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yea czn czll us IcIJciy extra Saturdays, number, 183, has been drawn twice before: on 4-14-79 and 3-23-83. Lottery line 1-976-2020 Circulation Dept. Classified Gold Ads Insurance Dept. City News All other calls For delivery 222-6500 222-5000 222-6470 222-6600 222-6400 222-6500 Section Page 3 SECOND FRONT PAGE Sunday, February 17, 1985 tr GCC gets mixed reviews from the state Hunh HcUisrmid pclitics Faculty credentials OK'd; spending policies criticized The reports are separate from the credentials investigation by Phillip Runkel, state schools superintendent, whom the Legislature directed to monitor the activities of the college. AMONG OTHER THINGS, the auditor general's reports found that: Between July 1 1 981 and Jan.

3 1 1 984, the college paid an average of $780 a month to cover credit card expenses of the president and executive vice-president without requiring sufficient documentation that they were business-related expenses. Club memberships for the president and executive vice-president, at unspecified costs, also were provided without sufficient evidence that they were being used for college-related business. Personnel hiring procedures were not followed; 14 of 34 positions were not advertised. Policies on sick leaves and leaves of absence were abused. It was "routine practice" for the college to reimburse employes for meals at meetings attended only by college administrators and college employes without documentation that business was being conducted.

DURING NINE test months between July 1, 1981 and April 30, 1984, the auditor general found 80 incidents in which the college paid a total of $3,180.68 for meals at meetings attended only by college employes. The auditor general recommended that the college discontin- ue paying for business meals when only employes or employes j. and trustees are present. We conclude that the routine practice of several trustees i to extensively conduct college business individually over meals' away from the college campus is not prudent and does not appear to be a necessary expenditure of public funds," the general reports said. In a response to Runkel, WCCC President Thomas Waters said1 the practice would not be discontinued.

"The college believes there are and will continue to be substantive meetings among staff or among staff and trustees See WCCC, Page 13At By CASSANDRA SPRATLING Free Presi Education Writer LANSING A nine-month state investigation of Wayne County Community College, to be released Monday, is expected to show that nearly all the school's faculty members have proper credentials and are teaching the appropriate courses. Four faculty members, however, are without master's degrees in the subjects they teach, as required by WCCC's contract with its chapter of the American Federation of Teachers. The four have until 1987 to earn those degrees, sources said. As a result of the review, the salaries of five full-time and 33 part-time faculty members were reduced. The college, however, has not completely eliminated other questionable practices, according to several separate state audits of the college.

They showed that thousands of dollars were not being spent prudently and repeated previous charges that college business was incorrectly conducted. The state auditor general reports were released Saturday during a weekend retreat in Lansing for the nine-member WCCC Board of Trustees sponsored by the Michigan Department of Education. The retreat was intended to help familiarize the college's new trustees with the college and other issues related to higher education and to help chart a new direction for the college. Owen's past shapes his stand on crime Gary Owen, the speaker of the Michigan House, will tell you that "it's a very, very eerie feeling and one you'll never forget" when you enter a prison and hear those big steel doors slam shut behind you. He ought to know.

He used to hear 'em slam nearly every Sunday when he was a kid but more about that later. The point is that Owen, a 40-year-old Ypsilanti Democrat who announced introduction of a substantial anti-crime legislative program last week, comes to the subject with some very clear and, in some respects, very refreshing GOP says Blanchard will be hard to knock out One of them Involves capital Owen I -Mi Liz 1 Ji By TIM JONES Lansing Bureau Chief GRAND RAPIDS After a year that has seen Michigan Republicans make their greatest gains since the mid-1960s, GOP officials and potential candidates for governor conceded at their weekend convention it will be difficult to oust Democratic Gov. Blanchard next year. "He would be very difficult to beat because' he's making himself look and sound like a He's against it. "We expend so much energy on capital punishment," he says, "and yet, in proportion to the overall problems people have with crime, it's almost insignificant It gives people a facade, a feeling that 'we got back at that we took care of the crime problem by executing a few people, when in reality we haven't done a thing about the day-to-day criminal activity Defenseless victims I The Owen-backed legislative proposals call for such measures as sentencing guidelines to make punishment more certain, additional help for crime victims, but, as Owen concedes, they lack "the Bloomfield Hills, appeal" of an issue like capital punishment.

