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

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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.

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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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UYEWKRD BGUN -. . .the beginning of what may turn out to be success for some and hope for many . . ., but only the beginning . . .