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Grand Valley State University ScholarWorks@GVSU Volume 14 Lanthorn, 1968-2001 11-6-1980 Lanthorn, vol. 14, no. 12, November 6, 1980 Grand Valley State University Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/lanthorn_vol14 Part of the Archival Science Commons, Education Commons, and the History Commons Recommended Citation Grand Valley State University, "Lanthorn, vol. 14, no. 12, November 6, 1980" (1980). Volume 14. 12. http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/lanthorn_vol14/12 This Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Lanthorn, 1968-2001 at ScholarWorks@GVSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Volume 14 by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@GVSU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Proposal D M eets Defeat But Grand Valley Is Still Hurting As Michigan voter* were sending Niemeyer met with the faculty struction and those things most di the Tisch tax cut to defeat Tuesday, Salary and Budget Committee Tues­ rectly affecting it. Grand Valley Faculty and adminis­ day to discuss options for cutting “I’m willing to do my bit, but not trators were trying to decide how to Grand Valley’s budget. when there's deadwood sitting Other Ballot Initiatives Beaten, Too cut Grand Valley’s budget. Earlier this year $769,000 was around,” one faculty member said Even though Proposal D was not pared, mostly by not hiring replace­ before specifying the geographical Michigan voters turned thumbs Proposal G which would have al- tives, Marvin 'Mickey approved, the college still faces sub­ ments for employees who left the location of one example of down on all three tax reform propo­ lowed the Legislature to pass laws over his opponenr, an stantial cuts in its appropiation from institution. deadwood. sals and on Proposal B which would amending their immunity to civil Democrat Knight is i the state. Coupled with a decline in Several professors at the meeting The Salary and Budget Committee have lowered the legal drinking age prosecution; and Proposal II which the Grand Valles p. ! tuition revenue this spells trouble expressed strong feelings about was to meet Wednesday and again from 21 to 19. would have changed the role of the for Grand Valley, not only this year, where the additional money should next Tuesday to formulate specific Voters also rejected Proposal E, Lt. Governer. This was Knip'r , *»■< but next year as well, according to be cut, saying uiat priorities should recommendations of areas where which would have increased the in­ In the race for the 96th District the 96th District Provost Glenn Niemeyer. be set protecting the welfare of in­ they would prefer cuts are made. come tax to pay for new prisons; for the State House of Represents Muskegon Grand Valley’s Student Run Weekly The Lanthorn Volume 14 ALLENDALE, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1980 Nuinlit: Profc Call for Consistency Fanner In Summer Paychecks Denied Term, by Susan Collins allow for more courses to be offered. ECS also discussed priorities for The Executive Committee of the cutting Grand Valley's budget. Charges Bias (faculty) Senate (ECS) developed re­ An initiative stating that any cuts commendations to be taken to the be made first “to things with the I-vcrrtt Griffin. < lormei p Salary and Budget Committee Friday least direct relationship to instruc­ in the College <>f Arts .in 1 for possible budget cuts in the Acad­ tion” was expanded to read “to the School of Education, has fib emic Affairs Division. Two areas of academic health of the institution.” plaint against Grand V alley i discussion were summer salaries and ECS also formed a subcommittee Equal Employment personnel reduction policy. to work on changes in the adminis­ Commission In the past, any consistency in trative manual pertaining to person­ Federal agents were or. faculty summer salaries was non-cx- nel policy. Oct. 1 5 ami '6 to ■ ■ nd • i sistent and salaries paid to faculty investigation into tin “ranged all over the map," according Presently, Grand Valley’s person­ They interviewed IVis, to one professor. Enormous discrep­ nel policy reads such that whole pro­ Rosemary Alland. a nm ancies exist across units and even, be­ grams can be cut but they can not administrators, and ,r, on ' tween departments. be reduced in size. An alternative members from tin S, ho. Faculty Senate members devised a being studied by the subcommittee is Education. formula which would provide “equal to allow individual faculty members Griffin’s complain: q pay for equal work in the summer to be cut without the disintegration stems from his dc;u ;l > i adjusted to the credit hours gener­ of the whole program. spring. ated by the professor during the The committee is scheduled to The school's faculty Gun ALL ABOARD! GRAND VALLEY students file onto buses destined for the polls. A total of 109 year” according to ECS member report back to ECS as quickly as tram Chattulani, said the itm .n students took advantage of the bus services to vote Tuesday (photo by John S. Wanat). Robert Mayberry. possible. gators asked him to subs m The formula derives a “mean” evaluation of Griffin pn ..