Time for a raise: SACUA should approve compensation policy
Unlike most professionals working for large companies, University faculty can never be certain when their next raise will come. The University's current policy regarding faculty raises is vague - and does not have an allowance for annual cost-of-living increases. A proposal presently working its way through the Faculty Senate's Committee on the Economic Status of the Faculty would establish a standard policy for professors' pay raises.
Soapbox politics: Legislators should not decide medicine's fate
Last Wednesday, a two-thirds majority of the U.S. House of Representatives endorsed a ban on a form of late-term abortion, known in medical circles as intact dilation and extraction. Termed "partial-birth abortion" by opposing groups, the procedure has elicited public disapproval from pro-life crusaders, and has become a central issue on Capitol Hill. Though Congressional opponents of the bill deem the abortion practice brutal and unnecessary, the final assessment of the surgical procedure's medical and ethical validity should not come from politicians - a group untrained in the realm of medicine.
The Code - with all its faults and mystery - is 'here to stay'
For those who don't know what it is, recent coverage and a long explanation probably won't do very much to convey what The Code of Student Conduct is all about or even what its function is on campus. Years of reading about it and watching it from afar probably won't do much good either, and absorbing the University's public relations spin on the Code's purpose won't turn any heads all that quickly.
10-14-97
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