The Michigan Daily-Friday, May 12, 1978-Page 3,,
Crucial GEO hearings co
By THOMAS O'CONNELL
Hearings which will determine the
future status of Graduate Student
Assistants (GSAs) continued into their
third day at the Michigan Union yester-
day, with testimony being heard from
several witnesses.
The sessions were ordered by the
Michigan Employment Relations
Commission (MERC) in order to
determine the key question of whether
GSAs are primarily students, as the
administration asserts, or employees of
the University.
A decision in favor of the ad-
ministration could severely hamper
future efforts at collective bargaining
by the Graduate Employees
Organization (GEO), as well as
destroy their chances of winning an un-
fair labor practice charge which they
are currently pursuing against the ad-
ministration. The charge stems from a
1976 contract dispute.
Doily Photo by rt I E T sLING
Administrative Law Judge Shlomo Sperka presides over hearings which will
determine the future of GEO. The hearings are being held in Room 2304 of the
Michigan Union.
Itinue
The day's most significant event was
the presentation of a resolution from
the Senate Advisory Committee on
University Affairs (SACUA) urging a
decision which will hold-the GSAs to be
primarily students. SACUA is the
executive committee of the faculty
Senate Assembly, a 65-member body
elected from the various schools and
colleges in the University.
Although Administrative Law Judge
Shlomo Sperka, who was designated by
MERC to preside over the sessions, did
not allow the document to be entered as
an exhibit in the hearing, it was placed
in a rejected exhibit file which may be
reviewed by MERC.
Sperka apparently felt the resolution
was irrelevant.
The SACUA document was presented
by Professor Charles Lehmann of the
School of Education, who had been
called to testify by the University.
Lehmann, a former SACUA member,
says he feels the resolution reflects the
sentiments of the overall faculty.
Lehmann said the reason for
SACUA's opposition to the recognition
of GSA's as employees is that such a
decision would put professors in the
position of supervisors. According to
Lehmann, most faculty prefer the
traditional professor-student relation-
ship.
However, Lehmann emphasized that
the faculty is not indifferent to the
problems of the graduate assistants.
"The faculty is very concerned with
GSAs," said Lehmann, "they're just
worried about this kind of relation-
ship."
GED president Mike Clark disagreed
with Lehmann's belief that the SACUA
resolution represents the sentiments of
most of the faculty.
"I don't think that it (SACUA) does
represent the faculty in general across
campus," said Clark. He said the at-
tempt to introduce the resolution was
typical of the University's tactics in the
hearings.
"Most of the University's case so far
is based on irrelevant material," Clark
asserted. "The University hasn't
produced any real evidence yet. I'm
surprised the University would do
something like this. They're going to
lose"
'Conventional arms' talks planned
WASHINGTON (AP) - The United billion package of jets for Israel, Egypt shipments of necessary
States and the Soviet Union have and Saudi Arabia. But Carter said the allies and friends," hesai
agreed for the first time to begin timing was coincidental. On an 8-8 vote,
negotiations to limit conventional arms the panel refused to approve a CARTER ALSO said t
sales. resolution aimed at blocking the arms agreement was reache
In a joint communique issued yester- sales. States would consult wit
day, the two countries said, "The and invite the participat
problem of limiting international tran- CARTER SAID the first meeting in of the world's major arm
sfers of conventional arms is urgent," the series will take place early this Carter refused to dis
-and agreed to hold talks. But that was summer, at a date and place as yet un- the United States or So
all they agreed on. determined. In the meantime, the He said that neither s
DEPARTMENT spokesman Hodding world will get an idea of how far apart detailed plans for limitin
Carter acknowledged that both coun- the two countries are when they present the initial session, whic
tries have in the past called for their positions on the subject to the Helsinki last week.
