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Monday Volume LXX No. 1-4 University of South Carolina , Columbia, S.C. Sept. 29, 198Q Griei A getsi By Donald B. Weatherbee oyhtt mrm?r USC's new internal grievance procedure for untenured faculty members is getting mixed reviews. The policy was approved in June by the board of trustees. It involves grievances for nonreappointment, denial of tenure and denial of promotion for untenured faculty. IISC Prnunst Prant Borkowski said the new procedure is an excellent system. "I'm very pleased with the great care and professional concern the faculty exercised in creating the procedure," Borkowski He said the faculty are protected within the system, and decisions are made in the university's best interest. ASSISTANT HISTORY Professor Michael Smith said the new system is an improvement. Smith, who was reinstated by the State IT m nl ntr aa r* wi A?t ^ JU IIIJ/IUJI CC U I 1C V d UCC Committee in January, said the old internal grievance system was disorganized. "There were no guidelines when I undertook my grievance in 1979," Smith said. "We now have a better internal system than before. On the other hand, the faculty lost access to the V^i-UUV^I ?* ^UUIU o Chang* By John Vaughan C Start Writer g USC's student security c guard system has been r fP t - ~s- V-^,-",;v^ \"J^Ij^KiO'. JflH -Vrv" A Bates West secu guidelines, students nee\ hired as security guards. /anc< mixe I vnevance sior The following is a brief s grievance story: Several USC professors w tenure. In 1979 they appeal Grievance Committee. The appeals were based 01 the S.C. Attorney General's ' members should be consid< have the right to appeal to ti State colleges and univers that would exempt the institi procedures. On May 22, Gov. allowing the institutions to boards. During the summer, the f five-step procedure for a| process allows an ultimate Affairs Committee of the I sultation with the Faculty Lta On Sept. 13, the board of tm pass the procedure. state system. We lost that extra layer of protection." Although Smith was reinstated by the state cummiuee, ne was not granted tenure. He now claims de facto tenure, which is implied tenure occurring automatically after a professor has taught for about six years. Smith said the university is mandating a tenure review this fall for those professors reinstated by the state system. The university does not acknowledge J _ *?A_ a oiiiiui s ue iacio tenure ystem in 'transit ingofth xiticized in the past, but the t taff and Campus Police are tptimistic about the changes c nade in the system during p rity guard checks a reside d not be on the Work-Su esys drev y in summary summary of events in the ;re fired after being denied ed to the State Employee i two 1978-79 opinions from Office which stated faculty ered state employees and le state grievance system. ! lities then supported a bill itions from state grievance Dick Riley passed the bill, create faculty grievance acuity senate agreed on a )pealing grievances. The appeal to the Academic board of trustees in conilson Committee. istees unanimously voted to claim. The review will settle the dispute. BORKOWSKI SAID professors reinstated by the state system have no right to claim de facto tenure because the university notified the professors of dismissal in the allowed time. If they had not been notified in the prescribed time, de facto tenure would have been a legitimate claim. Borkowski said Borkowski said the system provides for faculty rights and for the rights of the tion year' e guard his "transitionyear." The most important :hange is that security [uards no longer have to be * *1 ^ -v, K&iifcCi-lv: .v*.. ant's key. Under new idy Program to be tem iews institution by not reap pointing faculty member when they have not m< college criteria. "There are adequat levels of review in th process to present op nnrhinitioc fr?r fnirnacc on |#wa VUiia V4V/M A V?? tMlt liVOO UII to redress inequities," h said. USC officials who ac minister the grievanc procedure say facult members prefer the ne1 system to the state system. "The present system is fa better than the state systen because the faculty ha control over their ow destiny," said John I Kimmey, chairman of th Faculty Advisory Con mittpp WILLIAM NOLTE chairman of the Facull Grievance Board, said ,"T7 process is beneficial, protects the faculty, but it time consuming." Borkowski said the systei will operate more fairly fc the faculty than an outsic grievance system could. N< everyone agrees. Philip Zeltner, winner < the 1978 AMOCO Ou standing Teacher Awar< WAS HicmiccoH onH 1o?* JVVi UIIU 1U reinstated by the stal committee. He claims c facto tenure. Zeltner said tfc university is not fulfilling it obligation if it does n< recognize de facto tenur< He said he will not pai helos JT~ ~ on the Work-Study Program said Susan Dunton residence hall director o Bates House and a principa organizer of the system. Thi change allows USC to hir< guards from a much wide 'It is no longer ne those students i Program, and so students who an this type of work. -Susan D unto t rt selection. "It is no longer necessar to hire only those students o the Work-Study Prograrr and so we are able to hir students who are truly ir terested in this type c work. And frankly, we ar seeing more competen people for these jobs," sai Dunton. ALL STUDENT securit; guards are upperclassmen Seventy-five percent ar male. They work fron midnight to Ra m. |, y- J -J^I^0MfS&?\Jftbf^ s [| S 1 HHkJ p?v"' ' * -{ :1 RBI l| H^TH I f |nnBgHf H i ipf*f e I BBii^ 1C ? o M WMffiiW wWB i II '? Cominc Carolina middle guard t y parade of Carolina playoi ^ plane that brought tht Columbia after a stum Michigan at Ann Arbor. n >r ^ . [e ucipa te in me tenure review because it is "illegitimate and inconsistent with the 0f faculty manual." ZELTNER SAID the new ^ system will never be as 'e impartial as the state L system. 1%; le "Abuses of the sort I've ts suffered will still occur, )t because there is no non2. biased grievance committee r- that one can appeal to." security i, Twelve areas on campus , require security guards. The f guards "serve as eyes, ears 1 and reporters," Dunton said, s Their main responsibility is e checking keys in the dorr mitories. They are also tcessary to hire only on the Work-Study we are able to hire 9 truly interested in i. Bates House is/dence hall director supposed to work with y Campus Police when n problems arise. \, "I've devised an pvaluntinn nrivpHnro that V X/ ? MSMM vmvt* J^fl WVMUt v Vliuv i- can allow for more insight >f into problem areas," Dunton e said. "Recently we had a it workshop in which we went d over guidelines and dealt wun communication. y "It is important that the i. students (guards) know how e to competently deal with the n communication required by their job." she said. ': ' x ?. , mV^pi^K ':' .-i?i5|?ii i I JB ,* I >. : i ^SHBflffij ^jSdk ' -. ; f Jill ^ ^1 j home! :manual Weaver leads a rs off a Piedmont charter ? Gamecocks home to ling 17-14 upset over The fairest method, Zeltner said, would be to eliminate the internal grievance system and appoint members of the faculty to the State Employee Grievance Committee. The new system is "still an old boy club network," Zeltner said. "The faculty are not meant to be a private club. They are to serve the people of the state. *. - *Speech on "Th? History and Rise of servative Part l^w Center Em 23! KB Kil |||||j^ Ttiird Man, ?mWet^iS^e visits Slack market. SrwSf'SS'W!: Weather pmfi. cool temperatures. Hiehs 1 the 50s, I w Viwwwttwitwii