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  • page 2 THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN Monday, May 28, 1973 Editorial Comment The news that Dr. Stuart Wilson has rejected most of the tenure and promotion recommendations made by the school of arts and sciences faculty committee should come as no surprise. Back in January Chancellor Carlton tried to suspend tenure and promotion processes for one full year, but his move was blocked by the administration- faculty senate and by wide-spread faculty unhappiness with the idea. Back then he rescinded his moratorium in the face of opposition and indicated that tenure and promotion procedures would operate as susal. Make no mistake. Dr. Wilson is acting as the Chancellor's hatchet man, using the intricacies of the tenure and promotion process to weed out those faculty members who have opposed the chancellor in the past. Last week's announcements are merely the extension of a drama that began six months ago. The news is that the American Federation of Teachers local was able to get faculty salaries made public, an unprecedented move in North Carolina. It took the threat of a court order and a ruling by an assistant attorney general to do it. We applaud this latest success by the teacher's union. Whenever Stuart Wilson speaks before a faculty body, mutters of "liar" and "bullshit" are heard in the audience. Wilson's credibility with the majority of his faculty is almost negligible, we think. And for good reason. Seeds of doubt and distrust have been sown all year by an administration that operates behind closed doors, away from the public eye and from the realities of modern academic life. The arts and sciences faculty, this University's largest, voted Friday to ask for a full and impartial study of the situation by an independent, outside observer. The professors made it clear that they no longer are willing to wait for emissaries from UNC president William Friday's office to settle the controversy. There is now much doubt that such a settlement was ever really a possibility. Dr. Arnold King and Dr. Richard Robinson, representatives from President Friday's office, have visited Cullowhee several times since January to help work out a settlement, keeping faculty grievances against the Chancellor in mind. But on Thursday afternoon of last week, Dr. King reportedly told dissenting faculty leader Cliff Lovin that if he could not work with Wilson and Carlton, then he should resign. Such a statement from a person supposedly working as an impartial arbitrator is outrageous. There is no doubt now that Drs. King and Robinson were here working only to see that tilings remained calm until after the General Assembly adjourned and school was out, So much for that, The strategy has blown up in their faces, the faculty is outraged and rumors of a protest walkout during graduation are making the rounds. An investigation is definitely called for. The- Wt=5Ti=i^u CAi^LifciiAM Published twice weekly through the academic year and weekly during the summer by the students of Western Carolina University. Member: Collegiate Press Service, Intercollegiate Service. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF BROOKS SANDERS BUSINESS MANAGER .... MIKE KILLAM Managing Editor Warren Wilkes News Editor. . . Alice Harrill Satff Writers Ted Bugg, Sara Johnson Dwight Sparks, Gay White, Cathy Peck Graphic Arts Manager. . . . Michael Rhodes Accountant . . . . Gary W. Poplin Layout Terry Roueche Sports Editor Hank Komodowski Cartoonists, Larry Whiteside, Neil S. Davis Copy Editor Phyllis Pechmann Typists . . . Elizabeth Mortimer, Claudia Worley Photographers . . .R. Paul Smith, James Carter, Jim Kotila, Stephen C. Cook Editor Emeritus W. Wat Hopkins Advisor Gerry Schwartz Offices, first floor Joyner, phone 293-7267. Mailing address, Box 66, Cullowhee, NC 28723. Subscription rates, $4.00 per year. 1 J3U) Dear Editor: This academic year has been a fatal one for WCU. It began on an optimistic note last July when we welcomed the new Chancellor with open arms and a willingness to co-operate. However, we were like the Trojans and little effort was made to examine the inner contents of our gift. Now in retrospect, we know that we never should have allowed this Trojan Horse into our fine community. The fate we have suffered completes this painful analogy. We at this University are enduring a tyranny. A tyranny is when a man in power abuses his power to deny his fellow men and women their basic human rights. Humans become as powerless as pawns in a chess game subject to annihilation at the whims and manipulations of the player. If Cullowhee were a national entity in itself the pawns would have long ago rebelled against their cold hearted player. However, the pawns of Cullowhee have notthe recourse of revolution. We the suffer ing pawns must succumb to the prevailing realities. Chapel