University size e x p e c te d to shrink ASC asks for pay freeze, faculty & staff reductions by Chris McCarthy staff for a college of between this group, especially those at the the college education of faculty The approach taken by the This year’s Analytic Studies 1,000 and 1,100 students. That is lower end of the wage scale children. The first program, committee, composed of David Committee, (ASC) working the predicted size of Lawrence in Therefore, the freeze will not recommended and rejected by Cook, associate professor of under the assumption that the 1980’s. In addition to this, the have as large an adverse affect, the planning committee for physics, Doeringer; Robert enrollment will drop in the committee had to alter income although previous gains in gradual dissolution last year, Rosenberg. professor of future, has recommended a predictions for the near future salaries and wage rates have assured faculty parents of up to chemistry; Dana; Sherwin salary-wage freeze for next year, which were built on the assump been temporarily lost. $1,000 per year to pay the tuition Howard, assistant to the a reduction of the faculty at the tion of enrollment growth. The committee has also costs for children going to schools president; Earl Verkins, con­ rate of two people per year, an The result is a report which recommended the disbursement other than Lawrence. The second troller. David Kaehler. then increase of tuition to $4840 next recommends the reduction of all of the surplus in a protection fund program gives a free Lawrence president of LUCC; and Lynn year, and a three percent annual departmental budgets except for of $50,000 created to offset education to all children of both LaJone. 76, then LUCC vice- reduction of the non-teaching the financial aid office. The unexpected enrollment short­ the faculty and staff president, was to make cuts in staff. Both reduction plans would recommended budget for in­ falls. This disbursement would go Following an open meeting on 4 the "least painful” areas in be in effect lor five years. stance, included an allocation of to employees earning less than January to discuss the committee bringing Lawrence closer to a ASC committees in the recent zero dollars for the purchase of $10.ooo per year in the form of a report, during which strong balanced budget. Dana added past have predicted an expansion new equipment next year and a 50 bonus next fall term. Dana opposition to these two recom­ that although the “quality of of enrollment to 1500 students. percent reduction in travel ex­ estimated that there are 250 mendations was voiced, the education at Lawrence has been This year the committee, penses to most departments. people within that income range. committee revised its proposal effected, there just wasn’t the fat following enrollment studies The question of what effect the This protection fund is one of concerning the Tuition Remission m the budget to allow for cuts conducted by committee wage-salary freeze would have several “contingency funds” Program, suggesting that it be without effecting the quality of member, Frank Doeringer, on Lawrence were considered at recommended by the committee phased out over four years in­ education here." assistant professor of history, length. Jim Dana, associate to help the university weather stead of being eliminated in its The Planning Committee, realized that although enrollment professor of economics and short term or unexpected income entirety next year. Additionally, made up of non-faculty may remain stable until 1980, it chairman of the committee, problems. the committee’s original executives, is expected to an­ will inevitably drop after that. explained that he wanted to find a The recommendations which so proposal included an across the nounce its decision of the ASC The main reason is that the good reason for rejecting the far have caused the greatest board reduction of Lawrence report within the next week and college age population is idea. Hut the committee found reaction from the faculty have tuition by $1,000 with additional to hold open meetings to discuss declining. Furthermore, there that the freeze will not affect not been the salary freeze and the high priority financial aid con­ the decisions. The committee is has been a shift since the late Lawrence’s competitive salary two person per year deduction in sideration for such students. also expected to announce how ’60’s away from private colleges standing substantially. The the ranks, but the committee’s other recom m endations in recommendations like the staff in the Midwest. freeze will result, though, in a recommendations that two eluded the reduction of the LUCC and faculty reductions are to be The committee, charged with cumulative drop in real income. support programs for college budget by $3.(KM) to $27.000 for the implemented if accepted. recommending to the Planning Tfce committee was equally l>ound children of members of the next year, the reduction of off- The ASC report noted that even Committee a specific budget for concerned with the effect the university be phased out campus programs from about 250 with the cutbacks and retren­ next year and general budgets for freeze would have on non-faculty The Faculty Child Exchange student terms to 150, the chment. Lawrence will not run a the four succeeding years, then personnel. Fortunately, the Program and the Tuition reduction of the Media Center’s balanced budget for an another set about determining the af­ university has recently made Remission Program provide for budget from $25,500 to $3,000, and two years, and then only if fordable size of the faculty and efforts to raise the real income of university financial support for the tabling of Main Hall enrollment does not decline. renovation. Sìa tur enti an Vol. XCV—No. 11 Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin, 5491 1 Friday 16 January 1976 Tenure bids fail for A rnold & Richelson On Wednesday the two can­ has been under fire for the past didates for tenure this year, few years. Students and faculty Steven Arnold, assistant members alike have called for a professor of mathematics and revision and clarification of the Paul Richelson, assistant “Statement of Tenure Policy.” In professor of art history, revealed the wake of the controversy over that they had been denied tenure. tenure last year, President Both declined extensive com ­ Thomas Smith and Headrick ment. urged the C om m ittee on Academic Planning, a faculty Vice-President for Academic Photo by Nancy Ga«ola Photo by Nancy Gaz/ola Affairs. Thomas Headrick, ob­ committee, to revise the tenure served that “This year's tenure procedure. The members of the ASSISTANT PROFESSOR of Art History, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR of Mathematics, committee worked extremely Committee on Academic Plan­ Paul Richelson. Steven Arnold. hard and carried out its ning rejected the assignment responsibilities very well ” He because the felt they did not have also added that “now that we the time to complete the revisions have had three years of ex­ and further, they felt that the perience with the current tenure project would be more ap­ Counseling system revisions m ade guidelines, we have a firm basis propriate for an administrative to assist the new committee in its committee rather than a faculty The first day of school can be troducing the students in his the form of satisfaction from work. The “new” committee committee. traumatic for a new Lawrence section to each other in the first helping a student with a problem and making new friends referred to is the Ad Hoc Com Last fall. Smith created the Ad student. week Grabovac feels that during mittee on Tenure Guides, which Hoc Committee on Tenure The new student spends a long that week, and throughout the This year, there will be some has been established to review Guidelines to review the present summer anticipating what rest of the term, the counselor changes made in the counseling program. In the past, the the 1973-74 rules for tenure tenure policy. The committee is Lawrence will be like, and how he must try to create a sense of unity program has been run by Charles procedure. expected to conclude its or she will fit in on campus. The and belonging in the section, the Lauter, dean of student affairs, The University’s tenure policy deliberations today. administration provides student dorm, and the whole university. with the aid of the head eoun counselors to help alleviate some Grabovac views counselors as of the problems and uneasiness “models" for the new students. selors This year, the organization will be in the hands that come with the first few days They can be respected and of the head counselors They will of school. trusted as the students become Counselors are sophomores, familiar with Lawrence life work with Lauter to make the juniors, and seniors who have an Counselors have no definite necessary decisions to improve the program interest in other people Ac­ responsibilities other than to be cording to head counselor Syd friends for troubled students, as The executive committee of Grabovac '76. “ they appreciate the need arises. Counselor Joe head counselors will direct four many kinds of personalities and DeLuca, ’78. feels that he is not a branches: selection, orientation, enjoy working with students.” policeman for the floor, nor a housing and information and One or two of the counselors are substitute father or mother while social interaction, Grabovac designated to each freshman at college said The selection branch will work on making the counselor section (consisting of from 10-20 Grabovac explained that the students) in the dorms selection process thorough counseling system started with Counselor ratios will be studied Grabovac said.