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VOL. 59, NO. 19 LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY FEBRUARY 4, 1988 10 PAGES AN INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER
Wilkinson's budget endangers Kentucky's universities
By Kl! ETH HARDI
ew' Editor
d\ a nee<, m h1gher edu at ion over
the pa~t !Ml yearo, muy be wiped out
1f Kentucky., leg1o,lature approve~
Gov Wallace Wilkino,on., propoo,ed
19KK-1990 hudg.:t. according to
<,tute education officials.
Wi1k11"on., proposal call\ for a
1 \ ,x:r•cnt overall h1gher education
'fJc•ldlng mcrease m the upcoming
h1enn1ull1 wh1ch. when ~djuo,ted for
mllauon . amount' Ill a IOUJ<lr drop
1n total fundmg .
Wilktn<,on ha., 'a1d publicly that
although education is a priority, it
and all other state-funded programs
must make o,acrificeo, in a time of fi­nancial
turn1oil for Kentucky.
M.my educauon offic ials. how­ever.
o,ay what Wilkino,on has
termed ao, o,acrifice will actually be
o,uic1de for the tate s already-u nder­funded
education o,ystem .
'ThH, could be very damaging to
umvero,111c' 1n the Mate, panicularly
~m c it could undermine many bene­ficial
programo, mitiated in the last
three year>. o,aid Universi ty of
Lou1wille President Donald C.
Swam. Under the governor's pro·
posal, vi nually all ~row th would be
held back by fin anc1al restraints. '
Funding for the Council on
Higher Education's economic for­mula.
which sets a optimum tan­Jard
for educational growth. would
Jrop from its current level of 88
percent to 83 percent in the first
year of the biennium and 81 per­cent
in the second .
Ken Walker, the Coun il 's budt~et
director. said individual universittes
would be hit hardest by uncontro­lable
increases in fixed costs. such
as utility bi ll s and employee bene­fit!>
.
Merit-based salary guidelines
approved by Board of Trustees
By MARY JACOBSO
taff Wnter
Optmg tor a more complicated
name ha., cleared up ~orne long­o,
tanding ambi~Uitte~ m the mver­'>
ity of Loui;,v1lle faculty merit pay
'Y"em .
U of L s Board of Trustee;, ap­proved
a proposal at its Jan . 25
meetmg to rename ment pa¥
"performance-based salary increase;,
and to con truct a definitive founda­tion
for University-wide guidelines .
fficials say they are hopeful that
the new language will provide a fair
and substantive base for the individ­ual
academic units to set funher
criteria.
"A year ago there was lots of ten­!>!
On over thi issue. ' said Dr. Tom
Crawford , associate Uni ver>ity
Provo!>!. "The committee worked
with determination to come up with
language that would be acceptable to
everyone.'
Previou~ perfonnance-based salary
mcrea'oe guidelines were described
by faculty as too vague to be a -
ceptable cri teria for pay increases.
Definiuon of the word 'merit ' ha>
alwayo, been ambiguous. ' said
Roben Ienger. vice chair of the
Faculty Senate and chair of the
commutee which drafted the guide­line•
. ' h's all very emotional. If I
.,ay. 'I don't like what you're doing.'
it's ca;ier to take than if I say your
work i•n 't meritorious.'
Stenger added that specific guide­line>
are a necessity because of im­minent
budget cuts in state govern­ment
and. sub!>equently, at U of L.
Faculty members also complained
that research activi ty was over em­phasi7ed
in dctermming the distri­bution
of merit pay . Stenger said
that the flexible weighting of the
three compo nent~ will help reduce
\Orne of the previous cri ti cisms. but
he added thiS (system) will not re­solve
the argument over teaching
versus re;earch at the University.'
The guidelines which will be
adopted as addendum to the Red­book
include:
e AII faculty members will be re­viewed
annually, even if they elect
not to be considered for a pay m­creao,
e . Prior to thi decision, faculty
Air Force closes U of L
ROTC to trim ranks
By KE ETH HARDI
ew\ Editor
A drop in the demand for com­mi\
Sioned office rs ha prompted
A1r Force official;, to eliminate 37
ROT programs acros' the na ­tion.
including the one at the m­ver<,
it} of Louisville.
