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VOLUME 92 I ISSUE 17
Adjunct faculty aim for union
Assisted by a national union,
professors not on a tenure
track are debating uniting.
Kevin O'Keeffe
Editor in Chief
@kevinpokeeffe
Chiara Sulprizio, a visiting professor at
LMU, adopted a baby in March. The adoption
had been in the works for quite some time , but
the child, Evan, arrived
earlier than planned.
“My husband and I had
intended to get the baby in
summer,” Sulprizio said.
“But as is the case with
most babies, they come
..a Chiara Sulprizio when they want to come.”
... . 0 . . . Evan arrived in the
Chiara Sulprizio niiddle of spring breaki
when Sulprizio was visiting family in Reno,
Nev. Coincidentally, Evan was also in Reno -
serendipity Sulprizio said she couldn ’t ignore .
She got the call Sunday and picked Evan
up on Wednesday. Due to technicalities with
the adoption, Sulprizio couldn’t leave Nevada
until into the school week, cancelling her
class the following Tuesday.
“And that was all the time I took off,”
Sulprizio said. “One day. Just one day.”
Ordinarily, someone in Sulprizio’s
situation would have colleagues informally
cover for her. But Sulprizio is one of three
professors in the classics and archaeology
department and teaches four classes. Finding
a cover for maternity leave is impossible - and
as a non -tenure track professor, Sulprizio was
confused as to whether she had the right to
take time off.
“Admittedly, I did not demand anything,”
Sulprizio said about petitioning for leave.
“ But even if I did, it doesn ’t mean I would have
gotten it. It’s not that anybody said to me,
‘No, you cannot take a leave.’ But realistically,
how would that have worked?”
Sulprizio is in her third year, often the last
for visiting professors at LMU. However,
unlike other part-time professors, she has
four classes, instead of just one or two. She
is still a member of contingent faculty - the
broader term usedto describe those who must
reapply for their positions on a semester-
by-semester or year -by-year basis. And it is
those contingent faculty members who are
now considering unionizing.
See Union | Page 4
percent
of LMU faculty
are part-time.
Two classes maximum per semester
Pay rate approximately $5K per class
No health care benefits
Academic freedom in jeopardy
Contracts renewed by semester
Percentage as of 2012, accordingto SEIU representatives and assistant professor of political science Andrew Dilts;
Information compiled from interviews with faculty and SEIU representatives; Design: Kevin O'Keeffe | Loyolan
New
curriculum
receives
praise
Registration season begins
at LMU as students
transition to the new core.
Julia Sacco
News Intern
@_JuliaSacco_
November not only means the start of
registration, but also marks almost a full
semester since the launch of LMU’s new
core curriculum, which has been met
with much praise and little concern.
The current freshman class represents
the first students to have the new core
implemented in their curriculum, and
sophomores will be able to switch from
the old core at registration.
The core was approved and adopted
by the University in spring 2011. It now
applies to all students rather than specific
colleges.
“A lot of people have worked really hard
to try to make the transition as smooth
as possible, but the scale of what we are
changing is such that there are bound to
be challenges. My experience, so far, is
that things have gone pretty smoothly,
with a few hiccups,” said political science
professor John Parrish, who also directs
the University Honors Program.
The old core and the new core are
different in numerous ways, but most
notably, the curriculum is broken down
into distinct categories - Foundations,
Explorations and Integrations - and
implements the concept of flagged
courses.
Parrish emphasized that the change in
the requirements will impact both the
advising staff and the students. He said,
“The students are planning their degree
programs on essentially two different
dimensions: the courses they need and
the flags they need, which means the
See Registration | Page 2
LMU hosts Rainn Wilson for
Comedy for a Cause
Josh Kuroda | Loyolan
Bums Back Court hosted "The Office" alumnus Rainn Wilson for the annual Comedy for a
Cause show last Tuesday Nov 5. This free event Included a moderated Q-and-A with Wilson.
All proceeds from a raffle were donated to Wilson's choice of charity, the Mona Foundation.
Sorority members
train for recruitment
The LMU campus welcomes
Recruitment Boot Camp to
train women for recruitment.
AN Swenson
Asst. News Editor
@aliswenson
It’s time for LMU’s sororities to go to boot
camp. Recruitment boot camp, that is.
On the weekend of Nov. 15-18, LMU
will host Recruitment Boot Camp (RBC),
a program within the larger organization
Campus Speak, to help National Panhellenic
Conference (NPC) sororities at LMU
make the transition into a values -based
recruitment system.
RBC is one of two major programs
that offer this type of service to colleges
and universities, according to senior
communication studies major Juliana
Cadena, co-vice president for NPC
recruitment. In order to decide between
the two, Cadena and her co-vice president,
senior communication studies major Amy
Regnier, asked for proposals from both
Recruitment Boot Camp and the other
program, Fired Up. They then compared
the two and pitched both programs to each
sorority chapter’s Greek Council delegates
and vice presidents of membership.
According to Cadena, the decision to work
with RBC had a lot to do with the program’s
track record.
“The Panhellenic community made
essentially a pro-and-con list for each of
them,” Cadena said. “Recruitment boot
camp is several years older than Fired
Up, and the chapters wanted someone
who had proven results as well as chapter
engagement.”
Assistant Director of Student Leadership
and Development Dan Faill has worked with
RBC in the past and explained that another
reason for choosing them was their ability
See Recruitment | Page 3
