The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, April 12, 1983-Page 3 EMU lays off non-union profs By CARL WEISER Eastern Michigan University temporarily laid off more than 50 professors last week for failure to pay union fees. The university has a contract agreement with the American Association of University Professors requiring non-union professors to pay a service fee to the union, amounting to .75 percent of a professor's alary minus state and national dues. BUT SOME professors have chosen not to pay the fee and face 10-hour layoffs scheduled for times when they do not have classes, according to university of- ficials. Until last November, when the AAUP and the university agreed on a new contract, professors were allowed to either pay the service fee or donate the money to an EMU scholarship fund, said AAUP of- ficial John Nightingale. But so many non-union professors failed to con- tribute to either the scholarship or the union that the AAUP put a clause in the new contract requiring the, university to enforce fee payments. SOME OF THE laid-off professors have chosen not to pay the fee because they feel the union is too powerful. EMU Chemistry Professor Giles Carter says he objects to the fee for "philosophical reasons." "The union misuses its power," Carter said. "It's shot through with professional criminals." Some also say that a union just isn't necessary. "We're professionals. We're no punching a clock," Carter said, adding that he thought he could rely on the administration for good salaries. BUT UNION official Nightingale said there was "no reason not to pay." The union represents all professors whether they are union members or not, Nightingale said. "We're just forcing them to con- tribute to the cost of representation," he said. He added that any raises negotiated by the union apply to all professors, such as the 5 percent raise the union won last Novembert. "Carter just wants something for nothing," he said. "He's doing it for the monetary gain." CARTER DENIED the charges, saying "I challenge the union to kick me out and let me negotiate my own salary. I just want the union off my back." Carter even offered to donate $1,000 to the scholar- ship fund every year if the union stopped forcing him to pay "this unnecessary tax. "I just don't want the union to tell me what to do," he said. SOME professors who were targeted for layoffs have paid their fees. But others have banded together to form Faculty for Fair Employment Practices, ac- cording to Associate Professor of Production Management Bob Crowner. The group will try to make sure that any service fees paid by non- members will only be used for collective bargaining and not to fund political parties, Crowner said. As for recourse against the university, Crowner said that the professors are considering asking the non-union professors to stop any voluntary work for the university. Carter said that he was not optimistic that legal ac- tion could be successful - "The whole state of Michigan is warped in favor of unions," he said. But he added that the professors are "talking to a lawyer." -HAPPENINGS- Highlight ' he Unon Arts Poetry Series continues today with Hopwood winner Tina Michelle Datsko, who will read her poetry at 12:10 p.m. in the Pendleton Rm. of the Union. Films AAFC - The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, 7 p.m.; Boys in the Band, 9:15 p.m., Aud. A, Angell Hall. Ecumenical Campus Center - The War Game, noon, International Cen- ter. Performances Fair Lane-Luncheon/Concert, selections by Sctuman, Mozart, and original pieces by Michael Mclean, noon, Sisson Rm. Music at Michigan - University Symphony Orchestra, Leon Fleisher, conductor, 8 p.m.; Exhibition Hall; Voice Recital, Steve Mattar, 8 p.m., Recital Hall. Minority Student Services - 2nd Annual Ethnic Theatre Festival, El Teatro de la Esperanza, 8 p.m., Performance Network. Theatre - "Calle Sol or the Multifarious Reincarnations of Daniel O'Reilly Rivera," 8p.m., Trueblood Arena, Frieze Bldg. Speakers HGD - Fred Karsch, "How the Pineal Gland Measures Time," noon, 300 N. Ingalls Bldg. Bioengineering - Wilson Hayes, "Long Bone Remodeling," 4-5 p.m., 1042 E. Eng. Geological Sciences - Wallace Pitcher, "The Coastal Batholith of Peru as an Example of the Varied Nature of Granite Emplacement," 4 p.m., 4001 C.C. Little. Urban Planning - Mitch Rycus, "Urban Futures," 11 a.m., 1040 Dana. ISR - Albert Cain, "Impact of Suicide on Surviving Family Members," 7:30 p.m., 6050 ISR. Architecture - Edmund Bacon, "The American Urban Experience," 8 p.m., Chrysler Cntr. Aud. Chinese Studies - Dhiravadhana Tan, "A Glimpse of Chinese Buddhism," noon, Commons Rm., Lane Hall. Chemistry - Henry