Mirror - Vol. 16, No. 22 - April 16, 1992

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FairfieldMRRORV Volume 16 No. 22 Thursday, April 16, 1992 Happy Easter
FWC Calls for Voice in Budget Decisions
Debra De Shong
News Editor
With the talk of tuition
raises and new budgets, the next
logical question is exactly where is
the money going? The Faculty
Welfare Committee (FWC) would
like to know as well. They are
calling for a faculty voice in the
budget process as well as asking
the administration to examine the
number of non-faculty employees.
FWC has discovered that
seven out of every 10 employees at
the University are non-faculty.
Mariann Regan, member
ofthe FWC salary committee, said,
"I wonder how we have come to
such a state that out of every 10
people, only 3 are faculty." By her
calculations, increasing the sala-ries
of the full-time faculty by 3.5
percent, and maintaining the same
level of health and requirement
benefits is the equivalent of a $ 175
rise in undergraduate tuition. In-creasing
the salaries of all Univer-sity
employees with the same
conditions amounts to a $551 rise
in tuition. This is a $376 differ-ence.
Regan also said that since
1976, approximately 200 non-fac-ulty
positions have been added, as
opposed to 11 faculty positions.
She feels that the administration
traditionally links tuition hikes with
faculty salary increases, but as seen,
this is not the case.
This trend toward a dis-proportionate
amount of adminis-trators
is not unique to Fairfield; it
is a national trend. According
Academejhe Bulletin ofthe Ameri-can
Association of University
Professors, "In the 1980's, admin-istrative
budgets-the expenditure
for presidents, deans, and their
assistants-grew 26 percent faster
than instructional budgets-the
budgets for professors." This trend
is termed "administrative bloat"
and an expert gives two reasons for
this widespread phenomenon: the
desire of each administrator for
more underlings and a governance
Aryan Literature
Found on Campus
Debra De Shong
News Editor
Last Sunday, James Kan-tor,
a freelance lighting technician,
was walking to work as he does
everyday, but this day was differ-ent.
Something in the bushes caught
his eye. At first glance, he thought
it was a liberal publication because
it displayed a picture of a white
woman embracing a black man.
It wasn't until he saw the
caption that he realized what he
was holding. Underneath the pic-ture
in bold lettering reads "The
Ultimate Abomination," and the
headline on the newsletter reads
"The DEATH of the WHITE
RACE." It is a piece ofpropaganda
printed by Aryan Nations based in
Idaho.
"I wasn't going to say
anything when I found the news-letters
on Sunday, but when I found
more on Tuesday [a total of about
6 was found], on campus grounds,
I felt someone had to know," said
Kantor.
He removed the newslet-ters
found by the Barlow entrance
to campus and alerted The Mirror
because he feels that it is important
for students to know that this type
of message is being pushed on
campus and because some of the
students who work at the Quick
Center have seen the propaganda
and are upset "as good moral people
should be," said Kantor.
He does not believe that
the newsletters were on campus by
chance and feels that they were left
in the bushes for someone to curi-ously
pick up and read.
The newsletter is a com-pilation
of distorted facts and hate-ful
messages directed toward both
blacks and Jews. It claims that the
white race is being destroyed by
inter-racial relationships and that
the next generation of white chil-dren
will be outnumbered 50 tol
by colored people who have been
inflamed to hate whites by the
"Jewsmedia." It also includes a
map with arrows depicting the
"Alien Invasion of North Amer-ica."
When the discovery ofthe
newsletters was brought to the at-tention
of Larri Mazon, director of
multicultural relations, he was
upset but not surprised. According
to Mazon, it is about the third time
this kind of hate propaganda has
been found on campus.
He feels that it is just
further evidence of the escalating
tensions on campus. Mazon was
referring to the racial incidents on
Dolan campus in early February.
Two black students were
harassed on more than one occa-sion,
sending a wave of frustration
and anger through Fairfield. Both
Mazon and Kantor believe that the
appearance of the pamphlets at a
time when racial tension is at a
peak is not a mistake.
According to Mazon,
"College students are a vulnerable
group. It is a time when young
people make decisions about their
identity which is why groups such
as these target college students."
Mazon fears that if the
education system does not give the
students the ability to process this
information in a scholarly way,
they will react to this kind of influ-ence.
Our current education
system does not teach students how
to analyze this type of information
and they are not given the real facts
to counteract this propaganda.
"There are people on the fence,
and the seeds for this are already
there, but we cannot allow them to
(continued to p. 2)
problem. According to Regan
however, the "administrative bloat"
at Fairfield exceeds the national
average.
Chairman of the Faculty
Welfare Salary Committee, Kevin
Cassidy, said, "We acknowledge
that the administration has the right
to examine this problem first, but
then we would like to bring in an
outside consultant to evaluate the
size ofthe Fairfield administration."
So far, administration has opposed
the proposition.
