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Friday. February 28, 1966
CMU merger stalled by differences
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by BOGKH MORGEN8TERN
LIFE Copy Editor
Construction of a successful polymer science affiliation with
Michigan Molecular Institute has hit a road block bat CMU officials
hope the problem la only temporary.
MMI officials have raised three concerns during affiliation
diacuasiona. Tha pointa, aa outlined in a memo from University
Counsel Eileen Jennings, are the autonomy of Michigan Molecular
Institute, financial authority of CMU Tor MMI, and the status of MMI
personnel in relation to CMU's academic programs.
The problem waa discussed Wednesday during the. Board of
Trustees Academic Affairs Committee meeting.
Graduate Studies Dean Douglas Friedrich aaid following a Feb. 19
meeting of the Academic Senate Graduate Programs in Polymer
Science Subcommittee "concerns were expressed from MMI research
faculty" regarding three "generic issues."
FViedrich aaid he feels a sense of cooperation exists between the two
aides and he would like to resolve the problems before July while work
on the curricular aspects of the affiliation continue.
Friedrich aaid he would like the committee to continue iu review of
cujTicular programs as long aa the two sides discuss the three sticking
pointa in the agreement
"I think myeelf and Art (Ellis). (MMI) Director (John) Hoffman and
Ted Doan (MMI Board chairman) can put together a proposal which
will make recommendations to both boards, the CMU board and the
MMI board, in terms of the interpellations and conditions. I dont think
there haa to be a confrontation, but I do think we're well into two years
under   the   affiliation   and   these   issues   have   never   been
clarified... there was this "wait and see' attitude and I-m convinced
these issues have to be addressed ... I think it'a past post time for
these institutions to look at these issues,* Friedrich aaid.
Friedrich added he does not expect the original affiliation
agreement signed in April 1984 will be terminated, but rather a
clarification of the three issues is needed.
"I think the clarifications of these issues really is in the beat interest
of CMU, MMI and the affiliation. The longer you have ambiguity, the
longer people from various institutions can proceed in an affiliation of
having different interpetatlons and then ail of the sudden, an issue
arises and they clash. My view is simply try to avoid that crisis
mediation, if you will, and have the issue solved now," he said.
Friedrich said the MMI faculty members expressed concern about
ISee "MMI*—peg* 11
Search committee
sets first meeting
since appointment
by SHERRY YAEK
LIFE Editor
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Hey Boo Boo
Yogi and Boo Boo Bear greeted many of the
mora than 1,000-students who participated in
the 12th annual Summer Recreation Employment Day in Finch Fieldhouse Wednesday
afternoon. Representatives from more than 100
summer recreation programs nationwide came
to recruit students for summer employment. At
tha sessions students got to compare camps
and their activities.
Troubled by rumors about what
really happened during the
pursuit for a University leader,
the Presidential Search
Committee will host a meeting
Wednesday.
Spurred by recent comments
published in local newspapers,
committee member Carole Beere
said the meeting is necessary to
explain procedures the group
followed in narrowing its 118
candidates to five.
"The reason we arc having the
meeting is to explain to the
University community what we
did — to allow people to check the
accuracy of the stories they've
heard or read," Beere said when
she announced the meeting
Thursday night.
Beere organized tha meeting —
the first such committee gathering
Ellis may announce
advisory committee
by RANDY LOVELY
LIFE Managing Editor
President Arthur Ellis soon may establish a faculty advisory
committee to discuss selection of an acting provost, but one campus
constituency group may attempt to delay implementation.
Ellis told Board of Trustees Academic Affairs Committee members
Wednesday he hopes to announce development of an "internal
advisory committee for the selection of academic officers."
Following a meeting with the Academic Senate Executive Board two
weeks ago to discuss replacement of retiring Provost John Cantelon,
Ellis will meet again today with the group.
During Wednesday's committee meeting Ellis said, "Friday (today)
is the earliest to go public" with the advisory plan suggested by
senator Martha Smith.
»See "Provost"-—page 11
open to the public this school year
— Thursday and said 10 of 11
campus constituents in the group
had been contacted and agreed to
attend. One member was out of
town. Committee Chairman
Dennis Thavenet has agreed to be
present, while the Board of
Trustee members on the
committee were not invited,
Beere, professor of psychology,
said.
"Of the committee members, the
board members. have not been
asked to participate. The feeling is
it's the on-campus constituents
who will be attending and it seems
most appropriate the on-campus
committee members answer their
questions," Beere said.
"Our concern is that board
members have made comments in
the paper ... which are leading
people to false conclusions."
Beere   would   not   be   specific
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Trustee admits closed search meetings were a mistake
by SANDRA SUTTON
LIFE Ass't. News Editor
As a JRN 500: "Press and
Society" class listened
Wednesday, a member of both the
Board of Trustees and the
Presidential Search Committee
clarified actions the organizations
took during the search procedure.
Mitch Kehetian. board and
search committee member, said
closed sessions conducted
throughout the seven-month
search process were a mistake.
