1972-04-07; Central Michigan Life

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52, Number 73
Mount Pleasant, Michigan. 48858
Friday, April 7, 1972
" Weekender'1 edition
More features, columns
and entertainment!!
REGISTRATION!!!
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Affirmative Ar.tinn pro^m
CMU to put policy in writing
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_      in the process of drawing up.
H. Affirmative Action program to
lZ ^Sversity's existing pro-
tequal employment opportunities
1     ies and women.
...Fvans acting coordinator of the
C5iveActionCommittee?hoPes
_ written Affirmative Action pro-
tsSto the University's Board
istees by July 1- . ■      .. ..
Sative action program is a set
ific andresult-orientedprocedures
to achieve equal employment
The procedures are drawn
individual employers within federal
'lines. ,        .     .
and a three-member steering
jwiittee have been working  on  the
bans
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JEFF EVANS
wri|ten proposal though much of the
current yoar. The steering committee
includes Terry Stoner of the personnel
and .staff relations office; Neil Bucklew,
vice provost for administration; and J.
David Kerr, University attorney.
A NEW COMMITTMENT
The committee, chaired by Kerr, has
been operating this year with two major
charges: drawing up a written Affirmative Action program and improvement
of the existing program.
"The University has had an affirmative
action program for some time without
committing it to paper," explains Kerr.
"We're now formalizing it in order to
improve on the progress we've made in
recent years."
During recent months the committee
has held a preliminary meeting with
the Intertribal Council of the local Chippewa Indian community and other groups
to seek assistance in determining the
availability of minority personnel.
The CMU Affirmative Action program
is also attempting to gather statistics
on the number of minority people living
within the geographical areas from which
various kinds of . CMU employees ■ arc
hired. From those figures, the program,
will - establish procedures for hiring
minority    and   female   employees   for
various job categories.
- "We  will  analyze  our utilization of
minority group members and women in
order to , correct  to  the  best  of our
ability any deficiencies we find," Evans
says.
AREAS WILL VARY'
"The geographical areas we will use
for determining minority populations will
obviously vary from job classification
to job classification," explains Evans.
"The area from which we hire food
services personnel, for instance, is much
smaller than the one from which we
draw faculty since we recruit faculty
on a national scale."
CMU's employment practices in recent
years have included advertising job openings   in  areas  where  minority groups
are clustered and conducting internal
studies to determining facts about employment of minorities and women.
A series of detailed reports are also
being instituted as part of the current
Affirmative Action program. These include statistical data with regard to race,
color and sex on the current work force,
prospective job applicants, and all employees promoted and/or hired at the
University.
Loan iund oilers money
By MARK LETT
LIFE Student Affairs Editor
For any recognized campus organizations that need funds to bail out wallowing
treasuries or perpetuate already stable
coffers, loan funds are available through
the Student Government Organization
Assistance Fund (SGOAF).
The problem however, appears that few
of the University's 180 registered groups
know about the fund.
"We've got a good service here but
I don't think many heads of campus organizations know about it," said Bob Mcintosh,
Student Government treasurer and chairman of SGOAF.   "As far as the records
show, there was only one loan given last
year, and until recently only two loans
were applied for this year."
In a flurry of action last week, however,
SGOAF approved loans applications totalling $4,350 from the Mt. Pleasant Food
Co-op, Mountain Rush,' Alpha Kappa Alpha
and Kappa Alpha Psi.
eacon House gives young
econd chance at good life
ByBERNADETTECHIEN
LIFE Accdemics Writer
[A newly established Mt. Pleasant re-
-ilitatioiv center for probationeers and
olees,. Beacon House, gives a. young
a second chance at the "good
. !  -
{Members, of Beacon House cook, clean,
F awl live together as a family tout
•restricted by internal controls.- They
«be authorized to go in and out oi
"nouse; smoking is permitted only in
i main floor and entrance to the reside trainee counselor's room is allowed
W «y permission.
Thes6 Nfe? and others were formu
lated by the program director and members of the House. Violation of a House
rule is punishable by the others members.
Beacon House is not like any other
home. It offers various programs. Individual and classroom academic training,
sponsored by the high school adult education program, is available to members
Monday through Thursday from 7 to 10
p.m. and organized recreation activities
at West Intermediate High School are
scheduled on Thursdays from 7 to 9 p.m.
Probationeers and parolees from the
district engage in basketball, track, volleyball and weight lifting programs run by
Joe Epple, assistant principal and gym
teacher at West Intermediate High School.
gan
are
Group counseling sessions, supervised
by seven CMU guidance students are also
at the school each Thursday. Individual
and personal counseling is conducted by
the Psycho-Educational Clinic on campus.
Other programs offered by the Michi-
Employment Security Commission
vocational rehabilitation, day work
and job placement-. "Without CMU there
would be no Beacon House," added the
program director.
Presently, the Beacon House consists
of six members, 17 to 21 years old.
They are categorized into four groups.
The residence trainee is committed to
Please turn to page 16
"These groups were among the first
to apply for loans," said Mcintosh. "We
have more funds and we hope that other
groups who need financial assistance or
want to stimulate their budgets will contact us."
Basically, SGOAF is a loaning agency
established by the University to provide
recognized campus organizations (those
registered with the University) with no-
interest loans up to $2,500.
The only requirement a recognized
group must meet in order to apply for
a loan is to submit the amount needed,
the reason for the loan and a plan for
repayment to the SGOAF chairman two
weeks prior to the date the group wishes
to take out the loan.
"We have an extremely liberal payment schedule requirements," emphasized Mcintosh. "The idea behind this
is to keep the moneys in circulation in
order to provide more organizations with
assistance," he added.
"Incidentally, the six loans that have
been requested this year have all been
granted," furthered Mcintosh.
The fund,, which is controlled by a
five member board including Mcintosh,
two Student Senate representatives and
two members of the student body at
large elected by Senate. The fund is
separate from the operating budget of
Student Government.
The committee is authorized to release up to $2,500 to any qualifying organization. A group desiring more than
that amount must present its request to
Student Senate for approval.
Because the loan fund got "burned"
on a $2,500 loan in 1969, groups receiving financial assistance now must
sign a contract with the committee. The
document is drawn up by the University
lawyer.
"The purpose of the contract is to
protect the fund and other student organizations," said Mcintosh. "It's not that
we don't trust anyone. We just want
to be sure."
KEEP 'EM W SHAPE - Two
Problems are solved on the
^seball diamond this week.
Asides' the removal of-ill
*a»ted snow, CMU's baseball
pm is kept active bj. shovel -
p foe baseball field. Central's
lrst home baseball: %gari_e is
filled against Calvin for
^Saturday at 1p.m.       ■■■■    •