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FRIDAY
September 11, 1987
VOLUME 71. NUMBER 5
MOUNT PLEASANT. Ml 48859
« 1987 CM LIFE
14 PAGES
Campus
gets 911
service
by WENDY GENZER
LIFE Staff Wnter
CMU students and faculty will
be able to reach police and fire
officials on a new emergency
service telephone number beginning Oct. 1.
Anyone in trouble can soon dial
911 from all 5,000 campus
telephones and directly reach
Department of Public Safety
officials, Telecommunications
Department Director Ken
Johnson said.
Jerry Tubbs, vice president for
Business and Finance, said the
new system grew from a proclamation Gov. James Blanchard
sent out, calling today — the 11th
day of the ninth month — "911
Day."
He said there has been an
on-going effort for several years to
make the 911 service a nationally
recognized emergency number,
which would be connected to local
police departments around the
country.
The service will only cover
campus telephones. Neither
Mount Pleasant nor Isabella
County are involved in the
program, he said.
Tubbs said Department of
Public Safety Director John
McAulifTe read the proclamation
and began investigating the possibility of adding the service to
CMlTs phone system.
Johnson said Telecommunications developed the hardware and
software for the system, so the
cost to the University will be
minimal.
DPS Captain Ron Williams said
he thinks the system is a good idea
because people often don't
remember the DPS phone
number.
"A lot of times people don't have
the time to look for the number,
but 911 is generally known as an
emergency   service   number."
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University hires
multi-cultural
planning director
by CHRIS MURRAY
LIFE Copy Editor
A multi-cultural center
planning director has been hired,
moving the proposed $125,000
center a little closer to reality.
Ulana Klymyshyn, former
associate professor of sociology,
anthropology and social work, was
offered the position last week after
a two-month search, said Mary
Senter, assistant vice provost for
Planning, Research and Development. Klymyshyn could not be
reached for comment Thursday.
She started in her position
Tuesday and is setting up a
temporary office in Foust 250.
Senter added.
Hiring a director and a clerical
person in the next few weeks, are
part of the first step in a phased
plan for eventually establishing a
multi-cultural center on campus.
Other objectives included in
Phase One are finding office space
and creating a budget, Senter
said. A starting budget for the
1987-88 academic year has been
set at $15,000, with equipment
and student assistance budgets
set at $2,000 each, she added.
"My sense is that the main
budget will be used to bring
speakers and programs to
campus, which faculty and the
community can use to fulfill the
programming center's purpose,"
Senter said.
The plan states the center's
purpose and function is "to
encourage the understanding of,
respect for and pride in cultural
diversity within the Central
Michigan University campus
community."
"The expectation is that after a
year or so, the director will be able
to evaluate whether staffing and
budget are appropriate for goals,
and if there's a need to change it,
that will be Phase Two," Senter
said.
Phase Three includes moving
the office to a more centrally
located academic building with
more space and eventually establishing a cultural center building,
she said.
The center plan calls for
2,900-square feet of space that
would include office space,
meeting rooms, a lounge area and
a kitchen and dining area —
which also could serve as a
meeting space, the plan states.
James Hill, vice president for
Student Affairs, and Acting
Provost Janice Reynolds gave
preliminary administrative
approval for the center in April,
while President Arthur Ellis
approved the plan later in the
spring.
Klymyshyn has been employed
at CMU since 1984. She previously
taught anthropology at Witchita
State University in Kansas and at
the University of California-Santa
Barbara.
She also has taught in Italy.
Germany and Peru, while her
research interests have focused on
Latin America, Senter said.
Klymyshyn received her doctorate at Harvard in Boston, and
her undergraduate degree at the
University of Michigan, based in
Ann Arbor.
Hill said several factors were
involved in his and Reynolds'
decision to offer Klymyshyn the
position.
"Based on my views on how the
goals and objectives can best be
reached, the fact that she's done
extensive research, her experience
on the faculty is essential as the
success of the program depends
largely on the involvement of the
faculty to make efforts to incorporate the center's resources within
the curriculum," Hill said.
Minority Affairs assistant
director search continues
by CHRIS MURRAY
HIE-  L\>py rdtor
Thi' search for a new assistant
director of the office of Minority
Affairs will come one step closer to
completion this afternoon with the
application deadline.
