James Madison University Monday, February 2,1987 vol. 64 No. 33 Senate supports free tuition for JMU staff, faculty families By Mike Wilson free, he said. assistant news editor Also, allowing family members to attend the university without paying tuition might provide The immediate families of full-lime university faculty and staff members with greater "incentive to faculty and staff should be allowed to attend JMU do a good job," Dubenezic said. "We will have a without paying tuition, according to a Faculty Senate better climate for students and faculty to work in." bill passed unanimously Thursday. The proposal was first brought up in the senate "It would be a real morale booster for the faculty during fall 1985. At that time, the senate asked that a and staff," said Dr. Charles Dubenezic, speaker pro committee be set up to investigate the proposal. tempore of the senate, and a member of a "We had to determine if it was legal and feasible," subcommittee established to investigate the proposal. Dubenezic said. Under the proposal, the spouses and children of all The committee worked with Dr. Russell Warren, full-time faculty and staff would have their tuition then-vice president for academics affairs, and Roscoc waived by the university, Dubenezic said. However, Roberts of the attorney general's office to determine if participants in the program still would have to meet the proposal violated any state laws. The group found all regular university entrance requirements. no laws that would prohibit the bill, Dubenezic said. Universities in at least 19 other states have similar "It appears that there is nothing to prevent JMU's programs, he said. Board of visitors from passing the bill," he said. One of the goals of such a program would be to The proposal received enthusiastic support in the "attract better faculty members" to JMU, Dubenezic Faculty Senate. said. Faculty members might be more willing to come here if they knew their children could attend See TUITION page 2 > Bookstore to check IDs Policy to help curb text thefts biggest problem is making sure that the right person By Martin Romjue staff writer is getting the money for a book," Sarb said. Under the new policy, student IDs will be checked To combat campus textbook thefts, the bookstore and the bookstore's computer system might be used will reinstate an ID check policy and prohibit to show if they have sold a certain title before, Sarb students from selling two copies of one book to the said. bookstore during buy-back time. "Students when selling back books must have "These measures are designed to make life easier for identification," she said. "We are not here to judge, the honest customer," said Patti Sarb, director of the but we are here to set the same criteria for everyone. bookstore. "Ninety-nine percent of students would This is a preventive measure to protect the honest never think about engaging in this type of thing." customer." » The problem involves students taking books from Bookstore staff members also have noticed that other students and reselling them. Campus police some books have had price tags switched and some have received reports of textbooks being stolen from new books have had used labels put on them. Y students in the library und other public areas on Sarb hopes to deter book theft by not giving Staff photo by ELIZABETH MYERS campus. Area textbook retailers also will check student IDs students an opportunity to steal, she said. Students Bull's eye when they buy back books and avoid buying copies should put their names in their books and have specific ways to identify them. Some snow still remains on parts of of the same book from one student, Sarb said. campus, Including the bust of James Through discussions with campus police and some "If someone has a book stolen, they need to get to Madison which someone used for tar- incidents at buy-back times the bookstore became the campus police fast," Sarb said. "They will alert get practice. aware of a theft problem, she said. "Shoplifting is not the biggest problem. The See TEXTBOOKS page 2 > \&mMtl!A>J'JW> NOW JMU students had mixed reactions Twice JMU defeated George Mason for \ to Thursday's iong-awa*rte<| opening the second time this season with a OpCn of )ne campus pub. beaten 75-69 overtime win here Saturday. a»MB> ~*idmtEk Page 2, The Breeze, Monday, February 2, 1987 Tuition Dubenezic said Dr. Robert Shapiro, V (Continued from page 1) members to participate in the program. evaluations were upset because "they In other business at the meeting, had thought they were confidential," he acting vice president for academic affairs, had recommended the "There is widespread faculty support Dubenezic presented the faculty said. departments implement a coding system for the program," he said. Even though concerns committee's report on Faculty members are allowed to for individual peer evaluations. "not everybody is going to gel direct university personnel files. The issue review their own personnel folders. personal benefit" was first brought before the senate in Personnel files are kept in the Dubenezic said using number codes or September. department heads' offices, the deans' some other coding system instead of The exact cost of the program has not At that time, a department "had a offices and the personnel office, names would solve the problem. been determined yet, but Dubenezic said situation where a faculty member saw- Dubenezic said. "it should be a very small percentage of evaluations of his or her performance Peer evaluation forms are kept in the Individual departments must decide if the university's budget." signed by other faculty members," he department heads' offices, he said. they want to use a coding system, or if He said the committee expects about said. In order to make sure the problem of they would prefer leaving names on the 10 percent of all faculty and staff The faculty members who made the confidentiality does not arise again, evaluations, he said. Textbooks >■ (Continued from page 1) area book-buyers and try to stop the person who stole Do you want to it from reselling it." A bookstore advisory committee made up of store staff members and Student Government Association members has been meeting regularly to examine and work for us? recommend ways to publicize and deter campus thefts. "We're starting to receive feedback from [student] senators and ideas from constituents," said Ann-Marie The Breeze soon will be accepting Johnson, SGA administrative vice president. The best way to deal with the problem is by making people applications for 1987-88 paid staff aware of it, she said. Sarb said the problem is worst around exam and positions. 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His insurance Last Tuesday, Robinson pleaded he arrived, but it took a week to At least four JMU commuter students company paid for those items. guilty to nine of the break-ins at private discover everything that was missing. were victims of a burglar who was When the police called Watson to homes in Harrisonburg, according to For instance, he and his three sentenced Tuesday to 21 years in prison identify the stolen goods at Robinson's the article.