Thursday, September 4, 1975 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Thirteen Thursday, September 4, 1975 THE MICHIGAN DAILY 'U' fails in affirmative action hiring;' relects black woman for deanship. LIBRARY PREVIEW 1975 Auditorium 4 MLB Wed. & Thurs., Sept. 3 & 4 t 12:00f 1:00, 2:001,3:00, (Continued from Page 5) and minorities groups blasted Fleming and Rhodes for their "bad faith" actions and the "sham" contract offer, the two administrators released a joint statement defending their ac- tions - the first since the five- month brou-ha-ha began. Fleming and Rhodes accused the committee's report of suf- fering from "fragmentary evi- dence and simple speculation," about the rejection. of Cobb. THEY both maintained that their decision to support Frye over a highly qualified black woman was correct in view of his experience and outweighed the necessity for affirmative ac- tion. "The real argument," said Fleming, "is over whether ex- perience can be allowed to play and important role in the choice when women and minorities have, by; reason of our social structure, been given fewer op- portunities to acquire the ex-, perience. "We thought that in the pres- midst of appointng a ten-mem- ent situation with the college ber search committee. By Sep- under severe and continuing fi- tember the committee should be nancial pressure,, it was desir- bethcomtesoude able to have the most experi actively considering possible enced person in the position." candidates, hopefully "withoutl prejudice" As the report rec- REGARDLESS of the financial ommended.r t difficulties facing the Univer- Maybe by this time next year, sity, the administration's actions LSA will finally have its dean. in dealing with the Cobb affair But whether it's the administra- still fly in the face of affirma- tion's dean, or that of the Uni- tive action. versity in general, remains to m i. 4:001 6:30, 7:30, 8:30. $- _------ _ _ .. ----.-.-_.- - . .- . Daily Cl assifieds Get Results be seen. In addition, once all the evi-I dence was in, it appeared as if Fleming and Rhodes had used their influence over the Univer- sity through the tenure issue to subvert the Regents' choice of Cobb. And in the end, the adminis- tration took the easy way out. The committee's report recom- mended that the University do one of two things - recontinue negotiations with Cobb, or ap- point a new deanship search committee and start all over *again. At the time this article is be- ing written, Fleming is in the University Lut &Studen 1511 Washtenaw Avenue ALFREDT. SCE heran Chapel it Center 663-5560 H EIPS, Pastor Cop union may sue city, THERE ARE SEVERAL day care centers like this one around the city. The centers provide care workers, facilities, and, with their children in good hands, allow both parents to work. However, often times the centers are expensive because the city provides few funds for their upkeep. Last spring, voters turned down a proposal to provide centers with more funds be- cause of a wording error in the amendment. HRPrent control ballot issue crunched at Apri voting polls (Continued from Page 11) COUNCILWOMAN Liz Keogh tal unit taxes according to a HOWEVER, the anticipated (D-First Ward), formerly Liz study commissioned by a joint citizens' study committee will Taylor, stated in July, "The rent legislative committee in that not be looking at proposed rent control ordinance should include state. control in the city for the first provisions requiring repairs and A landlord-dominated group, time. maintenance" by landlords. Citizens for Good Housing, spent Last April a controversial rental control ballot issue suf- The intent of last April's rent fered its second sound defeat in control proposal stated in its as many years, while drawing text that the intent was "to es- hated, charesand rbutalntablish a rent control mechan-' heated charges and rebuttals ism hat will lower rents to rea- concerning its legality and ef- sonable levels or prevent unrea- fects. sonable increases in rents, and City Republicans and land- prevent deterioration of existing lords attacked rent control ashusgsppy"Tetxges "tooghy dngru" andhousing supply."dneos" ad.The text goes on reasoning why rent control contended it would dry up hous- is needed, "There is a serious ing, reduce maintenance, and shortage of reasonably- actually raise reiits- priced, well-maintained rental housing for people of low or THE HRP branded the anti- moderate income." rent con"I allegations as "lies City Republicans and local in an attempt to defeat rent landlords blasted the defeated control." proposal in April contending it The proposal defeated last would increase prdArgrty taxes, spring was similar to one solid- deteriorate service, and put a ly defeated a year-and-a-half halt to new construction. ago, however, i m p o r t a n t However, no campus rental changes were made to make housing has been built in the the new ballot issue more flex- past six years, making the con- ible than the old. struction freeze charge a moot But apparently city officials point. believed that the HRP's rent* control concept was still not AS FOR the claim that prop- flexible enough and failed to erty taxes would rise under rent provide for adequate housing in- I control, in Massachusetts, con- spection. trol has actually decreased ren- some $30,000 fighting the rent control issue during the elec- tions. Randolph Wilson of Wilson- White Associates, a local ren- tal agency, contributed some $2,300; Norris Post, of Post Realty, and Investment gave $740; and Robert Weiser, man- ager of McKinley Associates - the largest realty firm in the city - contributed $325. ATTORNEY General Frank Kelley jumped in the heated ring last March declaring, "This proposed amendment is not con- fined to one subject and accord- ingly does not fully comply with state law," and later refused ap- proval of the ballot question. Michigan law states, "Any . . . proposed amendment shall be confined to one subject." However, Kelley's opinion did not prevent the proposal from appearing on the ballot as the referendum received support through voter initiative and could only be thrown out in the courts if passed by the people. (Continued from Page 11) 1 to accuse Murray of "conspir- acy" for not giving a hearty endorsement of the agreed on contract. Pointing out that the union was twice assured b city nego- tiators that the contract would garner enough council votes to pass, Valenti claimed that Mur- ray publically endorsed the pact after privately suggesting that council members nix it during the Monday night session. Murray strongly denied the charges, suggesting that Valenti was merely using him as a scapegoat to cover up for the union leader's own procrastina- tion in not filing for compulsory arbitration in time to allow ap- proved benefits to be retro- active. THE CURRENT police con- tract expired on June 30, 1974, and Michigan law commands that unions file for arbitration before their current contracts expire in order to receive retro- active benefits. OPEN 24 HOURS Wolverine Den, Restaurant Pizzeria We Specialize in j " Sicilian Pizza " Regular Italian Pizza ALSO SERVING COMPLETE MENU GREEK SPECIALS 769.8364 1201 S. 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