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The Pioneer Log: Lewis & Clark College's Student-Run Newspaper
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1987-06-01
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DA • June 8,1987 Vol.Sl, No.28
Gardner Changes Recomntendation s
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Faculty and student letters request his resignation.
A complete listing of recommendation s 1s on page 2 .
By Tom Lyden
Pronur Lag staff wnttr
President james Gardner
addressed a packed Chapel
Fradoy, Moy 29, to present hts
~tand on budget cuts
suggested by the Planning and
Resource Counctl (PRO
The event hao; trtggered
concern about the college's
financial management and
governance.
The budget cuts arc
ncccs--ary to offset a proJected
dcftc1t of $1.3 milllon thts year
and approxima tely SSOO,OOO in
fiscal yCclrs to come.
Since Friday, the
president's recommendations
changed substantively
The religious studtes
department will not be
eliminated. reversing hts
earlier endorsement of that
measure
Gardner said the religious
studies recommendat ion was
the "closest judgment call m
the whole thing." Gardner
expressed concern however
that the department may be
teaching too many language
courses and there are too few
students takmg upper divis1on
c:JasSe9.
The college footba 11 team
also will not be elimmated .
The president said there is
strong alumni support for the
sport and the cost of
eliminating the program may
be more than maintammg tt.
llc said that a committee will
be eblablished to examine the
program .
Department s he will
recommend to the Board of
Trustee~ at thetr july 1
meeting for elimtnation
mclude computer sctence and
health and physical education. ln term'> of program
reductions the president has
''no recommendation " to
reduce the physics
departmen t by 1 FTE The
president will recommend an
external peer review of the
position
The president still supports
the PRC rccommendationc; for
department reductionc-; in
music, English, and foreign
language..-..
He still doec; not support
the eltmmation of lhe Office of
the Chaplain.
The president docs not
support the elimination of the
Educational Administration
Program in the Graduate
School of Professional Studies
There were no
recommendations by the PRC
for reduction or program
elimination at the
Northwestern School of Law
as a result of msufficient
informahon reccwcd from the
law school
Requests for Resignation?
A faculty meeting was
called Tuesday, May 26, to
discuss the proposed budget
cuts. The meeting was
attended by representatives of
the law school and the
Graduate School of
Professional Stud1cs
The meeting was held in
executive session but the
Pionur Log has learned that a
letter to the president was
agreed upon and delivered to
President Gardner signed by
an undisclosed number of
faculty member s to be
signed by faculty members
in the three dtvision s of the
college.
The Pioneer Log has
learned that among other thmgs the
Pres1d en l
rcsignatton letter requests
Gardner's
The faculty will take up this
is"ue at their next mccl•ng
today, June 8, at t p.m. There
ts one undic;cloSl.>d 1tem on the
agenda, although other •s-.ueo;
can be brought up.
The prestdcnt hud no
comment on the contl!nts of
the letter and would not say If
he would respond.
Studentc; have also
circulated a petition which
requests the termination of
the prcstdent's contract and
demand s a complete
reevaluation of the PRC
proposals The petition also
proposes that a democratic
system of governance should
be restored at Lew1s. and Clark.
Jn four days the petition
has been signed by 412
students , Eli Rosenblatt,
freshman, said.
The meeting in the Cha~
was intended for faculty
member s only but word
qutckly spread about its
significance and 1t became a
campus wide event
Gardner began the
meeting by saying the
institution was strong, and that
the number of paid deposits
from next year's entering
freshmen was up The
prcstdent said the budget
reducttons would make the
institution stronger. He sa1d
the worst thing that could
happen 1s for an attitude to
develop that the "sky ts
falflng.''
The level of acnmony at
the meeting was htgh. At
several poants Pres1dent
Card ncr was criticazcd
See GARDNER, page 2. SPECIAL BUDGET ISSUE:
• The most recent information on President
Gardner's recommendations on the budget
reductions suggested by the Planning and
Resource Council. '
• The story behind the PRC.
• A report on the structural deficit and low
en rollmcnts.
• An interview with President Gardner.
• Lots of letters.
rocess,
Criteria E lained
By Parker Hodges
Pton.ru Lag staff writrr
The Planning and Resource Council <PRC), whose
rccommcnd.l.tioM have been under campus S<;rutmy all week. was
originally dec;lgned as an int~mal review of th4: :;chool. With the
di-.covery of the deficit th~ committee al!'>o had to recommend
budget cuts.
The PRC wac; charged to r"'dcfine the values and the mission
statement of the school. ln order to accomplish thts the PRC had
to, ac; it statement reads. " ... evaluate all academic programs,
adminhtrahv\' functions, and student support services, and to
recommend which ~hould be maintamed at current levels,
enhanced, reduced, or eliminated ... "
The PRC is also charged to " ... identify the clientele which the
inc:titutton should serve and to recommend goals and objectives
which should guide the institution in the next 3·5 year p riod."
The rc-;ults were made public Friday, M,1y 29, the same dny
Pr~ident Gardner addressed the community stating his po ition
on the recommendations .
The counctl was advisory and had no d('C't!'ion-making authority
Dale O'&nnon. the non-voting chair of the PRC, said, "'The PRC
made recommendations, not dectstons We fowardcd the report to
the president , and the E.xe<:utivc Council o( lhe Board of Trustees
will sc' an advance report"
Pr~ident Gardner is expected to make the recommendations
to the Board at their july 1 meeting.
The PRC w~s composed of four undergraduate, one graduate,
and one law school faculty along with four admimc;trator and
three resource people Faculty and students have expressed
opposition to the way the PRC members were chosen.
The members were appointed by the president and were
sclcc«.'<i on the basis of the following criteria:
• Respect and cre<hbahty among theu peeT$ ac; cholars and
profcs~•onals.
• The ability to broadly conceptualize the future of the school in
relation to 1ts prc.c;cnt posabon
• The maturity to be able to set ac;ide their emotional commitment.
• Dtstnbution by discipline and gender
In re ponse to faculty criticism over the way PRC members
were chosen O'Bannon said, "l£ the qu~tion ,., 'were they elected?'
the answer is no However there was a real commttmcnt to getting
a range and diverstty of opm1on, to avoid groupthmk and thi5 led
to a lot of long diSCU'l.Sions "
The committee met for an average of 40 hours a wt..-ck for the
entire term To avo1d a conflict of interest PRC members who!IC
department s were under review were asked to l~W\! the room.
In addition the council operated under self-ampo~~ in order
to, as Provost jacqulyn Mattfeld put it. " ... have a deVJcc inc;uring a
proce s with little polihazmg" See PRC, page 2.
ow nro ments etrimenta • • u
By Jilbn Detweiler
Pionetr Log Staff Wntu
Enrollment levels arc
crucial to a healthy budget at
a tuition-driven institution like
Lewis and Clark Full Time
Equivalent CFTE> enrollments
for all divtstons {under
graduate , graduate and the
law school) have dropped from
a total of 2,837 in the (all of
1980 to 1,967 in the fall of 1986.
In 1985 the FTE's at the
undergraduate level reached a
low o( 1,611 as compared to
1,831 m 1980 That number
has improved sllghty as the
FTE's for fall, 1986 were 1.623
Higher cnrollmcntc: are
c.xpcch.>d for next yc.u.
FTE'-. at the law school dunng the past six years have
ranged from 731 m 1 Q80 to a
low of 606 in the fall of 1986
The graduate school, on the
other hilnd, has had an
Increase in enrollments ln
1980 there were 275 FTE's.
There were 338 FTE's at the
graduate school In the fall o(
1986
Income from tuihon and
fee has risen desp1tc the
lower enrollments b(.'Cauc;e of
increases . Next year tuahon
will increase by c;cvcn pct'C'cnt
accompanted by a charge per
credtt hour for overload of
cour~cs taken beyond 54 in
one academic year The
charge per credit hour for
overload will be $292. ln 1985 tuttion
increased by 7.6 percent
followed by an mcrcasc of
c1ght percent in 1986
However , the amount of
-.tudents financial .aid award<>
has also increased in pa ·t
years
"In an institution that i<l as
tuihon-dependent as Lewis
and Clark. one year of student
shortage\ can set U" back,"
Gene Gregory, vice-president
for in~htutional advancement,
c:.in
Although gifts to the
college have not been
o,ufficient to fully compcno;ate
for lower enrollments. the last
cot years have been m.uk~ by
a 137.08 pt:'rcent mcreac;e in
the endowment . In 1981 the total endowment market value
wa~ $9.835,553. The
endowment ,., now valued at
approxtmately $24.000,000
During the same period of
time, the tncome from the
endowment has increased
from $932,24·1 to $2,.003,000 .
A spending policy
approved by the Board of
Trustee:<. in july, 1985 allows for
the usc of the equtvalcnt of
10 5 percent of the market
value of old endowment
money and the equivalent of
stx percent of the market
\'aluc ot money n.."Ccived c..m~
July. 1985 In fi!'<al year 1 Q85 all
ancome wa<. spent. Under the
new "pending policy the
college rctnvest., rc\'cnucs
l'XCl'\.-ding the set percentages to lncrc.1sc the principle of the
endowment.
Gregory s..11d funds roi.;cd
during the college ·~ annual
giving camp.ugn~ have helped
to keep the bud~et balanced.
In 1981 the college rni~
apro~amatctv $350,000 in this
fundraistng effort which
indudec; a phonc-.1-thon
targeted c1t alumnt. The
college brought in S850, 000 in
thi~ campaign last ye.u, and a
goal of $900,000 has been set
for the ne t annual giving
campatgn .
-rh~ increases that come
from incomcs ... do not off et
our r~curring expenditure
base nor do the · replace
cntirel ' the "tudcnt<. who
aren't here;· CJ'\.~ory ~11d.
The Best Of Times, The orst Of Times page2
PRC
RECOMMLNDA TlONS
FOR
~TBGORY "2"
(REDUCTIO > AND
CA TUGOR "411
(EUMI A TlON>
and
PRBSlDE T GARDNER'S
ENDORSEMENTS
WHICH HE WILL MAKE
TO THE BOARD OF
TRUSTbES JULY 1
Pr~ldents Gardner's
recommend~hons as of
June 8 }Q8? Subject to
continuing revit'w, student
and bcully input, .1nd tht'
review of a{{t'cted Boud
Committee•.
S::QLLECE OF ARTS AND
SCIBN~ES
J.l Eliminate Computer
Science Department and
integrate cornputers-acro<.<.
thc--curriculum philo-.ophy .
C.ARDNER UPPORTS
ELIMINATIOf\:
2. Ehminott. Rt. hgiou.
Studies Dcpartmlont and
m3jor on the condition that
bcc:luo;.c of contribution-. to
the Core and ~'Cau~ of the
amportanre ot the 'tudy of
religions to the mio;«:ion of the
college, that two ot the NJTCnt
mcmbcrc; of the Department
of Religious Studaes be
rca-.signcd to another or other
appropnate departments .
GARDNER REJECtS
ELlMINA TlON PROVOST
WILL CONDUCT
EXTERNAL PEER REVIEW
(lt Elimmate HCJith and
Phy ical Education
Department and major; keep
PE actavity cla-.scs.
