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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Thursday, September 5, { 914
Pdge SixTHE MICHIGAN DAILY 1 hursdoy, September 5, 1974
Graduate workers move to
unionize, bargain with 'U'
Pres. steers by remote control
(continued from Page 3)
thought;of what might then re-
sult:,strike.
A SUCCESSFUL w o r k stop-
page among the teaching fellows
would effectively cripple the
University as an institution
geared toward undergraduate
education.
Last 'February, the GEO -
prior to its recognition as a
formal union-attempted to zall
a strike but fell short of the.
required number of pro-strike
votes in a work stoppage refer-
endum among all graduate em-
ployes.
In retrospect, the GEO leader-
ship realized they had set their
strike-goal too high and although
the loss may have temporarily
stalled the unionization jugger-
naut, the organizers learned a!
valuable lesson.
A month later, the teaching
fellows overwhelmingly accept-
ed the GEO as their union in an
election held under the auspices
aI
K'E
of the Michigan Employment
Relations Commission.
The election results indicatet
that the graduate assistants are{
genuinely interested in unioni-
zation but were unwilling to1
take an action as dramatic and
decisive as an all-out strike.
NONETHELESS, t h e GEO
leaders now feel they have
more support than ever before.
among their constituency and
plan to turn those sympathies
into bargaining chips in the up-
coming- poker game over con- i
tract demands with the adminis-
tration.
The GEO thus will have the,
threat of a strike as its hole
card and the University must
respect that as something more
than a, bluff when considering'
how much it is willing to com-
promise in negotiating with the
union.
theres
By CHERYL PILATE
and SARA RIMERt
Directing the University from
his posh office on the second
floor of the fortress-like ad-
ministration building, President
Robben Fleming exhibits an air'
of imperturbable calm despite,
the fact that he feels his rolei
as a policy-maker is even morex
difficult now than it was during
the period of student activism in
the late sixties.c
Fleming, who jokingly notes
that he hasn't made it home to
dinner in three weeks, empha-
sizes that the life of a Uni-
versityhpresident is not always
an easy one.
"WHEN SOMEONE brings a
problem to me, it means that
nobody below me was able' to
make a decision," he says.
"Frequently, there are times'
when no course of action you'
can take will be viewed as good.1
All you can do is pick the least
bad."
Dismissing the sixties as a
"nutty era," Eleming says that
the University's financial
squeeze has been harder for
him to deal with than the an-
gry students that used to con-
front him en masse in his of-
fice.
Fleming, a former labor ar-
bitrator and law professor,
seems chiseled for the presi-
denti-l mold. Although he de-
clares, "My first love is teach-
ing," it is difficult to imagine
him oat of his administrative
role.
CLOISTERED IN an elegant
office with expensive art and
lNsh greenery Fleming is aware
that his existence is often re-
garded with skepticism.
"I'm sure I seem remote," he
admits. "Students wonder if I
really exist and what I do."
President for the past six
years, Fleming speculates, "I
sometimes consider resigning-
but I don't think about it too
often."
VP Rhodes sheds stereotype
Fleming
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By CHERYL PILATE
Long regarded by students as
an innovator, newly-appointed
University Vice President
Frank Rhodes appears to have
shed the bureaucratic stereo-
type that many of his colleagues
so conscientiously embrace.
Hoping to avoid the image of
a remote, hard-nosed adminis-
trator, during the three years
he was dean of LSA, Rhodes
held informal, weekly - coffee
hours with students.
WHEN HE was appointed vice
president last February, how-
ever, a new deluge of adminis-
trative duties forced him to
terminate his highly cherished
coffee hours and limit his time
with students.
Viewing himself not as an ad-
ministrator, but rather as a
"former faculty member assign-
"I wish I could spend more'
time with the students. The far-
ther you move away from de-
partment affairs-the less of a
personal effect you can have-
and that worries me," says
Rhodes in precise tones that
bespeak his British background.
A PROFESSOR in the geology
department until 1971, Rhodes
was well-known for .his popu-
larity among students and his
c o n c e r n with undergraduate,
teaching methods. He countered
the impersonality of large lec-
ture courses by "brown-bag-
ging" lunch with students once
a week and workging with many
of them on individual projects.
When Rhodes first assumed
the LSA deanship in July 1971,
he termed his ideas "wild by
conventional standards."
Now, after three years of ad-
revolutionary
mitted to
enhancing th
communityc
committed ;
adding to kn
CHARLES
ciate Dean
that Rhodes
traordinary"
istrator.
However,
," h is still coin-
"hitill cod CASUALLY RUFFLING the
e Universityng as and leaves of a huge, exotic plant
of people who are that stands next to his seat,
o transmitting and: Fleming asserts, "I'm not very
owledge." excitable by temperament."
