Candidates for USG
lannounce platforms
By LORRAINE CAPRA
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Candidates for Undergraduate
Student Government president and vice
'president presented platforms last night
` 1 'dealing with lobbying, student
representation in state and local
government and reorganizing USG.
Presidential candidate Dave Prit
chard said greater emphasis on the
Pennsylvania State Association for State
Related Universities is needed for the
:),University to get more funds. He said he
will work for more lobbying in
Harrisburg.
• "In state government, lobbying needs
something new if it's going to do
anything for us," he said.
Presidential candidate Charles P.
••; Kennedy said he would further USG's
involvement in state government by
having, USG endorse a U.S.
Senatorial candidate who has experience
with the University.
"After reviewing the candidates who
are running we will endorse a candidate
t who has experience with student
organizations and has a vast un
derstanding of monetary andfiscal
policy," Kennedy said.
Presidential candidate Joe Healey
said one of his goals in local government
will be improving communication
'between students and the Centre Area
Transportation Authority to keep the bus
system running.
"We'll also choose or nominate a
student and help him or her get elected
to the State College Municipal Council,"
he said.
it , On campus issues, presiden
tialcandidate Stephen Reeves said the
Executive Council can organize USG
and other student groups by becoming
more issue oriented. He said he will
appoint liaisons to other student
organizations and distribute press
releases on a regular basis to inform
41 's tudents .
"Student organizations should take a
united stand," he said.
However, presidential candidate Joe
Kreta said ccioperation is - needed bet
ween USG and other oiganiiations but
the groups should not be united.
"We are going to leave various student
4 problems up to the different student
Editor's Note: This is the second in
a three-part series of articles on
faculty opinions concerning tenure,
promotion and review at the
University.
By PATRICIA McCAFFREY
and AMY SMITH
Daily Collegian Staff Writers
Most faculty members at
the University are satisfied with the
criteria used for deciding tenure and
promotion, and believe the process is
free from personal bias, a Daily
Collegian survey indicated.
But results of the survey appear to
indicate that the faculty has some
reservations concerning the general
criteria used to award tenure, such as
teaching ability, service to the
University and research. The poll
also showed that tenured and un
tenured faculty's problems with the
tenure and promotion system vary.
Sixty-seven percent of the
University faculty, both tenured and
untenured, who responded to the
Daily Collegian survey indicated the
crtiteria used for deciding tenure and
promotion are appropriate and 69
percent said the review process for
tenure and promotion is free from
personal bias.
Forty-eight percent of the tenured
faculty who responded said they
spend the majority of their work time
in the classroom teaching and are
satisfied with this situation.
However, like their untenured
colleagues, 86 percent said they felt
pressure from their department to
research and publish, rather than
teach, to secure promotion.
Untenured faculty indicated they
spend most of their time researching
and would like to have more time to
dedicate to their research. Many also
said they feel pressure from their
departments to publish in order to
secure tenure.
The tenure and promotion system
at the University has undergone a
lengthy evaluation by the ad
ministration in the face of declining
enrollment and the abundance of
qualified teachers in the job market.
And while reviewing the system, the
administration has placed great
importance on the frequency of
research and publications on the part
of its faculty.
According to the University Plan
for the 'Bos, which established a
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organizations," Kreta said.
Audience questions centered on in
creasing student voter registration,
working with University administrators
and paying USG workers.
Pritchard said he is not in favor of
paying anyone and would like to see USG
remain a service-oriented organization,
but "if they expand the business, there
will have to be some paid positions."
Reeves said USG's money-making
business should be separate from the
department of programs and services,
and the director of the business should
not be paid.
"The people who do the manual labor
should be paid because that's just
another job with very little satisfac
tion," Reeves said.
However, the other candidates said
USG should expand its business. They
said the services cannot run without
money, justifying payment of the
business workers.
Kennedy said USG "has to have an
attitude where it can expand and the
people who operate the business aspect
should receive compensation."
Kreta said the workers dealing with
money-making are important to USG
and must be reliable.
"If they are paid you can rely on them
because they are paid to be there," he
said.
• Healey said USG is forced to make
money because of the low funds provided
by Associated Student Activities.
'•lf it is better for the student services
that the people be paid, then we'll have
to pay them," he said.
In other matters, Kennedy said he
wants to combine the Race Relations
Board with the department of minority
affairs to make the board eligible for
ASA funding and to give it new direction
other than advising.
The board's nonpartisan status was a
major factor in its opposition to last
term's merger with minority affairs.
,The merger was later rescinded to keep
the board out of USG's politics. Kennedy
said he did not think politics would be a
blemin his merge
pro r.
"There is no Substantial difference
between the two," he said. "This will
help them extend their services to the
student body."
Tenure problems
4. How appropriate are the criteria used for
deciding tenure and promotion?
