1982-10-25; Central Michigan Life

              WMHW spot spurs Headlee outrage
by SHEILA QRUBER
LIFE Editor
Reporters do not have the "intellectual ability" lo discuss
economics, so they concentrate on issues such as thc'Equal Rights
Amendment. Richard Headlee said Sunday as public outcry over his
recent interview with WMHW-FM 91 grew.
The   Republican  gubernatorial   candidate   told  a   91   reporter
Thursday that the ERA is mainly concerned with sex and its sup
porters  are  "proponents of  lesbian  marriage,   homosexual   marriage."
Republican and women's group leaders alike have reacted to the
statement with outrage ranging from "disgust" to"inrcnse."
GOP National Committeewoman and Central Trustee Margaret
(Ranny) Rieeker said the candidate's remarks were "shocking and
disgusting ... the issue has gone beyond dealing with, ERA has
become a human rights issue. He shows a total lack of
understanding of what it's all about."
Another local women's rights activist. Ida Meltzer. said she was
"incensed." Meltzer. 318 E. Cherry, a member of the National
Organization for Women, said "it is incomprehensible that someone
who's running for office would make such a stupid statement."
Campus radio reporter Mike Maturen. Saginaw freshman, inter
viewed Headlee over the phone for the station's election series.
Among the routine questions asked in the 25 minute, taped inter
view was: "You have been quoted as saying you do not oppose
women's rights, yet at the same time you are opposed to Ihe ERA.
Could you clarify this?"
In response, the Farmington Hills insurance executive said
women are not mentioned in the ERA. "The sponsors of the ERA
are proponents of homosexual marriage ... things of lhat nature,
which I categorically resist and categorically reject as part of a
basis for a sound society."
(See"Headlee"—page 2)
Central Michigan LIFE
Vol. 64 No. 23
c i«W;»rM LIFE
Mount Pleasant. Mich. 48859
14 pages
Monday. Oct. 25.1982
AFSC M E  may request audit of CMU budget
by JANET HASTINGS
LIFE Managing Editor
To determine if the University is in the financial bind its officials claim is the reason a campus
union may request an audit of CMU's current
operating budget.
Members of the American Federation of State
County and Municipal Employees — the only one
of the six campus unions to refuse to agree to a
University shutdown — has requested and
received copies of the 1981-82 and 1982-83 CMU
operating   budgets,    said    Roger   Smith,   staff
representative for Council 25 AFSCME.
"We (the local AFSCME union) received a copy
of the budgets a week ago and have sent them to
our national office in Washington. D.C.. where
they will be looked at to determine if we should
send an auditor in to look at the books." Smith
said.
Refusal by AFSCME to sign the letter of agreement, which forces employees to take a four-day
vacation during the shutdown, will result in the
layoff of most of 400 members of the group.
The shutdown will take place Dec. 22 and 23
and Jan. 3 and 4.1983.
It is hoped the shutdown will reduce energy
costs and help offset more than $1.5 million in
state aid callbacks since October 1981.
This action follows the Oct. 5 filing of a
grievance against the University by AFSCME.
The grievance claims the layoff procedure
outlined in the shutdown agreement is "an erosion of the seniority rights" negotiated in the
group's present contract." Smith said.
"If we do audit it will be for our own general information." Smith said. "We want lo see if the
University is as broke as they say they are."
AFSCME made its request in the form of a let
ter to the University. The tetter was referred to
Jerry Tubbs, vice president for business and
finance who forwarded copies of the budget with
an accompanying letter to the union, according to
Terry Stoner. director of Personnel and Staff
Relations.
Stoner said included in AFSCME's letter was a
request for some information which would be expensive and time-consuming to put together — including receipts and disbursements for expenditures already made.
(See "Grievance"—page 8)
Biker killed
A 20-year-old Isabella County
resident died Sunday night after
the bicycle she was riding was
struck from behind by a vehicle
driven by a Mount Pleasant man
in the 6600 block of East Broomfield Road.
Sgt. Frank Stevens of the
Isabella County Sheriff's Department said the woman apparently
was riding east in the middle of
the road when she was hit by a
cms* Oi I veil tiy o man close to 18
years old."
The impact threw the woman
into a ditch approximately 50 feet
from where the un-lrt bicycle
came to rest.
Deputy Barry DeLau said the
woman was not a CMU student
and the man. also not from CMU.
currently has not been charged
with a crime.
No    further    information    was
available at press time.
CSSuet/Km.Srm
Haggart
lifetime
lock up
by DALEKILLINGBECK
LIFE Staff Writer
HARRISON — Robert Lee Haggart this week begins living the
rest of his life in a si x-by-nine-foot cell.
