Show THE UTAH TATESMAN UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY V0L77N03 USU by Shron A hrrn phvsicallv The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 inItatea that no handicapped dividual shall lie denied benefits or participation in anv program or acfederal financial tivity receiving assistance Savage said the June 190 deadline for construction of the hanidcapped will Making buildings FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 281979 complying with laws for handicapped t’Sl’ is in C'Hiipletp complin nee nih the law cnnaTniiiK the rights of handicapped individuals according to Dr Archie Savage assis-tan- t director ol Affirmative Action facilities aiding be met LOGAN UTAH and services accessible includes the installation of elevators ramps for wheelchairs and parking stalls designated for handicapped close to buildings Projects under way include an elevator in Old Main expected to be completed in a few weeks New ramps are being constructed at the Computer Center and the High Rises added Savage Another elevator will also serve handicapped students in the Animal Science Building by the end of fall quarter Savage said a campaign' under wav to remove hallway obstruc-tionthat might impede mobility of s handicapped persons Passage and accessibility to all of the campus is assured according to Savage He said a campus map indicating the best routes for hanstudents to take to dicapped various buildings is being produced Rutch of the motorpool ASUSU Volunteers Office also proThe University Advisory Council vide assistance added Savage on the Handicapped meets monthly to discuss policy matters Savage said that a special to students and employers pertaing teletype machine has been installed on and in Rex A vary s office to facilitate off campus Members include peocommunication by the two dozen or ple in key positions to advise on difby campus architect Paul ferent aspects of the rights of han- more hearing impaired students who must keep in contact with Sahsbury It is expected to be dicapped persons issued in a few weeks when the conrehabilitaion centers in their home The UACH can arrange for states struction on campus is finished rescheduling of classrooms to Handicapped students will not be assure accessibility for handicapOne of the three buses serving the campus has a wheelchair lift ped persons and ascertain that denied participation in the said Savage Savage said that It serves major they have accessibility to student classroom tutors notetakers and interpreters points on campus throughout the services such as admissions and are provided for as needed day F urther details on services can registration counseling and other needs The council also Inclusion of the handicapped is be obtained by Dean provides contacting assistance for things like helping an expression of the ideals of our the handicapped get book they can- bounding fathers who intended to exclude noone from freedom to purnot see or reach said Savage sue happiness and fulfillment of Special servies extension services for the handicapped and the (Continued on page 2) Colleges troubled by tenure quotas Editor’s note: This article is the engineering departments to 33 persecond half of series dealing with cent for the family and human tenure at USU Part one which was development department published Wednesday dealt with Dean Oral L Ballam College of the history of tenure snd proEducation says that his college ceed u re for getting it st USU will not meet the 1980 projection He said the college is already tryBy Hermit Olson ing to reduce its tenured staff in a “rational and formal" manner USU faces a requirement to have no more than 685 percent of its The reduction plan incorporates faculty with tenured status by an implicit policy of not giving 1980 and no more than 60 percent credit for tenure earned at other institutions to instructors new to by 1995 USU except when circumstances Overall 698 percent of the USU faculty has tenure according to dictate otherwise Richard Jacobs director of InstituAlso instructors are notified tional Research The university about their progress toward tenure sees no problem in meeting the by their third year of service goals he said The college does not expect to The reasons are that aging promake much headway until 1983 when some professors will be retirfessors will retire and that student enrollment is expected to increase ing in significant numbers The colabout 1986 creating a need for lege faces the problem of retaining more professors Jacobs said good people while still reducing tenured faculty according to But two college deans whose colBallam leges have high percentages of The College of Engineering also tenured professors see problems in will not meet the 1980 reaching that objective goal Dean E Joe Middlebrooks said The colProvost R Gaurth Hansen said that the requirements should be lege sis plan for reducing tenured staff based on mandatory retiremet within the individual colleges ment at age 65 But Middlebrooks and that each college would implesaid the requirmenls “need to be rement their own plans to achieve the in light of the new retireevaluated reduction ment laws " Dean Middlebrooks said that the This is how each college stands quota restrictions are harmful to the quality of university faculty Middlebrooks also said that when a professor had proven himself he felt obligated tenure to recommend According to Middlebrooks the problem lies not within the tenure system itself but with the administration of the program Middlebrooks said he believes that a college should be allowed to have as many tenured faculty as necessary “The " FOR THREE— Irene Bate comforts candidate Lisa Brown who narrowly Tryouts were held Tuesday in the Spectrum See page 18 for details tSieffphoto bv SLan Sisk1 administration should oversee the college and not give in- ternal advice" as the 1980 goal will “cause more harm than good" he said |