Mass Media (Newspaper) - April 26, 1978, Boston, Massachusetts MASS MEDIA Volume 12 Issue 27 University of Last Chance For Dun lap by Janet Diamond Professor Louise Dunlap is losing her job To many of the teachers and students who work with her in the English Depart ment this fact is causing a great deal of distress Besides teaching a variety of courses ranging from Medieval Literature to Advanced Composition Professor Dunlap whom many students knew as c Professor has designed I and coordinated the English tutoring program over past year According to students s tutors and teachers who use program She has singlehandedly made it a smooth professional adjunct to the 101 and 102 mandatory Freshman writing courses The English Department tutoring program as Professor DUnlap has designed it is a model for departmental tutoring systems in general and an example fo the ef ficient use of students in the teaching of writing Tutors are trained in weekly seminars to deal knowledgeably with the fun of writing Previously tutors were given no regular formal training Each tutor is assigned to a teacher or teachers with whom he or she will work closely for the semester The intimate structure of this system allows teachers tutors and students to use the tutoring fun to its maximum capacity The Hart Report a document outlining the longterm needs and goals of the University the im of a University tutoring system nearly identical to the system already in operation designed by Professor Dunlap t Last year Professor Dunlap came up for her tenure review by the University She was turned down At the time of the review she had just completed her doctoral thesis April Professor Louise Dunlap of the English Department and received her According to present personnel policy a teacher should be allowed a reasonable period of time after completing his or her terminal degree work in which to build a record of ac in scholarship and service before being reviewed for tenure The exact amount of lime considered reasonable is not stated in the personnel document Sources have indicated however that bet ween two and five years is a reasonable time period Although Professor Dunlap took longer than usual amount of time completing her degree work she was allowed no time between degree completion and tenure review Upon receiving a tenure refusal a candidate is allowed according to personnel policy one more year of employment before he or she must leave the university It is in her ter minal year that Professor Dunlap has instituted the tutoring program In terms of the service requirement for tenure however this accomplishment has no weight because it occured after her tenure review Likewise the journal ar ticle and scholarly lectures she has presented in the past year will not count According to sources confusion over the application of personnel policy concerning tenure year designation arose because the policy was being changed at the time Professor Dunlap was being reviewed Under the old policy no time allowance was stipulated for teachers to publish after com the terminal degree The old policy however also weighed heavily in granting tenure awards Professor Dunlap has asked that the year she is to be evaluated be redesignated Redesignation would not grant her tenure but would sim ply assign her review to a later date Because of the policy change over and because her recent work greatly modifies her academic profile Professor Dunlap feels a new tenure year is justified in her case Last semester her redesignation request was turned down by the Dean of CAS Dean Riccards At the time a delegation of tutors from the English Department called upon the Dean to express their desire for a favorable ruling from Last Chance to On Friday April 14 Don Director of Placement and Ed Class of 1940 at greeted Andy Knowles Senior of Digital Andy arrived on campus via helicopter to participate in the first job skills bank program for UMass Boston students Health Service Student called Drug Abuser by Ed Moran Phil Cooper a student at UMB has been labeled a drug abuser by the Health Service office On April 10 Cooper while waiting to pay a blood test saw his health service record on the nur ses desk Cooper told the Mass Media he opened his record and saw on the first abuser taking lots of and other The entry was made by Nur se Practitioner Flanagan David Stockton Director of Health Services would not com ment on how health services came to their drug abuse conclusion because he can not discuss personal medical records with anyone but the subject Cooper explained that he went to health services last semester for some Mylanta a stomach antacid Cooper was asked by the nurse if he was on any medication Cooper ex that because of a motor cycle accident that kept him in the hospital for three months and left him with a leg brace he was taking and other medication for his leg He was under his doctors care The nurse gave Cooper his Mylanta and made the entry Stockton said Dr Binder Coopers doctor was not consulted Coopers medical record which has been at the University since he en tered in September was not checked either Stockton feels it is normal practice for a practitioner to make cautionary when Stockton called Cooper in an ef fort to things up Stockton told Cooper at that meeting that drug abuser is interpreted dif people and that it was just a warning to check with Coopers doctors Stockton also told Cooper that he need only indicate to me in writing his con cerns about his record and I will respond to Cooper wrote the letter requesting the entry be removed Stocktons response to the letter was more entries in Coopers record One such entry was made in behalf of University General Counsel It Cooper has raised objections to the accuracy of the Nurse Practitioners entry on November 7 1977 and has asked that the Health Service delete parts of the entry The Health Service has been advised by the Office of General Counsel for the University that no portion of a medical record should be deleted Mr Cooper has been informed of Counsels advice and has been advised that he may submit to the Health Service a Health Controversy to