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April 30, 1998

Hershey elected Senate president

Nathan Hershey has been elected president of the University Senate for a one-year term beginning July 1.

Hershey, a professor of health services administration in the Graduate School of Public Health, has been Senate vice president for the last three years.

He ran for president this year against linguistics professor Christina Bratt Paulston.

Current Senate president Gordon MacLeod did not run for a second term so he can recruit faculty and otherwise prepare for the fall 1999 Semester at Sea voyage. MacLeod, a public health professor, will be academic dean for the around-the-world trip.

Elected as vice president for 1998-99 was Debora A. Rougeux, who has been Senate secretary for the last two and a half years. Rougeux, a University Library System reference archivist/cataloguer, ran against Arlene W. Caggiula of the Graduate School of Public Health.

The new secretary will be Douglas P. Metzler, an associate professor in the School of Information Sciences' Department of Information Science and Telecommunications. Metzler ran against Patricia S. Kolar of the School of Social Work.

Elected to Faculty Assembly for 1998-2001 were: Faculty of Arts and Sciences Kathleen George, of theatre arts, and Ann Sutherland Harris, of history of art and architecture (representing the humanities departments); Thomas A. Metzger, mathematics, and Martha E. Pollack, computer science (natural sciences); and Jerome C. Wells, economics (social sciences).

Professional schools Louise K. Comfort, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs; Wynne S. Korr, social work; Susan G. Neuman, University Library System; Josephine E. Olson, Katz Graduate School of Business, and Luis E. Vallejo, engineering.

Health Sciences schools John J. Baker, dental medicine; Joseph P. Costantino, Graduate School of Public Health; Christine A. Dollaghan, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences; Toby O. Graham, medicine, and Donna G. Nativio, nursing.

University members-at-large Dennis Brutus, Africana studies, and Rene J. Duquesnoy, medicine.

Under Senate bylaws, new members serve the first year of their three-year terms on Faculty Assembly. During their second and third years, they serve on both the Assembly and Senate Council. Of 3,270 ballots mailed in this spring's election, 1,024 were returned. The 31 percent return rate was nearly identical to last year's.

The University Senate office noted that 48 percent of faculty members running in this year's election were women (21 out of 44); 55 percent of elected faculty were female (11 out of 20).

University Senate office director Fran Czak said Senate policy forbids public release of the vote counts for individual candidates. That way, she said, faculty are encouraged to run for Senate officer positions and Assembly seats without fear of embarrassment should they fail to get many votes.

— Bruce Steele


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