Statesmanl Stony Brook, New York Volume 20 Number 63 Lbb*Aated Free of Champ Evy Monday, Wgtingjy Md Friday S»^ ' , ^, ^ Stony Brook Bookstore Struck by Employees
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_ · ; --- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ WEDNESDAY -APRIL 13 1977 /Statesmanl Stony Brook, New York Volume 20 Number 63 Lbb*aated free of champ evy Monday, Wgtingjy md Friday s»^ ' , _^,_ ^ Stony Brook Bookstore Struck by Employees By LAWRENCE RIGGS Incorporated. Amazonas said that Follett is The Stony Brook Bookstore, The employees, who belong offering "the insult of $.15 an presently dosed for inventory, to Local 65 of the Distribution hour, no student workers are was struck Monday by all 22 of Workers of America, are considered part-time workers, its employees, after what demanding a wage increase, and [wages] are below parity. employee spokeswoman medical and vacation benefits, Ronald Green, a New York Cornelia Quirk termed the and parity between student lawyer representing Folett in "inflexible" negotiating and other part-time employees, negotiating with its employees position of their employer, according to Bookstore Shop said, "I don't have any Follett Bookstores, S teward Le Amazonas. comments because. it is inappropriate [to comment] during negotiations." He added that "anything that increases the costs of operations will be passed along to the University." Since Monday, the employees have been picketing at both entrances to the Union and at the entrance to the Union receiving room, where the bookstore offices are located. They have donned sandwich signs urging the University community not to patronize the bookstore. Quirk said that the employees "will play it from day to day," and follow d-s rtom union leaden. Amaoa said that it is "always a posibility" that FoUett will bring in "scabs," non-union workers, to run the shop. Unionized The bookstore employees voted to unionize in December, 1975, holding their first union elections in Februay, 1976. They were, however, not certified by the New York State Labor Relations Board until last November. Amazonas said "there was a big gap because the bookstore StatemnanI/Do Fait challenged the jurisdiction of ...while co-worker June Petronio wears a olacard urging students hbe State Labor Relations to honor the strike. Board, and they challenged the which have lasted up until Thursday at the World Trade student [bookstore employee] now. Before Monday, Center in New York, with votes [to unionize], the votes negotiations between the State Labor Mediator James of the people hired for the employees and the bookstore McCabe. 'There has been nush, and the votes of the were continuing, but were enough stalling and enough .- - .. , .,-, - . Statman/Dom Fait supervisors." broken off at the strike's insults. People are anxious and The employees officially inception. Negotiations. are upset until the contract is BOOKSTORE EMPLOYEES picket in front of the store's scheduled to begin again -signed," said Amazonas. entrance at the Union... started negotiations in January, "N.- I . __ -A I jorIr ........ Students Face Drug Charges After Alleged Sale IL-..f ! 4 I By DAVID M. RAZLER Ideil, a Hendrix resident, said that at that point, one believe Taub owned the Volkswagen used to make the Two Hendrix College residents face charges of fifth person was searched, while several others ran off. purchase, and that several pounds of marijuana were degree sale of a controlled substance, after allegedly Later, the two cars and the Volkswagen were seen by involved in the deal. selling marijuana to an individual who may have been other witnesses speeding away from campus. Taub refused to speak to reporters at the bowling working with Suffolk County Police. - Witnesses added that after the initital incident, -alley this week and threatened a photographer if he did Two suspects, Hayden Fedner and David Kanner, several people, believed to be plaincothes officers. not stop'taking pictures of him. Taub was neitLu allegedly sold the drug on the night of March 30 in the walked into their suite and, without identifying airested nor charged during the alleged sale. Hendrix parking lot. While the sale was being themselves, asked if they had seen anyone running Suffolk County Police spokesmen stated yesterday completed, two unmarked Suffolk County police cars down the hall. that Taub was not employed by them. There is no Tom came into the lot and the two suspects allegedly fled. Although neither suspect was willing to comment Taub listed in the Suffolk County directory. Fedner and Kanner later turned themselves in to the because of the impending charges, sources close to Fedner and Kanner will appear in Frst District police, however after learning that warrants were being them have stated that the buyer of the marijuana, in Court in Hauppauge on May 17 for a hearing prepared for their arrest. the alleged sale, is a member of one of the Union determining whether they will be charged with a Class Witnesses to the Incident said that they saw several bowling leagues