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Trustees revise misconduct policy WMU trustees approved a revised re- MLK events lined up for 11 days this month search misconduct policy Dec. 15 that is High-profile guest speakers, a day of ser- justifications for affirmative action in the in line with recent changes made by the vice, a slew of special presentations and a political arena. U.S. Department of Health and Human poetry slam are just some of the upcoming Among the events taking place off the Services’ Office of Research Integrity. The events honoring slain civil rights leader WMU campus will be a Communitywide policy, which had addressed research that Martin Luther King Jr. that will be held Day of Service on Monday, Jan. 15—na- was funded or sponsored externally or that this month on the campus of WMU and tional MLK Day. Numerous volunteer op- was intended for scholarly presentation, was in the local community. portunities will be featured, and there will be amended to address all WMU researchers Eleven days of events a march in King’s memory and research activities. It also now provides have been planned to mark from the Radisson Hotel more detail on the responsibilities of the King’s birthday, beginning to MLK Memorial Park on institution in responding to allegations of with the MLK Multicul- North Rose Street. research misconduct and the oversight of the tural Celebration at 4 p.m. In addition, an MLK ORI in an investigation of misconduct. Sunday, Jan. 14, in Miller Celebration will begin at Auditorium featuring guest 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 21, in WMU to sell surplus furniture speaker Zenobia Lawrence Kalamazoo’s Galilee Baptist A surplus furniture sale will be held from Hikes, vice president for Church in Kalamazoo. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 13, on the student affairs at Virginia The event will feature third floor of Ellsworth Hall. Items for sale Tech. Another campus guest speaker Bishop Ca- will include file event highlight will be a 7: nute B. Blake, senior pas- and storage cabi- 30 p.m. presentation Tues- tor at the Malton Church nets, desks, tables, day, Jan. 16, in the Fetzer Center’s Putney of God in Mississauga, Canada, and the first chairs and other Auditorium by Scott E. Page, professor of black man in the history of Canada’s Church miscellaneous of- complex systems, political science and eco- of God to hold the positions of superin- fice furnishings. nomics at the University of Michigan. tendent of the church and administrative Cash and checks will be accepted, and all In his new book, “The Difference: How the bishop of the Eastern Canada Region. sales will be final. Buyers must arrange for Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, All but one of the other currently sched- the same-day removal of all purchased items. Firms, Schools and Societies,” Page consid- uled communitywide MLK events are tak- For more information, call 387-8487. ers how people think in groups and how ing place at WMU. For details about these this collective wisdom exceeds the sum of events, visit www.wmich.edu/mlk. Haenicke schedules office hours its parts. Wednesday, Jan. 17 Interim President Diether H. Haenicke In his WMU presentation, titled “How • Curriculum program, “Teaching about has set spring semester open office hours Diversity Makes the Difference,” Page MLK Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement,” for 9 to 11 a.m. on both Wednesday, Jan. will relate his findings to the changing 4 to 5:30 p.m., 2304 Sangren. 24, and Thursday, March 15. Anyone wish- continued on page 4 ing to make a 10-minute appointment to speak with the president should contact Haenicke reopens ombudsman’s office through December 2007 Jon Andrews, the president’s assistant, at The University will have an experienced ombudsman to serve stu- [email protected]. Appointments dent, faculty and staff needs through December 2007, WMU Interim may also be made by calling 387-2351. President Diether H. Haenicke announced Jan. 5. Totals for gifts, grants reported Thomas Bailey, University ombudsman from 1994 to 1999, has been named to serve in the ombudsman position on a half-time basis for the WMU received $4,078,998 in gifts from year. The office had been closed since June, when the last ombudsman the July 1 start of the current fiscal year retired and University officials