GARDNER SUPPORTS
EUMINATION
(!.?-Rcdilce Mustc
Department to 5 FfE,
includtng Admuuc:tratave FfE
GARDNER SUPPORTS
REDUCTION
5. Reduce the English
Department by a minimum of
2 Fl E and conduct an external
peer review to investigate the
conMlCJuences of a further
reduction of 1 0 F"l E
CARDNER SUPPOR ..... T_..S
REDUCTION SUBJECT TO
CONTINUING REVIEW
6 Reduce the Ph~ics
Department by 1 FIE and
conduct an external peer
revaew to determine the place
of the discipline of Phy~ics in
the curriculum CARDNER
MAKES NO RECOM
MENDATION HE WILL
ESTABLISH A PEER REVIEW
COMMJTIEE TO LOOK AT
POSITION.
7. Merge the lnternattonal
Aflnirs and Pohtical Science
departments and as a
consequence of the merger,
roducc the current Pohtical
Science FrE by 1.0.
GARDNER R£je-c-rs
MERCER BUT
RECOMMENDS AN
INCREASE IN
INTERDISCIPLINARY
INTI!RACIION IN
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
DEPARTMENT
8. Reduce the F"l E for the
~rtm ent of Foreign
Languages by an unspecified
amount pendang an external
JX."'-"' rt"V1cw of the
department's curriculum.
CARONER RECOMMEND S
AN EXTERNAL REVIEW GRADUATE SCHOOL Of
PROfBS.SlONAL STUDIES:
1 Ellminnt~ the
Educational Administration
Program, n.~ure the
romolning full-time faculty tn
oth~ programs of the
Gr.,duatc hool by no less
than two, and Jftcr rccctpt by
the Graduate Dean or a report
-.pccitying the PRCc; concern
rcgardmg the Public
Atimlnl<.trahon Program
Implement a plan to correct
the problem no later than
1988. GARDNER REJECI'S
ELIMINATION
LAW SCHQOL:
1 1 he PRC make,. no
spec,fic rccommcndD.tions a~
a rc.-.ull ot in,ufflcacnt
informntton receives from tho
Law School relatL'd to it-;
academtc program and it
admint,trataw 11nd student
-.upport ~T\'tcc-. .
PRESIDENT'S AREA:
1. Eliminate the Office ot
the Ch.lpl.un, includ1ng the
po'ition of campu' mlnistt!r
,,nd the Chap '1 Coordinator
po ihon (the latter based on
the recommendation that
facahtie., and event~
manngement will be
integrated across the campus).
CARDNER REJECTS
ELIMINATION
PRQVQSTS AREAi
(GARDNER SUPPORTS ALL
RECOMMENOA TIONS)
1 Scpamte Academic
Computing and Admin
istrative Compuhng into two
office. and eliminate the
poc;ation of the Du'CCtor of
Computing Services, malntam
the budget of Administrative
Computang and anaease the
budget of Academic
Computing .
2. Examine the servace load
tn the International Students
Office and make appropriate
reductaons ln FJ'E from 12-
month contracts
3 Decrease expenditures
and Increase revenues for the
Overseas I Off -Cam pus
Programs for a net n>view
ancrca< of 5 to 8~ of the 1986-
87 budget over a 2-3 year
period.
VICE PRESIDENT FOR
.ADMINlSIRAilON:
1. Eliminate the •
intercollegiate football
progrnm. CARDNER
RE EClS ELIMINATION
2. Further reduce the
At ctic~t Programs ' budget to
enhance compar~uvc
advantages, maantaan equal
opportunity for male and
female student athletes,
mantmi7c negative ampact on
~tudent rccnutment and
retention, .md maintain
intramural sports and PE
activaties GARDNER
SUPPORTS
3 Ellmlnate the position
Cbut not the functions) of the
Vice President of Anance.
GARDNER SUPPORTS.
4. Reduce the operating
budget for Admissions by 5-
109:. pending the level 2
Strategic Plan on Enrollment
Management. GARDNER
SUPPORTS REDUCfJON ,
BUT NOT OF PERSONNBL . • Pioneer LoSt June 8, 1987
r--Prom GARDNER, page l.
One of hi critic" wos
Steven Beckhnm , profe or of
history, who sold he came to
LC 10 yenrs ago "when it
looked like the college hod a
future and wo moving
forward," he c:ald
"Your odminl tration hM
brought u' to th1c; point There
IS a lack Of undcrr;tnndlng Of
the collegtal pirlt on your
part. Thts report Is an
indictment of your
admanastration It is also an
affirmation that th1s 'chool is
headed m one du·cction and
that'-. backward~ ," Beckhnm
c;aid
Grey Ostcrud, a~c;ociatc
professor of hic;tory, cnhca2cd
what she perceives as a
hierarchical decision making
process "Lewis ilnd Clnrk is
alive and well ~he ~id, only
here, but not up there,"
0-.terud snid
Dorthy Berkson, profc«:~r
of Engh-.h, crittcizcd how the
Jaw "-<'hnnl Wfl" unc;cathcd in
from PRC, png~ 1.
Acc.ordang to
o·a.\nnon,"We wanted to do
our work quickly and
efficiently and felt that havang
h<.>arings would detract U'l
from that goal "
The committee produced a
34 page document outlining
their $tOats, procedures, and
criteria for dedsion making.
Their recommendation for
the College of Arts and
Sciences and the Graduate
School of Professional Studies
took the form of either
program/ department
maintenance, enhancement,
elimination, or reduction .
Conspicuously absent from
the report were
recommendations of how the
law school wiJI help in lowering
what is speculated to be a $2
million dollar institutional
deficit
According to the PRC
report, "The PRC makes no
spcclflc recommendation o
a result of lnsuHiciont
infonnation received from the
Law School related to lt
5. Reduce the budget of
Institutional Services by 10%
and enhance the efficiency of
the enUre operation.
GARDNER SUPPORTS .
STUDENT AffAIRS;
Ql erge the positions of
Vace President of Student
Affair; and Dean of Student.
wath a net reduction of 1 F"l E
and "-llary and benefit
commensurate with functaons
of a Dean of Students
GARDNER SUPPORTS.
2. Merge the offices of
Career Plannang and
Placement and Teacher
Placement to produce the
foUowing net reductaon tnF ...,I ..... E:
reduce the 12-month Te01chcr
Placement FrE to a 9--month
contract and reduce the 10-
month Assistant CPP Director
Fl E to a 9-month contract, the
latter two posihons to be
staggered to insure 12-month
lNSDTUDONAL t
(GARDNER CONCURS
WITH ALL lN511TUTIO NAL
RECOMMENDA TIONS).
1. Overhead contribution s
of the three academic units
(College of Arts and Science. the suggested budget cuts
'Thfq Ia an outrage," she said.
Ono faculty rnembcr asked
H the faculty will have an
opportunity to vote on the
recommendations The
president said the faculty
would not have such nn
oppurtunity due to Board of
Tru.,tees resolutions #9 and
#tO which were passed
January 12, 1987
Re olution #10 mandate
the establishment of a task
force on governance whose
purpose I to update
in-.titutional policie-s ,
blructures, and governance
document .. for the throe units
of the college Accordmg to
the resolution . ''The Tac:k
Force shall present its final
propoc:cd document , to the full
voting faculty of each of the
three unit~ of the mstitutaon,
for nn advio;ory vote to indicate
each academic unit'«~
recommendation to the task
force"
academic program and its
administrative and student . .. $Upport <;CrvtCCS.
Prec;adent Gardner,
addressing a group of students
on Friday, june 5, refused
comment about the absence
of Law School
recommendations in the
report, calling it ''an emotional
issue better left out of the
public discourse .''
"Tho Law School Is more
self-con tained than the
others," O'Bannon said, "the
way the Jaw school and others
sec overhead is different."
A May 18 memo from
Provost Jacqulyn Mattfeld to
the faculty and staff says the
1987-88 budget will be
completed methodology using
the figure $327,000 as the Law
School's assigned overhead
rather than the ''fair share"
figure of $765,655.
The Law School "fair share"
o( institutional overhead costs
Is based on a controversial
methodology of their use of
institutional and student
services.
the Craduate School of
Professional Studies, and the
Law School) should be
calculated by a common
methodology applying to each
umt
2 The pool for salary
increases should be the same
percent for all units even
though the method for
distributing that pool may
differ.
3. Faculty travel, faculty
research, and faculty
development policies ond
procedures should be
standardized across all three
academic units
4. The tenn system for the
C'ollcge of Arts and Sciences
and the Graduate School
should be eliminated and a
semester schedule
coordinated with that of the
Law school should be
implemen ted by fuJI, 1990.
5. The Summer Session
Office should be eliminated
and a study should be
conducted to detennine the
viability of an undersradu ate
Summer Session program;
contingent on Its viabJ.lity, an
undergraduate Summer
session program should be
administratively housed in the Resolution #9 adopts n
"Polley on Covcrnnncc" which
advocates "shared
governance" among Trustees,
the president and the
admanlstration, faculty and
tudents According to the
resolution. "Where any two or
more constltucnts arc
engaged in ronsldcrataon of
any particular mnttcr, tho
body or Individual authorized
to make a final decision In that
matter will give different
weight to the expressed
opinion of one constituent or
a not her, proportionate to the
degree of rec;pon lbility that
con'>tltuon t has for the
particular matter at hand."
Resolution #9 also
authorl7es the prc'iident to
promulgate interim
procedures of operation as
nt'ce,~ary untal conc;istcnt
documents and procedures
arc prepared and enacted.
In a letter in the March 28
ic;suc of the Paonur Log, Law
School Dean Steve Kanter
wrote, "You (the LoR) arc
correct in sayang that the law
bchool traditionally pa1d five
percent of Its budget as an
overhead transfer to the
Institution . On our current
budget of approximately five
million dollars, this would be
$250,000. In fact we are paying
in excess of $300,000 In
overhead thls year, and will
pay $327,000 next year."
"In each case, this Is the
amount that has been
assigned to us by the
president, and ultimately by
the Trustees In our approved
budget," Kanter wrote
The issue Is the common
overhead and the
methodology used to arrive at
what each school must
contribute, O'Bannon said.
This argument was
addressed by the PRC. "We
(the PRC) recommended a
common methodology to be
used by all the schools,"
O'Bannon said.
Office of the Dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences to
complement the existing
summer session programs
adminastered by the de01ns of
the other two academic units.
6. In the absence of plans
for the senior adminastrahve
offices <President, Provost,
Dean of the College of Arts
and Scacncos, Dean of the
Graduate School, Dean of the
Law School, and VIce
Prcsadcnt for Institutional
Ad vancomcnt) . the PRC
recommends thnt these
offi~ realize percent
reductions In their budgets no
less than the percent
reductions for the rest of the
lnstltution Subsequen t to
receipt of the Level 2 stmtegic
plans, further
recommendations will be
made.
We swear that this
is really the last
issue of the Log for
the year! LC
communit
Clark. The
school is
position o
fundament
direction.
that the PR
recommen
'consultatio
were nothi
faculty, sta
resides wit¥
president, '
Board.
