band, entertained the crowds Wednesday at the Crafts Faire with Chicano music in celebration of Cinco de Mayo, which commemorates the Mexican victory over
ing skies, will continue today and Friday in Alumni Park. DT photo by Paula Daniels.
Faculty Senate reaffirms tenure principle for full-time faculty
By Don LaPlante
Associate Editor
The Faculty Senate adopted a proposal from the Committee on Academic Policies and Procedures on Wednesday that reaffirmed the principle of tenure for members of the faculty on full-time appointment. The secret ballot vote was 66 to 11.
In doing so. the senate rejected any proposed special pro-fessiorate that would include full-time regular faculty members or violate national tenure standards.
Faculty on full-time appointment are defined as persons involved primarily in teaching and/or research on a full-time basis with the university.
There are exceptions in certain circumstances, such as persons at the university whose funding comes through soft money.or outside contracts and grants.
The senate approved a limited use of fixed-term renewable contracts and a specialized professoriate under stringent
guidelines only when it is in agreement with the national tenure standards as set forth by the American Assn. of liniver-Professors.
The special titles are designed for research investigators on soft-money contracts. The resolution would allow the titles only in connection with the name of an institute or center and not a department or school. For example, there could be a research professor at the USC
<	areer Center, but there could not be a research professor at the School of Medicine.
The distinction is that if a person is affiliated with an academic-department he would probably be full-time and doing the same functions as a member of the regular faculty.
Another part of the senate resolution emphasized that tenure and promotion are separate processes. Tenure was defined as an appointment that cannot be terminated without due cause with the burden of proof on the university.
A person may receive tenure, but not be promoted to the rank of associate professor, the lowest rank that normally has tenure. Persons with the rank of assistant professor, instructor or lecturer could have tenure now under the senate resolution.
The senate supported the idea of “job security or fixed-term contracts for professional personnel at the university such as part-time faculty, administra-
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IR students to vote again for electors of grad senate members
By Dorothy Reinhold
Assistant City Editor
A new election will be held in the Department of International Relations to choose two representatives who will in turn be responsible for electing student senators from the Graduate School.
The President’s Advisory Council Executive Committee voted Wednesday to require the new election because the previous one held in the department had been fraught with problems.
Margaret Harrington, chairman ofthe PAC Election Commission, said, “There was a significant enough lack of confidence in the previous election procedure to hold another election.”
She said the new election would be held sometime within the next two weeks. Harrington had been in charge ofthe previous election in the department, which was contested in a petition signed by some 20 students within the department.
Two of 50 representatives
The representatives from the department are just two of 50 other representatives chosen from the various schools that are within the Graduate School. The Graduate School is allowed three student senators, who are chosen by the representatives from among themselves.
During the recent senate election, David Blackmar, James Lamb and Renee Jackson-White were elected senators from the Graduate School.
Harrington said that if the results ofthe new election are the same as those ofthe previous one, the senators from the Graduate School will necessarily remain the same. If the Department of International Relations chooses two different representatives than before, she said she is not sure what kind of additional election will be needed for graduate student senators.
Student organization ignored
Tom Johnson, current senate graduate vice-chairman, spearheaded the protest against the department’s election. He said the student organization within the department was ignored, and the election was not fair for that reason.
Harrington said that after the previous election, it became apparent that there was a valid international relations student group, and that it had been inadvertantly ignored.
Before the PAC-sponsored election, the loosely organized Student Senate graduate elections commission, consisting of Rick Ring, Jackson-White and Lamb, had been responsible for conducting the international relations election for representatives.
Lamb was responsible for the international relations department election, the department in which he is currently a graduate student
He held two separate elections for international relations representatives, both of which Blackmar said were blatantly unfair. Lamb claimed that there was no recognized student group within the department, and he distributed notices in mailboxes stating that all students interested in representing the international relations department should signify that by leaving their names with the PAC executive secretary.
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Students protest decision not to rehire Men's West head resident
Housing survey criticized by international students
Some international students have criticized a questionnaire designed to measure the demand for housing in the residence halls during Christmas and Easter vacation.
The questionnaire, which will be distributed this week, will ask students whether they want the halls open during vacations under the condition that there will be a subsequent increase in housing rates.
“The questionnaire looks like an all-or-nothing proposition, where the majority of students are asked to pay for a service they feel they don't need.’’ said Harry Grunt, a counselor for international students.
“In doing so, the office is also denying a service to international and out-of-state students—a service they would benefit from." Grunt said.
Grunt said he did not feel that students wishing to remain on campus during vacation periods would expect other residents to pay any increases.
“But one dorm could be designated as a vacation residence hall, and all residents could be made aware that this dorm would be used to house students during vacation Basically, it would be students help-
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By Bob McLoud
Staff Writer
At least 120 students, all residents of Men’s Residence West, have signed a letter of protest following the decision by the Office for Residential Life not to rehire Vimal Duggal, head resident of the hall. Duggal was the only head resident the office chose not to rehire.
The students’ letter said, “Vimal Duggal has done an outstanding job of developing rapport as well as respect among most of the dorm residents for his open sincere handling ofthe dorm and its problems.”
It went on to say that the students were shocked by the recent actions of Del Weston, associate director of the Office for Residential Life, in refusing to rehire Duggal.
The decision was not entirely up to Weston. There was a seven-member committee to decide on the rehiring of present head residents. Members of the committee were Weston; Hans Reichl, director of residential life; Keith Oda. a resident adviser at Men's West; George
Chamberlain, a student president at Harris Plaza; Mary Tol-man, a representative from Auxiliary Services; Barbara JiJi, programming coordinator for residential life and Ray Penalber, a representative of the minority student task force of the student affairs division.
Weston said it is significant that there was a resident adviser from Men’s West on the committee.
The letter stated that residents of Men’s West should have a say in who runs the hall. Weston said they shouldn’t.
“This is a problem between an employee of the university and the university. It’s a personnel problem. We're concerned with how a person performs on overall job responsibilities. Because Duggal has a faction of students in the dormitory supporting him is commendable, but it will not affect the committee’s decision,’’ Weston said.
Weston refused to comment on why Duggal was not rehired. He said this was a private employee-employer problem and not a public one. He also said it would be an invasion of
Duggal’s privacy to reveal the specifics ofthe decision.
Duggal was informed of the reasons for the decision and Weston said Duggal is aware of the employee grievance procedure. Through this procedure Duggal can protest the committee’s decision. He has not chosen to do so yet, Weston said.
While some students in the dormitory feel that Duggal is responsive to the needs of the dorm residents, others feel Duggal made the hall just a place to live.
Scott McArthur, a sophomore in business said, “All this dorm is good for is a place to live. For people who want activities this isn’t the place. I think it’s his responsibility to get things organized and going.”
Curt Tsujimoto, a sophomore in biomedical engineering, encountered Duggal on a more personal level. “He’s too quicktempered to work with students. People living in our suite have seen him blow up. As time went on we got to know him better, but we got off to a very bad start.”
Duggal was unavailable for comment.
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