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[email protected]. (!I) '('ti J/} @.il "37&:, 111Ne\N .Mexico ·Travelstead Supports IJN3¢w DAILV ~ ~cNamara's Fight V,;77 Weekly Summer Ediliian Thursday, June 27, 1974· F:or?J enure Approval· ~ ~') /c ~· ',\\- ·By DIANE ROSS ~ . Of the Lobo Staff . ~~·Chester T!:avelstead, vice president of Academic Affairs \ ·, . rturned a dean's recommendation and the unanimous vote of \ · e Sociology Department's tenured facultr when he decided to '• grant tenure to Assistant Professor Patrie McNamara, \: ,The Sociology Department is currenUy appealing the decision 'to President Ferrel Heady. ~·This is the first time .•. Dr. Travelstead had overturned a ntgative recommendatiop," said McNamara. Dean Nathaniel Wollman of the College of Arts and Sciences upheld the vote of the six tenured faculty members to deny McNamara tenure. He made a negative recommendation to Travelstead. , "Dr. Travelstead reversed that recommendlltion and decided I should have tenured largely on the basis of teaching competency," McNamara said, 11 This decision reaffirms teaching as an important element in a professor's career." Also, he said' Travelstead paid attention to undergraduates' UNM Drug Lab Needs Money views while making his investigation of the case.