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Decade-long dispute ends
Faculty Association
accepts service-fee
agreement with faculty
BY CHERYL JACKSON
Uf E Assistant News Editor
A 10-year-old dispute Tiled by the faculty against
the faculty is finally nearing an end.
The suit. Tiled by the Faculty Association in 1976,
alleges more than 200 faculty members did not
comply with Article 5 of the faculty agreement.
Article 5 states regular CMU faculty members must
Join the union or pay service fees. Service fees are
between 90 and 95 percent the amount paid for
dues.
Members of the Faculty Association accepted an
offer of 40 percent of the service fees incurred during
those 10 years, plus 50 percent of this year's service
fees to settle with 160 current CMU faculty
members Tuesday.
Faculty Association President Ed McKenna) said
FA dues this year are $343 for each member. He
estimates dues were about $130 for the year in
which the suit was Tiled.
The class-action suit names George L. Stengren,
Robert Croll and Robert L. Anthony, but also
includes nearly 300 past and present CMU faculty
members.
Croll. professor of management, and Stengren,
still are employed at CMU. Anthony retired last
year.
Following the Tiling of the suit, a court ordered all
defendants to put the dues that would have been
paid  in an escrow account  If the settlement is
approved, the defendants will get 60 percent of the
amount in the account and 40 percent will go to the
FA for payment of overdue service fees to the union.
The settlement follows a May 21 offer by the
Faculty Association to the faculty members to settle
at 70 percent of the dues owed with interest waived.
The FA's ofTer was met by a counter offer of 40
percent from the faculty June 27.
If the FA won the case in a trial, Croll would have
been required to pay the union $2,900 to cover years
of unpaid service fees. If the settlement is approved
by a judge, he will be required to pay only 40 percent
of that j>Jus 50 percent of the 1986-87 service fees.
The service fee includes expenses which are
non-chargeable under the law — like political
lobbying and organizing," said McKenna, professor
of sociology, anthropology and social work. He added
chargeable expenses include any activity related to
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City fire department
cites crowded Nick's
for 2 code violations
The Mount Pleasant Fire Department cited
the management at Nick's Wagon Wheel, 1111
S. Mission, for allegedly having an overcapacity crowd Wednesday.
LL James Collin, of the Mount Pleasant Fire
Department, said 322 people were at the bar
Wednesday. The posted capacity is 199.
The citation is a violation of Mount Pleasant
fire codes, which were established about five
years ago. Collin said.
*We establish the amount of people allowed
in a place of public assembly," Collin said.
The violation is a misdemeanor. This is the
first time the saloon has been cited for
violating the code, Collin said.
The bar was cleared, and the patrons were
counted as they went out. Collin said the
patrons cooperated.
"We're not doing this to harass," Collin said.
•Whan   tbey  exceed .that   (limit).   th«y  are_
literally violating the safety of the patrons."
■ ■ Collin said the total operation took about
one hour.
Nick Ventimiglia, part-owner of Nick's
Wagon Wheel, said he is hot happy with the
citation.
"It was very unfair," Ventimiglia said.
Ventimiglia said the bar's capacity should be
closer to 250.
•   They're denying us areas that we feel are
legal areas," he said.
A miscount at the door is the reason for
having so many people in the bar, Ventimiglia
said.
Crowds are heavy now because it is the
beginning of the school year, Ventimiglia said.
He said attendance usually tapers ofT as the
semester wears on.
Ventimiglia said his business tapers ofT on
the weekends, and Wednesday is one of the
busiest nights.
Needs assessment plan may
cost University up to $85,000
Scrub-a-dub
BY MARY FRANCIS
LIFE News Editor
The University may spend a»
much as $85,000 for a needs
assessment if the Board of
Trustees follows a committee
recommendation today.
At today's general meeting, the
Board's assessment and development committee plans to recommend the full board gives President Arthur Ellis authorization to
enter a contract that allows up to
$85,000 in expenditures for a
needs assessment.
Acting Provost Janice Reynolds
said the needs assessment,
designed to determine what goals
and concerns CMU should
address, will be conducted by the
Instltttf of Social Re—arch at lb«
University of Michigan.
