University of Wisconsin Oshkosh - Quiver Yearbook (Oshkosh, WI)

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by kris norgard - c -, y ? H?r j5P2» GrwV,061 775 7 . Uh ter ' ° b ££ cSf?5ffS 4gft, Vs Vs - gi'H M y ckJ ctlon. SKSrfiSfr '■• “ m iou yfk kV EI m •« ., —. -, - -S3 E® » 5e c. !fem arm er e Z 2 M 5 e AP Ss 5 £' «t - This being my first year away from Madison I am homesick for the fun and general hell-raising like dope smoke-ins, taking over State Street for a pedestrian mall, and protesting imperialist U.S. actions in Indo-China. Tear gas, police brutality, and street action are now only fond memories. So naturally, paging through old Advance-Titans I was drawn to headlines like Campus Coalition Fights Cuts, Faculty Unites to Protect Rights, “Faculty Defies Administration, et cetera. It seems that last spring, the controversy was close to home. UW-0 had the budget cut, and faculty, tenured and non-tenured, were fired to cut costs. Hasty action by WEACT (not an acronym but a declaration of intent) and a Student-Faculty Coalition resulted in some reconsideration of where the budget should be cut. Chancellor Guiles was in the hot seat. Franklin Utech, chairman of the Art Department and President of WEACT headed the actions taken. Utech is not a wild-eyed radical. He is very easy to talk to and is idealistic about the whole philosophy of higher education. Professor Utech sees the necessity of faculty unionization and collective bargaining. You can’t let the administration have the faculty over the barrel, that certainly isn’t academic freedom. Every time you have to economize, knock a teacher or researcher off the payroll, maybe even close a department, tnai certainly will not enhance the academic quality oi UW-O. But a unionized faculty might strike! All my tuition down the drain. I went to hear Don Krahn, Director of Field Services for WEA-NEA speak about collective bargaining on September 12. Collective bargaining is going to oe a reality. You can’t hide your head in the sand like an ostrich, it isn’t going away. Three bills have been introduced in the State Legislature. Don Krahn quietly but emphatically pointed out that WEA-NEA is a powerful organization with resources to fight the public school teachers battles in the courts and in the Legislature. If we don’t join their union, we can have a hassle getting a decent cut of the State budget for education. If we’re not with them, we’re against them. Professional pride is keeping faculty from unionizing. Labor unionizes for pay, professors will have to unionize to have a voice in governance and in priorities in the budget. B 23

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SPECIAL MISSION CENTERS Stout and Green Bay campuses will offer a few unique graduate programs conferring Master’s Degrees. ft STUDENT- FACULTY COALITION Formed last April. Students joined with WEACT to' protest faculty cuts and to help solve the problem affecting the academic quality of UW-O. TAUWF (The Association of University of Wisconsin Faculties,) a relatively powerless independent organization. Has 80 percent (442) of the UW-0 faculty in its membership, nearly 3,000 members state-wide. TENURE After a probationary period, faculty are assured of their academic freedom by being granted retention for an indefinite period. Employment could be ended by incompetence or ‘ ‘moral turpitude.” UNITED COUNCIL (United Council of University of Wisconsin Student Governments.) UW-0 became a member this fall. United Council deals with basic student issues and increases student voice in governance. WEA (Wisconsin Education Association,) is an affiliate of parent NE A. WEACT Now an affiliate of WEA-NE A, power in the form of faculty unionization and collective bargaining is their goal. WFT (Wisconsin Federation of Teachers,) a member of the (f AFL-CIO, wants to get a cut in the action of unionizing UW faculty. It authored itsown Collective Bargaining bill. 22

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PRO PRO PRO by bill schlamer Believe it on not, this is the Pro-Con column; the column that gives knowledgeable people the opportunity to rationally debate current controversial issues. The column that asks a question and gives a proponent a 1,000 word whack at it, gives the same chance to an opponent, and then has the opposing sides exchange statements for 1,000 word rebuttals. Statements and rebuttals appear side by side. No words barred. Well, almost no words are barred. That's the way the column has worked in the oast. That’s the way we planned it for this issue’s dabate: Should the proposed student user’s fee be adopted? It didn’t turn out as planned. You see, .here’s this new guy on the job, and the thing became kind of an exercise in futility. friday august 31 To make a long story longer, it all started when I was handed one of those silly little scratch pad notes captioned, Notes from an Italian Lover,’’ and Biobanana’d on the note was the editor’s message, “For Pro-Con, check student government ior someone pro-user fee (probably someone from the allocations committee). Dean Smith probably for con. That’s when I got on the user fee merry-go-round, guenther “Sounds like pretty heavy stuff, commented Gerry Guenther, Oshkosh Student Association (OSA) vice president, as I explained the format of the column and the question to be debated, but I don’t know where you’re going to find someone on campus who is pro-user fee, he added. Guenther said he was certain OSA President Gwen Kelly would be willing to give The Last Quiver a statement opposing the plan, but he also suggested that the ideal debate would be between two Madison user fee antagonists, Randy Nilsestuen, United Council president, and Donald Percy, UW system vice president of budget, planning and analysis. Good idea, I agreed, but I think we’d have more student interest if the comments were from students, faculty, or administrators here on campus. I told Guenther not to go ahead with an OSA statement until I located a proponent of the user fee plan. johnson-edson Recalling that Gerald Johnson, UW-0 budget analyst, had made some comments about the user fee earlier in the year, I dropped in at his Dempsey Hall office to ask whether he knew of anyone in administration who favored the plan. I don’t think you’re going to find anyone in Dempsey who is pro-user fee, he predicted. Johnson criticized the plan's vague phrasing, especially the term, non-instructional activity.’ What is non-instructional activity?” he wondered. Johnson offered to ask Joel Edson of the Administrative Affairs office whether he knew a campus use fee advocate. After a few minutes, Johnson returned from Edson’s office and said that Edson had told him guidelines from UW’s Central Administration were expected the following week, and that an official university position might be released then. According to Jonnson, Edson had called the current user fee proposal, a philosophy, not a definitive plan. Tne attitude of the administration toward the philosophy, Edson said, could be described as hostile. tuesday September 4 goff Working on the hunch that the user fee might have come up in class or faculty discussions in the political science department, I contacted Dr. Charles Goff, who is teaching Wisconsin Government and Politics this semester. I told Goff, “I’m looking for someone rather uniaue; someone who is a supporter of the proposed student use fee.” Goff said the user fee had not been discussed at great length among political science faculty members. He thought tne plan would sound the death knell for intercollegiate athletics on the smaller UW-system campuses. He suggested that Eric Kitzman, director of intercollegiate athletics, CON CON CON 24