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              The MAROON Vol. 64, No. 6 Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118 September 27, 1985 Trustees OK campus garage By Judi Hymel News Editor Plans for a campus parking garage/recreation center have cleared another hurdle, leaving final approval to a student vote in October. The Board of Trustees endorsed Sept. 20 the university's plans to construct the building, Vincent P. Knipfing, vice president for Student Affairs, said. The board also gave the administration the authority to let architects begin drawings for the building and approved the selling of bonds that will be used to finance the building, he said. Loyola will begin selling bonds in mid-October, John L. Eckholdt, vice president for Business and Finance, said. He said $12 million of the bond proceeds will go toward the initial financing of the building. The Rev. Stephen Rowntree, S.J., board member and associate professor of philosophy, said the board voted with a "high degree of consensus. Everyone thought it [the building] was an excellent idea." But, Knipfing said, all university action is dependent on the success of the student referendum Oct. 14-15. The referendum will ask full-time students to commit to a $200 tuition increase beginning in the fall 1987 semester and continuing through the next 25 years. The increase will finance the recreation center portion of the building. Part-time students will be asked to commit to a $100 tuition increase, Knipfing said. The parking garage portion of the building will be financed through a $240 yearly parking fee assessed to all students, faculty and staff who plan to park in the garage or anywhere on campus, he said. Knipfing said both the tuition increase and the parking fee would cover most of the annual $1.3 million debt the project would create. If the referendum passes, construction of the $10- 13 million building could begin as early as May 1986, Knipfing said. The parking garage would increase on-campus parking from the current 562 spaces to an estimated 835 spaces. The recreation center would include six multipurpose courts for basketball, volleyball and tennis, a six-lane swimming pool, five handball and raquetball courts and a weight training and excercise area. Pane in the glass Loyola's library Is reflected on a window in the Communications/Music complex as a WFF Services employee wipes the glass clean. —Photo by John McC'usker Faculty salaries not proportionate By Becky Westerlund Assistant News Editor Loyola commits a larger proportion of its faculty salaries to its business and law schools than to its other three colleges, Dr. Gary Herbert, associate professor of philosophy and a member of the Faculty Salary Committee of the Council of Chairpersons, said. The university allocates more money to business and law than other universities do, even though Loyola's Goals Statement has a liberal arts emphasis, Herbert said. The Faculty Salary Committee of the Council of Chairpersons was created by the council in 1982 to investigate salary disparities. It is now a permanent committee P/.tlieep.uAcjL  Attempts have been made in the past two years to reduce the disproportion in faculty salaries among the colleges, through the efforts of the Rev. James C. Carter, S.J., university president, Dr. Robert A. Preston, vice president for Academic Affairs, and others, Herbert said. "What we have done is given higher percentage increases in Arts and Sciences than in Business or Law," Preston said. Academic Affairs is responsible for the distribution of the overall salary budget to the different colleges. In 1984 law school faculty received a larger salary increase than any other college; this was due to a specific tuition increase for law students, not to the Academic Affairs' distribution of . funds on. a percentage basis, John Frank Sears, director of Institutional Research, said. The salary disparity had been widening because the university had given similar percentage increases to each college in recent years. An "overall percentage increase widens the gap between already disproportionate salaries. Although those with the lowest salaries receive increases, those with the highest salaries will receive the highest dollar increases. Arts and Sciences faculty salaries should not necessarily be higher than some other academic disciplines, Herbert said, but the gap should be reduced. He said that basically, Loyola averages the salaries of the five colleges — Arts and Sciences, Business, Law, Music and City College — then compares this average to average salaries from other universities which may or may not contain law and business schools. Herbert said this is a problem because Loyola compares itself to 11-A schools in the West South Central region, of which only about half have business schools and only a few have law schools. This comparison makes Loyola's salaries appear higher than average because the law and business salaries bring up the university overall average salary. The 11-A Category is designated by the American Association of University Professors. It includes comprehensive institutions, defined as those with extensive graduate programs but no significant doctoral- See Salaries/page S