Ex~Ert Helps Union Defend Pay Demands
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Boards aren't just Cripps cripples Hens for surfing 11 age17 ~ TUESDAY Ex~ert helps union defend pay demands Economist talks to faculty, says university can support raise By Richard Jones increased in five years and the Administrative News Editor university could repay long-term An economist hired by the local debts seven times over. chapter of the professors' union to He said the university's net worth study the university's financial status in fund balances had increased an told an audience Friday that the average of $43 million per year. university's financial si tuation is one Fund balances had increased from of the best he has ever seen. $473 million in 1985 to $690 million Richard E. Weber, an economic in 1989, an 8 percent growth. consultant and professor of finance Weber said that rate of increase and economics at Monmouth was a "very, very high number." Coll ege, said the sehoul is He said by using the fund "financially solid." accounting method to examine the Dr. Richard E. Weber The Delaware chapter of th e university's finances, he discovered American Association of University the university's investments in said. "You can't pay salaries with Professors (AAUP) hired Weber to money markets earn "considerable buildings." determine if the university could interest to cover.. .expenses ." "[Weber) got his information afford the faculty pay raise the union The university could operate for from our financial statement, which is requesting. one fu ll year without receiving any is a matter of public record, so we're The union leadership rejected the other financial support, he said. not hiding anything," said David E. Leslie D. Barbaro university's offer of a 2 percent Money spent on instruction at the Hollowell, vice president for SPLASHDANCE Blue Hen cheerleaders brave the rain at the University of New Hampshire salary increase Sept. 7. The union is university since 1985 has stayed Administration. during Saturday's football game. The Hens were washed out 34-7. See story page 17. seeking a 6 percent salary increase. relatively the same while the amount Hollowell said the university In a 90-minute presentation in the of money spent on administration does have endowment but declined Rodney Room of the Perkins has increased, he said. to comment further because he said Student Center, Weber, who has Weber said the university has also he has not had a chance to s urveyed 60 universities, increased the size of its endowment, thoroughly examine Weber's report. Club equality resolution summarized his findings in a 20- and the principle, or money used 10 Maxine R. Calm, vice president pagc report he submiued 10 the local establish the endowment. could not for Employee Relations, and leader AAUP. be spent but that the interest made of the administrative bargaining to face Faculty Senate vote His survey uses a method of from it could. committee, said the financial issues accounting called fund accounting. He said the un iversity had "are, have been and will continue to By Ro bert Weston racial equality to be disassociated appropriate student organization Weber said that a non-profit accumulated $183 million in be discussed at the bargaining Assistant News Editor from the university. would look into legal acti on." organization, such as the university, additional funds during the past five table." T he Faculty Senate will vote "The university has been saying If the proposal were to pass, is made up of individual funds years, 52 percent of which was used She said the administration has within two months on a resolution [it wants to promote equality] for DiFebbo said he thought it would whi ch each have income, for building maintenance and new received Weber's report and would that wou ld force some stude nt some time, [and] this resolution will not be implemented until th e expenditures and liabilities. construction projects. "If [the $183 examine its contents. organizations to abolish any racial enable everyone 10 sec if they really administration had taken a long look Among Weber's findings: th e million! had been building up, [it] see MEETING page 8 or gender preferences they uphold mean it," Schweizer said. at how it would affect campus life. university's liabilities had not could have been spent better," he for membership. If passed, the resolution could DiFebbo said he thought Faculty Senate President Leslie force fraternities and sororities to Schweizer proposed the resolution Goldstein said the resolution, accept members of the opposite sex. because he does not approve of Pre-med curriculum expands sponsored by Professor Edward Michael DiFebbo (BE 91), fraternities and sororities. Schweizer, would be voted on when president of the Delaware " If [the Faculty Senate) really the Student Life Committee finishes Undergraduate Student Congress wants to improve racial Medical Scholars Program to link with jefferson Hospital its review of the proposal. (DUSC), said he would like to know representation in black and white She said the Schweizer proposaJ what prompted Schweizer to sororities and fraternities, they By laura Ra ab have developed a Medical Scholars most medical school programs. Staff Report er was sent back to the comittee by the propose the resolution. should form a committee to deal Program (MSP), a unique approach "In medical education there is a senate after Schweizer "It seems to me that it is specifically with that issue. A physician who can perform 10 medical studies, said John Engel, lot of discontent about people unsuccessfully tried to bring the superficial attempt 10 make it appear Schweizer said he is not against open-heart surgery and also quote adjunct professor at the Center for graduating from medical school issue up for a vote in the senate. that the university is doing Greek organizations. from Shakespeare and Plato may Science and Culture. and being too narrowly focused," Schweizer said he hopes his something about the problem of "I don't know how anybody be difficult to find. T he program is designed to Engel said. proposal about race and gender [inequality),'' he said. going into the 21st century can be A new program at the university, integrate liberal arts, science and "They have forgotten what it is discrimination will do for the DiFebbo said if passed, the against integration. The university however, will enable future doctors professional studies, Engel said. like to write and read a piece of univers ity what the Brown vs. resolution would force social has clearly stated its position on to be scholarly in many different Engel, an associate professor of literature." Board of Education decision did for fraternities and sororities to petition equality," he said. areas. family medicine at Jefferson, said The program will expose public schools. their national leadership for a "This proposal is consistent The uni versity and Jefferson he thinks this broad libe ral arts see PRE-MED page 9 Brown vs. Board of Education change in their bylaws. with [the universi ty 's] position." Medical College in Philadelphia orientation is quite different than was the 1954 Supreme Court ruling If a fraternity or sorority failed 10 which struck down segregation in get their bylaws changed, they public schools. would have to disassociate from the The senate resolution, proposed university or from their parent Professor relives passage to America in May, would force all student organization, he said. social organizations which violate "Before we allowed that to July 29 New York Times Book university policy on sexual and happen, [DUSCJ and the By Chris Cronis News Features Editor Review. Two years ago, as spring's "There are times in everyone's lushness flowered on the other side life that seem particularly intense or Provost to oversee of his Memorial Hall office window, important," says Dawson about his Dr. Carl Dawson sat at his desk, family's move from the bleakness of mentally exhausted. post-war London to the sunny Admissions Office His mind reeled from the array of splendor of Los Angeles. "This is a tasks stretched in front of him. "It period in my life that I would By Kathleen Graham supervisor of the Center for was probably the busiest year of my always come back to." Student Affairs Editor Counseling and Student life," Dawson remembers. Following World War II, England Responsibility for the offices of Development, the Office of Career In addition to his duties as new was "a very, very sad place," Admissions and Scholarships and Planning and Placement, Student ehainnan of the English department, Dawson recalls. The war's Student Financial Aid has been Health Services, the Office of he had just completed a book on aftermath cast a pallor over the moved from the vice president for Housing and Residence Life, the autobiography called "Prophets of country, and food was scarce. student affairs to the provost, Dean of Students Office and the Past Times," which required hours Several of Dawson's relatives, President David P. Roselle said Perkins Student Center. of painstaking effort. including his grandmother and Friday. Rosell e said, "It will allow Mr. Sudde nly random. intense Wiele, lived in Los Angeles. Rosell e said he wanted the Sharkey to concentrate his powers thoughts about his own life started "Los Angeles seemed like a academic administrators to play a on young people who have already to swirl about in his mind. Soon he paradise," Dawson says. But it was greater role in the recruitment of decided 10 be at the university." found himself typing. also scary. new students by having them report Dean of Admissions, Dr. N . The next day he typed some "To have your whole family to the provost's oflice.