IR students will meet with Hubbard about tenure decision
BY SHERIE STAR a
About ten students in international relations will meet with Pres. John R. Hubbard Monday to discuss possible reconsideration of the decision against tenure for John Glaser, assistant professor of international relations.
The students are also concerned with a tenure decision on Michael Fleet, assistant professor of international relations.
Several weeks ago, Glaser was denied tenure in the School of International Relations because his publications were not judged by the faculty committee members to be sufficient to fill the research requirement.
Fleet, who is also an assistant professor of political science, was accepted by the School of International Relations, but was denied tenure by the Department of Political Science for the same basic reason as in Glaser's case.
Fleet is currently being reevaluated by
the International Relations Tenure Committee, which consists of associate and full professors, because of the conflicting decisions by the two departments.
“There are dozens of questions to consider in Fleet’s case,” said Ross N. Berkes, director of the School of International Relations and a member of the faculty tenure committee.
He said he did not know if Fleet’s case would be discussed at a meeting of the School of International Relations being held this morning because of the complexities of the case.
The question of tenure generally comes up after a professor has been with the university for five years. If a professor is granted tenure, he is assured a position with the university until retirement, short of gross misconduct.
If he is not granted tenure, he is dismissed from the university after a one-year grace period.
Because the School of International Re-
lations has not yet reached a final decision on Fleet, the students decided to confine their meeting with Hubbard to a discussion of Glaser’s case.
Monday was the earliest appointment we could get with Hubbard, plus we needed the time to fully prepare Glaser’s case and get the new petition signed by supporters.” said Sue Hulett, a graduate student in international relations.
The petition asks for reevaluation of Glaser in terms of his teaching innovations, committee services and student advisory capacity.
The undergraduate and graduate students will approach Hubbard with Glaser’s specific case, but will be implying the question of overall tenure criteria in their protest, said Hulett.
The Daily Trojan contacted Hubbard for comment, and was referred to John E. Cantelon, vice-president of undergraduate studies and dean ofthe College
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Volume LXVII Number 91	Los Angeles, California	Thursday, March 13, 1975
Lottery to be used for housing assignments
BY CINDY EISLEY
Assistant City Editor
The procedure for assigning housing priorities to students applying for room reassignment has been revised to a lottery' system, because the number of students who have applied exceeds the number of rooms that have been allotted for returning students for next fall.
The lottery system will be used only for residence halls where the demand has exceeded the number of rooms available, said Hans Reichl. director of the Office of Residential Life.
Wednesday afternoon. Reichl predicted that the lottery system would probably affect students living in the Women's Complex and in Men’s Residence West who are requesting their old rooms for next semester.
The lottery will not affect the students who will be living in Birnkrant. MarksTower or Harris Plaza next semester, since they have already participated in an assignment process.
Under the priority procedures that have been established for filling spaces in residence halls, the university has commited 50% of the on-campus undergraduate spaces to incoming freshman, leaving the remaining 50% for students who wish to return to the residence halls.
The Residential Assignment Office has determined that residence halls will have 937 spaces available for women next fall. A total of468ofthose spaces will be available for new freshmen. A total of 1143 spaces will be available for men. and 571 of those spaces will be held for freshmen.
After the spaces in the coed dorms had been filled, the Residential Assignment Office had 607 spaces left in the Women’s Complex and 880 spaces left in the men’s halls.
Of these, only 139 spaces were to be made avail-
able to returning women and 308 to returning men, said Sharon Kettler. residential assignment coordinator.
On Monday, though, more than 139 women tried to place requests to have their rooms back for next fall and Men’s Residence West experienced the same problem.
“The result was that all the spaces were filled and a lot of girls were very unhappy,” said Kettler. “They didn't realize the rooms were going so fast.”
“I assume the students like the residence halls. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t come back.” Reichl said.
Reichl said that the halls may experience more crowding because of anticipated overcrowding in the sororities.
Kettler and Reichl both said that there may be a number of students who are signing up for rooms on campus who have no intention of living here next year, but who want to protect themselves in case they can t find off-campus housing.
“If a student is not serious about coming back next fall, he shouldn't submit a lottery card,” Reichl said. “That’s part of our problem right now; students who have reserved rooms, but who don’t intend to come back.”
Students wishing to return to those residence halls affected by the new procedures must participate in the lottery.
The lottery will be held Monday afternoon. Lottery cards will be available at the complex desks beginning today and will be accepted until noon Monday. Students who want to make a roommate preference must turn in one card for two students.
The results of the lottery will be announced Tuesday morning. Students who are not chosen in the lottery should check during the priority period in Marks Hall the week after Easter vacation to see if any spaces have been made available.
Emergency loans for students not available
NERVOUS TENSION STUDY—A subject participates in an experiment conducted by the Gerontology Center to show the effects of stress on aging. This machine
measures muscle tension and metabolism rate to determine the amount of tension the volunteer feels. See story page 5. DT photo by Bob Chavez.
BY TOM ROSA
Staff Writer
A number of organizations on campus that supply emergency loans to students have been out of funds since the end of last semester.
Emergency loans are given by the university and different organizations to students who show an immediate need for additional funds to buy books, pay part of their tuition costs, housing payments and other necessities.
The general emergency loan fund for all students has not been able to give people money since the end of December.
The lack of funds was attributed to a large demand during the fall semester that depleted the general fund and forced the emergency loan commission to stop giving them out.
Robert L. Mannes, dean for student life, and Joan M. Schaefer, dean of women, have had a number of requests from students for emergency loans during the last few weeks.
They referred students to the Financial Aid Office for possible National Direct Student Loans.
However, the national loans take four weeks for confirmation and would not help students in emergency situations.
Another suggested alternative was to seek direct loans from local banks.
Other organizations that supply loans for different groups on campus have experienced prob-
lems in finding enough money for existing emergency loan programs.
“All the money has gone,” said Scot Spicer, interim interfraternity affairs adviser and a graduate student in business.
Interfraternity Council emergency loans are given only to students who belong to fraternities.
Spicer said a misunderstanding between his office and the Bursar’s Office depleted the available funds.
"After I confirmed the students for a loan, we would have them go over to the Bursar’s Office and have it stamped,” Spicer said.
He said the Bursar’s Office would stamp the loan "payable after nine months after graduation.”
The loan should have been stamped to be repaid as soon a« possible and preferably within 90 days. Spicer said.
“We have about 30 loans outstanding right now, averaging between $200 and $30© each," he said.
The money for the loans is supplied by the Interfraternity Mother’s Council, a group of women whose sons are in fraternities, and by surpluses in each fraternity’s general funds.
“With the increasing rise in costs, the emergency loans are badly needed by students," Spicer said. “Most of the money is used by students to buy books, to help in tuition payments and for other needs.”
DOUBLE FAULT—Campus Security Officer Billy Lima confronts a pair of tennis players he found engaged in an old racket—scratching their initials in a slab of wet cement. The women, embarassed by being discovered at their backhanded activity, refused to be identified and no charges were served. DT photo by Bob Selan.