Survey: Toll Lacks Credibility,Competence

FRIDAY DECEMBER 9 19)77 SolumeItlk. Numer\21 31 .S ta. i)i.te hant r. sm'lo.11iu. tc'du ad id. Volume 21 Number 31 1)i.-lnIbutc' 1i:" cff charij' i'i'\t \ I(iUu', l\'ictlrlItI \ a dtfI-I.iu _ I c,~~~~~~~~~. r Striking RAs Threatened With Firing -By CHRIS FAIRHALL and STAN WEITZMAN The on-going conflict between Residential Assistants (RAs), and Managerial Assistants (MAs) with the Residence Life Office continues as Dreiser College RAs, who are boycotting their required duty hours in the college office, have been threatened with being fired, a Dreiser College source has said. According to this source, who wished to remain anonymous, RAs will be served a probationary notice the first time they do not attend office hours and will be fired after the second time. Dreiser College Residence Hall Director (RHD) Gina Spitzer did not go into details of the firing procedures but did say that "people who do not do their jobs will have their jobs on the line." Residence Life Director Robert Ferrell said that "if someone goes on strike, they must suffer the consequnces of not working." Ferrell added that he made this decision along with Tabler Quad Director the campus air grievances at this meting lest May Padula. Tuesday. The question of the usefulness of having RAs and members, according to O'Neill Colege RA Diane Batt, meeting of MAs and RAs this Sunday night, according MAs sit office hours first came up at a meeting held who has a seat on this task force. There are four to Senior Representative Mitchel Schare, a Gray lest November 22 in the Stony Brook Uion Residence Ha Directors and five RAs on this task College MA, who has served as an unofficial spokesman auditorium, attended by appoximately 50 RAs and force and anyone can volunteer for it according to for the RA and MA group. MAs from 'resdentil coiege acros the campus. lJtt. This unit, the first student collective bargaining Thre, it was decided that this question should be left agent to be formed on the Stony Brook campus may up to the staff of each individual college. -Cirently the task force is in the process of making result from this meeting, ccording to Polity President Shortly after the meeting, As and MAs took a poll up a questinaire to be distributed among resident Ishai Bloch. students. It will ask questions pertaining to mandatory of resident stents, indictin that the duty hours in . -; ' So orta * the coege offl "were sffict and unnoery." .duty houri and college office hours for RAs and MAs. A Staeman pol rtemed Wed dy showed that When they are all collected, the results will be "Resident Assistants are unionizing and will consider 90 percent of the students questioned daimed that complied and will be given to all the Quad Directors striking if their demands are not met in collective they never made use of the office hows and that 77 and other Residence Life staff members. bargainig,"said Bloch. "Resident Assistants have come percent felt that the office hour system is not working. out in strong support of people in Dreiser and those in The results of the poll conducted by the RAs and This conflict about mandatory office hour duty, other colleges who have asserted their positions by MAs were given to the Residence ife Office. The among other complaints of RAs and MAs about this boycotting office hours," said Bloch. Residence Life Office then set up a task force year's changes in the Residential College Program, has The MAs and RAs met Tuesday night in an attempt composed of RHDs, RAs and MAs, to evaluate the led several RAs and MAs to talk of forming a collective to further communication between the MAs and RAs current situation among the Residence ife staff bargaining unit, a topic that will be brought up at a of the colleges, according to Schare. 1% Survey:.SurveyToll Toll Lacks CredibiityCoCredibility,Competence eten ce By JOANNE RIDEOUT through thoroughly." Woods added that University of New York (SUNY) The credibility and competence of "the faculty said they didn't take the system. This information however, was University President John Toll are held study seriously" when it first came out, not readily available to the people In generally low esteem by the Stony because they maintained that it was not surveyed. Brook academic community, according conducted with proper research The preface to the latest report states to two separate SUSB Senate surveys of methods. - that the results of the 1974 survey have faculty opinion. The surveys were taken The questionnaires, which were been dismissed by the University as in 1974 and 1976. distributed to faculty and non-teaching "mere perceptions," not valid because "The consistency of the 1974 and professionals throughout campus, dealt they are not "measures of the objective 1976 fnindigs," the 70 page 1976 report with such areas as Toll's relations with efficiency of