The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 59, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 28, 1972 Page: 1 of 20
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Richard N. Gray
New city manager
football game are also on his agenda, the mayor
added
He will probably begin his duties in late
November, Dunn said. Gray must still relinquish
his position at Grand Junction, which may be
postponed until that city completes its budget
study, the mayor said.
Meanwhile, Roy Rainey will continue as
acting city manager Dunn speculated that after
Gray assumes office. Rainey will probably
resume his former positions as assistant city
manager and city personnel director.
“He and Mr Gray established a strong
rapport,’’ the mayor said, when Gray was in
Norman for his interview
As city manager. Gray will be responsible
for the day-to-day operation of the
administration of city government.
He will appoint all “nuts and bolts”
positions, as Mayor Dunn described it.
A 1956 graduate of the University of Oregon,
Gray earned his B.B.A. in general business
management and personnel, with a minor in
psychology
He has been Grand Junction’s city manager
since 1966 Prior to that time he was assistant
city manager in Salem, Ore., and has also
worked as personnel manager for a food-
processing firm and as a state personnel
technician.
Gray, W, and hi« wife Jennifer have two
daughters, Elisabeth, 9, and Julianne, I.
Gray's starting salary was set at 124,000,
with an 6 per cent contribution to his retirement
fund, Mayor Dunn said,
Council announces
new city manager
By LYNNE SOMERS
Major Staff Writer
The Norman City Council has selected
Richard N. Gray as the new city manager,
Mayor C. H. Dunn announced Wednesday
The mayor said in a press conference that
Gray, presently city manager in Grand Junction,
Colo., was picked from more than 60 applicants.
The office of city manager has been vacant
since Jerry Smith resigned July 1 to accept a
position with Western Home Service Corp., a
Norman-based subsidiary of Home Federal
Savings and l>oan Assoc. of Tulsa
The final decision on Gray was made Sept
14, Dunn said. The City Council trimmed down
the lengthy list of applications to six, all of which
were interviewed
Gray was chosen for his enthusiasm for city
management, his professional background and
his ability to get along with people, according to
Dunn.
“Mr. Gray would bring a warmth and a
concern for people to the office of city manager,”
Mayor Dunn said.
Gray will be in Norman Friday for a press
conference. House-hunting and the OU-Clemaon
1972
Norman, Oklahoma
59th Year, No. 26
Scull sets goals for year
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questions which were raised after
a study of three important
reports
One was a report submitted by
the North Central Association
after it reviewed the university
for aciTediting in the spring.
Reports from the Budget
Council and the Council on In-
structions which were submitted
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"We’ve got to make this
university understand that
students are the reason it exists,
and in the future students expect
to be consulted about matters
that concern them," he said.
Scull said during his
presidential campaign that the
university administration is
unresponsive to students, and
UOSA is in danger of becoming
unresponsive by becoming too
tied to the university ad-
ministration
By creating programs to
defend students' rights and serve
students, UOSA can break away
NEWLY ELECTED PRES-
IDENT DAN SCULL, Norman
senior, listed his two primary
goals for UOSA this year as a
guardian of students' rights and a
k servant of students' needs. He
said the UOSA is in danger of
I becoming unresponsive to
’ students if it becomes too tied to
the administration. (Photo by
Paul Adams)
last spring were also a basis for
the questions
"The vice presidents will
distribute the questions to the
various deans and department
chairmen, asking for answers,"
Dr. Broce said
The vice presidents will then
collect the information and send
it back to the task force, Dr.
Broce explained The task force
will make recommendations to
the president after they compile
and study the data, he said.
"The vice presidents will also
make recommendations to the
president concerning each of
their areas Much of the review
will go through the provost and
vice presidents," he said.
The task force is designed to
determine how to best allocate
resources to meet the univer-
sity’s current objectives. Dr,
Broce said
“We have limited money and
some academic programs are
under-financed," he said. "We
must shift money to current
demands and reduce our com-
mitment to others. "
This should be done on a con
turning basis from now on, he
said.
“We are investing money in
programs no longer legitimate
for the current interests and
needs of the students," he said.
"New areas need to be ex-
panded. This can't be based on
what someone thought was im-
portant in 1935, but on what is
thought important today,” Dr.
Broce explained
The task force has met almost
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from the acknmistration and do
its job, Scull said.
"UOSA’s job is to represent
students We must learn to settle
our differences and work for the
students who elected us," he said.
Scull said tensions created by
the presidential election between
UOSA officials will have to be
buried before the officials can
work together to help students.
Scull listed three programs he
said he plans to work for in
keeping with his administration 's
primary goals.
The new president said he
plans to help form a student
employee’s union so students can
bargain for wages and fringe
benefits equal to those of non-
student employees on campus.
Scull said he hopes to set up a
birth control information bureau
in Goddard Health Center. It
might include an abortion
referral service, pending the
outcome of court action in
Cleveland County filed by a
Stillwater referral service, he
said.
Scull said his administration
will try to form a tenants' union
where students will be able to get
legal advice and assistance
concerning leases, rent strikes
and related matters.
Scull said he plans to not ap-
point Student Traffic Court
judges so court action on OU
traffic violations will be stalled
UOSA guardian, servant
By CLIFF MORRISON
Major Staff Writer
The Student Association
(UOSAl presidential office's
primary goals during the coming
year will be to make UOSA a
guardian of students’ rights and a
servant of students’ needs, newly
elected president Dan Scull,
Norman senior, said Wednesday,
The way I plan to work for
these goals will be to encourage
cooperation between students
and the university administration
and staff to make sure students
have a voice in determining
university policies," Scull said.
Commuters push
for representation
By CATHY HOBBS
Major Staff Writer
Commuter congressmen are organizing a commuter caucus for
Tuesday night to push for more commuter representation in Student
Congress.
"Commuters have always been under-represented in Congress and
this year its going to change,” Beth Hutchens, Siawnee junior and
congresswoman from the commuter district said Wednesday
Student Congress is now in the process of reapportioning itself,
which it is required to do each year before the fall congressional
elections, she said.
Commuters number about 11,500 out of a total of 18,300 full-time
university students, Ms. Hutchens said
This figure was obtained by adding the number of residents in
university and Greek housing centers and subtracting that from the
total enrollment of 18,300.
"With proportional representation, commuters would have 36
representatives out of a total of 50 in Congress They now have only 17,”
Ms Hutchens said.
David Nickell, Student Congress chairman, said every district
except the commuter district had proportional representation
For the past three years, an arbitrary number of one-third of the
total membership of Congress, or 17 representatives, was assigned to
the commuter district, he said
As the bill now stands, the Greek district would lose two
representatives, Adams Center one, Walker Tower, one, Cate Center,
one, and University Apartments one, Ms Hutchens said.
Ms Hutchens said the commuter caucus would look at the bill as it
now stands and decide whether to amend it or accept it as is.
The caucus will be at 6 pm. Tuesday in 255 Adams Hall
Task force finishes step
The President 's Task Force for
Resource Review has completed
the first step of its job, Dr. Tom
Broce, executive assistant to the
president, said
“The last of a group of letters to
the vice presidents has been
finished and mailed," he said
Dr. Broce, chairman of the task
force, said the letters contained
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Martin, Kay. The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 59, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 28, 1972, newspaper, September 28, 1972; Norman, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1825576/m1/1/: accessed August 15, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center.