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EDITOR'S NOTE: ,n,s is me second in 0JZiesJ* J!—'?— witb Cordon Riddle, who resigned as Associated Stu¬ dent President of April 6. He agreed t the interveiws to speak r~ ' Norman Baxter felt the students didn i have any business sticking their noses '"i?"^**1 'l "<*tnie' ft tnattv arfected a tot of people on this campus, particu¬ larly from the School of Business, it urn morvetws to speak on issues that larfy from the School confronted student government while he affected faculty morale was in office. Did H affect vo-it Me as an individual? ByTOMMAURER You as a Business major. Daily Collegian Editor Oh, I think so. I think it's evident that faculty members in the School of Busi- Did you feel that your relationship ness had a real tow morale after that with CSUF President Norman A. Baxter happened, they felt devastated beca was strained? Oh, absolutely The relationship was never one that had any real redeeming qualities to it You'll have to remember that our slogan, when I say our slogan I mean the United Students stogan-the ticket that I was associated wlth-our basic battle cry was 'cooperation, not confrontation ' It was a term dreamed up by Russ (-.reer our campaign manager, which I thought fit in very well to the type of style that we wanted to have. And it was really directed towards the administra¬ tors and Norman Baxter So we had hoped for the best in our relationship (with Baxter) But now you think the slogan should have been reversed? Absolutely We should have said confrontation, not cooperation.' You know, a faculty member came up to me at the beginning of the fall semes¬ ter and told me that the slogan was really naive I was sort of taken back at the time, but when I look back at it now he was right It was a bit naive in regard's to how to approach Norman Baxter to beein with ■ Did you think that Baxter is inade¬ quate In his Job? He has some redeeming qualities, but nis personality makes him basically incompetent for the job that he has Did President Baxter ever make the student, feel that they had a role In the decisions concerning students, or that student input waa valued I Not at all. Anyone who has met Norman Baxter realizes that he is a very insecure individual. He's a very uptight insecure man. ' That insecurity turns into a lot of para¬ noia whenever someone speaks out not just against him, but speaks out contrary to the way he feels about a particular issue. That makes him very paranoid With that type of paranoia going on in iu°^/C!' *2 e"i1 *"• that *'« lmP«- sible to develop those relationships that are vital to a university president So basically, my assessment of him is that his personality is a very insecure personality and has made him inade¬ quate for the job of university president ■•eppeneo; tney felt devastated because long that whenever we they had had such a good relationship regards to him that w( (then Legislative Vice President) and David Pinuelas (then College Union Vice President) delivered that letter to his off ice Baxter almost hit the roof You know the fact that we even had the gall to come in there and ask about it So that was really the start of the bad thing Did Baxter ever think that there was "Hjcethan a coincidence that the execu¬ tive officers were business majors I Oh, absolutely, yes He felt all ye" long that whenever we did something Gordon Riddle paints angry portjt of President Norman A. Baxter ^-.r!-* *•« *• reUtlorwhlp between student government and Norman Baxter became uneasy after the Buzick incident. ,J f!?fTer,y ""rounded the June tiring of Business Dean William Buzick oyPT*f-*dent Norman Baxter. The dis- What ultimately happened was th* the three executive officers got a meet- ing with Baxter to discuss some things Although he didn't say ft was to discuss the Buzick thing, when we went" in there - all we wanted to know about was Buzick 1 and why he was fired. So that's what we M talked about ^ Who was at that meeting I Or Baxter was there. Dr. Volpp was there Dave Ditora, Dave Pinuelas and myself What happened when the meeting started! " ,KWel1, 'Lwas ST* °* '""">• ** r*'j*d the issue of the School of Business build¬ ing and he tried to raise a defense in terms of why we couldn't have a School of Business building here. He brought out these books that stated something like, FTE (full-time equivalence) build¬ ing ratio says that you are only allocated so much classroom space according to trie t ifc you had And apparantly he stated that Fresno Mate already had too many classrooms for our FTE He never really addressed *• fact but he implied that he and Buzick had had great disagreement about that and that he was defending He never came out and ulrf -k- k. fired Buzick f ">° **« why he This is sort of a scary thing, but Presi¬ dent Baxter implied to us, and I can't even give you any quote, but he implied that there was some deep dark secret about Buzick that if it was ever found out that he would be vindicated, Who would be vindicated? ^ Baxter would be vindicated for firing VVhat implications were there. xJli nevur rea"v Came 0ul a"d *aid anything but just that, well, guys, you know there ■ s more to it than whai rneeZ *e eye I 'm sure that he implied some type of insubordinate conduct on