1976-04-02; Central Michigan Life

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Volume 57 No. 72
Friday, April 2, 1976
CMU may get
allocation hike
A recommendation of $671,000 more tha,n recommended by Gov.
William G. Milliken for Central earlier this year was proposed by the
Senate Appropriations Committee Thursday,
The recommendation reflects acceptance, in part, of a new funding
. model created in effort to implement a more equitable funding system
for higher education-
The recommendation's passage would give Central a 3.19 per cent
increase over last year's tight budget.
The funding model consists of a three-part, process. The. first step.l
shown in .the committee's recommendation, -allows college and
university state appropriations to be based on such criteria as the total
number of students at an institution (not just those on campus), the
total number of credit hours, class size expectations and the number of
faculty employed. . I        J .
"If the model were to be implemented immediately (100 per cent)
CMU's appropriation would be up nearly $6 million.We are encouraged
by the legislatures obvious effort to implement a new fudding model
for higher education," Arthur Ellis, vice, president for, public affairs,
said. v .
'Under the committee's recommendation, Central would receive
$21,679,000 from the state for 1976-77. The University received
$2^,008,800 last year, the figure recommended again for 1976-7? by
Milliken.
The mode} was developed by members of the- House and Senate
Fiscal Agencies, under the direction of House and Senate-Appropriation
Subcommittees on Higher Education. Part One, reflected in Central's
increased recommendation, deals with the basic formula for deciding
an institution's appropriation. Part Two (the model is" tentatively
scheduled for a three-year phase in) would consider the varied roles
and missions institutions and provide separate money for those needs.
Part Three would deal with special grants.
The fundingmodel approach is significant to Central, Ellis said, as it
regonizes CMU's relative postitionas an underfunded institution
within the higher education community. The committee's recommendation represents the first in the legislature's move toward
adopting the funding model.
Election April 22, 23
process altered
byJIMREINDL,
CM LIFE Reporter
Elections for Student
Association and Program Board (PB)
will be conducted April 22 and 23,
Deborah Werner,, Student
Association elections director,
announced at the Association's
Board of Directors meeting Wednesday evening.
Students may vote in the two-
day election from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
and 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Although polls
for the last eiectip-n were in academic
buildings, Wernei*, Bloomfield Hills
senior, said they will be moved back
into dormitories.
Werner said a consensus among
poll workers at the last -election
showed voter participation was less
than when polls were in the dorms.
The polls originally were moved to
academic buildings to increase voter
participation.
POTENTIAL CANDIDATES
for all elected student government
positions may pickup petitions in the
student government offices in the
lower level of the University Center
April 7 and 8 between noon and 5:30
p.m.
Werner said enough petitions
for the required signatures for each
Controversy arises
over funding requests
•*  byJIMREINDL
CM LIFE Reporter
Rejecting a second recommendation by the Student
Association Finance Committee of a
student organizational budget
request, the Association Board of.
Directors forwarded the request to
the Grievance Committee at its
meeting Wednesday evening.
The Home Economics
Association had requested $128 to
offset expenses incurred at its
Juried Textile Arts show. Last
Wednesday the Board tabled the
Finance     Committee's     recom
mendation to approve the request
until the Home Economics
Association sought funding through
the Home Economics Department.
. PAM WERNER, Finance
Committee member, said the Home
Economics Association was .rejected .
by the department because its show
was open to all students.
•The  Finance   Committee   also
upheld  its  rejection   of  allocation
requests   by   the   Mt.   Pleasant
Tenants Ljnion scheduled  Finance
. Committee hearings.
>    "Because of the policy we have,
we're going to stick to it," Werner,
BJoomfield Hills, freshman, said,
referring to recent " funding
guidelines calling for automatic
rejection of an allocation request
upon a group's failure to keep two
scheduled appointments.
Controversy resurfaced this
week Over whether1 either group was
properly notified of its respective
hearing times. However, action on
the committe's rejection was tabled
because Julius McDaniels, chairperson of the Finance Committee,
was absent*. McDaniels, Detroit
junior, arrived after the meeting and
(See "Funding ..." page 10)
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position, along with a copy of the
Student Association Constitution
and petition and campaign rules -will
be given to each candidate in a
packet. She added candidates for PB
positions will be issued
organizational sheets, outlining PB's
different, groups, instead of an
Association constitution.
Petitions for all offices are due
April 12 by 5 p.m. Werner said a list
of valid candidates will be posted,
outside the student government
offices by approximately 7:30 p.m.
that evening.
Along with the election
schedule, Werner announced
changes planned for conducting the
election. *
She said the biggest change is
the 5,000 ballots will be printed on
ordinary paper instead of optical
scanner paper and also will be
numbered. Completed ballots then
will be transferred to computer key
punch cards to be tabulated by jthe
computer center. Werner said the
cards will be numbered for easy
reference in the event a recount is
requested.
"ONE OF the things 'we're
stress/ng this time is security,"
Werner said, "I'feel the election
should be "run on a stricter, more
professional level this time."
Another of the security
measures planned is the numbering
of all ballot boxes to avoid losing
them, as in the last election, Werner
said.    -
She added the previous rule
ending campaigning at 11:59 p.m.
the day prior to an election is being
dropped. Campaigning may continue
through the election, and*campaign
. materials may remain posted,
providing they are at least 50 feet
away from a polling place. However,
election results will not be made
public until all campaign materials
are removed, Werner said.
