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Volume 19 Number 17 Pomona, N.J. 08240 Monday March 5, 1979
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Board Approves Staffing Plan, Nixes Dean
By Jennifer King
The faculty staffing plan proposed
and tabled at the January Board ot
Trustees meeting was approved by the
Trustees at their February 28 meeting
with the addition of an Affirmative
Action amendment. The plan, which
was opposed by many members of the
faculty, imposes a 66 2 / 3 tenure limit
on each program within the school,
with review of the program after
tenure has reached 50 percent.
The major faculty concerns involved
the effect of such quotas upon
programs composed of only four or five
faculty, those programs already fully
t e n u r e d , which would have difficulty
recruiting new faculty for non-tenure
track positions, and programs which
are already fully or almost fully
tenured with white male faculty
members, causing difficulty with
Stockton's recently reaffirmed Affirm-ative
Action policy. Discussion of this
last problem led to an amendment,
proposed by Trustee Matthias Rodri-guez,
that the quota be applied
"except where these guidelines wuld
unreasonably conflict with or restrict
the Affirmative Action program prev-iously
approved by this Board.
Ralph Bean, Moderator of the Faculty
Assembly, informed the Board of his
oppositin to the resolution, stating that
"I am still opposed to people coming
up against a number and losing their
j o b s . " He supports a program of
" . . . r a t i o n a l hiring...rigorous evalua-tion,
(and) long term p l a n n i n g . . ."
However, the Board, worried about
the problems of other colleges with
high t e n u r e (such as J e r s e y City State,
which has somehow managed to
achieve a tenure quota of 101 percent)
p r e f e r r e d the quota system. Trustee
David Taylor indicated that " . . . t h e re
is the implication in the policy itself
that there will from time to time be
exceptions...but these exceptions will
be i n f r e q u e n t ."
Later in the meeting the Board
approved the appointment of Rob
Trow to the position of Vice President
of Administration and Finance. (Trow
has served as acting vice-president
since the departure of Richard Gajew-ski
last fall.)
In addition the Trustees also approv-ed
the non-retention recommendation
of Rae Siporin, Dean of General
Studies. Siporin is the only senior
woman administrator at Stockton, and
is the fifth dean of general studies in
the college's seven years of operation.
Trustee Taylor, who is chairperson of
the Presidential Search and Selection
Committee, reported to the Board that
the candidates have been narrowed
down to six (with two "hanging in the
b a l a n c e " ) . They will be interviewed
by the Committee in mid-March and
" t h r e e or f o u r " will be brought in on
campus in April to meet members of
the Stockton community.
Faculty Union Calls
For Strike Vote By Jennifer King
The Council of New Jersey State
College Locals has called for a strike
vote on Thursday and Friday, March 8
and 9. If the strike resolution is
passed, and a contract settlement is
not reached by the union and the state
by March 19, a strike will commence
on that date.
The Chancellor of Higher Education,
T. Edward Hollander, has responded
to the announcement of a strike vote
with a letter to the presidents of the
s t a t e colleges notifying them that they
may not permit a strike vote to take
place on college grounds. He indicated
that since it is illegal for the faculty to
strike, a strike vote is also illegal.
Stockton Federation of Teachers
president Kay Williams comm'ented,
when informed of Hollander's comm-unication,
" I t ' s just another indication
of the s t a t e ' s refusal to allow good
faith action by its employees. Having a
vote of the members on any issue is a
r i g h t ."
J im Judy, acting President of Stock-ton,
expressed his reluctance to
enforce the order but indicated that "I
have no choice in the m a t t e r . " When
questioned about the possibility of a
strike, he replied, "My only assump-tion
is that, since there is a no-strike
clause in the contract, there will be no
s t r i k e ."
Representatives of the state negotia-ting
team in Trenton have been
unavailable for comment.
Ospreys
By Kevin O'Brien
After surprising the NJSCAC by first
winning their division, the Ospreys
went one step closer to the champion-ship
by beating Montclair State in the
first round of the playoff*, 63-56.
As game time on Saturday approach-ed,
an aura of excitement filled the
gym. With all the television cameras
and sportscasters it looked as if
Stockton was going big-time.
From the opening t a p it was apparent
that both teams had the jitters.
However, Jersey City started popping
and they went on to a 13-6 lead.
Tyrone "Slick" Austin kept the game
close by hitting everything he tossed
up. Behind his shooting, the Ospreys
cut the deficit to 22 to 21. From there
the Gothics ran off eight unanswered
points to take a 30 to 21 lead. The
Ospreys still had a few mental lapses
as they fell behind at t h e half, 43 to 29.
Things continued the same in the;
Review
Leakey On Man's Origins
By George Milne
The Performing Arts Center played
host last Monday to the celebrated
Richard Leakey. Famed for his paleon-tological
discoveries in East Africa
made along with his father, he came to
speak on the origin of Man.
The beginning of the lecture seemed
to b e aimed at arousing the curiosity o!
his audience. A few well aimed
questions had even the most apathetic
wondering about the environmental
circumstances that led to Man's
appearance; when did Man learn tc
walk upright? How long did it take him
to learn? What pushed our ancestors
into becoming the supposedly intelli-gent
species we are today?
The good Doctor then proceeded with
his slide presentation complete with
artistic renditions"of early hominiads.
It was around this time Dr. Leakey
began to sound like a low budget
National Geographic documentary.
However, most of his slides were
rather basic, but then again the crowd
was not as well grounded in the
subject for him to have gone into any
detail.
Despite a rather dry slide show, the
Doctor was quite interesting. One
thing that impressed me was the fact
that he did not once mention his
father, a famous archeologist in his
own.right. He obviously chooses not to
live in his f a t h e r ' s shadow but rather
takes an educational role for his cause.
It is unfortunate that Dr. Leakey
wasn't here Saturday afternoon. He
would have had a field day at the
Wildman's Convention at Cabin 4.
second half, so Coach Joe Carideo
tried different combinations of players
for that winning combination. How-ever,
the Gothic defense was tough
and they were shooting well as the
Ospreys never came closer then seven
points in the second half. The final
score was Gothics 86, Ospreys 69.
Even though the Ospreys lost, they
have a hell of a lot to be proud of. At
the beginning of the season, people
were saying Stockton who? They also
played their hearts out in the
championship same, but things just
didn't t u r n outright.They hustled a lot
as signified by Joe Kowalkowski,
Duane Murauski, and Jimmy Gaines
all fouling out. Congratulations to
them, Slick Austin, Captain Bob Urie,
and the rest of the squad for an
exciting season. Best wishes to the
graduating seniors, and to the rest of
the squad. We'll be looking for more
good things in t h e 79-80 season.
Blackout
By Dan Ramage
• Last Thursday Stockton had the first
large power failure in its history. The
blackout caused many classes (espec-ially
ones without windows) to be
cancelled in the daytime and the
cancellation of all college activities at
night.
The cause of t h i s power failure came
from an electrical short in the high
voltage line which runs from the
campus plant throughout the entire
main building. Plant Management
electricians had to isolate the short
which eventually was found near
K-wing. This took th& entire day.
Emergency lights were kept on in the
building due to the use of emergency
generators located in each phase of tb
school.
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