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Volume 55 No. 70
Central Michigan.University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan 48859
LIFE
Friday, March 28, 1975
University to appeal?
udge favors union in ULP case
by MITCH HEAD
LIFE Ass't News Editor
STEVE MORSE
LIFE Managing Editor
A decision in favor of the
tafulty Association (FA) in the
fnfair labor practice (ULP). charge it
tied last January has been handed
down by a Michigan Employment
Relations Commission (MERC)
administrative law judge.
The decision means the
University must bargain with the
union in connection with the implementation of any Teaching Effectiveness program.
"I was never hopeful
of achieving a good result
before MERC... "- J.
David Kerr, University
Counsel.
In a 27-page statement issued
Wednesday, Schlomo Sperka ordered the University to "rescind
Section 1 of the Teaching Effectiveness resolution passed Aug.
15, 1973 and remove any
disqualification attached to any
employe resulting from application
of that part of the resolution."
The Teaching Effectiveness
Program consists of a series of
recommendations to departments
for evaluating the teaching effectiveness of individual faculty
members.
THE RESOLUTION itself
consists of five sections, but Section
1 is the "primary target" of the FA
charges "on the grounds that it
changed working conditions," according to Sperka's statement.
The University now has the
option of appealing Sperka's
Recommended Order to MERC by
filing "written exceptions," within
20 days, according to MERC
guidelines.
If no exceptions are filed within
20 days, or any period MERC may
authorize, the Recommended Order
will   become   the   Order   of   the
Commission and shall become effective.
University Counsel J, David
Kerr, who learned of the decision
late Thursday afternoon, said a
decision will be made concerning an
appeal after consultation with
University officials.
Kerr was not surprised at
Sperka's decision. "I was never
hopeful of achieving a good result
before MERC, although I was more
hopeful after the hearing than before
we started," he said. "I have always
felt that if the independence of the
University from outside interference was to have any hope of
being preserved it would have to be
the courts which would preserve
that right."
THE ULP CHARGE, filed by
the FA Jan. 29,1974, was the subject
of a hearing conducted by Sperka
last March in Mt. Pleasant. Two
months after the hearing, court
transcripts were sent to the two
parties. Then the parties filed legal
briefs containing their final
arguments concerning the case.
Sperka has been deliberating the
case since August.
The lawyers for both' parties
learned of the decision Thursday.
However,, Clifford Weiler, attorney
for the FA, had not read the Sperka
statement in detail and declined to
comment. The other union attorney,
James White, was unavailable for
comment.'
FA President Robert Clason
was pleased upon learning of the
decision  late  Thursday   afternoon.
"We're gratified they came
down in our favor requiring the
board to rescind the Teaching Effectiveness Program," Clason said
after reading the decision Thursday
night.
"This bears out one 'of the
arguments I used earlier in trying to
get people to join the Association,"
he continued, "This shows our
strength' and makes it more important that the Association be
widely representative of the
faculty."
"If the Faculty Association can
precipitate such action as this," he
added, "the faculty has to be aware
of it." '        ". ■
Section I of the Teaching
Effectiveness program instructs
each department to establish ja
systematic program for evaluating
and improving teaching effectiveness of all faculty members.
The program also includes
student evaluation of faculty
members and that information
obtained about the instructors would
(See ULP case . . . page 12)
iolations bureau may move
rom city back to University
"We're gratified they
came down in our
favor... "-Robert Clason, FA president
by CHARLES GAMBLE
A recommendation to move the
larking violations bureau back to
jampus has been made by Jerry
tubbs, vice president of business
Ind finance. Tubbs said he made the
lecommendation to President
pliam B. Boyd about 10 days ago.
The Mt. Pleasant municiple
violations bureau currently collects
fines from parking tickets issued in
Mt. Pleasant and on the CMU
campus, however if Boyd accepts the
recommendation and the Board of
Trustees passes the proposal,
Central will establish its own
parking violations bureau.
owing policy
a kes effect
Vehicles illegally parked in the
jltawa Court north of Washington
Ipartments or in an area west of
pston Apartments will be towed
py.
The towing, which went into
fel this week, is the first stage of
J University towing policy as an-
joimced by President William B.
T°yd March 10. Seven more areas
will be designated for towing after
July 1, according to Jerry Tubbs,
vice president of business and
finance.
Signs have been posted In the
two areas that are presently marked
for towing. Tubbs said local wrecker
services are towing, the vehicles,
rotating on a weekly basis.
TUBBS SAID his reasons for
making the ^commendation concern
the timeliness issue of parking
tickets. He said moving, the
violations bureau for tickets issued
at CMU, back to the campus would
cut down on the time it takes to
enforce parking violations. Tubbs
said it would free many parking
spaces from  cars parked  illegally.
Tubbs also  pointed  out  Boyd
still    must    act    on    the    recommendation. "It is not incumbent upon
the    president    to    except'    my'
proposal."
Mt. Pleasant City Manager Bill
Barrons said Tubbs had told him of
his recommendation. "If they feel
they want it back they can have it.
They originally asked us to help
them by handling the parking
violations at CMU."
Barrons said the city would not
change its policies on the handling of
parking violations. "We believe our
policies are the ones we want to stay
with," Barrons said.
