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              The Loyola MAROON guhtg olu © 0 o. November 15.1991 Salary dispute continues within Senate By Jose Patino Staff writer At the University Senate, a motion was made by Dr. Earl Richard, professor of religious studies, requiring the Rev. George F. Lundy, senior vice president and dean of Faculties, to make public the statistical model he uses to forecast faculty salary raises. Also, the motion stated that Lundy should give "his reasons for considering that procedure not to be in violation of contractually binding norms established by the Faculty Handbook." The model came under fire earlier this semester after Dr. Claire Paolini, then acting dean of Arts and Sciences, adjusted the salaries of several faculty members in the college who had signed contracts for inordinately low salaries according to the model. These adjustments aroused in many of the faculty, because the salaries were adjusted after salary contracts had been approved and signed. Lundy said that the model has never been withheld from the public and that he just uses the model "to correct improperly low starting sala»»nes. "Forget about the notion of the formula. The formula is meant to assist," he said. Nevertheless, several faculty members questioned what the model was and its validity. Dr. Julian Wasserman, professor of English, said, "We are not sure of how the game is being played, and we would like some lights in the stadium." Or. Antonio Lopez , associate professor of mathematical sciences, said, "Your regression model does not predict what you want it to predict" Stephen Scariano, associate professor of mathematical sciences, said, "You should have been embarrassed to use this model. The model is flawed." In a written analysis of the model done last month, Lopez said, "The predictive power of the model is suspect. As a professional, I would never use this simple regression model for that reason alone." At the meeting, Lundy said the model was devised by John Sears, director of Institutional Research. Lundy said he had no reason to doubt the model because of Sear's past accuracy in predicting enrollment figures. Scariano said to Lundy, "I challenge you or anybody on this campus to defend this model qualitatively or quantitatively." After the University Senate meeting. Sears said, there is no statistical model that predicts what the salary of a faculty member should be and what "appears on the faculty contract." Sears said the faculty salaries are based on the cost of living, merit, and adjustment. Last summer, according to Lundy, Paolini set up a different set of criteria for adjusting Under fire: Media's role in gubernatorial race Journalist panel discusses media campaign coverage By Chris Raphael and Michelle O' Reilly Staff Writers A forum of New Orleans journalists which met on Wednesday night in the Audubon Room in the Danna Center, concluded that media coverage of the governor's race left a lot to be desired. "It's perfectly obvious that coverage has not had the effect desired by the libera] media," said James Gill, Times Picayune columnist.Jason Berry, a free-lance writer and contributor to the New York Times, and Allen Johnson, staff writer for Louisiana Weekly and a part-time professor of communications at Loyola, were also panelists. "I think the media have handled the governor's race improperly," Michelle Clavijo, communications sophomore, said. "Their main focus has been on Duke's faults...they hardly mention Edwards. The focus should have been the state and its future." The forum was sponsored by Loyola's campus chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (S igma Delta Chi) and Loyola's Mass Communications Honor Society (Kappa Tau Alpha), and it attracted approximately lOOspectalors.Berry lashed out at poor, soft-spoken coverageof Duke's Neo-nazi legacy, calling the media "dreadfully superficial for the longest time," while Johnson explained that the Picayune had possibly gone "too far" in their zealous Duke coverage. "He's been on the lunatic fringe of politics since 1975," Berry said of Duke. He criticized the media for not thoroughly investigating Duke's racist background before the primaries.Dr. Larry Lorenz, chairman of the communications department, agreed with Berry's assess- Ask not... Dr. Larry Lorenz, chairman of the communications department, (top), asks Allen Johnson from the Louisiana Weekly (bottom) what his paper has done to critique Duke's policies. ./Photo by William Liermann Hullaballoo editor denies charges of racism; claims libel By Brian Clarey Staff writer As James Hartman sits at his desk, his newspaper rattles in his shaky hands and his brow is sweaty behind his round glasses. He looks like he's going through heroin withdrawal.In the past two days he's been called a racist and an opportunist. There's a petition going around Tulane calling for his resignation as the Editor-in-Chief of the Hullabaloo, and someone left a message on his answering machine calling him an "arrogant reactionary piece of Yuppie scum." James Hartman's life has not been easy as of late—not since the Times-Picayune ran his picture on their Sunday cover in an article entitled "The Duke Voters: Who They Are and What They Think." "We'renotsurprised," Rabbi Harley Karz- Wagman, executive director for the Tulane- Loyola B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation, a Jewish community center, said of Hartman's alleged endorsement of the Klan candidate. He says that the Hullabaloo has been slanted towards Duke since the primary, when they ran a "weird" editorial in the September 27 edition that the Rabbi says indirectly endorsed the candidate. The Times-Picayune article, which erroneously labels Hartman as a Duke supporter and features a picture of him that looks like Dieter, the host of "Saturday Night Live's" Sprockets,' quotes Hartman as saying, "I feel like David Duke, assuming he is still a racist, could not get much done in the way of advancing a racist agenda, whereas Edwin Edwards, assuming he is still a crook, could rob us all blind." "That quote was taken out of context," see Salaries/ page 3 see Speakers/ page 3 see Hullaballoo/ page 3 gdghfd