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Pictured here are panels from a com¬ poser quilt containing -autograph fac¬ similes and musical quotations repre¬ senting twenty-seven master composers ofthe last six hundred years. The quilt is one of those on view at the Firelands Association for the Visual Arts (FAVA^ 80 South Main, in its "Quilts and Carousels" sesquicentennial exhibition, which is co-sponsored by the women's studies program. The exhibition opens Sunday with a reception from 2 to 5 pm and continues through 4 July. A sympo¬ sium on "Quilts as Visual Language," to be held in conjunction with the exhibi¬ tion, includes six talks, the first Wednesday at 4 pm and the last Sunday 15 May. The composer quilt was designed by conservatory alumnus Jeffrey N. Wood 76 and executed by his mother, quilt-maker Jean H. Wood of Beulah, Michi¬ gan, according to exhibition curator Ricky Clark. It was completed in 1978 and presented as a wedding gift to Jeffrey and Candace Wood, both musi¬ cians. It includes acknowledged musical masters from Machaut in the fourteenth century to contemporary American composer Roger Sessions. —photos by Edsel Little Faculty votes against merit evaluations this year At one of three meetings held this month, the general faculty 20 April voted fifty-four to fifty-one to request its council "to adopt a system for distri¬ bution of faculty salary increases which does not require merit review of the entire faculty this year." The day before, at its regularly scheduled meeting, it made a change in the calendar for the fall of 1983: classes will begin Friday 9 September instead of Thursday 8 Sep¬ tember, which is the first day of Rosh Hashanah. On the agenda for the meet¬ ing of 26 April were three items: a motion from the religious interests committee that formally endorses the practice of automatically excusing from classes students who wish to observe Jewish holidays; a proposed schedule for the academic year 1984-85 from the calendar dates committee; and a prog¬ ress report from the committee to review tenure policy. Timing of evaluation Sixteen college faculty members co-sponsored the motion concerning merit evaluations. In presenting it, Richard A. Zipser, associate professor of Ger¬ man, emphasized that they recognized the necessity for regular merit review. The motion did not oppose merit eval¬ uations, he said; it opposed having to make them late in the academic year, when faculty members are busiest, after they had been told that there would be none this year. Larry D. Shinn, professor of religion, speaking as a member of the general faculty council and in opposition to the motion, said that the council had de¬ cided in December against merit review for all faculty members because of the small salary increase approved by the trustees in November—5 percent over¬ all. There was, however, to be a merit review of junior faculty members, he explained, because the trustees had voted an additional increase for them. The council had told the trustees that it thought this arrangement unfair to fac¬ ulty members in the middle salary range and had asked them to consider a larger overall increase. In March the trustees had responded favorably by changing the overall salary increase from 5 to 7 percent. In reciprocation, Shinn said, the council had voted to have an overall merit review this year. The trustees, he said, expected such a review when it allocated more money for the salary increase. Shinn noted that some faculty mem¬ bers would prefer to have merit evalua¬ tions every other year rather than annu¬ ally, but he thought the faculty should not try to modify the system at this time. Other speakers, both those supporting and those opposing the motion, disas¬ sociated it from the question of the fre¬ quency of review. Several faculty who supported the motion said that the trustees did not understand how time-consuming and difficult merit evaluation is, especially in the college, where peer evaluations within departments and student course evaluations are consolidated by depart¬ ment chairs and sent on to the college faculty council for further evaluation. (In the conservatory, individual evalua¬ tions go directly to the conservatory faculty council.) Albert J. McQueen, professor of sociology-anthropology, said that trustees do not have enough opportunity to interact with the faculty to understand how painstaking the pro¬ cess of merit review is. Jere Bruner, associate professor of government, said, "merit evaluation is like a major opera¬ tion: it's costly, painful, and has to be done carefully. It preoccupies the atten¬ tion of those involved in it, and it leaves a certain amount of blood on the floor." As originally proposed, tbe motion asked the general faculty council to "adopt an across-the-board system of distributing . . . salary increases" to all faculty, with no merit review. An amend¬ ment allowing some merit review and some weighting of percentage increases was passed after a discussion of the effect of uniform percentage increases. Samuel Goldberg, professor of mathe¬ matics, said that a 7 percent increase for a person now making $42,000 was equal to a five-step merit increase, while a 7 percent increase for a person making half that was equal to only three steps. He also said that any alteration in the annual merit review process was likely to cost the faculty money in the long run. Robert Piron, associate professor of economics, argued, however, that the difference between the amounts of mon¬ ey awarded either way was not worth the trouble of a merit review. It was "a small amount before taxes and an insig¬ nificant amount after taxes," he said. Robert Geitz, assistant professor of mathematics, disagreed. The amount was not insignificant for junior faculty, he said. Anyone who would be judged above average in a merit review would lose a considerable amount of money in an across-the-board salary