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Volume 55 No. 78
Central Michigan University, Mt, Pleasant, Michigan 48859
Friday, April 18, 1975
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Contract to be revised
esident assistants ask for chan
by KATHY JENNINGS
CM LIFE Reporter
An agreement to work out four revisions to the Resident Assistant
>A) contract was reached by administrators and RA representatives from
I residence hall quad at a meeting late Thursday afternoon.
Resident Assistant Council (RAC) had discussed the possibility of not
ing contracts unless they received these revisions, but decided not to
, any action until talking further with the administration at a meeting
lednesday night.
After Thursday's meeting RAC representatives were satisfied with the
unding option chosen
situation.
"There was a very relaxed atmosphere and a positive attitude came out
of the meeting. A lot of ill feelings were dispelled," according to Steve
Maxson,'chairperson of RAC.
It was agreed there will be more RA input into future decisions concerning them, according to Maxson. It was also determined that the
University will support RAb when they are enforcing University policy, he
said.
The group will meet again next week to discuss the four points further.
RAs at the meeting represented RAC and will report back to the group
PB to stay in Association
CERT
by DAVID N.BRABOY
CM LIFE Reporter
Program Board  (PB)  officially
been accepted into the proposed
Association's Board .of
dors after funding difficulties
een the two organizations were
lived Wednesday.
PB decided to adopt the second
ihree funding options,  recently
n up by President William B.
Dean  of  Students   Patricia
ini, Association supporters and
members, after   a   lengthy
itssion during a closed meeting,
irding to Kip Cantrick, PB vice
erson.
The second option allows PB to
ile funds from the University as
te item with the stipulation the
[versity would be reimbursed by
Association.
[The two options rejected by PB
|re|) PB would be funded by the
Associ tion only, but the University
would assist PB in obtaining contracts, facilities and services and 3)
PB would be budgeted through the
administration only, with a
corresponding reduction in
Association- fees. (Therefore, if PB
was budgeted $20,000, the $4
Association fee would have to be
reduced proportionately.)
After PB's decision was made
public, Cantrick explained the
concept behind PB in providing
concerts, speakers and special
events to CMU students will remain
unchanged.
"The decision won't change our
organization at all," he said. "It will
open the working relationship
between other student organizations
and the students themselves."
John Wrfght, PB entertainment
vice    chairperson,    said    PB    will
continue to present the same
number o£ events, including concerts, as in the past. "We'll still have
eight concerts a year, four each
semester, just like we always have,"
he said.
After being notified of PB's
decision, Student Body President
Bill Pilchak said, "I'm glad they
chose the second option, because it
pretty much keeps the entire block
of student organizations together
within the Association's concept.
Pilchak added the only
"stumbling block" left in the path of
the Association's final Board of
Trustee approval is the setting up of
a limited funding autonomy between
the Association and the Trustees,
(see related story)
PB's decision brought to an end
three days of stalled negotiations
between PB and the Association
supporters concerning a funding
relationship between the two
organizations.
at their next meeting.
RAC met to discuss the contract revisions they want before signing
contracts for the 1975-76 school year Wednesday night.
Administrators from Housing Programs, Student Affairs and the
President's Council were invited to the meeting to discuss the revisions, but
could not attend because of schedule conflicts, according to a letter from
George Jennings, director of Housing Programs.
The revisions to the contract were developed by RAC contract revision
committee and submitted to the administration. According to Maxson, when
the contracts were returned to the RAs they had not gotten the revisions
asked for.
"WE ARE TRYING to meet with them to work this out," Maxson said.
The first,revision the RAs are asking for is reduced occupancy in RA
rooms. In residence halls with two bedrooms and a*study RAs ask that they
have their own bedroom. In, the Towers where four roommates share one
bedroom RAs are asking for only one roommate. In residence halls where
there are two-person rooms RAs are not asking for reduced occupancy.
"We are asking this for several reasons," Maxson said," this is a 24-hour a
day job. It is difficult to get away from it. We need reduced occupancy for our
own sanity. We also need a place to counsel and advise. It is hard to be a
roommate of an RA too."
A second revision the RAs are asking for involves wording the contract.
The contract says an RA will uphold the University policy and enforce it and
the University will attempt to support the RA. RAs would like the word
attempt striken from the contract.
RA'S ARE ALSO asking that they- receive food whenever they are
working. Their payment is room and board. However, they returned early to
help dpen the dorms at 10 a.m. on Sundays following Thanksgiving and
Spring break, but food service was not open and RAs did not receive food
until Monday.
Another revision asks that is an RA maintains a 2.5 grade point average
for a semester they will receive six credit hours'of classes paid for by the
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by ROSS WILKINSON
CM LIFE Reporter
Student Assembly ratified the Student Association constitution late
irsday afternoon after reducing the number of seats on the Board of
sectors.
Approval of the constitution, which was opposed by only one
resentative, means the constitution will appear on the April 28 student
stion ballot and that petitions with 1,400 student signatures .will not be
led.
