The Michigan Daily - Monday, March 9, 1987 - Page 31 Bigfoot promises to focus on minorities State mediator enters GEO contract talks (Continued from Page 1) The party platform includes a plan to fight any code, including a group to organize demonstrations, meetings, and letter-writing cam- paigns. Newblatt is a member of the assembly's campus governance co- mmittee, vice chair of its dev- elopment committee, and a member of the University Council, a board established to draft a code. Heckstall was the president of the Markley Minority Affairs Council, parliamentarian of the Black Student Union, and is currently the vice president of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity., Newblatt and Heks&tal want to establish a paid student organ- izations counselor at MSA to help incoming students ,get involved on campus. According to Newblatt, if the students join a group via MSA they will likely to bind the group closer to the assembly. The party specifically addresses MSA interaction with minority organizations. And according to Heckstall, the party has tried to "emphasize minorities on our ticket." The party slate includes seven minority students and five women. Heckstall and Newblatt say Minority Peer Advisors should receive a stipend in addition to room and board to attract qualified minority leaders to those positions. The party also wants MSA to help finance a renovation of the Trotter House, a cultural center for minority students which has been plagued by inadequate funds. In addition, the party favors a mandatory freshman course to discuss and combat racism. Both candidates oppose the funding of the Public Interest Research Group in Michigan HEckstall ...-opposes code through the assembly. Newblatt said he thinks PIRGIM should have been handled through the regents but will abide by the mandate of the student body. The Bigfoot party supports the "end-use" clause for military research which prevents research that can kill or maim human beings, and a mechanism to enforce it. By ANDY MILLS The Graduate Employees Org- anization and the University, failing to reach a contract agreement after a week of negotiations, have decided to bring in a state-assigned med- iator. The existing contract between the GEO, which will represent the University's 1700 teaching ass- istants, and the University has been extended indefinitely. Either side can terminate the contract on seven days' notice. Talks will resume after the mediator, Edmund Phillips, can be contacted and a date set. Phillips, of the Michigan Employment Relations Commission, mediated talks between the GEO and the University during contract negotiat- ions last fall. According to Richard Dees, a member of the GEO bargaining team, the two sides are "still pretty far apart" on the issues, including a tuition waiver, a salary increase, limitations on class size, and paid TA training. When talks ended Thursday night, the GEO proposal asked for a full tuition waiver - the current waiver is 56 percent of in-state tuition - a salary increase of eight percent next year and 6 percent the following year, paid training for new TAs, a departmental-set limit on class size, and an extension of the tuition waiver for the Spring and Summer terms. The University's final offer, according to Dees, is a salary increase of zero percent and an increase in the tuition waiver of tens percent in 1987-88 as well as a two-and-a half percent salary raise and an additional eight percent tuition waiver the next year. In each of the past three years; the graduate tuition has increasedo eight percent, more than the rise in the national inflation rate. The GEO will hold a general membership meeting on Thursday, where the contract negotiations will be discussed. BUSINESS Blacks face racial bias (Continued from Page 2) One former University student rather than being drawn away from who spoke at the Hood hearing general campus life, black students said, "My reasons for leaving the ,ho are active in black University are as complex as the organizations "manage to create and racism that exists here." When maintain favorable social relat- asked to be interviewed, she ionships with blacks and whites, declined, saying her experiences at faculty and students." the University were too These students tend to have emotionally draining for her to better interpersonal skills, which relate them. lead to a greater involvement in Royster said students who have both black student life and campus experienced such compound student life in general, according to obstacles sometimes feel Allen. stigmatized by their situation, and Other Students may be reluctant to vocalize their Barbara Robinson, who as frustrations. Minority Student Service "You're damned if you need representative sees many students help, and you're damned if you :daily, said she is concerned about don't get help," she said. the students who "fall through the Robinson emphasized that other cracks" - the students for whom minorities and special group the University can be an students, such as those from rural overwhelming place and who may areas, may also face this social and leave college. cultural displacement. Of the 203 black students who "It's not necessarily a racial entered the University in 1979, thing. You don't have to be black only 119 (58.6 , percent) had to feel uncomfortable here in Ann graduated by 1985. While the six- Arbor, it's a matter of adjusting to year retention rate has been an unfamiliar situation," Robinson improving each year, it is still far said. But she emphasized that black below the 74.5 graduation rate for students face the greatest set of all students. obstacles in adjusting to a new Allen notes that although environment. academic difficulties were cited by And the adjusttne'nt can be studentas,.4iApiary g s, Nusiutrating. 4 - other students leaving the One student recently asked University, these academic Royster, "'When am I just going to problems are rooted in other factors be all right just the way I am?... such as "cultural shock" or I'm not going to be too black or "difficulty of social adjustment." . too poor. When am I just going to Thirty-two percent of the be all right?"' students called "feelings of isolation or lack of asssociation with blacks" Tomorrow: the University's the most serious problem they face. minority policies and programs. ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT APPLYING TO GRADUATE SCHOOL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF EDUCATION? 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