~==~~~====r=====~====~~~~~====- ~- ~~ . ~====_ ==~========~~~========~====~------- Vol. 100, No. 22 University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware Tuesday, November 23, 1976 Computer Access ,System Delayed By I.D. Card Reader· "The delay in refinement to put the system implementation has to do in effect." The only hold-up with the card reader," said Fry could f~resee was the Dr. Robert Mayer, assistant process of repairing and vice president for Student replacing formerly damaged Services, in reference to the ID cards. dining hall computer access Currently, Mayer control. system, which was explained, IDenticard is _scheduled for use by Oct. 1. working to perfect the "The machine works system. A small area of the perfectly in sending . and aperture is being milled out receiving signals,"· said of one of the card :readers to Mayer. "The problem now is provide a space with the aperture (slot) in corresponding to the which the ID card is inserted. validation stickers. Removing old validation "Hopefully," said Mayer. stickers and replacing them "that will solve the with new ones did not resolve problem." the problem," he said. "If this renovation to The first delay was due to accommodate validation Staff photo by Henny Ray Abr~s. the company's inability to stickers doesn't work," he GEORGE HAYS SACKS Maine quarterback Jack Cosgrove in Saturday's 36-0 whitewash get certain parts on schedule, commented, "then we will as Steve Verbit (left) and captain Gary Bello move in for the kilL Bello's defense has allowed according to Bob Fry of have to explore the other just two touchdowns in the past five games, and is on~ of the reasons that the Hens both IDenticard Manufacturing options available to us." won the Lambert Cup and received a bid to the NCAA Division II playoffs which begin Co., the manufacturers with According to Mayer, these Saturday at Delawar Stadium where last year's champion, Northern Michigan, faces the which the university is options include obtaining Hens. dealing. Currently, equipment from another IDenticard is making final manufacturer, having the changes and modifications in entire card reader the system, Fry said, adding redesigned, utilizing another that they estimate the type of plastic material to .system should be ready for replace paper validation Carpenter Open for Weekend Use testing in . the dining halls stickers, or employing a sometime in January. separate, permanent meal -Funds Appropriated to Extend Facility's Operating Hours Fry said that the control card. Mayer noted here that model to be implemented at a separate meal card would By LINDA PROSKOW money left over from "frozen "The physicai education the university is probably the b~a last alternative and said "Approximately $1,300 has position" at all levels of the department decided to use first of its kind. Mayer said that the university would been appropriated to open university," including the the money for Carpenter," the system will provide cost prefer not to do this.· Carpenter Sports Building, faculty and the Stratton added. accounting information for Mayer explained that the making this facility available administration. "The money RSA members, however, the dining halls and will also new computerized system for ,use on weekends," said was divided among do not view their fund raising give the food service -will record statistics, such as Dave Scott, the Resident departments that had not activity as a "waste of management profit-loss date, time. and number of Student Association's (RSM received money in- the budget time." Stratton said that statements. people entering the dining fund-raising· committee allocation last year and the "our goal is accomplished - Discussing the system's halls for each meal, in order chairman for Carpenter physical educlition · Carpenter will be open on completion, Fry said, "we're to maximize management Sports Building. department was one of weekends." 99 per cent there - all we efficiency. "The custom built At their Sunday night them," she ·said. The members of the RSA need is that one per cent (Continued to Page 4) meeting, the RSA members said they had originally exami.ned the proposal to open Carpenter on weekends upon student request. , Tenure Problems Cited as National Concern According to the RSA, the By TIMOTHY O'SHEA "Comparing now to a half administration had said arid administrative tempting" for an institution Editor's note: This article a dozen years ago, it is committees review and not to retain a faculty before that it could not definitely harder to get member already there but finance the proposal due to a is the last .of a three part approve a candidates series on the problems and tenure," said Dr. Jordan credentials in the areas of rather to take a chance on shortage of funds. In reponse Kurland, acting national getting somebody better. to the lack of money, the RSA effects of the promotion and teaching, research. and tenure procedure. general secretary of the service. ~ According to Dr. F. Loren raised between $500 and $900 Many students and faculty American Association of "Getting promotion and Smith past president of the to fund the project. University Professors But the funds raised by the members view some of the tenure then was not nearly as university Faculty Senate . ' <AAUP), the university difficult as since the growth and professor of psychology. RSA will not be needed for the faculty's union. "The time original purpose of opening stopped.'' said Kurland, the university followed this since then was an adjustment adding, "Things start to national trend of rapid Carpenter on weekends, said analysi.s period but the difficulty isn't Scott, "because the change and , criteria get growth eventually led to a still increasing-it has higher ...so professors are ceiling on expansion. administration just came up leveled off," he said. with the money." problems involved in getting caught in the · Smith said that between attaining promotion and Kurland explained that middle." the years of 1950 and 1968. tenure as existing only at this promotion and tenure were He added that the reason enroHment went from about Barbara Stratton, university and, being easier to -obtain previously why many institutions of 3000 students taught by about president of the RSA, said administrative in nature. In because until around 1971 or higher education have raised 200 faculty members to 15.000 that she spoke to Dr. L. Leon fact; these difficulties reflect 1972, institutions of higher their standards for students taught by 700 Campbell, provost and a national concern which is education enjoyed a period of . promotion and tenure is that full-time faculty members. vice-president for Academic rooted in larger problems of - rapid growth which has since During that period, Smith Affairs about the · since there are generally the economy and t~ stabilized. • fewer positions to be filled said, while new programs appropriated funds. shrinking employment Tenure is the attainment of from a greater number of were started and new According to Stratton, opportunities in higher - a guaranteed teaching professors in the field, it is colleges founded. within the Campbell said that there was education. position after several faculty "obviously much more (Continued to,.._ II Page20 REVIEW, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware November 23, 1976 SHOPPING FOR A MAJOR? BORED? 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