:lock 45 scrapped by council
By SCOTT FRITSCHE '
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
The Calendar Conversion Council yesterday voted
unanimously to drop the proposed "Block 45" class
schedule because of dissatisfaction and too much
confusion by the individual departments. -
Council member James Dungan said' prior to the As a result of the semester calendar, 65 percent of
vote, "Block 45 is just not understood and I would not the classes would be 3-credit courses and the
vote for it. All of the alternate class schedules are a University would offer 50 percent more classes,
great improvement over Block 45." Dungan Said.
Dungan presented the council Willi three other The proposed schedules are going to have to be run
through a computer to see if there are enough
proposed class schedules, , Blocks 36, 42 and 47, all of facilities'to house the increase in sections, said
which have 55 - minute periods and half-claSs meeting council member Wendell Harris, English department
times. They are set up hi the same "block" format head.
and provide some advantages for different colleges. As a result of the extra sections, all schedules have
Block 36 favors the College of The Liberal Arts and Monday, Wednesday and Friday 3-credit sequences
is set up In the traditional Monday, Wednesday and , - and permit faculty members,teaching two or three
Friday sequence, with 55-minute classes, and sections to have two days per week with no scheduled
Tuesday and Thursday classes for a period and a classes," according to a memo of summary
half, Dungan said. , statements on the proposed class schedules.
Oswald
By MARY BETH HORWATH
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
University President John W.
Oswald yesterday announced he has
rejected the University Faculty
Senate's recommendation to allow
college committees to override college
deans' decisions regarding faculty
promotion and tenure.
On 0ct..6, the senate agreed to
recommend a change in the dean's
veto section of PS-23, the University
policy on promotion and tenure. Under
the current system, a tenure or
promotion case is reviewed by the
college committee and then forwarded
to the dean if the committee approves.
The dean either vetos the approval, or
forwards the case to the University
promotion and Tenure Review
-
The - senate's recothiriendation would
allow college committees to review the
dean's veto. If the committee feels the
case should be reviewed further, it
could bYpass the dean and forward the
case directly to the University
Promotion and Tenure Review
Committee.
In a response to Nancy M. Tischler,
Air defense weapons bought
by JOrdan from Soviet Union
By LAWRENCE L. KNUTSON
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) King
Hussein of Jcirdan has bought a
"limited amount" of air defense
weaponry from the Soviet Union,
"clearly complicating" Jordan's
military supply relationship with the
United States, a senior U.S. official
said yesterday.
Comnienting after four days of
high-level U.S.-Jordanian talks, the
official said the Reagan
administration doesn't expect the
development to cool the overall
warmth established in face-to-face
meetings this week between Hussein
and President Reagan.
But the official said a Soviet-
Jordanian military relationship
"would clearly complicate our
relations in the defense supply field
and we would just as soon we didn't
have that complication."
He declined to answer questions
Schedule not 'understood' by departments
rejects recommendation
chairwoman of the senate, Oswald said
he respects the senate's
recommendation, but decided against
the proposal anyway.
'I deeply respect and value the advice of the
Faculty Senate, particularly on matters related to
promotion and tenure policies. Nevertheless, I
have decided not to enact the senate's
recommendation to discontinue the so-called
dean's veto.'
4.ldeeply : respeet and value - the -
advice of the Faculty Senate,
particularly on matters related to
promotion and tenure policies," he
said. "Nevertheless, I have decided
not to enact the senate's
recommendation to discontinue the so
called dean's veto.
"Since the earliest discussions about
on the nature of the Soviet weapons
Hussein wants to add to Jordan's
arsenals. But speculation has
centered on SAM-6 surface-to-air
mobile missiles.
The official, who briefed reporters
on Hussein's U.S. trip on the
condition he not be identified, said
the United States also made clear
that despite Hussein's continued
skepticism, it will press for success
in autonomy negotiations now
underway between Israel and Egypt
over the future of the Israeli-
occupied West Bank and Gaza strip.
However, the official said that
although there is no "artificial
deadline," such as next spring, for
successfully concluding the talks, ,
time is not unlimited.
"Clearly, if we don't make
progress at some point in the not too
distant future the credibility of the
progress may be seriously eroded,"
the official said.
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Block 47 favors the College of Science by providing
for 2- and 3-hour laboratory sessions that are spaced
evenly during the day, Dungan said.
This schedule also provides that most periods will
be in the morning or early afternoon because student
athletes cannot take late afternoon classes, he added.
— , University President John W. Oswald
PS-23, I have advocated that college
deans be empowered to terminate at
the college level candidacies for
promotion and tenure," Oswald said
"In September 1978; I affirmed that,
view when the senate offered;
legislation quite similar to the present
recommendation."
Oswald gave several specific
reasons for rejecting the senate's
recommendation:
• College deans are responsible for
the quality of their college's faculty.
The council used historical data on day scheduling,
credit worth and departmental requests for periods
in the day, to provide information for composing the
proposed class schedules.
