Brock Quits Bookstore, Hits Policy

Volume Ill, No.3 The Monthly Newsmagazine of Boise State University Boise, Idaho November, 1977 Brock Quits Bookstore, Hits Policy By Bob C. Hall BSU's student union book store yields a dividend to customers each time they make a purchase there through non profit pricing policies and the substantial ($25-thousand) annual rental payment that helps subsidize operating costs of the entire student union facility, says Assistant Vice President for Financial Affairs AI Hooten in reply to charges about Campus Store policies made by just-resigned store manager Betty Brock. Brock leaves BSU December 1 to accept a bookstore post at Kansas Uni versity. Brock charged, in an interview pub lished at mid-month in the student news paper the "Arbiter," that she was resigning due to "difference of philoso phy" over store operations with Hooten and Financial Vice President Asa M. Ruyle. l She has been unavailable for comment ' since the article was published, on leave TABLE TALK occupies leaders of Boise State University and the Idaho legislature during Joint Finance & of absence in Kansas. Appropriation Committee tour of campus Nov. 18-19. Above, Senator & Mrs. Vern Brassey enjoy student anec dotes from ASBSU Vice President Chris Rudd (left). Specifically, Brock described her posi tion as one who had the students' inter ests at heart, but was fighting policies of her employers that lacked such interest. She told the "Arbiter" the book store Tour Opens Nevv Budget Drive was "making enough money" to be able to "give some back" to students in the form of a student loan fund. Under the promise to show them makes critical decisions that will affect was to allow a first-hand look at facilities Ruyle and Hooten said the statement "things as they really are . both the the BSU operating budget, to be appro and programs that will be discussed with failed to take account of the book store's good things and the areas of inade priated by the 19781egislature. them by the State Board when that openly-published operating policy and quacy," members of the Idaho legisla "want list" is presented in working ses financial status "of which Betty must not While the main burden of communi ture's Joint Finance and Appropriations sions at the Statehouse. be aware." cating BSU "needs" to the legislative Committee toured Boise State Univer committee and, later, the full legisla Item number one on that list is $80,600 Book Store 'Breaks Even' sity academic and physical operations ture, is to be taken by the State Board of requested by BSU and Lewis·Clark Hooten pointed to the 1977-78 book Friday, November 18. Education, the university administration State College to allow adequate occupa· store budget document (see box adja It was the opening step in the long has its own "want list" already before tion procedures for new buildings on cent) to illustrate that, after it pays the process of fact-gathering the key fund that board. those campus sites. $25-thousand rent fee to the student ing committee must follow before it Purpose of the legislators' tour here union fund, employee salaries and book Also high rated as items for top store operations costs "we just break priority in the total college and univer even and that's exactly what the store is sity budget request are funds to upgrade designed to do to assure a low markup on WhatHappened? women's athletics at all institutions what it sells." ($198,000) and expansion of the Radio An "apparent decline in Boise State's logic Technology programs at BSU and Markup on textbooks, for example, enrollment" triggered major discussion Idaho State University ($42,000). averages about 20 percent-well below a aimed at analysis of the problem, during profit-making charge for any retail oper Another item that stands a good a recent meeting of the BSU Executive ation in the same low-volume sales cate chance of funding as a new budget addi Council. gory, Hooten explained. tion for BSU is $35,000 for additional "We like to think the break we give Suggested during the enrollment faculty members in the School of Educa· students on textbooks is the very kind of status discussion were several actions to tion. · 'doing something for students' that help shed light on questions raised by Historically, new budget requests for Betty is talking about," claims Hooten. BSU's approximate 3 percent enrollment funds above the annual amount approp He also noted that the substantial drop in comparison of fall 1976 to fall riated to maintain "current operations" rental fee paid to the student union fund I 1977. are given a good chance of approval if is "a bonus not enjoyed by students on /.' they are rated among the top 30 ranking Members of the Council agreed to other campuses, where book stores on the State Board of Education's make informal investigations of "obvious operate in a