Salary Hikes of 5% to 6% Possible Many Accounts Frozen; Library Budget to Rise Tuition to Increase Documents Obtained by the Circle
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ifc Winners Look back mmij^ CIRCLE VOLUME 36, NUMBER 22 MARIST COLLEGE, POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. MAY 3,1990 Salary hikes of 5% to 6% possible Many accounts frozen; Library budget to rise Tuition to increase documents obtained by The Circle. "Marist does not have the resources to by STACEY MCDONNELL Both Murray and Campilii attribute the keep the professors here," said Olson. "The —page* 4 News Editor need for the increases to the rising cost of professors know that despite any job that living in the Northeast region. Salary in they are doing, they are still going to fall cent more than the national norm, said Two weeks before faculty contract creases for all college employees have top behind (financially) because the increase Murray. negotiations are to begin, administrators are priority in next year's budget, they said. won't cover their expenses." "In order to attract top professors and discussing a plan to raise employees' salaries The Board of Trustees, whehitapproves Murray said the salaries for theJower two keep those we have, we must pay competitive 5 to 6 percent across the board next year, ac the annual budget, sets all salaries and ranks of teachers — instructors and assistant salaries," said Campilii. "We have to make cording to Anthony Campilii, vice president decides whether they will rise, and if so, how professors — are low and should have more sure the faculty is fairly compensated." for business affairs. much. The board will meet Saturday to money put into them. He said the full pro The average salary for a president of a While most college employees have been decide the budget for fiscal 1990, which fessors and associate professors are paid well baccalaureate college is $85,675, according getting modest salary increases.the salaries begins June 1. compared to schools similar to Marist. to the College and University Personnel of a few top officials have grown at a much William Olson, chairman of the faculty, According to The Chronicle of Higher Association, which compiles the national steeper rate in recent years. President Den said the possible increase in salaries would Education, a full professor at colleges com statisics. Murray earns about 76 percent nis Murray earned $150,000 in fiscal year not be enough to cover the 6.2 percent rise parable to Marist earns an average of ' more than the national norm. 1988, up 25 percent from the previous year, in the cost of living that occured from March $46,830 per year. Marist's full professors according to Internal Revenue Service 1, 1989, to February 28, 1990, in this area. earn an average of $48,439, about 3.3 per- ...See SALARIES page 4 • 'Ethics' to be taken junior, senior year by HOLLY GALLO Features Editor The faculty voted last week to move the freshman ethics course re quirement to the junior or senior year. The faculty also rejected a proposal for an honors program and ap proved a plan to examine and revise the Core/Liberal Studies program at a meeting last Friday. The Academic Affairs Committee, which consists of four faculty members and one student representive, put the three proposals before a faculty vote. The count was not available. The ethics proposal essentially changes the role of the ethics course from an introductory subject to a capping course. It was passed with the notion that students would be more receptive to ideas discussed in the class once they have more college experience behind them, according to Richard LaPietra, chairman of the Academic Affairs Committee. To back up this theory, a study done by the philosophy program at Marist and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities af firmed teachers' belief that students' mastery of the ethics course would be enhanced by their personal and intellectual maturity, LaPietra said. The change could take effect as early as next semester, LaPietra said. The "Introduction to Philosophy" course will still be required of all students during their freshman year, he said. The Science of Man program, the unofficial honors program now in its final semester, still has no replacement, as the faculty rejected a pro posal for a new honors program. In constrast to the Science of Man program, for which students had to be invited to participate, the proposed honors program would have been open to all students with at least a 3.25 grade point average, LaPietra said. Some of the requirements for participation in the honors program would have been completion of a foreign language up to the advanced level, one lab science course and a written thesis to be presented orally to faculty and students during the senior year, according to LaPietra. Another proposal, which passed, will examine and consider revising the curriculum, beginning with the Core/Liberal Studies program in order to "take some manageable pieces and start from there," LaPietra said. Lisa Polera receives her 1990-SilverNeedle Award from Bob Mackie for her design, of four- "It's an evolutionary process," LaPietra said. "When the Core was ply silk hand-beaded^'jungfe" sarong. office of Public Relations Photo / Howard Dratch first established, it was done so with certain objectives and goals; then it grows in ways you can never foresee when conceptualizing." Worker uses Marist to get back on his feet said. "I was given a second chance by is just the opposite. Ford said he started drinking Ford became an alcoholic while at life and I'm going to do the right heavily in grammar school. His BARBARA BUTTACAVOLI he grew up in the Big Apple. But thing with it." drinking got worse from then on. Staff Writer now, Ford has kicked the bottle "It can be a thankless job, but "I wanted to stop, but I didn't and come to Poughkeepsie to start it makes me feel good to see that know how to stop," he said. If you think you spend more a new life at Marist. I make a difference in keeping up "Three years ago I was a homeless time in Donnelly Hall than anyone Ford's path to Marist was a the college, and I'm proud," Ber guy in the gutter. I used to sleep on else, think again. strange one. His rehabilitation nard said. the roof in the Port Authority. Long after you have finished center sent him to Poughkeepsie Those guys you see on the streets your night class and typed your last and then his halfway house "I always try to do my best," he — that was me," he said. paper, there still may be one per manager gave him a chance to added. "Most of the time I give 150 son lingering in the building after work part-time at Marist. Since he percent, but I do it for me. In A.A. Ford said he is not proud of his you have left. did a good job here, he was hired (Alcoholic's Anonymous) they past, but is proud that he may be Bernard Ford, 44, is there all as a full-time worker. teach us to go the extra mile." overcoming it. night, working for housekeeping. The most important thing for Ford was born and raised in New Ford appreciates the second him today is to remain sober, Ford Bernard is also proud that he is York City. For many, New York chance he has gotten at Marist, said. "I've seen a lot of my friends a veteran — he joined the marines City is the greatest city in the even though his work may go "No matter what the problem is, lose their sobriety and then their in 1965 and was in Vietnam, he world. But for others, like Ford, it unappreciated. nothing is worth drinking," he life," he said. said. He was also born on July 4. THE CIRCLE, MAY 3,1990 THE CIRCLE ODDS & ENDS MAY 3, 1990 Recycling program started Yeaglin to retire by LENNY KLIE vironmental science, put the pro campus for the last two years. gram in motion. "In those two years, we've The long and winding road comes to an end Staff Writer The National Recycling Com recycled over 8,000 pounds of com thoughts for a final column. through his mind. The bus arrived A group of students has started pany, located in Marlboro, N.Y., puter paper alone," Molloy said! -;. .<v -/ !. •:. Treading the cobblestones of Moodswing and their version of offered to pick up the paper at its Main Mall some days past, he "Tangled Up in Blue." Without much feeling, he and he decided just to go home. a program that will help the en "the proceeds from which have muddled around with some Maybe he was giving up, too. vironment and save Marist money. own cost and shred it for reuse, gone to purchase environmental chanced upon a bearded sage who His most important discovery Magnolia said. "It sounded like a held above him a placard. In was that if you go out every night R.E.M. tunes, faked a few Stepping through the door, he books and journals for the Library. Replacements and Bob Marley tossed exact change in the box and Boxes have been placed recently good deal, and I had to do A law is expected to go into ef monstrous letters it prophesied to for the last month of your in the Adult Education and Admis something for the class anyway," him: "The End Is Near." freshman year you'll end up with songs. He thought of all the songs took a seat. A young boy sat with fect within the next few years man he said he'd write and never took a silent boom box on his lap.