Student Fights for Environment Class Requirement UWM Settles With

"""raWKWIW** -;BC_-fchkr'• ki *sj##/* News 11111 II in. m Spotm mila******>**w MI••:•: tackfes his iirst town hall t. Student fights for environment class requirement By Chad Sirovina were not properly educated. q'uirement that UWM currently 2400 students. dents in a year just having the seed "I was tired of people who pro requires as part of the GER. "I'm certain that I can get in the planted is astronomical." Dean Kelley, a student at the fess to be environmentalists not "(The program) would be some petitions," he said. Kelley said that few colleges in University of Wisconsin-Milwau knowing the mechanics of the situ thing just like that," Kelley said. Kelley said he has received sup the areahaveenvironmental aware kee, has started a petition drive to ation," Kelley said. According to Kelley, he has port letters from various organiza ness programs. have environmental awareness According to Kelley, the pro gotten 200 signatures on the peti tions. Some of the more famous "Alverno has one and Stevens added to the General Education posal he has set forth will not tion by himself. However, the organizations that have gotten be Point is trying to get one," he said. Requirements. require any additional credits to be Conservation Club has also started hind his movement are the U.S. "No other UW campus has one as Kelley, a junior with a triple taken. It would however, direct circulating his petition and he does Forestry Service, the Sierra Club, far as I know." major in political science, eco three credits of the natural sciences not know how many signatures the Wisconsin Wildlife Federation, According to the proposal that nomics, and the biological aspects requirement into the environmen they have gotten. and even two state representatives. Kelley sent to Dr. Campbell of conservation, started the drive tal awareness area. Kelley said that he needs 10 "College people make the deci Tathem, the chairperson of the because he felt people making de Kelley said it would be similar percent of the student body to sign sions of the future," Kelley said. cisions involving the environment to how the cultural diversity re- the petition which comes to about "The potential of this many stu Please see KELLEY page 2 Gone fishm' UWM settles with 3 Department of Labor U.S. Department of Labor and the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee have reached a tentative agreement after the department's investigation of several sexual discrimination cases, according to an article in the Milwaukee Journal last week. A new affirmative action program at the university and settlements for 13 women who were found to be victims of discrimination are part of the settlement. According to the article, the combined settlements could reach $1 million. The affirmative action plan indicates that discrimination is widespread at this university. In the schools of Business Administration and Fine Arts, two schools targeted by the original investigation conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor, the new plan offers goals the univer sity should attain. In Business Administration, women currently represent just over 15 percent of the faculty. The new affirmative action program indicates that almost 40 percent of the annual place ments in the department should be women. "Given the extensive underutilization of women in faculty ranks, a special mentoring program for junior faculty women will be instituted with special emphasis on minority women," according to the plan. The settlement also calls for increased female and minority This particular fishing hole, located near McKinley Marina on Lincoln Memorial Drive hiring to jobs like campus law-enforcement. According to the happens to be James DeMore, 89 and his brother Mike's (background) favorite spot to story, there are no minorities working in law enforcement at dropa line. H should be - the DeMore brothers have been fishing there since older brother UWM. The settlement stems from a U.S. Department of Labor investigation conducted after Ceil Pillsbury, a former UWM professor who will return to teaching at the university this fall, filed a discrimination suit against the university. Pillsbury Bookstore director named alleged she was denied tenure in 1989 because she was a woman. Under the same investigation, the U.S. Department of Labor By Yolonda White "We're looking into bringing in lines like Kinte reported that the university would lose as much as $350 million Cloth umbrellas, posters, clothing and greeting cards," Linda Hausladen was recently named director of she said. in federal funding unless UWM settled to the terms outlined in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Bookstore. According to Hausladen, a wider variety of cultural the U.S. Department of Labor notice of violations. Shortly after Hausladen started the job on April 12. Elmer Hamann, and