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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2013
VOLUME 107 • ISSUE 51
FACULTY DIVERSITY: ‘WE’RE NOT DOING SHIT’
NEWS - 3
UA HOSTS GRADUATE SCHOOL DAY OPINIONS - 4
TRUE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS ISN’T ALL THAT BAD SPORTS - 6
TOUGH ROAD AHEAD FOR WOMEN’S HOOPS
ARTS & LIFE - 10
‘ENDER’S GAME’ GOOD SCI-FI BUT LACKS THEMES
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ANDREW SILVERMAN, a retired clinical professor of law and Faculty Senate member, voices his concern regarding the lack of diversity in UA faculty at the Faculty Senate meeting in the James E. Rogers College of Law Ares Auditorium on Monday.
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Faculty Senate members engaged in a heated discussion at their monthly meeting on Monday regarding the level of diversity within faculty and the methods with which to improve diversification at the UA. With diversity numbers showing that tenure and continuing eligible faculty new hires for AfricanAmericans totaled three from 20092013 and zero for Native Americans/ Alaskan Natives in that same time period, some faculty members were outraged. “I’d like to know what the provost’s office is doing about this,” said Andrew Silverman, a retired clinical professor of law and senate member. “They should be ordering every dean and not giving a raise to any dean, I would hope, until they do something about it … We’re not doing shit. We’re not doing anything in this university. Look at these figures.” Tom Miller, associate provost
for faculty affairs, provided a chart that detailed tenure eligible and continuing faculty new hires by college from January 2009 to fall 2013 in a breakdown of race/ethnicity. Overall for minority hires, the number totaled 57, while the number of white hires totaled 178. However, the chart only showed open searches within departments and did not include hires through the Strategic Priority Faculty Initiative, which would have added 20 more ethnic minority hires to the overall number, Miller said. Miller said the lack of diversity in faculty is a growing concern because more than 40 percent of the entering student class come from minority backgrounds. In a chart detailing the 10-Year Trend of Headcounts by Rank, Gender and Race/Ethnicity, the amount of African Americans or Blacks remained flat. However, there was a 40 percent increase in Hispanic hires in the past 10 years, he added. “It’s a glass half-full, glass halfempty kind of situation,” Miller said. “You can see we are not doing
2012 Tenure-Track Faculty Members:
New Hires from Jan. 2009 to fall 2013:
Asian - 153 Black/African American - 18 Hispanic - 104 Native American/Alaskan Native - 11 Two or more races - 3 White - 1,142
Asian - 40 Black/African American - 3 Hispanic/Latino - 12 Native American/Alaskan Native - 0 Two or more races - 2 White - 178
Total - 1,431
Total - 235 Information courtesy of Office of Institutional Research and Planning Support
the hiring we need to do if we are interested in diversifying our faculty.” Miller said progress can be made, but only if university members redouble efforts to promote inclusive hiring pools. He added that Provost Andrew Comrie, in a letter to college deans in August, required that deans continue with hiring provisions established last year. Comrie requested that all hiring committees have at least one person from outside
the department on the committee, that at least one member of every hiring committee should attend workshops offered by Raji Rhys, cochair of the Strategic Priority Faculty Initiative, Laura Hunter, program and research manager, and Miller regarding unconscious bias and that the search plan for committees should be reviewed by Rhys, Hunter
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THE NEW SELFIE UA faculty, staff worry about social With photography project, student looks media anonymity to redefine ‘beautiful’ for young women BY ERIN DESOTO
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With a new trend in anonymous social media pages, UA faculty and staff members are concerned not only for students’ safety but for the consequences they may face in the future based on their online behavior. The speed in which people can post online is causing some to act without thinking about the consequences, such as potential employers searching through social media accounts, said Stephen Russell, interim director of the John and Doris Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences. Russell, who studies cyberbullying, said anonymity leaves people under the impression that they won’t be held responsible for their actions. “There is a technological aspect that … creates the capacity for people to do stuff that really, if
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they had five seconds to stop, think, process, they might not otherwise do,” Russell said. “I do think that there is a degree to which that undermines possibility for judgement to kick in.”
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A studio art junior wants to change the way women take their Facebook profile photos. Ali Adams’ semester-long project for her Bachelor of Fine Arts honors program, titled “Young and Pretty,” is a commentary on what she calls the “selfie mentality” that many college women use when they take photos of themselves for social media. By stripping away “props,” such as makeup, a lavish background or ornate clothing, Adams said she hopes to gain insight on how young women perceive their self image. “I want to explore selfperception and objective analysis, and the idealized image versus the perception of a third party,” Adams said. “I plan on revoking this sense of
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control from the individuals I photograph, causing them to surrender control.” Adams’ project starts by obtaining a “selfie,” or self portrait that the individual has taken of themselves to share with friends on social media, which illustrates how they perceive their own beauty. The second image will be a black and white image of the subject that Adams will photograph against a plain background. In the black and white photo, Adams will be in control of the subject’s appearance. “My motive is to capture these women in a more natural form,” Adams said. “To do so, I plan on shooting these images with the girls not wearing any makeup, or having stylized hair, and so forth.” Adams said the project is
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