[Oral History Program interview with Robert B. Doremus, 1976]

Interview #32: Doremus, Robert B.

UW-Madison TEI edition, March, 2010

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Doremus, Robert B. (1915-1982)
[Oral History Program interview with Robert B. Doremus, 1976]
number 32
(Teaching assistants strike of 1970)
University of Wisconsin, 1976

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[abstract]

First Interview

00:00:00–00:00:43 More on Neil Bucklew.

00:00:43–00:02:01 Ed Krinsky's background, reason he was...

00:02:01–00:03:28 Bucklew as bargainer, handicapped by...

00:03:28–00:03:48 Council of Ten felt he was not best person...

00:03:48–00:05:12 Arlen Christenson--very good bargainer.

00:05:12–00:06:44 RD went to almost all bargaining sessions...

00:06:44–00:11:05 Experience of bargaining....

00:11:05–00:12:18 If they had disagreements, they were well...

00:12:18–00:15:14 Describes a meeting when Hank Haslach...

00:15:14–00:18:04 RD took notes and typed up a summary of...

00:18:04–00:20:28 Bargaining was on Thursday afternoon...

00:20:28–00:21:01 Discusses meeting just before strike.

00:21:01–00:22:50 Reasons Jim Stern was put in charge of...

00:22:50–00:25:52 Attendance at Council members' meetings...

00:25:52–00:28:07 Chuck Sherman, from Communication Arts...

00:28:07–00:28:51 How much leeway they had in bargaining.

00:28:51–00:30:32 Discussion of class size was chancellor's in end.

00:30:32–00:31:09 Money not as great a problem now as it was then.

[Interviewer's Note]

00:00:00–00:02:03 Start of Tape 2/Side 2

00:02:03–00:05:02 Describes last Sunday bargaining prior...

00:05:02–00:05:30 RD's reaction.

00:05:30–00:07:47 Memories of strike. Marketti with baseball...

00:07:47–00:08:59 Contrast to Haslach.

00:08:59–00:13:56 Bob Muehlenkamp. Also bitter, wanted...

00:13:56–00:16:42 Role of women TAs. One of women bargainers'...

00:16:42–00:17:18 TA onlookers.

00:17:18–00:20:09 More on position of women TA's.

00:20:09–00:24:00 Role of Uehlman and Loeffler....

00:24:00–00:26:16 Why Ed Young recognized the TAA....

00:26:16–00:26:24 Problems with tape recorder.

00:00:01–00:01:27 Origins, education at Harvard.

00:01:27–00:03:48 Comes to UW in 1940 as instructor.

00:03:48–00:07:23 Becomes meteorologist in air force during WWII.

00:07:23–00:10:28 Meeting with Mark Ingraham; Functions...

00:10:28–00:12:07 First task--reading and making abstracts...

00:12:07–00:13:07 Begins work on supervision of grant...

00:13:07–00:16:46 Committee report; regent response; changes...

00:16:46–00:22:34 Sources of federal monies in late forties...

00:22:34–00:25:13 Office of Research Administration--of...

00:25:13–00:27:09 On some campuses research office solicits...

00:27:09–00:31:25 Dean's office role in supervising grant...

00:31:25–00:34:40 Example of how other universities treat...

00:34:40–00:37:26 Types of grants--student scholarships...

00:37:26–00:46:23 Dean's office makes decision about cost...

00:46:23–00:48:55 Training of Peace Corps group going to Africa.

00:48:55–00:50:59 Peace Corps auditors' encounter with...

00:50:59–00:55:50 How grant funds can be misused innocently...

00:55:50–01:00:56 Attitudes of departments not in the grant...

01:00:56–01:02:58 Legislature reduced University's allowance...

00:00:00–00:04:48 Economics faculty as example....

00:04:48–00:05:42 How the situation developed.

00:05:42–00:07:21 Advantages to UW--able to have specialties...

00:07:21–00:09:59 School for Social Work an example of...

00:09:59–00:14:57 Discussion of recent hiring policies...

00:14:57–00:17:07 Dean Kleene first in a long time to refuse...

00:17:07–00:18:21 Function of Divisional Committee in...

00:18:21–00:19:24 Now necessary to consider budget as well...

00:19:24–00:20:45 System of "approved" and "approved with...

00:20:45–00:21:52 Departments are supposed to introduce...

00:21:52–00:25:07 Increased care in looking candidates over...

00:25:07–00:26:33 Recommendations less reliable now because...

00:26:33–00:27:42 Problem of sifting out candidates before...

00:27:42–00:29:58 Hiring practices in the 1940s....

00:29:58–00:30:18 Affirmative action laws have ended this.

00:30:18–00:33:36 More on hiring. 1960s a seller's market...

00:33:36–00:35:32 Affirmative action not only brought more...

00:35:32–00:44:58 Mark Ingraham a humanist, and a humane...

00:44:58–00:48:52 Mark Ingraham and E.B. Fred....

00:48:52–00:53:49 Incident involving Ron Mitchell and a...

00:53:49–00:56:06 Fred's shrewdness. Legislators' suspicion...

00:56:06–00:57:54 Fred got Roy Luberg into administration...

00:57:54–00:59:14 Dick Hartshorne and Student Life and...

00:59:14–01:00:46 Mark Ingraham talked with Fred fairly...

01:00:46–01:01:26 Fayette Elwell, and Ingraham's comment...

00:00:00–00:01:28 Effects on campus TA strike....

00:01:28–00:03:07 A few history department professors...

00:03:07–00:05:05 Why some departments were less or more...

00:05:05–00:06:43 Effects of other political events.

00:06:43–00:07:41 Broken windows, possible perpetrators.

00:07:41–00:09:12 Each department had different experiences...

00:09:12–00:10:48 Issue of freshman English, why it was dropped.

00:10:48–00:12:22 Difficulty of teaching writing.

00:12:22–00:14:27 Initial change from two semesters to one...

00:14:27–00:15:06 Dropping course altogether.

00:15:06–00:17:23 How it was taught traditionally; the...

00:17:23–00:19:08 Department chair originally pro-TA, turned...

00:19:08–00:21:01 Decline in high school teaching of English...

00:21:01–00:26:07 More on effects of TA strike....

00:26:07–00:28:05 English department support built into...

00:28:05–00:31:17 Contrast with some other departments, e...

00:31:17–00:32:52 Repeat re history department....

00:32:52–00:34:10 Department had seemed about to redefine...

00:34:10–00:36:39 Morton Rothstein's system for monitoring...

00:36:39–00:39:56 During period of expansion, much less...

00:39:56–00:40:43 TAs had more scope when relationship with...

00:40:43–00:42:14 How RD used TAs in his courses.

00:42:14–00:46:18 RDs period as instructor....

00:46:18–00:47:28 Sociology department's use of TAs prior...

00:47:28–00:48:06 Usual system.

00:48:06–00:49:06 Dean Leon Epstein's comments on usual system.

00:49:06–00:51:56 Sociology reduced numbers of TAs, but...

00:51:56–00:52:23 Some departments, e.g....

00:52:23–00:53:53 Mathematics has started combining lecture...

00:53:53–00:55:25 Inflexibility of college budgets....

00:55:25–00:56:50 Even though inflated, tenured faculty...

00:56:50–00:58:25 Math department particularly needs constant...

00:58:25–00:59:19 New emphasis on engineering, sciences...

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