I can't get

no respect

If traffic signs could talk,
it’s likely the one which

halts traffic behind the
Classroom Building
would chastise the two
cyclists for failure to
heed a command.
Actually, the sign refers
to automobiles,
illustrating another

advantage of bicycling.

(Kernel staff photo by Pinkie

Foster)

The Kentucky Kernel

Vol. LXV No. 41
Thursday, October 4, 1973

an independent student newspaper

University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY. 40506

 

TAMPERING WITH a system of tenure

that has widespread acceptance among

'Tenure

faculty and administrators at UK as well
as across the country would be senseless.

This is the conclusion of the ad hoc

Committee to reevaluate
promotion, as expressed in its October 1
report to the University Senate Council.

tampering

senseless'

tenure and

While alternatives to the tenure system

were discussed, “they were quickly
abandoned,

" said Dr. Joseph Krislov,

committee chairman and professor of
economics.

The committee could see little sense, he

said, in making intensive analyses of
alternative systems with no basis of
support on campus, and which would

require years of determined effort to get

adopted.

before the committee concluded

FOUR OTHER SYSTEMS were studied
ltwe

would work within the confines of the

existing tenure system."

By MIKE CUNNINGHAM
Kernel Staff Writer

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by the Associated Press

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—One was to abolish tenure and have no
contracts, faculty and administrators
relying upon mutual trust.

—Another was to make contracts for
specific periods of time at specific

 

 

 

0 WASHINGTON Cost of Living
(‘ouncil Director John T. Dunlop says
more gasoline price increases can be
expected, despite the 2.5 cent per gallon
hike the council approved Friday. The
hikes are justified, Dunlop said.

salaries, a system similar to the one now
employed for athletic coaches.

—A third possibility was "rolling con-
tracts" with the length of the contract
increased after each renewal.

-—A fourth proposal was to retire sub-
stantial numbers of faculty after
reasonable periods of service, i.e., 20 or
more years, y'ving them an enticing
pension.

The committee in its report says, “None
of these alternatives seemed to be par-
ticularly attractive, either for the faculty
or the University. Some would involve
increased costs. Experience with any of
these alternatives has been practically nil
because almost all American universities
(97 per cent) have a tenure system.
Moreover, the tenure system at our
University has a statutory base, and any
recommendations for drastic change
would require legislative action.”

THE COMMITTEE recommended eight
changes in the existing structure,
however.

“There may be considerable ad-
ministration opposition” to recom-
mendation no. 7, which allows a faculty

0 “ASHINUTON — Donald H. Segretti
Wednesday catalogued his inventory of
tricks against 1972 Democratic
presidential candidates, apologized and
said they have no place in election cam-
paigns.
0 WASHINGTON — Lt. William L.
(‘alley Jr. appeals his conviction and 20-
year sentence in the My Lai massacre to
the US. Court of Military Appeals on
Thursday.

0 \\ .\SIIIN(BTO.\' President Nixon
acknowledged that bribery and kickback
allegations against Vice President Spiro T.
Agnew are “serious and not frivolous" but
declared Wednesday that the vice
president should be presumed innocent.

And he said he had never asked the vice
president to resign.

member to request a written statement
explaining why reappointment to tenure
has been withheld, said Krislov.

In recommendation no. 4 the committee
urges all departments “to set up
reasonable standards of performance for
their discipline.”

”This could cause considerable work,
and perhaps be fruitless,” Krislov said. He
added however that “there should be an
effort to detail and specify standards for
tenure.”

The thought behind recommendation no.
3, dealing with performance review, is that
“reviews of no non-tenured person should
be geared toward the question, ‘Is the guy
making progress toward tenure?’ "

Other proposals include an attempt to
formalize the faculty file system and make
it available to the faculty, relaxation of
rules dictating amount of credit to be
accepted for prior service at other in-
stitutions, and increased participation by
faculty in decision processes.

THE COMMITTEE while deliberating,
heard the views of approximately 57 in-
dividuals and groups affiliated with the
university.

Relief from the humidity spell should
come tonight as cloudiness decreases and
cooler air moves in. There's a chance of
showers today with temperatures near 80
and in the 505 tonight.