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News Analysis Ketter receives silver seal of office at inaugural ceremony Ketter report comments by Dennis Arnold and Harvy Lipman Territt, ex-Assistant to the President. President Ketter, upon receipt of the report, decided to shelve it as the document managed to step on the toes of every interest group in the University. Fortified by numerous administrators and faculty in his conviction that the report would be received with something less than enthusiasm, Dr. Ketter chose to squelch it rather than disavow the authorship. This is the sore point. Clearly the report was a disaster - it was nothing more than an impressionistic and biased view of the University. Yet for choosing to veil it in secrecy and he less than, candid about the origin and purpose of the report, the administration must hear the responsibility for the misunderstandings which have arisen. Further, it augers poorly for an administration which upon the commission of a faux pas seeks to hide it rather than own up as It should. The administration has failed to understand an important fact silence begats suspicion. by JoAnn Armao Asst. Campus Editor contribution has traditionally been made in the areas of teaching, research, and public inheritance from the past and a sense of the opportunity to give a shape to the future.” Since its creation last October, President Keller’s Annual Report to the Board of Trustees has been hidden, applauded, disclaimed and finally released by the administration. The same report has been received with outrage, declared untrue and generally maligned by opponents of the administration. In a somber and stately display of quiet pomp unmarred by any demonstrations or disorders, Dr. Robert L. Ketter received the silver seal' of office formally installing him as third president of the State University of Buffalo. Last Monday’s inaugural ceremonies represent the beginning of a new era of university policy with “a new president bringing new directions at a time of change and challenge,” according to A. Westly Rowland, chairman of the inaugural committee. Student Association President Mark Huddleston, speaking on behalf of the 12,000 undergraduate students, urged President Ketter to look not to the past, but to the future: “We at Buffalo have no rich past to draw upon . . . Our greatness, then lies before us. Our commitment must be to the future.” service Threatened freedom To make the proper contributions in these areas, the University must possess autonomy and insure free inquiry. Unfortunately, academic freedom is now threatened: “But we are One thought stands out in considering the document. It is not worth the excitement. Referring to Dr. Ketter’s predecessor Martin Meyerson, and of his dreams for a “new To be sure, the report is filled with inaccuracies. Anyone who would describe the actions of the Buffalo police last spring as “scrupulously correct” is either misinformed or has a very warped memory. That is surely not the image the dorm students perceived as they watched the same scrupulous police club anyone within their reach. university” with “a possible new' synthesis of learning and a new cultural spirit in students”, Mr. Upon (he official receipt of his office, the new president spoke to an audience of college and university representatives, delegates of learned societies and professional organizations, and State University at Buffalo faculty and students on the relationship between academic responsibility and academic freedom. Dr. Ketter warned that the failure of the University to define and meet its responsibilities will result in “repression by default ... if the University does not put its own house in order, the political establishment, in response to public pressure, will attempt to do Huddleston said: \... we have faltered in our task. The dream is dying, as yet unrealized. We have ceased to have the courage to let that great experiment continue. We have b ecome inflexible, unimaginative and have lost sight of the ideals that set us in Agent provocateurs'? I he reference to the 'leaders' motion of the demonstrations as \agent provocateurs of the central headquarters\ of the Communist ‘Impossible job part y r em i n d s on e of McC'arthyism. Does the author seriously believe that the spring unrest was the result of a directive from Moscow or Peking? The report is nothing more than a blatant attempt to lay the blame for the trouble at the feet hard-core student agitators,\ apparently based in the colleges, and ignore the existing issues which stimulated thousands of students to different types of protest action. One might find more than slightly amusing the fact that the report found the Ketter Commission to be the only effective mechanism established to resolve the trouble. Admitted mistake Mr. Huddleston concluded that only by a new commitment to the dreams of change and innovation by Dr. Ketter will any student doubts about the first months of his administration be erased; “Affirmative action will be that Two other aspects of the report deserve comment. First, the section dealing with the Hayes 45 is contemptahle. Not only does it defy a court order, but it impunes the motives and goals of those involved while ignoring the tremendous mistake by the vice president in charge that fateful Sunday in ordering the faculty to leave; an action which was admitted as a mistake, in fact, by not only the Faculty Senate, hut also by former acting President Peter Regan. Secondly, the attempt to discredit the Greiner Report by commenting on the comparative youth of its creators is disturbing. Is age to be made a prerequisite for credibility? ol a few most necessary re-commitment of this university to the future.” President John S. Toll of the State University of Stony Brook characterized the presidency as “an almost impossible job . . . One with small freedom in which to maneuver and to innovate,” He said that this job is becoming Repressive laws Such laws, enacted specifically to control campus disorders,- “are repressive at worst, and at best they are regressive, for they are certain to erode the institutional autonomy which is a prerequisite for true academic freedom.\ increasingly more difficult as the public expects more and tolerates less. Dr. Toll predicted that the coming years will he an era of new achievement and excellence. Universities will be expected to solve social problems as well as to provide learned professional people. He concluded that the He continued that only still faced ultimately with the realization that the atmosphere of freedom on campus has been invaded.” Dr. Ketter attributes this loss of freedom to both external and internal forces; to Hush-up through institutional and The document has very little to ommend it to those searching for Thus, it is a shame that the administration, and specifically Dr. Kelter (whose name appears on the document), has continued to maintain silence on this matter. The time to begin communication is now, not after the rocks have flown and the clubs have smashed heads. After all, wasn’t anything learned last spring? individual commitment to self-discipline, will the University be able to sublimate its self-interest to the human good thereby fulfilling its purpose of higher education. Dr. Ketter defined the mission of higher truth, justice or the Ketter philosophy The report was in reality the brainchild (and an abortion at that) of Delaney arrogance and to fear. President Ketter also spoke of himself and the University as being at “the crossroads between tradition and innovation, between academic community expects much of its new president “to make a great university even -Bible Truth- A FOR TRAIT Ol THE GODLESS \Fhe fool hath said in his heart, there is no God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filths : there is none that doeth good. education in the University as one of contributing to the welfare of society. He added that “this the imperative to preserve an greater. Psalm 14:1.3 Tlie U.B. Chapter of the Student Education Association of New York State (SEANYS) announces the following program The Spectrum classifieds; for students - SI .25 for 1st 15 words TOPIC U’HA 7 ’.S' TEA CHER EDVCA TION A BOV T? DATE ' February 17. 1971 word should and may want to know about a safe, legal abor- tion in N.Y. and it you wish, arrange for the finest medi- cal care at the lowest possible cost lor such services. 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