1991-10-07; Central Michigan Life

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Seven arrested in
| protest at anti-gay
[restaurant
I BELLEVILLE — Seven,
peopie were arrested in front
of ~ a suburban Detroit
Cracker Barrel restaurant
Sunday as about 150 people
protested the chain's anti-
gay hiring policy.
!*f Seven people were
arrested on charges of breach
fof peace, a 90-day misdemea-
-«S>i?that also carries a fine of
>up;j_o-$100, said police Cpl.
^efdifbno of Wayne County's
.Van'Buren Township.
No one at the Cracker Barrel, restaurant would immediately comment on the protesters, said an employee
wfad^ answered the phone -
|Simeiay afternoon. A mana-
|^erdid not return calls.
jpNLjFhe protesters from groups
! including Act Up, an AIDS
group, and the Revolutionary
'^Worker's League gathered
-jabout 11 a.m. in front of the
%'restaurant. The arrested protesters were issued appearance tickets and will be
arraigned within 10 days,
vYbno said.
Welfare cuts lead
ppor to crime •
B^: LANSING — A few blocks
fr<jm the Capitol, where
"ftf-ichigan's main welfare
program was eradicated,
counselor    Shirley   Johns
ose without food or shelter: ■
X"I '<. tell   them   to   commit   a
f simple larceny,    y
p - "Especially if they're sick I
! tell them to do that: I explain
* to them it's a roof over their
^ head, it's free food, free medical treatment for their pneu-
. monia. When they get out of
* jail, they look healthy, they
put on some weight, they look
c clean, well-groomed."
tit Johns, director of the Com-
„"munity Service and Referral
} Center, said her advice isn't
!new. But the urgency is
| increasing   with   the   cutoff
* last week of state welfare for
181,000 people who aren't dis-
l abled and don't have chil-
rdren.
1 INTERNATIONAL
('Gorbachev
/denounces Soviet
i anti-semitism
3 MOSCOW — Breaking
| decades of silence by Soviet
| leaders, President Mikhail S.
1 Gorbachev on Sunday
1 sharply denounced hatred
1 for Jews and bemoaned their
lexodus from the Soviet
! Union.
gfe« Gorbachev's statement
| was carried by the Tass news
i agency on Sunday and read
j the night before at a cere-
I mony marking the 50th
I anniversary of the Nazi mas-
I sacre of thousands of Jews at
j Babi Yar, in a suburb of the
,<f Ukrainian capital of Kiev.
Human rights
official dies
SASKATOON,   Canada   —
If, Martin   Ennals,  the  former
secretary-general of
Amnesty International who
jjjf helped build it into a leading
" human rights group, died
Saturday after a yearlong
battle with lung cancer. He
was 64.
' "Ennals led the development of the London-based
group as a major international monitor of human
frights during his tenure ae
secretary-gene ral from
1968-80.
Playing to perfection
Rhythm Corps rocked Nick's 9-11
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Out of time
Football team loses 17-10,
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Central
Michigan
MONDAY
October7, 1991
Employee groups want budget say
Union council
asks to form new
review committee
By Karen Emerson
' LIFE Editor  '
A call for the administration
to create a joint financial review
committee will go unanswered
for the time being, as union leaders and the president disagree
over the need for such a group.
The CMU Joint Union Council
asked the Board of Trustees Friday to create a review committee
to oversee University expenditures.
Art may
not get
glowing
review
By Brian D. Bell
LIFE Staff Writer	
yThe   campus   community   will ^
get its first glimpse today of a .
$70,000 piece of art described in
the  past  by   some  people  as  a
waste of money.
San Franciso artist Cork Mar-
cheschi •will install a neon sculpture today on the northeast corner outside the Dow Science
Complex. The sculpture is I8V2
feet tall and about 7 feet wide and
will stand on a concrete base.
The painted sculpture is made
of steel, aluminum, plastic and
neon tubes, said Russ Herron,
vice president for University
Relations. The piece is composed
of varying geometrical shapes
including circles, Herron said.
The shapes have symbolic meanings to Marcheschi, he said.
"I think it will spark a lot of
interest," Herron said. "I think it
will spark a lot of controversy."
Many people tend to think art
is an expensive luxury, he said.
"People tend to look at art as a
frill. There's people that think art
is a bauble (and) it's just icing on
the cake," Herron said. "That's so
far from the truth I think it's ridiculous.
"I think one of the things that's
been weak on our campus is the
dearth of public art."
The sculpture is funded
through the state's Art in Public
Places Project, Herron said.
Program participants are
asked to earmark up to 1 percent
of state funding for state-'
financed projects for artwork
around or in the building, he said.
The expense of this sculpture represents about 0.5 percent of the
$24 million in state funding for
the Science II building.
The Michigan Commission on
Art in Public Places identifies
artists through a national competition and collects slides of
their works, Herron said.
Three finalists were invited to
campus to meet with a committee
of University officials and local
residents, he said.