She said responsibility for
maintaining the 50 feet rule lies with
pollworkers.
An additional change limits
candidates' campaign spending to
$100, Werner said the $150 limit set
by Charles Rodgers, former elections director, was too high. "I talked
about this with my rules committee
and it was decided $50 extra was too
much money to spend on a campaign,
and for a nine-day campaign, $100
was adequate," Werner said.
Spiraiing costs
cripple library
Spiraljng costs have" had a
crippling* effect on the Park Library
budget and if. the prediction of
Acquisition Director Frank Dowd
comes true, it may be a common
thing for several years.
Dowd said the library received
the same $680,000 appropriation as
last year, but steep inflation has left
it with fewer dollars to work with.
"I don't see it's going to get any
better for several years," Dowd said.
He said periodical costs have
risen 40 per cent while books have
gone up 20 per cent.
"What we're doing to cope with
the problem is carefully watching
purchases and periodical subscriptions and identifying items that
are marginal," Dowd said. "All areas
are trying to decide what they can do
to cut down and still" operate efficiently."
Dowd said library staff members are defering purchases of large
microfilm projects, i such as back
issues of newspapers and obtaining
no new periodicals.
While, the library has y been
appropriated $680,000 last year and
this year, las£ year it received ,an
extra $70,000 left from a contingency
plan where Gov. William G. Milliken
may have called on universities to
return some of the state-allocated
funds. ^
Dowd said there is a slight
chance they will get more money
next year, but he isn't counting on it.
"I believe the library should
have high priority in funding. With
increased enrollment there is more
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emphasis on independent study. We
also need materials for the new
doctoral program, set to start next
year."
Dowd said usage and circulation
are both up significantly at Park
Library and stressed building and
maintaining a good u library are
important to education.
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UNSINKABLE'-The University
Threatre production of "The
Unsinkable Molly Brown" opens
tonight in Bush Theatre (see
story page 6).
• Bik&rs cause mosf
accidents—Page 3
• Women gymnasts
compete at
nationals—Page 7
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Shepherd prepares activities for annual festival
by MICHAEL LEWIS
CM LIFE Reporter
You, may already have noticed
the buckets hanging from the big
maple   trees.   If   not,   then   you
probably  don't  realize   it's   maple
; syrup season again.
The  Shepherd* Sugar   Bush
• Association has been .tapping maple
• trees for the sap since the middle of
.February. Ron Moeggenborg, who
evaporates the sap, said the-process
• of changing sap into syrup is long
and involved,
"IT TAKES about 40. gallons of
sap to get one gallon of syrup. We've
been gathering sap all month and
hope for 800 gallons of syrup,"
Moeggenborg. said. ".But if jthe
weather gets warm, we'll have to
quit, because the sap turns bitter if it
doesn't freeze at night." '
The purpose of all this is the
Shepherd Maple Syrup Festival,
being conducted April 23 to 25 this
year. Moeggenborg said all the work
is done by local volunteers, with the
profits    going    to    Shepherd's
TWMHfaaf'1
recreation facilities.
"We built a swimming pool a
couple years ago," Moeggenborg
said, "This year's money will be used
for a park. I think the festival should
bring in about $20,000. You know,
Vermontville actually produces more
syrup than us, but it's not a community effort there."
It is indeed a community effort
in Shepherd. This is the 18th year for
the festival and as always, every big.
maple tree in town has buckets
hanging. The sap drips out of a spout
CMUPE PHOTO BYWK6 L6W.5
- STlCftY BUSINESS-Shepherd residents busily prepare for the Annual Shepherd Maple Syrup Festival,
'  April 23 to 25 by gathering sap from area maple trees. The Festival is a genuine community effort, with
residents of all ages taking part in the various activities, including skydiving, square dancing, bonfires and
, tractor-pulling contests, ' . . t .'
in the tree and looks like water in the
bucket. Actually, much of it is water,
which- is evaporated away in the
boiling process.
A tractor manned by Shepherd
residents of all ages'makes periodic
rounds to gather the sap. The tractor
pulls two large tanks and all ,the
volunteers drain the tree buckets
into buckets of their own, which they
dump into the tanks. The work
requires plenty of lifting and
walking, yet everyone seems to
enjoy it.
The tractors take the sap to the
Sugar Bush Sap House, where it then
is boiled and re-boiled. The Sap
House is identifiable by the steam
pouring from- it.
THE SYRUPthenisfilteredand
prepared for selling. Moeggenborg
said the process involves about six
steps, but added syrup isn't the only
product irom the" sap.
Today the festival has grown to
more than a pancakes-and-sausage
meal. In 1959, about 100 gallons of
syrup were sold, along with a couple
hundred meals, at a onp-day
"gathering. Last year's xthree-day
festival sold more than 800 gallons of
syrup ahd served' more 'than 13,000
meals. The meals are served continuously from 5 p.m. Friday night
until the end of the weekend.
."We macle over two tons of
fresh sausage last year,"
Moeggenborg said.
Motor home and travel trailer
clubs now/make Shepherd one of
their first spring rallies.
,    CM LIFE PHOTO BY MIKE LEWIS
MM' MM' GOOD-Even small children get into the syrup festival,, as
evidenced by these young helpers filling the syrup cans with the sweet
stuff. Last year, more than 800 gallons of syrup were sbld at the three-
day event. .   - /
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