Hill considers us expendable in the name of state politics. Institutions such as WCU are entering a critical stage. The excess fat of the growth of the sixties must be trimmed in order to meet the changing market demands of the seventies. However, instead of putting the University on a diet approved by all involved, our doctor ordered a crash diet, striking not at the fat but at the very heart, muscle and marrow of this University. The professors we are losing aire some of our very best, Jim Hendrix and Victor Sapio, two historians destined to be Richard Hofstadters ( a famous American historian). Billy Joe Franklin is a man who built a highly respected Sociology Department from scratch. Dean Drewry achieved the same.task with the school of business. The list of departingprofessors continues to grow and who knows where it will end. The proven best have become the worst in the eyes of Jack Carlton. We are suffering from an acute case of malnutrition stemming from his authoritative regime. This year Carlton has not only destroyed a Universityand the free academic spirit in which it previously operated; he has done something much worse. By disrupting the lives of our faculty and students he has mitigated our belief in the goodness of humanity and taught us to hate. Dr. Carlton will hopefully realize one day that he is a human being like the rest of us whether he likes it or not. If he is unable to see this revelation he will fall as hard and fast as the University did under his direction. The sum total of the agony felt by the faculty and students has got to be a weight upon his head. How much longer can he deny he has a conscience? The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind. Gary S. Richardson Trustees To Vote On Vice Chancellor The Western Carolina University board of trustees will meet on campus Wednesday, May 30 at 11:00 a.m. in the University Center's Catamount Room. Originally scheduled for June 10, the meeting was rescheduled during last month's board session so recommendations on faculty tenure and promotions could be considered and passed on to UNC's General Administration in Chapel Hill by June 8. A board source said Chancellor Jack K. Carlton's choice for a replacement to fill the vacant vice chancellorship for student development will be voted on at the meeting. Sources indicated that Dr. Glenn Stillion, currently associate dean of students at the University of Alabama, will receive the job. Dr. Douglas Davis has been serving as acting vice chancellor since August, when Dr. Herb Reinhard resigned the post, Student body president Harold Rogers, attending his first meeting as a voting member of the board, announced last night that he plans to introduce a motion calling for "a formal investigation of the calamity that has befallen this University." Rogers indicated that Chancellor Carlton's method of administration would be the subject of the proposed inquiry. "I think the buck has been passed for too long and through too many hands," Rogers said, in criticizing the board's previous reluctance to tangle with the controversy. WCU's present board of trustees is scheduled for a major face lifting July 1 when Gov. James Holshouser and the UNC Board of Governors will announce newappointments to the 13-member board. Under the reorganization of the Consolidated University of North Carolina, the Governor is empowered to appoint four members to the board of each of the 16 senior institutions in North Carolina. The UNC Board of Governors appoints eight trustees and chooses the chairman. Gov. Holshouser, a Republican, is expected to name four Republicans to the now-Demo- crat dominated local board. The Board of Governors can replace the nine other trustees, but indications were that some of them would be retained on the new board. "The situation is critical here," Rogers said last night, "This could possibly spell whether or not the University will continue in its present form." Turning to Thursday's disclosure that many recommended faculty members would be denied tenure, Rogers noted that "it's too convenient that the problem was brought up on the last day of school." Rogers said the administration's tenure and promotions disclosures were "an obvious attempt to act at a time when the students and faculty were unable to do something about it. The students have obviously lost all faith in the present administration. I think that the students and the university community in general has made every attempt to work within the system. However, Jack K. Carlton has continued to use methods which are not within the system and in doing so, has lost the faith of the student body and the community at large." "Now we have reached the point in time where compromise is no longer in the realm of possibilities. Either the (Carlton) administration goes or the university goes."
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