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Thursday, May 25, 1972
ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN
News Phone: 764-0552
NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
U adopts new job
posting procedures
By MERYL GORDON
The University this week adopted a new policy that re-
quires posting of all non-academic job openings in the
University.
Non-academic jobs include clerical, technical and
maintenance positions. Previously these positions have
been listed in the Personnel Office or filled by the unit
with a vacancy.
"Job posting is the open advertizing of vacant posi-
tions available to all members of the community," Admin-
istrative Associate Judith Milestone explained. "The new
policy will make sure that people have enough information
to pick and choose jobs, and change jobs."
Hop along froggily
J. H. Special VII of Fresno.
Calif., hops 'longside his owner.
Gene Fasano, dnring this year's
marathon Calaveras C o u n t y
Jumping Frog Jubilee at Angels
Camp, Calif. J. H. leaped 12
feet, seven inches, about five
feet less than the winning leap
frog leaped. Better luck next
year, J. H.
House vote
olds state
rental bill
LANSING C)--A bill to make
swseeping r eforns io landloird-
tenant relations won a solid vote
of approval yesterday in the
State House.
The measure was sent to the
Senate on an 89-12 vote.
The bill proposes to reduce
virtually all phases of modern
apartment or home rental agree-
ments to writing, with fixed
timetables and procedures for
claiming :amages, filing griev-
ances or recovering funds
In perhaps the most sweeping
proposal,- the bill calls for land-
lords to hold rental deposits is
trust and pay interest to tenants
who, in some cases, could collect
double on their investment in
event of landlord forfeiture.
The bill, sponsored by 32
House members, was introduced
by Rep. Earl Nelson (D-Lans-
ing) after a series of hearings
on residential rent grievances
and rental practices.
Although apparently shaded to-
ward giving tenants new legal
grounds to fight arbitrary and
often inaccessible or unknown
corporate landlords, the measure
writes new ground rules for both
sides.
Each party would be compelled
to submit to open, mutual agree-
ment on responsibility for dam-
age and condition of equipment.
A rental deposit would be
fixed at no more than one
month's rent, payable in install-
ments. To collect it, the landlord
would have to file a statement
of the name of the bank holding
the money and the account num-
ber.
In order to recover it later,
the tenant would have to tender
a forwarding address within
three days of leaving the quar-
ters.
The landlord could claim the
deposit only for reimbursement
for damages or for back rent.
Both landlord and tenant
would have to sign standardized
inventory checklists at the be-
ginning and end of a lease
period. A tenant would have the
right to inspect checklists from
previous tenants, and a final
checklist would have to be
agreed to within five days of a
vacancy.
The new policy inc'uaes a con-
troversial provision that super-
visers not be notified when their
employes are looking for jobs.
At present University policy re-
quires employes to get the sig-
natures of their supervisors if
they want to look for other Uni-
versity jobs.
According to Milestone, a
member of the Commission for
Women. "We wanted women to
be free to look for jobs with-
out their supervisors knowing.
Relationsl ips between employers
and employes can be jeopardized
if the employers are notified."
"We hope to build a job lad-
der in the University," Milestone
said. "Women who accept jobs
below' their capacities. 1 or
monetary reasons, can move sp
from within with the help of job
posting."
Several weeks ago V i c e-,
President for Academic Affairs
Allan Smith announced a new
job posting policy for academic
positions. All positions from in-
structor through profesor will
now be advertised locally and
nationally for at least two
months before a final selection is
made.
The job posting proposal is a
part of the University's affirma-
tive action program. The Uni-
versity formulated the program
after the Department of Health.
Education, and Welfare (HEW)
charged the University with sex
discrimination in the fall, 1970
and threatened to withhold some
federal contracts.
HEW has never officialy ap-
proved the University's goals
and timetables for increased hir-
ing of women.
