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September 1,1973
THE PROSPECTOR
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Clearing the Air
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Letters
Editor, The Prospector:
Editorial A Assistants
Patty Ayon
Craig Holamon
Letters Policy
Letters to the editor should be
longer than the word limit will be
increased by 100.
Afterthoughts
aware of even a few of the faculty
Nixon and the paperboy
By Lance Murray
THE 30ISan -DOWN WORLD OF MURRAY
such hot water with the legal Physics department, Dr. Clarence
IS TOI
Guest
"My God, I’m only taking three hours!”
Louis Barragan
Assistant Adv. Manager
Martin Callery
Advertising Manager
Laurie Muller
Assistant Editor
this is done there will be a deficit
of $362,000 in the funds provided
for the 1974-75 year. This deficit
is an alledged result of a decrease
in student enrollment to the 1968 typewritten and no longer than
level while faculty membership has 750 words in length. Letters
that faculty cuts are
necessary. Then if one
Cookie Schneider
Assistant Editor
David Joeris
Chief Photographer
Lance Murray
Editorin-Chief
Mac Balod
Managing Editor
It is not good for the executive
branch of the government to be in
Beth Jones
Entertainment Editor
David Reynolds
Sports Editor
Robert Dahl
Drama Critic
Needed manpower provided
Beginning this fall The Prospector will be able to cover the
campus more effectively than it has in the past, because of
the added manpower provided by journalism reporting and
editing classes, which will use the newspaper as a valuable
means of gaining experience through lab work.
What this will mean to The Prospector is we will have
enough reporters to cover every story that warrants coverage.
Each reporter in the reporting class will be assigned at least
one beat on campus, and as a result more news can be
gathered and dispersed in The Prospector.
This experience gained by the journalism lab students will
be invaluable when they try to get a job on a commercial
newspaper. It will also give the journalism department a good
laboratory situation to present to their students.
We know that this cooperation between The Prospector
and the journalism department will improve the quality of
the newspaper, and will provide a complete and genuine
source of information for the entire student body, faculty
and staff.
Mitchell Lewis
Assistant Photographer
aboslutely obvious that no opinion from the
becomes student body was sought.
selected for
nonretention,
which these
President’s
conspicuously
seems that
department
When one learns of the dismissal
of Cooper and Slusher doubt
rapidly sets in as to the purpose of
this university, i.e. of educating.
Cooper received his doctorate
from UT Austin and is a
recognized authority throughout
system of the nation. The
American people have lost much
of their confidence in Nixon and
Agnew, and some of it is justified.
No President should put himself in
the position of having aids who
can hide things from him, and in
fact be so powerful themselves as
to think that they are above the
law, and the Constitution.
AS FOR AGNEW, he was never
popular with the press, but that is
no reason to crucify him. But, if
he did pull some funny business
immediately subject to doubt. An
illustration of this point is the
termination of two tenured
members of the facultyof the
termination and
the method by
were chosen is
Cooper and Mr. Harold Slusher.
In August they were handed
letters of termination signed by
the head of the Physics
department, the Dean of the
School of Science, and the Vice
President for Academic Affairs.
The University
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When I was driving home the
other day, I encountered a young
boy, who seemed to typify the
feeling of a large number of the
American people about President
Richard Nixon.
The encounter took place as I
was stopped at the light at the
intersection of Gateway East and
Hunter Drive. A paperboy, who
could have been no older than 10
years-old, asked me if I wanted to
buy a paper which had a banner
headline saying, “Nixon Ordered
to Give Up Tapes.” I told the
young boy that I did not want a
newspaper, and this was his reply:
“GEE, NOBODYwants to buy a
paper because of Nixon.”
The boy really blamed Nixon
for his lack of sales that day, and
walked up and down the line of
cars with alook of disgust on his
face. Although no more than a
child, the paperboy was an
example of how the credibility
and popularity of the White House
has fallen in the wake of
Watergate, and now the grand jury
investigations of the
Vice-President, Spiro Agnew.
the United States on Biligual
Education. Fluent in Spanish, he
has taught Physics in South
America and conducted research
in Bilingual Education with
national Science Foundation
grants. He also teaches as a part of
the Inter-American Science
Program. He and Slusher are
regarded as the most outstanding
educators in the school of Science
and student polls seem to varity
this estimation.
SLUSHER IS a prominent
geophysicist in the southwest, and
is held in high regard by business
interests who desire geophysicists
with an undergraduate background
which enables them to be
profitably employed after
receiving bachelors degrees. He,
like Cooper, is thought to be an
exceptional researcher and both of
them are consistantly among the
top three instructors according to
student polls.
In fact, if the purpose of UT El
Paso is educating the removal of
Cooper and Slusher cannot be
justified by any formula, method
or device. But looking even
further, what will be the
consequences to the university of
these dismissals? Surely competent
instructors will be reluctant to
teach at a school known for its
policy of mass terminations. And
who can say that student
enrollment, as a result of
increasing fees, willnot continue to
drops “necessitating” further
faculty cuts? What then? The
cycle, precipitated by this action,
is an ominous one for the future
of the university.
Bert Diamondstein
faculty by ordering the chairman and the Dean of the
non-retention and/or termination School of Science, no faculty
of nearly 100 faculty positions members were consulted
during the 1973-74 academic year, concerning the selection of those
Administrators claim that unless people to be either terminated or
during his stint as governor of .
Maryland, then he should pay, 4D j^ 1 1 g) 1. €
whether he is Vice-President or .
not.
Corruption in government is
nothing new, and it will be with us %/, 7 he ell
forever, as long as corrupt men get S wEVS
elected to office. I am not
labelling Nixon and Agnew
corrupt, just not careful in the
way they chose friends and
associates,and in the way they run
their political lives.
The validity of such drastic considered as a guest column, with
action, i.e. the nonretention and the writer’s permission.
termination of instructors in order Letters should be addressed to
to overcome the deficit, is “Editor, The Prospector,” Room
somewhat doubtful even when 204 W The Union. Deadline for
separate funding for salaries and publication is Monday before the
university expansion is considered. Thursday distribution date.
It is difficult to rationalize the ----------------------------------
elimination of instructors due to a non-retained. Guidelines for
deficit of a third of a million termination and nonretention
dollars and the proposed exist and specifically include
university expansion estimated to faculty consultation as one of the
cost more than forty million procedures to be used before any
dollars. The argument that salaries member is subject to dismissal -
and expansion are separately but it seems as though this was not
funded is legitimate but becomes accomplished. A letter to Dr.
discriminatory against UT El Paso Templeton from the Chancellor of
when one learns that money for the University in July quite clearly
salaries at UT Austin can be drawn stated the need for faculty input
from the building fund. before a decision is reached on
ASSUME FOR the moment who shall not be retained. It is also
This past summer the University signature was
administration responded to a absent. It also
fiscal crisis involving salaries for excluding the
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