1986-07-30; Central Michigan Life

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VoL 69 No. 98
01986CMUFE
Mount Pleasant, Michigan 48869
12 Pages
Wednesday, July 30. 1986
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Board ratifies $84 million budget
THE 1986-87 BUDGET
Ml/here the money
came from
1
S Amount
%
Dept & Act-vity Revenue
$1,093,400
1.3%
Overhead Recovery
13.164.157
15 6%
Investment Revenue
770.000
09%
Tuition and Fees
24.215.801
286%
Parking Revenue
334.500
04%
Net Stare Appropriations
45.884.823
532%*
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Where the money Is going4
$ Amount
%
Instruct fon
S36.617.049
43%
Retirement and Fringe Benefits
11.920.400
14%
Institutional Support
11.427.100
135%
Operation and Maintenance of Plant
8.446.000
10%
Student Sen-ces
6.723.900
8%
Academic Support
5.038.400
6%
Scholarships and Fellowships
2.241.300
2 6%
Research
1.085.900
1.3%
Other
1 6%
•General Fund Budget
by MARK ALLEN
LIFE Ass't News Editor
1%e Board of Trustees approved CMlTs $84
rniOioo budget for 1986-87 and Gov. James
Blanchard signed legislation to pay for more than
half that amount
Blanchard, however vetoed part of the higher
education allocation bill calling for $500,000 for
tha affiliation between CMI) and Michigan
Molecular Inatitota.
A $700,000 appropriation for MMI, part of the
higher education appropriations bill, waa not
affected by Blanchard's veto.
Blanchard said he vetoed the item not on the
basis of the program or the amount, but because
of where the money came from. The amount waa
coming from the budget of the Commerce
Department's "Yes Michigan" campaign,
Blanchard's legislative liaaon Larry Tokarski
said.
"We don't have any problems with the program
al MMI. We don't have any problems with the
dollar amount," Tokarski said.
He said Blanchard will approve the allocation If
the Legislature includes it in a supplemental
appropriations bill without the Department of
Commerce picking up the tab.
"We don't believe this will create any problems
or delays (for MM!)." Tokarski said.
The Dow Corning Corporation offered to assist
the affiliation if the state does not provide tbe
necessary money. MMI Director John Hoffman
told tha Board of Tmeteea' Finance Committee
Dow would be the guarantor in the sale of 16-year
bonds.
"That's a show of confidence that will be really
hard to forget- There are very determined people
behind this." he said
Hoffman alao told the Board of the affiliation's
progress. He said the Institute received $200,000
in federal grants and $125,000 in industrial
grants, and two applications for patents were
submitted.
"I think what you're sensing here is an
increased presence of MMI on the national and
international scene," he told the Finance
Committee.
Six graduate courses with 136 registered
students were taught last year, he said. Many of
the students were affiliated with Dow, HofTman
said.
The 1986-87 CMU budget is $6,502,288, or 8 32
percent, larger than last year's budget, which was
a 5 3 percent increase over 1984-85.
Fifty-three   percent  of CMlTs   revenues,  or
sSee "Budget"—page 12
Ad-hoc gets plan for presidential search
byPATHOUSLEY 	
LIFE Editor
Although a proposal submitted to Board of Trustees
Friday may lead eventually to a presidential search
committee, the first step in the plan would be to
conduct a needs assessment.
The proposal, submitted by Acting Provost Janice
Reynolds, calls for members ofthe ad hoc committee to
review the plan, and for the selection of a presidential
screening/needs assessment committee sometime in
the fall. It also suggests the use of one or more
facilitators "from outside this community* to promote
getting.this work done by helping people confront the
difficulties head on.
Board members received the proposal, but did not act
on it Friday. However, se%-eral trustees did have
comments about the proposal.
Trustee Mitch Kehetian praised Reynolds for her
plan outlining a needs assessment.
"I'd like to say that it's a positive plan and sends a
message not only in this community, but across the
State, that we're back in business and we have
probably a sound footing ..." he said. "If we had
something like this in the last search I think a lot ofthe
controversy could have been averted."
Reynolds said the plan is "just a proposal to the ad
hoc committee which is scheduled to meet August 4. It
may change, as the committee members have input,"
she said.
The ad hoc committee, made up of three faculty and
throe board of trustee members, has been meeting
throughout the summer to review concerns about the
next presidential search.
The proposal includes a survey of CMU faculty and
staff as well as local community leaders, and also
makes use of existing documents available at CMU
about needs assessments.
ISee "Ad hoc"—page 12
Decades-old 'Country Dancers' is discontinued
by PAT HOUSLEY
LIFE Editor
After 58 years of performances, the CMU
Country Dancers' program is being terminated.
The group, begun by professor emeritus Grace
Ryan in 1929, performed in schools and educational settings to demonstrate dance as an art
form. Ryan, who died July 19 at the Isabella
Medical Care Facility, was a pioneer of American
folk dance.
Carole Howard, physical education professor,
said the program is ending basically because it
has become difficult to get students to become
involved in the arts.
Howard, who took over the Country Dancers in
1972, said students now are more interested in
economics than in a well-rounded life.
"There is a different type of student here now,"
she said. "They are interested in getting in and
getting out. in graduating, in "me first*. But the
students who come back here from years past say
' they don't miss anything but the times they
danced."
Physical Education Chairman Jerry Meisner
said the decision to terminate was made with
regret this past year.
"We have decided to terminate the Country
Dancers," he said. "The areas where they
performed aren't as eager to pay their expenses
and have them come. Students are not as
Interested, either. Carole haa been fighting that
battle for years."
He said students would join the group, Howard
would train them, then they would not be able to
make performances.
"It was frustrating for her (Howard)," he said.
"She just thinks the group has run its course."
Out of 90 auditioners for the dance troupe,
Howard said she would only get about 20
members. But a recent reunion of past Country
Dancers netted 70 persons, she said.
*We invited 250 and 70 came," she said. "We
took out all the desks in the old schoolhouse (on
Preston Road) and made it into a dance hall. We
danced all day and all night."
She said people came from Michigan, Illinois,
Wisconsin, Indiana, Kentucky and Florida for the
reunion.
"One woman just delivered a baby six weeks
ago," she said.
The dancers had such a good time together,
Howard said the dancers voted to hold a two day
festival each year, just to dance.
"Now I have to look around and find a place
where we can meet each year and find places for
them to stay," she said.
The group was viewed as a public relations
group from CMU, Meisner said.
"They would go into settings and highlight
dance," he said. "Members of the group would
also teach at folk dance camps throughout the
United States."
Howard said there may be opportunities to get
together thia fall for thoae who wish to dance.
"Maybe well have some Friday or Thursday
night folk dances and see how they go," she said.
CMU Country Dancers In action.