increase. The amendment passed by voice vote. There was a written ballot for the affirmative vote on the amended motion. The meeting on merit review was attended by 116 general faculty mem¬ bers, according to Arlene Hall, execu¬ tive assistant to the secretary of the col¬ lege. The 54 to 51 vote indicates 11 not voting; several administrators, whose salaries are not determined by the gen¬ eral faculty council, were heard to say that they did not vote. The merit review that the administrative and professional (CONTINUED ON PAGES) Draft and aid link delayed Students applying for financial aid are not at this time required to give evi¬ dence of draft registration or exemp¬ tion, but they "may be encouraged" to do so, according to an advisory letter from the US Department of Education to colleges and universities across the country. The letter was received last week by the financial aid office. Response to injunction This policy was set following a federal court injunction issued in Minnesota in March. The injunction temporarily bars the enforcement of the Solomon Amend¬ ment—the law that would require stu¬ dents applying for federal aid to show that they have registered for the draft or are exempt from doing so. Government lawyers have decided that the court injunction applies to colleges and uni¬ versities nationwide, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education (13 April). If the injunction is successfully chal¬ lenged, the information about draft reg¬ istration may be needed later to com¬ plete the financial aid application. In that case, the application process will be speeded up for those who have already supplied it, according to James W. White, director of financial aid. This would be particularly true at large uni¬ versities, he said, such as Ohio State, where contacting each aid applicant for the information would be especially time-consuming. Meanwhile, procedures established in January in Oberlin's financial aid office are unchanged. White says. Two files are maintained: information about draft registration, if available, is separ¬ ated completely from financial aid appli¬ cations. —Rebekah Bloyd Grace B. Austin Grace B. Austin, a sophomore, was found dead in her dormitory room Sunday 24 April. The cause of death was determined by the Lorain County coroner to be strangulation. The Ober-lin City police have charged Sean M. Culmer, a junior, with aggravated mur¬ der. He is in Allen Memorial Hospital following an apparent suicide attempt. A member of ABUSUA, Austin had planned a double major in English and economics.
Object Description
Title | Oberlin Observer. 1983-04-28 |
Description | volume 04, number 16 |
Subject | Oberlin College--Periodicals |
Editor | Ganzel, Carol |
Contributors |
Moors, Daniel (au) Lawson, Ellen (au) Sherman, Laurel (au) Sherman, Thomas (au) |
Topics | Sartre's Huis-clos; Faculty spouse questionaire results interpreted; Letter about alumni magazine; Letter about alumni magazine |
Date | 1983-04-28 |
Year | 1983 |
Month | April |
Day | 28 |
Type | text; image |
Format | |
Identifier | Oberlin_Observer_Vol_4_No_16.pdf |
Publisher | Oberlin College. Library |
Language | English |
Relation | http://www.oberlin.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/library/ref/index.php?db=observerindex |
Number of pages | 6 |
Description
Title | Page 1 |
Transcript | Pictured here are panels from a com¬ poser quilt containing -autograph fac¬ similes and musical quotations repre¬ senting twenty-seven master composers ofthe last six hundred years. The quilt is one of those on view at the Firelands Association for the Visual Arts (FAVA^ 80 South Main, in its "Quilts and Carousels" sesquicentennial exhibition, which is co-sponsored by the women's studies program. The exhibition opens Sunday with a reception from 2 to 5 pm and continues through 4 July. A sympo¬ sium on "Quilts as Visual Language," to be held in conjunction with the exhibi¬ tion, includes six talks, the first Wednesday at 4 pm and the last Sunday 15 May. The composer quilt was designed by conservatory alumnus Jeffrey N. Wood 76 and executed by his mother, quilt-maker Jean H. Wood of Beulah, Michi¬ gan, according to exhibition curator Ricky Clark. It was completed in 1978 and presented as a wedding gift to Jeffrey and Candace Wood, both musi¬ cians. It includes acknowledged musical masters from Machaut in the fourteenth century to contemporary American composer Roger Sessions. —photos by Edsel Little Faculty votes against merit evaluations this year At one of three meetings held this month, the general faculty 20 April voted fifty-four to fifty-one to request its council "to adopt a system for distri¬ bution of faculty salary increases which does not require merit review of the entire faculty this year." The day before, at its regularly scheduled meeting, it made a change in the calendar for the fall of 1983: classes will begin Friday 9 September instead of Thursday 8 Sep¬ tember, which is the first day of Rosh Hashanah. On the agenda for the meet¬ ing of 26 April were three items: a motion from the religious interests committee that formally endorses the practice of automatically excusing from classes students who wish to observe Jewish holidays; a proposed schedule for the academic year 1984-85 from the calendar dates committee; and a prog¬ ress report from the committee to review tenure policy. Timing of evaluation Sixteen college faculty members co-sponsored the motion concerning merit evaluations. In presenting it, Richard A. Zipser, associate professor of Ger¬ man, emphasized that they recognized the necessity for regular merit review. The motion did not oppose merit eval¬ uations, he said; it opposed having to make them late in the academic year, when faculty members are busiest, after they had been told that there would be none this year. Larry D. Shinn, professor of religion, speaking as a member of the general faculty council and