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Faculty cutbacks could lower tenure standards By TOM SHRODER strc~sed he ~.ouI~i maintain his gandards or granting tenure Alligator Staff Writer I ~.ill leave ii to he adm mist ration to give mc a lair number of positions, Brown Dr. Robert Bryan. (IF vice president for academic affairs. said expressed concern about the threat of continued faculty Graduate School Dean Harry Sisler warned pressures to reductions in state universities over the next few years which grant tenure indiscriminately could drag UF into a pit of may result in deterioration of the quality of tenured UF mediocrity.' faculty. SISLER SUGGESTED each college be given projections of Next year UFis planningon a five per cent faculty cutback. the number of positions they could expect regardless of whether they granted or denied tenure. Bryan said. Bryan said it would be a natural reaction for deans to try to If colleges knew a position would rot automatically protect their faculty positions by creating as many tenured disappear once left open, the integrity of the tenure process could be preserved, Sisler said. positions as possible. Bryan noted problems might occur because the very un- IF A FACULTY MEMBER is denied tenure he must leave certain nature of projections that must be made to predict his position after one year. When the total number of faculty positions must be faculty positions colleges will earn. "We have not always been able to keep commitments we've reduced, a position left open by a tenure denial would be made to colleges in the past,'' he said. 'Its very hard to eliminated, Bryan said. predict.'' CA. VanderWerf. dean of UF's college of Arts and BRYAN SAID pressures to grant unearned tenure would Sciences, agreed it would be "a very human tendency" to only materialize if the faculty was reduced. grant tenure to someone who normally would not meet departmental standards. ROBET BRYAN BOB BURTON BROWN DR. BOB DURTON DROWN, dean of University College, - Academic Affair, .UCd.on (See Facuhy.' page eight) The Independent THURSDAY Florida JAN. 30, 1975 VOL. PuoI,,h.d by Campus Communkogion. Inc Go n.vilI. Rnvido Not off dolly o~ocjomd wdl, 0. Univ.vs.ty ci Rondo 67 NO. 71 New budget will avert mass lay-offs By TOM SIERODER Exactly where money will be cut in the two Maiston said. been Irozen. unfilled positions have been and budgets is uncertain. Marston said he ex- He added, "The draft form of my letter to frozen, travel expenses have been cut back." JANET PARK pected operating capital would be the main Mautz was cleared with a number of people Marston said. Alligator Staff Wilt. source of revenue in both IFAS and the health over the past ,.eekend. I believe the chan- His office lights turned ofT to reinforce his center. cellor's office has the authority to approve the own cutback eftbrts, Marston discussed the ADDITIONAL MONEY may be generated plan." effects on education of this pruning of the The threat of mass lay-offs which has been from unspent salary allocations. MARSTON SAID all budgets will be re- budget. hanging over UF personnel for weeks has All state university system budgets are evaluated to see where more budget cuts can 'A11 actions have a price - you have to finally lifted. required to return 4.5 per cent salary expenses be made, but sees no more areas in the consider people venus equipment and ex- UF President Robert 0~ Marston an- to Tallahassee. If WAS or the health center general education budget that can be penses. You have to conserve funds first, then nounced Wednesday an unprecedented move can save more than 4.5 per cent, two-thirds of trimmed. reverse what gets in the way of education, he to use savings in UF's agricultural institute the additional savings will go to UP's general "All operating capital expenditures have said. and health center to meet an ~ deficit budget. in UF's general education budget. Marstou, said any money received front the STATE UNIVERSITY System Chancellor two functionally separate budgets located at Robed Mautz had to approve Marston's plan the UP campus will be repaid "in the near to borrow money from the J. Hillis Miller future." Health Center and the Institute for Food and MARSTON INFORMED SUS Chancellor Agricultural Sciences WAS) before it could Robert Mautz of his plans last week. Marston be put into effect. said he spoke with Mautz and foresaw no The three campus budgets have always legal problems with this temporary transfer of been treated separately. Ordinarily any funds funds across budget boundaries. cut from WAS and the health center budgets "These are reasonable goals and these are would return to the university system. reasonable methods of achieving them," Students seek exams in gorbagesource says Dy STUART EMMUICH exams before the test day. but said often AMman Staff Wi jet 'substantial" numbers of students had a copy of the exam when they went to take the final. Business Administration final exams were IN SOME CASES '30 to 40 per cent" of a often obtained before the test day by students clan had access to tests before they were given who dug through the garbage dump. in the out in clan, according to Mannish. early morning, according to a reliable source. He emphasized, however, that the cheating The students search the refuse to retrieve scandal only involved "200 out of 1.700 extra copies of final exams that were thrown students in the College of Business Ad- away, a scum in the College of Business ministratIon." Administration ha, confirmed. Although the UP administration, has gone TUE SOURCE SAID mm than the or- on record as giving their "full wppon' to the deed amount of exams are sometimes Honor Court cheating investigation, they have printed and then thrown away, leaving the refined to say whether or not they would fertile ground of a garbage heap for students abide by any penalties the court levies. to comb. VICE-FEISIDENT foe Students Affairs "Sounds kind of stupid. doesn't it." the An Smndeen add in a Wednesday morning family .f net always movies For A. broihest scorn said, but added it happens all the time. press conference that the "Honor Court Is The people lea cow knit - Honor Coat Any. On. Paul Mannish has assuming responslbBty for adjudicating the and slier, of this "famIly,' Galneeville I. the he. eqS new, Is km family will ntugd any combat - the various methods break up tomorrow. 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