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ILUME 15
l^URINBURG, N.C., THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 19,1976
NUMBER 16
resident Rejects Senate Letter; Faculty Meets on Case
the lance
A Weekly Journal of Neu,s and Events At St. Andreu,s Presbyterian College
“Due Process
Given,”
He Says
St. Andrews President A. P.
'erkinson refused last week to
Konsider the recent denial of
:nure to art professor Mark
mith.
“I bejieve the due process
as accorded Professor
nith,” the President said in
four page letter delivered to
mate President Steve Elkins
Friday morning, “and
t the procedures followed
the case are consistent with
le requirements of the by-
iws of the Board of Trustees
id Faculty, and consistent
ith the procedures followed
the consideration of ap-
ications for tenure from
her faculty members in
■evious years.” (See text of
jnate’^ and President’s let-
rs pages 4 and 5, respec-
pely.)
meeting of the Senate
"riday night to hear the
resident’s response found
msiderable opirtion favoring
n immediate boycott of
asses as well as substantial
aitiment for the circulation
a petition to be sent to the
resident and the Board of
nistees as the next course of
ction.
After considerable
■scussion among both the
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Motion To Reopen Smith File Tabled Pending Personnel Report
THREE ST. ANDREWS STUDENTS have been recommended
for the intemationaUy known Rusk Fellowships. These students
are Joy Jones (left), Mark Powell (center), and Susan Motley
(right). These students have been recommended by St. Andrews
for internships at the well-known Rusk Institute. (Rioto by
Larry Petersen)
Senate president Steve
Elkins told the senate
Tuesday night that their ef
forts to secure the tenuring of
art professor Mark Smith
would “take a while”. “We
are just caught in the natural
delays that occur with this
sort of effort,” he said,
nothing that the Senate-
initiated canvas of the student
association on the Smith mat
ter and collection of
signatures on petition asking
the president to reconsider
the decision would probably
take until tomorrow to wrap
up and transmit to the
president, and another week
or so for him to respond. He
also told the Senate that
Board of Trustees chairman
Edward J. Mack plans to
respond to a recently mailed
letter to the Trustees from the
art students at St. Andrews
but that it, too, “will take
about a week.”
‘Then we’ve got to decide
what our response to the let
ters will be, “Elkins said at
the brief meeting, called
mainly to hear a summary of
the faculty meeting Monday
as it related to the Smith
case. From a combination of
sources THE LANCE has put
tc^ether tiie following report
on the meeting.
Three Named Rusk Fellows
Three St. Andrews
Presbyterian Collie students
have been reconunended for
the Summer Internship
rhis Week
FEBRUARY 8 - MARCH 3:
Sculpture exhibit by Frank SmuUin of Duke University. An in
teresting collection of in-the-round woodwork, much of which
was carved, believe it or not, with a diainsaw. The Vardell
Gallery. Free.
- FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20-SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21:
UAC Tournament semi-finals and finals at the Harris Courts,
^ckets will be $2.00 for adults and $1.00 for studens with I.D.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22
* College Union Boards sponsors the 1935 spy thriller The
Steps” which established Alfred Hitchcock as the master of
■p«nse and excitement. “The 39 Steps” stars Robert Donat,
Jleline CarroU, Godfrey Tearle, and Peggy Ashcroft.
'Mission is free.
Progrm at the New York
University Medical Center in
New York City. The in
ternships are for work at the
Institute of Rehabilitation
Medicine, informally known
as the Rusk Institute. The
recommended St. Andrews
students are: Joy Allegra
Jones, Susan Scott Motley,
and Mark Christopher Powell.
During his recent visit to St.
Andrews, Dr. Howard Rusk
announced that St. Andrews
would be able to recommend
three students for the two-
month fellowships. In as
much as these fellowships are
in great demand throughout
the nation and world, St. An
drews is indeed honored to be
able to reconmiend three
students.
Interns at the Rusk In
stitute work with the medical
staff in learning the latest
techniques of treatments and
procedures for the physically
handicapped, and on their
return to the campus become
part of the St. Andrews
Rehabilitation Services staff.
PIRG Offers Refunds
The St. Andrews chafrter of
the North Carolina Public In
terest Research Group will be
giving refunds February 23
and 24.
PIRG has conducted a num
ber of projects with the $1.50
every student pays each
semester. Investigations con
ducted by PIRG have assisted
a present suit against llie
Everest and Jennings Cor
poration for improper con-
structi(»i of wheelchair equip
ment. Recommendations
have been given to govern
ment agencies concerning
aerial pesticide regulatirai in
another project; currently
there are no regulations «i
the application of such
chemicals. NC PIRG is also
monitoring student voter
registration and absentee
ballots; St. Andrews PIRG
has engaged in a court watch
program, wherein students
from St. Andrews observe
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Monday’s faculty meeting
saw the Smith affair brought
up for the first time in a
faculty fonun, but the results
of the airing of the case there
were inconclusive. President
Perkinscm read a statement in
which he acknowledged that
more faculty consultation
before the decision not to
tenure Smith was made, but
held to his previous position
that due process had not been
denied the art professor. He
sidestepped several oblique
references to taking action
against Dean of the College
Victor Arnold for his role in
the affair, and a censure
motion that had been batted
about by some faculty mem
bers over the last week and a
half failed to materialize.
Attempts to bring the Smith
case out were centered
around a motion by Dean of
Students Malcolm Doubles to
reopen the professor’s file for
the addition of new materials
pertinent to his tenure ap
plication. He told the
faculty that he had not been
adequately consulted during
the process of reviewing
Smith’s file; he felt that he
could offer information
relative to Smith’s per
formance as residence direc
tor of Wilmington Hall which
would be relevant to the case.
A substitute motion by Dr.
Rodney Fulcher dealing
withthe president’s statement
was defeated by a faculty
vote, bringing Doubles’
motion back up for con-
sideraticm. The motion was
ruled out of order by Dean Ar
nold, who presides over
faculty meetings, on the
grounds that the material to
whidi Doubles had alluded
was irrelevant to the tenure
review process since being a
residence director was
unrelated in any direct way to
Smith’s academic per
formance.
Arnold’s ruling was
challenged by Dr. Leslie
Bullock. Under parliamen
tary rules, the chair’s ruling
can be overturned by a two-
thirds majority of the faculty,
and a tally of the vote show^
that the Dean’s ruling had
been overriden, 30-11.
Discussicxi of the matter of
reopening the file was put off,
however, when Dr. Harry
Harvin moved to table the
Doubles motion pending
release of the Faculty Per
sonnel Committee’s report.
The committee, wWch has
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