At his annual tea last fall,
MORRIS, Asso- some members of the commun-
of LSA, believes ity chose to dress for the occa-
has done an "ex- sion - in drag. True to form,
job as an admin- Fleming seemed oblivious to
their garb and welcomed them
as LSA Dean and with the same courtesy he di-
0,
r
..ove ,
more recently as Vice' Presi-
dent, Rhodes was forced to take
positions that eventually dam-
aged his rapport with some stu-
dents.
His conservative stance on
several hotly debated issues has
led some members of student
government to voice their dis-
illi sionment.j
rected towards his other guests.
Known for his fatherly image,
Fleming has sometimes pro-
moted what many students in-
terpret to be "paternalistic"
policies.
ONE OF THE most recent
examples of administrative
"parental discipline" c a m e
when a public furor resulted
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v t 1NrUZ: :~.ed to administrative duties," he ministering the 29-departments RHODES H A S consistently from the showing o
laments the fact that his time of the University's oldest col- opposed equal student repre- phic movies-on cam
da~I~r~ f'inA Rhodes with students has been so se- lege, Rhodes asserts that al- sentation of the LSA governing dent film groups
verely curtailed. though he is not a "wild-eyed faculty and has spoken out Labeling the show'
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"Afaculty s a l a r i e s. Because a "terrible problem
________________________-eicar r jaleRhodes was so widely touted as directed the studen
--A ro -A m er/ca n S tud iles: a d d ed beIn exa ~sapp-r'n ectie te ltmre
fl 15 LJ11III ) 4'4..4~m..4 many students were disappoint- in determining their
ed when radical reforms were Fleming's confron'
2 CRD T( $1 L.AB FE ''* not instituted in LSA. students are much
inerest in growng m orthey were when he
inte est n a rowig ma or wsfis appointed," comments' president in 1968.
.im Weinstein, student member
By BARBARA CORNELL its faculty from the regular students are actively encour- of the Graduation Requirements HE ATTRIBUTES
Ej U Afro - American and African staff of other University de aged to assist the faculty' in its Commission. "But he was so- st"dent activism V
JdsimRhIvIh partments such as Anthropolo- program planning. Students are ciali ed into being just like'all that "the political
'P RJ ET ) E AStudies is more than paving te thcae ito enjstn liketall
proverbial triangle from home gy, History, Political Science, invited to take part in regular the other deans-and nothing 'tical right are1
to classes to the library and English, Speech, and Sociology, open discussions held at the new happene. in nare
Department of Psychology home again. It is a chance to go Courses include such subjects Trotter House each term. Hoes has on o t h e r issues, ting anone disagre
community and in- as a survey of Afro-American The CAAS offices, which are Rhodes has adopted a more prp views they alienate
vestigate first-hand both the History, ares of Black folk, a referred 'to as "The Center" gressive stance. A long-time ade- peo e y are seek
Expe ri en ti a I lea rn ing i n ove r 25 d i ffe ren t set- problems and situations which seminar on Black childhood ex- are located on the second floor idential College, Rhodes has xert
arise there. periences, the politics of libera- of the Ann Arbor Bank building also promoted innovative teach- Fleming believes
During the five years of its tion, and alternative approach- on the corner of East and South ing methods, more flexibility in dents are, not desc
tiihexistence, Afro - American and es to Black education. University street. Owens says distribution requirements and anathv, Wit that the
t e African Studies have played an Owens also claims that a de- that he is trying to see if some- improved counseling services. lv finding differen'
pi ta s, community s e r v i c e s, schools, halfway 'integral part in the academic gree in Afro-American and AP - thing can't be done about the a chievine satisfactio
and social world of the Univer- rican studies "provides a gen- department's unusual office to-| "HE WAS always aware of they did during t
houses homes, etc. sity. (eral preparation for the wide cation but that "everything student needs-although he may strikes and sit-ins.
range of careers in govern- takes time." He is now in the have been bound up in other Fleming believes t
THE PROGRAM, which start- ment and private industry which process of negotiating a sign for constraints at t i m e s," says 'gest nroblem, stude
ed with a half dozen courses, demand a liberal arts training." the office but has had some Morris. the University is "f'
interested: COME TOhas now expanded to a faculty "In addition there is spe- problems with the Bank. However, both friends and I niche and learning
of more than a dozen persons cific preparation-for the numer- For the moment, the office critics of Rhodes agree on one their four years her4
O U TREA CH M A SS M E ET I N Gand offers as many as two doz- ous positions which demand an may occupy only an obscure point-his charm. Emphasizing that
en courses each term. intensive training in the aware- corner of the campus, but the In sharp contrast to the Uni- cation or maturity c
\ For a concentration in Afro- ness of Black experiences," he Afro - American and African versity's other top bureaucrats, ed in the class roor
American and African Studies, Contivees. Studies courses are as well in- Rhodes is almost youthful in "I give the. same
Tuesday, Sept. 10 7 30 p.m .a students needs 24 hours of tegrated and far reaching as apearance. Chivalrons and at- ifreshmen every year
intermediate a n d advanced HOWEVER, the majority of any other department at the tentive, he projects the image I is: 'Don't confine yo
LL AU D IT O RIU M courses, six of which must be i students taking Afro-American University. See VP, Page 7 your books."'
