Deans, senate at odds over evaluation controversy
Faculty offers to meet in reconciliation attempt
By Sean Dunnahoo
Staff Writer
The executive board of the Faculty Senate has offered to send a senate group to meet with representatives of the Council of Deans to resolve disagreements between the two groups.
There has been a breakdown between the senate and the council because the deans bad feelings about an evaluation of them by the faculty. The survey of the faculty was instituted by the senate.
The senate group will be a means- to "get communication back" between the two groups, said John LeBIanc, president of the Faculty Senate.
In the past, there has been good feeling
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Thursday, April 26,1979
Campaign ethics questioned
By Shari Cookson
Assistant Gty Editor
Student Senate spokesmen are questioning the ethics of a senate candidate's campaign.
Last Saturday night, the weekend before voting began, Ron McElhaney held a dance in his apartment that was sponsored by the Student Community Council.
McElhaney, president of the council, said the dance had 'been planned for months and was purely a community function.
But some senate members suspect that McElhaney might have used the dance to bolster his campaign He had campaign fliers on his walls.
"He wasn't outright campaigning —
things just seemed fishy," a spokesman said.
Another spokesmen's concern about McElhaney's possible campaigning at the party stems from tight regulations on the amount of money that can be spent on a campaign. A candidate can only spend S75 — any more than that can lead to disqualification.
Spokesmen estimated (and McElhaney confirmed) that the dance cost hundreds of dollars.
The spokesmen questioned whether McElhaney was attempting to buy votes, using the social event as a guise.
One spokesman particularly wondered why there was so much free alcohol at the (continued on page 2)
Council rejects meeting offer
By Brandon Bailey
Staff Writer
The Council of Deans is not willing to meet with representatives of the Faculty Senate to discuss the evaluation of deans conducted by the senate, said Robert Biller, chairman of the council.
Biller made this comment Wednesday, after the executive committees of both the council and the senate met separately and released statements on the matter.
The deans' entire statement reads "We believe we have fully communicated our concern in this matter.''
The Faculty Senate executive committee announced Wednesday they planned to submit to the appropriate dean the data collected from evaluation surveys, which were distributed to faculty senators and an equal number of randomly selected faculty in the dean's department.
A statement issued Wednesday by the senate executive committee expressed a desire that representatives of the faculty and deans meet to discuss the senate's plans for their survey.
After hearing the statement. Biller said he still felt the survey results would not give a useful evaluation of deans, for reasons he had first brought up in a memo distributed to deans, officials of the Faculty Senate and David Mars, chairman of the President's Advisory Committee.
Biller questioned the adequacy’ of the survey as an instrument of evaluation and objected to the distribution of the survey without informing the deans. His statements have been echoed by John Marburger, dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and other deans (asreported (continued on page 2)
Coanchor says women’s role in newsroom hasn’t reached parity
By Teresa Watanabe
Staff Writer
"Women in media are doing all right but haven't vet made it,” said Connie Chung, coanchor of k\X1, Channel 2 News. "We haven't reached a level of parity — women are still far behind."
Although women newscasters are doing well at the local level, male news correspondents overwhelmingly dominate the network shows, Chung said.
KNXT's top anchorperson offered insights, advice and a glimpse into the professional world of journalism Wednesday at Hancock Auditorium
Chung is the only survivor of the recent KNXT new’s shuffle that yanked Mike Parker, Joseph Benti and Linda Douglass from their key anchor spots.
The controversial shake-up, called "KNXT's dramatic move to yank itself out of the ratings hole," will team Chung with San Francisco headliner Marcia Brandwynne in Los Angeles' first two-woman anchor team.
Chung said she will miss her colleagues, but the shuffle was the management's decision.
Despite the recent surge tow ard sexual equality, traditional sex roles apparently dictate, to a certain extent, how newscasters must project themselves.
"View'ers want women to be softer," Chung said. "Men can be strong but if a woman is, she's seen as insensitive. There is a fine line between likeability and credibility that women have to dance around.
"Women also have to be more attractive. People scrutinize a woman's hair and clothes," she said.
Chung said after she cut her hair (which she did surreptitiously for fear KNXT producers would object), the station received over 150 phone call* commenting on it. Fortunately, Chung said, only 10 were negative.
"A woman has to be quite perfect — but men are allowed to be bald and fat," she said.
Chung believed while it is easier for women to get a job in journalism more is expected of them afterwards.
"Women have to prove themselves while men are more quickly accepted," she said.
Chung said it was relatively easy to land her job at CBS since the network was being pressured to hire more women and minorities. But afterwards it seemed her work was critcized more, she said.
Chung recommended that aspiring newscasters not major in journalism.
"Although it's important to take journalism courses, if 1 had to do it over again, I'd major in (continued on page 3)
between the senate and the council, said Paul Gray, vice-president of the Faculty Senate.
In a statement released by the executive board of the Faculty Senate, it was restated that the confidentiality of the survey results would be maintained.
Steps have been taken to insure that Faculty Senate members do not see the individual responses to the surveys and procedures have been formulated to insure total confidentiality.
"The material won't be passed from hand to hand," Gray said. "It won't be used by the Faculty Senate. The senate will be the means for collecting the data."
The executive board hopes that the deans will view the survey only as an instrument showing how the deans are perceived by their faculties.
"We have no intent to put anyone's job on the line," Gray said. *
The results of the survey will be between each dean and his superior, he said.
One major objection by the deans has been that the survey form, w hich has been used previously, is not a good instrument for measuring the effectiveness of a dean. The deans feel a new form should be written.
While the senate has been working to make up a new survey, negotiations for the changes in the form have taken place. Although a new form had not been written, the senate decided to conduct the survey rather than delay it another year. Gray said.
"It was a decision between waiting for a perfect form or getting to work on having a survey," he said.
The form will, however, be revamped in the future. Gray said.
The deans were also upset because they were not told that they would be evaluated.
When asked about that. Gray, acting as the official spokesman for the executive (continued on page 3)
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