It is therE
should not J
of having a
system of d
presiden t/1
After the b
approved b
should not
turn to w
governance
The fu~
questions o
will still e
all decisi
allowing
delegate th
will also e
two points
10 calls
governance
Faculty,
con centra
resolutions
creation o
Members o
to claim a
the Task F
Resolution
governance
the final
members o
on by all f
Task Force'
Due to a
ill will by t
finds itself
publicly in
students. It
has taken
toward a
Clark.
The
accounta
summer,
from sta
decisions.
is that the
and wiU
to make
that the
read the
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Amid fear and frustration a solid sense of
community has developed at Lewis and
Clark. There is an understanding that the
school is currently at a crossroads, in a
position of making decisions that will
fundamentally change the institution and its
direction. However, it is important to note
that the PRC reports were nothing more than
recommendations, that the president's
'consultations' with community members
were nothing more than a lobbying effort by
faculty, staff, and students. The power still
resides with the Board of Trustees and the
president , who is a voting member of the
Board.
It is therefore critical that the community
should not Lose sight of its greater goal: that
of having a true share of college power. A
system of checks and balances, outside of the
president/board relationship , is needed.
After the budget cuts are determined and
approved by the board, community members
should not slow the momentum , but rather
turn to work for a fair and equitable
governance .
The fundamental moral and ethical
questions of governance at Lewis and Clark
will still exist. Resolution 9, which centers
all decision-making on the president,
allowing him to make the decision or
delegate the authority in any way he desires,
will also exist. It is important that these last
two points are remembered, for Resolution
10 calls for the completion of new
governance documents by December 20, 1987.
Faculty, staff, and students should
concentrate on not allowing these
resolutions to guide the process of the
creation of the governance documents.
Members of the community should be sure
to claim a democratic voice in the creation of
the Task Force (the committee charged by
Resolution 10 with recommending a set of
governance documents) , not just a vote on
the final documents. In other words the
members of the Task Force should be voted
on by all faculty, not just the results of the
Task Force's work.
Due to a strongly expressed frustation and
ill will by the community the administration
finds itself in the uncharacteristic position of
publicly interacting with faculty, staff, and
students. It is hoped that the administration
has taken to heart the strong resentment
toward a centralized authority at Lewis and
Clark.
The administration should take this as a
forewarning that they will be held
accountable for any changes made over the
summer, primarily any changes that deviate
from stated policy, in. addition to any other
decisions. The crux of the last several weeks
is that the community is angry and resentful,
and will no longer allow the administration
to make decisions in a vacuum. It is hoped
that the administration will open its eyes and
read the writing on the wall: the sense of a
community spirit will not go away, and
unless power is shared the only thing hurt
will be the echooL
J.D. T~ P.H. Pioneer Log, June 8, 1987 page3
President's Ethics Questioned
To the Edlto... 1 f PI d rccommendntion6 of the PRC • corn rom ato an
As ~ student who h"". Th did h h b't amount to. The prc!lldent'~ u .. ,. ucy C" t .11 t e -..r t rary
devoted consldernblc tlmc c:xcrctsc of power amount" to a unwilhngne..'ls to accept ac-
countobatv for his leader"'hlp and energy over the past !our complete separation of JUStice has lead to the morally
years to the study of ethacs, I and morality from gov-
would like to articulate what I crnance, and the im- reprehensible action of
Con•ider to b"' som" of the 1 1 f .. · h allocating rc5pon,ibilty wht.'fe ., ~ " p ementat on o o mtg t
crucial mor~l fallout of the k · h .. I' · 1 it is not deserved . rna es ng t, po t ttca The fourth and final moral current campus cnsls. This philosophy .
moral fallout I would The second moral problem problem follows logically from
Oppropn."te under the gencr"'l h h .d t 1 t... cd 'th the first three. That problem is .. u t at t C prc~t Cn ~ r.aC Wt )
category of· The moral ls that of "'clcctave re- the lack of a leader or roc
model who embodiec. moral t'Oruequrnces of leadtrship presentation of lnformallon, as
tL-1 -.atJ-"ccountabaltty vid cd b h lf d tntcgnty . This pre!"tdcnt, from fUl .. ., .... " e cnc y t~ c,c -avo we
There arc four maJOr moral reputation O'l a "great fund- the beginning of hts tenure,
problems that President r~l.,cr '' (where arc all of the has de fllcto oppo!'icd
Gardner has thrust upon funds?), along with his everything that a liberal arts
himself by Wh"'t 1 ~"'c a." ht's d · f d institution ~tands for, namely .. .-" rcpcutc practice o cs-
(allurc to ~cccpt nc-cribing the college as a place ~n environment where the
countability for hio; lcadcrc;hip . of h~rmony and bliss in the candid and dem<X'r~tic debate
The first, and arguably mo"t mid"t of votes of no of ic;sues tak~ pia~ A lcJdcr
~crlous of these, •~ the confidence and financial who con,ic;tently engages in
urbitrary exercise of power. chaos. Jo; sd<'ctive repre- the arbitrary exercise of power,
Such .ubitrary exercise of scntation of the facts good ~lcctive representation of the
power is evident in the moral practice for a leader to fact.; and scupcgoa ting i~. at
president 's emphatic: rejection engage in? the very lca5t, a morally
of the college's governing The third moral problem is problcmatic~l role model.
documents , hts method of that of ~nt'OOatina< which ic; r ·o 0' Scott W. St11./f
~ppointing the (acuity co;scntially what the ~nlorpltllosophynwjur
memberq to the PRC rather.-------------------------,
than democratic selection,
and his histone denial of
effective, i.e. voting, decision
making power to fDculty
members and students. We
Health Dept.
Defended
To the Editor.
We would like to defend
the health department . It has
been proposed that It be cut
by the PRC We believe there
is a lack o( understand ing
even among students on this
campus about the health
major The perception is that
this department 1s like that of
the traditional health and P.E
classes we have encountered
on high school w1th gym
teachers or high school
coaches. These perception s
arc simply not true. for
example, the belief on campus
is that health is just a part of
the athlettcs/activity course~
program It ts not. lt ts an
mdependent d1scipline
The health maJor explores
the thcorettcal foundation of
,o;sues both soc1al and
clcntific, that concern pubhc
health from a pluralistic
perspective Thts perspective
concernct 1ssues of gender,
environment, eros cultural
tntcgratlon, and tnter
nntlonalization.
Thus, the health maJOr
correlates with all threu
categoric-. dc.'lcrabed tn the
mtssion statement We
believe that this major is
central to the mission lt
states that the education of
students is to "participate
actively in public discusston of
local, reg1onal, national, and
International issues". The
issue of hrolth of the pubUc is
one of the most pervasive
topic~ in the public's
convenation. The decisions
concerni ng the health of
individuals , whether local,
regional, national or
international are the most
Important in our world.
Questions concerning health. Reporter's Breeding Questioned
To the Editor.
I have long thought that
the Pioneer Log is a two-bit
newspape r, but when I read
the orticle entitled "Cardner's
Garbage Tells All," my
suspldons were confirmed . At
first 1 thought It n pke, which
reflects poor Judgement on
the part of both the Log and
jllllnn Detweiler When I saw
Ms Detweiler on the back
page standing amongst the
trash in all her glory, I couldn't
believe her unmlhgated gall,
not to mention the colossal
oversigh t made in printing it.
Ar~t of all, M,. Detweiler 's
actlvitteo; were illegal. That
garbage is pnvatc property ,
and if it were mine, I would
have had her thrown in )clU. If
the Gardners don't do the
-;arne, It t<; a tnbute to their
breeding, whtch i above mine
and certatnly far above Ms
Detweile r's, It Is she and
JOUrnalists like her that WTitc
the article-; of alien babies
which all of us laugh at when
we arc at the checkout line in o.
supermarket.
I believe the Log was
somewhnt -.ympathehc to the
plight of Cary Hart at the
handb of the press The press
had well founded rumorc; to
inve tlgatc and there was no
infraction of the taw m doing lt.
By printing this arhclc, you,
the editor and the Log, have
from intcmaltonal issues such
a-. world hunger, nucl~r war,
and the sprc.td o( AIDS, to the
tndtvtdual t<~o;ue..c: of nutrition
and exercise.. arc the most
fundamental of aU. Thus, it fits
in quite nJccly with the mission
tatemcnt .
The Issues above are
addressed by faculty tn other
disciplines , because they are
universal. This major, though,
brings a focus to the social,
polltlcal, and economic
rcalltiea of thee l.ssues. More shown how absolutely hypo·
critical you tnsh sheet is.
furthermore , what were you
hoping to find7 16 M~.
Detweiler some sort of ~r
vcrtcd voyeur pccnng into the
mner scc:rets of pcople·s
per;onal live$ In antidpahon
of tihllaung goscoip?
How Mr G.lrdner lives his
hfe Is completely up to him.
Whether or not he eats
granola all day or recycles his
papers is o( httle conseque nce
in the fulfillment of his duties.
J also have little concern ac; to
how many people live in his
house, or it" size. J would
veni'Ure to say that some older
coupl~s. possibly widow<J, live
in large hous.cs a well. ls the
Log tmplying that we hould
throw them out? We pay him
to be president of Lcwis and
Clork. how he spend~ the
money is none of our bu.,in~ .
lf th1s is the kind of wnting
you feel b good enough to call
JOurnnli,m, you nrc sadly
mtstakcn . People u~ to call
it mudcraking . Today, as I said
before. people Iough at it aco
they check out at the
supermarket . T~kc another
look ~t it, and i( you ON still
sahsficd. at least be hone~a
wtth yoursclvc' and change
your name from the Pioneer
Log to the Pion~r Post.
J\JultftV Fortn.., Mtltrr
Martlrt ~h. jturlor
1-tfny HIUI.S<ht. 1«1tlor
import ant, it h~ache" us to
plan and implement health
programs that may ~omcday
make a difference in our
world.
We ask you to reevaluate
your opinion of the health
maJOr
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Cllzcfutlt NHly, jM•Ior
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Mlb s.u.,._ -.Jor
TawPI Loc::b, SMlor
ICtatlty Cl>J7l-. •OJ'ItOffiON
U111u Llitul, Ullior pagc4
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GARDNER
INTERVIEW
The follou.•ing i im uurpt of an interoitw wrlll Presrdcnt Gt:Jrdna
ct~ruluclr.d by Tt'm Lyden oj ~~ Pionar Log
Log: Why the difficulty in g~tting 'xact numb~r (n1)arding the
budget)?
G:ndner: 1 think it'5 fair to <>ay WI! nrc making chungcs to
trcngtht.•n the financial man.1g ·mcnt and as p.ut of that proCCS!t
we would c pcct to do a better JOb nt getting figure,<: to the f3culty,
th~ president and the Board of Tru tees. My ronccrn about that,
mcidcnt311y, among many, is thilt C\' 'n '' encouraging figure.''
came forward on salary ~nhanccmcnt, . holarship programs or
s.abbattcals., even the real upb\!at figure" didn't get to th;n
committee. So their really is no gain an that proc\• " in not havmg
good data. I think it will be a ~I od,~.lnC'C for us to strengthen that
financial m.lnagement .
Log: \\'hat do RC$0lution Nm\: and Ten do?
