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Volume 54, Number 46
Central Michigan University
May 24, 1973,
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MICHIGAN WEEK FESTIVITIES CONTINUE-with an All Michigan
Foods Smorgasboard Tuesday, at West Intermediate Junior High School
in-Mt. Pleasant. Several dignitaries, among them Miss Apple Queen 1973,
Miss Melonie Eberbach, were present at the event.
In Faculty lawsuit
MERC grants postponement
An administrative request for a
80-day postponement of a Michigan
Employment Relations Committee
(MERC) hearing involving the
faculty lawsuit filed against Central
has been granted by the
organization, according to officials.
Sources indicated University
Attorney J. David Kerr will be filing
aft appeal, in the j\ ejriuture jjith the_
HPEP workers
may go on
strike again
Central may not have heard the
last of it's recent difficulties with
striking carpenters working on the
new Health, Physical Education and
Recreation (HPER) building if the
attorney general's office rules in
favor of the Missouri sub-contractor •
for the job, according to Robert F.
Ringle, Physical Plant.
Construction on the 5.6 million
dollar building scheduled for com:
pletion by fall could come to a second
halt if the attorney general rules the
sub-contractor only has to pay the
Missouri prevailing wage for carpenters rather than the current rate
-in Michigan, he said. There is a
'"difference in the two wage levels of
approximately fifty cents an hour,
Ringle said.
Problems with the carpenters
began a week ago Tuesday when
members of Local 1564 of Carpenters
Union of the AFL-CIO went on
.strike over the wage dispute.
Workers were on strike for two days
'-before a tentative agreement was
'reached and' they returned to their
jobs.
-. OJ Construction Company, the
^yn^dntTac^r-Tnvbived;; agreed"
Thursday to pay the Michigan rates
of $9.35 an hour until the case is
ruled on by the attorney general.
Missouri rates are only $8.85 an
hour, Ringle said.
A decision is expected within
4en days to two weeks, according to
Kingle.     )
■:** He speculated that if the ruling
ifavbrs the sub-contractor the carpenters may strike again for higher
.wages.
A CM LIFE
special tbday
. "Heritage Day" is one of the
specially-proclaimed . days of
Michigan Week.
\    Id keeping with the Michigan
Weak spirit and Heritage. Day in
particular,   the   first   part   of   a
serialized article exploring Central's
80-year presidential history appears
•*n*ide today's issue of CM LIFE.  '
:.".    Tern to page five to read about
the   aix   people   who   were   past
presidents of CMU. Many of the
names are farailiar-if only /because
-eimpus buildings are named in their
•honor-while others are not so well-
-kpown among today's students.
Michigan Court of Appeals.
In other developments in the
case, faculty members are meeting
with administrators this morning to
"informally discuss the issue,"
Alexander J. Zawacki, president* of
the Faculty Association, announced.
Attempts to meet in an informal
conference with one another did not
succeed and on March 6, the
Association filed charges of unfair
labor practices against Central with
MERC.
In return, the Board of
Trustees, on March 9, filed an injunction in Circuit Court to stop
MERC from ruling on the
Association's charges. Purpose of
the injunction is "to have judgement
. made on this issue by the court
rather than MERC," explained
President William B. Boyd.
An open hearing- was held
March 29 in the County Courthouse
to decide who would hear the case.
No decison was reached by the
courts at that time.
Charles
Park dead
Charles B. Park,, the man for
whom Central's Park Library is
named, died Sunday at his home in
Grayling following a long illness.
Park was. former Director of
■Special Studies at CMU, an associate
professor of education here, and a
well-known Michigan educator.
He was born on March 22,1902
in Lamb, Michigan and graduated
from' Michigan State University.
A   News Analysis
udget approval lags
By Loretta S. Pizzo *'
LIFE Editorln-Chief
Senate budget hearing's have
been underway for well over two
weeks now and the legislature is
lagging behind it's usual schedule for
appropriations  to  colleges   and
universities. Hearings will continue
until May 29.
Traditionally, the senate has
heard the secondary institutions out
first, earlier in the year, and then
scheduled hearings for K-12 schools
throughout the state.
For the first time, hearings this
year for grade and high schools were
placed   on   the   agenda   before,
secondary institutions.