Also, the committee will recommend approval of "Plan B" — a
guide to a needs assessment and a
timetable for a new presidential
search prepared by Reynolds.
Along with Plan B, the committee
will ask the Board to agree with
six recommendations from faculty
members of an ad-hoc committee
that studied search concerns this
summer.
The institute will direct a
telephone survey of several
groups, which may include
faculty, administrators, board
members. Mount Pleasant
community leaders, alumni and
students.
Reynolds said the expense is
worth the assurance that data is
accurate.
"I would not like to go with a
cheep-method of doing thia,- ehe
said. "If they say that 85 percent
of the students Kay something, we
know that it is between 82 and 87
percent."
However, the Provost's Office
has examined cost-cutting
factors, Reynolds said.
For example, the University
plans to contact students for a
marketing survey, and needs
assessment questions could be
naked at the same time, Reynolds
aaid.
If parents and alumni were not
surveyed, the University could
save about $20,000. Reynolds
said.
The University spent a total of
$76,332.56 on last year's presidential search.
Telephone interviews, which
will be about 12 minutes long and
consist of about 30 questions, will
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Board to vote on meetings proposal
A recommendation to include a call to the public
in future Board of Trustee meetings will be
presented for full board approval today.
The Board's assessment and development
committee plans to recommend the Board approve a
proposed amendment to Article VII, Section 2 of the
bylaws at the Board's general meeting today.
The proposed amendment states at the conclusion
of every board meeting any member of the public
may speak to the Board concerning any matter
relating to the governance of CMU.
Former Faculty Association President Joyce
Henricks filed a lawsuit against the Board of
Trustees on behalf of the FA last spring concerning
open meetings violations charges. The lav-uit
includes a «.-omplaint about the Trustees' refusal to
allow the public to address the board.
At Thursday's committee meeting. President
Arthur Ellis said the call to the public would make it
easier for individuals to address the board.
There are other options to speak to the Board
before that time, but this is a last catch-all," he said.
Procedures lor being placed on the agenda also are
clarified in the proposed document. Individuals have
a right to be placed on the agenda if they file a
written request of appearance prior to the time the
agenda has been made public, the amendment
states.
The agenda usually is mailed two weeks before
the Trustees' meeting.
Article VII, Section 2 currently makes no reference about procedures for being placed on the Board
agenda.
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Students fume over lightless days
BY RICK JAKACKI
LIFE Staff Writer
I JUST HOPf I'M STUDWA/6 TtfrT RiQUT CLASS!"
Labor Day is a time ofT for students
from classes, but little did they know it
was also a day off for the electricity.
The problem, though, is the electricity
didn't know it was Labor Day. It's rather
— Labor Days
A high-voltage cable failure caused the
power outage, which started at 10:07 p.m.
Sunday.
Larzelere, Calkins, Trout, Tate, Barnes
and Barnard residence halls, and a portion
of Preston Apartments — buildings A
through D — had their power returned
Thursday at about noon. Electricity to
Robinson Hall returned later that afternoon.
All of the residence halls were to have
their power by early morning Thursday,
but delays ensued.
"We were told Sunday night it would be
back by Monday," said Robinson Hall
resident Jim Ballentine, East Detroit
freshman. "Monday, they told us it'd be on
by Tuesday. Tuesday, they told us by
Thursday. Now we have a sign (in the
lobby) that says 'Don't bother asking when
it'a going to be on.' *
Ballentine and other Robinson residents
are not taking the blackout sitting down.
They have started a petition that will
allow them some sort of refund for their
housing payments.
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LIFELINE
INSIDE
Briefly
The University Theatre production oJ Foxfire' will be shown tonight
st 8 p rrt in Bush Theatre. Tickets arc
$2.50 for students and senior dtttens
snd $4 50 kx non-students.
A roaring success
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Bopp drops in
Denxaac Seat House CMadm vtaatd
c*mpw Wednesday
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INDEX
L*fE-«*e..  page 2
CM-Y0U page3
Comment      .       page4
BJoomCourJy  pag«4
Entertainment    page 6
Big Guy on Campus page 6
PokeRepom pageS
Court R*ports page 9
CodeofConduct page 9
Spoets... page 10
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