I The University-wide U.S. POSTAGE Newspaper PAID Bronx, N.Y. Permit No. 7608 NON-PROFIT ORS Fordham University, Bronx, N.Y., 10458 233 Friday, October 15, 1971 Administration officials propose to discontinue Bensalem College by Joseph DiSalvo Fordham College and TMC." donee does not exist." Fordliam's administration officially pro- When asked if both Bensalem and the The vice president further commented, posed yesterday that Bensalem College new curriculum in the non-experimental "I think we have a better alternative be discontinued after 1974 and that it be colleges could function concurrently, for them at Fordham," referring to stu- rep'aced with an unstructured curriculum Reiss replied that it would be "a viable dents wishing an experimental-type edu- program in Fordham and Thomas More option, provided there was reasonably cation. Colleges. clear evidence that the independent col- High school seniors, Reiss added, would lege type idea is viable. I believe that evi- (Continued on Page 2) The five page announcement, a sur- prise to many members of the commun- ity, will now become the first alternate Bensalem reacts: Bensalem proposal to face Rose Hill Campus Council members at their Octo- ber 26 meeting. The Council originally scheduled the Reiss' claims upset students late month meeting to consider the May '71 proposals of the faculty evaulation by Mike Brown committee on Ihe experimental col'ege. A group of Bensalem students met with According to University Academic Vice their new acting dean, Joseph Bonelli, AN KM) TO THE EXPERIMENT: Ad- President Paul Reiss. the Council's pro- ministration officials called for the siboli- to read and discuss the text concerning a posal, along with those of the Faculty proposal to close the school issued by tiim of JSensalcm, tho four yvnr old exper- Senate and the undergraduate college imental college, in ji proposal released to Academic Vice President Paul Reiss yes- council on academics, will then he con- terday. the Iniversity community yesterday. sidered by the Board of Trustees when The silence in the apartment was brok- they study the Bensalem issue in Decem- en through several times as students pro- uer. gressed in their reading the statement. Students caucus. Reiss issued the proposal which cited All present interpreted the administra- in length the problems the University tion proposal as a definite death sentence claims to see in the experimental school: for the five year old college. set forum plans the high rate of faculty turnover, three "I felt it coming all along," claimed At a closed caucus yesterday, the stu- changes in directorship of the college in Gary Allston, a Bensalem student. "They dent delegates to the Rose Hill Campus four years, and the "conservative" nature (the administration) had to squash it fast. Council finalized plans for an "informa- of the school due to the "student-dom- Student support was building up behind tional forum" Tuesday to acquaint the inated" control of the experiment. us." Council iit large with all aspects of the (The entire text of the utlminiHtnttlon's Tony Grant, also enrolled at the college, Bensak'm controversy. Bensalem, proposal is printed on page four concurred with Aliston that the action University Academic Affairs Vice oj today's Ram.) was "a breach of contract by Fordham." JVvilcnt Paul Reiss may lie on hand to As a replacement for Bensalem, the ad- "We'll take it to civil court if we have answer questions about yesterday's posi- ministration has formulated an "unstruc- to," emphasized the upset Allston. Grant tion paper calling for the phasing out of tured learning experience" to he blended added that legal action could be taken llii' experimental college, according to in with the present Fordham College and due tospecification.s in Ihe conlruct signed the students. TMC academic programs. by Bensalem students upon accepting ad- Doug Mat-ill mission at the school. Members of the Bensalem community The innovation, which would eliminate IIONKLLI: JSensiilein's actlnjj deu.il "nd delegates to last spring's evaluation course requirements for its members, The administration proposal, however, charged that tlm administration report committee will defend their positions at would become a regular feature of the notes that the college will continue un- was "saturated with fnlso nrt'inlsen and "se forum also. two colleges in September of next year. til June, 1974, when tho last class would contradictions." In onler to prevent the forum "from "The Bensalem experience has been graduate. turning into a shouting match or con- successful," Reiss declared, adding, Grant also insisted that "this rash de- trol admissions so that only pro-Fordham frontation" between t),e opposing par- "We've learned a good deal from the ex- cision indicates racial bias." students enroll. They don't want radicals." l«'s, the students have had to impose periment and as a result, feel confident Allston followed ;his