The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, May 6, 1981-Page 17
Shapiro addresses graduates
(Continueatrom rage 10) ceremony. "traditional values in our society and tion of the audience.
to a universal concern for human life Shapiro said the graduates of the an alternative set of so-called 'life Along with Shapiro, Paula Petkoff, a
makes our accomplishments in modern 1930s and 1940s had to face the Great styles.' " nursing senior and James B. Angell
medicine ..: pale by comparison," he Depression and its aftermath and the "This recent generation of graduates Scholar, congratulated the graduates.
said. graduating students of the immediate rejected their past in a kind of collec- Unlike commencement ceremonies
Apart from the lack of a major guest post-World War II decades faced the tive oedipal revolt," he said, remarking in recent years, Saturday's ceremony
speakerat Saturday's ceremony, the problem of "healing the material and that despite the accomplishments of the lacked a major guest speaker, although
traditional style. The new alumnae human wounds" of the war, movement which rejected the authority organizers of the event estimated that
traditional sstylerd T he aluma In recent decades, he continued, of tradition, "much of the enormous attendance was greater this year.
could he seen scattered shout the cam- the "generation of your parents and energy spent in these efforts Guest speakers in the last few years
pus Saturday morning in cap and gown perhaps your brothers and sisters" has degenerated into a paralysis of nar- have included former Vice-president
posing on doorsteps and library steps confronted the Vietnam War and its cissistic sensibility, a feeling of im- Walter Mondale and former am-
a select pe. Bu efore dertin' implications. Shapiro added that potence, and a withdrawal into concern bassador to the United Nations Don
a te the 6,100 degree can- graduates of the late 60s and early 70s with the self." This remark was met by .McHenry.
didates-the Ph.D. recipients-shook had to meet the confrontation between scattered hisses from the student sec-
hands with Shapiro during the formal -___scattered_______hisses______from ____the ____student______se___-
Official
contract
ratification
predicted
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decision making has been definitely
improved.
Assistant Hospital Personnel Direc-
tor John Forsyth believes that since the
Nurse Council has unanimously en-
dorsed the contract it will be "over-
whelmingly ratified" by the individual
nurses.
In the meantime, everyone is working
hard to get the hospital running
smoothly again, Forsyth said. He spoke
to several head nurses and said since
the nurses began returing to the job the
"environment has been good."
HE DENIED THERE will be any ill
effects shown toward the nurses who
walked out and hopes people will let
"bygones be bygones."
According to hospital estimates about
half of the University nurses par-
ticipated in the walkout. Nurses have
said this creates a potential problem
between the nurses who walked out and
those who refused to strike. According
to one nurse who wished to remain
nameless, "it was like hell crossing
those picket lines," but now, she said,
everything is back to normal between
the nurses "as long as you don't begin
to discuss the strike."
University Hospital spokesman
Joseph Owsley said things "are rapidly
approaching normal status" at the
hospital. They have begun to
reschedule admissions on a normal
basis.
The nurses have been working
without a contract since last September
when their previous agreement ex-
pired. The tentative contract reached
last week is backdated to October 1,
1980 and runs 36 months.
AGREEMENT BETWEEN the two
sides came after more than 15 hours of
bargaining last Thursday and after
more than 50 bargaining sessions since
last September. The walkout by the
nurses was the first in the Hospital's
112-year history.
Forsyth also announced that a ten-
tative agreement has been reached
between the American Federation of
State, County, and Municipal Em-
ployees (AFSCME) and the University.
There are 2,100 University employees
in AFSCME, 900 of whom work at the
Hospital, said Forsyth. Their contract
is expected to be ratified this Friday.
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