Detachment 295 . which ha'
been at of L since 1953. will be
one of 30 Air Force ROTC ou tfi..,
pha.,ed out over the next I 8
month,. Seven other., will be con­soltda
ted wi th pmgrams on cam­pmc-.
in their proximity.
"It., not something you like to
o,ee happen. but its pan of the job
lmd that ., the way it is some­time\.
said Lt. Col. Leonard
umter. U of L's ROTC comman­der.
We feel a little remorse. of
couro,e . We're not hard shell types
whn o,ay '>ll what. let' go get an­lllh~
r job."
The deci!.1nn to elimi nate the
detachment\ comeo, after a 1986
Congre,>ional mandate to the
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Army ROTC battalion
recognized for growth
B) J Ll"- MONSO R
ontnhullng Wnter
Smce lh amval on campu' fi~e
yearo, ago. the Umver,uy of
Luui..ville Army ROT progrmn
ha' grown into one of the mo.,t re­<,
pccted outfit\ in ih region
The ardinal Batltllton now
numbers about 130 cadeh. tw1ce
the enrollment from a year ago
La\1 December. the outfit won
the econd Bold Leader· adet
ommand Regton . Program
Management E cellence Award
fur the ..econd cono,ecuti ve }Car
The award recogni;e, outstand­mg
program\ ba.,ed on the si1e of
the unit. ito, gro"th. and the qual­Ity
ol lh program.
aptam Ru" rumrine. as>is-tant
profe\\or of milttary science,
>aid the award honored both the
Cardmal Battalion and of L.
It refl~ch pmitively on the
Univer'lt} becau'e it indicate!> that
U of L ha., the quality of ~ tudent s
that the Army 1s lookinJ; for for
II\ off1cero,, Crumrine \atd .
It ' a reflection on the Univer-
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who did not request a pay increase
could bypass evaluation.
• Cnteria for evaluations will in­cl
ude teaching. research and creative
activities and service. Each unit will
specify the kinds of input to be con­Sidered
and the weight of these
components .
• Each unit may identify a num­ber
of groups. departments or indi­viduals
whose assignments are so
diverse that they require different
sets of wriuen cri teria.
• Individual units may detemine
the re lative weight of performance
in each of the three areas of teach­ing,
research and service.
• Based on the approved criteria
of each unit. only faculty whose
overall performance is judged to be
sat isfactory or beuer will receive a
perfonnance-based salary increase.
• Up to five percent of fu nds al­located
for pay increases may be
used to award special , one-time
payments for exceptional effon or
achievement.
• Individual faculty may appeal
decisions in a procedure separate
from the grievance procedure.
STAFF PHOTO BY MARK CRAMER
Army ROTC cadet John
Shaw, a business major, can
walk proudly after winning a
$1 ,000 scholarship .
New doctorate program to enhance
CUPA's function as research center
By GREGORY HARRI
Features Editor
tude nt;, at the Un1ver;11y of
UlUIWIIle cun now enroll m the
only urban and public affa1r;, doc­turn!
program m the regton .
The Kentucky Counctl on H1gher
F..ducut1on approved U of L Col
lege of Urban and Pubh Affa1r;,
propo>al for a doctoral program at
tt ~ Jan I I meeting.
CUPA dean Dr. J. Pnce Po ter
aid the doctoral program , which
will conduct its first clas e;, thl\
ummer. wo the result of year-. of
careful plannmg.
We ve been devl'lopmg th1 . pro-gram
now !>tnce the college was es­tabh\
h d tn 1983, Fo ter said .
We \ee it as ktnd of a capstone
for th colle •e. and it will be a ktnd
of \howca\e for the Umvers11y as far
a\ tmplemcntmg the urban nuss ion.'
l'o ter .,aid the programs merit
wa' 1llu\trated by the Council's
ready acceptance of UPA's pro­p<
l\al ' It went throuj;h with very
httle controversy or dtscuss1on, ' he
\aid It wa\ clearly the ktnd of pro­gram
we 'ohould be doing.'
