1998-10-30; Central Michigan Life

              Central Michigan LIFE
Volume 81, Number 27
Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859
©1998 CM LIFE
79 item ig the unity
Friday
October 30, 1998
16 pages
Saxe residents upset about timing of roofing project
wouldn't have held up," Remus
said.
Remus said the process was
set into motion to get the roofing project underway. Facilities
Management put a contract
together and received bids. The
contract was awarded to
Thomas Brown Roofing & Son
of Bay City on Oct. 1.
See ROOFING Page 16
Summer
teacher
ed classes
added
By David Bossick
LIFE Staff Writer
Saxe Hall residents are
unhappy with the current roofing project for the hall, causing
many to complain to the university about noise and other
inconveniences. Jake Podolsky,
West Bloomfield sophomore and
Saxe resident, said he thinks
the project could have began on
another date, instead of Oct. 16.
"I kind of get the impression
the university doesn't really
take into account we're people
and not a number," Podolsky
said. "It's not just a building,
it's a place where people live."
Heather Felan, Grand Rapids
sophomore and Saxe resident,
said there are many problems
with the project.
"The ladders are right outside
our windows. We can't open our
curtains (in the morning). It's a
total lack of privacy," Felan
said.
Other residents are also feeling the effects, Felan said.
Many have experienced
headaches and nausea.
"We have taken Tylenol for
our headaches. Nobody that we
know of has gone over to
(University) Health Services,"
Felan said.
Both Sarah Campbell, director of Health Services, and John
Kujat, coordinator of
Environmental & Safety
Services, said they have not
received any calls from the hall
residents.
Mel Remus, director of Plant
Engineering & Planning, said
he didn't realize the roof was as
bad as it was.
"The Board (of Trustees) did
n't approve the deferred money
for maintenance until the July
meeting," Remus said.
Remus said Facilities
Management was aware the
roof needed to be done quickly.
After the inspection sometime
in August, Remus said, the project needed to be done before
winter.
"It was in really bad shape.
(Around     the)     perimeter,     it
A good time turned bad
A late night goes wrong
after student hit by car
By Matt Edick
LIFE Staff Writer
A CMU student is in stable condition
today after a freak accident early
Thursday morning that left her
trapped under a car.
Charlie Lyon of the Mount Pleasant
Police Department, said Geri Kabala,
20, Fenton freshman, was struck by a
red Chevy Cavalier in the Wayside
Central parking lot, dragged 75 feet by
the car and then stuck beneath the car.
Capt. Andrew Theisen of the Mount
Pleasant Fire Department, said his
department and Mount Pleasant police
officers responded to the call at
approximately 1:54 a.m. Firefighters
worked for nearly 29 minutes to get to
Kabala from beneath the car.
Theisen said the car had to be raised
up on blocks and inflatables so the
vehicle could be propped off the ground
to allow paramedics the space they
needed to work on Kabala.
After Kabala was retrieved from
beneath the vehicle, she was transported to Central Michigan
Community Hospital for the treatment
of her injuries. She suffered a dislocated ankle, extensive abrasions to her
torso and a possible ruptured spleen
when she was hit and dragged by the
car.
Lyon said Kabala admitted that she
had been drinking earlier in the
evening before she left Wayside
Central, 2000 S. Mission St., to wait
for her friends in the parking lot.
See ACCIDENT Page 6	
RYAN WOOD ♦ CM UFE
Top: An unidentified male comforts, Geri Kabala, Fenton freshman, while they
wart for the Mount Pleasant Fire Department to arrive at the Wayside Central
parking lot early Thursday morning.
Above: Mount Pleasant Police and Fire Department work to free Kabala from
underneath the vehicle.
Students team up to
address rezoning
Saturday's Haunted Forest canceled
By Shawna McManus
LIFE Staff Writer
Anew committee of concerned
CMU students met Wednesday
night to address the possible
rezoning issue.
About 10 students, most of
whom are involved with the
Student Government
Association, attended the
Student Advocacy Boards first
meeting in the Bovee University
Center President's Conference
Room.
It would please me if the
room was packed with people
wanting to help (at the next
meeting)," said Adam Miller, the
1997-98 SGA president who is
currently heading the committee.
The committee discussed
goals and purposes and began to
create a plan for dealing with
the possible rezoning issue.
"I don't want this to be a
protest organization, but more
of a neighborhood organization
that works with the university
and the city," Miller said. "This
group could serve as a commu
nication link between the students, the commission and the
university.'9
"I would like to have something to present to the commissioners by the Dec. 14 meeting
to represent the students and
tell them how we feel," Miller
said.
