Bowling Green State University - Key Yearbook (Bowling Green, OH)

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The number one big problem is can we really respond to the rele- vency demands in the curriculum. The New University last spring energized our campus in two or three important issues: ll it seem- ed to address itself to important problems, 2l it really did give everybody in the community a look at what a curriculum ought to be, and 3t it was responsive. I'd like to see our entire curriculum be of that nature. Now I don't mean that I want all of our cur- riculum to be like the New University, but on those counts I think that everything we do here could be modeled along that line. Will there be any courses similar to last spring's New U. set up for fall? My guess is that they will be set up before fall quarter has run on very long. Now, this is iust a guess. The administration didn't set them up in the spring, we won't set them up in the fall. But we're ready to respond if the students again say that we need to have the organized effort to look at some of these things fall quarter, and need some space and so on, well, we'lI try to find some the same way we did last spring. Of course, I'm tremendously interested in seeing if we can find the best way to manage and govern a University. We may have to work at tightening up organizational structure and keeping communication lines open. The backbone of the University is the quality of the faculty you are able to attract and keep. I think thatlthere are some very able people here on the faculty now and we should see if we are able to keep it that way. I guess I feel rather keenly that part of my job this first year after the events of last spring, is to interpret BGSU to the ordin- ary citizens of Ohio who have lost a lot of confidence in higher education. And while we're at this, I would also like to see this University serve the adults as well as the typical student popula- tion. We could do a lot more in continuing education, a lot more in adult education, a lot more in service, a lot more in research that deals with problems of northwest Ohio and ultimately per- haps a larger area. We really move in concentric circles and we need to be the best possible neighbors to everybody else who lives in this little town of Bowling Green: we can then do this in northwest Ohio and later, wherever our outreach allows us. Now I don't want to become provincial. I'm about as anti-provincial as anyone. l've lived all over the country, pushed international pro- grams and I'II continue to do so. Butl think we still have to serve this section of northwest Ohio, restore their confidence in us, and let them know what we're all about. We have to let them know that higher education is changing and give them some of the reasons it's changing. I think there was a pretty wide communica- tions gap created last spring. Actually, I think communication within the University probably became closer than it ever was before. The administration, faculty and students talked to each other better than they ever had and I hope we don't lose this. But we did create a gap between the University community and everyone else. In the long run I'm not saying it's their business to manage the University or set its cur- riculum, or anything else. But we are a state University and the future of our support will depend upon the understanding that the public has of what we're about. What's your stand on calling the National Guard in on campus? Right now I can't conceive of an instance in which I'd want them on campus. I think there are better ways to maintain order, but, of course, I think the best way is if everybody involved feels order should be maintained. If it comes to putting more effort into security, I would rather rely on campus police because this is more of a preventive. Any time you call in highway patrol or National Guard you've already lost the battle because you're trying to repair order not prevent dis- order. Do you think narcotics agents, federal or other outside police should be allowed to enter campus dormitories and houses to find drugs? Well, in the past there has been some contension on this. How- ever, I feel that if the students do not want the University to act in loco parentis in other matters then they should not expect special treatment in this one. T4

