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THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: LSA MASS MEETING PLANS 
CREATION OF STUDENT UNION

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On Monday, the University 

of 
Michigan’s 
Lecturers’ 

Employee 
Organization 

released 
a 
call 
to 
allies 

for 
support 
against 
the 

administration’s 
salary 

proposal for lecturers.

The LEO is comprised of 

lecturers from all three U-M 
campuses. 
Currently, 
the 

minimum salary for a full-
time lecturer is $34,500 in Ann 
Arbor, $28,300 in Dearborn 
and $27,300 in Flint. The LEO 
has 
been 
bargaining 
with 

the University since October 
for higher wages, better job 
security and improved benefits.

On Monday night, in response 

to initial requests from the 
LEO, the University proposed a 

$1,000 increase to the starting 
salary in 2019, $750 in 2020 and 
$500 in 2021. According to the 
LEO statement, the University’s 
proposal also included a 1.5 
percent annual raise for Ann 
Arbor 
employees, 
but 
not 

Dearborn or Flint lecturers.

“Our members are stunned, 

insulted, and outraged,” the 
LEO statement reads. “In the 
past 14 years, Lecturers have 
seen a 11 percent overall raise 
in minimum salary. In that 
same time period, tuition has 
increased roughly 90 percent.”

According to the LEO press 

release, the administration’s 
proposal Monday night gave 
the impression lecturers were 
highly replaceable employees. 

“Administration began their 

proposal by telling us that 
Lecturers 
cannot 
complain 

about 
this 
exploitation 

because with the current job 

market, they are more or less 
disposable,” 
the 
statement 

reads.

In response to the proposal, 

the LEO is staging a grade-in 
before the University Board 
of Regents meeting on Feb. 15. 

The LEO plans on speaking 

at the meeting as well and is 
calling for students, faculty 
and community members to 
show support for the LEO 
by attending the grade-in, 
joining their action listserv 
and spreading the word.

By Chris Steele

At a mass meeting on language 

requirements last night students 
voted to establish a literary college 
student union and to stage a boycott 
if the faculty takes unfavorable 
action on the language requirement 
at its next meeting, March 3. 

A call for a disruption sit in in 

Dean William Hay’s office today 
was approved on a first vote, but 
was reconstructed and defeated at 
the request of its sponsor, Radical 
Caucus, because it failed to gather a 
large enough vote. 

The motion for the student union 

was made by Daily Editor Mark 
Levin. He called for a referendum 
on the language requirement to be 
held in the next two weeks. 

In making his proposal Level 

called a disruptive sit-in a “very 
ineffective tactic” which would 
not bring effective “pressure on 
faculty members/” A disruptive sit-
in would only result in suspensions 
and arrests, he said. 

Several Radical Caucus members 

voiced objection to the student 
union proposal. Eric Chester, Grad, 
said “It’s a stall.” He conceded the 
disruptive sit-in might fail but the 
real question was “intimidation.” 
“Are we going to let the legislature 
and the faculty intimidate us?” he 
asked. 

Parliamentary action followed 

in which an unsuccessful attempt 
was made to combine Levin’s 
proposal with the Radical Caucus 
sponsored sit-in. Levin’s proposal 
was eventually passed by a vote 105 
to 96. 

A 
short 
discussion 
of 
the 

implementation of Levin’s motion 
followed the one hour debate on the 
major proposals from Levin, Radical 
Caucus and another student. 

The 
meeting 
named 
three 

students to recommend members 
of a provisional steering committee 
which would organize the student 
union. The three students are 
Radical Caucus chairman Marty 
McLaughlin, Ron Landsman, ‘70, 

and Bill Bleich, ‘69. 

The motion for the disruptive 

sit-in was introduced by Bernard 
Elbaum, ‘71, a Radical Cacaus 
member. His motion called for a 
sit-in in the LSA building to begin 
at 1 p.m. today. Students sitting-in 
would have locked all doors and 
remained in the building until the 
language requirement was abolish. 

The Radical Caucus motion was 

passed by a vote of 114 to 86, but was 
later withdrawn. 

McLaughlin moved to reconsider 

the motion and to defeat it because 
there were not enough people to 
support the sit-in. 

Radical Caucus had previously 

pledged to reconsider the motion 
if there were not 200 people in 
support. 

The vote following McLaughlin’s 

motion 
was 
overwhelmingly 

against the disruptive sit-in. 

Debate on how to arrange 

the referendum on the language 
requirements failed to reach any 
definite conclusion.

MAEVE O’BRIAN
Daily Staff Reporter

News

Administration began their 
proposal by telling us that 

Lecturers cannot complain about 

this exploitation because with 
the current job market, they are 

more or less disposable

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