1991-09-27; Central Michigan Life

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Changin' with time
Local band Serenity alters its style
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Looking good
Fall ball displays CMU's strengths.
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Brief
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_f_$_NSING, Mich. — The
speakers of the Michigan and
lorida Houses have made a
endly wager on the out-
of Saturday's football.
,e between No. i Florida
and No. 3 Michigan. «
ihigan House Speaker*
Dodak   announced
iay that he's put up a
J of Michigan apples to
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Cause of 1986
jTobias murder
under debate
llJETROIT —- A Gaylord
Mrnan killed in 1986 did not die
fxijf internal head injuries from
p8L "beating, according to two
jjOTensic pathology experts.
"Fiv^jnen went-to prison in
Rfche death of Jerry Tobias, but .
|each *- maintains his inno-
[cerice. Then-Ot3ego County
[^Pathologist Patricia New-
house ruled Tobias died of
'shearing emd hemorrhage of
tHe brain stem" caused by
i blows to the head-.
But Macomb County Medical vExaminer Werner Spitz
[.and Dr. Kurt B. Nolte, New
Mexico's state medical investigator,   claim   Newhouse's
HfoidShjgs weY^wrohg." Spitz'
was  hired   by  The  Detroit
j News and Nolte by families
| of two defendants.
fp Newhouse no longer works
for   the   county   and   was
unavailable for comment, the
newspaper said.
NATIONAL
Central
Michigan
FRIDAY
September 27, 1991
All payments aren't created equal
One term cut from appropriations bili may keep CMU living month-to-month
Crime bill defeated
§£ WASHINGTON — A prop-'
osal requiring state and local ~
\ police departments to give
I more due process to officers
I during disciplinary proceed-
iings wasrejected on Wednes-
I day by the House Judiciary
I Committee.
fM The so-called "Policemen's -
i Bill of Rights," contained in
| the Senate-passed version of
ithe crime bill, was rejected
on a 24-10 vote as the House.
: panel continued to draft its ,
1 own proposal.
INTERNATIONAL
I
lice  Man  found  in
[Austrian Alps
INNSBRUCK, Austria —
A man whose 4,000-year-old
mummified body was discovered on a glacier's edge wore
tattoos, dressed in leather
arid packed a knife, scientists
said Wednesday.
Researchers cal led the
Sept.-19 find by hikers an
.archaeological sensation,
and said it could offer a rare
igfifhpse into life in the
0rohze Age, a time when
"men ate meat and stone-
gpround meal, judging from
the mummy's chiseled teeth.
"We , are absolutely sure
body is 4,000 years old,"
aid Konrad Spindler of the
'liivei'sity of Innsbruck's
Institute for Pre-ahd Early
an  examination  of
ipfoody   and   implements
with it, scholars dated
tan from the Simi-
to   the   early   Bronze
Highly 2.000 B.C. in
tips, he said.
»r said the mummy
■}old,e^ found in_ Eur-
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By Nancy Salfa
LIFE Assistant News Editor *	
A five-letter safety net was
removed from the state's university appropriations plan, making
CMU's fight for financial stability even more intense.
The Joint Confererifce Committee on Higher Education granted
the state Department of Management and Budget's request to
remove the word "equal" from the
approved appropriations bill.
The JCC originally agreeded to
pay public universities and community colleges 12 months of
appropriations in nine equal payments from October to June. It
Colbert's
attorney
asks for
trial delay
By Mary Church
LIFE Staff Writer  .
.. An._<Jsabella .County - judge ,
received a third request Monday
to postpone former CMU student
Terrance Colbert's trial on • a
third-degree criminal sexual conduct charge to an indefinite date.
Bruce Havens, Colbert's attorney, filed the motion in Circuit
Court stating "as a result of acts
by the prosecuter, the District
Court, the University and others
it is impossible to be prepared to
proceed to trial on Oct. 21."
Earlier this month Judge Paul
O'Connell changed the jury-trial
date from Sept. 23 to Oct. 21.
In the motion to adjourn,
Havens stated the first notice he
received of Isabella Courity Prosecutor Larry Burdick's plan to
call expert witnesses was Aug.
23.
On Sept. 18 the prosecuter's
office provided Havens with a
supplemental police report containing additional information
which Havens stated will require
. See COLBERT Paqe 2
ELLERTSON SCOBY
has  since  deleted  "equal"  from
the bill.
During an earlier interview,
DMB budget analyst Bob Endriss
said  removing the word was a
preventative   measure   waiving
legal    guarantees    about   the
monthly size of funding in case of
future state cash-flow problems.
' Removing the legal safety net
. leaves    CMU   administrators
guessing the size of each upcoming month's appropriations, and
the    University's    investment'
capabilities up in the air.
