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Volume 55 No. 14
Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan 48859
Wednesday, September 25, 1974   J
Screening committee set up *
Assembly vetoes Frary's recommendation
by ROSS WILKINSON
CM LIFE Reporter
Committee appointments
idominated the Student Assembly
Imeeting Monday night as three
•students were recommended to
[serve on the search committee for
[the new University president.
Student  Body   President   JeH
Frary recommended Rick Marshall,
Warren senior, Program Board
Chairman Rose Ratkov and > himself
to he student representatives on the
search committee.
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committee to screen all applicants
before choosing the student
positions.
Controversy centered on
Frary's recommendations to the
presidential search committee. Craig
Aue, Barnard Hall, said Student
Assembly should not follow the
recommendations blindly and moved
for a committee to screen all applicants for the search committee
(see related story).
Frary said if his recommendations were not accepted, he
would take it as opposition to his
being student body president.
.??' ., JThe motion for a screening
committee carried by a wide margin
land Steve Davis, Bill Pilchak,
is Norman Siders and David Niven off-
v campus representatives; Rod Braun,
.'.Barnes Hall; Gordon Johnson,
Robinson Hall and Aue, Barnard
*\Haii, were selected to serve on the
|; committee.
Five students were selected for
the Funding Review Committee at
the meeting. The committee,, which
recommends funding requests for
student organizations to the
Allocation Committee, will consist of
David Niven, off-campus
representative; Bill Pilchak, off-
campus; Gordon Johnson, Robinson
Hall; Jim Hundiak, Herrig Hall and
Simon Martinez, off-campus.
After Charles Korn, Traverse
City freshman, was confirmed as
treasurer,   a   tentative   budget   of
$19,182 was presented. The budget
included general operating expenses
of Student Assembly and expenses
of Student Government
organizations such as Legal Aid,
Tenant's Union and the Michigan
Higher Education Student
Association (MHESA).
A committee to review the rules
and procedure of Student Assembly
also was chosen. Niven, Braun, Bill
LeFevre, off-campus and Joe
Quinlan, off-campus, volunteered to
serve on this committee.
AAUPcampai
for place on ballot
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CM LIFE PHOTO BY RICK McKAY
BLAST!—Men survey damage caused by an explosion early Tuesday at the $319,000 community center being
constructed on the Chippewa Indian'Reservation about two miles east of Mt. Pleasant. There were no personal
injuries in the explosion. Deputies said the blast was caused by several sticks of dynamite placed in the rest
room area of the building. The blast apparently was deliberate and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
has joined officials from the Isabella County Sheriffs Department in an investigation. Sheriff Don Gillis said
the blast may be the work of a unionized labor group, as construction on the community center is being done by
non-union workers employed by Collison Construction Co. of Midland. ,    v
by MITCH HEAD
CM LIFE Reporter
Petition cards began circulating
among faculty members Tuesday in
an effort to put the American
Association of University Professors
(AAUP) on the ballot in a possible
decertification election.
If the AAUP collects the
required signatures and an election
takes place, faculty members will
have three options: to choose either
the Faculty Association (FA) or
AAUP as bargaining agent, or to
have no bargaining agent.
Members of the CMU chapter of
the AAUP voted at a luncheon
Monday to circulate petition cards in
an attempt to obtain the required
200,;signature3 befofyiFViday.
The vote was an "overwhelming
majority" of those present according
to John Schmidt, acting president of
AAUP.
The AAUP needs signatures of
30 per cent of the faculty, or about
200 signatures, accordin** to Ernest
Fray, State Elections officer for the
Michigan Employment Relations
commission (MERC).
Fray is scheduled to meet with
the FA (which is the current
bargaining agent), petitioners and
the administration Monday to"
determine if there will be an election.
All three parties must consent
before an election can occur.
However, Fray indicated
Tuesday, he may postpone the
meeting. He said he was not aware of
the Unfair Labor Practice charge
filed last spring by the FA against
the University. ,
"My first impression is to put it
(the meeting)  on  ice  for  awhile,"
Fray said. "I'll have to look into the
matter before I decide."
If the AAUP should win the
election and become bargaining
agent for the faculty, the Central
chapter initially could be supported
by grants and loans from the state
conference of AAUP, according to
Jim McKay, president of the state
conference.
McKay noted Central's chapter
,must file for this aid. He indicated
initial assistance has been granted to
other chapters.
Dave Current, acting secretary
of the organization, said the aid could
be expected for about one year until
the chapter becomes self supporting.
Joyce, Pillotte, assistant
professor of philosophy, questioned
whether AAUP would attempt to
impose an agency shop clause on the
faculty.
"I would oppose it with all my
strength," answered George
Stengren, chairman of the
Philosophy Department.
Other discussion at the meeting
centered   around * the   question   of
whether   AAUP   would   win   the
support of the faculty.
