1975-03-14; Central Michigan Life

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Volume 55 No. 68
Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan 48859
LIFE
Friday,, March 14, 1975
Barnes residents sign petition
Parking change plea denied
fay SANDRA L. DICKEY
LIFE News Editor
A petition requesting a change
jn parking lot designations for
Barnes residents was denied
Thursday by Patricia Giardini, dean
of students.
The petition, signed by 90 per „
cent of  the   Barnes   residents,
requested  the   gated   lot   next   to
Barnes   be   designated   for   dorm
residents   and   that   the   current
[James lot be gated  instead. The
| current lot is number 33, on Preston
i Road across the railroad tracks.
SUPPORTED by Resident Hall
! Assembly i RHA) at   its    Monday
I meeting, the petition was handed to
! George   Jennings,    director    of
Housing Programs,  Wednesday.
Jennings, who refused to comment
on the petition, later gave it to
Giardini,
According to Giardini in a letter
to Loretta Pizzo, organizer of the
drive, the gated lot is used by guests
attending* programs in the
University Center. There is a 50 cent
charge to park in the lot.
"The University Center is the
hub of activity for students, staff,
and visitors," Giardini said. "Accessible parking space for guests
attending programs, in the
University Center has first priority."
"In addition to the obvious need
for good public relations, the gated
parking lot adjacent to Barnes is a
welcome source of revenue,"
Giardini continued.
Testing services
deemed misleading
Students looking for ways to
[prepare for Graduate Record Exams
iGREl or   pre-professional   exams
should   avoid    testing    services
daiming to offer such help, Raymond
[Kieft. director of instruction  and
[research, said.
"Before (in a Clvl LIFE article
| Feb. 28! we said 'be careful'," Kieft
d. "Now we are saying 'don't use
[them.'" Some hew testing service
[brochures were appearing on
[campus, with which Kieft was un-
|familiar when he offered the earlier
[warning. His concern then was •
■students "could get ripped off if.
|they weren't careful.
Kieft bases his latest advice on a
j survey he did of the program
[directors for the GRE, Medical
[College Admissions Test (MCAT)
Find Law School Admissions Test
IJLSAT).
"All of the program directors
Isaid any offer regarding practice
[tests, workbooks or tutoring services is not recommended," Kieft
■said.
The program directors told
jKieft they have studied such testing
[services in depth by sending for the
lEaterials offered and evaluating the
content and scoring techniques.
Studies have revealed the
content of the preparatory tests is
not the same as the actual tests, nor
are the questions the same, Kieft
said.
"What's very misleading is that
in some cases students can take a
practice test and get a score back.
The scores (on practice tests) don't
relate at all to real test scores," Kieft
said. "A student might get a score of
650 in practice, which is a good score
on the actual test. He might think he
has it made, and then go in and blow
'the real test."
In their examination of such
testing services, the program
directors Kieft contacted sought
evidence students who use the
service actually do better on the
tests.
The services gave no such
evidence, Kieft said. "Either they
haven't taken such surveys, or they
just don't have the proof," he said.
In the fall, GRE and Educational
Testing Service (ETS) will offer
outdated copies of the GRE so
students can get some idea of what
general aptitude tests are like,
according to Kieft.
on the inside;
Easter Seals drive gets flnderwav>Page>3
Student Foundation sponsors egg hunt-Page 3
Cagers face first tourney test-Page 6
Baseball team leaves on spring trip-Page 7
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It's spring!
Students ready for break
The exodus from CMU has begun.
Prom every dusty dorm students are emerging with knapsacks,
suitcases, books and vacation apparatus. They heave their luggage into
vehicles and without a backwards glance take off.
Destinations vary. Some are rushing to warm southern climates,
some are moving west to ski and many have resigned themselves to a
spring break here or at home, either buried in books or catching up on
sleep, <
Evidently, students need to escape. Or at least take their
problems elsewhere.
Individuals who faintly resemble those bright, "most like|y to
succeed" seekers of truth and knowledge now are streaming out from
Park Library. They entered about four days ago, but upon leaving they
are bent from the neck forward fit about'&75-degree angle. This is the
result of the position they have sustained during mid-term exam week.