the part of Dean Buzick The tone of his voice and h!, ™e k! If COflver"tion was such that maybe there was some kind of wanf'S! J0'"8 ? tHat no °ne wouW "*■ want to know about. D*d you get the' Impression that the action was more Mian Ms •"subordinate action waa mor ■mpaignjng for the er really explained you that? reasons that muMi resulted trom a disagreement Qy,. relationship with Baxter between the two over Baxter's proposed downhill. The first thing we did was that to minion computer center/office build- - with Dean Buzick. Dean Buzick got along being asked to do it or coerced to do it by great with the faculty. He got along either faculty members or Dean Buzick great with the students, he had a great himself. He felt that we couldn't have rapport going with students. Then, all come up with that stuff Jrtthn|lkr,^t W" implied- And on the art of (the executive officers) Dave an^aleTr^v T* ^itant ,01™* '« thU i a?°5i,,on on the Buzick-Baxter don?»k^.^mV^"' 'Cod' "■»« B m don t know the real story?' stoSw^ "" ** ■"■ «*■* the real No. But the students went ahead and made a position anyway? Well, not directly, no. Not at that ...... . . „ * "°*c time. We never made a position on any- r^upw^ha^onourown_ tnjng ^^ ^ ^ ^ ■"£ outhat? Baxter until December. «-«■---«-• ™ two over Baxter'» pre ** million computer center/office ouiio- Ing. Buzick fell me money should go for more classrooms.) Absolutely. 'It"""6 *" bre*k "■ *• •*••• No, not directly but |'m on,,n^. Wny'•'•"is* at's what his feeling was. He feTtZ a™*!" «!*jf •"' '" the very reason icause we were Business majors that ~* . ' know «xact,V what was Well, first of all, the Buzick issue was a personnel relationship and one that i wa didn't know exactly what was - - .— ...«-..». w.uw was wax oecause we were Business majors that going on. |n retrospect, I don't think « group of us, of not only the executive our loyalties lied there and not with the there was anything going on I mean I officers-who incidently happened to be whole university. don't know of anything. I think he business majors-but also a few people But then it goes beyond that. Baxter implied those things simply to get us from the School of Business, wrote knew damn well whenever he fired off his ass about the whole thing. Baxter a letter requesting to get together Buzick that there were going to be Did he ever bring up the subject to with him to find out why he fired Dean problems. you again? Buzick. What problems did the students No, but it's really weird, President I wasn't present, but David Ditora preterit? Baxter has never got along with student leaders. As soon as you start doing to let Baxter know where I was coming something contrary to what he wants you ' from on a specific issue. to do,...it's almost funny, but when I | hand-delivered that. I set up a meet- went into his office after that I felt like ing with him and hand-delivered ft to I was in the first grade and I had to go him the day that I sent the letter see the principal. That's not really a Did he know that you were coming good atmosphere to work under. with itl Why did you feel like that; who made I don't know if he did or not you (eel that way? What was his res-jaws- when van gat Well, Baxter is the type of individual there and he saw the letter? that if you're realty going to address Well, we talked about a tot of other tough issues and things that you wanted issues, such as the emergency phone dent government considered the most important issue of the year and that was on the issue of implementing tuition within the system. Do you think he satisfied the Senate's ), he talked all around it. He one that people feel comfortable working with. The president should be able to go to the faculty and go to the students and communicate with them, and even maybe disagree with them honestly over with a firm idea about faculty feel that he is an advocate of and that he didn't want you to have, y never knew when he was going to blow up. You always got that impression that he was going to lash out at you and just realty get mad and start screaming or yelling at you. Did he? No, not really. After that meeting about Buzick, did working relationship? Well, we worked with a couple of other administrators on things that ultimately had to have his approval For example, the emergency phone system was something he had to ulti¬ mately approve. That was one thing we worked together on, but then we didn't even work with Baxter directly, all he ever did was sign off on it. Did the student government, then, ever attempt to establish a working relationship with Baxter? Absolutely. Even in that meeting about Buzick we talked about other things, and one thing that came up was that we urged him to establish a relation- system, the beer Issue, and the last ue I had on my little agenda -I wanted make it last-was that I explained to n why we were taking this position Oh, i what his position was, whether i he supported tuition. Ail he dio was describe the situation, much like a reporter would, which was fine, but we knew what the situation was. We wanted him to come and say what he thought Another thing we urged him to was that if he had things so good on Buzick, if he had the supposed 'goods' on Buzick, why doesn't he come out and address the