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              THE LOYOLA MAROON APRIL 29, 1988 VOLUME 66, NO. 25 LOYOLA UNIVERSITY, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 70118 Cotton criticizes hiring procedures By Andrew Nolan Staff writer Dr. William Cotton, associate professor of English, severely criticized Loyola's hiring procedures at the College Assembly for Arts and Sciences on Tuesday.Cotton questioned the decision of a search committee in the hiring of a fulltime professor of Greek and Latin studies, saying he had found 21 irregularities in the process. Cotton criticized the university for failing to evaluate teachers in a classroom atmosphere before making a decision on whether to hire them. Dr. William W. Eidson, dean of Arts and Sciences and chair of the assembly, served on the search committee with the Rev. Emmett Bienvenu, S.J., professor emeritus of Greek and Latin studies. Eidson declined to comment because of litigation pending in the matter. Bienvenu, when reached later, also offercdoffercd no comment. Cotton brought up the case of Dr. John Campbell, part-time assistant professor of Greek and Latin studies. The university declined to hire Campbell for a full-time position despite his recommendation by a consultative body, Cotton said. Cotton claimed the committee failed to evaluate properly the quality of Campbell's teaching and the quality of his pub'ishcd work. In addition, Connie Rodriguez, the candidate to whom the university offered the position, is not the most qualified applicant for the position, Cotton charged. The committee failed to properly evaluate Rodriguez's ability in the classroom or her writing, Cotton said. Her leaching experience has been limited mainly to the secondary school level, he added. Cotton proposed adding additional steps to the hiring process to eliminate these shortcomings. HITTING THE BOOKS-Ben Hulin, advertising senior, and Sabrina Perrault, advertising junior, buckle down for the final week of classes before exams. Sondi Galanti, psychology junior, enjoys the beautiful weather while studying Wednesday. Photos by Mary Degnan Greek panel approves affirmative action plan By Geoff Mattie Assistant News Editor The Greek Life Committee voted unanimously to adopt the fourth draft of the Greek Life Plan for Affirmative Action on Monday. The plan says "positive results are expected to be measurable within the next five years with annual revision as necessary.""Positive results on the lowest level will be interacting and working together over the racial barriers," Tara Loomis, committee chairman, said. "At their best level will be a Greek system that reflects ethnic diversity of the Loyola community."The committee consists of two representatives from each fraternity and sorority on campus. "How good the plan is will be seen in how effective a guide it is to effective action," the Rev. Steven C. Rowntree, S.J., associate professor of philosophy, said. "I think we've done a heck of a job, and we ought to pat ourselves on the back for [agreeing on a plan] because we've been dealing with such different attitudes and backgrounds," Loomis said. Loomis said the agreement's purpose will be to help promote racial understanding."It's going to start in the Greek system, but it won't stop there," Loomis Court invalidates run-off The vice president of the Student Government Association will not be elected until Fall 1988, following the Court of Review's decision to invalidate last week's run-off election between Leonard Lewis, law school freshman, and Dartanian Thomas, political science sophomore.This was the third election for vice president and the second to be ruled invalid. All the elections have involved irregularities and all have been met with appeals by candidates. In the run-off, Lewis received 270 votes, and Thomas had 269. Although 547 votes were cast, only 539 students were listed as having voted. The court ruled the election was invalid "because of the narrow margin of victory and eight point discrepancy betwcenbetwcen the actual votes cast and students approved to vote." In additon, the court recommended that the recall election should not take place this semester, but should instead be held in a "timely fashion at the start of the Fall 1988 semester because of the impossibility of conducting a campus-wide election at the present time." "If I lose fair and square, I can accept that, but i want a chance to lose fair and See Cotton/ page 6 See Affirmative Action/ page 6 See Vice President/page 6 ' m a ■^β /With drii issue, The Maroon