University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository 1977 The aiD ly Lobo 1971 - 1980 4-7-1977 New Mexico Daily Lobo, Volume 080, No 128, 4/ 7/1977 University of New Mexico Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/daily_lobo_1977 Recommended Citation University of New Mexico. "New Mexico Daily Lobo, Volume 080, No 128, 4/7/1977." 80, 128 (1977). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/daily_lobo_1977/55 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The aiD ly Lobo 1971 - 1980 at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in 1977 by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. tr»CtAL cor..r v.crr;oNS AS U N M c a n d i d a·t e . statements are due 1n the LOBO Office, Rm. 138; Marron ~all by this Sunday, 5 p.m. Photos of the · can­ didates are due by this Thursc:J•y, April 7, 1977 • Friday, 5 p.m. · · · ·~ ,~ ~'7:~ ,, /" . ~ i?* ' Hfl~t£. P~ff~iC.i\' ·Contract . s- Denied Once Again By D.M. Flynn expiration of her three-year con­ Eastes said music students do not The plot has thickened in the case tract despite petitions from students have to declare their major until of. Dr. Susan Patrick and the niusic and music department faculty on graduation and that he himself is an department. Not only J;tas another her behalf. undeclared music historY major . .-eview of the musicologist .-esulted A . subcommittee of the Eastes said there are at least six a negative reeommendatjon, bllt in University Tenure . Review Com­ other music history majors and at . ·the B.A. in music history is no mittee, appointed by Assoc. least one graduate, Mike ' longer being offered. Michnovicz, who graduated in . '· Provost Clinton. Adams, concurred 1 with Adams' decision not to rehire summer of 1976. I Dr. Patrick, a professor of music Dr. Adams also said in the letter that histoty, was not rehired after the Patrick. · . Susan Pat'rick . The music history degree was the petition asking for a reversal of this decision was connected with ·7 eliminated "in response to I legislative concern," Adams said in "the emotional concerns generated Petition Nursing School a letter to Zon Eastes. · by the non-renewal of Professor Eastes, president of the UNM Patrick's appointment." Music Society, said the ''decision to Dr. Patrick's contract was not aboliSh the B.A. in music history renewed based on negative Students· Seek Cl.langes was not made in the best interest of recommendations by the acting ··. ' the music department." dean (Donald McRae), the acting By Rachel Dixon students are presently required to petition. He said, "The administration chairman (John Batcheller) arid a take two. other tests before being Juniors in the UNM College of John Cloran, a senior in the made no attempt to let the decision diversity of faculty opinion. Nursing have voted to present a allowed to take the clinical test in a nursing college, said that a seven- be known _to the faculty or other three-item petition to the Academic level II nursing class; member student task force was A music department source said -The mark 'Incomplete' shall be formed to insure communication students."' Affairs Committee. ilie faculty opinion came down to Eighty per cent of the junior · given to students.in cases other than between the faculty and the Adams' letter was in response to "a matter of semantics." The nursing class was present for the extreme emergencies, and; . students. a petition signed by a number of meeting and voted unanimously in -The students want an extension ·"Students are organizing and faculty and students in the source said, "They've changed the favor of having the following three· to the Saturday of finals week, working for positive change," department demanding a reversal rules on us," in interpreting the areas changed by the nursing -rather than the deadline of Wed~ Cloran said. ofthe administration's decision. words used on the recom­ faculty: nesday, to complete taking tests in mendations. -Nursing students want the accordance with the rest of the Acting Dean of the College of He said the state's Academic option to take ·the clinical final University'"s colleges. Nursing, Marion Fleck, said, "The Council ori . Higher Education's In the past, the source said, staff will be considering the words like "good and fine" were exam without having the first two Xerox· copies of the student's · students' petitions· for a response criteria ,, for ''unjustifiable,, sub-level U tests beforeh~md: The. signatures wer.e sent with the next Monday. programs. were four or _less used and these sufficed as a .•-~::;'.····· -.(~ ... "'~·~ ..... l'":' ....-~,....,.·-, .... '·~ . ''The college is making some . gradUates pet year,' bn·the average, recommendation· to rcappojnt a revisions in the program and trying over the last fiv~ years," and faculty member. Clinica1 Law Futur(3 · to deal with the complaints," asst. "twelve .or less majors per year, on An evaluation is being done of dean of students Tony_Oliver said. the average, over the last two the graduate programs in music Joef Jones, assist~nt to the repor,tingyears." education and music history and Remains Unde·cided provost~ said he would help Adams said in the letter, "There · literature. Wolf Elston, chairman ... straighten out communication were zero graduates over the five­ of the geology department and the ' , Analysis By 'Dan Crain . between the faculty and students in year period and zero students ad-hoc committee preparing the ' the nursing college .. The Clinical Law Program will probably remain. open to undergraduates "I know the problems are real. enrolled in the major." The five evaluation, declined to release any until the end of the summer, ,said UNM Law School Dean Fredrick Hart. There's a basis for the students' year period, he said, was 1970- statement on the team's draft No d'efinite decisions have yet been made about the future of free legal aid complaints," he said. · 1915. report. to undergraduates, he added .. The ASUNM Senate voted last March 24 to turn down clinical law's request of $25,000, in· effect ending ·ASUNM's commitment to free legal aid for undergraduates. Clinical law director Bill McPherson said he considered the senate's . zero-funding recommendation a "slap in the face," and added that resources within the law school will probably be shifted away from legal aid to undergraduates and into other clinical law 'programs a5 a result of the senate~s action. · McPherson describ~d clinical law's relationship with ASUNM as a ~artnership, in" which the law school provides lawyers, professors and facilities for stu.dent legal aid, and ASUNM underwrites the major day-to~ day operating costs such as work-study law students, receptionists and Not Exactly paperwork. · Aid to undergraduates is only a small part of the Clinical Law Program. Clinical Law is basically .an educational program for Jaw students that •:t gives practical training in the profession. Dean Hart Said that both ASUNM and the Law School benefit from the legal aid program. McPherson estimates that the law school's contrihntinn to the part­ The Easte·r · nership this year comes to about $129,000. The law sc.:nool resources represented by this figure can easily be moved into other areas of clinical law, McPherson said, and may have to be, since to continue delivering free · , legal help to undergraduates at the pres~nt level without ASUNM funds would require·deficit spending, which is illegal. Bunny "'SUNM Sen. David, Rupp said he was against financing clinical law . because it was so limited,~ the number of students it helped. Single studepts. must make less than $3500 a year to qualify for the program while married students must have a combined income of less than $4625.· .• . Children keep busy during · "I ~on 1 t think it was ever ASUNM's intention to buy a free legal•aid the Albuquerque Scbools1 package for a minority of the students," said .Rupp. ,"The original ·in­ Easter vacation bY attending tention was to help get an education program started in the law school, and the childcare program of· it is the administration's job to educate, not 'ASUNM' s.' • Another alternative voiced by Rupp, would be to continue to offer the· fered at the SUB. ~ service to undergraduates, but charge a $10 or $15 fee to make· up. the .money lost from ASUNM. Rupp said that using clinical law's figure of 2300 undergraduates who used the service last year, with a $10 charge revenues would· come to $23,~vety near the amount clinical Jaw asked .> ofASONM. "Jri the .first place, clinical law never has been a truly free service to undergraduates, since they charge a $2 interviewfee," Itupp.said. "It's my contention that charging $10 would only be a little less free. 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