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te ok's grade grievance
by KATHY JENNINGS
CM LIFE Reporter
Revisions in the existing grade grievance policy and recommendations
from the Graduate Seminar were approved by the Academic Senate at its
meeting Tuesday. s.
Changes in the grade" grievance policy include the definition of
'•capricious grading" and allowing" grade grievance hearing committees
within each,school the power to change an instructor's grade, not included; in
the former policy. • ' ,    . '
THE'GRADE GRIEVANCE policy outlines steps students can take to
change an instructor's grade if they believe they have been unfairly graded.
The approved policy states students should discuss a grading matter
with the instructor first. If no agreement can be reached, the instructor and
student shall meet with the chairperson ofthe department involved.
A student who is not satisfied after meeting with the department
chairperson may file a written appeal within 90 days of the beginning of the
next semester to the dean of the instructor's school. The appeal will be
forwarded to the school's committee on review of grade change.
After meeting with both the student and instructor, the committee may
recommend action be taken to bring justice to the case, The committee can
change the instructor's grade, but only in the most extraordinary circumstances, the policy states,
Instructors can be cited for capricious grading if a grade is assigned on a
basis other than a student's performance in the course, if more demanding
Abel announces room, hoard
rate
next year
by HOLLY HAYES
LIFE Ass't. News Editor
Room and board rates for the
1976-77 school year will increase
between $60 and $70 if a recom*
mendation from President Harold
Abel is approved by the Board of
Trustees, Abfl' announced at an
informal meeting of students
Monday,
The average room and board
rate would be $1,416 per person
under his recommendation, Abel
said. However, he added that figure
allows for only a 9 per cent reserve
for maintenance ^and the Board of
Trustees may require more. This
may drive the room and board rate
up to about $1,420, he said.
"THE REASON we arrived at
$1,416 was that the figure divides
evenly between the four pay periods
and we wanted to keep the increase
below $70," Abel said. "But the
Finance Committee of the Board
may push it higher."
The informal meeting with
students was the result of Abel's
committment "to get input on every
level" to University issues. During
the two-hour meeting, a total of-
about 50 students attended.
Discussion .also focused upon
possible tuition'hikes. When asked
how high tutidn could go without
shutting the door to students, Abel
replied, "$2 to $2.50," an average of
$100 per year.
Abel told the Academic Senate
last Tuesday a tuition hike "is
unavoidable, as much as it grieves
me to acknowledge it. The only
question is, 'how much?'" He also
said an increase of $1.50 per credit
hour would only cover the
University's projected $677,000
deficit without making allowances
for "any compensation."
Financial aid for the 1976-77
school year also will change,^ Abel
told students. "We are trying to
spread the money a little further by
Student election
rescheduled today
The student government electidnjeche^uled for Tuesd>;V £nd today
•has faeeh rescheduled for today »«d Thursday,,'' '  ""*,    * ■
, Nancy Myron, member of the Student Association Elections
Committee said the election was postponed because Charles Rodgers,
elections director, was unable to get ballots printed in time for the
election due to illness.
Rodgers, Linden sophomore, was unavailable for comment.
Myron, Mt. Pleasant senior, said she did not know how the ballots
were printed up and it was Rodger's responsibility to haVe the ballots
printed. *
• The election will be for one sophomore at-large representative and
one senior at-large representative to the Student Association Board of
Directors.
A proposed constitutional amendment altering the graduate
student requirements for Board representation also will be voted on.
Myron said the polling places in the election will be located in
Anspach, Pearce, Rose, Wightman, Grawn, Rowe and Moore Halls, the
University Center, the Little Union and Park Library.
"We're, going to try, if we can, to have the polling places in Park
Library "open in the evening," Myron said.
"I am optimistic that there will be a better turnout at this election.
,  Students will be walking past more ballot boxes," Myron said.
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using a less liberal financial aid form.
Students may get a few less dollars
but we'll be able to get everybody."
Abel explained this year 200
students didn't receive financial aid
because available money ran out.
According to administrative*
predictions, without the revised
financial aid form between .600 and
700 students would not receive aid
next year. ,
CENTRAL'S situation in
.regards to state funding was the
focus of another student question.
Abel said CMU's financial difficulties
can be approached in both formal
and informal manners.
"The formal approach includes
going before the state Higher
Education Subcommittees and
telling our story. You must
remember that the governor's
recommendations (on higher
education funding) carry a lot of
weight."
