Western Front - 1983 January 28

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The Western Front
Deans
defend
Fairhaven,
Huxley/4
Vol. 75, No. 7 Western Washington University, Bellingham, Wash. Friday, January 28, 1983
IPRC report blasted
by Faculty Senate
Doggin' it Photo by Blair Kooistra
Sunny skies always bring out the urge to frolic, and when
you've got your dog by your side, that urge gets darn right
irresistible. Education junior Jennifer Hanna and her German
shorthair pointer Ryder found time for a little playfulness in
front of the Humanities building.
By Elayne Anderson
Members of the Faculty Senate
attacked the Instructional Pro­gram
Review Committee's report
and questioned whether the
report should even be con­sidered.
During an informal forum, in
which motions could not be
accepted, the senate discussed
the report, which recommends
the elimination of Fairhaven Col­lege,
demoting Huxley College to
departmental status and the
reduction of 11 departments.
Connie Faulkner of Fairhaven
College charged that the review
committee had not fulfilled its
first charge to review the universi­ty's
mission statement and pro­pose
ame'ndments in case of
enrollment drops. Faulkner said
the charge was "put there to set
the tone" for the committee's
other charges.
Faulkner questioned why the
senate was even discussing the
report. "There is no relation to
what we got and what we asked
for."
Mark Wicholas of the chemis­try
department said it was "coun­terproductive
for us to dirty our.
hands with it.
Wicholas called the report
illogical and said that although
the right conclusions may have
been reached by the review
committee, it is uncertain how
they were reached.
Senate President William
"Skip" Sailors explained that the
senate was requested by the Act­ing
Vice President for Academic
Colorado's Paul Hansen
named new grid coach
By Jeff Kramer
Thirty-one-year-old Paul
Hansen, the quarterback coach at
the University of Colorado last
fall, has been named the new
head football coach at Western,
the athletic department
announced yesterday.
Hansen will fill the position
vacated by Athletic Director
Boyde Long, who resigned his
football coaching position last
November after 13 seasons.
Hansen will take over a pro­gram
that has won only three
games in three years and has
been the subject of periodic
attempts by students to see foot­ball
eliminated at Western.
"I hope in the coming year we
can see a positive change in
direction, a laying of a foundation
in terms of improvement, disci­pline
and respect for the pro­gram,"
Hansen told The Front in a
telephone interview Wednesday
night.
Hansen was on campus briefly
yesterday, but has returned to
California to finish up on some
recruiting business for Colorado.
He will assume his duties here
Paul Hansen
New head football coach
some time next week.
The product of a seven-and-a-half
week search by a six-member
selection panel, Hansen said his
first priorities will be to meet with
current players and to start
recruiting.
Vice President for Student
Affairs Thomas Quinlan approved
the committee's choice after the
panel met in a five-hour session
Monday night.
"Hansen was selected from an
outstanding group of candi­dates,"
Quinlan stated in an
athletic department release.
"He's given ample evidence of
possessing all the qualities we
were looking for in the areas of
coaching, recruiting and fund
raising.
"The university has made a
firm commitment to having a •
strong football program, and we ,
see Hansen as projecting the
leadership needed for that to
happen," Quinlan added.
Hansen has never been a head
coach at any level, but he comes
to Western with an impressive
backlog of coaching experience.
He coached at the University of
Illinois in 1980-1981 under Mike
White, a renowned innovator in
pass-oriented offensive football.
Hansen said that although he
favors a balanced attack, he plans
to "feature" the pass.
Hansen spent the 1979 season
coaching wide receivers at the
Oregon Institute of Technology, a
current Evergreen conference
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Affairs Paul Ford to consider the
report.
Western's President G. Robert
Ross, attending his first senate
meeting, said, "As a person new
to the campus it is my sense we
are in a posture of self-destruction.
I'd like to get us out
of it. One way to do that is to settle
the question of elimination."
Any report recommending
eliminations and reductions of
departments would not be "com­fortable,"
Ross said.
Marie Eaton of the School of
Education said she was dis­tressed
by the use of the word
expensive when deciding
whether to cut or reduce
programs.
"Do we want to have cheap
programs?" she asked.
The report was labeled short­sighted
by Hugh Fleetwood of
the philosophy department, who
said he was disturbed by the lack
of attention the report gave to
forecasting the future of Western.
Richard Levin of the math
department pointed out that the
report did not list which pro­grams
should be cut first if fewer
than 40 full-time equivalent
faculty positions did not have to
be cut.
A request of 422 faculty posi­tions
for next fall has been put to
the legislators by Gov. John Spel-lman.
Western now has 442
faculty positions.
The IPRC report made its
recommendations on the basis of
a cut of 44 faculty members. Ford
said he expects about 16 faculty
members to retire or resign
before fall quarter.
Ford also said no tenured
faculty or faculty member in line
for tenure is being threatened
with elimination.
Although the senate only was
asked to discuss the report, after
the informal one-hour session,
Faulkner motioned the senate be
allowed to support or reject the
report's recommendations. The
motion failed 6 to 16, with one
abstention.
The senate's discussion will be
considered by Ford, who will
submit his recommendations on
the report to Ross.
Ross will present his proposals
to the Board of Trustees at its Feb.
3 meeting.
The senate did not discuss the
review report released by the Col­lege
of Arts and Sciences
although the members had been
issued copies.
Sailors recommended that the
senate ignore the arts and scien­ces
report, at least until it has
received an official' letter from
Dean James W. Davis requesting
consideration of the report.
Freeze tuition, Western
reps tell legislators
By Peggy Loetterle
and Gordon Weeks
Political Science professor Chuck Fox and Associated Students
liaison Brad Hendrickson spoke in Western's behalf at a University
of Washington-dominated session of the House Higher Education
committee Tuesday in Olympia.
The two Western representatives spoke against tuition increases
and for program stability in a hearing that reviewed programs
currently considered for elimination.
- "We just hit the highlights," the AS Vice President for External
Affairs Leonard Brevik said. Brevik was the only other person from
Western in attendance.
"What we talked about was that we needed more stability of
funds, and that we could no longer operate on a battlefield" Fox
said.
The UW and Western were the only two schools that sent faculty
and students to testify at the five-hour hearing.
"Each department being cut at the UW had four to ten people,
each testifying on particular programs rather than the university
overall," Fox said. "They were saying save our little institution'. I
don't know what they expected the legislators to do."
Legislative liaison Hendrickson made his debut before the legis­lative
committee.
"I'm sure we could all use a change of pace from this morning's
testimony so I thought I would change the subject from the UW's
program elimination to one of our other fine educational institu­tions
in the state, Western," Hendrickson said.
"No one laughed because everyone in the audience was from the
UW," Brevik said after the meeting.
Hendrickson touched upon the "havoc" budget cuts have brought
for Western's campus and students, including larger classes, out­dated
library resources and shorter contact hours with faculty.
"They're no longer cutting fat, but meat and bone, vital educa­tional
programs," Fox said.
After his 10-minute speech, Hendrickson was confronted by
House Representative Richard H. Barrett (R-Spokane).
"I appreciate its certainly not the same institution you started
within 1978," Barrett said. "Nor is Boeing, norisWeyerhauser, nor is
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