1969-10-29; Central Michigan Life

              orum strike
FOflUM RESIDENTS staged a- demonstration Tuesday against the owners and managers of
their  apa.tmt.it complex in hopes, of receiving a larger rebate in rent payments due to incompleted   apartments.    (LIFE photos by Terry Bailor0
boro group
By DARREL EMERSON •
STUDENT AFFAIRS:ED£TOR
Tenant's Union leaders, dissatisfied with an offer by
managers of the Forum for a, rent
discount to those residents whose
apartments were incomplete this
fall, have been canvassing!, oram
residents this week and hope to
have substantial support for the
Union by today.
Offer in letter
The offer, made in a letter by
the J.R, Culver Company, authorizes a one week rent discount
effective Nov. 1 for all apartments. The offer also says students who feel this discount is
not sufficient may present their
individual case to the Culver Company. The letter alsoincludes,
**We trusft this will prove to be a
fair and equitable arrangement
with most tenants."
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Six distinguished musicians
from the celebrated Marlboro
Mu£ic Festival in Vermont will
appear tomorrow at Warriner'
Auditorium, The program of
chamber music works will start
at 8 p.m, and is open to the pub*
lie.
The Marlboro Music Festival
is held each summer in a small
community in the Green Mountains of Vermont and is directed
by Rudoff Serkiri. The unusual
program which will be presented
in Mi:, Pleasant will include some
of the works selected from-lhe
summer Festival concerts.
This is the fifth consecutive
year the Festival's activities
have been extended- into the regular concert season and is the
second year a Marlboro group
has appeared on campus. The
artists, each of whom is a noted •
soloist, are taking time !rom
their individual concert activities
to embark on a three-week toiir
which will include 12 cities.
The program at CMU will in
clude    the    familiar Schumann
"Piano Quintet in B-flat Major,
, Opus 44," as well as the Beethoven "String   Quintet   ih C-
mnjor, Opus '290*» Mendelssohn's
little known ••Piano Quartet No.
2 in F-minor," written with the
. composer was 14 years old, will
, be a special attraction.
Artists participating in theMt.
■Pleasant program will be Marc
Gottlieb and Donald Weilerstein,
violinists, Martha Strongin Katz
and Scotl Nickrenz, violinists,
Ronald Leonard cellist, and
Perahia, pianist.
-'. Tickets for the concert are
available at the University Center and students need only to
shdw their activity tickets to
secure- reserved seats without
charge.
Tickets for the general public
are also on sale at the Center
for $1.50 for adults and 75 cents
. for children. A limited number
of tickets will also be abailable ,
at the box office in Warriner Hall
the. night of the concert.
John Fraker,, a leader of the
Tenant's Union, called the offer \
••very unacceptable.'? He said
•I think something more appro- '
priate than $18 ( approximately
one week's rent) can be negotiated." He indicated Tenant's
Union representatives are thinking more in terms of $50 ;to $70
The purpose of the canvassing
according to-Fraker is 'to get
an indication' of how incomplete
each apartment was. We dont
want to generalize. We want to
be exact."      \
statements
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Signed statements concerning
each apartment's condition this
fall and support of the Tenant's
Union are the canvassers' goals,
as well as "assuring students the
Tenant's Union is looking after
their interests."
According to Fraker the
Tenant's Union's ultimate goal is
negotiation, but added they are
prepared to lead a rent strike.
In this event, *the   Tenants
Union will be their collective bargaining agent," said Dennis Hart,
another Tenant's Union leader.
The Teharitts Union will engage a
lawyer and have an escrow fund
set up. The fund, according to the
Union's   Information Manual is
"a bank account in which tenants
deposit their money to demonstrate to the landlords and to
the courts that the money has been
paid and will be available if and
when the landlords have bargained in good faith." '
No eviction
Hart told " canvassers to
emphasize to residents" they
cannot be evicted from their
apartment's if they join the Te- ^
nants Union." He added, these
cases have been well tested in
the past."
Fraker said it is important
that tenants\pf the Forum .up-
port and joinlhe Tenant's Union
now, since the ^November rent is
dje Saturday. "If this month
slips by the issue will be dead.
It is important that it gets off
the ground this week," he said.
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An amended Student Senate re-,
solution to keep the selection of a
valedictorian and salutatorian for.
January 1970 was passed by University Senate Monday.
irat
hands of the University Senate
Academic . Admissions, Standards, Honors and Degrees Com.,
mittee. -It was decided at their
Oct. 13 meeting io turn the matter
Paul Jagenow, Student Senate over to Student Senate to get their
president* introduced the resolu- recommendations. Arnold Form,
tion which stated that Student Se- chairman of the committee, said
nate approved th>a selection of a in "his report Monday that there"
valedictorian and salutatorian for . is a trend ht public and secoti-
January 1970. After that tim. the &.ry schools to eliminate this
matter of discontinuing these ti- meaningless honor because there
ties would be referred to the Stu- are so many students that qualify,
dent Senate Academic Committee In   other committee reports
for   further study.     University J. Alan Ham nack of the Artist's
''?"-! am'".ded _$*SAmqsmfr Courstotf^itfftee**aid that his
the stipulation that;>h#;in4ter eqhitlUj^lite jjj^ed for a budget
also be brought back to their Stan- of. $40,000 for next year, in com-
dards Committee. paVison with the present"$20,00()
Thje issue was previo..slyinthq budget.
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•> A talk by Senator
: -•- Strom Thurmond at
CMU Nov. 6 has been
canceled because of
a scheduled trip a-
broad by the South
Carolina legislator.
A replacement
for Thurmond on the
1969-70 Speakers Series program has not
yet been selected by
the Speakers Series
Committee.
. In addition to the
replacement  for
ThUrnu _id,. speakers
to appear on the CMU
series are Dr. Benjamin Spock on Feb.
23, 1970, and Julian
Bond ofl April 17,1970.
Central to lead
state moratorium
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The CMU Vietnam Moratorium
Committee has been asked toco-
ordinate the November moratorium for the entire" state by the
National Moratorium Comm.ttee
in.Washington D,C.
According to Paul Puma of the
CMU Executive Committee, the
national headquarters has asked
them 16 stake the ball for the
whole state/' including preparation, planning the imp_ennie _ta«
tion.
Dave Tang, National Conun'.t-
tee m.mfter who coordinates programs in Michigan, Wisconsin
and Illinois, told Central's committee the National Committee
was impressed with CMU *sOeto»
bfcr program, as well as student
and community participation.
In response to the reqjest, the
Moratorium Committee here has
called a conference Nov. 1 at
th. University Center, The com-
m'ttee has contacted aUMj.chigan
colleges and junior colleges asking them to attend.
The conference will discuss
various elements in planning the
November moratorium,including
community imvolvemt.it, fund
raising and publicity.
Planning transportation for
student to Washington D, C. for the
rally Nov. 15 will also be a major
concern of the conference.
._ In a letter to interested organizations, the Moratorium Committee said, "Chartered public
transportation has proven to be a
serious problem and generally
unavailable throughout the state.
Car pools and caravans have to
be set up and plans laid for the
moving of thousands of people
from Michigan to Washington."
Peace posters and stickers will
be mE.de available to those who
attend.