1978_09 The Daily Collegian September 1978

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Off the cuff
What did you think of this year's faculty raises?
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Seymour Mack, professor of geology
'Well, it'5 minimal Considering the
rate of inflation, the salaries professors
are Retting are deteriorating Over the
last four or five years, we've lost 25
percent This.year we were expecting
five percent, only down three percent
from the cost of living, the-/ told us two
and a half (percent) and that got thrown
out Considering the passage of Prop-
ostion 13, college professors aren't
going to be getting  raises  for  many
Bruce Wilkin, professor of education '(laugh) No comment I didn't
*now there was one I don' t know what
to say There wasn't anything. I think
stuck with inflation
I   paying   for   the   Vietnam
Sharah Bedrosian, professor of
quantative studies: "Pay raise, what
pay raise* You're being facetious
aren't you? It's changed my retirement plans. I will extend my teaching
so I won' t retire as early as planned .
We're told we're all supposed to
share the burden, but we've been
sharing the burden for a long time.*
Don R. Leet, professor of economics:
'(laughing), (more laughing)...Hal
It's a joke. It's a purely political move
that doesn 't just involve us, but all the
state employees. The governor right
now is riding the crest of the Jarvis-
Gann wave rather than being drowned
Former AS President Brewer
talks about Baxter and politics
Baxter expresses
concern over AS letter
BY TOM MAURER
CSUF
'resident Norman Baxter,
in a meeting ye:terday with Associated
Students President Cordon Riddle,
expressed concern over a portion of
a letter sent by the AS Senate to CSUC
Chancellor Clcnn Dumke
The letter, approved by the Senate
Tuesday, calls for a review of Baxter's
administration and challenged that
the Chancellor's previous inquiry
into the matter breached student
confidentiality.
'President Baxter expressed a concern that we (the AS Senate) may lose
some credibility at the state level with
the Chancellor,' said Riddle.
it that the Chancellor's
previous inquiry was 'nothing more
than a political administrative exercise' and that student confidentiality
was breached,' Riddle said.
"He conveyed to me that the confidentiality claim is inaccurate, and he
felt there were no grounds for thinking
the information (given to the Chancellor's team) was confidential,'
Riddle said 'I, however, and several
other, students were under the im-
Pdflfon   our   statements   were   con-
-Overall,' Riddle said, 'his reactic
was basically good. I expressed I
him that we (the AS Senate) want th
review of his procedures and he sai
'by all means, send It."
Piesident Norman Baxter
Evaluations
bers felt more warm-hearted about getting things done."
Baxter's main objection to the
evaluation was that the questions asked
did not spell out any specific areas that
were unacceptable
"You don't have anything that says
what is acceptable or unacceptable,"
be said.   I'm unacceptable-but why?"
"What you have here is not very useful,' he said. "It's hard to make differences in your manner of doing things
because you don't know what is acceptable or unacceptable."
Baxter also expressed concern that
the continuing turmoil will make for "a
very difficult year ahead for us."
"I have a concern that if this kind of
thing continues, it will certainly make
fund-raising more difficult," he said.
By CLAUDIA TYLfcR
powerful, ac-
former Associated Students
Bill Brewer  He is now work-
1 lias given up politics.
That's the damnest thing. Student
powerful, and I could
never figure out why. Why is student
government so powerful?*  he asked
jumps . when
tudent government officers talk
Vhen the Student Presidents Associa-
ion would go to Sacramento, the state
egislature would jump "
student body president
last year. He called the situation during
in office "unique,* citing conflicts between the legislative and executive branches of the AS government
'There was just total discomfort
throughout the year.. Through the Senate, I don't know of any major accomplishments that we made—because of
the divide and conquer situation. We
divided ourselves and conquered our
Brewer sard that he is not bitter.
He regards his involvement with
student government as a learning e»-
*l learned a lot about myself last
year," he said.
"I regret that 1 had to spend so much
time doing student government stuff
ttiat I really couldn't devote that much
time to me You have so many meetings it's incredible; plus you've got
to handle all the people in the office;
you've got to keep an eye on the Senate; you've got to meet with the Ad-
"You've got to make sure President
Norman A Baxter is playing straight
with you, which he doesn't always
do, and you've got to try to outg-iess
him. It's in your mind 24 hours a day.
You sleep with it. You dream about it.
You wonder, is he going to get to me?
And sure enough, if you didn't
think this one through and plot a chart
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