the administrators rated." concluded, "suggest that... there is a Albany and with the public, credibility, However, Selvin said that the 1976 fundamental, deep-seated, and realistic bias in allocations, academic survey reveals the same set of negative dissatisfaction among the faculty and development, and educational Impressions, with even more nonteaching professionals. It behooves philosophy. unfavorable responses to Toll in some those who care about the future of this Toll received a positive score in both areas. University Center to take this survey: in only two areas: relations with One section of the report found that disatifaction seriously and to try to the public and relations with Albany. although respondents who were in remedy the factors that have produced His scores range from moderately personal contact with Toll had a more and maintained it." negative to extremely negative in favorable personal opinion of the Continued Dissapproval categories such as: academic President than respondents with little or The importance of the two surveys, development, credibility, promoting no contact, this apparently did not according to Sociology Professor Hanan effective governance structure, and influence their objective evaluation of Sevin, lies in the consistency of the consulting facultv. Toll's performance. results. Both surveys reveal a continued SB Least Funded The survey questions were phrased diapproval in many areas of Toll's However, according to Sociology 'in the positive direction," so that an performance, Selvin said, coupled with Professor Norman Goodman, former "agree" answer would be interpreted as an overall decline in Toll's popularity chairman of the SUSB Senate, Toll's favorable to the administrator. For each over the last few years. high marks on relations with Albany are question a "net balance score" was Toll will be up for reappointment to not borne out by data on the Stony computed, which showed whether or another five year term in 1980. Brook budget, which indicates that not the proportion of respondents "I know Dr. Toll has glanced at the relative to student enrollment, Stony giving a favorable answer was greater study," said University spokesman Brook is the least well-funded of all the than the proportion giving an JOHN TOLL David Woods. "He hasn't read it colleges and universities in the State unfavorable answer. I mmlv Former Nuremburg Prosecutor Assails GrowingAnti-Semitism Koch and Carey On Joint Finances By E.G. CORLEY New York - In their first joint public appearance since election Mary Kaufman, who at day exactly a month ago, Mayor-elect Edward Koch and Governor prosecuted Nazi war criminals Hugh Carey indicated they would take a joint approach toward Nuremburg and defended seeking federal aid for the city's fiscal recovery. supposed Communists during Koch, the first speaker at a luncheon of the Coalition for New the McCarthy era, has spent York, a group of 200 prominent business, labor and civic leaders, most of her life fighting for said, "My first priority will be to obtain federal assistance, both human rights. kaufman talked at a short and long term." of her many battles He pledged that "there will be no new gimmicks used" to Wednesday night lecture and at a meeting circumvent the "generally accepted accounting practices" federal "Bagels and Bullshit" officials expect. yesterday afternoon. presently is a He later told reporters after that he "will be 'working with Kaufman member of the National Alliance Governor Carey" on the joint financial approach to Washington. Against Racism and Oppression, Carey, pledging an "era of cooperation" with Koch, said he win as well as the Women for Racial seek "a federal-state-city compact" to gain longer term credit for the and Economic Equality. city as a more satisfactory expansion of seasonal financing. At yesterday's appearance, Kaufman spoke of the Salesmen Assist in-Surgery anti-Semitism which she asserts is increasine throughout the New York - A surgical supply salesman told state lawmakers world. She argued that although Germany. The corporation was blacks are stealing their jobs. She yesterday how he had to assist in a brain operation after the blade of Nazism is rising in both the also charged with making the also believes that many Jews a surgical saw in the hands of a neurosurgeon jammed in the skull of United States and Germany, it poison gas used to exterminate seem to be moving to the right. a patient. continues to be ignored by many Jews in concentration camps. By doing this, she said "we are The incident was related by George Schott, of East Purchase, New people. Kaufman also contended Kaufman soon had another paving the way for York, a salesman of orthopedic supplies, in testimony before the that this growing anti-Semitism fight on her hands when she anti-Semitism.

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