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s Tenure \ profess* protecti I Nuclear en By Caryn Jacobi Assistant Naws Editor At the end of this month, a two L i ?I 4^ 4Ua year researcn ((ran!, given iu inc USC Engineering Department to study nuclear energy will end. The grant for $3,261 from the Department of Energy came on a request from the Department of Engineering to develop a computer program which mathematically describes the Voloxidizer. "THE VOLOXIDIZER removes the volatile fission products from spent nuclear reactor fuel," said Thomas Stanford, USC professor of Chemical Engineering and chief investigator on the project. Stanford said these volatile fission products are Tritium Crypton and Xenon. If they are nol removed thev are released into the atmosphere. "All these products ar< radioactive and if they were released the level of worldwide radiation would increase, but onh very slightly," Stanford said. ATLANTIC I Blazing Zippers J Mary, Mary ATLANTIC II Thoroughly A i? r . . A m \i I' ' ' - I Pony Girls Tenure, a pi criticized the competency ar Borkowski. Because pre fl popular opinior A Y external press TENURE P< professor by al without threat 'k'f'O Unlike non-t< J Mi. a statement of for specific r< Assistant Pro According ti "Failure or m duties require I I | 1 licensure to pr V-F-U. drawal of ac hospitals with Medicine; the area may alsc Bona fide redt of a departmei the image of i THE MAN1 appointment provisions of tl notice shall ii particularity, to the effect tl before the Ex< lergy study < THE COMPUTER program designed is used to make case studies to better design the voloxidizer," Stanford said. The voloxidizer is a long cylinder, positioned at an angle and rotates 12 times per minute. Solids are put into the voloxidizer and go from one end to the other. The voloxidizer is heated to an extremely high temperature in order to oxidize the solids and release the volatile fission products. Tk? r;nn;? AI1C VUIC91UC IIOOlUll |/IU\1UVU> OiC I $|00 i III a Any Piz ?H A I Rib Se WITH ST (Thru i Not Good \. Omn Daily at 11: >y^a?d always on Sua I I HAPPY HOUR P 4:30 'TIL 6:30 H Luncheon Drink Special* 11 *2600 DECKER ilVC iSSSSGSSSSSSSSBSSSSSSSSS By Dianne Poston OtmMKk Staff Writer rotective system for professors, has been past few years as "protection for inld mediocrity," said USC Provost Francis lessors sometimes speak and write unis, tenure was devised to protect them from ares and interferences, he said. )LICIES protect the academic freedom of a lowing him to research and publish his views to his job, the provost said. mured faculty who can be dismissed without cause, tenured faculty can only be dismissed ?asons listed in the Faculty Manual, said TVinnn. Prpttv [> the Faculty Manual, those reasons are: ental or physical incapacity to perform the d for the position; lapse or withdrawal of actice in the state of South Carolina or withLmitting privileges to affiliated teaching respect to clinical faculty in the School of loss of licensure in any other professional i be considered as a cause for termination; iction in staff ; curtailment or discontinuance it or school; Gross misconduct detrimental to the University." JAL states, "Any faculty member whose may be terminated for cause under the tiis paragraph shall be notified in writing. The nclude a statement, made with reasonable of the grounds thereof, and also a statement lat he has a right to a hearing, with counsel, icutive Committee of the Board of Trustees, if voriciuucs WI then recovered and discarded. The & oxidized spent fuel is sent to a K dissolver where the reprocessed |H Jpy and the valuable materials are H f separated from the nuclear spent H A waste. "THE WORK is comDlete." Stanford said. "No further work | """"" will be done until the rate processes during voloxidization are better understood." r "We definitely got what we ^ wanted," he said. "We got a U? mathematical model for the 1 voloxidization process." ? Off I o rI za, rasta | 3T I election I UDENT I. D. 1 September) ft ^ I utuuGw' riBBB&Xirritiiii<lib(MiM(n11111 nUlu^MMUl^MslrtaaUUHJQiMRSSBniHw iSIIIBBBmII^ , ' ????X > [ > a request in writing for such hearing is submitted to the > PrixtlHfmt within IK riftv? nf thp rprgint ftf notification nf termination." The manual also states that the same rights and | procedures do not apply to non-tenured faculty or those serving the probationary period. < The probationary period, according to Associate Provost Steve Ackerman, is four years for full professors and six years for assistant professors. PRETTY SAID the probationary period for assistant professors will be seven years after the Faculty Manual, currently undergoing revision, is complete. A professor who desires tenure first acknowledges to his departmental head or dean that he is interested in being tenured, Ackerman said. The dean then recommends the professor to the university president. If the professor is eligible for tenure, Ackerman said, he then begins his probation. Teachers may be ineligible if they are lecturers, on assignment in the armed forces, or part-time personnel. DURING THE four or six year probation period, a professor must "prove himself" to both his constituents and to his dean. He proves himself by the way he conveys his material to his students in the classroom situation, according to Ackerman. "Upon completion of the probation period, the individual is assessed Dy nis aean ana tnen tne decision 01 tenure goes to the president and board of trustees. The final decision is made here." Ackerman said. A controversial aspect of tenure is that it provides not only academic freedom for the professor but also job security. 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