opted not to appoint a replacement. through Nov. 30. The total constitutes an in- “Students have told me, repeatedly, how important they think it is crease of $1,439,855 or about to have an impartial office available to help them resolve the issues 55 percent compared to the Bailey they sometimes face,” Haenicke says. “I decided to revive the position same five-month period of on a half-time basis for a one-year term and put an experienced person in the role. This the preceding year. will ensure assistance is available for our students and employees, and it will give the next As of Oct. 31, grants to president time to assess the need for the position and make a final determination about the University totaled a how it should be staffed and funded.” little more than $17 million. continued on page 3 Notable awards reported to WMU trustees included $672,887 from the Michigan De- partment of Education to Ruth Ann Meyer University slates grand opening for new chemistry building and Sandra Madden, mathematics. A grand opening celebration will be held Friday, Jan. 26, to Board of Trustees to meet Jan. 26 show off the newly construct- The WMU Board of Trustees has approved ed chemistry building. The five Friday meeting dates for 2007. The next event, which is being hosted meeting will take place Jan. 26. Meetings by the WMU Board of Trustees also are scheduled for April 27, July 13, and Interim President Diether Oct. 12 and Dec. 14. Meetings generally H. Haenicke, will be held from are held in the Bernhard Center. Agenda 2 to 4 p.m. and include tours highlights and additional information is of the facility. published in WMU News in advance of each meeting. (Photo by John Lacko) Book gives glimpse into ‘real’ Japan Jeffrey Angles, who heads WMU’s Japa- Around Campus nese language program, has co-edited a collection of Japanese short stories and Library group meets this month implications of the extensive revision of essays that guides readers through the Susan Steuer, head of special library WMU’s Research Misconduct Policy. diverse landscape and collections, will speak at a Friends of culture of modern- the University Libraries program at Fetzer CEO to give campus talk day Japan. His book, 4:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 19, in Waldo Thomas Beech, president and chief “Japan: A Traveler’s Library’s Edwin and Mary Meader Rare executive officer of the Fetzer Institute, Literary Companion,” Book Room. She will present an intel- will speak at 7:30 a.m. Friday, Jan. 26, in was a collaboration lectual psuedo-biography connecting her 2150 Schneider as part of the Keystone with J. Thomas Rimer, training and education to working with Community Bank Breakfast Speaker a retired University of the Rare Book Room’s collections. To Series. Beech will talk on “The Fetzer Angles Pittsburgh professor. RSVP for the reception that will follow, Institute’s Work on Love and Forgiveness: The travel guide was call 387-5202 by Jan. 16. Fluff or Substance.” To make a reservation published in May and featured on National to attend, call 387-5050. Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” in Frostic series resumes Jan. 24 September. It is the first book for Angles The next presentation in the Frostic Fair targets business students and part of a series of 13 literary guides Reading Series will be “Everybody Loves A study abroad fair showcasing WMU’s published by Whereabouts Press. The Somebody” by novelist Joanna Scott on various business-oriented programs will work is available for $14.95 and can be Jan. 24. All readings take place at 8 p.m. be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. purchased online by visiting amazon.com in the Little Theatre. 31, in Room 3030 Schneider Hall. The or barnesandnoble.com. event is being sponsored by the Haenicke Research misconduct forum set Institute for Global Education, which Fulbright funds remittances study The Research Ethics Resource Center offers study abroad and exchange pro- Susan Pozo, economics, has been awarded has slated monthly noon-hour brown bag grams for business majors and minors in a Fulbright Scholar grant to study the impact forums this spring. The next presentation 15 countries on three continents. HIGE of emigrant remittances in South America. will be Jan. 25 in 157 Bernhard Center. invites University faculty and staff to Pozo plans to return in It will feature Leonard