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seventh president of Bowling Green State University is Dr. s A. Moore, former vice president of academic affairs at ge Peabody College, Nashville, Tennessee, since I965. I96O-I964 he was dean of the college of education at the arsity of Arizona, during which time he supervised the re- 1 of the colIege's curriculum, doubled its faculty and obtained derable support for Arizona's programs from non-university es. tive of Missouri, Dr. Moore is a I946 graduate of Baylor arsity and received his doctorate from the University of Texas 53. toore and his wife, Marian, have a number of civic interests ling the Nashville Symphony, the Tennessee Fine Arts Center Senior Citizens. The Moore's have two children, Andrew, 22, flichael, I8. Aoore's reside in the President's house on Hillcrest Drive in ng Green's residential section. Becky Linder, one of the 'sg Mark Bramson, photo editorg and myself, copy editor, to interview the President and his family soon after their il. as the best place to begin would be how do you like BG? d you ever think of that question? was one of the stock questions that I usually start with. I really don't know exactly where to begin. I have opinions e town, the university . . . where do you want me to start? with the town, you're a person before you're a president. rvell, I like ity we like it very much. Of course, I grew up in a where this would practically be a city, you know. I2 did you grow up? town in west Texas, southwest Texas. Mrs. Moore did, too. e lived in cities ever since we've been married so this is our ime back in a small town since then. But it's convenient, you everybody already, it's easy to find your way around, and, -urse, the location-Bowling Green-we've already visited s in Michigan and we've had people come to see us on rnds because we're so close and easy to get to. I think BG . I don't much like the monsoon season we've been having however, since we arrived. Nobody told me about it . . . it is pretty bad. I don't mind so much that it rains in the I've got to be in the office anyway, but in the afternoon to play tennis and swimming out here would be kind of How about the University? As far as the University is concerned, you know a University isn't the same in the summer as it is in the regular session and so it's a little hard to say. I could, you know, say the usual cliches, but as far as really feeling as ifl know the University, I have to con- fess I really don't yet. llinter Mrs. Moorel Cathy was iust asking us how we like Bowling Green. Do you have any comments to make onthe subiect. Bowling Green's great. Very nice, doesn't take very long to get where you're going. If you change your mind and remember something you forgot, you can go back home and get it. When did you and Mrs. Moore get married? T946 Do you remember the date? Sure, I better, it's next month. lAt this point, the interview digressed into a conversation between President and Mrs. Moore and the photo editor who was taking pictures. The topic was camera problems and improved pictures, naturally.l lEnter dogl What's the dog's name? Tuffy How has Tuffy adiusted to Bowling Green? Easier than anybody. lEnter son Michael . . . introductions and helIo'sl Are you going to Bowling Green? No, I'm going away to school. llfnter a friend of Mike's . . . more introductions and heIIo's . . . some small talk . . . the interview with President Moore gets underway . . . To get back to BGSU, what are your plans, do you know off-hand anything you want to do, any plans that you'd like to initiate in the coming year? Well, no specific plans, since I've been here there are a number of things you naturally run onto. Butl think that one of the most important things is that once we get to this size, we're going to have to work very hard to de-institutionalizep to keep the Univer- sity in units small enough to make people feel that it's personal. I think that our buildings ought to be improved a bit along this line-some of them look so massive and imposing. is A. Moore ...... ,,,. f g X i Us N. Michael Moore 13

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i lon'T mind so much ThaT iT rains in The morning, fe goT To be in The office anyway, JT in The afTernoon I like To ploy Tennis . The black enroIImenT problem here aT BGSU? haven'T had a very Thorough reporT. I know we've been on iT and on expanding a black TaculTy. Some of iT has To This was parT of Presidenl Jerome's commiTmenT on This- availabiliTy of federal funds for loan programs, eTc. eferring To any specific plans, do you have any new phrases lace expanding horizons which is geTTing a IiTTIe worn? iT won'T exacTly run The new deal or new TronTier off ap, buT l Think The phrase l'll use, since iT's now 1970, is Ting for Bowling Green A Decade of DisTincTion. re anyThing in parficular you'd like To accomplish while here aT Bowling Green? Any mark you'd like To make? ing you'd' like To be remembered by? T's see . . . of course, I'd iusT like To shake up a loT of The TradiTional arTifacTs of higher educaTion ThaT we've held onTo pasT Their usefulness. I'd like To help The UniversiTy achieve more dis- TincTion Through planning, flexibiliiy, responsiveness To Things ThaT happen aT The Time They happen. I'd like To see The UniversiTy form smaller, more personal uniTs. I'd like To see The curriculum, boTh graduaTe and undergraduale, quiT Tying The sTudenT up be- cause of deparfmenls and rigid programs. I'd like The sTudenTs To be much, much freer To move from one area To anoTher. I don'T Think we will be growing in numbers of sTudenTs in The nexT few years aT The raTe we've been growing. So l don'T look for The Hollis Moore era To build 20 new buildings, bul I sure would be happy if some of The sTudenTs who walked 'across The sTage aT commencemenT would say ThaT The Teaching was 20 Times beTTer Than when They firsT came here.