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FA, CMU reach tentative agreement
by DIANE NIEDZWIECKI
LIFE Managing Editor
CMU and the Faculty Association reached tentative agreement
Tuesday concerning economic-related negotiations,
The agreement, which. ,wjll-not. he,,.made, public pending
ratification by faculty and the Board of Trustees, extends the
current agreement to June 30,1981.
CMU and FA spokesmen said the two sides had reached
agreement on an economic adjustment for the current year as well
as an extension of the entire contract, with,,, new economic
provisions.
Both sides said contract language affected by the tentative
agreement is yet .to be written. William Dunham, associate vice
provost for faculty contractual relations, said while general issues
have been agreed upon, formal language will be formulated in the
"We thought enough of the agreement
that we took it to our board and
recommended that it be put out for a
ratification vote."—Robert Clason, FA
spokesman
"near future."
Dunham said CMU will discuss the tentative agreement with the
Board of Trustees at today's regular meeting,
Al Lewis, president of the FA, said after contract language has
been agreed upon,"the FA will share the agreement with departmental representatives, who will then talk with members of in
dividual departments.
Lewis said an FA general membership meeting will be conducted
tb discuss the tentative agreement, which will then be put to the
faculty for ratification vote.
Lewis said that since formal language had to be written first, he
could give no specific dates for these meetings.
Lewis said while no team ever walks away from negotiations fully
satisfied with an agreement, he feels the tentative contract is fair.
"We can live with it. We're not totally satisfied with it. Probably
more money should have put in, but that's always the case," Lewis
said,
"We thought enough of the agreement that we took it to our
Board, and recommended that it be put out for a ratification vote,"
Robert Clason, spokesman for the FA team, said
Negotiations were re-opened Sept. 27 after the FA requested the
talks due to inflationary pressures on current compensation.
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•Vol.61       No. 23
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Special security precautions were taken by the Isabella County Sheriffs
Department during the preliminary examination of Paul L. Barnett Monday
afternoon in the 76th District Court in the Isabella County building. An armed
guard was placed atop the County Building while Barnett, (right center) was
escorted to and from the county jail by sheriff deputies and detectives. Barnett was bound over to Isabella County Circuit Court on five felony charges in
-CM UFE PHOTOS BY MICHAEL S. GREEN
the February armed robbery of the Gould Drug Store on North Mission.
Barnett remains in the Isabella County Jail on $250,000 bond. Frank E.
Schanault whom police have implicated was involved with Barnett in the
Gould robbery, remains at large after escaping from Isabella County Jail Oct. 5
and forced a Mount Pleasant resident to drive him to Novi, Mi.
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Dutch flyers to attend Michigan school
by SARAH A. ROWLEY
LIFE Staff Writer
The skies are brighter for
•eleven Dutch flying students as
they reached an agreement with
Northern Air Flight School in
Grand Rapids to resume their
flight training Oct. 27th.
With their enrollment comes
their take-off from Mount
Pleasant.
Approximately $16,000 was
donated by the community and
CMU in a fundraising drive that
ended Oct. 5. The money
probabiy will be transferred to a
Grand Rapids bank and put in an
escrow account, according to
Larry Johns, president of
Isabella Bank and Trust, 200 E.
Broadway St. Johns was
chairman of the drive.
The decision to attend
Northern Air came after two
weeks worth of investigating by
the students. Their choice was
based on:
—The ability to stay in
Michigan and allow donors to
see them.
— being able to begin classes
without the 50 percent fee that
was required by another flight
school in Tennessee. Northern
Air said the students can use the
available money until it is
depleted before having to leave.
— the Dutch Immigration
Society's unanimous support of
the students.
Richard Dyk, a policeman and
former instructor at Northern
Air, has been instrumental in
assisting the students.
Four students are living at
Dyk's   house   and   his friend's
home. Dyk also is trying to find
housing for the other seven
students.
Wouter DeJong, spokesman
for the students, said they are
seeking free housing but will
buy their own groceries. The
housing problem is a major one
facing the students, he said.
