The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 137, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 29, 1969 Page: 8 of 12
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TUESDAY, APRIL 29. 1969
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THE OKLAHOMA DAILY, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Okla.
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The time is now for American
citizens and University students
to realize that their problems
are identical to those of the peo-
ple of the Third World (Latin
Let's end University gains and
appeasements.
VOTE GRANT STUDENT
PRESIDENT!
PEACE.
sity for American business, and
the realization that the univer-
sity should not be the tool of any
element in society.
—support of black and interna-
tional students in their attempt
to gain a sense of identity, and
in their fight against institution-
alized racism, at this totally
white university.
—publicizing of examples of in-
stitutionalized racism at OU.
taking disciplinary action
against all students or groups of
students who carry out acts of
discrimination against other stu-
dents.
—gaining the right to organize
for all student and non-student
labor at OU.
—establishing permanent legal
services for students out of funds
provided for the student govern-
ment.
—abolition of closed committee
meetings between student elites
and faculty or administrators in
order to assure student involve-
ment in the issues.
It is my feeling that in the past
our student government has been
dominated by a specific interest
group. It has put its candidates
in office without regard for the
needs or desires of you. the stu-
dent body of the University of
Oklahoma.
It is time for student govern-
ment to become responsive to the
needs and hopes of the students.
But this can only occur if the
students, individually and collec-
tively, shake off their lethargy
and become active participants in
the governmental process. The
enemy of student government on
the campus is not faculty, it is
not the administration, it is the
apathy of the students.
As a member of the Student
House of Representatives, I pro-
posed female visitation in the
dorms. Although it was not ac-
cepted then, eventually it was
adopted by the administration.
I propose to expand this pro-
gram. I also urged the building
of a parking lot by Cross Cen-
ter. This was also done but it
is not enough. I will continue to
fight for more student parking.
I will fight for the expansion of
the pass/fail system to all col-
leges.
It is time for this campus to
grow up. We are adult enough to
hear controversial views and
opinions. I propose to set up a
Controversial Speakers Program
which will bring these views to
this campus. We must also fight
for our right to choose our own
place of residence. It is the obli-
gation of student government to
do all in its power to allow all
students the right to live where
they please and to abolish com-
pulsory housing.
I will also fight for an aca-
demic appeal board. This board
should consist of students and
faculty and should be accessible
to students who wish to protest
grades. It is no longer tolerable
that one man should be able to
guide our future career by mani-
pulating our grades.
For the first time in the history
of the University students have
the opportunity to take an active
role in the decision-making of the
University Community. It is time
to put apathy aside and take
power. Your next Student Con-
gress President can be . . . should
be Steve Sherber. Will you do
your own thing?
pass-fail system for stu-
_____, in Arts and Sciences in
their electives. But why did it
stop in that one school, why not
have it for all schools?
b Doctor Hollomon wanted a
flat tuition fee enabling all stu-
dents to take as many courses
as they can handle. But what hap-
pened to this idea? POOF! Let s
get this plan into action
To summarize, let's have a
"student power” motto. We are
paying hard money to attend
this University, to learn and do
what this University wants us to.
We have started a movement to
The primary concern of stu-
dent government should be the
exercise of institutionalized stu-
dent power at all levels of the
University. That power should pri-
marily be directed at and de-
signed to challenge, the faculty
and the administration. Incum-
bment upon the exercise of that
power should be a unity of stu-
dent purpose and the responsibil-
ity of formulating specific ideas
to make this University more re-
sponsive to student needs.
Student government must as-
sert itself decisively into the
existing campus power structure.
The opportunities are almost
limitless, for assertion has never
been made before. Significant
inroads must be made, especially
in the following areas:
1. ACADEMIC AND ADMIN-
ISTRATIVE ORGANIZATION -
Students must, through student
government, become active par-
ticipants in making those decis-
ions which affect their lives, in-
cluding the formulation of cur-
riculum, determination of re-
quired courses and graduation
requirements, and the hiring of
new faculty and administrators.
2. ACADEMIC APPEAL -
benefit the student but we
need and must have your sup-
port!
To the Students:
When will It all stop?
1. First the University scandal
about marijuana.
2. The Oklahoma University
and the Oklahoma Regents for
Higher Education??? try to ap-
pease the students by allowing
them to write a new constitution.
