1994-09-02; Central Michigan Life

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Contract bargaining dates set
for Public Broadcasting union
By TAMARA SNYDER
LIFE- Stall Writer	
Dates are now set for bargaining between the public
broadcasting union and CMU
over a contract that expired June
30 without an extension.
Rae Goldsmith, director of
Public Relations, said bargaining
teams agreed to meet every day
from Oct 25 to Oct 28 and Nov
21 to Nov. 23.
National Association of Broadcasting Employees and Technicians Local 412 represents 25
employees, a majority of the
employees in engineering, producing, programming, fund raising, public information and
marketing for public radio and
television broadcasting.
Time conflicts and other problems have prevented the groups
from   meeting  since  late  July,
when they exchanged contract
proposals.
"It is true that there is no contract extension primarily
because of the great difficulty in
scheduling bargaining dates,"
Goldsmith said.
NABET bargainers asked for a
90-day contract extension when
they met with the administrative
bargaining team in late July, but
the university offered a 30-day
contract extension instead, said
Linda Hyde, NABET president
and public information coordinator for Public Broadcasting.
"By the time we were talking,
we were almost all ready to the
end of the 30-day extension," she
said.
"In the past, we have always
been given a contract extension
I'm not certain why they decided
not to give us one this year." Hyde
said. "Perhaps they think if we
don't have an extension that we'll
work more diligently to settle a
new agreement."
When a contract expires most
terms of employment remain the
same, Hyde said.
Since the contract has expired,
the administration can refuse to
allow binding arbitration as a
resolution of contract difficulties,
Hyde said.
Binding arbitration involves
the use of an outside authority to
decide how the contract should be
settled.
Union dues also are no longer
required to be deducted from
union employee paychecks when
a contract expires, but the admi-
nistration is honoring this
request, Hyde said.
"At this point (working without
a contract i is not a major stumbling block for us." she said.
But.    Public    Broadcasting
^ 4 I'm not certain why
they decided not to
give us (a contract
extension) this year.
Perhaps they think if we
don't have an extension
that we'll work more
diligently to settle a
new agreement.       9 9
LINDA HYDE
employees involved with bargaining will be allowed off work
for four hours each day. Hyde
said LInlil three years ago. union
representatives were excused
from the entire work day.
This might create a dilemma
for both bargaining teams as they
try to build momentum to reach
agreements, Hyde said
See NABET Pdge 2	
Crews working to
restore light to
darkened Preston
By TODD FETTIG
and CINDY TROMBLEY
I ift Stall Wniets
A Consumers Power Company official in Saginaw said they are
continuing power restoration efforts on a section of campus street lights
which have been nonoperational for at least two weeks.
The section of lights extends from East Campus Drive to the Bovee
University Center along Preston Avenue.
Consumers Power today will use a highly specialized piece of equipment, called a bumper, to determine why the lights have failed to tum
on. according to Jon Hall, public information director for Consumers
Power Co.
The equipment will come from the Saginaw headquarters, but the
service will be dispatched out of an office in Alma
Consumers first began working on the nonfunctional section of street
lights a couple of weeks ago, Hall said
Alter changing fuses and checking the fuse connection and transformers, the process of elimination led Consumers to the conclusion that
the problem was in the underground equipment, he said "The only
remaining place the problem could be is underground."
See LIGHTS Page 11	
CMU human testing
policy changed to
meet federal rules
By KAREN JOSEPH
l III   SUM V\r ter
For more than a decade, CMU has been out of compliance with
federal regulations governing research on human subjects.
Without proper compliance. CMU ran the risk of losing all of its
federal research dollars.
An informational meeting about the university's new guidelines for
conducting research involving human subjects took place Thursday
About HO people attended the one-hour session. "Policies and Procedures for Research Involving Human Subjects," a session hosted by the
Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.
Carole Heere, assistant vice president for research and dean of the
College of Graduate Studies, opened the meeting with an explanation of
the importance of complying with the regulations.
Reere discovered the oversight after attending some national seminars on the ethics research involving human subjects.
The university now requires an application be submitted to the
university's newly formed Institutional Review Board for approval
Only with approval may any research funded or not be conducted at or
in the name of CMU.
According to "Human Subjerta in Research: Institutional Review
Board Policies and Procedures," the newly adopted policies apply to all
faculty, staff and students conducting research.
