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■GOOD LUCK CHIPS'—Mt. Pleasant Area Chamber of Commerce members John Walsh and Sid Smith join
nith Student Foundation President Greg Koroch (center) in wishing the football team good luck in its efforts in
e Pioneer Bowl Saturday. Anyone can sign the telegram to be delivered to the team before Saturday's
contest.
A telegram assuring Coach Roy
Kramer and the football team of
support and confidence in their
victory in the Pioneer Bow! will be
sent from Mt. Pleasant to Wichita
Falls, Texas before the start of the
game Saturday.
The telegram, signed by
townspeople, friends, faculty and
students from CMU and tTie Mt.
Pleasant area, was proposed in order
for the entire community to show
their support of the Chippewas,
according to John Walsh, Mt.
Pleasant Area Chamber of, Commerce manager.
Anyone wishing to sign -*he
telegram can do so in the lower
level of the University Center
outside the Reservation anytime
before 4 p.m. today. Cost is $1 per
person. .
The proceeds will be used to
send the telegram to the team and
also for various recognition activities
for the team ,on its return to Mt.
Pleasant. Ideas include changing all
of the city limit signs at the entrance
to the community to read "Home of
the Chippewas," a football parade or
banquet. Plans Will be finalized after
Saturday's game.
The    program    was    begun
Monday without the knowledge of
coach Kramer and the football team,
The full campaign for signatures
began Thursday morning after the
team left for Texas. One-thousand
signatures are expected for the
telegram. Over 500 signatures
already have been collected, Walsh
said, Thursday.
A homecoming gathering for the
team also is planned, Walsh said.
The   homecoming   gathering   will
include   band  members,  students,
faculty   and   townspeople.   The
homecoming is scheduled  for 1:30
p.m. Sunday in front of Perry Shorts
Stadium, where the team will arrive.
Spirit!
Team arrives in Texas
by LORRIE LYNCH
LIFE Editor in chief
WICHITA FALLS, Texas-A
special kind of spirit arrived here
Thursday morning—team spirit.
Ready to beat Louisiana Tech in
the Pioneer Bowl game Saturday,
Central's Chippewas landed at
Wichita Falls municipal airport at
11:35 a.m. central standard time to
be greeted by an area high school
band and color guard, local political
officials and' reporters. ^
COACH ROY Kramer was first
off the plane and walked down the
red carpet to meet a reception line of
local officials. He was followed by his
team through the reception line,
under cloudy skies and 56 degree
temperatures.
The team spirit was evident as
the Chippewas joked with one
another, played cards and walked
around the United 727 Charter plane
which carried the University party
here.
Traveling   with   the   team   to
Texas Thursday were team coaches,
trainers, managers and their wives
as well as athletic' department
personnel, their spouses, eight
cheerleaders, and a University
official "party." Former CMU
President Judson Foust and his wife
also accompanied the team.
The party departed from CMU
for Tri-City airport shortly after 8
a.m. Thursday after good-luck
wishes from President William /B.
Boyd.
After a brief stop to check in at
the Holiday Inn here, the team
departed for a two-hour practice at a
local high school stadium. The group
also attended barbecue dinner on the
campus of Midwestern University
Thursday evening.
Today's itinerary includes a
team breakfast, meetings and films
and a second- twbMiour practice.
However, perhaps the most important part of the itinerary,
scheduled for Saturday, is at 12;35
p.m.:   BEAT  LOUISIANA   TECH.
McDaniels resign
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by DAVID A. CASTLE
Special to CM LIFE
Jeff Frary, student body
ident, announced his resignation
letter to the Student Assembly
iy claiming      health,      family
political reasons prompted his
ion.
Julius McDaniels, student body
president, also resigned (see
ited story). Frary will be replaced
""' Pilchak, speaker of Student
jembly, and David Niven, speaker
ftem of Student Assembly, will
ne the role of vice president.
^Although Frary did not go into
P on his health and family
ptions, he did reveal his feelings
|ard being president of CMU's
dent Government.
"Being the head of the student
|f is a role of frustration," Frary
"You see how decisions are
fa at the University and you see
geniality that the students have a
minimum of input into those
|iiODB.
|"You can't work with the ad-
|stration    because    they    have
jMents and  priorities  to  deal
V' Frary said. "Because of the
j*able economy we are faced with,
I securities are biggest  in   the
ds of the   administration   and
fly members.  And   when   job
irities are guaranteed to those
|le>    students     rights     are
Miced."
tFrary believes CMU would be
lis well off without its present
jM Government. "The Student
!«rtment has no credibility at
school and very little ef-.
rjlveness," Frary said. >
[He claims one factor of Student
Moment's inability to represent
I'ights of students effectively is
■'of the best leaders «t CMtF are
lost to other organizations.
"There are organizations on
campus that are tangible and tbose
organizations receive benefits that
Student Government has been
denied because those organizations
are credible," Frary said.
New officials to assume
top spots next semester
by PAULA PECK
AND
ROSS WILKINSON
CM LIFE Reporters
fectiveness of Student Government
as his reason.
