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              The Maroon FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 2001 MAROON.LOYNO.EDU VOL. 79, NO. 27 DIG IN! STAFF PHOTO BY JOCELYN FUSCO During Loyolapalooza, Bea Forlano, management freshman, was one of the students to get a mouthful during the pie eating contest. Loyolapalooza was Friday, April 6 in the Peace Quad. Green denied tenure, leaves THE BIOLOGY RIFT Research and grants not enough to keep biology professor at Loyola By Crystal Bolner Staff writer Biology professor Ray Green will be standing in unemployment lines come May. Green was denied tenure in spring 2000. Consequently, after finals this semester, he no longer has a job at Loyola. Green joined Loyola's -iological sciences department in August of 1996. He said that he experienced strife from the very start. "I was told that this was a department in receivership. I remember Craig |Hood) saying that. He asked me if I thought that it would be a problem for me. At the time I thought, no, no problem at all," Green said. "When I showed up here in August there was clearly something wrong." Green said that Tish Beard, biological sciences professor, told him he should start looking for another job. Beard is a tenured biology professor who is now on sabbatical at Scripps University. "She told me within the first two weeks that I should be looking for a job someplace else, that I was in a very bad situation here and that basically I'm too good for this place," he said. "I didn't come here to find a job someplace else. 1 was very naive and optimistic, and I felt that I could solve problems like this [one|. That was stupid," he said. Before coming to Loyola, Green spent five years as a faculty research fellow at Amherst College in Amherst. Mass. Green said he answered an ad in a science magazine for a tenure-track biology professor to teach and direct undergraduate research. Green Denied tenure said he believes that Loyola's biology department portrayed itself as something it was not. He would put that in a final appeal after he was told he would have to leave. Leaving According to the Faculty Handbook, professors may be terminated for any one of 10 reasons, which include the following: • Grave irresponsibility in discharging faculty obligations • Incompetence in carrying out teaching responsibilities • Prolonged inactivity in research, publication and other scholarly activity • Substantial misrepresentation of facts relevant to faculty status at Loyola University, such as false claims to academic degrees or serious misrepresentation of previous academic or professional experience • Use of the classroom or of university activities to deride flagrantly the Catholic faith • A grave offense which clearly and flagrantly violates well-established principles of Catholic morality, knowing that it does so, and committed during the discharge of university responsibilities • Blameworthy involvement in criminal activity or flagrantly unacceptable public conduct which would reasonably be expected to affect seriously the discharge of university responsibilities or to interfere seriously with the educational purposes of the university GREEN COLORBLIND? By Nicole Haase Assistant News Editor A recent U.S. federal court decision striking down the University of Michigan Law School's affirmative action policy has caused ripples among universities nationwide. The decision affects only the University of Michigan, right now but its effects could touch every university in the nation, including Loyola. But if the decision goes to the Supreme Court, as the Rev. Lawrence W. Moore, S.J., associate law dean of mrawnv of hmwuno *c*woup unwcust* of msec* ninom* coastai. school of 50. LOYOLA UNIVERSITY NEW ORLEANS SCHOOL OF LAW A federal court's decision against a major law school's affirmative action policy won't affect Loyola's law school—yet LAW SCHOOL MINORITY ADMISSIONS POLICY Academic Affairs, said he believes it will, the case has all the pieces to be a true test case. The decision came roughly three months after another judge in the same court system ruled that the University of Michigan's undergraduate admissions system, which uses affirmative action by giving minorities added points, is constitutional because diversity is a compelling need in education. This follows a 1978 Supreme Court ruling, known as the Bakke decision which says affirmative action is not unconstitutional because it makes racial distinctions for a "compelling" reason. "The Bakke decision says that race can be a factor, among others," Moore said. According to both K. Michele Allison-Davis, law dean of admissions, and M(X)re, Loyola's law school uses race as a single factor among many in the decision to admit a student, and Moore said the Bakke decision allows for this to be used to decide 011 Flynn wins SGA presidential runoff; polls close early By Crystal Bolner Staff writer Mary Flynn, finance junior and newly elected Student Government Association president, took office Tuesday. In the final tally, Flynn finished with 562 votes in a runoff election with Luke Perez, marketing junior, who received 231 votes. The polls closed 30 minutes early in the runoff, according to Chris Cameron, SGA adviser, director of Student Activities and the Danna Center. Cameron said that both he and Jennifer Bernard, commissioner of elections, made the decision to close the polls. He said they closed them because it was inconceivable that Perez could gain 300 votes in 30 minutes. "Mary was up by 300 votes, and, just statistically, it was not possible for Luke. That many people weren't going to vote in those two colleges in that amount of time," he said. At the beginning of each election season, SGA approves election times. The SGA constitution does not specify how long the polls must remain open. "Technically, it was a violation. Yes, we had people to stand at the tables, but we felt that a half hour would not make that much of a difference" he said. Perez said he knew that Cameron and Bernard, accounting junior, closed the polls early. Perez did not contest the election results. He refused to comment on the results. The constitution allows 72 hours for anyone to contest election results. If uncontested, the results become official. Business students made up the largest percentage of voters. "I'm a business major, and I'm around that school a lot," Flynn said. "I wished we could get more people voting campus wide. Overall, this election we had more voters than in past years." She said that she is looking forward to the coming year. "First, I am going to spend a lot of time with Ryan and learn as much from him as possible," she said. Flynn will participate in a university-run internship program for student government leaders. Students participating in the program, generally the SGA president and vice president, receive three hours of course credit. Part of the internship includes meeting with administrators and deans. SGA leaders also receive tuition remissions if they participate in the internship program. Flynn said she plans to work with Lauren Campisi, SGA vice president and accounting junior, on appointing executive staff members. She said that she had not yet talked to Perez about what role he might play in the new administration. "I am so excited. It didn't hit me until the day after I got the results that I was going to be the next SGA president because I was so busy campaigning. I've always had a lot of ideas for Loyola ... I think this is going to be a really effective administration," she said. 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