IFC vetoes EMU director salary
By CAROLYN BEAVER
Of the Emerald
University students may not
have to kick in as much money to
support the EMU next year if Pres.
William Boyd approves the veto
the Incidental Fee Committee
(IFC) imposed on the EMU
Director's salary.
In their final budget veto hear
ing, the IFC voted four to three to
uphold the ASUO executive’s veto
of the $27,994 director s salary.
Former president Gary Feld
man presented the veto saying
the salary should come under
University and not incidental fee
costs since the director reports di
rectly to the Vice-Provost for Stu
dent Affairs and not the students.
Feldman also said IFC funds
shouldn’t support the position
since students don’t have any
voice in hiring or firing the director.
Feldman vetoed the salary for
the University Consultant, who
works with the EMU Program Of
fice and Cultural Forum. The
committee, however, overrode
the veto 6 to 1.
IFC Chairer Doug Benson cal
led the veto “less principle and
Literature, health profs win Ersteds
Specialists in literature and
health education research have
been selected for this year’s Ers
ted awards for distinguished
teaching.
Barbara Ann Clarke-Mossberg,
assistant professor of English,
and Lorraine Davis, associate pro
fessor of health education, will be
honored with the awards during
the University's 100 commence
ment ceremony, Sunday, June
11.
Davis is the first health educa
tion faculty member to win an Ers
ted award. Department head
Richard Schlaat says her courses
are much in demand, and that she
has geared research courses in
the department to the health
fields, rather than to other discip
lines.
Davis is listed in “Who’s Who in
American Colleges,” and is a
member of several national health
organizations. She has served as
a safety and research consultant
to sponsored projects in Washing
ton state, and has written a test
guide for a major health education
textbook.
Mossberg, the seventh English
faculty member chosen for Ersted
honors, is “vivacity and en
thusiasm personified,” according
to Dept, chairer Glen Love.
She considers American and
modern literature, women’s litera
ture and creative writing to be her
special fields. However, she is
also engaged by comedy, satire
and tragedy.
“A lot of people think you have
to be easy to be popular with stu
dents,” colleague Kathleen Dubs
says. “But Barbara's very rigorous
Econ prof
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develop projects that would allow
graduate students to participate
on a team basis.
“Nonetheless, there is a great
deal of guidance that is provided,
and many of our graduate stu
dents have achieved positions of
considerable importance and pres
tige,” Bierwag notes. “One of our
female PhDs is a leading labor
economist in the country. She is
an associate professor at Florida
State University."
No University economics doctor
ate holder is currently unem
ployed, he adds.
• Tom Wiens. "The Wiens ap
pointment was a very good one,”
Bierwag asserts. “He contributed
a great deal to the capacity of this
department to undertake more ex
tensive research. He established
the soft-ware for the computer that
we still use extensively.”
Wiens’ area of specialization is
China, and he is now being cited
as an authority on peasant agricul
ture, according to Bierwag.
He adds that the University re
search library did not have mater
ials Wiens needed, and this lack of
resources played a major part in
his decision to leave the Univer
sity.
• Departmental research re
quirement. “Publishing in national
journals doesn't mean that one is
talking to just two or three other
persons, as Simeral contends,”
Bierwag says. “I have generally
found that my fellow professionals
outside the state are far more in
terested in my work than those in
side the state.”
“It is impossible to be current (in
one’s field) without having con
tacts outside the state,” he adds.
“There is too great a lag between
the writing of papers and their dis
tribution; it is necessary to receive
the papers and know the results of
other people’s research before it
is published."
“The more one does locally, the
less time there is to spend read
ing,” he observes.
Bierwag says Friedman was a
“super student,” but that the de
partment at no time assured her
there would be a position waiting
for her. However, the women con
tend that Friedman was never
seriously considered for the posi
tion.
“I don’t know what they want by
way of support,” Bierwag says of
the women’s contention that the
department is unsupportive of
their work in non-traditional areas.
“If they want us to give them some
guidance and help, we are pre
pared to give it and always have
been.”
more performance oriented.”
After receiving negative com
ments on Consultant Frank Gelt
ner, Feldman tendered the veto.
Committee members decided it
was not up to them to determine
the ability and performance of the
consultant since the person in that
position is directly responsible to
the EMU director.
There were also complaints that
and very demanding ... She
probably does as much teaching
outside the classroom as she
does in it. She has office hours
from morning ‘till night.”
A member of the Modem Lan
guage Association and Daugh
ters, Mossberg was recently ap
pointed as a Danforth Foundation
Associate, which is a national or
ganization recognizing outstand
ing undergraduate instructors.
Mossberg has written many es
says and poems and is the author
of a soon-to-be published book on
Emily Dickinson.
The Ersted awards are given
annually by the University to en
courage and reward exceptional
teaching. Award winners receive
a $1,000 cash prize made availa
ble from a trust fund established
by the late A.J. Ersted.
Geltner was hired under state af
firmative action guidelines, not
ASUO guidelines. The committee
voted unanimously that all groups
requesting IFC funds must follow
the ASUO guidelines.
In a move contradictory to his
campaign promises, newly
elected ASUO Pres. Ramon
Herrera requested $2,500 for the
executive budget that will pay a
legislative coordinator $500 for
five months. Herrera said during
the election he wanted to trim the
executive’s budget.
The Condon Society and
Graduate Student Organization
Center for Educational Policy and
Management’s budgets were cut
during the hearing.
The Condon Society was held
back because the ASUO execu
tive and IFC decided the program
should show some growth before
additional funds were awarded.
GSO-CEPM was trimmed to $100
from $450.
Committee members upheld
the Black Student Union’s original
budget after hearing vetos from
Feldman in the speaker and re
cruiting areas.
The EMU Board was granted
$50 in supplemental funds and
given a $77 line item change to
pay for telephone transfer costs
that will be incurred as a result of
changing several ASUO pro
gram’s office space.
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bierwag says vviens me
University after being denied ten
ure to take a posttion with Math
matica, a prominent research or
ganization in Washington, D.C.
The department put Wiens up
for tenure early. Bierwag says al
though he hadn’t yet published
anything, Wiens had several pap
ers in progress, many of which
have since been published.
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