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Central Michigan LIFE
Vol. 62 No. 56
.©  1981 CM LIFE
MoUnt Pleasant, Mich. 48859
14 pages
Monday, Feb. 9,1981
Tube out,
PBS off air
bySANDY McHUGH
UFE Staff Writer
Avid fans of the Public
Broadcasting System will be
rather disappointed with
programs for the first part of
this week —mainly because
there won't be any programs.
A defective transmitter tube
at WCMU-TV, Channel 14, put
the station off the air Thursday
about 4 p.m. The station will
probably remain off until
Wednesday, a PBS official said
Sunday.
The problem lies with a 4-foot
long, 6 to 8 inch diameter
Klystron tube, which cost from
$15,000 to $17,000 to replace,
said William Herman,
operations supervisor for
Central's PBS.
"The main holdup is we are
waiting for a tube to be
delivered," Herman said. "The
tube has to come from England,
probably the Cambridge area."
The tube, which is less than
two years old, was installed in
the summer of 1979.
"This is a rare tube," Herman
said , adding the tube may have
been defective since a similar
tube on the other side of the
"This particular
tube is the final
tube before the
visual and oral
portions are transmitted. "-William
Herman, PBS
operations super- s
visor
transmitter had to be replaced
last month.
"This particular tube is the
final tube before the visual and
oral portions are transmitted,"
Herman said. "It's the final
power amplifier and affects the
oral portion of the picture. We
could put on a picture, but there
would be no sound."
Herman said the station has
received numerous calls about
PBS being off the air.
"Absolutely no one is at fault
for this, it is just one of those
mechanical things no one can do
anything about, or foresee," he
said.
(See "PBS" page 9)
Student paychecks fall short of yearly raise
by SCOTT FOSGARD
UFE Staff Writer    T
Student employees will be receiving a raise
this semester, but not as much as they may have
expected.
After receiving their first paycheck, more than
100 students have complained to Residences and
Auxiliary Services about not earning the pay
scale they were promised, said Sally Bull, personnel coordinator for Auxiliary Services.
Students were notified in December they
would be receiving a 25 cent raise because the
minumum wage was jumping from $3.10 to $3.35
in January.
The December notice added to this 25 cent
raise a five cent raise for each year the student
had worked, Bull said.
However, in January the University stopped
giving the five cent raise, Bull explained. She said
she Sent a memo to students' supervisors three
, weeks ago asking them to notify their employees
' of the change.
Two students claim they and other employees
weren't notified as to why the changes were
made.
"It just said these would be the new rules. They
just went ahead and did it," said Mike Crete, head
desk worker at Emmons Ha}l.
The other student, who asked not to be identified, said she didn't know about the adjusted
pay scale until she went to cash her check.
"I noticed it on my own. Whether or not
students were to be informed, I have no idea," she
said.
Crete, Essexville junior, said the administration hasn't been considerate of students
recently. "We're getting hit twice," he said,
referring to the tuition increase and the adjusted
pay scale.
Vice President of Business and Finance Jerry
Tubbs said student salaries is one area the administration decided to hold down because of
CMU's tight budget.
Tubbs said the decision was made by President
Harold Abel in December and he notified
Auxiliary Services of the change.
"Auxiliary Services anticipated we would do
what we did in the past. They did something they
didn't have the authority to do," Tubbs said of the
pay increase promised in December.
If the University had kept paying the five cent
raises they would have had to lay off some
students, he added.
Student Body President Jeff Markel was upset
with the decision.
"The employees were told one thing, but the
administration pulled out another set of rules. It**
could have been handled a little better by the
University," said Markel, Owosso junior.
Bull said she calculated the raises in December
because   she   had   to   hire   students   before
(See "Wages" page 14)
Can peaches cream hopes of mouth watering meal
by TERRY FOSTER
UFE Staff Writer
Thursday was a bad day for
Tim Howard.
First the Bay City senior left a
Pepsi bottle on top of his car and
it shattered on Preston Street.
Later he found out he had four
tests the following week.
Howard just wanted to go
home and prepare a delicious
dinner after a long, hard day.
But first he stopped by Ric's
Supermarket, 705 S. Mission St.,
for a can of Garden Gem cream
style corn to go with his evening
meal of polish sausage and
french fries.
"I   really   had   my   mouth
watering for some cream style
'corn," he said.
, Instead he noticed a lot of
juice was squirting out of the
can as he opened it. Howard's
eyes opened wide and his mouth
stopped watering, for inside of
"I really had my
mouth watering for
some cream style
corn."— Tim Howard, Bay City senior
the can clearly marked "cream
style corn" were 16 ounces of
peaches.
"I was surprised. I didn't
know what to think. I saw the
juice, and right away it took to
me that cream corn doesn't
usually have juice," Howard-
said.
Ric's manager Chuck
Spratling said Garden Gem had
sent him a memo more than a
month ago saying a mistake had
been made in their labeling
process.
"!• thought we got them All,"
Spratling said. "I guess one got
through though. They should all
be off the shelf now."
Spratling said his store
receivecj no other complaints
about mismarked cans last
week.
"But a while back someone
bought some7 canned fruit, and
when they opened the can there,
was spinach in it," Spratling
said.
Howard should be happy to
know that he made out just fine
economically. A can of peaches
would have cost him 65 cents,
but instead he p'aid just 37 cents
for the can marked corn.
"That makes it a little better.
I was wondering if I made out all
right," Howard said.
% Should Howard get the urge
to have a polish sausage and
french fry dinner, again what
else will he eat with it?
. "Cream sytle corn, I'll try* it
again to s6e what happens," he
said.
n Brief
The American Bed Cross will sponsor a nine
week course, in first aid and cardio pulmonary
resuscitation beginning Wednesday, For more
information call the Moun,t Pleasant Adult and
Community Education Office at 770-7961.
Campus
Michigan     high
school    cheerleaders
met   for . state  competition Saturday.l     }
page 5
Sports
CMU women's track
team ran away with its
own invitational
Saturday at Finch
Fieldhouse.
page 10 ' ,
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