1978-12-04; Central Michigan Life

              Llume 60 No. 39
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1*71 Central Michigan LIFE
Mount Pleasant Michigan 48858
Monday December 4,1978
Tampered list hiked Stolpe's salary
by JIM FISHER
LIFE Ass't. News Editor
[student Body Vice President Al Stolpe claims he doesn't know
V* tried to take $100 from a co-worker's pay and add it to his
ary, but he said he approved the change without question
ause he was "going to make an extra hundred dollars."
IStolpe, who supervises all Student Association finances, recently
l?e the Office of Student Affairs a list of salaries showing he
ikes $400 and Finance Committee Chairperson Don Fergle earns
% although records in that office show each is supposed to be
Li $300.
Don learning of the differences in the two documents, Student
Body President Jim Marshall Friday changed the salaries of Fergle
and Stolpe back to $300.
Stolpe, Coloma junior, said he based the list of salaries he sent to
Student Affairs on the SA's current budget which was approved
last spring.
The budget, which includes a list of the salaries of all SA officers,
had apparently been tampered with. The $300 salaries approved for
Stolpe and Fergle, Grosse Pointe junior, had been crossed out in ink
and replaced with a $400 salary for Stople and $200 for Fergle.
No other salaries had been altered.
Stolpe, the only person who had official access to the salaries
which had been tampered with, denied changing the original typed
allocations and said he does not know who did.
When asked by CM LIFE if he had questioned anyone as to the
validity of the rewritten salaries, Stolpe replied, "Heck no, not if I'm
going to make an extra hundred dollars."
Stolpe said he thought the rewritten salaries had been approved
last spring by Jim Kuderko, last year's Finance Committee
chairperson.
"It looked like J.D. (Kuderko's) writing. I just went by what was
there," Stolpe said.
Kuderko, no longer a student, said he didn't approve any
alterations to the typed salaries appearing in the budget.
(See "SA-"  page 9)
MEA seeks to axe
student teaching
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-CM LIFE PHOTO BY DAVID C. FRITZ
The original elf
Hundreds of young and young-at-heart Mount Pleasant residents turned out Sunday night
to welcome to town their favorite Christmas-time visitor, Santa Claus. The jolly chief elf put
in an appearance at the annual community Christmas carol sing in the Mount Pleasant
Town Center.
by SARAH ROWLEY
LIFE Staff Writer
More than 1,000 potential
CMU student teachers next fall
could be kept from practicing
throughout the state if a
proposal by the Michigan
Education Association's
Representative Assembly is
approved in April.
If OKd by a majority of the
RA's 600 members, a
Moratorium on Student Teacher
Training would sharply
decrease the number of students
statewide who are presently
allowed to teach in the public
school system, in response to an
oversupply    of    prospective
teachers.
Currently, the MCA has no
control of student teachers and
members of that teachers' union.
K through 12 teachers voluntarily accept student teachers to
be placed under their supervision.
The moratorium would ask
that instructors reject student
teachers, although the MEA has
no legal right to force teachers
into doing so.
Some supporters of the
proposal have contended it is
unfair to students to train them
in a field where they have a
limited chance of securing a job
after   their   student   teaching
experience.
Critics of the proposal claim it
is a union attempt to control the
number of teachers graduated
by state colleges and universities, since the number of
graduating teachers has been
exceeding the number of
positions available. They also
claim it gives the MEA too much
power over education.
Spokespersons from the MEA
and the CMU Student Teaching
Office disagree on the possible
ramifications of the moratorium.
"I see no benefit for the MEA
to declare a moratorium because
the freedom of choice is done
(See"MEA-"page9)
Large crowds turn out
for UaNa Conference
Attendance was up for this
year's conference on United
Nations affairs which ended this
past weekend, according to the
conference director.
The conference's end was
marked by Saturday's round-
table discussions on the Middle
East, energy and human rights.
Page 5 of today's CM LIFE is
devoted to coverage of those
discussions.
Henry H. Han, conference
organizer, said student participation "was far greater than
I anticipated. It couldn't have
been better."
But Han, political science
professor, noted that some
outside observers were surprised at the relatively light
turnout of faculty and administrators for the conference.
Han said he had no official
figures- on the number of
students, faculty and administrators who participated in
the conference.
One delegate, Tufts
University International Law
Professor Alfred Rubin said that
despite   its   quality,   the   con
ference lacks national
recognition.
