1980_04 The Daily Collegian April 1980

              April 18, MftMkh Dafly Conagun.-'pAge-3'
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Letters to the Editor
Protest
about Iranians as a whole by seeing the
reactions, of- a: few extremists, but
rather take time and analyze the whole
My one last remark is that the Iranians
behavior m the gym on Thursday
April 17, does not reflect the attitude of
every Iranian.
Thank you.
Concerned CSUF Student
Collegian praised
To toe Editor:
You've done a super job this semes¬
ter. The Collegian haa been of the high¬
est quality. The stories were well done
and the staff excellent as always. You
have performed most professionally.
Those of us who .said it couldn't be
done were quite obviously mistaken.    1
-   >,    . TomMaurer
.    jvS        Former Editor,
■   Daily Collegian
Sign evaluation forms
TotheEditor:
I would bite to take exception to
several points made in your editorial
on the issue of student evaluation of
instruction. First, no committee of the
Academic Senate has decision-making
powers. Committees may recommend
policies to the Senate for approval or
rejection. If the Senate accepts a policy,
it is in tnin recommended to the Pres¬
ident for approval. The President is.
the decision-maker.
Under the rules of the Senate, it can
order a committee to formulate a specific
policy for recommendation to the Pres¬
ident, regardless of the views of the
majority of a committee. The Personnel
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Committee    was,     however,
divided on this issue.
The real issue, however, is not the
power of the committee but the' policy
recommendation under consideration.
As a member of the Personnel Commit¬
tee, I have received numerous com¬
plaints about the anonymity of student
evaluations. Individuals have protested
against the' appearance of suspiciously
verbatim remarks on evaluations coming
from one course/section while evalua¬
tions from other courses/sections have
never mentioned the complaint. —
Anonymous, evaluations mean that
serious charges of .unprofessional con¬
duct cannot be property ascertained
much less acted upon.
What a student might consider a
frivolous jest, may be misinterpreted by
others.' If. as you suggest, improper
comments are isolated and ' obvious,
there would not be a demand for making
students sign the forms. . -
Under normal circumstances, anon¬
ymous communications about faculty
members must be given to the faculty
member 'directly/ These anonymous
comments cannot he used in any per¬
sonnel consideration. Yet anonymous,
and potentially damaging comments,
can be used if they sre inserted into the
open-ended comments of a student
evaluation form. I believe that the result¬
ing situation is unfair.
Student evaluations are an important ■
measure of tmsehtng effectiveness
which in turn has a significant impact on
RTP recommendations. RTF decisions
have a direct impact on the professional
lives of individual faculty members.
Consequently, faculty members are
legitimately concerned that students
appreciate fully the seiiousnesa of their
comments on these evaluations.
Furthermore, the student drive to
have full voting participation in faculty
personnel matters must be accompanied
by an equally strong commitment on ■
the part of students to accept individual
as well ss collective responsibility for
their words and actions. Each right
carries its own obligations.
Students do, however, have a legiti¬
mate concern regarding the potential
for future retaliation from an instructor.
But let us review for a moment the actual
situation. This arsrument presumes that
many instructors would retaliate for
constructive criticism, however nega¬
tive, which was presented in a forth¬
right manner.
I doubt this would occur. Additionally,
students are not without a number of
protections: Evaluations would not be
available to a faculty member until after
the grades are turned in. If a student felt
threatened or injured in a later course,
he/she could discuss the matter with the
department chair or Dean.
If that was not satisfactory, appeals
could be made to the Student Grievance
Board or the Student Academic Petitions
Committee. Under the present system,
the faculty member ia at jeopardy with¬
out effective redress to respond to
criticisms of incompetence or mis¬
conduct.
The issues are complies tod and, as
the arguments in the Personnel Commit¬
tee indicted, not easily resolved. I feel
that the weight of the argument lies with
signing of evaluation forms. I hope,
. therefore, that the Senate will recom¬
mend, and the President approve, the
latest draft on this issue.
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Beware of Moonies
TotheEditor:
A. terrible fraud is about to strike the
lives of students across the country,
probably including at this campus.
The fraud is being perpetrated by
a group named Collegiate Association
for the Research of Principles, or CARP.
This group is a recruiting front for the
Unification Church cult of Sun Myung
Moon. The Moonies are using the CARP
name as a cover to gain entree with
unsuspecting students.
At the, end of this semester CARP
intends to offer students an attractive
cheap' vacation combined with a group
seminar. The price wiU be irresistably
low, and it will be made to sound like
a lot of fun.
The students who go will discover,
. too late, that they have been taken to
some distant location difficult to escape
from. Every minute of their time will
be structured with high intensity lec¬
tures and bombardments of close per¬
sonal attention.
They will discover that they are allow¬
ed no time alone to think; that they must
express no doubts about what they are
being told; that fo fact they are in a
brainwashing camp of the Moonies.
The Moonies did exactly this .to.
students from around the country over
Christmas vacation. At scores of col¬
leges, Moonies using the CARP name
gave out flyers sdvertising a 'fan,
sun and surf* vacation seminar in Flor¬
ida.
The price waa only 120 or $30 depend¬
ing on the campus, transportation in¬
cluded. About a hundred studsstts
signed up. When they got off the CARP
, in a YMCA^canm fo tl» awM»Py. waod*.
of central Florida. Only then did many
of the students discover they were fo
the- hands of the Moonies.
As the 'vacation* progressed, local
police carried away squad car loads
of students desperate to escape. Stu¬
dents told reporters, 'It was like a pri¬
son." And, 'Whenever we stood around
talking (they) would be around like spies
to hear what subjects you were talking
about, what your feelings were. We
were pressured to talk about the' lec¬
tures.'
. One student, described by police ss
'very confused* under the intense
Moonie bombardment, later told re¬
porters her mind had been "tampered
with.*
Many students who didn't escape fo
time may have succumbed to the power¬
ful mind control techniques the Uni¬
fication Church employs. Today they are
probably Moonies themselves, believing .
with dull unquestioning that a Korean
businessman is the Messiah.
CABP's next 'vacation,' we have
learned from recent Moon defectors,
will take place the last week of June
or the first week of July fo Boulder or
Denver, Colorado, similar asssions
may be held fo upstate New York and
possibly elsewhere. The CARP recruit-
ers should be on this campus soon.
We know the Moonies inside snd out,
because we ware there. Ex-members
Against Moon is composed of former
Unification Church members who re-
-gained their freedom of mind. We can
testify vary personally about the power
of moonie brain-rape. We foal a -very
strong parannal responsibility to warn
students that the course of their lives,
and their very capacity to function
mentally, are seriously threatened by
CARP'S hmnrsmt sounding vacation
ploy.
Soma of us are former luadtwi fo
CARP ourselves, and   fo our mfod-con-
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