Ginsberg, interim enroll in offerings that take place over June from the Univer- vice president for research, discussing the the summer. sity of Montevideo in Uruguay, where she currently is studying Detroit Tigers caravan scheduled to stop at Miller Auditorium the households and economies that are Area sports fans will see some of the biggest Among the day’s main speakers will be left behind when indi- names in Detroit Tigers baseball during a Jim Leyland, the 2006 AL Manager of Year. viduals migrate to work, presentation from 10:30 a.m. to noon Thurs- Leyland signed with the Tigers as a catcher Pozo study or resettle, send- day, Jan. 18, in Miller Auditorium. in 1963 and returned as its 36th manager ing their earnings back home in an attempt Doors will open at 10 a.m. for this free in October 2005. to create more comfortable living conditions public rally, which is part of the 2007 Detroit Although subject to change, the other Ti- for those they have left behind. Tiger Winter Caravan. The event will feature gers personnel scheduled to make the trek to Pozo, who lived in Venezuela for much a variety of Tigers players and coaches who Kalamazoo are: coaches Lloyd McClendon, of her childhood, joined the Department will take the stage to discuss the team’s 2006 Gene Lamont and Rafael Belliard; pitchers of Economics as an assistant professor in American League Championship season as Mike Maroth and Justin Verlander; catcher 1982. She quickly rose to the rank of as- well as its prospects for this year. Vance Wilson; infielders Placido Polanco sociate professor and was promoted again The Winter Caravan’s Kalamazoo stop and Chris Shelton; outfielders Craig Monroe to professor in 1994. An expert in the areas is being organized by the WMU Alumni and Marcus Thames; and broadcaster Dan of international finance, immigration and Association. No tickets or reservations Dickerson. macroeconomics, she earned her doctoral are required to attend the event, as most degree in international trade and finance seating is based on a first-come, first-served AFSCME contract approved from Michigan State University. basis. The American League Championship After union members voted their ap- Trophy will be on display during the event, proval Nov. 27 by a 3-1 margin, WMU Regional council elects WMU rep and the first 200 people through the door trustees OK’d a three-year labor contract W. Wilson Woods, interim dean of will receive a commemorative item from Dec. 15 with Local 1668 of the American the Diether H. Haenicke Institute for the Tigers. Federation of State, County and Municipal Global Education, was recently elected Employees. to a two year term as The agreement calls for: no increases to - board member for the volume 33 base pay in the first year but a $500 one-time number 9 World Affairs Council bonus to be paid in January 2007; a 20-cent of Western Michigan. EDITOR: Cheryl P. Roland. ISSUE EDITOR: Jeanne Baron. per-hour increase to base for those in skilled The council hosts pro- trades positions and a 1.5 percent lump-sum CONTRIBUTORS: Tonya Hernandez, Marie Lee, Thomas A. gramming that furthers Myers, Deanne Molinari and Mark E. Schwerin. GRAPHIC payment to non-skilled trades employees in understanding of global DESIGN: Tammy M. Boneburg. 2008; and a 1.5 percent increase to base for and American foreign WESTERN NEWS (USPS 362-210) is published by the Office all AFSCME employees in 2009. of University Relations, Walwood Hall, Western Michigan policy issues. The new contract also brought AFSCME Woods University, 1903 W. Michigan Ave., Kalamazoo, MI 49008- Woods, an affiliate 5433, every other week during the fall and spring semesters under the same health care and tuition re- assistant professor in the Department and Summer I session. Periodicals postage paid at Kalamazoo, mission plans as other WMU employees. MI 49008-5165. of History, was named interim HIGE POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Western News, Office Jobs director in July 2006. He previously had of University Relations, Western Michigan University, 1903 W. directed operations for WMU’s initiatives Michigan Ave., Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5433. Current job opportunities at WMU are in the international higher education arena announced every Monday on the human DEADLINE: Items to be considered for publication should be since 1986. During his