The assistant director of residential life search committee will meet for the first time on Tuesday.
The search committee will be comprised of eight people, including four students and four administrators who would work directly with the assistant director of residential life. Director of Residential Life Deborah McNish said that she wanted two representatives from the Oberlin Student Cooperative Association, two residential coordinators, one house manager, one administrative assistant, a representative from building and grounds, as well as the director of dining and housing to serve on the committee.
The job description for the position was changed early in October to emphasize the facilities management rather than student personnel work. The assistant director of residential life will be responsible for the operation, maintenance, renovation and development of 23 residences and five dining halls and will prepare and implement a budget of around $12 million.
The new description does not require the applicant to obtain any secondary education, but a minimum of five years experience in facilities management at a residential college. The description also requires a demonstrated experience with budget preparation and maintenance, short and long-range planning, and physical plant operations or construction experience.
The continuation of the hearing for Professor David Holtzman's requested injunction is scheduled to take place this afternoon. The hearing is scheduled to begin at 1 pm in Judge Solomon Oliver Jr.'s courtroom in the U.S. District Court in Cleveland. The winning of an injunction would allow Holtzman to resume teaching duties. Holtzman was striped of all teaching duties after the General Faculty Council reviewed charges of alleged inappropriate sexual conversation, physical misconduct and drug use filed by students and faculty members. In September, Holtzman filed a $1 million federal discrimination lawsuit against president Nancy Dye, Dean of the College Clayton Koppes, former Acting Dean of the College James Helm and Neuroscience Program Director Catherine McCormick, claiming he was denied equal treatment as an Oberlin College employee because he is Hispanic-American. Today's Friday the 13th hearings represent the continuation of hearings that began on Halloween.
The Board of Trustees approved the Allen Memorial Art Museum's purchase of 18 Chinese paintings at their meeting last weekend. The Board authorized $200,000 of restricted funds for the purchase. The purchase was funded by the R.T. Miller endowment.
"It sounds like an interesting collection," said Vice-President of Finance Andy Evans. "It's kind of a bargain sale."
The paintings will greatly expand the museum's collection of Chinese art, which is currently limited to minor Qing dynasty works by lesser artists. The 18 paintings span the last sixth centuries of Chinese art.
Most of the collection was assembled in the 1960s and 1970s by art historian James Cahill for his step-father Dr. George Schlenker. The collection includes a Buddhist hanging scroll, an album portraying mythic heroes and a landscape fan.
The works will be publicly displayed in May.
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