Haggart — convicted of murdering his estranged wife Garnetta
and six members of her family — Friday was sentenced to serve
seven consecutive life prison terms by Judge Tyrone Gillespie in
Clare County Circuit Court.
Gillespie also ordered Haggart to serve 30 to 50 years for the at
tempted murder of 18-month-old Amanda Gaffney. Gillespie gave
Haggart the mandatory two-year term for each of the eight counts
of possessing a firearm during the commission of a felony.
A Jackson Prison spokesman said Haggart will there undergo a
30 to 40 day period of classification before a decision is made about
his permanent home. _,
(Sec "Haggart"—page 8)
PB schedules
Cheap Trick
by ANDREW HELLER
LIFE Staff Writer
Cheap Trick is the band Program Board has settled on from a list
of eight to perform a mid-November concert in Rose Arena.
PB Concert Coordinator Marcia Miller said late Sunday the four-
man band has been confirmed for a Nov. 19, 8 p.m. show in the 5.500
seat arena although no final contract has been signed.
Miller. Stevensville senior, said final contracts from the band's
promoter. Pyramid Productions in Lansing, are due on campus today or Tuesday.
"We'll sign them (the contracts) and that's it," she said. "It's a confirmed show."
A spokesperson for Cheap Trick's Manager Ken Adamny confirmed the date saying the band "does have plans to play in Mount Plea
sant."
(See "Concert"—page 9)
Officials promise
new stadium turf
Tenure p*
byGREGHELMLING
LIFE Staff Writer
CMU officials — including
President Harold Abel—plan to
replace the artificial turf at
Perry Shorts Stadium before
next fall.
"We feel it's time now for a
new turf," Abel said. "We're going to do it. and we're going lo
do it next year."
CMU Athletic Director Ted
Kjolhede said he has been verbally promised the turf will be
replaced.
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"We have not received
anything in writing," Kjolhede
said, "but it's pretty well the
consensus that we have to put
new turf in."
Kjolhede has reason to be
cautious, though. The same
University officials decided last
year to replace the turf before
the 1982 season, but at the last
minute were unable to because
of the University's troubled
financial situation.
The current turf has been in
use at Perry Shorts for 10 years
(See "Turf*—page 13)
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>rt in chairpersons
byKALLIEBILA
LIFE Staff Writer
In the midst of mixed faculty feeling regarding
a proposal to lengthen faculty tenure probation
rises a resounding "yes" from department
chairpersons.
"Right now. the system doesn't allow enough
time to make a decision, you have to kind of guess
at to what they (the new faculty member) can do,"
said John Hansen, Computer Science Department
chairman.
If the proposal is approved, it will increase the
probationary period for tenure by two years for
each faculty rank, so that instructors will be considered for tenure after seven years, assistant
professors after six years, associate professors
after five years, professors after four years.
Hansen, professor of computer science, said increasing the probationary period will especially
help the lower ranked faculty.
"People tend to be very nervous about being
considered for tenure before they have time to
prove they are (worthy) of tenure," he said, adding, "this gives us a fair amount of time in which
to evaluate someone."
Lawrence Koehler. Biology Department chairman, said he agrees the proposal would help the
lower ranks, such as instructors, because it takes
"three or four years to get a research project on
the road," but adds it will be especially beneficial
to faculty in the upper ranks.
"If you come in as a professor you have only
two years (to prove worthiness of tenure) and the
University has to give you a one-year notice, so
the faculty member really has only one year.
that's not enough time." said Koehler, professor
of biology.
John Haeger, History Department chairman,
however, said he is concerned the proposal will
have'a negative effect on the recruitment of
associate and full professors.
"We are asking them (the higher ranks) to wait
a long time for tenure, it's not a good idea." he
said, adding "top-flight people" may be less inclined to take a job at Central.
"That part of the proposal puts us in a bad
bargaining position," he added.
But Haeger said he supports the proposal
because the "rationale is strong enough at the
bottom.
"It will allow us to make a better judgment, the
longer time will give us more evidence, we will
really know about a person (by that time)." he added.
. (Sec "Tenure" — page 9)
In Brief
Students can continue to register for Winter
Semester 1983 classes until Nov. 1 in the
Receivable Accounting Office, Warriner 110.
Registration fee is $25.
Campus
Student Budget
Review and Allocations Committee has
slashed Student
Government Association's budget request
by $5,000.
page 3
The Isabella County
United Way fund drive
is projected to meet its
goal by the Nov. 1
deadline.
page 5
Sports
After an "upsetting"
weekend, CMU's grid-
ders find themselves
in second place in the
MAC.
page 10
Index
Arts and Leisure 6
CaMpUs comic \ _
Classifieds 13
Comment 4
Doonesbury   4
Off the Wire '.'.'.'.2
Sports iq
Spot life 13
Weather 13