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Detroit public high school students participate in a BAMN rally Friday on State
Street in front of the Michigan Union.
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University than existed before the
study - so you can ask questions
and look at the data," he said.
"Before it was much more opaque."
The study, he said, makes it so
individual faculty members can see
how their salary compares to other
faculty in their schools who hold
the same rank.
The study also shows a trend in
the faculty composition, where
over time there are more non-
tenured faculty and fewer tenured
faculty.
Askari said the tenure issue may
be of special interest to students
because teachers without tenure
may be less inclined to be contro-
versial, even if a more provocative
point would have more educational
value.
"It speaks to the academic free-
doms that their faculty may be will-
ing to exercise," he said. "Someone
on untenured faculty may be more
mainstream in their teaching and
less willing to say controversial
things."
Another issue addressed in the
study is a loyalty tax, by which vet-
eran faculty members may be paid
less than some of the faculty who
have been recently hired.
"I think one of the questions stu-
dents can ask is ... how much
incentive pay gets awarded for good
teaching," Askari said. "We don't
have the answer for that at this
point but we're starting to get a
handle on the incentive pay that it
is commonly used throughout the
University."
The report also indicates that
men earn more than women in most_
departments, even if a man and
woman hold the same rank.
History Prof. Rudy Lindner, for-
mer chair of the salary committee,
explained the discrepancy as par-
tially the result of the number of
women entering the University
work force.
"Salaries of female faculty may
lag behind salaries of male faculty,
but this may be in part the result of
so many women coming to the Uni-
versity as recent hires," he said.
Askari said the study seems to
reflect an increasingly diverse Uni-
versity in terms of the faculty.
"It's becoming more diverse,
especially at the lower ranks ...
there appears to be more reflection
of society at large in terms of men
and women and in the higher ranks,
it doesn't appear to be that way -
in the past, t don't think it was as
balanced as it will be in the future,"
he said.
Lindner said the research was
done to provide information as a
basis of future discussion but that it
does not recommend a particular
course of action and is not a call-to-
arms.
"It's not a call for change - peo-
ple may look at the materials and
decide that they like or don't like
what's in it and that may lead to
change, but the document itself is
not a manifesto," he said.
"In a democratic society, infor-
mation is the most valuable com-
modity," he added.
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start a BAMN chapter, how to give pre-
sentations about affirmative action in
high schools and how to attend national
events.
Aleobua explained the challenge of
organizing such an effort is raising
awareness about the problems that
result from segregation. She also said
focusing the fight for affirmative action
and integration is really continuing the
work of the 1954 decision Brown v.
Board of Education, which ruled the
concept of "separate but equal" in edu-
cation unconstitutional.
"A lot of high school students and
organizers came here to discuss and
work out how we're going to carry out
the fight for integration. I think that
high school leadership really sets an
example for college students but also
for the movement we are trying to build
across the country," Aleobua said.
"Without the civil rights movement, I
would not have the opportunity to
attend the University right now"
BAMN National Organizer Tanya
Troy said many people do not under-
stand how segregation and integration
play out in reality.
"It's hard for people to understand
integration because we've seen so little
of it. What we mean by integration is
not the same thing as diversity, it's not
only to go to school together but also to
live in the same neighborhoods. It
means having real equality between
races," Troy said. "We're trying to make
it clear to people all over the country
that there is an increase in segregation
in schools across the country and on
campuses."
Aleobua also said it is important not
to limit the fight for equality to the
United States. "We have a lot to learn
from the fight the Movement for Jus-
tice is leading in Britain, and they have
a lot to gain from the struggle we've
been able to build in the United
States," she said.
Detroit high school senior Romone
Davis said he came to the conference
to "learn more about affirmative
action and the rest of the world."
Davis said his knowledge and sup-
port for affirmative action increased
at the conference, as he learned that
his city is not alone in the fight
against segregation.
"In the U.S., different cities deal
with educational systems that are simi-
lar to the Detroit Public School sys-
tem," he said. Davis said he would
attend again if another conference
were held, but said he wished the
organizers had involved high school
students more. "I felt (high school stu-
dents) didn't really have a voice," he
said. He also said he thought the best
part of this conference was the rally.
"When high school students found
out that people were trying to get rid of
affinnative action, it made them really
mad, and the rally was a symbolic form
to express their anger," he said. "This is
probably one of the best events of my
life, I say that with all my heart. Affir-
mative action is the only way I'd get to
go to college or the work force."
Other high school student attendees
echoed their appreciation for the confer-
ence. Tristan Taylor, also a senior at a
Detroit public school, is a BAMN mem-
ber and organizer. He led a workshop,
entitled "Building Youth Leadership,
Moving the Establishment Civil Rights
Leaderships Forward," and said he came
to the conference to build student lead-
ership. "Students felt really empow-
ered," Taylor said. "From the look on
their faces, you could tell that they
knew that they could be part of change."
Aleobua said that they are grateful
Detroit students are willing to stand up
to the challenge of building a new civil
rights movement. "It takes young peo-
ple to lead a social movement for
change," she said.
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