1975-02-03; Central Michigan Life

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\jfflrtist speaks to begin
'lack
In conjunction with Black
listory Week, Which began Sunday
.i CMU, Detroit artist Henri Umbaji
(ing presented a film and slides of
[lis 1966 trip to West Africa, where
L was a guest at the First World
festival of Black and African Arts
Culture.
His paintings, "seeking wisdom,
strength and destiny through "black
Reflections," will be displayed in the
Creative Arts Gallery in the
University Center until Feb. 14 (see
telated story, page 3). Many are'on
kale, ranging in price from $20 to
1800.
Nationally, Black History Week
is scheduled to begin Feb. 8 and
[continue through Feb. 15, however,
CMU the program is being ex
panded over a 17-day period, according, to Fioyd Burton, advisor to
the Organization for Black Unity
(OBU), which is sponsoring Black
History Week,
"We previously had llack
History Week a concentrated thing,"
he said. However, "we changed the
philosophy this year."
He explained rather than having
everything in one weekt it was
decided to expand the program.
Therefore, events will take place
until Feb. 19. Black speakers every
month as part of a Black Culture
series also is part of the expansion,
Burton said.
King, who spoke as part of the
series, presented films and slides he
- had shot himself while attending the"
Arts Festival in Dakar, Senegal.
The Festivalf which will take
place again this November in. Lagas,
Nigeria, features blacks who are
prominent throughout the world in ,
music, dance, dreams, poetry, all the
creative arts, King said.
The films also*showed King's
visit to Ghana and Lagas, Nigeria,
and showed the various cultures,
landscapes, food, clothes and other
features of the countries and people.
"I Was impressed by much that I
saw," King said, pis works have
been bought- by private citizens
around the country and seen in over
100 art shows.
The artist is currently chairman
of the Michigan Festival Committee
for   the   Second   World   Festival.
Volume 55 No. 51
Monday, February 3, 1975
CM LIFE PHOTOS BY  JULIE WYREMBELSKI
FA VORlTE WORK OF ^iJT-Detroit artist Henri Umbaji King stands before his favorite work. King, an
independent artist for the past 25, years is exhibiting his work at Central in correlation with Black History
Week.   '' «    ■      * '
IRGIM may not get seat
n union's board of directors
by PAULA PECK
LIFE Ass't News Editor
PIRG1M may not have a seat on
lie proposed Student Association
oard of Directors, according to a
fecision made at an executive Board
' Directors meeting late last week.
The meeting, chaired by Bill-
lilchak, student body president, was
[gathering of student organizational
ppresentatives, to begin working
lit the mechanics of the Student-
Issociation. Sixteen organizations
jere cdntacted by Pilchak, Warren
fenior, and six of the organizations
bnt representatives to* make
[•eliminary decisions concerning the
oard of Directors and the Student
|ssociation.
PIRGIM does not fit the
ssociation concept, according "to
llchak, because 95 per cent of the
loney collected for the organization
pes off campus. One of the main
pjectives of the Association is to
fovide services and benefits to
ludents and the consensus of the
Iganizations do not believe PIRGIM
|ould have a seat on the Board.
Pilchak explained to the
fpresentatives, "When I had dinner
Bill LeFevere (Mt. Pleasant
IRGIM director) and the state
rector, I felt all they were invested in was how much money
|ey could get from the Association."
Other representatives said they
bally didn't know what PIRGIM
las doing for Central students,
(though they acknowledged the
fganization .was worthwhile.
The groups represented were
le Residents Housing Association,
larried Students Council, Minority
rganizations Council, Associated
{omen Students (AWS), Women's
ealth and Information Project
'HIP) and Program Board.
The size of the Board of
lirectors was discussed and
[presentatives  agreed  the  Board
"When I had dinner with Bill LeFevere (Mt
Pleasant PIRGIM director) and the state director, I felt
a!! they were interested in was how much money they
could get from the Association"—Bill Pilchak, student
body president.
should remain somewhat limited in
number.-
"These positions will be very
powerful, and we have to be very
selective who will be allowed a seat,"
Pilchak said.
The person selected by each
organization will not necessarily be
president or director of the
organization, he added, but it must
be someone who has been in the
organization ' and knows the
workings of the administration. He
said they must be "semi-
professionals."
AWS and WHIP will not share a "
seat on the Board, another result of
the meeting.
"It's not that we can't work
together, but the seats are provided
for different interest groups. If you
think of us as people, not women,
with different interests, you can see
why it is best to give both WHIP and
AWS separate seats," Nancy Tooley,
AWS president, said.
Minority organizations also will
have two Board seats instead of one
based on the criteria the only thing
minorities have in common is they
are minorities. The two largest
minority groups would have eeats
(Chicanos Organized for Progressive
Action and possibly the Organization
for Blalck Unity) with the smaller
minority groups divided under them.
Student Foundation CS.F).
director, Monica Smiley, declined a
Board of Director seat and any involvement with the Association,
although she said SF thought the
Association "concept Was a good one.
-"*■; "StudentiwFoundation does mot
fit into the Association concept' at
this t'ime," Smiley, Bay City
sophomore, said. We are a young
organization and we are not funded
through Student Affairs, like other
student organizations. We feel it is
best to decline the seat."
Pilchak stressed the importance
of the student positions in Academic
Senate.
"Student Government should
have been centered around
Academic Senate from the beginning. When the Academic Senate
acts, it is law, hut when the Student
Assembly acts there is nowhere to
go with it. The Association would
work in laison with the Assembly
and stress action in Academic
Senate." Pilchak explained.
All action by the Association
would have to be passed by a„ two-
thirds majority and Board meetings
would be every fhur^day night.
