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Regional games end today
'Rocky'theme inspires olympians
byPAMJAHNKE
LIFE Copy Editor
MANCELONA-To the theme of "Rocky," nearly 770 athletes
stood at the foot of a threateningly steep slope at Schuss Mountain,
Mancelona, anxiously awaiting the opening ceremonies of the
Michigan Regional Special Olympics.
Cold weather did not seem to dampen the spirits of the olympians
while they listened to welcoming words from various speakers and
celebrities.
Brian C. Cairns, Schuss Mountain general manager, said, "The
only one thing we insist on at Schuss is that you have fun." And the
second annual winter games were officially underway.
Torches were lit on the side of the resort's most difficult hill to
form the Special Olympics logo. Ceremonies concluded with lighting
of the eternal Olympic flame and fireworks, which drew shouts of
approval from the participants.
Prior to the ceremonies, mentally impaired olympians from
Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Ontario were busy par
ticipating in several clinics throughout the day at Schuss Mountain
and Shanty Creek Lodge, Bellaire.
Sandy Fitzpatrick, co-chairperson of the cross country skiing
clinic, said the purpose of the clinic is "for (the athletes) to experience a sport they've never done before and to get some practice
at it."
Falling down or finding skis in awkward positions did not
discourage olympians from trying the new sport.
Snowshoeing was taught to many participants at another clinic.
Olympian Kathy Ludwig said she almost fell but would do it again.
"It's kind of hard; I wouldn't want to be in Alaska," the 19-year-old
West Branch resident said.
Besides attending clinics, special olympians could take the Winter
Wonderland Tour, While on the tour, athletes saw life-size Muppets
and Big Bird Walking around original snow sculptures.
Dean Wallin, assistant director of CMU's School of Continuing
Education and Community Services, organized the tour. Groups
from the Bellaire-Mancelona area built the snow sculptures, copying
images of Snoopy, Winnie the Pooh and other popular characters.
Volunteer Julie Marsh, Evert junior, said the tour is like a
miniature Disneyland. "It's something for the kids to do between
events and to help relieve pressure."
Other special events throughout the Olympics included sleigh
rides, movies, dancing and swimming in an outdoor pool heated to
about 92 degrees.
Thursday, olympians were busy participating in games from 8
a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Athletes were divided according to age groups in
the games .competition.
Allen L. Gates, director of the Michigan Special Olympics, said
one of the most important events was the "wheelchair downhill"
because it gives wheelchair athletes the experience of downhill
skiing.
The wheelski idea, which is patented, originated at last winter's
games. Michigan is the only place in the world with such equipment
arid currently has three wheelskis costing approximately $400 each.
(See "Special Olympics—" page   8)
Volume 59 No. 60      oimreni^MichtonurE    Mount Pleasant, Mich. 48859  Friday, Feb. 24,1978
Chairpersons request
agenda before talk
by TONY BEARING
LIFE News Editor
A group of chairpersons have
told Provost John Cantelon that
before they sit down with him to
discuss their "frustrations,"
they first want to be certain
discussion will center on specific"
complaints they have raised
against him.
. The chairpersons in the
School of Arts and Sciences, who
earlier this month petitioned
Cantelon .with a list of four
grievances against him, sent a
memo to the provost this week
accepting his invitation to meet
with them, but requested an
agenda for the meeting be
drawn up first.
Two chairpersons contacted
Thursday agreed their unusual
request for an agenda has been
spurned by Cantelon's
responses to their
petition-responses which
apparently have left them wary
the provost does not understand
the causes of their frustration.
Cantelon in a memo last week
invited the chairpersons to meet
with him, and also, through the
memo and comments in CM
LIFE, detailed a number of
reasons he thinks the group
might be frustrated. His memo
did not respond to any of the
four charges in the chairpersons'
first petition.
provisions of the bargaining
agreement with faculty, lack of
communication within their
school and lack of understanding
the planning process as problem
areas.
In their memo this week, the
chairpersons made it clear if
they are to meet with Cantelon,
it will be to discuss the four
charges they have brought - not
the points he has raised.
"Your memo suggests that
you see our frustration as
resulting from factors quite
distinct from those we specified
(in our original petition)," the
chairpersons' memo stated.
"We were not overjoyed by.
his response," Bernard Meltzer,
chairperson of the Department
of Sociology and Anthropology,
said in explanation of the memo.
"The purpose of having an
agenda for the meeting will be to
make it clear we want the issues
we have raised discussed,"
Joyce Pillote, Philosophy
Department chairperson,
agreed. "We don't want a
meeting on the issues he has
raised."
"My memo had nothing to do
with their specific issues, but I
was just saying in addition to
their substantive issues, I
recognize there may be a host of
other problems," Cantelon said
Wednesday.
raised were "irrelevant" to the
problems they petitioned him
over.
The chairpersons' memo
suggested that Meltzer and
Henry Fulton, Arts and Sciences
faculty chairperson, meet with
Cantelon to write up an agenda.
