the Louisville Cardinal
Vol. XLVI No. S Room 117, Otter Hall, Louisville, Ky. 40208 September 27, 1974
A&S students vote "no"
Photogmph by Rick Yetter
A&S Council President Scott Yeakey conducts vo~ in the UC Building during last
week's referendum. . ·
Cardinal investigation
by Tom Louderback
The A&S student referendum was
rejected by the impressive vote of 698 to
77 in last week's voting. The referendum
was placed on the ballot as part of the
A&S Student Council general elections.
Voter turnout in the election was high
in comparison to other recent student
elections. A total of 788 students, or
about 20 per cent of the A&S enrollment,
voted. ·
The rejected proposition read:
"Resolved: the student body rather than
the student council should elect the
student members of A&S College
Committees."
Current practice allows the Council to
elect the committee members.
A few faculty members had objected
to the practiceo .The contended that the
Council did not legitimately represent the
students. The referendum ·was conducted
at their suggestion.
/
.StudentS -lodge · serious
allegations against Granger
by Kenny Vandevelde
A collection of students and former
students have been making a series of
very serious charges against Dr. JOseph E.
Granger, who teaches ·in the ·
Anthropology Department and is
Director of U of L's Archeological
Survey.
by a University official, the three
dropped particular charges or
substantially modified them.
Throughout, however, the three have
maintained that Granger is unprofessional
and incompetent, and should be frred.
Their first charge is that Granger paid
himself a salary out of grant money
awarded for projects on which he did
little or no work. -
accompany him on his site visits.
Vice-President Dillon, when asked
about his office's reaction to these
charges of mismanagement of funds,
replied "He (Mocas) is completely
ignorant of the procedure as to how
money is handled. It isn't as though cash
were lying around in ash cans so you can
reach in and take it when you want
some."
The rejection of the referendum is a
defeat for those faculty members and a
victory for the A&S Council, which was
seeking ''a vote of confidence."
The referendum results will be
considered by the A&S Plans and Policies
Committee, which is preparing to make a
recommendation to the entire A&S
faculty regarding student representation
on committees. :
However, the results are not binding
on Plans and Po1icies or the A&S faculty.
Council President Scott Yeakey
believes the referendum results will
impress the committee and the faculty.
According to Yeakey, the referendum
"proves the Council is not a clique." :
Vice-President Ian Sonego noted "this
would not have been possible without the
help we received from several student
senators and Speed school students,"
referring to assistance these groups gave
the Council in conducting the election. '
The charges, they say, are serious
enough to warrant Granger's firing from
his teaching and research positions. Their evidence is signed affidavits
testifying that Granger was on the job
sites for only a few minutes in a
non-supervisoey capacity. Among the
signers were Mocas and Smith, who, while
employed by the Survey, · had directed
much of the Survey's field operations.
Dillon said all Survey grant money is -·:"·~.;.-..,.~
Over the past six months they have
taken these charges to the A&S Dean's
Office, to Vice-President for Academic
Affairs John A. Dillon, and to Executive
Vice-President William F. Ekstrom.
According to fonner A&S Dean
Thomas H. Crawford, Granger was denied
tenure last Summer, partially as a result
of these charges. Crawford says, however,
that he never did find out "Where the
truth lay.''
The people making the charges are
Stephen T. Mocas, Edward Smith, and
Chuck Chaney. Moca has a B.A.: in
Anthropology from U of L. Smith and
Chaney are finishing their B.A.'s in
Anthropology here. All three have
worked for the . Archeological SuiVey.
Mocas and Smith were fired; Olaney was
simply not rehired when a grant expired.
The three men came to the Ctudinlll
last week and asked that the CardinJll
print the charges. They said they were
preparing stiD further allegations which
they would have ready at a later date.
The specific allegations made by the
three were difficult to pin down. The
Cardintll found little or no substantiation
for most of the charges. In several
instances, after they were told of
contrary evidence that had been offered
Granger says he spent more time on
the sites than the affidavits claim, but
that Mocas and Smith did not always
Amid student protests
under the control, not of Granger, but of
the Business Office. Granger could not
have paid himself any money without
going through the lllsiness Office, he
said.
Dillon noted that when the three men
first made the allegations several montm
ago, he asked then-Associate ~an John
Sinai "to double-check'' the Smvey's
(Continued on page 2)
Dr. J08eph GlaJIFI'
· Witten resigns as health director
by Kenny Vandevelde
Dr. Carroll Witte~ has resigned as
Director of Student Health, it was
announced Wednesday.
Witten's resignation came apparently
in response to pressure from the Student
Senate. The Senate had passed a motion
saying it "diainetrically opposed" the
hiring of Witten as both an administrator
and a physician, when a full-time
physician was needed.
Student Senate President Greg Price
also commented, after learning of the
resignation,.that Witten's .'\vbole attitude
was wrong" and that Witten acted as if
coming to work for the lh.iversity "was a
tremendous personal sacrifice. n
Price said that he had already intended
to ask Witten to resign, in light of
mounting opposition to the appointment.
Price said he had talked to members of
the Medical School F acuity as well as the
University (Faculty) Senate who also
opposed Witten's appointment.
Price denied there were any political
or personal motives involved in his or the
Senate's protest. He noted that he had
known a week and a half before the
Board meeting that Witten was to be
named, and had not objected until he
discovered Witten would not be a
full-time physician.
''We were just looking for a doctor,"
said Price.
In accepting Witten's resignation,
President James G. Miller said, "'Dr.
Witten has rendered considerable service
to the University in planning its program
of student health care delivery .I hope he
will continue to advise us in these very
important matters."