1976-09-15; Central Michigan Life

              Less than 300 vote
RATIFIED
Association
—Keith Decker,
ratification vote,
CM LIFE PHOTO BY SCOTT BELLINGER
associate professor of geography, casts his vote during Tuesday's Faculty
while election official, Charles Ebel, associate professor of history, watches.
by PAM KLEIN
LIFE News Editor
Faculty Association (FA)
members, and fee payers voted 157
to 115 Monday and Tuesday to
accept the proposed contract
modification agreement for the
1976-77 academic year,
i According to- Ronald Johnstone, FA president, 272 out of a
possible 407 members voted on the
agreement.
"I thought we would break 300
votes," Johnstone said. "I would
have-liked a higher turnout, but I
think the positive vote indicates
those who couldn't vote or didn't
vote would have voted yes
anyway."  t
"I think it is clear the majority
of faculty members accepted the
modification," he added.
J. Norbert Musto, Michigan
Education Association
representative to the FA, said from
this point on FA members should
be preparing for next year's full
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Wednesday, September 15, 1976
contract negotiations.
"We have gone out of our way
to be reasonable in light of the
financial situation of the University
over the past years, and we have
been promised that next year the
institution will go out of its way to
make us whole for the inequities
we have suffered," Musto said.
"We'll be looking for that"
The vote culminates three and
a half months of negotiations,
which began in late May and ended
Aug. 23, when the tentative
agreement was reached between
the FA and University teams.
1 During that time, services of a
state mediator were required to
facilitate communication between
the groups. According to
representatives of both sides, the
mediator was a catalyst in bringing
the teams together to work out
differences in informal meetings.
Terms,of the agreement call
for a 6.75 per cent salary increase
for allregular,faculty members and
is retroactive to the beginning of
Fall Semester. ,
Other terms of the agreement
include a $10 per semester hour
increase in salary paid for teaching
off-campus courses and revisions in
the health insurance program
provided to faculty members.
This health insurance
provision had caused controversy
among some faculty members who
charged the provisions were
regressive and benefited those at
higher salary levels more than
those at lower.
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According to those unhappy
with the provisions, faculty
members would be required to pay
up to $300 in medical insurance
premiums for full family medical
coverage. Previously, the
University had paid the full cost of
health insurance premiums.
A group of FA members,
calling themselves the Committee
for an Equitable Contract, also
circulated a letter earlier this
month urging union members to
vote no against the contract
because it was regressive.
The group cited statistics
showing the difference in actual
salary increase between those at
different salary levels and urged
"the bargaining team should go
back to the table and work out an
agreement that is equitable for all."
Members of the FA bargaining
team, however, contended the
agreement' was not regressive
when viewed against agreements
of the past few years. While both
sides discussed the question and
defended their positions at a
contract information meeting Sept.
2, neither group said they were
working actively to gain support
for their position before Monday
and Tuesday's vote.
Members of the FA bargaining
team included Alan Hammack,
speech and dramatic arts
professor; Donald Kilbourn,
counseling professor; Musto; Alan
Nichols, economics professor; and
Hill Gates Rohsneow, assistant
professor of sociology and anthropology.
En/in explains
five freedoms
by DAVID OPFERMANN
CM LIFE Reporter
Stressing, the U.S. Constitution- has endured because it
provides for man's basic freedom
hee<|s .former|ieiwtvtorSam,JSrvip,
'^e'l.^^^iii^f'''iiS^^ilA of
Watergate fame, spoke before a
near-capacity audience in Warriner
Auditorium Monday night,
Ervin's talk, "The Constitution
Today," Opened a five-day campus
observance of. America's Bicentennial. It was co-sponsored by the
CMU Speaker Series and the
Bicentennial Committee.
The need for economic, personal, political, intellectual and
spiritual freedom all were considered by the founders of the
Constitution "to enable us to
pursue happiness," Ervin said,
'tyhich is the most precious right
th§ Constitution gives us,"
A retiree of the U.S. Senate in
1974, after 20, years of service,
Ervin elaborated on each type of
freedom, telling why and how each
Were guaranteed through the
amendments of the Constitution.
Speaking about economic!
freedom, Ervin said the founders o$
the Constitution knew the earth
yielded nothing to men except the
fruit of their labors, ahd every man
should have a task to dignify his
days, '
"And so," he said, "they
adopted a constitution in order to
give Americans incentives to
■ satisfy themselves economically,
inevitably making America the
most powerful economic nation the
wrirld has ever known."
Ervin said personal and
political freedom were guaranteed
by the Constitution because the
founders had the 'insight to know
men' needed freedom from Unwarranted invasions Of privacy and
tyranny,•
Commenting on the fourth
<$got, intellectual freedom, Ervin
^ said, "Thomas Jefferson began the
\ great fight for freedom of thought
% and for freedom of the .press (to be
»f guaranteed in the Constitution)."
£, This right Wis incorporated in
£ the First Amendment and ."gave
;*'a>he right to think our honest
^thoughts and publish them," h# .
>stiid,
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-*'     In addition, • during a question .
'-* and answer period following his
^speech, Ervin said he detested
making  leaking   and   publishing
government information a crime.
"I'hey {reporter* and
publishers) shouldn't be made
criminals just because somebody
stamped it 'classified'," he said*
"This  business, of  classified
documents is actually to keep
people from learning of the
foolishness of government officials."
Ervin also cited the right of
religious freedom, "England tried
to control spiritual thinking, but we
(the U.S.) thought that no counnry
had the right to come between man
and God," he said.