Gardner: The consultant that rcvte\\'00 the institution earlier this
year, characterize our govcmanc' document~"" among the worst
thev'\·e c:ccn in the entire "tat~ Our govern.tncc h.1s given. I think
C\'~y~ody, a difficult time for )'lhlr' and decad "S Resolution.,
Nine and Ten arc the beginmng of a procc.'s to clean up and
trengthcn and provide more C'Ohcrcncc to the gov~rnance of th~
m titution. The philosophy beneath resolution" Nmc and Ten ic: a
philosoph • of shart>d governance with an c1pproach of
complimentary rotc~ . for <;tudenr.;, faculty, administration , and the
Bonrd of Truc:t-c ~.
Log: (Do) Filculty feel that 1t b 1.1 cm:umvcntion of the1r program?
Gardner: I don't thmk ~o. 1 think resolution .. Nmc and Ten
pro"Jde much .;trongcr language about the faculty's prim.lry, but
not exclusive, role on curriculum, pi!I'SOnncl, and the academic life
ot the colll->gC. \\'hat resolution.; Nint> and Ten do provide, i-. that
for ba.;ic program changes, that pnmnry f.tculty role is indeed not
cxcluc:,,·c. and that votmg provision!> on ch.-mgc 1s not delegated
c.xdusiwlv from the boards or lhc facultv, but the board retams its , .
inherent authority to make -:uch changes in the intcrcc;ts of the
institution. That the norm, and the standard, and the expectation
,and tndecd my own committment, is that the faculty has the
primary role in the curriculum . And J don't hear people to date
saying that the board is trying to define curriculum , core
curriculum, or curriculum in a given de~rtmcnt. These are basic
program umts of the in~titution and department
log: What guarantee does the rommunity have thnt the cuts will
not be at the potnt of lcaq "resistance .. m~tead of at the point of
least "damage?"
C~rdnc:r: One guarantee is that we've had plenty of resistance.
Cuts are always painful, and for leg1timatc rca~ns . This is not an
cnormou 1n titution and there are human beings involved and
programs that people care deeply about. We have been through
this before. But I think the answer to your question ts that a very
&pecific :;ct of critena were worked out, self -.tudic~ were
undertal en-faculty particip.lled actively in that, and in the PRC.
I don't know how to respond 1n terms of lr.a!>t reststance, because in
all of the adjustment"-, the administrative adJU~tmcnts, which arc
Immediate , and the faculty adJustments which would take place
over a 3-5 yc.1r period, that's a very important point, l think, and a
lot of people don't understand that somehow the programs that
arc here will go forward; that people in the pipeline will be seen
through; that people will make every effort to treat people well.
There 1s a sense of overreaction, 1 fear, an alarmist reaction. 1
guess I would say that this is, in the first instance, a program dnvcm
rationale and also has budgetary implicatio ns But if we were just
domg the pomt of least resistance, we could have a very simple
policy. So let's move the 15 to 1 or a 17 to 1 !>tudent/fi\culty ratio
and get there in three to five ycarc;--you know let repairment\,
reductions, reach that point. This Is in~tcad an attempt to have a
cogent and a plausable process responding to the mission which
guided those reductions and enhancement .
Log: Thls is a point of information: How many petitions have you
in fact reccavcd?
Gardner: A number-and that is very appropriate. And a number
of departments have written b.sck. Religiou§ Studies has wntten a
long thoughtful statement, Vrtually all the dcpartment6 with whom
I'm interacting frequently send in matenals, all of which I share
With Dale O'BaMon, of the PRC, the chair of the PRC. What about
Log: (What about ) student participation in govcmananru?
Cardn~r . Well J understand student frustration with •mmt..'<iiate -cuts, because we've built up a pattern of student involvement, in
SAAB, in donnJtories and campus life, and 1n previous planning
processc , that I built, had a student on every committee. In
attempts to have direct access to administrators and attempts to
l'ncourage student and facuJty research support, and fund that,
and what I would have to honestly say is modest student
representation 1n the current process. This ir; an exceptional
process in the sense that I hare and I support the notion of
tudcnt5 not as con;tumcrs but as part1cipantti, in the life o( Lcw1s
and Clark and that in that sense I undct5tand the frust:ration and
responses that partldpat1on has not been as ample here as it has
been 1n other procedures in the coll~ or as I would hope it would
be 1n thl• future. And people arc attcmptang to interact, and I am
tn the f'RC, and students are makmg thear views known also. Pioneer Log, June 8, 1987
letters---------
Gardner Deserves Better Treatinent
To th11 Editor:
Colleges are places where
pt..'Oplc o;pc.lk their mind" and
think about the gn•atcr good
At an c.xrellcnt college, faculty
and -.tudcnt .. 'upport each
other. All that happened on
Friday afternoon 1n the chapel
il' c:tudcnts and faculty
cxprcsscd outr.1gc that cut<>
ncedl'd to be made in the
budget to the potnt of
chminattng faculty postttonc;,
maJors and other expenses.
The outrage is under·
standable, but the conSt,tcnt
one-s\ded attack" on the
administrilhon, complaining
thi\t ~elf-centered tncom
pctence and power grabs were
the cau-.c" of the problem'>,
were dtsturbing No one w..mts
to hear bad new<> but to sp1t
on the messengers, to blame
the people with the gr1t and
courage to tackle the
problems, seem .. more the
self-righteou .. nec;<> of the
adolescent than the maturity
of the well educated
Jim Gardner Mood before
the Lewis and Clark
"community " wtth potsc and
JUdtClOU:. concern, and treated
respectfully the pcr'>onal
attacks which blamed htm (or
five year-. of problems . No
faculty member or student would ... tomach c;uch abu,c,
but m,\ny seem to enJoy
flailing away at our
adm1nlstrahve leader;.
No one credtted the
prccc.idcnt W1th turning
enrollments around, im
proving the Core, bringing in
grants, incrcac;mg the num~r
ot cc.tudents who -.tay to
graduate, or more than
doubling the endowment If
the good is acknowledged, 1t i
credited to other!>. If the
problems arc considered, they
arc i\ll dumped on his
doorstep
Why not treat the
pr~-.ident as we would hkt• to
be treated-as a person with
strengths and weaknesses
trying to do his best for the
college? If we want leader<> to
treat u-. wtth respect, we
.;hould do the same.
Announcmg to the world
our Mno confidence'' in the
prc,..tdcnt w1ll solve nothing.
Occ;ptte claim" to the contrary,
the administration will suffer
sooner and more greatly than
academic departments as a
whole
It 1S idealistiC and
shorbighted to believe that the
law school enrollment
dropped, the federal and state
cutbacks in financial aid, the li.lbility msurance problems,
01nd the other external
problem' fact'd by all liberal
:ut-. colleges can be blamed
on poor internal management
I huve worked at both ~mall
liberal arts colll·g~ and major
universities , and despite its
obvious problems, the
admm1stratlon at Lewis and
Clark j., the best We have a
mmimum of bureaucracy and
u genuine respons1vcnes~ to
people's nec..'CI .
The current planning
process worked far better than
the years of bitter faculty
mct•ting.s tnvolved with
Mic.sion Plannmg . 1 have
nc\ cr ~en any group work so
hard to make <>trong but
careful decision<> a" the
Planning and Resource
Committee We can blame
the profec;sor" of that
committee, the pre idcnt ond
the administration for our
troubles, or we can pull
together to make the best of a
heart-rending !>ltuation
Which chotec do you believe
will have the best long-term
con<>equences?
ClmFahs
Dirt'ctor of Continuing EduCAtion
College Set on Extinction
To the Editor
It is wtth considerable
disappointment and dis
enchantment that I submit
these words to you
As a relatiVely new faculty
member (this 1s my second
year), l arnved at Lewt<> and
Clark (to teach computer
science) optimistic and
generally pleased to be at a
liberal arts college. My
intellectual background is
deep m phalosophy and
mathematical logic and in the
last few year.. t have become
extensively interested an
compute r science and
cognitive science Lewis and
Cliuk appeared to be an
extraordinanly fertile en
vironment for fueling these
interests no Procrustean bed
of dry, staple computer
science course!. to be pressed
mto, but perhaps exciting
interdiSClplinary activihe.s, etc.
After one year Jt was evident
how stunningly naive I had
been. Not being content with
mere ignorance of the nature
of computer sc1encc (a
forgivable ~mt), almost
l'\'eryune in the faculty and
administration conttnucd to
have very strong optnion
about the subJect, its role at
the college .1nd what
computer scientist:> ought to
be doing with their time.
Typically, these opinions wer"
<tdverse.
So much for the
<~utobiographical accretions
(rom one ye~n at Lewis and
Clark. The second year has
done nothing to ameliorate
the bleak perspective e
nunciated 0:1bove. On the
contrary, as recent cvr.nhi vcnfy, a great deal more ts the
matter with the place. It is, to
usc a top1cal metaphor, as
though the college's immune
system IS comatose: a sort of
instituhonal AIDS, leavang it
prey to any opportunistic
pathogen (and there is no
shortage of these at Lewis and
Clark) at large tn the
environment. In fact the
image of several viral
processes competing with one
another for the tenderest part
of the host seems remarkably
apt The institution seems
pcr(crvidly determined to
proceed the way of the
dinosaurs, both by becoming
extinct and incredibly, by
delaberatcly and self·
COnSCIOUSly reJeCting tra
ditional and contemporary
sources of strength and
celebrating the mtellcctually
tranc;ient , nebulous and
barren
The latest and most
virulent exacerba tion of the
Lewis and Clark malaise has
become manifest in the fonn
o( the P.R.C 's report and the
processes which led to its
emergence A bout the bulk of
this matter, I do not feel the
need to comment. everyone at
Lewis and Clark 1s acquamted
with lhe material issues.
However , without wishing to
claim the mor.tl htgh ground
CJCclusively for myself, I would
like to make one point
concerning the vulgarity of
recent events.
H ving been summarily
and cryptically delivered a set
of ri!Commcndations and 4\lso
witnessing the president
pledge his support to almost
all o( them, subsequently the faculty, prlmar1ly (but not
exclus1vcly) 1n the form of
"members of the departments
tmpactcd" were invit
ed/requtrcd (?) to meet the
president to d1scuss/ ex
plain/defend/oppose (?) the
P R C 's recommendations.
Even apart from the eccentnc
ordering of events which 1s
1tself in exceptionally poor
taste, docs any credible
academic mstitution really
want to put faculty members
in the posttion of being forced
to defend and argue for the
vitality of their discipline and
maybe them-.elves, to
tndividuals who demonstrably
have no grasp of the
dl<iciphnes concerned? For
example, docs the president
have any notion, say. of what
an algonthm 1s or even might
be? Ooec; anyone at Lewts and
Clark, for that matter
(Jncludmg member~ of the
PR.C.), apart from a sprinkling
of individual~:> in the Natural
Science division? Yet if you
don't know what an algorithm
is, you do not in nny
enllghtcncd sen~e know whnt
compute r science is.
If this is nn example of the
putrid fare served up by an
mstitution of such self
proclatmcd 6:lat, then all who
arc tnvolvl•d wtth it would
seem nccessatc'lted to opt for
something a little less
re!tplendcnt : say, delivering
academic excellence rather
thnn--appar~ntly endless-·
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declamations about il
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DA • June 8,1987 Vol.Sl, No.28
Gardner Changes Recomntendation s
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Faculty and student letters request his resignation.
