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Springer Report Implementation decision off pending Task Force report A final decision on when to implement the Springer Report has been shoved back another day. implementing the Springer\ Report before potential problems can be thoroughly evaluated and gauged for their effect on the student body. only begin work when data was made available by individual departments last week. Vice President for Academic Affairs Ronald F. Bunn and University President Robert L. Ketter agreed late Thursday to allow the Springer Report Task Force — an advisory body formed to deal with problems of implementing the Carnegie unit - to meet and discuss continuing concerns over the complex logistical snarlings a fall implementation might create. Ketter will delay a final decision until the group The Task Force includes, in addition to Chairman Kunz and Peradotto, the two men charged with smoothing the expected implementation difficulties, also recommended a delay last week after reviewing available data on departmental plans to implement the Carnegie Unit next fall. Kunz: a representative from Bunn’s office; a rep from the Professional Staff Senate; one grad student and two undergrads (probably Jiusto and Schwartz); a rep from the Libraries; and four faculty representatives, Jiusto pledged to push hard this morning on the undergraduate Dean's urgings for a delay. “That the recommendations from a former DUE Dean and the present DUE Dean are being ignored means a lot to\ me,” Jiusto said. But most of the Administration remains unconvinced that implementation problems will be eased by delaying a year. “It looks to me as if the consensus in the Administration is strongly in favor of ’79,” Peradotto said. The Dean said his week-long stand in favor of the delay is “really not a factor anymore” although he pledged to provide “all the evidence we have\ to the Task Force today in an effort to obtain their recommendation against a September implementation. prepares a recommendation. , The Task Force, headed by Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Education Walter Kunz, will meet this The SA official noted that if “political considerations and the need to save face can be put aside, i think implementation could very well be See editorial page 8 delayed morning at 9:30. Student Association (SA) officials, along with Kunz, are expected to push hard for a year s delay in implementing the 1977 Springer Report. While student leaders worked well into the night Thursday preparing their arguments in favor of a delay. Division of Undergraduate Education Dean John Peradotto remained skeptical that Ketter and Bunn will reverse their plans to go ahead with the new system in September. Peradotto was decidedly less optimistic, stressing that many in Capen Hall view the implementation problems as inevitabilities that ought to be dealt with this year. But he remained adamant in his assertions that he would not assume responsibility for the “chaos” that may yet still result. Bunn was to -render a final recommendation Thursday, but apparently decided upon more input before making has stand final. Today will be the initial meeting of the Task Force, although it was formed last year to study the difficulties in switching to the Carnegie Unit - which mandates that one credit be granted for each hour spent in the classroom'per week. Kunz has said that the group could “1 am prepared to do my best to solve any problems,” the Dean said. “But if, in the fall, anyone encounters massive chaos and comes to my office with it they will get two brusque, Anglo-Saxon monosyllables for their troubles.” SA President Karl Schwartz and Director of Student Affairs Scott Jiusto have come out strongly against Ketter by Jay Rosen Editor in Chief speaking.” So plainly emphatic was Ketter’s stand against the hike, that it ended with the suggestion that SUNY tuition ought to be lowered. In what was by far the strongest speech by a SUNY President at the meeting, Ketter continually reviled the State’s support of private colleges, spouting statistics and enrollment horror stories in between elaboratfons on how a tuition hike would obscure the “social policy” which recognizes that public education benefits society even more than the student. the aiguments against a tuition hike, including Student Association (SA) President Karl Schwartz who strongly urged the Board of Trustees to take “a leadership role” in resisting Governor Hugh L. Carey’s staled plans to raise tuition $100 per year. gather input. But before the testimony against the hike closed, several Trustees had spoken out against the hike, drawing the praise of Schwartz and other student leaders. condemns ALBANY - The battle against a SUNY tuition hike saw student and administration forces from across the State unite here Tuesday with UB President Robert L. Ketter sounding the loudest fanfare at a special meeting of the SUNY Board of Trustees — the body that must ultimately approve any increase. Ignoring hints from SUNY Central to moderate his stand. Ketter ripped into the proposed hike calling it a “hidden tax” meant to maintain the -State’s “unique subsidy” to private education. tuition SUNY Trustees are appointed by the Governor and thus products of the political patronage system. Although some current members are holdovers from the Rockefeller years, most were ppointed by Governor Carey. Many have close political ties in Albany as active - and wealthy - citizens of influence, Schwartz told The Spectrum. hike The Board of Trustees have the final decision on tuition, although the Governor or the Legislature can “build in” a tuition hike when preparing the State budget. That tactic would force the Trustees to find the equivalent money somewhere else in the SUNY budget. Denounces Carey's proposal as a 'hidden tax,' suggests decrease instead Resisting Carey Tuesday’s meeting began with Board Chairman Donald M. Blinken noting that the Trustees were present only to listen and Albany corridors Thus a tuition hike is a Student leaders from half a dozen SUNY units deliberately played up the “emotional side” of “As many of you are aware,” Ketter began, “I believe in plain —continued on page 14— Inside: Foreign language requirement — p. 3 / Fiedler on India—p. S / Movie Section —Centerfold
