Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 18

Lansing King Day? 4 THE STATE J01ILAL Sun. 15. 1978 Changes may create tighter situation in profs' union voting will scarcely notice VP 4M i the county and state courts will be closed. The Civil Service Commission also planned to make Monday a paid holiday for all state employees. However, a court ruling said that won't take effect until next year.

Other than that, it will be business as usual on the" anniversary of the birth of the, late black- civil rights leader. ROBERT LOTT, director of secondary education for Lansing schools, says he asked, principals to report on any special activities planned. By late Friday, he had only received notice of one school planning exhibits in the li-tarary and the hallway "As long as it didn't happen here," Letts said, "people feel they have no ties with what happened to Martin Luther King. But what happened had a tremendous impact in Lansing, the country, the world "All minorities have been given some respect to equality." By YOLANDA ALVARADO Staff Writer Today is Martin Luther King's birthday, but don't expect to notice it around Lansing. Banks and courts will be closed Monday and there is an exhibit at the library.

Other than that, little notice is being taken. AND THAT'S too bad, says Richard Letts, Lansing's human relations director. "I have some concerns, about the feeling that seems to be rather apath- etic here as far as celebrating this man's achievements," Letts said. "The Lansing community has been derelict not to take time out to offer commemoration, not celebration, to this man who has given so much to our society." THE LEGISLATURE did pass a resolution declaring Monday a legal holiday, which is whv the banks and cation. SOME OBSERVERS see faculty unionization efforts nationwide as being most succesful where faculty governnance has the weakest tradition which is often given as a reason for the quick success of the efforts in community colleges around the country.

How MSU's long-standing tradition of faculty governance is now preceded may be a factor in an election "Traditionally, higher education was essentially governed by the faculty," said Ferency. "The faculty were the strong source for control and policy direction, the congress so to speak, of the university. But in the last few decades because of mushrooming of these megaversities with their administrative appendages, the faculty has lost much of its control. Richard Letts Martin Luther King Concluded from page B-l university: "The administration diverts funds from education where it is really needed. The real rewards should go to the most essential parts of the university, the teachers and the researchers." WHILE THE associates group, an affiliate of the Michigan Education Association, is an outgrowth of concern for faculty unionization in the late '60s, their counterpart, the AAUP is a longer-standing group which goes back to the 1920s at MSU.

"The AAUP is essentially a profes-' sional organization, primarily interested in defense of academic freedom seeing that professors have their rights protected," said one member, John Henderson, professor of economics. The members tend to be older, many of them in their 50s, Henderson estimates. REFLECTING THEIR priorities, Henderson noted that their committees are designated by letters of the alphabet. Academic freedom is committee A. Compensation is committee Z.

While the Faculty Associates took oil the lion's share of the organizing for the election expected for this spring or fall the AAUP entered as air intervener. The associates needed cards from 30 percent of the roughly 2,300 faculty members. Once they had done that, the AAUP could secure its place on the ballot with only 10 percent. Nationwide, the AAUP has an image of a reluctant unionist. Said Henderson, "If the faculty wants a union I want a choice between the AAUP and MEA.

If there's a union at all it should be us." It's going once, going twice There 'II be balloon rides, Big Bird, more at WKAR auction FERENCY AND Korth both think the present academic governance system is ineffective. "Mickey Mouse structures which don't amount to a hill of beans," Ferency called them. At present there is no standing organization on the campus in opposition to the union drive, although some ad hoc organization to such an end is expected to form before the election, as one did in 1972. By JIMMY HARRIS Staff Writer The bidding was fast and fierce, but at the end, the Big Bird hand puppet went to a satisfied bidder for $2,600 in funny money. The "mini-auction" was staged by the staff of East Lansing 's WKAR-TV, the area's only public television station, and was part of their efforts to demonstrate the potential excitement of television auctions.

"WE THINK it's going to be quite a circus," said Barbara Sutton, Channel 23's auction coordinator. "And the great thing is everybody participating will win." The auction, slated to begin on April 17, is part of Channel 23's efforts to raise money for the pub licly supported television station and will last for five days. About 27 per cent of the station's $1,160,000 budget will come from public donations, contract income, and auction proceeds. "AN AUCTION is a natural television and gives all bidders an equal opportunity to examine merchandise and partipate in a non-intimidating bidding process," said WKAR station manager Bob Page. "And television auctions have a proven track record in over 60 communities throughout the country" Already among the items scheduled to be auctioned are a ride in a hot-air balloon and an all-day helicopter trip to Greenfield Village in Dearborn.

"TRYING TO tell the public what a television auction is like is as difficult as describing a circus to an unitiated 3-year-old," said Ms. Sutton. She added nationally, an average 65 per cent of the retail price was the average return for auctioned merchandise. She also stated public television stations holding auctions raised over $13 million last year. THE AUCTION will go something like this: Merchandise will be described in detail to viewers who will then have the opportunity to call a displayed telephone number and offer their bids.

Meanwhile, the current bid will be kept posted. The winning bidder may then pick up his purchase at Michigan State University's Demonstration Hall (where the auction will be broadcast from). WKAR-TV OFFICIALS have set as their goal $100,000 from the auction proceeds. SAID HAROLD Hart, a professor of chemistry involved in the earlier antiunion campaign "My own personal feeling is that it's not likely to pass, but that the vote might be somewhat closer this time around." Women faculty members who feel they've been treated unfairly in promotions or salary might become an important part of the drive this time, Hart added. Frank Blatt, president of the AAUP chapter said the fact that the university is under acting president Edgar Harden and seeking a successor to former president Clifton Wharton might be important in what happens next.

"On the one hand, it is quite possible that faculty will feel this is not the time because the state of flux the university is in. "On the other hand, they may decide that just because of the situation is one of uncertainty, that this is the way to go and formalize the relation- ship of the faculty and the administration," he said ZOLTON FERENCY, former president of the campus chapter of the AAUP, said the difference between the two groups is in their orientation and affiliation, rather than in the kinds of contracts they would negotiate. "The Faculty Associates is merely an adjunct to the Michigan Education Association which is largely a primary and secondary teachers' organization. Their interests are not the same as higher education," insists Ferency. The Faculty Associates for their part argue that the affiliation will help them in lobbying efforts with the legislature for more funds for higher edu Judge ponders union role of prosperous MSU doctors Lack of room en our door and in our warehouse forces complete disposal of our entire stock of used organs.

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I -THAT IS the only major issue remaining in setting up the vote on unionization of MSU faculty. Federal Administrative Law Judge Shiomo Sperka heard testimony on it last week. Earlier, other questions on the make-up of the bargaining unit were swept aside. The administration has agreed to allow part-time faculty members who work six months a year and to include the faculty ombudsman. Faculty Associates the MEA's university branch withdrew its bid to include department chairmen and their assistants.

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