SG Treasurer Steps Down

Bowl-Bound ., Make aWish Index . ·' Football team defeats . :i · Twelfth annual A&E 86-8 Deacon Notes 82 Briefly A2 Editorials A8-11 •, Festival of Trees Calendar 87 Scoreboard 85 to be held with Classifieds 84 Sports 81-5 student aid Perspectives/A 12 Visit our Web site at www.ogb. wfu.edu Volume 83, No. 15 Universi lacks policy for test files By Suzanne DuBose Systems server manager said. "The project we are Senior Reporter currently using Peabody for is a knowledge base. However, this particular site was a project that one Last summer,junior Steven Emmert, a member of of the students was working on that they needed to Chi Psi fraternity, created a Web site housing his develop in order to submit it to the dean for ap fraternity's test files. The site allows students to enter proval. So we put it on a private site so they could the teacher or class in the main page and bring up complete the process and then turn it over." previously taken and completed tests from past Although the page was submitted for approval last semesters. spring, it continued to rest on the Peabody server "There are roughly about 20 different classes largely hidden from the average student until last listed, each having up to or around three different. week. tests, 564 images total," Emmert said. "We have pulled the page pending administrative The site rested on an information database called approval," Norris said. Peabody that i!J used mainly by Information Sys Emmert says his reason for creating the page was tems. twofold. "This particular server is what we use to do testing of certain applications," Lee Norris, the Information See Files, Page A7 SG treasurer steps down By Brad Gunton leaving because of personal her stead, and the general assem Assistant News Editor reasons. "I was very surprised at bly held a special session Nov. 30 first;" Jones said. "Any news of to vote on the matter. The SG . · ~sty··Eylel"·feSigned- that. 'magpitude. i~ going to take .. constij:ijfu;l,n. provides for the cur· from her position as StudentGov you aback at first." rent officer to appoint a replace- emment treasurer Nov. 18, ap Her resignation came two days ment until an election can be held pointing senior James Faucher to after the legislature completed the to fill the position. The bill to Worshiping the win serve as the interim treasurer until Student Budget Advisory approve Faucher's appointment an election is held in January. Committee's budget in its Nov. was passed with near unanimity. Students pulled·down the goal post after the tomball game in Groves Stadium Nov. 13 and brought it back to In a letter to SG president se 16 general assembly meeting. As Faucher has been a member of .campus to display triumphantly on the Quad after the Deacon$ defeated Georgia Tech. The win allows the nior Khalid Jones, Eyler an chairwoman of the SBAC, pass- the legislature for two years, serv team to play in the Aloha Bowl during winter break. See stories, pages 81 and 82. nounced her resignation without ingthebudgetisthemainrespon- ing on the Appropriations and giving an explanation. According sibility of the treasurer. to Jones, she has said that she is Eyler chose Faucher to serve in See Treasurer, Page AS Revised party policies ·extend hours, decrease patrolling By Susannah Rosenblatt when smpmoned by a hosting organiza tion in binge drinking in residence halls them seem to be helpful." alcohol policy," Westendarp said. "I Old Gold and Black Reporter tion. before and after parties. wanted to do something to improve the Through these measures, the adminis "The ultimate goal is to try and in And the survey says social scene." The Student Life Committee, Student tration hopes to "reduce the incidence of crease student well-being on campus and The new policy was developed in reac With 1,022 respondents among all the Government and Interfraternity Council high-risk drinking on campus," accord improve student health," said junior Clint tion to a survey distributed earlier this classes, the survey dealt with students' have develope'd six new alcohol policy ing to Ken Zick, the vice president for Watson, SG Speaker of the House said. year by, junior Cooper W estendarp, IFC impression of the school, its social atmo guidelines to be implemented next se student life and instructional resources. The new guidelines will be in place on president, with the help. of SG. What sphere and attitudes toward drinking. mester, including an extension of party Zick and the Student Life Committee a trial basis, evaluated "in terms of (a began as a discussion among discon "The main objective of the survey was to hours from 1am. to I :30 a.m. and a hope the new party regulations will elimi reduction in) alcohol-related medical tented fraternity presidents became a convey