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53, Number 25
Central Michigan University, Mt. feasant, Michigan 48SS8
October 25, 1972
inconveniences
discussion
By Carol McDonald
I jjfE Campus Editor
[tie midst of controversy td
^ the' existing   lifestyle  at
rd Hall. President William B.
foited the dorm Monday night
ber and a discussion period.
[[the informal discussion, Boyd
Ldhis feelings on the present
Ufronting the Tate-Barnard
b.  The   small   number    of,
its residing in the two dorms
eirhas forced the closing ef the
ex's   food    commons    oit
need  with   this   situation,
nts of Tate and Barnard must
oto Robinson Hall for weekend
.Ms inconvenience has led to
(meetings between the ad-
tration and   residents   in   an
pt to  work  out   acceptable
utives to the problem.
iyd voiced strong opposition
j of the alternatives suggested
i would close the two dorms
semester, but allow access to
lod commons on' weekends for
emainder of this semester.,
I would  rather  lose  a   sub-
k amount of money than to
Barnard,"   Boyd   said.;   Ac-
ig to Jerry R. Tubbs, of the,.
iyrand Fmanc#Department, -
»te-Barnard unit has lost about
00 this"semester. Opening the'
commons on weekends could
tin an additional $13,000 loss to -
JniVersity this semester :„, .; \ •
fe aske?!^ W'wW****"
onfronted ' with / the   various
natives, Boyd said "I don't have
<e% the dorms. You do."
Be suggested Barnard residents
1 group themselves in sueh a
that more orivate rooms could
rented. "Al Miles (Albert 8.
s,vice president for Student
lira,) believes if Barnard could
offer nurt single rooms, it would
have more derm residents," Boyd
said,
Barnard's lifestyle differs from
Tate's, which is now coeducational.
"Do ,you exclude ;men because
they're noisy?" Boyd asked the
Barnard women."
Boyd pointed out. what he
considered to be a confusing
characteristic of dorm . lifesyles.
"Complaints we^ get often center on
how noisy dorms are, but if we set up
a quiet.? dorm, no one likes it."
Boyd insisted the University is
unable! to finacially support any
assistance to the present problem.
"We can't spend any state money or
appropriated funds for ' auxiliary
enterprises', which . food services ,_
are," he said.
Another   point- of   discussion
centered   around   Boyd's   role   as
' President.
"My principal duty," explained
Boyd, "is to get .enough money• every
year to pay the bills. This is secured
through such activities as private
fund> raising and lobbying the
legislature and exective office."
In addition, Boyd . said he
participates with others to decide
how to spend Central's 'allocation of
resources- He charged^'lljst he
doesn't feel the state .* legislature
gives Central enough money.
'When confronted with the
question of whether he considered
hiraself-mereiy a figurehead, Boyd
"I    woaldn't     say     I m     a
figurehead," said Boyd, "because I
have the  advantage  to  speak  to"
Academic Senate every two, weeks.,.
While all power resides in that body,
I can still exert influence."
On curricular matters, -Boyd
predicted in the next three years a
great deal of change will come about.
Lifestyle change
;ould rescue* dorm
tesidents of Barnard Hall vote
on the proposal to change .their
life sty> in ari attempt to
le dorm ' from financial
sssion and open the cafeteria on
ends.
Fhe      administration*     has
ed residents if Barnard would
s & positive effort to attract
(people to the residence hall,
Jding to Jerry R. Tubbs of the
aess and Finance Department.
Wednesday
"Enrollments, at' four-year
colleges will 'continue to' drop
through 1975. Fall, 1976, will be our
first year for .an increase," he said.
According to Boyd, two prime
factors in this situation are occurring
in Michigan with the 18-year-old'
population. First of all, he said, more
18-year-olds are enrolling in, community colleges.
In addition, he said "Some 18:
year-olds are just nowhere to be'
found.   They've« just ■ disappeared;'
they're not on the job market"
Two factors Boyd cited were the
removal' of several course
requirements and "the shift in the
number of freshmen and sophomores
to more students on the junior,
senior and graduate levels.
As a result .of the declining
enrollment, Boyd said Central is
going to lose1 some faculty. At
present, CMU's student-faculty ratio
is 21 to one. •, ,       * *
. "When I came here," added.
Boyd, "Central was- 60 -peri cent
freshmen and sophomores mainly
taking courses in "distributive, and
general education: Four- years later,
the percentage has turned around,
with there, now being "60 .per cent
juniors,   seniors   and   graduate
-- students.!-,  -•_-.--   .,  _.    _
Boyd'pointed out the. School of
. Arts and Sciences as having been hit
the hardest, attributing part of the
decline  in   its   enrollment  to  the
teacher market "turning sour."
Boyd offered Several possible
ways to phase "down a school faced
with the enrollment crisis.
"The. first way,".he began," a
well-trained Collie, dog could do. We
could extend our present ratio into
the, future., with decisions dictated
lay.data.V'However," he continued,
"the results of this would be
horeridous. It would wipe out. some
departments, especially English and
•History." \   ' ^
*'   ' A second approach would be to
put every department at the same 21
-to 1 ratio, he said. Again, he noted,
this would "wreck some schools such
as .the  Music  Department,  which
could never operate'on that .basis."
The alternative approach finally
initiated, according to Boyd, was to
have   each   Dean   of  the   various
schools   meet   with   department
chairmen to work out a "desirable
and   tolerable   ratio."   Under ,this
method, each department has been
given'five years to work its-way
^warttHhistratto?r - = ■*-".   =--=   -
Another   question   pdsed   cen
Sohair Moursi, 36, 601 Kewadin
Village, unintentionally turned her
living "room into a garage yearly
Tuesday • afternoon.
