GEO ratifies c The Michigan Daily - ontra (Continued from Page 1) Gene Goldenfeld, who coordinated the election for GEO, said that about 50 teaching and staff assistants became new members during the two-week voting process, which ended Tuesday night. Those students included a check for union dues with their ballot. Although the union represents all graduate student assistants, only union members can vote. "I think the fact that we have 637 members indicates that we have a lot more recruiting to do, and we will," said Goldenfeld. NEGOTIATIONS for the current con- tract began in December 1982, two months after GEO members voted down an earlier contract agreement. At that time, a group of GEO mem- bers - including some of the union's leadership - lobbied against that con- tract, calling for better pay, a full tuition break, and affirmative action measures. Although opinions of GEO members are no less diverse now, according to union president Burke, the current leadership is "more united in thinking that this is an acceptable agreement" than was the leadership of the previous year. HOWEVER, FORMER GEO mem- ber Marty Burke, who was on the steering committee last year, contends that the contract that was ratified was not all that different from the one rejec- ted last year. Burn out AP Photo Tracy Stallings, mayor of Carrollton, Ga., marks the start of "The Great Americian Smokeout" by throwing a pack of cigarettes into a fire. Last year 19 million smokers went without a puff in the American Cancer Society's 24-hour program. One of the major reasons for the ratification this year was that "the two people who led last year's opposition, Joe Graves and Jon Bekken, have left town," Burke said. "GEO was left with more rational leaders," GEO also realized that it wasn't going to get everything it wanted from the University, he said. "They had cold water thrown in their faces." GOLDENFELD said that the union "could have come up with a much bet- ter contract. I think with a mobilized membership, we could have gotten a better money and tuition deal and cut class sizes while maintaining our frac- tions and dealt with minority and sexual issues effectively in this con- tract," he said. Said psychology TA Janet Landman, who voted for the contract: "I voted for it with reservations. While the tuition break is overdue and welcome, I wish that it had included a class size iR The Best Tr( Costs Th travel agei by U-M s tuden ~. BUSINESS HOUI St. 9:00 14 Nickels Arco Iii 994-4 12 Nickels Arca 994 Daily staff writer Thomas filed areport for this story. 7mie - filed-a reor frqtisstry , ' f ._ .. .. ' :,a,. .3 zs v £R $41A 7'RA1/ i2 :. -Friday, November 18, 1983 - Page 7 Gt with 'U' limitation. Class size limitation is the only way we have of limiting the nur4- ber of hours we put in." But Cindy Palmer, a TA in th* English department, said that adding issues such as affirmative action iS asking too much in the contract. "As- firmative action is extremely impo tant, but it's unrealistic to expect that sort of thing in the contract," she said. A Palmer is very optimistic about tl* union's future. "I think over the ne'kt few months we'll see a dramatic ini crease in membership. Things have clearly turned around," she said. 2 Dolan-Greene, the University negotiator, declined to comment on whether the contract ratification is a signal of GEO's strength, or whethe. the ratification would influence GEO') position in future negotiations. ._, Medical schools must cut enrollment, economist says CHICAGO (UPI) - An economist yes- terday said it is time for the American Medical Association to recommend at least modest cutbacks in future ad- missions to medical schools in the United States. "I have viewed with growing misgiving all aggressive interventions at both state and federal levels to force the expansion of the physician supply," Eli Ginzberg said in a jurnal of the American Medical Association com- mentary. "Many, probably most, economists believe that a goal of more physicians is desirable public policy because it will improve access and lower fees," he said. "I disagree on both counts." More physicians mean more services and higher - not lower - total costs, he said. Dr. Donald Louria of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jer- sey in Newark said in a letter to the editor medical school enrollment must be cut by 20 percent by the fall of 1985 to prevent a "massive doctor glut." "The caldron boils on how many doc- tors would be excessive, insufficient or enough for this society," said Dr. George Lundberg, the journal's editor. "There is obviously no current or im- pending physician glut in the world." 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