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the - western front western Washington state college Vol. 65 No. 47 TUESDAY May 22, 1973 Ten Cents Recycle all paper Elections tomorrow VU lounge 8a.m.-7p.m. Flora requests step-down to biology by BILL DIETRICH At his own request, Charles J. Flora will move from Western's presidency to its biology department in September, . 1975, the Board of Trustees announced Thursday. The trustees' announcement said Flora had made the request one year ago. Trustee Paul Hanson estimated later that the request came in late summer or early fall of 1972. That would be after the faculty's no-confidence vote in the president's leadership and before the trustees' confirmation of Flora in his office. The trustees said they had hoped that Flora would change his -mind about the transfer. Hanson said that Flora had announced when he took the job that six to eight years would be his maximum term as president. By September, 1975, Flora will have completed his eighth year as president and ten years as an administrator. "A decade is sufficient," Flora said later, adding, "I have not been driven out by pressure." The announcement was made shortly after the trustees moved from closed to open session and began a four-and-one-half-hour meeting that included an open discussion of the Sauer report and action on faculty collective bargaining. They also tabled discussion on the College of Arts and Sciences reorganization plan and approved an a p p l i c a t i o n to the Federal Communications Commission for an FM radio station. (Related stories, pg. 2-) The trustees approved Flora's transfer request in the closed executive session. The President will return to teaching as a zoology professor, the job he had before joining the administration as academic dean in 1965.. He emphasized that he will not be leaving the college. "I'm committed to Western," he said. Finding Flora's replacement will be the job of a campus search committee over the next two years. They will make their recommendations to the trustees, who will have the final say on who is hired. The new president can come from on or off campus. In the meantime, Flora said he will pursue his remaining two years of presidential work with energy. "I don't know how to be a lame duck president," he said. Flora would not comment on his accomplishments as Western's president. He has served in both a period of great growth and expectations for Western and in a period of troubled morale and anger at his administration. The year before his transfer request was marked by a deterioration of c o m m u n i c a t i o n between his administration and the college. That, state budget cuts, a controversial Jeopardy magazine, a demonstration by Ethnic College students and the faculty no-confidence vote plagued him in the spring of 1972. In response to a query by the Front, Flora laughed and said, "I don't give a damn where history places me." The president said his family was delighted with his decision to step down. He has commented before that campus controversy has hurt them more than himself. Flora has gained a reputation for being honest, blunt, good humored, opinionated, and to some degree, autocratic. Most who know him personally seem to like him as a man. There seemed to be little immediate strong faculty reaction to Flora's move, several professors said they had not had time to think about it when contacted Friday. Hugh Fleetwood, who attended the trustees meeting, confessed that the trustee announcement was so low key that at first he didn't realize its importance. Fleetwood thought that a whole range of attitudes on campus would change because of Thursday's meeting, but more because of trustee and faculty cooperation at the session than because of Flora's announcement. "The problems we have had don't have to do with one man," Fleetwood said, arguing that difficulties arose out of the attitudes of the college as a whole. He also thought that since Flora's transfer is two years away and his replacement is unknown, the immediate impact of the president's move may be small. John Sauer of psychology echoed Fleetwood in that it was the trustee action on other matters Thursday more than the president's move that would encourage the faculty. PRESIDENT FLORA — "I have not been driven out by pressure Trustees discuss Sauer report by STEPHANIE SMITH A Faculty Council request made in March for consideration of the Sauer report was finally honored by the Board of Trustees Thursday. Consideration of the report which is highly critical of college President Charles J. Flora seemed anti-climactic after the trustees' quick, quiet approval earlier in the meeting of a motion allowing Flora to step down in September 1975. At that time he will become a professor of zoology. The report of the Faculty Council Committee to Evaluate the Administration (Sauer committee) blames recent problems of faculty Inside... Board of Trustees busy revising At last Thursday's meeting the Trustees tabled a revision for Arts and Sciences and recognized the issue of collective bargaining. See pg. 2. AS budgets approved—with a hitch Budgets for activities, services and business have been approved, but two publications budgets await decisions on their administration. discontent on "a discrepancy between the way this institution is actually administered and the expectations which members of the faculty have regarding their role, and their importance in the governance of the college." The responsibility for internal administration falls on Flora, who was considered by the committee to be doing a poor job. However, the president was given a very high rating on his handling of external matters such as the legislature, local citizens and the Board of Trustees. The audience, and especially the members of the Sauer committee, were encouraged to comment on the 10 recommendations aimed at meeting the faculty's expectations about its role. No mention was made of the alternative set of recommendations which called for formalizing the present policy if the administration does not want to meet the faculty's expectations. One of the strongest criticisms in the Sauer report was of Flora's heavy dependence on a small group of senior advisers commonly referred to as the "six-pack." "I see evidence of old habits that are dying," senate • chairman- George Gerhold said of the "six:pack." According to both Gerhold and Flora, the "six-pack" does not meet as often as it did when the report was issued. Flora claims that decisions were never made by this group, but the group *umished him with information so that he could make the final decisions. Several faculty members said Gerhold's presence at "six-pack" meetings is reassuring because it provides a faculty voice. But, according to Merrill Lewis of the English faculty, senators feel obliged to speak as senators and not as faculty members. Gerhold, who now sits in on the meetings, said he could only guess about what has happened there in the past. He did say that some groups "have to fight strongly for their views when they disagree with strong positions taken in these meetings." The problem, according to Hugh Fleetwood of the philosophy faculty, is not whether the "six-pack" actually makes the decisions, but the "great gulf of suspicion and hostility" between the faculty and the administration which exists because faculty members believe that. the. "sixrpack'' makes the decisions.
