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Volume 1, Issue 3 Alpena Community College, Alpena, MI CAMPUS UPDATE November 29, 1978 HEADLEE IS "LEAST DAMAGING" By Arthur Kniep The Headlee tax limitation amendment, approved by the voters, is the “least damaging” of all three tax limitations, according to Terry Meeder, Superintendent of Schools. School board statements indicate that the overall picture for the Alpena Schools District looks good. A revision in the state aid formula for lost enrollment has given the district a $145,000 boost in its revenue column and also allowed for some major adjustments in the 1978-79 budget. The passing of the Headlee Amendment limits state taxes and spending to a percentage of the State’s personal income, determined by the state revenues for fiscal year 1979. This percentage is expected to be nes 9.15 and 9.48 per- ent: Ie any year, they are to be refunded pro rata to those citizens who paid state income tax or single business tax for that year. If revenues ex- ceed the limit by less than one per- cent, the excess may be placed in a budget stabilization fund. Much controversy surrounded the tax limitation amendments. On Nov. 2, the Bay City Times reported that ‘Passage of the three tax amendments on the Michigan ballot Nov. 7, om cost, not save taxpayers money,” according to a~ Saginaw Valley State College Professor, — Robert J. Thaler. Thaler, an instructor of sociology, is distributing a phamplet entitled The Myth That Is Misleading Mich- igan, saying that the notion that jovernment is out of control is a distortion of the truth. The Head- lee plan for tax limitation was “deceptively advertised and sold to voters with misleading statistics’, Thaler says, and basically it is not $80 Million To Wipe Out Sex Bias WASHINGTON, D.C.—The fed- eral government's program to fight sex bias in education has jumped from an $8 million special: project to an $80 million comprehensive program as part of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act ex- tension, now law. The dramatic increase in the program's funding level was intro- aj ucation / ini expands the Women’s Educational Equity Act (WEEA) into a com- prehensive program to develop: mat- erials and training projects to eli- minate sex bias in education. “lf we are to reverse the age-old patterns of unequal treatment of women in education, we must make a serious financial commitment for the necessary model programs and ~ projects at the national and local level,” Riegle said. “The well- known, Title 1X provision of the 1972 Education Amendments pro- hibits, by law, discriminatory prac- tices in schools and colleges. Yet, six years later, we are still a long way from providing full equity in education.” continued onip. 2 needed and will do more harm than any possible good. Government officials in Lansing have issued a number of conflicting statements regarding actual opera- tion under the Headlee Amend- ment. While one report from the state’s budget department indicated that at least 18 statutes would as students look on. ee Ne oe eae ussell Garlitz (left) and President Donnelly spread wood chips require revision, Governor Milliken has indicated he feels the amend- * ment will not be disruptive. Reports indicate that most state officials have adopted a ‘wait and see’ attitude. Full effect of the amendment will not be determin- able until June 30, when the state fiscal year ends. Rain Greets Trail Opening By Elizabeth Littler In spite of the wet weather, a groupof interested people gathered Nov. 11, to mark the official opening of Nature’s Way, a self-guiding trail on the ACC campus. Those present included President and Mrs. Donnelly, Carl ‘Reitz, representing the Besser Foundation which funded the de- velopment of the trail and Dr. Robert Moreau who headed the mini- grant team. Also in attendance was Russel Garlitz, ACC botany in- structor, Robert Bell, Besser Junior High teacher and Theresa Jacob, logo designer of the pamphlets which were printed by the ACC Graphics Department. Earn By Mary Kelley you ever questioned whe- ther or net your teachers.own stock in the local mortuary?. Well, think it through. After you finally begin to see what you thought had aban- doned you for life—leisure time— your teacher buries you with more homework. As a student, we have an obligation to worm ourselves through the books. Does this ual ify us as bookworms? Oh, my gos! Do you know what worms are ea per pound? I’m worth a mint! | have become so buried in hole. PE Credits to clean my room. The narrow trail leading to the bed has disappeared. Now, late at night, regardless of my degree of exhaustion, | have no other choice than to tip-toe and leap. | think | should receive physi- cal education credit for this. Come to think of it, | think | should get two physical education credits for just being a college student—one for squirming through the books and the other for leaping to my bed. So you think I’m kidding about my messy bedroom, huh! Ask any “member of my family, they/Il verify. For Toting Books my claims. They‘ve subconsciously condemned my room. It seems that they. are always piling laundry or boxes’outside my door. The other evening | commented to my bro- ther, “I never seem to be able to get to my door. Why can’t they put their junk somewhere else?’ My brother commented, ‘‘I don’t know. But, why do you even try to get to your room; once. you get to the door, how do you get in?” Like most every other dedicated student, | always seem to be lugging around a heavy armload of books that make me look smart. With the. added burden of my overweight purse, | am convinced that by the end of the year |’ll have developed such admirable muscles, people will want my exercise secrets. | am determined to find an thought of inh a little red wagon for this purpose but | was discouraged by the bookstore cash- ier when | suggested that they start carrying wagons—she couldn't stop laughing. “© Continued on page 2