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WEDNESDAY
September 12, 1990
Minority enrollment up this year
Official says
large increase is
highly unlikely
Thirteen is the lucky number
for tliis year's minority enroll
irient figures.
The fall H)90 figures, released
by tin- Registrar's Office
Tuesday, indicate that 7.'i7
minority students are enrolled at
CMU, an increase of l.'i from a
year ago
Minorities represent 4..'i(>
percent of CMU's Hi,359
students — a (• 1 f> percent
increase fiom   I HUM.
Hut even though minority
enrollment increased, tin-overall
number of stintents decreased In
Hb.'i
An increase of 1.'{ st udents nia\
BUDDY SYSTEM
MINORITY STUDENTS AT CMU
MINORITY        .  TOTAL    ■
ENROLLMENT >   ENROLLMENT
seem small,  hut  large growth  in       not   happen  quickly,  said   Laura
miiioiitv   enrollment   levels  does       (Ion/ales, director ol the < )t1icc ol
Minority Affairs.
"You can't expect to make such
big strides so quickly," Gonzales
said.
Cultural Awareness Coalition
activity has helped focus some
attention toward minority
students, she said The coalition
is a student group formed a year
ago to bring attention to
minority issues and promote
cultural awarness.
University-wide efforts to
coordinate activities concerning
minority students are just beginning.
"(Hull it's not going to happen
overnight." Cion/ales said.
Michael Owens, executive
assistant to the president for
enrollment management and
admissions, was unavailable for
comment.
LIFE Photo Jeflray Sauger
A Tuesday afternoon run is slightly more enjoyable with an equally fitness-conscious friend. Ann Hildenbrand, Lowell junior, left, and
Becky Price, Lowell freshman, right, run along West Campus Drive near the Towers Residence Hall Complex.
LIFE Photo Tim Fit/gerald
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Kovalchuk,
visiting
professor
from
Moscow.
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Soviet
journalism
class in
Anspach
302.
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U.S. cultural issues
requirement OK'd for
University Program
by BRIAN D. BELL
I II l    SI,.Ii v'vi.i.-i
Implementation of a possible University Program change would
require ('ML' students to leal ri about the American melting pot to
graduate
A pioposal tu add a new subgioup to the Universilv 1'iograin was
approved in late Julv by t he < leneral Kducatlon Council. Council Chan
Kodney Kirk said
The 10-meiubei faculty and student council was established by
Academic Senate's I Jenei a I Kducatlon Suh-Comnuttee. Kirk, prot'essoi
ol" anthropology, saul.
A-Senate members established the committe at its April 24 meeting
and gave it tasks that include review of CMU's (leneral Education
program and an examination ol its multi-cultural content. Kirk added.
CMU's (leiieral Kducatlon requirements include competencies in
the University Program, math and oral and written English, he said.
For students entering the leaching field, teacher certification also is a
required part of the general education requirement.
The council's proposal addresses concerns expressed by the Cultural
Awareness Coaliton. Kirk said It also is consistent with President
Kdward B. Jakubauskas' strategic planning goal of giving higher
priority to global education and multicultural diversity.
If the council's recommendation is implemented, new CMU students
will have to take a course addressing U.S. cultural issues including
rucisni, prejudice and stereotypes, Kirk said.
Existing classes currently part of the University Program which
could fullfill the proposed requirement  include ANT 320, Indians of
See CULTURE Page 2
Faculty Contract Update
Bargaining planned for today, Thursday
by KAREN EMERSON
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Allei a week away from the
bargaining table, negotiating
teams tot the administration
and faculty plan to meet today
and Thursday
But Faculty Association
members still plan to discuss a
strike    todav    —    and    aren't
planning to call oil "work to
rule" until a contract settlement is reached.
The teams plan to discuss "a
couple of non-economic issues
we've agreed to in principle but
not finished" and may talk
about economic issues, such as
salary and benefits, said K
William   Dunham, chair of  the
ad mill 1st rat ion- bargaining
team
The last time the two sides
met to negotiate was with a
mediator Sept f» No agreement
was reached, however, and the
st at e -appoint ed nied ialor
scheduled another meeting
with both teams Thursday,
Sept    20
Members   ol   the   admimstI a
tion    and    facultv     teams    said
they weie willing to talk before
Sept    211.  but   poor tommumca
lion     had     negotiations     at     a
standstill.
"I     called    them     because     I
didu'l     want    an\     misunder
S.-i- NEGOTIATE Paye  IB
Sides disagree on public discussion of negotiations
by YVONNE C. CLAES
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What information to release
to the media and what information to withhold during negotiations is an area of contention
with some administrators and
faculty members.
Faculty Association President Guy Meiss said the faculty
union never agreed not to
discuss details of the negotiations with the press — such as
salary percentages — as the
administration previously
claimed.
"We never agreed to that
because we felt people had a
right to know what's going on,"
Meiss said.
Meiss drew criticism from
administrators after he
released faculty salary percentages to the media last week.
In Monday's CM LIFE, President Edward B. Jakubauskas
said "we had agreed we would
not talk about all these (details)
in public ..."
"Whether I got it right or not
I still think all this talk is
counterproductive      to     the
negotiat ions." .Jakubauskas
said Tuesday
Jakubauskas added that K.
William Dunham, administrative bargaining team chair, told
him both sides would not
discuss negotiation specifics
public-ally unless both agreed
on what information to release.
In a May 10 memo to administrative and faculty team
members. Dunham stated
negotiations would be closed
and procedures on handling the
press were not agreed upon.
An    agreement    of   how    to
handle the media was not
agreed to. but. "we assumed
talking to the press would be
treated as in past negotiations." he said, adding this is
the first lime anyone has
spoken public-ally about negoti-
at ion specifics before reaching
a settlement.
"No team members (on either
side) are saying anything,"
Dunham said.
Meiss also said he is
disturbed by a memo released
through    Media   Relations   by
See MEDIA Page 14
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