Faculty May Draw Dole by Susan Zemek for Faculty Layoffs
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Daily Glenn says it isn't so Pardy cloudy through today with a 20 percent chance of showers. Con- tinued cool, with the expected high 52 and the low 38. Weekend weather will reen be more of the same old $&%! PUllman, Washington Vol. LXXXVIII No. 16 Established 1894 Friday, October 9,1981 Andrew C. Church/Evergreen photo Lights from the university may not shine as bright in the future as the president of the University of Washington were in Spokane yester- poSitions, budgets and all areas of college life are slashed to meet day to seek more money for the two major universities In the state. See funding failures by the state government. President Glenn Terrell and story page 3. Faculty may draw dole by Susan Zemek for faculty layoffs. Although guidelines are relaxed in times of For the first 26 weeks, faculty members could collect a maximum Evergreen Staff financial crisis, some set of rules must still exist, said Nicholas of$163 per week. The money comes from an employer's tax which Lovrich Jr., president of the WSU chapter of the AAUP. is paid by most employers and based on employees' earnings. If proposed budget cuts become a reality, the university could cut The guidelines basically call for faculty to have a say in decisions The 26 weeks is a leeway period for faculty, giving them time to nearly 400 faculty positions. on budget cuts and for tenured professors to have priotiry over look for a job in their field, he said. When they apply for an "I'm certainly not pleased," said Louis Gray, a sociology- someone without tenure. The guidelines also ask that proper notice extension, they must agree to take any job which will pay an amount professor. "I don't think.there is anywhere else to take it from. " The be given to all faculty and as much as a year's notice for tenured equal to their weekly benefit amount. university has been making cutbacks for a long time, but this cut is faculty dismissals. This could mean considerable downgrading, Sheffield said. They so large and could come so soon, that faculty and staffwiJI have to be If the faculty believes they had no say in the budget decisions or also must increase the number of employers they see per week from let go. that no financial emergency existed, they can bring the case to court, the two required during the 26 weeks to four. ''I'm not scared one bit," said Kenneth Baker, assistant professor Lovrich said. In addition, if a faculty member believes he was layed of business administration. "If there is not ajob here, then there is To determine the weekly benefit amount a faculty member would off before someone who was producing less than himself, he can get, the highest salaries of two of the quarters in the last year are one at another university or in the job market." bring the case to court. "We are forced to live with the income of the state," said Des added together and divided by one-half. This number is multiplied O'Rourke, professor of agricultural economics. If someone feels he If faculty members are layed off, they can collect unemployment by .04 to get the total amount. is competent in a particular field, he can find alternatives. for 26 weeks with an option to extend that period, said Dave This weekly benefit amount is used to determine the money a Faculty members seem to be more worried about the problems Sheffield, interviewer for the Washington Employment Security faculty member can receive in the period of extension. The money students will face rather than their own problems. The administra- Department. The extension will last no longer that 13 weeks. for the extension comes from the federal government, Sheffield tion is cutting the faculty who teach the classes the students want to If the nearly 200 faculty were layed off, employment security said. take, Gray said. "They aren't cutting any fat here. They are cutting could handle the business, he said, but the staff might work a lot of If a person is collecting unemployment during the 26 weeks and meat. " overtime. II takes two to three weeks from the time a faculty member turns down ajob in their field for no apparent reason, he could lose The American Association of University Professors set guidelines applies for unemployment until he receives his check. his unemployment checks. Proposal slammed by senators by Debbi Asmund dollar figures and percentages and lack of con- Representing the administration as nonvoting In the Budget Committee document, specific Evergreen Staff tinuity with the "first final draft" budget cui members are the academic vice president and pro- areas were named to be cut. It must be remem- document sent to the Office of Financial Manage- vost, vice president of business and finance and bered that this is a land grant university, said Don Faculty members blasted a tentative program ment on Wednesday. the budget director. Chaplin, cooperative extension agent. Agricultu- cut priority list prepared by the Budget Committee "I don't like anything I see on here," said Colleges and departments have the best view to ral research is one of the suggested cut areas. yesterday afternoon at the University Senate Raymond Young, professor of education. Young determine exact impact of cuts, said Albert Yates, The document would just be the' 'start of pitting meeting. specifically complained of a proposal to eliminate academic vice president and provost. He was at one unit against the other," Chaplin said. It was "a clear rebuff to the committee," said summer school by making it self supporting. the meeting to answer any questions posed by the After extensive discussion, the senate voted Harry McAllister, chairman of the Budget Com- If the university supports that type of document senators. nearly unanimously to send the document back to mittee. it is "playing into the hands of the Legislature. " Deans "can determine long range objectives of the committee. One faculty member said the task In the document released to the senate, the Legislators will see the proposed slices in all areas colleges" better than administrators because they may have been too large for the committee. and believe there was a lot of slack to cut from the are in the situation. It is best to "discuss all op- committee tried to stress areas of responsibility of "We should reject the report we've got in front tions" to get a "truly acceptable list of priori- instruction, research and extension. beginning, he said. of us," agreed Roger Breeze, associate professor Major impact will only be seen when students ties," Yates said. Basic guidelines used by the committee were to of veterinary science. "protect those areas on-campus rather than off- can't get programs they want because they have It would be "a mistake to preempt the deans," campus" and to realize a "main obligation to been eliminated, Young said. said William Grosshandler, assistant professor of In other business, the Faculty Affairs Commit- students in regular semesters," McAllister said. The Budget Committee consists of twelve vot- mechanical engineering. tee submitted a resolution for the administration to He said "a number of rather controversial ing members comprised of six faculty members, To some extent cuts in major areas will be follow guidelines in the Faculty Manual if posi- things" were listed in the memorandum in basic two undergraduates, one graduate, and repre- looked at by administrators. Some other state col- tions have to be eliminated. categories of "no cuts", "low cuts", "intermedi- sentatives for the Academic Affairs Committee, leges and universities are submitting these types of The main reason for the unanimously approved ate cuts" and "high cuts." the Faculty Affairs Committee and the University proposals to the legislature, but the university is resolution was to "allay fears" on the part of the Senators voiced complaints about lack of actual Planning Committee. trying to avoid that procedure, Yates said. faculty, said Val Limburg, chairman of FAC. ) ) ..... "" ; r ~ I ) welcomes GEOAGETHOROGOOD & Cuts will hurt city twice THE DESTROYERS by Deborah Turcotte At that time, the businesses helped the state by providing Evergreen Staff funding sources. "We are interested in insuring state funding adequate CITY -Area schools and the city budget will be affected enough to fund the university," he said. twice by Gov. John Spellman's proposed 10.1 percent City Councilman Bill Gaskins said the reductions will budget while businesses=-both merchants and realtors--will "adversely have an affect on us (the city)." indirectly lose money because of the cuts. He said the cuts will affect the economic base of the city Albert C. Yates, academic vice president and provost, said because fewer dollars will be coming into the budget from Wednesda~ that about 400 university positions and 1,900 sales taxes. students will be cut from the university if Spellman's budget Mayor Pete Butkus said that after the ability to collect cuts are enacted. taxes decreases, the amount of income the city receives is also reduced. Ray Smith, Pullman Public Schools superintendant, said a "When that decreases, we have less in resources to con- loss of university faculty will have a negative impact on tinue what we have," Butkus said. primary and secondary school enrollment. Jack Tonkovich, city finance director, said the reductions "Enrollment will decline further than last year," Smith said. will have a "trickle down effect. "There will be a lesser demand for housing, fewer retail About 2,365 students attended public schools last year. sales and a lesser demand for transit," he said.