The three apparently will
meet to do so when Cantelon
returns from a trip to San
Francisco sometime during the
week-of March 6; •    •   ••*  —
Steady as she goes. Janet
Moore, a participant in the
Michigan Regional Special
Olympics conducted at Schuss
Mountain near Mancelona, is
helped up the rope tow by
volunteer Audri Vandenberg of
Bay City. The 770 athletes
participating will continue in
the competition today until the
closing ceremonies which will
begin at noon (LIFE photo by
Steve Fecht).
Student faculty attendance
at conference 'disappointing'
He mentioned such matters as Both Meltzer and Pillote
federal regulations requiring Thursday were emphatic in
increased   paperwork,   certain    insisting  the   points   Cantelon
byPETEENGARDIO
LIFE Staff Writer
Disappointment was the overriding sentiment shared by
organizers of CMU's three-day Careers Awareness Conference
following low student and faculty turnout to the main conference
events.
Sessions which drew far smaller audiences than had been anticipated included talks by former U.S. Secretary of Labor Willard
Wirtz and career placement specialists Richard Bolles and Joanna
Sternick Wednesday.
Bolles attracted audiences of about 50 and 125 persons at his two
sessions; Sternick drew less" than 50 persons at both of her talks and
an audience of about 200 persons attended Wirtz's presentation
Tuesday.
"I am disappointed with the support the talks were given. I feel •
pretty bad," Philip Perkins, conference promotion coordinator, said.
"I thought we publicized the events pretty well and we brought in
some of the top careers speakers in the country," Perkins, assistant
professor of military science, said.
Approximately $1,050 was spent on newspaper, radio, poster and
pamphlet advertising for the conference, he said.
Charles Alexander, placement director, echoed Perkins'
statements, saying he felt "embarrassed" for Wirtz and Bolles for
the small audiences.
"Even if the kids didn't show up, you would think at least a couple
hundred faculty would be interested," Alexander said. "These are
subjects which directly affect them also."
Frank StiUings, dean of the School of Fine and Applied Arts,
attributed the low turnouts to conflicts with class and conference
times.
StiUings said the possibility of suspending classes -for the
duration of the conference was discussed during the event's
planning. It later was rejected because the practice traditionally
had proved to be a "bad mistake," he explained.
Bolles, author of the book "What Color is Your Parachute?" also
was disappointed with attendance, Alexander said.
(See "Careers-" page 8)
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Job-seekers should emphasize skills rather than job experience
or credentials, Richard Bolles, career placement specialist, said
at a Wednesday session of CMU's three-day Careers Awareness
Conference. Bolles advised students to ignore Vacancies. "First
find out what you want out of the job and go to any place you are
interested in working at," he advised (LIFE photo by Ron
Nichols),
byPETEENGARDIO
.  LIFE Staff Writer
Clearly define career
preferences, seek jobs which
permit the use of satisfying
skills, never hesitate to use
"contacts" and avoid getting
"boxed into" one vocation.
These were job-seeking points
stressed by Richard Bolles and
Viki Zenoff, co-directors of New
York's Career Development
Center, when they spoke at
CMU as part of the three-day
Careers Awareness Conference'
which ended Thursday.
Bolles also is author of the
book "What Color is Your
Parachute?"
"Identify very specifically
ultimately what type of job you
are interested in,*' Bolles told
the audience. "Then decide how
you are going to get in that
field."
Bolles and Zenoff outlined a
process to identify marketable
skills aind "prioritize" features
desired for certain positions.
They agreed job-seekers
should identify working conditions, geographic locations and
skills they find most satisfying.
Skills are broken down into
the categories of "learned"
skills, which are acquired
through experience; functional
or "transferable" skills, which
are natural talents and will be
used throughout a person's life;
and "adaptive" skills, such as
personality traits, Zenoff explained.
"Have a sense that you are a
person who possesses 500 to 600
different skills which may be
rearranged for different
careers," she said.
Persons should emphasize
their skills rather than experience or credentials when
seeking jobs, Bolles said.
"After you analyze what skills
you have* use the position you
held as an illustration Of how
you have used your skills," he
said.
Bolles emphasized the value
of developing and using "contacts", persons in fields who can
help, job-seekers obtain,
positions.
"Never underestimate your
contacts," he stressed. "An
absolute way of entering a field
is through the contacts. Keep
going to your contact network
and interview them for information about the field and
who to see about entering it."
Bolles discouraged the
"traditional" method of job-
hunting, which he described as
"only   go   where   there   are
openings.
"Pay no attention to vacancies. First find out what you
want out of the job and go to any
place you are interested in
working at."
In following this advice, he
said job-hunters have better
chances to obtain positions at
firms which have recent
openings due to firings, deaths,
retirements, resignations or the
creation of new positions.
"Between   the   time   of   the
opening,   advertisement  for  a
(gee "Bolles-" page 8)
—Nine   citizens
hearings—page 3
testify   at   land   use
—SA members walk out after debate on
constitutional revisions—page 5
—Cagers dumped by Miami—page 10
—Seniors lead women cagers in weekend
action—page 11
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