whole Issue; to tell the truth? And from what I understand, other administrators urged the same ck> He didn't say much, and he never really said he wanted to get together with us even though we urged him to. Didn't the AS Senate attempt to meet in small groups with Baxter? They did He met with a few of them. Nothing other than that ever came out of that. What wu the purpose of meeting in The idea was to let him meet some of the student government people, and let him know what they are all about; that they are not a bunch of ogres sitting over there conspiring to do him in Last week. The Daily Collegian put out an interview by Mike Fitzgerald with Baxter (see April 24 kssue) where he addressed student govenwaent. Were Well, he said in of student government's role in the university, 'student government is here to render services to the student body that the university can't, either by law or by budget or just by practicality ' Well, that's sort of a narrow view of what we're here for. I would have been much more pleased if he would have said, student government is here to advocate for students, their positions on academic Issues, their issues on budget¬ ary matters. That's our primary role, and that doesn't cost a lot of money. It costs some, but the money we have we use for programming, mainly, because it' s the students' money so why not give it back to them in programming But Norman Baxter does not consider that as our role on this campus. He thinks that we should be good boys and good girls and, 'oh, yeah, let's put on a program for students and don't have them concerned with any real important decision-making on the campus ' How do we change that! Get rid of him. Oh, I still think he does. And that he thinks that someone put us up to the position we took and put us up to advo¬ cating that he leave the campus take that further strained the relation¬ ship with Baxter? One that comes to mind, and that was really the big one, was when we re¬ quested that the Trustees conduct a formal review of Baxter. That letter that I sent to the Chancellor stated that we had a great amount of concern about the administrative state of affairs, and that we would like to see a Ml review of the situation. One thing that I always felt that I wanted to do was , -, and he instantly chal- about it. I think he basically supports " lenged our credibility. He didn't yell and tuition. scream, but he went through a slow boil whh all the presta-re that Baxter's Finally, when I left the room, he was just been under from both the faculty and the shaking his head. students, what's keeping hem here? He accused us of not having a legiti- President Baxter Is convinced that mate base, because students don't vote he's done a good job. And I think he's in great turnouts. He goes, 'well, you convinced that he got a bad deal from a know, you guys aren't even legitimate' lot of people. He feels that he should be He said, 'only 10 percent vote in your allowed to stay Besides, I don't think elections.' be has another job. After the Senate caBed lor a review, But you don't think he's done a good what was the reUtlo-ioMp Uke? Jab. Well, the cornmunication was pretty No, I don't at all. Particularly In much non-existant, except for what addressing the two major constituent absolutely had to be done. groups on this campus, the faculty and " "sow up at the Senate ance. thestudents. requested him to show up at Leadership comes from the top. You If you can't get an individual who can recognize your role on the campus, then what choices do you have? I think he's beyond re-educating. Sa you'd Uke to see someone replace I m confident there will be. I think that Norman A. Baxter will not be president of this university in August. At least by August and probably not after May Then you have some idea «i what the trustees are going ted. in May. Well, all you can do is speculate, but my speculation is bom out of contacts with a lot of people, contacts that most students don't have. And I'm convinced that he'll go. It's sort of exciting In a way. It's sad rman Baxter, you know, that his has to end here like that. But on the other hand, it will be a progressive step for the university. You get upset when wa la* about President Baxter. Why? What maim you so angry? Well, I guess because you are only a student leader once; you are only stu¬ dent president once. In retrospect. Cod, in some ways I resent.. why me, why did I have to be placed in this situation, this ugh/, ugh/ situation? Why the hell did it have to happen to me? I wish that I had conducted myself In more positive attitude toward the Yes, w I him to snov ,s an issue* have to be able to create an atmosphere, SeePagcS
Object Description
Title | 1979_05 The Daily Collegian May 1979 |
Alternative Title | Daily Collegian (California State University, Fresno) |
Publisher | Associated Students of Fresno State, Fresno, Calif. |
Publication Date | 1979 |
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Subject | California State University, Fresno -- Periodicals. |
Contributors | Associated Students of Fresno State. |
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Title | May 2, 1979 Pg. 4-5 |
Alternative Title | Daily Collegian (California State University, Fresno) |
