The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 65, No. 154, Ed. 1 Monday, April 30, 1979 Page: 3 of 9
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Winlory said he hoped to establish a
comprehensive system of legislation
to insure congress gets off to a good
start.
Also high on his list of priorities,
Wintory said, is a reworking of the
Election Procedures Act Wintory
said he would like to establish "what
we basically w ant the candidates to do
and not do.” The "philosophy of the
EPA” must be defined, he said.
W intory also said he plans to deal
with the campaign expenditure limit.
"Limiting campaign expenditures, it
has been strongly suggested,is un-
constitutional because it limits the
freedom of speech,” he said. Wintory
said he expects to clear the controver-
sy with increased restrictions on the
number and placement of campaign
fliers.
Wintory said he also plans research
into changing parking restrictions on
some city streets to include parking on
at least one side of the street. Most
Norman streets, Wintory said, restrict
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said the Question would not be up for review until
June w hen the budget is being considered.
"If I am terminated at this point, it is very likely
OU will not be able to find a replacement for me in the
fall, since hiring is done in the spring,” Towers said.
"OU has forced me into a corner by requiring me to
complete a degree w hich is not required by the depart-
ment, and which is at the same time draining my
time."
Towers is pursuing a degree from Syracuse Univer-
sity. His dissertation focuses on a 763-respondent
survey on newspaper readership habits.
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established to aid him in developing
projects, issues and goals of the
presidency.
Wintory said he expects a "good
group of congressmen" to make up a
legislative council over the summer.
In the summer session, congress
members in Norman meet to discuss
policies and legislative plans for ac-
tion in the fall.
A major problem in the student
association Wintory said, is an inter-
nal lack of continuity between ad-
ministrations.
About three years of bills, Wintory
said, have been "lost misplaced or
stolen." The bill books for several
years, he said, are missing. The
legislation included bills on congres-
sional procedures, presidential ap-
pointments and student rights, he
said.
Congress will, he added, be able to
identify the missing bills, find gaps in
legislation and draft bills to fill the
"legislative vacuum" as he termed it.
"OU has boxed me into this situation, I’ve had so
little time I have not been able to complete the
degree,” Towers said.
"In April of 1978, Provost Uehling retracted her
letter to you of the previous December and extended
the deadline to December I, 1978, for your com-
pleting the Ph.D. in order to be reappointed for the
79-80 academic year," Morris' letter stated. "On
December 5, 1978, 1 extended the deadline one more
time to March 15, 1979, and said ’.. .unless you have
completed all of the requirements for the degree by
this date, you will not be reappointed to the Universi-
ty faculty for the fall of 1979."
"It is my understanding,” the letter comtinued,
"that you have not completed your degree by this last
deadline. Therefore, I must indicate to you that tn
terms of my December 5, 1978, letter to you, you will
not be reappointed to the University faculty for the
fall of 1979." Morris concluded by saying he had
heard good things about Towers’ teaching per-
formance, and was sorry he had been unable to com-
plete the dissertation.
"My position as acting assistant professor is
renewable for up to six years, at which time tenure
comes up. Towers said. “The original requirement
for my degree was made when I was still part of a
Ph.D.-granting department.
“My situation is further complicated by the fad
that during the past two years that I have been part of
the journalism school, persons with master's degrees
and possibly lower ones have been granted both pro-
motion and tenure. Last year a faculty member was
hired who did not possess the terminal degree."
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Towers said.
I he Faculty Handbook, he continued, does not
specify any type of employee review system. The
document does not mention any recourse Towers
could pursue. "I’m boxed into a corner," he said.
I he student petition was presented to Mike
Langenbach, executive assistant to the provost,
without Towers’ knowledge Thursday. Morris
himself was not available to receive the students’
statement, which included a list of 76 names of jour-
nalism majors who favored Towers’ reinstatement.
"Every individual I presented the petition to signed it
without hesitation," student Mark Solow said, ad-
ding there was a total of 105 majors in the sequence.
"We feel Towers is the lifeblood of the depart-
ment, a real teacher in every sense of the word," Ter-
ne Clifford, another journalism major, commented.
"He really gives the students the incentive to produce
good work.”
Fellow faculty member Linda Raid said it was sur-
prising OU would take such action regarding Towers’
contract.
“He’s made a valuable contribution to the depart-
ment, in both the areas of teaching and research,
despite his lack of actually obtaining his doctorate.
"It is surprising OU would require him to complete
his degree when others within the department have
not," she said.
lowers' dissertation advisor, who is director of
research for the American Newspaper Publishers’
Association, w ill be in Europe this summer so Towers
will not be able to defend his case until October.
Langenbach, when presented the student petition,
Wintory plans smooth start for fall congress
ByJOANCUCCIO
Newly elected UOSA president
Richard Wintory said he plans a
"very, very successful summer," in
student government involving the
organization of specific projects to in-
sure the smooth start of congress in
the fall.
Primarily, Wintory said, he will be
concerned with the reorganization of
the function and duties of the UOSA
president. The office, he said, must be
more clearly defined.
Included in the reorganization,
W intory said, he plans to develop a
system of delegation of authority.
“One person simply can not do it all,"
he said. Wintory added aboui 30
students have expressed an interest
"in taking on a project." Wintory
said he plans to foster a feeling that
the student association w ill "give you
a ball and let you run with it with some
guidance and direction.”
A series of special assistants to the
president, Wintory said, will be
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Mondiy, April 30.1979 THE OKLAHOMA DAILY, Norman, Oklahoma
Students petition provost for contract extension
By JANE ALDRIDGE
Students of Wayne Towers, an acting assistant pro-
cssor in the OU School of Journalism and Mass
Communications whose teaching contract expired
earlier this month, have petitioned the provost for an
extension of the contract on the basis of Towers
dynamically high teaching standards.”
Towers is in the process of completing his disserta-
tion for a doctorate degree, even though the highest
degree bestowed by the journalism school is a
master’s degree.
Towers came to OU in the fall of 1976 as an acting
assistant professor of speech communications. The
following spring, a committee established by former
Dean of Arts and Sciences Paige Mulhollan decided
to unite the speech department and journalism school
under a system of parallel curriculum. The speech
department is a Ph.D.-granting program; however,
journalism is not.
Since 1976, Towers has been granted three contract
extensions for his temporary position as acting assis-
tant professor. The first two extensions were
authorized by former OU Provost Barbara Uehling,
the third by her successor, J. R. Morris.
Towers recently received a letter from Morris
stating he would not be reappointed to the OU faculty
next fall because he had not completed his disserta-
tion before the final deadline.
I appreciate OU’s graciousness in renewing my
contract up until this year,” Towers said, "but it is
because of mandatory committee work that I have
been overloaded with a burden of responsibilities
which has been beyond that of most faculty members.
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Ford, Tim. The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 65, No. 154, Ed. 1 Monday, April 30, 1979, newspaper, April 30, 1979; Norman, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1830150/m1/3/?q=%22Business%2C+Economics+and+Finance+-+Communications+-+Newspapers%22&rotate=270: accessed July 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center.