by vehemently de- Bonelli, who like the Bensalem students a "ivitlier rigid" form on the session, Ford- that such a program can be established as claring: "They're afraid of the number of had not received a copy of the dispatch, (Coiiiiinifil on I'ngn 2) a regular, non-experimental feature of blacks at Bensalem. They want to con- (Continued on I*nge, 2) Council elects Bier to chair, schedules Bensalem session by Liz Shanov for a study of tho report of the Bensalem Hie Hose Miu Campus Council elected evaluation committee, several Council '' •• V, illjiun Bier of the psychology <|e- delegates questioned tho strength their l! recommendation would have. |" 'iicnt as its new chairman at Tues- ^'V niches meeting, the first this somes- Executive Vice President Joseph Cam- marosnno first said the final decision would rest with the administration. ];^'''r replaces English instructor Wil- 1 1 S1|| However, physics department delegate i'i' ' , H, who resigned the chair last "'•'•> due tti the pressures of bis other Stanislaus Skalskj quoted Article I sec- c'Ji!1!m'tmonts. tion 2 of the Council by-laws, which states that any resolution passed under []„ .•', l'"''"u'" nia.'or move, the Council ,,|. '''' (0 ''''vote its next session, October Article II section 1 of thL- constitution "shall he deemed approved and in effect" .•iiiil ' ' (!''lvilp on 'he Bensalem question (; lsill 1 llli( unless the University president decides tin,, !" '' ' )n of the rocommenda- within ton days t.-> submit the matter to K I nun Die University's Bensalem eval- : " "» ci«iiniutlv I lie Board of Trustees. t'AMITS COINCII,: The hotly elected K'.'v. William IJIer (left) of tht> psychology department to (he chairman position. elwr""'' l'"s""'!;s or the evening included Thomas More College Dean Barbara ,.,,," "!"s '" 'he executive bi.ard and the Wells interjected that she thought the 1 tl 1 Bensalwn controversy dees not fall under The administration contingent then ac- e'tp Beer from the modern language de- (|/.'|" " ' ' "» committees, fslablishmeiit partment. ,' '' '•'"•iiJI.v affairs panel, and approval the required c institutional article. knowledged that the Council's roeommen- (| dli''on would go to President Michael Academic Vice President Paul Reiss | '"'"''"'I'.-i to standing and ad hoc Article II section 1 of the Council char- ter states " the Council shall be responsi- Walsh, "who has the choice of sending and Rev. James Finley, dean of tho grad- uate school, represent the administration ble for th" f—'iatkm of academic policies it to the R nrd of Trustees," according fen, " '''''''"i ''"' chairman, Bier de- on the committee while students are rep- h p for Rose Hill." to Cammarosano. ,„„."'' ''" " . Enlelis of the political scl- resented by Vit ^ Nardelli, College of Skalski replied, "If the dissolution In the executive committee, Bier will u •' 'lepartiiiuiu by „ 24-1H vote, with assume the position of chairman wh!le Business Administration 72, Frank ls and/or reorganization of an entire college ,.j,,,| ","" «ist for H,.v. Herbert Mtisu- faculty vacancies on the committee will Thimns, College '72 and Mike Cacaco, !, "' '111' classics department. does not fall under 'academics,' I'd like Sl be filled by Stott, Skalski, and Dr. Jean- College '7-1. """''' 'lting as:d0 tlie next session to know what does." Administrators release plan GOING DOWN er* New York by dark or day for dissolution of Bensalem LARRY PIERCE (Continued from I'IIJ**' I) pointed out, as two more "faults" of Ben- salem's present set-up, the difficulty in Going Down is a selective listing of The LONDON PHILHARMONIC OR- much rather prefer, according to his con- events of interest happening in the New CHESTRA, currently on its second trans- sultations with (he admissions director, transferring from the experimental col- lege to other schools in the University, York area which might not be too widely continental tour of Canada, Mexico and an experimental program in an established known. the United States, is giving three concern college rather than Bensalem. and the fact that the arts and science faculty and deans "don't feel responsible" An evaluation of comics as a unique art at Carnegie Hall, with three renowned The proposal would allow new students toward Bensalem students under the pre- form is the subject of "75 YEARS OF THE soloists, on Wednesday, Thursday and easy transfer rights from the experimen- sent course exchange program. COMICS," a survey exhibition tracing the Friday (October 19, 20 and 21), as pint tal to the traditional education schemes, of the "International Festival of Visiting He added, referring to the Bensalem development of comics to komix, is cur- thus relieving the pressure of a full three- rently showing at the New York Cultural Orchestras." Bernard Haitink, Artistic year commitment. controversy, that "none of this is going Director of the London Philharmonic and to affect the common students." Center at Columbus Circle.