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September 28, 1990
Bargaining teams
reach settlement
Details of tentative agreement still
sketchy; some say 'surface hostilities'
may pass slowly after weeks of discord
by KAREN EMERSON
MFh Special Projects Editor   .
Faculty and administrative bargaining team members reached a
tentative agreement early Thursday morning.
Both sides, aller negotiating until about 1 a.m.. agreed to withhold
details about the agreement.
But Faculty Association President Guy Meiss did say the settlement
involves a three-year contract.
"The two teams still have some work to do on the contract," said
Meiss. associate professor of journalism. "Some of the language is not
written down and they'll finish it by Friday. All I can say is that it is a
settlement I think our members will be very pleased with."
He said members of the FA executive board will review the contract
and have changed the general membership meeting from Wednesday
to Thursday. Faculty bargaining team members will present the
cont ract to faculty at that time.
Faculty members probably will receive copies of the tentative
agreement before Thursday's meeting, Meiss said.
"I'm glad it's over — it is a great relief," President Edward B.
Jakubauskas said. "Now we can get back to the task of serving our
students."
Jakubauskas said a "well-paid faculty" is one or CMU's priorities
and the tentative agreement is "a good settlement."
Pending FA ratification. Board of Trustees members will discuss
and vote on the contract at their next meeting, Thursday. Oct. 18 and
Friday. Oct. 19, Jakubauskas said.
"I think they'll agree with our recommendation of the agreement,"
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The previous three-year contract expired June 30 and the
bargaining teams have worked toward an agreement for nearly six
months. '    ■ ■>   -■<
A Michigan Education Association mediator met with both sides
Sept. 5, after the teams reached an impasse during an Aug. 24
bargaining session.  ■':■<.:'■   »:.* •-'.;-. ■';'. y   y: y      y ••>'"■■■  '.•:■:■
No agreement was reached after the mediator worked with the
teams. Negotiators later agreed to meet without the mediator.
Although administrative and faculty bargaining team members met
several times, negotiations broke down last week. The problems arose
after side bar negotiating teams reached a tentative agreement.
During side bar negotiations, two members from each bargaining
team meet to discuss ideas.
The side bar agreement was not recommended by the administration's  bargaining   team,   though,   and  faculty  members   planned  a
■   '     •     See SETTLEMENT Page 18
Shady Characters
LIFE Photo'JaHiey Sauger
Joseph Konieczka. Mount Pleasant junior, pushes his son's bicycle near Brooks Hall Thursday
afternoon. Father and son were enjoying the weather when three-year-old Nick got tired of riding
and turned his bike over to dear old dad.
Course guide
correction
may need  .
correction
by BRIAN O. BELL
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An attempt by the Registrar's
Office to correct problems in the  ■
spring   Course   Offering   Guide
may end up requiring corrections
nl* its own.
Registrar's Office personnel
hope to have up to 30,000
supplements to the guide, which
they hope will correct inaccurate
information published in the
guide. Registrar Paul Schmidt
said.      ■' ■"'     ' '-    '-' . .; ..':..       ■"';' ;/' ..;:
But unless departments meet
the deadline Monday for submitting lists of classes they plan to
oiler next semester, the supplement may not be completely
accurate. The guide and supplement will be available for
students by Wednesday.
Because of "work to rule," the
guides lack some classes ollered
next semester and include others
that will not be offered. Schmidt
said.
Several departments did not
submit lists of the courses they
will otter this spring before the
guides went to press Sept." 2l
because of work to rule.
Associate Registrar Ron Finch
said in an earlier interview.  ■*■''.""■'■'
" Schmidt said he hopes the
I'liu- to eight-page supplement
will alleviate most problems an
inaccurate guide may cause.
"Our goal is to provide the
most up-to-date information to
students we possibly can." he
said.
Although the supplement
should correct most problem
areas, it may not include all the
See GUIDE Paye 2
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Letter frightens, enrages mother
Daughter in Saudi Arabia writes of shaky conditions
by COLLEEN NEWVINE _     -
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"Operation Desert Shield" on the return address tipped
off Saginaw resident Bobbie Slockurn that the mailing
came from her daughter. But a phrase near the letter's
start warned of fearful conditions in the Middle East.
"This is one of those 'you better sit down" letters," wrote
Debbie, a 25-year-old petroleum supply specialist
stationed in Saudi Arabia with the 101st Airborne
Division of the U.S. Air Force.
The four-page letter detailed the conditions in the
Middle    East   —   including   U.S.   troops   having   their
ammunition taken away by military personnel because
"they don't want us to hurt each other" and tenorist
groups within U.S.-occupied structuies with blue prints
"marked where all our air missies are located."
Slockurn said sitting down to read the letter didn't help.
"You could've knocked me over by blowing on me. My
heart went right down to my shoes," she said.
Alter the initial shock wore oil", Slockurn said she went
looking for help, including contacting local television
station Channel i>. WNEM.
See CONFLICT Paye 2
LIFE MratoVChria Bfcka
Chip Asmus, Royal Oak senior and U.S. Army reserves officer, worries that he will
be one of the first CMU students sent to Saudi Arabia.
Reserve, officer cringes
every time phone rings ,
by KRIS BANFIELD    < yv*
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Some phone calls are just not welcome.
Chip Asmus got one of those last week.
An officer in his battalion of the Army
reserves called asking if he would
volunteer to go to the Persian Gulf.
Asmus could have answered that
question three ways: yes. no. or no, but
I'll think about it.
Asmus, Royal Oak senior,  responded
no — quite decidedly.
' Although   he   was   given   an   option,
Asmus said he sees a possibility of being
sent if enough people do not volunteer.
"Personally, I wouldn't volunteer to go.
But I guess I would go without
complaining," he said.
.'■"•'■ But the possibility of getting another
call is one he thinks of.  '
"Every time the phone rings, I start to
cringe," he said.
' Asmus is assuming that if he is to be
activated, it will be within two or three
weeks, he said.   ' "        "" *v
"Every day that goes by that I don't get
a phone call, X think my chances of going
are less," he said, adding he is merely
speculating. "I'm trying to make it in my
mind that it's no big deal."
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