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Van Everen said the Senate is going through an internal change, A viable faculty organization restructuring faculty represenmay be the "only alternative" to tation to include all instructors. unionized collective bargaining, After the change, he said, the said the new head of Metropolitan Senate will have 70 members. State College's Faculty Senate. Although the Senate meets once • "I'm still trying to feel my way a month, Van Everen felt the around," said Brooks Van Everen of his role as president of the major work can be done in smaller college faculty group. "At this groups. "It's the committee system," he point, I'm optimistic. "that'll make this work." said, ''The acid test, though, is when The various committees of the ~ you can become a viable organiSenate, Van Everen said, are zation for the faculty." charged this year with specific Van Everen, a full professor in duties. The Rights, Responsibilihistory, no.t ed he may have· a ties, and Opportunities Subcomrough task in making the 66mittee, he noted as an example, " member faculty body more respectable to some of its constitu- will deal with a position on ethics. "Right now," be said, "nothing ents. frankly speaks to faculty ethics." ''For many years the Senate was committee with Faculty One an administrative tool," he said, Senate membership, though, bafnoting the body used to be headed . fies Van Everen. 1 by the college president. "As a "The Student Affairs Board is a result, lots of faculty members did mystery,,, he said. ''Why Faculty not look to the senate as anything · Senate members pas~ judgement viable happening there." After gaining control of the on how student momes are spent Senate last year, the faculty is - I don't know how or why." V~n. Eve~en ac~no~ledged the ~ trying to collect all information on admimstratlon will hsten to the the organization, Van Everen said. faculty _with s<_>me reservations "We now have an office and a on a variety of issues. budget," Van Everen, a full-time "It's ~Y to be recognized and MSC instructor since 1970, noted. J
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listened to about general sorts of ''That decision basically came things " he said. "It's hard out of Dr. Howe's (Michael though, when dealing- with Howe, vice president of academic specifics." affairs) office. We probably Van Everen said the issue of a weren't organized at that point to possible cancellation of Winterim deal with that.'' ''is precisely the kind of thing we should have impact on. continued on page 5
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