reads He outlined actions the University- can eliminate." he said It was and is the intent of the University President Hollis A. has taken to end sex discrimination on Dr Moore said faculty at the Univer- Faculty Senate to be understood as Moore. Jr.. yesterday said "if a dis- campus, including: sity should be hired in the future on the endorsing and standing by principles passionate and carelul review reveals -Appointing a Director of Equal basis of individual ability and the best and practices of equal treatment of the discrimination exists in the policies or Opportunity; qualified person should be employed sexes, but it is equally clear that the procedures at Bowling Green State --Providing special salary for whatever position is available Faculty Senate has not in any way University, then we need to know it." allowances for women: Dr. Moore invited any faculty mem- accepted the aforesaid report by the Dr Moore made the comment while -Preparing special reports for the ber who believes he or she is being women as having proven the exis- speaking to Faculty Senate about HEW Regional Office for Civil Rights: treated unfairly in either rank or tence of discriminatory policies or charges made by the Women's Equity -Developing an affirmative action salary to bring a complaint imme- practices at Bowling Green State Uni- Action League i WEAL l plan with goals to be submitted to diately to the attention of his or her verslty WEAL charged the University this federal authorities for review. department chairman The statement was adopted by the week with sex discrimination in hiring --Substantially involving women in He said if the faculty member and senate and promotion practices, which is pro- both the search and screening commit- the department chairman agree that hibited by Executive Order 112466 tees for a permanent provost: some adjustment must be made in IN OTHER action. Faculty Senate -Showing support for the Ad Hoc salary or status, and if the provost approved the Pass No Record system DR. MOORE criticized The RG Committee on the Status of Women's approves, then a change may be made for evaluating students in English 111 News for charging University officials report. "at the earliest moment when funds and English 112 on a one-year trial with "sitting on their hands, ignorant are available " basis of concerns relating to alleged prac- DR. MOORE said through such The new grading system will go into tices of sex discrimination at the Uni- actions the University has "shown an DR. MOORE said, however, that this effect winter. 1973 The program will versity." attitude and feeling of concern and type of action should only be tem- be evaluated after one year by a Dr. Moore said he was most deep dedication that inequalities of any porary "because I want us to rid our- Faculty Senate appointed committee. disturbed about the statement in the kind are not to be tolerated." selves once and for all of inequalities Under the system, students' writing Dec 1 editorial which said, "..It's "I am totally opposed to inequalities as best we can define them and as will be evaluated according to ori- unfortunate formal charges of dis- or to injustices against any individual promptly as we can abolish them." ginality of expression, organization, crimination had to be filed with the regardless of race. sex. or any other Dr. Sheldon Halpcrn, associate mechanics, grammar and usage and U.S. Department of Health. Education characteristic In fact, whatever professor of English, requested that a style and Welfare to force the University to inequality exists which prevents each statement, clarifying the senate's atti- At the end of each quarter, students move." and every faculty member at this Uni- tude toward the report by the Ad Hoc will be required to pass a proficiency •'I protest the accusation imade by versity from being judged on the stan- Committee on lb* Status of Women, be test, evaluated by two outside instruc- tors If the two instructors cannot agree on an evaluation, a third instructor will read and evaluate the examination. Apollo ready for takeoff If a student receives an unsatisfac- tory in the course neither the U or a record of the student's enrollment will appear on his file. By Howard Beaealct They spent time in spaceship AFTER APOLLO 17. the United However, a student will be required AP Aerospace Writer simulator* and then took to the air in States has no plans to return to the to repeat the course until a grade of jet trainer planes for the third time in moon for the foreseeable future Satisfactory is received. Instead, its manned space program CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP) - four days, flying high acceleration runs ■»■ WTWIPOTOPTO* vPw/ »»wj^P^PPl »• i Apollo 17. perhaps man's last visit to over south Florida to prepare for the will concentrate on earth orbital FACULTY SENATE also approved the moon for decades, is ready to blast gravity forces they'll experience on flights, starting with the Skvlab space work by the Committee on Amend- off tonight on America's most liftoff. station next April ments and By Laws, which changed spectacular manned space launching. The Soviet Union also says it has no wording in the Faculty Senate Charter The ruth it over. Studonts-ond ovon dogi-once crossing each The smoothest countdown in Apollo WITH ZERO HOUR approaching, moon landing plans and that it too will in which sex discrimination references history ticked flawlessly toward a 9 53 the pace quickened at the launch pad as emphasize earth orbital flights which were apparent. other's paths, leave behind icy footprints that toll of familiar p.m. EST liftoff in the first afterdark crews worked to prepare the Saturn 5 can be of benefit to mankind in the The use of the word "chairman" was toutet and varied destinations. launching of a U.S. manned flight, a rocket, the command ship America fields of weather forecasting, kept in the charter because it was seen fiery event expected to draw half a and the lunar ship Challenger. communications and hunting earth as the name of a position and not a million visitors to the Cape Kennedy Flight batteries were activated, fuel resources. form of sex discrimination. area cells serviced, tanks pressurized, and If skies are dear, anyone for 500 food and equipment stowed aboard the Dr. James C Fletcher, admini- miles around should see the rocket as it spaceships. strator of the National Aeronautics and cuts through the darkness trailing a Five tiny mice, packed in a sealed Space Administration, said in a recent New council to review 2.200-foot tail of flame. However, a container, were put aboard in an interview that if U.S. astronauts return forecast of considerable cloudiness experiment to determine the effects of to the moon in this century it will have could dim the prospect for many areas. cosmic rays on brain tissue to be part of a joint expedition with the Soviet Union and perhaps other AMONG THOSE here to bid farewell Many critical countdown items countries trustee board applicants to Apollo is Neil A Armstrong, the remain, including the loading of the For the last Apollo. NASA has Saturn 5 today with more than 800,000 selected a scientifically intriguing site Gov. John J. Gilligan has announced EACH COUNCIL will be comprised the nominating council can keep the first man to walk on the moon election of the trustees confidential Armstrong, who made his famous walk gallons of liquid hydrogen and liquid named Taurus-Littrow as the landing plans for a nine-member Trustee of one trustee, one administrator, two oxygen fuel. site for Cernan and Schmitt. Nominating Council to fill vacancies on faculty members, two students, the He said in the past names of persons in July 1969. now is a professor of nominated for trustees have been aerospace engineering at the Cernan. Evans and Schmitt, who boards of trustees at Miami University president of the Alumni Association have been adjusting their schedule to a THEY ARE TO guide the spindly and the University of Cincinnati. and two members of the general released. If it was found out that these University of Cincinnati public. people were not selected. Kelly said, it Astronauts Eugene A Cernan. late wakeup, plan to sleep until early legged Challenger to a touchdown in a afternoon today They'll undergo a three-mile long volcanic valley which If the program is successful, the Gilligan said within the next few could hurt their reputation in other geologist Harrison H Schmitt and weeks he would appoint the nominating situations.