Riley elected Senate Council chair

By Craig Chamberlain

Thomas Riley, professor of anthropology, will be the chair of the
Urbana-Champaign Senate Council for the 1995-96 academic year.

Riley, elected in a recent mail ballot, will succeed Jane Leuthold, who has
held the position for the last two years. Thomas Conry, head of the
department of general engineering, will serve as vice chair.

A total of 93 senators participated in the balloting, with 53 voting for
Riley and 40 for Conry.

The results were announced April 17 at the final organizational meeting of
the 1995-96 Urbana-Champaign Senate.

Also elected in the balloting, to the senate's Committee on Committees,
were James Dengate, chair of the department of classics; Nancy O'Brien,
professor of library administration; and William H. Walker, professor of
civil engineering.  They were chosen from among six candidates.

Continuing on the committee are James Simon, professor of architecture, as
the chair, and Barbara Klein, professor of foods and nutrition.  Three
students also will join the committee: Eric Chamberlain and Mario Zelaya,
both undergraduates; and John Grout, a graduate student.

In voting at the meeting, the senate elected three new members to the
University Senates Conference, a universitywide body composed of nine
members each from the Urbana-Champaign and Chicago campuses.

From a slate of six, the senate chose Kenneth Andersen, professor of speech
communication; Richard Schacht, professor of philosophy; and Ian Westbury,
professor of curriculum and instruction.

The six members continuing into next year are Judy DeLoache, professor of
psychology; H. George Friedman, professor of computer science; Wesley
Seitz, professor of agricultural economics; Geneva Belford, professor of
computer science; Joan Klein, professor of English; and Raymond Leuthold,
professor of agricultural economics.

In a caucus of senate committee chairs after the meeting, the following
people were elected to serve on next year's Senate Council:  Andersen,
chair of the Budget Committee; R. Linn Belford, professor of chemistry,
chair of the Educational Policy Committee; Friedman, chair of the
University Statutes and Senate Procedures Committee; Simon, chair of the
Committee on Committees; O'Brien, chair of the Student Discipline
Committee; Hiram Paley, professor of mathematics, chair of the Admissions
Committee; and Seitz, chair of the General University Policy Committee.

Joining them on the council will be Riley; Conry; Walter McMahon, professor
of economics, continuing as the representative to the council from the
faculty advisory committee to the Illinois Board of Higher Education; and
Geneva Belford, re-elected as the representative to the council from the
Urbana delegation to the University Senates Conference.

Also on the council will be three students: Laura Huntington and Chris
Varones, both undergraduates; and Doug Wojcieszak, a graduate student.