1996-04-03; Central Michigan Life

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Central I  ICC
Michigan LITE
WEDNESDAY,
APRIL 3,
1996
VOLUME 78, NUMBER 76
MOUNT PLEASANT. MICHIGAN 48859
C01996 CM LIFE
(51 7)774-3493
16 PAGES
By Jennifer Ackerman
LIFE: Features FJitot
By Davp Borough
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Student | Moisture takes toll on 1956 time capsule
jumper
gives up
drugs
Pour days after jumping out
a    second    story    window    in
Merrill  Hall  while  under tho
influence   oi" "had"   LSD,   one
CMU student vowed never to
take drugs again.
After jumping an  estimated
25 feet from his residence hall
room   window.   Randy  KudlatT, i
Clarkston freshman, was list- |
ed in fair condition at Central
Michigan Community Hospital I
Tuesday evening. He has been j
hospitalized        for       multiple
injuries  including  a   fractured
right   wrist,   fractured    fourth
lumbar and smashed fifth vertebrae.   Tuesday,   Kudlaff said
he   had   surgery   on   his   right
ankle, broken in three places.
He said he expects to be in
the hospital for at least two
weeks.
They don't want mo to move
out of my bed," he said.
From his hospital bed,
Rudlafl recalled the event that
almost cost him his life.
Rudlalf said he dropped acid
with two friends at about 8
p.m. Friday.
Now Rudlalf speculates the
LSD was laced with the psychedelic drug PCP, which he
said made the drug more
potent than usual.
"We were just looking for a
good time." he recalled.
Rudlafl' said  they  were  trying  to  get  more  of "a   mental
trip   than   a   visual   trip,"   and
described what happened next j
as a "a heavy discussion about !
religion."
"We were hallucinating and
thought the world was going to <
end," he said.
After a reference was made |
to Adam and Eve, "we stripped j
down    naked,"    Rudlaff   said, |
noting he and only one of the
other   individuals   undressed.
Police   said   all   three   friends
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A time capsule buried in l**.r><;
by for mer ('Mr President
Charles Anspach nod other
guests m Ihe corner stone ofTate
Hall was resurrected Tuesday
James TVyon, senior project
manager of Facilities
Management, located the time
capsule1 TViesday afternoon, but
it turned out to be quite a let
down
TVyon said everything inside
was ruined beyond recognition
by moisture
The time capsule contents
were mostly destroyed. A half
dollar silver coin of Benjamin
Franklm and a $1 silver coin
were the only recognizable
items.
Other    objects     the    capsule
appeared to contain was a news
paper and some type of manuals
or text books
The capsule was dug <>ut of the1
LIFE Photo
CMU officials, including former CMU president Charles Anspach, sealed a time capsule in the cornerstone ofTate Hall in
The contents, most of which were destroyed beyond recognition because of moisture, were dug up Tuesday,
building by David Jackson, jour       associate vice president of Public      I'MT   employee   found   a   photo TVyon   said   lor
tievman     mason    or     Facilities      Relations   and    Marketing,   tho      graph    in    Barnard    Hall    that      also   will   search
Management. university    was    made    await*      showed the capsule being placed      time   capsule   in
According to Rae Goldsmith,      there   was   a   capsule   when   a      in the corner stone of Tate Hall
Erik S. Scherb
1956 (left).
precaution   be
tor   a   similar
Barnard   Hall
CAPSULE Page 14
Channel 50, Detroit
teams back on air
in Mount Pleasant
By Dave Borough
Mount Pleasant ('abb* Vision
subscribers have boon reunited
with an old friend.
Effective Monday. (abb
Vision Inc., 91 a E. Broom field
Road, again i- offering WKBD
Channel 50 oul of Detroit on
cable Channel 59.
WKBD Channel 50 is affilial
ed with the United Paramount
Network and offers Detroit Red
Wings, Pistons and Tigers
games along with popular syndicated programs.
According to Charlie Hill.
Cable Vision assistant systems
manager, the
Telecommunical ions Reform
Act, passed Fob 8, allowed cer
tam regulation relief that made
it possible to re-add Channel 50.
"Adding Channel 50 is a positive move lor mu subscribers,*"
Hill said "A groat number of
subscribers enjoyed and liked
its programming."
