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The Michigan Daily-Thursday, July 10, 1980-Page 3
Local Scene
AATA strik ers stage rally__

Bargaining
leaders
make no
progress
By ELAINE RIDEOUT
Shouting slogans including "We want
a contract," approximately 100 demon-
strators-members and supporters of
the striking Transportation Employees
Union (TEU), rallied at city hall
yesterday on the ninth day of the bus
employees' strike.
But hopes for a quick resolution ap-
peared bleak as negotiations bogged
down for the second time since the
strike began June 30.
NEGOTIATORS FOR the TEU and
the Ann Arbor Transportation
Authority (AATA) met yesterday at 2
p.m., but according to Cecil Ursprung,
chairman of the AATA board of direc-
tors, the union "didn't have anything
new to propose."
"I'm disappointed that we're not
making much progress," said Ur-
Wsprung.
"Nothing happened at all," said
Shelly Ettinger, vice president of TEU.
But, she said she considered the rally to
have been more constructive. "We got
the message out to AATA that we're not
alone and that our demands are not
unreasonable," she said.
DEMONSTRATORS, BEARING
signs reading "Stop Union Busting,"
"We Want Day Care," and "No Con-
tract, No Work For AATA," slogged
down Main St. in the pouring rain to
City Hall where they were met by
speakers from other unions who offered
their support.-
John Sokolow of the Committee
Against Registration for the Draft
(CARD) expressed the full support of
his organization.
UAW representative Arlene Brown
told the spirited crowd, "Don't let them
take away from you what we all have
worked so hard to get-we offer you our
support."
"THERE IS A conspiracy afoot to put
working people down in a time of
distress," said former TEU president
Steve McCargar. "What's happening
here is an attempt to break this union."
According to Ettinger, the morning
rally served to revive sagging spirits,
reiterate union goals, and promote
publicity for the union cause.
But Ursprung said he was disappoin-
ted the workers were at city hall rather
than at the bargaining table.
URSPRUNG ADDED that the union
was expected to come up with the next
proposal because AATA management
was the last to make an offer.
"Our 28 per cent wage increase over
the next three years was the last offer
made before the contract expired at
midnight nine days ago," explained Ur-
sprung. "Their's was 34 per cent the
first year and 33 per cent the year
following."
Ursprung said the management is
See STRIKING, Page 0

Dully Photoby DAVID HARRIS
STRIKING TRANSPORTATION,- EMPLOYEES picket Ann Arbor City Hall yesterday. About 100 employees
participated in the rally. Talks, however, bogged down for the second time since the strike began June 30.
Questions albout contract

termination rules
By HOWARD WITT Under often painstaking cross-
Speciai toheDaily examination by Vercruysse, Marwil at
DETROIT - Whether or not Sir one point conceded that his rights would
Francis Bacon was a true scientist was not have been violated had his reap-
the subject of some question yesterday pointment to the University been
during cross-examination of Jonathan reviewed in 1978 by an ad hoc depar-
Marwil in federal district court here. tmental committee:
The issue surfaced as University At- MARWIL AGREED that a review of
torney Robert Vercruysse was attem- his reappointment by an ad hoc com-
pting to establish the quality of Mar-
wil's scholarship - including a book
about Bacon - during his six years as
an assistant professor in the
engineering humanities department.
MARWIL, WHO has been off the
University payroll since May 31, 1979, is
suing the Regents and three members
of the humanities department, claiming
his constitutional rights were violated mittee - instead of the review he ac-
and he was unjustly denied an impar- tually received from the department's
tial review by an ad hoc departmental administrative committee - would
committee of his qualifications . to have upheld his rights, even if the
receive tenure. decision reached were not to reappoint
The former assistant professor is him.
seeking either reinstatement to the The members of the administrative
faculty pending a tenure review or committee who conducted the reap-
damages from the three department pointment review in May, 1978 are the
members that could reach $1.1 million. same men Marwil is now suing -

surface
humanities department chairman J. C.
Mathes and Engineering Profs. Ralph
Loomis and Dwight Stevenson.
Marwil has claimed the three defen-
dants sidestepped College and depar-
tment procedures in deciding not to
renew his contract because he had op-
posed several departmental policies.
MUCH OF Vercruysse's cross-
examination yesterday was devoted to
establishing Marwil's understanding of
department, College, and University
rules regarding notification of the ter-
mination of a contract.
It is the University's contentipn that
proper procedures were followed in
Marwil's termination, despite Marwil's
claim that four departmental and
College policy documents led him to
believe tenure-track faculty members
in their sixth year of employment
automatically receive tenure reviews.
Marwil explained that prior to 1978,
he had not been aware of a rule in the
University's Standard Practice Guide
that a non-tenured professor must be
notified no later than two weeks into
See CONTRACT, Page 11

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epdmolg tPayne- dead at 54
Dr. Francis Payne, 54, professor of Medical School in 1953 and came to the University
epidemiology at the School of Public Health, died in 1955 on a post-doctoral fellowship.
Monday at University Hospital after a brief PRIOR TO his illness, Payne was researching
illness. the possible relationship between measles and
Born in Bellflower, California, Payne did his multiple sclerosis under a National Institute of
undergraduate work at the University of Califor- Health grant.
nia at Berkeley, and also received his Master's Payne is survived by his wife Anita of Ann Ar-
Degree there. He graduated from Stanford bor, and son Gregory and daughter Teresa.

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