Volume 3, Issue 23 - March 18, 1981

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NEWS: The parkin ~r..l)'fo the Tower building wi~oe an office and condo corr

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NEWS: The MSC F lty Senate has approv¥ the AF-ROTC program, bringing it one step closer to becoming part of the curriculum.

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FEATURE: Science fiction has become almost a sub-culture in our society because of the devotion of its fans.

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METROSTYLE: Emerson Schwartzkopf turns his stereo off this week and goes to the theatre.

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Purge of blaclts charged

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president, called an "emergency meeting to open channels of communication" on Feb. 19. The meeting turned into a shouting match when Faculty Senate members, affirmative action administrators and angry students joined the president in an emotional debate. The scene was the latest public development in a battle wh,i ch Flemon says began 18 months ago at "a secret dean's meeting." Though the Feb. 19 meeting was the last public confrontation, a paper battle continues with ammunition in the form of memos frantically flying between the .MSC Faculty Senate, Macintyre, Moland and Flemon. Problems between Moland and-Flemon and the Faculty Senate began last summer. A summer interim committee from the Faculty Senate was formed to straighten out faculty salary problems which arose when faculty members began. working without a clear-cut contract. That settled, the interim committee began to question procedures of the affirmative action office after hearing of an . ,-.-. .-. :. :.·. .-:.-.·;.·; ;;;;;;.••alleged . .deiogatory statement . ......... , .. ~ .. ········ ~· ·········· ·

two MSC administrators say is a plot to purge black administrators This is the first in a series from the college. dealing with racial and sexual Wilton Flemon, MSC associate ~discrimination by investigative vice president of academic affairs, reporter Cindy Hosoya. and Bill Moland, MSC affirmative action officer, believe they have A tangle of events and furor documented proof of intentional over alleged racial and sexual racial and sexual harassment discrimination on campus may directed at blacks. ~lead to an investigation of what Donald Macintyre, MSC

made by Rhody McCoy, then special assistant to the MSC president. "The state~ was nevP substantiated In -a recent interview Nai-Kw ,... - ,.....,_-- _, , executive . ora Education 1m McCoy had .· _ the statement, said ers having lunch with ·. doesn't remember the

.. nd and Flemon saw the .... 1ty Senate's concern as an act of racism. Allen Freeman, a member of the Faculty Senate, feels the Senate had a legitimate concern. "I've always felt, especially at the professional level, that we should have the privilege of criticizing a colleague if they say something that we don't feel is in line with what we feel they represent," Freeman said. He agrees that Flemon and Moland have a justified concern about the number of blacks on campus, but said he's never noticed any overt act of racism. Freeman went on to say that . though the college doesn't have as many minorities and women as it

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