The Ithacan, 1996-03-07

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OPINION ACCENT SPORTS INDEX Accent ......•................... 13 A true: leader Dog days One step short Classifieds .................... 18 Comics ......................... 19 Robert.Demming's work Student trains Labrador to Gemmell earns All Opinion ......................... 10 will aways be remembered 1 be seeing eye dog 1 American honors at nationals Sports ........................... 20 The ITHACAN The Newspaper for the Ithaca College Community VOLUME 63, NUMBER 22 l'HuRSDAY, MARCH 7, 1996 24 PAGES, FREE Faculty Council votes not to submit pool to board Affirms right sentatives will allow for "adequate and effective input and representa JOB OUTLINE to select search tion." According to Muller, those three • See related story ..... pg. 6 faculty members would be selected committee reps out of a pool of six by the executive commiuee of the board during a send out an approval ballot next By Alex Leary meeting next month. week that will ask faculty members Ithacan News Editor McBride said this gives further to elect representatives to the com mittee. Representatives will be Faculty Council will send the control to the board, which will elected campus-wide and not by · Board of Trustees a list of three ultimately choose the next presi The Ithacan/ Scott McDermott individual schools, Schlesinger final candidates for the Presidential dent. "We were hoping for a much From left, Latsamy Dongsavanh '96, Doualy Xaykaotha '96, Darren said. Search Committee rather than pro more cooperative gesture from the Winston '99 and Rochelle Reodica '99 discuss legal immigration. In bis letter, Muller said he viding a pool of six for the board to board and we did not get it," be said. wanted nominations by March 22. choose from. Warren Schlesinger, chair of However, because of Spring Break, At their Feb. 5 meeting, Faculty Faculty Council and associate pro Schlesinger said he was going to Students lobby Council passed a motion not to send fessor of accounting, said the coun suggest to Muller that the names be a pool of candidates to the execu cil voted against the pool because submitted the following week. tive committee of the Board of some faculty members said they To date, Schlesinger has received against proposed Trustees, which under current would not put their names forward several names. However, he said guidelines will select the represen as representitives ifa pool was used. some may be waiting because they tatives. He added that it is ultimately up are still preparing the nomination "The faculty has their right to to the board to choose the immigration law materials. He added that several select their own representatives representitves but hopes they will other faculty members were ex without going through a screening respect the faculty's choices. Representative Lamar Smith, R pected to be nominated, but other process where our judgement is While thenumberof representa Faculty helps fund Texas, and Senator Alan Simpson, potential nominees may be hesitant being questioned," said Paul tives remains at three. that number R-Wyo. Both the Smith Bill for several reasons. "I'm also con Asian students' (H.R. McBride, professor and chairper could change. Last week, chairmen 2202) and the Simpson Bill (S. cerned thatbecause of the time com son of the history department of the Faculty and Staff Councils trip to Washington 1394) are seeking to reduce at least McBride said the faculty mem and the president of the Student mitment and the awesome respon sibility, people are reluctant to step 30 percent of family-sponsored im bers were disappointed when they Government Association sent a let By T. Teejay Hoang forward," he said. migration. were granted only three representa ter to Muller, asking for a meeting Ithacan Staff Faculty members will also have If passed, the bills would require tives to serve on the committee. to discuss concerns that have risen families that sponsor immigrants to the opportunity to vote on whether While others were attending F.arlier this semester, members of in recent weeks over the makeup of earn as much twice the current the faculty should suppoi:t partici classes last Thursday and Friday, as the faculty said that six representa the Presidential Search Committee. poverty level. For example, a spon pation in the committee.. three Ithaca College students spent tives would be needed. Schlesinger said the issue would soring family of four would have to Because Muller decided that their time at Capitol Hill learning However, Chainnanofthe Board be addressed if Muller agrees to a earn at least $35,420. three faculty representatives would about immigration issues and lob of Trustees Herman E. Muller Jr., meeting. Last night, he had not re Members of Congress are put be sufficient, some faculty mem bying for changes. in a letter to the College commu ceived word from Muller regarding ting the proposals on hold and are bers questioned whether they should The students who are associated nity, outlined the composition of the meeting. with Asia Society joined hundreds considering splitting each bill into the committee and said three repre- Faculty Council also voted to See COUNCIL, next page of Asian Americans and congres different measures for legal and il sional leaders in a two-day lobby legal immigrations. Formal debates ing event called the Asian Pacific in both houses are expected to take American Immigration Education place around March 18. Seco·nd round of employees Effort. Before their meeting with 26th Asia Society President Latsamy District Congressman Maurice Dongsavanh '%, Rochelle Reodica Hinchey, the group attended a press accept voluntary separation '99 and Darren Winston '99 arrived conference organized by the Orga in Washington D.C. March 9. nization of Chinese Americans and Twenty-eight take enhanced plan to retire from College early Reodica and Winston both have co-sponsored by 30 other Asian family members who are seeking to American labor, legal and civil package last year. The 31 employ By Mary. Wilson to move on." re-settle in the United States. All groups. Ithacan Staff ees who took the first package may Another reason, Finlay said, three students arc .U.S. citizens. "This is one of the largest efforts be eligible for the enhanced ben has to do with the climate of the Raquib Zaman, chair of the De by the Asian-American community The second round of volun efits, Maley said College. partment of Finance and Interna tary separation packages offered in history," said Matthew Finucane, The packages were created as a "This is a critical time for tional Business, said he asked fac by Ithaca College has resulted in executive director of the Asian Pa way to deal with downsizing and to education, and there are some ulty for personal contributions after 28 employees taking an early cific American Labor Alliance, allow for new employees to be hired, things that need to be done here," the students approached him for AFL-CIO, in a recorded press con leave from the College. said Warren Schlesinger, Faculty she said. "It will take a while to funding. Faculty provided much of ference. David Maley, director of pub Council chairman and associate do them, but nothing will be the original funding for the trip. On Capitol Hill, students from lic information, said 15 faculty professor of accounting. done until there's a new presi "The students said they wanted Asia Society networked with pro members and 13 staff members Most faculty members who took dent" . to learn about the immigration bills. fessional lobbyists and interacted elected to take the package, - the package declined to comment Michael Yarrow, associate They also wanted to talk to legisla with congressional leaders. During which will cost the College $1.5 when contacted by 11ze Ithacan. professor ofsociology, also took tors and support a cause," Zaman briefing sessions, students listened million. Those who responded cited both the package apd will be leaving said. "It looked like it was a good to representatives' analyses of each "The Board of Trustees au personal and professional reasons in May 1997. learning experience for the students. legislative piece and learned lobby thorized [the money] to come for leaving. Yarrow said he chose to take Given their expressions and views ing strategies, Dongsavanh said. out of the College's reserves," Linda Fmlay, associate profes the package for several reasons. are fundamental, what the students Reodica said, "The most impor Maley said. "It will not affect sor of philosophy and religion, is "I've been discouraged with did was very American." tant thing I learned was as a U.S. tile College' soperating budget." one faculty member who is talcing the way downsizing has been At the conference, fewer than a citizen we have a voice. If you do Employees who took the new advantage of the program. approached [at the College],'' dozen college students lobbied for speak and tell your representatives voluntary separation package "I've been teaching for 26 years, he said "I'm also finding a full changes to proposed bills on family how you feel, they will have to will either leave the CoDege in and I felt like I wasn't growing course load is increasingly immigration.

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