SAULT SAINTE MARIE, MI. On Monday, September 29, a student who wishes to remain anonymous discovered private records of forty-five students on the public file-sharing server of Lake Superior State University.

The information appears to have been left on the server by an employee in the Admissions Office. The employee who created the file was unavailable for comment when contacted by The Compass.

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At the previous meeting, on November 12th at 8:00pm, Student Government met in the Anchor Room of the Cisler building. The meeting was lead by Interim President Kayla Robertson. As first in the line of business, the Student Government meeting time was changed to 8:30 on Wednesdays instead of 8:00 on Wednesdays. Budget was discussed and Student Government currently has $13,230 and is required to spend $2,300. Also there was an accounting error in which $8500 dollars of Student Government money was accidentally given to WLSO; whom spent a lot of it. Student Government is currently working on a plan to acquire those funds.

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To start with, many may ask: what is tenure? Tenure is when a professor becomes a permanent member of the faculty. Whenever a new professor is hired they are generally hired under a probationary period. At the end of the probationary period, the dean of the department that he or she works in reviews the professor’s record. The tenure process here at LSSU begins after the Provost makes a recommendation to the president, who also considers the recommendations of the department dean as well. After the president considers the recommendations, he/she brings the recommendations to the board of trustees who ultimately make the final decision on whether the professor receives tenure or not. Once the decision to grant tenure is decided, the faculty member cannot be fired without cause. This process has been historically been used so that once the professor is granted tenure he/she has job security and academic freedom. This also helped if a professor took a controversial position in the classroom, or in there scholarly writing. It was created to give professors the freedom needed to push the envelope but still have the job security in case they happen to press a few buttons.  

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College students are beginning to feel the effects of this country’s economic downturn as some seek to get student loans to continue their education, only to find at least one bank no longer lending to students.

As Stephanie Rice, a junior studying sociology at Lake Superior State University, found out recently she’ll no longer be able to get her alternative student loans through Key Bank. As of October 31, Key Bank is pulling out of student lending altogether. Rice said she has her tuition needs covered for this year, but next year will have to find another way to make up for the loan amount she received from Key Bank.

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