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Centennial Overture" by Robert Palmer
and Elliott Carter's "Symphonic Variations."
The concert and a colloquium on
May 9 with all the composers were sponsored
by the Cornell Latin American
Year.
Trustees Adopt
Record Budget
The Board of Trustees has adopted a
record $149,722,702 budget for the university
for 1966-67, reflecting efforts to
keep salaries high, to stress undergraduate
education, and to place more emphasis
on the humanities. Several guidelines
were followed in preparing the budget,
which is $11,538,885 larger than that of
the previous year. One was that enrollment
would be maintained at present or
below present levels in most colleges. Another
was that tuition and fees would be
increased by $150 a year in the endowed
undergraduate colleges and $100
in the state colleges, the Law School,
and the Graduate School of Business and
Public Administration. A third guideline
was that new positions - both academic
and non-academic - which bear directly
on upgrading the quality of instruction
would take precedence over other positions.
Much of the emphasis in the new
budget is on the College of Arts and Sciences
with stress on the humanities in the
form of new key appointments, and
support of fellowships and faculty research.
Academic Probation
Abolished
The university faculty has abolished
academic probation on a university-wide
basis. As of next fall, no student will
have his extracurricular activities curtailed
for academic reasons; probation
as formerly defined will apply only in
disciplinary cases.
Replacing academic probation will be
a system of warnings given to students
with poor academic records. These
warnings will be handled entirely by the
individual schools and colleges and will
not be placed on a student's permanent
record.
Deferment Tests
And Vietnam
On May 17, the anniversary of last
year's Barton Hall ROTC sit-down, about
a hundred students participated in an 11-
hour sit-in at Day Hall near the office of
President James A. Perkins. Seven stu-
Mark Barlow, EdD '62, vice president for student affairs, presents the Eastern
College Athletic Conference Merit Medal to Stephen Cram '66 as Cornell's outstanding
senior student-athlete of 1965-1966. Cram, leading scorer on the basketball
team for the last three years, has been on the All-Ivy second team twice and
the All-Ivy first team once. In his first three years in the College of Architecture
he was No. 1 in his class.
dents managed to get into the President's
reception room.
This time the protest was against the
university's role in administering the selective
service deferment tests.
The demonstrators, led by a graduate
student who is head of the local Students
for a Democratic Society movement, entered
Day Hall about 2:00 PM. Perkins
was in New York attending a Trustees
meeting but returned during the evening
and met with some of the demonstrators.
The president told them that he would
not be forced into any decisions by a sitin,
but did agree to discuss the administration
of the tests with his executive staff
and members of the faculty.
The next day the President issued a
statement, saying that the administration
and faculty had reaffirmed the university's
position and that the tests would go on as
scheduled.
Perkins termed the sit-in demonstration
unlawful and "not a proper means for the
making of political points."
"No reasonable discussion of so vital
an issue as the operation of the selective
service system can or will take place under
the pressure of unlawful demonstrations,"
he said.
The seven students who were in the reception
room were ordered to appear before
the Undergraduate Judiciary Board.
Meanwhile, the Executive Board of
Student Government was passing, 7-1,
a resolution condemning United States
policy in Vietnam. And at the same meeting,
also by a 7-1 vote, the board added
its protest against the university's administration
of the selective service tests.
On the U.S. role in Vietnam the board
recommended:
"That the United States support free
elections in South Vietnam under United
Nations auspices.
"That the United States cease the bombings
of North and South Vietnam immediately.
"That, recognizing that the United
States cannot honorably remain in South
Vietnam, our government establish an immediate
cease-fire and plan for ultimate
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