1978-11-15; Central Michigan Life

              Faculty, officials' salaries listed
by TONY DEARING
LIFE Editor
Base salaries for 463 regular faculty members
appear in today's CM LIFE, along with recent
salaries of some unclassified administrators.
The faculty salaries, listed on page 5, are base
salaries for the current year. The administrative
salaries on this page are for the three school
years previous to 1978-79. Figures for this year
were not available.
LIFE obtained the salary figures recently after
CMU President Harold Abel said earlier this
semester the Board of Trustees would continue
its policy of refusing to release salaries of
University employees.
The board has maintained releasing such
salaries would be an "invasion of privacy."
However, according to a 1973 state Attorney
General's opinion, salaries for university employees should be considered public information.
That opinion is not legally binding, and
litigation to resolve the issue of whether the
salaries are public information is before the state
Court of Appeals in the case of Michigan
Technological University v. the Michigan Higher •
Education Student Association.
A lower court ruling has already held such
salaries are public record and a decision on the
MTU appeal is expected in January.
The faculty salaries listed in LIFE today do not
include temporary faculty, or regular faculty
hired in since winter 1977.
The figures also represent base salary, rather
than actual earnings. Under the present faculty
contract, faculty may earn up to 140 percent of
their base salary by teaching off-campus and
during the summer.
This means a faculty member with a $20,000
salary could actually earn about $28,000 by
teaching an IPCD course during the school year
and teaching two summer sessions.
The faculty salary figures also do not include
any market salary adjustments which may have
been awarded to faculty. However, they do include wage increases for promotions.
If there would be any inaccuracies in faculty
salary figures, LIFE attempted to insure the
error would be on the low side of the actual base
salary.
The administrators' salaries on the right show
both actual salary and percentage wage hikes
over a three-year period.
Also included in the chart are salaries which
CMU did release one year. These' figures are
included so readers can check the accuracy of
LIFE's figures compared to those released by
CMU. In most cases, there is only a 1 or 2 percent
difference.
President
Provost
Vice President for Public Affairs
Vice President for Business and Finance
Vice President for University Relations
Dean of the School of Graduate Studies
Dean of the School of Continuing
Education and Community Services
Dean of the School of Education
Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences
Dean of the School of Fine and Applied Arts
Dean of the School of Business
Administration
Dean of the School of Health, Physical
Education and Recreation
Dean of Students
1975-76
1976-77
47,500
(Released
by CMU)
1976-77
1977-78
54,000
wage
hike
47,500
47,500
12
35,200
41,000
41,000
45,400
10 :
37,000
39,200
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43,200
9 i
>
34,500 ,
36,900
36,500
41,500
ii:
>
35,000
37,200
37,800
41,000
9
30,000
31,800
34,000
34,400
8
30,900
32,800
32,500
35,500
8 :
33,100
35,300
35,000
38,200
8 \
30,900
34,300
34,000
38,200
10 ;
33,500
35,500
35,200
38,400
8 :
33,800
35,000
34,000
38,200
8 '
33,100
35,300
35,000
38,200
8 ;
22,000
30,000
30,000
34.600
13 \
Student 'main mover'
for night rape patrol
byLORIEMOY
LIFE Staff Writer
A. "rape patrol" consisting of CMU students
who volunteer to patrol various areas of campus
currently is being planned by a CMU freshman.
However, whether or not the idea ever gets off
the ground depends almost entirely on the
support and participation of CMU students,
according to the idea's originator, Jeff Sovel,
Union Lake freshman.
Sovel explained the patrol would consist of a
group of students patrolling all areas of the
campus, but concentrating on areas which have
been labeled "dark areas" in a recent study by the
Women's Health and Information Project. The
study outlined campus areas considered to be
"very poorly lit," according to WHIP members.
