Concerned administration of justice majors met last night at a Justice Association meeting to discuss the role they can play in the reconstruction of their department's faculty.

Bill Spencer, Justice Association president, said eight out of 13 administration of justice faculty members are leaving and there is concern about replacing the faculty with the right people. He said the proposed combining of the administration of justice and sociology departments has caused a concern that sociology faculty will be hired instead of administration of justice.

"Our faculty is gone and we have to drive (the University administration) to rebuild," Spencer said.

The proposal to merge the administration of justice and sociology majors is part of the College of the Liberal Arts' plan to deal with University-mandated budget cuts, illustrated in a 1993 report by the University Future Committee. The three-year plan calls for the 10 percent reduction of the University's overall budget.

Thomas Bernard, administration of justice department interim director, said the proposal has not been approved yet, but is in the University Faculty Senate now.

Under the plan, administration of justice would become a program in the sociology department with its own director, and the degree requirements would be unchanged. The program's director would report to the head of the sociology department.

Spencer said he is concerned that the people now being considered to fill the positions are geared toward sociology instead of administration of justice. This expands the sociology department but is not what administration of justice students want, he said.

"They're screwing with your life here," George Whipple (senior-administration of justice) said at the meeting.

Spencer said the students have to let the administration know what they want or the structure of their major will be lost. A meeting with some administration members, including Bernard and Interim Department Head Frank Clemente, is planned for early next week and Spencer said he wants as many students to go to the meeting as possible.

Spencer said people need to know the importance of what is going on. He said administration of justice students have always had a personal relationship with their faculty and the students must fight to maintain it. Spencer said this can be done by everybody becoming involved in the future of the department.