Still, he says, they're far more important in the long run, especially for poorer, high-crime communities "where criminals prey on people who often are defenseless and where people are worried on a day-to-day basis about a 16-year-old getting shot in high school, or kids getting their lunch money stolen, or a daughter getting raped, or children being i i i 11,1 m. Republican," said U.S. Rep. Guy Vander Jagt, of Luther. Republicans met here to celebrate their substantial 1984 election victories and re-elected Chairman Spencer Abraham to a second two-year term.

But in contrast to last year's convention, when optimistic Re i "Tim Free Press Photos by CRAIG PORTER publicans had a The 3900 block of Lawndale on Detroit's west side: It typifies the close-knit spirit found in many neighborhoods during cold, blustery weather. Blanket of snow warms city block Vander Jagt recall-weary Blanchard on the political run, there is a hard recognition that the race for governor does not look as promising now as it did then. By BETSEY HANSELL Free Press Staff Writer The long, snowy trials of winter stir neighborly feelings in some folks. It was that way recently on the 3900 block of Lawndale, as residents shoveled out for the fifth Pipe smoke curled around his long, thin beard as he stopped to chat about his father, Lawrence, 84, who is well known to neighbors for helping others. "He takes old people to the doctor even in bad weather," he said, tapping his pipe on the freshly painted wrought-iron Such priorities come naturally.

Oweii Erew up poor in a housing 1 if- '7 'mf It I 5i PattortrWk I wool i05J ZjCross V5i "Wyoming CTU stair rail. Now Philip, fortified by "plenty of Peppermint Schnapps," was helping his father. He advised a couple of shivering visitors to go to the nearest watering hole for the same remedy: "It's the best warmer-upper I've found." Instead, they visited the bright blue Sidetrack Station diner where Lawndale meets John Kronk at the straight day, children played, and the neighborhood diner accepted, with cheery grace, that business has fallen with the snow. The small houses some frame, some faced with imitation fieldstone in this lower west side neighborhood, have seen better days. Peeling paint and plastic-patched windows are common.

But the community typifies the close-knit spirit VANDER JAGT, who is considering a race for governor, and other party members said Blanchard should not be taking credit for the state's economic recovery. They argue that President Reagan is the engineer of the recovery. "If there is anyone trying to grab Ronald Reagan's coattails, it's Jim Blanchard," Abraham said in a speech to the delegates. But Republicans admit Blanchard will be hard to unseat if the economy stays strong. "He's going to be very tough to beat," said former U.S.

Rep. Jim Dunn, of East Lansing. Vander Jagt, who said he will decide about his political future in six to eight weeks, gave no indication he is about to abandon his 19-year congressional career. "I am much more appreciative of the role that I have in Washington than when I started this," he said. 'It isn't until you start surrendering something that you really look at it and really appreciate how precious it is.

"And I think what I have is precious." THE MOST FREQUENTLY mentioned potential candidate for governor, Wayne County Executive William Lucas, did not attend the convention, but nearly all party officials said he should switch from the Democrats to the GOP. Although many said Lucas would be a strong if not the strongest opponent to Blanchard, Republican National Committeeman Peter Sec-chia was not among the cheerleaders. Secchia said Lucas would be welcome, but he would have to work his way through the primary See REPUBLICANS, Page 13A Free Press Map by ROY BEAVER railroad tracks. found in many neighbor At lunchtime on snow-free days some truck Maria Goines, 33, a waitress at the Sidetrack Station, cycles the two miles to work despite the snow. Goines, 33, who wears a badge that says, "Smile, It makes people wonder what you're up to!" BEFORE DAWN each winter morning, Goines dresses in knee-high boots, a down vest and a Scottish wool cap and bicycles two miles to work.

Diner regulars rush to her rescue if she gets stuck, said Moran, who insists that Goines phone before she leaves home. "If she gets stuck in the slush, we'll come and get her." hoods in the city and suburbs during cold, blustery weather. Neighbor helps neighbor, businesses pamper customers, and family members help family members. "TO GET THROUGH the winter, you've got to help each other," said Eugene Poland, 56, who lives on workers' compensation benefits. Poland and his granddaughters, Yvonne Tyra and Becky Poland, were on their way to help truck driver Ron Thompson, whose 73 Mercury Montego was stuck in the snow.

