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Volume 59 No. 67
©  1978. Central Michigan LIFt
Mount Pleasant, Michigan 48859
Wednesday, March 22,1978
"Deplorable conditions' subject of talks
BCA students organizing protests
by JIM FISHER
LIFE Copy Editor
Fed up with overcrowding in
the Area of Broadcast and
.Cinematic Arts (BCA), a group
of students is threatening a one-
day protest including a boycott
of BCA classes, a march on
Warriner Hall and a shutdown of
several campus broadcast
outlets.
The group will meet with top
University officials today and
Thursday and go before the
Board of Trustees March 29 to
air its complaints concerning the
lack of courses required for a
BCA major or minor.
If not satisfied with the
University's response to its
complaints, the group, Broadcasters Entitled to Education in
Four years (BEEF), will conduct
the protest measures April 5,
the group's spokesperson said.
BEEF plans to meet today
with Adelyn Dougherty, dean of
the School of Arts and Sciences;
Thursday with Provost John
Cantelon and Monday with
President Harold Abel to
discuss the problem of BCA
course availability and un-
derfunding.
At each of the meetings, the
group will present a petition
"All we want is one or two more futf-tima faculty
members. We currently have the same number of
full-time BCA faculty for 40(1 majors that we Had in
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spokesperson fur Broadcasters entitled to
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signed by undergraduate BCA
majors and minors demanding
immediate action be taken to
remedy "deplorable conditions"
existing in the area.
The petition, which late
Thursday contained 175
signatures, claims it is
mathematically impossible for
the more than 400 BCA majors
to graduate in four years due to
a backlog of requests for
required courses.
The petition also opposes a
decision by BCA faculty to
prohibit seniors who need to
fulfill graduation .requirements
to "bump into" classes which are
filled during registration.
"All we want is one or two
more full-time faculty members." Steve Serkaian, BEEF
spokesperson, said. ."We
currently have the same number
of full-time BCA faculty (six) for
400 majors that we had in 1970
for 50 majors."
"By the time students are
juniors and seniors they finally
are able to take classes they
should have had as freshman
and sophomores," Serkaian,
Northville senior, said.
A decision whether to carry
out the April 5 protest will be
made after BEEF representatives confer with the Board of
Trustees, Serkaian added.
Serkaian said he is not
satisfied with responses from
Abel and Cantelon, although
both assured him they were
aware of BCA's problems.
In a letter written to Serkaian
March 2, Abel said he recognizes
BCA's problem as "a serious
one" and he believes "a
lengthening of the program is
preferable to the deterioration
in quality that might occur as
result of some sort of crash
program to relieve the backlog."
Abel reiterated a promise he
(See "BCA protests-" page 8A)
Hogan Senate report
hits "personal interest'
byPETEENGARDIO •
and
JOHNGROGAN
LIFE Staff Writers
A report to Academic Senate
by Dean John Hogan Tuesday
was ruled out of order by Senate
Chairperson Kendall Folkert
because the report contained
information which violated a
senator's "personal interests."
The report, which detailed the
teaching loads of acting
chairpersons, in the School of
Business Administration, was
ordered stricken from the
record when it was found to
contain information on the
teaching load of Louis Ecker,
professor • of Industrial
Education who recently had
criticized a resource allocation
to the business school.
Hogan's report which contrasted the average teaching
loads of faculty in each school
and the loads of the chairpersons with that of Ecker, was
met with silence and surprise by
senators. Ecker was the only
faculty member singled out in
the report.
One senator, who wished not
to be identified, said, "Hogan's
reference to Ecker was the
worst example of academic bad
manners I have seen during my
career."
Frank Stillings, dean of the
School of Fine and Applied Arts,
also commented on the report,
stating, "It was simply inappropriate for Hogan to single
out an individual who had raised
a   valid   question   at   an   appropriate time."
• Charles Eiszler, former
Senate chairperson, said the
inclusion of Ecker's teaching
load in the report was in "exceptionally bad taste" and "an
overkill on Hogan's part.
"I was a little appalled at the
unnecessary pettiness of
comparing the loads of business
chairpersons to Professor
Ecker's work load," Eiszler,
assistant professor of
elementary education, said. "I
didn't think too much of it."
Hogan presented the figures
in response to questions raised
by Ecker at the March 7 meeting
on whether the,recent restructuring of the School of Business
Administration had created a
need for new faculty positions in
the school, because three faculty
members had become chairpersons.
