Faculty Upset by Small Pay Hike
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The Courier Volume 7 Issue 26 Article 1 5-9-1974 The Courier, Volume 7, Issue 26, May 9, 1974 The Courier, College of DuPage Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.cod.edu/courier This Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the College Publications at DigitalCommons@COD. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Courier by an authorized editor of DigitalCommons@COD. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Faculty upset by small pay hike By Gigi Arthur voted down several other administration Approximately 50 faculty members Hoekstra, and Evelyn Zerfoss. would have requested some information. spending requests. Responding to the no vote, Dr. Berg said walked out en masse from the Board of On a proposal to pay landscape architect The ability to make motions would have Trustees meeting Wednesday night im¬ it was the function of the administration to eased his position at that time, he said. Edward Fried an additional $750 to bring programs before the Board. “I don’t mediately after it adopted a salary redesign the A Bldg, light courts, the The motion failed. Board members proposal which the faculty association had understand the action of this Board,” he casting no votes were Miller, Bailey, Board voted to table the request until new said. “We are back to ground zero and we earlier found “totally unacceptable.” O’Connell, Wood, and Mrs. Zerfoss. Dr.’ members can become acquainted with the can’t run the college that way.” The Board plan increases base salaries Hoekstra and Hebert voted yes. background. Board member O’Connell moved to go to from $9,400 to $9,800 for the 1974-76 school Ronald Miller, new Board member, bid on the proposal as presented, for the year. The faculty had asked that the base said, “I find it unsettling that we fail to $37,000 figure. Responding to this motion, Reviewing the progress of parking lot increased to $10,340 for the year. respond to legitimate requests of the Miller said, “I question whether or not the and road surfacing, Ted Zuck told the Before the' Board decision, Charles faculty and then concern ourselves with priorities here are the right priorities.” Board the first review of specifications by Erickson, chairman of faculty sub¬ cosmetics of the campus.” Miller said he The second motion carried with Board the Capital Development Board had been held May 2. committee negotiating salaries, called the found the proposed waterfall and the members Bailey, Hebert, and Miller negotiations an exercise in futility. He said “boulder which would have to be moved voting no. It has asked for additional drawings and the package as proposed by the Board was from another state to this state,” was Another negative Board vote came in paper work, Zuck said. He said he expects unacceptable to the faculty on the basis of “beyond the pale of anything reasonable.” response to a request by Student rep Jim the architect to have the necessary work their needs as human beings. “Am I to understand,” he said, “that we Belushi. Belushi cited a recent opinion done by next week. Another review session Marvin Segal, chairman of the Faculty would landscape and then tear it up to issued by Attorney General Scott saying will be scheduled then. Association said the $400 increase in the build the proposed facility?” (Story student representatives should be allowed base salary represented a 6 percent cut in elsewhere on this page.) to make and second motions. real dollars since the cost of living had C / D president Rodney Berg answered, In discussing the request, Board increased by 10 percent during the last “I would not recommend throwing good member Henry Hoekstra said if the year. money after bad.” student rep to the C / D Board wants to Segal compared the Board response to “I’m sorry to speak from such make a motion, “One of the Board faculty requests to the struggle by blacks ignorance,” Miller said. members is committed to make the for equality. He cited the case of Rosa “We are almost as ignorant as you are,” motion for you.” Please turn to Page 6 Parks, Montgomery, Ala., seamstress, Board member John Hebert replied. “I would like to suggest this Board whose refusal to move to the back of the The Board next considered Dr. Berg’s accept the attorney general’s opinion,” bus started the civil rights movement. recommendation to go to bid on six tennis Belushi said. “You can’t shunt us to the back of the courts to be located south of the M Bldg, “Do you want to make that a motion,” bus,” Segal said. Faculty should not be and north of the south parking lots. Dr. Hoekstra asked. Belushi replied he treated different from other vendors, he “In terms of other discussion I’m almost would. said. Segal was referring to an earlier afraid to bring this item up,” Dr. Berg “I’ll make the motion for you,” Dr. Board comment recognizing that vendors’ said. He outlined the school’s need for on- Hoekstra said. Board member Gene costs have been increasing. campus tennis courts. “We have been run O’Connell said the C/D Board had Segal said Wheaton policemen will out of every tennis court in DuPage County adopted its stance regarding the student receive a base salary of $11,200 next year. and we are in danger of losing one of rep’s rights to make motions to protect the “We train those policemen here,” he said. our programs,” he said. student from any possible financial “It is shocking that teachers here can only Ted Zuck, director of campus services, liability he might incur as a result of a start at $9,800. told the Board he thought the six courts motion. Dr. Hoekstra said in line with an Omega chemistry instructor Bruce could be built for a cost of $37,000. earlier legal opinion on the issue he thought Benson said after the meetings, “It is a “I don’t think you can build six tennis only a few motions the student rep would fact that I am (now) a sharecropper and in courts for $37,000,” Board member make might be dubious. being a sharecropper I will not be able to Eugene Bailey said. He moved the Board Belushi said he had been in an em¬ make up the deficiencies this board has go to bid for the courts of a better quality. barrassing position at an earlier Board left me with.” The motion failed. Board members voting meeting when he had requested some COURIER The apparently economy minded Board no were Miller, Gene O’Connell, Henry information. The ability to make motions Vol. 7 No. 26 May 9, 1974 Board cool to sports complex bid By Chuck Maney A proposal that would provide the six-acre facility housed under a single conjunction with the College. At the time operating costs, McElwain predicted. College of DuPage with a giant facility for roof. Contained in the structure would be McElwain was involved in the con¬ The size of the building would be about athletic and recreational purposes was eight tennis courts, four handball courts, struction of his recently opened Oak Park- 450 x 550 feet, and the height from ceiling met with skepticism by the Board of one fifth of a mile six lane track, a space River Forest Racquet Club. to floor would be 80 feet. The dome would Trustees Wednesday night. to accommodate a football / soccer field, a In subsequent meetings with the college be supported by blowers producing 100,000 J. “Al” McElwain made the presen¬ swimming pool, a diving pool, three the project “got a little bit larger,” square feet of air per hour and be ribbed tation of a proposed structure with a basketball courts, an ice hockey arena and McElwain said. “We came to the con¬ with fiberglass / teflon cables, “as much translucent air-suspended dome. It would two auxiliary buildings to house offices, clusion that it is possible to encapsulate to hold the roof down as to hold it up,” be financed by independent organization. showers and additional facilities. outdoor space, indoors, for year round McElwain explained. The Board questioned whether the It would be built on a 10-acre plot of land use.” McElwain is the spokesman and general emphasis this building would give to on the campus and would be owned by the The dome would be extended over a partner of D.H.D. Associates, a limited athletics was in keeping with the direction College at the end of a proposed 20-year depressed and berm-surrounded playing partnership of 10 investors. He explained of the concept of the community college. contract. surface. The extent to which the building that the financing for the project would be The Board is expected to come to a The private developers would run a would be underground would provide a either coordinated by D.H.D.’s Hinsdale decision in subsequent meetings. private tennis club for profit on a Tuesday- great reduction in heating and air con¬ office or raised from within the group. It is McElwain proposed that his group Thursday-Sunday basis and promote the ditioning requirements. At that depth the the first such venture their group has finance and lease to the College a five- to rental of the facilities for the benefit and ground stays between 55 and 63 degrees, undertaken. convenience of the college. It is further which would create an effect similar to the At the outset of the feasibility studies it provided that the College share 50 percent lake upon Chicago’s temperature.