Philip Bujarski, 45, a press operator at "Ford's," had come across town to sweep his parents' front porch while they vacationed in Hawaii. ers from the many depots along the railroad line have to park so far away to get owner Edna Moran's tomato cabbage soup or 12 kinds of pie that she sends a station wagon to bring them from their rigs. But these days, "sales are down 25 percent because of the snow," said Moran, 52, who has run restaurants in the neighborhood for 33 years. The cozy, plant-filled diner, which seats 30, is open weekdays from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.

It normally serves about 300 meals a day 500 on Fridays, when fish dinners go for $2.50. The snow doesn't bother waitress Maria project in Montgomery, came to Michigan by bus to look for work in 1963 and caught on as a night watchman at an oil company brine pond and as a carpenter's apprentice before earning bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Michigan. His first election was as a township trustee and, in 1972, he was elected to the Legislature. His political rise has been fast and sure ever since but always tempered by an awareness of his own beginnings. "I think a person is only a product of his past.

You can't remove those experiences," he says. A heavy topic As for capital punishment, Owen acknowledges that his position gives him pause sometimes when it comes to mass killers and really heinous crimes, i but that he still comes down against it. "It has very little to do with the real issue i- of protecting people from crime because most of them (capital offenders) are going to spend the rest of their lives in prison anyway." That prospect, he says, is not one to be taken lightly by society. "If I had the choice right now between spending the rest of my life in, say, Jackson Prison and being put to death," Owen says, "I think I'd say go ahead and put me to death." That sentiment also has roots in Owen's past. He! was a young boy when his athet shot and killed a young man in a ruckiis back in Alabama and was sent to prison for murder for the next dozen or so years.

Gary and his mother used, to visit the prison on Sundays. "It was a very, very rough prison system down there," the speaker recalls with obvious distaste. And it's why he speaks with authority about the "very, very eerie feeling" people get when the big doors slam shut behind them. Declare war on sex harassment, lawyer tells women By PATRICIA EDMONDS Free Press Staff Writer Sexual harassment of women will stop when women start hitting the perpetrators where it hurts: in the wallet, says a Detroit lawyer. Elaine Frost, who specializes in sexual harassment cases, told a lawyers' seminar Saturday that "sexual harassment won't stop unless women stop it women plaintiffs, women attorneys and it won't be eliminated until monetary damages are levied from employers" who permit or overlook sexual harassment in the workplace.

That submission to or rejection of such advances is used as a basis for employment decisions. Frost's example: "A supervisor says, 'Give me sexual favors, and I'll give you employment benefits a promotion, a better job or, 'Deny me, and I'll give you an employment That the sexual conduct Interfered, or was meant to interfere, with her work performance; and created an intimidating, hostile or offensive working environment. "In this situation, the woman still has her job, she's not being promoted or denied promotion but she is forced to abide an intolerable, abusive situation," said Frost. IN SOME harassment cases, employers have' been judged liable when they knew or were! notified of harassment but did not take action to stop it, Frost said. She suggested that women; See HARASSMENT, Paga 13AT just "the way things are" because the law says otherwise.

Women are protected from sex discrimination by Title VII of the U.S. Civil Rights Act, Frost said. Although the act did not specifically say sexual harassment constitutes discrimination, subsequent court cases have made that connection, she said. Most states have their own civil rights acts, similar to the federal law, she said; 18, including Michigan, also have specific prohibitions of sexual harassment on the books. FOR A WOMAN'S sexual harassment claim to meet Title VII requirements, said Frost, it must meet one of three conditions: That submission to unwelcome sexual advances was made, either explicitly or implicitly, a condition of her employment "such as if a supervisor says, 'Sleep with ne, or you'll be "said Frost.

V1 Frost's seminar was part of the midyear meeting of the National Association of Women Lawyers, an affiliate of the American Bar Association. About 2,000 lawyers are in Detroit this weekend for conventions of the bar and its affiliates at the Westin Hotel in the Renaissance Center. This afternoon, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger is to give an address. SEXUAL HARASSMENT, said Frost, may be as coarse and obvious as lewd comments, blackmail for sexual favors, forced physical contact and rape.

But it also may be as Insidious as repeated subjection, lingering looks, rather-too-personal compliments and off-color jokes, she said. Sexual harassment degrades its victims, fosters low self-esteem and can have "a devastating effect on physical and psychological health," said Frost. She urges womep never to consider such harassment a joking mutter or Bcllday schsdsla In observance of President's Day, Monday, all banks and state offices will be closed..