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BACK SCHOOL '^3 NEWS ENTERTAINMENT SPORTS Stat9 audit finds To find out what's Cheek out tho UWM profanton happening on tho NFL Preview In •pond 6.1 hours a East Side, check the sports section woek In the out our Entertainment to see how your classroom. (Page 3) section. team will do. (Page 8) The UWM Post 1 hursday, September 2, 1993 Kslablished 1956 Volume 38, Number 1 Department of Labor investigates UWM By Jaci Gardell According to a complaint filed fct with the U.S. Department of La If this employee was truly bor, employees in the University working these hours, then he of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Student must get paid. Union are not getting paid for overtime hours they have worked. -Cynthia Wirtz, Financial Stan Yasaitis, chair of Local Manager 82, or the Wisconsin State •W Employee's Union at UWM, says view the time cards of all "repre he filed the complaint after a rou sented and non-represented em tine examination of time cards for ployees in the UWM Dining Ser the calendar year 1992. vices for possible grievances." According to Yasaitis, the prob Bradbury responded in a Jan. 4 lems began when a union member memo stating that Yasaitis' re complained that he was being un quest was too vague. fairly reprimanded for being late. In a Feb. 3 memo, UWM Din The member said other employees ing Services Director Ingrid who were also late were not being Schaacke wrote that Yasaitis' re reprimanded. quest was considered an open A term of the contract signed records law request and that he or between Local 82 and the univer his designee could view the cards sity stipulates that the standards on their own personal time. applied to one employee must be "This was three months after I applied to all. originally requested an opportu In a Nov. 25 memo to UWM's nity to view the time cards," Labor Relations Director Shannon Bradbury, Yasaitis asked to re- CARDS CONTINUED ON 7 • WSA cannot find a bridge to jump from MADISON, Wise. - Even funds to its friends — in the after being voted out of exist amount of $200,000 each year. ence, student government at .However, disbanding WSA the University of Wisconsin- proved more difficult than had Madison is finding out it's previously thought. After the tough to simply disband itself. referendum passed, former The Wisconsin Student As WSA co-president Kathy Evans sociation disbandment process said WSA was .a corporation has lingered several weeks past and two-thirds of the Senate the original July 1 deadline, must vote to disband in accor leaving many questions unan dance with a state statute regu swered, while at the same time lating corporations. Sports: calling into question the effort When the Senate could not to disband WSA. agree to disband, the Kill WSA In November, students party was formed with only Mitchell finds his pot of gold voted 1,022 to 595 to abolish one goal in mind ~ disbanding WSA in a binding referendum WSA. During the spring elec By Jerry C. Smith rent two-time defending champion on the ballot during the WSA tions, Kill WSA co-presiden of Slovenia. The team plays in Senate elections. The four per tial candidates Heather Mellem Marc Mitchell wanted life after tt Europe's top division, competing cent voter turnout was one of and Andrew Tillema won the college basketball so muchhedidn't It's always fun playing against teams from Italy, Greece, the lowest in WSA election co-presidential elections along wait for a team to come after him. basketball - it beats a real Belgium and Spain. history. with a majority of Kill WSA He found one himself. job. Mitchell went in search of his The vote came after a year senatorial candidates. The new Mitchell, the former Univer senators then voted to disband -Marc Mitchell dream even though many Conti long effort to rid the univer sity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee nental Basketball Association teams sity of student government by WSA. standout, recently signed a profes were interested in his ability to those who thought the associa Although WSA is no longer sional contract to play point guard •W make things happen on the court. tion was a waste of time and functioning, the corporation for Smelt-Olimpija in Ljubljana, me," Mitchell said. "It's always "I was contacted by Fort money. still technically exists, Mellem Slovenia, after starting his quest in . fun playing basketball - it-beats a Wayne, Rockford, Omaha and Students perceived WSA to said. late May. real job." Rochester of the CBA," Mitchell be unproductive and full of "WSA isn't officially dis "I just wanted to play basket Smelt-Olimpija was the five- said. "I decided I could make a lot scandals and mismanagement, solved yet, but we've shut down ball and didn't want to wait around time national champion of the with some even alleging it to for a team to come