Pdge 2 - The Michigan Daily - Saturday, August 6, 1983
'U' tradesworkers
ratify new
By DAN GRANTHAM
The University's skilled
tradesworkers will be seeing a little
more money in their paychecks
following the'ratification of a new one-
year contract Thursday.
Members of the Washtenaw County
Local Trades Board approved the con-
tract by a "significant majority," ac-
cording to University chief negotiator
George Carter, who would not release
the exact vote.
UNIVERSITY officials began
bargaining June 21 with the board,
which represents 320 workers, in-
cluding the Univeristy's carpenters,
roofers, and other construction
workers. Negotiators finally ham-
mered out an agreement last Sunday,
the day the previous contract was to
expire.
contract
Carter said the new contract will in-
crease wages a total of 41 to 51 cents per
hour, depending upon the worker's
classification. There are about 20
classifications for skilled
tradesworkers.
UNDER THE new contract, workers
gained the right to retain their original
seniority when they return after being
laid off.
The agreement marks the second
time this year University employees
have been granted a raise in contract
negotiations. Local 1583 of the
American Federation of State, County,
and Municipal Employees, which
represents the University's 2100 service
and maintenance workers, gained a 4
percent wage increase with the
ratification of their new contract July
26.
Tappan Hall to get addition
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connected to Tappan Hall, the addition
will house what some say is the most
extensive art history library between
the East Coast and Chicago.
'CURRENTLY, the visual collection
consists of 235,000 slides and 165,000
photographs stored in Tappan Hall. The
University also owns 50,000 books on art
history which are scattered in various
University libraries.
But some of these valuable research
and teaching aids are in danger, Isaac-
son said. The old building is a firetrap,
and also lacks adequate climate control
for the long-term preservation of the
priceless materials.
The slide and photograph collection
presents a particular problem, Isaac-
son said, because it has become so
large that it is putting a hazardous
strain on the floor of the 90-year-old
building.
TO REMEDY this, the floor of the
lower level of the new building will be
larger and have a better weight-
bearing capacity than Tappan Hall.
Climate controls in the new building
will help to better preserve the collec-
tion.
But the new facilities aren't just for
books and slides. Plans call for 44 new
study carrels, two lecture halls, a new
chairman's office, and two new rooms
for graduate seminars in Western and
Asian art.
Also included in the new wing will be
a microform room, slide and
photograph workrooms, a darkroom,
and a student copy room, where upper-
level students prepare their own slides
for presentations.
Victoria Julius, an archival assistant
and graduate student in art history,
said that the cramped quarters are due
for an improvement. "We sort of run
(the collection) out of a shoe box. It will
be wonderful to have more room for the
archives, and the rest of the research
materials housed in this building," she
said.
The University has pledged $600,000
toward the project, and LSA has
promised $300,000. The department is
attempting to raise the other $1.4
million through private donations.
The art history department will be
temporarily located in East
Engineering building until December
1984, when the project is expected to be
finished.
TODAY
Novel idea
N THE NEXT month, pedestrians in Seattle may be approached by
"literary construction workers" asking for their words, thoughts, and
dreams. The goal: the first novel written by an entire city. If the pedestrians
comply, they may find their thoughts and phrases published in "Invisible
Seattle." "This will put Seattle on the map of world literature where it has
been conspicously absent for some time," said Phil Wohlstetter, spokesman
for the loose group involved in the project. Construction began Tuesday with
the members of the "Novelization Union Local 26," whose slogan is, "We
write novels the way they used to build cathedrals." Wearing white overalls
and hardhats, they approached passers-by with the line:"Excuse me, we
are makinga novel. Could we borrow some of your words?" All answers will
be put into a computer and spewed out at random during the city's Bumber-
shoot Festival on Labor Day weekend. Scribes will then take turns writing
chapters of what will become a detective novel containing comments gar-
nered from the interviews.
HAPPENINGS
SATURDAY
Highlight
The School of Music will be importing musicians and actors from the
15th century to perform at the 14th Annual Medieval Festival from 10 a.m.,
to 7 p.m., Saturday and Sunday at the music school pond on North Campus.
Films
Cinema Guild - The Shining, 7:30 & 9:40 p.m., Lorch Hall.
AAFC - Raiders Of The Lost Ark, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., MLB 4.
Cinema Two - The Man Who Would Be King, 7:30 & 9:45 p.m., auditorium
A, Angell Hall.
Performances
Performance Network - "Cabaret," 81p.m., 4081W. Washington.
Student Theatre Arts Complex - "The Real Inspector Hound," 7:30 p.m.,
Union Ballroom.
Meetings
Ann Arbor Go Club - 2-7 p.m., 1433 Mason Hall.
Miscellaneous
The Community United Against Anti-Gay Violence - Rally to Re-affirm
Lesbian/Gay Pride, 1 p.m., Federal Building.
SUNDAY
Films
CFT - Life Of Brian, 5:30, 7:15, & 9p.m., Michigan Theater.
Performances
Performance Network - "Cabaret," 6:30 p.m., 4081W. Washington.
Student Theatre Arts Complex - "The Real Inspector Hound," 7:30 p.m.,
Michigan Union Ballroom.
Union Arts Program - Claritha Buggs, 81p.m., Michigan Union, Pendleton
Room.
Michigan Video Writers - Benefit of Rick's American Cafe, Ragnar
Kvaran and Aluminum Beach, 8:30 p.m., Rick's American Cafe.
Miscellaneous
The Ecology Center - Workshop, "Household Toxics: Alternative and
Disposal," 1 p.m., Leslie Laboratories, 1831 Traver Road.
Department of Parks and Recreation - Fuller Pool Biatholon, 81a.m., 1519
Fuller Road.
MONDAY
Performances
School of Music - Carillon Recital, 7 p.m., Burton Tower.
Meetings
Tae Kwon Do Club - 6 p.m., Outside, behind IM Building.
Christian Science Organization -7:15p.m., Room D, Michigan League.
Miscellaneous
Humanities - "English Technical Writing for Japanese Managers &
Engineers," conference, all day, North Campus Commons
Society of Mechanical Engineers - "World Congress on the Human
Aspect of Automation," all day.
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Vol. XCIII, No. 32-S
Saturday, August 6, 1983
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