Promotion Grievance Cases Won by Three Instructors
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Weather Inside Partly cloudy today with Increas- Controversy over energyof the ing cloudiness tonight. Chance of nuclear power plant varietysafe- showers late tonight and tomor- guards against wastes and wheth- row. High today in the low 60's. Daily er it is a needed source of energy Low tonight in the low to mid artan continues to flare. See story on Serving the San Jose State University Community Since 1934 40's. Cooler Thursday. Page 3. SJSU Meteurulogy Department Volume 66, Number 16 Wednesday, February 25, 1976 Phone: 277-3181 Promotion grievance cases won by three instructors By Stephen Malta "The grievance procedure restricts is elected by faculty instead of selected Three SJSU instructors have won the grievance committee because it at random, and 3i arbitration will be their grievance cases and are being doesn't give them the authority to make required in all disputes. The law took reconsidered for promotion for the 1975- substantive recommendations," he effect Jan. 1. 76 school year. said. Both Kurzweil and Lee said they were Eighteen instructors had filed Under the present rule, according to pleased with the Berman bill. Lee said grievances after not receiving promo- Kurzweil, the grievance committee's the new procedure will allow the tions last year, according to Dr. Jack authority is limited to review of the grievant to be represented by a lawyer Kurzweil, chairman of the United procedures used in faculty promotions, instead of being forced to represent Professors of California ( UPC ) and not consideration of reasons for himself as in the old procedures. grievance committee. promotion denials. Dr. Fred Schutz, associate professor Bill has flaws "Even if the committee decides in of English, Dr. Joseph Boudreau, Sasseen, who is chairman of the favor of the professor, all it means is a associate professor of history, and grievance committee, said there were recommendation to Bunzel that the Rollin Buckman, associate professor of two flaws with the Berman bill. case be reviewed. He speech-communication, each won their didn't agree with extending the cases, according to Dr. Roland Lee, "Under the present procedure," grievance procedures to temporary president of UPC local. Kurzweil said, "the only time a case faculty. can go to arbitration is when the He also questioned the election of a Grievants lose university promotions committee grievance committee. "I don't know Those who filed grievances and didn't recommends a promotion and Bunzel whether an elected panel could be as win are Dr. Philip Cook, Dr. Nancy disagrees." impartial as a committee selected at Cooper, Nils Peterson and Dorothy Jack Kurzweil A new grievance procedure is due to random." Wright, all of the English department; Angeles, which was passed in the Kurzweil said that changes, such as be instituted sometime next month, Randall Sadler and Albert Barela of the California assembly last year, three grievance procedure changes, were according to Sasseen. art department; Dr. Charles Porter, major changes will take place in the impossible to achieve within the Dr. Henry Murphy and Dr. Roger Procedure changes grievance procedures: 1) temporary university. Naight of the biological science Under AB 804, introduced by and probationary faculty can file a "It took an outside force to bring department; Dr. Azmy Ibrahim and Assemblyman Howard Berman, D-Los grievance, 2) the grievance committee about this charge," he said. Dr. Robert Gliner of the sociology department; Dr. Martin Primack, economics department; Dr. Alden Voth, political science department; Dr. Economics majors involved Jack Kurzweil, electrical engineering department and Dr. Jarret Brock, philosophy department, according to lave Mandel Kurzweil. SJSU President John Bunzel accepts check left by Hazel Kuhlman (insert) Four students are elected Only 55 per cent of the funds allocated for SJSU faculty promotions for the 1975-76 school year were used for By Heidi Van &int come to terms with this situation yet, so ceptable," Willis said. SJSU gets bequest promotions. A group of economics students took we went ahead," Stanford explained. He said the faculty has agreed. "in principle" there should be student Dr. Robert Sasseen, dean of the the issue of representation on the The purpose of having temporary members, but they have not decided faculty and chairman of the university department committees into its own representatives, he said, is to give the how many there would be, if they would promotions committee, said the major hands Monday and elected four tem- students a "ticket" into the committees have voting rights, and what the for scholarship fund reason was the faculty eligible for porary members to the curriculum and and to put pressure on the department election procedure' would be. promotions didn't meet the merit graduate committees. to decide how permanent student