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Show 2 - September 28, 1999 The Forum Fro Takes Lmw of Westoii raster in Dear Editor, By Audrie Manard The article entitled Budget Cuts Divide ASWC Senate" published in the first issue of The Forum contains incorrect information regarding the ASWC Financial Code, statistics. In order to reduce officer stipends, and budget confusion, the following information is provided. Publications that receive funding from ASWC (not clubs) are required to collect a minimum of 25 of their total budgeted operation through advertising or other revenue. This applies to The Forum and Ellipsis. It was stated that the budgeted funds for all student organizations equals $19,825 out of a total budget of $145,000. The Student Activities Commission (SAC), the largest student organization, was overseen. SAC will receive 63,000 this academic year. The executive stipends for the President and Vice President are the same as last year at $400month. The Secretary, Treasurer, and Parliamentarian are not receiving $250, but $200 a month. Also, it should be noted that ASWC now has an Attorney General who receives an executive stipend of $250month. of the operating budget used for Finally, the 1997-1998 but was not executive stipends in administration lowered that to 10. The The 1998-199- 9 1999-200- 0 stipend has now been raised to 13. 10, Scott R. Terry ASWC President 20. Staff Writer At the beginning of Westminster's 1999 academic year. Earth Systems Science teacher Dr. Robert Ford abruptly resigned to take a position with the United States Department of Agriculture. ABob is with US.A.I.D. and the Foreign Agricultural Service' said Dr. Stephen Baar, Westminster's Academic Vice President. "He is involved in the implementation of sustainable development in the Caribbean and Central America." Ford's departure disrupted the Fall schedule. "We have hired adjuncts to teach his classes," Baar said. "We also had to cancel Earth Systems Science 205 partially because of Bob's leaving ana partially because only four students were enrolled in the class." There is some fear that Ford's resignation will negatively affect the students enrollea in his classes. According to sophomore Pete Reum, a former student of Ford, students currently in Ford's classes will not receive the quality of teachinghe provided. "The students, without Pulitzer Prize poet Maxine Kumin captivated her audience at the Jewett Center last Thursday evening with a performance "both polished and wise," in the words of professor Natasha Saje, director of the Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Poetry Series. Kumin, who nearly died last as year a result of a horse and carriage accident, personalized her presentation with background information about her poems, many of which alludea to her farm in New Hampshire. Saje said Kumin's performance was passionate, "one of the best" she's ever seen. Kumin read from her collection Up Country, for which . she received the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Her reading featured him, will have far less of a learning experience," he said. "He would learn with the students instead of teach out of a book." Dr. Gretchen Siegler team-taugwith Dr. Fora and believes that future students will not receive the unique perspectives Ford provided in the classroom. "He made students aware of international concerns," she said. "He pulled them out of the idea that the western world is of primary concern." The administration and faculty have also been affected by Ford's absence. "Bob was responsible for of lot the faculty's uses of a technology in the sciences," Baar said. "He was also responsible for helping the school ana faculty learn international curriculum and he offered individual help to the faculty." Siegler agrees. "It left a hole in the faculty when he left," she said. "I think ne was trying to make us less provincial and more aware of global concerns. Hopefully these attempts will not be lost because of his leaving." Ford held the Kim T. Adamson Chair, Westminster's only endowed chair, and with his . resignation, the administration must find a new person to fill the ht position. "The Kim T. Chair for International Studies permanently supports the salary and benefits of a faculty member," Baar said. "We are going to wait until next fall before we find someone else to fill the chair." According to Baar, all faculty are on contracts with the college when a faculty member leaves abruptly, difficulties are created for the school. "These appointments are one-wa- y because the college commits to the faculty members but the faculty can or cannot commit to the college," he said. "Bob was on a contract and multiple-yea- r decided to leave before his contract was up." Although faculty resignations sometimes occur, late ones have the most impact. "We want our to faculty find and get new opportunities," Baar said, "but late resignations are problematic because they create a real problem for staffing of classes." Adamson different formal poems, including a double villanefle. "I found her reading to be uncomplicated, not as abstract as past poets," said Cindy Morrison, a junior English major. Morrison said she appreciated Kumin's "customizing" her reading to Westminser. Kumin introduced several poems by saying she didn't think she would be allowed to read them in her upcoming reading at Brigham Young University. Kumin is one of eight noted poets reading at Westminster this year in the Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Poetry Series. The next reading will feature Tomaz Salamun on October 21 at 8:p.m. in Nunemaker Place. Photo by Paul Gallegos Pulitzer Prize Poet Maxine Kumin. |