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University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware Tuesday, May 1/1, 1977 University Professors Forced To Accept- One-Year Contracts By VALERIE HELMBRECK' In keeping with the terms of the University assistant professors will collective bargaining Agreement face an uncertain future because of made in 1975 between the university the current fiscal crisis. and the AAUP, this policy must be Contracts issued to assistant adhered to. This change in policy professors will be limited to one year, constitutes a contract violation, according to L. Leon Campbell, according to Madelynn Oglesby, Provost and Vice President for president of the AAUP's local Academic Affairs. This applies to chapter. faculty being considered for contract "They (the university renewal as well as to newly administration) are exploiting the appointed faculty or those persons most vulnerable faculty group - being promoted from instructor to assistant professors who do not have the rank of assistant professor. tenure," said Oglesby. Faculty Prior to. this decision, assistant members in this category whose professors were appointed or contracts are to be renewed this year promoted to an initial term of one to or next year will be affected by the three years. First appointments at change, she said. this rank were normally for a Oglesby said she feels that the decision will affect morale among the Staff photo by T. Gregory lynch three-year term, according to the University's Policy Manual. This faculty and seriously damage the SANDY BRAE ROAD. opened to troffic Monday after two years of policy was approved by the Faculty quality of the teaching staff attracted construction, provides a suitable highway to, physical fitness for members Senate, the Board of Trustees and the by the university. Motivation among of the Newark Academy of Karate Do. ' Am~rican Association of University the staff at the assistant Professors (AAUP). professorship level could be seriously damaged by the administration's move, according to Oglesby. Certain candidates for contract Food Service Foots Bill for Daugherty renewal may receive special By VALERIE HELMB~ECK . ?epartment hopes to generate e~ou~h said. The University Commuter consideration and "longer term Daughterty. Hall wIll open m mcom~ f~om .~ood sales to mamtam Association and Returning Adult assurances of employment," Septembe~ wlth the support of the the buIldmg. If t~e student~ do not Students may expect to have offices according to a statement issued by Food S~rvlces I?~partment. support our oper,~bon t~ere wIll be no in Daugherty, Mayer added. There Campbell. The fmal declslon on the fate of the Daugh~r~y Hal), he sald. The co.st of will also be an 86-seat study area on In a memorandum to academic building was announced by John the bUlldmg wIll not be un~e!wntten the second floor, according to Food deans, directors and department Wo~hen, vice pre~id.ent f?r Student by revenues from the dmmg hall . Services' current plans. Department chairpersons, Campbell specified Affairs and Admmlstratlon, at a meal plan, he added.. , plans also include a games area and that unless the one-year contract is meeting on Monday. According to In t~e past, proflts from slmtlar , lockers for commuting students. actually designated as terminal, it is Worthen, a proposed student facility operatIOns run by the department Mayer said that there will be no understood that in most instances of fee was rejected by the President's have been used to. help support t~e professional offices in the building, renewal one-year appointments are Cabinet as a means of supporting the m.eal plan. Accordmg to Ma~er thls with the exception of the building in effect two year appointments. building's operati~n. wIll not be the. case wlth the manager's office. The department According to Margaret Waid, Th~ Food Servic~s De~artment will Daughtery Hall ~roJect. hopes that the student-oriented Chairman of the Grievance provide the fmanclal support The Food.Servlces Depa!tm~nt wIll activities will attract traffic through Committee for the AA UP, the necessary for the reopening of the be. t~e prlmary. auth~nty 10 the the building bringing business to the decision "invites the possibility of a building and operations costs for a buIldmg, accordmg to 'Yorthen. food concessions. class action grievance" against the trial period of one year, Worthen Mayer add~d that there wIll. be a Mayer pointed out that the university. Provision for class action said. It is intended that the building student adVisory board to asslst the Rathskeller that previously operated grievances is outlined in the will become self-supporting through manag~ment.. .. in the building will not be opened and Collective Bargaining Agreement. expanded snack bar and food service .A pnmary portlon of the buddmg that there will be no alcoholic Under this agreement, the AAUP has operations in the building, said wIll be. used for t~e sales and beverages served in the building. 