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THE February 13, 1986
Vol. 84, No. 34
VISTA
Thursday Edition
Central State University, Edmond, Oklahoma
Job vacancies left unfilled
The hiring freeze is on
State money supply frozen
By Curtis Killman and Linda Cowan The entire French program came to a halt when Dr. Marina Eaton was killed in a car crash during the fall 1985 semester. Eaton was the French program's only instructor. She taught 15 hours of day and evening classes, sponsored the French club, handled all the irregular enrollment students and tutored those who needed extra help. Two part-time faculty members were hired to fill in for Eaton, but a full-time person needed to be hired to give the program the depth that it once had, according to a department chairperson. An advertisement for the position to be put in newspapers had been prepared and was ready to run. The new French professor would have begun teaching during the fall 1986 semester. "We do have two good adjuncts now who are teaching those courses," said Dr. Clarence Parker, chairperson of the humanities and foreign language department. "But what is most desirable, and in fact is essential,
to the survival and the strengthening of French program is a full time faculty member who can handle all the irregular enrollments, special events, the French club and can teach daytime and nighttime." There is just one problem. All hiring, promotions, out-of-state travel and any other action that requires the expenditure of funds not already under contract were put on hold by order of Gov. George Nigh. The hiring freeze has left some faculty chairpersons wondering how they're going to fill vacant positions like these. CSU administrators said they will comply with the executive order as always. Any exceptions to the freeze would have to be OK'd by Nigh or other State offices. "If there should be a position that we felt a need to request an exception, it's provided for in his executive order," said Dr. Larry Williams, vice president of administration. "If we think there is some position that is deemed
St. Valentine's Day: Gift buying heats up By Yvonna Hill Saint Valentine's Day, according to Webster's Collegiate Dictonary, is a day observed in honor of St. Valentine and is a time for sending valentines. Millions of people will be celebrating Valentine's Day Friday. What are CSU students doing for this special occasion? "My boyfriend is taking me out for dinner and then we're going roller skating. I'm hoping to get a ring — nothing major," said Denise Gordan. William Patterson said, "I'm going home to visit my mother, and to see the annual Miss McAlester Pageant." The majority of the students who are not going out with their special someone are doing nothing, going to find a party, or going home to see their family and old friends. Some students are hoping to receive special gifts that would make their Valentine's Day a lot brighter. "A romantic candlelight dinner and a night on the town with my guy would be great, but I'll settle for staying in Murdaugh Hall and watching television with
him," said Sharon Buckner. "I want a dozen roses, any color," Jackie Depe said, "I'll even take black ones." "I'm going to the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity and Delta Sigma Theta sorority Valentine's Ball with my boyfriend, but I would love to get 12 dozen white roses and a nice card. If 12 dozen roses are too much, I'll take five dozen," says Sharonda Ausbie. Going to a party in Stillwater and finding "a beautiful, tanned, perfect, blond female" is two male students idea of having a very happy Valentine's Day. Todd Robinson would greet his date with a talking stuffed animal and a chocolate rose. Escorting his date to his Porche, rented just for the occasion, he would then take her to Nathan's restaurant or the Velvet Dove restaurant. After dining, they would retire to his log cabin, rented especially for the Valentine's weekend and cozy up to a warm fire, enjoying soft music, dim lights and red wine.
critical to public safety, protection of public property or the provision of life sustaining health services. If we had something that would fall under something like that, we would consider the possibility of asking for an exception. But, obviously we're not anticipating asking for an exception at the present time." Williams said it is too early to tell if the University will be dealt further cuts to their budgets. We don't really know how far these cuts are going to go to us yet," Williams said. "There is talk of 16 to 17 percent budget cuts and those will certainly be dramatic cuts for us." Nigh said some agencies may have to consider furloughing employees. Williams said CSU couldn't rule out furloughs, nor could he rule them in. But, he said they always try to honor all employee contracts to the fullest. Purchases will be frozen too. Williams said all spending not under contract will be put on hold. Some spending, such as the renovation of Evans Hall, reroof-
ing and installation of a new air conditioning system for the Max Chambers Library and the paving of some parking lots will be put on indefinite hold. Williams said that contrary to rumor, all adjunct faculty aren't going to lose their jobs. "Adjuncts obviously perform a viable and very important role," Williams said. "The only thing I can say about that is that we'll just have to look at our staffing patterns and our staffing needs." Williams said administrators, when making cuts will "want to maintain the integrity of the fulltime employees." The freeze is on. And some department chairpersons are being forced to wait. "Foreign language students at CSU are more firmly attached to their instructor," Parker said. "It's what I call the `mentoring process' and it is very strong here. We would like to replace Dr. Eaton with someone who was as effective as she was. "It's just vital that we have a full time faculty member there."
Nickles to address education By John Rankin U.S. Sen. Don Nickles, ROkla., will speak on higher education at 10:40 a.m. Friday, in the Liberal Arts Auditorium. Nickles is the guest speaker of the CSU Student Association. Mark Kinzie, student association president, said Nickles' visit to CSU is an educational opportunity to bring students on a oneto-one basis with state leaders. Nickles is rated No. 1 in the Senate for cutting wasteful government spending according to the National Taxpayers Union. In 1983, Nickles was named one of the 10 Outstanding Young Men in America by the U.S. Jaycees. Another project Nickles is working on is the deregulation of all natural gas, and the repeal of the windfall profits tax. A reception for Nickles will be in the faculty lounge of the Liberal Arts Building following his speech.