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North Texas Daily
News
February 28, 2003 Page 3
SCHOOL
FROM PAGE 1
department met the
Thursday deadline to sub-
mit its revised summer
course offerings.
The university's closing
prevented the college's
administration from
responding to the submis-
sions on Monday, but
Burggren said there was
cooperative effort from
departments to cut what
they could.
One department chair-
man has promised to work
for half his salary and also
convinced high-ranking
professors to teach fewer
or no classes at all in the
summer.
The savings resulted in
five or six added course
sections, Burggren said.
"The idea here is not to
try to preserve faculty
salaries but to maximize
student offerings,"
Burggren said.
He said some depart-
ments have decided not to
have high-ranking profes-
sors teach in the summer
to save the cost of high
summer salaries, which is
a percentage of what a
professor makes during
full terms.
Burggren also said that
departments such as
chemistry, which is offer-
ing four summer courses,
likely would not cut cours-
es while large depart-
ments such as English
would face reduced cours-
es and section offerings.
The final summer
schedule is due to the reg-
istrar's office by March 7,
Burggren said, adding that
the current summer
schedule catalog is not
valid.
FACULTY
FROM PAGE 1
on the condition of the state
budget this summer and
will then make a determina-
tion on the university's
funding share.
In a written report to
Austin, Dr. Norval Pohl,
NT president, requested
appropriations in excess of
$22.3 million for the 2004-
05 school year.
Pohl said the budget
committee made the deci-
sion for the increase shortly
after Gov. Rick Perry's State
of the State address late last
month.
The president added that
adjunct faculty, who usually
carry a one-class teaching
load and do not have
tenure, would be the pri-
mary target for departmen-
tal faculty recruitment.
"It's an impact on peo-
ple's lives but, it's a differ-
ent kind of an impact," Pohl
said.
Adjunct faculty would be
hired from surrounding
areas as opposed to visiting
lecturers, who most often
require relocation for the
university post, he
explained.
Kesterson said NT would
benefit financially in hiring
visiting educators because
although they are hired
under equal salary with
tenure faculty, there is "no
long-term commitment" for
continued employment.
"That's just kind of a
benefit of academic life,"
he said.
Kesterson also men-
tioned the negative aspect
of increased hiring of visit-
ing faculty, saying the limit-
ed-term employees "some-
times do not show the same
allegiance or the contribu-
tions to the university in
various ways.
In addition to his duties
at NT, Kesterson serves as
president of the Texas
Chief Academic Officers
organization, comprised of
provosts and academic vice
presidents from universities
"It's an impact on
people's lives, but
it's a different kind
of impact."
-Dr. Norval Pohl
NT president
across the state.
He predicted the overall
welfare of state universities
"will probably remain fairly
status quo" with regard to
faculty layoffs.
Lang Stephenson,
deputy director of universi-
ty relations at Texas A&M,
said the school is progres-
sively relying less on state
appropriations, describing
the 31 percent appropria-
tions amount for 2003 as a
"shrinking percentage."
Texas A&M President
Robert Gates said the uni-
versity may push for the
right to set its own tuition
as a last resort but did not
mention faculty firings as a
solution to budget woes,
the San Antonio Express-
News reported Thursday.
Michael Cinelli, execu-
tive director of external
communication for the
University of Houston, said
Dr. Arthur K. Smith, uni-
versity president, made no
mention of faculty recruit-
ment or firings in his testi-
mony before the Texas
House Budget Committee.
SPEECH
FROM PAGE 1
dean of students, said. "I
think that our response to
requests after 9-11 demon-
strated our ability to accom-
modate students who want to
use the free speech area."
Jaron Benjamin, Denton
senior and vice president and
co-coordinator of Men
Against Violence, said his
group has no complaints
about the scheduling require-
ment.
"Ona Tolliver is always
really, really helpful," he said.
"We've never had any prob-
lems scheduling free speech
areas."
Lukianoff's concerns about
NT's speech policy reach
beyond the manner in which
they are used to what he con-
siders to be a limited number
of free speech areas.
"There is nothing 'reason-
able' about transforming vir-
tually all of the University of
North Texas' property, indeed
public property, into a 'cen-
sorship area,"' he said.
Pohl said he disagreed that
areas outside of the free
speech zones are "censorship
areas."
"There are many places on
campus where you can speak
your piece," he said. "The
free speech areas are particu-
larly appropriate for reserva-
tion by groups trying to attract
a large public audience."
Jim Whitehead, president
and founder of the Rutherford
Institute, a nonprofit organi-
zation dedicated to the
defense of civil liberties and
human rights, said that
acceptable free speech poli-
cies allow for some covered
areas.
A covered area would allow
groups to protest or demon-
strate during inclement
weather.
Jace Reeder, political
director of the College
Democrats, said that the
Democrats once had to leave
the area outside the Union
because of rain.
Also, under the current pol-
icy, the dean of students has
the freedom to move individ-
uals to another area at any
time before or during the
scheduled appointment.
"We only move individuals
if space does not accommo-
date needs and if, for exam-
ple, the audience obstructs
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them to a larger area."
Susan Bullinger, campus
administrator of Hope
Campus Fellowship, said her
organization has had trouble
in the past keeping the side-
walks clear while protecting
students listening to the
speeches.
"If we keep the sidewalks
clear, then people flow into
the street and that's not safe,"
she said.
Another concern is the
time restriction. According to
Lukianoff, freedom does not
exist on the weekends and
disappears before sundown at
NT.
Whitehead said that under
the current policy, the time
restriction is unreasonable.
"If [NT] wanted to make it
reasonable, the time should
be from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.," he
said.
Whitehead said that by
restricting the use of the free
speech areas to office hours,
NT officials are putting free
speech in a box, where it is
convenient for them.
"The people who wrote
our Constitution would think
it's absurd," Whitehead said.
Pohl said that the purpose
of a university is a free
exchange of ideas, and the
policy protects the fragile
environment that free speech
creates.
"[The environment is]
fragile because you tell peo-
ple that you have free speech
and open inquiry, but as soon
as some people hear some-
thing that they don't like,
they may not want others to
have free speech," he said.
Pohl said that there is often
pressure from taxpayers who
do not want certain things to
be said on campus.
"It's very easy for outside
influences to say, we don't
want that stuff occurring on
campus," he said.
Lukianoff said NT's free
speech policy is incompatible
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with a free society and stands
in opposition to the ideals of
higher education.
"A university that is intol-
erant of the often messy reali-
ty of a free society is inca-
pable of teaching students to
live in freedom," he said. "By
limiting free speech to a small
fraction of the campus they
send the message that speech
is to be feared, restrained and
monitored."
Pohl defended the policy
stating, "We're not trying to
stifle free speech; we're trying
to make it so that people can
make their case and still be
safe."
As long as students have to
schedule their speech, some
students said they thought it
will never be free.
"[The policy] works to
delay our actions and our
agenda, and it frustrates the
cause," Ayyad said.
And thus the debate over
free speech continues.
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North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 88, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, February 28, 2003, newspaper, February 28, 2003; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth145082/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.