1991-03-25; Central Michigan Life

              Oscars are up-for-grabs
Top movie awards will be given out tonight
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Central
Michigan
Successful defense
CMU gymnasts win second straight MAC crown
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MONDAY
March 25, 1991
iVOLUMF. 73. NUMBER 70
i£j 1991 CM LIFE
Mount pleasant. MtCHisAfi^sssal
(517) 774-3493
tuition rates lowered
for children of alumni
by LAURA PHILLIPS .
LIFE Editor • " ' i -
r? The children of CMU a'umni living out of* the state now can
attend Central at in-state tuition rates.        - -
M The BoaVd of Trustees approved the idea, originally suggested by
political science Chair Del Ringquist, by a 5 - 1 \oto Friday, -  ,-   ,
**3,Trustee Mitch Kehetian questioned the policy because it may
~snowbali to the child of any Michiganian.** -■^■^y:o',o-o%M
&~He also objected to a state institution offering in-state tuition
rates to people who do not pay taxes in Michigan. . ".
* '"This it, not a company that we're marketing," he said.
ti Trustee Robert Young said, "I don't think this University has a
profusion of out-of-state students. A modest; increase of out-of
staters. particularly with parental connections, would be healthy."
^President Edward B. Jakubauskas said CMU has 100,000 living
alumni, a large proportion of whom live outside Michigan. Many are
minorities, and the new tuition policy may help CMU develop a pool
for recruiting minority students., he said. •   -~       • ~
II Jakubauskas said he expects an additional 25 to 50 students to
attend CMU this fall because of the decision. ; -
Hl*T think it's a nice linking up with the CMU family nationwide —
worldwide, in a sense." he said. "It's something new, something
different and we'd like to try it out and see how it goes." '-,..-
pi Alumni groups and state officials are enthusiastic about the
decision.Which applies to both undergraduate and graduate
students, he said. A rate of up to 20 percent out-of-state students is
considered acceptable in Michigan, he added.
ft-CMU's student body currently includes 1.5 percent out-of-state
students.
See ALUMNI Page 2
Program costs
by JASON WILKIE ,v
:i if-r S>* ,fr -.".■. <.jr '*!,-_     *      -~
*- CMU  lost  about  #1   million
because   of   Operation    Desert
Storm, and students of CMU's
* Extended Degree Programs
who served in the Peisian Gulf
will face tuition increases when
they get home *- *   -
|- "With aVniivnber of programs
set up oil iniliUiry base-, the
program    was    hurt    in    two
. ways," said Robert Trullinger.
director of the Extended Degree
-"Programs. * "One, - it vtook
students away from '■£ the
programs, which are seven to
nine percent ' of our revenue.
Two. because it is a .war
causing a decrease in enrollment ^ we could ■■- not f make
normal business decisions. We
can't ' cancel classes ' so our
expenses j remain ; high even
though our revenue is low.**. ' ' ,
CMU lost about $1 million in
anticipated revenue because so
many *'. students on military
bases left for Gulf duty.' said '.
'John LYantis,-  dean i of   the '>
■tbrm'
>' College of Extended .Learning.
•_- Alt hough the war is over, it
may take some time for service
men and women to re-enroll in
Extended Degree ^classes.
Truilinger said.    *'     "   |v c >■ ;
"It will "be a while before
students come back — not until
fall or winter — but they will
"~ come back slowly,*" he said. ! ^
' The Board of Trustees voted
Friday to increase tuition from
."?155 to .$166 per credit hour at
the graduate level and from
$115 to $125 at the undergraduate level beginning July 1.  -
"/"" Increases in Extended Credit
Courses, which will take effect
Aug. 15T would go from $105 to
-Si 15 at the graduate level and
$90 to $98 tor undergraduates.
In addition to losing students
who were called to active duty,
Truilinger said the tuition
increase is necessary because of
inflation and rising costs of
operation. -. *
Zt.   "Professors are fK ing all over
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Student arraigned in
indecent exposure case
A ('Ml* .-indent lurried himself in to the Department of Public-
Safety Friday in relation to a March 14 indecent exposure incident in
the  Rovee University Center.
I .aw re nee Herbert Utterback. a '..s-year-old Mount Pleasant junior,
was taken into custody a found noon and arraigned later that day. said
DPS Director John McAulifl'e.
McAuliffe said Sunday he believe.- Utterback was released on a
personal recognizance bond. The- arre.-t followed a week-long
investigation of the incident.
A CMU student told DPS she was alone in the l.'Us Thorpe
Browsing Lounge when Utterback approached her and exposed
himself. The woman left t he lounge and notified DPS several hours
later, after attending class.
I "iterback reportedly approached t be woman later the same dav and
apologized, but the woman ignored him and walked away, said Capt.
Ron Williams. DPS associate director, in a previous interview.
A composite drawing of Utterback in (ho March Pi issue of CM UFE
prompted several people to come forward and name the individual.
McAuliffe said in an earlier interview. DPS already had identified the
suspect by that time.
The offense is a misdemeanor, and Utterback could face a maximum
penalty of one year in prison and up to $500 in fines. McAuliffe said.
Assault suspect bound over for trial
by CRYSTAL HARMON
Lii-r-  St ,?f Wr.ter
A judge ruled Friday that
prosecutors have enough
evidence that Torrance Colbert
was involved in a sexual assault
to bind the case over to Isabella
County Circuit Court.