Pale and stiff they, shuffle trance-like into the sunlight, blinking
bloodshot eyes. For days now they've been camped in the quiet sections of the library, valiantly trying to learn the contents of textbooks
and reams of notes.       '
It's been extremly cold here in thp mountain city and some
students are ascribing to a tradition ingrained in every institution of
higher learning-to take off for about a week to warmth, sunshine and
r«reation during the spring. V      '„'        .
Many students are looking forward to feeling their ears and toes
again, besides peejing off a few layers of clothing. Most of the lucky
vacationers afe.already on their way. As one woman put it, 'I'm not
t^inga thread with me. I'll wear my bikini under my overalls and I
won't need anything else."x   " . .
Either way, it looks as though lots of students will be returning (or
Jllthey?) March 24 with the trademarks of traveling-peeling noses,
*rty clothes, empty wallets but relaxed and happy dispositions.
And those who were stuck in the slushy, icy Winter Wonderland
fill wilf be cold and pale and maybe a little green with envy but they
too will benefit from a week'dff. Spring break does wonders for almost
^!iry°ne. _ _______
However, according to Pizzo,'
Oscoda sophomore, not more than 16
people parked in the lot mornings
when the gate was down in the last
10 days. ''
"TO ME, IT IS a matter of
principle," Pizzo said. "In effect, by
turning down the petitions so
abruptly with so little apparent
consideration, the administration is
saying they care more about the few
guests who utilize the lot than they
do about the 157 Barnes residents
who signed the petition."
"Those residents (Barnes) not
only are matriculated members of
the student body; they also pay
tuition here, pay fees here, pay room
hei-e, and in other ways spend money
here," Pizzo continued. "I'm certain
they provide a much greater
'welcome source of revenue' to the
University than do the few visitors
who actually pay the 50 cents to park
in the lot."
The petition drive began after
Paul Ruiz, assistant to the dean of
students, disciplined several
students, most of whom were Barnes
residents, for continual parking
violations. The students, including
Pizzo, were warned not to park in
the loading service area located
between Barnes and the University
Center, Ruiz said.
"At the time, I told Ruiz I would
be starting a petition drive," Pizzo
said, explaining it is inconvenient for
Barnes residents to park in lot 33.
"I REGRET they may be inconvenienced, but I understand that
parking is a problem on campus,"
Ruiz said.
"Illegal    parking    by    both
students''and' staff in strategic areas *
On   campus   has   become   an   increasingly     serious     problem,"
Giardini said in her letter.
However,     Pizzo     believes,
"There are so many illegal parkers
because they don't have enough legal
parking. By attacking illegal
parkers, they are only scratching the
surface, not getting to the root of the
problem."
Pizzo plans to make an appointment with Giardini when she
returns from spring break. "I don't
intend to let the issue drop," she
said.
"Accessible parking
space for guests attending programs in the
University Center has first priority" — Patricia
Giardini, dean of students
Patricia Giardini
Court excludes A A UP
from decertification case
by MITCH HEAD
LIFE Ass't. News Editor
A motion to file legal briefs in connection with the
appeal for a decertification election has been denied the
American Association of University Professor (AAUP),
In a decision rendered Wednesday, the Michigan
Court of Appeal in Grand Rapids excluded the AAUP
from the case, which stems from an Oct. 9 Michigan
Employment Relations Commission (MERC) ruling,
dismissing petitions signed by more than half the
approximately 600 faculty members at CMU.
THE PETITIONS were circulated on campus by the
Free Faculty in an effort to schedule an election to
determine if the present union, the Faculty Association
(FA), has the support of faculty members.
The AAUP then intervened in the case pending
before MERC, asking the AAUP name be placed on the
ballot as^an alternative union.
However, MERC director Hyman Parker "administratively dismissed" the petitions from the Free
Faculty becau.se of a technicality in wording. Therefore,
'no election was scheduled.
THE APPEAL BY the Free Faculty still is pending
and will not be affected by the court's action Thursday, a
court clerk said.
The FA did not oppose the AAUP's request for legal
consideration in the case, union attorney Clifford Weiler
said.
