The Ithacan, 1969-12-12

Ithaca College Digital Commons @ IC The thI acan, 1969-70 The thI acan: 1960/61 to 1969/70 12-12-1969 The thI acan, 1969-12-12 The thI acan Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_1969-70 Recommended Citation The thI acan, "The thI acan, 1969-12-12" (1969). The Ithacan, 1969-70. 12. http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_1969-70/12 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The thI acan: 1960/61 to 1969/70 at Digital Commons @ IC. It has been accepted for inclusion in The thI acan, 1969-70 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ IC. ' .. ' .. ',•' ,'~ ~ .. omputer System Settlement Council Releases Findings: ought By I.C. Reached By Goldman Should Stay Ithaca College and the Radio data, financial information sys College and The Faculty Council this week kind, and accept moral and ethi-1 clear fn respect to he!' eKtraordi orporation of America an- tem, and facilities management." concluded its investigation into cal responsibilities when judging nary competence as a teacher. ounced today the college's pur- According to Dominic Bordon • t the dismissal of Mrs. Beatrice faculty members." "References from professors at ase of an RCA Spectr~ 70/35 aro, director of data processing - oc1e y Goldman by recommending that u also recommended to the U.C.L.A. and at Corne!! highly omputer System for mstruc- systems at the college, "The in A L S Mrs. Goldman be retained as an faculty and administration that Irecommend her potential as a onal research and general ad- stallation should easily meet most by Larry Himelein instructor in the English Depart- "both faculty and administration 1scholar and proven ability as a inistrative data processing. of the current needs of Ithaca ment. endorse new standardized pro- 1 teacher. The Easter-Ferguson case will The computer was purchased College. This particular· model can be settled in· student judiciary Mrs. Goldman was notified last cedures and guidelines at the de- "Nowhere did the Council "dis- t a total cost of $550,000 and will be expanded with ease to an al June that she would not be re- partmental level for evaluating cover precedence for the issuing courts if either party chooses to e delivered to the College about most unlimited capability 1n fu. hired at the end of the 1969-70 and counseling non-tenured mem- of a letter of intent not to reap press charges, according to a e middle of March, according ture years." academic year. On September 15 hers of the faculty in order that point a full year before dat.e of statement issued by President she asked the Faculty Council, the ~est interests of the college, termination of employment of a President Howard Dillingham. The computer's capabilities in- Howard Dillingham. the executive body of the faculty the faculty, and the students be first year junior faculty member. Th7 availability of the ~ompu- elude -writing 1250 lines of 132 The statement . was released of the School of Arts and Sci- upheld." The issuing of said letter is r ~di stre!1gthen the cun:iculum characters each per minute and after the final meeting of the st cnccs, to review the circum- In most of Mrs. Goldman's doubly irregular in that the letter Y mtegratmg co~puter m r_uc- reading 1500 punch cards per Afro-Latin Society, the Campus stances of her dismissal. grievances, which included failure followed. by only two months, onal methods with t?ose bemg minute. There are also magnetic Life Committee, college officials The Faculty Council, which be- on the part of the English De- the issuing of the President"s let sed now. Students will be able tape units which can read 60 000 and a Washington arbitrator on write their own programs for characters per second ' gan its investigation October 14, partmcnt to notify her of its tcr to Mrs. Goldman offering her November 19. ass projects in certain courses . ·. interviewed tenured and un- standards of attainment, to send employment for the 1969-1970 d have them processed by a Installat1on will be m the p~e- The statement reads: tenured members of the English her a written evaluation of her academic year and including a mputer. Sponsored student re: sent space used by the ~erv1ce "The past week and a half has Department, Dean Paul Givens, classroom performance, to con- medium increment in salary. arch projects can also be Bure~u and Data Processmg_ ~n seen the Ithaca College commun Provost Robert Davies, students, sider student comments when "Although the abo\'c proccdurr andled by the computer, as can the _first flo~r ?f the Job Adm1~1s ity thrust into an issue of great representativ~s of the AAUP deciding on her dismissal, and may be viewed as an attempt to xtensive faculty research proj- tration ~mldmg. The Service sensitivity-that of racism on executive board, Mrs. Joyce El- to give her written reasons give Mrs. Goldman ample oppor cts. Bureau