State Colleges Face CORNELL Last-Minute Cuts The much discussed budgetary belt-tightening planned for Cornell CHRONICLE endowed divisions over the next three years is already a hard economic fact of life facing the University's four statutory units — which have been operating under severe spending limitations since The official weekly of record for Cornell University last December Some may have expected that Cornell's state-supported units Thursday. March 4, 1971 would escape the budgetary cutbacks because they have never used Vol. 2 No. 23 deficit financing, a basic cause of the new budgetary limitations in the endowed units "Just the opposite is true." Administration SetsGuidelines explained Arthur H Peterson. University controller. "There is no such thing as deficit financing For Endowed Salary Increases for any state-supported opera- Guidelines have been established for 1971-72 salary increases for faculty and staff of Cornell tion. University's endowed colleges with job performance the key factor in granting raises. "However, when state income In preparing the budget for 1971-72. in the endowed units. Cornell administrators set aside funds for threatens to fall behind salary increases for faculty and the various categories of non-academic employes Each manager and expenses, budgets are cut — dean will be told how many dollars he has for granting raises, and can then determine who will get what immediately," Peterson said. increase. The burden of making individual determinations will fall on the department head, with the help of "This means services, programs first-line supervisors, who will base their judgments on employe performance. and even people are curtailed. Supervisors will review With limited funds available for With state units, you cut the coat individual salary adjustments, to fit the cloth " increases, an across-the-board with each employe when the adjustment will be made only for Peterson indicated that an approved budget has been unexpected "tailoring" of budget classified employes All returned later this spring. This is employes in this category will for state support units at Cornell most important in recognizing had occurred in early December; receive a basic $125 increase. superior performance and the This is the second half of a $250 that next year's proposed budget need for improving performance, for Statutory units will also be commitment made by the according to Samuel A. University last year very tight; that capital ARTHUR H PETERSON Lawrence, vice president for Statutory Belt- Tightening For classified employes, who construction budgets have administration. almost been eliminated for the are those in positions for which coming fiscal year; and that there is a numerical job austere budgets will continue at classification and salary least into the 1972-73 year. Second Senate Meets; schedule, the minimum pay rates Peterson said the State Budget for each class will also be Office early last December adjusted upward in order to keep directed that some $1,200,000 Names Cooke Speaker pace with prevailing wage scales for clerical and technical jobs be cut from the current budgets Cornell University's second University Senate began its business of the statutory units. With less Tuesday as it elected J. Robert Cooke. assistant professor of All other salary adjustments for than four months remaining in agricultural engineering, as speaker. classified employes will be based the state's fiscal year, the cuts, Cooke. who was a member of the Cornell Constituent Assembly, is on merit. SAMUEL A LAWRENCE representing almost 10 per cent a newly elected senator representing the non-tenured faculty of The funds set aside to finance Announces Salary Plans of the state funds available for Agricultural Engineering. Animal Science and Food Science both across-the-board and merit wage schedule Still others, the remainder of the year, raises for classified salary Ellen Mandell. a graduate student, who also is a new senator, was whose work has been superior, required unusually drastic employes will be approximately elected secretary. Elected to the Senate's Executive Committee were: may be rewarded with raises controls 7 5 per cent of the current Neil Henry, non-tenured faculty; Ulric Neisser and William C. Kelly, which exceed 7.5 per cent. These spending controls, tenured faculty; Robert Platt and Mark Wurzel. undergraduates; Peter payroll for this category. "This is an average figure, For non-academic employes in which will continue at least until Heywood. graduate; and George Peter, exempt employe Two more statutory (state) units at Cornell, . persons are to be elected at large at the next Senate meeting Tuesday however.'' Lawrence the state's fiscal year ends on increases were established by March 31. include: a complete (March 9) in Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall. emphasized. "Some classified employes will receive only the the New York State Legislature freeze on hiring; elimination of all During the final session of the first University Senate Thursday. last year, for a two-year period state funded rep'agr work; a basic $125 increase Others will February 25, Mrs Desdemona P. Jacobs was elected as trustee from These specify a raise of $525 or drastic cut in funds available for receive an adjustment to bring outside the Cornell community. 