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Volume 59 No. 82
«1978 Central Michigan LIFE
Mount Pleasant, Michigan 48859
Friday, April 28,1978
Board of Trustees boosts tuition $2
Shoots which responded to the April rains now will grow
strong in the warm sun of days to come. Theodore Sytek, CMU
Ground Crew employee, clears the gardens in front of Warriner
Hall of decayed leaves and last year's grass to allow the new
shoots fresh earth for this year's growth (LIFE photo by Tracy
Crawford).
byPAULRAU
LIFE Managing Editor
Most Central students will pay $2 more per credit hour next fall,
as the University Board of Trustees acted Wednesday to increase
tuition rates.
The increase means CMU undergraduate Michigan residents will
pay $26 per credit hour in 1978-79 instead of the current $24. A full
year's tuition and fees will now cost $846 instead of the $784
charged this year.
The new figure, for students taking a full load of 31 semester
hours, represents an increase of 7.9 percent over this year's tuition
and fees.
The trustees also approved the following rate hikes: resident
graduate tuition from $32 per hour to $35; non-resident undergraduate tuition from $62 to $67; and non-resident graduate
tuition from $71 per credit hour to $77.
Credit by examination also is $26 per hour and the $20 nonrefundable registration fee for students taking more than six hours
remains unchanged.
AU rate increases take effect Aug. 13,1978.
The tuition increase, which officials said was necessary to keep
pace with inflation, was the smallest considered by the University.
In March, Jerry Tubbs, vice president for Business and Finance,
said an increase of $3.50 per credit hour might be possible.
"However, ourbudget work indicated the state appropriation and
a $2 increase would put us in good shape," Tubbs told the trustees.
Gov. William G. Milliken recommended CMU receive a 13 percent
funding boost next year, but state Senate action recently hiked the
amount to 13.8 percent. However, Central vice presidents have said
they expect the House of Representatives to cu t the figure back.
"Past history indicates the governor's budget "doesn't change
much, so you can make your own assumptions," Tubbs said after the
meeting.
"We were hoping to come out with a low number, but some time
ago, I feared tuition would have to go as high as $3.50.
"If the $2 increase doesn't work out, we'll just have to horseshoe-
it in," Tubbs atfded.
Even with the increase, CMU tuition costs still rank low among
state-supported universities.
"CMU ranks fourth from the lowest in the state in tuition costs,
although it's still early," Tubbs said, noting three schools have yet
to take action.
"Central is still one of the better bargains in the state for
students," he added.
President Harold Abel noted the University could have waited
(See "Tuition hike-" page 10)
Students cite 'stagnation'
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Eight resign from SA
byTIMCUPRISIN
and
JOEGITTER
LIFE Staff Writers
Eight members of the Student
Association (SA) Board of
Directors resigned their seats at
Wednesday's board meeting,
claiming the body is controlled
by a "remote clique."
In a, written statement, the
departing group charged the SA
"no longer addresses itself to
student needs or interests."
The statement reacl in part:
"Student Association has
become ' a stagnant
organization.... We cannot
serve our constituencies' needs
"Student Association has become a stagnant
organization... We cannot serve our constituencies'needs while we sit on the SA Board of
Directors. Consequently, we resign.. ."—
resignation statement
while we sit on the SA Board of
Directors. Consequently, we
resign..."
The statement also called on
students to boycott the SA
election Wednesday and
Thursday and requested student
support in an attempt to form a
new student government.
Resigning board members
are: Peg Callahan, Married
Students    Council    represen-
Flint lab to test marijuana
for lung-damaging paraquat
by JACKSON TELFER
LIFE Staff Writer
There now is a laboratory in Michigan which is testing small
samples of marijuana for persons to determine whether their pot is
contaminated with the herbicide paraquat.
John Negri, chief technologist at Michigan Biomedical Labs in
Flint, said the laboratory began accepting samples of marijuana
Wednesday but had not tested any for paraquat as of Thursday.
Paraquat is a highly toxic, nitrogen-based herbicide which has
been used for weed control since 1960.
The herbicide also has been sprayed on Mexican marijuana plants
—SA turns over $1,800 to fund Mt. Rush-
page S
—Diamondmen hit MAC road today—page
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—Central hosts Chip Relays—page 12
by the Mexican government since 1975 in an attempt to wipe out
illegal trafficking of the drug.
The Mexican government's spraying of marijuana fields is part of
a program initiated by former President Richard M. Nixon in the
early 1970s in an effort to limit the amount of heroin and marijuana
entering the United States.
Negri said personnel at Michigan Biomedical Labs decided to
begin testing marijuana for traces of paraquat because they were
concerned about health hazards of smoking the tainted Mexican pot,
"We are looking at the medical hazards that have been created
here (through the Mexican government's spraying paraquat on
marijuana fields)," he said. "We are concerned about how many
people may be screwing up their lungs."
However, Negri added, "This is a public service and in no way
does our lab encourage the use of marijuana."
