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Roger Williams University DOCS@RWU The Quill Student Publications 11-18-1969 The Quill -- November 18, 1969 Roger Williams University Follow this and additional works at: http://docs.rwu.edu/the_quill Part of the Education Commons Recommended Citation Roger Williams University, "The Quill -- November 18, 1969" (1969). The Quill. Paper 171. http://docs.rwu.edu/the_quill/171 This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Publications at DOCS@RWU. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Quill by an authorized administrator of DOCS@RWU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. What's A Nice Student Like You Going To In A Place Like T'his? In September of this year, rooms themselves. The rooms are side. If you don't have money, you the Providence campus welcomed furnished very lightly, with pasic don't eat. Some students have con some thirty new students from ally old and worn furniture. The flicting class hours with food out of state. They are all happy rug~ smell, the windows are rarely hours, because the system is to be a part of Roger Williams cleaned, and neither are the based on only Johnson and Wales College, and to be able to watch blinds. Some rooms are lined with students and not Roger Williams it grow, but they feel that the plywood and others with a rugged students, who pay the same price. Providence Campus will stay stag plaster finish. The walls are all If you do have a conflicting class nant as long as the resident stu painted the same color, which is no one is allowed to get the food dents are subjected to the poor white. The only variety in the for you. The food is not what you facilities at the Johnson and rooms is the size. The pipes that would call normal dormitory food. Wales Dormitory.· run across the top of the room Besides the fact that the food is In this article, I will attempt also add to its awkward appear not up to par, we have had inci to state as many of the complaints ance. dents where something was found as possible, so that when the arti The next topic is food. Very few in the food. One Roger Williams cle is finished, you, the students students from Roger Williams student found a piece of glass in and faculty of Roger Williams College eat in the cafeteria all of his food which caused a cut on College, will take a position on the time. They have to spend ex his tongue. Another found a piece the matter. To start, take the tra money to buy food on the out- DORM Page 4 ui - W ithout the press . what is speech; without speech •.• w hat is freedom; without freedom • . what is life1 VOL. IX, No. 6 ROGER WILLIAMS COLLEGE November 18, 1969 Faculty Unrest In Providence Over Working Conditions It has become clear that there greetings of the vast majority re- Another vitally important and also realizes that he has a prob whole. As a differentiation of is measurable faculty disquietude semble the fanny-patting ESPRIT recognizable dynamic is that the lem with his image, "Sometimes I parts and a specialization of func primarily and possibly solely at de CORPS of a championship foot- Providence people feel that they may come across as if I'm the tion. The organism as an entirety the Providence Campus. Exploita ball team. They certainly appear are being manipulated by the ad- Pope," however he maintains that is nourished by the community." tion seems to be t he key element to be "together". ' ministration. this is not a conscious effort on We, as students, are seriously af in describing their feelings. "We are organized now bet- "They try to hire you for as his part. As to the matter of co fected, at Bristol as well as Provi There are two issues which ac ter than we ever thought we little as possible." opting people, he insisted "I will dence. If an instructor has an un tually involve the entire facutly could be before", said one instruc- "We have submitted proposals not buy anyone off." In fact, the fair working condition it will af at R.W.C.; tenure and pay sched tor in a most assertive fashion. in the past that have been ~om- dean emphatically encourages fac fect his total performance, and if ules. Proposals are in the process With regard to factly load, pletely disregarded!" ulty organization because he feels "equivalent means" are not being of being presented on these issues. there was a request submitted to "Without pay schedules, anyone that responsible and sound pro employed at Bristol, students are But it is the extremely sensitive Dean Zannini to clarify his posi- who makes noise can be co-opted, posals emanate from this kind of being cheated. tion regarding it. Here is an ex- and this · has happened in the and in this case very arbitrary group process. Which Roa.cl to Take? matter of faculty load that is the cerpt from his official reply dated past." This statement of the dean's In 1967, Dr. Bertram H. Davis prime source of friction. October 20, 1969: "Yeah, sure they offer you a should sum up his feelings: "I'm then General Secretary of the The Providence people are using "I do not plan to initiate thousand or fifteen hundred more a lot less directive than they think changes in this area because it and when you think of your fam I am." American Association of Univer a 3-credit per course system; sity Professors (A.A.U.P.) made whereas at Bristol, a four-credit is my understanding that the ily; you'd shut-up too." Although the dean's willingness loads are equivalent, although the P-robably the most enlightening to cooperate with his faculty in this statement regarding the im per course system is employed. plementing of tenure policies. This means 'that the Providence Bristol Campus has adopted statement on this whole issue of attempting to solve problems, four-course plan for students, in- manipulation is, "We want tenure, which are more recognizable "In place of the adversary re.: facutly has 5 courses or 15 credit lationship which has been formal hours for a faculty load and Bris stead of the normal five-course not to protect poor teachers, but to faculty members than him, program in effect in Providence.I to guarantee us freedom of ex simply because he is no longer a ized in industry, a cooperative re tol has 4 courses for 16 credit lationship built upon the principle hours. The problem is, and just It is also my understanding that pression !" If this is the gut-feel faculty member himself, is quite each course is weighed as being ing of the facutly, regardless of apparent; it appears as though of shared authority appears to about everyone in the college com us to be the proper basis for or munity is aware of it, that actual worth the equivalent of four sem- proof, it certainly insists that the his approach to mitigating t)'lis ester hours of credit. The normal situation is in dire need of repair. present. problem does not include ganizing faculty-administration re classroom contact hours at Bristol lationships in higher education." equal only 12 whereas in Provi teaching load for each instructor A"dministration's Position lessening the faculty load at at the Bristol Campus is four· After a lengthy and substantial Providence. One of the people in Providence dence it equals 15. The Bristol had this to say about the imple faculty have been instructed to courses and it nets to be a six- conversation with Dean Zannini, Students Affected teen semester hour credit load." this reporter came away with a The faculty at Providence are mentation of a tenure policy here make up the other four hours by at Roger Williams College. "equivalent means". It is evident, The memorandum did go on to good many insights about his feel now being asked to advise stu "We (faculty) will decide the however that the situation is say that if a legitimate discrep- ings on this problem. Although he dents, as is the situation in Bris tenure policy for this school. No clearly questionable. ancy did exist that he would ar- did say that he wasn't fully aware tol. They are reacting negatively range a meeting with the Presi- of the situation, which is presum to this because they feel that their policy will be forced on us by the THE FACULTY MOOD dent and the Dean of B.C. to dis- ed to mean that he hasn't been work-load is already too great. Administration." Again, this is the One cannot help but fe.el that cuss the situatio"n. officially informed. This service can only help stu feeling of the faculty toward the these people are fed up with the This is what some Providence The dean feels that ·he isn't dents and it would be extremely Administration and it certainly present situation, and that this faculty members had to say about paternalistic and that if faculty unfortunate if the faculty decided reflects a situation of urgency. disgust has jolted them into ac- faculty load. proposals are presented, especial not to provide it or to give it only The A.A.U.P. is the only organiz tion. Their spirit is more than "Equitable and fair? It certain- ly concerning tenure, they will be a partial effort.