While on campus the artists
visited the building site and met
with members of the University
community, he said. The artists
submitted mock sculptures of
their ideas and the commission
made the final selection, he said.
The sculpture has its own
glowing personality.
The piece features a variety of
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*IThe implication seems to be
there is some kind of wrongdoing. The responsibility of CMU
lies with the Board and they've
appointed me as president. 93
'   President Edward B. Jakubauskas
The financial review committee would include representatives of the student body and each
employee group, said Shary
Gaunt, president of UAW Local
6888.
Gaunt, library specialist clerk,
asked the Board of Trustees at its
Friday meeting to Consider form
ing a review committee soon to
examine expenditures for such
things as travel, entertainment
and capital expenses.
"Since we, the employees, are
being asked to make concessions,
we feel we deserve the consideration of* sharing in the decisions
surrounding    these    expendi
tures," Gaunt said.
President Edward B. Jakubauskas called the financial review
committee concept "totally unacceptable."
"The implication seems to be
there is some kind of wrongdoing," he said. "The responsibility of CMU lies with the Board
and they've appointed me as
president."
Board Chairwoman Margaret
Ann Riecker said it is not "appropriate" at this time for Board
members to respond to the financial review committee request.
"I have a real problem with the
things Shary presents," Riecker
said Sunday evening. "She's in a
LIFE Photo/Bonnie Morrison
AUTUMN AIR: Fall is in the air for Jennie Lannen, Alison and Stacey QLeast, all of Mount Pleasant. The
girls played in a leaf pile Sunday afternoon at the corner of Cherry and Lansing streets outside their
homes.
collective bargaining
process . . . It's completely inappropriate for the Board to make
any comments about this. The
Board did not discuss it yet."
She said the idea of a joint
financial review committee
should not be discussed until
after bargaining is completed.
"I think the committee is a terrific idea," said Rod Kirk, Faculty
Association president. "It would
give us some input into decision
making at this university."
Jakubauskas said the
academic division is an integral
part of the planning process. He
cited   the    President's   Advisory
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umber of
minority
high school
grads rising
By Tammy Parker
LIFE Staff Writer        '
Despite projections by one
higher education association that .
minority high school graduation
rates will increase by 1995, officials don't know how CMU will be
affected.
■ A recent report conducted by
the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education predicts an increase in the number of
minority high school graduates
nationwide by 1995.
"The admissions office here at
CMU does not have projected figures as of yet for future minority
enrollment," said Richard Redden, associate director for minority enrollment.
In 1986, 22 percent of* high
school graduates nationwide
were minority students, according to the report. By 1995, the
study predicts 28 percent of high
school graduates nationwide will
be minorities.
The report estimates a 16 percent minoiity increase in the
number of Michigan public high
school graduates within four
years.
The study projects that 10,807
blacks, 745 American Indians,
899 Asians, and 1,402 Hispanics
will graduate from Michigan high
schools in 1995.
Other states such as Georgia,
California, Illinois and Texas
expect even an higher number of
minority graduates.
"All states that have a minority
percentage increase (will have) a
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Rain sends students seeking shelter
Homelessness awareness project offers one option real life does not
By Amy E. Irwin
LIFE Staff Wnter
Jenni Crosslin spent nearly
an hour Friday night standing in
a Smith Hall doorway to avoid
the deluge of rain.
Still, as she watched sheets of
rain come down and fought off the
cold "winds, the Newberry sophomore said she knew she was
lucky.
Crosslin, part of an eight-
student group, spent one hour
outside Friday as part of a homelessness awareness program
originally planned as an overnight event.
Having the option of calling it
quits     when     weather     was
uncooperative gave Crosslin
insight into the homelessness
problem. ^
"It made me realize how hard it
must be for homeless people.
They have to stay outside
regardless of where they go,"
Crosslin said.
Participants originally
planned to spend the entire night
in cardboard boxes in the Barnes
Hall courtyard, but heavy rains
destroyed the boxes.
Students later donned garbage
bags for their short stint outdoors, and eventually returned to
the shelter of Barnes.
As the rain continued, the students changed into dry clothes to
role play scenarios which let the
students imagine themselves
homeless.
Although the students didn't
camp out until dawn, the cold and
rainy night affected the students'
idea of homelessness.
Daniel Park, Jackson sophomore, found sleep impossible on
the cold concrete of the porch of
Christ the King _ Lutheran
Chapel, 3565 S. Washington,
where he and another student
tried to stay dry.
Christi Belfi, Royal Oak sophomore and program organizer,
said she planned the event to
make people think about the
realities of being homeless.
The participants watched
"Streetwise", a documentary featuring homeless teenagers in
Seattle.
The film included Tiny, a
14-year-old prostitute, and
Dewayne, a 16-year-old who
eventually hung himself.
Dewayne's father, one of the
few who attended his son's funeral, said his death was like his
life: "a pretty lonely, skimpy
affair."
Belfi  said  many parts of the
I film    bothered    her,    including
dumpster   dining  and   the   fact
. that Tiny's mother knew how she
was living but didn't seem to have
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