The Courier, Volume 8, Issue 30, May 29, 1975
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The Courier Volume 8 Issue 30 Article 1 5-29-1975 The Courier, Volume 8, Issue 30, May 29, 1975 The Courier, College of DuPage Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.cod.edu/courier This Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the College Publications at DigitalCommons@COD. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Courier by an authorized editor of DigitalCommons@COD. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Board votes 9% | ?) increase By Dan Veit crease at the beginning of the academic coverage from $300 to $500 without the year and were later awarded a 3 per cent, purchase of dependent coverage; in¬ . .Overruling Strong faculty objections, the one-time increase because of increased creasing of major medical coverage to Board of Trustees Wednesday night voted enrollment and larger class sizes. unlimited; addition of accidental death a 9 per cent increase in faculty salary and Depending on how you looked at the offer and dismemberment coverage to current closed the door to further negotiations on for the upcoming year, the faculty was life insurance coverage; increasing the the matter. offered either a 6 or 9 per cent increase. maximum of sick pay days from 180 to 240, The Board followed this action by Erickson had asked the Board to re-open and providing Lincoln’s birthday and raising President Rodney Berg’s salary 8.5 negotiations. “We are simply displeased at Veteran’s Day as full holidays for non- per cent to $41,250 a year. the salary offer. The fringe benefits are instructional faculty. Chuck Erickson, chairman of the fine, but in our eyes, you are only offering The Classified Staff of the college will Faculty Aaaaociation, told the Board: a 6 per cent raise.” receive the same additional benefits, “It’s extremely difficult to understand Prior to going into executive session on excluding salary, as the faculty. the action of the Board. You seem to have this matter, Dr. Ronald Miller Board In other Board action, P. Robert Blake COURIER a paternalistic attitude toward the faculty chairman, told Erickson, “Based on our was added to the professional staff for an Vol. 8, No. 30 May 29, 1975 and we do not agree to your process. statistics from the National Center for initial period of 11 months beginning Aug. 1 ‘The base scale on which you based your Educational Statistics, College of DuPage 1,1975. Blake’s function at the college will negotiations is extremely unfair. is a well-paying school. We are not the' be to set up the opening of the school’s FM Negotiations with the Board has once highest, but we also are certainly not the radio station, which should hit the waves Commission again become an exercise in futility. We lowest. I think our negotiation efforts to about September, 1976. feel that when you cannot reach the faculty have been fair. Edward S. Owen and Robert G. Huntley agreement, we should be able to have a “Yes, there is more money available, were given three-quarter appointments to group of peers or an impartial judge, to but it is needed elsewhere at the present. I help the automotive program and the bicentennial hear both sides and then make a final cannot, in good conscience, recommend ornamental horticuluture departments, decision which everyone would agree the approval of re-opening negotiations.” respectively. with.” After a short executive session, the Based on several inquiries, the Board The base scale to which Erickson Board unanimously vetoed further approved a new policy that a student can choral piece referred to has been a sore point in the negotiations. It was at that point that receive two degrees from the college. The negotiations from the beginning. The Erickson blasted the Board. only stipulation is that the student must Daniel Pinkham of Cambridge, Mass., faculty had received a 6.2 per cent in- “We have no choice but to accept your complete an additional 15 hours on top of has been commissioned by the College of decision and concede the fact that for the what he completed to get the first degree. DuPage Foundation to compose a short present, we are whipped,” Erickson said. The Board also approved the creastion Bicentennial Fanfare for the use of the “But because of your actions tonight, we of a lagoon on the south side of A bldg., to College choral organizations during the Seek first will be forced to take a much stronger be completed by July 16. next year. position in future negotiations. The morale The composition will be less than two and the enthusiasm of the faculty has minutes in length, and will be usable by Mr. CD suffered one more time.” voices alone, or accompanied by brasses, Miller responded to Erickson’s attack 1,200 to get Student Activities, in co-operation with primarily as an ascription