Central administrators appear
before the subcommittees in Lansing
today at 9 a.m. and Abel said "we
will present handouts explaining our
money situation and wOl be > given
one hour' to talk,"
Informal responses are those
which have a hard-to-measure result,
Abel said. "These include traveling
parent* and ahtni^ greujM. It'rkard
to^nfeasure the foripkct Of the to'
formal responses. By telling the
story over and over., we just may get
somewhere." '
Abel added his visits to
Traverse City and Detroit have
yielded "enthusiasm," citing several
persons who have" agreed to write
letters to legislatprs about CMU's
funding troubles.
Central currently is underfunded for approximately 1,400-
students by the state legislature.
Gov. William G. Milliken has
recommended a $400,000 increase in
appropriations for CMU for 1976:77,
however this amount actually only
restores the amount of the 1975-76
' cut. ! -
INCREASED enrollment next
year also concerned some students
attending the session and Abel
explained enrollment will increase
because the small senior class
graduating in May will be replaced
with a freshman class of about the.
size of this year's freshman class.
(See "Abel..." page 9)
standards were applied to one student than to another or if the assignment
of a gra.de is made in a substantial departure from previously announced
standards', , '
In other business, the Senate accepted the final three recommendations
of the Graduate Seminar Report, concerning review within the Institute.for
Personal and Career Development (IPCD), \
IPCO PROGRAMS now will be reviewed by the Board of Visitors using
procedures similar to the ones used in other departmental reviews. The
, Board of Review will recommend, continuation, modification or discontinuation of IPCD programs to the Academic Senate.
Adoption of these recommendations completes Senate action on the
Graduate Seminar Report, The report, which recommended changes in the
School of Graduate Studies, was developed by a 10-member Graduate
Seminar last summer. It included topics such as the role and function of
graduate education at CMU and organization and administration, of graduate
programs.
Four recommendations frdm the report previously had been approved
by the Senate, establishing criteria for membership in the graduate faculty
and review of programs within the School of Graduate Studies. '
The changes'in the School of Graduate Studies approved by'the Senate
will be implemented by the 1977-78 school year, according to Senate
Chairperson Sue Nichols.    ■     I • *
SENATORS UNANIMOUSLY approved Gary Tutoraw, graduate
student, to the University Graduate Committee; Adelyn Dougherty, dean of
the School of Arts and Sciences, to the University Curriculum "Committee;
Anne McNish, Detroit freshman, and Doug Wahl, St. Helen junior, to the
University Curriculum Committee; Betty Bixby to the Museum Committee;
and Terry Brennan, Farrnlngton 'senior, to the Teacher Preparation Council.
Volume
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DPS estimates fire
damage to Saxe Hal)
by CHRIS LYNCH
CM LIFE Reporter
-More VJi&n $£,000 in 'pe'rsonaTpro'per'ty dWna'ge Was
*«^#d%ytr*iire*fn a Sax$.'*"HaU room early Saturday
morning, according to the Department of Public Safety
(DPS).
Det. Sgt. Les Bonstelle of DPS said though the
property damage had been announced, DPS Was making
no statement about the cause of the blaze.
DAMAGE to the room itself, which entails
scrubbing the room out as well as repainting the walls,
was set at $185, according to Mark Couture, Flint freshman, one of .the occupants of the room.
The $1,000 in personal property loss included
damage to chairs, lamps, posters, albums, carpeting and
tennis shoes.
Couture said, "The dust cover of our*turn-table was
melted and all our clothes have to be cleaned for smoke."
While the room is being cleaned and repainted the
residents have been moved to other rooms throughout
Saxe Hall.
The fire broke out Saturday morning around 3:45
a.m. and though confined to just one room, had to be
extinguished by the Mt. Pleasant Fire Department.
DPS REPORTS larceny throughout Central's
catajpus is on the rise, with more than $630 of personal
property reported stolen by CMU students in the past
two days. This adds to the $812 of property taken /»..
week. ,
A Petti 35mm camera and a 135mm lens, w$h a
Combined value of $500 Was taken froln Cobb HaU at
midnight Sunday. The owner is James Kuderko, Howell
sophomore. '       ^
A pair of silver wire-rimmed glasses was taken from
the Rose, Center between 7 and 7:10 p.m. Monday. The
glasses were owned by Roger Fauble, Mt. Pleasant
senior, and were valued at $85.