who gives his name as Tom Taub. C felony, or whether the charges will be reduced and persons standing near a Volkswagen beetle parked in According to sources, Taub had been bowling with handled in the county courts. A spokeswoman for the, the Hendrix lot, when two cars turned into the lot and the suspects for more than a semester and was District Attorney's office stated that no informatioL their occupants approached the Volkswagen. Edward considered to be a friend. Sources added that they had as yet reached that office. I - - -- · , I r New Congressional Pay Raise Law Washington-President Jimmy Carter signed a law yesterday that ensures that Congress gets no future pay raises without st voting on them. The law also resurrects a program which expired March 31 to provide emergency benefits for the long-term unemployed. The new pay raise law will retain the special commission to make recommendations to the President on pay raises for Congress and other top officials and the President still will have the decision on whether to submit the recommendation to Congress. But both the House and Senate then will have to approve the increase by a roll call vote before it can go into effect. Under the old law, the hike automatically went into effect unless either house vetoed it. The new law is a result to the public outcry that occurred when a 29 percent pay raise for Congress, federal judges and other top federal officials took effect in February without a record vote by the House and Senate. The February raise inreased top congressional salaries to $57,500 a year. HANDICAPPED STUDENTS continue to be plajued by problems posed by inadequate cempus facilities. Parents Seek Ban on Books Handicapped Studerks' Problems Mkader, Iowa-in the kind of controversy that has torn apart schools before, about 30 parents here have banded together to rid the local school curriculum of three collections of short stories and Intensified by a Lack of Facilities other largely American literature. The parents say the stories By SUSAN GUNDUZ Construction requirements. .. ' "undermine American and Christian principles." The educators and was to have been The completion of facilities implemented In 1974, a committee the publishers who print the books say they challenge students to in two phases, at a was for the handicapped at Stony established think about those values. cost of approximately $700.000. to advise Brook has been delayed Modification Advocated The authors represented include such controversial figures as in handicapped Stony Brook violation of New York State law, Phase students. Currently black authors Malcolm X and Richard Wright, folk-song writer I, involving the Union, houed in according to Director the Woody Guthrie and Beatles John Lennon and Paul McCartney. They of Kelly Cafeteria and all academic Humanities Building, headed Facilities also include such standard authors as James Thurber, Ogden Nash, Planning Charles building, has been completed, by Director of Special Poprams William Saroyan, Carl Sandburg and Stephen Vincent Benet. Wagner, who cited a lack of state at a cost of $228,000. Phase II, Ralph Watkins, the committee "Ch.!dren are encouraged to question civil law and the authority funding as the reason for the which calls for changes in G, H, meets once a month to discuss incomplete over them from the contents of these books," said Mrs. RobertAge, construction. Tabler and Roth Cafeterias, one the problems facing the who filed the complaint with the Central Clayton Community In May, 1974, the state Tabler dormitory, and the handicapped on campus. "I go School District in this small northeastern Iowa town. 'There also are established requirements for all Health Sciences Center, at an to these people for their instances in which our very basic Christian teaching are questioned," state colleges and universities approximate cost of $375,000, recommendations and she said. id&an.ting that all new has been delayed since May, requirements," said Wagner. construction have facilities 1974 because the state li, faSkd One of the main topics of accessible to handicapped to approve that budgetary ision this year concerned SALT Talk Resumption Sought students, and in so doing, called allocation. According to Wagner, the buildup of ice and unleared for modifications in existing completion of Phase H should snow which hindered Washington-President Jimmy Carter conferred yesterday with structures. 4ake only a year and a half if it handicapped students' mobility Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin in an effort to resume The requirements, in effect were to be included in this year's on campus. Facilities Operationsm discussions on a treaty limiting nuclear weapons. only in some buildings, consist budget. "The handicapped Director Kevin Jones has been The 40 minute session at the White House was held against a of construction of walks and depend on the non-handicapped asked to orguiize a proram of backdrop of a dispute over apparent Russian violations of new ramps, doors with a maximum for assistance," said Wagner.