The CORD WEEKLY VOL. NINE NO. 20 WATERLOO LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1969 Administration —Bryant: policy vs competence Dr. Healey's revised statement lems that exist within it and is they've been overlooked in the on academic freedom and its ap- making no real attempt to do past." Dolbeer said the administration parent contradiction, the proce- something about them." Bryant was disturbed about Bryant as a the attributed his situation with dure of non-renewal of Darrol along with result of his agreement Bryant's contract, to other factors th* Lauri car- received mixed policy of university. Siirala about reforms from the out reactions the administration "I think in the minds •f cer- ried here being merely token- and the faculty. tain administrators I was a dis- ism. The statement provides for con- ruptive force the university. "I was called in after that by in In Healey and said sultative procedures between de- spite of the rhetoric about vast Dr. Dr. Tayler. I partment chairmen and professors ranges of opinion and ideas being I had no complaints about Dar- concerning promotion, tenure and challenged, it's not true. The pri- rol's teaching and that he had a rapport dismissal. It is an almost verba- mary purpose seems to be to get good with the students. I tim auote from the Canadian As- a certain number of students knew he was planning to go back sociation of University Teachers. through the institution every to school." Bryant called the statement "a" year and have them fit into so- Dolbeer maintained he inform- good 'liberal' statement on acade- ciety." ed Bryant about the university's mic freedom" but felt it left one ■He said, "If free minds exist policy at the beginning and there dimension of the issue uncovered. here, it happens in spite of the was no pressure involved. "The "The crucial point is the lack structure. There is an almost administration's attitude was it of provision for protection of a built-in understanding among fac- didn't like to have him here if he faculty member to discuss and ulty members of what it means caused trouble. It felt he was 'also to act. There is a need.for to be a good teacher and this hurting the image." a guarantee of this kind Of pro- understanding doesn't allow for "I -told the administration I tection." he said. dissenting voices." knew he wanted to go back to "If academic freedom is only "Issues really transcend the per- school," said Dolbeer. "but that the discussion of ideas and stu- sonal. The problem is the patho- he should be informed by letter. dents never see any action, it en- logy built in. It can be changed When he didn't get a contract. I courages a kind of cynicism re- but the changes must be radical went to Healey and he said he photo by Wilson garding academic procedures." in nature. Putting students on just hadn't gotten around to it Darrol Bryant, given a one-year terminal contract, Bryant has an extension to sign committees is not what is most yet. I found out later that the being forced his one-year contract. This is a important. The primary power for past president promised Darrol is to leave WLU. terminal contract which was of- the shaping of the institution he could stay two or three years. fered at the recent request of should be in the hands of the Weir insisted he get another con- them to make fundamental chan- watch its public relations and the JohnWeir, head of the committee faculty and students and there- tract. ges. "There is something seriously more Ph.D.'s, the better it looks which studied academic freedom fore the administration should "Our previous President never wrong with the procedure for dis- on paj>er. The school is concerned and tenure. Bryant is still wak- carry out the decisions made, in- informed chairmen about any- missing a professor. There should with competence and good public ing to hear from graduate schools stead of the other way around." thing." be ample warning with no sur- relations. Whether or not it gets to which he applied when his con- Bryant feels the administration Dolbeer pointed out the univer- prises," he said. "Darrol should good teachers is entirely another tract was not immediately re- also is ittyolyed..ia, the .pathology sity's concern for having as mafty have known from the beginning." question. newed. as the onus-is on-it to preserve top degrees as possible. He added Hartt said there" should be ah "The administration may have In witholding the contract, the the institution. his impression that the Univer- all-university cotrimittee to dectde beeninept in handling Bryant's administration apparently felt the He defined his concern as be- sity merely used Bryant's state what constitutes competence. He situation/ study to obtain a Ph.D. would