ethnic products would satisfy more of the university's the announcement, UW System President Katharine Lyall took director of UWM's Auxiliary Services announced her students. Her multi-cultural experience with Milwau over from UWM Chancellor John H. Schroeder negotiations with appointment. kee Area Technical College has helped her in this the U.S. Department of Labor. Hausladen, a graduate of UWM, received her aspect. She said she will be able to use a lot of what she State Rep. Barbara Notestein (D-Milwaukee), who spear degree in Geological Sciences, and has done course learned there at UWM. Seriously addressing students' headed legislation concerning the tenure process, said it was too work in business and adult education. She was man concerns is another focus for Hausladen. She said The early to judge the effect of the settlement. ager of the UW-Green Bay bookstore from 1984 to Bookstore wants to take suggestions in the suggestion box more seriously. The rising cost of books was one "It's a very preliminary step," Notestein said. "But it is 1986. Her short term goals for the bookstore involve simply meeting the university's needs. thing she said needed to be addressed. "I've personally appalling that UWM could go for so many years without such an "I want to continue what we do well," she said. discussed with book representatives about the prices. affirmative action program." Some of the things she would like to see continued I've actually argued about them," she said. Notestein said judgment on the plan should be reserved until are good customer service and communication, mer Having been a student, she said she has a better Schroeder reacts. chandising and display and adherence to the basic handle on concerns students have because she has been Several changes in the agreement may be made, and it may be bookstore mission. there. Not only did she attend UWM, but she worked weeks before the agreement is signed by the chancellor. The One specific thing Hausladen would like to see at the bookstore in the mid-70s. In addition to her U.S. Justice Department is currently conducting an investigation implemented is a more diversified product line that Please see LINDA page 3 of sexual discrimination in the entire UW-System. would better meet the needs of all students. Page 2 -ITmCwMPpsrl April 26, 1993 riefs Student Association taking nomi UWM Library Dean of School of Architecture nations for Outstanding Student raising funds by named to City Plan Commission Robert Greenstreet, dean of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Student Associaton is sponsoring selling books School of Architecture and Urban Planning, has been appointed to the the outstanding UWM Student Award, given to students who have made a Milwaukee City Plan Commission. positive contribution to the UWM community. Here's a chance to add to your library - and to help the Golda Greenstreet, who was appointed by Mayor John O. Norquist will serve a The contest is open to any student enrolled at UWM and excludes members three year term. The dean joined UWM in 1981 as an assistant professor and of the Student Association. Meir Library at the same time. The Friends of the UWM Golda was named dean of the school in 1990. His research specialties include law and Students will be judged on committment and dedication to the university, professional practice for architects and legal impacts on the built environment. excellence in non-academic areas, lasting and longterm improvement to Meir Library are sponsoring a book *&** UWM. sale, May 4 - 6, in the fourth floor * -X The applicant must be nominated by a current UWM student who must conference center of the library, All-day course designed to help submit a letter of nomination which includes: 2311 E. Hartford Ave. Hours are 2 -name of nominee - 7 p.m. May 4, noon - 6 p.m. May educators spot child abuse -current address 5 and 10 a.m. - 2 pjn. May 6. "The Role of the Educator in Detecting, Preventing and Reporting -social security number Offerings will include classics, Child Abuse" is an all-day, non-credit course to be held May 22 from 9 -classification fiction, textbooks and magazines, a.m. to 4 p.m. at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Golda Meir -why the individual should be considered with most prices at $1 for hard Library, fourth floor conference center, 2311 E. Hartford Ave. -what the nominee has accomplished cover and 50 cents for paperbacks. Topics covered will include "Physical Indicators of Abuse and Evidence supporting the claim is optional. All proceeds will go to the Neglect," "Separating Accidental from Intentional Injury," "Proper Deadline for nominations is April 30. Winners will receive a plaque at a library's enhancement Information Gathering" and "Behavioral Indicators: Early Signs of ceremony May 15. Problems." Employers get Program fee for the course is $40.

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