1978-02-17; Central Michigan Life

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Appropriation ceiling limits dollars
Senate head contests CMU funding
byPAULRAU
LIFE Managing Editor
If CMU could have found ways to spend an extra $2.6 million in
1978-79, it might have received that amount in addition to the $27
million the state would like to give the University this year.
But, when the latest state formula funding model was applied to
Central, it showed the school should receive a 24 percent increase in
state funding - and that amount of new money was judged to be too
much for one institution to absorb in one year.
"A determination was made that few public organizations like
colleges and universities could absorb increased expenditures on
the order of 25 percent in one year," William M. Nugent, deputy
director of the state Department of Management and Budget, said
Thursday.
"Spending that kind of money would have posed many problems,
such as recruitment of appropriate faculty and setting up facilities.
The feeling was we could not provide whatever the formula dumped
out without any question," Nugent added.
It is this type of thinking which is drawing the ire of some campus
leaders, notably Kendall Folkert, Academic Senate chairperson.
"The governor is not implementing the formula funding model,
Folkert, assistant professor of religion, said. "The governor and the
legislature are slowly getting together about what model they want
"The governor and the legislature are slowly
getting together about what model they want to
use, but they still are not using the same one. "—
Kendall Folkert, Academic Senate chairperson
to use, but they still are not using the same one."
The formula funding model, used this year and developed by the
legislature with strong academic participation by representatives
from Michigan's 13 state colleges, is called the investment-needs
model.
"It's supposed to calculate the actual needs of an institution and
what kind of resource investment will keep the school healthy,"
Folkert said.
"But the governor is using a different model with features of this
one. His model uses the average cost per credit hour to determine
the instructional part of our budget.
"Essentially, it looks at the credit hours generated - if they are
over the average, you try to cut costs. If credit hours are below the
average, you need money," he added.
Application of the investment-needs model shows $225 million is
needed in new money for four-year institutions of higher education.
"But his (Gov. William G. Milliken's) budget says 'That's too
much... $48 million is enough,'" Folkert said.
"The complaint I hear in Lansing is that the governor's model
says what he wants it to say," he added.
The governor's recommendation for higher education spending,
part of his total budget released in January, are the first step in a
complex chain of events which sets funding levels for Michigan state
colleges and universities.
In coming months, the Senate and House of Representatives will
make their own recommendations and arrive at final dollar figures.
As part of the process, Lansing officials will visit CMU today to
explain the governor's suggested funding for Central.
Fredrick Whims, director of the Education Division of the
Department of Management and Budget, arid Patrick Keating, fiscal
analyst, will arrive here today to "walk through the details of what
they did," Arthur Ellis, vice president for Public Affairs, said of the
annual visit.
Nugent agreed the state has used a different model to arrive at
its recommendations for higher education. "That's a valid observation. It is not reasonable to expect the state to come up with
$225 million in new money.
"We tried to implement a model which we felt was the most
realistic in light of our fiscal constraints," Nugent said.
(See "Funding-" page 16)
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Volume 59 No. 57
fr. 1978. Central Michigan LIFE
Mount Pleasant, Michigan 48859
Friday, Feb. 17,1978
'Number one experts'
guide career seminar
byPETEENGARDIO
LIFE Staff Writer
In an effort to inform students
of the numerous job opportunities which exist for them
after graduation, CMU will offer
a major three-day careers
conference next week.
Several of the nation's
prominent career and job
placement experts will participate in a "Career Awareness
Conference" beginning Tuesday.
Sessions in the conference will
be open to all students free of
charge. '
"We are adding a major
dimension to our placement
program of helping students get
jobs when they leave CMU,"
Frank StiUings, dean of the
School of Fine and Applied Arts,
said.
"We wanted to get the best
speakers in the nation on the
subject and we got them."
Highlighting the conference
will be a presentation by Willard
Wirtz, former U. S. Secretary of
Labor and current director of
the National Manpower Institute. Wirtz will deliver the
conference's keynote address 8
p.m. Tuesday in Warriner
Auditorium.
The conference, which has
been planned since last summer
by a 24-member committee
comprised of CMU students,
faculty members and administrators, has a different
focus for each day.
Tuesday's sessions primarily
will concern job opportunities in
government and have been
organized by the Student
Association (SA).
Fifteen one-hour sessions to
be conducted in the University
Center will cover such
specialized areas as public
administration, social services,
research, law and communications, Kim Oberlin, SA
director of communications,
said.
"The sessions are geared
toward underclassmen,"
Oberlin, Hillsdale senior, said.
"The speakers will deal with
specific interests of students
and tell them how to get employed."
Oberlin added the sessions
also will be "extremely
valuable" to seniors, "Seniors
could find out who to contact for
placement," he said.
, Also scheduled Tuesday is a
talk by Joseph Cosand, former
deputy commissioner of higher
education for the U.S. Department of Health, Education and
Welfare.
Cosand currently is director
of the Study of Higher
Education at the University of
Michigan.
