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Moiint Pleasant, Michigan 48859
Monday, Sept. 12,1977
Returning juniors raise totals
Enrollment tops record
byPAULRAU
LIFE Managing Editor
Another enrollment record
has been set at CMU with 16,287
students registered for classes
for the Fall Semester, an increase of 283 from the previous
record set in the fall of 1976.
Even though the University
attracted fewer new freshmen
and graduate students this
semester, total enrollment is up
1.77 per cent because of a high
return rate of previous CMU
students, > administrators said.
This trend was most apparent at
the junior level, where 208 more
students returned than last
year.
"The number of returning
students is a very important
determinant, but I'm not sure
it's the only cause," President
Harold Abel said. "I'd like to say
that CMU can take the credit
because we're doing everything
right, but that probably
wouldn't be accurate. The
Admissions Office has done an
excellent job considering the
complex factors behind enrolling
students," he added.
Abel said attracting and
predicting enrollments is a
"very inexact art" and added
any total figure which fell
between 300 more or less than
the target of 16,00 would have
been acceptable.
"The whole thing is an
estimate - we wanted to be close
to 16,000, like last year. We
(CMU) don't want to get too big
because we still think we'll have
to reduce in size several years
from now, and also because the
dorms are full already," Abel
said,
He said enrollment predictions are very tentative at first
because the Admissions Office
accepts approximately 6,000
applications from persons who
want to attend CMU. From
there, the attrition is rapid
because many prospective
students   change   their  minds
Man does his hunting
outside Warriner Hall
by JEFF ELLSWORTH
LIFE Staff Writer
Walking across campus and
returning with an armful of food
usually means a trip to the store,
but such is not the case for
mushroom hunter Jim Dufty.
As many as three different
kinds of edible mushrooms are
available around campus, Dufty,
Caseville senior, explained.
These include varieties of stump
mushrooms, morelles and button
mushrooms, he added.
"Button mushrooms are the
ones that come in cans in the
store," Dufty said.
A tour of campus, with
Dufty as guide and chief
mushroom spotter, revealed
several dried up, blackened
patches of the elusive prey
growing in Warriner Mall.
"These would have been okay
two or three days ago, but now,
they're starting to spoil," Dufty
observed.
Mushroom hunter Jim Dufty examines a handful of edible
mushrooms found growing in Warriner Mall There are, according to Duffy, Caseville senior, at least three' varieties of
edible mushrooms growing on the CMU campus. Hunters should
"use caution," according to Dufty, and "never eat anything they
aren't sure of (LIFE photo by Jeff Ellsworth).
A closer look revealed a clump
of fresh mushrooms, which
Dufty gently picked, until he had
a large handful. "I'm not sure
what these are called," Dufty.
said, examining the find, "but
they're very good fried in
butter."
Dufty began his hobby in the
Caseville area about 15 years
ago. "It's just something I was
exposed to while growing up in
that particular area," he said.
Dufty recently found a puff-
ball mushroom in the Caseville
area measuring 46 inches in
circumference, "I've seen larger ,;
puffballs, but that was the
largest one I've saen that was
still edible," he said.
The puffball, Dufty explained,
is named for a cloud of white
powdery material which will
surround someone who kicks
that variety of mushroom after
it "spoils".
And was Dufty's trophy
preserved for the sake of pride
and posterity? Not a chance. "I
sliced it up and fried it , and it
really made a very good meal for
my roommates and I," he said.
Mushroom hunting is not
without complications, Dufty
explained. Not all mushrooms
are edible, he said, and some, in
fact, contain deadly poison.
"There are books available
that have extremely detailed
descriptions and color
photographs of edible and non-
edible mushrooms," Dufty said.
"It's still not fool-proof," he
cautioned. "Some times there
are people who have been
hunting for years who happen to
get a bad mushroom," he said.
The best advice, according to
Dufty, is to never eat anything
you're not absolutely sure of.
"And use moderation in eating,
he cautioned, "because eating
too much of anything isn't good."
Even huge puffballs.
about attending.
When deposits start coming
in, estimates can be more
concrete, Abel said, even though
more than 300 students paid the
$20 registration fee last year
and never showed up to attend
classes.
Overall, Abel said he was
pleased with the high
enrollment "Considering the
concern we had that we'd be a
little under this year, it feels
much better to be a little over."
The "little over" this year will
bring in an estimated $70,000 in
contingency money, Abel said.
"Most of this money will go back
into some form of existing
program, such as helping
departments with high
overloads. None will be used to
hire new faculty, for example,"
Abel added.
The normal indicator of total
enrollments, the number of
incoming freshmen, declined
this fall by approximately 50
students. The number of
graduate students declined by
1.1 per cent to 2,067, but the
total figure went up because 2,2
per cent more undergraduates
remained at CMU than last year.
The largest population
segment on campus is the
freshman class, with new and
returning first-year students
totaling 3,859. Other class levels
are as follows: sophomores,
3,606; juniors,* 3,389; seniors,
3,278; and special and guest
students, 188.