A complete listing of recommendation s 1s on page 2 .
By Tom Lyden
Pronur Lag staff wnttr
President james Gardner
addressed a packed Chapel
Fradoy, Moy 29, to present hts
~tand on budget cuts
suggested by the Planning and
Resource Counctl (PRO
The event hao; trtggered
concern about the college's
financial management and
governance.
The budget cuts arc
ncccs--ary to offset a proJected
dcftc1t of $1.3 milllon thts year
and approxima tely SSOO,OOO in
fiscal yCclrs to come.
Since Friday, the
president's recommendations
changed substantively
The religious studtes
department will not be
eliminated. reversing hts
earlier endorsement of that
measure
Gardner said the religious
studies recommendat ion was
the "closest judgment call m
the whole thing." Gardner
expressed concern however
that the department may be
teaching too many language
courses and there are too few
students takmg upper divis1on
c:JasSe9.
The college footba 11 team
also will not be elimmated .
The president said there is
strong alumni support for the
sport and the cost of
eliminating the program may
be more than maintammg tt.
llc said that a committee will
be eblablished to examine the
program .
Department s he will
recommend to the Board of
Trustee~ at thetr july 1
meeting for elimtnation
mclude computer sctence and
health and physical education. ln term'> of program
reductions the president has
''no recommendation " to
reduce the physics
departmen t by 1 FTE The
president will recommend an
external peer review of the
position
The president still supports
the PRC rccommendationc; for
department reductionc-; in
music, English, and foreign
language..-..
He still doec; not support
the eltmmation of lhe Office of
the Chaplain.
The president docs not
support the elimination of the
Educational Administration
Program in the Graduate
School of Professional Studies
There were no
recommendations by the PRC
for reduction or program
elimination at the
Northwestern School of Law
as a result of msufficient
informahon reccwcd from the
law school
Requests for Resignation?
A faculty meeting was
called Tuesday, May 26, to
discuss the proposed budget
cuts. The meeting was
attended by representatives of
the law school and the
Graduate School of
Professional Stud1cs
The meeting was held in
executive session but the
Pionur Log has learned that a
letter to the president was
agreed upon and delivered to
President Gardner signed by
an undisclosed number of
faculty member s to be
signed by faculty members
in the three dtvision s of the
college.
The Pioneer Log has
learned that among other thmgs the
Pres1d en l
rcsignatton letter requests
Gardner's
The faculty will take up this
is"ue at their next mccl•ng
today, June 8, at t p.m. There
ts one undic;cloSl.>d 1tem on the
agenda, although other •s-.ueo;
can be brought up.
The prestdcnt hud no
comment on the contl!nts of
the letter and would not say If
he would respond.
Studentc; have also
circulated a petition which
requests the termination of
the prcstdent's contract and
demand s a complete
reevaluation of the PRC
proposals The petition also
proposes that a democratic
system of governance should
be restored at Lew1s. and Clark.
Jn four days the petition
has been signed by 412
students , Eli Rosenblatt,
freshman, said.
The meeting in the Cha~
was intended for faculty
member s only but word
qutckly spread about its
significance and 1t became a
campus wide event
Gardner began the
meeting by saying the
institution was strong, and that
the number of paid deposits
from next year's entering
freshmen was up The
prcstdent said the budget
reducttons would make the
institution stronger. He sa1d
the worst thing that could
happen 1s for an attitude to
develop that the "sky ts
falflng.''
The level of acnmony at
the meeting was htgh. At
several poants Pres1dent
Card ncr was criticazcd
See GARDNER, page 2. SPECIAL BUDGET ISSUE:
• The most recent information on President
Gardner's recommendations on the budget
reductions suggested by the Planning and
Resource Council. '
• The story behind the PRC.
• A report on the structural deficit and low
en rollmcnts.
• An interview with President Gardner.
• Lots of letters.
rocess,
Criteria E lained
By Parker Hodges
Pton.ru Lag staff writrr
The Planning and Resource Council <PRC), whose
rccommcnd.l.tioM have been under campus S<;rutmy all week. was
originally dec;lgned as an int~mal review of th4: :;chool. With the
di-.covery of the deficit th~ committee al!'>o had to recommend
budget cuts.
The PRC wac; charged to r"'dcfine the values and the mission
statement of the school. ln order to accomplish thts the PRC had
to, ac; it statement reads. " ... evaluate all academic programs,
adminhtrahv\' functions, and student support services, and to
recommend which ~hould be maintamed at current levels,
enhanced, reduced, or eliminated ... "
The PRC is also charged to " ... identify the clientele which the
inc:titutton should serve and to recommend goals and objectives
which should guide the institution in the next 3·5 year p riod."
The rc-;ults were made public Friday, M,1y 29, the same dny
Pr~ident Gardner addressed the community stating his po ition
on the recommendations .
The counctl was advisory and had no d('C't!'ion-making authority
Dale O'&nnon. the non-voting chair of the PRC, said, "'The PRC
made recommendations, not dectstons We fowardcd the report to
the president , and the E.xe<:utivc Council o( lhe Board of Trustees
will sc' an advance report"
Pr~ident Gardner is expected to make the recommendations
to the Board at their july 1 meeting.
The PRC w~s composed of four undergraduate, one graduate,
and one law school faculty along with four admimc;trator and
three resource people Faculty and students have expressed
opposition to the way the PRC members were chosen.
The members were appointed by the president and were
sclcc«.'<i on the basis of the following criteria:
• Respect and cre<hbahty among theu peeT$ ac; cholars and
profcs~•onals.
• The ability to broadly conceptualize the future of the school in
relation to 1ts prc.c;cnt posabon
• The maturity to be able to set ac;ide their emotional commitment.
• Dtstnbution by discipline and gender
In re ponse to faculty criticism over the way PRC members
were chosen O'Bannon said, "l£ the qu~tion ,., 'were they elected?'
the answer is no However there was a real commttmcnt to getting
a range and diverstty of opm1on, to avoid groupthmk and thi5 led
to a lot of long diSCU'l.Sions "
The committee met for an average of 40 hours a wt..-ck for the
entire term To avo1d a conflict of interest PRC members who!IC
department s were under review were asked to l~W\! the room.
In addition the council operated under self-ampo~~ in order
to, as Provost jacqulyn Mattfeld put it. " ... have a deVJcc inc;uring a
proce s with little polihazmg" See PRC, page 2.
ow nro ments etrimenta • • u
By Jilbn Detweiler
Pionetr Log Staff Wntu
Enrollment levels arc
crucial to a healthy budget at
a tuition-driven institution like
Lewis and Clark Full Time
Equivalent CFTE> enrollments
for all divtstons {under
graduate , graduate and the
law school) have dropped from
a total of 2,837 in the (all of
1980 to 1,967 in the fall of 1986.
In 1985 the FTE's at the
undergraduate level reached a
low o( 1,611 as compared to
1,831 m 1980 That number
has improved sllghty as the
FTE's for fall, 1986 were 1.623
Higher cnrollmcntc: are
c.xpcch.>d for next yc.u.
FTE'-. at the law school dunng the past six years have
ranged from 731 m 1 Q80 to a
low of 606 in the fall of 1986
The graduate school, on the
other hilnd, has had an
Increase in enrollments ln
1980 there were 275 FTE's.
There were 338 FTE's at the
graduate school In the fall o(
1986
Income from tuihon and
fee has risen desp1tc the
lower enrollments b(.'Cauc;e of
increases . Next year tuahon
will increase by c;cvcn pct'C'cnt
accompanted by a charge per
credtt hour for overload of
cour~cs taken beyond 54 in
one academic year The
charge per credit hour for
overload will be $292. ln 1985 tuttion
increased by 7.6 percent
followed by an mcrcasc of
c1ght percent in 1986
However , the amount of
-.tudents financial .aid award<>
has also increased in pa ·t
years
"In an institution that i<l as
tuihon-dependent as Lewis
and Clark. one year of student
shortage\ can set U" back,"
Gene Gregory, vice-president
for in~htutional advancement,
c:.in
Although gifts to the
college have not been
o,ufficient to fully compcno;ate
for lower enrollments. the last
cot years have been m.uk~ by
a 137.08 pt:'rcent mcreac;e in
the endowment . In 1981 the total endowment market value
wa~ $9.835,553. The
endowment ,., now valued at
approxtmately $24.000,000
During the same period of
time, the tncome from the
endowment has increased
from $932,24·1 to $2,.003,000 .
A spending policy
approved by the Board of
Trustee:<. in july, 1985 allows for
the usc of the equtvalcnt of
10 5 percent of the market
value of old endowment
money and the equivalent of
stx percent of the market
\'aluc ot money n.."Ccived c..m~
July. 1985 In fi!'<al year 1 Q85 all
ancome wa<. spent. Under the
new "pending policy the
college rctnvest., rc\'cnucs
l'XCl'\.-ding the set percentages to lncrc.1sc the principle of the
endowment.
Gregory s..11d funds roi.;cd
during the college ·~ annual
giving camp.ugn~ have helped
to keep the bud~et balanced.
In 1981 the college rni~
apro~amatctv $350,000 in this
fundraistng effort which
indudec; a phonc-.1-thon
targeted c1t alumnt. The
college brought in S850, 000 in
thi~ campaign last ye.u, and a
goal of $900,000 has been set
for the ne t annual giving
campatgn .
-rh~ increases that come
from incomcs ... do not off et
our r~curring expenditure
base nor do the · replace
cntirel ' the "tudcnt<. who
aren't here;· CJ'\.~ory ~11d.
The Best Of Times, The orst Of Times page2
PRC
RECOMMLNDA TlONS
FOR
~TBGORY "2"
(REDUCTIO > AND
CA TUGOR "411
(EUMI A TlON>
and
PRBSlDE T GARDNER'S
ENDORSEMENTS
WHICH HE WILL MAKE
TO THE BOARD OF
TRUSTbES JULY 1
Pr~ldents Gardner's
recommend~hons as of
June 8 }Q8? Subject to
continuing revit'w, student
and bcully input, .1nd tht'
review of a{{t'cted Boud
Committee•.
S::QLLECE OF ARTS AND
SCIBN~ES
J.l Eliminate Computer
Science Department and
integrate cornputers-acro<.<.
thc--curriculum philo-.ophy .
C.ARDNER UPPORTS
ELIMINATIOf\:
2. Ehminott. Rt. hgiou.
Studies Dcpartmlont and
m3jor on the condition that
bcc:luo;.c of contribution-. to
the Core and ~'Cau~ of the
amportanre ot the 'tudy of
religions to the mio;«:ion of the
college, that two ot the NJTCnt
mcmbcrc; of the Department
of Religious Studaes be
rca-.signcd to another or other
appropnate departments .
GARDNER REJECtS
ELlMINA TlON PROVOST
WILL CONDUCT
EXTERNAL PEER REVIEW
(lt Elimmate HCJith and
Phy ical Education
Department and major; keep
PE actavity cla-.scs.
