1977-10-12; Central Michigan Life

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Volttme 59 No. 19 Mount Pleasant, Michigan 48859
Wednesday, Oct. 12,1977
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by SUE BERG
and
DAVID N. BR ABOY
.     LIFE Staff Writers
Issues revolving around the University Health
Services  (UHS) remain  unresolved  following
cancellation Monday of a planned meeting between a University administrator and the UHS
Director.
"Things are now in a state of limbo," Dean of
Students James Hill said after the meeting was
cancelled due to a previous engagement of UHS
Director Dr. Howard L, Varney.
The issues involved are Hill's possible
resignation from the UHS Advisory Board, an
Administration plan to survey student opinion on
the. UHS in mid-November and a cost-
effectiveness study of the UHS by a non-
University firm.
"The meeting will be rescheduled later on,"
Hill said, "as soon as possible." Hill declined to set
a firm date for the next meeting and whether or
not he would resign his UHS post.
Hill also announced Monday all discussions and
decisions concerning the UHS will not be made
public for at least a week. "I really don't want to
say anything else about the UHS at the present
moment," he said,
Hill said he refuses to talk until sometime next
week about his possible UHS Board post
resignation and the upcoming survey and study.
Commenting on Monday's CM LIFE article on
his planned meeting with Varney, Hill said, "It's
not good administrative policy to do administrative business through the newspaper."
Hill also said, "I have an operation to run
the newspaper
(Student Affairs) and I can't run that operation
through the newspaper."
Hill said he would talk when upcoming
discussions and plans are formulated and
finalized.
Hill declined to be more specific on his plans,
saying only that he is unsure of his appearance at
the Oct. 19 Advisory Board meeting.
"I don't want to think aloud in tli
anymore," he said,
Hill had previously said he would resign his
UHS post due to a "conflict of interest" between
his administrative and UHS Board positions, in
which he can twice, influence the outcome of the
UHS budget request.
This influence stems from Hill's initial Administration input at all UHS Board meetings,
followed by his final approval of the UHSibudget
request before submitting it to the President's
Council.
However, Hill said Friday he may not resign
his Board post as he originally intended.
"I have decided to get feedback from other
sources before I make a final decision on whether
to resign," he said.
The Advisory Board is comprised of several
medical and non-medical representatives and' has
no decision-making power, varney said last week.
Acting as an advisory committee for Varney,
the University and the local medical community,
the Board supplies Varney with various
recommendations so he can determine his UHS
budget request,
"Basically, the Board's purpose is to have
communication between all departments so they
can help one another and get the job done,
Varney said.
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Dave Holiday, Mount Pleasant junior, and his wife, Jeanne, seem to be enjoying their afternoon at the
swinging bridge spanning the Chippewa River off Winn Road west of town. However, their puppy
Jelsey seems slightly worried about being suspended over all that water (LIFE photo by Pam Eckman).
Students shun chance
to advise SA directors
by JIM FISHER
LIFE Staff Writer
No students other than
Student Association (SA) Board
of Directors members accepted
an opportunity Monday to
provide input into revision of
the SA Constitution.
Students had the opportunity
Monday at a publicized meeting
in the Wolverine Room of the
University Center to recommend constitutional changes to
Warns middle-class of danger
Fonda raps business 'tyrants'
by SHARON JOHNSON
LIFE Staff Writer
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The American people have
many rights except the right of
economic democracy, Jane
Fonda,, actress and political
activist, said Monday night.
Speaking before a capacity
crowd in Warriner Auditorium,
Fonda spoke of her concern the
concept of free enterprise may
become obsolete as a result of
the economy being monopolized
by   a   very
porations.
"We have a new body of
rulers, tyrants,. whose names
you don't know and whose faces
you don't recognize, but who
control your life," she said.
An example of this takeover,
Fonda said, is the large
agricultural firms which often
control not only the farming of
crops, but everything from
canning to distributing to even
owning the supermarkets where
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their goods are sold.
And I'm amazed when I watch
commercials to see business put
millions of dollars into advertising only to create a
market that should not even
exist," she added.
Fonda said in contrast to the
well-being of big business, an
increasing number of middle-
class people cannot afford to get
sick or own their own homes.
"These firms have learned to
manipulate the tax laws to get
away from paying their fair
share and the middle-class must
pay the burden."
As. a result of this "invisible
takeover of our lives," .Fonda
said, the middle-class is going
out of existence.
She added, however, because
of "the, economic crisis, the
former silent majority is
"joining the ranks of the angry."
She appealed to students to be
aware of the problems for
themselves and future society.
"These are social problems,
not your own. You must realize
the social roots and consider
yourself an active, conscious
person.
"Say: 'What right do these
people have to appoint themselves creators of a new social
order?'"
Fonda spoke of herself as a
student in the 1950s and a
political activist in the '60s.
