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The demands and the reply I. We demand that students control 50% of the voting power and membership on all departmental and University decision making boflips, especially in matters concerning curriculum degree regulations and the hiring and firing of faculty and staff. We support the idea of a bicameral legislature in this University in which students also have veto power over the faculty and vice versa. president of the University, reflect in a public statement the views and feelings of the University community towards the Buffalo Nine. 6. We urge action on and express solidarity with graduate students in the English, Sociology, and Philosophy Departments who are demanding a legitimate role in the granting of tenure, wages, and other relevant departmental issues. 2. The students express solidarity with the Black Student Union on this campus and support their aims and goals. We believe in the right of self-determination of black people and in their right to seek fulfillment by being directly involved in all issues that are crucial to them. 7. Resolved that the new campus at Amherst will not begin construction without a fully-integrated work force satisfactory to the minority groups and concerned organizations of the Buffalo community. We demand that the construction projects include: 1. the immediate establishment of a massive construction training program. 2. mechanism of access to jobs such as an open hiring hall. 3. a strong affirmative action contracts enabling compliance for a fully-integrated throughout the entire University construction project. If these conditions are not fulfilled, the students will virtually make a human cover across the new campus to prevent any construction efforts. ' 3. We demand that Martin Sostre’s Afro-Asian Bookstore in Exile be established at the State University of Buffalo in “symbolic sanctuary” and be provided with means for permanent operation. We also demand along with BUILD and other black community organizations that the Buffalo Police Commissioner be removed from office. 4. We demand an end to all contracting of defense research on this campus and that all present projects be stopped. 8. We demand that the University cooperate in no way with local, state, and federal narcotics and intelligence agents, and if they have knowledge of such, they make it public. 5. The students on the SUNYAB campus stand in solidarity with the Buffalo Nine and condemn the system that allows and perpetuates this sort of repression. We demand that all charges against the defendants be dropped immediately and that amnesty be granted to Bruce Beyer and Bruce Cline. We further urge that Martin Meyerson, as 9. We demand the abolition of University accreditation for ROTC, and that the instructors of ROTC be stripped of academic rank. Reserve Officers Training Corps should sever ties with outside agencies and be reduced to the level of an extra-curricular club. February 28, 1969 To the University community: Faculties. The University College Committee on Degree Requirements is charged with the interpretation and modification of baccalaureate degree requirements for individual students. Four faculty representatives and two members of the administration currently sit on the Committee; a request for three student participants is pending action by the Student Association. permission for space, permanent or otherwise, in Norton Hall. projects in the Western New York Region. This bill also provides for a mechanism to facilitate the employment of blacks such as an open hiring hall. To further assure progress in these objectives. President Meyerson has appointed a University-wide committee which has already begun to formulate the necessary steps to be taken. During the past 48 hours, a number of questions have been posed to the University community. These questions, as expressed by the “Committee to Transform U.B.”, have led to many inquiries about factual background. Many students: and faculty groups will be discussing these issues over the next days, as the University community works toward solutions. In the belief that the widest understanding of facts will promote useful discussion and clarification, the attached background information is being provided to all interested parties. The University community will respond to the issues raised. Clearly, this response must be on behalf of the many constituencies which comprise our academic community. All these constituencies will contribute toward the evolution of a community response to community issues. 4. There is no classified research of any form from any sponsor presently being undertaken at the State University of Buffalo. There has been no classified research undertaken at this University since 1961. We do have a number of grants and projects presently funded by or receiving support from Department of Defense agencies. These contracts or grants were initiated not by the agency but rather by the faculty member or members involved. The basic and applied research undertaken under this funding is oriented toward the research interests of individual faculty members. C) Most departments have established curriculum committees within the departments and the Faculty Senate Committee on Student Affairs has urged each Faculty, and through the Faculty, each department, to include students on the curriculum committees. Each department initiates action to hire faculty and to vote on renewal of contracts, granting of tenure, and promotion. Students have the opportunity of expressing their views about the quality of teaching for individual faculty members through such reports as SCATE and directly to department chairmen. The Faculty Senate has passed a resolution urging every faculty member to cooperate with such surveys as SCATE in the evaluation of undergraduate teaching. 