The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine Maine Campus Archives University of Maine Publications Spring 3-4-1975 Maine Campus March 04 1975 Maine Campus Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mainecampus Repository Citation Staff, Maine Campus, "Maine Campus March 04 1975" (1975). Maine Campus Archives. 766. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mainecampus/766 This Other is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in Maine Campus Archives by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Midweek aine 'Campus Vol. 78 No. 38 March 4, 1975 Longley addresses students tonight Governor James B. Longley will speak 1 he governor.% wet-elan confirmed the tonight at the Student Senate meeting in yisit. but did not. apparently, confirm the 137 Bennett Hall. The university tormat of the meeting. which Hopkins community has been ins ited to atsend. assumed would be of the question-and-an- According to Jeanne Bailey, Student swer type, as the Campus reported Friday. Senate President. the senate had ongles raised the ire of some members previously assumed Longley would answer of the Super-University when he questions and remain at the meeting for its announced a budget proposal for the two-hour duration. but now she is unsure. umyersity system which not only reduced "He'll anise here at about tv.10, just the requested increases, but reduced its before the meeting.- said Bailey. "But actual operating budget now we hear he has engagements soon He has also asked for the resignations of after that, and he may leave after only an all members of the university's Board of hour •• Trustees v.ould be a shame if he left after only one hour.- she said. "There are so many questions to ask. it wouldn't be fair to either him or the students Med school gets 1 he senate had also hoped for a press conference to follow the gos ernor•s speech. advisory board hut the time factor may also dampen that hope Bailey said Longley may choose not A citizens. advisory council has been to answet any questions. but read a named to assist the planning of the prepared statement, instead proposed. University of Maine School of I he senate president added she would Medicine. Dr. Alan M. Elkins announced try !o reach the governor's office luesday in a Portland news conference last week morning to extend the isit and Mork out Elkins. chief of psychiatry. at Maine Governor James B. Longley details if the speech Medical Center in Portland. was appointed All seats for the *Armor's meeting are to chair the group last July by the on a first-come-first-sersed basis. The hall university's Board of Trustees. seats under 14.X.1 people. so students haYe The new Medical Advisory Council to the Eightfaculty awards been advised to arrive earls. School of Mc.dicine. was selected by WMFB-FM v.111 carry the speech on the Elkins. Acting Chancellor Stanley L campus radio station beginning at 630. Freeman. Jr.. and Dr Robert W Coon, with a short analysis of longley's remarks Assistant Chancellor for Health Science following his departure. to be made this Education The membership. according to spring tongley is expected to speak on the Elkins. was selected to be ''broadly Fight campus topics of his budget proposal for the representatiye of health provider interests -wide faculty awards, Young is hoping for a big response from funded by a university system and on a hill currently in the state. knowledgeable members of federal grant, will be students "They are the consumers of the presented this year. pending before the legislature which would the general public and a wide geographic Each award will be for product and can tell better than anyone' place a student representatise on the lice hundred dollars to be joy en to facults. else who the better teachers are members that Board of Trustees The 31 council members include 1- both students and He said by using these awards it will I he goy ernor's %Aso resulted from a physicians, h representatives of other colleague!, feel have superior teaching emphasize that teaching is Yaluable ability. request by senate Vice President Mark health care professions such as nursing Jon I. Hopkins that longley present his side of and dentistry lay citizens and the Young. chairman of the Seminar on the issue of university budget cuts The president of one I'M campus. Faculty Teaching (SOFT arranged for goyernor's office had called the grant, which may he renewable for Hopkins in Elkins said he expects the council to reference ti the so-called "Longley three years. He noted these awards have meet three or four times a Near. He Freeman wont seek Dollars.- v. hich were printed nothing to do with the Distinguished bY the stressed that the activities of the group will Student Senate as part of a campaign to Professor Award According to Young. the he limited until the 10th Maine raise student awareness awards will be based on teaching and not chancellor position of the implications legislature gives the go-ahead for the on research or committee inyolsement. of a %%keeping reduction in funding establishment of a School of Medicine.. , "The awards will be gisen to those people who are dedicated to teaching... he added. Acting Chancellor Stanley L. Freeman. Campus tests planned Jr.. has announced he will not be a There will be an award in eight areas candidate for the position of chancellor. including physical sciences, biological Freeman, who filled the vacancy left last sciences, social sciences, humanities, semester by former chancellor Donald Radar unit considered education two-year programs, undergrad- McNeil. issued the statement in response uate and graduate. Young noted a faculty to an inquiry made last week by the Search member can not receive more than one Committee in charge of finding McNeil's Director of Police and Safety Alan 6 He envisioned the radar being used in award each year. even though he may he replacement. Rey nolds confirmed Monday that UMO the following manner. A foot patrolman. nominated in more than one area. "The decision has been reached after police are considering the purchase, or earning the unit along a street would serious consideration... said Freeman. ("I rental, of a speed monitoring radar unit. register the speed of a passing vehicle. If Nominations will be made during March believe that the nature of the chancellor's The unit. which will be a portable type he determined the speed to be excessive, students, alumni to past by faculty and the position would not allow me to work in carried by a foot patrolman, could cost the he would radio ahead to a patrol car in the two years. Letters with nomination forms depth on a limited number of protects at department $1000. if purchased. vicinity. The car would then stop the will be distributed next week. A person any one time which is the condition under yehicle and take the appropriate action. nominating a faculty member must write a Reynolds cited the protection of which I believe I make my hest contribution The police director was quick to add. summary on why that particular person pedestrians on campus as the main reason and find the greatest personal satisfac- however, "we don't envision this as a tool should receive the award the department is considering radar with which to make traffic pinches.- A committee of lb faculty members and Freeman, who has seryed for 23 years He said test conducted during the past Reynolds also said police will be testing eight students will make the final choice within the University of Maine system said six months with the Orono police several different radar units on campus in These decisions will he made in April and he will continue his commitment to the department's radar unit showed that the next few weeks. This he stated, was the awards will be presented at the honors institution and added his decision about excessive speeds. in the 35-50 m.p.h. evidence the department is not vet banquet or commencement exercises The the candidacy "is based entirely on my range, were common on campus. committed to radar use. faculty members receiving the awards this slew of the continuing requirements of the The main athantage of the pot-table unit, year will serve on the selection committee position and not a response to any current "Our purpose.- he stated. "is to protect Reynolds said, is it can be used on any next year. Thus, no faculty member will be problems which the University is fac- the pedestrian who might step out in front street. not just on a long straight stretch of able to receive the award two years in a ing" of one of these cars." road. '- row, Young explained. Page Two 111.4 edict S. UMOSG shuns PIRG funding IF a as head for ti brought proposal up for tses hold discussions with area legislators giate The University of Maine Organuation cii negatise check-off SN Stem as a method of five. the and the public to determine public ships Student Gosernments iUMOSG) soted funding PIRG on each campus. reconsideration Saturday morning when informal discussions, after the Friday attitudes and possible actions which might In Saturday to leave up to each campus the I he negative check-off system in effect meeting, revealed most senators were be taken. Sprit decision to keep or reject the PIRG Iuhlk since 1971.