45 days in which to file the grievance. Rob~rt W. Mayer, Assi~tant Vice prepa.ratlon of food, sald ~ayer. ~~~ According to Mayer, the Dr. CampbeU was unavailable for Presldent for Student Servlces. remamder of t~e space w.Il~ ~e u department's long-range goal is to comment on the decision. According to Mayer, the for student-orlented aCtlvltles, he (Continued toP.... ) Coalition States Objectives at Demonstration By DAN HORGAN Stopping education . cutbacks, from the crowd when he spoke in obtaining a sunshine law for the favor of student activism, 'citing "Let's show Hullihen Hall and the university, and raising corporate examples of the civil rights and government of Delaware we're going' taxes in the state are the coalition's anti-war movements of the late, to stand up for our rights." This main objectives, Del Prete told the sixties as its accomplishments. statement by Larry Del Prete, spectators at the demonstration. "Great changes have begun in the chairman of the Coalition to Fight Del Prete emphasized that the past with a single courageous act, by Education Cutbacks (CFEC'), outside support of labor and an individual, that has led to a highlighted the coalition's community groups is essential to the movement," Krevitsky said. demonstration held on the mall success of any student action group. Stephen Finner, associate Wednesday. He called for greater student professor of the Sociology A crowd of approximately 150 solidarity on campus next year. Department, said at the people listened to representatives of Student speaker Stephen Krevitsky demonstration that if students do not several labor unions and student said the question of reduced become familiar with the legal groups speak against education education funding is "a very human system and work through the system cutbacks and cuts in state services at one" because the education cutbacks I to affect change, they have no right the demonstration, held at 3 p.m. on proposed by Gov. Pierre S. du Pont to expect any improvements in their the steps of Memorial Hall. will result inevitably in the "shifting . world. NELS J'ANTHONY, PRESIDENT Del Prete said he was pleased with of the burden of education costs in JStephen Crawford, vice president of the Young Socialists, speaks at the size of the crowd: He said the Delaware to the middle and lower of the local chapter of the American Wednesday's rally protesting demonstration was a success because ,classes of the state." AssociatiQn education and state services it got the "issue 'out in the open." ~... Krevitsky drew strong applause fConthl-.. t .......) cutback Page 2 ar 20, 1977 ...... oB that the place you a m.cmths ago for the biggest bash of the year wen1; oB ofbusiness aweeks ago ... it's no time to get filled up. '" 1977 Mllier Brewing Co .. Milwaukee, Wis. ._________ _. __________ - ____________________ ...:' ___________ ------ ____ ==.-.::.. __ .:...:.. *::.!:::.. __ J .. ".._ .. ......... 'T . .. ".'" " ' ~11 • May 20.1977 REVIEW, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware Page 3 Dynamite and Steel Exploding Into Art By COLLEEN McGUIRE because it is such a powerful "natural process" art is very It can hardly be disputed material that is formed as a important to Rothrock. that energy is and has been result of a tremendous Rothrock admitted that he one of man's major concerns amount of energy. In the got a lot of funny looks when for centuries. Physicists past, Rothrock has done he went to steel. companies in have tried to describe it in other metal sculptures such the area with his proposal. precise mathematical terms; as a waterfall in order to Finally, the Bethlehem Steel politicians and scientists convey his idea of energy. Company agreed to supply have strived to harness and Now~ however, he is him with the steel at cost. conserve it, and now Richard attempting to combine a Rothrock, graduate student "dynamic process" with the Rothrock designed his of art at the university, is static art object in hopes of three boxes so that they trying to express energy by better expressing energy. would remain in one piece exploding three large steel The dynamic process, after the explosion. The boxes which collectively Rothrock points out, is not "artifacts" of the explosion weigh over a ton. solely the explosive action will be exhibited in Gallery Rothrock has been but the energy he and others 20, 20 Orchard Rd. this concerned with the problem have devoted to the project. Friday at 7:30 p.m. of artistically expressing The fact that so many people Photographs and. a film of energy for some time. He has have been able to participate the process will be exhibited chosen steel as his medium in the creation of the next fall.