Former Assistant Director
Janice Milliard left CMU in
August to accept a position as a
counselor at Webber Middle
School in Saginaw.
I-aura Gonzales, director ofthe
office of Minority Affairs, said the
assistant director position was
added in 1985 because the office's
workload demanded more than
one person.
"There are so many things to do
to meet the goals i>f this office that
it wouldn't In.' done if there wasn't
an assistant." she said.
The position was advertised in
the CMU Newsletter, the Detroit
News and the Chronicle of Higher
Education three weeks ago, she
said.
She added she hopes the search
for Hilliard's successor will be
concluded as soon as possihle.
"Susan Repp (assistant vice
president for Student Affairs) and
I will meet early next week to go
over the applications and then
hopefully well start setting up
interviews," she said.
"1 haven't even checked to see
how many we've gotten yet. We
won't get to that until the
deadline," she said.
The requirements li-.ted for the
position include a bachelor's
degree and a sensitivity to the
issues facing the minority
community.
The main focus ofthe assistant
director's job is working with
minority student organizations
and individuals to help them
adjust to life in Mount Pleasant
and at CMU, Gonzales said.
"Retention of students already
on campus is the biggest goal for
this office." she added
The person filling the position
also may assist in coordinating
minonty high school students'
visits to CMU and meeting with
them, she said.
To fulfill the office of Minority
Affairs' goiils. Gonzales said she
needs an assi>tant. She added two
of these goals are to promote the
need for cultural diversification of
the student body and local
community, and to have students
make use of the office of Minority
Affairs more often.
"Just stopping by and talking
with any one of us before there is a
problem can make things go easier
over the rough periods." she said
Her third major goal is to
increase minority alumni involvement, she said.
Protest could affect presidential search
by ROGER MORGENSTERN
l iff  M tor
and MARK ALLEN
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If it continues. Faculty
Association's withholding of
non-instructional services
outside the classroom could
affect the presidential search
process, officials say.
The Presidential Screening
Committee was unable to
convene its regular weekly
meeting Tuesday Incause there
were not enough people present
for a quorum Of the
16-meml>er committee, onlv six
people attended. Nine members
are needed for a quorum.
Committee Chairman
Donald Bertsch and mathematics professor Douglas Nance
were the faculty members
present. Eight faculty members
are on the committee.
Three student committee
memtiers also were not present
— one of whom said he stayed
away from the meeting to show
support ofthe faculty members
in their contract negotiations
with the University.
The FA voted to begin
withholding   non-instructional
services outside the classroom
from Sept. 8 until a contract is
reached. The FA contract
expired June 30 and negotiations began in April. A mediation session is scheduled today
at 1:30 p.m.
Counseling professor Bertsch
said as committee chairman he
is "caught in the middle." He
said he feels allegiance to the
administration because he is
committee chairman, but also
supports the FA position.
"It's a difficult thing because
I am faculty and I've always
been a member of the union."
he said.
Bertsch added he knew in
advance enough faculty would
stay away so a quorum would
not be present.
Although not an FA member,
Nance said he personally
respects FA's stance on
witholding all
non-instructional services. He
said he hopes bringing in a
mediator today will result "in a
reasonable settlement in a
reasonable short period of
time."
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FA members feel 'underpaid'
compared to administrators
by MARK LaROSA
LIFE
M Nt-.'.s L
Faculty Association will file for a job action investigation
Saturday ifa contract agreement is not reached between the two
teams today, said FA President Charles Eiszler.
A job action investigation is the first step in calling for a strike.
Meanwhile, many faculty members perceive themselves as
unappreciated and underpaid, while administrators make well
above the national average salary, Eiszler. professor of teacher
education and professional development said.
Eiszler   said   the   general   attitude   of   the   faculty   is   not
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Clerical contract talks on hold
as union opts for fact-finding
by KATHY PETERSEN
LIFE Nev.s Editor	
A contract could be several months away for the CMU Staff
Association, but Supervisory Technical Association members
could reach an agreement next week.
Staff Association members had a mediator July 23 and
requested fact-finding, but Staff Association President Rosalyn
Nedry said a date has not been set.
The Michigan Employment Relations Commission has to
approve fact-finding and set a date. That date could be several
months away, she said.
Maxine Tubbs, acting assistant vice president for Human
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