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Central
Michigan
MONDAY
September 21. 1987
VOLUME 71. NUMBER 8
MOUNT PLEASANT. Ml 48859
© 1987 CM LIFE
14 PAGES
Discrimination
charge is invalid,
CMU official says
by ROGER MORGENSTERN
LIFE Ed.lor
A CMU official named in a
sexual discrimination suit against
several institutions says there's
no basis for Central's involvement.
Charles Alexander, director of
CMU's Placement and Career
Information Center, is one of 18
people and institutions named in
the suit filed by Jane L. Thocher
Aug. 8 in U.S. Western District
Court of Michigan in Grand
Rapids.
Thocher, a principal of two
elementary schools in the Hart
Public School District, filed the
suit after she was not interviewed
for the district's superintendent
job, even though she applied for
the position. Citing an 1871 civil
rights act. Thocher states in the
suit the board discriminated
against her.
Alexander said Friday that
CMU, three other universities and
the Michigan Association of
School Boards (MASB) were
named in the suit. The groups act
as a consortium for state school
boards in helping them select
superintendent candidates,
including the Hart district, which
had a search last spring.
Local candidates like Thocher,
however, are not considered by the
consortium but instead go directly
through the school board in the
interview process, Alexander said.
Because of this, he said he sees no
way the consortium members can
be found guilty of sexual discrimination against Thocher.
"My   understanding   is   our
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CMU, FA move closer
to contract settlement
by KATHY PETERSEN
UF6 NeA-s Alitor	
After more than seven hours of
negotiations between Faculty
Association and administration
teams Sunday, the number of
issues on the table is narrowing.
John Pfeiffer, FA bargaining
team chairman, said "five or six"
economic and non-economic issues
are on the table and lawyers will
tackle some of those today.
R. William Dunham, associate
vice provost for Faculty Contractual Relations, said lawyers will
look over language in one proposal
today.
Dunham   said   the   two   teams
have agreed to the item in
principle, but want their attorney's "blessing" on the wording.
He said several other parts of
the economic package remain
undecided.
Added English professor
Pfeiffer: "We've still got some
major problems."
Pfeiffer said some of the five or
six issues left are indirectly
economic.
They're pretty important," he
added.
Negotiations are scheduled
again 1:30 p.m. Tuesday.
According   to   a   confidential
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Papal
visit
Pope John
Paul II steps
back after
his papal
address in
Hamtramck
Saturday
during his
Detroit visit.
Please see
related story
page 6.
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Three unions plan protest rally
with singing, speeches, free food
by MARK LaROSA
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SGA stays neutral
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Faculty members, still without a contract, will
sing about their problems in a rally Tuesday in
front of Park Library.
Faculty Association President Charles Eiszler
said the rally will take place by the fountain in
front of the library from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday.
He said the FA Crisis Committee has Int-n
planning the event for the past I1/.- weeks.
Kis/ler said there will Ik* free food, singing and
speeches.
Scheduled to speak are Eiszler, Rosie Nedrie.
Staff Association president, and Joyce Davis,
Supervisory-Technical Employees president.
Eiszli-r, professor of teacher education and
professional development, said he is not sure if
any other people will In- speaking.
"Basically, the rally will serve as a forum for
the three bargaining groups to support each
other," Eiszler said. "We had about 250 to 260
faculty at the last meeting. I hope we get that
many faculty out there Tuesday."
He said there will bo song sheets passed out at
the rally so everybody can join in the singing.
Vernon Schubel. assistant professor of religion.
will also provide music, and some faculty
memliers contributed their own personal folk
recordings for the event.
"We have music with Vern. and several faculty
have donated some Pete Seeger records." Eiszler
said.
He said if the weather is bad the rally will In-
postponed.
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Horror stories
Instructors share their tales of students' motivation woes
by YVONNE C. CLAES
I   ft   St iM '.Vi '.a
U-Park company to break ground
by DR. BASSO
Hit  Sr.iM \\< *.-r
The first company to purchase
land at University Park has
planned a small groundbreaking
ceremony Wednesday for its top
executives and other prominant
state and University figures.
CMK Corporation, the first
company to locate at the park,
plans to build a
40.000-square-foot factory in
Phase II in time to begin operations by next summer.
The facility will cost lietween $3
and $"> million to build. ("ME
Ivought the property for $60,000
plus $25,000 for the infrastructure during the summer.
Clark Searle, CME executive
vice-president, said the groundbreaking will be a private
ceremony for invited guests only.
"We're going to have al>out 100
people as guests." he said.
Top executives from both of
CME'.*. parents. Walbro Corporation of Cass City and Mitsuha
Electric Manufacturing of Japan.
are expected to attend the
ceremony, Searle said.
Other invited guests include
CM17 President Arthur Ellis.
State Sen .John Engler. K-Mount
Pleasant arid U.S. Kep Hill
Schuette. K-Sanford.
George Dunn, Mid-Michigan
Development Corporation
(MMDC i director, said most of the
other guests will be MMDC
employees.
MMDC i> a non-profit company
that attempts to stimulate the
economy by finding businesses to
locate in the Mount Pleasant area.
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He's around the corner or he's the person one
seat over in English class.
Perhaps lie's even in the mirror.
He utters such statements as. "My brother had a
mental breakdown. Oh. and my parents got
divorced."
Who is he? He's the college procrastinator and the
class skipper.
You may have all ready noticed him in some of
your classes. One thing is certain - professors deal
with him every semester.
"I had a student who missed the last six weeks of a
semester." Spanish instructor Dorothy Colby said.
"He came tn the day liefore the final and told me
he listened to seven instructional tapes in 30
minutes. Each tape is 20 minutes long.
"I asked him if he had the recorder on fast
forward." she said.
c
She also said the student gave a "worse than soap
opera excuse" for his lax attendence.
"He told me that his brother had a mental
breakdown, his parents got divorced, and then his
mother left town," Colby said.
Colby's advice to students, particularly those
taking a foreign language, is to attend class, because
it is easy to fall behind.
Sociology professor Carl .Johnson has encountered
similar students
"I had a student who ended up with a negative
numlier for his test scon- total," .Johnson said.
Johnson said he gives 10-point quizzes to his
introductory class every Friday. If a student misses
a test, then the next week's test counts as double
minus one point, if he misses two then the next test
is worth double minus two, he said.
"One student missed seven tests," Johnson said.
"On the last test he only scored a 5 making his grand
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Inside
LIFE
New contract
First time
WEATHER     BRIEFLY
Public   broadcasting
ratifies contract
union
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Family affair
Soccer   team   keeps   U   of
from sconngat Rose Field
Abnormal
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Reggae's   Ipso   Facto   brings
brotherly love to its music
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Spikers' play below par;
dropStWO
CMU
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Cloudy today with showers likely,
highs near 60. Mostly cloudy tonight
with a chance of showers, lows in the
upper 40s. Partly cloudy Tuesday
with a slight chance of showers and
highs near 60.
The Presidential Screening
Committee will meet today at 1:15
p.m. in the Board of Trustees office
in the upper level Bovee Unrversity
Center.