The   policies   define   research   as   "any   systematic   investigation
designed  to develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge.
including data collection which occurs in conjunction with classroom
projects unleaa the work is done as a learning exercise for the student
and will never be published or presented."
All former university policies have been revised The new policy went
into effect July 1.
Thursday's presentation was conducted by Gail Scukanec. associate
See POLICY Page 5
CHEERING
ON CMU
Rose Arena was filled with screaming Chippewa fans Wednesday night,
cheered to show their support for the football team.
LIFE Photo Andy I
Students yailed and
HEV prof returns from helping
S. Africa break down barriers
By JILL BEHNKE
UK St.ttf Wrier
Ivy (sodoku, associate professor of human environmental studies at CMU and speaker on
diversity issues, returned to her
homeland of South Africa this
summer to be a part of social
transformation taking place
there
A reconfiguration ia slowly
taking place to break down the
institutional racism that has dictated life there for hundreds of
years, she said.
Goduka took a stand on the
educational front, by performing
workshops at three different universities on how staff and faculty
can start to "rethink the Eurocentric and white male-
dominated canon of knowledge in
the goal* and objectives of higher
education."
Goduka. who was born and
raised in South Africa and did her
undergraduate atudiea at the
University of Fort Hare there,
came to the United States in 1981
to complete her education and
become an educator She said her
experiences at the universities of
her home were "very rewarding,
yet very painful."
She had been invited to spend
the summer, from June through
August, ataying on the campus of
the predominately white University of the Wittwatersrand by a
retired director of the university's Academic Staff Development
Centre to help them in their
integration of the univeraity.
While in South Africa, she also
presented two-day workshops at
Ihe primarily Africaans(of Dutch
origin I University of the Orange-
free State and at Unisa. the integrated University of South
Africa.
The trip was painful, sheaaid,
because she lived under apartheid and what is happening
I here affects her, more than any
teaching on racism she has done
in the United States, ahe said
"I went to thoae same schools,"
she satd "The students' pain
there brought back my pain to
mi''
The experience also was therapeutic and hcHling. though, she
said "It ts rewarding to he part of
the transformation of the country."
The title of her two-day workshops was "Affirming Diversity,
Empowering Professionals." Her
talks Ix'gan by affirming the
similarities between people, "our
sameness as human beings We
are one. we are Ihe same, and we
tx-ltmg to the same race, i.e. the
human race."
"Although we belong to the
same race, the human race," she
continued in a paper written in
South Africa, "we are all different
individuals and groups of people,
diverse, unique and beautiful in
our own ways, and we all strive to
preserve our uniqueness and
diverse nature at all time, and in
all places Diversity is as old as
humanity South Africa has historically been a demographically
Recycling effort to
move indoors; small
carts returning to halls
Ivy Goduka
diverse country
"Diversity." she continues,
"was used as a divisive tool lo
promote separatism Yet diversity enriches our communities
and institutions In the classroom our differences generate
opportunities for teaching and
learning for both the student and
Ihe teacher"
With the election of Nelson
Mandela last spring. Goduka
said, the South African government is finally beginning to
"value and respect humanity."
A new constitution was
created, which states in its Bill of
See GODUKA Page 14	
By DEREK GUSOFF
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Facilities Management is hoping a new system for collecting recycl-
alile materials will translate into a more earth-friendly CMU
"The system we have now goes back to the system originally planned
lor campus." said Peter Gorton, campus planner Recyclables can now
be deposited in carts located within the university's buildings.
Gorton said the new system should increase recycling because people
will not have lo go outdoors lo do so.
The large blue recycling dumpsters outside the academic and administrative buildings will he removed and replaced with the more manage*
able carls by Ihe end of next week. Gorton said.
However, the blue dumpsters will remain outside residence hslls and
campus apartments due to a lack of space within the buildings for an
indoor recycling program, he said.
The university is awaiting the arrival of some of the new recycling
carts, he said
Once full, the carts will be emptied at loading areas within the
building, from which they will be transported to the Isabella County
Materials Recovery Facility. 4208 E. River Road
A slightly higher cost accompanies recycling materials as opposed to
disposing of them. Gorton said, hut the long-range benefits will outweigh Ihe cost
"We feel we have a social obligation to the environment," he aaid.
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