The Michigan Daily-Friday, September 14, 1979-Page 9 Dark times dim Detroit's Renaissance: strikes, Chrysler problems p lague rebirth WALT DISNEY'S 1949 PINNOCH 10 The Disney Studio's next project after "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." With Jiminy Cricket, the Blue Fairy, Jepetto the puppet maker and that Disney theme song, "When You- Wish Upon A Star." Classic animation. Short: THE DOODLERS (Kathy Rose-1973} A whacky film whose creator envisions her drawing coming to life. FRI: Truffaut's SMALL CHANGE - a b 3 P r , C7 DETROIT (AP)-These are not the rosiest of days for this self-proclaimed Renaissance City. Its 12,000 teachers are walking picket lines. The world's largest carmaker, General Motors Corp., headquartered here, faces a strike deadline at mid- night tonight. AND CHRYLER Corp., the city's largest employer, is threatened with economic disaster. But even with all that, leaders in this city of 1.2 million do not predict doom. "I've seen this community more down on its knees than it is now. We have problems, but I'm confident we can overcome them," says Walter Douglas, president of New Detroit Inc., a coalition of business and civic of- ficials trying to rekindle Detroit. DETROIT'S WORST times came af- ter its 1967 riot-the nation's worst ur- ban riot. For the next decade, as crime figures soared, critics referred to Detroit-once the "Motor City"-as 'Murder City." Then, with Ford Motor Co. Chairman Henry Ford II providing the impetus, the city began to rebuild. Ford's prop- sal for the Renaissance Center-and his attracting more than $300 million in private money to pay for it-became the centerpiece of the city's rebirth. The effort to bring back the city reached its culmination this year when it was chosen as the site of the 1980 Republican National Convention. The leaders of Detroit's revitalization movement see the teachers' strike and the impending strike against GM as just "temporary setbacks." "THESE THINGS come around every three years and we take them in stride," said Tom Boyle, a spokesman for Renaissance Center, the gleaming glass and steephotel-office complex. "But," he said, "the Chrysler situation has the potential to be much more serious." Detroit's concern over Chrysler's financial problems. was supported in a U.S. Department of Transportation report released this week. The analysis predicted Chrysler's collapse would double area unemployment, increase racial tensions and reduce city tax ellections by $34 million a year. The unemployment rate is certain to jump soon as a result of Chrysler's promise to close its Dodge Main assembly plant within a year, idling 6,500 workers. "Any shift or adjustment downward in local tax revenues because of strikes or Chrysler's closing would indeed un- dermine the efforts" to renew the city, said New Detroit's Douglas. And Alice Lyte of the Semi-Quiois Youth Center said the teachers strike, a GM walkout and potential Chrysler downfall could slow progress even more in the city's neighborhoods. CINEMA GUILD TONIGHT AT 7.00 & 9:05 OLD ARCH. AUD $1.50 Children-$l 4)",. ' . - , L' GA RGO VIE FIL MS proudly presents THE DAYTHE EARTH STOOD STILL- in beautiful Hole Auditorium (Business School) corner of Hill & Tappan FRIDAY, SEP1 14 7& 9p.m. $1.50 N VA SL I lm -J Daily Photo DETROIT'S ECONOMIC health, worsened by strikes and Chrysler's finan-" cial woes, fails to match the gleaming Renaissance Center, the construction of which symbolized the city's rebirth. RSG asks administration By ADRIENNE LYONS Rackham Student Government (RSG) has asked the graduate school's executive board for cooperation in for- ming a new student, faculty and ad- ministrative committee to examine the tenure process at the University. RSG members said information on * tenure procedures currently is inadequate and not readily available. "It's not that the University failed, but that there isn't much information," said RSG member Susan Van Alstayne. . "What we're proposing is some kind of inquiry into the tenure process," said RSG President Robert Milbrath. In a letter to Rackham Dean Alfred o: Sussman, RSG cited concern over a r lack of information about the Univer- sity's tenure, promotional, and affir- Cii mative action policies. RSG member Carol Yorkievitz said ' she supports formation of the commit- 3f, tee, "because of the way the University fr, collects statistics; it's difficult to find lea FRASER OPTIMISTIC AS. [;~ progress rates of certain departments and the