1967-05-16; Central Michigan Life

              VOL. 47, NO. 51
CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY, AAT. PLEASANT, MICHIGAN
Tuesday, May 16, 1967
Rison Innovates
Advisory Cabinet
(Photo by Martinsen)
A LITTLE GIRL innocently peers down the barrel of an
81 mm mortar at the ROTC display during parents' day
Sunday. She is Jane Fredrickson, age nine, the sister of
frashman Dave Fredrickson.
Student Body President
Steve Rison has announced
the creation of a student
body cabinet with tentative
appointments as one of his
' "major institutional innovations."
The cabinet will include
Vice President Greg Merwin
as well as eight other individuals involved in specific
areas of student government,
According to Rison the position of executive assistant
will probably be the most important and to this position he
has appointed David Winans.
Rison stated that, "his (the
• executive assistant's) responsibility will cover many areas
and will represent me so as to
bring the ideas of student government closer to the other organizations."
Steve Lockman has been appointed housing secretary. He
will deal primarily in the area
of resident and off-campus
housing.
The new communications
secretary, Celia Woodworth,
will be involved primarily
with communications with
other organizations around the
state and the country in order
to bring new ideas and programs into the realm of campus politics.
Sandy Schmidt, student
body secretary and Jerry
Quigley, student body treasurer, will also be members of
the cabinet.
Two other positions, judicial
counselor and elections director will round out the cabinet.
The judicial counselor will
be concerned with aiding students in the areas of student
rights as to procedure and gen-
eral information regarding
Venue Committee, the dean of
students office and the Student
Judiciary.
No appointment has as yet
been made to this position.
The elections- director has
been tentatively named as Jim
Connelly.
The creation of this cabinet,
Rison stated, will constitute
"an innovation which I feel
will contribute greatly to the
efficiency and responsible productiveness of student government."
Exam Schedule
The  exam  schedule  will
be printed in Friday's Life.
Election Time
Is Here Again
It's election time in CMU
country again as students will
go to the polls to1 select -eight
winners for the Chippewa
Award and the recipient of the
Senior Thanks Award.
Dr. Mary M. Wills, professor
of English and Dr. Gerald
Poor,- professor of education,
are the nominees for the senior
award which will be voted on
by members of the class.
The eight Chippewa Award
winners will come from a slate
of 24 nominees selected by
various campus organizations
including the Student Senate.
Sophomores, juniors and seniors will be eligible to vote on
these. All the nominees are
seniors.
Polls will be set up in the
University Center and Anspach
Hall.
Student Body President
Steve Rison says he hopes to
incorporate some new election
techniques in this election
such as limited polling hours,
poll overseers and restrictions
on campaign monies.
Austerity Budget May Mean Raise
In Tuition, Cuts In Construction
Central may lose $3,018,000
in funds for building construction and another $1,000,000 for
operating  expenses,  according
i to .Richard Beers,  deputy director of the state Executive
i Office's Budget Division.
These figures were given as-
Anniversary Plays
Begin Six-Day Run
(_ "The Albany Depot" and the
"Scarecrow" will be presented
Thursday night at 7 in Warriner Auditorium by the University Theatre.
The plays will run for six
days in conjunction with the
75th anniversary activities.
The script for the "Scarecrow" is the first significant
American script. It was originally written by L. Pierce Baker around the turn of the century in an attempt to stimu-
kte drama in the United
States.
Baker later founded "Workshop 47" in which many authors including Eugene O'Neill,"
gor their first start.
"The Albany Depot" was
written in 1892, the same year
as CMU's founding.
Tickets are now available
at the University Bookstore.
Main characters in "The Albany Depot" include Gordon
\ Mueller as the hen-pecked husband and Lee Cork as a
drunken.. Irishman. Jon Kirst
ydl Play dual roles in "The
Scarecrow" while Walter
Knowles will portray the devil
and Sally Davidson, Rachel.
suming that Governor Romney's austerity budget for 1967-
68 is adopted.
The proposed budget would
halt all new construction at the
University and could mean increased tuition rates.
Beers also said that Central's
operating budget would be reduced enough to eliminate
scheduled faculty pay raises
and funds for expanded enrollment.
University Has Choice
He added that tentative admissions would have to be rescinded   or   tuition   raised.   It
Enrollsiienf Deposit
Required For Fcall
Enrollment certification deposit cards with a $45 deposit
must be submitted before July
15 by those students planning
to enroll for on-campus classes
for the fall semester.
This includes all graduate
and undergraduate students
planning to enroll for on-campus classes, including Saturday, evening and all courses
requiring on-campus registration.
If enrollment quotas have
not been filled, deposits will be
accepted without penalty until
August 15, after which a late
filing fee of $10 will be assessed.
Upon written request, refund
of .the $45 deposit will be made
until August 15, after which
the deposit will be forfeited.
The cards are available in
residence halls, the registrar's
office and the student bank.
would be up to the University
to decide how the reduction in
funds would be made up, he
said.
The new library, speech and
dramatics building, physical
education plant and water and
sewer distribution system
would not be finished as soon
as planned.
The austerity budget would
cut $185,000,000 from Gov.
Romney's initial budget request. This is equivalent to a
16 per cent cutback, to ..fit existing revenue sources. The
state cannot spend more than
it receives under its constitution.
So far a tax plan has not
been reached on which both
the Republicans and Demo-,
crats can agree.
(Photo by Martinsen)
'WITH ONE CAST of the die, a class could be "aced,"
scraped through or failed, according to a grading procedure
designed by Alexander Zawacki, assistant professor of art.
Grades Decided By Do Or 'Die'
Should grades be made a game of chance?
If the system devised by Alexander Zawacki,
assistant professor of art, were adopted, class
grades would hinge on one roll of the dice.
Geseffadaz, as it is named, is "a grade evaluation system for the elimination of free floating anxieties."
Zawacki has taken three sets of dice and
designated the sides with letter grades. For the
adventurous student the sides read AAAEEE, a
case of all or nothing.
The conservative student would be offered
a chance of BBCCDD and the indecisive student ABCDE.
After one practice role the student would
make his official role to determine his grade.
The dice must be rolled from ten feet and hit
the wall.
The exposed letter would  establish the grade.
In the event of dispute as to whether the
dice rolled the required distance or properly
came off the wall, the matter- would be taken
to the Change of Grade Committee for final
determination.
The system, says Zawacki, removes all possibility of and eliminates subjective projection
by the instructor.
It results in full and instant knowledge of
the final grade and reduces trauma for student
as well as instructor.
It is important to allow the student to select
which of the three grading dice he prefers since
students must maintain some freedom of choice,
contends Zawacki.
The advantages of the system can be-
summed up by saying it saves time, energy
and teaching.