M*DIS0N MEMORY LIBRA**/ Vol. IJV Friday. June 24, 1977 Madison College, Harrisonburg, Va. No. 2 Contracts Renovation, for faculty construction now ready underway By TAMI RICHARDSON Faculty members should By JUDY STOWE be getting their contracts at There are "1001 things to the beginning of next week, do" on Madison's campus this including their salaries for the summer, according to Col. 1977-78 academic year, ac- Adolph Phillips, vice- cording to Guthrie Allen, president of business affairs. director of personnel. One of the major hap- Contracts are normally penings underway on campus received in April, but they had is the progressing con- to be held back until Governor struction of four new dorms on Mills Godwin announced the southwest side of Newman Lake. Phillips said. Sunday night he authorized a The buildings, which are pay-raise for state employees contracted by Neilson Con- averaging 4.8 per cent, ef- struction Company at fective July 1. $3,657,224, are going up on The hold up was due to a schedule, and are due to be "tremendous" revenue completed by September, reversion announced last 1978. The total cost, including spring which put a strain on architect fees, furniture, college finances, Allen said. equipment and landscaping, is Because Virginia's con- estimated at $4,350,000. stitution requires a balanced The nine-acre project will budget, the state often takes consist of 13 units housing 28 back funds allocated to a state students each, for a total of agency or institution to help 364. Each unit will contain a the state avoid a de'ic.it. recreation room, living room, In March the General storage area and entrance Assembly gave Godwin patio. The 2Vfe story discretionary power to ap- townhouse-type apartments prove the pay raise if he found are intended to house special there was enough money interest groups such as available for it after studying sororities, fraternities and revenue collections. However, clubs. the fiscal year is not over until Another noticeable change June 30, and Godwin said he is taking place on Madison's wanted to get the latest ROME WASN'T BUILT in a day .. .and neither and watches as the buildings take shape. athletic field, Phillips said. In (Continued on Page 4) are Madison's new lakeside dorms. A man sits Photo By Frank Rathbvn order to better serve the public, athletes, and coaching staff, the under portion of the stadium is being converted to Prof charges hiring discrimination accomodate dressing and locker rooms, conference and teaching space, staff offices, Claims position denied because of race and public rest room facilities. At a cost of $495,000, By BARBARA BURCH The letter said Poddar's College itself, as well as sought, the determination the facility is scheduled to be A $1.8 million lawsuit resume would be kept on file Madison President Ronald said. ready for use by Sept. 1, 1977. charging Madison College in the event there was an Carrier, each member of the In addition, the report, filed One other facility receiving with racially discriminating opening, according to the suit. Board of Visitors, and each by EEOC Director Treadwell attention on the athletic field hiring practices has been filed Poddar then placed an past and present head of the Phillips, stated that "record js the astroturf, which is being by a professor of East Indian anonymous advertisement in sociology department. evidence shows that the completely replaced. origin. the same journal stating his The latter defendents are challenging party was more "There were flaws in the Bhagwati P. K. Poddar, a qualifications, which include a named because their qualified than the other three original backing and the resident of Oregon, claims doctorate from Southern knowledge of Madison's hiring Caucasian instructors hired in Monsanto Company, which Madison did not hire him for a Illinois University, the suit practices constitutes "willful, 1973. The challenging party laid the original turf, agreed position in its sociology said. deliberate, and malicious (Continued on Page 4) (Continued on Page 5) department because of his On May 18, 1973, Poddar violation" of Poddar's civil race, according to legal said he received another letter rights, according to the suit. papers filed June 7 in U.S. from Guthrie, this time asking Poddar seeks $100,000 from Program board to offer District Court in Harrison- him to send his transcripts each defendant, $500,000 in burg. and letter of recommendation. compensatory damages and Poddar states in the suit Poddar did so, and was $50,000 in punitive damages, summer camping trips that he answered a Madison rejected again, according to the suit said. He also demands By TOM DULAN advertisement in a sociology the suit. The rejection letter immediate hiring, with the The Campus Program Board (CPB), operating on a