tenure, he has served submitted to the Office of University Relations by 5 p.m. Friday resources Web site at www.wmich.edu/hr/ the week preceding publication. Spring publication dates are as director or co-director of international job.htm and the Applicant Information Ser- Jan. 11 and 25, Feb. 8 and 22, March 15 and 29, and April programs and exchange agreements with 12. Items may be submitted by mail, fax (387-8422) or e-mail vice phone line at 387-3669. Applications more than a dozen nations and directed ([email protected]). are accepted for posted jobs only and must contract negotiations establishing twinning WMU is an equal opportunity/employer/affirmative action JANUARY 11, 2007 WESTERNJANUARY NEWS be submitted by the stated deadline. Com- institution. arrangements and study abroad initiatives plete application procedures are included around the globe. 2 on each posting. Trustees approve 15 retirements, 14 resignations during October board meeting The retirements of four faculty members, two department chairs and nine staff members were approved by the WMU Board of Trustees at its Oct. 20 meeting. Trustees also accepted the resignations of 10 faculty members and four staff members. All of the faculty retirements were approved with emeriti status. The faculty members’ names, positions, years of continuous service and effective dates of retirement are: Thomas R. Holmes, associate professor of holistic health, 19 years, effective Jan. 3, 2007; Linda Law, associate professor of health, physical education and recreation, 31-1/2 years, effective May 8, 2007; Charlene Holmes Law Mihalko Renner, professor of University Libraries, 20 years, effective June 30, 2007; and Charles Stroh, professor of art, 10 years, effective June 29, 2007. The department chairs retiring are: Daniel Mihalko, chair of statistics, 21-1/2 years, effective June 30, 2007, and Paul E. Szarmach, director of the Medieval Institute, 13 years, effective June 30, 2007. The staff members retiring are: Richard A. Aldrich Jr., police division sergeant in the Department of Public Safety, 25 years, effective Jan. 31, 2007; Wesley R. Carpenter, captain of services in the Department of Public Safety, 33 years, effective Feb. 28, 2007; Arthur J. Fedor, substance abuse Szarmach Aldrich Carpenter counselor in the University Counseling and Testing Center, 13 years, effective Sept. 10, 2006; Carolyn F. Hornev, career advisor in Career and Student Employment Services, 11 years, effective Feb. 28, 2007; Matthew O. Kurz, associate vice president for University Relations, 11 years, effective Jan. 9, 2007; Charles Bruce MacQueen, associate professor in the University Counseling and Testing Center, 40-1/2 years, effective Feb. 28, 2007; Janice L. Murray, utility food worker in Draper Foods, 13 years, effective Dec. 31, 2006; Candace P. Porath, editor in the Medieval Institute, 19-1/2 years, effective Oct. 31, 2006; and Patricia J. Sprague, finance specialist in physical Hornev Kurz Murray plant-administrative support, 18 years, effective Oct. 31, 2006. The faculty members resigning are: Mark Alavosius, assistant professor of psychology, effective June 30, 2006; James J. Biles, assistant professor of geography, effective Dec. 31, 2006; Siew H. Chan, assistant professor of accountancy, effective July 30, 2006; Karen Hornef- fer-Ginter, associate professor and program director of holistic health, effective Dec. 3, 2006; Allison J. McFarland, associate professor of health, physical education and recreation, effective July 31, 2006; Norali Pernalete, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, effective Aug. 18, 2006; Michael E. Raines, associate professor of mathematics, effective, Aug. 19, 2006; Abhay Sharma, associate professor of paper engineering, chemical engineering and imaging, effective July 1, 2006; Lixin Shen, assistant professor of mathematics, effective July 31, 2006; and Eshetu T. Wondmagegnehu, assistant professor of statistics, effective July 18, 2006. The staff members resigning are: Hugh E. Conklin, general manager of the Western Herald, effective Sept. 29, 2006; Sally R. Cowles, occupational health physician in the Sindecuse Health Center, effective Sept. 27, 2006; Kristen S. Morin, assistant director of Student Activities and Leadership Programs, effective Aug. 14, 2006; and Amy K. Nelson, business manager in the Office of Residence Life, effective Aug. 24, 2006.

