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Show Vol. 103. No. 158 Friday. to 5 JUL ru June 3. 1994 ((Linn U--UDU- Published Since 1890 Econ. professor files complaint with EEOC after denial of tenure Enoincrd his last year." The tenure process can take a Chronicle News Writer long time, Rock said. Several committees and people review the professor seeking tenure and One University of Utah eco- the final decision is made by U. nomics assistant professor is President Arthur Smith. "These Icommitteesl are all joining the ranks of this year's graduating class. advisory in a sense," Rock said. The professor seeking tenure is Rajani Kanth has found himself searching for another job. reviewed at the departmental, Kanth was refused tenure by the the college and the university U. economics department. level. After that, an instructor Kanth, who is from India, filed can appeal the decision. a complaint against the ecoThe undergraduate and gradunomics department with the U.S. ate student advisory committees Equal Employment Opportunity review the professor, along with the department chair, dean, and Commission on grounds of disthe U. vice president and presicrimination. Kanth said the economics dent. The undergraduate and gradudepartment told him he didn't had ate student advisory committees receive tenure because he that Kanth be given of advised done nothing significance since his doctoral thesis. tenure. However, they only James Rock, chair of the eco- review a professor's teaching, nomics department, said, "He according to Rock. was denied tenure and promoExcept for teaching criteria, tion and then, because the pro- Kanth did not meet tenure cess took so long, this was given requirements, Rock said. as BY AMY SHAFER j , 7 CHRONICLE PHOTOMelanw Conner This engineering student knows that after a day of heat transfer, fluids, thermodynamics, fuels and chemicals, there's nothing better to revive the spirit than a good ol' fashioned bar-b-q. see "complaint" on page four by the president (Arthur Smith, Prof, warms to idea of .studying Antarctic winter New policy microwave experiments on the sea ice, using radar horns' on the ship to bounce microwaves off of the sea ice, ' according to Golden. The scientists will then measure the backscattered BY CAMILLA MOORE Chronicle News Writer Studying the behavior of electro: magnetic waves in sea ice will take a to University of Utah mathematician ' Antarctica later this month. ' Ken Golden, an associate professor of mathematics at the UJ, said he has been studying sea ice for years. "Sea ice is an extremely interesting sub-- V ject," Golden said. Sea ice forms the boundary layer waves. - " . Studying the electromagnetic i". - sea" ice. , ..r .:.:.::' ! 5 . actually participating in the . study of the sea ice, Golden will be able to enhance his study of the elec-tromagnetic properties of the sea ice rather than just working with his , . affects the climate all over the world, he said. Spa ice also plays a fundamental waves and the properties of die sea BY BRANDON BURT Chronicle News Writer - - mathematical models. Golden is the only mathematician involved iri the study, and will be the ' only U. representative. ; The mathematician will leave Salt Lake City for Antarctica on June 24. - s: if By ' role in the heat transfer between the ocean and the atmosphere, Golden said. The thickness of therice also is a controlling factor in how the heat is transferred. The ice contains salt, and in some instances! the salt has been found to contain materials, similar to those found in the human body, according to Golden. '"y- according to Golden. He said he has made mathematics models of the sea ' ice, for which he makes theorems. After making the models. Golden behave in the specific location, which in turn ' ' V com- then studies the theorems and the models while trying to determine, how the electromagnetic waves sphere, in polar regions, according Sea ice determines the climate in a . ' ponent in studying the sea ice, between the ocean and the atmo' V" Mathematics is an important : . - " to be loaned out longer m v . T.l S v 1: Santiago, Chile, Golden will continue the journey to a city on the southern tip of Chile, Puenta Arenas. . From Puenta Arenas, other scien- ; tists and Golden will board the . . Nathanjel B.; Palmer, a National rt 5Zi - - - A i - 1 ' ' ( mm ' RENEWALALEXANDRIA.LIB.U TAH.EDU. "The , new policy sounds A- I ' Let us entertain you, or at least tell you The end is near. That means Doue Gibson ' and how to get entertained before rnean-spiwhere and vicious is getting in his last is officially here summer this miss liberal at Don't the ited jabs press. real it's a column, keeper. r- - - m Patrons wishing to renew materials can pick up renewal forms at the circulation desk on level three or at the west entrance on level two. , Materials can also be renewed at via good, but it might deter a lot of people from using the library. If V mm -1 you go in to check out a book, Ken Golden, associate professor of mathematics at the University of you need it now and if people Utah, points to Antarctica on a world map. Golden will be leaving for are taking them for two "months, the distant continent in late June to study the behavior of electromag- it doesn't seem fair," said library - ' see "library" on page four : netic' waves in sea ice. . :Mm materials. I" V Flying from Miami, Florida. to ice should give the scientists an Science Foundation funded state-of-- " the-aresearch vessel. The group will insight into this area of science too, ; ' board the vessel for two on be Golden said. months. conduct The. scientists will 1 & The University of Utah library system is implementing a new loan and fine policy. Starting July 1, U. library patrons will be allowed to check materials out for two months at a time. Borrowers will be able Jo take up to five renewals for the - ... 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