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Mi The BTi Slews Vol. 61, No.140 Bowling "Green State ITniversiiy Thursday, November 9, 1978 Teachers strike Bowling Green school system By Tom Smith School officials reported that nearly Education Association (BGEA) notified He said some systems agree to in- board's budget until a teacher wants to Staff Reporter 77 percent of the 3,600 students went to the Board of Education at about 1:30 Cummings told the 400 teachers, crease salaries until all back pay is collect. parents and students assembled at school. Although Superintendent Dr. a.m. yesterday that the teachers would received. Then salaries are decreased. Only eight of about 200 teachers in the Richard P. Cummings said some high not work until their group's contract Tuesday night's meeting that the new "This may not violate the letter of the "I AM FRIGHTENED. The two sides Bowling Green school system were in school students may have left early demands are met salary scale with a base starting wage law but it certainly violates the spirit of seem pretty inflexible." Cummings the classroom yesterday in the first day because few courses were being taught. at $9,500 would cost about $200,000. The the law," he added. observed. He added that both sides may of the teacher's strike. Members of the Bowling Green BOTH CUMMINGS and BGEA new settlement including a decrease in The school's representative of the soften but nothing new has happened to President Micheal Campbell agreed state funding because of an enrollment state auuitor warned the board to reject change the minds of either since the that the main issue dividing the groups decline would result in budget cuts. a retroactive payment proposal strike began. is retroactivity of granted salary in- Cummings said some school districts creases. Campbell said his group is prepared THE CUTS "won't be small and won't paying employees retroactively are for lengthy strike. The teachers ask that the salary go unnoticed Everything is being being investigated by the auditor's The schools are being manned by increase begin July I. 1978 while the looked into in which there isn't a office. administrative personnel, volunteers board would grant the increase ef- commitment The school system will be Campbell noted that this practice is and a few substitutes. Cummings noted fective Nov. 1. The amount of increased starting an austerity program quite used across the state. that the non-classified employees were salary and retirement benefits in soon, definitely by January." Cum- working yesterday and honoring their question amount to about $50,000. mings said THE SECOND issue dividing the two contract, adopted in August. Campbell said. parties is whether to grant severance The negotiations between the two Cummings reported in Tuesday's pay to a teacher who leaves the system He said the system had to be meeting that an impasse panel, com- parties for the one-year contract, which but does not retire for 30 years, the equitable in dealing with the employees was to start in July, began last March. posed of a BGEA representative, a maximum eligibility time period. and opposed to the retroactive clause board representative and a neutral And impasse was declared July M and Campbell said the teachers should be also. The 100 non-classified employees on Sept. 28 a three-man panel listened party, recommends the retroactivity be able to collect severance pay after desired their settlement to be granted. Cummings said he was op- to the two parties before preparing the teaching for five to 10 years in the retroactive and the board refused, he panel report. posed to it. system if he leaves It. explained. CUMMINGS EXPLAINED "that we The board adopted all but the con- are reluctant to pay because it is Cummings countered that the method "I WOULD HAVE all kinds of labor troversial phases of the report at illegal. Other systems pay this by would be too unmanageable citing the problems if this was granted," he Tuesday's meeting while the BGEA manipulating things." need to carry the severance pay in the added. adopted the entire report Oct 28 Nowi Photo By Davo Ryan A STUDENT views striking fourth grade teacher Mrs. Barbara M. Belleville at Conneaut Elementary School. Nearly all of the 200 teachers in the Bowling Green school system went out on strike yesterday morning. [Trustees meet today The University Board of Trustees will meet at 11 a.m. today in the Assembly Room of McFall Center with an agenda limited to discussion of the collective bargaining issue. "It's to find out what we're thinking and what direction the board is going to take," board President John F. Lipaj explained. The meeting originally was scheduled for Nov. 16, but Lipaj said Niv» Photo By Fronk Srolthoupt he changed the date to allow more board members to attend. THREE TEACHERS man the picket lines at Ridge Street School. Education at 1:3i a.m. yesterday that the district's teachers would The Bowling Green Education Association notified the Board of not work until contract demands are met. Spiegel interested in civil rights Policy violations Editors note: This is part of a series use it for the good of the community." represented by the best skills." the Board's Facilities Committee and of articles profiling the nine members Spiegel said his lifestyle reflects his member of several ad hoc committees. Dickinsons concern SPIEGEL'S LEGAL training at of the University Board of Trustees. motto: "If you can leave the world just He said his legal background has Harvard University has been in con- By Paula Winslow helped him be a more effective board stant use during his 30 years of practice Editor's note: This is the last of a asking why they were not told about the Staff Reporter member. with the law firm of Cohen, Todd, Kite series about the effects of University disciplinary action, Dickinson said and Spiegel. Besides his work in federal policy violations. Dickinson hears the arguments To S. Arthur Spiegel, University "BEING A LAWYER is very courts and civil rights cases, Spiegel presented through Standards and Board of Trustees member, op- valuable as an asset because the also has been involved with the ByDeniseSakal Procedures The difference between portunities are meant to be shared. training ties into the responsibilities University of Cincinnati as a special court and Standards and Procedures is That is why, he said, he maintains his one has with being a trustee," he said. legal counsel, the Union for Ex- Standards and Procedures is an that in one instance, the case is heard interests in civil rights issues through "The analytical approach is very perimentation in Colleges and alternative route for a student caught by a panel of five justices and in the his Cincinnati law practice and his helpful in approaching problems.•' violating the Student Code, if he does active roles in many other human Universities, the National.Conference latter, the judgment is made by an of Christians and Jews, Housing Op- not want the case heard by Student individual, Dickinson said relations committees and One of Spiegel's after-hours interests Court organizations. portunities Made Equal (HOMEI and was chairman of the Cincinnati Human makes it easier for him to approach the Any complaint filed about the Student PUNISHMENT DEPENDS on the "I guess I like people and I hate to see Relations Commission. University in another way. The at- Code is referred to Derek D Dickinson, crime's severity. A student can be people mistreated," Spiegel. 58, ex- "The kind of civil work I've been torney often flies his 1949 Piper Clipper director of Standards and Procedures dismissed from the University for four plained. "When you're lucky enough to doing is with people who are treated plane from his home town to the Wood The student is informed of the charge quarters for felonious acts which in get a good education you're obligated to badly," he said. "They're entitled to be County Airport to attend University and due process rights are reviewed, elude "anything that jeopardizes Board meetings and visit the campus Dickinson said. people's lives, " he said The flight takes only about one and a On the other end of the penalty scale half hours, he said, only half the time The student then chooses which body is strict probation. During this period, if required to make the trek by will hear his case. If the case goes a person is caught violating any part of automobile. through Student Court, Dickinson waits the code, he will be suspended, he Inside the News S. Arthur Spiegel Spiegel's other hobbies include for the penalty recommendation. added outdoor activities, especially playing He noted that consistency is im- a little bit better for having been on it, tennis with University President Hollis DICKINSON SAID he has veto power, portant when interpreting the code.