1975-11-07; Central Michigan Life

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EXPO '75 DISPLAYS—President Harold Abel examines the fabric of one of the items on display at the In-.
ternational Expo '75 which opened in the University Center Ballroom Wednesday and will run through today..
The Expo, sponsored by International Students Organization, includes displays ipf the cultures of 15 countries.
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Friday, Novermber 7, 1975
Association
AVVS. V^HIP vote
Expo
viewed
today
Cultural artifacts from 15 different nations
still may be viewed today in the University Center
(UC) Ballroom during the third and final day of
International Expo '75.
The Expo, sponsored by the International
Students Organization (ISO), is a colorfully
arranged display of sights and sounds from around
the world. .
.Guatemala music filling the air, travel,posters
covering the walls and clothing froth" almost all the
countries are some of the features of the show.
Also of particular interest are the paintings of
Mexico, an assortment Of jewelry on the Iran table
and pictures depicting life in Russia and China,
Other features included in the Expo have been
film and slide presentations from Malaysia, China,
Japan, India and Egypt.
/ by CAROL DAMIOLI
and.
DEBBIE GROHOL3KI
CM LIFE Reporters
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Requests for a special student election to determine^
if Women's Health and Information Project (WHIP) and
Associated j- Women Students (AWS) should have full
voting seats on the Student Association Board ^ of
Directors were approved unanimously Wednesdajy.'
However, similar requests by Inter Fraternity
CounciyiFC) and Panhellenic Council were rejected by.
Board members at their meeting Wednesday night. -   *
IN THE IFC issue, Board members voted 8-7 with   .
•2 Va abstention against the proposed amendment to the
Student Association constitution. ,
. The Panhellenic Council separate seat proposal was
defeated because it failed to achieve a majority of the
vote... The proposal was approved 7-4, but there were
6 Vs abstentions negating the favorable vote,
Currently IFC and Panhellenic Council share a
voting seat on the Board as does AWS and WHIP. ,
, Mary Lynne Newell, WHIP area coordinator, told
the Board, WHIP may have the word women in its name,
but there are men in the organization. She explained
WHIP goes back to 1971 when it was affiliated with
ArYS, but decided then it was not compatible-and split
from AWS. /        . "*
Nancy Tpoley, AWS president, explained every
woman student is automatically a member of AWS. She
added every .woman
meetings.
gets one vote in AWS council
Milliken cuts rejected
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the     state
William yG.
order   came
Rejection by
legislature of Gov.
Milliken's executive
Thursday afternoon. The order
called for a $150 million cut from the
state budget to avert what the
governor projects as a $298 million
dpficit.
The executive Order, titled "An
Agenda for Austerity", recom
mended $7,471,860 be 'cut differentially from institutions of
higher education. Had the executive
order "been approved, CMU's
reduction would have been 1.7 per
cent, amounting- to $363,389—a cut
' which CMU could handle, according
to University officials,
WITH THE legislature's 11-0
rejection, Milliken has 30 days to
submit a second executive order.
Arthur Ellis, CMU vice president for
public affairs, projected last week
the legislature would reject the;
order and the appropriations committees would "try to push ours
(reduction) up artd others down."
Ellis added he expected CMU's
final cut would be about 2 per cent*.
According to  The  Assoicated
Prof charges VP Ellis
of bill
by HOLLY HAYES    >
LIFE Ass't. News Editor
A   CMU   vice   president   has
Been*    charged       with   "going
against   the' wishes  of   Central
Michigan   University  on  his  own
initiative" by .pushing for a "crippling'"***' amendment   to   a   faculty
retirement bill now awaiting action
in     the     Michigan     House     of
Representatives, i
Alan  Nichols,  Assoiciation  of
Michigan    Collegiate    Faculties
(AMCF) delegate and one of the bill's
creators/ claimed  at  this  week's
„ Academic Senate meeting Arthur E.
Ellis, vice president of public.
affairs,   "sabotaged"   the   AMCF-
sponsored legislation.
ELLIS SAID,**! don't agree the
amendment is against the wishes of
CMU. It might not be in the interest
of a select few, but it is in the interest of the seven,. schools I
represented on this issue."
Ellis "was spokesperson on the
retirement issue in Lansing for
Eastern Michigan University,
Western' Michigan University,
Michigan Technological Institute,
-Lake Superior State College. Ferris
State    College . and    Northern
Michigan University as well as 'CMU.
However, Nichols said he didn't
think Ellis was acting in the schools'
interest because "six of,those seven
schools Ellis is supposedly
representing passed resolutions
which, in substance, were the same
as one passed by CMU's Academic
Senate in March." The resolution
supported the original language in
the bill, SB 797/
"What it comes down to,"
Nichols added, "is who pays Ellis'
salary—CMU or the other schools?"
Nichols said the bill, in. .its
I See "Was bill..." page 5)
Press, bargaining between the
Democratic legislature and Milliken
over where and by hb^touch logout
the State, budget now will begin in
earnest.
The legislature is expected to
seed its recommendations* on what
should be in the second order to! the
governor early next week.