SIGN RPP PETITION:
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Conference participants urge
decriminalization of marijunana
By DIANE LEVICK consumed daily by millions of tiative was launched by the
Over 40 participants in the Americans." Rainbow People's Party (RPP)
National Research Council Com- Paul Lowinger, a medical doe- May 8. The organization is cir-
mittee on Problems of D r u g tor in the Department of Psy- clating petitions to place on
Dependence have signed a pe- chiatry and Lafayette Clinic at the November ballot a proposed
tition endorsing the decriminali- Wayne State University School amensidment to the state consi-
zation of marijuana, of Medicine, .noted that the 40 tution lemalizing the use and
Participants from the fields of who had already signed as of possession of narijuana.
psychiatry, psychology, and me- yesterday morning constituted The proposal does not apply
dicine attended the three-day almost one third of the meet- to sale of marijuana or use while
conference at Rackham Aud. ing's attendance. operating a vehicle.
which ended yesterday. Lowinger, who supports the State Sens. Coleman Young
The petition, circulated by the petition, said many others fav-
)D-netraii) and Jack Faxan CD-
Michigan Marijuana Initiative ored decriminalization but were
(MMI, states: afraid to sign the petition. Detroit), and State Representa-
"We the participants in t he "Many prefer anonymity," he tives Jackie Vaughn (D-Detroit)
National Research Council 1972 said. 'Their institutions might and Dale Warner (R-Eaton Rap-
meeting on Problems of Dr u g be critical of them if they sign- ids) support the marijuana imi-
Dependence endorse the oppor- ed. They're afraid for t h e i r tiative
tunity for voters of Michigan to status and for their rcsearch
decriminalize marijana." funding." RPP spokesperson David Fen-
"There is no rational scienti-
f- .- , -n "+n,,a;, The Michigan Marijuana Ini- See DOCTORS. Page 7
fie or medical reason to main-
tain criminal penalties for the
use and possesion of marijuana.
Fears about marijuana have
been greatly exaggerated. While
no substance is completely safe
for everyone, marijuana is no
more dangerous than substances
Record education aid bill
approved State House
LANSING, Mich. (A) - Michigan education would get a re-
cord $1.108 billion in state aid for the next school year under a bill
passed yesterday by the Senate.
The bill was sent to the House for consideration.
The state school aid bill, about half of the state's proposed
$2.27 budget, weon Senate approval by a 24 to 6 vote.
The bill appropriates $87.7 million more than the current school
appropriation, but $16.3 million less than Gov. William Milliken
recommended.
The bill contains provisions to decrease state aid to some
wealthy districts and increase it to poorer school systems.
High-value districts with property assessed in the $34,000
range would receive less from the state than previously, while
districts forced to levy taxes on less valuable property would re-
ceive more state money, according to Senate tax sources.
The largest chunk of state aid -- some $735.6 million -- would
go for general classroom and student funding. That amount is
$50.6 million more than currently budgeted.
The Senate also provided $62 million for special education,
$7 million more than the current budget; $34.7 million for trans-
portation, $2.1 million more than now; and $5.9 million for inter-
mediate districts, $400,000 more than now.
The bill appropriates for Detroit some $22.5 million for con-
pensatory education, the same as at present.
No state school aid money could be used to finance possible
court-ordered cross-district busing for desegregation, under an
amendment offered by Sen. Gilbert Bursley (R-Ann Arbor) educa-
tion committee chairman.
Bursley said such financing, if needed, could be made up in
a later supplemental bill, He said he wanted to assure that money
earmarked for in-district busing or special education transporta-
tion would not be siphoned off for cross-district busing.
The Senate bill also provides that school districts which con-
solidate will receive for at least two years the same amount of
school aid they got the previous year.
Bankrupt school district also would receive $150 state aid per
student, instead of the $133 originally recommended by the appro-
priations committee.
Hot assignment!
Fire fighters in Port Washington, N.Y. hit the deck yesterday as
flaming gasoline boils from a tank truck after it collided with a
car. The accident, on U.S. 141, snarled traffic for three hours.