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Vol.61   No. 37
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Mount Piewtnt. Michigan 48859
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12 pages
River watching
CM UFE PHOTO BY ROGER HART
Unusually warm temperatures hit the Mount Pleasant
area this weekend forcing the mercury up into the 60-,
degree range. The warm temperatures gave Mid-
Michigan residents a chance to get outdoors for one fast
time before winter to do many things, including just
sitting in a tree at Island Park watching the waters of the
Chippewa River go by.
CMCH, nurses settle dispute
by DAVID C. FRITZ
LIFE Copy Editor
An agreement signed late Sunday between the Central Michigan
Community Hospital administration and the CMCH Registered
Nurses Association reportedly could allow the hospital to be back at
full operation "in a matter of days," a hospital spokeswoman has
said.
Community Relations Director Kay Smith, reading from a
prepared statement, said the 39 nurses who resigned their jobs in
protest of staff and contract problems Nov. 9 would be accepted
back at the facility without interruption of service on their records
and without penalty.
Smith said the two sides made concessions and reachedagreement
after 11 hours of mediation Friday, adding a ratificaiton vote was
taken by the CMCHRNA early. Sunday and an agreement was
signed at 8 p.m.
Mediation addressed eight items which remained after the two
sides met in October to iron out discrepencies between interpretations of a contract reached last spring.
Gen Ed
survey
planned
—r
by TOM HENRY
LIFE Ass't. News Editor
The student-initiated drive to alter
CMU's General Education program is being
followed up with a survey of the program's
participants.
The 10-question survey asks freshmen
and sophomores their opinions concerning
the number of required hours, selection of
courses, double-counting for majors and
minors and whether student input into
Academic Senate's evaluation committee is
necessary.
The survey will be distributed by 12
students who began a drive earlier this
semester to encourage University officials
to consider changes in the program.
General Education requirements include
In resigning their positions, the 39 nurses protested what they
termed inadequate staffing at the 145-bed facility as well as what
they believed a "me and mine first" attitude among hospital staff
members, an association release said.
Since those resignations became effective, CMCH has been
staffed by 25 full- and part-time RNS as well as the normal compliment of licensed practical nurses and staff members who were
uneffected by the move'.
The spokeswoman for the nurses was unavailable for comment
about the agreement late Sunday.
Reacting to the hospital's operation with only 25 of the usual 52
RNs, Administrator Glenn Lowrey had said in a press conference
Tuesday that the current operation of the hospital is "unacceptable"
and added that the action of the nurses who resigned pointed out
problems with the hospital's health care delivery system in general,
and steps would have to be taken in the future to alleviate such
problems.
In addition to resigning, the RN's association filed an unfair labor
practice suit with the National Labor Relations Board, but the
future of that suit is uncertain.
30 hours of coursework in four subject
area—humanities, natural sciences, social
sciences and integrative and area studies.
The students will conduct an
organizational meeting Nov. 29 and
distribute the survey that weekend, Tom
Ellsworth, drive coordinator, said.
Results will be compiled beginning Dec. 3
and submitted to Academic Senate chairman Doug Smith thereafter to be scheduled
for discussion at a regular Senate meeting,
he added.
Ellsworth said the drive originators will
begin seeking support from student groups.
Thus far, Student Association agreed to
fund the survey.
The survey is a second attempt to stir,
interest in changing the General Education
program,   Ellsworth,   Fowler   sophomore,
(See "Survey"—page 2)
Central waits
for feds' word
by SHIRLEY SZELKOWSKI
LIFE Copy Editor
Central is awaiting further
word from the U.S. Department
of Labor concerning the
department's proceedings
against the University.
Meanwhile, CMU. is continuing its work on its Affirmative Action utilization
analysis which the department
requested.
The Labor Department announced in a letter Tuesday it
would not grant CMU a deadline
extention for the study but
instead would begin "administrative • enforcement
proceedings" against Central.
The University is idle until it
receives an administrative
complaint which will officially
start the proceedings. Afterward, CMU will have 20 days
to notify the department if it
wants a hearing.
If CMU does not prevail in the
hearing or chooses not to have a
hearing, it would be debarred
and could not receive any more
federal contracts until it had(
complied with federal guidelines
by having the requested approved utilization study.
"It's (study
completion date) still
going to he Dec. 20.
It's impossible for us
to complete it before
then/'^ames Turner,
CMU A ffir ma five
Action officer
The administrative complaint
will not be issued because CMU
missed its Nov. 5 study deadline,
but because it did not have the
study ' completed when the
Labor Department investigated
a claim months ago, according to
George Fisher, of the Labor
Department.
According to federal
guidelines, a university has 120
days to complete a study after it
receives a federal contract in
excess of $50,000. Central had
not completed the study because
it did not feel it had a contract
for more than $50,000.
(See "Action"—page 2)
CMUFEPHOTOBYCATHALEENCURTISS
Friends, times
are book's basis
The experiences, friends, and memories of four years of
college are captured in a book of poems by CMU graduate
Faamate "Maki" Sae.
Sae's book "In Touch" was printed last summer by River-
crest Publishers, 465 Hiawatha Drive.
The book is a collection of Sae's poems written during his
four years at Central about friendship, experiences, life and
memories of his homeland.
Sae came to CMU in September, 1975 from the Western
Samoa island of Savaii. He graduated with a business major in
December 1978.
"1 spent the last tour years looking at people, experiencing,
learning much more from people than I could ever get out of
any institution," Sae said.
(See "Sae"—page 2)
In Brief
Because of the Thanksgiving break, Central
Michigan LIFE will not publish Wednesday and
Friday.
LIFE will resume publishing Nov. 26. Staff
wishes the University community a happy and
safe Thanksgiving.    x   ,
Campus
It's .easy to vent
your frustrations
when you can take
them out on an
automobile.
page J2
Sports
The Central
Michigan football team
took its Mid-American
Conference crown to
Louisiana and
returned with a 28-0
non-conference victory,
page 8
Index
Arts and Leisure <.' 7
Classifieds.............. 11
Comment  4
Doonesbury 4
Horoscope  11
Off the Wire .....2
Sports ...... 8
Spotlife 11
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