"We simply can't invest money
we don't have." said Kim Ellertson, Vice president for Business
and Finance.
"We can call up a bank and
invest money for as little as two
days — but we would earn a lot
more interest if we could afford to
leave it in there a month," he
added.
CMU already is feeling the
squeeze of the state "deferral" of
$4.7 million.
Approved July 3, House Bill
4078 canceled the fourth-quarter
appropriations payment to
higher education institutions but
stated an intent to make up the
funds in its fiscal 1992, which
begins Oct. 1.
The deferral accompanies an
appropriations plan which dictates universities will record all
state funding in the year for
which it's appropriated, imposing
a cash-basis system for recogniz
ing state funding.
This rewording of the plan's
language make the deferral
"harmless" to CMU, said Greg
Rosine, associate director of the
House Fiscal Agency.
Rosine said the deferral was a
"one-time gimmick" the state
used to take advantage of the
state and university fiscal-year
overlap to help balance the
state's budget.
CMU's fiscal year spans July 1
to June 30, while the state's runs
Oct. 1 to Sept. 30.
CMU administrators agree the
See MONEY Page 6
LIFE Photc/Nile Young
GET PHYSICAL: Jane Norris. Grand Blanc junior, leads an aerobics    class Thursday at the Student Activity Center.
FTE cuts causing concern
If enrollment projections are off, backlog may occur
By Crystal Harmon
LIFE Assistant News Editor
Cutting the equivalent of 58 full-time faculty
positions for the 1992-93 academic year has some
campus community members concerned about the
future.
There will be problems if enrollment does not
drop as predicted and full-time equivalents, or FTE,
are cut, said Francis Molson, English chairman.
"If the same amount of students show up, either
class", size will go up or fewer sections will be
offered," Molson said. "Students will not find classes to take, a backlog occurs, and the (English)
program suffers."
One FTE equals one full-time or two half-time
positions or any other combination of hours that
equals one full-time position.
Provost Robert Franke announced Tuesday that
58 FTE will be cut for the 1992-93 school year if
preliminary enrollment projections are accurate.
Student credit hour projections, usually made the
preceding November, determine the number of FTE
needed for the upcoming academic year.
Although projections made last November indicated that 38 FTE should have been cut for the
current year, President Edward B. Jakubauskas
decided to delay the cutback.
The enrollment projections for 1991-92 were more
than 99 percent accurate. Director of Institutional
See FTE Page 2
Broadcast union near
settlement with CMU
By John Mulvaney
L'PE Staff Wnter
ROTC discrimination question
still a hot issue across nation
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By Mary Church
LIFE Staff Writer
The Academic Senate may
have temporarily silenced last
semester's controversy over a
possible elimination of ROTC at
CMU, but similar debates remain
heated around the country.
Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar vetoed
a bill Sept. 20 which would have
prevented a public college or uni
versity from banning the program on its campuses. Ohio passed
similar legislation in July, which
is now in the state budget.
The issue stems from the U.S.
Department of Defense policy
prohibiting homosexuals from
military programs, including the
Reserve Officers' Training Corps.
A CMU student who encouraged the removal of ROTC from
campus last year, disagrees with
such legislation.
"When whole state legislatures
are saying institutional discrimination is OK, it says a lot about
our society," said Paul Emmett,
Mil ford senior. "It says there's
justice for few, not everybody."
He said gay and lesbian groups
across the country will continue
See ROTC Page 2
^University  and   Public Broadcasting  bargaining  teams   negotiated into the night Thursday and at press time were nearing an
agreement, according to a union official.
j*3f Details of negotiations have yet to be released.
"fcThe National Association of Broadcasting Employees and Technicians Local 412 bargained all day Thursday, said Linda Hyde, union
president and public information director for Public Broadcasting,
h '''We are in mediation right now," Hyde said Thursday night.
.^Things are going well; we are optimistic."
£,,The union represents 25 Public Broadcasting employees. The
.union's contract expired June 30, but was extended indefinitely.
?r?The  Policy  Officer Association  of Michigan,  representing  15
Department of Public Safety officers, also is negotiating contractual
, issues.
^V Although the contract does not expire until 1993, union officials
are discussing economic openers in the present agreement.
;g£ *It*s important that both sides understand what the agreement
'. says." said Therm Looman, president of CMU's branch of POA. "It
^shouldn't be too long, whenever both sides can reach a compromise."
JL ■ Although Looman would not reveal negotiation details, he said the
; union has not incurred serious bargaining difficulties with the University in the past.
^"fil^ejust usually think we're worth more, than they think we are,"
^ie added.
-£ Russ Herron, vice president of University Relations, said there
tf&en no negotiations lwe^iy^and no.talks«re scheduled in th£
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