The problem of advertising and
reaching the "average" student and
"selling" the Association may be
solved by an intense advertising
campaign plus people working to
measure reaction and response to
the Association in every day contacts, Pilchak said.
Writing of the < Student
Association constitution for student
approval in April and the rewriting
of the Student Government constitution, to include an impeachment
clause, probably will be assigned to a
committee, according to Pilchak.
PAINTING AND DRAWING EXHIBIT-The paintings and drawings
of Henri Umbaji King will be exhibited in the Creative Arts Gallery
until Feb. 14. The Gallery is open to the public weekdays 9 a.m. to 10
p.m...Saturdays 10 a.m. to 10 p.m-. and Sundays noon to 10 p.m.
News Analysis
Last chance for SG?
(Editor's note: This is the first article in a three-part news analysis of
the Student Association concept
This part deals with the association
and its method of funding,)
Ijy ROSS WILKINSON
CM LIFE Reporter
Ever had the feeling you were a
part of an organization of profound
significance, that you were part of a
/group that could inspire people to a
driving dream and uplift them to a
new level of conciousness?   '
If you are a member of Student
Assembly you probably haven't.
For   most   students,   in   fact,
Student Government is something
that went away with acne.
In the last Assembly election, 69
people "voted and it was hardly worth
the bother.
Only 24 students competed for
42 available seats in the first election
last fall. Subsequent elections to fill
vacant positions were even less
reassuring.
The administration has been
blunt in its criticism, of Assembly.
When Student Body President Jeff
Frary resigned last semester,
President William B. Boyd .commented,   "People   with   important
vailability report shows Central
n step with affirmative action
by DAVE RINEHART
LIFE In-depth Reporter
A   labor   market   availability^
|port released  recently * indicates
antral's   employment  patterns
isically   are   in   step   with    Af-
jmative Action guidelines, i
The report, called for in" the«
|itial Plan for Affirmative Action,
ipares the percentages of Womenv
minorities available^ ifof em-
pyment at Central with the- postages of those actually employed,
mtive Action is an attempt to
Iploy enough qualified women afid
--rity persons to bring- an em-
pe category into- line with the
ailable labor population.
'We've been working for a year
not knowing "if We were correcting
inequities Of hot," Neil Bucklew, vice
president for administration, said,
"or even if there were inequities."
The University has .used employe categories determined by the
Department of Health, Education
and Welfare in making comparisons
between the composition of the
University Work force and the labor
population Central draws on.
In most cases, Central compared
favorably with the percentages of
women available* but not always
With the Minority persons available
for employment.
Ijt the faculty employment
category*, based ofl earned doctorates itt i&WJl, 14.3 per cent "of
the workforce is female. Central's
faculty is 18.5 per cent female.
According, to figures on the
entire U.S. labor force, 3.3 per cent
of those available for employment as
higher education faculty ate black,
1.6 per cent are Asian American, .1
per centare American Indian and 1.8
per cent are Spanish surnamed.
Central's faculty is 1.5 per cent
black, .9 per' cent Asian American
and .1 per cent Spanish surnamed.
Itt the executives, administrators and managers category,
16.7 per cent of, the U.S. labor forte,
the pool Central often draws 6n» is
female, according to the report. The
University employs! 16,9 per cent
Women in this category. While 2.7;
V
per cent of those looking for employment in-this category are black,
,6 Asian American, .1 American
Indian and 2.3 Spanish surnamed,
Central employs .8 percent Spanish
surnamed.
In the professional category
(accountants, engineers, physicians,
etc,), 41.1 per cent of those available
for employment in Michigan, are
female* compared with 33.7 per*cent
females employed by Central.
Central employs 6.3 per cent blacks
in this; category, compared with '5.6
available for employment; 1,1
American Indian and 1.1 Spanish
surnamed, compared with .9 Spanish
surnamed available for employment.
(See "Report shows .'. '*-page 7)
things to do are not going to stay in
student government. If you get
mature people in office they soon
find that out."
But Student Government may
not be as unpopular as it is
irrelevant. Unpopular elective
organizations are changed easily.
Assembly elections have shown little
student desire for a change in
leadership. " '
In Order to give Assembly more
purpose, some Assembly members
have decided to pool its problems
with the problems of other student
organizations.
. According to Bill Pilchak,
student body president, student
organizations ^received close to
$53,000, "about half of what they
requested this year.
t The University's financial
austerity program has hurt these
groups. "Every year We're getting
cut and cut and cut," Nancy Tooley,
president <of Associated Women
Students, said.
The proposed Student
Association, according to its supporters, will provide a more independent and stable method .of
financing and increase students'
roles in University decisions.
Currently, Student Affairs funds all
student organizations. <
Students would be i taxed S4
each semester to provide money so
the Association could independently
fund student organizations.
Pilchak, Warren senior,
estimated this would net approximately/ $112,000 each year.
Students could have their money
refunded within 10 days, but Pilchak
considers the loss through refunds as
minor.
THE ASSOCIATION would
consist of a Board of Directors which
would include representatives from
major and minor student groups,
(See "Last cliance for . . . "page 10)
CMU student
electrocuted
Services for a CMU student
found electrocuted in his home
Friday will be Tuesday at 11 a.m. at
Saint Marons Church in Detroit.
, Thornas J. Michaels, 22, Mount
Clemens graduate student, had been
studying for his masters in guidance
and counseling* He *is the son of
Joseph and Thelma Michaels.
Friends may call at Bagnasco's
Funeral Home in St. Clair Shores
noon 16 10 pim. today.
on the inside:   '-,
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