Brown and White Vol. 90 no. 10

              lehigh university brown and white vol 90 — no 10 bethlehem pa friday october 6 197h i 11 flit dili employe group reconstituted rv lee ann 1.1 sariii the employe relations advisory com mittee ( erac has been reconstituted and will be more directly involved in defining and solving problems according to eric ottervik vice president for planning and services erac consists of 12 voting members and represents all professional-ad ministrative paraprofessional secretarial-clerical and technical staff the committee will advise thomas ver bonitz director of administrative and personnel services on matters of policy and programs pertaining to employe relations for these groups according to its charge the committee first was formed five years ago and had an informal charge to advise the administration on employe relations ottervik said however it was perceived by a lot of employes as being concerned primarily with things like the employe picnic and christmas party ottervik said the committee's new formal charge states areas of primary concern include the following compensation benefits working conditions staff recognition and development and problem solving mech anisms the reconstituted erac is the first major attempt the university has made to establish a staff persons com mittee to work on issues like this ver honitz said htervik and verbonitz said they want direct input on the areas mentioned in the charge historically there wasn't any real way of bringing these problems to the surface so they were left to fester verbonitz said erac is not a creature of the adminis tration ottervik said this is a major opportunity for various parts of the university other than the faculty to have some real participation in decisions that affect them the election process for four of the secretarial-clerical representatives on the committee will begin monday the 250 member secretarial staff has increased its representation on the committee from two to five in order to have one representative for every 50 members nominations and optional position papers have been submitted this week to muriel whitcomb erac chairperson and assistant dean of students approximately 60 members of the secretarial staff attended an open meeting held september 29 to explain the new election process whitcomb said for merly the secretarial staff voted for the representatives from a list of 250 names a memorandum to the secretarial staff noted that the intent of formal nominations and position papers is to identify candidates who are truly in terested in the position and to make known candidates positions in advance those who attended the open meeting seemed to feel the reconstituted form of erac is worth a try and seemed to have a positive attitude toward the elections whitcomb said ottervik noted that a group of secretaries and a group of technicians had been meeting informally to discuss em ploye relations and that both groups had been talking of unionization we wanted to coordinate these groups ottervik said we have to deal with a group that represents all employe interests not a host of splinter groups erac's twelve voting members include three representatives elected from the professional-administrative staff for merly the professional-administrative staff had two representatives one representative is elected for the paraprofessional staff five from the secretarial-clerical staff one from the technical staff and two from the faculty ottervik and verbonitz serve as ex-officio members verbonitz said the committee will now distribute minutes of its meetings and occasionally hold an open meeting student concert survey expected to curb losses by jim morrison the student activities council sac will publish a student survey listing three possible concert acts to be held in early november according to walter kunz 80 sac concert chairman kunz said the three artists ticket prices for students and their dates of appearance are george benson friday nov 3 7.50 a ticket little feat also nov 3 also 7.50 a ticket and the marshall tucker band wedensday nov 8 9 a ticket p the survey will be distributed through the campus mail boxes will be provided in the university center rathbone and possibly at football games for responses kunz said the sac lost 6,600 on the atlanta rhythm section ars concert sept 24 this loss does not include ex penses for setting and cleaning up police and the stage crew these expenses could add up to another 1,000 making the total loss 7,600 he said the sac cannot afford to lose money again kunz said if we don't get any response to the survey we're not going to have a concert he added no response kunz said will be considered a no vote jay yanavok 81 sac publicity chairman said the original break-even point for ars ticket sales was raised because the sac spent twice as much money on publicity as it had intended to kunz said he blamed the sunday date and the large number of tests the following week for poor attendance at the concert aggressive tuition policy sought to defray expenses hv jim don ami k the university should have a more iggressive policy toward tuition in creases according to john woltjen vice president and treasurer the ever-increasing increases in tuition will be necessary because of the need to adjust faculty compensation while facing large expenditures for maintenance and inflation woltjen said in an interview wednesday the administration will try to do everything possible to spread out ex penditures and raise money from alter native sources such as the annual gift campaign and increases in the return from endowment he added woltjen said the university's tuition was an average of 320 less than other in stitutions that the university compares itself to yet he explained the univer sity's expenditures are almost the same as those universities as the 1980s approach with a decline in the number of college-age youth the university will face more competition for students woltjen said however there will still be a market for quality education from private institutions the university does not realistically face the possibility of pricing itself out of the market because other colleges have the same financial difficulties woltjen added to remain competitive however the university must maintain its academic quality woltjen said and to do this the university must keep good faculty the john woltjen bfcw photo by morrison no.tii at is not bcldar the conehead buried up to his forehead at the right of the picture three workmen dug feverishly around midnight monday to repair a leak in the gas line tlw leak was under the street behind trembley park between ij^sta i psilon and psi i psilon a front end loader was used to speed repair work alumnus injured in intramurals sues university a university graduate is suing the university and a student for 50,000 each because of an incident during an in tramural football game in 1976 according to a summons delivered to the university william quay dean of students arthur mann associate dean of students and john steckbeck director of intra^urals are named as defendants along with the university the plaintiff john stamateri 77 alleges that he was struck by a student during an intramural football game on or about oct 14 1976 as a direct result of the student's ac tions stamateris alleges that he sustained a compound fracture of the jaw and contracted pneumonia and plueral ef fusion the summons continues that inside uc bomb threat p 4 stock divestiture p 5 football preview p 16 se suit page 13 see faculty page 13 < meled issue tuesday's issue of the brown and white was canceled because a bomb threat caused the evacuation of the university center as the paper was going to press see story p 4