Brown and White Vol. 91 no. 19

              lehigh university brown and white val tl - no it bethlehem pa . friday november t if7 jww>ahima gay students unite at other colleges by patrice wilchek gay associations on many college and university campuses are often allotted money from the schools a recent brown and white survey revealed the associations are reportedly met with mixed reactions from the student bodies at the schools included in the study were colgate university cornell university the university of delaware the university of pennsylvania and amherst college all five schools reported to have gay associations which receive funds from their student activities budgets each of the associations contacted stressed the educational and counseling role of the group the university has no recognized gay group colgate gays recognised the colgate university gay students affiance was recognized a few weeks ago by the colgate student association as an official student organization and was granted money from the student activities budget colgate's director of student activities thomas gardiner said that although the funds for student activities are collected by the university the student government controls bow they are allocated the main function of the gay students alliance is educational but it's also a support group for the gays on campus gardiner said the goal of the alliance is to develop a greater integration of the gay population and destroy misconceptions surrounding gays he said the alliance sponsors films speakers and social activities which are open to the entire student body since the alliance has only recently been acknowledged gardiner said it is too early to comment on campus reaction or the size of the alliance cornell cornell's gay association gay people at cornell was formed in 1968 with the name the gay liberation front a spokesman for the group said the name was changed to the gay liberation in 1971 and then changed to its present name earlier this year she said the name was changed to have a less political connotation the group which has between 50-75 active members has several fringe groups they include a peer counseling biw photo by hcnry \ sure sign that the semester is drawing to a close is the appearance off the finals schedule which always bad news draws a crowd this schedule was eventually moved to grace lounge so students could more easily get the bad news benefit preferences listed by employee questionnaires by jennifer wilson improved health and dental care coverage revised vacation plans in creased pension and as unproved tuition remission plan are some job benefits that the university's support staff would like to see improved in a recent questionnaire the employee relations advisory committee erac asked all university secretarial clerical paraprofessional professional and technical workers to identify what they consider the 10 most important job benefits there were notable differences between a list produced by the support staff secretarial clerical and technical em ployees—and the professional and faculty employees lists the support staff's response indicated more concern for basic job benefits while the professional and faculty employees indicated a greater concern over more specialized benefits different goals according to elizabeth howell chemistry department technician and chairman of erac the difference in benefit goals of the two groups results from differences in the present benefits erac hasn't looked into these dif ferences as a group she said but i have personally ■• ;> _, • ■ the support staff has a 37 vfc hour work week the professional amr faculty em ployees have a 40-oour work week the support staff works overtime the professional and faculty employees do not the support staff has scheduled hours of employment the professionals do not support staff employee are subject to a pro-rated length-of-employment stipu lation for salary continuation during illness there are no such requirements for university professionals and faculty support staff members may carry their pensions over to other jobs only after 10 years of employment with the university the carry-over is immediate for faculty and professionals the percentage contributed from salaries to pensions is less for support staff employees than it is for faculty and professionals a combined merit and cost of living raise was preferred by the majority of those who responded to the questionnaire howell said she was slightly surprised that this particular type of raise was chosen over a raise based solely on cost of living or solely on merit she explained such a choice as a result of the supplemental adjustment given to for which they want to be rewarded pay raise of 14 percent the supplemental adjustment was granted after the board of trustees and president deming lewis investigated the claim that the university staff was un derpaid in comparison to the staffs of other area colleges a l4 percent pay raise was granted to the support staff and a two percent raise was uw photo by youngentob students worked day and night to help put the icing hi the floor at stabler athletic and convocation . , . ( enter in preparation for the holiday on ice show co/g tsst his weekend the icing process started tuesday afternoon and ended yesterday fifty-seven hours and an im-h-and-a-half of ice later the center is ready research grants watched closely due to hew rule by joseph fe ller what was never serious could be treasurer john woltjen said in response to the tightening of the health education and welfare hew auditing guiitrtißi for research grants universities failing to meet these ac counting standards could po lhfr bat 10 percent of their future research grants the plan provides the government with its first comprehensive manual far resolving auditing disputes with univer sities he said hie gujdahnes not only require lbs university to repay the funds it cannot account for but also would require a nine percent interest charge on these funds v cd j m v^rßuty en 101 oo dc soot cbk penditures it would be audited to avoid anything serious the university has begun work on two projects the first project referred to by see colleges page 7 see university page 12 see erac page 8 inside sac movie p*4 long run p.lo bears on tap p 16