-nu .| nh i salary per credit hour. For example, the school’.: Eacultv h < ■■ if a professor cams $24,000 during mil tee was considering • • i< the year and generates 24 credit College Asks for Power to Close Lanthorn If.... urc to Griffin. hours throughout the year -summer School Of I-due..11.'ll pay for that faculty member would College officials have asked the The proposed agreement, which is student-faculty-administrator group Senate President, and Brown “to Tyrus Wessell said invc- m i- i be $1,000 per credit hour. editor of the Lanthorn to sign an as yet unsigned, spells out the terms which hires The Lanthorn’s editor determine if the monthly budget viewed him for two to tl ■ ! ours. Incorporating some consistency agreement which would give Grand under which The Lanthorn would and business manager, and oversees projection...for the preceding month He said lie expects Grind V.dl for summer salaries will possibly Valley's Director of Housing and pay $8,000 to the college this year, the general operation of the news­ has been met...” be informed somethin in \ . v. i : Activities the power to halt publi­ eliminating about half of a $15,000 paper.) According to the proposed agree­ whether the Commission will > Senate To M eet cation of the newspaper if it did not deficit in the newspaper’s on-campus lt would require The Lanthorn to ment, “If the monthly projection has tinuc its invest:,-:r meet monthly budget targets. student organization account. prepare month by month cash-flow been met, the Director of Housing hearings or not. The Student Senate will hold a The agreement also seeks to make The $15,000 deficit is what re­ statements which “will set monthly and Activities will approve The Lan Griffin filed mother u i| ■ n special meeting, Monday, Nov. 10. Lanthorn staff members personally mains of a $23,000 deficit accumu­ total balances for the Lanthorn to thorn for continuation of budget with the Michigan Civil l: 1 Scheduled to speak is Vice- responsible for any expenditures lated during the 1978-79 school year. achieve, and will project goals in each operations. mission Enforcement Division president for Administration made after the Director halts publi­ Last year, college officials, and the expense and revenue object code”. “ If the monthly projection is not years ago over "failure t Ronald VanSteeland, who will dis­ cation. management of the Lanthorn agreed Also it calls for a monthly meet­ met, (the Director) will freeze all according to the Mich: cuss budget cuts over and beyond The “ Lanthorn Deficit Reduction that the newspaper would pay back ing of the chair of the Newpaper Lanthorn purchasing authority and mission’s Winifred Avery Av the one already experienced at Agreement” was written by Director at least $5,470 during 1979-80. Board, the editor and business man­ the complaint was clos. I ii A| Grand Valley. of Housing and Activities Jeffrey By increasing advertising volume ager of The Lanthorn, the Student continued on page three 1978. The meeting is at 5 p.m. in the Brown and Vice-president Ronald and cutting costs, the Lanthorn Campus Center Laurel Room. VanSteeland. created a $6,550 surplus for the year. This year Student Senate voted to award the newspaper a $5,500 Shock Syndrome Ails Ex-Employee special grant in order to guarantee ‘Advisory’ Marks To Be Sent that $8,000 more would be paid by Larry See common at other schools,” Secger back to the college by the end of by Susan Collins Callahan. Callahan thcori/ed. 'I belie said. 1980-81. Stapbyloccus aureus (Staph) is a when it is associated with tin- u-' <" First-semester College of Arts and It is expected that the remainder of The proposed "Lanthorn Deficit Toxic shock syndrome (TSS), a living bacteria which 50 percent of tampons, the woman 11as niloiii/ed Sciences freshman and other students Grand Valiev’s colleges will sub­ Reduction Agreement” spells out the disease recently linked to use of us have growing on our skin and in with Staph in tlie vagina and ilu- in academic difficulty will be receiv­ scribe to this system next semester. way the grant from Student Senate “super-absorbant” tampons, has our nose. tampons absorb the blood. Iln ing mid-semester grade reports short­ “Students, especially new students, would be transfered to the Lanthorn struck a former Grand Valley book­ “ lt usually doesn’t cause any Staph simply grow in rite ........... ly. can benefit from learning how they account and sets up strict controls store employee.

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