3. The Regents then pass their
so-called “Four Point Plan”
which would remove the limited
power of students and place it
in their own hands.
4. During a peaceful anti-war
demonstration, the Oklahoma Na-
tional Guard was on its way to
this campus!
When will it all end?
Is this the democracy promised
us by the U. S. Constitution? For
the anti-war demonstrators, and
those who believe in "My country
—right or wrong,” BEWARE!
If we are not careful we will
bring the war to our country.
Remember the Oklahoma Na-
tional Guard stopped only forty
miles north of campus at the
same time
ended!
.Let's take
unite, we
student is entitled to be judged
by his own peers, not by the
university officials.
4. We have all sat around long
enough watching the University
discriminate against our minority
groups. It is down-right disgust-
ing to see it happening here. IT
MUST END NOW!
5. What is the basic objection
to classes by students? Class
size! As long as the University
maintains large classes. 25 per
cent of the students will either
drop out or sleep through them.
As I mentioned before, no tui-
tion increase unless we gain more
and better-qualified professors.
Remember—the main purpose
of a graduate student is to gain his
degree and graduate—not teach!
6. Every now and then the Uni-
versity comes up with a few good
ideas.
a. a
dents
America, Africa, Asia, and the
Near East.)
Exploitation and paternalism
are the problems. The western
military/industrial machine is
the cause. Common people in all
societies are being used to the
advantage of the few and are be-
ing denied control over their own
lives.
Western imperialism is alive
and well in Argentina, and all
other countries of the Third Wor-
ld. In 1965 alone, 2,000 American
business firms invested $130 bil-
lion abroad: 40 per cent of which
was in underdeveloped areas.
Most of the investment is tied up
in extracting natural resources
from those areas and carrying
them to the U.S. to be shaped in-
to goods for sale in America and
Europe.
The objective of business is to
make money, not to encourage
freedom or develop impoverish-
ed areas. Slave labor wages are
paid to Third World peoples. As
a result, they have no buying
power, and the natural resources
stolen from their lands are never
returned in the form of goods to
raise living conditions.
The ruling classes of the Third
World take part in this exploita-
tion and paternalistic control of
the people, in order to get a cut
in the take. The American mili-
tary and diplomatic corps sup-
port those governments w’hich af-
firm the right of American busi-
ness to castrate the land.
The person of the Third World
is used and controlled economi-
cally, politically, and socially
and so is the citizen of Ameri-
can society.
The majority of Americans
want the Vietnam war to end,
but the April draft call is for 33,-
000. The first choice of most
Americans for President was not
Humphrey or Nixon, but they
were the nominees. Americans
pay for their economic Shangra-
ia (remembering that 34.4 mil-
lion families live in poverty)
with the price of repression of
creativity, and total conformity
and materialistic values.
American students have even
less control over their own lives
than have their parents. The
American University is run like
a store: If students don’t like
the merchandise, they must go
elsewhere. They have no voice in
running their universities. They
have NO voice in selection of the
kind of curriculum they must
study to get “a good job” and
“make it” in society. They have
no voice in their own grading or
the values behind that grading.
They have NO voice in deciding
where money is to be spent.
The time is NOW for OU stu-
dents to demand a voice in the
running of their University, act-
ing with a sense of community
with the peoples of the Third
World.
The new student government
must be used as an instrument
to transform this University into
a vehicle for changing the whole
society.
The new student government
MUST be an instrument of this
Movement. If it is not, it is ir-
relevant and should be eliminat-
ed.
PROPOSALS FOR STUDENT
GOVERNMENT:
—establishment of Academic
Appeals Boards, half of whose
members shall be students and
whose purpose shall be to allow
students to appeal unfair grad-
ing.
—inclusion of one, two, or three
undergraduate and graduate stu-
dents in all faculty meeting—the
students having power to vote
and introduce resolutions on new
courses, course changes, and stu-
dent grievances.
—establishment of student pow-
er to create their own courses on
relevant subjects, and gain cred-
it for them.
—establishment of a teacher
evaluation system, by which stu-
dents can have an affect upon
their professor’s teaching.
—gaining of places for students
for faculty hiring, tenure, and
dismissal committees.
—holding a university-wide stu-
dent referendum upon elimina-
tion of ROTC and all defense re-
search from the campus, after a
period of university-wide discus-
cussion.