looking for former Yugoslavia and is the cur PROS CONTINUED ON 14 • be a front for those doling out WSA CONTINUED ON 8 • National magazine announces Auditions for Bucks' coach and Magic photo contest for students Symphony on Johnson chair 1993 AIDS Walk Transitions Abroad, a national magazine that details educational and Sept. 7 and 8 Earvin 'Magic' Johnson and Mike Dunleavy will team up as co-chairs economical alternatives to travel abroad as a tourist, has announced a of the 1993 Wisconsin AIDS Walk - "A Year of Magic" Sept. 26. Auditions will be held with the contest for photography students. The Walk, produced by the AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin, Inc., University of Wisconsin-Milwau The first-place winner will receive $250 and their photo will appear on is a pledge to raise funds for vital AIDS care, education and research kee Symphony Orchestraf or quali an upcoming cover of Transitions Abroad. All other photos will be programs in Wisconsin. considered for use at the magazines regular rates. fied string players on Sept. 7 and 8. Prizes will be awarded to the individuals and teams who bring the most Contestants must be students or recent graduates. Entries must be collected pledge money to the Walk. The auditions will consist of a received by October 15, 1993. For information or tickets, call (800) 359-9272 in Milwaukee, (800) three-minute prepared solo and For more information contact Lisa Aciukewicz at Transitions Abroad, 359-9272 in Madison and (800) 675-9400 in Green Bay. sightreading at the UWM Music 18 Hulst Rd., P.O. Box 1300, Amherst, MA 01004-1300. Registration information and pledge forms are also available at Kohl' s Building, Room 220. The Sym phony Orchestra, under the direc Food Stores and other retailers throughout Wisconsin. Indian musician to appear at tion of conductor Margery Deutsch, performs a four-concert Performing Arts Center Sept. 12 subscription series at the Pabst Cash prizes given to students Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, India's premiere flutist, will appear at Theater and rehearses Tuesday, who win SARA Award the Performing Arts Center Sept 12. Thursday and Friday afternoon. The concert is being sponsored by the India Music Society; The Center For an appointment or addi A total of $3,500 in cash prizes will be awarded to winning for the Performing Arts of India; University of Pittsburgh, and The Indian tional information call 229-4609. architectural students in the 1993 Student Design Competition sponsored Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR). by the Society of American Registered Architects (SARA). Chaurasia will be accompanied by Shubhankar Banerjee on the Tabla, Area high The competiton will be conducted in conjunction with the SARA 1993 a two piece drum used as- percussion accompaniment in Hindustani convention in San Francisco, California, from October 20-24, 1993. concerts. schools looking The competition is open to all students attending NAAB accredited For ticket information call 521-4761. architectural schools who meet certain criterial. To get more information for alumni about qualifications or registration call (708) 932-4622. John Marshall and Shorewood African Americans featured in High Schools are looking for photography exhibit at Marquette alumni for its 10 year reunion. Milwaukee theater group Marshall's reunion will be held Songs of My People, a landmark photography project documenting on Oct. 23 at the Wyndham Gar dedicating October to women the African-American experience through 150 images by African- den Hotel in Brookfield, and American photojournalists, will open Sept. 17, at the Haggerty Museum Shorewood's on Nov. 27 at the Theatre X is dedicating the month of October to women with of Art at Marquette University and continue through Nov. 7. Embassy Suites Hotel in Milwau its mini-series "Theatre X Presents Theatre Women." The exhibition includes photographs by 50 nationally and internation kee. The series will consist of contemporary and original plays, -1 ally known photographers who traveled the country to capture the Alumni are encouraged to call comedy, feminist theater and performance art by and about diversity of the African-American experience. Taylor Reunion Services at (800) women. The series will also include five main stage shows and Other events are planned during the exhibition. For information about 677-7800 to update addresses and five late night shows. those or free tours of the museum, call 288-1669. phone numbers. For more information contact Pamela Percy at 278-0555. WELCOME BACK STUDENTS See Nikon's Newest SLR's M ^ I expires 9.30.93 J fe£ Nikon Nikon N90 We take the world's greatest pictures.* jAGFA^j • Wide-area autofocus • Focus tracking ; BUY 3 ; • Advanced TTL multi-sensor flash • 3D matrix metering ^GETiFREE!j Nikon N90 body In Stock! Nikon N8008s bocy .