Stud nt ~ pan1c1pating in the new
pro •ram may find government offi­cial'
and public planner> joining
th m tn the c l s room . according to
'cott ummmg\, as\ociate dean for
urban affa1ro, and actmg d1rec10r of
the chool of Urban Planning and
Development.
He sa id members of ci ty and
county government, law enforce­ment
officials, and leader from the
busi nes. community were among
about 50 individual. who have ex­pre.
ed interest in enrolling in the
program
ln~uiries have come from a far
a '" mnati and lndtanapolis. The
neare t imilar program is located at
t. Loui' Universi ty .
If enrollment in the graduate pro­gram
i~o high. CUPA will recruit
new faculty, ummings said . If
fundtng is approved, faculty from
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'They are going to get l.O caught
up in covering their ba\e co>ts that
they will be unable find any addi ­tional
money for anything. ' he ~aid .
At U of L, fixed expense hikes
will total $800,000 in 1988-89 and
far outweigh the $384.000 funding
increase the Univer~i t y would re­ceive
under the proposal.
The major ~etback of the budget
!.hon fa ll will come m the area of
fac ulty !>a larie;,. according to Swain.
Both Swain and U of L s Board of
Trustees have stre.,sed the impor­tance
of enhancing below-average
faculty ;,alarieo, if the Un1ver~ity 1>
to contmue it~ move toward promi­nence
a;, a re earch in.,lltution .
"When you're skimping and sav­ing
and cuttmg back to make ends
meet . its almo\1 impos'olble to make
any advances. he ;,aid . "This is
gomg to impede our recruiting and
retention of our top faculty tremen­dou;
ly .
Another cm1s could arise in the
area of \taff salaries.
La!>! year. the Universi ty beg:m
reorganizing it; employee pay
~t ru ture. Phao,e one or the proJect
increa;ed entry-level ;,a laries to
Extra, Extra!
The Rev. George Edwards, a former U of L faculty member,
joined in the Progressive Students' League's Feb. 3 protest of
CIA recruitment at the University's Career Planning Center.
Dialogue vital to solving
student-teacher conflicts
By BARBARA BAUMA N
Contributing Writer
Deborah Scott, student grievance
officer at the Uni versi ty of
Louisvi lle. !>ai<.l mo;,t calls to her of­fice
do not result in filed com­plaint
s.
Student., with complaints against
their in~tructoro, usually settle the
problem out~ide the formal
grievance proces;, but Scott may
'tep in to me<.liate complica ted
cases.
She outlined grievance Matistlc!.
for the last fi ve months in a brief
;ummary to the Student Senate at ih
Feb. 2 meeting.
Fifty-fi ve o,tudento, have per<,onally
conwcted Scott during that period .
Twenty-.,even or the ca,e; have
been re>ellved ouhide the formal
grievance proce''· wh1le 25 remain
open.
Two of the three official \tudent
grievance\ filed during the penod
were alo,o re<,olved. wuh the out­come
of one additional grievance
\lill pe nd ing.
According to Scott. mo<,t conflict<,
can be re.,olved th rough informal
di scu;\inn between the 'tudent and
the profe,\or involve<.l.
Complamto, often ari;e becaw,e o,uch
di.,cu;,,ion' have not already t<tken
place. Scott said . ' When I ; tart
a .. king que,tiono, I ma~ find out that
they (,tudentq haven t .,poken with
the profe,;,or or that they haven 1
looked at the Student Handb<x1k ."
'>he said.
She \lre.,.,ed that o,tude nto, .,hould
liN attempt to reo,olve their diffi ­cultie.,
on the1r own. If you have a
' tudent who i., not doing well in
cia"· then that Mudent llil\ the re­>
p<mo,ibili ty of making an appoint­ment
to meet with the faculty mem­ber.