7. Do you think the proposal for periodic
review of tenured faculty would limit academic
freedom?
8. If the plan for periodic review of tenured
faculty were implemented, how willing would
you be to be reviewed?
10. In tenure and promotion decisions, should
more emphasis be placed on . (answer only
one)
12 In which area do you feel most pressured
by your department or academic unit in order
to secure tenure or promotion?
13. In which area do you spend most of your
work time?
15. In which area do you want to spend less
direction the University should move
in the new decade, ". . . only 40
percent of the faculty spent part *of
their time on externally funded
research . . . this percentage should
be increased. More faculty members
need to devote more time and energy
to research."
Research is seen as a possible
addition to the University's revenue
in an effort to combat decreases in
tuition revenue due to declining
enrollment, cuts in state funding and
inflation, the plan indicates.
"The additional revenues
generated by externally funded
research as well as the new con
tributions to knowledge by research
are vital to the University and the
Commonwealth," the plan states.
There is some disagreement among
the faculty concerning what should be
emphasized when deciding individual
promotion and tenure.
While untenured faculty members
who have been teaching at the
University for six years or less spend
most- of their time conducting
research, they said they believe the
present emphasis for deciding tenure
and promotion is satisfactory.
However, 50 percent of tenured
faculty teaching at the University for
seven years or longer
~indicated
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Kennedy, a USG senator for the last
year and former president of Black
Caucus, said he would like to see the
University administration work more
closely with students.in areas of student
concern.
"The administration should become
more involved op a grassroots level with
student problems," he said."l think
I have a good rapport with all ad
ministrators a healthy plan so
nroblems can , be solved smoothly."
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research
present situation ok
teaching ability and effectiveness
should be given more emphasis in
deciding tenure and promotion.
Overall, responses by faculty in
dicated 45 percent believe more
emphasis should be placed on
teaching ability and effectiveness in
tenure and promotion decisions.
However, a national trend seems to
be developing in universities to
emphasize research and service
rather than teaching.
According to The Chronicle of
Higher Education, C.Peter Magrath,
president of the University of Min
nesota said that universities should
combat declining enrollment by
shifting emphasis from teaching to
research and service.
"Our teaching obligations in the
'Bos are not going to justify even
steady state budgets according to our
current funding formulas," Magrath
said. "Universities must become
more creative in our efforts to con
vince the public that research con
tinues to be an excellent investment."
Magrath said the demands for
teaching and research will surpass
current levels and this will give
universities an effective and con
vincing lobby campaign while trying
to secure state funds.
According to the Plan for the 'Bos,
Thrive on spring!
Sheltered by the mountains surround
ing his Arch Spring farm, Lester Es
py gazes over the sheep and horses
clustered in his barnyard. Espy's
lambs and horses are another encour
aging sign of the new life spring will
bring.
Kennedy and Leach declare USG candidacy
By LORRAINE CAPRA
and CHUCK HALL
Daily Collegian Staff Writers
Charles P. Kennedy (10th-political
science) and Ray Leach (9th-history and
geography) yesterday declared their
candidacy for Undergraduate Student
Government president and vice
president. •
Illustration by Della Hoke
Leach, president of the Middle East
Cultures Club of America, said there
must be mutual respect if students and
administrators are to work together.
"I don't think you can deal with these
guys on an equal footing if you don't
have respect," he said.
Kennedy said politics off campus must
also become a concern of USG.
"Lobbying of legislative bodies must
increase if governmental actions are to
be favorable to students," he said.
Surveys of students would indicate
Which issues student government would
lobby for, he said.
Keniiedy also said he thinks studetith
in town can be better served by student
government.
"There are 16 USG senators from
town, which is a vast resource of
manpower," he said. "There is no
vary
Tenure is the system univer
sities use to ensure their faculty
members permanent acadernic
positions. It is awarded, not to the
professor who has seniority on the
staff, but to those professors who
meet the criteria each university
decides is needed to earn tenure.
The purpose of tenure, ac
cording to the University Plan for
the 80's, is to "preserve academic
freedom, for without the freedom
to teach, to search and to
disseminate ideas openly without
fear; the University and the in
dividuals within cannot achieve
true excellence nor aspire to
greatness."
The University's general
criteria for achieving tenure in
clude review of a faculty member
during the second, fourth and sixth
years of his or her University
appointment. Teaching ability,
research competence and service
to the University are the bases for
promotion and tenure.
There are three sequential
levels of tenure review; peer
review by the department, review
by the college and review by the
University. A faculty member who
is awarded tenure shall be ter
minated only for determined
adequate cause or retirement.
The information in this series of
articles was gathered from a
survey mailed during Fall Term to
600 randomly-selected professors,
associate professors and assistant
professors at University Park. Of
those, 338 returned completed
questionnaires.
