67th Year, No.1 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D.C. Saturday. September 4. 1976 Kaitz Quits SBA Dean's Post Cites Health, ,Fiscal Constraint Dean Claims Summer School School Gro\Nth Director To Fill., Was Hindered SBA Dean Slot by Tom Bianco Registration won't be so mobbed this fall without the 4,013 who completely by Tom Bianco Citing "reasons of health," Fr. Aloysius P. Following the resignation of Dr_ Edward Kaitz as pre-registered_ Kelley, Vice-President for Academic Affairs, an­ Dean of the Business School, Fr. Aloysius Kelley, nounced the resignation of Business School Dean Vice-President of Academic Affairs, has selected as Edward M_ Kaitz. acting dean for the academic year 1976-77 Dr. "My goal was to build a faculty la.rge enough to Joseph Pettit, presently Dean of Summer School 4,013 Escape Lines accommodate this school, which means about nine and Continuing Education. more full-time faculty members, in order to develop ~ "My role will be to deepen the Business School's ·more interface with other schools. My temptation ~ development of self. I plan to work with the faculty was to' turn this place into a mini-Wharton to t: and the executive committee and to solidify what is For Gym Registration accommodate the quality of kids we have in the ~ already here. I \vant to give the faculty an oppor.. The crowd at registration in ed out that only at a private institu­ Business school," Kaitz said. ~ tunity to get to know one another and to do McDonough gyl~ is minus 4,013 pre­ tion is there so much adaptability in He explaiJ;led that he thought the time seemed o something with what has already been articulated," (5 registered students this semester-an scheduling. "Everybody 'moves over a right for such a goal, considering the large number J: Pettit said. a. all time record for the team at the little and compromises to make the of students seeking a business education_ Eileen McCormack, Senior Academic Council GU Registrar's Office. classes work. It's not like at state "Since the environment had not been supportive Dean Kaitz representative, noted, "It is going to be especially The figure represents 95 per cent institutions where students are fro­ of my goals, the day-in and day-out battle I fought important for Dean Pettit to relay to the students of those who pre.registered. Accord­ zen out of the courses they must began to· show signs of wearing on me, until it exactly how this turnover is going to effect them. It ing to the Registrar's Office, of 4,241 have because of an inflexible number became evident to me that I could no longer is going 1.0 be necessary for him to expose himself to who pre-registered last spr.ing, 73 per of classes and class numbers," he continue," the Dean said. the students, especially in the beginning." cent drew a completely approved said. Fr. Kelley saw no basic philosophical difference Now that Dean PettiE has been selected as acting schedule from the computer. Twenty Assistant Registrar John Pierce between himself and Kaitz, who had a rep.utation as dean, the next step for Fr. Kelley and the Academic two per cent received only one suggested that even more pre-registra­ a strong proponent of liberal arts education. Council is to follow a procedure set up by the Board course rejection, thereby exempting tion schedules could be' finalized if "Dr. Kaitz is like all the other deans, they want of Directors, to select a search committee which will them from the registration lines. students would always list alternate more resources as quickly as possible. Our budget make its selection of a permanent dean- These figures exclude incoming fresh­ courses. however, is an endless policy of compromise, and At press time Fr. Kelley had not yet met with men, all of whom must bear the .• The University has utilized pre­ Georgetown simply does not have the resources nor members of Academic Ciluncil to discuss planning, registration lines_ , registration since 1971, and the op· the intention to build a Wharton; we have to but speculated that the committee "WOUld be made "We want to spare as many as tion of ad-dropping one rejected exercise controls wherever we can," Kelley said_ up of a member of the faculty and students and possible registration in the gym," course was formally instated in the He expressed plans to keep the size of the possibly a member of the community, as in the case Registrar John Quinn said. He point- spring semester of '76. Business School the same and concentrate on of the University Presidential Selection Com­ keeping the quality of the stUdents equal to the mittee." other schools of the