University of Victoria - Tower Yearbook (Victoria, British Columbia Canada)

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49 W 4q,,,,,MM At the request of certain faculty members, President Late in March, Dr. Taylor promised to set up a Taylor called two Joint Faculty meetings where all committee of three faculty, to review the second term faculty could meet to discuss the affair. However many events and procedures used in firing. A report is faculty came away disillusioned because answers promised for early in the 1967-68 term. they had been Seeking were not provided' Despite the fact that often students were bluntly told, During the three months of appeals, meetings and in effect, to mind their own business, by many officials, speakeasies the offices of Dr. Taylor and other the press and even irate citizens on local hot-line radio administration figures were besieged by many students shows, many of the student body spent long hours who were sometimes emotionally upset by what had genuinely concerned about the meaning of education happened. and the future of UVic.

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1111111111 11 111 Il 1111 its actions and also offered a joh to N11 S1 1111 ll 11 11 1sn11t known yet whether a student 111 11111 1 yv111111- at UVie next year. 1 1111 Illl 1111-1-ti11gatwhi1'11 over 2,000 1111 1118 l1s11 111 11 to 1'111111i1'1111g SlZlU'1llt'IllSl-F0111 1111111111 t1 111 11 lI1Ll faculty was a 25-hour sit-in. 111161 st111l1'nts spent 25 hours sitting in the D1 l11y1111'111111 llean lVoo11s'om1'esto 1 111 11 1111 I't'ilSUIlS had been given to t11e 1111 lpilsrs lllfiflllykill CIBC t1'1evis11111 hlmed their , -,uw Serious-looking profs croucli on gyrn floor during mass meeting as students vote on further action over disrnissals. At left is Dr. Charles Tarlton, flanked by jack Bush, and at right, students study, eliat and drink coffee as the night-long sit-in vigil 1 .,., continues in adrninis- tration corridors. H7 0lC'lOCk Showl' at the campus and talked to student leaders. Meinbers of the administration who were asked to appear on the show refused. N0 positive results s11eh as giving reasons or rehiring professors emerged after the sit-in. But students felt that they had achieved greater eon1n1unieati0n between students and faeulty - especially regarding the faculty Controversy. Many teachers stayed up all 11ight for the sit-i11 and talked to students. Some professors who had previously stayed out of the aflair became deeply interested and personally involved.

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