Housing decision to be made soon e freeze By KENT BOOTY fund-raising projects to help A decision on which them arrive at their final fraternities and sororities decision, Landes said. Vol. LV James Madison University Tuesday, February 7. 1978 No. 32 move into the new dormitories The committee has also will be made by Feb. 22, ac- collected "background in- cording to a special assistant formation" from each group's to the student affairs office. national organization and Department tenure standards This decision will be made information about each by a 10-member selection fraternity and sorority's committee which has been campus chapter, Landes said. reviewing each Greek "We should have 13 proposed by Faculty Senate organization's eligibility for rlified groups getting into, the housing, said Larry housing," he said. By THERESA BEALE request department heads to An amended motion Landes added that the A motion enabling a Landes of the student affairs propose promotion and tenure requiring the standards to be office. The committee's student affairs office will department head to propose standards specifically for forwarded to the dean of the standards for promotion and chairman is Dr. William Hall, "try to find other types of their departments. The respective school and to the vice president of student housing" for the two tenure in his department was standards would need the academic affairs vice affairs. organizations which are not carried by the Faculty Senate concurrence of the majority of president for their comments, selected. "We would like them Thursday. faculty members in the suggestions or objections was All of the eight fraternities as close to campus as The senate passed Kevin departments, and serve to also carried by the senate. and seven sororities are vying possible," he said, adding that Miller's motion recom- implement the general The motion further stated that for the 13 apartments units this alternative housing will mending that the vice standards outlined in the if the administrators have which will probably open in probably be found "by the president for academic affairs faculty handbook. suggestions, comments or September, Landes said. middle of March." objections, the standards "We've been looking at Another committee should be sent back to the each organization's eligibility designed to "draw up house TPC gets color system department faculty for a re- for the housing individually," rules" for the dorms will start vote. This process should con according to Landes. "It's meeting "by the middle of the tinue until concensus is also important to note that month," Landes said. By DEBBIE YARD Holdridge said. He knows of reached by the department The addition of color this is a process of selection The committee will consist no other university cam- faculty, the department head, rather than elimination." of three representatives from broadcasting to the already parable in size to James the dean and the vice existing black and white the Interfraternity Council, Madison University that uses president for academic af- The Selection Committee three from Panhellenic system at the Television such a system. fairs. has been reviewing the Council, and William Johnson, Production Center this The new color equipment In other business, the groups' financial records, Larry Landes and Donna semester serves a "three- was installed during the senate was told that luncheon recent service projects, Warner of the student affairs prong approach," according Christmas break, but the facilities for faculty were scholastic achievements and office. to the director of the center. system has been in the opened in HiUcrest Monday. A The first approach is an planning stages for three or room in the basement which academic one, said Dr. David tour years, according to seats 40 persons will be ser- Holdridge. The com- Holdridge. "So far, the use of ving lunch daily from 11:30 Madison sculpture munication arts department color has received a good a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Soup, sand- uses the equipment at the reception." wiches, salads and beverages center to give students ex- The production center was will be offered. located in library perience with television in a also remodeled during Senate speaker Dr. "real-life situation." Christmas, providing more Patricia Bruce reported that Rejected by art commission Students in the basic level space for students to work in, Dr. Robert Atkins will serve courses still use the black and he added. as chairman of the Mace By TOM DULAN bicentennial project, was white system, but upper In addition to practicum Committee. This committee The bronze bust of James originally intended as part of level students now have the students and interns, a will investigate the Madison, sculpted by Dr. an outdoor "Madison opportunity to gain ex- regular student staff works at possibilities of designing a Kenneth „Beer of the art Memorial Park," to be con- perience in color broad- the center. They are Chris mace for the university. A department, has been located structed on the triangular casting, he said. Schnorr, Gary Evens, Rich mace is a ceremonial staff on the first stairwell landing piece of ground east of Some advance students are Fulton. Sarah Strader, Terri used as a symbol of authority in the Madison Memorial Johnston Hall, across from involved in internships at Johnson. Peggy McGinty and in many universities and Library. the library. local television stations, such Cindy Royston. institutions. The sculpture, created as a The park was to have in- as WHSV, Holdridge said. cluded a bluestone floor, park "They work in color there, we benches and a semi-circular should work in color here." backdrop of shrubs with the A second use of the new $9,500 spent to combat snow sculpture as the centerpiece, color broadcasting is to aid according to the plan. the public information office. By BRUCE OSBORNE the director of the physical budget, but came from There are, however, "no The Television Production More that $9,500 was spent plant. President Ronald Carrier's plans for that location now," Center can provide film for to combat the recent heavy These extra funds were not "control account" which can said Dr. John Mundy, vice- ■local and state stations to use snowfalls here, according to in the regular maintenance be transferred to different president "of administrative in their programming. departments to handle affairs. Plans for the park Programs for campus use are unexpected expenses, Gene apparently were scrapped also done at the center, Wagner said. when the sculpture was Holdridge said. About-$6,000 was spent to rejected by the State Art One of the projects being rent heavy machinery, in- Commission, he said. worked on currently is a cluding three dump trucks, The commission, which \P multi-media production for two front loaders and one must approve any art work summer freshman orien- bulldozer, Wagner said. This that is to be permanently fixed tation, he said. machinery was used to help on campus, reportedly The center has also had the clear out the parking lots. rejected the sculpture as opportunity to provide film being too modern and ab- outside of the state. During a Overtime pay for em- stract. Beer said. recent visit to campus, the ployees was $3,187. which Although the commission Murray Spaulding Dance includes pay for grounds never saw the actual sculp- Company asked the Television workers as well as mechanics, ture, photographs of the bust Production Center to film according to Wagner. These were submitted to the com- their recital for the French workers put in more than 700 mission and were rejected in Foreign Embassy as a hours of overtime to fight the November 1976, according promotional device. "It went snow. to a commission employee. very well." Holdridge said. Nineteen members of Dr. John Diller, head of the Hopefully, he said, a series Sigma Nu and Kappa Sigma art department, reportedly package may be prepared fraternities were paid a total inquired last semester as to on such topics as handicrafts of about $500 to shovel whether the university should in the Shenadoah Valley for sidewalks and steps, Wagner re-apply for approval of the the fine arts in the «rea said. sculpture. According to Beer, The third possible use for Eight extra grounds men JMU President Ronald the new color television. were hired and funded by the Carrier replied in a letter that Holdridge said, is to provide federal government to sup- "it's time to check again." classroom instruction on an plement the 20 regular Mundy stated, however, "all-university" basis. There workers. that there are "no plans to re- is wiring for this kind of Some painters and car- apply for approval," and that broadcasting located in penters were shifted in their the sculpture would be located Miller. Wilson and Moody duties to help shovel snow. in the library "indefinitely." halls, and the Duke Fine Arts "We use anybody and The sculpture, which took Center. everybody we have" to help about seven months to create To put such a service into CLEARING SNOW behind Ikenberry Hall are workers Vincent people move around safely, and cost about $3,000, had operation on campus is not Hensley, Nickey Dove and Charles Good (left to right). Wagner said. been in storage since fall 1976, economically feasible vet. , . Pholo by Joe Benkerl (Continued on Page St) Beer said. Page 2. THE BREEZE, Tuesday, February 7, 1978 ®e ^Biteze Founded 1922 "Freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic* governments." — James Madison Board meetings ?RSlttMTORW ?m US A MISlONtRV WEH \Sm> M. WTB HOUSE,., should be opened despot: This decade has seen the operation of government on all levels- local, state and national-profoundly altered by a spate of Professors affect eternity "sunshine laws" which have opened to the public the meetings of various governing bodies and agencies.