6 per cent of salary, whichever is Continued on Page 7 their pay in line with the new Continued on Page 7 7 greater, in addition to a years-of- service increment provided in Larency Rising on Campus state wage schedules, where applicable. Salaries for faculty in the statutory units have not been George Suggests Anti-Theft Precautions established. Salary increases for non- Thefts on the Cornell University campus continue to Lowell T. George. Safety Division director, attributed much of the classified, non-academic skyrocket, with incidents of larceny during the first month of theft to "pure carelessness" on the part of owners of the property employes in the endowed units the second semester mounting to more than half of the stolen. will be based entirely on merit, entire first semesters total, according to Safety Division He also pointed to the new pohcy of open dormitories, with 24- with approximately 5 per cent of figures. hour visiting privileges, as a factor which makes it almost the current salary total in that impossible to control access to private rooms category set aside to finance "This open policy makes it doubly important that persons living Continued on Page 17 in dormitories take added precautions to safeguard their property." he said From Safety Division reports for the fall term, figures show 261 Chronicle incidents of theft. 11 5 of them from living units. 36 from Willard Capsule Straight Hall (exclusive of food theft) and 110 elsewhere. CORNELLS 1915 mad "With the open dorms," Safety Division Captain Ralph Coskey bomber said, "we have had several reports that go like this: A boy opens Page 2 HISTORY department the door to a girl's room, sees a girl studying at the desk, and says. names first woman to faculty Hi, is this Patty's room?' When the girl says she doesn't know any Page 7 Patty, the boy says. 'Thanks,' and leaves You know and I know AGILE gymnasts — a that if the girl hadn't been sitting at the desk, the guy probably Chronicle photo feature would have taken anything of value." Page 5 George said that another serious problem is the lack of security- SCULPTOR Jason Seley's latest works on display in consciousness in academic buildings. Berlin "We have administration and faculty people operating today the Page 3 same way they did 20 years ago, and it just doesn't work." he said WILSON Foundation LOWELL T GEORGE RALPHJ COSKEY honors 26 Comedians. Captain of the Division Continued on Page 11 Safety Division Director Page 2 2 CORNELL CHRONICLE Thursday, March 4, 1971 Academic Recognition for COSEP Dorm Room Selection Process Begins for '71-2 Accomodations for about upperclassmen and graduate 5.200 single undergraduate and students interested in increasing graduate students will be Continued on Page 7 / available at Cornell in the fall of 1971, according to Ruth W. Darling, associate dean of Mary Norton students. This is up about 400 from the number of Appointed To accomodations available at the History Faculty start of the current year Mary Beth Norton, a specialist Information sheets about in American history, has been available housing and appointed an assistant professor applications for housing have in the Department of History. been distributed to residences on Currently on the faculty of the campus. Additional information University of Connecticut, Miss sheets and applications are Norton received her doctorate available at the Office of the from Harvard University in 1969 Dean of Students. Barnes Hall, When she comes to Cornell July the Housing Services Office. 223 1, she will be the first woman Day Hall, the Willard Straight faculty member in the history desk and the Noyes Center desk department. Upperclassmen will have first Miss Norton's fields of interest choice in selection of rooms, include Colonial American although the range of choices History, the American may be limited if the volume of Revolution. American Intellectual room requests makes it History, and the American COSEP HONORS — Six of the students enrolled in the COSEP (Committee on Special Educational Projects) Program, impossible to provide the Constitution. above, were among some 40 COSEP students honored for achieving a "B" or better average. Sunday evening at a approximately 2.700 spaces . Born in Ann Arbor, Mich.. Miss dinner in the Straight's Memorial Room. Delndge C. Hunter, center. COSEP director, presents honor certificates to needed to house incoming (left to right) Frank G Washington. Anna C. Walker, Edna A. Salter, Freida G Jones, Kenneth A McClane Jr. and Norton received her bachelor of freshmen.