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Fort Collins Coloradoan 7 Friday, May 9, 1975 P.E. controversy headed for Crafts forum slated at CSU A three-week forum on "The Americas," scheduled during Colorado State University's Contemporary Crafts of the Americas: 1975 exhibition, will include professors from several CSU departments and from the universities of Colorado, Wyoming and Denver. Other Voices 1 About this column Other Voices is a column open for use by the general readership of the Coloradoan, and for the views of others, such as commentary from other newspapers and syndicated writers, as deemed appropriate for this column by the editors. Material must be limited to 800 words or less, and will be edited for taste and libel. All contributions must be signed and, when applicable, the occupation or special interests or qualifications of the writer must be included.

'Overexf ending legitimate comment' chairman Alvine Pettine that her contract would not be renewed when it expired at the end of the current school year. This is the second year that Miss Hill's superiors have attempted to terminate her. In the 1973-74 school year then chairman John Nettleton fired her but his decision was overturned by the administration under a different grievance procedure. Nettleton quit as a result and Pettine was appointed acting chairman. Pettine attempted to dismiss Miss Hill, who is also the director of women's intercollegiate athletics, because he claimed she did not satisfy the terms of a letter she signed.

It outlined the steps she was to take toward completion of her doctorate. Hill claimed the letter was invalid because it was signed under duress. UNDER THE current grievance procedure the case would have been closed if the decision to uphold Mi.ss Hill's appeal had been 4-1. or 5-0. However, since th? decision was a simple majority, Pettine can ap-peal and has done so.

The next step is for CSU Disputes Officer Daniel Lyons to request a list of qi jalified outside arbitrators from either the Federal The acting chairman of the physical education department at Colorado State University Thursday appealed the decision of a faculty committee not to uphold his dismissal of a controversial professor. On a 3-2 vote Wednesday a Review Committee, established under CSU grievance procedures, decided instead to uphold the appeal of P.E. professor Mary Alice Hill from her dismissal. She had been notified last November by acting Wallpaper Headboards and valances are attractive when decorated with wallpaper. arbitration Mediation and Conciliation Service or the American Arbitration Association.

The arbitrator, called a hearing examiner under university procedures, finally selected will review the case, possibly hear arguments, and make a decision. This decision will be passed to the school's governing board, which will then uphold it or make its own decision. PIERCED in a-4 Poisoned sheep found near Rifle DENVER (AP) Four sheep carcasses containing high concentrations of thallium sulfate, a predator poison, have been found on the range near Rifle, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Thursday. The carcasses were discovered in the same area where numerous poisoned eagles have been found in recent weeks.

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The Traitors will be shown at 8 p.m. Saturday in the Engineering Building Auditorium, and Cuba at 8 p.m. May 24 in the Student Center Theater. Throughout the three-week forum, Latin American works in translation and Western Hemisphere periodicals will be on display at the CSU Libraries. Nederland woman died of blows to head BOULDER, Colo.

(AP) -A Jefferson County coroner's report issued Thursday said an 18-year-old Nederland woman, whose body was found last Friday, died of massive head injuries from blows with a blunt object. The report said Melanie Cooley had been dead for about two weeks when her body was found near Coal Creek Canyon by a road crew. Detectives said a large rock was found nearby and may have been the weapon used in the attack. The young woman had been reported missing April 15 when she failed to return home from school. The coroner's report said she apparently died about three days later.

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There are undoubtedly ways in which we could have better carried out and made known our concern over these things. Our new board members will perhaps be able to help us do better in these regards. But please know that even in the past we have been listening and have wished to be responsive; and we will try now to improve upon the way in which we have been doing our work. We also wish to assure the public that we have not had private or closed board meetings to discuss the public's business except where such meetings have been announced in advance and the privileged subject matter identified. Neither are any school board members in-tentionally denied the opportunity to give full range and voice to their views.