restraints on the transfer of conven- United Nations General Assembly's Earlier this year, Pr
tional arms, a category which covers Special Session on Disarmament later announced a new poli
all military equipment except nuclear this month. ceiling on conventional a
explosives. Nothing has come of those Carter indicated that the United and by his calculations,
statements. States plans to maintain its special ar- sales by $700 million. He
But Carter noted that 'this is the first ms sales relationship with the NATO figure by throwing out t
time the United States has agreed to a countries, Australia, New Zealand and "exempt" NATO and Pa
continuing set of concrete Japan. Those nations have already figuring in a discount for
negotiations." He called that develop- been placed in a special, exempt in total actual doll
ment' promising.t category in the administration's ministration conceded,i
The announcement came on the same unilateral efforts to reduce its arms failed to reduce the levc
day the Senate Foreign Relations sales. had allowed them to incr
Committee considered one of the sale.ihadnallowedtthem tolincr
biggestconventional arms sale "We will not let these talks jeopardize $2 billion.
proposals in American history, the $4.8
Alive and well in Juneau for 13 years, claims to have had this
Right about at the top of the list of names that problem all his life. In college, he said roommates
evoke the question "Is so-and-so still alive?" is Ir- used to wake him up with squirt guns. Before the
ving Berlin. He hasn't written a Broadway show in board members made their decision, Carpenter told
16 years-the last, "Mr. President," was a resoun- them he had made an appointment for tests at a
ding flop-and he has lived a quiet life in his Stanford University sleep disorder clinic. Too late,
Manhattan townhouse overlooking the East River. said the board, and tough luck.
But despite his obscurity, Irving Berlin turned 90 Happenings . . .
yesterday at what one friend described as a "quiet Happenings today are a wide assortment. They
family gathering." Berlin has been writing songs start with the International Center's tour of the
continuously since his last show, and has "a lot of Detroit Science Center and Art Institute. Leaving
unpublished stuff lying around." But even when the International Center at 1 p.m. sharp; bring $2
Berlin finally goes, the legend won't. As songwriter for admission to the Science Center .. . Then at 3
Jerome Kern once put it: "Irving Berlin has no p.m., a lecture on "Weighted Polynomial Ap-
place in American music; he is American music." proximations," a special lecture sponsored by the
Anyway, happy birthday. Math department. Speaker is Prof. G. Freud of Ohio
State. Lecture will be in 3201 Angell Hall . . .
Too little, too late At 7:30 p.m., the U-M Astronomical Film Festival
Juneau school teacher Tom Carpenter is out of a presents The Quiet Sun and Skylab and the Sun,
job, because he can't seem to get out of bed in the as well as a lecture on "The Last Eclipse" (your
morning. The Juneau, Alaska school board upheld last chance to see a total solar eclipse from the con-
his dismissal, stating the fact that Carpenter had tiguous U.S. in this century). Program begins
been late to school 41 times since 1972, 20 of them in promptly, so don't be late. Auditorium 3, MLB ...
the last year. Carpenter claims he has a sleeping And a harpsichord recital by Geoffrey Thomas
disorder, and that he sets seven alarms every mor- follows at 8 p.m. His program will be presented in
ning but some of them rang so long without waking the Pendleton Arts Center, second floor, Michigan
him that they just wore out. Carpenter, who taught Union. And that's all.
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Rolling with the punches?
Sandra Jones dropped out of the Florida Highway
Patrol Academy, she says, because a boxing in-
structor knocked her to the floor nine times and the
next day ordered her to run around the academy
building until told to stop. But the order to stop
never came-and she ran nearly four hours, stop-
ping only when her toes began'to bleed. Jones reluc-
tantly withdrew from the academy this week after
only eight days of training. "I didn't quit because of
the boxing," she said. "I quit because I think I was
punished for going to the doctor after the boxing. I
wanted to be a law enforcement officer, not a gym-
nast." The boxing instructor, Sgt. Walt Sherman,
denied that he had left Jones to run endlessly. He
also said he held back on his punches with her. "I
only hit her with my arms. I didn't put the weight of
my body behind the punches," he said.
On the outside.. .
Today calls for warm weather, but take your
umbrella. The high is going to be about 74' but the
forecast calls for overcast skies or, if you prefer,
"variable cloudiness." And there is a chance of
thundershowers in the late afternoon. Chances will
be increased if you've just had your car washed.
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