The CMU faculty association has been spending its days attempting to work with the administration and organizing students. The faculty have been without a contract since the last day of June. The university administration cut off bargaining with the CMU faculty association, eventhough the faculty association begged them to come back to the bargaining table. Recently, The CMU faculty association recently voted to allow their leadership to call a job action is necessary. The administration crawled back to the bargaining table, but have not been bargaining in good faith. The faculty association has been out in force the past few days performing information picketing in many places on campus, including the dormitories. As a graduate student, I have been out with them along with a number of my fellow students. The problem is that Mount Pleasant is, for all intents and purposes, student-free during the summer. Move-in started yesterday, and more and more students are expected to get involved each day. I also would like to point out that, earlier in July, the Faculty Association offered a 0% pay increase if the administration would raise tuition 0% for students. This was blatantly ignored, and the tuition was raised to the highest level it could have without financial repercussions from the State of Michigan.