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Vol. 78, No. 152 Eugene, Oregon 97403 y Tuesday, May 24, 1977 YWCA divests African stock holdings By HEA l HER McCLENAGHAN Of the Emerald In a show of support for this week's Southern Africa referen dum, the University YWCA di vested itself of its stock holdings in corporations doing business in Southern Africa Friday. Vicki Thayer of the YWCA Ad visory Board announced the board s decision to sell its four shares of IBM and its two shares of Texaco stock. YWCA member Kathy Smith said the group decided to rid themselves of the small holdings in an effort to call attention to the student anti-apartheid vote at the University. The student referendum calls for the University to dump its stock holdings in corporations with in vestments in South Africa (Azania), Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) or Southwest Africa (Namibia). A second ballot measure asks the University to end its granting of facilities to recruiters from com panies doing business with Southern Africa’s racist govern ments. Voting will continue today from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at polling booths at 13th Avenue and University Street and at Gilbert Hall. "A lot of people have asked us why the YWCA would take an ac tion like this,” Smith said. “We think it's important that students understand there is broad support for their symbolic vote that goes beyond the campus.” The YWCA, both nationally and locally, has taken a strong stand on racism and human rights for many years, Smith said. In 1970, the YWCA adopted its “One Im perative" — the elimination of ra cism wherever it exists and by any means necessary, Smith said. The One Imperative was reaf firmed at national conventions in 1973 and 1976. In 1975 the World YWCA adopted the following re solution: “The World YWCA Council calis upon national associations to urge their governments to apply the strongest economic measures against nations, which as a matter of national policy, flagrantly viol ate on the basis of race, the economic, political and social rights of a large segment of their population.” The resolution is also in line with United Nations General Assembly actions, Smith said. Faculty tenure hinges on ‘publish or perish’ As the number of job openings for Uni versity professors declines, the “publish or perish" truism of higher education is begin ning to hit too close to home for some Uni versity faculty. “The job market is such that we can now demand both that a person be an excellent researcher and teacher," says Stanford Tepfer, biology department head. “And without publication, research is of no value," Tepfer explains. Dave Barker, associate Biology profes sor, is one of those who hasn't published adequately and is now on the road to "perishing because of it. Barker was denied tenure and given ter By TOM WOLFE Of the Emerald mination notice this spring because he has yet to fulfill a general University require ment to make "significant, original and creative scholarly contributions” to the body of knowledge. More simply, Barker was turned down because he hasn't pub lished a full-length research article. His record is more than sufficient in other areas, says Tepfer. Barker's tenure denial was made even though he presented letters of recommen dation for his research program in neuro biology from a former Nobel Prize winner, Julius Axelrod, and other experts in the field. "I refuse to make a scientific decision on when to publish on the basis of a tenure time schedule. Only scientific judgment is appropriate when deciding when the re search project is complete enough for pub lication,” said Barker. The professor is now in the midst of trying to “get published" and plans to appeal his tenure denial. During tenure review last fall, Tepfer says he promised the review com mittee that published work would be forth coming but he had no actual printed mater ial to show. “He told us his publications would be out soon.' That was in October Here it is May and we still haven t seen anything. If he had done what he promised, there's a good chance he would have been accepted in the first place,’ says Tepfer. For some faculty members the task of coming up with a published article is more difficult. Library staff are judged on the same standards for tenure and promotion as are other University faculty, though they are seldom involved in typical research pro jects. Humanities Librarian Edmund Soule sees his job as primarily one of service, not research. “I think students are losing out by this publication requirement," Soule says. “I've been an excellent teacher and very close to my students, but unless I publish, my job's on the line like everyone else s“ Paul Olum, vice-president for academic affairs, agrees that librarians are in a "spe cial situation" with regard to the University publication requirement. Two weeks ago Olum *alked to the library faculty at length over the issue and says he left with the feeling that University librarians “were happy with the situation as it is.” William Axford, head University librarian, agrees. “A change just isn't going to hap pen and I personally don't believe it should," he said. (Continued on Page 7) Photo by Perry Gaskill Dave Barker, associate biology professor, is the latest victim of the “publish or perish" syndrome intruding upon the careers of faculty tenure candidates. Despite a success ful teaching record, Barker has failed to produce a full-length research article. LCC work study money runs out 11 days too soon By MARTHA BLISS Of the Emerald Work study students at Lane Community College (LCC) had an unpleasant surprise Friday when they learned the school has no more money for them until July 1. Estimates vary, but about 300 students will be affected by the funding depletion. The funds ran out 11 days ahead of time because of an ex ceedingly high work study payroll earlier this month. The payroll os cillates from month to month be cause of the nature of the pro gram, according to Jack Powell, LCC's financial aid director. “No two pay periods are the same," Powell said. “The prog ram has about 13 or 14 hourly pay rates and it’s hard to judge how many hours the students will work. In figuring out the work study budget, you’re crystal-balling all the time.” Work study funds come from a federal grant and, Powell said, students who can’t afford to miss their final pay check of the term will be able to continue working and receive National Direct Stu dent Loans. Others may be able to receive pay through the depart ments they work in. Still others, however, won’t work at all if they don’t want to and can afford the missing paycheck. None will be asked to do volunteer work. Powell estimates the maximum paycheck any student might miss because of the funding depletion will be $100. The average, he said, will be about $55. Powell stressed that all work study students will be paid for the hours they worked up until the an nouncement came Friday. Jamie Guyn, an English com position tutor on work study at LCC, said she resents the announcement’s abruptness. “They always pull things like this on us at the last minute. We had no idea this was going to happen until this morning,” she said Fri day. Powell, on the other hand, said the depletion wasn’t certain until Thursday afternoon when early May’s payroll was complete. Al though he said he had been con cerned for several months, Powell said he didn’t know for certain of the problem until Friday morning. Powell said LCC has never run out of work study funding before and added he thought the school did pretty well to come so close this year.