Ervin added Thomas Jefferson
once said, " 'To compel a man to
frequent a place he does not want
to frequent is tyrannical.' "
Ervin warned, though,
freedoms always stand imperiled.
"We must be eternally vigilant,"
Ervin, who became nationally
known as 'Uncle Sam' during the
Watergate investigations, said.
"God grants liberty to only those
who love it," he said.
(See Ervin ..." page 12)
AUTHORITATIVELY SPEAKING-Kicking-ott Central's five-day
Bicentennial Celebration, former Senator, Sam Ervin, addressed a
near-capacity crowd Monday night in Warriner Auditorium. Ervin,
Committees elected
A-Senate ok's major
by CAROL DAMOLI
CM LIFE Reporter
Academic Senate approved a
new major and minor in Language
Arts for elementary education and
elected student and faculty members to Senate committees
Tuesday at its first meeting of the
1976-77 academic? year.
The new major and minor
include required courses in
elementary education and English
and electives in communications
disorders, speech and dramatic
arts, interpersonal communication
and theater and interpretation.
Former   Senate   Chairperson
Sue   Nichols   and   Steve   Davis,
5Higgins Lake senior, were elected
to fill vacancies on the Nominating
Committee.
Elected to the Academic
Admissions, Standards, Honors
and Degrees Committee were
Barbara Perino and Rhonda
Rhitchie,
A vacancy on the Academic
Council for the Institute for
Personal and Career Development
was filled by Peter Beresford,
Birmingham graduate student,
while Gary Hatch, Mt. Pleasant
senior, was elected to the
Academic Freedom Committee.
\ ' Elected to the Artists Course
and Speakers Series Committee
were Scott Hammar, Garden City
junior, and Mary Beth Tuma, Mt.
Pleasant sophomore. #
Filling a vacancy on the
Committee of'^the Center of
Teaching and Learning is Ronald.
Hermanson, Lewiston junior.
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FRtENDS-Two dogs make a bond of friendships
after a dip in the Park Library Pond. (See photo
page 6)
• Veterans try to shake image—page
3
• Election  petitions   deadline   ex*
tended-page 5     /   , .
• Boondoggin'goes hunting—page 14
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Senate elected Karen Landers,
Ohio senior, to the Conferences and
Assemblies Committee, and Dedre
Dunedon, Mt. Pleasant senior, was
elected to the Library Committee.
Marie Sutherland, Ann Arbor
senior, Stacy Yost and P. J. Baker
were elected to the Museum
Committee.
A vacancy on the Teacher
Preparation Council was filled by
Maureen McCourt. •
Four vacancies on the
University Curriculum Committee
Were filled by Barb Beresford,
Birmingham sophomore; Ken
Brooks, Saginaw junior; Mark
Peters, Waterford senior; and Les
Lazarus.
Two faculty members also
were elected- to the University
Curriculum Committee. They are
Louis Ecker, chairperson of the
Industrial Education and
Technology department, and A. R.
Gaskill, professor of early
childhood and elementary
education.
Senate also approved two
curricular items submitted by the
University Curriculum Committee.
President Harold Abel was
unable to address the Senate as
planned due to'a meeting with
members of the- Bureau of
Management and Budget from
Gov, William G. Miljiken's office,
Milliken had come to Central to get
acquainted with the campus.     '
The next Senate meeting is
Sept. 28,
CM LIFE PHOTO BY SCOTT BELLINGER
known nationally as an authority on the U.S. Constitution, spoke on
the subject, "The Constitution Today." He also is known for his role
in the Senate Watergate investigation.
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Board considers
five-year plans
by HOLLY HAYES
LIFE Managing Editor
The Board of Trustees will meet today to discuss University five-
yearprogram projections and new degrees, among other business.
The meeting will be at 2 p.m. in the President's Council Room,
located on the main level of the University Center.
Trustees also will extend CMU's budget authorization through the
end of this fiscal year, approve the self-liquidating budget for 1976-77
and consider personnel recommendations of the administration.
In addition, Trustees will ratify the 1976-77 faculty contract
modification agreement.
President Harold Abel will report to Trustees and other staff
reports also are slated.
Created in 1963, the Board of Trustees has seen dramatic changes
in Central's size and mission.
. Responsible for overall financial and academic policies of the
University, the-Board works with members of the administration, the
Academic Senate and aids ih developing policies in all areas of the
University. '
Currently serving teams on the eight-member Board are four
members originally appointed by former Gov. George Romney, Since
that time, additional Board members have been added or replaced as s
needed.
The four original mejnbers include Lloyd Gofer, • Detroit, consultant to, MSU President Clifton Wharton; Katharine Hafstad, owner
and manager of Snowberry Farm Lodge and chairperson of the board
ofthe Emmett, County State Bank in Harbor "Springs; Lawrence
Rahilly, former president of the Interstate Motor Freight System in
Grand ftapids; and Walter Wightman, a farmer and fdrmer State Farm
Bureau president from Allegan County, near Fennville.
Also on the Board are Leo A. Farhat, a Lansing attorney; Alfred J,
Fortino, a St. Louis attorney; Margaret A. Riecker, Midland, currently
chairperson ofthe Board; and James M. Umphrey, a Bad Axe attorney,
* Trustees must be nominated by the governor and confirmed by
the Senate, according to the state's constitution. N    ■
Board meetings are conducted each month and business such as
personnel recommendations of the administration, staff reports and
other University affairs are dealt With.
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