Defending the inclusion of
Ecker's teaching, load in the
report, Hogan said he believed it
was relevant to prove although
the three chairpersons now
were teaching reduced loads,
they still were generating more
student credit hours than Ecker.
Hogan did not compare the
class sizes or nature of the
courses taught by the chairpersons with those of Ecker.
Folkert.did not ellaborate on
his reasoning for ruling Hogan's
report out of order, but said any
questions on his move are to be
directed to the Executive Board.
-Folkert also told Senate he
would not have allowed Hogan
to issue his report had he
previously been notified that it
contained the information on
Ecker.
Ecker would not comment on
Hogan's statements.
•
IET prof slaps Hogan
with grievance, page 3
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Panoramaic reflections in expansive puddles such as this one in front of Powers Hall have become a
common campus attraction these past few days. As March's melting snow and rain nourish the already
impressive depths of these puddles, it is often wise to look but not venture across (LIFE photo by Tracy
Crawford).
CMU to waive sophomore
residency rule for third time
by BERNADETTE JOZWIAK
LIFE Ass't News Editor
For the third consecutive year
CMU's housing office will waive
its sophomore residency rule,
allowing students entering their
third semester the choice to live
on or off campus, a housing
official said.
The policy which requires
second-year students to live in
one of CMU's 19 residence halls
will not be enforced in 1978-79
due to the crowded conditions it
could cause in the dormitories,
Jerry Quick, director of
residences and auxiliary services, said.
—CMU cutting electrical
use because of uncertain
coa{supplies—page3A
'-■City commissioners
hear more complaints
about High Street
traffic—page 6A
-Friday is deadline to
drop class, withdraw
from University and still
receive W—page 8A
—HHA to keep present
SA rep selection
procedure—page 9A
"If we were to enforce the
sophomore residency policy, we
wouldn't be able to house all new
freshmen coming in," Quick said.
The housing office requires all
first-semester freshmen to live
on campus to allow them the
experience of at least one year
of residence hall life, Quick said.
He added housing officials
expect approximately - 3,200
freshmen to be admitted in Fall
Semester 1978. Normally 85
percent of these students are
housed on campus.
Commuters, veterans and
guests compose the 15 percent
of students exempt from the
policy requiring first-semester
freshmen to live on campus,
Quick said.
Quick admitted the desire of
his office to house all new
freshmen on campus tends to
cause a space shortage problem
in the resisdence halls. But he
said, "Last year we housed
every freshman who wanted
housing. In August, it caused a
little more overload, but the
alternative was to tell them
(freshmen) they couldn't come to
school jiere and we didn't want
to do that."
While the office wants to
house all incoming freshmen,
Quick noted current hall occupants are given first choice of
the 6,096 available spaces in
.CMU residence halls.
After the current hall
residents' decisions to return to
on-campus housing are granted,
Quick explained, freshmen and
off-campus students returning
to dorm life are assigned to
halls.
Housing officials, he said,
have no control over the number
of students returning to dorm
living.
"We have no quota systems
for each class. We don't
discourage or go on any big,
expensive,    promotional    cam
paign    to   keep   them   in   our
residence hails.
"Housing sells itself or the
residents are disappointed by it
and seek something else," he
said.
Figures show 1,890
sophomores, 855 juniors, 342
seniors and 40 graduate
students returned to the
residence halls this year, Quick
said.
Joy ride ends
in Phoenix
A 22-year-old Muskegon man was arrested by police in Phoenix;,
Ariz. Tuesday after leaving the state with a CMU student'!
autpmobile on the pretext of taking it for a test drive. ,
Mount Pleasant police Det. Wayne VanDyke said Phoenty
prosecuting attorneys Tuesday afternoon gave the man, identified
as Ronald Boelkins, a hearing in which he could either demand o?
waive extradition to Michigan.
Boelkins-was charged with larceny by conversion, which is grand
theft, VanDyke said. ;
VanDyke said the owner of the car, Jack Herron, Blanchard
freshman, went to Phoenix to retrieve the car. ;
If Boelkins waives extradition, a Mount Pleasant Police Depart
ment official will fly to Phoenix within the next few days to get hiity
VanDyke said. If Boelkins demands extradition, prosecutors will
have to petition the Arizona governor to extradite, which could take
up to one month, he said.
Boelkins' arrest ends a police search nearly two weeks long;
Boelkins allegedly left the state with Herron's 1977 Pontiac Trans
Am March 9 and was traced to Garland, Tex.
(See "Auto*-" page 8A)
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