"They believe there is a difference in our polices and the time of
processing tickets. It is not possible
for us to have separate handling of
city and University tickets."
Barrons said if the violations
bureau is moved back to CMU the
city would lose abou.t $30,000 in
funds. "We have a $2 million budget
so it's not going to be a crisis. It will
reduce our flow of tickets about 50
per cent and will change our needs
Project 5000
but we believe our policies are the
one's we want to stay with," Barrons
said.
Tubbs' recommendation follows
action by the Mt. Pleasant City
Commission March 3 which made a
permanent agreement between
CMU and Mt. Pleasant in which the
city will pay CMU $6,000 a year to
help in the issuing of parking tickets
at Central. Tubbs earlier had said
this was not the major conflict, but
that the timeliness issue needed to
be worked out.
Boyd said at a press conference
Thursday the recommendation by
Tubbs has not yet been presented to
the President's Council for review.
Citing advantages and disadvantages of the parking violations
bureau on campus Boyd said he
believes one major disadvantage to
having violations handled by the city
has been no adequate enforcement.
Boyd said some students have
compiled a large number of tickets
without any action being taken. He
said he believes this has created a
lack of respect by violators.
However, Boyd noted that in
the past 30 to 60 days there has been
noticeable improvement in enforcement with warrants being
issued,
Boyd expects to clear , the
matter up before he leaves in June.
"I would not like to stockpile
problems for my successor," he said.
Robert G. Clason
Superstar contest
to fund Olympics
A CMU Superstars Competition, similar to the program
shown on television, is scheduled to
raise money for the International
Special Olympics.
Special Olympics is a world-wide
program of athletic training and
competition for the mentally handicapped. The International Special
Olympics will be at Central this
August.
THE SUPERSTARS competition is open to any CMU student
and each participant will be sponsored by a campus organization. All
varsity athletes will be sponsored for
$100, other athletes will be sponsored for $50.
The athletes will participate in
various athletic events to test
strength, endurance, speed and
coordination, joints will be awarded
to the top finalists in each event. The
SF begins fund drive
Student Foundation (SF) will
kick off its second annual Project
5000 Monday in effort to make SF
self-sufficient.
The fund-raising activities,
sponsored by the Student
Development area, will continue
through April 5, according to
Student Development Director
Marc Berkley,
On Monday various dorms will
conduct their own fund raising
projects   for   SF,   Jim   Wittebols,
Student Development adviser, said.
The dorms may donate pinball
receipts or conduct slave sales. "It's
up to the individual dorm councils,"
Wittebols, Mt. Clemens junior, said.
Students will be able to contribute to SF by calling campus radio
station WMHW beginning Wednesday. Students will1 pledge a
donation for a song, usually about 25
cents, Berkley, New York senior,
said. Callers will identify themselves
by dormitory.
CM LIFE PHOTO BY GEORGE BENISEK
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I fhui'sday. The Panhellenic Council sponsored the event.
SF Will award a trophy to the
dorm which contributes the most
money on a percentage basis, according to the number of residents.
Therefore, if a quad pools its
donations, it has no better chance of
winning than a single dorm, Berkley
explained.
Trophies also will be awarded to
the sorority and the fraternity which
make the largest donation, Berkley
said.
A "dunking" machine will be set
up in front of the University Center
Thursday, Wittebols said. For 25
cents a throw, students will have a
chance to" dunk various campus
personalities. Wittebols said the
participants, have not been determined yet.
Now, Berkley said, SF fs funded
by    the    Development    Board,
however. He said'Project 5000 is an'
1 attempt to"  become  self-sufficient.
athlete scoring the highest
cumulative score will be awarded a
Superstar Champion trophy along
with the sponsor. *
Ten events are scheduled. Each
athlete will choose seven of 10
events to compete in and will not be.
eligible to compete in his or her
major sport.
The Superstars Competition,
sponsored by the Fellowship of
Christian Athletes, will be April 27
and'May 4. ' .        -
Scheduled events for April 27
are   bowling,   distance   run,   run'
dribble-shoot,   rope   climb    an'd,
swimming. Final events on May 4-
are bike race, canoe race, 100 yardC
dash,  punt-pass-kick   and  obstacle
course.
Money to sponsor the superstars athlete must be in to the
Special Olympics Office, 103
Warriner, by 5 p.m. April 25.     *",'
The Fellowship of Christian*
Athletes welcomes any interested
persons to their meeting Tuesday at"
8 p.m. in the Rose faculty lounge...
Any questions can be answered
by Fellowship of Christian Athletes
member Dan Henson at 772-5104 or'
Sponser a Champ Co-director Dean
Wallin in the Special Olympics office.
License tab  y
*
deadline neat
Monday is the deadline for
purchasing 1975 license plate tabs!
To accommodate the expected
overflow of late purchasers the
Secretary of State office, 107 S.
Leaton.will be open Saturday from 9
a.m. to 5 p.m. ;
Proof of "insurance and the
driver's license of the person pur*
chasing'the tabs must be brought to
the office. Persons owning vehicles
without 1975 tabs after Monday may
be ticketed and fined.