Publisher | Associated Students of Fresno State, Fresno, Calif. |
Publication Date | 1979 |
Description | Daily (except weedends) during the school year. Microfilm. Palo Alto, Calif.: BMI Library Microfilms, 1986- microfilm reels; 35 mm. Vol.1, no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- |
Subject | California State University, Fresno -- Periodicals. |
Contributors | Associated Students of Fresno State. |
Coverage | Vol.1 no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- to present |
Format | Microfilm reels, 35 mm. |
Technical Information | Scanned at 600 dpi; TIFF; Microfilm ScanPro 2000 "E-image data" |
Language | eng |
Full-Text-Search | EDITOR'S NOTE: ,n,s is me second in 0JZiesJ* J!—'?— witb Cordon Riddle, who resigned as Associated Stu¬ dent President of April 6. He agreed t the interveiws to speak r~ ' Norman Baxter felt the students didn i have any business sticking their noses '"i?"^**1 'l "<*tnie' ft tnattv arfected a tot of people on this campus, particu¬ larly from the School of Business, it urn morvetws to speak on issues that larfy from the School confronted student government while he affected faculty morale was in office. Did H affect vo-it Me as an individual? ByTOMMAURER You as a Business major. Daily Collegian Editor Oh, I think so. I think it's evident that faculty members in the School of Busi- Did you feel that your relationship ness had a real tow morale after that with CSUF President Norman A. Baxter happened, they felt devastated beca was strained? Oh, absolutely The relationship was never one that had any real redeeming qualities to it You'll have to remember that our slogan, when I say our slogan I mean the United Students stogan-the ticket that I was associated wlth-our basic battle cry was 'cooperation, not confrontation ' It was a term dreamed up by Russ (-.reer our campaign manager, which I thought fit in very well to the type of style that we wanted to have. And it was really directed towards the administra¬ tors and Norman Baxter So we had hoped for the best in our relationship (with Baxter) But now you think the slogan should have been reversed? Absolutely We should have said confrontation, not cooperation.' You know, a faculty member came up to me at the beginning of the fall semes¬ ter and told me that the slogan was really naive I was sort of taken back at the time, but when I look back at it now he was right It was a bit naive in regard's to how to approach Norman Baxter to beein with ■ Did you think that Baxter is inade¬ quate In his Job? He has some redeeming qualities, but nis personality makes him basically incompetent for the job that he has Did President Baxter ever make the student, feel that they had a role In the decisions concerning students, or that student input waa valued I Not at all. Anyone who has met Norman Baxter realizes that he is a very insecure individual. He's a very uptight insecure man. ' That insecurity turns into a lot of para¬ noia whenever someone speaks out not just against him, but speaks out contrary to the way he feels about a particular issue. That makes him very paranoid With that type of paranoia going on in iu°^/C!' *2 e"i1 *"• that *'« lmP«- sible to develop those relationships that are vital to a university president So basically, my assessment of him is that his personality is a very insecure personality and has made him inade¬ quate for the job of university president ■•eppeneo; tney felt devastated because long that whenever we they had had such a good relationship regards to him that w( (then Legislative Vice President) and David Pinuelas (then College Union Vice President) delivered that letter to his off ice Baxter almost hit the roof You know the fact that we even had the gall to come in there and ask about it So that was really the start of the bad thing Did Baxter ever think that there was "Hjcethan a coincidence that the execu¬ tive officers were business majors I Oh, absolutely, yes He felt all ye" long that whenever we did something Gordon Riddle paints angry portjt of President Norman A. Baxter ^-.r!-* *•« *• reUtlorwhlp between student government and Norman Baxter became uneasy after the Buzick incident. ,J f!?fTer,y ""rounded the June tiring of Business Dean William Buzick oyPT*f-*dent Norman Baxter. The dis- What ultimately happened was th* the three executive officers got a meet- ing with Baxter to discuss some things Although he didn't say ft was to discuss the Buzick thing, when we went" in there - all we wanted to know about was Buzick 1 and why he was fired. So that's what we M talked about ^ Who was at that meeting I Or Baxter was there. Dr. Volpp was there Dave Ditora, Dave Pinuelas and myself What happened when the meeting started! " ,KWel1, 'Lwas ST* °* '""">• ** r*'j*d the issue of the School of Business build¬ ing and he tried to raise a defense in terms of why we couldn't have a School of Business building here. He brought out these books that stated something like, FTE (full-time equivalence) build¬ ing ratio says that you are only allocated so much classroom space according to trie t ifc you had And apparantly he stated that Fresno Mate already had too many classrooms for our FTE He never really addressed *• fact but he implied that he and Buzick had had great disagreement about that and that he