limited journal seeking an associate he received stated that the seniority he would have had summer budget, is offering two camping trips this summer as professor and two instructors position was already filled. were he hired in 1973, as well part of its summer entertainment program. in March 1973 and was turned However, the suit con- down. as back pay and all benefits he The first trip is scheduled for this weekend, leaving for tinued, Poddar later learned would have received, it said. Virginia Beach on Friday and returning on Sunday. The suit said Poddar that the position was not filled "Theplaintiff (Poddar) has The trip costs $8 per person, not including food. The $8 covers received a rejection letter until July, 1973, when a white transportation and camping equipment, according to Craig from Dr. Robert V. Guthrie, woman was hired. been deprived of wages and other benefits due him as an Sencindiver, acting chairman of the CPB. head of the sociology In his suit, Poddar named The second trip, to Nags Head, North Carolina, is scheduled for department at that time. 18 defendents — Madison employee and has suffered mental distress," the suit July ;-4 Cost will be the-same as with the Virginia Beach trip, said. Sencindiver said. Both trips are limited to 12 people, he added, and anyone in- Treasure winners chosen Poddar also filed a com- terested should sign up at the information desk in the Warren David Dutton, Jeffrey Simon and Scott Taylor were chosen plaint with the Equal Em- Campus Center, or call 433-6217 (on campus) for information. winners of The Breeze Treasure Hunt by Dr. William Nelson, ployment Opportunity Beginning July 7, the CPB will sponsor live musical en- head of The Department of Political Scienceand Geography. Commission (EEOC) in tertainment in the campus center ballroom every Monday and The three students, collectively known as "Ksyhunters Inc.," Washington, which issued a Thursday night for the remainder of the summer school session. were first to discover the key which was hidden in a locker in the "determination" stating there Admission is free, Sencindiver said. Warren Campus Center. was "reasonable cause" to Movies are being shown nearly every Wednesday and Satur- The winners had also collected the required coupons from area believe that Madison had day night in Wilson Hall, and all are free with a Madison I.D. This merchants sponsoring the Treasure Hunt. engaged in unlawful em- Saturday features "The Marx Brothers' Film Festival" at 7:30 The sponsors were David B. Garber Jewelers, Glassner ployment practices. The p.m. Jewelers, The Muse. Ney's House of Fashion, Galeria, Blue Ridge "determination" was at- The CPB is also sponsoring free ice cream every Tuesday in Tire Co., Gazebo. Ace Electric Co., The Jewel Box, Blue Mountain tached to the suit as evidence. the campus center from 2-3 p.m., and free watermelon every Records. Spanky's Delicatessen. Gitchell's Camera Shop, Valley Poddar was "at least as Thursday, same time and place. Free coffee and doughnuts are Sports, The Beauty Palace, Mario's Hairstyling, Service qualified" as the woman who provided every Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings from Stationers and the Leighten Evans Book Fair. was hired for the position he 9:30-10:30 in the campus center lounge. Page 2, THE BREEZE. Friday, June 24, 1977 ^1 'Thurber CarnivaV- brisk, enchanting By DWAYNE YANCEY audience, hoping to sneak up Gibbons Dining Hall may on it and surprise it by not sound like an ideal place whispering to it rather than for one to see live theatre, but by pouncing with all fours. "A Thurber Carnival," which The inherent danger, of opened there Friday for a course, is that the audience's seven-week run, transforms attention will wander and the the d-hall into an enchanting humor will be missed. dinner theatre. "A Thurber Carnival" Under the direction of Dr. seemed able to prevent this Thomas Arthur, this first on opening night and will no dinner theatre in the history of doubt continue to improve its Madison College succeeds performance over the course remarkably well considering of the summer. the limitations of space and There were, to be sure, lighting which the players some slow scenes, but these must work with. seemed to result more from After a buffet dinner of standing rib roast or "DOWN WITH DANGEROUS MUMAN RIGHTS SUBVERSIVE' AIL HAIL LFNIN, MABX ANP ANITA gRVANT!" boneless chicken breast with all the trimmings, and a splendid array of THE wines, the atmosphere of the dinner theatre is Commonwealth Commentary* set by the buzz of conversation, the CXDlNNER .tinkling of glasses, the I Politic smoke curling upwards, Political waters muddied Cynthia Early playing the piano softly in the EATRE background, as the I by primarypri shock waves houselights fade and the magic begins.