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HIGHER EDUCATION

The Michigan Daily - Thursday, March 18, 1999 - 11A

MSU's Greek leaders approve ban on alcohol

By Lauren Gibbs
DailyStaff Reporter
The presidents of Michigan State
University's Interfraternity Council and
Panhellinic Association voted Tuesday night
4 prohibit alcohol at all social functions in
apter houses.
The measure passed 20 to 6 for IFC and 16 to
0 for Panhel. IFC ?resident Jason Rosenbaum
said parties involvng alcohol will have to be
held in restaurants.banquet hall and other third
party vendors.
Panhel presiden Rebecca Gillespie said the
houses are lookin; into more social functions
that do not involvealcohol.
The proposal s effective July 1 and will
last until March .,2001 when the Council of
semblies - a panel made up of 10 IFC

and Panhel presidents - will evaluate the
improvements made and decide whether or
not to move to alcohol-free housing,
Rosenbaum said.
Fraternities are permitted to hold parties with
sororities in their respective houses for the rest
of the year, he said. But guest lists parties are
banned.
The Michigan State administration supports
the Greek community for taking the initiative in
such a severe step.
"This is indeed a dramatic step. I commend
the leadership of IFC and Panhel for coming to
this point," MSU Vice President for University
Relations Terry Denbow said.
"As leaders on campus they have done an
excellent job of monitoring themselves and
looking at themselves introspectively," he

"This will allow us to increase focus on
leadership, service and scholarship"
- Jason Rosenbaum
Michigan State University Interfraternity Council President

said.
This vote comes at the end of the 30-day-
moratorium that ended March 12. The alco-
hol ban will allow chapters to direct atten-
tion to other issues discussed during the
moratorium, Gillespie said.
"This will allow us to increase focus on lead-
ership, service and scholarship," Rosenbaum
said.
Statistics from other universities that have

gone alcohol-free, such as the University of
Iowa and University of Oregon, have shown an
increase in recruitment numbers, Rosenbaum
said.
"Overall I don't think there will be a neg-
ative affect. We will just be recruiting a dif-
ferent kind of man and woman," Gillespie
said.
Rosenbaum agreed saying "Recruitment isn't
aboutsocial functions. It is about individuals

who are leaders and have a strong focus on aca-
demics.
"They take community service and philan-
thropy ventures into consideration when looking
for a student organization they want to he
involved in," he said.
Leaders in the Greek community at Michigan
State creatdd a Greek Coalition on March 11.
Participants in the Coalition will include MSU
President M. Peter McPherson, the Provost and
Vice President for Academic Affairs Lou Anna
Kimsey Simon, eight chapter presidents,
Rosenbaum and Gillespie. They will help to deal
with the complex issues that involve the Greek
community, Rosenbaum said.
"It is a way for the university to assist to cre-
ating a bigger, better, stronger Greek system," he
said.

Schools stealing
faculty with
higher payoffers

Story time with St. Patrick

Oregon State may
sell naming rights

Sy Steve Abercronblle
od Tom Merry
The Washington Dag a
SEATTLE- It is a concern
that President Richard inSt
McCormick has diagnosed as
attop priority in maintaining whe
the excellence of a University V
Washington education -
Weeping up with its peer insti-
tutions in faculty pay.
Competitive salaries will
attract quality faculty and
encourage the good ones to stick around.
So goes the logic.
But in recent years the UW has begun
to fall behind, and the numbers show it.
The average UW faculty salary for 1997-
was more than 4 percent below its 8-
mber peer group, $69,138 compared
with $72,179; Compounding that is the
fact that Seattle has one of the higher
costs of living among the group. When
that is taken into consideration, UW fac-
ulty salaries are 26 percent behind the
school's peers.
According to a report presented to the
Faculty Senate by the ad hoc advisory
committee on faculty salaries, "Many
current UW faculty members do not
Leive a salary sufficient to allow them
fpurchase a home in the Seattle metro-
politan area." The report concludes that
faculty salaries at the UW must be raised
so, the University can stay competitive
with peer institutions and keep its faculty
from leaving.
Getting whisked away
"The quality of our institutions
depends more upon the excellence of our
*tlty than upon any other single fac-
tor," McCormick told the Higher
Education Coordinating Board last fall.
The UW faculty includes four Nobel
Prize winners (the only in the
Northwest), three winners. of the
National Medal of Science, seven
MacArthur Fellows, 38 members of the
National Academy of Sciences and many
holders of other varied honors.
When other schools around the nation
need to fill open positions, the UW is a
*cal place to look. The higher salaries
are hard for many to resist, and the UW
can do little to make them stay.
UW Vice Provost Steve Olswang said,
SIf a dean comes to me asking for a
#eention offer, the answer is probably
going to be 'no,' because we have no
money."
But losing faculty is only part of the
problem. According to Kevin Evanto of
government relations, when profes-
leave, often assistants, graduate stu-
dents and research grant money leave
vvith them.
"The quality of the institution dimi -
ishes when top faculty leave. It's a pal
toss for the state as a whole" Evanto aid
to January.
"Higher education institutions Zom-
Pete in a national and often an igerna-
tional market for faculty, and thenstitu-