Channels 5 and 6
petition   against
WCMU-FM
By Loretta Pizzo
LIFE Editor-in-Chief
In what has been termed a
"Confusing move". Gross
Telecasting, Inc. (Channel 6) of
Lansing, and Meridith Broadcasting
(Channel 5) of Bay City, have filed
petitions with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
against WCMU-FM, but the reasons
why are unclear to officials at the
radio staiton.
The petitions are asking that
WCMU-FM'S recently approved
allocation be "set aside".
Gross spokesmen indicated
grounds for filing petitions are interference with it's local reception
caused by WCMU-FM.
Director ,ol Public.Broadcasting
"at Central.1 "WTfliam/TTrlga^unas,
admitted Wednesday he is confused
by the action.
According to Grigaliunas,
Channel 5 and 6 are "about two years
late. They're acting as if we just
applied for the license, but we did
that a couple of years ago," he said.
Grigaliunas said it is "too late"
to make any legal attmepts to
disrupt the radio station's activities.
"We're a little puzzled as to why
they are even bothering to file. It's
after the fact . . . we've received the
license," he added.
According to Grigaliunas,
Eastern Michigan University (EMU)
is expected to request permission
soon for increased power.
"Eastern is closer to Lansing
than we are, and Gross might be
concerned about interference from
them," he said.
He speculated that Gross may
be attempting to set a precedent by
filing against WCMU-FM because
they may plan to file petitions
'aglfnst the Eastern readio station at
a later date.
WCMU-FM will continue all it's
regular programming and will
operate normally, inspite of the
confusing situation, Grigaliunas said.
By this time Central has normally been appropriated a specific
sum of money for the next fiscal
year, and the appropriations bill is
out of the senate and on it's way to .
Governor William G. Milliken for his
approval.
Adminstrators from CMU went
before the appropriations committee
early last week. President William
B, Boyd, Provost Charles J. Ping,
Vice President of Business and
Finance Jerry R. Tubbs, and Vice
President of Public Affairs Arthur
E. Ellis represented Central in an
hour-and-a-half hearing.
Both Boyd and Ellis, as well as
Tubbs, have all indicated they think
the hearing went well for CMU, Ellis
was quoted recently as saying, "It
looks good, everything went very
smoothly and all went well.";
But all three agree it looks as
though it will be early June at least
before any final action is taken by
the senate on college budgets.
What does that mean to< Central?   '
For one thing, it means the
Board of Trustees took no action
concerning a raise in tuition rates at
their 'last meeting as Tubbs explained it, "they don't want to raise
the tuition any more than is'
necessary, but they don't know what
the budget will be for sure so they
can't decide how much of an increase
will be sufficient."
The Board must make a decision
by mid-June at the latest, however,
because rates go in effect for the
summer session which convenes
June IS.
Result: 'Central could end up in
the hole financially . . .or—
Result: CMU students could end
up paying higher tuition fees than
are absolutely iiecessary to, prevent
the' "University front' corning up
short.
Perhaps a more correct phrase
would be, "shorter than it already
is," since, the administration is
working with a projected deficit of
$700,000 right now.
To further complicate the
matter, both the senate and house
have approved a 14.6 per cent boost
in community 'college appropriations ... Michigan's 29-year
institutions will be receiving $65#
million in the next fiscal year. That'll
$2.6 million more than the govei*
nor's -recommendation, and an itjg
crease from last year's $57.3 millioi:
of $8-4 million. Voted on last;
Thursday by the senate, the:
measure was passed unanimously:,:
32-0. It now goes to Milliken for hip
approval. ;-=•
Reasoning behind the increase?
is reportedly an expected growth inf
the numbers of students attending*
community colleges. ;
If one assumes there will be
more two-year institution students,
-One can also assume there will be*
fewer four-year student s. If so, does
that mean Central's already "too
low" budget will be cut further?
"That," according to Tubbs^
"remains to be seen."   , *
A-Senate
meets today
Academic Senate (A-Senate)
will hold it's first meeting since the
advent of mini-session today, it, was
announced.
On the agenda for today's
meeting is discussion of a proposed
method of selecting members of
search committees which are
responsible for     -  choosing
replacements for key administrators. The proposal calls for
the inclusion of both students and
faculty on the iWjBh committees.
