Teamsters strike possible if Univ. offer By DAVID W. SKIDMORE Collegian Staff Writer Students returning this fall may find the University embroiled in a Teamsters Ntrike. • Thomis E. Daubert, president-elect of the •Faculty Senate said of a possible strike, "I'm afraid it would have a pretty severe effect." , Teamsters Local 8 will vote on the University's final contract offer at 7:30 , p.m. Aug. 26 in the University ' Auditorium. According to Jane Pikovsky, president of Local 8, a two-thirds majority vote of the membership is required to reject the offer and initiate a strike. • The only-way the University could stop a strike would be through a court in •yjunction. - Nursing The University's Nursing Department ,T will retain its state approval for a long time yet, according to the State Board of - Nurse Examiners. • There was some question as to the continued approval of the nursing .program here because a temporary head had been in charge for more than 1 the time permitted by the state. A permanent head has been recently selected, fulfilling state requirements for administration. The new head will be announced publicly after the University Board of Trustees meets and considers the choice. Ford works for Miss. " KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI) President Ford, claiming a majority :4 the delegation, will try to crack Mississippi's unit rule -at the GOP National Convention.rlt could assure him of enough votes for the nomination. -, • Charles Pickering, — state " GOP chairman-elect, • Said the ." 4 .piVolal - Mississippi delegation will consider a Ford proposal to abandon the self- s imposed unit rule which binds all delegates and alternates to the can-' didate who has a delegation majority. The proposal to be offered by Mike Retzer, a Ford, supporter would give . each of 30 delegates and 30 alternates the largest bloc of -uncommitteds half a vote. ' , • ' By cracking the unit rule, Ford would -avoid the risk of a last-minute shift to ..Reagan in the thinly divided delegation which could deny him any votes from the state. According to the latest UPI nationwide count and a poll of the Mississippi delegation, the Retzer proposal would -give Ford more than the 1,130 votes needed for the Republican presidential nomination. . 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He ,said that if the Teamsters strike, his department would be able to provide emergency service. - • A strike wouldn't have any effect on food services and the dining halls, ac cording to Otto E. Mueller, assistant 'vice president for housing and food services. He said that there are emergency procedures for dealing with employe walk-outs. James B. Kistler, superintendent for the department of farm operations and services, said that he didn't know what effect a strike would have 'on the University's farms. Many farm em- aaproval to last According to nursing department sources, there is no basis for the rumor that a high staff" turnover rate is responsible for the probationary ap proval given the program recently. "The high staff turnover rate is due, in part, to the fact that nurses are more mobile than other people," Barbara Underwood,k director of the division of biological health, said. "Also, the program became overcrowded a few years ago, and we had to hire more staff to teach. When the enrollment went down, the teachers left." manager, disputed the claims Ford has a majority of the Mississippi delegates. "If you talk about all 60 that's in correct," Sears told a news conference. "Actually, in the last, week there has been a shift back among the delegates. , Among the , delegates 'alone, excluding - the • alternates, "xi •have- a Xubstaniar' majority." Sears and Dean Burch, one of Ford's top political operatives, both claimed their candidates would win on the first ballot but refused to provide any new delegate totals.. .Ford's .strategy was disclosed as his advance guard •in Kansas City for the 31st National Convention scored initial victories in drafting a party platform on which the GOP candidate will campaign against Jimmy Carter in the fall. At the same time, there were in dications that ardent conservatives, unhappy that neither Ford nor Ronald Reagan are pressing for ,tough specifics in the platform, many back off most, if not all, floor fights. - At the White House, press secretary Ron Nessen said that Ford, has a majority of the Mississippi delegation, a claim that the White House has been making since the President visited with the delegates nearly three weeks ago. Although the claim cannot be sub stantiated because the Mississippi delegation has not polled itself, there are strong indications that control has • moved from Reagan to Ford, accelerat is rejected ployes are teamsters. Ray Fortunato, vice president for personnel administration and chief negotiator for the University with the Teamsters, said that he could not reveal the terms of the contract offer until the Teamsters informed its membership of them. Pikovsky said that members should receive letters concerning the contract terms by Monday. In these letters, the negotiating committee and the executive board will recommend either ac ceptance of the contract - terms or rejection and a strike, she said. Other University, employes who are teamsters include lab technicians and all employes who perform skilled, semi skilled and unskilled manual labor. According to figures from the nursing program, there is also no basis for rumors that more graduates of the Penn State nursing program fail their state pursing examinations than do the graduates of any other nursing school. The examinations must be passed for a graduate to become a licensed nurse. . Students graduating from the nursing program at the end of this term will graduate from a state-approved nursing school, and therefore will be allowed to take their nursing examinations without any legal fuss. delegates ed by Reagan's choice of liberal Pennsyl vania Sen. Richard Schweiker as his running mate. Ford siiired tentative victories on policy statements dealing with the Panama Canal, Africa and Taiwan, although ardent ; conservatives, led:.by 'North Carolina Sen: Jesse liehifs, 'gabled some language concessions. The Helms group, which has called for specific language on the thorniest and most sensitive issues, withdrew a key proposal on detente. But they gained in other areas, notably a tentative with drawal of GOP support for the Equal Rights Amendment. The Helms group later said it would continue to push to the convention floor if necessary for its planks on the Panama Canal, Taiwan, detente and a mandatory balanced budget. - . , It's downhill again for a while. A mix ture of ' sunshine and cloudiness, warm and humid today with a good chance of a shower or thundershower late in the afternoon or evening. High of 83. Cloudy and muggy tonight with a few light showers. Low of 65. Cloudy and cooler Saturday with still a 'chance of a few showers, high near 75. Drier on Sunday with some sun likely but don't count on a whole lot. High near 77. Weather The spot on Spring Lake w State to begin kepone probe An extensive investigation into the presence of the poisonous pesticide kepone in Centre County's Spring Creek will begin this month by the State Department of Environmental Resources. The investigation will include study of fish, soil, ground water and probably the Nease Chemical Plant that produced the pesticide and sprayed some of it on their plant grounds near the creek in the early 60s and late 50s. The initial samples of Spring Creek fish showed a ratio of .1 part per million to .17 parts per, million in adult trout and .18 parts pet' million in suckers. The Food and Drug Administration guideline is .1 part per million. • si :. FR' - _,.... .i. -:;er ..''''