"I am a 40-year-old movie
actress who, because of the '60s
movement, realized there was
more than my career.
"I have seen the numb, glassy-
eyed stares on campuses today
and I know," she added.
Fonda said in the '70s, as in
the '50s,   there   are   no  role
(See "Jane Fonda—" page 8)
the committee, but no one
showed up.
Don Fergle, the Board's lone
representative on the four-
person Constitutional Revision
Committee, said he was
disappointed with the lack of
student input but added he was
not surprised.
"It would have given us a
better perspective if students
had turned in suggestions. The
majority of the students
probably are more concerned
with what we do than how we do
it," Fergle, Grosse Pointe
sophomore, said.
The committee consists of
Fergle; Vicki Bazan, St. Joseph
senior; Patricia Allen, Flint
graduate student; and Don
Boileau, associate professor of
speech and araraaticarts.
It was formed Oct. 28 by
Student Body President Steve
Trudeau to recommend
revisions to the Constitution,
which was adopted in 1975 and
revised last April.
All committee reconv
mendations must be approved
by three-fourths of the Board's
total membership before being
placed on a student election
ballot. No deadline for submitting recommendations has
been set.
Fergle said the meeting,
which was open to all students,
was "a legal measure" to insure
students had a chance to voice
opinions on the Constitution.
"This was their opportunity.
It was clearly advertised we
would not deny student input.
Students will not be able to
come to us later and say they did
not get a chance to have input,"
Fergle said.
Recommendations for SA
constitutional revision were
submitted Monday by Small
Organizations Council
Representative Jim Julian and
Tom Dickey, senior at-large
representative, '
Julian, Mount Pleasant
graduate student, recommended
increasing the number of
organizations on the Board,
creating one seat for each
residence hall and allowing off-
campus at large seats.
Julian also favored retaining a
$4 SA activity fee as a possible
alternative for funding student
organizations, reforming the
Judiciary Committee, which
handles constitutional disputes,
and removing a provision which
allows the dean of students to
alter Finance Committee
allocations.
Dickey, Mount Pleasant
senior, recommended separate
elections for SA candidates and
constitutional revisions, appointing a student to serve on
the Board of Trustees, subjecting the SA elections director
toTiill^baFd'reVreV'and giving
the Board power to reverse
decisions of elections directors.
Finance Committee Chairperson Jim Kuderko recommended procedures to fill
Finance and Grievance Committee positions-be included in
the    Constitution.
Fergle said the Constitutional
Revision Committee will make
proposals based on the submitted recommendations, past
constitutions, other universities' student government
constitutions and suggestions
from Trudeau, -St. Clair Shores
senior.
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—Academic Senate may
reduce Honors Council
membership—page 3
— Walkers
money   for
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to    raise
diabetics—
—Total solar eclipse will
appear   partial   here-.
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FA, CMU negotiate
off-campus teaching
Speaking before a capacity audience in Warriner Auditorium, actress and political activist Jane
Fonda said that the American people are under the power of large, multi-national corporations. She
stressed a new awareness defined as 'e^otiomfc democracymust t»e developed in the minds of the
nation's citizens (LIFE photo by Peter Luke).
byTONYDEARING
LIFE News Editor
CMU and Faculty Association (FA) bargainers
tentatively agreed Tuesday upon the first of
three counterproposals to answer the FA's
concerns on off-campus teaching assignments.
The teams approved a CMU counterproposal
on School of Continuing Education and Community Services courses before breaking for
dinner and moved to a new CMU counterproposal on courses taught at locations distant
from the campus.
, CMU has waiting in the wings a third counterproposal on courses taught by the Institute for
Personal and Career Development (IPCD) John
Weatherford, chief CMU negotiator, said.
CMU prepared the three counterproposals
after the FA, at the last bargaining session Oct. 4,
offered a proposal which lumped together IPCD,
continuing education courses and courses taught
at distant locations into one article;
Chief FA- negotiator J. Norbert Musto at that
time told CMU his team's main concern in each of
these three areas calling/for off-campus teaching
assignments was two-fold.
"we;   are   interested   in   availability   and
volunteerism," Musto said.
He said the FA wants CMU faculty to'have the
first shot at off-campus teaching assignments, for
courses associated with their departments but
also wants these positions to be filled on a
voluntary basis.
However, Weatherford called that FA proposal
"clumsy," and CMU at Tuesday's session broke
the three areas which required off-campus
teaching apart, handling each in a separate
counterproposal.
The counterproposal on courses offered byjthe
School of Continuing Education and Commmiity.
Services which the. teapsH agreed to. Tuesday
clearly met the concerns of the FA.
It stated: "All teaching assignments... shall *
be on a voluntary basis," and "preference for such
teaching assignments shall be given to Central
Michigan University faculty members of that
department" ./"
After some give and take, FA negotiators
agreed to the CMU counterproposal without
changing & single word. .
(See "Bargaining-" page 8)
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