The FWC is not advo-cating
layoffs, just the chance to
evaluate the situation. "We don't
pretend to have all the answers,
but we would like to have a voice
in the budget process," says Re-gan.
She claims that the FWC had
proposed several plans to further
cut the tuition hike for 1992-1993,
but the administration was unre-ceptive.
"They haven't let us help
them," said Regan. This is what
the FWC has been calling for, and
Rev. Aloysius Kelley, S.J., Uni-versity
President has finally re-sponded.
The FWC wrote a letter
to Fr. Kelley saying they did not
approve of the monopoly on re-source
allocations by the admini-stration.
Fr. Kelley finally formed
an internal finance committee,
comprised of administrators, fac-ulty
and students.
"Traditionally, we are
presented with the amount of
money we have been allocated
and asked how we wish to spend
it, but it is fundamentally unac-ceptable
for the administration to
make these decisions itself," said
Cassidy.
With the formation of the
new committee, hopefully the ad-ministration
will work with fac-ulty
and students concerning is-sues
of allocation. Cassidy calls
this a step in the right direction but
there is also a downside to this.
"The downside is that
administration could use this inter-nal
finance committee to pre-emt
salary negotiations," said Cassidy.
He hopes that this committee will
not be used as an excuse to demand
that the negotiating committee
relinquish the right to negotiate on
salaries and benefits since a few
faculty members were a part of the
initial budget process. Cassidy said
it remains to be seen as to whether
or not it is a real effort or a facade
to include faculty and students.
The FWC has been advo-
(continued to p. 4)
New Academic VP
Chosen to Replace Stepsis
Emily Okenquist
News Editor Emeritus
Rev. Aloysius P. Kelley,
S.J., University President, has an-nounced
the appointment of Dr.
Robert E. Wall, the vice president
for academic affairs at Gannon Uni-versity
in Erie, Penn., as Fairfield
University's new academic vice
president, succeeding Fr. Robert
E. Stepsis. Wall will assume his
position on July 1, 1992, immedi-ately
following Stepsis' departure.
Wall comes to Fairfield
with in depth experience in aca-demics
and administration at both
state and religiously-affiliated in-stitutions.
"We're pleased to get
someone with such solid experi-ence,
who is collegial, and has a
sense of humor," said Dr. John A.
Barone, University Provost and
Chair of the Academic Vice Presi-dent
Search Committee. "He is very
creative, but also able to deal well
with problems."
After graduating from the
Holy Cross, he earned his M.A.
and Ph.D in history at Yale Uni-versity.
His career as a professor
includes teaching history at Duke
University, Michigan State Uni-versity,
Concordia University in
Montreal, Fairleigh Dickinson
University, and Gannon.
As an administrator, Wall
was history department chair and
provost at Concordia, as well as
provost and acting vice president
for academic affairs at Fairleigh
Dickinson.
"Working at a Canadian
university has given him a differ-ent
point of view," Barone said.
Growing up in New York City, "he
also has a feeling for the demo-graphics
of this area," Barone
added.
Wall's key work involved
establishing a strategic planning
process at Gannon, using his
knowledge of the outside world.
"He's got a good feeling
for what's going on in a border
field," said Barone. "He under-stands
issues such as multicultu-ralism
and finances. He's looking
toward the enhancement of the
school and understands that every-one
has to be heard."
As academic vice presi-dent,
Wall will oversee the opera-tions
of the schools within the
University, with each of the deans
reporting to him. He is also respon-sible
for the Nyselius Library and
will provide educational leader-ship
and financial management.
In addition to his academic
and administrative experience,
Wall has also published two books
on the politics of the Puritan col-ony
of Massachusetts Bay and ten
works of fiction. His
scholarly articles
have appeared in the
Journal of American
History and the Wil
liam and Mary Quar
terly.
"He has writ-ten
in a creative man
ner, which is impor-tant
for presentations
and conversations,"
said Barone.
An eleven
person committee
conducted the six
month search for a
new academic vice
president, screening
approximately 80
candidates. Follow
ing a preliminary
review and elimina
tion, they interviewed
the most qualified ap
plicants, considering
letters and references,
then recommendedjpr. Robert E
three candidates toFr. Kelley, who
made the final decision.
The search committee
included Dr. Janine M. Bernard,
professor of the Graduate School
of Education and Allied Profes-sions,
Joan Fleitas, assistant pro-fessor
of nursing, Stephen Jakab,
assistant provost and director of
humanresources, Dr. George Lang,
associate professor of mathemat-ics
and computer science, Kathy
Latek '93, William Lucas, vice
president for finance, RogerLynch,
chair of the Board of Trustees
Physical Plant Committee, Dr.
Richard Regan, professor and chair
of the English department, Dr.
Walter Ryba, associate professor
of business law, Dr. Antonio Si-moes,
dean of the Graduate School
of Education and Allied Profes-sions,
and Barone.