GARDNER SUPPORTS
EUMINATION
(!.?-Rcdilce Mustc
Department to 5 FfE,
includtng Admuuc:tratave FfE
GARDNER SUPPORTS
REDUCTION
5. Reduce the English
Department by a minimum of
2 Fl E and conduct an external
peer review to investigate the
conMlCJuences of a further
reduction of 1 0 F"l E
CARDNER SUPPOR ..... T_..S
REDUCTION SUBJECT TO
CONTINUING REVIEW
6 Reduce the Ph~ics
Department by 1 FIE and
conduct an external peer
revaew to determine the place
of the discipline of Phy~ics in
the curriculum CARDNER
MAKES NO RECOM
MENDATION HE WILL
ESTABLISH A PEER REVIEW
COMMJTIEE TO LOOK AT
POSITION.
7. Merge the lnternattonal
Aflnirs and Pohtical Science
departments and as a
consequence of the merger,
roducc the current Pohtical
Science FrE by 1.0.
GARDNER R£je-c-rs
MERCER BUT
RECOMMENDS AN
INCREASE IN
INTERDISCIPLINARY
INTI!RACIION IN
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
DEPARTMENT
8. Reduce the F"l E for the
~rtm ent of Foreign
Languages by an unspecified
amount pendang an external
JX."'-"' rt"V1cw of the
department's curriculum.
CARONER RECOMMEND S
AN EXTERNAL REVIEW GRADUATE SCHOOL Of
PROfBS.SlONAL STUDIES:
1 Ellminnt~ the
Educational Administration
Program, n.~ure the
romolning full-time faculty tn
oth~ programs of the
Gr.,duatc hool by no less
than two, and Jftcr rccctpt by
the Graduate Dean or a report
-.pccitying the PRCc; concern
rcgardmg the Public
Atimlnl<.trahon Program
Implement a plan to correct
the problem no later than
1988. GARDNER REJECI'S
ELIMINATION
LAW SCHQOL:
1 1 he PRC make,. no
spec,fic rccommcndD.tions a~
a rc.-.ull ot in,ufflcacnt
informntton receives from tho
Law School relatL'd to it-;
academtc program and it
admint,trataw 11nd student
-.upport ~T\'tcc-. .
PRESIDENT'S AREA:
1. Eliminate the Office ot
the Ch.lpl.un, includ1ng the
po'ition of campu' mlnistt!r
,,nd the Chap '1 Coordinator
po ihon (the latter based on
the recommendation that
facahtie., and event~
manngement will be
integrated across the campus).
CARDNER REJECTS
ELIMINATION
PRQVQSTS AREAi
(GARDNER SUPPORTS ALL
RECOMMENOA TIONS)
1 Scpamte Academic
Computing and Admin
istrative Compuhng into two
office. and eliminate the
poc;ation of the Du'CCtor of
Computing Services, malntam
the budget of Administrative
Computang and anaease the
budget of Academic
Computing .
2. Examine the servace load
tn the International Students
Office and make appropriate
reductaons ln FJ'E from 12-
month contracts
3 Decrease expenditures
and Increase revenues for the
Overseas I Off -Cam pus
Programs for a net n>view
ancrca< of 5 to 8~ of the 1986-
87 budget over a 2-3 year
period.
VICE PRESIDENT FOR
.ADMINlSIRAilON:
1. Eliminate the •
intercollegiate football
progrnm. CARDNER
RE EClS ELIMINATION
2. Further reduce the
At ctic~t Programs ' budget to
enhance compar~uvc
advantages, maantaan equal
opportunity for male and
female student athletes,
mantmi7c negative ampact on
~tudent rccnutment and
retention, .md maintain
intramural sports and PE
activaties GARDNER
SUPPORTS
3 Ellmlnate the position
Cbut not the functions) of the
Vice President of Anance.
GARDNER SUPPORTS.
4. Reduce the operating
budget for Admissions by 5-
109:. pending the level 2
Strategic Plan on Enrollment
Management. GARDNER
SUPPORTS REDUCfJON ,
BUT NOT OF PERSONNBL . • Pioneer LoSt June 8, 1987
r--Prom GARDNER, page l.
One of hi critic" wos
Steven Beckhnm , profe or of
history, who sold he came to
LC 10 yenrs ago "when it
looked like the college hod a
future and wo moving
forward," he c:ald
"Your odminl tration hM
brought u' to th1c; point There
IS a lack Of undcrr;tnndlng Of
the collegtal pirlt on your
part. Thts report Is an
indictment of your
admanastration It is also an
affirmation that th1s 'chool is
headed m one du·cction and
that'-. backward~ ," Beckhnm
c;aid
Grey Ostcrud, a~c;ociatc
professor of hic;tory, cnhca2cd
what she perceives as a
hierarchical decision making
process "Lewis ilnd Clnrk is
alive and well ~he ~id, only
here, but not up there,"
0-.terud snid
Dorthy Berkson, profc«:~r
of Engh-.h, crittcizcd how the
Jaw "-<'hnnl Wfl" unc;cathcd in
from PRC, png~ 1.
Acc.ordang to
o·a.\nnon,"We wanted to do
our work quickly and
efficiently and felt that havang
h<.>arings would detract U'l
from that goal "
The committee produced a
34 page document outlining
their $tOats, procedures, and
criteria for dedsion making.
Their recommendation for
the College of Arts and
Sciences and the Graduate
School of Professional Studies
took the form of either
program/ department
maintenance, enhancement,
elimination, or reduction .
Conspicuously absent from
the report were
recommendations of how the
law school wiJI help in lowering
what is speculated to be a $2
million dollar institutional
deficit
According to the PRC
report, "The PRC makes no
spcclflc recommendation o
a result of lnsuHiciont
infonnation received from the
Law School related to lt
5. Reduce the budget of
Institutional Services by 10%
and enhance the efficiency of
the enUre operation.
GARDNER SUPPORTS .
STUDENT AffAIRS;
Ql erge the positions of
Vace President of Student
Affair; and Dean of Student.
wath a net reduction of 1 F"l E
and "-llary and benefit
commensurate with functaons
of a Dean of Students
GARDNER SUPPORTS.
2. Merge the offices of
Career Plannang and
Placement and Teacher
Placement to produce the
foUowing net reductaon tnF ...,I ..... E:
reduce the 12-month Te01chcr
Placement FrE to a 9--month
contract and reduce the 10-
month Assistant CPP Director
Fl E to a 9-month contract, the
latter two posihons to be
staggered to insure 12-month
lNSDTUDONAL t
(GARDNER CONCURS
WITH ALL lN511TUTIO NAL
RECOMMENDA TIONS).
1. Overhead contribution s
of the three academic units
(College of Arts and Science. the suggested budget cuts
'Thfq Ia an outrage," she said.
Ono faculty rnembcr asked
H the faculty will have an
opportunity to vote on the
recommendations The
president said the faculty
would not have such nn
oppurtunity due to Board of
Tru.,tees resolutions #9 and
#tO which were passed
January 12, 1987
Re olution #10 mandate
the establishment of a task
force on governance whose
purpose I to update
in-.titutional policie-s ,
blructures, and governance
document .. for the throe units
of the college Accordmg to
the resolution . ''The Tac:k
Force shall present its final
propoc:cd document , to the full
voting faculty of each of the
three unit~ of the mstitutaon,
for nn advio;ory vote to indicate
each academic unit'«~
recommendation to the task
force"
academic program and its
administrative and student . .. $Upport <;CrvtCCS.
Prec;adent Gardner,
addressing a group of students
on Friday, june 5, refused
comment about the absence
of Law School
recommendations in the
report, calling it ''an emotional
issue better left out of the
public discourse .''
"Tho Law School Is more
self-con tained than the
others," O'Bannon said, "the
way the Jaw school and others
sec overhead is different."
A May 18 memo from
Provost Jacqulyn Mattfeld to
the faculty and staff says the
1987-88 budget will be
completed methodology using
the figure $327,000 as the Law
School's assigned overhead
rather than the ''fair share"
figure of $765,655.
The Law School "fair share"
o( institutional overhead costs
Is based on a controversial
methodology of their use of
institutional and student
services.
the Craduate School of
Professional Studies, and the
Law School) should be
calculated by a common
methodology applying to each
umt
2 The pool for salary
increases should be the same
percent for all units even
though the method for
distributing that pool may
differ.
3. Faculty travel, faculty
research, and faculty
development policies ond
procedures should be
standardized across all three
academic units
4. The tenn system for the
C'ollcge of Arts and Sciences
and the Graduate School
should be eliminated and a
semester schedule
coordinated with that of the
Law school should be
implemen ted by fuJI, 1990.
5. The Summer Session
Office should be eliminated
and a study should be
conducted to detennine the
viability of an undersradu ate
Summer Session program;
contingent on Its viabJ.lity, an
undergraduate Summer
session program should be
administratively housed in the Resolution #9 adopts n
"Polley on Covcrnnncc" which
advocates "shared
governance" among Trustees,
the president and the
admanlstration, faculty and
tudents According to the
resolution. "Where any two or
more constltucnts arc
engaged in ronsldcrataon of
any particular mnttcr, tho
body or Individual authorized
to make a final decision In that
matter will give different
weight to the expressed
opinion of one constituent or
a not her, proportionate to the
degree of rec;pon lbility that
con'>tltuon t has for the
particular matter at hand."
Resolution #9 also
authorl7es the prc'iident to
promulgate interim
procedures of operation as
nt'ce,~ary untal conc;istcnt
documents and procedures
arc prepared and enacted.
In a letter in the March 28
ic;suc of the Paonur Log, Law
School Dean Steve Kanter
wrote, "You (the LoR) arc
correct in sayang that the law
bchool traditionally pa1d five
percent of Its budget as an
overhead transfer to the
Institution . On our current
budget of approximately five
million dollars, this would be
$250,000. In fact we are paying
in excess of $300,000 In
overhead thls year, and will
pay $327,000 next year."
"In each case, this Is the
amount that has been
assigned to us by the
president, and ultimately by
the Trustees In our approved
budget," Kanter wrote
The issue Is the common
overhead and the
methodology used to arrive at
what each school must
contribute, O'Bannon said.
This argument was
addressed by the PRC. "We
(the PRC) recommended a
common methodology to be
used by all the schools,"
O'Bannon said.
Office of the Dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences to
complement the existing
summer session programs
adminastered by the de01ns of
the other two academic units.
6. In the absence of plans
for the senior adminastrahve
offices <President, Provost,
Dean of the College of Arts
and Scacncos, Dean of the
Graduate School, Dean of the
Law School, and VIce
Prcsadcnt for Institutional
Ad vancomcnt) . the PRC
recommends thnt these
offi~ realize percent
reductions In their budgets no
less than the percent
reductions for the rest of the
lnstltution Subsequen t to
receipt of the Level 2 stmtegic
plans, further
recommendations will be
made.
We swear that this
is really the last
issue of the Log for
the year! LC
communit
Clark. The
school is
position o
fundament
direction.
that the PR
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'consultatio
were nothi
faculty, sta
resides wit¥
president, '
Board.