equality of the
'itution diminishes
an top faculty
- Kevin Evanto
UW government relations
tions in our state are'falling behind,"
McCormick said. "We can't recruit and
retain the faculties tha: have made our
institutions first-rate uness we pay them
better."
McCormick said thit even with pay
increases this year, theUW will remain
four to six years belind. In literature
from the office of th Vice Provost of
Planning and Budgetirg, national faculty
and professional staff slaries are expect-
ed to increase an aveage of seven per-
cent in the comingbiennium, which
means that the UW wll need to increase
its pay even faster to ,rovide competitive
salaries.
Stat! support
Professors typicilly receive a cost-of
living increase in neir salaries every two
years. AdditionalW, they are supposed to
receive periodic nerit reviews and raises
as mandated in ne Faculty Code of the
University Handook.
According to~he report to the Faculty
Senate by the ahoc committee on fac-
ulty salaries lut, budgetary concerns
have impededregular merit raises.
Among thcways that the UW propos-
es correctin; the problem is to begin
granting pa',raises to all its faculty at an
average of our percent per year, starting
in the 199 to 2001 budget. But these
dollars rust come from somewhere,
either flnm increased state appropria-
tions or ncreased tuition.
Befoe the UW receives its allocation
from tie state every two years, UW lob-
byists lways advocate increasing faculty
salaris. The state however, often has
troupe coming up with the money;
Inititive 601 has made it more difficult
to fid new income sources. Most of this
year's proposals to increase faculty
saaries would still not succeed at raising
thin to the national average.
Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles (D-Seattle),
hair of the Senate Higher Education
-ommittee, advocated for more than the
2 percent-a-year raise proposed by
Washington Gov. Gary Locke.
"I want a much larger pool in the bud-
get than the $8 million suggested by the
governor" Kohl-Welles said.
From your pocket
Within a college campus, it is well-
accepted that quality education is worth
paying for. Many administrators and fac-
ulty hope that it's also worth paying a lit-
tle bit more.

By Troy Foster
OSU Daily Barometer
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Is corporate
sponsorship coming soon to a stadium
near you? Maybe, maybe not.
In the changing world of athletics,
many sports organizations and athletic
programs are following an increasingly
common trend: sell the naming rights
of a sports venue to a corporate sponsor
and reap financial benefits.
"I think that marketing opportunities
now days are an important part of col-
lege athletics," Oregon State Athletic
Director Mitch Barnhart said.
"What we've got at Oregon State is a
financial situation that requires some
unique approaches - unique
approaches to how we solve them"
And at other schools, that has
involved naming rights.
Arizona State, a fellow Pac-10
school, recently sold the naming

rights for its University Activity
Center to Wells Fargo bank. ASU
received a $5 million gift from the
bank last July. In exchange, the 25-
year-old basketball venue became the
Wells Fargo Arena.
College bowl games have long
looked to corporate sponsors for finan-
cial assistance. The "Tostitas Fiesta
Bowl' the "Insight.com Bowl" and the
"Rose Bowl presented by AT&T" are
just a few examples of the growing
wave of corporate sponsorship.
"Obviously, that is a trend in college.
athletics, or rather athletics as a whole,
that some are using" Barnhart said.
The same trend is operating at the
professional level.
In the National Basketball
Association, the Chicago Bulls play in
The United Center and the Utah Jazz in ,
the Delta Center. Think airlines. And.
think big bucks.


CHRIS CAMPERNEL/Daily
Four-year-old Jesse Park listens to "Leprechauns and Other Small People" at
story time at Ann Arbor's District Ubrary yesterday.
nCrease of Foi
shark attacks peice

By Craig Hampshire
Independent Florida Alligator
GAINESVILLE, Fla. - Shark
attacks have declined throughout the
world during the last several years, but
projections are showing the number
will likely increase, especially in
Florida, according to a University of
Florida study.
That could be bad news for beach
go-ers in Florida, which is already
the worldwide leader in shark
attacks.

George Burgess, director of the
Gainesville-based International Shark
Attack File and co-author of the study,
said the numbers of sharks decreased in
certain areas because of overfishing,
changes in weather patterns or varia-
tions in the proximity of currents to the
shoreline.
But plans to limit commercial
fishing could increase shark popula-
tions, said Kevin Johns, a research
biologist at the Florida Museum of
Natural History.

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