The Michigan Daily -Wednesday, September 14, 1988- Page 3 MSU derical M staff strikes BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS bAbout 2,300 secretaries and :other employees went on strike yesterday at Michigan State Uni- versity, while the school lined up extra temporary help for registra- tion next week, a university spokesperson said. Several groups of 20 to 3C pickets appeared on the Michigar State campus in East Lansing as the Clerical-Technical Union be- gan its strike, union spokespersor Laura Saeger said. "We're hopeful that the university will believe now that this group is willing to stand up and fight for what is right, and we hope they will come to the table ready to bargain in good faith,' Saeger said. University spokespersor Cheryl Jensen said the university had made plans to register its 44,000 students starting Monday as scheduled, using more thar usual temporary help for the job, and begin classes as scheduled or Sept. 22. But she said, "We miss them aread". Jensen said the university of- fered a wage package involving about a 5 percent overall increase. The union asked a 5 percent general increase plus funding to implement recommendations of 1983 employee classification study for an overall increase of about 7 percent, Saeger said. The two sides last met on Fri. Assembly allocates d e )- I I- Y 0 n p e e , new BY KRISTINE LALONDE MSA's Budget Priorities Com- mittee, hardest hit by the assembly's funding cuts for the 1988-89 fiscal year, will receive $6000 less this year than it did last year. But school and college governments will be able to make up the difference, thanks to a 100 percent increase in their budgets. The Budget Priorities Committee, which allocates revenue to student organizations, took about 5 percent of the assembly's overall loss. But other MSA committees received funding increases. The Academic Affairs Committee grew from a $300 budget last year to a $3,000 allowance. Commun- ications received $10,000, an increase of $4,000. The assembly budget, which is funded primarily through student fees, was threatened by the Uni- versity's Board of Regents this summer. The regents denied MSA a funding increase this summer and abolished spring and summer term fees. This will result in an ap- proximate annual decrease of $100,000. But the smaller allocation dispensed by the regents - once dis- tributed among committees - was easily approved by the assembly last night. The budget allocated the largest portion, $282,960, to Student Legal Services. SLS provides free legal counsel to all University students. MSA also renewed its allocation of $.35 per student fee for the rudget Michigan Collegiate Coalition (MCC). The coalition represents 15 Michigan colleges in lobbying for student concerns in the legislature. Currently MCC is working with State Rep. Perry Bullard (D-Ann Arbor) on the Tuition Advance Law. The law, if passed, will require colleges to notify students of tuition increases before they register for classes. In other business, MSA ap- propriated $600 for a voter regis- tration drive. MSA is working with nine other organizations including the College Republicans and the College Democrats in registering students for the November elections. "In 1984 70% of UM students did not vote," said LSA junior Zachary Kittrie, who is heading the drive. "This year we're going to change that." The assembly also elected two new committee chairs. LSA Rep. Paul White will now chair the International Students Committee. Julie Murray will chair the Student Rights Committee. In addition, MSA President Michael Phillips and Overdorf encouraged assembly members to attend Thursday's "Students for a Democratic Campus" rally to- morrow. The rally protests the code, deputization in the expulsion of regental by-law 7.02. MSA has taken an active role in the student coalition. A member of MSU's Clerical- Technical Union pickets by the school's administration building yesterday. day, and Jensen and Saeger said yesterday that no further talks were scheduled. Elsewhere, striking faculty members and clerical workers at Wayne State University in Detroit were holding separate talks with university officials, university spokesperson Robert Wartner said. Wartner said 65 to 70 percent of classes have met since school began Sept. 6 for the university's 31,000 students. The American Association of University Profes- sors, which represents the striking faculty members, says the figure is closer to 50 or 55 percent. ROBIN LOZNAK/Doily Tall tales No, not everyone bought their books last week. LSA first- year student Shannon Rennie will surely be busy this semester; that is if she can carry this stack of books, which she bought yesterday at Ulrich's, home. Easter, sons get life in COp kliNngs Ordinance limits kboarders on streets 4Y RACHELE ROSI AND DAVID SCHWARTZ It was quiet. Too quiet. 