Obituaries

Henry H. Beam, Michigan, worked for a Chicago consulting Maria Jonaitis, a recent retiree, died Jan. professor of manage- firm for two years, then returned to Ann 6 in Chicago. She was 68. ment, died Dec. 21 in Arbor to earn a Ph.D. in business adminis- Jonaitis retired from WMU last April, Kalamazoo. He was tration in 1975. Later that year, Beam took after serving for more than 33 years in a 68. a faculty job in what is now the Haworth variety of University offices. She spent the A member of the fac- College of Business. final 19 years of her time on campus as an ulty for 31 years, Beam Beam focused on strategic management office assistant in the Division of Multicul- taught a variety of and business education and was an active tural Affairs. Beam courses, including the author and contributor to writing in his Jonaitis first joined the WMU staff in first entrepreneurship discipline. For many years, he and his 1972 as a secretary in the Office of Admis- class offered at WMU and the last course faculty colleagues worked with small busi- sions. She worked briefly in the Office of students in the MBA program take. nesses in the area to help them boost their the President in 1976 before accepting a job A native of Detroit, Beam earned a chances of success. Beam also was deeply later that year in the Office of Collective bachelor’s degree at Princeton University involved in the Kalamazoo community in Bargaining, where she stayed until 1987. in 1960, and then served in the U.S. Navy many other ways. A memorial celebration of her life is for four years before returning to academia David B. Flickinger, a former custodial planned for 4 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 17, in to earn a master’s degree in electrical engi- worker, died Dec. 11. He was 47. Kanley Chapel. A reception will follow at neering from the University of Michigan in A lifelong resident of the greater the Oaklands. 1965. After two years as a design engineer at Kalamazoo area, he was employed by WMU Bendix Aerospace, he earned an MBA from for 22 years. Ombudsman continued from page 1 Bailey has reopened the office, which is

WMU Foundation declines Pfizer offer to acquire research facility located in Room 218 of the Bernhard Center, JANUARY 11, 2007 NEWS WESTERN The WMU Foundation informed Pfizer Inc. in December that it will withdraw from a pur- and says he expects to work closely with chase agreement to acquire the downtown Kalamazoo facility known as Building 126. offices across campus to address issues. The University was to lease the building from the foundation, use part of it for faculty He will have office hours on Mondays and research and lease the rest to private-sector science firms. The annual cost of operating the Wednesdays from 2 to 5 p.m., Tuesdays and building is pegged at $1.5 to $2 million. Bob Miller, associate vice president for community Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., and Fridays outreach, said the University remains committed to doing anything it can to assist in any from 9 a.m. to noon. future initiative that would keep the facility as a community asset. Appointments can be made by call- Miller said President Diether H. Haenicke was in consultation with faculty members ing 387-0718 or by e-mailing Bailey at and trustees on the issue, and the consensus was that the annual cost of operating the [email protected]. The office will facility should be directed, instead, to WMU’s core educational mission. He noted that as be served by a part-time receptionist, who the administration moved toward the transfer, it became apparent it was not possible for also will make appointments for individuals WMU to assume the additional financial burden required to operate such a center. who seek assistance. 