"What can be done at CMU
can be done at other universities, and this should be
known," said Rubin.
"This   is   really   a   national
conference, but one that does
(See "U.N.-" page 2)
—DPS, students brawl, page 3
—Hot global issues highlight seminar, page
5
—Escorts offer safe evening strolls, page 6
—Chip cagers scalp Pioneers, 81-69, page
10
MU classes easy, students, profs concur
by JULIE MORRISON
UFE Staff Writer .
is "easy to get through"
"-U courses with a minimum
"ount of studying, a majority
[Central students interviewed
Jjntly said,
Und while most interviewed
NGMU is job-oriented, others
Pthe University offers a well-
ijnded curriculum.
■*e students were responds to claims by two Counseling
Per officials that CMU is too
^lonalized and has a liberal
,J% system. \
■J^K Moceri, Ann Arbor
said he thinks grade
PUon exists at CMU .ind that
If Unfair.
L Grade inflation has taken
pH in many universities dnd
RM is no exception," hie said.
f'M as a student it is easy to
.through   courses   without
*JlnB myself.
j^e had. professors who have
3. me push myself. I wa$
Will because they made me
expend energy I didn't know I
had. But these professors are
rare," he said.
"When you have so many
students getting A's and Bs,
how do you tell who is the better
student? The good students
should be rewarded and the bad
students should get what they
deserve," Moceri said.
Moceri also said he thinks
CMU's curricula makes the
University too vocational.
"I think the curricula is set up
so that students can't branch out
and take classes they would like
to take," Moceri said. "They
have to take courses required
for their majors and minors. The
curricula are inflexible. They
encourage students to take
electives only in their fields."
Moceri added that he thought
colleges should offer a more
general education.
"That's part of being
educated," he said, "knowing
about many things and not just
having tunnel vision knowledge
Ik
about one thing."
Gerald Glover, Weberville
senior, said he uses his, own
procedure to pass classes.
"If you get to know how to
play the game it is easy to pass,"
he said. "When you learn what
you have to present, it's easy to
get by."
In addition, Glover said he
thinks certain curricula are job-
oriented, but said he believes
the University does offer
enough general education
courses.
"It depends on what you are
going into," he said. "I think the
business area is job-oriented,
but I don!t think the liberal arts
area is."
Betsy Slingerland, ,t>ryden
freshman, agreed a student
doesn't have to do much
studying to get a high grade
point average.  ,
*i don't study very much, but
my grade point average will be
(See "Students' Reactions— "page 2)
by JULIE MORRISON
and
ALLISON KAUFMAN
LIFE Staff Writers
A majority of CMU professors questioned say
they believe the University concentrates on
vocational skills because that is what students
expect.
But professors also say with proper advising
and judicious course selection, students can
graduate from CMU with a well-rounded
education.
And for the most part, faculty questioned
agreed with two CMU counselors that grade
inflation (good grades for little effort) occurs at
CMU, but disagreed with counselor Arnold
Form's claim that persons at Central settle for
academic mediocrity.
"It's probably true that students are working
less and getting higher grades than 10 or 15 years
ago," Charles Eiszler, associate professor of
elementary education, said. He also said it is not
fair to label a university 'too' vocational, because
there are no standards to judge from.
■ Eiszler said there are several explanations for
grade inflation.
"One is that there is a new.teaching approach
that allows instructors to specify their objectives.
They tell students what,they have to know.
"This means that students will have to make
fewer judgments of their own and probably have
to read less," Eiszler said.
"The question should be, 'Is there a range of
choices for a student who wants a less vocational
education as well as choices for a student who
wants more?"'
< Henry Fulton, associate professor of English,
and a member of the Honors Program faculty,
said the type of students Central draws are not
appreciative enough of education itself to be
prepared for general education.
"At the risk of sounding extremely negative,
we are very anti-intellectual. Students don't want
to be generally educated."
He also said high schools fail to prepare
students for college and that students cannot
listen, read or write well enough to get much out
of a general education.
But both Fulton and Eiszler agreed that by
discriminately choosing instructors, CMU
students can achieve a well-rounded education.
"Quality advising," Eiszler said, is what will
help students most. "We need more advising that
helps them with their goals."
Suzanne Nichols, assistant professor of
journalism,    Said    students    have    as    much
(See "Profs' reactions—" page 2)