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THURSDAY, AUGUST, 31, 2006
Old North continues with renovations
Faculty pay raise topic of meeting by Heather Warlick
by No Lupov Staff Writer
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major exterior repairs were done, such as stone replacement, stone consolidation, waterproofing the basement, stabilizing the tower clock and window replacement. In 2001 and 2002, roof replacement, new trusses, column reinforcement and reinforcement of the north walls were completed. Stapleton said phase two includes interior renovations, replacing toilets, the electrical system, heating and air, and internal structural repairs. "The primary focus of the , structure is to put faculty offices back in," Stapleton said. "After that we have to create phase three that will continue with the renovation of Old North. At the earliest when Old North would get money from another bond fund, it would be 2013 or 2014." "We will probably not be able to renovate very much of the building for occupancy. This project of $4.5 million is just not enough money. Construction cost has boomed in the last couple of years," Stapleton said. "We do not have as much money as we wanted," said David Koehn, vice president for finance at UCO. "It is up to the state GOB to decide how much money and when," he said.
After nearly 113 years of existence and numerous renovating projects, UCO's oldest building, Old North, is still under construction. College of Education, the speech clinic and 75 faculty offices were located in Old North before the building was shut down in 2001. The building's renovation has been funded by a General Obligation Bond from the state of Oklahoma since 1996. The $6 million project funding Old North Exterior Restoration consists of two phases dividing them into $ 1.5 million and $ 4.5 million projects. "That was a priority project, to renovate the building," said David Stapleton, director of Architectural and Engineering Services at UCO. Occupied for the first time as an educational facility in January 2, 1893 and finished in 1894, the building is currently nothing more than a memory monument for past generations. In 1911, plans were made to demolish the Old North due to unsafe and unsanitary conditions. Fortunately, the Legislature appropriated $25,000 for a complete remodeling. "In 1999, Miles Associates Architects was hired as No Lupov can be reached at the consultant to do the ilupov@thevistaonline. corn. project," Stapleton said. He said during phase one,
The UCO Faculty Senate met Aug. 24 and faculty pay raises were a topic of contention. Several methods of granting pay raises were discussed. "If you look at data from AAUP, they did indicate that at UCO, full professors' pay are in the 20 to 40 percentile, compared nationwide to their peers," said Dr. Luis Montes, president of the Faculty Senate. Associate professors fall into a slightly better ranking, but still less than at peer institutions. Newer, lower ranked professors at UCO such as assistants and adjuncts are closer in pay to their peers than are higher-ranking ones. The most controversial of the methods being considered by Provost Radke and President Webb would introduce market scale pay. "Most peer universities utilize the market scale model at least somewhat," Montes said. According to the market scale model, professors in certain disciplines would be paid more than professors in others, depending on the pay they could be receiving, were they not professors, but professionals in their fields. Currently, full, associate and assistant professors are paid by a pay card method that is based on their academic ranking and years of experience. If the market scale pay raise model is implemented, some faculty members will receive substantial increases in their pay.
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Old North is under phase two of renovation, which includes replacing toilets, electrical systems, heating and air.
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'The Committee to Impeach the President' collecting signatures by Andrew Knittle Staff Writer
President Bush, aside from being a Republican and suffering through a rough second term, shares another thing with the nation's 37th President, Richard Nixon.
Both men, because of their respective policies regarding the Vietnam War and the conflict in Iraq, made themselves targets of "The Committee to Impeach the President," a loosely organized group that travels the country in search of signatures and open minds. The committee, who urge
Americans to sign its petition to impeach President Bush, is in Norman, OK, until Sept. 2. Set up Aug. 26 at a private residence on the northwest corner of Flood and Symmes, the CIP's tour bus has the words "Bring Them Home Now" printed in large blue letters across the side to draw atten-
tion to the organization's cause. In the front yard of his home, located about a mile north of the University of Oklahoma campus, the CIP's spokesman, 67-year-old Jim Goodnow of Terlingua, Texas, has a tent set up where like-minded citizens can add their signatures to thousands he has collected thus far.
The reception in Norman, where an unidentified couple invited his group, has been warm and fruitful, Goodnow said. "We've been here for a few days now," Goodnow said, "and
Kansas, where it has once again received an invite from "fellow dissenters," Goodnow said. "We're going to Kansas next, and then who knows from there," he said. "But ultimately, we'll end up in Washington, D.C. And ultimately, we'll get Bush out."
I'd say that for every middle finger I've seen, there have been 20 peace signs flashed at me. Plus, we've gotten literally thousands of signatures here so far." Goodnow said he couldn't have imagined trying to "We've been here impeach another president after the original group fin- for a few days now ished their work in 1973. and I'd say that for "It's not exactly written anywhere, but the Committee to every middle finger Impeach the President did their I've seen, there part in getting Nixon out of office," Goodnow said. "What have been 20 piece we did in the 70's worked signs flashed at me. then, and it'll work now." Goodnow, a non-combat vet- Plus we've gotten eran of the military, said Bush literally thousands scares him more than Nixon of signatures here ever did and wants to see him out of office before his death. so far." "I have cancer," Goodnow said, "so I look at the world a little different than most people. Do I have much time Jim Goodnow left? I don't know. But what I do know is that I can't stand to see this guy [Bush] sending these young men over to Iraq to kill a bunch of unarmed Iraqis and getting killed themselves. I have to do some by Andrew Kniitle. thing about it, it's my job." Andrew Knittle can be reached at The CIP, which funds its aknittle@thevistaonline.com. The Committee to Impeach President Bush tour bus is in Norman until Sept 2. The organization is gathering signatures on a petition travel through donations, to impeach Bush. will head next to Lawerence,
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