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I Plans for an expanded departed ftv personnel administrated the creation of auniver-
tty-wide personnel policy com-
iittee at Central Michigan
niversity arepeingfinalizedand
ie change-over is in the pro-
ess of being implemented. The
ew plan was announced Tues-
ay by President Boyd, who said
Iiat the transition is expected
5 be complete by the first of
he year.
Responsibilities of the present
ersonnei office will be enlarged
> include all University em-Y~
loyees except members of the
iculty, At present, the office
; concerned with basic personnel
jrvices for maintenance and
at service employees, the cler-
al staff, and the Professional,
ecimical, Supervisory staff
TS). Added to these groups
_ ider the new system will be
University staff members with
administrative status, Until now,
personnel responsibility for this
group has been decentralized in
the various divisions of the Univ-
lersity.
The new plan calls for a spec-
lial division within the University
J Personnel Office for the administration of fringe benefit pro- .
grams. It would serve as a resource center   for  employees
needing explanation of the programs as they concern them individually. Faculty memberswill
'also be able to use this new
[service as well. All other centralized personnel services for
l faculty would continue to be within the realm of duties of the
| office oftheprovost. Thesewould
| include budgeting, staff approval,
[ promotion  and tenure review
| processing of appointments and
related personnel activities.
Directing the expanded program of the University Personnel
Office will be J.A. Evans who
was appointed in 1967 as the
director of staff service personnel. B y virtue of his office,
he will be a member of the newly
created   University   Personnel
Committee, chaired by Neil
Bucklew, vice provost for administration. Other members
"are Jerry Tubbs, executive assistant to the vice president for
business arid finance, and Albert
Miles, vice president for student
affairs.
The University Personnel
Policy Committee will be concerned with the formulation of
personnel policies. Thecommit-
teeYwill be responsible to the
President's Council, As a continuing committee, it will review
the personnel programs of-the
University as well as provide
guidance in the implementation
and administration of the programs.
The Study for the revision and
expansion of the personnel administration area of the University has been underway for the
past several months. Directing
ihe study have been Vice Provost Bucklew and PersonnelDir-
ector Evans. The results of the
study and the recommendations
for the change were approved
by the president and submitted
to the President's Council for
review and consideration and
final adoption.
As winter approaches mid-Michigan, scenery plowing through 'drifts and students prepare
changes from fall colors'to the white of snow, for the long wintervand exams that are swift-
Hours  along the Chip river change to time    ly apporaching,
CENTRAL
MICHIGAN
LIF
Volume 51, Number
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Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. 48858.-  Wednesday October 28, 1970
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o more D's for credit
By MONETTA BICHEY
Ass't Editor - Academics
Students will no longer be able
to get a "D" in a class and
still get credit if they took the
class credit/no credit. University Senate, at a meeting Monday
afternoon, approved the recommendations of a Senate Ad Hoc
committee which reviewed the
present credit/no credit policy.
No decision has been made
yet as to when the new policy
will go into effect.   The com
mittee recommended that it go
into effect immediately, which
would be next semester.
However, tiie policy might not go
into effect until fall 1971.
The committee recommended
to "limit credit to earned grades
of "C* and above only, therefore discontinue granting credit
(cr) for an earned grade of "D"/*
Students may now take credif
no credit courses in their major
field of study, if the department
allows it.   But this decision is
up to the individual department.
The five hour limit per semester of credit/no credit classes
has been abolished. This means
that a student could take 18
hours of classes on credit/ no
credit  in  one  semester if he
wished.
The committee recommends
these implications at the earliest
possible date, which would be next
semester. However, this decision will be made by the administration and George Lauer,
registrar.
According to Donald Bertsch,
associate professor of counseling and secretary of the Senate
ad hoc committee,'questionnalres
were sent to all universities in'
the state and each university said
they would not accept credit for
a class that a student took from
Central on credit/no credit because the student could have
received a "D" in that class.
It was for this reason, pri
marily, that the committee recommended to limit credit to a
grade of "C" or above.
The committee polled depart-,
ment chairmen and deans at Central" to get their reaction to the
.credit/no credit policy. And the
committee polled more than a
hundred graduating seniors last
year by a random telephone survey to get their reaction to the
policy.
Two open meetings were also
held to determine student and
faculty reaction. One was held
this last summer and the other
this fall. Bertsch said both
campus radio stations and LIFE
publicized this information to interested people.
Student flovornmont
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Wb eamhuTv     s for the rtudent events building on Cen-
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e layout on pages 8 and 9.
By JOE CONKLIN
Ass't Editor — Student Affairs
Odds and Ends from Student
Government: '
...Student Senate met briefly
Monday night to hear Rick Kedzierski report on the University
Congress andStudent Association
Steering Committees.
Aresolution ^establishing the
Student Affairs and Welfare committee was passed. Five students
were elected to serve on the committee.
...Mike Mobey; elections director, reports two students have
taken out petitions for Student
Body Vice President. Jan Kempker, District I senator, and Ken
Canfield, former student senator,
are seeking the number two job.
Since Mike Lueder's resignation
a week ago a number of students
were rumored to be interested
in the job but Miss Kempker and
Canfield were the only two to
take out petitions.
Petitions are to be returned
and validated today for next Tues*
day's election.
...There has been a tremendous
turnover in Student Senate representation this semester with
k vice pres. job
only eleven students returning
from last semester's Senate.
For one reason or another students active last year, including
Donna Patterson, Larry Fredendall, Tim Hruska and PatTay-
lor,decided not to run for Senate,
Hayden speaks
at Fineh Somite
Tom Hayden of'Chicago Seven*
fame will speak in Finch Field-
house tonight at 8 p.m. A leader
• in nonviolent dissent, YHayden,
now 30, was a primary force in
ihe formation of Students for
Democratic Society (SDS) and
tiie New Left Movement,
A former University of Michigan student, Hayden wrote the
"Port Huron Statement of the
Students for a Democratic Society", which is considered the.
foundation of the SDS*
In the document Hayden expressed his philosophy on a number of things.    They include:
Students: ' 'We are the people
of this generation bred in at
least modest comfort, housed in
universities, looking uncomfortable to the world we inherit."
Solutions ;to world problems:
"We would replace power rooted
in possession, privilege or cir-.
cumstances by power uniqueness
rooted in love, reflectiveness,
reason and creativity."
Violence: "Past senselessness permits present brutatlity-
present brutality is a prelude to
future deeds of still greater inhumanity; that is the moral.history of" the 20th century,from the,
First World War to the present."
Also speaking tonight will be
Dave Sinclair, chief of staff of
tiie White Panther Party and
brother of former leader, now
in jail, John Sinclair* Music
will be presented by Up, apolitical-rock group.
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