ing involved in struggles that ments as an excuse to effect a called a Ph.D. a union card. He defined academic freedom benefit Brvant. Due to a policy humanize society and he thinks non-renewal of the contract. "A Ph.D. itself doesn't claim as "freedom to teach your discip- put into effect, fairly recently, lec- that's something everyone should Healey denied Bryant's contract competence. A university which line in your class in the manner turers with only a B.A. are hired be concerned about. non-renewal was the result of any emphasizes good teaching should you feel is best." for a two year period with the "It is a lifelong commitment. idea about Bryant being a trouble- know this. "There is nothing wrong with understanding that, at the end of When I find those who don't maker. He said it was because "Tenure carries more weight firing as long as there is warn- that time, they will be required share it, I get into trouble be- any university teacher should than a Ph.D. degree here. Really, ing." to return to school for work to- cause I ask them to be commited have the conventional degree, and for promotion the criteria should Dean Neale Taylor said there ward a doctorate. to the same kind of thing." because Bryant was young enough be publication and competence in was a revision of the academic "I don't think a Ph.D. should Bryant mentioned problems to go back for a Ph.D. the classroom." freedom statement because the be the sole criterion of compet- that arose last year concerning He mentioned other lecturers Hartt felt students should de- old one didn't meet the full ap- ence," said Bryant. "There was the dismissal of George Haggar. going back to school at the end finitely participate in every de- proval of the committee. He felt never any strong suggestion I go He said he would have thought of this year including Tompkins, cision making body in the univer- the revised statement represented back to school. I started investi- after last year the problems Reid, and Menzies. He said every- sity, with parity. "People here are the position of the faculty mem- gating graduate schools this fall would be resolved and predicted one was fully informed at the be- entrenched and unexperimental ber in general terminology. with the intention of eventually the whole thing will fall down ginning and there were no mix- and I regret that students were Tayler denied any idea of the returning to get a doctorate, but around our heads. ups like Bryant had. not invited, more than superfici- statement being issued as a re- I didn't necessarily plan to re- Martin Dolbeer found the only Healey denied Bryant's associa- ally, to help make final decisions sult of the Bryant situation. "It turn this year." significant change in the revision tion with the SDS had any bear- about the new B.A. programme. was under discussion since •last "We've seen arbitrary decisions of the statement to be the tech- ing on the decision. 1 "Participation is the antidote summer," he said, "and was ori- made here by the administration nique of appeal for professors. Joel Hartt and Frank Sweet to alienation;" he said. ginally from the Canadian Asso- and imposed on the faculty and He said now a professor could be both found the revised statement Sweet considered a Ph.D. a ciation of University Teachers. the students. I'm somewhat dis- summarily dismissed only on a an improvement Hartt defined mark of competence but said a He called it a "fair statement appointed that the university com- charge of immorality. "There the University's function as in- lack of one did not mean a lack of principles. I'm pretty much in munity isn't aware of the prob- have been some cases of this, but forming students and preparing of competence. "The school has to agreement with it." ELECTION RESULTS RADIO WATERLOO REFERENDUM SEMINARY (1 rep.) ARTS (10 reps.) For 890 Against 115 cg 10 Kelly 538 , ■ £Hardy'° , ... 4 Chataway 457 Spoiled... ......r., 3 Brown 451 ..... W ner 339 SAC PRESIDENT ,f9 Oliver 335 Marshall «. ~,. 468 BUSINESS (1 rep.) Bohaychuk 331 Kuti .. «»»,«.««,.,« .. .cq.1... 390 Purdon 103 Howe 326 King mw..ww..:*,...■ .i.i 137 Lawson ~.., 94 Jones 300 . Ireland -—.-... ■_-..-~ 54 Parker ~..,., 90 Sleith 300 Spoiled . .u^...^...««,........,., 26 Spoiled ~. ... 9 Van Alstine 271 Stewart 262 Norman .......... ..... 232 SCIENCE (1 rep.) Rumble (bold elected) 222 face Lyon , ...acclaimed Lapp '.. 211 Applebaum 148 2 THE CORD WEEKLY Friday, February 14, 19*9 Canada turns back American deserters at border OTTAWA (CUP) Canadian showed up at different border least 50, in each of the five oases lar run-a-rounds though two were the name on the American draft Immigration Officials—aire refus- stations bearing photostats of added to more than 65.