The BG News May 26, 1978

Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 5-26-1978 The BG News May 26, 1978 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "The BG News May 26, 1978" (1978). BG News (Student Newspaper). 3505. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/3505 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. The B*B We ws Vol. 61, No.110 "Bowling 'Green Ulale University Friday, May 26, 1978 'Unfair' compensation concerns faculty and administration By Paula Wlnslow Dr. Klaus M. Schmidt, professor the phrase "willful failure" means, maintain as many faculty on tenure Staff Reporter of German and Russian and AAUP according to Rothe. If an employee as they would like to." vice president elect, agreed, saying has failed to meet the standards for The University would not provide An amendment to the University the policy was not discussed by tenure, such as earning a certain prospective employers with specific Faculty Personnel Manual con- Faculty Senate or the Senate degree, the University would con- information about reasons for an cerning policy for consideration Executive Committee (SEC). sider that willful failure if the employee's dismissal, nor would the about unemployment compensation employee was aware of this OBES, he added. has fueled a controversy between BUT THE AMENDMENT is part requirement. Cases in which the University some faculty and administrators. of state and federal guidelines for Blinn said dismissal for such could contest compensation because The amendment states that if a compensation procedures, according reasons is "an excuse to deny an of willful failure often are dismissed faculty member whose probationary to Dr. Kenneth W. Rothe, acting employee livelihood" and is in- because employees soon find other contract expires is not granted provost. sufficient cause for denying com- jobs, making them ineligible for tenure (permanent employment), the "The SEC has nothing to do with pensation. compensation, Halpern noted. provost and vice provost for faculty it. It's a state regulation," he ex- Schmidt agreed saying, "unless affairs will determine whether the plained earlier this week. The OBES there is grave neglect (by the IF THE UNIVERSITY makes a employee snowed "willful failure" to makes the final decisions about employee), there is absolutely no judgment that performance was not meet the standards of the position. paying compensation. The University reason to deny these people up to the standards required for If they decide that the em- only advises when the employee unemployment benefits." He in- tenure, the employee's request is ployee's performance was un- deserves it, he said. dicated that when a person is not accepted by the OBES as a satisfactory and provide sufficient "It's our Job as an employer to "dismissed for a cause" and denied reason for contesting unemployment evidence, the University will decide provide that advice. It's the tenure for reasons such as failure to compensation, he added. whether to protest the Ohio Board provost's job," he said. receive a degree, he is left with "a of Employment Service's (OBES) permanent blemish that keeps him The protests against the amen- compensation payments. HE ADDED that if it has been from future employment." dment try to restrict the University Dr. Elliot L. Blinn, professor of determined that an employee from making necessary distinctions, chemistry and president of the showed willful failure to meet stated SHELDON HAI.PF.RN. vice Rothe explained, adding that some University chapter of the American requirements for tenure, his release provost for faculty affairs, judgments must be made to Association of University Professors would be considered "dismissal for disagreed. evaluate performance. (AAUP), charged earlier this week a cause" and the University "Nowadays, not getting tenure is "They want to protect the poor that the amendment was unfair probably would contest his com- not a terrible black mark. It is not little guy maligned by the because it was not approved by any pensation payments. necessarily a sign of total failure," University who didn't teach worth a University faculty groups. There is controversy about what he said. "The University can't damn," he said. Gays are organizing, Noble says By Mary Dannemiller Bryant is very sincere about what win, not to lose," she said, and the NOBLE EXPLAINED that her Staff Reporter she's saying. gay movement should strive to win. private life has nothing to do with "She believes what she says, but Noble strongly suggested not to her job and if people though so, Elaine Noble, the only avowed so did Hitler," Noble stated. push gay rights in people's faces, they would not nave voted her in lesbian state legislator in the Noble recalled a time when because it turns them off. She said office for two terms. country, spoke at the University last Bryant had been in California and she cannot understand why Bryant "We cannot spend the rest of our night about "The Ramifications of said the reason there was a draught is talking about something that lives being professional Gay Politics." was because the state had so many Americans don't care about or want homosexuals. We cannot go through The 34-year-old Democrat from homosexuals. A few months later, to talk about. life selecting our friends because we Boston's Back Bay-Fenway area Noble was in California and "it "You cannot escape a culture both have the same sexual said, "the picture that is painted for rained the day I got there," she because you're gay," she said. preference," she said. gay politics is a weak one." said. When she went before the When she was first elected to the "GAYNESS CAN be an State by state, people have not legislature she told them she had Massachusetts State legislature in organizing tool" if one really wants been very active, and the crusade brought the rain. 1974, she would walk into a room to affect change, she said. A gay of singer Anita Bryant has certainly Noble said that the gay and nobody would say "hi" to her. rights bill cannot be won with gays changed all that, she noted. movement should be above board, After some time, "we all learned alone, she said, adding that others "She really created a process by whether they want to or not. to see the humanity in each other," with socially organized concepts which a lot of silent people got If one really wants to make a she said, adding that they saw she should be involved. organized, we created a vacuum political impact, one must be didn't have horns and a tail, and "We have straight people helping that Anita Bryant filled." organized, she advised. she found out they were not all us because we can't do it our- NOBLE SAID she believes "ORGANIZE POLITICALLY to corrupt. selves," she said. Schools Tax amendment introduced Editor's note: This is the second He estimated that an income tax combined with municipal income tax An additional option would allow article of a series dealing with of 1.75 to 2 percent would finance collection, but from the ad- two or more districts to join Ohio's public education. Part three the Toledo school system without ministrative standpoint it would be together for taxing purposes, concerns a new proposal by State property taxes. better to combine it with the state Wilkowski said. A tax rate would be Rep. John E. Johnson (D-Orrville) "The advantage is it has natural income tax. determined and the proceeds divided which he claims is a long-term growth. As inflation rises income "Income has not even been on a per-pupil basis, he said. The solution to the school's financial ills. levels, it generates more revenue. defined. How do you go out to county could be the tax base for the Real estate taxes are not permissive Rudolph and Lucky and tax the schools and the local school boards By Tom Smith in this way. income of farmers? You can't take would have to make this decision, "The problem with current it out of their weekly paycheck. he said. A Toledoan who is familiar with a methods is they do not allow for "The legislators are naive if they "HE ASSUMES the districts would school system plagued with financial growth with inflation," Wilkowski think the taxpayers will pay this cooperate." Cummings said, "but problems has introduced two explained. new tax. I don't detect any great here again, I don't detect any possible solutions to the Ohio Using Toledo's municipal income ground swell for the voters to spend ground swell to get together on such General Assembly. tax as an example of this growth more on schools. They (legislators) an idea." State Rep. Arthur Wilkowski (D- capacity, he said with 1 percent are simply looking for a way to put Wilkowski said, "It is based on Toledo) introduced House Bill 580 in income tax levy in 1946, the city it back in the hands of those who the concept of equitols. You pay the April, 1977, that would give local collected $8 million. Today at a 1.5 won't support the schools," Cum- school boards the option of levying percent tax rate, the city collects mings noted. to page seven a district income tax instead of the $45 million.

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