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Title | Western Front - 1973 May 22 |
Volume and Number | Vol. 65, no. 47 |
Date Published (User-Friendly) | May 22, 1973 |
Date Published (machine-readable) | 1973-05-22 |
Year Published | 1973 |
Decades | 1970-1979 |
Original Publisher | Western Washington State College, Bellingham, WA |
Publisher (Digital Object) | Digital resource made available by Special Collections, Western Libraries Heritage Resources, Western Washington University. |
Photographer | Bob McLauchlan; Dave Shannon; Jim Thomson; Korte Brueckmann |
Article Titles | Flora requests step-down to biology / by Bill Dietrich (p.1) -- Trustees discuss Sauer report / by Stephanie Smith (p.1) -- Trustees recognize bargain issue (p.2) -- Arts & sciences revision, tabled / by Bill Dietrich (p.2) -- Rezoning near Towers controversial (p.2) -- English talks to be offered (p.2) -- Candidates speak at press meeting / by Nick Gardner (p.3) -- New teaching class offered (p.3) -- Get to know your Chinese (p.3) -- Grant offered to two history grads (p.3) -- Environmental ecology offered (p.3) -- Wolfe requests Robbins' withdrawal / by Rodger Painter (p.3) -- Soc/Anth adds courses (p.3) -- Classifieds (p.3) -- Dual budgets proposed / by Dennis Ritchie (p.4) -- Christianity, karate parallel disciplines / by Jan Perry (p.4) -- AS budgets get approval of board (p.4) -- Activities council approves position recommendations (p.4) -- Editorial (p.5) -- Commentary (p.5) -- Opinion (p.5) -- Letters (p.5) -- Burgess intended music career, terminal illness meant writing / by pat Duggan (p.6) -- Meager moisture, forests may close (p.6) -- BIA budget gets axed (p.6) -- Candidates present views (p.7) -- Ski to sea (p.8) -- Self-defense courses downtown, not at college / by Pamela Smith (p.10) -- Pot case charges double jeopardy (p.10) -- Klipsun needs writers for fall (p.10) -- Oil companies influence prices / by Robert Neale (p.10) ---Creative writing brings out talent / by Dave Peterson (p.11) -- Three secure English funds (p.11) -- Aid offered to foreign students (p.11) -- Club hosts potluck (p.11) -- Amsterdam studies set this summer (p.11) -- Students explore movement at day-long speech workshop / by Mary Lu Eastham (p.12) -- Humanities workshop set (p.12) -- Museum class (p.12) -- Pike market holds fair (p.12) -- Simplicity makes winners / by Victoria Hamilton (p.13) -- Events (p.13) -- Clubs (p.13) -- Items (p.13) -- See wart, cheerio at art showing (p.13) -- Menagerie, play for the thirties (p.13) -- Women netters win regional tennis title / by Sherry Stripling (p.14) -- Lady thinclads land in regional track cellar (p.14) -- Lightweights take sixth at Western sprints / by Dan Raley (p.14) -- Central dominates district meet, Western net team ties for third (p.14) -- O.K.'s korner / by O.K. Johnson (p.15) -- Duffers district champs; clinch South Carolina trip / by Dan Raley (p.15) -- Two spikers place in Tacoma (p.15) |
Photographs | President Flora (p.1) -- AFT members, Mark Wicholas, J. Kaye Faulkner, R.D. Brown (p.2) -- Anthony Burgess (p.6) -- Dave Tucker, Jerry Henderson, John Miles (p.8) -- [Participants in the Kulshan Days Pow Wow (p.9) -- Leonard Helfgott, Kathryn Anderson (p.9) -- Jan Shinpoch, Tim Thies (p.9) -- Ken Sammens, Jan Nunemaker, Kitty Banner (p.10) -- Tiptoe through the tires (p.12) -- tore Oftness (p.13) -- Bruce Robinson (p.14) -- Jack Hadland (p.15) |
Notes | There were no editors or staff listed in this issue. |
Subjects - Names (LCNAF) | Western Washington University--Students--Newspapers |
Subjects - Topical (LCSH) | College newspapers--Washington (State)--Bellingham |
Related Collection | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/261544388 |
Program | Special Collections |
Geographic Coverage | Bellingham (Wash.) |
Object Type | Text |
Original Format Size | 41 x 28 cm. |
Genre/Form | Newspapers |
Digital Reproduction Information | Bitone scan from 35 mm silver halide, 1-up negative film at 600 dpi. 2011. |
Identifier | WF_19730522.pdf |
Contributor | The digitized WWU student newspapers are made possible by the generous support of Don Hacherl and Cindy Hacherl (Class of 1984) and Bert Halprin (Class of 1971). |
Rights | This resource is displayed for educational purposes only and may be subject to U.S. and international copyright laws. For more information about rights or obtaining copies of this resource, please contact Special Collections, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225-9103. USA (360-650-7534; heritage.resources@wwu.edu) and refer to the collection name and identifier. Any materials cited must be attributed to Western Front Historical Collection, Special Collections, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University. |
