School Continues for Chancellor by Sue Carter But, Chancellor, You've Got to Relax Sometime
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School continues for chancellor by Sue Carter But, chancellor, you've got to relax sometime. of The Post staff "Well, I usually get a couple of weeks While frisbies flip across the green grass during the summer. But, this year I have of summer and boats sail serenely over Lake no time for that...," he said. "I used to Michigan, Chancellor Werner Baum fidgets play golf, but I don't-have the time anymore. over figures and battles with the budget. I do manage to go swimming now and then." His "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" According to Baum, his job is his life and would be edited to read "How I Arrived at he takes the concept of the work ethic ser My Bottom Line." iously. Baum said he takes no vacation even though "This isn't a job," he said. "This is a the student population at UWM goes from way of life. There is little time for other 25,000 during the regular school year to 11,000 things " during summer months. , Duties relaxed Baum said that his duties are relaxed some 'Summer is only busy, while what during the summer. Faculty and student committees do not meet; nor does the faculty the rest of the year is hectic' senate, he said, and, many of the groups that demand his attention 'during the normal school -Baum^ year recess for the summer. With planning for the upcoming academic "Summer is1 only busy, while the rest of the year and changes in personnel, the chancellor year is hectic," Baum said. said his time has gotten more valuable. He said that most of his time in the summer "I try never to be gone more than two is spent working on the biennial budget and weeks at,a time during the year," said Baum. preparing the budget request for submission "It's a lot better to get away for a day or to the Legislature by October. two. I use my business meetings, where I am traveling for a couple of days for this purpose. It's a change in routine I generally No time need rather than a full blown vacation." Explaining that the University's fiscal year He will, for instance, be spending a week ended July 1, Baum said that the early part in August at Boulder, Colo., for a meteorolo of the summer is spent evaluating the progress gists' meeting and the following week he will of the school's building program and analyzing hp in Vail, Colo., at the Institute for Chan cellors. Baum said these two weeks will An enjoyable lick outside the ice cream shop the school's operating budget. serve as his vacation. Prof critical of program by Greg Melcher of The Post staff High faculty furnover and the ambiguous criteria for granting tenure in the Afro American Studies department here, is a stumb ling block in the recruiting of well-qualified faculty in the future, according to an assistant proiessor in mat department who was denied promotion and tenure. * Joseph Carpenter, who was also relieved as department chair man, said the University could not rely solely on "attractive offers" in recruiting new faculty as long as the department's attrition rate was high. The decision of William Halloran, dean of the College of Let ters and Science, to deny Carpenter promotion and tenure, was based on the dean's determination that Carpenter's "scholarly accomplishments"--research, writing and publication--were in sufficient. Decision appealed Carpenger is appealing that decision to the University Com mittee. Unless it is overturned, Carpenter will leave the Uni versity at the end of the 1976-77 academic year. A final decision could be made by Chancellor Werner Baum. The department is presently being chaired by Maxine Nimitz, also an assistant professor. Portraits were sketched in the Union concourse Tuesday for $2.00 The granting of tenure is based on a faculty member's per formance in three areas--teaching, community service and re search publication. Carpenter received recommendations for promotions and tenure from two faculty committees--at the departmental and divisional Union hit by resignations levels--and seemed baffled that Halloran did not agree with their decisions. A number of positions in the bowling. Wilmot said he was a Hoerz said it was a good op Carpenter noted that numerous "well-qualified" faculty have Union are being vacated or will "bowler from way back". Con portunity to--leave. He hopes left the Afro American department in the last few years, includ hp in the near future. Virginia naughton has been on professional to go into managing restaurants ing one former chairman, Lionel Barrow, who. is presently the Byrkit, director of Food Services, bowling tours. and bars professionally. dean of the School of Communications at Howard University in left for Indiana University, Jack Washington, D:C. Connaughton, director of reser The departure of competent faculty, Carpenter added, raises vations and catering is expect Baum voted treasurer doubts as to the administration's desire to retain superior per ed to resign at the end of the sonnel. month, and Dan Hoerz, manager He also hinted that the high faculty turnover rate, coupled with of the Kenwood Inn, announced of urban U committee the absence of a major in Afro American studies may have in he will be quitting this week. Chancellor Werner A. Baum universities. Organizers of the fluenced Halloran's decision. has ' been elected treasurer of new Committee of Urban Public Byrkit left UWM July 1. Rich the newly organized Committee Universities (CUPU) will ask No "axe to grind" ard Wojciewhowski, an assistant of Urban Public Universities. Congress to establish a com Carpenter said he had not "axe to grind with the University" of Burke's for six years, will Announcement oTthe-formation parable National Urban Grant and that tenure requirements were justifiable. He said because take over as food service direc of the group of representatives Universities Program. of his research, he had received letters of commendation from tor. from 20 urban, public institutions Robert F. Carroll, vice-pres various journals, but the main problem in putting our a greater was made in connection with the ident of the City College of New quantity of publications was a lack of time. He presently teaches Tom Wilmot, acting director 114th anniversary of the Morrill York, was elected assistant sec three full time courses. of the Union, said Connaughton Act. That Act established the retary-treasurer and acting dir (turn to back page, col. 3) will resign to get back into nation's network of land-grant ector. Published by student members of the Post Company at the Uni versity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, offices at 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd. Milwaukee Wis 53201, editorial and business phone 963-4578. Published Tuesdays and Thursdays during the academic year, except holidays and exam periods, weekly during the eight week summer session, and the fall New Student issue. Subscription rate $10 per year The UWM Post is written and edited by stu dents of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and they are solely responsible for its editorial policy and content. 2nd class postage paid at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. PHYLLIS PIANO editor-in-chief/arts editor PATT JOHNSON JODY EDWARDS news editor ad manager SALLY GAUGER PETER SCHULZ photo editor art director TOM SURGES BILL MILKOWSKI copy desk chief associate editor DON WILLIAMS MARIO ZIINO The student health center behind Enderis Hall. business manager sports editor SHARON CHURCH BONNIE COX Health center open accounts receivable internal affairs Buying, Selling, Renting or Whatever. , Insect bites, muscle strains 'ter, most of the treatment given than last summer and conse and sunburn. These are fam during the summer is for abra quently they are able to spend POST classifieds around. Only 50 iliar summer ailments that sions received from bicycle ac more time individually with each plague students during the sum cidents, burns from exhaust student. mer months which then bring fumes from motorcycles, and Any student attending summer cents a line; 35 cents for students them to the health center.! cuts and scrapes from people school i$ eligible for treatment going barefoot. at the center, Reisel said. The student health center, lo The health center summer cated- behind Enderis Hall east staff consists of three day nurses, But occasionally a student that of Downer woods, is open dur one night nurse that is there was being treated during the ing the summer, Monday thru from 4 p.m. to midnight, an aide, regular school session needing Friday from 8 a.m. to midnight. two receptionists, a clerk, a' follow-up treatment for the same The center offers treatment of secretary, a medical technologist condition is treated even though dutfMo he may not be attending summer ailments ranging from burns ' and three full time doctors. • • and abrasions to muscle strains school, she said. and infections. Reisel said that fewer students Reisel said that it is to the stu According to Doris Reisel, a have come in to the health cen dent's advantage to have a physi staff nurse at the health cen- ter this summer for treatment cal- examination on file in the health center and that it is a University requirement to have one completed, but that most students do not comply with this rule. But, she said, no one would be denied treatment because they did not have one. .9cuaen Free concert uion offered Students in the "Summer Sing" class taught at UWM this summer by Robert Porter will present a "Summer Sing" concert at 8 'p.m. July 16 in St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 914 E.