AAUP attorney David Klein could not be reached"
for comment on the ruling. However, David Current,
secretary of the CMU chapter of the AAUP, said the
ruling wasn't crucial to AAUP because "the appeal
concerns MERC's dismissal of their (Free Faculty's)
petitions. MERC never really ruled on our petitions (to
be placed on the ballot)."
FREE FACULTYattorney Terry J. Mroz disagreed
with the court's ruling, saying, "They (AAUP) have a
valid interest in the case, even if it is only indirectly."
The court gave no reason for the denial of the
AAUP's request.
Weiler indicated he has requested oral arguments
for the appeal and said the AAUP likewise will be denied
the right to argue the case. No date has been set yet for
the arguments.
MROZ SAID HE was displeased with the request
for oral arguments in the case because it will be time
consuming and probably not accomplish anything.
"I don't know what good it will do other than to let
the FA's slap their gums' a bit," he said. "I get the
distinct feeling it is just another technique by the FA for
delaying things."
MHESA meets Saturday
Workshops highlight convention
by DEBBIE GROHOLSKI
CM LIFE Reporter
A series of workshops concerning unionization, financial aid,
legislative affairs and a student
renters' theft insurance program will
highlight the Michigan Higher
Education Students Association's
(MHESA) Fourth Annual Spring
Convention Saturday and Sunday.
Convention headquarters are in East
Lansing's Albert Pick Hotel.
CENTRAL IS A member of
MHESA,   a   state-wide   college
student lobby group which has its
headquarters in Lansing.
Kris Beck, director of the CMU
Office of Legislative Affairs, is one of
11 ' members of the MHESA
Executive Board. Beck will be one of
the three Central delegates attending the convention. Bill Pilchak,
student body president and Chuck
Korn, student body treasurer also
will attend the convention.
Bringing student government
leaders and those interested in
Student government together with
MHESA as the unifying organization
is the main purpose of the convention, Beck said. Workshops
Saturday will enable students attending to return to their respective
campuses and implement information they learn over the
weekend.
Student employe unions and
student involvement in faculty-
administrator collective bargaining
are topics which will be discussed in
the unionization workshop.
Professor Robert Repas of Michigan
CM UPE PHOTO &Y D0U6 MACARTHUR
ONTUEiH WA y-Many CMU students began leaving Mt, Pleasant for Spring break Thursday. Florida bound
Joe Lemire, Houghton freshman, Crig Hatisoit, Elkhart freshman, Lynn Myers, Climax freshman and Mary
Schrader, Houghton Lake sophomore pack a van in the towers parking lot. Spring break officially begins
Saturday at 1 p.m. . . ,
State University's School of Labor
and Industrial Relations and Alien
Shark from the American
Association of State Colleges and
Universities, Washington D.C. are
also scheduled to speak at the
, convention. /
Beck said she and Pilchak'
especially are interested in this
workshop because of Central's
proposed new form of student
governance, the Student
Association. One aspect of the
organizing Association concerns
student participation in collective
bargaining with faculty and administration.
Presently, students here are not
included in collective bargaining
because under the law, bargaining is
bi-lateral (faculty and administrators
only). However, MHESA would like
to draft legislation for multi-lateral
collective bargaining, Beck said,
which would allow students at the
bargaining table.
THE WORKSHOP is designed
to inform students about the implications of student involvement
and influence them to further
research the topic. Beck also has a
personal interest in unionization.
"I want to intern in Lansing this
summer and I want to be up on
drafting and lobbying of multi-lateral
negotiations," she said. But she
added the other workshops will be
"very beneficial" to students too.
\ One of these ,is a workshop
dealing with financial aid
developments in Congress. A
representative from the Governor's
office, Jim Phelps, will discuss
proposed changes in financial aid.
Another speaker, State Senator
Gilbert Bursley, R-Ann Arbor, is on
the   Executive ' Board
of
of
the-
the
Education   Commission
States'.
A third workshop, legislative
affairs, will include discussion about
Central's student intern program,
slated to begin in the fall for
students interested in government
work. MHESA Ib affiliated With the
j See "Workshops to..." page 8)
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