in opposition to the motion, said that the council had de¬ cided in December against merit review for all faculty members because of the small salary increase approved by the trustees in November—5 percent over¬ all. There was, however, to be a merit review of junior faculty members, he explained, because the trustees had voted an additional increase for them. The council had told the trustees that it thought this arrangement unfair to fac¬ ulty members in the middle salary range and had asked them to consider a larger overall increase. In March the trustees had responded favorably by changing the overall salary increase from 5 to 7 percent. In reciprocation, Shinn said, the council had voted to have an overall merit review this year. The trustees, he said, expected such a review when it allocated more money for the salary increase. Shinn noted that some faculty mem¬ bers would prefer to have merit evalua¬ tions every other year rather than annu¬ ally, but he thought the faculty should not try to modify the system at this time. Other speakers, both those supporting and those opposing the motion, disas¬ sociated it from the question of the fre¬ quency of review. Several faculty who supported the motion said that the trustees did not understand how time-consuming and difficult merit evaluation is, especially in the college, where peer evaluations within departments and student course evaluations are consolidated by depart¬ ment chairs and sent on to the college faculty council for further evaluation. (In the conservatory, individual evalua¬ tions go directly to the conservatory faculty council.) Albert J. McQueen, professor of sociology-anthropology, said that trustees do not have enough opportunity to interact with the faculty to understand how painstaking the pro¬ cess of merit review is. Jere Bruner, associate professor of government, said, "merit evaluation is like a major opera¬ tion: it's costly, painful, and has to be done carefully. It preoccupies the atten¬ tion of those involved in it, and it leaves a certain amount of blood on the floor." As originally proposed, tbe motion asked the general faculty council to "adopt an across-the-board system of distributing . . . salary increases" to all faculty, with no merit review. An amend¬ ment allowing some merit review and some weighting of percentage increases was passed after a discussion of the effect of uniform percentage increases. Samuel Goldberg, professor of mathe¬ matics, said that a 7 percent increase for a person now making $42,000 was equal to a five-step merit increase, while a 7 percent increase for a person making half that was equal to only three steps. He also said that any alteration in the annual merit review process was likely to cost the faculty money in the long run. Robert Piron, associate professor of economics, argued, however, that the difference between the amounts of mon¬ ey awarded either way was not worth the trouble of a merit review. It was "a small amount before taxes and an insig¬ nificant amount after taxes," he said. Robert Geitz, assistant professor of mathematics, disagreed. The amount was not insignificant for junior faculty, he said. Anyone who would be judged above average in a merit review would lose a considerable amount of money in an across-the-board salary increase. The amendment passed by voice vote. There was a written ballot for the affirmative vote on the amended motion. The meeting on merit review was attended by 116 general faculty mem¬ bers, according to Arlene Hall, execu¬ tive assistant to the secretary of the col¬ lege. The 54 to 51 vote indicates 11 not voting; several administrators, whose salaries are not determined by the gen¬ eral faculty council, were heard to say that they did not vote. The merit review that the administrative and professional (CONTINUED ON PAGES) Draft and aid link delayed Students applying for financial aid are not at this time required to give evi¬ dence of draft registration or exemp¬ tion, but they "may be encouraged" to do so, according to an advisory letter from the US Department of Education to colleges and universities across the country. The letter was received last week by the financial aid office. Response to injunction This policy was set following a federal court injunction issued in Minnesota in March. The injunction temporarily bars the enforcement of the Solomon Amend¬ ment—the law that would require stu¬ dents applying for federal aid to show that they have registered for the draft or are exempt from doing so. Government lawyers have decided that the court injunction applies to colleges and uni¬ versities nationwide, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education (13 April). If the injunction is successfully chal¬ lenged, the information about draft reg¬ istration may be needed later to com¬ plete the financial aid application. In that case, the application process will be speeded up for those who have already supplied it, according to James W. White, director of financial aid. This would be particularly true at large uni¬ versities, he said, such as Ohio State, where contacting each aid applicant for the information would be especially time-consuming. Meanwhile, procedures established in January in Oberlin's financial aid office are unchanged. White says. Two files are maintained: information about draft registration, if available, is separ¬ ated completely from financial aid appli¬ cations. —Rebekah Bloyd Grace B. Austin Grace B. Austin, a sophomore, was found dead in her dormitory room Sunday 24 April. The cause of death was determined by the Lorain County coroner to be strangulation. The Ober-lin City police have charged Sean M. Culmer, a junior, with aggravated mur¬ der. He is in Allen Memorial Hospital following an apparent suicide attempt. A member of ABUSUA, Austin had planned a double major in English and economics. |
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