Language | English |
Language Code | Eng |
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Title | Western Front - 1973 May 22 - Page 1 |
Volume and Number | Vol. 65, no. 47 |
Date Published (User-Friendly) | May 22, 1973 |
Date Published (machine-readable) | 1973-05-22 |
Year Published | 1973 |
Decades | 1970-1979 |
Original Publisher | Western Washington State College, Bellingham, WA |
Publisher (Digital Object) | Digital resource made available by Special Collections, Western Libraries Heritage Resources, Western Washington University. |
Notes | There were no editors or staff listed in this issue. |
Subjects - Names (LCNAF) | Western Washington University--Students--Newspapers |
Subjects - Topical (LCSH) | College newspapers--Washington (State)--Bellingham |
Related Collection | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/261544388 |
Program | Special Collections |
Geographic Coverage | Bellingham (Wash.) |
Object Type | Text |
Original Format Size | 41 x 28 cm. |
Genre/Form | Newspapers |
Digital Reproduction Information | Bitone scan from 35 mm silver halide, 1-up negative film at 600 dpi. 2011. |
Identifier | WF_19730522.pdf |
Contributor | The digitized WWU student newspapers are made possible by the generous support of Don Hacherl and Cindy Hacherl (Class of 1984) and Bert Halprin (Class of 1971). |
Rights | This resource is displayed for educational purposes only and may be subject to U.S. and international copyright laws. For more information about rights or obtaining copies of this resource, please contact Special Collections, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225-9103. USA (360-650-7534; heritage.resources@wwu.edu) and refer to the collection name and identifier. Any materials cited must be attributed to Western Front Historical Collection, Special Collections, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University. |
Full Text | the - western front western Washington state college Vol. 65 No. 47 TUESDAY May 22, 1973 Ten Cents Recycle all paper Elections tomorrow VU lounge 8a.m.-7p.m. Flora requests step-down to biology by BILL DIETRICH At his own request, Charles J. Flora will move from Western's presidency to its biology department in September, . 1975, the Board of Trustees announced Thursday. The trustees' announcement said Flora had made the request one year ago. Trustee Paul Hanson estimated later that the request came in late summer or early fall of 1972. That would be after the faculty's no-confidence vote in the president's leadership and before the trustees' confirmation of Flora in his office. The trustees said they had hoped that Flora would change his -mind about the transfer. Hanson said that Flora had announced when he took the job that six to eight years would be his maximum term as president. By September, 1975, Flora will have completed his eighth year as president and ten years as an administrator. "A decade is sufficient," Flora said later, adding, "I have not been driven out by pressure." The announcement was made shortly after the trustees moved from closed to open session and began a four-and-one-half-hour meeting that included an open discussion of the Sauer report and action on faculty collective bargaining. They also tabled discussion on the College of Arts and Sciences reorganization plan and approved an a p p l i c a t i o n to the Federal Communications Commission for an FM radio station. (Related stories, pg. 2-) The trustees approved Flora's transfer request in the closed executive session. The President will return to teaching as a zoology professor, the job he had before joining the administration as academic dean in 1965.. He emphasized that he will not be leaving the college. "I'm committed to Western," he said. Finding Flora's replacement will be the job of a campus search committee over the next two years. They will make their recommendations to the trustees, who will have the final say on who is hired. The new president can come from on or off campus. In the meantime, Flora said he will pursue his remaining two years of presidential work with energy. "I don't know how to be a lame duck president," he said. Flora would not comment on his accomplishments as Western's president. He has served in both a period of great growth and expectations for Western and in a period of troubled morale and anger at his administration. The year before his transfer request was marked by a deterioration of c o m m u n i c a t i o n between his administration and the college. That, state budget cuts, a controversial Jeopardy magazine, a demonstration by Ethnic College students and the faculty no-confidence vote plagued him in the spring