'
Many ~ tudent complaint' ce nter on
truuhleo, with cour'e 'yllabt. When
profe.,.,or., omit informauon pcninent
to the cour'e work or change the
o,ylle~hu., orally "llhout "ntlng <.lown
the change. <,tudenh often become
contu .. ed. cott o,a1d .
If a complaint cannot be reo,olved
in an 1nformal o,tudent -profe"or con­ference
. Scott '-a1<.l. concern<, ;,hou ld
then be relayed to the cha1r ol the
depanment mvolved .
The Student Griev;mce Officer
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competiti ve level., with other mMi­tuti
un!> .
Pha'>e two. which " 'l:tted to hike
long-time starr member., wage;,.
may be blocked by the ; honfall . ac­cordmg
ttl wmn.
' We are facmg a ;ituatinn where
people who have been at the nl ­ver,
ity for <,orne t1me will be mak­mg
le;,, than ne" employee;, and
many people won t be plea,ed with
that ." he said .
Again. we ar~ in a f:Xl\ition of
either denying new program' needed
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SGAfaculty
evaluation
form slow. ly
progressing
By TAMMY FREDETTE
tafl Writer
Difficult1e' 1n creating <tn mde­pendcnt
faculty evaluation fonn are
hampering tudent Government A\­o,
ociation plan' to puhh<,h the evalu­ation'
1n 1arch
SGA Pre\ldent Doug Devme and
ht;, \laff are workmg w1th the Fac­ulty
Senate to produce a new. mde­pendent
evaluation form to replace
the o,tandard niver"lY \Urvey
The new form . however. will
mm.t likely not be ready for puhli­cation
thb 'Pring. in wh1ch ca~e
GA could be forced to uo,e the old
forms or not publi'>h evaluation<, at
all.
"I'm not ready to dump it. but I
9ue;,tion its value .· Devine !>aid.
·We're going ahead a' planned. but
the panicipation rate 1'\ ahout the
same. It 's almost a mirror of last
year."
The 19&6-87 SGA cour<,e evalua­tion
b<lOklet was hardly a \Ucce~s.
Devine said . Only R6 of the 230
full -time profe...,or~ 1n Am and Sci­ences.
Busine.,., and peed School;,
allowed SGA to print their ~valua­tion<,
.
Devine attributed the low facul ty
participation to o,taggered return
rate' of the form ...
"Every profe.,sor geh evaluation;,
returned back to them at different
time;." he 'aid . ' Only a t:enain per­centage
receive evaluation; at the
same time. so if they haven't got it
back ¥et, they cenainly can't send it
to us.
Devine aid he is sure that if the
submi.,sion procedure wa~ more
conven ient . a larger number of pro­feso,
ors would panicipate.
Two more majur problem\ plague
the present evaluatum o,y\lem . ac­cordmg
to Devi ne .
FirM. the University cour'e evalu­ation
form currently published by
SGA i!> abo used by dean~. depan­ment
chair., and faculty committees
to decide matter\ of tenure, promo­tion
and '>a lary increaseo,.
Since the form wa\ de\lgned ex­clu.,
ively for people 1n the ~valua­tion
cycle. it doe\ not addre.,., must
'otudent concerns. Devtne said .
The >ecund, and mmt \lgntticant.
pruhlem i., the mandatory nature of
the evaluation prclCe\\. wh1ch
Devine \aid makeo, profe.,.,or' appre­hen\
lve .
' When you talk ab<1ut an all or
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INSIDE
Violins is golden. Blind U of L
musician's recital took her all
the way to France.
................................... Page 5.
Iron man. Profile of former U
of L basketball coach turned
golfer .......................... Page 6.
All new. Two new additions to
the Editorial page look back
with Hindsight and offer
Cheers and Jeers.
................................... Page 8.
News Briefs ................ Page 2.
Afterclass ................... Page 5.
Sports ......... ............... Page 6.
Editorials ................... Page 8.
Letters to the Edttor ..... Page 9.
Claaslfleds and Peraonala.
................................. Page 10.