Trustees talk program houses Angels wage war in Marisol Womens soccer wins in OT NEWS page 3 ARTS page 12 SPORTS page 16 1 REM Me VIEW Volume 123 Number 6 Established 1874 Friday October 7 1994 Trustees knew m v Starrs union plan in June 1 f- mmmmmm2 By Geoff Mulvihill success to Vice President of and Operations Donna Raynsford V j 1 Greg Munno Associate Vice President of Operations Angelo- Gene Monaco The entire Board of Trustees may and Trustee Robert Rotberg OC55 have known about and endorsed a The release of the speech follow s labor relations strategy that last weeks release of two letters on W discouraged a settlement with the theColleges labor policy written in t union that represents its service April One was from Trustee Alan il workers Wurtzel OC 55 to then President- 14 A The Review has obtained a copy elect Nancy Dye criticizing her A of a speech former President S statement that she supported a fair r Frederick Starr delivered to the and equitable bilateral agreement executive session of the Board of with the UAW Trustees June 10 concerning the The other letter was from Starr to Colleges strategy toward the United Rotberg outlining a five- point Photo by Robb Stolberg Auto Workers union UAW which strategy for dealing with the union represents the Colleges 20 service similar to the one in Starrs speech INAUGURATION PREPARATION Tenfs went up this week in Wilder Bowl in preparation for Nancy Dyes workers See excerpts page 4 The policy put forth in these inauguration this weekend Dye will be sworn in as Oberlins 13th president Saturday a post- inauguration party In the speech Starr said the documents suggests the College had in Tappan Square will cap off the ceremony Throughout the weekend the campus will be overflowing with strategy the Board has pursued from been attempting to confine students faculty staff alumni friends and guests of the College here to celebrate with a plethora of the beginning has been successful performancesspeakers and receptionsSee story page 5 See STARRS page 5 He also credited the strategys College UAW policy muddled issue many questions By Geoff Mulvihill The two letters and trustee let alone were unaware of it With the number ofdocuments Starr and Trustee Alan Wurtzel OC and meeting minutes on the Colleges But key labor relations the number of people that wrote 55 the author of one of the two Greg Munno labor relations policy obtained by administrators and trustees such as them and received them and the letters were expressing private the Review over the past two weeks the Vice President of Operations range of dates the documents cover opinions concerning labor The history of the Colleges have opened up many questions on Donna Raynsford Associate Vice its inconceivable that the policy negotiations and not College policy policy for dealing with the union the Colleges labor policies and on President of Operations Angelo- outlined in those documents was then other questions are raised that represents its service the way Oberlin operates Gene Monaco and Board Chair not the policy of the administration Why for instance did Starr workers is becoming News See excerpts page 5 William Perlik OC 48 have firmly and the College Howell said choose to phrase his remarks in such increasingly difficult to Analysis stated this is the case a way that it seems likely he is not evaluate Staijrs opinion or He Starr was not stating the Serious implications merely expressing personal opinion Statements by administrators and College policy Boards policy Perlik said Is it because the Boards directives trustees involved in forming and Raynsford said Those If the documents are taken at were so muddled an 1 1 year veteran executing labor relations strategies Almost all the players involved documents absolutely do not in any face value it implies the College president couldnt accurately are not consistent with each other have distanced themselves from the way reflect what we have been doing never intended to settle with the decipher them Or is it because Stan- The bottom line Someone is not policies stated in the three at the College They do not reflect union was trying to unilaterally impose telling the truth documents w hich explicitly outline my policy AG Monacos policy Since this stance differs sharply his will on defiant trustees and Determining where the truth lies a plan for discouraging union the Boards policy and they do not from the publically articulated administrators who were supposed might always remain elusive All membership and eventually reflect reality College policy even during Starrs to be working w ith him the possible scenarios though have removing the UAW as the service Associate Professor of Politics term it would imply that several If Starrs statements truly reflect larger ramifications than just the workers representative But the Chris Howell who has done high ranking administrators and what once was the Colleges policy outcome of the Colleges minutes of the June 10 Board research in labor relations and has Board members were lying and are as a w hole and not merely a personal negotiations with the United Auto meeting together with the two letters followed the situation at Oberlin continuing to lie about what hey opinion which a source close to Workers union UAW by itself make it hard to believe that the Board closely argued against believing knew the Board said was the case then and one of the most divisive issues on and senior administrators so statements like Raynsfords If the administrators and most of See SOMEONE page 4 campus for the past several years staunchly disagreed with the plan Perliks the trustees are to be believed if Its been a long road to Oberlin for GriffDye By Petersen Harris Maybe I was immature too young but I where he met Nancy Dye in 1969 while in located once again This time he worked at Staff Writer was not ready for the commitment he said the history program They married in 1972 a free- standing non- profit agency I wanted to find myself in another part of and he soon left history for a degree in specializing in adolescent treatment Griff Dye does not like his dog the world Counseling and Guidance in 1975 The children Dye worked with were We should ve named it Bob Barker So as he was writing out the check for a Then the couple took off for Kentucky usually victims of neglect or poverty or had He II hallucinate some noises sort of rustle second year he decided he could not go w here she got her first job while he interned some kind of legal trouble They would stay up his vocal cords and bark all night Dye through with it any longer He packed his at the Kentucky Medical Center There he on the premises for a year go to school and said things and drove away said he finally adjusted to the idea of holding receive counseling from specialists like him Other than that Dye is settling down I wound up in Wisconsin by serendipity a job and growing up What was really amazing about the kids MAN quite nicely in the small college town of he said I was simply driving along and 1 got that cold water shock we get at See FIRST page 5 Oberlin Of course it helps that his wife some friends had said it was wonderful and certain points of our lives and I realized I will be inaugurated as new president of the I decided to stop Dye worked at a Y- camp had to start getting up at eight in the morning The Review will not College this weekend chopping wood and basically being a self- Dye said So in 19X4 he opened a mental The road leading to Oberlin has been a described hermit woodsman My son saw a health practice with a friend where they publish during mid- long one for Dye He was born in Cincinnati picture of me back then and said Dad you taught students and supervised graduate terms or fall break anil did his undergraduate years at the were a hippie I imagine I looked a bit wild students in the psychology program at next issue will University of Cincinnati After graduation and woolly in those days Kentucky The he went to law school tor a year but soon ii ill enrolled in the graduate school at In I9SS Nancy De became the dean of be Oct 28 realied a life of law was not lor him the University of Wisconsin in Madison faculty at Vassar College and the family re 2 THE OBERLIN REVIEW NEWS FRIDAY OCTOBER 7 1994 The Oberlin Review established 1874 Future of Pyle Inn still unclear VOLUME 123 NUMBER 6 ISSN 002- 7256 FRIDAY OCTOBER 7 1994 By Alyssa Theodore For now the outcome relies on Services CDS is in the preliminary Published by the students ol Oberlin College every Friday during the tall and spfng semesters except holidays and CDS Turning Asia Houses dining stages of re- vamping College meal every Friday in January examination periods Published second it a CDS is a possibility if They hope a Subscription 30 per year Advertising rates 6 per column inch Second class postage paid at Oberlin Ohio Although was popular dining room over to plans to present Entered as second class 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