Brown and White Vol. 96 no. 30

              the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pennsylvania vol 96 — no 30 tuesday february 5 1985 215 861-4181 b&w reveals top lu salaries 1 979-82 by rob wengert editor in chief provost arthur humphrey earned 93,919 in 1982 with president peter likins who arrived in july of that year and received 6 months compensation earning 62,562 according to the 1982 internal revenue service form 990 obtained by the brown and white the university is required to file an annual form 990 for the fiscal year every spring the form which is the return of organization exempt from income tax discloses the university's assets liabili ties revenues and related budget and financial information includ ing the top five faculty salaries and all officers salaries the top five faculty salaries for 1982 were computer science pro fessor and computer and information science center director donald hillman s77,646 chemistry professor and center for sur facing and coatings research center director henry leidheiser jr 575,725 engineering college dean donald 8011e 570,952 civil engineering professor and fritz lab director lynn beedle 69,055 and albert zettlemoyer former provost and now chemistry professor 66,950 cool jazz b&w pholo by rob weisstuch celebrated jazz and classi cal trumpeter wynton marsalis played to a sold out crowd at broughal middle school friday night hentoff urges responsibility in fellow journalists by lynn anne miller nat hentoff lehigh's first joseph b mcfadden distinguished professor stressed the need for reporters to be responsible to themselves and to the pub lic in a speech thursday night in neville hall the self-described advocacy wri ter and troublemaker said this need often requires journalists to disregard the wishes of editors publishers and government officials hentoff also discussed the increasing criticism and distrust of the press recal ling the watergate era when the investig ative team of woodward and bernstein were heroes and everyone thought the republic had been saved hentoff con trasted those sentiments with current public opinion which holds the press to be arrogant intrusive with regard to privacy and reckless commenting on the ariel sharon libel case hentoff said if there was an arro gant cup time magazine has retired it the public's anger at the press he con cluded is due to the fact that the average citizen has no way of getting back at the press a columnist for the village voice for the last 27 years hentoff is best known as a passionate defender of first amend ment rights in addition to his work for the voice his column sweet land of liberty is carried by the los angeles times-washington post news service according to journalism division head robert sullivan it was hentof f s engage ment with the first amendment that led to his lehigh appointment hentoff teaches a course on journalism ethics hentoff adheres to his ethical values via the maxim never ever trust the government it doesn't matter who's in power they're always lying his favor ite example of government deceit and press censorship involves the glomar explorer a ship built in 1973 by howard hughes and financed by the cia to retrieve a soviet submarine which had sunk with nuclear warheads and eode books on board a silken william colby cia director convinced all the major newspapers and television net works to withhold the story due to national security interests as syndi cated columnist jack anderson later revealed colby had fabricated the secret nature of the project labeling the incident a marvelous piece of subversion of the first amend ment hentoff quoted the washington post's executive editor benjamin brad lee as saying this happens more often than the public might think he con demned the reporters obedience to their superiors orders calling it the eich mann principle as applied to journal ists hentoff advocated leaking news to b&w pholo by mary ralston nat hentoff administration faculty arthur humphrey provost-$93,919 paul franz vp-development-$84,092 john woltjen treasurer-$77,986 joseph goldstein vp—research—s69,bo9 eric ottervik p^tet uk7s istrati°n"$68 ' 1 president—s62,s62 half salary—arrived 7-1-82 _ ona,d hl,,man computer science—s77,646 henry leidheiser jr mm chemistry-$75,725 1982 donald bolle engineering dean—s7o,9s2 l beedle civi en9'neering-$69,055 albert zettlemoyer chemistry—s66,9so 1979-82 salary chart-page 4 lu salary policies reviewed by rob wengert editor in chief the faculty have always been interested in how administrative salaries are determined and justi fied acording to history professor lawrence leder who chairs the faculty compensation committee fcc but they've never really got ten a handle on how to deal with it " he said some faculty feel they would be intruding in the presi dent's domain the fcc is a monitoring body not a bargaining group similar to a union leder said the fcc meets with the president to agree on university salary policies although president peter likins instituted a triennial trustee review of officers last year the trustees do not review salary recommendations and determination according to treasurer john woltjen the president's council which includes the vice presidents and academic deans reviews the overall budget determinations for salaries and wages but not individual salaries woltjen pointed out the annual percent increase allocated for salaries indicates the total dollar amount and not the administration of the money for individual salaries faculty salaries are determined by the provost and the college deans based on their evaluations and observations during the academic year woltjen said most facutly interviewed assumed that admi nistrative salary increases included percentages of research contracts solicited by officers in research related fields but woltjen said that officers are not normally involved in research administration compensated by lehigh and he stated that the irs form 990 figures for offiers represent solely lehigh salary compensation faculty however receive extra university compensation when a faculty member works under a corporate research project at lehigh and then the university pays the professor from the money received from the research funds woltjen said faculty research money is deter mined by the amount of time a professor spends on a research project and that the contract usu ally includes an agreed upon amount not a per centage of the research grant the amount of time spent on research varies from year to year which indicates the varied salary fluctuations among faculty individual faculty are categorized by field and rank and increases are based on merit which includes scholarship research service andteach see market page 4 see journalist page 5 see salaries page 4