DPS reports two cases of larcenies from vehicles
occurring in Lot 28, next to the Towers.
The first larceny occurred between 2i30 a«m, and 8
a.m. on Suftday, Robert Gibson, St. Clair Shores freshman, reported a ski rack, valued at $20, was taken from
his Volkswagon.
The second theft occurred between Sunday hiorning
and 3 p.m, Monday. A K-Mart brand, 12 volt battery,
model 300, belonging to Todd Byrne, Farm Hills freshman, was stolen. The value of the battery was set at $25.
A case of malicious destruction also was reported at
Saxe Hall Monday at midnight, Where two double
strength door windows, each 12 by six inches, Were
broken. Saxe also reported someone broke a small Oak
tree off at the trunk that same afternoon. The tree was
approximately 12 feet tall and stood near the corner of
'Broomfield  and Tomahawk Roads.
CMU student to compete in Miss U.S.A pageant
by MITCH HEAD
'.     L|FE Managing Editor
A   Central   student ^will  be
representing'Michigan in the Miss
U.S.A* beauty pageant in Niagara
(Falls, N.Y, May 14,
Kevin C. Gale, Dearborn
Heights senior, was selected as Miss
Michigan World in competition with
' 84 women in Troy Friday. They were
judged on poise, personality and
appearance and modeled in evening
gowns, casual' wear and §wim suits.
"I JUST couldn't believe it," she
exclaimed afterwards. "I was really
lucky because there were lots^of
pretty girls there.". .
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But her manager, Gary Grizzelle, discounts any luck Involved on .
her part,"I feel shellgo all the-way
to the Miss jUniverse Pageant," he f
said Tuesday afternoon. "I   don't,
expect' her  back  after  the  Miss
U.S.A. Pageant. She'll go all  the
way."    y     v    . •
Grizzelle, director of Auston's of
Detroit modeling agency, has
managed Ga'le with the help 'of
Corrine Bozim. a former Miss
.Michigan WorldUierself.
After they contacted Gale this
summer about modeling ' for the
agency, they found a sponsor to pay
her entrance fee into the contest.
HOMEMADE 1 Mt/SIC-UMk
prevailed during the homemade,
music workshops sponsored by
Paul Winter Monday (see story
page 8).
Gale explained she was notified
just a week-and'a-half before the
contest... that "Your Mustache
Lounge" in the Dearborn area had
.agreed to sponsor her.
"That's how lucky I was,'? the" 5-
foot 8 recreation major claims.
"Most of the1 other girls in the
pageant had been preparing for two.
months Jor the contest."
FURTHERMORE, Gale explains, she has not had any previous
modeling experience. Although
Auston's contacted her this summer,
she could not afford to take 'a
, modeling class, she said. Afterwards, she , was awarded a
scholarship so she could participate
this summer.. /. ' .,
As Miss Michigan World, Gale
will be making many personal
charitable appearances at auto
shows and conventions, according to
; G^izzelie, In- addition, she is,
scheduled to model . fashions . for
Auston's on a spring fashion show to
be aired over Channel 20, WXON,
from the Hyatt-Regency Hotel in
Dearborn.
But the duties of Miss Michigan
World won't interfere with her
studies, she says. . "That was my
main concern at first, but then I
didn't expect to win. After all, most
of the other girls were professional
models, and I had never even been
before an audience that large
before."A . <   ■ -
Gale replaces Debbie Holland,
24, of Pontiac as Miss Michigan
World. Holland now is a professional
model and has appeared on the
television series "Emergency,"
Grizzelle said.
A physical education minor.
Gale teaches a class in slimnastics
part-time at Mid-Michigan Community College. The class focuses on
good health, nutrition and, gymnastics for women of ail ages, she
explains'.
Originally, Gale planned to
student teach next fall and graduate
in December, She had planned to get
her degree in Secondary Education
to teach slimnastics - after
graduating.
BUT THAT was all before this
week.. Nov/ she doesn't know what
she's going to do.
, "Everthing's just so crazy
around here right now," she explains
about the Rose Center Ticket' Office
where she works part-time.
The. blue-eyed blonde is shy,
about publicity and doesn't particularly like having her photograph
taken. But ii is something she will
have to get used to. Today she has a
(See "Student... " page 9)
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