Volume 3, Issue 19 - Feb. 18, 1981

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NEWS: The roadwork on Speer Boulevard will soon be complete, and with it will come some new landscaping for Auraria!

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EDITORIAL: The issues surrounding the faculty vote of confidence are examined in a guest editorial.

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FEATURE: VooDoo Isn't always associated with evil and black magic. Ed Kraus takes a look at the reason people turn to the occult.

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MUSIC: Metrostyle goes to Jamaica with a review on the movie Rockers and a guide to the language of the Rastafarians.

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Volume 3, Issue 19 © MetroPress February 18, 1981

by Joan Conrow

A majority of the MSC faculty have no confidence in the leadership of the college president, ac,..,, cording to a vote held on the Auraria campus last week. Last December, the Faculty Senate passed a resolution to go ahead with a vote of confidence/no confidence on the leader.,. ship of MSC President Donald _M acintyre. The vote was held

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February 10 and 11. 6f 305 part-time and full-time faculty who were eligible to vote, 238 or 78 percent cast their ballots. Of this number, 173 (72. 7 percent) said they had no confidence in the leadership of Macintyre, 37 (15.5 percent) expressed confidence, and 28 (11.8 percent) had no opinion. ''Everyone was shocked at the magnitude of the turnout," said Brooks Van Everen, president of the Faculty Senate. "The totality of the statement was a fairly awesome shock. "We've never had a turnout like that in the history of the school'' he continued. "It's not just the chronic malcontents either. This is a broadly based expression." Van Everen said it would be "extremely reckless" for him to "generalize about why people voted as they did." However, Van Everen said ''reorganizations have occurred that have been upsetting'' and there is a perception among some faculty members that Macintyre is "remote and aloof." · "The faculty and staff are used to a President who is a little more accessible,'' Van Everen said. Van Everen, who believes

Macintyre should not resign, said such as the legislature, the the President has to "get over an Colorado Commission on Higher initial defensive shock" and try to Education, the Denver comdiscover what the "message" is munity, and its corporations. behind the vote. Macintyre said he was forced to Macintyre said "faculties do concentrate his energy externally what faculties do, but my view is because of the issues facing MSC that the institution is moving for- when he became President - the ward in a positive dir~ction. merger crisis and declining ''The vote underscores enrollments. problems that do exist within the Macintyre said he "succeeded institution in the areas of commin- admirably" in dealing with both cation. I think those problems are of those issues, "a fact that is sometimes for gotten about by being addressed.'' Macintyre said he "came to people." "I don't carry any bitterness or Metro with an assumption that like most institutions, the com- hostility about the vote,'' Macinmunications network would be tyre said. "My concern is about established.'' He thinks the moving forward. My decision is to president should communicate move forward." Van Everen said he thinks the directly with his vice presidents, who then transmit the information situation is ''recoverable,'' but said it was important for the throughout the school. "I can't explajn why that system President to "find a way to comdoesn't work, but it doesn't," municate with the people.'' "You've got to go forward, but Macintyre said. "The faculty were not adequately informed as far as you've also got to learn from the past where you can," Van Everen decision making. "l feel now that it's necessary said. Macintyre said although there for me to communicate more may be some lessons to be learned directly with the faculty," he said. However, Macintyre said he from the faculty vote, "the imporputs most of his emphasis on tant process that occurred was the continued on page S dealing with the "external world," .. o'

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