will be, moved to .a new the campus. In dealing with an brecht of the Philosophy Depart- for her dismissal, the Council tunity to find other employment, Vice president for business and annex to be added at the west issue of this sort, one that gener nd mcnt, and David Berman and found that no violation of due it is also open to the intcrpreta nance, Paul Farinella, said, "The e of Job Hall. ates high emotion as well as just Richard Esterman of the Music process had taken place. It did, lion that the Department and the dministrative uses of the com- Dr. Dillingham, in making his grievance, it is very likely that Department before reaching its however, remark in relation to Administration actually hoped uter will be instituted in a six- announcement, said that the col misunderstandings will arise. To decision earlier this week. the·· grievances: that Mrs. Goldman would not ac- hase management information Iege is studying the feasibility of the extent that I, or any of the After reaching the decision, the "The history of the College of cept reappointment for 1969-1970. ystem which will include alumni' offering computer ·_services to members of the administrnation Council prepared a statement of Arts and Sciences shows that only If this were the case, the indica nd development records, admis- other colleges in the area on a have contributed to such misun its findings in the case. The state- in isolated cases of incompetancy · tion is that the department had ions office information, student cost basis. He explained that this derstandings, I am truly sorry. ment comes in the form of a as a teacher have probationary already determined that they had ecords, payroll and personnel Continued on Page 8 Continued on Page 18 recommendation, since the Coun- junior faculty been dismissed no intention of fulfilling the pro cil technically has no legal power after one year's experience. fessional obligation of counselling tel institute its findings. "The English Department has and guiding a probationary per- In its statement, the Council reiterated their position that Mrs. son toward more effective total recommended to the administra- Goldman's teaching ability was contributions to the academic tion that "Mrs. Goldman be re- not a· reason for the failure to community. onstruction Started On tained in probationary faculty reappoint. Indeed, it was evident "The English Department has status within Ithaca College. We to the Council that, at least, most dismissed the importance of the strongly believe that Ithaca Col- of the English faculty considered President's letter in March on the partment-Style Dorms lege should rise above mere legal her to be an excellent teacher. grounds that it is "only a form regulations in matters of ·this "Student's testimony was quite Continued on page 12 Quarry May Close Next Year Bulldozers arrived on campus Iremaining $412,000 will come houses about 175 coeds, will fonday to begin building a $3.2 from college coffers. closed. illion apartment-type residential The complex, which will con The college is anxious to close omplex that will house 412 stu sist of two-, four-, and six-student Quarry, Brodhead said, because ents. apartments, was designed by the dorm, an old-converted hospi Plans to begin building the Thomas Canfield of the Tallman tal, is extremely expensive to omplex were stymied until this and Tallman architectural firm of maintain. onth because the college could Ithaca. Canfield also designed Brodhead is not sure ot find adequate funding for the the Performing Arts Building. whether this also means roject. Construction costs ex Streeter Associates of Elmira closing of Valentine dorm, ceded the college's original esti is the building contractor for the men's living unit downtown. Al ate. project. though the college may not be But the problem was solved, ac · Charles Brodhead, executive as ready to accomodate on the South ording to a press release issued sistant to President Howard Dil Hill Campus the 75 men living uesday, when the college re linghain, said this week that units there, the meal facilities for eived a $2.788 million low-inter housing 200 students would hope Valentine residents are located in st loan from the United States fully be completed by September, Quarry. epartment of Housing and 1970. If those units are ready, The rest of the units may be rban Development (HUD). The Quarry Dorm, which presently completed by September, 1971. The fountain (left foreground) will serve as a natural watershed, according to Charles Brodhead. The new apartments, which will · ups for the units will continue as liYing styles avaikble on cam;111s be located behind C Lot, a park in the past-seniors first, juniors at present, which include ten ing lot serving the lower quad second, then sophomores and regulation dormitori('s, two high.

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