Volume 91, Issue 16

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A&E Two Piece Fest VI, a festival showcasing exclusively two-piece bands, will return to PILAM on Feb. 2.

temple-news.com VOL. 91 ISS. 16

TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2013

INCONSISTENT OWLS, p. 20

GUN SHOW, p. 5

In a point-counterpoint, Ibrahim Jacobs and Zack Scott trade opposing views on the country’s national gun debate.

Defense, consistency are top concerns heading into tomorrow’s matchup against Richmond.

Shorter contracts ease tight budgets Budget battles and interims lead to shorter contracts. JOHN MORITZ Assistant News Editor

Attendees of a vigil mourn the loss of Stephen Khiry Johnson, a senior who was shot and killed on Jan. 1.| ALI WATKINS TTN

Recalling a tragedy

Family of a fallen senior on the path toward graduation hopes to keep his memory alive.

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ALI WATKINS The Temple News

tephen Khiry Johnson could light up a room. “He was the definition of beautiful. He was strong-minded, independent, very articulate,” recalled his

aunt, Kareema Johnson, speaking through tears at her nephew’s vigil last week. “We have never seen him without a smile on his face. Laughing, joking. It’s always been the same.” Johnson’s life was tragically cut short in the early hours of New Year’s Day, when the senior marketing major was shot and

killed in a house on the 1700 block of West Venango Street, just months away from graduating. A hard worker who was seldom seen without a smile, Johnson, 23, known as ‘Khiry’ to friends and family, was headed toward a bright future. He intended to accept a

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With the university facing annual budget battles, schools and colleges have relied on the hiring of non-tenure track faculty to one- and two-year contracts in order to decrease the amount of funds reserved in long-term tenure and tenuretrack positions. Beginning in 2000, the university ended a term limit on non-tenured positions called deans’ appointments that forced colleges to replace faculty members that had been with the university for more than seven years. A new Temple University Association of Professionals contract was forged that year creating a new level of positions known as special appointment faculty, in which professors and researchers who were deemed to be of exceptional quality were allowed to stay on at their respective schools for longer periods. Prior to 2000, teachers in

Faculty express concerns over interim deans

Five interim deans serve throughout the university. AMELIA BRUST The Temple News Since last year, restructuring within Temple resulted in Robert Stroker’s dean appointment of the Center for the Arts, while interim Provost Hai-Lung Dai left the position of dean of the College of Science and Technology. Now with a new president, Temple has five interim dean positions and is currently condicting searches to fill four of them.

“It’s hard on an acting dean who tends to have less power and influence than a permanent colleague and of course we’re very concerned about issues of tenure and promotion and other personnel,” Joan Shapiro, president of the Faculty Senate, said. Five interim deans serve in the School of Media and Communication, the College of Education, CST, the College of Health Professions and Social Work and University Libraries. “Really, of course, we prefer to have permanent deans. So there is a factor of a little bit of instability,” Shapiro, an educational leadership professor, said. “But remember, we’ve had an interim president as well as

an interim provost, so this has been a very, slightly unstable time. And consequently what it means is that schools with the interim deans have been somewhat vulnerable to restructuring.” “We’ve had some very good interim deans for this period...in my case I do have an interim dean right now. James Earl Davis is our interim dean and he’s been just wonderful. So it depends,” she added. Davis has been interim dean of the College of Education for two and a half years. “A typical contract for a dean is five years. Ideally, an institution would want a longterm dean, but it varies,” Davis

said. “We have some interim deans at Temple who have served in a typical capacity as a permanent dean, particularly those who see deanships as [an] ascent to higher-level positions so the point is not to stay in those positions indefinitely but to get that experience and move to higher levels of administration in the university.” Shapiro does not see students feeling the effects of an interim. Difficulties more so occur when the position is up for replacement, she said. “Once the search process comes on, it’s a question again of will the interim dean run for the deanship or not? And that changes everything...there are

questions that come up,” Shapiro said. One of the Faculty Senate’s committees, the Committee on Administrative and Trustee Appointments, finds faculty members for dean searches. Shapiro was also involved with the search for the provost, a process not involving the interim provost. “In the Faculty Senate our connection with the provost is very strong. In fact the provost comes in on a regular basis to our representative senate,” Shapiro said. “Although [Dai] is an interim provost, we work very closely because it’s academic issues that the provost focuses

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health sciences programs who were not involved in clinical research were also allowed to be maintained for periods longer than seven years, a system that then expanded onto Main Campus. In 2004, a TUAP contract did away with all term limits on non-tenure track faculty, greatly increasing the ability of the various schools and colleges to fill staffs with full-time, nontenure track faculty. Diane Maleson, senior vice provost of faculty affairs, said that while at first colleges were open to hiring non-tenure track faculty to multi-year contracts, budget constraints forced them to shorten contract lengths into one and two-year deals that gave them more freedom in managing yearly salaries. “There are certain budgetary realities, a person that gets tenured, assuming they behave, has a lifetime job, and that is an enormous financial commitment, and so in these incredibly uncertain times when the state is dramatically limiting the amount of money that it gives to higher education, you have to be really careful about the

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Search for new V.P. underway The administrator would bring a more traditional approach to communications. SEAN CARLIN News Editor

Although the administration hasn’t seen much of a personnel shakeup since President Neil Theobald took the reins on Jan. 1, a new cabinet position

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Counsel drafts President’s adviser adjusts to Temple minor policies The new policies came after the Penn State sex abuse scandal. SEAN CARLIN News Editor Nearly four months after the university’s task force reviewing Judge Louis Freeh’s report on Penn State’s handling of the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal released its report, Temple has instituted two new policies addressing visitors and minors on campus. The policies created were crafted not only through recommendations by the Task Force

on Institutional Integrity, but by policies used at other institutions as well. “We used the task force. We also looked at other policies that other universities had and kind of compiled all the best practices and put ours together,” said Fay Trachtenberg, associate university counsel. The first policy, which addressed minor visitors on campus, states that university personnel participating in events including minors should provide the Department of Risk Management and Insurance details of the programs or activities at least 60 days prior to the

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NEWS DESK 215-204-7419

Kevin Clark was senior associate athletic director at Indiana University. LAURA ORDONEZ The Temple News

There are no family pictures on the desk of Kevin Clark. The photographs of his wife and four children – three college students and a 9-year-old son – are stored in his old house in Bloomington, Ind. He plans to bring them to work once his wife and young child move in with him in May. However, his on-campus apartment, in the second floor of the 1810 Liacouras Walk com-

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Kevin Clark joins Temple as the senior adviser to President Neil Theobald. He came to Temple after serving as associate athletic director at Indiana University.| ABI REIMOLD TTN

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