1 The frequent rumbling of skate- board wheels passing overhead was gbne from the underground Bill's Iindery Used Books yesterday. But the skateboarders, whose hobby has been banned from the E. Liberty sidewalk, found other places to dwell. "We can still skate in the Diag and the Business School," said Nik Julius, a 15-year-old Ann Arbor resi- dent. Julius said he skates whenever he gets the chance, but said he will obey the newly-approved city ordi- nonce. The ordinance, passed by the City qouncil on July 5, went into effect yesterday after signs were posted on city streets. Anyone caught skateboarding in the banned area, which includes parts of Liberty, State, Main, and S. Uni- versity streets, as well as all city parking lots, will have to pay a $5 fine. But 14-year-old Matt Allen said the fine won't stop him. "I will skate anyway," he said. The ordinance, the first of its kind in the city, was prompted by com- plaints from angry store-owners that skateboarders were annoying their customers and defacing city property. Although many stores were in fa- vor of a skateboarding ban, some lo- cal store owners said the ban was unnecessary. "We had nothing to do with the ordinance," said Barry Hennsler, sys- tems manager for Albert's Copying on E. Liberty. DETROIT (AP) - Alberta Easter and her three sons were sentenced yesterday to mandatory life prison terms for killing three Inkster police officers during an, 11-hour hostage siege, but the judge said he wished they could get the death penalty. Michigan does not have the death penalty. Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Richard Hathaway read the mandatory sentences, which included hard labor, for Easter and George, Roy, and William Lemons for the July 9, 1987 slayings of Sgt. Ira Parker and officers Clay Hoover and Daniel Dubiel. Hoover and Dubiel, and later Parker, had gone to the Bungalow Motel in the Detroit suburb of Inkster to serve a bad check warrant on Easter. All three were taken hostage in adjoining rooms of the motel occupied by Easter and her sons and were found dead of multiple gunshot wounds when the four fam- ily members surrendered. "The actions on July 9 are a dis- grace to the word 'family.' I only wish the victims' families could step forward and sentence the defendants instead of the court," Hathaway said. Hathaway sentenced the defen- dants, who were convicted Aug. 8 after a 14-week trial, to solitary con- finement and ordered them incarcer- ated at different prisons. "In this way, the defendants will understand the pain of separation that the victims' families feels," Hath- away said, his voice breaking with emotion and fading into a whisper. In a 10-minute statement to the court, Easter passionately maintained her innocence, emphasizing her points with sharp hand motions. "I am sorry about the loss, but it wasn't our fault. Injustice has been made legal," William Lemons said. - THE LIST What's happening in Ann Arbor today Speakers Helpful Hints on Living with Asthma - Phyllis Askew and Susan Farquhar. 7 p.m., Tom Monaghan's office, Domino's Farms, 30 Frank Lloyd Wright Drive. Chemistry Seminar - "Laser- Induced Photo-conductrivity in Organic Compounds and Its Application to a Photochromic Switch." Thesis Colloquium. Michael J. Tiemey. Meetings Jewish Feminist Group - Mass Meeting. Pond Room, Michigan Union. 7:30 pm. Hill Street Cinema - Mass Meeting. Welker Room, Michigan Union. 8:00 pm. UM Students of Objectivism - Business Meeting. Dominick's Res- taurant.7:30 pm. LSA Student Government - Kick-off meeting. MSA Chambers, :3909 Michigan Union. 6:00 pm. University Lutheran Chapel - Informal "Holden Village Vespers." 1511 Washtenaw. 9:00 pm. Outing Club - Mass Meeting. 2435 Mason Hall. 7:00 pm. East Quad Music Co-Op - Mass Meeting. East Quad Rm. 126. 7:30 pm. Stilyagi Air Corps/Science Fiction Club - Meetings every Wednesday. Michigan League. 8:15 pm. Student Women's Initiative Group - Planning meeting. Dominick's Restaurant. 5:00 pm. Furthermore Born Yesterday - Comedy theatre. Mendelssohn Theatre. Michigan League 8:00 pm. Presented by the Ann Arbor Civic Theatre. 3-Person Scramble Golf Tour- nament - Deadline for registration. Call 668-9011. Star Trax - Record your own vocals over background music - free! At Mountain Jack's, Stadium and Maple. 8:30 pm to 12:30 am. ROBIN LOZNAK/Lily If this skateboarder is caught boarding again in Liberty Plaza, he will have to pay a $5 fine. THE UofM BUSINESS INTERN PROGRAM Help create the first 21st century company Apple has always been a little ahead of its time. 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