of 1972. In response to a query by the Front, Flora laughed and said, "I don't give a damn where history places me." The president said his family was delighted with his decision to step down. He has commented before that campus controversy has hurt them more than himself. Flora has gained a reputation for being honest, blunt, good humored, opinionated, and to some degree, autocratic. Most who know him personally seem to like him as a man. There seemed to be little immediate strong faculty reaction to Flora's move, several professors said they had not had time to think about it when contacted Friday. Hugh Fleetwood, who attended the trustees meeting, confessed that the trustee announcement was so low key that at first he didn't realize its importance. Fleetwood thought that a whole range of attitudes on campus would change because of Thursday's meeting, but more because of trustee and faculty cooperation at the session than because of Flora's announcement. "The problems we have had don't have to do with one man," Fleetwood said, arguing that difficulties arose out of the attitudes of the college as a whole. He also thought that since Flora's transfer is two years away and his replacement is unknown, the immediate impact of the president's move may be small. John Sauer of psychology echoed Fleetwood in that it was the trustee action on other matters Thursday more than the president's move that would encourage the faculty. PRESIDENT FLORA — "I have not been driven out by pressure Trustees discuss Sauer report by STEPHANIE SMITH A Faculty Council request made in March for consideration of the Sauer report was finally honored by the Board of Trustees Thursday. Consideration of the report which is highly critical of college President Charles J. Flora seemed anti-climactic after the trustees' quick, quiet approval earlier in the meeting of a motion allowing Flora to step down in September 1975. At that time he will become a professor of zoology. The report of the Faculty Council Committee to Evaluate the Administration (Sauer committee) blames recent problems of faculty Inside... Board of Trustees busy revising At last Thursday's meeting the Trustees tabled a revision for Arts and Sciences and recognized the issue of collective bargaining. See pg. 2. AS budgets approved—with a hitch Budgets for activities, services and business have been approved, but two publications budgets await decisions on their administration. discontent on "a discrepancy between the way this institution is actually administered and the expectations which members of the faculty have regarding their role, and their importance in the governance of the college." The responsibility for internal administration falls on Flora, who was considered by the committee to be doing a poor job. However, the president was given a very high rating on his handling of external matters such as the legislature, local citizens and the Board of Trustees. The audience, and especially the members of the Sauer committee, were encouraged to comment on the 10 recommendations aimed at meeting the faculty's expectations about its role. No mention was made of the alternative set of recommendations which called for formalizing the present policy if the administration does not want to meet the faculty's expectations. One of the strongest criticisms in the Sauer report was of Flora's heavy dependence on a small group of senior advisers commonly referred to as the "six-pack." "I see evidence of old habits that are dying," senate • chairman- George Gerhold said of the "six:pack." According to both Gerhold and Flora, the "six-pack" does not meet as often as it did when the report was issued. Flora claims that decisions were never made by this group, but the group *umished him with information so that he could make the final decisions. Several faculty members said Gerhold's presence at "six-pack" meetings is reassuring because it provides a faculty voice. But, according to Merrill Lewis of the English faculty, senators feel obliged to speak as senators and not as faculty members. Gerhold, who now sits in on the meetings, said he could only guess about what has happened there in the past. He did say that some groups "have to fight strongly for their views when they disagree with strong positions taken in these meetings." The problem, according to Hugh Fleetwood of the philosophy faculty, is not whether the "six-pack" actually makes the decisions, but the "great gulf of suspicion and hostility" between the faculty and the administration which exists because faculty members believe that. the. "sixrpack'' makes the decisions. |
Language | English |
Language Code | Eng |
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