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Show Student administrative involvement cools issues In interviews, President Fletcher's two assistants, Parry D. Sorenson and F. Martin Erickson, both stressed the idea that an administration must be accessible and responsive to the student body. Erickson, who is Executive Assistant to the President, claims an administration must be more open to student demand than a faculty. Keeping students involved in the actual running of the university makes change possible before an issue has time to grow violent. The university is quite advanced in this respect says Dr. Sorenson. He aids the President in the details of administrative process, taking the load off and screening the mass of paperwork native to any administrative office. Dr. Erickson, on the other hand, acts as a buffer between the masses and President Fletcher, dealing directly with details too small to bother the President with. He also helps to determine administrative policies. Erickson reflects the progressive strain in the University - he feels that grades and degrees are out-moded and that change is necessary, but that it is necessarily slow. F. Martin Erickson Assistant to the President Parry D. Sorensen Assistant to the President 301 |