Hill said Channel 50 was
taken off the air m 1993 becaus*1
of the 1992 Cable Competition
Act. The 1992 act allowed tin
Federal Communication
Commission to regulate bow
many channels could be offered
.it certain subscription rates, he
said
The FCC split broadcast channels sorb as Channel 50, and
satellite channels, like KSPN,
into two tiers. Tho FCC then
regulated   how    many   channels
REUNITED Page 14
Appeals Court ruling
shouldn't affect local,
state charter schools
By Brian Seymour
LIFI      I iff UVrttei
SPARKS
FLY
i if [   Ph<  *    Jennah Spitzley
In the IET Building metals lah, Paul Spiers, Rochester Hills junior, uses
an electric grinding wheel on his project Tuesday evening
CMlTs thai til schools and
other schools around the state
shouldn't be affected by a
Mulligan Court of Appeals nil
m^ Monday which upheld a
1994 ruling declaring a charter
school law unconstitutional.
In a 2- 1 decision, the appeals
court upheld a 1994 ruling by
Ingham County Circuit Court
Judge William Col lette, who
said charter schools arc not pub
lie schools eligible for state fund
mg
Following that ruling. tht>
Michigan Legislature passed a
more restrictive hill which is
what charter schools must operate under.
Robert   Mills,  head of CMlTs
charter       schools      office,      said
CMU's    charter    schools    have
always operated under the
newer lavs
"I think this ruling will have
little impact on our current
charter schools," Mills said.
The main difference between
the two laws and the reason the
ruling was upheld was that the
old law allowed charter schools
to be run by private hoards of
directors, instead of publicly
appointed ones That made state
funding unconstitutional.
Mills said the new law allows
the authorizing body of the charter school or tho state Hoard of
Education to remove appointed
board members.
Other aspects of the new law
include capping the number of
schools at 7T> for this year to a
maximum   of   150   in   1999   and
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New English class created to teach basic writing skills
By Jennifer Hunt
to      have      difficulty      passing.
English  1(11.' said  Molson, after
ih<- c<»iii-o. Molsoti ..ud other classes.
Molson   said    the   course    is Eligibility  will  be  determined
More than *JOO incoming fresh        reading      papers      written      h\       m «-ded lor about 25 percent      or at summer orientation sessions
men will have the opportunity to      Knglish  1<>1 stud«*nts                              about    <;*><>         of   ('Mil's   2,600 Freshmen   will   be   required    (<>
improve their  writing skills in a          All       ('Ml          students       are      incoming freshmen  in an>  given write   an   essay   at    orientation
course that will open tin    tall             required to pass Knglish 101 and      yeai   But on I \ 2t) sections will be The only students exempt will be
The   English   Department   has      jo|   with   » C grade or better in      available, which will serve about those   who   participated   in   the
created      Knglish       IO0      Basic      order to graduate*                                        riBO students Centralis     Scholarship     ess a}
Writing because faculty campus          Tin   new   Basic Writing course          The   goal   i     t«>   have   students competition and scored well
wide have complained that man>      will  be  available only  to  ineoni        enroll   who   need    it    the    most, The essays will be scored and
freshmen are lacking writing
skills, said Francis Molson,
Knglish department chairman
'It was discov< n d that 2fi per
cent of  the students  were going
mo freshmen beginning tin fall
Because of insufficient funds,
current     CMC     students     and
lei     v- ••!:;••     . r :* mj: skills
will   not   h»    elieibli    n>   or mill   in
Mol  mi     ud recommendations  will   be   made
H      said   the    i   •    v\i!l   oiler as   to   which   class   the   student
long term lienefit        ■   h   is keep should enroll in, Molson said
mg    niiMi     stoften 1        if    Central Basic  Writing is  not   required,
.huI    helping    Ihem    d<»    well    in be said   It will hi   up to the indi
v id ii a I student whether he or she
chooses 11» enroll in the class.
Molson said Students won't
receive Knglish competency
credit for the course, but they
will receive university credit.
In   the   past,   this   course   was
offered as Knglish 098 and stu
dents    received    no    university
credit or Knglish competency
Kach class will have no more
than IS students, which will
allow    for   more   attention    from
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