University_ As to the type of person the committee will be The timing of the Kaitz resignation caused Kelley looking for, Fr. Kelley said, "We will be looking for Guard Charges Doc some concern_ "Dr_ Kaitz offered to resign effective someone to implement the educational philosophy October 31 of this year because he was concerned of the University and to meet the specific needs of with the arrival and registration of the students. the school, the faculty and the students_" However, once the academic year begins no time is In order to insure a smooth transition in the With Auto Assault good for a change in office, so his health became the Business School hierarchy, Dr. Kaitz will unofficially Student securit-y guard Richard from the incident. Dr. Lee, a George· primary consideration," Kelley said. remain at the school to assist Dean Petit as the fall Visadomini has alleged that Dr. town graduate, denied the charges :q"ring his tenure, Kaitz has been credited with semester starts. A proven administrator, Petit must Thomas Lr,e of the Department of and refused to comment further on the! continued growth of th~ Business School. contend with the departur') of many middle echelon Surgery drove into him while he was the case. Business students' SAT scores have increas~r! and SBA personnel. attempting to keep the doctor from The incident occurred on July 1 now at least equal those of the other undergrad'late Dean. Pettit praised the job Kaitz did: "I see the entering a medical school parking lot. while Visadomini was guarding lot schools. Under Kaitz' rule, the full-time fa~ulty Business School today as very differen t from when Visadomini, who has retained at­ "E" by the Medical Center. doubled in size_ Dr. Kaitz took over. He laid out a vision for the torney Arthur Ahalt to file suit According to the student guard, The Dean complained that while the Business Business School. a plan for the future, by develop­ -against the dorcor, claims to have Dr. Lee drove up to the lot at about School doubled in size from September of 1972 to ing both studen t and faculty quality, which repre­ suffered cut wrists and abrasions 1:30 p.m. and attempted to enter the June of 1975, it has the smallest budget and faculty sents '.I quantum jump in its growth and develop- lot for which he did not have a of any school in the University. Dean Pettit ment. sticker. Visdaomini stated that he told the doctor that he could not Law Rejection park in the lot and that the doctor "said something that le~ me to G U LC Aid' Plan Judged Illegal believe that he would drive through anyway." by Doug Schappert The University has not made a give sixty percent of our aid to distinction was unjustified, as lower Reversed after Visadomini then walked in front A District court judge has ruled decision on appealing Judge Gasch's minorities ... I didn't have one earning capacities made affirmative of the car. He claims that Lee then illegal the GU Law Center's policy of ruling, although the Law Center's drawer full of money for minorities actiol1 aid programs necessary to the drove his car and that he tried to ' earmarking sixty percent of its earmarking policy itself expired in and one for whites ... If a white guy achievement of adequate minority Art Gift 'Offer' back away but that Lee was driving scholarship grants for minority stu­ 1975 and has not been renewed. came in and showed need I'm not representation. by Wayne Saitta so fast that he landed on the hood of Plaintiff J. Michael Flanagan dents. going to turn him away just because Shortly before the courts decision The Law School has reversed the Lee's car, He further claims that the In the decision, handed down in (L'75), who claimed he had been he's white." was reached the Law Center aban­ rejection of applicant Eric Silverman doctor then drove with him on the deprived of financial aid by the Law July, District Judge Oliver Caseh Flanagan responded that Wilmot's doned its ceiling program which al· after receiving a memo from Malcolm hood "for several yards at such a found that the Law Center's policy Center's affirmative action program, contentions were "out of line ... Wil­ McCormick, vice president for Uni­ speed that I was thrown off on a lowed minority students to receive of earmarking "sixty percent of its expressed satisfaction with the deci­ mot can say what he wants, but the $500 more in scholarship grants than versity relations, in which it was curve_" available scholarship funds to eleven sion. "It agrees exactly with what I court hlts rejected every one of his suggested that the stUdent's grand­ Officer Thomas Coll of George­ white students.