Mrs. Moursi, who is currently
taking driver's" training courses at
Mt.   Pleasant   Sigh   School,     ap
the accelerator Instead of the brake,"
said her husband, Mahmound
Moursi. Moursi Is anl assistant
professor of business administration
at CMU.
Damages   to   the   apartment
(above) were estimated  at $1200
IES tL car »th hertabo-d th. sliding Window*. M* w.U ..4
their apartment Window, coming to a and scratches (below).
tneir apa«" h{d   . According to Harold MCracken,
£f tlTl^   (l^tlf anl DPS officer, "Tne front end of the
the living room,  ^oo ^ ^ touching the color televison
3aC$e were pulling in and she hit but it didn't hurt.it any,"
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ToTfilf semester lr. -the-sprmgi
Monday,   Tuesday   or
except in the lobby.
The dormitory is operating at
about 55 per cent  capacity, Mrs.
Martha M, Maxson, head resident of
Barnard Hall said only about 65 to 70
ro*ms out of the 125 are at,full oc-
uie      aumiais^.v—,.           cupancy. Rooms accommodate, two
mi to re-op6i?^.^RonaaJ^_od=.=--people, each, except &r^eight single^
lions,   shared, by   Tate-   and     r0oms.
Miles.said the hall ^ oi""*1*     te^on'the distribution of student
now   at   about   $120,000   deficit., Jjj^^n..student luWoB   becomes"
because  of ***«?**\*™£*Z'     one-third   of. our   general   fund
If the proposed Me style passes      ^ Boyd gtated   „The other.
it   will   remain   in   effect    new     twothirdg  comea from  state  ap-
ilWrly    .this- a^fm^^^S!^!^^^aS^     propriations  and  federal monies."
lents   had   to < walk   to, the
feson or Trout Food Commons
weekend meals.
Tubbs said the cafeteria should
ipen this weekenu7:or at leasVby
t weekend, depending on how
fit would take to organize #. staff.,
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The residents of Barnard agreed
hange their life style at a Monday
it meeting in Barnard Hall. C0"***
ig for next semester, suggested
Albert S. Miles, vice-president for
dent Affairs, was voted down
ause residents did hot'want jto
'eto other rooms or floora during
year. *
The life style receiving' general-:
stance consisted, of security-
is between midnight and 7 a.ni.
ekdays/ and open 24-hpurs oft
ekends. Most residents seernedjto
>port the escort policy' and «rb>- ^
^ance of quiet hours.      '      '.       '
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Horan vetoes resolution
about Student Union
By Terri Burknardt
LIFE Staff Writer
A resolution previously
unanimously passed by Student
Senate establishing the structure of
the Studefit Union was vetoed by
at a previous meeting, it was accepted en masse with the provision
«that further amendments would be
made at the following meeting.
"When   Senate   passed   this
resolution we knew it was going- to
Student Body President Tim Horan,: 4 need a lot of revisions," said Mike
-Moffiday^ightr -,....
The resolution called for the
division of the Senate into four core
. committees, the Executives Committee, the Public Relations Committer, the Investigative Committee
and the Constitutional^. Committee.
When the resolution was passed
Holland,--Robinson .senator, "but_
because of the time factor involved
we passed it en masse so we could
have a working structure set up."
"I was shocked about -last.
week's resolution," said Horan. "The
Senate wtis presented a lengthy
resolution and expected to act on it
- the-   same_ 'night,    It    was    not.
thoroughly, looked at. -
"There is a lot of faulty construction in it and some wide im-
*   plications, which I don't think were
'intended, could be gotten from it."
Horan cited various reasons for
input   from   all   the   students   on
campus." _ i
"There are a lot of good ideas in
the resolution and I commend the
people who* took the time to sit down
and think it out. It's people like these
we need- working on the Union.
However, the resolution was simply
structured wrong," Koran saidi"
An ad.hoc committee for for-'
ming the basic structure  of the
Union   based on  revision  of "the
resolution was established.  ^
A general statement of Student
Union principles, written by the
constitutional' committee, was. ac-
cepted "as the 'statement^ for- the
senators to refer to when discussing
the Union with their constituents.
Joyce Pilote, philosophy, spoke
' about the'Faculty Union and the fact
a number df.teacherS will be-losing
Horan cnea various ivaovu* *««  --,- ,
his veto  including  the  dictatorial     their positions, next "Wester.
nature of the resolution which didn't
allow the soliciting of ideas'and input
from   the   general   student' body,"
elitism, vagueness and the conflict
with Student Senate's constitution.
"It's laughable to say Student
Senate is. going to create a new
organization (Student-Union) but we
must work in the confines of the old
©rganizatioii," said Chuck sBowden,
senator-at-iarge. "We will wind up
sitting in damn committees every
Monday night and not get anything
done." '•■**'
"The   resolution   provided   us
"The Faculty Union will be glad
to help 'in- any. way in the
organization of the Student' Uu»«b,"
Mrs. Pilote said. "The Faculty Untok
does not have a lot of support
because the faculty is in a bind,, the'
members;, thiak they are
professionals and not workers.
"Because of the cut-back in
funds, a lot of faculty members will
' be losing positions," she said. "At
least 16 teachers will be cut from the
.. Arts and Sciences field, i
"As "students you have an interest in getting the best quality
with a set up so we cin start working ' education you can.- The teachers who
on the Union immediately," Bowden
continue'dr' - -
: "There is so much faulty in-
formattbn out fthout the Union that a
lot of people ddn't know what to
, think," Horan -said. "It is not up to a
small group to take the job of terming a Union upon itself. The Union
must be flexible and must solicit
will be fired are not those who have
,heen here for years but the new
ones, those who most often have new
and innovative idea* \ towards
education," Mrs. Pilote said.
The next Student Senate
meeting will be on Monday at 8:15
p.m, in the University Center
Auditorium.
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