Tenure not a pressing issue on other campuses By MITCH CANTOR Fourth in a five-part series While the subject of tenure continues to generate controversy at the Univer- sity, it appears that few students, faculty members and administrators at other institutions around the country see tenure as a controversial issue. Many reasons have been suggested for the lack of controversy, but most of those interviewed agree that the decline of student activism is partially to blame. "THERE'S LESS student interest now than there.was five to ten years ago," said Jordan Kurland, the assistant general secretary of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). Others maintain simply that those in academic communities around the country are content with the present tenure system. "They're satisfied with the procedures, but I don't know if they're happy with the results," said Eric Hut- chinson, secretary to the faculty assembly at Stanford University. Hut- chinson, like many others, claimed that the vast majority of those dissatisfied by present tenure policies are those who say they have suffered from them. MOST UNIVERSITIES around the country, both public and private, seem to have very similar procedures for granting tenure. Assistant or associate professors work through a probation period - usually six or seven years - before they become eligible for tenure. In the final year of these periods a faculty member asking for tenure will be reviewed on several levels. Colleagues consider the professor's merits in teaching, research, and ser- vice to the college and community. In most cases faculty members within the specific department are the the top of the school's hierarchy with each level. In most cases, the president or the trustees of the school have the final say in tenure matters. But most involved in S~~o 4~ tly by various departments. A depar- tment such as chemistry, for instance, might emphasize research as more significant in its program and likewise in its faculty tenure decisions. Several sourceds say these depar- tmental differences are at the root of most tenure disputes. AAUP Assistant General Secretary Kurland said this department in- dividuality "is where the controversy often develops. They (professors asking tenure) often say they should've known at the beginning about department idio- syncrasies," and are denied tenure because of their weakness in the em- phasized category. Some schools, like Indiana Univer- sity-Purdue University at Indianapolis ( IUPUI), have avoided that problem. "Our requirements are that the faculty member must be excellent in one category and satisfactory in the other two," said IUPUI Vice-President for Academic Affairs Edward Moore. The administrator added that each faculty member may specify the category that he or she thinks is his or her strongest. "I've worked at seven or eight colleges and I've never heard of any two that do it the same way," Moore said. Another difference noticeable among universities across the country is the level of student participation in their tenure processes. While students haven't shown the kind of vocal'support for the issue as they have to other co'n- troversies, a stronger student voice is urged on many campuses. See TENURE. Page 10 first to examine the professor's record. After this, school and college-wide committees also examine the professor's qualifications, with the sub- sequent recommendations moving to the process see the department and school-wide recommendations as the most important. Three criteria upon which professors are judged are often weighed differen- PASS QBRRRRIFI THE SALT 430 e ~v t bgnatSee Toda For details See editorial page Augel Y 'ars of EdLitirial Frecdonmn VolLXXXX, No. 71 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, December 1, 1979 Ten Cents Ten Pbges THE SHAH Eg pt offers satictuary CAIRO, Egypt (AP)-President Anwar Sadat yesterday renewed his of- fer of sanctuary to the deposed Shah off Iran. Egyptian officials said he made the offer for humanitarian reasons and did not anticipate opposition from Egypt's Moslem majority or retaliation by Iran's revolutionary regime. Sadat was quick to reiterate his offer to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi after the Mexican government said late Thursday it would not let the shah return there because of turmoil in the Moslem world. "OUR POSITION remains as it was," Sadat said after attending noon prayers on the Moslem sabbath. "We are ready See SADAT, Page 5 KHOMEINI Will boy'ott U.N. debafte From AP and UPI TEHRAN, Iran - Foreign Minister Sadeq Qotbzadeh, declaring "there is no hope for negotiation at this stage," announced yesterday Iran would boycott the U.N. Security Council session on the U.S.-Iran crisis. Qotbzadeh also announced U.S. Chief of Mission and Charge d'Affaires Brucep Laingen and two other Americans held in the Foreign Ministry were now "free to leave" because they were less "im- portant" than the 50 American hostages seized by Moslem militants occupying the U.S. Embassy. HOWEVER, IT was uncertain whether the three would leave soon because Qotbzadeh said Iran could not See IRAN, Page 5 CARTER Hints of force From AP, UPI, and Reuter The Carter administration intensified its pressure on Iran yesterday, warning the Ayatollah Khomeini that his coun- try could be the big loser in the ongoing confrontation over 50 American hostages still being held in the American embassy in Tehran. Administration officials mixed stern words with quieter diplomatic initiatives, continuing to press for a unanimous United Nations Security Council resolution during its debate today, calling for the release of all the hostages, even though Tehran said yesterday it will boycott, the U.N. proceedings. See U.S., Page 2 Th e Shal, ... wants out of U.S. The4 vatolat ... rejects U.N. debate The President keeping up the pressure Reported 'U' library thefts up threefold By TIMOTHY YAGLE University Department of Safety records show there has been a substan- tial increase in the number of reported minor thefts from the Graduate (Harlan Hatcher) Library this term compared to Fall term, 1978. Un- dergraduate Library (UGLI) officials also say there has been a recent rise in the number of reported minor petty larcenies there, as well. Safety Director Walter said yester- day 73 thefts have been reported from the Graduate Library betweenSeptem- ber 1 and November 29, 1979, compared to 21 during the same period last year. "WE HAVE A serious problem over there," Stevens commented. But he ad- ded, "this is just a trendy thing-' Safety Assistant Director Leo Heatley said his department has received 37 reports from the Graduate Library in November alone. "We've noticed a real