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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