Freiser, "Kinetics of Solvent Extractions Involving Metal Chelate Systems," 2p.m., 1200 Chem. Program in American Culture - John Bukowczyk, "Transformation of Working-Class Ethnicity: Corporate Control, Americanization, & the Polish Immigrant Middle Class in Bayonne, N.J., 1915-25," 4 p.m., E. Conf. Rm., Rackham. Museum of Art - Art Break, Bobby Levine, "Forest Prairie & Plains: Native American Art," 12:10 p.m., W. Gallery; John Ang, "Chinese Fur- niture," 12:30-12:50 p.m., Asian Gallery. Latin American Solidarity Comm. - Vernon Bellecourt, "Miskitu In- dians," 8p.m., Anderson Rm. Union. Dept. of Communication - Charles Cannell, "ISR: Its development & Links to Communication," 4 p.m., W. Conf. Rm., Rackham. Ann Arbor Public Library - Marshall Tymn, "Booked for Lunch," 12:10 p.m., Public Meeting Rm. Materials and Metallurgical Eng. - A. Moet, "Irreversible Deformation and Fatigue of Polymers," 11:30 a.m., 1005 Dow Bldg. Dept. of Statistics - Persi Diaconis, "Card Shuffling and Group Represen- tations," 3:30 p.m., 1447 Mason Hall. Rudolph Steiner Institute - Anthony Taffs, "The Tragedy of Lord Bulwer Lytton," 8 p.m., 1923 Geddes. Meetings Narcotics Anonymous - 7 p.m., St. Joseph Hospital, Professional Bldg., Rm. 1729. Michigan Judo Club - 6:30 p.m., I.M. Sports Bldg. NOW - 7:30 p.m., Unitarian Church, 1917 Washtenaw. Ann Arbor Go Club - 7-11 p.m., 1433 Mason Hall. His House Christian Fellowship - Bibly Study, 7:30 p.m., 925 E. Ann. Society of Christian Engineers - Brown Bag mtg., noon, 315 W. Eng. Baptist Student Union - 7 p.m., 2439 Mason Hall. Aikido - Practice, teacher, T. Kushida, Wrestling Rm., Athletic Bldg. Racquetball - Practice, 8-10 p.m., Cts. 10 & 11. CCRB. Miscellaneous CEW - Job Hunt Club, 12-1:30 p.m., 350 S. Thayer. Student Woods and Crafts Shop - Introduction to Woodworking, Sec., 7-10 p.m., 537 SAB. Free Income Tax Assistance - 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., 3909 Union. Aliance Francaise d' Ann Arbor - Le Milieu du Monde, will be shown at meeting, 8 p.m., Emanual Franch House, Oxford housing. Gay Pride Week Planning Commission - Open meeting, 7:30 p.m., Conf. Rm. C, Michigan League. Pigs With Wings - Brown Jug for beer & discussion as part of the first an- nual "Going Hog Wild Week," after midnight; program, 10 p.m. to midnight, ' Half-Way Inn, East Quad. The Philippine Michigan Club'- Presentation of the club's painting of Philippine National War Hero Dr. Jose Rizal to Michigan Historical Society, 7:30 p.m., Bentley Library. Phi Alpha Theta - peer counseling for history classes, 10 a.m. to noon, 4632 Haven Hall. Psychology - Peer counseling for undergrads interested in psychology courses, graduate school, or careers, 12-1 p.m., 1018 Angell Hall. To submit items for the Happenings Column, send them in care of Happenings, The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynar'd St., Ann Arbor, MI. 48109. Holocaust gathering reunites survivors From AP and UPI WASHINGTON - Jolan Deitch wore a T-shirt emblazoned with her original name and hometown in Hungary. She was looking for relatives. Martin Stat- field carried a hand-lettered sign, sear- ching for a friend named "Janek," last seen when the allies liberated Hitler's death camps. So began yesterday a gathering of more than 9,000 Americans and Canadians who, by surviving, defied Adolph Hitler's "Final Solution" to ex- terminate every Jew in Europe. Six million perished. SOME USED electronics in the sear- ch for friends and kin, lining up before computer terminals to look for names from long ago and for the names of those who share a link to their old villages, or to their ghettos, in pre-war Europe. The meeting - the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Sur- vivors - was called to remind the world of the Holocaust, to 'warn that such an event could happen again in an indifferent world, to thank America for post-war haven and to locate lost acquaintpnces, said Benjamin Meed, a Polish-born survivor who organized the gathering. Author Elie Wiesel, an Auschwitz survivor, said that he and the others in the death camp heard the explosion of bombs falling on nearby Germany fac- tories and "were praying to God for the pilot to come closer to us. We wanted them to bomb the camps, even if it meant to die." Why? "EACH TIME, each day that we saw no bombing meant for the killers that the world didn't care ... Nobody cared about the victims; nobody except the killers." Doily Photo by WENDY GOULD Legal views The crisp, clean geometry of the Law Library makes an eerie setting for this committed student yesterday. I ar, ,: :,... . t r. Ily-s~ I t. Corps enjoy your job and your spare time too! 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