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Vol. XLVIII , No. 18 The U of L Student Newspaper February 4; 1977
Tenure for Anderson
remains questionable
By DEE WILSON
Dr. John Ande1son of the geography
department ha been demed tenure or
has he'!
President Jumes G. Miller said that
although the matter i~ ··legally ettled"
through action by the Board of Trustees.
"the i ue i still under review.'' Dr_.
Denni Spell . chairman of the .geogruphy
department personnel committee said he
und e r~too d "the tenure decision was still
in process and that an ahsolute decision
had not been made .''
A & S Dean Arthur J. Slavin said he
viewed a request for the case to be
subjected to further review "wholly
superlluous." Slavin's recommemla t ion is
against the awJrd or tenure.
Due to time deadlines. the Board of
Trustees was forced to make a decision or
confer au toma tic tenJir to Anderson.
Board member and S· udent Government
Assoc iation President St ephan Phelps
sa iu . "The board fe lt it necessary to calm
int ernal struggles - .1anging Anderson in
limho was the only aiternat ive."
That Anderson i'.;, in fact, hanging in
limbo is acknowled~~ed hut unofllcial.
''Whatever the o.1tcome. U of L will be
talking about thi; case for years to
come:· Anderson sa id . Precedent could
be se t for new pe~·so nn e l on the tenure
track not heing req ui red to be hi red with
a Ph .D. The growing emphasis on research
a one of the th ree eva luat ed areas for
tenure could he questioned.
Studen t input. a minimal force in
pre vious tenu re cd .:es, has kept the
Anderson case alive in some faculty's
opinions. An uns.pecifi ed fo rm of com­promise.
whic h Miller aid was .. a
possibility:· i~ also unusual.
While Anderson wu its on official word
aht>u t the unofficia l compro mi se, his time
for ll ling oflicial grievance procedures is
limitcu . Miller aid the board was not
req ui red to take up the Anderson matter
a ga i n a t a II.
It' the mat ter i not resol veu by
December. Anderson wi ll be out of a job,
denied ~riev an ce proccdu red a a non­employee
and ha ve was ted a year in
which he could have been looking
elsewhere ror employment .
Ot'li cia lly .. Anderson 's tenure was
suppor ted by his depar tment personnel
committ ee. He was given a negative
recomrnenda tion by the A & S Personnel
Committ ee and Sla vin and ultimat ely
de ni ed by the bt>a rd.
Slavi n's origimd :rtter recommendinu
den ial of tenu re "hroke my hea rt." said
Anderson. Aft er Anderson\ rehut tal
'
Slavin amended his negative recommenda-tion
to include what he termed "the
appropriate machinery for further review
in li ght of new evidence ."
· Anderson said the second letter ended
with ''udvice that I loo.k for other
employment : '
h,ecutive Vice President William
1-.kstrom and Academic Vice President
John Dillon are the next two participan ts
involved .
"Ekstrom and Dillon agree Anderson
hould have tenure." said Phelps. "I
believe Ekstrom and Dil lon support me,"
Anderson said . While Miller refused to
acknowledge the presence of an adminis­trative
struggle. he requested that the
board recon ider final action "and the
said fine .. said Miller.
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Photograph by Martin Gro_.
''The board left the matter in my
h<mds and I asked Dr. Dillon to go intn
the matter with Dr. Anderson," Miller
said. Andersnn said he has received no
official word about terms of reconsidera-
Always helpful when students have problems, Dr. John Anderson of the U of L
Geography Department is righting to receive tenure.
tion.
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Events canceled to conserve fuel
Because of a possible fuel shortage , the
UofL administration has decided to
cancel a majority of weekend events in
the months of February. The university is
trying to curtail its use of natural gas and
heating oil in an effort to prevent a
cutoff.
The temperature in most buildings will
be lowered drastically from noori
Saturday until Monday morning each
weekend during the month. Dormitories
and student food services along with
other essential services will not be
affected.
Saturday morning classes and activities
will also be held as usual. Other activities
on Saturday will be canceled or
rescheduled if possible.
The Ufe Sciences building will be
supplied with heat during the weekends.
Some events which were to be held
elsewhere will be moved into that
building. '
Here is a list of some events scheduled
for this weekend (Feb. S-6):
• Entrance exams for the SChool of
Music will be held as scheduled at 9 a.m.,
Saturday, at Sh~lby Campus.
Photograph by Frar* PNrce
A break in the bitter cold fin~y c~me on Wednesday. Before it left, it gave Ronald
M~sl~y (left), some problems w1th hiS car. He got a 'jump' start from Jim Standbury a
Buddmgs and Grounds employee. '
• The University Orchestra
performance will be held as scheduled at
8 p.m. Sunday in Shelby Campus' Recital
Hall.
• The Law School Seminar will be
held as planned Saturday at 8 a.m. in
room 1 01 of Strickler Hall.
• The Greater Louisville Council of.
Teachers of Math will be held as planned
Saturday at 9 a.m. in Davidson Hall.
• The~ m~~!~_g o( t]le_ Kentucky.. .
Federation Of Students of German
conference will be held as planned at 8
;l .• m. Saturday in the Student Center.
·• Th~.India association movies will be·
shown in the Life Sciences Auditorium at
6 p.m. instead of Strickler Hall as
formerly scheduled.
• The Gospel music program
scheduled for 3 p.m. Sunday in the
Humanities Building has been moved to
the Ufe Sciences Auditorium.
• Graduation ceremonies for the
School of Dentistry dental hygiene
graduates will be held as scheduled at 2
p.m. Sunday in the Health Sciences'
Auditorium. The tours that had been
scheduled have been canceled.
• All events scheduled at the
Ecumenical Center and the Baptist
Campus Center will be held as usual
throughout the month.
• The Friday night and Saturday
afternoon shows at the Rauch Memorial
Planetarium· are canceled but the regular
3 and 5 p.m. shows on Sunday will be
shown.
• The Red Bam will · be closed
Monday through Thursdays during the
month, but will stay open for activities
on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday during
the month.
• The Homecoming Basketball Fest
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