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Show u V I E R s I Faculty Senate to seek change in evaluation of president Kv,t Bestor, a natioo8/ty .lcnr>Wn En,ipy-award winning Vtah composer and New Age pianist, will make his ooty soul.hem Ut.ah ~arance during the 2000 #olidaY/ · t " season, and his fiN appea,aace In Ce<;Jar City, tonight ;n the Centrum Arena Seating . is general admission and tickets are $f5 to the public and $5 for SUU sfl!dents. Ticl<ets am availalile in advance at • Munson's Music, 002 S. Mafn, Cedar City, or Clari< BFld Unford Jewelers, 83 N. Maip, Cedar City, and will b9- sold at the Centrum immediately prior to tm, show. 'A Kurt Bestor Chtistmas' is the Cedar City Music Ms' third concert in its New Millennium Concerl Sf)lies. Fof more than a decade, Bestots lllm sc-OTes, television themes, compositions and carols have ', provided soundtracks for American lite. In 1987 he was one of six oompdsers chosen to be part of the world renowned Sundance Film Festival'$ Composers Lab, during which time he studied with three HoflfjY.Ood film compo~ Dave Grus1n, Afan Silvestri and ~via Raskin. Bestor has recorde<;J , more than 18 GD albums~ four of which have Christmas themes. y BY THOMAS BURR AND RHIANNON BENT SENIOR STAFF WRITERS - An adaptation of Charles Oickens' :A Christmas Carol,' with a one.-man cast, will be presented tomorrow and Wednesday as a scholarship fundraiser at SUV. Douglas H, Baker, veterah stage performeranc/ multiyear director lbrthe Utah Shakespearean t=esffval, wiJJ present 'One Christmas Carol' at 7:30 p.m. ~ach (light in the Randall L " Jones Theatre. Baker Is oontfibuling proceeds from the show to a scholarship fund. for students in the. College of Performing and Visual Arts. Admission is $9 for adults. $7 for senior citizens and stu.dents ages six through 18, and $2 for SUU students, The show was adapted and written by Baker who toured with the presentation for several holiday seasorrs. In addition to directing both The Royal feaste and The Greenshow for the Shakespearean Festival during the late 1980s. Baker was a faculty ~mber in SUU'-s depamnent of theatre alts and dance , for several year.s, Since leaving SUU, he has spent mote than 10 years in 11/ghtly productions at the Excalibur Hotel in !,as Vegas. Several policies and a memo from SUU President Steven D. Bennion were discussed briefly during a Faculty Senate meeting Thursday afternoon, However, earlier, during a closed-door session, the group reportedly discussed asking the Board of Regents to objectively rate Bennion during a scheduled evaluation at the end of the school year. Bennion's memo was written in regard to a letter that was recently sent to him by the faculty senate_The letter expressed concerns about the lack of administrative regard given to some of the senate's recommendations. Two issues from last year prompted the concern: the Administrative Withdrawal Policy and the Faculty Senate Salary Equity Committee Report. . Bennion said the President's Council spent considerable time discussing the Administrative Withdrawal Policy, which would allow faculty to drop students who don't appear in class the first day. Due to the numerous factors of legal concerns, travel delay, financial aid, athletic requirements and inconsistency with enforcement, Bennion asked the colleges of Business and Education to look for other solutions on an internal basis rather than a broad, institutional basis, · Regarding salary equity, Bennion said the development of guidelines for faculty salary increases had already been accomplished before the recommendations were delivered_ He said there isn't enough money to address all the cases and situations and continued progress will depend on the legislature and management of resources on campus. He said salary increases are the top institutional budget priority and faculty equity 1s a continuing concern for the administration. In other business, the senate passed the Credit Hour Loads Policy so it can go back to Deans' Council. The policy was created because there is no current policy that governs the situation_ It allows students to enroll in 20 semester hours or less (18 or less in a summer term) without approval from the department chair. It prevents students from taking more credits than they can handle and skimming through a degree. The policy on academic administrative personnel returning to teaching was also passed with few concerns. . • A policy outlining the roles and responsibility of the Deans' Council, which was approved and handed down by the Deans' Council·to the faculty senate for its approval, also passed_ • Before the public meeting, however, the body held an executive session to discuss personnel matters; primarily an evaluation routinely scheduled by the Regents for Bennion following this academic year. Although the comments have been shrouded in secrecy, the 24-member faculty senate is considering asking the Board of Regents to modify its evaluation of (continued on page 3) . 1• |