A government placement
specialist, Helen Cook of the'
U.S. Civil Service, will speak at
1 p.m. Tuesday in the UC
Auditorium.
Wednesday's activities will
center on career awareness.
Author Richard Bolles and
Joanna Sternick, director of the
Tucker Foundation at Dartmouth College, each will conduct
sessions Wednesday.
"Bolles deals with a whole
new approach to development of
a person's own potential and
application of that potential to
careers and jobs for the rest of
the person's life,*' StiUings said.
Bolles authored the book "What
Color Is Your Parachute?"
Sternick, who will speak on
the topic "Putting it all
Together," also uses an- innovative and successful approach to placement, an approach which is "spreading
across the country," StiUings
said.
On Thursday the conference's
activities will be focused on
alumni, he said. At least 90
alumni have offered to participate and will speak to,
students in formal and informal
settings on placement and their
experiences.
As another feature of the
conference, students will be
allowed to use the Michigan
Occupation Information Service.
The service is a computerized
system allowing students to
obtain information on 90 percent
of the careers available in
Michigan.
At least five terminals will be
set up in the UC Ballroom, with
students keypunching personal
information into the terminals
and receiving computer printouts of career information.
Assistance will be provided
for students unfamiliar with
operating the terminals.
StiUings stressed the conference should benefit all CMU
students.
"This conference should
benefit a student throughout his
education- at CMU," StiUings
said. "For seniors, it will offer
immediate help. It will help
.underclassmen make up their
minds and keep them alert to all
possible jobs they are qualifying
for."
A conference of this size and
stature probably has never been
attempted in the country,
Charles Alexander, Placement
Office director, said,
"To the best of our
knowledge, no university ever
has offered a program with this
much depth," Alexander said.
"There is no question we have
the number-one experts on
manpower in the country. We
brought the best people in the
United States we could find."
Alexander said because the
speakers preferred to be housed
on campus during the conference, they will stay in CMU
residence halls.
Esther Edwards, senior vice president of Motown Industries
Inc., recalled Thursday how Motown, her family's business,
began as a small Detroit firm and grew to what has been called
the largest black business today. Edwards' speech was sponsored,
by the Organization of Black' Unity in celebration of Black
History Month (LIFE photo by John Thompson).
In a scene from "The Importance of Being Earnest,*' to be presented in Bush Theatre Wednesday to
Feb. 25, Algernon, played by David Radford, Pontiac junior, proposes to his brother's ward Cecily,
played by Mary Anne Hempe, Big Rapids senior. The play is the first totally student-run production to
be presented in Bush Theatre (LIFE photo by Pam Eckman).
Speaker traces success
Motown: family affair
by HOLLY KERFOOT
LIFE Staff Writer
Motown started small—one
house on West Grand Boulevard
in Detroit. But once it began it
was "one thing leading to
another, sort of growing like
Topsy," Esther Edwards, senior
vice president of Motown Industries Inc., said Thursday
night.
Her speech, part of the
Organization for Black Unity
celebration of Black History
Month,, dealt with the
" struggles, trials and
tribulations" of her brother,
Berry Gordy, Jr., Motown
founder, and the artists they
made famous.
Motown really began before
the music, Edwards said, adding
it began in her family. She
credited her father for teaching
his children the power of "unity,
cooperation and love," providing
the impetus which kept the
family working.
The history of Motown-began
when Gordy was young, Edwards said. He was ambitious,
and "wanted to make a million
dollars."
Gordy was influenced, she
said, by the amounts of money
flashed by the pimps in his
neighborhood, but "the family
kept        him        honest."
He worked jobs as a paper
deliverer and shoeshine boy but
'The ambition of those groups {The Supremes,'
Marvin  Gaye)   was  what kept Motown going.
Motown is continuing to grow into a total entertainment  complex."—Esther  Edwards,   senior
vice president of Motown Industries Inc.
eventually decided he would get
rich in the boxing ring.
That venture did not last long,
Edwards said, because he
decided if he got "cauliflower
ears and a big nose, the girls
wouldn't like him."
He turned to song-writing, she
said, and in 1957 began writing
songs for black singer Jackie
Wilson. After hits like, "Lonely
Teardrops" and "That's Why,"
Gordy decided to produce his
own record. -
With a loan from his family, he
produced  a  record   by  Marv
Johnson.- Encouragement came
-from   Smokey   Robinson   and
Gordy   produced   his   second
record under the Tamla label,
his new company.
Tamla became Motown in
1960 and begain recruiting its
talent off the streets of Detroit.
"The ambition of those groups
(The Supremes, Marvin Gaye)
was what kept Motown going,"
Edwards said.
"Motown is continuing to
grow in a total entertainment
complex," she added.
It is the largest black business
today, according to Black Enterprise magazine, she explained, and it has moved from
producing record and tapes into
artist management, music
publishing and movie producing,
she added.
—Some SA meetings to be conducted in
residence halls—page 3
—Troopers happy with number of student
petition signatures—page 5
—Revenge on Chip cagers'minds—page 11
—Wrestlers cop sixth win—page 13
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