was defending He never came out and ulrf -k- k. fired Buzick f ">° **« why he This is sort of a scary thing, but Presi¬ dent Baxter implied to us, and I can't even give you any quote, but he implied that there was some deep dark secret about Buzick that if it was ever found out that he would be vindicated, Who would be vindicated? ^ Baxter would be vindicated for firing VVhat implications were there. xJli nevur rea"v Came 0ul a"d *aid anything but just that, well, guys, you know there ■ s more to it than whai rneeZ *e eye I 'm sure that he implied some type of insubordinate conduct on the part of Dean Buzick The tone of his voice and h!, ™e k! If COflver"tion was such that maybe there was some kind of wanf'S! J0'"8 ? tHat no °ne wouW "*■ want to know about. D*d you get the' Impression that the action was more Mian Ms •"subordinate action waa mor ■mpaignjng for the er really explained you that? reasons that muMi resulted trom a disagreement Qy,. relationship with Baxter between the two over Baxter's proposed downhill. The first thing we did was that to minion computer center/office build- - with Dean Buzick. Dean Buzick got along being asked to do it or coerced to do it by great with the faculty. He got along either faculty members or Dean Buzick great with the students, he had a great himself. He felt that we couldn't have rapport going with students. Then, all come up with that stuff Jrtthn|lkr,^t W" implied- And on the art of (the executive officers) Dave an^aleTr^v T* ^itant ,01™* '« thU i a?°5i,,on on the Buzick-Baxter don?»k^.^mV^"' 'Cod' "■»« B m don t know the real story?' stoSw^ "" ** ■"■ «*■* the real No. But the students went ahead and made a position anyway? Well, not directly, no. Not at that ...... . . „ * "°*c time. We never made a position on any- r^upw^ha^onourown_ tnjng ^^ ^ ^ ^ ■"£ outhat? Baxter until December. «-«■---«-• ™ two over Baxter'» pre ** million computer center/office ouiio- Ing. Buzick fell me money should go for more classrooms.) Absolutely. 'It"""6 *" bre*k "■ *• •*••• No, not directly but |'m on,,n^. Wny'•'•"is* at's what his feeling was. He feTtZ a™*!" «!*jf •"' '" the very reason icause we were Business majors that ~* . ' know «xact,V what was Well, first of all, the Buzick issue was a personnel relationship and one that i wa didn't know exactly what was - - .— ...«-..». w.uw was wax oecause we were Business majors that going on. |n retrospect, I don't think « group of us, of not only the executive our loyalties lied there and not with the there was anything going on I mean I officers-who incidently happened to be whole university. don't know of anything. I think he business majors-but also a few people But then it goes beyond that. Baxter implied those things simply to get us from the School of Business, wrote knew damn well whenever he fired off his ass about the whole thing. Baxter a letter requesting to get together Buzick that there were going to be Did he ever bring up the subject to with him to find out why he fired Dean problems. you again? Buzick. What problems did the students No, but it's really weird, President I wasn't present, but David Ditora preterit? Baxter has never got along with student leaders. As soon as you start doing to let Baxter know where I was coming something contrary to what he wants you ' from on a specific issue. to do,...it's almost funny, but when I | hand-delivered that. I set up a meet- went into his office after that I felt like ing with him and hand-delivered ft to I was in the first grade and I had to go him the day that I sent the letter see the principal. That's not really a Did he know that you were coming good atmosphere to work under. with itl Why did you feel like that; who made I don't know if he did or not you (eel that way? What was his res-jaws- when van gat Well, Baxter is the type of individual there and he saw the letter? that if you're realty going to address Well, we talked about a tot of other tough issues and things that you wanted issues, such as the emergency phone dent government considered the most important issue of the year and that was on the issue of implementing tuition within the system. Do you think he satisfied the Senate's ), he talked all around it. He one that people feel comfortable working with. The president should be able to go to the faculty and go to the students and communicate with them, and even maybe disagree with them honestly over with a firm idea about faculty feel that he is an advocate of and that he didn't want you to have, y never knew when he was going to blow up. You always got that impression that he was going to lash out at you and just realty get mad and start screaming or yelling at you. Did he? No, not really. After that meeting about Buzick, did working relationship? Well, we worked with a couple of other administrators on things that ultimately had to have his approval For example, the emergency phone system was something he had to ulti¬ mately approve. That was one thing we worked together on, but then we didn't even work with Baxter directly, all he ever did was sign off on it. Did the student government, then, ever attempt to establish a working relationship with Baxter? Absolutely. Even in that meeting about Buzick we talked about other things, and one thing