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DETROIT FREE PRESSTHURS, FEB. 10, 1983 5A Oakland teachers bargain against Feb. 27 deadline By GARY GRAFF Free Press Staff Writer positions for our faculty." THE TENTATIVE agreement also outlines a salary plan for the next two years which makes raises dependent on-university general fund revenues. Those revenues come primarily from tuition and state appropriations. During the: 1982-83 and the 1983-84 school years, if revenues exceed 102 percent of the preceding year's revenues, the teachers would receive a retroactive pay raise of four percent or less.

During the 1984-85 school year, if the school's revenues exceed 104 percent of the previous year's revenues, a retroactive pay raise of no greater than two percent would be granted. "We are not discussing money," says Hammerle. "We are discussing how that money will be administered." Llewellyn says the revenue provisions provided some potential fat in the budget to help fight a projected $800,000 cut in the university's state funding part of $25 million in cuts in educational spending proposed by Gov. Blanchard. If the provisions aren't met, he says, that money could be saved.

There are other cushions in the school's $21.3 million budget, Llewellen says, including $200,000 in utility costs that have been saved by the so far mild winter. "We think we can eat (the $800,000) if that's all he (the governor) cuts," Llewellen says. "If he cuts more than that, I don't know what we'll do." Though salary is still a point of debate, the' university's layoff policy seems to be the major obstacle keeping teachers from approving the agreement. "Some faculty told me they felt their bargaining team gave away the store in layoff and job protection," says James Llewellyn, the university's news services director. During the past four years, Llewellyn says, the university has been operating under a "Position Shift" layoff policy.

That plan lets the administration remove a given number of positions from one area and put the same number of positions in another area so that the total teaching force remains the same. LLEWELLYN SAYS the policy has been used twice. First, during the 1976-77 school year, the Studio Arts and Classics programs were cut to provide extra positions for engineering and management. Then, last year, positions were cut from the arts and sciences programs and added in engineering, management and computer sciences. The policy requires the university to give teachers 1 '2 years' notice, and the university wants to be able to cut positions with less than a year's warning.

"OU wants more freedom to lay people off when they wish and not replace them at all," the union's Hammerle says. "Another possibility is they lay off full-timers who have been tenured and replace them with part-timers whom we don't represent. We are naturally interested in retaining the "Whether we will (strike) or not, I don't know. It's a deadline we're working against." fyll Hammerle, teachers union president at Oakland University negotiators back to the tables. This year's deadline falls during the university's week-long mid-term break.

If there is a strike, the school will have about five days to settle before classes resume for its 10,693 students. In the meantime, the university is bargaining to try to come up with something before the deadline. "We continue to negotiate and negotiate and try to find a settlement," says Assistant Provost William Connellan. "It's their choice to make a deadline; the contract expired Aug. 14." NEGOTIATIONS ON a new three-year pact for the teachers began last May, and a tentative agreement was reached on Labor Day.

But that agreement was voted down by the teachers 144-117. Oakland University administrators and faculty are working against a Feb. 27 strike deadline to modify the tentative agreement that teachers rejected last October. But the two sides have different perceptions about where the talks are headed. Jerry Dahlman, assistant to the president for university relations, says talks on the two main issues salary and ayoff policies are progressing and have been productive.

He says he expects a settlement soon. Teachers union President Bill Hammerle, however, bees to differ. 6 "Very little progress has been made to date," he says. "We did -not strike in the fall because we had a tentative agreement. It is very difficult to call a strike in the middle of a semester; there's a question of what happens to the students.

'Whether we will (strike) or not, I don't know," Ham-merre' adds. "It's a deadline we're working against." UNIVERSITY TEACHERS have struck twice before. The first strike lasted two weeks during fall 1971, the year the faculty formed the union. The second came in the fall of 1976 but was halted by a court injunction ordering teachers back to the classrooms and He performs on cue and you can bank on his shots By RICK ROUSOS Free Press Special Writer 1 I fats vll iT- 4 i r'M i fji "rn nitlr ft Michigan state trooper. As as I am and as icy as it got around my face, I truly looked like Frosty the Snowman when I got there.

"My biggest honor, beyond question, was when I entertained our Viet-, nam POWs upon their immediate return to America. I had entertained many of them before over the years in America. They asked for me when they could have asked for anyone. When I finished my show, many of them thanked me for spending an afternoon with them. I couldn't believe it.

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The money came from the student activities fund. And the students were pleased. "We had a bigger crowd for this than anything else like this we've ever had," said Christie Frye, director of student including illegal money." OF THE seven presidents he's met, Lyndon Johnson was his favorite, White says. "LBJ was so personable it was unbelievable," he says, recalling the time he flew aboard Air Force One with Johnson. Asked by students where he lives, White answers, "America." His home is in Hollywood Hills, but White travels much of the time.

Until he hit the speaker's circuit, White spent 20 years hustling. "My wife dosen't know how I survived," he says. "What happens is that you get a reputation, and nobody will play you. I made good money hustling and never had a problem collecting the money. If you play any game for more than $4.95, you put the money on the wood and forget brotherhood." WHITE ALSO has played many celebrities.

"Mickey Rooney is the best of them, though Jackie Gleason isn't bad. I've played Gleason seven times four times for his money and three for lunch." He drives all over the country to appear at universities and military bases. "You can't depend on airplanes to get you there on time," he says. "This way, I always show up, though sometimes it isn't easy. Once I was stuck inside the city of Marquette on my way to Northern Michigan.

The snow was so deep that the school was closed. I got a piggy-back snowmobile ride from a WHITE SAYS he has beaten legends like Minnesota Fats and Willie Mosconi. "Sure, I've beaten Macaroni," he says. "And my advice to Fats is that he just tell people how good he is but stay away from TV." Rotund himself, White beats all takers before lunch. Then he throws down a final challenge: "I'll give everyone in the room a dollar if he beats me," White says in a mock-serious tone as Dave Sack, 20, calmly walks to the table.

"I'll try," Sack says. WHITE ENDS UP losing sort of in a close game marked by a beautiful eight-ball bank shot from Sack. "Who wants a dollar?" White asks the clamoring students. "We all do!" a voice roars from the back of the room. "Then get a job!" White shouts.

Sack is excited. "I get the feeling he let me win," he says. "But it was still nice." WHITE PERFORMS many trick shots. On one, he surrounds the eight ball with six others, then covers them with a handkerchief. He asks the students to tell him in which pocket they'd like to see the eight ball fall.

He sinks the shot. As with questions about his age, White jokingly dismisses, questions about how much money he makes. "Let's just say that I make more yearly than most presidents make Practice? "No way!" says Jack White, internationally famous pocket billiard and trick shot artist. "I can't get any better." Then he sets up the trick shot shown on the Lite beer TV commercial. The man in the commercial, White says, "bragged that it took 190 tries to make that shot.

If it took me more than six tries, I'd commit suicide." And before a large crowd of Oakland Community College students, he makes the shot first try. WHITE, who looks 45 or so but won't talk about his age, travels the country by car, speaking to students and showing off his pocket billiard skills. In the brightly lit student center at the Auburn Hills OCC campus, White goads the crowd: "Who's my first chump?" Finally, Fred Randolph, 18, walks to the table. "If I can't beat this brother, I'll buy everyone in the room lunch and I'm serious," White says. Slowly, they warm to his humor.

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