Faculty ponders salary issues
By MARIAN GREEN
Of tha Emerald
Money is at the root of all
three motions the University
Senate will consider today in
Room 229jpf the Law School at
3:30 p.m.jr
Bayard McConnaughey,
author of two of the motions,
says his proposals are intended
to make “policies more just and
fair than current ones.”
His first motion deals with
faculty raises.
According to the motion,
whenever “across-the-board”
raises are given, they should be
given in equal dollar amounts
and not as percentage in
creases of each individual's
current pay.
“It’s a matter of common
sense and justice that will result
in keeping the gaps between
salaries small instead of contin
ually widening them,” McCon
naughy says.
When “across-the-board"
percentage raises are given,
faculty members at higher pay
levels receive more of an in
crease than faculty members at
lower pay levels, he says.
Reagan upbraids press
for stories about Nancy
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pre
sident-elect Ronald Reagan
said Tuesday he is “getting to
be an irate husband” after
reading a number of recent
news stories about his wife,
“none of which are true.”
Reagan was speaking to
reporters outside Blair House,
the government guest quarters
across the street from the White
House, after announcing that he
would appoint James Brady, the
transition team spokesman, to
be his press secretary at the
White House.
“Do you think Brady's good
looking enough?” asked one
reporter, referring to a pub
lished report that Nancy Reagan
had resisted his appointment
because she wanted her hus
band to name a more attractive
spokesman.
“That question leads to a
story that has been written con
cerning Nancy which was a total
invention out of whole cloth,
and there have been several
more of those,” Reagan replied.
"I am getting to be an irate
husband at some of the things
that I am reading — none of
which are true — and Nancy
couldn't be more delighted and
thinks he's absolutely hand
some.”
Brady, whose boyish face
belies his 40 years, beamed.
Reagan declined to say what
other stories about his wife were
untrue, but one that received
widespread publicity even after
it was denied was a report that
Nancy Reagan couldn't under
stand why the Carters didn't
move out of the White House
early so she could redecorate
the family quarters before mov
ing in.
McConnaughy submitted a
similar motion to the University
Assembly in 1976, but it was
voted down.
"The people at the top want
ed to retain their privileges,” he
says of the defeat.
The other motion asks the
University Administration to
lower each University em
ployee's pay by an equal
amount before laying off any
employee during a financial
emergency.
"It's wrong for people making
a good living to tell people who
aren’t making as much to give
up their livelihood before ever
yone has made sacrifices,"
McConnaughy says.
The inequity of the two
policies stems from the Univer
sity's hierarchical structure, he
says.
“Hierarchies work to the ben
efit of those at the top. They give
most of the money to those who
have the most and take away
from those who have the least.”
If the motions pass the Senate
and the Assembly, McCon
naughy says they could "in
crease the morale of the lower
ranks and encourage faculty to
come to the University.”
The third motion, submitted
by chemistry department head
Robert Mazo, concerns govern
ment procedures for determin
ing what costs are allowed and
how costs are accounted for on
federal grants and contracts.
According to Mazo, the Office
of Management and Budget
requires faculty members to
report the total effort of their
work, not just the fraction sup
ported by the grant.
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