1995-11-15; Central Michigan Life

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Central
Michigan
WEDNESDAY,
NOVEMBER 15,
1995
VOLUME 78, NUMBER 34
MOUNT PLEASANT, MICHIGAN 48859
©1995 CM LIFE
(517) 774-3493
14 PAGES
SPORTS
Season on the brink for
men's basketball team?
The CMU men's basketball team appears to be
on the brink of success
this season after adding
several key players to
last season's squad that
went 0-18 in the MidAmerican Conference.
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Rally against privatization bemoans broken promises
Area choirs loin to tell
story of King David
Music, song and narration are slated to join at 8
p.m. Saturday in
Warriner Auditorium for
the dramatic musical
•King David." Members
of the CMU and local
communities will participate.
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CAMPUS
Mount Pleasant cracking
down on overcrowding
In an effort to reduce
overcrowding of apartments in the city, the
Mount Pleasant City
Commission is planning
to change building codes
to make it easier to
enforce violators.
By ANDREA SNELLER
LIFE Staff Writer	
Approximately 45 students,
faculty, staff and local residents
gathered in front of the Bovee
University Center Monday afternoon to protest the privatization
of CMU Dining Services.
Protesters gathered for a
number of reasons including
concerns over job security and
working conditions, dissatisfaction with food quality and lack of
savings to students.
Linda Philo, event organizer
and president of American
Federation of State, County and
Municipal Employees Local
1568, was primarily concerned
about job security for Dining
Service employees.
The university is taking a
stance that they're just going to
dump loyal employees to line
their pockets," said Philo, a
baker in Carey Dining
Commons. "Since we negotiated
they took a fixed view on
bargaining, there was no
bargaining, they already knew
what they were going to do."
Paul Hayward, ARAMARK
district manager, and Kim
Ellertson, CMU vice president of
Business and Finance, declined
to comment on Monday's protest.
Rae Goldsmith, director of
Public Relations, said CMU is
looking to contract labor through
ARAMARK.
Goldsmith said ARAMARK
already has put a bid in with the
university and AFSCME Local
1568 also was given time to put
in a bid.
If the university decides to
subcontract with ARAMARK, 89
union jobs will be eliminated,
Goldsmith said. Only employees
hired on or prior to Oct. 31, 1979
would be guaranteed their jobs.
Employees will have the option
to reapply with ARAMARK for
replacement jobs.
The current contract, effective
through Oct. 31, states that a
meeting will be called between
the university and union officials
before any of the bids for subcontracting are accepted. Philo said
that during the meeting the
union will have the opportunity
to prove to the university that
outside subcontracting won't be
beneficial.
Philo also stated that there
"would be a cut in hourly wages
for employees along with a cut in
medical benefits. She said any
sick   time   built   up   for   these
employees would be terminated
with their jobs even if they were
rehired by ARAMARK.
Goldsmith said she could
not respond to Philo's comments
Tuesday.
Protesters, bearing signs
reading "Promises, Promises,
Promises," "Students Deserve
Better" and "Stop Privatization
Now," indicated concerns that
ARAMARK was not fulfilling the
promises it had made.
"They promised McDonalds
and Burger King, but they are all
geared towards ARAMARK,"
Philo said.
Salvatore Palombo Jr.,
Sterling Heights freshman, said
he was just passing by on
Monday when he heard about
the protest and had to join in.
Palombo pulled his truck up
onto the sidewalk in front of the
UC and began to speak over a
loud speaker.
Palombo said that although he
lived off campus he had planned
to buy an on campus meal plan
when he came to school. He said
he changed his mind after he
tasted ARAMARK food.
"I came up for orientation and
had the worst food of my life,"
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A protest against privatization was held Monday in front of tha
Bovee University Cantor.
Federal shutdown shouldn't
affect CMU or area agencies
By ERIC J. GREENE
LIFE Staff Writer
m
Clinton and the U.S. Progress over a temporary
spending bill that's shut down the federal govern-
ment.