Another major task is raising
the additional $44,000 needed
for the 11 students to finish
their training.
But U.S. Immigrations has
approved temporary work
permits   so   the   students  can
work up to 20 hours a week, to
help defray expenses.
The last time the students had
flight instruction was in late
August. A fire on Aug. 7 heavily
damaged Mount Pleasant's Aim
Aviation International Flying
School. It was closed Aug. 31.
Nearly 5,000 tulip bulbs are
left from last month's sales in
Mount Pleasant. They will be
planted in both the city and
University grounds, according
to Dwight Reava, a member of
the fundraising steering committee.
Evaluator presents plans to Board today
CMU's administrative evaluator will make a
presentation to the Board of Trustees today.
Barry Munitz will speak to the Board on the upcoming evaluation at the Trustee's monthly meeting.
Munitz, University of Houston chancellor, was hired
recently by CMU to perform a critical evaluation "of its
administration.
Munitz also will meet individually with several
administrators while on campus, then organize the
framework of-the evaluation.
Other agenda items include action concerning 15
faculty equity salary adjustments, approval of a 1979-
80 budget for Residences and Auxiliary Services,
acceptance of the 1978-79 audit report and appointment of ah auditing firm for the current fiscal
year.
The Board will hear reports from the Finance and
Academic Affairs Committee as well as from President
Harold Abel.
The Board also will be asked to act on a recommendation to increase the amount of one scholarship
program and to approve 81 personnel matters.
The 9:30 a.m. meeting will be in the President's
Conference Room of the University Center, and is open
to the public.
Senate
OK's
review
by TOM HENRY
LIFE Asst. News Editor
In an attempt to keep an
opportunity for a more diversified education at CMU,
Academic Senators agreed
Tuesday all departments must
justify their credit hour
requirements every five years.
'But the move, recommended
by the Undergraduate
Curriculum Committee, was not
approved until after nearly 90
minutes of debate.
The UCC recommended that
any department requiring more
than 40 credit hours for a major
must prove its case in a review
which would occur every three
years—although Senators voted
to lengthen the review period to
five years.
"There's nothing magic about
(holding requirements to) 40
hours; in fact, that's a rather
arbitrary choice," UCC member
L. Baird Tipson Jr. told the
Senate.
Tipson, assistant professor of
religion, said the UCC concluded
a college education should be
broken into approximate thirds:
one devoted to a major, another
to a general education and
another toelectives.
"Our feeling on the committee
. is that too many hours are tied
down to a major," Tipson said.
"We needed more evidence
before we can allow a department to require more than 40
hours. We've been passing some
with more than 50, and won't
necessarily stop, but want to tell
students, 'Look you're going to
let this department pin you
down for four years if you sign
this major,'" he added.
Some Senators vehemently
opposed the UCC's recommendations.
"Credit should not attempt to
be limited," Richard Phillips,
assistant professor of finance,
insurance and real estate, said.
"Each major should be judged
on its own merits."
Robert    Barris,    associate
, professor of music, concurred.
"The process by which the
Senate regularly approves
majors is sufficient. Those few
majors which exceed 40 hours
have   been   justified   or   they
(See"UCC-"page2)
In Brief
The deadline for students who wish to drop
classes and receive an automatic "W" is Oct. 26.
After that date students have until the 14th
week of classes to withdraw, but students must
have a passing grade at that time to receive a
"W". Drop slips may be picked up at the,
Registrar's Office, Warriner 263.
Campus
Tickets go on sale
today for the
University Theatre
performance of
"Vanities",
page 7
Sports
The Michigan
Wolverines' volleyball
team may be feeling
mighty blue after
Tuesday night's encounter with the CMU
Chippewas.
page 11
Index
Arts and Leisure  7
Classifieds  15
Comment ....... 4 4
Doonesbury 4
Horoscope 15
Off the Wire 2
Sports 12
Spotlife... .......15
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