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Apd29,1987
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Student files sexual-harassment complaint
BY BETH MENGE
UFE News Edtor
A CMU student haa filed a formal sexual-
harassment complaint against a CMU faculty
member.
And another person brought an unrelated
informal sexual-harassment complaint to University offidala.
Affirmative Action Officer Marshall Rose said the
student filed the complaint with his office about 1V4
weeks ago.
He declined to comment on the faculty member's
department or the gender of either the student or
faculty member.
Officials to probe formal charge against faculty
"We're proceeding according to our grievance
procedures in terms of pursuing it," Roee said.
He added University officials will be interviewing
people connected with the complaint within the next
few weeks.
He said R. William Dunham, associate vice
provost for faculty contractual relations, will be
involved in the investigation because a faculty
member is named in the complaint
Dunham declined comment Tuesday.
Rose said an informal sexual-harassment
complaint alao has been reported to University
officials.
Rose said he is not handling the complaint and
would not name the person handling the informal
complaint He declined further comment
"It's being handled by someone else. Hopefully in
the next few days it will probably be resolved.*
Rose said he hopes the formal complaint is
resolved within a few weeks.
"We're just really getting underway. I doubt it
would be done this week," Rose said. "We have to
work around achedules to gat meeting*.*
Rosa aaid University policy provides fbr a faculty
member to have a hearing after tha investigation
with a Faculty Aaaodation or other representative
preeent
In an earlier interview, Dunham aaid a faculty
member who breake the Univeraity sexual-
harassment policy would face sanctiona ranging
from a reprimand or reduction in rank to termination.
Susan Repp, aasistant vice president for Student
Affairs, said Tueaday ahe was not awara of a
sexual-harassment complaint filed against a faculty
member.
Roll-over
Ann L. Griffith. 20. Big Rapids, reported minor Injuries Monday
after tha vehicle she was driving struck a dear, than rolled over
and struck a tree, an Isabels County SberifTe Department
am urtrmmrmm Ima
spokeswoman said. Tha accident occurred at 9:30 p.m. on west
M-20 naar Deerfieid Park, she said.
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Student arrested for
alleged sexual assault,
arraigned on 2 counts
BY SANDRA K. WHITE
LIFE SiaM Wnter
A male CMU student was charged with second- and third-degree
criminal sexual assault Tuesday for allegedly assaulting a woman in
her apartment Saturday.
Paul Orin Byro, 22, of 107E Forum Apartments, 950 Appian Way,
was arrested and arraigned in the Isabella County 76th District Court
Tuesday, said Martin Trombley, Mount Pleasant City Police Chief.
Byro, Kaleva senior, was released on $50,000 personal recognizance
bond, city dispatcher Sue Nault said.
Trombley said the alleged assault took place within city limits, but
said he would not comment about when or where it took place. He said
the incident was reported at 3 p.m. Saturday.
The victim is "in her 20s," Trombley said. He would not release any
circumstances surrounding the incident.
Police submitted the case Tuesday to the Isabella County
Prosecutor's Office, he said.
Trombley said he did not know if the victim was a CMU student.
"My biggest concern in dealing with cases like this is the victim. We
rely on the victim in successful investigation of these matters,"
Trombley said.
Parking-grdblem protest ends Mp
all Wet for Tata Hall residents
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.The threat of April showers
in Tate JFlaH may bring action
on parking probSems. ■ •
Tate : Hall residents had
•chiednled to turn their showers
on at 8 a.m. today, and keep the
cold water.running until they
got a response from tha University about overcrowding in
residence hall parking lota.
- Organiser Tom Tracy aaid
out at approximately 73 rooms
In Tate Hall, he had expected
about 95 percent of them to
participate  in  the  scheduled
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put the showers were "indefinitely  postponed" after Tata
. Hafi reddest Tracy met with>
.CMU oflidal Sfoeaday:. ,;
', Tracy, Saginaw junior, aaid
he met with James HID, v*e*
prudent of Student Affairs, to
diaeuia" the  residence hall
tha
dwellers'
parking alt»tat test V: ■*.
About 84 Tata and. Bernard
hall,ftaehman N*w* notified.
March 27 they would hav« *»i
park their can ia hot 62, hear
'Rose  Arena,   because'tbe
residence-ball lots were l-JL " -:
"OBU) made -acne, ntcgaa-
Uons for dealing with tfca
problem aad aaid he'd do the
beat he could to help. He waa
really cooperative,* Tracy aaid.
