Students seek voice in pay, tenure decisions for faculty
By Dorothy Reinhold
Assistant City Editor
Students might have a voice in future collective bargaining and the granting of faculty promotion and tenure if upcoming Student Senate proposals are accepted by the President’s Advisory Council Executive Committee.
The Academic Affairs Task Force of the senate has prepared preliminary statements outlining options in these areas, and the senate is expected to produce proposals that will be submitted to the PAC committee for consideration.
David Blackmar. chairman ofthe Student Senate, said, “By some indications, it appears that the faculty will unionize within several years, forcing the university into collective bargaining. If this happens, the students would be left out ofthe process, and students just can’t be excluded.
“We as students have until this time to get our act together to ensure that we are a part of the collective bargaining process, and we are trying to prepare for it now,*’ he said.
Blackmar said students at other universities have been caught unaware when the faculty attheir schools unionized, thus shutting them out of any effective vocal role in the power structure.
“We are not taking a position either way about collective bargaining, we just want to be sure that students are included. The university must accept students as a legitimate third party in the bargaining process. We are a responsible, rational element on campus that can’t be ignored,” he said.
The task force’s statement includes the following options concerning the degree of student involvement:
•End-run bargaining—an informal type of student involvement where student groups will appeal to the governing or legislative bodies of the university and student government will be like a lobbyist who conveys student views.
•Consultation and observation—another informal involvement where students would play a observer/advisory role.
•Coalition bargaining—Students would be used to form coalitions between faculty and administration, and would be an independent element of the bargaining relationship.
•Tripartite bargaining—Students, faculty and administration are independent entities and there must be a unanimous decision before any settlement is reached. Students could create an impasse, since all the groups must agree on the terms ofthe final settlement.
•Collective bargaining—Each ofthe three groups involved will try to reach agreement on matters of joint determination, and students would play a full, third-party role with veto power.
“Our goal is to have the strongest student position—that of being able to force further negotiation through veto power, but whether that will be admitted is yet to be seen,” Blackmar said.
Blackmar said the senate will formulate a proposal based on the task force’s statement that will be presented to the President’s Advisory Council Executive Committee on April 7. He said he expected that the committee would refer the proposal to another body in the PAC structure for further study and consideration, before it is considered by the full PAC.
The second statement prepared by the task force concerned ensuring student involvement in the process of granting promotion and tenure to faculty.
“Our goal is to acquire strong student participation in the process of granting promotion and tenure, because tenure has a major effect on students,” Blackmar said.
“We don’t want to run the process. We aren’t trying to tell anyone that we are capable of judging their professional competence in areas that we don’t know about, but it is only through students that a clear picture can be drawn of a faculty member's performance in the classroom.”
Blackmar said besides classroom performance, research and service to the community are also considered in deciding whether a faculty member deserves a promotion or tenure
“Student evaluation must be one of the criteria for granting these, and I think students would like to be assured that their evaluations are being considered.
“There are student evaluation forms that can be
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Student Senate commission sets up guidelines for spring elections
The newly appointed elections commission ofthe Student Senate conditionally decided Monday to hold spring elections C3r senate seats during the week of April 26, said David Blackmar, chairman of the senate.
Guidelines for the election, which will determine the 12 undergraduate senators from the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, were tentatively proposed.
The deadline for filing a statement of candidacy is 5 p.m. today. “We have no intention of extending the deadline,” Blackmar said. “We have only a few candidates now, but we expect a large number, as we’ve had in the past.”
The weeks of April 5-9 and 19-23 are tentatively scheduled for campaigning._
The commission proposed a revision ofthe election code and campaign regulations. It limited the amount that individuals could spend on their campaigns to $75. The $75 also applies to the amount that can be spent by slates of two or three candidates.
In spring 1975 candidates could spend $105.
“This is one other way to keep elections at a point where everything is above board,” Blackmar said. “We don’t want any trouble with people who might reach to unethical depths to get elected.”
For voting and filing for candidacy purposes, the commission decided to place students in university-owned apartments who signed up for housing in the residence hall category instead of the commuter division. Put-
Deadline error clarified for state scholarships
The deadline for returning renewals for California State Scholarships was Tuesday, not Thursday, as Datelineswest stated on Monday.
A representative from the Financial Aid Office said that the deadline won’t be extended; the California State Student Aid Commission sets up the schedule.
The university’s aid office was not involved.
The state mailed the renewal applications directly to the students and the deadline was included.
If the renewal was not postmarked by Tuesday, the scholarship will probably be cancelled.
ting them in the commuter divi-son had been suggested by the Residence Halls Coordinating Council.
Blackmar said there was some debate on the definition of the student community and this caused the controversy.
“All students living in the student community have to be placed by the Office of Residential Life,” he said. “So technically they should be considered university residents.”
The council said the student community should be considered a commuter group since it is not represented in the council and because the students don’t pay a residence hall activity fee.
The election method, either on-campus balloting or voting by mail, has not yet been determined. Finalizing the election procedure, as well as confirming the election date and the final revised election code will occur at today’s commission meeting.
The balloting procedures are causing the biggest headache, Blackmar said. “There is a real fear that if we mail the ballots to the students, the ballots in the fraternities, sororities and residence halls will be tampered with.”
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Daily ® Trojan
University of Southern California
Volume LXV1II, No. 105____Los Angeles, California	Wednesday, March 31, 1976
Free food for all at Alumni Park picnic
A meeting is scheduled today for 120 pounds of hot dogs. 100 dozen buns. 14 cases of potato chips, 20 pounds of chopped onions, 40 tanks of soft drinks, and 6 gallons each of catsup, mustard and relish.
The place is Alumni Park. The time is from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The event is a giant picnic sponsored by the New Activities and Services Agency.
In what may be the understatement ofthe year, Mark Foster, an agency member, said that more than enough free food will be available.
Dwight Lemon, a junior in psychology, and an agency member in charge of food service said, “We got the wholesale prices through the university. All extra food will be purchased by the Office of Food Service. ’
In addition to an abundance of food, Foster aid there will be an abundance of entertainment as well.
David Gardner, a comedian and impressionist, will perform. Foster said, “Gardner has been reading the Daily Trojan for the past month so he knows what’s
going on at USC. Hopefully, he'll make jokes that relate to the students.”
The Culpepper Minutemen Fifes and Drums, an authentic colonial band, will provide the music for the picnic. The group, which plays such “hits’* as Yankee Doodle. Ancient. Chester and The Girl 1 Left Behind Me. played at the university on March 25 and “seemed to go over well,” Foster said.
Lemon said that approximately 1.000 people are expected, with the heaviest rush coming at 12:30 p.m.
He added. “Because we got wholesale prices, we really did not spend too much money on the picnic. We spent about $1,200, which is only one-tenth of our total budget and this is the biggest thing we’ve planned so far.” Paul Montgomery, an agency member and a freshman in pre-med said, “The picnic is designed primarily to let the students know that the organization exists. It will also give people an alternative to eating in the Commons or going back to the Row. We just want to get some people tegether and have a good time.”
A LEGEND IN DOUBT—An interested passerby peers up at a facsimile of the Liberty Bell, which was situated at Alumni Park Tuesday. Justin Kramer, an expert on the bell and the author of Cast in America, spoke beside the 2,000-pound replica. He said the bell's history is a cloud of inaccuracies and he tried to make the real history as clear as a bell. See story page 2. DT photo by Bob Labayne.