*. . .The mesa we got into here
in this town was from the very
first meeting when we closed the
meeting," Kehetian said. "It used
to burn me when the
reporters . . . had to follow us
around, tell us what happened
and it all started at our first
meeting."
Kehetian said when he was first
appointed to the search committee
he asked why meetings would be
closed. He was told committee
members would be discussing
"something of a sensitive nature."
"Ill tell you what was so sensitive at the meeting . .. affirmative
action," he said. The affirmative
action officer for campus was
going to speak about affirmative
action and tell us. These are the
things you had better do so you
don't screw up.' I thought affirmative action was out in the open."
The sessions would be closed
because the committee would
review names, Kehetian was told.
Kehetian, managing editor of the
Macomb Daily, said he was
"suckered into" a sworn oath of
confidentiality because he did not
want to damage the reputation of
a   candidate   "who   may   have
fingers in other campuses.
However, Kehetain said, the
committee did not review names
until months into the search
process.
"It was almost three months
before candidates started sending
in their resumes," he said. "Who
set the entire concept into motion?
Who was the chair of the
screening committee? Ask
professor (Dennis) Thavenet."
After Kehetian's nomination
and support of Phillip Runkel,
state superintendent of Public
Instruction,   "a   shouting   match
erupted in the screening
committee meeting." Committee
members accused Kehetian of
"conspiracy."
Kehetain was told, "This proves
conspiracy, the final act of the
conspiracy. Now we know why you
were appointed ... If you people
on the board think the board's
candidate, Phil Runkel, will
become president of this University, all h— will break loose on
this campus."
Kehetian made a plea for open
meetings in the future.
"If these   meetings   had   been
open, then the press would have
reported it, the mist ruths would
not have gotten out," he said.
Kehetian argued if the media
had been allowed in committee
meetings, speakers would have
been more careful of what they
said and would have backed it up
with evidence.
President Arthur Ellis,
Kehetian said, is the victim of the
process.
"Regretfully. Art Ellis is a pawn
in a struggle that should have
never materialized," Kehetian
said.
LIFE-line
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News Brief-
University Health Services will be closed all day March 12.
The facilities will otherwise remain open during regular hours
throughout Spring break.
Weather        Index
Mostly sunny Friday. Highs LIFE-wire page 2
lower  to   mid-20s.   Mostly CM-You page3
cloudy   north   Friday  night Comment P*ge4
with a chance of snow. Mostly Bloom County page 4
dear south.  Lows  10 to 15 Entertainment page 6
southeast,   teens   elsewhere. Spotlife page 10
Partly   cloudy   to   cloudy Police Reports page 10
Saturday  with  a  chance  of Court Reports page 10
light snow north. Highs low Code of Conduct page 10
30a. Sports page 12
Claasifieda.— — page 14
Kehetian responds to criticism
from candidate for presidency
by MARY FRANCIS
LIFE News Editor
Feeling like "a flogged good Samaritan," one Board
of Trustees member clarified he did not refuse to
meet a presidential candidate.
Joan Wadlow, one of five finalists recommended
by the Presidential Search Committee, wrote a
letter to Trustee Mitch Kehetian last week
expressing dissatisfaction with Kehetian's alleged
comments about her qualifications, and claims the
trustee had refused to meet with her.
In response, Kehetian, Macomb Daily managing
editor, wrote Wadlow, interim vice president for
Academic Affairs at the University of Wyoming,
saying he did not refuse to meet her.
*1 welcomed the opportunity, provided you could
again fly into OUare in Chicago. I could not take the
chance, becauae of work, to fly into Wyoming and get
stuck in a snow storm," Kehetian wrote.
Wadlow also questioned information attributed to
Kehetian in a Feb. 9,1986 Detroit Free Press article.
The article stated Kehetian said the board bypassed
the five finalists because none had been an
administrator for more than two years.
Wadlow said she has had 16 years of administrative experience. Kehetian said the attribution was
incorrect. As stated in his letter, during his
interview with the reporter, he answered "... of the
five only Dr. Thomas Wallace of Old Dominion had
served for more than two years as a VICE
PRESIDENT."
Kehetian said Tuesday Wadlow was under the
impression he was directly quoted in the article. The
writer's paraphrasing resulted in a misinterpretation, he added.
Affirmative Action Officer Cami Zawacki said she
has reviewed documentation of the search committee's process up to the selection of the finalists. She
aaid she saw no evidence of discrimination.
ISee "AmrmaUva-—p-age 11
Local man
accused of
by BETH MENGE
LIFE StafT Writer
A Mount Pleasant man was
charged Tuesday with embezzling $59,235.48 from New
Century Bank.
In an unrelated case, a
Mount Pleasant woman was
charged with embezzling leas
than $100 from Family Federal
Savings and Loan.
Six other bank employees
from Bay, Saginaw, Huron,
Tuscola and Alpena counties
were charged with embezzlement of various amounts.
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