Fac. Sen. gets new members

Election Committee Chairman Stuart Marsh said another election will be held in April to fill seats designated for the colleges of nursing, pharmacy, science and social and behavioral sciences.

"The voting turnout was about average for the faculty," Marsh said. "But some colleges had a greater number of seats available and not enough nominations."

The newly elected members of the Committee of Eleven, Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure and the 22 elected faculty senators will assume their duties in May.

Marsh said the elections are important to faculty self-governance. He said Senate elections, which are held each year, alternate selecting senators-at-large and those from colleges.

New senators include: agriculture professors Roger Dahlgran, Lynn Joens, Dennis Larson and Cornelius Maré; architecture Professor Robert Dvorak; College of Business and Public Administration Finance department head Edward Dyl; fine arts Professor Jeffery Warburton; engineering and mines professors Donald Davis and Juan Heinrich; humanities Peter Medine and Mary Voyatzis; and law Professor Andrew Silverman. The College of Science elected Christopher Impey and Timothy Swindle; the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences voted in Thomas Christiano and Charlie Hurt; John Marchalonis, Thomas Davis and Martin Weinand were elected to represent the College of Medicine; and Assistant humanities Professor Jennifer Jenkins and librarian Robert Mitchell were elected to non-college positions.

New additions to the Committee of Eleven - a program the UA constitution states should work to resolve problems "of interest and concern" to the faculty - include Roger Caldwell, soil and water science professor, Shitala Mishra, special education and rehabilitation professor, Marlys Witte, professor of surgery, Marchalonis and Warburton. They are elected to two-year terms.

The Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure will serve terms ending in the year 2000. As the most competitive election race, eight faculty members ran for four open spots on the committee. CAFT is a committee that mediates faculty conflicts.

New members include Victoria Mills, a university librarian; Marek Rychlik, associate mathematics professor; Edward Williams, political science professor and Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Amy Williamson.

Associate marketing Professor Susan Heckler will assume the secretary of the faculty position in May after running unopposed. Her duties include sitting on the executive committee and ensuring the minutes of meetings are correct.

Marsh said Budget and Strategic Planning Committee members of the faculty, who begin three-year terms in July, sit on the larger university committee that provides larger overall budget assistance.

Christopher Puto, a marketing professor, and Soroosh Sorooshian, a hydrology professor, ran uncontested in that election.