Levi Claims Riglits Violated
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Sociologist, Dr.* Kenneth Lavl has filad suit In federal court agalnat UTSA and five other parties over tenure.
Lavl's suit claims that his constitutional rights under the first and forteenth amand- mants ware violated whan he waa danlad tenure on March of this year. Levi Is suing for tenure, promotion, and $150,000 In compensatory damages and $150,000 in punitive damagas.
Tha six dafandants named In tha suit are tha UT System Board of Raganta; UTSA; Prasldant Jamas Waganar; Vice Prealdant for Acadamic, Afflara, Gordon Lamb; Dwight Henderson, Dean, Collaga of Social    and    Behavioral
Sclencas; and history pro¬ fessor, David Johnson who chaired the Division Faculty Review Committee.
Levi claims that by lieing denied tenure, UTSA "set aside Its objective standards. Ignored Its traditional criteria, manufactured new criteria and applied all standards Incon¬ sistently to justify the result."
Criteria used for granting and refusing tenure are
1. Teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels
2. Research, creative ac¬ tivites, and other scholarly effort
3 Advising, counseling, and other student services
4. Administrative and com¬ mittee service
5. Public service to the com¬ munity, state, and nation
6. Special recognition, such
as fellowships, grants, honors, and election to of¬ fice in scholarly or profes¬ sional organizations Levi tielleves that many pro¬ fessors are tieing eliminated tiecause of reasons that have little to do with merit and a lot to do with personal bias.
"For example. In my division no Jew has ever received tenure In the entire history of UTSA. Nor, to my knowledge, Is there a single Jew among all of the 59 memtiers of the University administration. No sociologist has ever received tenure in the entire history of UTSA, despite high enrollments In the field of sociology. I happen to be both Jewish and a sociologist." Vice President Lamb stated,
"UTSA is young, so naturally we have fewer tenured facul ty."
Lamb added, "There's no controversy here; I see only one professor complaining. Every year faculty memtiers are terminated and promoted. One doesn't hear much from either group."
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Students Gain Computer
A view of the new magnetic computer aystem with magnetic tape drhre, disk drhre unite, port aelector (left) and the VAX unit right.
Parking Lot Woes Plague Students, Police
By Jane Altobelll
UTSA has recentty purchas¬ ed a $285,692.00 computer system from the Digital Equip¬ ment Corporation (DEC).
The VAX 11 -780, which is the most powerful of the DEC computer line, has a character memory of 8 million; compare that to the PDP-11 In the HB building which cost about $250,000.00 in 1973 and has a character memory of only 64,000.
Increased student usage and availability to the students are another advantage of the system. Of the 250 students using computers throughout the semester, 96 wlll be able to log-In on the VAX at one time, instead of only 30-40 as In the past.
VAX (Virtual Address Exten¬ sion) has tiecome a "new stan¬ dard" for computer systems at
hundreds of universities in the United States. Richard Moore, Director of General Services feels that the present IBM system, "does not have the Interactiveness that the VAX will have. The VAX will get students a lot closer to true dialogue with the computer."
The languages Initially sup¬ ported on the VAX will be BASIC, PUI, PASCAL, FOR¬ TRAN, AND COBOL In addi¬ tion, university members may join DECUS (Digital Equipment Corporation Users Society) which will enable users to have access to a library of other programs, free of charge.
The VAX will also provide compatibility with other UT System Institutions which have DEC equipment due to the system of networking. Via telephoning, students may run processes on other school's computer systems and receive
fast direct responses.
The VAX is also equipped with a Computer Aided In¬ struction Course which is in¬ teractive so that students may learn how to "create" pro¬ grams on the computer.
Andrew Shwiff, Software Specialist for DEC, says, "The computer is almost holding your hand, telling you what to do next. You might say the VAX is a very friendly machine."
At UTSA, the only -o degrees currently offered in the field of Computer Science are the Division of Mathematics, Computer Science and Systems Design and the Division of Accounting and Business Data Systems. The Division of Engineering will also rely heavily on com¬ puters, as do several of the other divisions.
The current enrollment of -<M43 has created a parking problem, evidenced by numerous vertial complaints made by students who have had to park In Illegal spots.
The UTSA campua Is equip¬ ped with a total of 3833 park¬ ing spaces, 3392 of theae apacea are for atudenta. Thia aemeater, approximately 9.000 parking decala, have been aold to atudanta. There, are 286 reaerved, or faculty apacea;
yet, 420 decals have been Issued to faculty members.
Lot #3, the car pool lot, has 119 spaoea; car poolers have bought 132 decals, with each guaranteed a space in Lot #3.
There are alao 25 apacea availatile for the handicapped who do not purohaae decala. The other 32 parking apacea are designated aa "vlaltor" ak>ta.
Campus   police   explained
that.-the: numt>er of parking
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spaces available are less than the numtier of parking decals sold because not all students and faculty members are on campus at the same time. Parking appears to tie densest by the HB Building In the early morning, causing people to park In unpave areas.
Until something Is done to Improve the parking situation at MTSA. Chief of Police Manuel   Chavez   aeaures
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students that cars parked in "no parking" areas will not be- ticketed,    providing    the designated lots are full.
However, cars without pro¬ per parking decals wlll tie fin¬ ed, regardless of where they are parked. As of Septemlier 24,1047 tickets were Issued to cars without decals. Ctiavez added, "Parking decals ars the tiiggest headache the Universi¬ ty Police have."
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