to concerts with a Board-approved statement: Sigma College is presenting the first Mr. including larger choral works. “We are mindful of our obligations to the College of DuPage contest. faculty, students, and the community. We E.C. Schirmer Music Co. of Boston, one All male students are eligible and must have made many concessions to the degrees of the nation’s major publishers of serious be able to exhibit a two-minute talent, faculty in the effort to have a good set¬ music, has accepted the piece for wear an original costume, and survive a tlement. We have listened and approved publication. Once it has been given its swimming trunks competition which will many ideas on benefits. But you have June 13 world premiere at College of DuPage on be held in the Campus Center Thursday, presented no precise arguments, other Feb. 29,1976, it will be available for use by June5, at 12:30p.m. than the difference on whether it’s 6 or 9 More than 1,200 students will receive schools and colleges throughout the Applications are now available in the per cent. We have not, as it was referred to degrees and certificates Friday, June 13, country. student activities office, with the deadline earlier, shoved this down your throat!” as the college honors its eighth graduating for entries being Tuesday, June 3. Mr. CD Benefits that the faculty will receive class. The commission was recommended by will be chosen by all students at the next year include: the initiation of dental Commencement ceremonies will be held Dr. Carl A. Lambert, director of choral college, with prizes being awarded to the insurance coverage for faculty and at 7 p.m. on the soccer field with President music. Each printed page will bear the top three contestants. dependents; increasing maternity inscription “commissioned by the College Rodney Berg serving as master of of DuPage Foundation.” ceremonies. In the event of inclement Pinkham is one of the nation’s out¬ weather, the commencement exercise will standing composers of choral music. The Big snow delays hiker be held indoors in the college’s gym¬ CD Community Chorus will perform his nasium. “An Emily Dickinson Mosaic” in June of The invocation and benediction will be 1976. Bob Pearson, the 21-year-old Alpha day or two before and had ended up in given by the Rev. E. Dale Kleinschmidt, student who set out on a 2,500-mile hike in chest-deep drifts. pastor of the First United Methodist He holds the B.A. and M.A. degrees from early April, is back after his expedition As Pearson said, this was not exactly an Church in Westmont. The graduation Harvard, and is a composer, harp¬ was delayed by heavy snow. ideal hiking situation to be in, and he speech will be presented by Dr. William sichordist and organist. Wanda Lan¬ Starting at the southern border of decided that the effort he would have to Leppert of Wheaton, Jean of Alpha college. dowska was Pinkham’s harpsichord California, Pearson began his trip in 10 expend to get through the snow would Student Body President Maria Leclaire teacher. His composition study was with days of continual rain. severely cut down on the time for scientific will also addres1' the graduating class. Nadia Boulanger, Aaron Copland, Samuel “I always thought of southern California observations which he hoped to make. The college’s outstanding male and Barber and Arthur Honegger. He has as warm and sunny but all I saw was rain In July, Pearson will go back to the female students will be honored during the taught at Boston College, Harvard and overcast skies,” he said. Apparently, northern border of California and hike the ceremony. George Seaton of the College of University, and is now on the faculty of the late and heavy snows in the mountains Oregon-Washington portion of the Pacific DuPage Foundation will present the New England Conservatory of Music. brought about this change in conditions. Crest Trail. The 800-mile trip will take award to the top male student, and Mrs. On the first day, Pearson hiked through until sometime in September. Ronald Kapper, president of the Faculty snow in depths from 1 to 2 feet, and after a Wives Organization, will make the night on 6,500-foot Thomas Mountain, woke Pearson is optimistic about the presentation to the outstanding female She said, “I’m not much of a paddler.” up to find himself covered with 7 inches of remainder of his trip, and does not feel student. He said, gallantly, “I’ll pull the canoe new snow. that his first attempt was a wasted effort. Music will be provided by the college’s ashore.” OR: It was a humid day last week Just before reaching the San Jacinto “I heard coyotes nearly every night, and combined choral groups, which will and a student simply jumped in to cool off Wilderness, at a height of 9,200 feet, he was saw trail signs of deer, rabbits, and other perform Handel’s “Hallelujah, Amen.” A in the M Bldg.