8. The University is not a party to any agreement with local, state, or federal narcotics and intelligence agents. The University does not cooperate in any way with the placement or activities of undercover agents on the campus. The institution has no way to prohibit such agents from the campus, nor does any other body have any legal authority to bar their presence. President Meyerson, along with many other distinguished educators throughout the country, has frequently urged that the funding of those projects be transferred from defense agencies to more appropriate settings such as the National Science Foundation, the National Academy of Science, the United States Weather Bureau and other similar non-defense organizations. 9. The ROTC program exists on this campus by virtue of an annually renewable contract. Some months ago the local Chapter of the AAUP challenged the right of ROTC professors to be seated as voting members in the Faculty Senate. The Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate referred this issue to the Faculty Senate Committee on Faculty Tenure and Privileges. That committee has met and discussed the situation and the chairman has drawn up a set of recommendations. Those recommendations include (1) the suggestion that future appointments be made with qualified rank (visiting assistant professor or adjunct-assistant professor) which does not carry voting membership in the University faculty nor in the Faculty Senate; (2) the suggestion that the Executive Committee refer the other aspects of the ROTC presence on campus to the Educational Policy and Planning Committee. Peter F. Regan Executive Vice President 1- A) University-wide Committees. The Faculty Senate, in conjunction with the student governments and the president’s office, has already provided for equal participation between students and faculty on eight of the nine Standing Committees of the Faculty Senate. The exception is the Committee on the Economic Status of the Faculty, and the reason for the exception is solely because students expressed no interest in such participation. In matters concerning curriculum and “hiring and firing of faculty,” students participate in equal numbers with faculty on the two relevant University-wide Committees, Educational Planning and Policy, and Academic Tenure and Privileges when the latter committee deals with general policies °f academic tenure. B) The University College Curriculum Committee, which must approve all proposed undergraduate courses, has five voting student members selected by the Student Association. The Committee also deludes one voting member from each acuity and five at-large faculty members selected with regard to the respective undergraduate enrollments of the 2. Black and Spanish-speaking peoples, who comprise two of the hardest hit groups in securing access to equal opportunity in employment and higher education, justly provide the focus for our immediate and urgent concern. U.B. students and faculty have been a major source of financial 'and otherwise supportive assistance to our programs for black and Spanish speaking students. They have helped to man the storefront centers. They have assisted in critical periods in supplying supplementary funds when we launched the EP1S Program. They have additionally giveti tangible support t<> the WBFO satellite station in East Buffalo and, finally expressed full support of the black community’s and the University s insistence upon a fully integrated labor force in the construction of the new campus. 5. The University has had no part in the proceedings regarding the Buffalo Nine. Consequently, we have no facts to offer on this matter. 6. Essentially this is simply a specification of three departments under the general demand of Item No. 1, and differs from Item Nc. 1 to the extent that the percentage demand of Item No. 1 is now phrased as “a legitimate role.” 7. In recent months, the Select Committee on Equal Opportunity, the Polity, the Faculty Senate Executive Committee and the president’s cabinet have endorsed and joined with student and community organizations in support of a fully integrated work force on the Amherst campus. The Select Committee has also endorsed the Eve Bill before the legislature calling for a $3-million expenditure for the training of Black and Spanish-speaking workers in anticipation of the projected The second part of the recommendations of this committee covers the question of accreditation for ROTC courses and other aspects of the contract between the University and the Air Force. This part of the Committee's recommendation will most likely be referred to the Faculty Senate Committee on Educational Planning and Policy. 3. The Union Board, which establishes the rules and regulations for the Student Union, remains the group who would give Pag* nm Monday, March 3, 1969
