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JUSTICE: Royal Foreman still sits behind bars, but efforts are being made to free the man wrongly accused of murder. Read the conclusion of Brian J. Weber's fourpart series. SERVICE: The Peace Corps is celebrating its 20th birthday. It is still looking for those who want to serve. DIATRIBE: Editor Sal Ruibal has the last word. Several words, actually. Thousands, to be exact. SPORTS: The Turkey Trot was not for the birds. Find out who won and how fast they flew.
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Metropolitan State College has begun advertising for a new ,.vice president of academic affairs, but several faculty members fear the job description has been custom-tailored for a current member of the administration. In a Dec. 1 meeting with ~faculty from the School of Liberal Arts, MSC President Donald Macintyre was questioned about procedures he has started to find a replacement for Michael Howe. Howe resigned Oct. 27 after it was - discovered he had not completed the requirements for his doctorate. The faculty members wanted to know why the job description had changed from the one Howe was hired under. It was pointed out -f that in the 1979 description, additional requirements were a "demonstrated commitment to and successful involvement with innovative, non -traditional program development in an urban ' setting, especially in the area of lifelong learning/continuing education.'' In the new advertisement, the additional requirements are "extensive community service; ~ demonstrated "' 路 ity to develop
ment of minorities and women is ,creation of the job description, necessary, he said, "because we but he defended his actions by have to be sensitive to the com- saying groups seldom come up with qualifications less stringent munity." He pointed out that only three than "can they (applicants) walk percent of the MSC faculty is on water?'' black and only three percent are Macintyre said he will institute Chicano. Macintyre also pointed several "fail-safe" measures to inout that women are un- sure that incidents like the Howe affair are not repeated. derrepresented at the college. He said several faculty members Macintyre said Affirmative Achad "strong feelings" about whether he knew of Howe's incomplete degree, but insisted he did not know about the situation. "Macintyre said he will institute severa] "fail-safe" "There are those who say I measures to insure that incidents like the Howe affair should have known about it, but are not repeated.'' there are always things we should have known about after the fact,'' he said. . He said he did not require trantion policies at the school were "a described ''nationally known scripts from applicants for major educator / ' is a $42,800 a year mess'' and that a task force had been organized to straighten administrative positions. "That's special assistant to Macintyre. usually only for first-time teaching Macintyre, Howe and McCoy things out. He added that he wanted a per- positions. Obviously that system were all employed at the University of San Francisco before son with a proven record of hiring was not fail-safe." He said his appointment of Dr. women and minorities instead of coming to MSC. Stanley Sunderwirth as acting vice Macintyre said the changes someone "who is just sensitive" to president for academic affairs was were made to reflect changes in his the issue. done without faculty input "You look at their record and personal approach to higher because of the time situation. education, as well as a need to deal all they've ever hired are white. "I have no desire to hide with "the critical priorities for the males,'' he said. Macintyre was taken to task for anything,'' he said. '80s." The emphasis on the recruit- not soliciting faculty input in the programs designed to meet the needs of an urban population; a successful record of recruitment and employment of minorities and women; and an orientation towards innovative, imaginative problem solving.'' Several faculty members have suggested that the changes were made to promote Dr. Rhody McCoy for the job. McCoy, a self-