Holly Wisniewski, Grand
Rapids senior, said it's lor the
group to address the rezoning
issue.
*T think we need to find out
what everyone's stance is (on
the rezoning issue) and what
approach we will take,"
Wisniewski said.
Another member of the group
felt that the focus of the new
committee should not be the
rezoning issue.
1 think we should address it,
but it shouldn't be our primary
concern,'* said Jeff Falcusan,
Battle Creek senior. "Instead,
we should work on repairing the
relationship between the commissioners and the students."
See REZONING Page 6	
By Lindsay Allen
LIFE Et cetera Editor
Tonight is the last night for
students, staff and community
members to catch the thrills and
chills of the 13th annual
Haunted Forest, as the event has
been canceled Saturday night
due to lack of volunteers.
According to Christine
Graybeal, recreation and special
event coordinator for Mount
Pleasant Parks and Recreation,
only about 110 volunteers were
scheduled for Saturday night —
compared to 20O each night on
Thursday and Friday — and by
Thursday morning, large numbers of the Saturday volunteers
had called her to back out from
volunteering.
"I've had at least 40 phone calls
in the last two days from people
canceling," Graybeal said.
Graybeal said she expected the
number of volunteers would have
dropped down to approximately
50 by Saturday due to call-ins
and no-shows.
Ten to 15 percent (of the volunteers) each night don't show,"
she said.
At least 90 volunteers are
needed   for  the   scare   stations,
which are the actual events and
hauntings in the forest, Graybeal
said. This figure does not even
include the numerous volunteers
needed to sell tickets and concessions, as well as perform other
necessary duties.
So, the prospect of operating
with 50 — or possibly fewer —
volunteers seemed impossible to
Haunted Forest organizers.
Graybeal said there was "no way
we could have run it on so little
volunteers."
"It wouldn't be fair to the vol-
See HAUNTED FOREST Page 6
Payroll system making adjustments
By Renee Lutz
LIFE News Editor
The university payroll system, which began
operating on a new computer system in January,
is still working out a few bugs.
A notice to employees on the semi-monthly payroll system was sent out by listserv Thursday to
inform them of possible changes in pay statements.
Marlee Kren, coordinator for payroll, said due
to the newness of the system, changes in payroll
statements may occur at some times and are a
necessary part of perfecting the system.
"It was a planned type of thing. This also
occurred in summer — it's something that's hap
pened before," Kren said. "This system can go
back and look to see changes relative to an
employee (statement) and calculate based on the
changes.
"It's a new system, and with any new system,
we're going to have things that have to be worked
out," she said.
Kren said employees with concerns about their
statements may contact the payroll department
at 774-3481.
"Whenever there is a change in paycheck, we
want to answer questions they have," she said.
"This is occurring in order to in essence clean up
things needing to be changed. It's just a necessary
type of thing to make sure things are correct."
By Shannon Marosi
LIFE Staff Writer
Contrary to many rumors, the
teacher education department
will be offering summer classes
in 1999 based on need.
"Originally we were telling
students we aren't sure which
courses will be offered. I understand where the rumor came
from," said William Merrill,
chairperson of teacher education.
Summer I classes will be
offered based on need, however
summer II classes are never
offered because they are
reserved for graduate students.
"What's changed is that in the
pest, we've offered two or three
sections of each course," Merrill
said.
Teacher education students
can sign up for classes they need
in the department office, and the
courses will be offered based on
the demand.
"If we have 60 students that
need a course, we'll open up two
sections of that course. If I only
have three students, I can't offer
the course, it's just not going to
happen. We can get it to them in
the spring or fall," he said.
However, new teacher education students, entering in fall of
1998, will no longer face this
problem.
The new students will be guaranteed seats in education courses, and won't need to use the
STAR system anymore.
They also will not have to take
required professional teaching
courses in the summer. Instead,
these students will automatically have the option to take all of
their courses in fall and spring,
but courses will still be offered in
the summer.
The problem for present education students arises when a
course that they need is not
desirable to other students,
because then the course doesn't
fill up and low interest means it
won't exist. Merrill said students
cannot be closed out of a class,
but if the need is not high
enough, the class won't exist so
they won't have the option to
take it at the time they may
want. In this case, the student
would   be   placed   in   a   fall   or
See CLASSES Page 2	
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with all the candidates
and proposals on the
local ballots Tuesday.
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