University of Maryland College Park - Terrapin / Reveille Yearbook (College Park, MD)

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troversy, which University administrators hoped to resolve by year ' s end, has raised basic and volatile questions about the institution ' s purpose The firestorm began in the spring of 1975 when the campus budget development committee, citing an unequal distribution of resources, recommended 116 faculty positions be shifted over a four-year period. The shift was to be mainly from the hard sciences, concentrated in the mathematics, physical sciences and engineering division, to such soft sciences as those in the behavioral and social sciences division The arts and humanities division also was to loose some positions. The reaction to the proposal from the hard sciences was swift and extreme, with 14 administrators in that division threatening to resign and accusing the administration of trying to make outstanding departments mediocre m the interest of fairness Reallocation proponents cited enrollment shifts and said that, as a result, professors and instructors in some division had tougher teaching loads than others But the physics professors and their allies said that teaching criterion ignored their valuable research work. As generally happens in academic controversies, a com- promise of sorts was reached. While the campus waited for its new chancellor, Robert L. Cluckstern, to arrive m July, most faculty shifts were delayed. Cluckstern set up task forces to consider the whole question and hoped to come up with some kind of moderate solution for the coming fiscal year So, only time will tell. Student organizations have been protesting in Annapolis over possible cutbacks and the University administration must make that annual .?0-mile trek to the great statehouse halls his semester to plead their case Whatever, the assembly decides, it appears the University will have to pull its belt in another notch over an expanding middle until it looses some weight or the legislature makes a new suit.

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Bridwell heads a more personable Health Center Many changes have occurred in the University ' s health center over the past year The Women ' s Health Center has moved to pleasant, uncrowded headquarters in the basement Here women now can be examined by three nurse practitioners who work under a doctor ' s supervision. The attic of the Health Center has been painted and par- titioned into offices for many of the doctors, including Dr Margaret Bridwell, health center director, as well as for the Mental Health Center Patients and workers find the atmosphere of the center easy going and relaxing. The Health Center, with many of its rooms clad in a fresh coat of paint, resembles a happy place, rather than the dismal clinics many public health centers appear to be KNITS -n THINGS- BELTWAY PLAZA