Students honor faculty members
Vista photos by Daniel Smith
Student Association President John Buttry and Carla Krauss hang a banner Monday in front of the Red Bud Room Restaurant in the University Center advertising the start of faculty appreciation week.
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An official Student Senate proclamation and the hanging of banners kicked off "Faculty Appreciation Week," sponsored by Central State University Student Association Monday. The week features a special edition of the Student Senate newsletter, the Old North Beacon, containing a listing of CSU faculty achievements, a free luncheon for all faculty Thursday and a faculty mixer accompanied by the CSU jazz band Thursday evening in the Oklahoma Room in the
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University Center. The mixer will begin at 7:30 p.m. and continue to 9:30 p.m. Faculty and students are invited to attend. "We feel it's time the faculty had a little applause from the student body," said Carla Krauss, chairperson of the Student Association faculty relations committee. Krauss said the mixer will include dancing and a snack bar. Faculty are also invited to attend the Student Association film festival this week.
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Calendar girl winner named
Committee calls for salary hikes By Debbie Martin In an effort to entice faculty to remain here, revisions of the 1986-87 academic year salary schedule were recommended Thursday to the Faculty Senate by the personnel and policies committee. The proposal suggests increasing the maximum number of years the faculty can receive increments for teaching experience in addition to their base pay. The current salary schedule caps pay increments at eight years for an instructor, 10 years for an assistant professor, 12 years for an associate professor and 15 years for a professor. The annual amount received for teaching experience, regardless of rank, is $500 during the first five years and $300 for the sixth through fifteenth years. The proposal calls for changing the maximum number of years faculty can receive the pay perk to 12 years for an assistant professor, 16 years for an associate professor and 20 years for a professor. The pay cap would remain at eight years for the rank of instructor. The increment amount would be increased to $800 for the first seven years and $500 for the eighth through twentienth years of service. The committee stated that the
changes would aid in the retention of experienced faculty and serve as recognition of their continued dedicated service. The academic affairs committee presented two proposals to the senate. One proposal recommends that each instructor teaching undergraduate courses provide all students an estimate of his or her current grade or course standing prior to the cut-off date for withdrawal from an individual course. The other proposal recommends that each faculty member prepare, and distribute to all his or her classes, a course policy statement. The policy statement is to be distributed at the beginning of each semester and be given full force and effect for the duration of that semester. The policy statement would include the name of the course, the name of the faculty member,the faculty member's office location, office extension, and office hours. The attendance policy, the grading policy,the make-up exam policy, all the required texts and optional texts and the additional requirements for the receipt of graduate credit in the course would also be included. Currently the syllabi handed out by instructors are prepared by the department and are only considered a course outline.
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Miss April, Central State University junior Lori Doughty, has been named the winner of the 1985-86 calendar girl contest. Doughty was sponsored by the Sigma Kappa sorority and escorted by Tom Schula. Doughty, an Edmond marketing major, said she felt the contest had lost some of the excitement which usually accompanies the calendar girl contest. "I think the story in the Vista may have hurt sales some," Doughty said. She was refering to a story in the Oct. 1, issue of the Vista, in which some of the calendar girls displayed disgruntled opinions of the photos in the 85-86 calendar. Each of the girls pictured are required to sell copies of the calendars. Purchasers of the calendar are then allowed to vote on their choice for calendar girl of the year.
Lori Doughty
The first runner-up in the contest was Rhonda Looney, Miss December, who was sponsored by West Hall. Looney's escort, pictured in the calendar, was David Brooks.
Professors to present research at meeting By Janell Schilz Several CSU professors will participate in the annual Oklahoma Academy of Science meeting Friday at Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee. The meeting will include universities and colleges across the state. According to Dr. Terry Harrison, chairman of biological sciences section of the Academy, there will be over 190 papers covering science and math research presented at the meeting. Harrison said that this is the 75th Diamond Jubilee anniversary for the Academy and in celebration there will be scheduled seminars and special events throughout the year. Three research papers will be
presented by CSU faculty Dr. Bill Caire, Dr. David Bass and Joe Vaughan associate professor. Caire's topic will cover his research on the Mexican free-tail bat. Caire has recently conducted experiments on bat migration at the Kirkpatrick Planetarium. Bass will feature his work on the midge larvae. A midge is a type of gnat. His research will deal with the ecology of midges in a aquatic habitat. Vaughan is presenting his work done in Australia this past summer on plant tissue and plant cloning. Mark Hardisty, a graduate student, will feature his research done on the red bat. Harrison also said two biology
professors, Dr. Peggy Guthrie and Dr. Joyce Hardin, will chair sessions at the meeting. The meeting is open to the public. Registration begins in Geiger Center at 7:15 a.m., at OBU and is $15 for nonmembers, $10 for members and $5 for students. There will be a luncheon that will cost extra and will feature ,Gov. George Nigh. Dr. Frank E. Horton, president of the University of Oklahoma, will be guest speaker. Horton will speak on "The Importance of Science to the Future of Oklahoma." For more information contact Harrison at the CSU biology department, ext. 2774.