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should not J
of having a
system of d
presiden t/1
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approved b
should not
turn to w
governance
The fu~
questions o
will still e
all decisi
allowing
delegate th
will also e
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governance
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con centra
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to claim a
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members o
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Task Force'
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ill will by t
finds itself
publicly in
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has taken
toward a
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Amid fear and frustration a solid sense of
community has developed at Lewis and
Clark. There is an understanding that the
school is currently at a crossroads, in a
position of making decisions that will
fundamentally change the institution and its
direction. However, it is important to note
that the PRC reports were nothing more than
recommendations, that the president's
'consultations' with community members
were nothing more than a lobbying effort by
faculty, staff, and students. The power still
resides with the Board of Trustees and the
president , who is a voting member of the
Board.
It is therefore critical that the community
should not Lose sight of its greater goal: that
of having a true share of college power. A
system of checks and balances, outside of the
president/board relationship , is needed.
After the budget cuts are determined and
approved by the board, community members
should not slow the momentum , but rather
turn to work for a fair and equitable
governance .
The fundamental moral and ethical
questions of governance at Lewis and Clark
will still exist. Resolution 9, which centers
all decision-making on the president,
allowing him to make the decision or
delegate the authority in any way he desires,
will also exist. It is important that these last
two points are remembered, for Resolution
10 calls for the completion of new
governance documents by December 20, 1987.
Faculty, staff, and students should
concentrate on not allowing these
resolutions to guide the process of the
creation of the governance documents.
Members of the community should be sure
to claim a democratic voice in the creation of
the Task Force (the committee charged by
Resolution 10 with recommending a set of
governance documents) , not just a vote on
the final documents. In other words the
members of the Task Force should be voted
on by all faculty, not just the results of the
Task Force's work.
Due to a strongly expressed frustation and
ill will by the community the administration
finds itself in the uncharacteristic position of
publicly interacting with faculty, staff, and
students. It is hoped that the administration
has taken to heart the strong resentment
toward a centralized authority at Lewis and
Clark.
The administration should take this as a
forewarning that they will be held
accountable for any changes made over the
summer, primarily any changes that deviate
from stated policy, in. addition to any other
decisions. The crux of the last several weeks
is that the community is angry and resentful,
and will no longer allow the administration
to make decisions in a vacuum. It is hoped
that the administration will open its eyes and
read the writing on the wall: the sense of a
community spirit will not go away, and
unless power is shared the only thing hurt
will be the echooL
J.D. T~ P.H. Pioneer Log, June 8, 1987 page3
President's Ethics Questioned
To the Edlto... 1 f PI d rccommendntion6 of the PRC • corn rom ato an
As ~ student who h"". Th did h h b't amount to. The prc!lldent'~ u .. ,. ucy C" t .11 t e -..r t rary
devoted consldernblc tlmc c:xcrctsc of power amount" to a unwilhngne..'ls to accept ac-
countobatv for his leader"'hlp and energy over the past !our complete separation of JUStice has lead to the morally
years to the study of ethacs, I and morality from gov-
would like to articulate what I crnance, and the im- reprehensible action of
Con•ider to b"' som" of the 1 1 f .. · h allocating rc5pon,ibilty wht.'fe ., ~ " p ementat on o o mtg t
crucial mor~l fallout of the k · h .. I' · 1 it is not deserved . rna es ng t, po t ttca The fourth and final moral current campus cnsls. This philosophy .
moral fallout I would The second moral problem problem follows logically from
Oppropn."te under the gencr"'l h h .d t 1 t... cd 'th the first three. That problem is .. u t at t C prc~t Cn ~ r.aC Wt )
category of· The moral ls that of "'clcctave re- the lack of a leader or roc
model who embodiec. moral t'Oruequrnces of leadtrship presentation of lnformallon, as
tL-1 -.atJ-"ccountabaltty vid cd b h lf d tntcgnty . This pre!"tdcnt, from fUl .. ., .... " e cnc y t~ c,c -avo we
There arc four maJOr moral reputation O'l a "great fund- the beginning of hts tenure,
problems that President r~l.,cr '' (where arc all of the has de fllcto oppo!'icd
Gardner has thrust upon funds?), along with his everything that a liberal arts
himself by Wh"'t 1 ~"'c a." ht's d · f d institution ~tands for, namely .. .-" rcpcutc practice o cs-
(allurc to ~cccpt nc-cribing the college as a place ~n environment where the
countability for hio; lcadcrc;hip . of h~rmony and bliss in the candid and dem<X'r~tic debate
The first, and arguably mo"t mid"t of votes of no of ic;sues tak~ pia~ A lcJdcr
~crlous of these, •~ the confidence and financial who con,ic;tently engages in
urbitrary exercise of power. chaos. Jo; sd<'ctive repre- the arbitrary exercise of power,
Such .ubitrary exercise of scntation of the facts good ~lcctive representation of the
power is evident in the moral practice for a leader to fact.; and scupcgoa ting i~. at
president 's emphatic: rejection engage in? the very lca5t, a morally
of the college's governing The third moral problem is problcmatic~l role model.
documents , hts method of that of ~nt'OOatina< which ic; r ·o 0' Scott W. St11./f
~ppointing the (acuity co;scntially what the ~nlorpltllosophynwjur
memberq to the PRC rather.-------------------------,
than democratic selection,
and his histone denial of
effective, i.e. voting, decision
making power to fDculty
members and students. We
Health Dept.
Defended
To the Editor.
We would like to defend
the health department . It has
been proposed that It be cut
by the PRC We believe there
is a lack o( understand ing
even among students on this
campus about the health
major The perception is that
this department 1s like that of
the traditional health and P.E
classes we have encountered
on high school w1th gym
teachers or high school
coaches. These perception s
arc simply not true. for
example, the belief on campus
is that health is just a part of
the athlettcs/activity course~
program It ts not. lt ts an
mdependent d1scipline
The health maJor explores
the thcorettcal foundation of
,o;sues both soc1al and
clcntific, that concern pubhc
health from a pluralistic
perspective Thts perspective
concernct 1ssues of gender,
environment, eros cultural
tntcgratlon, and tnter
nntlonalization.
Thus, the health maJOr
correlates with all threu
categoric-. dc.'lcrabed tn the
mtssion statement We
believe that this major is
central to the mission lt
states that the education of
students is to "participate
actively in public discusston of
local, reg1onal, national, and
International issues". The
issue of hrolth of the pubUc is
one of the most pervasive
topic~ in the public's
convenation. The decisions
concerni ng the health of
individuals , whether local,
regional, national or
international are the most
Important in our world.
Questions concerning health. Reporter's Breeding Questioned
To the Editor.
I have long thought that
the Pioneer Log is a two-bit
newspape r, but when I read
the orticle entitled "Cardner's
Garbage Tells All," my
suspldons were confirmed . At
first 1 thought It n pke, which
reflects poor Judgement on
the part of both the Log and
jllllnn Detweiler When I saw
Ms Detweiler on the back
page standing amongst the
trash in all her glory, I couldn't
believe her unmlhgated gall,
not to mention the colossal
oversigh t made in printing it.
Ar~t of all, M,. Detweiler 's
actlvitteo; were illegal. That
garbage is pnvatc property ,
and if it were mine, I would
have had her thrown in )clU. If
the Gardners don't do the
-;arne, It t<; a tnbute to their
breeding, whtch i above mine
and certatnly far above Ms
Detweile r's, It Is she and
JOUrnalists like her that WTitc
the article-; of alien babies
which all of us laugh at when
we arc at the checkout line in o.
supermarket.
I believe the Log was
somewhnt -.ympathehc to the
plight of Cary Hart at the
handb of the press The press
had well founded rumorc; to
inve tlgatc and there was no
infraction of the taw m doing lt.
By printing this arhclc, you,
the editor and the Log, have
from intcmaltonal issues such
a-. world hunger, nucl~r war,
and the sprc.td o( AIDS, to the
tndtvtdual t<~o;ue..c: of nutrition
and exercise.. arc the most
fundamental of aU. Thus, it fits
in quite nJccly with the mission
tatemcnt .
The Issues above are
addressed by faculty tn other
disciplines , because they are
universal. This major, though,
brings a focus to the social,
polltlcal, and economic
rcalltiea of thee l.ssues. More shown how absolutely hypo·
critical you tnsh sheet is.
furthermore , what were you
hoping to find7 16 M~.
Detweiler some sort of ~r
vcrtcd voyeur pccnng into the
mner scc:rets of pcople·s
per;onal live$ In antidpahon
of tihllaung goscoip?
How Mr G.lrdner lives his
hfe Is completely up to him.
Whether or not he eats
granola all day or recycles his
papers is o( httle conseque nce
in the fulfillment of his duties.
J also have little concern ac; to
how many people live in his
house, or it" size. J would
veni'Ure to say that some older
coupl~s. possibly widow<J, live
in large hous.cs a well. ls the
Log tmplying that we hould
throw them out? We pay him
to be president of Lcwis and
Clork. how he spend~ the
money is none of our bu.,in~ .
lf th1s is the kind of wnting
you feel b good enough to call
JOurnnli,m, you nrc sadly
mtstakcn . People u~ to call
it mudcraking . Today, as I said
before. people Iough at it aco
they check out at the
supermarket . T~kc another
look ~t it, and i( you ON still
sahsficd. at least be hone~a
wtth yoursclvc' and change
your name from the Pioneer
Log to the Pion~r Post.
J\JultftV Fortn.., Mtltrr
Martlrt ~h. jturlor
1-tfny HIUI.S<ht. 1«1tlor
import ant, it h~ache" us to
plan and implement health
programs that may ~omcday
make a difference in our
world.
We ask you to reevaluate
your opinion of the health
maJOr
EUa.S~IGii«
N..y Moo,..IGiior
Cllzcfutlt NHly, jM•Ior
Midwll• Mo••"-..,.i«
DofiiiJ Odbr, ftDti«
Mlb s.u.,._ -.Jor
TawPI Loc::b, SMlor
ICtatlty Cl>J7l-. •OJ'ItOffiON
U111u Llitul, Ullior pagc4
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GARDNER
INTERVIEW
The follou.•ing i im uurpt of an interoitw wrlll Presrdcnt Gt:Jrdna
ct~ruluclr.d by Tt'm Lyden oj ~~ Pionar Log
Log: Why the difficulty in g~tting 'xact numb~r (n1)arding the
budget)?
G:ndner: 1 think it'5 fair to <>ay WI! nrc making chungcs to
trcngtht.•n the financial man.1g ·mcnt and as p.ut of that proCCS!t
we would c pcct to do a better JOb nt getting figure,<: to the f3culty,
th~ president and the Board of Tru tees. My ronccrn about that,
mcidcnt311y, among many, is thilt C\' 'n '' encouraging figure.''
came forward on salary ~nhanccmcnt, . holarship programs or
s.abbattcals., even the real upb\!at figure" didn't get to th;n
committee. So their really is no gain an that proc\• " in not havmg
good data. I think it will be a ~I od,~.lnC'C for us to strengthen that
financial m.lnagement .
Log: \\'hat do RC$0lution Nm\: and Ten do?
