1996-07-10; Central Michigan Life

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Central I irr
Michigan LITE
WEDNESDAY,
JULY 10,
1996
VOLUME 78. NUMBER 95
MOUNT PLEASANT, MICHIGAN 48859
©1996 CM LIFE
(517)774-3493
10 PAGES
Building
evacuated
after bomb
By Rachel Sprovtsoff
LIFE Copy Editor	
When Mount Pleasant
Internal Revenue Service
employees arrived at work
Tuesday, they found a red package and became suspicious.
The duffel bag was found in
front of the IRS office, 316 N.
Mission St., and at 7:53 a.m. an
employee notified the Mount
Pleasant Police Department.
This is the procedure required
by federal guidelines when anything suspicious happens,
according to the Mount Pleasant
Police Department.
Officers responded by going to
the scene and securing the area.
Cpl. Jim Brugger, of the police
department, said it is "a precautionary measure to evacuate
buildings surrounding the area."
Several office employees and
residents were told to vacate the
area, he said.
The Michigan State Police
Crime Lab of Grand Rapids was
called to the scene with a robot,
which handles suspicious materi-
CMU professor sues BGSU
By Heather IM.
LIFE News Editor
LaFave
LIFE Photo/Ryan Wood
A suspicious package was investigated by a robot from The
Michigan State Police Crime Lab, of Grand Rapids, Tuesday at the
IRS Office, 316 N. Mission. 	
als so a person won't be injured if
there is a bomb that goes off.
They sent the robot in, it got
the package and dumped the
contents on the ground, police
said.
According to a CM LIFE photographer who was on the scene,
after the bomb squad found out
the contents were not dangerous,
the bag was given to police who
explained to witnesses what was
found in the bag.
Kingsley receives transplant
By Angela Cook
LIFE Staff Writer
After searching for, locating
and receiving a bone marrow
transplant all that is left to do is
hope for Larry Kingsley.
Kingsley, a Holt junior,
received a bone marrow transplant June 30. He said he now
has a 60 to 70 percent chance of
being cured of the life-threatening chronic myelonginous
leukemia.
Kingsley was diagnosed with
this type of blood cancer on
March 6, 1995.
His bone marrow match was
found May 2 after he had been
on the National Bone Marrow
Registry for more than one year.
The transplant procedure
consisted of Kingsley receiving
the donated bone marrow inter-
venously at 4:30 a.m. His wife,
Stephanie, was present during
the procedure.
-I held (my wife's) hand and
smiled and thanked her for
being here," he said.
The donor's name will not be
released    for    one    year    and
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Bank hopes to
provide convenience
to CMU students
By Jeremy Russ
LIFE Managing Editor
First of America hopes to provide students with service and
convenience with its new branch
and Chip Card partnership with
the university, according to an
assistant branch manager of the
bank.
The First of America branch,
located in Bovee University
Center, opened its doors May 23.
According to Kathleen Moore,
assistant branch manager, the
bank is a full-service bank and
business has been very steady
since it opened.
"Last week, we opened 100
new checking accounts," Moore
said.
The bank is running "100 percent*' with four employees, two of
which are CMU students, Moore
said.
First of America was selected
after CMU requested and evaluated bids from interested banks,
according to Barrie Wilkes, controller for CMU's accounting services.
The bids helped decide which
bank could work the closest with
CMU and could provide the best
service to students, Wilkes said.
One of the minimum requirements for banks was that a
branch be opened inside the UC,
he said.
Only two banks were able to
meet minimum requirements:
First of America and Michigan
National banks, Wilkes said.
"In terms of service and presence in Mount Pleasant, (CMU)
settled with First of America,"
said Tom Trionfi, director of purchasing for CMU.
Students, with this partnership between  First of America
The bomb squad found a pair
of pants, a shirt, deodorant and a
pair of nylons in the bag.
Police said they do not know
who the property belongs to.
Across the street from the IRS
building, businesses got a front
row seat to the action.
Randy Owen, a manager at
Auto Parts Center of Mount
Pleasant,   319   N.   Mission   St.,
See BOMB Page 5	
and CMU, will be able to use
their ID card as a kind of automatic teller machine/debit card.
They will be able to access
their accounts as well as using it
at campus stores and various
local merchants to buy things.
The price of the items will be
subtracted from their accounts,
Trionfi said.
He said students do not need
an account with First of America
to use the cards, as they can put
any amount of money onto their
cards at the CHIP Card ID office
and use it as a debit card.
According to Trionfi, the
biggest benefit to having an
account at First of America,
rather than just having money
stored on their cards is safety.
If a student loses the card, he
or she can call First of America
and have all transactions on the
card stopped, he said. Students
are unable to do this with an old
CHIP account.
Students who have money on
their old ID cards can have it
transferred to the new ones,
Trionfi said. The money can be
used at various locations on
campus and at a few stores in
Mount Pleasant.
Wilkes said the new card,
instituted this summer, has a
micro-chip which provides information on the student including
the student's name and social
security number as well as how
much money is stored on the
card.
CM LIFE obtained the purchasing statement issued for the
agreement between CMU and
the bank and lease information
through Michigan's Freedom of
See BANK Page 10
A CMU journalism professor
filed a suit last week in an Ohio
federal court naming many
defendants from Bowling Green
State University as well as a
journalism accrediting council.
John Hartman, professor of
journalism at CMU for 12 years,
filed a civil rights employment
suit July 2 in the United States
District Court for the northern
district of Ohio in Toledo.
The suit alleges BOSlTs journalism department hired an
under-qualified candidate in
1994 to fulfill a quota rather
than hiring him for the position.
The suit names a total of 22
defendants including BGSU's
Board of Trustees, members of
the journalism department on
staff when Hartman was denied
the position, the university's former and current presidents, the
school's affirmative action officer, the dean of the College of
Arts and Sciences, the vice president for Academic Affairs and
the Accrediting Council on
Education in Journalism and
Mass Communications.
According to Michael Troy, a
lawyer with the Center for
Individual Rights, the nonprofit
litigation organization handling
Hart man's case, the case was
filed because Hartman, a white
male, was discriminated against
when the university hired
Debbie Owens, a black female, to
help appease the Accrediting
Council.
Troy said the suit alleges
Owens was hired even though
she did not have her doctorate,
had substantially less teaching
experience and a smaller publication record.
The complaint states Hartman
has 12 years of teaching experience, has served as a minority
student mentor for several
years, conducted seminars focusing on the increasingly diverse
media and has had several
scholastic works published.
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By Dave Borough
and Rachel Sprovtsoff
.LIFE Copy 5<frpT,
A man working on the High
[Street construction
Construction worker f
from High Street brid
off the M-20 bridge near
into     the     t&igptiw* i
Monday morning.
The construction
into the river while working on
the new bridge.
Steve Bowman* a construction
[worker for Milbocker and Sons
k>f Allegan, fell between two
[beams in the bridge into the
Chippewa River.
According to a Mount Pleasant
(Above) Dan Prewett(taft), Mount Pleasant, lights his sparkler from his older brother Matt, at the Isabella County Fair Grounds before
the fireworks show lasv Wednesday. (Below) Thousands of people gathered at the Isabella County Fairgrounds to watch Mount
Pleasant's Fourth of July fireworks.
Rockets
Red
Glare