arbitrariness of the decisions." RSG suggests in the letter to Sussman and the 16-member Rackham EXecutive Board, that the new commit- tee address itself to tenure-related issues including: . The way in which teaching, service, research and advising functions are weighed and evaluated; " The manner in which new faculty members receive tenure;. " Conducting evaluations and keeping records; " Inconsistencies in tenure policy between departments; " Solicitation and use of student input on tenure policy " The availability and adequacy of statistics on affirmative action programs. Milbrath, however, said RSG's at- tempt to gain the executive board's help with the project may be futile. "I think the graduate school is reluc- for panel to study tenure, tant to get involved," he said. "The big student interest." deal is whether student groups can get Because tenure statistics are involved and tell the faculty who they unavailable, RSG members said they can give tenure to. doubt the effectiveness of University "We feel other groups should have affirmative action programs. input, particularly students," Milbrath "There are some statistics that are added. not as available, not as clear-s they Most members of the board were should be, because they lump people unavailable for commet yesterday, together," said Yorkievitz. "They but Law Prof. Joseph Sax said he had aren't separated according to race and glanced briefly at the RSG letter. The sex." executive board's first meeting is scheduled for next week, but Sax, a new board member, said he did not know if the issue would be addressed. Van Alstayne said she believes an important tenure issue is that of incon- Classes Forming sistencies between departments in For Oct. 13th and tenure procedures. 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RA f &,X fiJ(, l [ NOW ° SNOWING AT TH E MOVIES " AT BRIARWOOD. 10:00 12:45 3:00 7:00 9:15 FRI & SAT 12:00 Midnight UBTITLES R SI DE ADLINE NE A RS: cqj -4 Marathon UAW negotiations begin =rg DETROIT (AP)-The- Workers (UAW) uniona Motors Corp. began United Auto and General marathon bargaining on, a new company r economic proposal yesterday, 30 hours before the union was to strike the nation's largest carmaker. UAW President Douglas Fraser said it was possible the negotiators could take a break for sleep ",if the momen- tum isn't there." No details of the com- pany proposal were made public. "IT WOULD BE a shame if we let it get away from us now," Fraser said. "The differences between us look like they can be resolved with some inten- sive negotiations. We're just going to stay at the bargaining table." Fraser said he had spent "a lot of hours" with GM's chief negotiator, Vice President George Morris Jr., in recent days. The subject of their talks was . unknown, although union spokesman Don Stillman said later the two had not been negotiating. s Major issues in the talks are protec- tion of retired workers against in- flation, more paid time off and wages. Contracts for the 780,000 Big Three autoworkers expire at 11:59 p.m. tonight. EARLY IN THE talks, the company offered three per cent annual wage in- creases for the next three years, plus continuation of the present cost-of- living formula. That formula has added $1.37 an hour to automaker wages over the last three years, bringing average straight-time pay for GM's UAW members to $9.05 per hour. The formula and wage in- creases negotiated in 1976 have kept ac- tive autoworkers, unlike their retired colleagues, between five per cent and 6 per cent ahead of inflation. The "paper's still flying, UAW spokesman Howard Lipton said yester- day, indicating progress was being made in the final hours before tonight's 11:59 p.m. deadline. If no contract can be reached for UAW members at the nation's largest carmaker, the union hassaid it will strike 46 of GM's 130 installations-13 assembly plants, a locomotive plant and 32 parts warehouses. o d .- ' I 1e 'v ¢ ao4 0 The Ann Arbor Film Cooperative Prsents at MLB $1.50 Friday, September 14 (Elia Kazan, 1954) EAST OF EDEN 7only-MLB4 Kazan once said, "Never direct a natural." Surely he meant it when he made this modern version of the Cain and Abel story set in the farming country of pre-WWI Northern California. The natural in this case was James Dean, who performs with great power in a timeless tale of fathers and sons. Based on the novel by John Steinbeck. With RAYMOND MASSEY, JULIE HARRIS, BURL IVES. 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