"Everything that we have presented, except Block
36, looks really different from what we are used to
and the immediate response from everyone is
rejection," said council member Robert Dunham,
vice president for undergraduate studies.
"We should see how these schedules are accepted
. by both the faculty and the students," Dunham said.
Some faculty members have objected to having
classes meet on consecutive days and other faculty
members objected to having to teach long class
periods, Dungan said. All of the proposed schedules
have taken into consideration one or both of the
problems.
If students think that having a Block 36, 42, 45 or 47
is confusing, the current schedule has 866 options to
schedule classes in, Dungan said.
"To ensure quality control . . . a
dean must be able to deny tenure to
individuals whom that dean considers
unqualified for a permanent position."
• The decision would tempt
departmental and college committees
to be less stringent cluring its initial
consideration of a case.
"On questionable or marginal cases,
the college committees may vote
favorably with the full knowledge that,
should the dean decide otherwise, the
committee can reconsider the case
after the dean has rendered a
judgment."
Although he rejected the senate's
recommendation, Oswald said he
supports the recommendation of the
senate's Joint Commission that a
college dean must meet with his
college committee to give reasons for a
veto of a tenure recommendation.
Tischler, who teaches English at the
Captitol Campus, declined to comment
on Oswald's decision during a
telephone interview yesterday.
Neither University Provost Edward
D. Eddy nor the ten college deans
could be reached for comment.
Nuclear-tip torpedoes
in grounded Soviet sub
By HARALD MOLLERSTROM
Associated Press Writer
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP)
Nuclear-tipped torpedoes probably
are aboard the Soviet submarine
that went aground while prowling in
a restricted zone near a major
Swedish naval base 10 days ago,
outraged Swedish officials said
yesterday.
They said the Soviets could have
their submarine back but that
storm-tossed seas likely would delay
departure of the vessel until today.
Foreign Minister Ola Ullsten told
the Kremlin that Sweden regarded
the incident with the "utmost
gravity" and would tolerate no
repetition of it, especially since the
Soviets ignored his demand for more
information on the sub's
armaments, refused an inspection of
the torpedo hold and claimed the sub
was armed only with "the necessary
weapons and ammunition."
Prime Minister Thorbjorn Falldin
told a news conference the incident
was "the most blatant violation in
Sweden in the postwar era," and
that the sub would be escorted to a
Soviet flotilla outside Sweden's
territorial waters "as soon as the
weather permits."
But heavy weather with 45 mph
wind gusts prevented the departure
and Swedish officers said it would be
delayed at least until today. An
armada of 11 Soviet ships including
two destroyers, two frigates and two
missile-armed corvettes, hovered in
the area in a show of strength.
Falldin, who opposes even
peaceful use of nuclear energy,
scoffed at Soviet references to the
Baltic as a "sea of peace," and said
Swedish experts recorded radiation
from the outside of the sub's hull for
three nights and concluded that the
sub carried Uranium-238.
The Soviet Union as well as the
Nordic countries have urged_ that the
Baltic Sea be free 'of nude - AY - arms: -
Sweden's commander in chief,
Gen. Lennart Ljung, told reporters
there was as much as 22 pounds of U
-238 aboard and that it could have
been used as a protective shield
around U-235, a main ingredient in
nuclear arms. But he said the
presence of U-235 could not be
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proved because the Soviets would
not allow an onboard inspection of
the hold.
Nils Gylden, a nuclear arms
expert on the Swedish defense staff,
said it appeared the Soviet sub was
carrying nuclear-tipped torpedoes, a
secret superpower weapon about
which little is known, but he could
not understand why.
"Incredible. I can't understand
why they would be so stupid as to
enter Swedish inner waters with
nuclear charges aboard. The only
reason I can see is their system does
not funbtion yet," Gylden said.
He said there probably were other
types of uranium aboard the sub
than the U-238 mentioned by Falldin.
"There would have to be Uranium
235 or plutonium too, but it was
probably hard to find out by the
radiation measurement," he
explained, adding there probably
was no risk of accidental explosion
aboard the storm-rocked sub.
The defense staff expert said the
nuclear arms aboard the Whisky
class sub, built in the mid-50s but
modified, most likely were to be
used for fighting large surface
vessels like carriers.
The Soviets were previously
known to have at least six nuclear
missile-armed Golf class subs in the
Baltic, along with 60 torpedo-
equipped subs of the Whisky and
other classes but there had been no
evidence to date they also might be
carrying nuclear arms.
The submarine, skippered by Lt.
Cmdr. Pyotr Gushin and carrying a
crew of about 56, ran aground on
rocks in a restricted zone near th
Karlskrona naval base 300 miles
south of Stockholm on Oct. 27 while
the Swedish navy was conducting
anti-submarine exercises. Gushin
blamed navigational error.
Swedish authorities rejected the
eicplanation and speculated Gushin
was on a spy mission. They refloated
the vessel Monday, and on
Wednesday disclosed that an officer
outranking Gushin was aboard.
They identified him only as
Avtsukiewiech, and said he
commanded either a sub squadron
or a flotilla.
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