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Central Michigan LIFE
Vol. 62 No. 58
•©  1981 CM LIFE
Mount Pleasant, Mich, 48859
12 pages
Monday, Feb. 16,1981
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Meltdown
To prevent damage to Sloan Hall, Physical Plant workers clean ice off the roof with steam
from a portable generator. Ice builds up between the shingles and melts, leaking into offices below.
Revise drop/add plan,
survey results  find
by SANDY McHUGH
LIFE Staff Writer
Results from Student Association's survey of
CMU's drop and add policy received more than
1,000 responses but the. game plan for using the
information will be altered a little bit, according
to the survey committee's chairman.
Responses from 1,273 students indicate they
would like the current drop and add policy
changed to the first four days of the semester,
and would like to see a refund policy initiated.
Of the students surveyed, 88 percent indicated
they would like to see the current drop and add
policy changed.
But, according to Junior Representative Steve
DeMarco, the emphasis will no longer be on the
refund part.
"The question on the survey that related to the
refund policy was irrelevant," DeMarco, of
Rochester, said. "Everyone will take something
for nothing, but will the students be willing to pay
for it?"
The question on the survey asked students if
they would like to see Central give refunds for
classes dropped after the drop and add period. An
overwhelming 98 percent said they would.
"The problem with that is I was told that if
students want a refund policy they could
probably expect a tuition hike," DeMarco said.
"To determine if students want the refund we
would have to conduct another survey,"
DeMarco said he isn't yet sure if he will pursue
the idea of a refund, saying he would have to talk
to the committee.
As for the rest of the survey, DeMarco said he
was pleased with the results.
"We're going to present the results to the
Registration Planning Sub-committee or Dan
Vilenski, assistant registrar," DeMarco said. "We
haven't set up a time yet, but I think we have
some good facts."
DeMarco said earlier he hopes the survey will
provide SA with a strong argument in favor of
changing the process which it plans to take to the
Administration,
"Since such an overwhelming number of
students said they would like to see the drop and
add period set up for the first four days of the
semester that's what we're going to ask for,"
DeMarco said.
SA will request a regression to the past since it
will be changing the policy to the way it was in
1977.
"If over 1,000 out of 16,000 students say they
want to go back to the way it used to be, I think
that's a pretty strong argument," DeMarco said.
Abel to discuss tuition
Students will hafye a chance to
hear the Ad rj|inis .ration's
reasons for tne^imd-year tuition
hike Tuesday w|en President
Harold Abel addresses Student
Association.
Abel will talk primarily about
reasons for this winter's tuition
hike and will explain the
financial status of the
University, Student Body
President Jeff Markel said.
A tuition hike was installed
this semester and University
officials have said there is a good
possibility rates will rise again
this fall and again next winter.
" Abel also will field questions
from students in a question and
answer period after the speech,
Markel, Owosso junior, said.
Other agenda items include a
final report from the Drop and
Add Committee.
"I would imagine since the
survey is finished this will be
the final report from the committee," Markel said.
Markel will give his recommendation   to   the   Board   of
Directors for a director of the
Ethnic Minority Relations
Department.
"I appoint a director and the
Board votes on it, " Markel said.
"If they vote no, I appoint
someone else and they vote
again."
The meeting will be in the
Wolverine Room of the
University Center Tuesday at 5
p.m.
The meeting is open to the
public.
Non-economic issues topic of contract talks
The Administration will present its non-
economic proposals to the Faculty Association
today, as closed bargaining talks enter their third
week.
The Administration presented its economic
package Friday, which the FA tentatively agreed
upon.
, Economic issues deal with salaries, insurance
and other financial matters; non-economic issues
center around  grievance  procedures,  tenure,
promotion, etc.
"We still have to hear another set of
proposals," FA chief negotiator Al Lewis said
following Friday's three-hour session,
"We reached tentative agreement on some
proposals," Lewis said. "In that sense we made
progress." He added tentative agreement is
"contingent on the whole package being acceptable."
Neither Lewis nor Administration spokesman
R. William Dunham would elaborate on the
specifics of Friday's proposals. Lewis did say the
issues were ones both sides felt had been clearly
covered in the 1977 contract and didn't need to be
changed.
The faculty contract expires June 30.
Today is the deadline for both teams to have
their proposals on the table. Talks will begin at 3
p.m. in Warriner 304, and are closed to the public.
"We reached tentative
agreement on some proposals.
In that sense we made
progress. "—Al Lewis, FA chief
negotiator
Police find fault with students' tractor ride
by PATTY WOODBURY
LIFE Staff Writer
Joyriding on a borrowed payloader can land one in a pile of
trouble, as a CMU student found out the hard way Friday.
David W. Kopke, GrOsse Ille junior, was arraigned Friday in 76th
District Court on felony charges of unlawfully driving away a Cass
tractor and bucket following a joyriding incident earlier that
morning, a Mount Pleasant police official reported.
-     Kopke is alleged to have hopped aboard a tractor from Larry's
Snow Removal, 4856 E. River Road, while it was parked near Park
\ Place Apartments on* East Bellows Street. He then allegedly took
f three of his frieiids for a ride, owner Larry Machuta said.
Machuta, who caught the four in the act, gave his account of the
incident:
"I parked the tractor at Park Place about 1:30 a.m. to go on a
coffee break, and left the engine running. I was gone about a half
hour and when I came back there were three boys and a girl on it.
"The loader was stuck over in front of Park Place and they
started running for 'H' building. They had drove it.around the
parking lot and across (Crapo) street.
"The front window of the loader was cracked, the back window
was kicked out and the muffler was off it," Machuta said.
Damage to the payloader is estimated to be at least $115.
Machuta said he then flagged down a police cruiser in the area at
the time and pointed out the building to which the students fled.
All four are Park Place residents, Sgt. D. R. Harless said.
Kopke, after being questioned by police and informed a warrant
would be issued for his arrest, turned himself in, Harless said,
Kopke apparently was the driver of the payloader.
The other three students have not been charged in the incident.
Machuta said he left the engine of the loader running because it is
a diesel. "Diesel engines you just don't shut off for a half hour when
you go for coffee," he said.
Machuta added the person driving the loader must have had some
knowledge of the vehicle to drive it.
"Evidently the guy doing the driving knew how to run it because
it was parked right in between two cars and he didn't hit any cars or
anything," Machuta said. "He had to have some knowledge of what
he was doing before he got on."
Kopke was released on a $1,000 personal recognizance bond and a
preliminary exam was set for Feb. 23.
In Brief
I Mail to residence halls will be suspended
today as the Post Office is ^closed in observance
9I George Washington's birthday. Regular mail
stervice will resume Tuesday.
Campus
Plans are underway
for    this     year's
Muscular    Dystrophy
Superdance.
page 5
Sports
CMU's wrestling
team swept' through
the field en route to
three victories Sunday
at Rose Arena*
page 8
Index
Arts and Leisure .. 7
Classifieds , n
Comment ............... 4
Doonesbury 4
Horoscope. ........ 11
Off the Wire. 2
Sports 8
Spottife................ 11
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