liet it i :43 til Val. LXXXI, No. 55-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, July 28, 1971 Ten Cents Eight Pages Legislature set to begin debate on 'U' appropriations bill today ,A tio r0haln The akAging verfiowi By JONATHIAN MILL ER Shseiiff's Department Captain El; lint Fredland sits back in his tiny office at the county jail. "Whoever designed this place, he says, "should've been hanged, drawn and quartered." Though Fredland hastens to add, "I'm not running a Statler-Hilton here and I've no intention of doing so," he sees serious deficiencies with the present jail and is looking to the day when he and his 115 prisoners can move out of their cramped quarters in the 35 year - old building on Ann Street and into a new stricture, "desi ned with the future in mind.''> "I've even got plans," Fredland whimsically says, "for a building with a central administrative and processing area with cell blocksf fanning out from the middle." But for now, Fredland's plans are only a pipe dream. At present, the Washtenaw County Jail is sad- ly deficient and overcrowded,F' Sheriff's Dept. officers will can- didly admit. Sheriff Douglas Harvey's Un-F dershseriff, Harold Owings, is the a departmental officer responsible for overseeing operations at thet jail, Owings sees the jail as being btdly below standardsin "at least" eight niajor areas." Though stressing that the "oiily real solution is a new jail," the Undersheriff psits these prioritiesI as those which the jail must meet -Da y-Jim Judkis See OFFICIALS, Page 3 For "troublemakers": The incorrigible cell at the County Jail AIMED AT SEX BIAS Funding still falls short of 'UJ' requests By ALAN LENHOFF Special To The 1aily LANSING -- The Senate Appropriations Committee yesterday reported to the S e n a t e the $312.1 million 1971-72 H i g h e r Education Bill which would provide the University's Ann Arbor cam- pus with a general fund al- location of $72,233,000. That allocation represents an increase of $1.2 million over the amount suggested or Ann Ar- bor by Gu. William Millikems last February. It approved by the Legislature, the bill would all far short ot th $89,382,000 originally re- quested by University officials last fall, and represents an in- crease of only $2.9 million over last year's appropriation to the Ann Arbor campus. Not surprisingly, the proposed bill provides no funds for con- tinuation of the University's an- nual subsidy to the city of Ann Arbor for police and fire serv- ices-which last year amounted to about $1.2 million. Members of the Legis lature have long maintaied that these payments are creating dissen- sion in other state campus town -none of which currently re- ceive support from the colleges they house. Specifically, the funds added to Milliken's proposal are ear- marked for: -Increasing the enrollment of the dental and medical schools( $320,000n; -Increasing the total num- ber of Ann Arbor students by 296 ($718,00); and -Correcting a "non-existent surplus" of $18,009 in the Uni- versity's general fund which had incorrectly been anticipated by the governor. The bill is unusual in that the Senate rarely increases, the gov- ernor's budget recommendations for higher education, and often reduces his figures substantially. Tomorrow, the Senate is ex- pected to approve the bill with little or no alterations. Shortly after, it will be sent to the House for action r The House in past years has tended to approve higher educa- tion funding at levels slightly exceuding the Senate This year, observers predict that t e House See 'U', Page2 Senate nixes tax hike here Special to The Daily LANSING - The Senate yes- terday rejected overwhelmingly a House-passed bill to raise the state personal income tax from .9 per cent to 3.9 per cent The bill, which would increase income tax payments by S0 per cent, will now go to a House- Senate conference committee Bth Democrats and Republi- cans indicated they wanted more information on what the in- creased revenues from the bill would be ued for, Equal pay bill to become law By P.E. BAUER A bill guaranteeing equal pay for equal work in the same job, which will insure pay equity for all employes from factory workers through professionals, is due to be signed by Gov. William Milliken today. It has been de- signed specifically to eliminate sex discrimi- nation. If signed, the bill is expected to become law April 1, 1972. The bill, an amendment to the state Mini- mum Wage Act of 1964, follows the guide- lines set by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, enforced by the federal government. This will allow it to make use of federal pre- cedents which have already been set, while at the same time extending the legislation's jurisdiction. The bill covers all employes-including pro- fessionals, faculty, and administrators- working for employers of more than four per- sons. Enforcement of the provisions would be effected by the state Department of Labor. Under the law previously in effect, equal pay for equal work was enforceable only in cases involving low level employes who worked for employers of less than eight peo- ple. Under the new provisions, employes would be forbidden to differentiate between male and female employes doing the same job by means of salary, except when the payment is made on the basis of a seniority system, a merit system, a system which measures earn- ings by quantity or quality of production, or a differential based on a factor other than sex. A suspected violation of the new law would be tried in a "Show Cause" hearing, in which the Department of Labor would take an em- ployer to court. Unless the employer could prove that his practices were not discrimina- tory, he would be required to alter his wage scale and administer back pay accordingly. The employer convicted of using a dis- criminatory pay scale would be obligated to raise the lower salary to a rate which is equal or comparable to the higher one. The back pay allocated would cover the period from the acceptance of the bill as law to the time of the hearing, not to exceed three years, Employes who suspect that they are the victims of discriminatory pay practices would also be able to bring their cases to court. If the employe should win such a self-initiated case, the employe would be awarded double back pay..This practice is intended to give the state's employers an incentive to review their wage scales, while at the same time urging employes to examine their own cases. Representatives of the University's Wom- en's Commission are hopeful that the passage of this bill may be successful in furthering the commission's efforts to eliminate sex dis- crimination within the University. According to commission member Helen Forsyth, "The University was confronted with the, concept of equal pay for equal work during the Cheryl Clark case, and they stated that it was a simplistic one, suitable only for lower level jobs. This new law would enable us to be more efficient in such cases." Cheryl Clark, a research assistant with the Highway Safety Research Institute filed a complaint with the University last January charging that a male employed in the same job classification with the same duties re- ceives a higher salary. Clark's charges were reviewed under the University grievance procedures and declared unfounded by the University. Her case is soon to be appealed. In a letter commenting on her case, Presi- dent Robben Fleming argued against the universal applicability of the concept of equal pay for equal work. He stated that long-standing practices of any university in the administration of its personnel provide payment of different sala- ries to persons with different academic de- gree levels although they are doing "what the industrial world would call the same job." He cited an example of a professor and as- sistant professor, both of whom would be do- ing substantially the same job but would be paid differently.