Page Eight THE MICHIGAN DAILY Friday, November 19, 1971 Page Eight THE MICHIGAN DAILY Friday, November 19, 1971 5% RAISE: State board suggests pay hike for workers Two students caught in term paper fraud 'U' janitors' case on lunch period rejected REDUCED AIRFARES Fly with a Reservation at CHRISTMAS ON AMERICAN AIRLINES TO From Wire Service Reports A recommendation calling for a general- five per cent pay raise for the state's 47,000 classified civil service workers effective July 1, was received yesterday by the Michigan Civil Service Commission. The $32.2 million wage and fringe benefits package was pro- posed to the commission by its nine-member Compensation Ad- visory Board. Included in the package is a general five per cent pay raise to cost $24.4 million annually, an 11 per cent wage boost for State Police troopers to cost $1.2 million and new fringe bene- fits to cost an extra $6.3 million annually. The pay recommendations, which were approved before the federal Pay Board announced its 5.5 per cent annual limita- tion on wage increases, were transmitted to principal state departments and employe or- ganizations for review. The next step for the pay proposal is review and approval by the four-man Civil Service Commission. The. commission has scheduled a public hearing on the proposal for Nov. 30 in Lansing. The commission said it expects to make a final de- cision sometime in early De- cember. Last year the commission ap- proved pay increases averaging 8.4 per cent for state workers which cost the state $35.5 mil- lion plus $700,000 in fringe benefits. The study committee had recommended a 9.8 per cent increase which would have cost $42.8 million, The raises, which were due last July, were held up and paid retroactively last September as the Legislature was involved in a spending dispute over the en- tire state budget. The major fringe benefit recommended to the commission this year would allow a state worker to claim a percentage of accumulated sick leave upon leaving employment for any reason. The leave would be claimed on a scale beginning with 5 per- cent for employes with six years service up to 100 per cent for employes with 27 years of ser- vice. Also recommended was an ad- ditional paid holiday and a 5 per cent increase in longevity pay for all employes with six continuous years of service or more. (Continued from page 1) submitted to complete expulsion from the University." Contacted yesterday about the incident, Harger expressed sur- prise. "I don't know how it could happen," he said. "Our system is fail-safe." Harger said it was impossible for him to immediately confirm or deny the students' charges that Write-On sold them both papers. "We underwent a management change Nov. 1," Harger said, "and when the previous manager, who was in charge during the period in question, left, he took with him some records and papers belonging to Write-On." According to Harger, John Ste- vens, the former manager, was conducting a separate business within Write-On's structure and when he left the organization to form Creative Research Inc.-an Ann Arbor "custom written" pa- per supplier similar to Write-On- the records were in utter confu- sion. "We do our best," Harger add- ed, "but something can always happen.'' In an interview with The Daily, one of the two students involved- a University sophomore who pre- ferred to remain unidentified-said she was "enraged." "I couldn't believe this would happen in a thousand years," she said. "I asked the Write-On rep- resentative about the chances of being discovered and he said there U.S. builds ease agains B errigan was no way. If I can sue them I'll do it." A similar incident occurred last spring at Harvard University, ac- cording to the Harvard Crimson, the university's student newspaper. In its May 20 issue, the Crimson reported that two students sub- mitted to the same course identi- cal papers purchased from -a Cambridge-based firm called Term Papers Unlimited. According to the Crimson, one.of the two involved, a graduate stu- dent, was suspended from the uni- versity for one year, and the other, an undergraduate, was expelled. Literary college teachers and administrators aware of the case have declined to make the names of the two students public pending any disciplinary action. One of the two students, how- ever, contacted The Daily yester- day and explained that she had purchased the paper because "per- sonal problems" prevented her from doing it herself, and she felt that "one time was not going to hurt." "But reflecting about that de- cision," she continued, "I admit that it was not entirely ethical." Nissen says he sees broad im- plications upon the University's academic system if the practice of buying term papers becomes a ma- jor problem. "This basically unethical prac- tice undermines a legitimate av- enue for the presentation and or- ganization of ideas," Nissen says. "The term paper is basically a better avenue to test the student's mental abilities than something like objective tests," Nissen con- tinues, "for they give the student a chance to think and reason." "But if the abuse continues," Nissen adds, "the general agree- ment among professors seems to be that other, perhaps more unde- sirable, ways of grading courses will have to be found." (Continued from page 1) and was not engaging in certain unfair labor practices." MERC, in full session this week upheld Bixler's conclusions. In addition MERC called for dismissal on the basis that the case could have been settled through arbitration, rather than through the board. The commission upheld Uni- versity positions citing that the University was clearly given the authority to change the work periods through a contract pro- vision which reads: "Lunch per- iods shall be scheduled as to time and duration by the Uni- versity." The union had filed objections to the University's move con- tending that since the contract did not "provide a procedure u n d e r which, the lunch hour could be changed, it became a mandatory subject of bargain- ing." T h e commission responded, however, that both parties had negotiated the lunch period clause contemplating changes and "essentially the same clause was repeated in the current con- tract as had been in the earlier one." The board concluded from this that both parties had "con- sciously realized the scope" of the clause and therefore, the University had not violated it. 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He read a Regents meet with SACUA' on research (Continued from page 1) states that "any financial bur- den that results from a change in classified research policy be borne generally by the University community." Fleming's statement had suggested a timed phase-out of research ( if the proposal were to be passed. "We explained that this is not an unprecedented case," Norman said. "We've had programs phased out before." Other topics discussed at the meeting included the possibility of inserting a phrase into the policy suspending it during national emergencies, and extending the policy to include all classified re- search, not just federal contracts. However, sources say the Re- gents "did not broach" the sub- ject of the review committee's composition, which is set up to in- elude both opponents and pro- ponents of classified research. Later, Regents said they felt too unfamiliar with the issue to comment on it. statement issued by over 30 local clergymen denouncing classified research. In the statement the clergymen said, "We believe secret military research to be unappropriate for almost any institution," but espe- cially as for a university com- munity. The statement went on to support Assembly's proposal. Rev. Beaven urged "an alid to applying this technology to cause death, suffering, and fear." Engineering Prof. William Brown, director of the Willow Run Labs, called for the continuation of research. He cited the country's current military involvement as justification for the continuation of military research, saying, "It only makes sense to cease classified research if Congress enacts im- mediate unilateral disarmament." He said the major fault with the Assembly proposal was that the "problems to be resolved by the act have not yet been clearly de- fined." Michael Knox, Grad, controver- sial former student member of the Classified R e s e a r c h CommitteeI who revealed its activities to the University community, said he was "shocked to learn of the Uni- versity's involvement in° war re- search." He said he supported the Assembly- proposal. t 5 f HARRISBURG, Pa (P)-The U.S. government indicated yesterday it had a second informant in its case against the Rev. Philip Berrigan and seven other antiwar activists charged, among other things, with conspiring to kidnap presidential adviser Henry Kissinger. The disclosure came when the government filed a motion for a court order allowing it to withhold unidentified documents from the defense. In an affidavit accompanying the motion, U.S. Attorney William Connelly said the informant "be- lieves he would be harassed and intimidated and urged to repudi- ate the factual evidence given by him to the government" if his name is revealed. 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