that came up was that we urged him to establish a relation- system, the beer Issue, and the last ue I had on my little agenda -I wanted make it last-was that I explained to n why we were taking this position Oh, i what his position was, whether i he supported tuition. Ail he dio was describe the situation, much like a reporter would, which was fine, but we knew what the situation was. We wanted him to come and say what he thought Another thing we urged him to was that if he had things so good on Buzick, if he had the supposed 'goods' on Buzick, why doesn't he come out and address the whole Issue; to tell the truth? And from what I understand, other administrators urged the same ck> He didn't say much, and he never really said he wanted to get together with us even though we urged him to. Didn't the AS Senate attempt to meet in small groups with Baxter? They did He met with a few of them. Nothing other than that ever came out of that. What wu the purpose of meeting in The idea was to let him meet some of the student government people, and let him know what they are all about; that they are not a bunch of ogres sitting over there conspiring to do him in Last week. The Daily Collegian put out an interview by Mike Fitzgerald with Baxter (see April 24 kssue) where he addressed student govenwaent. Were Well, he said in of student government's role in the university, 'student government is here to render services to the student body that the university can't, either by law or by budget or just by practicality ' Well, that's sort of a narrow view of what we're here for. I would have been much more pleased if he would have said, student government is here to advocate for students, their positions on academic Issues, their issues on budget¬ ary matters. That's our primary role, and that doesn't cost a lot of money. It costs some, but the money we have we use for programming, mainly, because it' s the students' money so why not give it back to them in programming But Norman Baxter does not consider that as our role on this campus. He thinks that we should be good boys and good girls and, 'oh, yeah, let's put on a program for students and don't have them concerned with any real important decision-making on the campus ' How do we change that! Get rid of him. Oh, I still think he does. And that he thinks that someone put us up to the position we took and put us up to advo¬ cating that he leave the campus take that further strained the relation¬ ship with Baxter? One that comes to mind, and that was really the big one, was when we re¬ quested that the Trustees conduct a formal review of Baxter. That letter that I sent to the Chancellor stated that we had a great amount of concern about the administrative state of affairs, and that we would like to see a Ml review of the situation. One thing that I always felt that I wanted to do was , -, and he instantly chal- about it. I think he basically supports " lenged our credibility. He didn't yell and tuition. scream, but he went through a slow boil whh all the presta-re that Baxter's Finally, when I left the room, he was just been under from both the faculty and the shaking his head. students, what's keeping hem here? He accused us of not having a legiti- President Baxter Is convinced that mate base, because students don't vote he's done a good job. And I think he's in great turnouts. He goes, 'well, you convinced that he got a bad deal from a know, you guys aren't even legitimate' lot of people. He feels that he should be He said, 'only 10 percent vote in your allowed to stay Besides, I don't think elections.' be has another job. After the Senate caBed lor a review, But you don't think he's done a good what was the reUtlo-ioMp Uke? Jab. Well, the cornmunication was pretty No, I don't at all. Particularly In much non-existant, except for what addressing the two major constituent absolutely had to be done. groups on this campus, the faculty and " "sow up at the Senate ance. thestudents. requested him to show up at Leadership comes from the top. You If you can't get an individual who can recognize your role on the campus, then what choices do you have? I think he's beyond re-educating. Sa you'd Uke to see someone replace I m confident there will be. I think that Norman A. Baxter will not be president of this university in August. At least by August and probably not after May Then you have some idea «i what the trustees are going ted. in May. Well, all you can do is speculate, but my speculation is bom out of contacts with a lot of people, contacts that most students don't have. And I'm convinced that he'll go. It's sort of exciting In a way. It's sad rman Baxter, you know, that his has to end here like that. But on the other hand, it will be a progressive step for the university. You get upset when wa la* about President Baxter. Why? What maim you so angry? Well, I guess because you are only a student leader once; you are only stu¬ dent president once. In retrospect. Cod, in some ways I resent.. why me, why did I have to be placed in this situation, this ugh/, ugh/ situation? Why the hell did it have to happen to me? I wish that I had conducted myself In more positive attitude toward the Yes, w I him to snov ,s an issue* have to be able to create an atmosphere, SeePagcS |