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News Arts & Culture Perspectives Sports Community Wearable art New life in Featured Queer-straight Quote Photo of the America alliance week 2 8 11 15 16 Vol. 44, Issue No.14 the free press Feb 4, 2013 University of Southern Maine Student Newspaper usmfreepress.org Faculty Senate USM Senate endorses union work-to-rule mourns Motion passed in unanimous vote last Friday deaths Tom Collier of two News Editor At the faculty senate meeting professors last Friday, all members raised their hands in a unanimous deci- Tom Collier sion to endorse a motion to work- News Editor to-rule from the full-time union, the Affi liated Faculties of the Universities of Maine. The mo- USM community members are tion passed directly after a nearly mourning the deaths of two pro- 40 minute executive session that took place behind closed doors, fessors last week. Thomas Knight, in which only voting faculty a professor of biological sciences members were present for dis- on the Portland campus, and Ber- cussion. nice Conklin-Powers, a professor Faculty across the entire Uni- of social and behavioral sciences versity of Maine System have at Lewiston Auburn College will been working without contracts be remembered by faculty and stu- for over two years. AFUM’s mo- tion to work-to-rule is the result dents for their passion for teaching of the UMS board of trustees’ re- and their constant concern for the luctance to approve faculty con- well-being of their students. tracts that include cost-of-living Conklin-Powers was a licensed raises as deemed possible in an psychologist who specialized in fi AFUM fact- nding report. teaching child development and Immediately after the motion child and adolescent psychology. passed, faculty senate member Professor Mark Lapping put for- Her research focused on evaluating ward another motion “consistent clinical outcomes and clinical pro- with the previous vote, that the grams. She was also a yoga instruc- faculty senate no longer meet” tor and taught stress management Phoebe Borden / Free Press Staff classes at LAC. See SENATE on page 2 Provost Michael Stevenson responds to questions about sabbaticals at the faculty senate meeting last Friday. See MOURN on page 2 Trustees approve outcomes-based funding program USM may stand to gain $300,000 to $400,000 from new program this year Nate Mooney an outcomes-based funding mod- News Assistant el. Starting next year, 5 percent of the $155 million of the UMS USM stands to gain a larger state appropriated funds will be portion of state funding from af- given to the different campuses ter the University of Maine board in the UMS according to a variety of trustees approved a change to of performance categories. The the way funding is allocated to the change attempts to address some different campuses in the Univer- of the unique differences between sity of Maine System. the universities while incentiviz- Over the next six years, an in- ing the priorities of the UMS. creasing portion of the state ap- The portion of state funding Wanwen Li / Design Director propriated UMS budget will be ;OPZNYHWOZOV^Z[OLKPZ[YPI\[PVUVM[OL VM[OLZ[H[LM\UKLK<4:I\KNL[[OH[^PSSILKPZWLYZLK distributed to the schools using See FUNDS on page 4 \ZPUNV\[JVTLZIHZLKM\UKPUN 2 News February 4, 2013 Quote of the Week: Senator Angus King addressed a room full of high school students last week in the seventh fl oor of Glickman Library in Portland. The crowd giggled when he told them that the constitution is a veg-o-matic. “Think of power as a zucchini,” he said. “You put the zucchini in the veg-o-matic and all these little pieces come out, little pieces of zucchini, and that’s what the constitution did. It sliced and diced power,” he explained. “Why? Because they didn’t want all of the power to be in one or two or even three people.” Alex Greenlee / Multimedia Editor USM celebrates Lower Brooks From MOURN on page 1 grand reopening after remodel Kirsten Sylvain fl oor meant to be a sort of stage for a number calculated by surveys Editor-in-Chief events. The space now features a given on student programming. carpeted lounge area with plenty of From the beginning of last se- A small group of students and seating and updated décor. Presi- mester to December, he saw a 250 administrators gathered in Gorham dent Theo Kalikow opened the person increase in that number. He on Friday to celebrate the recent event with a brief welcome, while explained a few variables that may renovation of the Gorham Brooks a jazz trio of student musicians have contributed to the increase. Student Center and the 135th birth- played in the background. “Here’s the challenge with mea- day of USM. “It worked,” she said. “[The ren- suring the number of student activ- Courtesy of Christine Maher Courtesy of usm.maine.edu According to Dan Welter, co- ovation] did what is was supposed ities. We’ve had an overall increase Left: Tom Knight, Right: Bernice Conklin-Powers ordinator of student activities, the to do.” in the number of students,” he said. renovations were meant to make Students at the event also praised He also explained that there is the space more comfortable and the renovations. “It’s great,” said more programming this year. Conklin-Powers’s early research According to Moore, Knight had enjoyable for students. “Students Hilary Platt, Upton-Hastings RA related to occupational stress, cop- been collaborating with scientists at can chill out and do homework,” and junior health sciences major. ing mechanisms of family therapists the Los Alamos National Labora- Welter said. He also hoped that it “I just think that it’s a more livable and the treatment of children and ad- tory. “His research was going very space.” would create a more suitable place olescents at youth services bureaus. well. He had gotten several patents for events. According to Welter, the number [email protected] In a post to Facebook, Tandy out on it. He also had many students, Before the renovation the area of students affected by student ac- @Kirstensylvain was an empty expanse of tiled tivities last year was roughly 2,000 Breault, one of Conklin-Powers’s over the years, work with him on the former students, wrote, “I learned project.” Moore said that Knight so much from her, learning how to was currently in the process of writ- administration.” muddy the waters.” From SENATE on page 1 meditate. I still use the techniques ing up research papers to go along The faculty senators’ reactions The senate discussed the mo- she taught ... to cope with change with his work. to the motion varied. Some mem- tion at length for nearly 15 min- until such time as a tentative and stressful situations.” Knight had also been granted bers believed that the executive utes, at which point, Coste chose contract agreement between the According to Moore Lisa Moore, council should still meet with to withdraw it entirely, with no a sabbatical for the fall semester administration and the alumni is associate professor and chair of the USM administration, while other formal vote was taken. of this year and was poised to shift reached. The senate voted to pass Department of Biological Sciences, members proposed occasional “Leadership on this has been his research in a slightly different the motion, with only one vote the loss of Knight was not only meetings of an informal nature. taken by the fi rst three smaller opposed. emotionally jarring for USM’s De- direction, looking into methods to “Nations at war used to have campuses, then USM,” said Lap- “The senate is the way in partment of Biological Sciences, but increase food production around the this funny way of having some- ping, who was last to speak at the which the faculty have direct re- also logistically challenging. The world. body go to Zurich,” said Professor meeting. “I think a strong motion lations with the administration,” department had already lost two oth- The research Knight had been Wayne Cowart. “I really would from us that’s not diluted sends a AFUM’s USM chapter president, er professors within the previous 14 like to see something established, strong message to our colleagues working on will continue. “Whether Ed Collom, said in a statement to months, making the scramble to fi ll and I really don’t care if it’s for- at the University of Maine. It’s any of the project will continue to The Free Press. Knight’s vacated teaching positions mal or informal, but I think that my sense that if UMaine’s fac- be done here, I don’t know,” Moore In that manner, faculty senate all the more diffi cult. Enrollment it’s important to keep a line open ulty senate goes along with what endorsement of AFUM’s work- numbers for the department are up, said.