If students on patrol become aware of a
dangerous  or potentially., dangerous situation,
such as vandalism or rape, they would contact the
Department of Public Safety, Sovel said. He was
not sure how contact wtiultf be made, but said one
possibility is thf.uje of walkie-talkies.
Sovel said the volunteers would not become
"personally involved" in situations that arise
while they are patroling.
"The idea is only to recognize dangerous or
potentially dangerous situations and report these
to DPS," Sovel said.
He would not comment on whether volunteers,
under the program, ever would become
physically or verbally involved in situations that
may arise.
Sovel said he knows some students who are
interested in the "rape patrol" but none are
committed to volunteering. He estimated 15 to 20
volunteers will be needed before the program can
(See "Patrol—"page 2A)
SA seeks to clean up
group funding 'mess'
by TOM HENRY
LIFE Staff Writer
and
DIANE NIEDZWIECKI
LIFE Copy Editor
CMU's   present   system   of
allocating   money   to   student
organizations  is inadequate, a
Student Affairs official believes.
"As of right now, there is no
set down policy to determine
who gets how much money. It's a
terribly   ambiguous  situation,"
said   Sharon   George,   student
organizations director.
"Right now, anyone could
register to apply for funds,"
George said.
Student Association is forming a committee to check
student organizations as an
additional  measure  to  ensure
University funds are not
misproperly allocated, according
to CMU's student body
president.
"The purpose of the committee is to redefine the
guidelines to become a student
organization and use much more
structured criteria when
allocating funds," Student Body
President Jini Marshall said.
Marshall, Charlevoix senior,
said the committee is in the
planning stages and he is not
sure exactly how it will function,
who will be on it or When the
committee will take effect.
"I'm not sure how it will affect
groups this year," Marshall said,
adding the committee may have
a greater effect on groups in the
future.
However, to receive status as
a student organization, George,
assistant to the Dean of Student
Affairs, said, the present system
is not structured enough to be
fair.
"A student who decided to
start a student organization and
only had two or three members
in the group could go and ask
roommates, friends or
strangers to sign up for the
group for the sole purpose of
getting money," George said.
There    is    presently     no
(See "Funds—"page 12A)
-CMUFEPHOTO BYHOOCHD.HART
Chris Kobylarz, son of Ken and Cathleen Kobylarz of 300 Oaktree Village in Mount
Pleasant gets a helping hand with his attempt at candle dripping from Gail Grunewald,
Brighton senior, during a recent rural arts workshop at CMU's Neithercut Woodland. Included in the workshop along with candle dripping was soap making and wool spinning.
Griffin, his papers on the way
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—Trustees to hear enrollment report today,
page 9A
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code, page 9A
byDANGUIDO
LIFE Staff Writer
CMU will begin receiving the entire collection
of U.S. Sen. Robert P. Griffin's official papers
sometime within the next few weeks, a Clarke
Historical Library official said Tuesday.
John Curnming, the library's director, said that
preliminary procedures are being worked out. in
Washington as to the selection and mailing of the
papers.
Curnming added that Griffin has accepted
CMU's offer to an office in Clarke library for his
use.   .
"It will be a wonderful opportunity to have a
man of his knowledge and status here," he said.
Curnming said that William Miles, assistant
director of Clarke, traveled Monday to Ann
Arbor to confer with University of Michigan
officials about the proper procedures to follow in
accepting the Senator's papers.
"The University of Michigan has several extensive political paper collections, and they are
knowledgeable about the proper procedures to
follow," Curnming said.
He added that Miles will fly to Washington
later this week to help Griffin's staff sort out and
mail the files.
"We expect to start receiving 100 boxes of
papers a week very shortly/' Curnming said. "We
are all quite excited about it."
CMU should expect frequent visits from Griffin
after the first of the year, Curnming said, adding
that Griffin intends to use his donated files to
write an account about certain aspects of
Washington politics that he was involved with.
"We expect he'll be here quite often/' Gumming said. "I know he has a lot of work he wants
to finish."
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