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OCTOBER 21, 1999
Time to synchronize the clocks, UCOSA resolution says By Trent Dugas
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tudents late to class and professors past. The University of Central Oklahoma holding class beyond the Student Association (UCOSA) is scheduled time because of broken clocks may become a problem of the working on a resolution that will ask the university to better maintain its hallways and classroom clocks. The main goal of the resolution is to clear the ambiguity that revolves around the start and end times of classes. The resolution also points out that clocks on campus are not in synchronization with each other. This creates inconsistency in actual hours of operation for all facilities. With the resolution, UCOSA hopes the university will install clocks where there currently are not any. UCOSA want clocks in every classroom on campus and in hallways longer than 50 feet. Chris Cook, house speaker, said if the clocks were organized and revealed the correct time, student life would improve. He said time is a standard unit of measurement that people use to construct their schedule. Everyone that attends a specific class should be.able to agree on the time, when class starts and ends, according to the clock in the room, Cook said. "Time is important, it's your —Photos and design by Landon Salyer structure," he said.
A possible solution described in the resolution is for UCO to solicit corporate advertising displayed. The advertising would go around the face of the clock to offset the cost of buying new clocks. "I don't care who advertises, just give me the correct time," Cook said. "We want to know as we walk in the building, what time the professors are going by or as we are sitting there and we have gone 15 minutes over or the professor thinks he is done with the class and we have 15 minutes left." Cook said the clocks on campus have had problems for a while and his decision to pursue the issue is based on complaints from students and members of UCOSA. Cook says he may have "jumped the gun" with this resolution and said he should have researched a little more and talked with Lennis Pederson, director of facilities management. "He may pick up this resolution and just laugh at it and say 'if someone would have just told me I would have got it fixed,"' Cook said. He said he did not go that route because he assumed since so many V See
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UCO teachers leave because of low pay, professors' report says By Ercilia Zolkeiwizc
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Preliminary Report on Faculty Compensation Issues" disclosed that there is a feeling among the faculty of the College of Business Administration that they are undercompensated for their services. Three business professors recently submitted the report to Dr. David Harris, dean of the College of Business. According to the report, the basis of the study is to determine if the feelings of undercompensation are justified. The report also addresses concerns of
understaffing Because of the low pay, the College of Business has had difficulty in recruiting and retaining qualified full-time faculty. Five or six junior faculty members left the College of Business over the summer, said Dr. Russell Jones, assistant dean of the College of Business. "It's the junior faculty who are leaving and those are the ones we ought to keep." "We have some outstanding College of Business faculty and they are damn good at what they do. But if we had the opportunity
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