3 4 JANUARY 11, 2007 WESTERN NEWS MLK events 1, 2006,throughJune30,2007. through June30,2007;and effective Dec.4,2006; programs, family and parent effective Jan.1,2007; research, for president vice im through June30,2008; 2006, 1, July effective dents, Stu International for Center of the Career English Language through June30,2007; Sciences, effective July 1, 2006, Biological of Department the lowing sixadministrators: fol the of appointments the approved trustees WMU ing, University approves sixnewadministrative appointments to DoWith It?,”noonto2p.m.,Multicul Recital Hall. Moment’sCenter Dalton p.m., 7 Notice,” Lee HonorsCollegeLounge. p.m., 4:30 WMU, at appearance only his ing to life the words and message of King in • • • • • • Acting at their Dec. 15 meet • Film and discussion, “What’s Race Got Friday, Jan.19 a “On event, jazz and slam Poetry • • Audio event and panel discussion bring Thursday, Jan.18 Leonard Ginsberg Robert Dlouhy Curtis N. Swanson Shari Glaser David Cowan David et Hearit Keith www.wmich.edu/wmu/news/events as director of as chair of chair as s nei da o te e Hnr Clee efcie a. , 2007, 1, Jan. effective College, Honors Lee the of dean interim as as director as inter as interim faculty chair in the College of Aviation, effective July - - - - (Photo byJeanneBaron) Glaser Cowan FIXATED ONFIXING - - volume 33,number 9 JANUARY 11,2007 downtown campus. College’s Community Valley Kalamazoo p.m., 4 to a.m. 10 Justice, and Peace for Brown and Gold Room, Bernhard Center. noon, to a.m. 9 WomenLeaders,” Gap: as tural Center, Trimpe. • Lecture, “Archaeological Investigations Tuesday, Jan.23 Convention CommUnity Kalamazoo • the “Bridging workshop, Interactive • Saturday, Jan.20 Hearit Dlouhy hours hunting,hours fishinggoing and camping with his children. off his spend to prefers occasionally, he out works he Although Iraq. in Army three grown daughters, one of whom recently completed a tour of withduty the by name.” me know them of most And here.17 years my during members the of lot a know to gotten also I’ve working here, and and management have the employees a relationship.good as this quintet’sserves liaison with management. bed.” to me put fromruns 4a.m. noon. to TV. featuring afireplacebigand screen lounge a track, fitness rooms,locker rooms, apro area, shop, and a alargeday-care in size. moredouble to than it allowed has that renovation a for paid as well as 4,400 to membership its athletic club in 1999. Under the University’s ownership, the facility has increased duties. various purchasing-related handles and maintains whirlpools two up touches paint,work, watches overcarpentry does the heating and cooling, Club, Smith keeps all the lights in his facility’s 300 fixturesburning brightly. He also Lee Smithlightsuparoom,andnotjustbecauseofhispersonality On Campus Smith, a Wayland resident, has one son who graduated from WMU and and WMU from graduated who son one has resident, Wayland a Smith, team good a have “We says. he people,” the is job my of part best “The and members staff custodial four with works Smith employee, AFSCME An they bed,”“Now jokes. to he them put to used I little,were kids my “When Smith roams corner of every the sprawling facility during his work day, which courts, tennis nineamenities,including numerous sports building tri-level The Smith had been working at West Hills for 10 years when WMU took over the “There’s never adull moment,” says. “I’m he time.” all go the the on As the skilled trades helper in charge of maintenance for the West Hills Athletic Swanson Ginsberg 5:30 to7p.m.,3103Sangren. Classroom,” P-16 Your into Content can Illinois,” 4p.m.,G0121Moore. Central West in Community ricultural Ag Multi-Racial A Philadelphia, New at MLK Room,BernhardCenter. p.m., 7 Justice,” and Peace on MLK Poor: on education,state’s future High-profile townhallslated [email protected] e-mail or 734-769-4625 call spot, a serve the KalamazooCommunityFoundation. Corp. of president Hopkins, Jack and chairman; Stryker Brown, W. John mayor; Kalamazoo McKinney, Hannah College; Kalamazoo of Wilson-Oyelaran,president governmental and business leaders as Eileen educational, local Board such and Education, of State Michigan the of president the CenterforMichiganthinktank. future being organized around the state by of meetings on topics critical to Michigan’s to 5p.m.Wednesday, Jan.17. a.m. 8 from Michigan’sFuture” Economic and “Education on meeting hall town a for Center Fetzer the in gather will public ofthe members and figures political ers, • Discussion, “War Is The Enemy Of The Wednesday, Jan.24 West“Incorporating Discussion, Afri • Advance registration is required. Tore required. is registration Advance vice Austin, John include Presenters The free, day-long event is one of a series develop economic educators, State with LeeSmith continued frompage1 . . - - - -