AAUP Chapter Calls for Raises As Inflation Hits Faculty Wallets White

The LAWRENTIAN Volume S9 — Number 10 Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin Friday, 21 November 1969 Meet Agoin Tuesday AAUP Chapter Calls For Raises As Inflation Hits Faculty Wallets Faculty salaries and academic The AAUP chapter, which does one to the other even among full freedom concerned the Lawrence not include all faculty members professors. Chapter of the American Asso although all faculty members can ‘‘In addition,” Dana said. “Law ciation of University Professors attend meetings, decided to quesrence is looking for the same in its first meeting of the year tion the validity of the AAUP’s qualities of scholarship among its Iasi Tuesday. new, national rating system. Up prospective faculty, if with a An estimated forty faculty to this year, all universities sub slightly different emphasis on members attended the meeting in mitting information were aver teaching.” In fact, Dana, a mem which James D. Dana, associate aged together and rated on an ber of the Povolny Committee, professor of economics, made a eight point scale running from AA noted that the Povolny report to G. report comparing increases m recommends that more emphasis the Lawrence salary scale to na For this school year, Lawrence be placed on faculty research. tionwide increases and to the has ratings for each rank: pro rate of inflation. fessor, associate professor, assist The next meeting of the AAUP At the urging of Harold K. ant professor, and instructor. The is scheduled for this coming GEORGIA LEGISLATOR JULIAN BOND, speaking in Schneider, professor of anthro respective ratlings are B, A, A, Tuesday. The agenda contains a the kiverview Lounge Monday afternoon, fields questions pology, the group established a and AA, which is up from last discussion of chapters of the from the audience. Delivering the address in a series of committee to write a restate year’s ratings of B, B, A, and Povolny Report relevant to facul black speakers this past week, Bond spoke to a packed ty affairs. ment of faculty academic free AA. chapel in a morning convocation. dom. Th? last formal statement The new AAUP has divided of this nature was issued in 1940. higher educational institutions in Based cn figures issued by the to three categories with differing AAUP, Data’s report noted that standards. The three categories, Lawrence salaries have been rat which include Universities and White Campus Profits from ed “B” on an eight point scale Technical Institutes, Liberal Ants by the AAUP. However, the re and Teachers Colleges, and Ju port also poirted out that the nior Colleges, will be rated on “real increase,” a figure which an absolute scale stretching from Provocative Black Speakers compensates for inflation, has 10 to 100. barely kept pace with the rising In the higher brackets, the By RICK FARMER cost of living. liberal arts and teachers col This week has witnessed a not up to the protesters; they can gan in 1960 when the city and the Tha real increase in faculty sal- leges have consistently lower rather notable series of speakers salaries from the ’67-68 school year only prod the establishment into University of Chicago attempted standards than the universities at this campus, and although action. The choice remaire in a typical power play which w«i to the ’68-69 year was appproxi- or junior colleges. Dana feels that Lawrence may well be the last the hands of the existing power- designed to eliminate the Wood mately 1.5 percent. In an inter these differences imply that college in the midwest to hear base, until a revolutionary move lawn neighborhood since it was view with the Lawrentian, Dana there are differing labor markets Julian Bond, the ideas expressed ment gains a substantial possibil becoming a nuisance to the uni said that, depending on the cost-for universities and liberal arts in the black symposium are well- versity. of-living index used, the estim at colleges. ity of actually succeeding. ed 1 percent real increase in fac worth comment. Yet, he noted that there is a Judging from Bond’s speech, The plan was to level all the The withdrawal of Jesse Jack ulty salaries from last year to great deal of crossing over from he does not consider “the revolubuildings in the area under the this year might be eliminated by son from the program was most tion” particularly imminent. He guise of urban renewal (referred rising inflation. unfortunate since he had seemed did, however, use the Declaration to by Finney as “black remov Subsequent to the report, the the highlight, but nonetheless of Independence to justify reval"), and to replace them with Lawrence AAUP members sent Bond, Leon Finney, and Dr. Charolutionary attempts. Bond simply university housing. The plan un a memorandum to the univer Three LU Students les Hearst provided Lawrentians believes that these attempts will derstandably did