The Prospector (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, February 12, 1982 Page: 1 of 16
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The Prospector
Student Newspaper of The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas
Februar
Daniel A. Kies
New dean
By Norma Sierra
Staff Writer
Two new chairpersons, the elimination of three
assistant deans and the relocation of a clinic director
are among the personnel changes planned by the Col-
lege of Education dean.
William Dunlap, the newly appointed dean, said
this week that he needs an “administrative team to
operate along the same philosophy” as his, and that
in searching for such a team, he will replace two
chairpersons, appoint a new associate dean,
eliminate the positions of three assistant deans and
the kindergarten director.
New chairperson for C & I
James L. Milson, chairperson of the department of
curriculum and instruction, said Dunlap asked him
to resign during Dunlap’s recent visit to the Universi-
ty the first week of February.
“He is the dean and he has that right. I don’t have
any alternatives. It is his prerogative to ask any
department chairperson to resign and he did ask me
verbally and I’m going to respond,” Milson said.
Milson, elected chairperson by the faculty in 1980,
said he was asked to submit his resignation effective
Aug. 31, 1982. He will continue teaching as full pro-
fessor of curriculum and instruction.
Dunlap said Milson was not asked to resign, but
that Milson “brought up the issue himself.” The new
dean said Milson had “indicated an interest” in
resigning at the end of the academic year or at the
end of the summer session.
“I don’t want a department chairperson who will
leave us six or nine months down the road,” Dunlap
said.
When asked how he felt about being asked to
resign, Milson said he “would rather not comment. I
have my own private feelings.”
In “using proper administrative procedures,”
Dunlap said he spoke to Joseph Olander, vice presi-
dent for academic affairs, and with University Presi-
dent Haskell Monroe when making his decisions.
Track coach resigns;
Frei off’n running too
The athletic department has two vacant positions
to fill—the head track coach and the assistant athletic
director.
Track Head Coach Ted Banks has resigned his
position at the University effective Sunday (Feb. 21)
to enter private business with Converse athletic shoe
company.
Dave Frei, assistant athletic director, said Banks
announced Thursday (Feb. 11) that he had decided to
leave his coach position for a public relations job
with Converse.
John Wedel, Banks’ assistant, will be interim head
coach until a permanent one is appointed, Frei said
Wedel also will “be considered very prominently”
for the permanent position.
The Prospector also learned that it was official
that Frei is resigning his post.
Frei will be leaving El Paso to join a business part-
nership in Seattle, Wash.
Frei, who has been out of town interviewing for
the prospective job, said he would elaborate on his
status Friday (Feb. 12).
Banks was not at home for comment.
Everett Davis
Bonnie Brooks
spring cleans
college
Olander said Milson’s replacement will be from
outside the college because there are sufficient funds
in the department’s budget to conduct an outside
search.
Dennis Bixler-Marquez, assistant dean and cur-
riculum and instruction associate professor, said he
didn’t know about Dunlap’s intention to replace
Milson.
“A lot of these decisions he’s making on his own
without telling anyone,” Bixler-Marquez said.
Regarding Milson, Dunlap said, “Don’t get the
idea that I’m being a hard guy. There are two sides to
the story.”
Davis to be replaced
During Dunlap’s next visit to campus Wednesday
(Feb. 17), he said he will announce the replacement of
Everett Davis, chairperson of the department of
educational psychology and guidance.
William Dunlap
Last term for ‘leftist’ professor
By Norma Kerklo
James Russell, who calls himself “the only leftist
on the University faculty” and an open critic of
American policy in Latin America, is being dismissed
from his job at the end of the semester.
And university officials, Russell says, will not tell
him why.
The associate sociology professor, who came to
UT El Paso in 1979, said he received a note last sum-
mer from Howard Daudistel, chairperson of the
sociology and anthropology department, telling him
this was his last year. Russell said he has been given
no explanation for the action.
“The University claims it is under no obligation to
give me a reason for my dismissal,” Russell said.
Joseph D. Olander, vice president for academic af-
fairs, was not available for comment. His assistant,
Donald Bowen, said he had no knowledge of the
matter. The decision for tenure, Bowen said, is decid-
ed by the department chairperson.
Chairperson Daudistel refused to discuss the sub-
ject, and referred the matter to Liberal Arts Dean
Diana Natalicio.
Natalicio said she was “not at liberty” to disclose
the reasons for denying Russell tenure, and cited UT
System Board of Regents Rules and Regulations to
James L. Milson
Davis said Dunlap told him during his first visit in
January that he intended to reactivate the search for
a chairperson for Davis’ department.
Davis, who has been chairperson for eight years,
said Dunlap met with faculty members during his last
visit and told them he would have a decision next
time.
Dunlap said the faculty gave him some data, which
he is analyzing. The results will indicate who the new
department chairperson will be, and the new
chairperson, will be someone from within the depart-
ment, he said.
It was definite Davis would be replaced- “it was
only a question of when,” Olander said.
A search was conducted last year and an offer was
made to someone from Michigan, but the offer was
turned down.
Olander said Davis’ replacement will have to be
from within the college because funds are not
available to conduct another search.
Associate dean position advertised
Dunlap said a new associate dean for the college is
being advertised.
The associate dean position, which is being adver-
tised nationally, should be filled by Sept. 1, at which
time all other positions should also be filled, Dunlap
said.
Assistant dean positions eliminated
The three assistant dean positions also will be
eliminated in the reorganization of the college,
Dunlap said.
The new dean said he originally wanted one assis-
tant dean, but that because the budget did not allow
it, he chose to put available funds into faculty posi-
tions.
Bixler-Marquez said he was not aware Dunlap had
planned these changes. Nothing was announced dur-
ing an executive council meeting, he said.
Please see Cleans Page 14
back her stand on refraining from comment.
Natalicio provided The Prospector with copies of
the regulation that reads, “Non-tenured faculty
members who are notified . . . that they will not be
reappointed . . .shall not be entitled to a statement of
the reasons upon which the decision for such action is
based.”
Russell speculated that his affirmative action
stance could be another reason for his being “releas-
ed.”.
He said the “Department of Sociology and An-
thropology has never hired a Chicano for a tenure
track position,” and he has protested this as
discrimination. He has continually raised the issue at
faculty meetings, he said.
“People in the (sociology) department told me I
would be fired if I pursued affirmative action in the
case last year, when an Indian mathematical
demographer was fired,” Russell said.
His firing was an example of a violation of affir-
mative action and proved that the department and
University are not really committed to academic ex-
cellence, he added.
A third possible factor in his failure to gain tenure
might be the Marxist methodology — used as an ap-
proach to sociological studies — expressed in books
Please see Russell Page 13
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