Ratification followed changes made which included giving Organization
Black Unity (OBU), Chicanos Organized for Progressive Action (COPA),
Gay Liberation one board seat. Associated Women Students (AWS) and
men's Health Information Project (WHIP) Will have only one seat also.
Tuesday, Student Association Board members revised  the  Board
ibership to give OBU, COPA, and Gay Lib one seat each. David Niven,
dent body vice president, said AWS and WHIP then wanted a separate
Originally, the Board of Directors was to have had 15 members. Five at-
je seats were added to give unaffiliated students more representation,
"ding to Niven.
Last Tuesday, the Minorities Organizational Council folded and was
en three seats. AWS and WHIP also were given separate seats and the
'd swelled to 22 members.
In light of the revisions, Mike Fraser, Lansing junior, representing Inter-
fernity Council (IFC), requested two Greek seats.
However, Student Assembly rejected IFC's request and Jeff Sauter, off-
ipus representative, then asked the Association Board be reduced by
ee seats.
Sauter objected to the recent revisions and noted Small Organizations
wcil, representing many diverse groups, had only one seat.     •
"The Fellowship of Christian Athletes is SOC's representative on the
fd," Sauter said. "But SOC also includes the Young Socialist Alliance and
Political Science Club."
Sauter said if the SOC could cooperate with its members then minority
women groups could too.
Carles Korn, student body treasurer, said the reduced number might
111 the minority groups would withdraw their support of Association.
Niven said the membership revision Tuesday was a suggestion by the
fd of Directors and that Assembly's action was perfectly legal.
Adelines presented
CM  LIFE PHOTO BY GEORGE BENISEK
RUSSIAN DANCE Students from Adams High School in Rochester
perform their award winning Russian Dance Thursday in Finch
Fieldhouse as part of Foreign Language Day at CMU. Students from
high schools around the state participated in the day, sponsored by the
Foreign Languages Department of CMU, featuring songs, dances and
skits in French, Spanish, German and Russian.
Trustees appoint new dean
of Off Campus Education
A new dean of Off-Campus
Education, Alan F. Quick, director of
student teaching, was named by the
Board of Trustees at its Wednesday
meeting.
Quick will succeed J. D. Marcus,
who retired last December. As dean,-
he will be responsible for a program
which offers more than 1,000 classes
each year in some 250 centers
around the state.
I'M DELIGHTED to make the
appointment," President William. B.
Boyd said. "I'm confident he has the
support on campus as well as off
campus for a successful program."
"The kind of work he has been
doing is excellent preparation for the
Trustees to study Association
ard of Trustee members will not commit themselves concerning the
'font Association and its funding autonomy until they have time to study
! incept.
Association supporters presented guidelines to the Trustees, in a
dnesday morning meeting. The guidelines would allow the Association
u8h autonomy to spend and allocate Association funds as the Association's
ird of Directors decides with Board of Trustee control only over matters
Wional and state law and policy.
Student Association supporters had hoped to come to an agreement
^"tog the funding autonomy with the Board of Trustees Wednesday,
*«& Trustees requested a written outline of the entire concept and time
Study it.
L%dCofer, chairperson of the Board of Trustees, said he didn/t have an
ediate reaction to the Association, saying it was very sudden.
"The reaction of the Board definitely was not negative. We told him
(Pilchak) to put everything in writing. Then we will review it and get some
opinions in case there are legal difficulties," Cofer said,
However, students will vote on the Association beginning in 10 days,
(voting will extend over registration for Fall Semester) But the Trustees will'
not meet again formally until the middle of May.
If the Association is passed by the student body, it is up to the Trustees
to reject or accept the concept.
v Other Board members agreed that they would like to see the
Association concept outlined in writing and said they did not expect the total
Board would review it before the student vote April 28.
If the Student Association is passed by the students Cofer said it could
favorably influence the Board's decision,
job," he added.
In his current position as
director of student teaching, Quick is
responsible for supervising
cooperative teacher education-
programs and agreements with more
than 150 school districts in Michigan.
In addition, he coordinates 34
faculty members who supervise the
1,800 CMU student teachers each
year..
QUICK has'been at Central since
1963 and director of student teaching
since 1965. He joined the faculty as
supervisor of student teachers in the
Saginaw-Bay City area.
In 1973, Quick initiated and
developed the Overseas* Student
Teaching program for CMU
students. Begun' in 1974, the
program currently sends about 50
students annually to England for a
10-week    international    student
teaching experience.
A native of Marshall, he is a
graduate of Western Michigan
University and has an M.A. degree
from the University of Michigan. He
earned his Ed. D. degree from the
University of Oregon, where he was
a graduate teaching fellow in 1962
and 1963.
PRIOR TO JOINING the CMU
staff, he taught English at Warren
High School from 1958 to 1961.
Quick is a 1974 recipient of the
CMU Faculty Achievement Award,
a Danforth Foundation Associate
and former president of the
Michigan Association of Teacher
Educators. He is co-author of a book,
"The Supervision of Student
Teachers", published in February.
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