Scheduled for 1 p.m., the
meeting will take place in Pearce
Hall, room 138. All A-Senate
sessions are open to the public.
Two more arraigned in court
Gary Knop arrested in California
By Netty HoUister
LIFE Staff Writer
The sixth murder suspect in the
McNeil murder case was arrested
last Friday in San Jose, California,
according to Mt. Pleasant Police
Chief Thomas Martin.
Gairy S. Knop, 21, Ionia is being
held in a San Jose jail until he can be
extradited back to Michigan. He is
charged with first degree murder
under the felony murder doctrine
and second degree murder.'
'The felony murder doctrine
means a person can be charged with
first degree murder if anyone should
die during a felony crime attempt,
explained Prosecuting Attorney
Robert S. kennett.
involuntary manslaughter and are
awaiting to be sentenced June 4. The
charge of involuntary manslaughter
carries a maximum sentence of 15
years.
William J. Romwalter, 23,
Haslett pleaded guilty. May 15 to
possession of heroin. He is awaiting
sentencing June 18.
Manville testified he had four
conversations with Yost which
concerned an alleged robbery of
Howard Ingle's apartment. Douglas
Edgar, one of the three men
assaulted on December 9, was the
prime suspect in the alleged Ingle
robbery.
Manville testified that he, his
brother Jack and Gary Knop went to
Edgar's apartment to get back the
money and drugs taken from Ingle's
apartment. '•
Prosecuting Attorney Robert
Kennett contends that Yost had
knowledge of a deal to get the money
and drugs back from Edgar through
the use of scare tactics.
Police say McNeill died when he
was gagged with an article of
clothing containing chloroform. s
_*Powlr--q*iswarl- .0*1. ~aas'iru->-Mnt.<s*ftHftnfc *._„-~KnOP-
of schools in Reading, Mich, from
1930-39. From 1939-48 he' was
superintendent of the Mt. Pleasant
Public Schools, then was Bay City
superintendent from 1948-53.
He came to CMU in 1953 and
founded the Teacher's Aid Program
now in operation throughout
Michigan schools. He also started the
pay-as-you-go building program for
Bay City schools..
Park remained at Central until
his retirement in 1968. He was a life-,,
long member of the Rotarians;  a'
32nd degree MasOn, and a member of
the Bay City Consistory.
He had served as a national
adviser for the Girl Scouts and was
past president of the North
American Gladioli Society. He was
also a member of the Society of
Mayflower Descendants.
Funeral services were Wednesday in Grayling and interment
will be in the Elm wood Cemetery,
also in Grayling.
Park is survived by his wife,
Thelma; two sons, Dr. Richard Park
of Denver, Colo, and Fred Park of
Lakeland, Fla; a daughter, Mary
Jackson of Midland; and ten
grandchildren.
Knop^wM^saii^htm co
with the death of Rodney P. McNeill,
21, who was found dead December 9
in the basement of an apartment
house at 1002 S. Main. Three males
hound and beat Terry Taft, 21,
Douglas Edgar, Shepherd
sophomore and McNeill.
Warrants for Knop were issued
April 13 by Kennett.
In other developments, -Howard
G. Ingle. 22, Grand Rapids stood
mute at his arraignment Monday in
Circuit Court. An automatic plea of
not guilty was entered in the record
for Ingle.
Ingle was charged with first
degree murder under ' the felony -
murder doctrine and conspiracy to
commit armed robbery. Sources
report he had left the state but
Voluntarily returned to Michigan'
after a friend called and told .him of
the warrant. Ingle is out on a $35,000
bond. His trial date has not been set.
Gregory M, Ypst, 21, Lakeland
stood mute at his arraignment
Tuesday. He is charged with the
same offenses as Ingle. Yost is out on
$10,000 bond. No trial date'has been
set."
Daniel E. Manville, 25, Flint and
his'brother Jack pleaded guilty to
HOWARD G. /MJL.E-arraigned on charges of first degree murder Monday in Circuit Court,
stood mute as a plea of not guilty was entered for him by Judge Robert Campbell. Ingle's attorney,
Frederick Bleakley, (right) appeared in court with him. '
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