—establishment of Pass-Fail
grading in all courses (all cours-
es except requirements for ma-
jor, as a preliminary step) with
the realization that grading is a
service performed by the univer-
Open Debate
All five candidates for Stu-
dent Association President will
meet in an open debate at 7
p.m. tonight in 200 Dale Hall.
The forum is sponsored by the
United Campus Ministry.
Candidates will present their
positions on seven questions:
1) Considerable attention has
been focused on curriculum re-
form. What are your views as
to the areas of controversy and
what proposals, if any, for
change would you desire to im-
plement?
2> What points of agreement
or disagreement do you have re-
garding the recently completed
report of the Housing commit-
tee?
3) Student-faculty relations are
a perennial problem. Do you
have any workable suggestions
toward establishing more favor-
able relationships?
4) What voice in administra-
tive policies should students
have at OU?
5) Recent events on this cam-
pus indicate that some minority
groups do not think student gov-
ernment currently is viable
means for achieving their de-
sired goals. What response do
you make to minority groups’
complaints about student gov-
ernment at OU?
6) Today higher education is
criticized as being the agent
which trains the personnel, pro-
vides the rationale and teaches
the ethics that maintain racism
at home and exploitation abroad.
Comment on this criticism and
offer any suggestions you have
regarding the function of student
government in the light of your
comments.
7) What are the cources of
apathy at OU among students?
procedures involving both fac-
ulty and students must be insti-
tuted at departmental, college,
and university levels to allow
students to appeal all course
grades, curriculum requirements,
graduation requirements, and any
arbitrary decisions of Univer-
sity administrators. A Student Le-
gal Service, comprised of law-
yers and law students and fund-
ed by student government, should
be created to advise all students
of their rights of appeal at all
levels of the University, and to
assist with those appeals.
3. TEACHER EVALUATION—
The responsibility of providing a
comprehensive course and teach-
er evalution should be that of stu-
dent government.
4. STUDENT HOUSING — In
so far as students are required
to live in University housing,
students must have the absolute
authority to make all rules con-
cerning that housing, subject to
local, state, and Federal laws.
5. STUDENT ORGANIZA-
TIONS AND ACTIVITIES — Stu-
dent government must insure
two things in regard to the ap-
propriation of funds in this area:
first, continuity in regard to
those activities or groups which
have met, and continue to meet,
student needs; and, second, ori-
ginality, to insure that any new
ideas or groups will have a
chance to receive their fair
share of student monies.
6. STUDENT INVOLVEMENT
—There is only one way to in-
sure student involvement in stu-
dent government; that way is to
insure an active and powerful
student government. The con-
cept of student power renders ar-
tificial any distinction between
students concerning their rela-
tion to faculty and administra-
tion. There are issues, such as
academic appeal and student
authority to make student regu-
lations, around which students
can group themselves because
they are students, and groups we
must if we are to seize and exer-
cise the power which is our
right. In the exercise of the pow-
er of all students, it is the re-
sponsibility of student govern-
ment to insure to all minority in-
terests within the student body
that their rights to fair and pro-
portioned representation and
equal communication within the
student power structure will be
guaranteed. Institutionalized stu-
dent power must be used to pro-
tect the individual rights of all
students, just as labor organiza-
tions are used to protect the
rights of all workers in their re-
lations with management. And
the undeniable right of all stu-
dents is the right to be involved
as ACTIVE PARTICIPANTS in
the decision-making processes
which are going on all around
them.
a stand! If we all
unite, we can gain the rights
given to other students enrolled
in other universities.
1. This university together with
the Regents of Higher Educaion
feel that all problems can be al-
leviated by raising student tui-
tion. But will they spend the
money on teachers' salaries?
NO! They bought trams and
next they might decide to build
a subway so that all students
can get to their classes taught
by "Undegraduate seniors.”
With your support I plan to
pressure the school to let the stu-
dent have a say in the spending
of these finances.
Remember—No tuition raise
without more qualified profes-
sors.
2. Most students who are sub-
jected to live in university hous-
ing do not groove on the idea.
But what is the replay of the
University? “We’ll be glad to
listen to you but no dice.”
Why doesn’t the University try
to make living conditions in the
dormitories better? Last year
they installed ping pong tables.