surge. It's unbelievable," Heatley commented. "We're receiving at least one (report) a day." He said the problem really began when school began. According to Heatley, most , o the thefts in the Graduate Library are oc- curring on the third through fifth floors where students are leaving their books in open carrels, then either going to get books or to the bathroom later. When they return, perhaps only a few minutes later, they find something is missing. He said wallets are the main item See GRADUATE, Page 10 Daily Photo by DAVID HARRIS Undergraduate Library (UGLI) officials believe the petty larceny problem there is serious enough to put warning signs up throughout the building. This one is at the library's main entrance. NKOMO PREDICTS RHODESIA PEACE: U.S. may lift Rhodesian trade sanctions ... And the1 p political fc From AP. UPI and Reuter WASHINGTON - The Iranian crisis may be restricting President Carter's campaign travels, but don't assume it is losing him votes. The White House announced yester- News Analysis day that thecrisis has forcedthe president to cancel a four-day cam- paign trip following his planned an- nouncement next Tuesday that he will seek re-election. MR. CARTER intended to address fund-raising dinners in New York, Chicago, Atlanta and Houston and to visit other cities between November 5 and 8. He will attend a fund-raising dinner in Washington on Tuesday, but because of the situation in Iran, he does not in- tend to leave the Washington area, Car- ter's spokesman said. But it is a basicdrule of thumb in national politics that, up to a point, a crisis is always good for a president. THIS IS especially true when the crisis involves a foreign power at- tacking U.S. interests, as the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and his fanatic followers have been doing for a month. There is a great danger in all this for Carter, however. The Iran crisis, like all crises, must eventually end. You can be sure the president's political opponents will no longer be silent then. Eventually, voters must decide whether the man they turned to delivered the leadership they expected. SUCH CRISES stir patriotic emotions. Citizens tend to put aside other considerations - their heating bills, for example - and unite against the common enemy. And they turn for leadership to the only person in a position to exercise it in such a time, the president, whoever he is. Thus Carter, who is scheduled to of- ficially announce his re-election cam- )resident's ortunes paign Tuesday, stands to benefit greatly from the Iran crisis. FIRST, IT allows him to appear "presidential," above the grubby business of politics. Second, it allows him to hog-tie his opponents, both Republicans and Democrats. Carter can paint any criticism of his leadership as an irresponsible threat to the well-being of the hostages. Here's the way the president played it at his nationally broadcast news con- ference last week. "I WILL HAVE to continue to restrict my own political activities and call on those who might be opposing me in the future for president to support my position as president and to provide unity for our country and for our nation in the eyes of those who might be looking for some sign of weakness or division in order to perpetuate their abuse of the hostages." Translation: I'm not being political. Don't criticize me or you may hurt the hostages. And it was no accident that Carter held that news conference during prime evening time, and in the stately East Room of the White House rather than in the workaday auditorium he usually uses. He aimed for the biggest possible audience, and the most "presidential" setting. Earlier, Republican presidential con- tender John Connally griped that Car- ter was unfairly asking candidates not to make inflamatory statements while himself denouncing the Iranians. It was in a way a tribute to Carter's political sense. In other political developments yesterday, Rep. Charles Rangel (D- N.Y.), endorsed the president for re- election. Rangel, who represents New York's Harlem district, brought along 25 state and local Democratic leaders, most of them black. Rangel picked up on a theme Mondale used recently in New York - "Can the nation afford a change?" w From Reuters President Carter intends to lift trade sanctions against Zimbabwe Rhodesia promptly after a British governor takes over in the breakaway British colony, a State Department official said yester- day. Such a settlement is certainly a possibility, as guerrilla leader Joshua Nkomo yesterday predicted there would be overall agreement at the Lon- don peace talks within a week. He told Reuters there were still two outstanding issues - the make-up of a Commonwealth peacekeeping force and the position of the opposing armies during a ceasefire. "But these should not take very long: another four or five days and we will be through," Nkomo said. MEANWHILE, South African Prime Minister Pieter Botha said yesterday that South Africa was protecting its lines of communication inside neigh- boring Zimbabwe Rhodesia. In one of the strongest indications yet that South African troops were operating inside Zimbabwe Rhodesia, Botha said: "We trust that with the ex- pected normalization in the near future of the situation, we will be relieved of this responsibility." Botha told an air force retirement ceremony in Pretoria it was important that South Africa's trade routes to Zim- babwe Rhodesia and states further nor- th should be protected. "For this reason South Africa, after consultation with the government of Zimbabwe Rhodesia, has for some time now been looking to the protection of our interests as well as our vital lines of communication such as the rail link to Biet Bridge and the railway links through it," he said. South Africa never officially has con- firmed it has troops inside Zimbabwe Rhodesia, but Pretoria has given the territory economic support. WITH THE peace conference ending its 12th week, the guerrillas have been asked by British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington to agree at least in principle to a ceasefire plan, with out- standing issues to be discussed later. But Nkomo, who heads the Patriotic Front guerrilla alliance with Robert Mugabe, indicated that Lord Carrington, the conference chairman, might not get the answer he wants. He said Lord Carrington wanted "his own little agreement" before the final technicalities of the ceasefire were handed over to military leaders. Nkomo said "That is an absolutely nonsensical way of doing things." RICH ARD MOOSE, assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee of Carter's intention to lift the trade sanctions. 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