The survey, compiled to
measure faculty opinions about
tenure, was conducted with
methodology approved by the
School of Journalism,
"Penn State's ability to provide
quality research, instruction, and
service to the Commonwealth in the
decade of the 'Bos is dependent upon
the quality and vitality of its faculty
and its staff members. Maintaining
vitality will be an especially
challenging task in a period of in
creasing limitations on mobility."
Tomorrow: A look into the future of
the University.
direction of these people; they are
basically left to do what they do."
The Organization of Town In
ddpendefit Students and USG senators
should work in' a closer relationship to
increase student government output to
students and the State College Municipal
Council, Kennedy said.
"USG should also make overtures to
Carter, Reagan win
in primary balloting
CHICAGO (UPI) President Carter
scored a landslide win over Sen. Edward
Kennedy in the Illinois primary
yesterday and front-runner Ronald
Reagan won convincingly over
homestate challenger John Anderson in
the GOP race.
After a month of primaries, the big
Illinois wins left Carter and Reagan far
•in front of the Democratic and
Republican fields. Both had healthy
leads in their respective delegate races,
and both were favored to increase that
lead next week in New York and Con
necticut.
Anderson got a big boost from
thousands of Democrats who crossed
over to vote in the Republican race, but
it wasn't enough to halt a Reagan tide
that swept up from downstate to over
take the lead Anderson had built in
Chicago and its suburbs. George Bush
was a distant third.
At 11:50 p.m. EST, the Democratic
vote, with 42 percent counted, stood:
Carter 324,033 65
Kennedy 151,589 30
With 36 percent of the GOP race
counted, it was:
Reagan 207,528 49
Anderson 152,99136
Bush 45,594 11
Carter carried Illinois 2 to 1, em
barassing Kennedy in Chicago where
Mayor Jane Byrne could not provide the
machine votes as had the late Mayor
Richard J. Daley for John Kennedy in
1960. '
Carter has now defeated Kennedy
overwhelmingly in seven of eight
primaries losing only the senator's
home state of Massachusetts.
At the White House, where Carter has
stayed throughout the campaign, press
secretary Jody Powell said Kennedy
now needs "consistent landslides" to
overtake the president's overwhelming
lead in the delegate race.
In New York, Kennedy said that
despite the Illinois defeat, his campaign
is "still viable," and added: "I intend
over the period of the next seven days to
conduct a strong and vigorous cam
paign" in New York.
Reagan built a steady lead over An
derson, despite the fact that thousands of
Democrats crossed over to vote for the
liberal Illinois congressman in the GOP
race. Ambassador George Bush's
already faltering campaign was further
weakened by his distant third in Illinois.
Network projections showed Reagan
winning by margins of between seven
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small student organizations and include
them in the Executive Council," he said.
Kennedy said he would also like to see
studentg become involved with in
ternational and national affairs.
"It would be in students' best interests
to be exposed to all points of view
through informal, detailed discussions,"
he said.
and 15 percent a comfortable victory
in a Republican race where Democrats
played such a big role.
Anderson greeted cheering supporters
at his Chicago campaign headquarters
and refused to concede, saying: "the old
ideas, the old politics, the old ways
simply will not do. If ever America
needed to chart a new course, it is now."
While there were few figures available
in the Illinois delegate races which
were separate from the statewide
popularity contest among the candidates
Reagan had the most to gain since he
was the only candidate who had slates
running in most of the 24 congressional
districts.
There were 179 Democratic and 92
Republican presidential delegates at
stake, with 10 more GOP delegates to be
selected later at state conventions. Very
scattered returns gave Carter an edge
for 89 delegates outside Chicago, but
there were no delegate votes tabulated
from Chicago where Kennedy was ex
pected to do well.
Going into Illinois, Carter led Kennedy
in the delegate race 344 to 179.5, with
1,666 needed for the nomination. On the
GOP side Reagan had 167, Bush 45, and
Anderson 13, with 998 needed to win.
The presidential race, good weather
and hotly contested state and local races
produced a heavy turnout in Illinois
perhaps a record 2.5 million.
Kennedy's embarassing showing was
just one sign the Chicago Democratic
machine was crumbling. Richard M.
Daley, son of the late mayor, bucked the
Democratic machine and Mayor Byrne
and held a substantial lead in the race
for state's attorney.
Byrne's endorsement of Kennedy may
have been the kiss of death. However,
there was evidence the remnants of the
ChiCago machine could provide Kennedy
enough delegates to make that race
closer than the popularity contest.
Goodbye, winter!
The last day of winter will be a
tranquil one, with abundant sunshine
and afternoon breezes bringing us a high
of 50. Tonight will start off clear, but
high clouds will start to move in after
midnight. The low will be a mild 37. The
clouds will slowly increase tomorrow,
giving a chance for some showers by late
evening. It will remain on the mild side,
though, with a high of 55.