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4 - Vcrnooia Newt Weekly 1'hurixUy. July 21. lt>77 Tips For Tightening Your Home Prime Tim e Forced Retirement Hurts the Kids, Too by Harriet Miller A professor o f sociology is about Io lose his jo b at ihe New P allz branch o f ihe Stale U n i versiiy o f New Y o rk because he c o m m itte d the sin o f passing his 70th b ir th day. The students at N ew Paltz d o n 't w ant U r Kenneth Skelton to be fired, and herein lies a lesson Y oung peo ple can be h u rt just as m uch as old e r people by the penalties im posed by society on the old Said R ichard A d le r just before his M ay g ra d u a tio n fro m S U N Y at New Paltz Tse been here fo u r years M y first class was w ith l ) r Skelton and it it wasn't fo r D r Skelton I w o u ld have left He's just a very in sp irin g person He has inspired a lot o l people to do a lot o f serious studying I w o u ld say that he is p robably the best teacher on cam pus." A dler helped lead a g roup ol 20 students w ho call themselves the C om m ittee Against M a n d a tory R etirem ent th e y measured the student body's interest in the issue by c irc u la tin g a p e titio n urging an end to forced retire m enl at the school W hen ha lf o f the student body signed in less than a week, the g ro u p decided to act on th e ir m andate I hey held rallies, met w ith stale legis lators. and approached the col lege a d m in istra tio n on several occasions to request a w a iv e r of the retirem ent p o lic y fo r D r Skelton Ih e a d m in is tra tio n has refused to change o r m o d ify its p olicy A d le r said. "W e 're really c o n cerned w ith the p rin c ip le It is o u r education W here is the line to be d ra w n when we have no in p u t in to w hat goes on around here ’ Y o u just can't judge a p e r son's com petence by th e ir race, by th e ir sex, o r by th e ir age A nd that's exactly w hat's being done " Hut, con tin u e d A d le r, members o f the school a d m in istra tio n "are not interested in a n ything that has to do w ith student o p in io n If they had an interest in quality education they w o u ld recognize a very effective teacher and there arc not many a ro u n d ." He added that the num ber ot students D r Skelton teaches equals the teaching load o f nearly five average faculty members at New Paltz I hat suggests, among other things, that the professor's presence means an enorm ous f i nancial saving fo r the in s titu tio n Ih e com m ittee's soundings o f New Y o rk state legislators point to the possible January 197S pas sage o f a law banning m andatory retirem ent in the state, an event that m ay come five m onths lo o late to save D r Skelton's job H u co n tra ct expires this August A n d at P ennsylvania State U n iv e rs ity , P ro, A m brose K la in has run in to the same a d m in is tra tiv e arbitrariness as D r S kel ton has found at N ew Paltz The o n ly difference is that at Penn State a professor is to o o ld to teach when he o r she turns 65. P ro, K la in , a postw ar refugee fro m C zechoslovakia, is w o rrie d about having to support his w ife and tw o adolescent ch ild re n on a le tirc m e n t salary He has had to go to c o u rt to try and save a job fo r w h ich he received an aw ard lo r excellence in 1972 H is suit is pending W e may w ell question w hat the schools are teaching the stu dents by decreeing that teachers must re tire at an a rb itra ry age, w hatever the q u a lity o f their w ork W hen the students lose th e ir best teachers, and the teach ers lose th e ir jobs, w ho is le ft to c la im victory? (H arriet M iller is the e tr e a tis e director of the non profit, non partisan National R etired le a ch ers Association and American Association of Retired Persons in H'ashington, /> C J One of the biggest and most costly wastes of energy in the home is the unnecessary loss of heat in the winter and increase of heat in the summer through walls, ceilings, floors, doors and win dows. Insulating your home properly is one of the key ways to stop it from being an energy-waster In ad dition, these other tips, from the Edison Electric Institute, will help you convene energy: 1. Weatherstrip and caulk around all windows and doors. If they are leaking air, you may be increasing your heating bills by 15 to 50 percent. 2. Install storm win dows or insulating glass. "This will cut in half the amount of heat lost through the windows of your home. J. fly drawing shades or draperies on cold days when the sun isn't shining, you can also cut heat lost through win dows. 4. Close the damper in your fireplace tightly when you’re not using it. 5. And close the divors to the attic, basement, g a ra g e , or o th e r u n h eated p a rts o f your home so you won't spend money heating or cooling spaces when they're not being used. 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