Jan. 14, 1982
Central State University, Edmond, Oklahoma
Vol. 80, No. 29
Faculty postpones Lillard evaluation By Kim McConnell The CSU Faculty Association has voted by a 10 percent margin to wait and conduct a faculty evaluation of President Bill Lillard until after the November visit of the North Central Association, said Anne Lynch, Faculty Senate president. According to the results of a faculty poll conducted at the end of the fall semester, 163 association members were opposed to an evaluation of Lillard at the present time while 141 favored the idea. Seventy-five percent of the eligible 402 members, including 336 teaching faculty, 21 nonteaching academic faculty and 45 administrators, voted. The decision to wait was not based on any one objection, said Lynch. Several criticisms were offered, including the view that the faculty could not accurately evaluate the president's performance as they had no direct way to observe him. Others felt that with the North Central team coming in the fall, a possible negative evaluation would look bad. Another reason, Lynch added, was that some of those polled were unhappy with the evaluation method. "Some want us to work on the instrument (evaluation form) itself," Lynch said. "There is a real problem with the form. We will have to take it apart and rework it completely." Lynch said she did not know when President Lillard would be evaluated, but she is hoping to re-establish the practice in the fall. "We would like to reschedule it for the fall since contracts are done in the early spring," she said, adding that the president is up for rehiring annually. "The president's contract is voted on yearly by regents who live all over the state. They have six colleges to run. There is very little information for them to work with," she added. Lynch emphasized that the evaluation of college presidents is a growing trend. Many people
feel that faculty members should have a more important role in the selection of campus administrators since it is the personnel that have the most influence on the education level. Lynch also sees the evaluation as having a favorable effect in several ways. "A positive evaluation would help influence the regents," she said. "It would also give the president some feedback." According to Lynch, the faculty also voted on whether to make the evaluation results public. According to the report, 160 of those polled favored providing the results to the faculty as well as to the president and the members of the Board of Regents of State Colleges. One hundred and two favored providing the results only to the president and the board.
Vista photos by Michael Keen
Hurry up and wait! Lines are "in" this time of the semester and the Administration Buidling will be experiencing more than it's usual share of activity with students enrolling and paying for classes. The bookstore will also be experiencing a brisk trade. Students may enroll until Jan. 25.
CSU adapts to special needs By LeeAnne Bryant "As people make us aware of the problem's concerning the handicapped, we try to fix them," stated Larry Williams, d_irector of personnel services. The Architectural Barrier Removal (ABR) Plan, which was established in June of '77, required that the CSU campus be made accessible for handicapped students. " We had already begun to change and improve the campus before the federal regulations came into play," remarked Williams. A committee composed of various staff and faculty members, of approximately 35, created the ABR plan; along with photo's of the problems, discussions were heard and decisions were made. Joanne Dunlap, assistant personnel director, mentioned, "There were three handicapped students that also served on that committee. By doing this, it let us know what problems were of most importance."
Inside this issue... Martin Luther King Jr. remembered. . .page 3 Master's program added. . .page 4 1,454 named to honor rolls. . .page 5 Basketball season reopened. . .page 7 Wrestlers lose to OU. . .page 8
Being handicapped should not limit one's choice of classes, and at CSU they aren't. "Any class is made available for handicapped students," Williams said. The money that is used to pay for these changes are taken from reserved funds set back for this specific purpose. Many of the facilities that have been changed are that bathroom stall's have been widened, with rails installed; elevator doors have been made to close slower; elevator
buttons located inside and have been lowered to make it easier for the handicapped to reach. A "lift" has been installed in Old North, to enable access to the upper floors; classrooms have been rebuilt and doors have been widened to make it easier for wheelchairs to go through. One of the most important changes made was that the parking lots were paved and the curbs at various places were made more accessible to handicapped students.
As time progresses, many facilities will continue to change and improve," commented Williams. One of the important projects being done now, is a map of CSU campus, which will be distributed among the handicapped students. The map will show the different entrances to each building, such as where ramps or lifts are located. "CSU campus seems to be a little different," stated Dunlap. "Maybe because we take care of people on a individual basis."
Writer lives in two worlds By Charlotte R. Bingham "I live in two different worlds, part of me writes non-fiction in hard-back books for the OU press and the other part of me writes romantic stories with historical background in soft-back books," said Lynette L. Wert, a CSU professor of creative studies, talking about her professional writing career. Wert has firmly established her talent with three books already published, another book will be out in January, and numerous articles in publications such as Persimmon Hill, Orbit Magazine, Outdoors and Christian Herald. "For most new writers it's very hard to get fiction material printed, so in the beginning I worked on writing non-fiction
stories while completing my masters degree at CSU," said Wert. Wert's first book was a college-level history text on Langston University and its history. Her first novel, 'This Rebel Hunger' , written under the pen name of Lynn LeMon (Lemon was her maiden name), center around the history of the civil war and a herione, a young Southern Woman who is actually based upon an ancestor of Wert's. Wert's current book 'Object of My Affection,' a biography on Pinky Tomlin, a songwriter and star of movies in the 30's and 40's and early 50's. Wert was asked by OU Press to write the story. "I spent about 3 months just
talking to Pinky. I did a great deal of research and learned quite a bit about that era on the Hollywood film making business," said Wert. "When writing a biography one has to make the character more than he is so that the readers can get a good understanding of the person," said Wert. `Sunrise Temptation', her fourth published book, will be out in January and in bookstores through the country. The story is based on the first woman mine owner in Nevada's Comstock Lode. "I'm currently working on a more contemporary novel since I feel the public is looking for more stories surrounding our life styles of today," she said. :