1979-07-11; Central Michigan Life

              A Mt. Pleasant fire
fighter drags the remains
of a tire away from a
pickup truck that was
destroyed by fire Tuesday
morning on S. Mission Ptd.
when the truck's newly
installed gasoline tank
dropped.to the pavement.
Sparks .ignited the gas and
engulfed the truck in
flames. Michael Campbell
of Mt. Pleasant, the driver
of the truck, was not injured.
-CM LIFE PHOTO BY MIKE GREEN
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Volume 60, No. 95
c .1979 Central Michigan LIFE
Wednesday, July 11,1979
John D. Hogan, dean of
the School of Business
Administration has resigned
his position to accept the
vice presidency of a
Houston, Tex. research
institution.
Hogan, who came to the
University in 1976, will
leave CMU Aug. 4 to become
research vice president of
the American Productivity
Center it was announced
today.
He will be replaced s by
assistant Dean Leonard E.
Plachta. Plachta will serve
as acting dean while a
committee searches for
Hbgan's permanent successor, according tcProvost
John Cantelon.
Hogan's resignation
leaves  two  of CMU's  six
John Hogan
Lawrence Plachta
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Abel to visit Korea ... 2
Housing tips offered ..... 3
Clerical talks break ....... 3
Comment.............. 4
Contract officer sought... 8
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nsasBA dean
academic schools without a
permanent dean. A search
committee was recently reactivated to find a permanent leader for the School
of Arts and Sciences, left
without a dean since June,
1978.   -. .
In accepting^ Hogan's
resignation, Cantelon, in a
prepared statement, said
Hogan had "provided
strong, foresighted
leadership during a period in
which the School of Business
Administration       has
upgraded its program and
faculty    even    while * un-.
dergoing dramatic growth."
The School of Business
Administration continues to
be the University's fastest
growing school. ' ' „'
Cantelon said that Hogan
had.agreed to stay three
years at v CMU- when he
accepted the position in the
summer of 1976, and that
those three'years proved to
be  "fruitful  and   exciting,
both for the' school and the
University."
Plachta joined the" CMU
faculty in 1972 as a professor
of accounting and has served
as an assistant dean since
1977.
Before coming to Central,
Plachta was an analyst with,
the Chrysler Corporation,
taught at the University of
Detroit and was department
chairman at Alma College.
Police - CMU talks falter;
union nixes agreement
by KELLY J. KOLHAGEN
LIFE News Editor
A tentative agreement between the CMU
Police Officers Association and the
University was vetoed 15-0 Monday by
union membership, sending both sides back
to the bargaining table.
Meanwhile, the President of Central's
POAM said officers say they are upset with
current DPS policy of sending officers out in
foot and one-person car patrols. He said lone
DPS officers are more apt to suffer assaults
because of that policy than any local law
enforcement agency, and carinot respond to ^
calls as quickly, when on foot.
POAM  President Jerry Snyder said he
also plans to file a union grievance soon,
against, CMU  because  officers  are  continually being called in on their time off.
"We think one-officer car patrols do not
suffer any, more injuries than two^officer
patrols," DPS director John McAuiiffe^said
Tuesday, "In fact, most injuries occur
during tworofficer patrols and that has been
documented.
* "As for the number of assaults, I do not
share that opinion," McAuiiffe said.
, "There are times when it is necessary to
call officers in because of our manpower
situation, The call-in plan was devised with
the officers' approval to assist them as much
as possible," he said. x
In its package, the POAM had asked the
University for a 12 percent pay hike over"
one year plus a set of fringe benefits which
included dental insurance and cost of living
increments. Only economic issues, and not
contract language is being negotiated.
Negotiators for the POAM and CMU had
tentatively agreed upon a proposal which
gave officers a 7 percent pay hike, and some
fringe benefits.
But Snyder said . the membership
reviewed the offer, and voted Monday not to
ratify the package.
Assistant Director for Personnel Thomas
S.toner "said Tuesday he did-not know
whether a state mediator would be called in
to settle the issue.
"There was a tentative agreement and it
was voted down,*' Storier said. "I don't know
what the union has in mind.
"I really don't want to comment further;
until I know what they have in mind,'*, he
said.
^Central's POAM is affiliated, with the
Police Officers Association of Michigan,
based in Detroit, James Lund of Cadillac is
the officers'chief negotiator.
He could not be reached Tuesday for
comment, . -    ,   _"* ' __
Snyder said that although talks have
broken down, there will be "positively no
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