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Feds ask for CMU utilization study
by KELLY J. KOLHAGEN
LIFE News Editor
CMU has been slapped with a
show-cause notification from the
U.S. Department of Labor for
riot providing the government
with a utilization study of its
Affirmative Action program.
At the same time, the
University Tuesday requested
federal officials extend a Nov. 5
deadline for the study to Dec. 23,
until the Chicago firm CMU
hired can complete the analysis.
The study would involve
analyzing each major employee
group at CMU, determining the
geographic area from which
employees are recruited for
each job, and the percentage of
minority and female candidates
within that area.
The percentage of female and
minority persons on, the work
force would then be compared to
the potential figures, and goals
and timetables for conforming to
the availability numl&rs would
be established;
President Harold Abel said
Tuesday in a prepared news
release the management consultant firm of HayesHill Inc., of
Chicago would begin work Nov.
5 with a Dec. 20 target completion date.
The study will cost the
University about $8,500.
CMU, apparently caught
between the regulations of two
federal departments, had
already planned to work on a
similar study, said University
Attorney J. David Kerr. The
show-cause order, Affirmative
Action  Officer  James   Turner
said in the prepared, release, will
serve to speed the process.
Turner   was   not   available
Tuesday for further comment.
Kerr said the University had
been operating under a
Department of Health,
Education and Welfare principle.
which permitted institutions to
be without utilization studies if
they recruited for every position
as   though   they   were   under
utilized,
"We already do that here," he
said.
But the principle, known as
the Gerry Memorandum, said
Kerr, is hot recognized by the
Department of Labor,, which has
since taken charge of Affirmative. Action programs
nationwide.
Federal guidelines state
universities or other agencies
(See'Report'page 2)
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Vol.61    No. 29
Centra) Michigan LIFE
Mount Pleasant. Michigan 48859
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Notime
set for
salaries
Although CMU officials say
they will comply with a new
law requiring them to release
employee salaries, they have not
set a time frame for the
disclosure.
Administrators say they had
received instructions from the
Board of Trustees not to release
the information but now that the
law has passed, they want to
wait for further instructions
before they release the salaries.
"We will comply, that's no
question," Vice President
Terrance Carey said. "The only
question is when we will get
permission from the Board to
release them."
The next board meeting is
scheduled for Nov. 28 but the
trustees may be consulted prior
to that time, according to
Charles House, executive
assistant to the president.
The law requires the salaries
of college and public school
employees to be disclosed and
was signed into law Friday by
Lt. Gov. James Brickley.
(See "Salaries"—page 8)
Total enrollment
decline foreseen
by TOM HENRY
LIFE Asst. News Editor
Despite efforts to recruit a greater share of graduating high
school seniors, even conservative estimates show CMU's undergraduate enrollment is heading into a steady decline.
About 100 fewer undergraduates are expected on campus next
year; 800 less in 1984 and one-fifth as many a decade from now,
according to projections submitted Tuesday to Academic Senators
by one of its advisory councils.
The reason: A plunge in the number of Michigan's graduating
high school seniors coupled by a de-emphasis on higher education by
state legislators, Senate planning representatives said.
The annual number of graduating high school seniors throughout
the state is expected to drop from 150,000 to 100,000 by 1991,
representative Robert DeBruin said, adding CMU will be strongly
affected because 99 percent of its undergraduates are from
Michigan. •
CMU has recruited about 3,200 freshmen each of the past four
years, drawing from 2.09 to 2.17 percent of those available.
"These students we're talking about (graduating seniors) have
already been born. There's no way to double that population,"
DeBruin, assistant vice provost for. planning, instruction dnd
research, said. "If we're going to stay at 3,200 a year, we'd have to
increase from 2.17 to 2.7 percent."
But that large an increase in recruiting graduating seniors is
(See "A-Senate"—page 2)
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It's pumpkin time
by KIM CLARKE
LIFE Staff Writer
Walk down any residential street this Halloween evening and
chances are you will see lots of glowing faces in windows and on
porch steps.
Jack-o'-lanterns —lanterns made of hollowed pumpkins with
carved faces. They are to Halloween as pine trees are to Christmas.
According to an Irish legend, a man named Jack was not allowed
to enter heaven because of his miseriiness. He was aiso not aiiowed
to go to hell because of the pranks he had played on Satan.
Therefore,, he had to walk the earth with a lantern until the
Judgment Day. Hence, the name "jack-o'-lantern."
The English and Irish first carved faces out of beets, potatoes and
turnips. When the tradition was brougr* to America, the pumpkin
(See "Halloween"—page 2)
Chips to receive ABC coverage
As, the Mid-American Conference gains exposure through
television, CMU's football team is right in the middle of it.
Fourteen ABC stations, the largest ever to carry a MAC game,
will be on hand to broadcast the CMU-Toledo clash for the conference title Saturday. Kickoff time is 4:07 p.m. at the Glass Bowl in
Toledo.
This marks the third time this season MAC football has been
regionally telecast, the most in the league's history. •
"The regional games are becoming more regionalized," Program
Director Mike Seagly of WZZM-TV in Grand Rapids said. "There is
a push by the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) to
televise games by smaller colleges."
WZZM-TV is one of six Michigan stations covering the game. The
others are WUHQ-TV in Battle Creek, WXYZ-TV in Detroit, WJRT-
TV in Flint, WGTU-TV in Traverse City and WGTQ-TV in Sault Ste.
Marie" (See "ABC-page 2)
In Brief
The deadline for applying for absentee ballots
for the Municipal and Special School Election
Nov. 6 is Saturday at 2 p.m. Ballots'may be
obtained at the City Clerk's office.
Campus
Norman Cousins
will kick-off the
Charles L. Anspach
Platform series Nov. 5.
page 10
Sports
The CMU field
hockey team ended its
regular season 'at
home Tuesday
dropping a 2-1 decision
to the University of
Michigan.
page 11
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Index
. Arts and Leisure 10
Classifieds 15
. Comment ..' .4
Doonesbury 4
Horoscope 15
Off the Wire  2
Sports  ,. ii
Spotlife 15
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