H I LUUIspent on involvement in a com- and African Studies courses are
munity project. not seeking a degree in that 9
(-'-t The purpose of this commun- field. For this reason, OwensX Ic r
l ity involvement is "both train- says, "the program is geared t h *Ia s
ing and service," says the di- to create a general awareness
uestions? Registration Inforrmation and Procedures?- rector of the Center for Afro- of the Black experience among
American Studies (CAAS), Les- the larger student population. By DIANE TREMBLAY (NUBS). Describing the cen-; Both NUBS and t'
COME TO Corner House (Introductory Psychology Building) lie Owens. "It provides the op- Courses are aimed at expand- Ask any engineering student ters' popularity, one civil en-,.ing Center have co
554 Thompson Street (corner of Thompson and Madison) portunity for students to be- ing the liberal arts training by who he spends most of his study gmeering student says, The duty from 8am. u
come familiar with the social including this important seg- time with, and he will probably computing centers are unbeliev- to assist when an
or call 7649279, 764-91 79 and economic circumstances of j ment of knowledge and experi-' answer, "Cynthia!"
he community beyond the Uni- ence." The University's super-com-
HELP OTHERS TO HELP THEMSELVES! versity and to gain first-hand ! CAAS also, has at its disposal puter, IBM System 360/67 is 'MTS is clearly one of the best syst
I ~~~~~~~~experience in improving these a resource library which in- nicknamed "Cynthia" after the M SI lal n ftehs )S
circumstances," he says. cludes current and historical crisp, feminine voice which is operation.'
rerequisies ) AMERICAN AND ieS orks and a variety of other ) its trademark.
syy1rsAFRO - AMERICAN AND documents of theAfro-American s"
African Studies is an "interde- and African populations. Much OFFICIALLY called MTS, for ably crowded at the end of a arise. Beginners ar
S-^partmental"program drawing of this collection is in the form Michigan Terminal System, the term." ed to the facility and
-- ------ ---_'''of microfilm and audio-visual computer which is used in near- ing procedures thr
tapes which provide an import- ly 400 University courses, oper- HE ADDS, "A program run manuals.
ant supplement to the Univer- ates as a service to faculty, re- at 6 p.m. usually won't come
sity library system. search staff, and students. It back from the computer until' THE COMPUTIN
CAAS, in connection with ran 105,256 programs during 3 a.i. the next day. That's publishes a newsle
Trotter house and other Univer- the month of April alone. why so many engineering stu- two weeks which ann
sity centers brings many guest Allen Emery ,associate direc- dents pull all-nighters."
lecturers and performers to the tor of the University Computing "MTS is fool-proof," says as-. cial films and lec
University campus. Owens as- Center, "Superduper," asserts, sociate director of the comput- tem changes, and
serts that these people "provide "MTS is clearly one of the best ing Center Allan Emery. from MTS users.
r B 0 special insights into the current systems in operation." Pranksters and computer wiz- Another servie o
experience of Blacks." "It's two main outlets are ards who dial into the comput- puting Center is the
the Computing Center on North: er from their dorm telephone Information numbe
A N O T H E R IMPORTANT Campus and the North Univer- cannot affect the overall oper- which can be dialed
the professional bookstore aspect of the program is that sity Building Remote Station. ations of the infallible Cynthia. day to check if a job
f pornogra-
pus by stu-
ing of "skin
ty facilities
a," Fleming
t groups to
judgement"
bill of fare.
tations with
fewer than'
irst became
the lull in
o the fact
eft and the
both totali-
by not let-
e with their
e the very
ing to con-
that stu-
ending into
y are mere-
t ways of
n now than
ie days of
hat the big-
nts face at
inding their
to enjoy
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not all edu-
an be learn-
n, he says,
advice to
- and that
urselves to
he Comput-
unselors on
ntil 1b p.em.
y problems
'ems in
e introduc-
I its operat-
ough MTS
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tter every
ounces spe-
urers, sys-
suggestions
f the Cor-
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