1965-05-14; Central Michigan Life

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46
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Central Michigan University, Friday, May 14, 1965
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Number 25
More Students If Budget Increased
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THERE WERE MANY varied reactions during Monday and James Hasselback. In tht bottom row, left to right, are:
light's debate in Senate on the issue of abolishing class Randy Ginter, Gene Ragland, Greg Lint, and John Young-
pvernment at Central. Pictured in the top row, left to righi, man,
e: Thomas Tope, Jan Appel, Carol Elick, Jim McPherson,
irst Session Under Ragland-Johnson
Senate Tables Bill To Abolish Class Offices;
lakes Stand On Investigating Committee
By Neil Hopp
' Life News Editor
A resolution calling for the
Ibolishment of class offices
Iras introduced in Student
■Senate Monday night — and
las met with a barrage of
■opposition. Final action on
■the matter was ultimately tallied.
fop Life
positions
Announced
Walter McPeek, East -Brunswick, N.J. senior, wasJ appoint-
P managing editor of Life and
■Sally George, Coldwater junior, was named Chippewa edi-
|tor at Tuesday's meeting of
W Board in Control of Stu-
|knt Publication.
I McPeek is presently sports
Iditor of the Mount Pleasant
■Daily Times-News and was
■formerly sports editor and
l.fopy editor of Life. He is a
journalism major with a 2.5
I Emulative point average.
I Approved as Life business
Ijnanager was Gallen Demarest,
j Cedar Springs sophomore.
I Demarest is presently Life advertising manager. He is a
j^siness administration major,
I sPeech and economics minor,
|arid has  a  cumulative  point
average of 3.2.
I, Miss George is a English ma-
|J°r. journalism minor, and has
|.j cumulative point average of
[j™5- This year she servad in
^e capacity of. organ "sations
ymov for Chippewa ani was a
reporter for Life.  She was re-
Jei% elected to the board, of
| Rectors for the Michigan Colgate Press Association.
The measure, introduced by
Gregg Lint, St. Joseph senior,
read, "Whereas the committee oh class officers has found
that class offices have little or
no function on this campus at
this time and that whereas it
would appear that the work
now being done by those offices could be done as well or
better by some other agencv
of the university, it is readily
apparent that the following
provisions be made:
1. As of t h e t i m e of the
spring elections of 1966,
neither the Student Senate
nor its elections director shall
offer financial or other support
to be used in holding elections for class officers.
2. The Student Senate shall
immediately recommend to
SSAC and other proper authorities that class officers and
offices be abolished and that
their duties be delegated to
other bodies now in existence."
After reading the resolution,
Lint commented, "I think this
is an archaic institution and
needs to be removed from "this
university."
However, senators in opposition, including elections director James Hasselback, Berkley
graduate, said, "It is not up to
Student Senate to evaluate
class officers and to say
whether or not they are needed." .,    ,
Student    Body   President
Gene Ragland added, "the resolution is poorly worded and
the issue is clouded and not
clear-."
This was the first Senate
session under the new officers,
Ragland, and Student Body
Vice President John Johnson.
Senate then did an about
face, and passed a resolution
"to commend the freshman
class and the freshman  class
representative on the excellent
conception and direction of
their orientation program."
The program was the first of
its  type to be held here.
Senate also took a unanimous stand on a resolution concerning the State Senate investigating committee.
The measure said in part,
"That, for the betterment of
the university as a whole, in a
true attempt to bring to light
any problem areas that may
exist, the following be done:
"1. That administration answer in an open and complete
manner, all areas where a
problem is deemed to exist,
and that the administration
make its position perfectly
clear.
"2. That all faculty members
who wish to testify before the
investigating committee, do so
openly and precisely without
fear of any repei'cussions; and
that all problem areas be accompanied by specific documentation and substantiation.
"3. That elected student representatives, r e f 1 e c ting student viewpoint on the issue of
faculty - administration relationship, be allowed to testify
before the investigating committee."
A fourth point was added to
the resolution which said,
"that as much as possible, the
student body be kept infoi'med
as to the status, reasons for
and possible consequences of
the investigating committee.
By Emory Daniels
Life Managing Editor
President Judson W. Foust
commented Monday that if
the proposed budget increase is approved Central
will attempt to enroll 8,200
students for next fall.
Last Friday, the Senate Appropriations Committee agreed,
to increase the operational
budget of Central by a million
dollars over last year's budget.
This would amount to a
budget of $5,071,658 for the
coming fiscal year which
starts on July 1.
The committee's recommendation represents $240,000
more than Gov. George Romney's budget and 8160,000 less
than the amount asked for recently by President Foust.
"As soon as we have any assurance that this is the program we will be prepared to
move forward to an increased
enrollment of 8,200 for next
fall," Dr. Foust said.
"If we wait too long they are
going to make same other offer and it will be difficult to
get additional staff members,"
Dr. Foust explained, "So we'll
have to make a decision soon
. . . this is assuming that the
legislature is going to come
through with this proposal.
There is no definite committment yet on our part but there
is certainly an intent."
The committee also, voted to
pi'ovide about $619 for each
student admitted beyond the
projected enrollment. This
means if Central enrolled 8,200
students the extra 400 students
would raise the budget
$247,000 to a total of $5,381,158.
Included in the special fund
offer besides Central are Eastern Michigan University and
Grand Valley College. The
hoped for purpose of the
special fund is to hire additional teachers.
Sen. Guy Vandex-Jagt, R-
Cadillac, reported that the additional $240,000 was made
available by the committee
with the hope that it be used-
for faculty salary improvement. He stated that the committee feels that generally the
salaries at Central do not compare favorably with those of a
majority of other state institutions.
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SHOWN ABOVE is ihe check to Central    out for $438;
Michigan University by   the   Ford Motor    dustrial Arts
Company last week. The check was 'made
and was given to the In
department,
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