Democrats argue- 'Milliken
overestimated the state's projected"
deficit when he pegged it at $298
million. They hope to' trim the
budget-cutting to between $80
million and $90 million instead of
$150 million, easing the blow to
welfare and education.
' In addition to the budget cuts**
Milliken wants to make up the $298,
million by eliminating two restricted
funds and. shifting the fiscal year.
The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday approved a bill,
changing the start of the fiscal year
from July 1 to Oct. 1 as Milliken
recommended, and the bill now goes
to the full Senate.
UNDER THE budget cutting
process,, the House and Senate
appropriations committees have to
approve such an order for it to take
effect, so the Senate Appropriation
Committee's action was all that was
needed to kill the executive order.
Neither committee can amend
such an order, so rejection is the
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Prior to the? AWS-WHIP- vote, Mike Fraser, IFC
president,' and "-Lois ■ Hansen, Panhellenic Council
representative, told the Board.their reasons for wanting
separate seats on the Board.  .
(     ..L_ADER§HIP,brbtherhood, sports and University *
involvement are*the'main characteristics of fraternity
members and IFC, Fraser, Grand Ledge senior said.
"We're not just fraternity people sitting in our
corner and vegetating,'"" he added. ..
- He explained IFC and Panhellenic Council are "two
separate organizations* we are different. We're
registered* in the Student Affairs office as separate
organizations.*"     *  i.
Panhellenic Council is concerned with philanthropic
service projects and.the structure of siich things as
sorority rush each semester], Hansen, Fenwick senior,
-qaid.*-;,/'■''''" ,.' " ■.".:     .■•>"■ v •'       t ...
"I think Panhellenic "should have a separate, seat
from IFC- We have very different objectives," she added. • ■■'- , ,    ' i ■     '
Doug Uarpei*,-representative from the Organization
of Black Unity (OBU) asked Fraser if Greeks were not
made up of freshman, sophomores, juniors and seniors,
therefore constituting an overlapping of representation.
'   FRASER   SAID,   ''Isn't   there   an   overlap   of
representatives in ..OBU 4;oo?"
-. * After the Board voted and IFC lost its bid for a full
seat,Fraser told theBoard, "I'm glad I did get some kind
of criticism from \he Board, But when you talk about
ljypoerates, the battlecry from' individuals here was, let's
let the people.decide. This was echoed to me by the
,t Board members."
Hansen said after the meeting,
in light of the Board's decision, "I
regret that the Board did not feel
' that Panhellenic Council deserved
enough representation for one full
vote."
r^jHtfi SAID^SHE BOUGHT
Panhellenic" *Cotu|cil's varied in-
terests and knowledge Of the Board's
objectives should merit it a full seat.
Both Fraser and Hansen said
they plan to continue their requests
for separate 'seats in the form of
petitions to students. They will need
signatures from 10 per cent of the
Student body before their requests
can be 'on a special election ballot.
Tooley, Mt. Pleasant junior, said
AWS will talk to individual dorm
council meetings in .the next two
weeks, to gain support for AWS in
the special student election.
NEWELL, Remus senior, said
(See "Greeks .. ."page 5)
normal process by which legislatures
gain some say in what the final order
will include. „
Senate and House fiscal staffs
are to meet ,with officials from the
Department of Management and
Budget in an attempt to reach some
agreement over disputed figures on
how deep the deficit is and other
budget-related estimates, "The
appropriations committees will then
draw up specific alternatives to hand
Milliken, probably next week.
Sex chan
Transsexua
'never was a man
by JIM FISHER
CM LIFE Reporter
"I've always thought of irtyself as a woman. 1 rjever was a man."
Those are the words Of Eiarci Michelle Terwilliger, formerly Dennis
Terwilliger, of St. LouiS", Mich', who underwent transsexual surgery in 1971
after 31 years of frustration as a male.
SPEAKING TO a social psychology class Wednesday; Terwilliger
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explained what'prompted her to have the operation four-years ago and its
'effect on (herself, family and friends, , -
jHer decision to becomje a woman wasn't difficult, "It's a compulsion."'
Once you find, out what can be done you either decide jfo live as you are or r
you go ahead with it. You can't say I think HI be a girl for. a few weeks and
then change.'1     ' ( •'
Terwilliger said that her compulsion to become a woman was both an
innate feeling as well as the result of parental influence.
"I was the youngest of 10 children and after having eight boys in a row,
my mother was convinced I was going to be a girl. As a result she wis very -
lenient with me," she said.
While her first thoughts of having transsexual surgery began At -age 13,
it wasn't until she was 30 that she bygan to receive counseling and necessary '
hormone treatments prior to the .operation.
She underwent beard and chest electrolysis ( emoval ojf the hair by
, electric shock) in 1971 and that same year received an orchidectomy
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CM LIPS PHOTO »Y JOHN THOMPSON
TRANSSEXUAL Ll#ESTYL®S*-t)&r(it Terwilliger, who underwent
transsexual surgery in 1971, emphasizes a point during a speech to a
social psych, togyclass Wednesday, Terwilliger decided to undergo the
sex change after 31 years of frustration as a male.; ^ ,  . <
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