~^CMtl also attracted a slightly
greater   number   of   transfer
students, from 1,133 in 1976-77'
to 1,163 this fall.
Bearing down over the soft clay form coming to life before him,
Ruben Fores, Saginaw juitfdr, artfully molds a vase on a potter's
wheel in the North Art Building. Ruben was alone in the building
this night, and except for the steady hum of the wheel, his skilled
hands worked on in silence (LIFE photo by Curt Slocum).
FA, CMU aiming
for package deal
byTONYDEARING
LIFE News Editor
Having forged agreements on
about half the issues in their
package proposals, CMU and
Faculty Association (FA) will
resume bargaining today and
continue hammering out an
entire package agreement.
Both teams will return to the
bargaining table today at 3 p.m.
in Foust 204 to pick up where
they left off Thursday on
proposals of no-strike, rights of
the University and-conference
for non-tenured faculty.
Bargaining sessions are open
to the public.
FA and-CMU switched from
bargaining issue by issue to
packaging a group of related
issues and negotiating the entire
package during a long Labor
Callers must support pot bill
NORML offers free phoning
Members from the National
Organization for the Reform of
Marijuana   Laws   (NORML)
. announced   Friday   they   will
provide this week a telephone on
.which students may make free
\ three-minute   phone   calls   to
' anyone, anywhere in Michigan.
However, before persons will
be allowed to take advantage of
the free three-minute phone call,
they will be required to write a
letter to their staie representative endorsing the proposed
Michigan marijuana bill, House
Bill 4803, Steve Wright,
NORML member said.
All students must do is bring
the tetter, Wright said, and
NORML workers will place it in
an addressed, stamped envelope
and mail it themselves. If
students do not know who their
representative is, NORML also
can provide that information.
Persons participating also will
have to tell the people they call
to write a letter in favor of the
bill to their representative.
The phone also may be used to
call a state representative,
Wright, Farmington junior,
added.
The free-call offer will begin
today and continue through
Thursday from 5 to 8 p.m. in
Student Governmeat Office 1 in
the lower level of the University
Center, he said.
The bill, currently pending
House reconsideration would
reduce existing penalties for
possession, use or non-profit
distribution of less than one
ounce of marijuana to a
misdemeanor, punishable by a
fine up to $100.
Persons would not receive a
criminal record for possession,
use or non-profit distribution of
less than one ounce,
Wright said the purpose of
the free-phone idea is to
promote a letterwriting campaign to Michigan representatives during what he says is a
"critical" period of the bill's
future.
The bill is expected to come to
a House of Representatives vote
within the next two weeks,
added.
he
The bill originally was passed
in the House last June but was
defeated the next day in an
emotion-packed second vote.
Day bargaining session last
week.
CMU offered its package first
in hope of "getting a lot of things
out of the way'in a short time,"
chief negotiator John
Weatherford said.
FA bargainers the next day
countered with a package of
their own, which included
concessions * to withdraw its
proposals on Academic Senate
and adjunct appointments.
The CMU package had
proposed those issues be taken
off the table.
The two packages also contained two other issues on which
both teams' proposals were the
same, and during three long
bargaining sessions the teams
agreed on issues of just cause,
promotion calendar and tenure,
reappointment and promotion
pokey changes.
However, all these areas of
agreement are left hanging in
limbo until the teams can agree
on an entire package.
In package bargaining,
agreements on issues do not
stand by themselves.
Agreement must be reached
upon every issue in the package,
and then the entire package is
initialed by both teams.
Thursday, Weatherford told
FA bargainers agreements on
just cause and tenure, reappointment and promotion policy
changes had been concessions
by CMU and those agreements
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were   "contingent"   upon   the
CMU package.
"We are reluctant to give the
FA any more big things until
they tell us that our package is
the package (that will be agreed
to)," he explained during a break
in bargaining.
Weatherford said it was
important that agreement be
reached on the boundaries of his
team's package, and that those
boundaries include no-strike and
rights of the University clauses.
FA baragining team member
Elaine Daniels reminded
Weatherford her team also had a
package on the table and that it
too had given in on issues of
Academic Senate and adjuct
appointment.
However, Daniels said FA
would answer CMU's concerns
on those issues, and after a
dinner break in Thursday's
session, the FA presented
counter proposals on "continuity
of- operations" and.
"management rights."
CMU was not pleased by
either counter proposal.
"In these areas, we ask that
you recognize we have a particular interest' peculiar to us,"
Weatherford told ^he FA.
Weatherford safd the rights of
the University clause was not
"aimed at anyone," but designed
so an arbitrator would understand CMU's "case" and see
that CMU gets what the
agreement is supposed to give
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He also said the no-strike
clause was a "classic" tradeoff
with grievance, and if the FA*
wanted a grievence clause in the
agreement, it must consent to a
no-strike clause.
The two teams then discussed
the FA's no-strike or continuity
of operations proposal. Which
Weatherford rapped because it
provided CMU only a strike
remedy under the Michigan
(See "Bargaining—" page 9)
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