HiH euggeeted attending .a
forum, which Department ."of
Public Safety Director John
McAulifTe ia scheduled to
conduct Thuraday frwa 33*0 to
5 {un. in the St Clair Roa? bf
the Bevae Univeraity Cent^f.
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Library head responds to cuts protest
BY MARK ALLEN
LIFE Assistant News Edtof
CMU's director of libraries
attempted to explain Monday
plans to cut library periodicals 14
percent — but at least one department chairman says he's not
convinced.
John Weatherford, associate
professor of library, spoke for
about an hour Monday to the
college of Arts and Sciences
Dean's Advisory Council — made
up of the college's department
chairpersons. Weatherford was
responding to the council's April
16 memo protesting the cuts.
But Richard Fleming, one of the
memo's authors, said he didn't
think council members were
impressed with Weatherford'a
reasoning.
The mood was one of frustration and simply not being
convinced," said Fleming, mathematics department chairman. "I
guess we didn't see any significant
cuts anyplace else."
Arts and Sciences Dean Myron
Henry said despite the meeting.
"The mood was one of frustration and simply not
being convinced."
—Richard Fleming,
mathematics department chairman
there still is concern.
The council asked Henry to
extend an invitation to President
Arthur Ellis and Acting Provost
Janice Reynolds to attend the next
Dean's Advisory Council meeting.
They want to express very
directly their continuing concern
about cuts in the library," Henry
said.
Ellis, responding to a question
at Tuesday's Academic Senate
meeting, said problems with
library holdings need long-term
solutions — not a one-time
emergency allocation.
"It needs a solution that isn't
putting our Finger in the dike and
having the same thing happen
next year. We've got to find a
solution to the long-term
problem," he said.
Reynolds, at the same meeting,
said the library has been offering
short-term    solutions    to    the
increased cost of periodicals — to
the detriment of other things.
"Now it's at the point that the
short-term fix hasn't worked," she
said.
Weatherford 6aid the council
members come from diverse
backgrounds and had many different opinions on the planned cuts.
He said he did not know how
successful he was in convincing
the council of the necessity of
cutting periodicals.
"It's hard to tell with a group
like that because it's so heterogeneous," he said.
Weatherford passed around a
handout comparing projected
library expenditures for the
1986-87 and 1987-88 academic
years.
The handout shows the books
and periodical share of total CMU
library expenditures decreasing
from 29.1 to 28.3 percent The 14
percent cut in periodicals would
represent a drop of $91,000 —
from $650,000 to $559,000.
The money spent on books, the
document shows, would increase
$40,000 — from $188,000 to
$228,000.
Mathematics professor Fleming1
said the problem is CMU does not
place a high-enough priority on
books and periodicals. He said the
level of periodicals should be
maintained despite increasing
costs.
"Where I differ with Mr. Weatherford and others perhaps is just
because that's the thing that's
going up, you don't cut it,"
Fleming said. "If the utility bills
go up you have to meet them."
Fleming said current library
holdings are "minimal."
The University is underfunded
in a lot of ways. This is one place
the underfunding is significant,"
he said.
Fleming said the University
should maintain a minimum level
of holdings regardless of the
increases.
Administrators set to
finalize Wheeler Hall
conflict investigation
Administrators started a report Monday about
what they believe occurred at an alleged racially-
motivated conflict in Wheeler Hall April 2.
Laura Gonzales, director of the Office of Minority
Affairs, said investigators still have to finalize their
decision about who was to blame for the incident,
and whether or not it was racially motivated.
She said they also are deciding whether or not to
press charges against any students who may have
broken the student code of conduct
Gonzales said the report should be finished by the
end of this week. She aaid they recorded the events
that took place, according to the people interviewed. I
In an earlier interview Gonzales said she hoped
the groups would reach a decision by Tuesday or
Wednesday. However, the interviews were taking
longer than expected because some of the people
needed to be called back in, and it was difficult to get
all the investigators together at once.
The report will include every version of the
incident, and each side's story will be printed in the
report for fairness.
"If two people conflict we will print both stories (in
the report)," Gonzales said. "You know how it goes,
some people said this, but some other people said
this, and we try and report both sides of the story."
She said they are using the interviewees' descriptions of what occurred that evening, as well as
events that happened prior to the conflict that may
have led to problems between the women involved.
There were situations that happened before that
led to the event We want to determine (what the
climate was) between the two students," Gonzales
said.
The conflict involved Lansing freshman Karla
Allen, a black student, and her white neighbors.
After finding a sign that read "bitch" and aome
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