Candidates for Student Senate
say election posters torn down
A group of Student Senate candidates claim their campaign posters were torn down early Tuesday morning.
All campaign fliers had been removed by Tuesday morning except for those of Kevin Hayden, a Greek candidate. Hayden expressed no knowledge of the incident.
The candidates whose campaign materials had been torn down were afraid they would be at a disadvantage because Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday were expected to be peak voting days. Their materials were missing the first of these days.
Scott Brown, a Greek candidate, said he and one other Row candidate were distributing posters and fliers early Tuesday morning when Brown heard noises behind him.
“Paul Marotta (a commuter candidate) and I had plastered the fountain with posters. We were walking up the mall when we realized someone was back there. We heard crumbling of paper," Brown said. "All of our stuff was floating in the fountain."
Brown and Marotta discussed the incident with Suzanne Nora, chairman of the Student Senate. She advised them to identify the people involved, but Brown said neither of the two were able to do so, lighting conditions being very- poor early Tuesday.
The candidates had reached agreement with Hayden. Late Tuesday afternoon, Hayden agreed to
replace the removed posters and take his down for one day to equalize name familiarity. Hayden also said he would pay for new posters. The candidates decided it was in their own best interests to produce and place their own campaign materials.
Irma Castro, a commuter candidate, said posters for muscular dystrophy and Armenian and Chinese student groups had been removed.
Castro also said that Hayden had agreed to replace the removed posters.
Marotta had considered pressing charges but could not adequately identify any of the four people thought to have participated in the removal of posters.
"Legally, I can't see any action that can be taken," Hayden said.
If people could have been identified accurately, Brown said he would have pressed charges because the incident is a violation of the election code.
"1 can see their point — I'd be upset if it had happened to me, too. It looks like it was someone from my house. I'm sure that if it was someone from my house, he was trying to help me," Hayden said.
"I suppose this could hurt my chances with guys who don't know me, but those who know me, know my reputation, and will know I'm not involved.
"I expect I will win," he said.
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AIMING TO PLEASE — Besides selling textbooks, the bookstore caters to a wide variety of interests and tastes, and judging by the look on this student's face, it’s obvious he’s glad they do.
Constituencies to voice criticism of evaluation
By Brandon Bailey
Staff Writer
The executive committee of the Faculty Senate and the Council of Deans will meet separately today to discuss objections raised concerning an evaluation of deans currently being conducted by the senate.
The deans have complained that the evaluation will not give a complete analysis and that there was not adequate communication between the deans and the faculty on the procedure involved.
President John R. Hubbard said Tuesday the evaluation should not continue without the confidence of both deans and faculty.
Hubbard said he hoped the deans and faculty could resolve their differences, but he indicated that he might bring representatives from the two groups together for a discussion if either side continued to express dissatisfaction with the issue.
Zohrab Kaprielian, executive vice-president, had di^ussed the issue with both Robert Biller, chairman of the Council of Deans, and John LeBIanc, president of the Faculty Senate, at a meeting of the President's Advisory Council executive committee, but would not comment on the matter. The council's executive committee agreed that any action on the dean's objections could only be taken by the faculty.
Though the deans had been consulting with the senate's committee on university’ administration in an effort to change the university procedure for evaluating administrators, the senate is using the same form of survey the university has used in the past.
The deans claimed that the evaluation survey is inadequate and that they were not told the evaluation would be conducted.
The deans would have learned about the evaluation if a series of unrelated events hadn't caused the postponement of a meeting scheduled for members of the senate and Biller, LeBIanc said.
The use of the survey was
urged by the executive committee of the Faculty Senate after the faculty voted in March to carry out an evaluation. The committee on university administration, which had been consulting with John Marburger, dean of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, and Charles Oxnard, dean of the graduate school, on improving evaluation procedures, is the committee charged by the senate bvlaws to conduct the evaluation.
Alan Rowe, chairman of the committee, said his group would not have begun the evaluation until a new procedure had been worked out with the deans. But, Rowe said, his committee agreed when the executive committee suggested that the old surveys be used in order to avoid delays in conducting the evaluation.
Rowe's committee agreed with the executive committee that the senate wanted to conduct an evaluation this year because it was "a right and a responsibility' of the senate which had been delayed for some time," Rowe said.
The usual evaluation of the deans conducted at the university have been administered by the office of Paul Hadley, vice-president for academic affairs, under consultation with both faculty and deans. However, the right of the faculty to conduct evaluations independently has been stressed by LeBIanc in explaining why a survey of the faculty is being undertaken without interviews of the deans being evaluated.
Rowe said he would recommend to the senate executive committee that the issue be discussed with the deans and that a solution be worked out jointly.
However, Rowe said that he would not want to see the survey discarded and a new evaluation begun. This had been suggested by members of the President's Advisory Council executive committee.
Rowe said he he felt it would discredit future attempts by the senate to conduct an evaluation if the current project were scratched.
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Southern California_Wednesday, April 25, 1979
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PANEL DISCUSSION — A colloquium "Of Priorities and Presidents ' held Tuesday in Noms Cinema Theatre discussed the qualifications desired in a new president. Among these were a strong academic background, an ability to mobilize the administration, faculty and student bodies and a high tolerance for stress.
PRIORITIES AIRED
Panel studies presidential criteria
By Karen Holloway
Staff Writer
The next president of the university should have a strong academic background, the ability to mobilize the various constituencies of the administration, the faculty and the student body and a high pressure tolerance for stress.
These qualifications were put forward by a panel of two administrators, one faculty member and one student during Tuesday's colloquium "Of Priorities and Presidents" in Norris Cinema Theatre.
President John R. Hubbard announced his resignation last February effective August 1980.
Hie President Search Committee is in the process of selecting a new president.
"I think that most faculty and students and administrators in major universities would be very much in agreement with the priorities and the principles (of selecting a president)," said Donald Lewis, a professor of psychology. "The problem is the practice."
Although there is rarely any disagreement as to
what type of person the president of a university should be, the composition is tough and many times potential candidates are already spoken for, Lewis said.
The president should also be recognized on the national academic scene and be well acquainted with the influential and the wealthy, he said. ‘
It is impossible for the president of any major corporation to respond to every demand, said James Appleton, vice-president of student affairs. The president must have a "trained ability to practice selective neglect" as he determines which interests deserve his attention and which can justifiably be relegated to other members of the administration.
John Marburger, dean of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, said although a business background would be helpful for a university president, it is rarely part of his training.
"No matter who we get (for president) I'm sure we'll end up with someone who's training in these important areas is bound to be inadequate for the (continued on page 15)
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