The speaker and speaker pro-
tern    of    Student    Assembly    will
Jeff Frary
Julius McDaniels, student body assume the presidency and vice
vice president, has resigned, citing presidency as stated in the Student
disillusionment   with    the   inef- Assembly constitution.
Christmas subpoenas?
Union will go to court today
by MITCH HEAD
LIFE Ass't News Editor
The Faculty Association (FA)
will "file an action" in a Mt. Pleasant
court today in an effort to implement
the agency shop clause of the
University contract, Clifford Weiler,
FA attorney disclosed to CM LIFE
Thursday afternoon.  ,
Weiler would not divulge what
action would be taken, iri what court
it will be filed, or who it will be filed
against.
"But we cannot win by default,"
Weiler explained. "The faculty
member or members must be served
due notice of the action before any
other action can be taken."
THE POSSIBILITY of faculty
members receiving subpoenas as
Christmas presents fronl the FA was
discussed Wednesday afternoon at
fin informal meeting ol the "Free
Faculty" with attorney Terry J.
Mroz.
Mroz dismissed most of the
faculty members' worries, saying
most court procedures would take at
least one month.
Also   attending   the   meeting
•were FA president Robert Clason,
FA   attorney   Cliff   Weiler   *nd
yypyysy««
Michigan Education Association
(MEA) representative Bill Owen.
However, aU three declined to
comment on further action of the FA
until after an FA Executive Beard
meeting Wednesday night.
The   FA   Executive   Board,
consisting of about 12 FA members,      contract.
met with Weiler at the MEA
building in Mt. Pleasant for over
three hours trying to decide what, if
any, legal action should be taken
next by the FA in'its attempts to
enforce the agency shop clause of the
Clason said, after the meeting
the matter has been turned over to
Weiler.
The Free Faculty meeting,
about one-hour long, attracted
(See FA . . . page 10)
Budget cut may spur
r"
tuition hike, layoffs
by SANDRA L. DICKEY
LIFE News Editor
If next year's proposed,budget
must be implemented, it will be
necessary tos eliminate 42 and one-
half positions and possibly raise
tuition, President William B. Boyd
said at a press conference Wednesday, j
The elimination of positions
wo.uld mean laying off about 50
employes, Boyd said. Every area of
the University, except faculty,
would be considered for these
layoffs, he said. However, no specific
positions have been designated for
layoffs.
"MY HOPE is that it will not
come/to pass," he said. "Layoff- will
be an absolute final resort."
He also said a tuition increase
would be "almost inevitable," but
said "we need a few more signals
from Lansing before we decide on a
tuition increase."
At a budget hearing in Lansing
recently, Boyd said the University
argued for not making a 4 per cent
cut in the budget.
He explained next year's base
budget was $19.6 million, a 4 per
cent reduction from thts year's
budget.
Boyd said steps taken to cut this
year's budget will be continued. The
University has put a freeze on all
Vacant positions in order to save a
required 1 per cent of this year's
budget for next year,
RECENTLY, an additional &
per cent cut was announced by Gov.
Williani G« Milliken^ office and
although it/is not official, Boyd said,
'*I am sure the 1.5 will materialize—I
am fearful that it may grow larger,"
"We will leave the freeze on
long enough td produce the 1,5 per
cent," he added.
"It means, irf effect we have
already started the reduction for
next year," he said.
The freeze on University
positions requires not filling any
position that is vacated unless it is
absolutely necessary, and a review
committee has been set up for this
purpose.
"We are not filling any vacancy
that occurs if we can see any way
around it," Boyd said.
"I don't think we should be
panicked by it," he said, "Our affluence has made us become accustomed to a very high level of
service. I think nationally we will be
coming down from this and we
should expect it here (at the
University) too."
"As a public policy," Boyd said,
"I think it is a reasonable thing the
governor is doing."
Bill   Pilchak,   Warren   senior,
takes    office    as    president    next"
semester and  David  Niven,  Niles
senior will be vice president.
McDaniels is the 10th student
organizational member to resign this
semester.
"I had been contemplating
resigning for some time; I did not
resign because I could not handle the
office of the the presidency," McDaniels said.
He said he was not surprised
when Jeff Frary, student body
president, resigned.
"Jeff was in the same boat as I
was. He was hampered and
frustrated by not getting things
done. I was put in a very particular
situation," McDaniels said.
Inter-office relations had little
.effect on McDaniels resignation.
"There were problems With
Student Government people, a few
people, and one in particular who is
no longer with us," McDaniels said.
Student apathy is the underlying problem in Student
Government, according to McDaniels.
"THIS IS 1974, we have no big
issues, there is nothing to fire
students up. Students need
something tangible to work with. We
may have this with the> funding of
student organizations, McDaniels
said.
McDaniels named two more
students senators who are resigning
and safd he expected there would be
more.
President William B. Boyd said
he knew Frary was contemplating
resigning, but he had no idea McDaniels was going to resign.
"I respect them for putting first
■ things first. I know of no particular
reason why it should effect Student
Government because it has been
happening year after year,*' Boyd
said.
He added, "People with important things to do are not going to
stay in student government.'!^ you
get mature people in office they soon
find that out."
(See New SG . <. page 10)
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