District Court Judge Peter 1).
O'Cormell scheduled Colbert's
Circuit Court arraignment on
charges of third-degree criminal
sexual conduct for 9 a.m. Fridav.
April 5.
Ov'onnell said there was sufficient evidence presented at
Friday's preliminary examination to prove a crime may have
been committed and Colbert.
former CML" student and basketball player-, may have been the
perpetrator. The incident
occured Sept. lb. 19S9 in a
student's off-campus apartment.
The victim was the on ly
witness called at the examination. She testified she met
Colbert at a party she- and her
roommates     hosted,     and     he-
offered to take her to a basketball game.
When she went upstairs to
write down her phone number,
he followed her and raped her.
she said.
During nearly 'ZVj. hours of
cross-examination by court -
appointed defense attorney
Bruce Havens. Isabella County
Prosecutor Larry Burdick
objected to the line of
questioning several times.
Burdick objected to Havens'
asking the victim about past
sexual partners and making
non-question comments Burdick
says "bordered on badgering."
O'Connell sustained the objection.-, and at one point reprimanded Havens for saying
"Torrance must not be much into
forcplay. eh'.'*" The comment
came after repeated efforts by
Havens to make the witness put
a time frame on the incident. She
was unable to do so. except to say
it  lasted more than fi\e minutes.
The     woman     testified     that
when Colbert attempted to rape
her. she struggled, but he pinned
lier onto her bed.
"I wanted to be very clear that
I didn't want to have sex. I said
"Terry, please don't f— me." and I
said it more than once." she said.
Havens asked the woman to
yell that phrase at the same
volume she said she did Sept. lb.
19S9. Burdick objected, calling
the request "outrageous." O'Connell sustained the objection and
the woman did not have to do it.
Havens questioned the woman
about tier meeting with another
woman, who has filed a civil suit
against Colbert that alleges he
also raped her. The witness
testified she did meet with the
woman once — when the woman
was planning to sue- CML* for
allowing Colbert to return to
camj) us after- the University
suspended him for allegodlv
raping her.
The witness testified the other
w< iinan's decision did not affect
her. and she  bad  to deal  with  il
in her own way.
Havens also asked the witness
how much time she spent getting
ready for the party and whether
or- not she had been dancing
before the incident.
When the woman said she and
a roommate had been dancing.
Havens asked her if she danced
seductively.
"You weren't putting on any-
kind of a show? Were you
bumping your hips and rubbing
your body'.' " be asked.
Havens also asked the woman
what her height and weight
were, if she wore a slip with her
ankle-length skirt, and if she
listened to the party's music
while she was being raped.
The woman, who maintained
her composure during the
questioning, said she was not
wearing a slip and could hear the
music during the incident.
The witness said she- waited
nearly a year- and a half to report
See TRIAL Paae 2
Taking Time Off
LIFE Photo Nile Young
Jennifer  Hudgens,  Utica  junior,  faces  away from  the sculpture  in  front  of  Park  Library as  she takes
advantage  of the warm  weather to do  a  little outdoor  reading.
Speakers: women face increased sexual violence
by JILLIAN BOGATER
I    - -   St.r-- VV- r-.-r
and LAURA PHILLIPS
L:r h.j tor
A distanced, unemotional, violent kind of sex — as prostitutes
experience — is becoming more common in women's lives today, said
author- Kathleen Barry at a conference Saturday.
Prostitutes go through several psychological stages to survive, and
many completely shut themselves off emotionally, she said.
""Yes. it is taking place in and on their bodies." she said, referring to
the emotional responses during prostitution. "No. they are not there."
And now, she said, more teenage girls are having sex even when
they do not want to — like prostitutes.
Barry told of a teacher- who conducted a survey about unwanted
sexual touching. One 14-year-old girl told the teacher she had engaged
in sex with 13 men in the previous nine months — and she didn't even
enjoy it.
She urged audience members to resist patriarchal standards and
win the "right to own our own lives, to chose our partners, to be lesbian
or heterosexual."
Barry's speech was the keynote address of the 19th Annual
Michigan Women* Studies Association Conference, which included
several sessions centered on the theme of "Women and Violence: The
Facts of our Live s.
The conference, which took place Friday and Saturday in the Bovee
University Center, was sponsored by the CMU Women's Studies
Program. Provost's Office. Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences and the departments of history and sociology, anthropology
and social work.
Other workshop topics included economic exploitation, sexual
a.-sault on college campuses, domestic violence, radical feminist
theory, lesbian battery, mother-daughter incest, cross-cultural issues
of violence and prostitution.
Jan Woodcock of International Networks in Mount Pleasant
presented a slide show entitled "Pornography: A Practice of
Inequality.**
Slides showed graphic photos of women while- they well' tortured,
mutilated, sexually abused and assaulted, for the purpose of
appearing on pornographic magazines covers.
Pornography, which Woodcock said is a $22 million a day business,
employs mostly prostitutes, of which most are incest survivors.
Themes of violence and sex are used to sell pornograhy. she said.
While describing a slide of a woman sexually abusing another- woman.
Woodcock said the slide conveyed the message- that women condone
their own mistreatment.
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