Typical appeasement!
I have lived in adult housing
and 95 per cent of the residents
were in favor of living standards.
Why doesn’t the University make
all housing adult?
I promise to make all housing
adult housing after I am elected
but this can be done ONLY WITH
YOUR HELP!
3. How much does the student
know about the courts at the
University? Nothing! The Uni-
versity tends to keep all material
classified. Here’s a good one—
there is a LOCKED file kept by
the University on all students
who have lived in University
dorms. While I served as a judge
on the Judicial Board last se-
mester we tried to have these
files removed but the University
gave us a positive NO. What are
they trying to hide and why are
they herding us into categories?
i.e. 1. Long haired, S.D.S., pot
smoker 2. Excessive noise, belli-
gerent. troublemaker, arrogant
What about the Student Traffic
Court? We all know that is a
farce.
We must join together and
change the court system. Every
Student government has too of-
ten seemed more interested in
its own politics than with the
problems of the general student
government in a new direction, a
direction responsible to you.
The office of president must be
held by a man who is not con-
tent to rely on his own personal
solutions to the problems we all
face. Rather it must be held by
an individual who will actively
seek and respond to the ideas
and criticisms of students across
the campus—the majority and
minority—and secure their in-
volvement in a decision making
role.
A student government’s role in
the decision making process with-
in the university should lie in
three basic areas. They are (1)
Student involvement in the Uni-
versity Community; (2) revision
and critique of academic pro-
grams; (3) implementation of the
curricular activities.
As your president I will work
for:
(1) AN INTERNAL SPEAKERS
TOUR to insure a continued con-
tact between students and their
student government. This would
include regular appearances of
elected officials before the stu-
dent body.
(2) THE ACADEMIC AP-
PEALS BOARD composed of an
equal number of students and
faculty. This board would handle
all disputes in cases of grades
and credit.
(3) CONSTANT TUITIONS:
Which allows students to pay the
same tuition fees per hour
throughout college Constant Tui-
tion still leaves room for the
legislature to meet rising costs
by raising Tuition, but only en-
tering students would be affected.
(4) A STUDENT ON THE
BOARD OF REGENTS: First as
an ex-officio member; then as
regular voting member.
(5) ETHNIC STUDIES PRO-
GRAMS to promote a better un-
derstanding of the culture of mi-
nority groups. These programs
should be implemented through
seminars, workshops, speaker se-
ries and the establishment of
cultural centers, both academic
and extracurricular.
(6) THE EXPANSION OF THE
PASS-FAIL SYSTEM to include
all students in all colleges. Stu-
dents should be able to explore
like-interests in related fields
without competing with other
students specializing in that field.
(7) THE RESTRUCTURING
OF THE ACADEMIC ADVISE-
MENT SYSTEM to provide the
individual student with thorough
counciling throughout his college
career.
I8> A STUDENT VOICE IN
CURRICULUM to initiate pro-
grams for course evaluation, cre-
dit work outside the classroom,
the revision of degree require-
ments.
19) ESTABLISHMENT OF A
STUDENT-RUN BOOK CO - OP
to provide economically priced
school supplies. The ultimate goal
is to give the profit to the stu-
dents in the form of lower book
prices.
(10) ESTABLISHMENT OF A
WORKABLE STUDENT DIS-
COUNT PROGRAM which would
use the massive buying power of
15,000 students to secure dis-
counts of local merchants. This
has been successful at several
other universities.
(11) REDUCED VEHICLE
FEES and provisions for more
adequate parking around camp-
us. Something must be done to
ease the confusion and congestion
of area parking.
(12) REVAMPING THE STU-
DENT APPROPRIATIONS SYS-
TEM. With an expanded bud-
get, a new method of evaluation
is needed.
The University must provide
the facilities not only for knowl-
edge and the technological un-
derstanding, but also comforts
for the students in a time of real-
ization and development of poten-
tial. Only by planning and stat-
ing goals which will move in the
new direction of an increased un-
derstanding of human values, can
the university and students
achieve its ultimate worth to the
individual and society.
I will work to incorporate all
students and not just a select few
into student government.
It is on this premise that I base
my bid for the presidency.
A new direction in student
government, new direction in stu-
dent leadership, but most import-
ant, a new direction for students.
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