not appeal to sity administration expressing with excellent examples of cur fail and the decision will remainthe Woodlawn residents, espec concern that Lawrence did not Face Drug Charges rent, if moderate, Negro thought. where it is now. ially since all other neighbor meet with national AAUP stand Three Lawrence seniors ap Dr. Hearst spoke this after Undoubtedly, Bond’s moderahoods they would be allowed to ards. which call for an 8 percent peared in Outagamie County noon, and consequently his adtion stems from his position as live in were already overcrowd annual increase in compensation, Court Branch 2 Tuesday after dress was not available to The a part of the establishment in the ed. which included salary and fringe noon for arraignment cn the Lawrentian at the time of this Georgia legislature, but he seems benefits. In order to counteract this ef charge of possession of mari writing. convinced that his approach is In comparison with other ACM fort by the city government and juana. Monday morning’s speech by beitf. schools, the average Lawrence the university, then ,TWO w ^ The three men involved are Bond was so overwhelmingly ar Ultimately perhaps, Bond’s in compensation dropped from third formed with Saul Alinsky as its presently free on $1500 bonds ticulate that it ukimately hurt numerable speeches on campus to fourth place from 1967-68 to salaried head. Since saving the pending trial. the communication of his message es across the country may be in- community from the bulldozer, 1968-69 by increasing its compen to many Lawrentians who often sation by 3.9 percent, this abso Appleton police arrested the tepreted as appeals to mem TWO has expanded into many oth seemed to avoid really hearing lute increase ranking tenth place three seniors in their off-campus bers of a future establishment er areas attempting to improve what he said. Bond’s message in the ACM. Lawrence’s average apartment about ttO p.m. Sunday which must become more sena Irving conditions. after observing the apartment was also a subtle one, and the tive to the needs and desires of compensation last year, $13,438, During his speech, Finney des for several minutes from an ad combination led many to com the underprivileged and disen differed by $205 from Carleton’s cribed the plight of the ghetto jacent parking lot. ment that the speech, full of franchised in this country if R first ranked salary of $13,643. dwellers who must live 10 fam According to Monday’s Post- platitudes and cliches, said very is to survive as a viable entity. Lawrence differs by a greater ilies in a building designed for Crescent, police allege that they little. Leon Finney presented a dif margin from comparable liberal three, which he said is caused observed the men passing around To the contrary, however, I ferent, more specialized approach aits schools. For example, last by the dual factors of a severe a green weedy substance which believe that Bond’s message, to one aspect of the black prob year, Swarthmore College of housing shortage and the desire was later tested and found to conwhen properly understood, is very lem. Finney has been intimately Pennsylvania raised its average of the landlords for increased compensation by 5.1 percent to tain marijuana. crucial in today’s radial confus connected with the development income $14,938, and Oberlin College of Charles F. Lauter, Lawrence’s ion. of The Woodlawn Organization He also went into the web of Ohio raised its average compen dean of student affairs, explain The most important sentence (TWO), one of the first commun sation by 4.7 percent to $15,056. ed that the university is in an in the speech was the last. Quo ity organizations designed to gain illegality which maintains the The AAUP also discussed the awkward position in cases of this ting from Frederick Douglas, enough influence to give the poor shuns, from the bribery of indi criteria for salary raises above nature. Lauier, who attended the Bond spoke as the dissenter, the of a specific neighborhood an ac vidual building inspectors, to the a standard. cost-of-Kving in arraignment Tuesday in a semi protester, to an establishment tual voice in their local affairs. implication of the mayor’s office crease According to Dana, most official capacity, asserted that which was having difficulty com This type of local organization in urban renewal 1 projects design attendants agreed that merit in the matter falls into the “dimen prehending the necessity for a is sorelv needed bv impoverished, ed primarily to make profits and teaching and scholarship rather sion of official concern,” but add change. He said, “The choice has and often disenfranchised, ghettoto manipulate the location and than longevity should be the cri ed that the policy at Lawrence never been ours (the dissenters), dwellers, not only because it can condition of poor families.

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