Unanimous votes are often better understood and the range of unanimity much narrowed as one listens to the discussion preceding voting and the comments of board members made concurrently with the casting of their vote. All people who run for' public office have dominance characteristics. Maybe this is good. Maybe it's bad. But one result to which I will testify is that no one or two persons have so dominated this board as to subject the others to their personal will in any significant way.

Supt. Webber's counsel is rejected or modified often and he takes it in relative good spirit. As chairman I have been as much directed by the other board members, sometimes very abruptly and straightforwardly and sometimes through my awareness of their views and interests, as I have given direction. My role in part has to do with the organization of the board's business so that it may be conducted in a sensible and orderly way, but always with due process and respect for the rights of minorities, on and off the board, to be heard. The board intends to be, and I hope actually is, reasonably open and considerate of criticisms directed its way whether from its individual constituents or the media.

We know that's part of our job; we believe that creative tension is good, and that if i we listen and are challenged a better result will have been attained for all con-, cerned. Editors, as other citizens, have opinions about how well we in-. dividually and jointly as a board do our jobs. They are entitled to their opinions and to express them editorially or otherwise. It is to be i hoped that they will be given weight as their judgment is considered sound and their motivation based in public interest.

THE FOREGOING has been a general statement of intentions and commitments to the public. The following is a personal statement of opinion concerning one Don McMillen who is apparently an owner, 1 publisher and editor: Up until his last publication, I have con-f sidered Mr. McMillen's editorial remarks relative to EUGENE MITCHELL Mr. Webber, myself and the board in general to be often questionable but nevertheless within the range of permissable comment that we had to tolerate even listen to. But in his publication (Triangle Review) of May 1, 1975, Mr.

McMillen has purported to put the condemning and objectionable words in my own mouth by claiming to quote me from, as it appears, his personal knowledge. This goes beyond editorial comment and opinion and I think myself to have no choice but to respond. Mr. McMillen is speaking and publishing an untruth. What he has said is totally and inexcusably false; both as to the quoted statements and again as to the innuendo or impression that an average reader would derive from the falsely quoted words and sentences.

I. am of the opinion that Mr. McMillen suffers from a more serious conflict of interest than any he has ever yet, through his newspaper, sought to point out as burdening others. Namely, that in his own effort to survive and to dominate he has deliberately chosen to sacrifice the best interests of our local public institutions, and the reputations of those who serve them, to his own personal need for attention in order to sell papers and advertising. I further suspect that his false quotation has been intentionally designed and fabricated so as to set up and carry his "cute" and inflamatory following sentence; and then his next sentence, which, in a manner condemned by responsible journalists, smears the rest of the board (persons whom I say have been good, hard working and independent minded persons) by virtue of their association with the obviously crude type (me) he has purported to quote.

The McMillen sequence that offends me is this: The school board president reacted to recent Triangle Review criticism by telling friends, "They are accusing me of being a dictator. So what? That's the way I handle things. We don't think there is room for a dictator at the head of our school board. Likewise, we have little respect for school board members who allow themselves to be dominated. Surely McMillen can build a newspaper and make his contribution to this community without debasing truth and overextending the range of legitimate comment and inference.

Maybe he has a generalized defense, but he has none to the falseness of the quotation imputed to me. A contest on that point will have someone quickly under the onus of perjury. Eugene Mitchell, chairman of the Poudre Rl Board of Education, presented the above statement Wednesday night following the canvass of Tuesday's school board vote. HER DAY-MAY11TH 15.S9-49.S9 Sale! Into-Summer Dresses Orig. 26.00-70.00 Dresses, costumes Pantsuits, weekenders Sizes 8-1 8 and 1 4 '2 -22 'i Boulevard Dresses, Town and Country, Misses' Moderate Dresses, Women's World Fashion Floor FOOTHILLS MALL 804 College JF 482-4406 If Shop 9:30 to 9:00 Monday through Saturday Noon to 5:00 Sunday Phone 493-7300.