There were no reports of terminated jobs or lay
offs in the area because of the shutdown, which
took effect at midnight Monday after the nation's
leaders failed to reach a budget bill agreement.
In other areas throughout the nation, a total of
800,000 government employees were laid off
Tuesday morning and were instructed to go home
until further notice.
CMU, which receives federal subsidization only
for its financial aid needs, "probably won't" see an
interruption in the dispersement of funds to
student accounts, according to Terry Viau, director
of Scholarships and Financial Aid.
Viau said the university already has dispersed a
large majority of financial aid money to the 12,000
recipients this year. The remainder to be dispersed
won't be affected, Viau said.
Once the shutdown is over, the university will
simply draw from the federal government the
necessary funds to reimburse it for funds used
during the shutdown.
According to the National Association of Student
Financial Aid Administrators, a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C, the nation's
main financial aid programs will be operational
Loan  Program,  the
system   will
during the shutdown.
The Ford Federal Direct
Federal Family Rducmrin-i Loan
deperrtment'8 central processing
remain operational despite the
shutdown, according to a memo sent yesterday by
the NASFAA to universities nationwide including
CMU.
The memo said the Department of Education
will be operating with fewer employees during the
shutdown, so some services such as the Federal
Pell Grant, the State Student Incentive Grant
Program and Federal Work-Study funds will not be
accessible.
CMU will continue to operate in full capacity for
its financial aid, providing the money from its own
budget. And the university will be reimbursed
after the shutdown is resolved.
The question in many people's minds is just how
long the shutdown will last.
"The impact of one or two days will be virtually
nil ," said Jon Goodwin, director- of CMLTs
Veterans Affairs office. "But anything longer than
a few days may affect us."
Goodwin said CMU receives advisement from
the VA regional office in Detroit, and the word he
received Tuesday morning was to operate as
normal.
Local branches of federal agencies, such as the
Department of Agriculture, the Department of
Health and Human Services and the four military
recruiting stations reported no employee layoffs.
More than 150 brave snow, wind and cold to raise money.
By JEFF HAYWOOD
LIFE Staff Writer	
An estimated 150 people gave
up their warm beds to camp out
in 20 degree weather Tuesday
night in an effort to raise money
for the homeless shelter in
Saginaw.
Jeff Boykin, Holly junior,
member of Phi Beta Sigma and
organizer of the camp out, did
not have a final total, but
estimated that about $800 was
raised, doubling last year's
effort.
Volunteers for the camp out
included irifembers from Phi Beta
Sigma, Sigma Lambda Gamma,
Zeta Phi Beta, Alpha Kappa Psi,
Sigma Kappa, Alpha Chi and
other organizations including
Human Resource Managment
and the Communication Association.
After a short movie in the
Bovee University Center, Boykin
awarded the Communication
Association with a traveling
trophy for raising the most
money of all the groups with a
total of $233.
After some pizza and hot
chocholate in the UC, the
campers anxiously made their
way to the campsite at Warriner
Mall.
"I'm excited," said Mark
Goralczyk, an Alpha Chi
member and New York sophomore. "My friends all think I'm
nuts. It's kind of a challenge."
After all the snow that hit the
Mount Pleasant area the past
weekend, most campers were
prepared with many layers of
clothing.
"Tve got five layers of pants,
four layers of shirts, two pairs of
gloves, a scarf, a hat, boots and
two pairs of socks," said Yolanda
Rico, a Saginaw junior and
Sigma Lamda Gamma member.
Some campers also brought
other items to fend off the cold.
Goralczyk said that he brought
plastic, cardboard, trash bags to
wrap around his sleeping bag
and a half tent to protect him
from the wind.
Jenny Skosnik, a Warren
senior and a Communication
Association member, believed
the cause was worth the effort,
despite the weather.
"Basically, I think it's important not only to raise the money
but to bring attention to the
situation."
Connolly, SouUifiald senior,
money for a Saginaw
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