. i,, :0" . " . ' , ...t: Parking at HUB crucial to registration USG may lose the opportunity to hold a special voter registration in the HUB next month, if the Centre County commissioners find the HUB parking facilities inaccessible to the general public, according to Paul Stevenson, director of the Undergraduate Student Government department of political affairs. PLRB hearings continue Dept. heads' • By LAURA SHEMICK • and DAVID W. SKIDMORE of the Collegian staff .The official and practical responsibilities of PSU depart ment heads was the issue Wednesday and yesterday in the hearings before the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board. The hearings are being conducted to determine the makeup of a faculty bargaining unit. During the hearings, University lawyers attempted to prove that department heads are distinctly supervisory personnel, rather than members of the teaching faculty. Stanley F. Paulson, dean of the College of Liberal Arts, testified both days on behalf of the University and was cross examined yesterday by members of the American Association of University Professors, who intervened in the hearings. Paulson told hearing examiner Sidney Lawrence what the duties of department heads are such things as determining pay raises and promotions, administering the department budget, the hiring and firing of clerical personnel, hiring part time faculty, granting sabbatical leaves and maintaining faculty and advising records. Lawrence said Wednesday that the main question of the hearings is whether the department head actually exercises his powers or whether he merely acts on the consensus of the faculty in his department. "His ( the department head's) authority has tube proven on an actual daily basis," Lawrence said. In the case of Temple University, Lawres.,:e said, he had ruled that department heads , should be included in the bargaining unit, because they did not exercise their authority. Paulson testified further yesterday, saying that department heads have the authority to order faculty members within their departments to teach courses that those members may not want to teach. Such a situation is fairly common, Paulson said. • W 202 PATTEE 'en cents per copy 'riday, August 13,1978 Fol. 77, No. 28 8 pages University Park, Pennsylvania lubilshed by Students of the Pennsylvania State University epone was Mirex, a chemical extremely similar to kepone, manufactured by Nease Chemical in more recent years, will be studied by the state, also. ~ According to a United States Department of the Interior report, mirex is an unusually persistent insecticide whose "accumulative capacity is remarkable in view of its low rate of application." Kepone is more poisonous than mirex, the report said. The traces of kepone were first found in a March soil sample at the Nease plant and later in a May sampling of fish downstream from the plant. Theodore Clista, a Department of Environmental Resources engineer, tit, its pro Stevenson said USG and the County Commissioners have been trying to reach an agreement on a petition that would enable USG volunteers to act as registrars in the HUB Sept. 15,16 and 17. But a letter, from John T. Saylor, chairman of the County Commissioners, to Stevenson, indicates that the HUB parking facilities must meet with ap proval of the commissioners. "A major concern when scheduling field registration sessions is the requirement that the sites be readily accessible to the public at large and not be restrictive," Saylor said in his letter. "I hope the Hetzel Union Building does indeed have public parking facilities nearby. jobs defined Procedures for promotion and tenure were outlined by Paulson, with University attorney John Gilliland stressing that department heads submit recommendations for promotion and tenure to their deans. Paulson also explained the advisory position of department heads toward members of their departments. Paulson was cross-examined by G. Edward Philips, president of the Penn State AAUP, and by William Rabinowitz, AAUP board member. Both are University professors. The main point of contention yesterday afternoon was the value of the University's evidence about the. work-loads of department heads, as opposed to work-loads of other faculty. The AAUP maintained that the University evidence gave a wrong impression that department heads teach for only 21 per cent of the time that their non-department head colleagues do. Paulson admitted that department heads, when compared to professors of the same rank, probably teach about 40 per cent of a normal course load. Lawrence agreed to note, for the record, that the evidence submitted by the University should have less weight attached to it than other exhibits. University attorneys agreed to in vestigate other, more exact, ways of measuring teaching loads rather than use the student credit hours system. These hearings were the 15th and 16th in a series looking at the possible composition of a bargaining unit for the PSU faculty. The Pennsylvania State University Professional Association, a proponent of a collective bargaining unit for the faculty, has petitioned the board for a faculty election to determine makeup of the possible bargaining unit. The hearings will continue today in 404 Old Main and next week in Keller Conference Center. 3 COPIES said the soil samples were taken because of kepone discoveries in James River fish in Virginia. Virginia health officials closed a plant manufacturing kepone in July 1975 after many of its employees were found to be suffering from kepone poisoning. Depending on the kepone levels of the Spring Creek fish, Virginia's fish may be considered contaminated for at least the next thirteen years, the duration that the Spring Creek contamination has lasted. Dick Boardman, chief of the water quality division of the Department of Environmental Resources, said that the Nease plant will be visited by state engineers next week to help set up a survey for further testing.
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