Student Mark Stanford said a members should be selected. By Virginia Rigonan Mrs. Kuhlman was an antique requirement. He also said the full Meeting called she had used her meeting of all economics majors was Department chairman James Willis SJSU is $482,753.59 wealthier collector, and allocation is never used. The meeting, open to all economics called to elect temporary represen- said the students will be welcomed as today, due to a bequest from the home as a warehouse, leaving only majors, was called after the issue was Out of the 18 instructors that had filed tatives because the economics students guests at the committee meetings, but late Hazel McIntosh Kuhlman. a one and a half foot wide path discussed at a department meeting last grievances, one withdrew his petition. wanted to "expedite" the election "certainly not" as voting members. In a small ceremonial presenta- between the crates, boxes and week. However, no action was taken Kurzweil said he believed the present "I wouldn't consider any procedure tion in President John Bunzel's barrels containing her collection. process. due to lack of a quorum. office yesterday morning, the In June, 1974, the collection was grievance procedure as stated in "The department hasn't been able to not approved by the department ac- check was reported to be the auctioned on campus in the old section 1.4 of the executive order 201, is Willis said another meeting has been largest single bequest ever made Women's Gym. The collection unfair to the grievant. scheduled for March 3. to the university. filled offices and lined the walls of At Monday's meeting, attended by 18 The money will be placed under the gym. economics majors, the students said the "Hazel and Harry Kuhlman Walt Valen, business operations Soviet leader they were concerned the semester Scholarship Trust" for worthy and officer for SJSU, was procurement would be over before the department needy students, according to Mrs. and contract manager for the agreed on how students should be Kuhlman's lawyer, Larry Sinclair, weekend event. wants peace elected to the committees. who presented the check to Bunzel A crew of six spent four 10-hour Economics majors elected to the in behalf of the university. days in the Kuhlman house just to MOSCOW AP - Soviet Communist committees were Ken Craib, Haman Born in Roseville, Hazel crate and pack the antiques, Valen I leader Leonid I. Brezhnev promised Hawari, Jeff Browning and Julie McIntosh, came to San Jose Nor- said. "redoubled energy" yesterday in the Krause. mal School at the age of 20 in 1912. "It was most generous of Mrs. pursuit of peaceful coexistence with the She graduated in 1914 with a Kuhlman," Bunzel said of the Browning said a meeting will be set West what the general elementary degree in bequest. This ( trust I is going to but said the Kremlin intends to up with Willis to explain continue support for "liberation" teaching, and later taught grade be used by a lot of students." students have done. struggles abroad, such as in Angola. school for 42 years in Roseville and From little of what I know of He added that the students are The 69-year-old Brezhnev made Sacramento. her, she was a very patriotic his temporary and will serve only until pledge on the opening day of the 25th In 1931, she married Harry person," said Sinclair. She was a permanent representatives can be Soviet Communist Kuhlman, who was an engineer for teacher most of her life, and her Party congress in a elected. the state Department of Highways. life was to help speech intended to chart the USSR's purpose in Attendance explained Ii He died in January, 1972. students." course for the next five years. Brezhnev forcefully Browning said the difference between Mrs. Kuhlman died on March 29, Also present at the event were repeated Moscow's intention to continue its aid to attending the meetings on his own and 1974, at the age of 82 in the Sinclair's wife, Polly and their son the leftist Popular Movement - MPLA - being elected as a temporary Roseville home where she was Robert; James Noah, University government in Angola as a matter of representative is "we're going to claim born. The Kuhlmans had no Relations, and Glen Guttormsen, "revolutionary conscience" and said it to have a vote." children. director of business affairs. 7. would also support other ideological Dr. Norman Keiser, a faculty allies involved in struggles. member of the curriculum committee, said the temporary members should not vote because "that's kind of an ad hoc arrangement." Committee probed He said he's not sure if the permanent student representatives should vote either. "They might take the easy way out" when making curriculum decisions for Litchfield to present study the department, he said. University policy suggests that By Tom Tait Spring 1975. "Some amendments may be needed students have an "opportunity for Two resolutions concerning the The ICSC has been the center of some to remedy the situation," Ely said.