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Thursday, September 29, 2011 • Volume 116, Issue 27
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REINSTATED
ADMINISTRATION
Provost search to cost about $100,000
Jefferson, Johns to return to practice today after grand jury reduces charges
Hunter Paniagua Sports Writer
LSU senior quarterback Jordan Jefferson was reinstated to the football team Wednesday after a grand jury reduced felony second-degree battery charges against him. The grand jury reduced Jefferson’s charge to misdemeanor simple battery. The grand jury also cleared sophomore linebacker Josh Johns of all charges. According to Louisiana code, simple battery is the intentional use of force or violence on another person. Those charged with simple battery cannot be fined more than $1,000 or imprisoned for more than six months. LSU coach Les Miles said he will reinstate Jefferson and Johns immediately and both will begin practicing today. Jefferson and Johns were suspended Aug. 26 following their arrest after an altercation at Shady’s Bar on Aug. 19. “There wasn’t any hesitation [to reinstate them],” Miles said. “It didn’t appear to me there was any ALTERCATION, see page 5
Price is one-third of provost’s salary
Andrea Gallo Staff Writer
photos by CHRISTOPHER LEH and BLAIR LOCKHART / The Daily Reveille
[Top] Senior safety Derrick Bryant and junior defensive end Lavar Edwards walk into City Hall on Wednesday to testify in front of a grand jury in the case of teammates Jordan Jefferson [right] and Josh Johns. [Bottom] Jefferson’s attorney, Lewis Unglesby, addresses the media outside City Hall.
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The University has hired Greenwood/Asher & Associates, Inc. as the search firm to facilitate the hiring process for Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Jack Hamilton’s replacement. The nearly finalized contract with the Florida-based company stipulates that the University will pay 33.3 percent of the amount of the new provost’s salary to Greenwood/ Asher. That means if the University’s provost earns around $300,000, which is about $20,000 more than Hamilton earns, the University will pay the search firm around $100,000. PROVOST, see page 5
ADMINISTRATION
Chancellor worries about losing nearly 40 percent of faculty to retirement Martin: Incoming faculty doesn’t match Andrea Gallo Staff Writer
Chancellor Michael Martin said one of his primary concerns for the University is that retirement is looming for nearly 40 percent of faculty, while the amount of incoming faculty members has faded. The University encompasses 1,176 faculty members, 468 of which are age
55 and older, according to Jason Droddy, the University’s director of external affairs. Not only does this group boast strength in numbers, but older faculty members are usually the most experienced professors with considerable amounts of strong research, and they will leave en masse, Martin said. “You’ll lose not only a large number [of faculty], but our most distinguished, most productive faculty, all at once,” Martin said. Of professors aged 55 and up, 27 percent are 65 and older. Universities spanning the
country are seeing this problem, Martin said, while universities are also undergoing “salary compression,” when entry-level salaries begin nearing senior-level salaries because professors do not receive salary increases. In the past, the University could potentially fill two entry-level positions with the money from one vacant senior position, but that gap in salary levels has dwindled. Solving this problem will mean collapsing more programs to create FACULTY, see page 6
FACULTY AGE BREAKDOWN 60-up:
25% Under 40:
50-59:
28%
21%
40-49:
26% Source: Jason Droddy, director of external affairs
Total: 1,176
graphic by BRITTANY GAY / The Daily Reveille