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Vol. 85, No. 2
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ATISTA
Thursday Edition
Central State University, [Almond, Oklahoma
Hiring practice benefits resident students By Shannon Blockcolski Resident students receive hiring priority for campus employment under a 13-year-old personnel practice, according to Joyce Mounce, director of personnel services. "We are asking supervisors to
give preference to students who live in the dorms," she said. "This practice has been at CSU for a number of years, yet we are just beginning to strictly enforce it this semester." According to Larry Williams, vice president of administration,
there will be exceptions to the hiring practice if a nonresident student is better qualified for a specialized campus job. "Exceptions will be made in the practice if the university has a need that can be better filled by a nonresident student," he said. "We will not turn away any students who have better qualifications." According to Mounce, if there is a particular job requiring certain skills, and a nonresident student is more qualified than a resident student, the nonresident student will be hired. Yet if both the nonresident and resident student have the same qualifications, the resident student will receive the job. Dr. Ray Tassin, chairman of the journalism department, said Mounce approved one nonresident student employment application he turned in. Yet Tassin said Mounce told him she wouldn't approve any other nonresident student job applications this year.
"Luckily, we did most of our hiring in the spring, before the practice was enforced. But I still have one more position to fill, and I can only hire a resident student," Tassin said. Both Williams and Mounce said the practice is being enforced to encourage resident hall living among the students. Dr. Bill Lillard, president of CSU, said the dorms are built with purchased bonds, not state appropriated funds. When the university puts residence hall bonds for sale, he said, the administration promises to keep the dorms as fully occupied as possible. "Because CSU has to pay for the bonds on the residence halls, we have to implement policies to keep the dorms full. This employment practice is one of those policies," Mounce said. Lillard said, "If we keep the dorms occupied, we also can keep the housing payments lower for
the students." The dorms have not been fully occupied for the last seven years. Lillard said the apartment flux in Edmond is very competitive for the residence halls, since the complexes are lowering their rent. Food service administrator Debbie Stoll said she has always given priority to resident students for cafeteria employment, yet several of her employees also lived off campus. "Previously, for the first two weeks of school, I only hired resident students. Then if I had any openings left I would consider hiring students who live off campus," Stoll said. "This semester I have expanded the resident hiring time to three weeks, but I can't just leave the positions open." Lillard said students should remember if they can't continue their education due to finances, the university is willing to help students find campus employment.
1985 yearbook, staff recognized in graphic art award competition
Photographic services: Tom Gilbert
Cheerleader hopeful Christine Livergood demonstrates a routine at the CSU cheerleader tryouts held Friday in the Broncho Fieldhouse.
From Staff Reports Innovations, the 1985 yearbook, and its staff were selected as a merit award winner in the Printing Industries of America, Inc. 1986 Graphic Arts award competition. Jostens Printing and Publishing, the company which publishes the university's yearbook, summoned them as being an elite group and one of the most successful yearbook staffs in the country. The yearbook was selected on the basis of excellence in design and quality printing. Innovations
was one of the 27 yearbooks in the country to receive this national award. There were 6,500 entries in the 50 categories available. The staff, under the editorship of Rie Gerah, included: Tina Nye, Margo Wright, Tracy Talley, Nelaine Mason and Tammy Tuberville. Stan Hoig, yearbook advisor of Innovations, retired in May. "I had a great staff and they did a wonderful job. I'm pleased to see them win the award," Hoig said. "It was their award. The
staff members were excellent workers." The 1987 yearbook, whose name has not been chosen, is under the advisement of Dr. Samuel Sackett, a professor at Oklahoma City Community College and Oklahoma City University. Sackett will begin advisement Friday. Sackett's staff will consist of: Jo Lynn McClellan, Jane Meese, Debra Descher, Kelli Conner and Leah Tennison. Page editors and the editor-in-chief positions have not been determined.
Library uses grants to update book collections By Shannon Blockcolski Despite recent budget cuts, the administration awarded two supplemental grants totaling $400,000 to the W. Max Chambers Library, according to Dr. John Lolley, director of library services.
The Collection Development Enrichment grant funds will be used to buy books and for onetime only purchases of book serials, such as reference texts, said Lolley. CSU is the only university library in the state to receive such a large grant, he added.
"Dr. Larry Williams (vice president of administration) and Dr. Barbara Ryan (associate vice president of administration) deserve a tremendous amount of credit for awarding these grants. It was a courageous act for the poor economic times we are in," Lolley said.
tal projects totaling $200,000 for the library. The grants are not part of the annual Education and General Budget Fund library allocation. Lolley said the need for the grant arose in the mid 1970's, when library officials decided to increase the periodical collection
The first $200,000 grant derived from the previous year's faculty recommendations for book purchases, according to Lolley. During the budgetary hearings of Spring 1986 for the 1986/87 university budgets, Williams and Ryan requested proposals for supplemen-
to support graduate programs. In each following school year, the periodical subscription costs increased, causing the allotment of funds in other areas of the library to decrease. Lolley noted three areas of the library collection which needed
updating: nursing, computer science and reference. In the North Central Association's 1985 accreditation report of CSU, the NCA commented on the library collection. The report said the collection is "good for undergraduate purposes, but is not so good for graduate study and research purposes." According to Lolley, "What brought our situation home was the NCA's nursing accreditation. Without an update of their collection, the nursing department might have suffered." Since 1980, the library's percentage of the Education and General
Fund budget of CSU has ranged from 6.1 percent to 4.8 percent. The library allocation of budget funds at CSU is higher than the percentage received by any other Oklahoma college or university, said Lolley. The majority of the grant funds have been given to faculty selection, Lolley said. Faculty members chose 90 percent of the books in the library. "The biggest advantage of receiving this grant is the ability now to revive the university book collection and to make it an effective teaching tool for the faculty and students," he said.