rent-free building." system-wide priority list. factors" that could account for the �any of those stores do operate decline trend. BSU President Richard Bullington cooperative·type customer rebates, but Such factors listed are: the student feels BSU requests for the above items only because they enjoy that rental free advising system for new and enrolled have "good chances for funding" as they dom and most are on "huge" campuses students; the availability of financial aid are within the "top 30" priority range. where sales volume on non-textbook during student decision-making at regis Three more items within that priority Items creates a profit allowance for tration time; the documented drop in area are $10,000 to develop further such a rebate gesture, explained Ruyle. veteran-benefits students as a result of BSU's new Construction Managment "BSU students have a bright, well Vietnam era G.I. program cutoffs. program; $50,000 to upgrade the BSU stocked and amply-staffed store located HOMECOMING ROYALTY as they were announced at halftime of BSU-ISU computer system and $40,000 to make in their own building for easy access, at University recruiting techniques are game are Queen Bobbie lunt (right) and the second-year payment on a mini-com prices competitive to many campus to be discussed and reviewed by Dr. Mr. Bronco Alan White. (Additional Richard Bullington and three university puter on campus used wholly for details of Homecoming on pages 4 and vice presidents. academic research. 5. photos on 16.) . SU liBRARY V�=RSln' ARCHIVES �OCUS2 Kflere the/.ifllts Blew Out Merit Test by Bob C. Hall Boise State University's administration University was the first university in and faculty formally opened what Presi Idaho to present a comprehensive set of dent Richard Bullington called "a valu merit decisions criteria proposed for use able dialogue" on the issue of BSU merit during the test, to the State Board of pay this month. Both agencies are aim Education. ing for mutual agreement on a merit pay With assent of the Faculty Senate and policy to be recommended to the State the BSU administration, the guideline is Board of Education earlynext year. built around use of five performance For the first time in recent Idaho "standards" and a policy of letting each higher education history, a two -year university department control the merit "pilot" test of merit pay systems to be decision process for its own staff. devised by each university and college Credit for creation of the criteria for will begin in 1978. mula in acceptable form, says Faculty To get ready for the test, Boise State Senate Chairman Dr. Jerry Tucker, should go to a committee drawn from Liberal Arts faculty members and the Faculty Senate Salary committee. Scholes Calls Tucker says the bulk of work was done this summer by the Liberal Arts group, Report Wrong chaired by Dr. Rolando Bonachea. Good Guidelines Saved Time BSU instructor Mary Ann Scholes told "Their guidelines were so comprehen a Focus reporter that news stories in the sive and applicable for all university public press about her recent successful departments that, with only minor cash settlement that ended a long salary revision, they were accepted by the dispute with Boise State University's Senate as a university-wide standards administration were "inaccurate" and in statement," says Tucker. violation of an agreement with the Still to be developed by the Faculty administration to "not say anything" Salary committee, to make the merit about the case. proposal ready for State Board approval, Under the headline "BSU Teacher are specific procedures by which depart Wins Sex Bias Settlement," Idaho ments will process merit applications. Statesman reporter Vicki Martin was Deadline for presentation of the full first to report details of instructor package to the Board is February, 1978. $3,500 Scholes' receipt of a cash settle Dr. Tucker points to two key policies $1,000 ment (plus attorney fees) from contained in the criteria statement that BSU as result of a settlement of a suit are major new gains for faculty control she had brought for pay discrimination of the merit pay process. reasons. First, he notes, is that each depart But, said Scholes, comments contained ment will be given considerable liberty in the story about the settlement, from MAIN FUSE PANEL in new Science-Education Building blew this hole through its to apply the criteria in a way that meets solid steel box in early October causing electrical damage and power outage in BSU Affirmative Action Director Rosa the mission and role of that department. building for several days. Emergency power kept elevators and lights on, but stu lie Nadeau, were inaccurate and violated Second, he points out, is that merit dents operated in chilly rooms until system was repaired.

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