Western Front - 1978 April 14

              FRONT Vol. 70 No. 39
FRIDAY, APRIL 14,. 1978
THAT TIME AGAIN — If you don't have the money to pay, still file. You could save yourself a
big fine.
Pay them now, or pay them later
byRICKESKIL
The April 17 income tax
deadline is rapidly approaching
and the Internal Revenue Ser­vice
has strict penalties for not
filing a return.
Two separate penalties, the
failure to file penalty and the
failure to pay penalty, could
apply to you if you fail to file.
The largest penalty is the
failure to file which is a 5
percent fine per month up to
five months plus 6.5 percent
compounded daily on the money
owed.
The failure to pay penalty is
the lesser of the two. A 1
percent fine per month is
tacked on to your taxes plus 6.5
percent interest compounded
dailv.
If you file but do not have the
money to pay, you will be
assessed only the latter charge.
Jim Aguirre of the Internal
Revenue Service seid.
If you file but do not have the
money to pay, you will be
assessed only the latter charge,
Jim Aguirre of the Internal
Revenue Service said.
Without the necessary pa­perwork
to fill out your tax
return, you can still file. An
estimate must be made by the
person filing the return and the
estimate must be within 90
percent of the amount owed. If
this is done then only 6.5
percent would be charged on
the remaining money owed,
Aguirre said.
Amendments can be made to
your tax return within three
years. So if you have money
coming you have three years to
get it, Aguirre said.
Any further questions can be
answered by the Internal Rev­enue
Service by calling this
toll-free number: 800-732-1040.
-acuity pay lags behind other schools
by SUE TAYLOR
Western's faculty is paid 6.7
ercent less than any of its
ounterparts in comparable
olleges and universities, Don-
Cole, vice president for
usiness and financial affairs,
aid Tuesday.
Although the faculty tenta-vely
is asking for a 5 percent
icrease for next year, its pay
could fall even farther
in comparison, he
:ale
(hind
tided.
Western's goal is to get to an
equal level with the compara­tive
institutions, Cole said. But
if these schools raise their
salaries more than 5 percent,
Western could fall behind ac­cordingly,
Cole said.
The comparison schools are
located in California, Illinois,
Oregon, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Michigan and Indiana. The
state has used them as a
standard since the late 1950s,
Cole said.
Last year, Western was 12.9
percent behind these schools. A
10 percent increase still left
Western 6.7 percent behind for
this year. Western hasn't been
equal compared to these
schools since the mid-1960s.
Western will submit its final
salary request to the state
legislature in September after
the salary averages from the
other colleges and universities
are in, Cole said. If the salary
averages are higher than 5
percent in these states, the
increase might be raised ac­cordingly.
Disagreement arises
over tenure decision
by LAURIE DUNHAM
Former Fairhaven Dean
Joseph Bettis has received a
recommendation for tenure
from the university's top ad­ministrators,
overruling a judg­ment
by Fairhaven's Retention,
Tenure and Promotion Com­mittee.
The committee had decided it
did not have enough evidence of
Bettis' teaching ability to make
a positive recommendation for
tenure at Fairhaven, committee
chairman Annis Hovde said.
"Fairhaven emphasizes
teaching over and above every­thing
else" when a tenure
recommendation is considered,
Hovde said. He said during
Bettis' three years as dean of
the college, he had hot taught
enough classes to provide am­ple
evidence of his qualifica­tions.
University President Paul
Olscamp said he was displeas­ed
with the committee's action
and added that "very rarely"
does the administration over­turn
a department's recom­mendation.
Olscamp said, however, "In
both (Vice President for Aca­demic
Affairs) James Talbot's
judgment and my own it was
crystal clear that Bettis was in
every respect qualified for a
tenure position not only at
Fairhaven but at any university
in the country."
Talbot said his decision to.
recommend tenure was based
primarily on Bettis' teaching
record prior to his appointment
as Fairhaven dean.
"Being dean, he didn't have
much of a chance to demon­strate
he was doing a good job
in teaching or research," Tal­bot
said.
Bettis has remained at Fair­haven
as a faculty member
since the appointment of a new
dean in March. He said he will
teach in the liberal studies
department next year as part of
the Fairhaven faculty rotation
plan, implemented in the recent
Fairhaven revisions.
These revisions also instruct
Fairhaven to review and clarify
its criteria in determining ten­ure.
Because of past differences
between the Fairhaven faculty
and Bettis, Frank Nugent of the
psychology department was
asked by Hovde to attend the
committee meetings to ensure
that the procedures were fol-
Continued on page 8
Fine funds ethics class
• by CINDY KAUFMAN
Under an order from the Fed­eral
District Court in Oregon,
the White Stag Manufacturing
Corporation, Portland, is pay­ing
off part of a $300,000 fine
for neglecting to pay import
taxes properly by giving a
$4,500 grant to the College of
Business and Economics.
The money from the fine will
be used to fund a new, two year
program in management train­ing
and business ethics.
"This is a beautiful illustra­tion
of making the criminal
make restitution to society,"
Robert Collier, College of Busi­ness
and Economics dean, said
Tuesday.
Collier said he read about the
fine in the Wall Street Journal.
White Stag "forgot" to pay
some of its import duties, he
said, so it was fined $100,000
and was required to give
$200,000 more to charity. "The
minute I heard about it, I said,
'fine, we'll use the money to
insure that management in the
future has better ethics'," he
said.
Charities,' as defined in a
news release from Collier's
office, include corporations,
organizations, and institutions
whose work will benefit per­sons
residing in the United
States.
Of 130 applications for grant
money only seven were ap­proved
by an allocation com­mittee.
Of these, Western is the
only recipient from Washington
state, Collier said.
"We sent in a whole collec­tion"
of bids for differing
amounts of money, along with
suggestions for its use here,
Collier said. For the whole
$200,000, Collier offered to
endorse a chair in business
ethics here. For $15,000 to
$20,000, Collier said he could
fill the library with books on the
subject, etc.
Collier said the new 'execu­tive
in residence' program
would "bring experienced ex­ecutives
into the classroom to
talk about social responsibili­ties
and ethics with our busi­ness
students."
The Bureau of Faculty Re­search
will co-sponsor the pro­gram,
and John Moore of the
business administration de­partment
will be its coordina­tor.
Kenneth A. Wagner, su­pervising
United States Proba­tion
officer of Seattle, will
represent the probation office
locally, monitoring the expendi­ture
of the funds and the oper­ation
of the program.
Other grant recipients are
the Lions Sight Foundation, The
Nature Conservency, The Liv­ing
Opportunities, Ind. and the
University of Oregon Health
Sciences Center, all of Oregon;
the University of California at
Los Angeles and several east­ern
cancer and research cen­ters,
Collier said.
Inside
Cloning
How the Front broke the
cloning story international­ly
... and one professor's
response to the issue of gen­etic
duplication. See page 7.
Taj tickles
Taj Mahal brought tidbits
of the Caribbean to the
Mount Baker Theater in a
musical feast Monday. See
page 10.