Persons wishing to have their marijuana tested should send a 1-
gram sample (approximately one joint) in a plastic bag and a $5
money order to Michigan Biomedical Labs, 2776 Flushing Road,
Flint, Mich., 48504.
The marijuana samples should be cleaned of all seeds and stems
before sending. >
A seven-digit identification number for personal records must be
included in the letter if a person wishes to remain anonymous.
(See "Paraquat tests—" page 5)
tative; Patrick Callahan, newly
elected graduate at-large
representative; Lee Fisher,
Association for Women
Students representative; Jim
Julian, Small Organizations
Council representative; Mary
Mullen,, Gay Liberation
representative;' Herminio
Nevarez, Chicanos Organized
for Progress and Action
representative; Richard Kerr,
graduate at-large representative; and Jim Brown, freshman
at-large representative.
Five organizational seats
were left vacant by the walkout.
These board representatives are
appointed by their organizations
and each student group may
name a new representative to its
seat for next week's board
meeting, Student Body
President Steve Trudeau said
Wednesday.
When asked after their
walkout to explain their reasons
for    resigning,    one    student
pointed to the validity of a
petition drive to put the new SA
constitution on the ballot next
week and another said he opposed the document's
representation system.
Kerr, Mount Pleasant
graduate student, said the SA
board violated students' constitutional rights in the petition
drive, April 12 he said because
the petitions did not have copies
of the constitution attached to
them when circulated, the activity violated state law and he
called for a re-petition drive.
April 18 an assistant deputy
attorney general told CM LIFE
he was unaware of existing state
statutes which cover universities' student governments.
Wednesday, Kerr said,
"Anybody on this campus does
not lose his constitutional rights
by entering the University."
Nevarez, Texas junior, said he
opposes the new constitution's
elimination of organizational and
minority representative seats.,
"We (the organizations) formed'
the board and now we're thrown
out."
Trudeau,   St.   Clair   Shores.
senior,   said   of  the  students'
(See "Resignations—" page 3)
Plagiarism tops cheating list
Turn clocks
ahead Sunday
An hour's loss of sleep awaits Michiganders and all persons in the
Eastern time zone Saturday night as the region converts to
daylight-saving time.
Persons should move thier clocks ahead one hour at 2 a.m. Sunday, the last Sunday in April. The change will be effect in the
Eastern zone until Oct. 29, the final Sunday in October.
The action, designed to provide for the use of more daylight,
especially during the summer, first was suggested in a whimsical
essay by American statesman Benjamin Franklin in 1784. It was not
put into practice until the 20th century.
(Editor's note: In this final
installment,   of   a    three-part
series    on   cheating,    LIFE
examines cheating's
psychological aspects and some
'easy   outs'   which   commonly
have been used by students. The
first part dealt   with   CMU's
policy    toward    academic
dishonesty    and   part    two
examined professor and student
attitudes toward cheating.)
by DONNA ENGELGAU
and
PAMJAHNKE
UFE Copy Editors
In order to meet graduation
requirements, students learn to
work within • the academic
• system of A to E, but they also
learn to Work outside the system
during their college careers.
Working outside the system
implies cheating. And just as
students learn various methods
of  cheating,   they   also  have
various reasons for taking the
easy way out.
Cheating today has gone far
beyond looking over someone's
shoulder during an exam.
Plagiarism, stealing exams,
using crib notes during an exam,
tearing pages out of and stealing
library books, taking an exam
for another student and turning
the same paper in to more than
one class all constitute cheating.
The most prevalent type of
academic dishonesty, however,
is plagiarism. Students often are
Unaware they are plagiarizing
material.
Students may feel it is ac
ceptable
passages
material,
word    for
reference
crediting
plagiarism.
Doris Miller, CMU reference
to   copy    certain
out   of   reference
However,    copying
word   from   any
material • without
the    author    is
librarian, said though no incidents of plagiarism have been
brought to her attention, "It
probably happens a fair amount
of the time from the number of
students I've seen."
To curtail plagiarism, the
library has specific copyright
laws which state in part the
person Who requests photocopy
or, reproduction material may be
liable for copyright infringement if the material is
*'used for any purpose other
than private study, scholarship
or research."
Id compliance with the
copyright law of the United
States, the library has displayed
notices which state: "Warning
Concerning Copyright
Restriction" These notices are
posted on photocopy machines.
Any material the student has
requested to be photocopied
leaves the library with a stamp
on it which states: "This
material may be protected by
copyright law (Title 17 U.S.
Code)."
Augmenting these forms of
cheating are bogus term papers
cranked out by firms known as
term paper mills and written by
"ghost" writers, many of whom
arePhDs.
For those students who have
"the term paper - blues," as
stated in advertisements tacked
up in classrooms, these paper
mills can end the student's
problems, offering to research
and write a paper covering any
and all subject areas. Topics
range, from "American Involvement in Vietnam: A" Legal
Analysis" to specific topics such
as "Irish-American" and "Black
Nationalism in America Today."
Charging customers $6.50 per
"polished" page and promising
'      (See "Cheating-"'page 6)
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