the general feeling students had reduction in ~olite presence at parties. nate students' driving intoxicated to con emergencies and alcohol-related viola campus-wide evaluation of students' about on-campus party regulations and This means police will enter parties only tinue drinking at local bars after parties tions, particularly abuse," Zick said. "We views on alcohol and the school itself. when responding to a call or crime or have closed. They also expect a reduc- may work to modify them if some of "A lot of people were upset with the See Parties, Page AS Hamilton excels at Russian, banjo Faculty still concerned By Elizabeth Turnbull Old Gold and Black Reporter about gaps in salaries In an office filled with the scent ofpipe tobacco sits an experimental chess set and Billy Hamilton, an associate dean of the college. This atmosphere suits By Phil Glynn The results showed that this university his approachable and colorful personality. Hamilton Old Gold and Black Reporter remained below the average salaries of peer came to the university 18 years ago as a visiting institutions in all ranks of professorship. The fellow with the American Council of Education. A sentiment of concern is growing study shows that full professors lag nehind In 1983, with no paper contract or written descrip among university faculty members over the average salary by more than $10,000. the salary distribution within the faculty tion of duties, Hamilton accepted his dean's posi On the whole, the university ranked 45tl1 tion. Originally from Cincinnati, he says he always and other administrative positions. Re of 50 in the average salary category, while wanted to live in the South because he likes the cent complaints from the faculty with being the 28th of 50 in U.S. News and Worla climate, and he loves to play southern bluegrass regard to salary have come from the han Reports rankings of the best colleges and music. dling of the Undergraduate Plan, which universities. ·"When I first became a professor, I had three job was released in january 1995. An article Michael Sinclair, a professor of history offers, and I took the one which was furthest south of the plan reads, "The University should said, "The faculty was asked to make extr~ -and that was in Buffalo, N.Y. I spent the first 12 raise faculty salaries to a level above the commitments by the Undergraduate Plan. years of my teaching career wishing I was in the average of joint-admission institutions We were asked to incorporate the new tech_ South, so when I got the fellowship, permitting me (other institutions with which the univer nology and take on new seminar responsi to come as a visitor, I quickly saw that this was a sity competes for students) in all ranks bilities to name a few. We fulfilled these warmjlace - in both senses of the word. I also within2-5 years .... The University should requirements while the university failed to evaluate non-faculty salaries to insure that wante to be part of a private school, knowing that uphold its end of the bargain by raisin a they are fair and competitive." I could do more creative things quickly in a private salaries." " school," Hamilton said. In a study conducted by university fac Another portion of the study that seeks to In addition to serving as an associate dean of the ulty members, the data of U.S. News and find a pattern as a reasonable predictor ol best colleges and uni college;· Hamilton is a professor of Russian. Several World Reports 50 whether the university will meet its goals in days a week, he teaches class in his office. Over the versities and Academes annual report on the near future is discouraging to the faculty the status of the profession was used. This Making a comaprison of fa_culty salarie~ Associate Dean ofthe College Billy Hamilton recalls his days of data is reflective of the 1997-98 academic See Hamilton, Page A4 playing bluegrass banjo with Jerry Garcia. year. See Salaries, Page A7 A2Thursdayl December 2, 1999 O.ld Gold and Black News City of Joy scholars confront poverty, disease 0 By Lisa Hoppenjans "I'm actually looking forward Junior James Han, this year's and thatitcollid be ~y dad in that owe so much," he said. Forty-four Dld 9_'ol4 and Black Reporter to spending Christmas there," "The P\1IPOse of the trip is to student leader, said, "Group re posi~on. Soiile~. about that studentscompetedforthe lOopen sophomore Parker Snyder said. flection is a time to bring~p isssues brought the wa,lls down and the spotsinthisyear'strip. Theschol ' The City of Joy :Schoiars will "I'm Catholic and I think that work along the sisters serving the we are facing, talk about fears or experience started affecting me ars were chosen in the spring and leave for Calcutta, India, Dec.

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