Gardner: The consultant that rcvte\\'00 the institution earlier this
year, characterize our govcmanc' document~"" among the worst
thev'\·e c:ccn in the entire "tat~ Our govern.tncc h.1s given. I think
C\'~y~ody, a difficult time for )'lhlr' and decad "S Resolution.,
Nine and Ten arc the beginmng of a procc.'s to clean up and
trengthcn and provide more C'Ohcrcncc to the gov~rnance of th~
m titution. The philosophy beneath resolution" Nmc and Ten ic: a
philosoph • of shart>d governance with an c1pproach of
complimentary rotc~ . for <;tudenr.;, faculty, administration , and the
Bonrd of Truc:t-c ~.
Log: (Do) Filculty feel that 1t b 1.1 cm:umvcntion of the1r program?
Gardner: I don't thmk ~o. 1 think resolution .. Nmc and Ten
pro"Jde much .;trongcr language about the faculty's prim.lry, but
not exclusive, role on curriculum, pi!I'SOnncl, and the academic life
ot the colll->gC. \\'hat resolution.; Nint> and Ten do provide, i-. that
for ba.;ic program changes, that pnmnry f.tculty role is indeed not
cxcluc:,,·c. and that votmg provision!> on ch.-mgc 1s not delegated
c.xdusiwlv from the boards or lhc facultv, but the board retams its , .
inherent authority to make -:uch changes in the intcrcc;ts of the
institution. That the norm, and the standard, and the expectation
,and tndecd my own committment, is that the faculty has the
primary role in the curriculum . And J don't hear people to date
saying that the board is trying to define curriculum , core
curriculum, or curriculum in a given de~rtmcnt. These are basic
program umts of the in~titution and department
log: What guarantee does the rommunity have thnt the cuts will
not be at the potnt of lcaq "resistance .. m~tead of at the point of
least "damage?"
C~rdnc:r: One guarantee is that we've had plenty of resistance.
Cuts are always painful, and for leg1timatc rca~ns . This is not an
cnormou 1n titution and there are human beings involved and
programs that people care deeply about. We have been through
this before. But I think the answer to your question ts that a very
&pecific :;ct of critena were worked out, self -.tudic~ were
undertal en-faculty particip.lled actively in that, and in the PRC.
I don't know how to respond 1n terms of lr.a!>t reststance, because in
all of the adjustment"-, the administrative adJU~tmcnts, which arc
Immediate , and the faculty adJustments which would take place
over a 3-5 yc.1r period, that's a very important point, l think, and a
lot of people don't understand that somehow the programs that
arc here will go forward; that people in the pipeline will be seen
through; that people will make every effort to treat people well.
There 1s a sense of overreaction, 1 fear, an alarmist reaction. 1
guess I would say that this is, in the first instance, a program dnvcm
rationale and also has budgetary implicatio ns But if we were just
domg the pomt of least resistance, we could have a very simple
policy. So let's move the 15 to 1 or a 17 to 1 !>tudent/fi\culty ratio
and get there in three to five ycarc;--you know let repairment\,
reductions, reach that point. This Is in~tcad an attempt to have a
cogent and a plausable process responding to the mission which
guided those reductions and enhancement .
Log: Thls is a point of information: How many petitions have you
in fact reccavcd?
Gardner: A number-and that is very appropriate. And a number
of departments have written b.sck. Religiou§ Studies has wntten a
long thoughtful statement, Vrtually all the dcpartment6 with whom
I'm interacting frequently send in matenals, all of which I share
With Dale O'BaMon, of the PRC, the chair of the PRC. What about
Log: (What about ) student participation in govcmananru?
Cardn~r . Well J understand student frustration with •mmt..'<iiate -cuts, because we've built up a pattern of student involvement, in
SAAB, in donnJtories and campus life, and 1n previous planning
processc , that I built, had a student on every committee. In
attempts to have direct access to administrators and attempts to
l'ncourage student and facuJty research support, and fund that,
and what I would have to honestly say is modest student
representation 1n the current process. This ir; an exceptional
process in the sense that I hare and I support the notion of
tudcnt5 not as con;tumcrs but as part1cipantti, in the life o( Lcw1s
and Clark and that in that sense I undct5tand the frust:ration and
responses that partldpat1on has not been as ample here as it has
been 1n other procedures in the coll~ or as I would hope it would
be 1n thl• future. And people arc attcmptang to interact, and I am
tn the f'RC, and students are makmg thear views known also. Pioneer Log, June 8, 1987
letters---------
Gardner Deserves Better Treatinent
To th11 Editor:
Colleges are places where
pt..'Oplc o;pc.lk their mind" and
think about the gn•atcr good
At an c.xrellcnt college, faculty
and -.tudcnt .. 'upport each
other. All that happened on
Friday afternoon 1n the chapel
il' c:tudcnts and faculty
cxprcsscd outr.1gc that cut<>
ncedl'd to be made in the
budget to the potnt of
chminattng faculty postttonc;,
maJors and other expenses.
The outrage is under·
standable, but the conSt,tcnt
one-s\ded attack" on the
administrilhon, complaining
thi\t ~elf-centered tncom
pctence and power grabs were
the cau-.c" of the problem'>,
were dtsturbing No one w..mts
to hear bad new<> but to sp1t
on the messengers, to blame
the people with the gr1t and
courage to tackle the
problems, seem .. more the
self-righteou .. nec;<> of the
adolescent than the maturity
of the well educated
Jim Gardner Mood before
the Lewis and Clark
"community " wtth potsc and
JUdtClOU:. concern, and treated
respectfully the pcr'>onal
attacks which blamed htm (or
five year-. of problems . No
faculty member or student would ... tomach c;uch abu,c,
but m,\ny seem to enJoy
flailing away at our
adm1nlstrahve leader;.
No one credtted the
prccc.idcnt W1th turning
enrollments around, im
proving the Core, bringing in
grants, incrcac;mg the num~r
ot cc.tudents who -.tay to
graduate, or more than
doubling the endowment If
the good is acknowledged, 1t i
credited to other!>. If the
problems arc considered, they
arc i\ll dumped on his
doorstep
Why not treat the
pr~-.ident as we would hkt• to
be treated-as a person with
strengths and weaknesses
trying to do his best for the
college? If we want leader<> to
treat u-. wtth respect, we
.;hould do the same.
Announcmg to the world
our Mno confidence'' in the
prc,..tdcnt w1ll solve nothing.
Occ;ptte claim" to the contrary,
the administration will suffer
sooner and more greatly than
academic departments as a
whole
It 1S idealistiC and
shorbighted to believe that the
law school enrollment
dropped, the federal and state
cutbacks in financial aid, the li.lbility msurance problems,
01nd the other external
problem' fact'd by all liberal
:ut-. colleges can be blamed
on poor internal management
I huve worked at both ~mall
liberal arts colll·g~ and major
universities , and despite its
obvious problems, the
admm1stratlon at Lewis and
Clark j., the best We have a
mmimum of bureaucracy and
u genuine respons1vcnes~ to
people's nec..'CI .
The current planning
process worked far better than
the years of bitter faculty
mct•ting.s tnvolved with
Mic.sion Plannmg . 1 have
nc\ cr ~en any group work so
hard to make <>trong but
careful decision<> a" the
Planning and Resource
Committee We can blame
the profec;sor" of that
committee, the pre idcnt ond
the administration for our
troubles, or we can pull
together to make the best of a
heart-rending !>ltuation
Which chotec do you believe
will have the best long-term
con<>equences?
ClmFahs
Dirt'ctor of Continuing EduCAtion
College Set on Extinction
To the Editor
It is wtth considerable
disappointment and dis
enchantment that I submit
these words to you
As a relatiVely new faculty
member (this 1s my second
year), l arnved at Lewt<> and
Clark (to teach computer
science) optimistic and
generally pleased to be at a
liberal arts college. My
intellectual background is
deep m phalosophy and
mathematical logic and in the
last few year.. t have become
extensively interested an
compute r science and
cognitive science Lewis and
Cliuk appeared to be an
extraordinanly fertile en
vironment for fueling these
interests no Procrustean bed
of dry, staple computer
science course!. to be pressed
mto, but perhaps exciting
interdiSClplinary activihe.s, etc.
After one year Jt was evident
how stunningly naive I had
been. Not being content with
mere ignorance of the nature
of computer sc1encc (a
forgivable ~mt), almost
l'\'eryune in the faculty and
administration conttnucd to
have very strong optnion
about the subJect, its role at
the college .1nd what
computer scientist:> ought to
be doing with their time.
Typically, these opinions wer"
<tdverse.
So much for the
<~utobiographical accretions
(rom one ye~n at Lewis and
Clark. The second year has
done nothing to ameliorate
the bleak perspective e
nunciated 0:1bove. On the
contrary, as recent cvr.nhi vcnfy, a great deal more ts the
matter with the place. It is, to
usc a top1cal metaphor, as
though the college's immune
system IS comatose: a sort of
instituhonal AIDS, leavang it
prey to any opportunistic
pathogen (and there is no
shortage of these at Lewis and
Clark) at large tn the
environment. In fact the
image of several viral
processes competing with one
another for the tenderest part
of the host seems remarkably
apt The institution seems
pcr(crvidly determined to
proceed the way of the
dinosaurs, both by becoming
extinct and incredibly, by
delaberatcly and self·
COnSCIOUSly reJeCting tra
ditional and contemporary
sources of strength and
celebrating the mtellcctually
tranc;ient , nebulous and
barren
The latest and most
virulent exacerba tion of the
Lewis and Clark malaise has
become manifest in the fonn
o( the P.R.C 's report and the
processes which led to its
emergence A bout the bulk of
this matter, I do not feel the
need to comment. everyone at
Lewis and Clark 1s acquamted
with lhe material issues.
However , without wishing to
claim the mor.tl htgh ground
CJCclusively for myself, I would
like to make one point
concerning the vulgarity of
recent events.
H ving been summarily
and cryptically delivered a set
of ri!Commcndations and 4\lso
witnessing the president
pledge his support to almost
all o( them, subsequently the faculty, prlmar1ly (but not
exclus1vcly) 1n the form of
"members of the departments
tmpactcd" were invit
ed/requtrcd (?) to meet the
president to d1scuss/ ex
plain/defend/oppose (?) the
P R C 's recommendations.
Even apart from the eccentnc
ordering of events which 1s
1tself in exceptionally poor
taste, docs any credible
academic mstitution really
want to put faculty members
in the posttion of being forced
to defend and argue for the
vitality of their discipline and
maybe them-.elves, to
tndividuals who demonstrably
have no grasp of the
dl<iciphnes concerned? For
example, docs the president
have any notion, say. of what
an algonthm 1s or even might
be? Ooec; anyone at Lewts and
Clark, for that matter
(Jncludmg member~ of the
PR.C.), apart from a sprinkling
of individual~:> in the Natural
Science division? Yet if you
don't know what an algorithm
is, you do not in nny
enllghtcncd sen~e know whnt
compute r science is.
If this is nn example of the
putrid fare served up by an
mstitution of such self
proclatmcd 6:lat, then all who
arc tnvolvl•d wtth it would
seem nccessatc'lted to opt for
something a little less
re!tplendcnt : say, delivering
academic excellence rather
thnn--appar~ntly endless-·
sophomoric and ted1ous
declamations about il
Rogn-Komfeln
D"T'uf"tmm!lft of Compuur Srim.Ot