"I don't think you can count on
faculty members who are not FA
members to become AAUP members by contract," Caiman Levich,
professor of physics said.
Levich said he believed the
'faculty had only two reasonable
propositions.
"You either have to support the
current bargaining agent or try to
start an Association that could
conceivably win that support from
the faculty to be a bargaining agent."
Levich also questioned whether
the FA had sufficient backing from
the Michigan Education Association
(MEA), which is supporting the FA.
Current said hte3 has talked to
people who thought it was
"ludicrous" to have the MEA supporting the FA when most MEA"
work deals with grades K through
12.
AAUP was not considered as a
bargaining agent when Central first
(See "Petitions to put. . . page 14)
Petitioners deny
support rumors
Organizers of a petition calling
for a decertification vote denied
rumors Tuesday that the American
Association of University Professors
(AAUP) was behind their decertification move.
"AAUP is not—and never has
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News A
Student Assembly initiates'new era
ty
by MITCH HEAD
CM LIFE Reporter
With the first Student
Assembly meeting of the semester
Monday a new era began for CMU's
student governing body when
representatives virtually overrode
the  powers   of   Student   Body
President Jeff Frary.
In his opening speech to the
assembly, Frary, Mt. Pleasant
junior, recommended the assembly
approve his choice of students to sit
on a screening committee to choose a
successor to William B. Boyd,
president of the University.
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The committee would screen
applicants' for the position, which
will be vacated by Boyd June 30.
FRABY recommended Rick
Marshall, Warren senior; Rose
Ratkov, chairperson of Program
Board and himself tq occupy the
three positions available to students
on the committee.
Other positions on the screening
_ committee  would be  occupied  by
members elected from the Board of
Trustees (4), Academic Senate (8),
- and the Alumni Board (1).
Craig S. Aue, Barnard Hall
representative, immediately balked
at the idea of assembly merely
approving Frary's recommendations.
"You just can't ask us to accept
'   something we know nothing about,"
Aue said. "Otherwise, things will
start passing through here without
anyone blinking an eye." .
Aue then suggested* a committee be set up to screen applicants
for the positions. Othet represen*
tatives readily agreed with Aue.,
"I think this would make u*
more credible*" Rod Braun, Barnes
Hall representative, said,
gteve* Davis, off-catnpus-
representative, noted two of Gary's
recommendations Were seniors and
Frary was a junior.
Another Representative voiced
concern search procedures might not
end this academic year. "It might be
feasable to have a sophomore on the
committee," Davis said. ,
Representatives voted to
establish a screening committee
within assembly consisting of Bill
Pilchak, off-campus representative;
pave Niven, off-campus
representative; Craig Aue, Barnard
Hall representative; Gordy Johnson,
F ,binson Hall representative and
' orman Siders, off-campUs
iepresentative, to recommend
students to Assembly.
ANY STUDENT interested in
serving on a search committee for
the University president or dean of
arts and sciences may apply in the
Student Government Office in the
lower level of the University Center.
A meeting will be scheduled to
screen interested applicants
Frary walked out of the meeting
during voting for the screening
committee.
"I hope this will stop people
from railroading issues through the
assembly as they have before," one
representative commented.
Aue said he hoped this would
change for the better for assembly.
He admitted .Student Senate^ in
the past had often been a "rubber
stamp" as far as some legislation was
concerned. "I hope," he said, "this
year it's different."
been— behind us," John Hepler,
professor of English said. "They did
not have a hand in decertification.
All of our backing has come from
faculty members."
George Stengren, chairman of
the Philosophy Department, Paul
Spece, chairman of the Accounting
Department and Hepler scheduled
an afternoon press conference to
clarify their purpose for filing for'
decertification.
Although there are AAUP
members who have backed the
petitioners, the decertification move
was not subsidized by AAUP,
Stengren said.
Stengren and Spece both admitted, however, they were
members of AAUP. Stengren added
he felt Central has needed a strong
chapter of AAUP ever since he came
to Central, 'and hoped his backers
would support AAUP.
"Our aim," Hepler said, "was to
bring to a vote the notion of whether
the faculty wanted to vote on
decertification. I think we have
succeeded."
Stengren said he was not antiunion, as some people might think. "I
first joined a union in 1944. I doubt
whether an FA member can match
that," Stengren said.
Hepler also said he wanted to
ease the minds of some faculty
members who are apprehensive
about the contract being Voided. He
said he thought President William B.
Boyd would discuss the matter with
the faculty.
"I don't think Boyd will make
Unilateral decision," Hepler said.
Hepler also said he felt the
change in administration would not
have any adverse effects on the
ba'rg$ining. He said he felt the
screening committee and the Board
of Trustees could Select a successor
to Boyd's position who has
knowledge of collective bargaining.
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