Brown and White Vol. 88 no. 9

              lehigh university brown and white vol 88 — no 9 bethlehem pa friday october 8 1976 215-866-0331 1975 budget surplus 154,085 enrollment bonds major factors by jeff bodenstab associate editor the university realized a budget surplus of 154,085 for fiscal year 1975-76 ac cording to treasurer elmer glick the surplus will be allocated to a reserve account which now stands at more than 2 million this is the sixth year m a row the university has had a surplus the surplus for 1974-75 was 568,378 glick said the 154,085 figure will not be official until the university's audit is completed but said he is confident the figure is accurate the surplus was due primarily to an excess m the number of students enrolled m the university glick said the university budgeted for tuition from only 3,800 students whereas more than 3,940 students enrolled last year he said an unexpected increase m the number of graduate students also contributed to the surplus there was also a substantial increase m the summer school enrollment and an increase m the income from research glick said glick called the surplus encouraging and said that it contributed to the financial stability of the university he cautioned ' however that the surplus represents only one-half of one per cent of the total operating income of more than 26 million the university has suffered only two budget def ecits m the past 46 years : m 1933 and 1969 the large surplusses of 568,378 for 1974-75 and 463,939 for 1973-74 were due to unexpectedly high short-term interest rates glick said the previous three-year surplusses ranged from approximately 100,000 to 150,000 glick attributed the university's con tinual surplusses to conservative estimation of expected income and tight budget administration by department chairmen the largest factor holding down the surplus was an overestimation of the expected income from interest m short term bonds held by the university glick explained that operating funds are in vested m short-term bonds when not other wise m use these bonds yield interest which is also considered income m the operating budget last year's short-term interest rates were unusually low causing the university to take m less income than expected from this source according to glick glick said that it is too early to make any predictions concerning this year's budget he also declined to make any predictions concerning next year's tuition increase the surplusses are also a result of the board of trustees insistence on a balanced budget said glick deficit financing solves no problems but creates many financial problems that can become . . i . , f , b&w photo by fauntleroy whitewash parents will be greeted by a new taylor stadium facade when they attend the up perclassmen parents weekend football game next weekend the engineers will try to whitewash the scarlet knights of rutgers inside the stadium next saturday in a l : 30 p.m clash elmer glick court upholds laison tenure denial by ken bandler news editor the university's decision denying tenure to gary laison former assistant professor of mathematics was upheld by the northampton county court tuesday judge clinton palmer ruled that the university had produced evidence con stituting compelling reasons for dismissing laison from the faculty the decision is outrageous laison said wednesday i shall certainly ap peal if an appeal is granted the case will be heard before the superior court of pennsylvania i expect to get a fair shake he said laison came to the university m 1961 as a math instructor in 1969 he received a ph.d m mathematics from the university of pennsylvania and was appointed assistant professor m 1970 he had com pleted five of the seven probationary years for tenure when he received a terminal contract m 1975 laison had been one of four assistant professors up for tenure that year of which two received the promotion laison's contract with the university ended aug 31 in his suit against the university laison claimed his length of service here entitled him to tenure and that the university had failed to show compelling reasons for denying it to him the university's procedures rules and regulations pr&r adopted m 1970 and amended m 1974 state that anyone who serves as an assistant professor for seven years shall be granted tenure with the rank of associate professor except on notification by the end of the sixth year that the next is terminal according to pr&r department faculty initiate decisions concerning tenure but the ad plan forsees fewer services if costs cut by ed bogucz managing editor second in a series on the university's 10-year plan the university's nonacademic depart ments cannot cut personnel or costs without reducing services to the school according to a draft of the university's 10 year plan furthermore although some minor shifts m faculty may occur from department to department m the future the draft assumes the number of in structional positions at the university will remain constant however m their individual planning reports all three undergraduate colleges state the need for additional instructional staff or expanded course offerings requiring additional staff in particular the college of business and economics reported that because of its high student faculty ratios students only experience with small classes now comes through arts and science electives other major problems reported m the draft include inadequate library facilities space needs particularly for the school of education continued flexibility to respond to changing student needs and quality of administrative service major needs include additional equipment allocations and an increased library no bias found in grades given by gardner by eileen canzian editor-in-chief the standing of students committee has found no evidence of sex discrimination m the grading practices of associate professor of german arthur gardner according to william quay dean of students and committee chairman the committee last thursday denied an appeal by mary anne shafer 76 to have her grade m german 321 changed from a d to a p for passing shafer a german major was the only woman m the class of four students last semester and received the lowest grade m the class she said she had never received lower than a b m a german course and charged that gardner gave her a d because he is biased against women gardner denied the charge quay said the committee weighed shafer's petition and gardner's written response and decided shafer had not sub stantiated her charge of sex discrimination in accordance with committee policy shafer and gardner see budget page 8 see tenure page 8 see sex page 5 inside : trustee dies p 4 lights approved p 5 martha and george p 7 senior lottery p.s punchless gridders p 12 see plan page 5