1991-11-18; Central Michigan Life

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STATE
"Accused professor
deserves hearing
JK LANSING, Michy- Michi-
J gan State cannot fire without
< a hearing a tenured professor
accused of having sexual contact with his former patients,
says a ruling let stand by the
- state Supreme Court on Friday.
The court's brief order
' denied Michigan State's
s request for an appeal in the
J" case of David Garner, a pro-
^fessor of psychiatry.
That left intact a Michigan
.. Court of Appeals decision
:* requiring the university to
follow its policy on firing
.' tenured professoi's, which
-- includes a hearing.
''The case is not over, but it
> certainly vindicates Profes-
' sor Garner's position that the
university did not have the
authority to tell him he was
gone and to leave the campus
without giving him a hearing
and a chance to be heard,'"
said Arthur Przybylowicz,
; Garner's attorney.
Citizens donate $1
million to Mandela
DETROIT       —       Final
.■■ arrangements    have    been
made   to   transfer   the   $1.1
million raised in connection
, with Nelson Mandela's 1990
Detroit   visit   to   the   Matla
Trust Fund in South Africa.
''With   all    the   red   tape
taken care of and with the
> knowledge these funds are
^"feeing transferred in accor-
! dance with (Mandela's)
5 wishes, we can now transmit
% this very concrete manifesta-
| tion of the support Detroiters
I have given to his efforts,"
| Mayor Coleman A. Young
£ said in a written release .
I'Thursday.
Under the plan for trans-
; fer, the money will be sent to
' the U.S. Mandela Freedom
? Fund.
NATIONAL
Majestic buck
charges ice
cream parlor
FLEMTNGTON, N.J. — A
buck deer with large antlers
stormed into an ice cream
parlor, startling workers who
managed to lock it in a
freezer.
"Suddenly I saw my door
burst open,"' said Ben Naje-
reaj, manager of tae Carvel
Ice Cream store.
The deer with five-point
antlers ran past Ben Naje-
reaj. Carvel Ice Cream store
manager, and into a freezer.
'"The animal behaved very
well,** he said after culling
the police. "It was standing
majestically, looking very
nice."
In the end, a local animal
control officer tranquilized
the deer and released it in
some woods on the outskirts
of Flemington.
INTERNATIONAL
Puliout possible
in Yugoslavia
ZAGREB, Yugoslavia — A
Yugoslav army general said
today he had offered to withdraw all federal forces from
Croatia within a month if the
f. secessionist    republic    lifts
& blockades of military bases.
JK.>\The army has made sirni-
f;Iar     offers     during     the
| 4'/fe-month civil war, but Gen.
aAndrija Raseta said it was
ftcthe first puliout plan with a
iNieadline.
[Compiled from the
[Associated Press and staff
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Framework revises
Concentration changes from politics to creativity
Page 8
NO RECORD-BREAKING FIFTH TIE
CMU dodges history, defeats WMU 27-17
Page 10
Central
Michigan
MONDAY
November 18, 1991
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Riots plague Western Weekend
Mob of
3,000
leaves trail
of damage
By Nancy Salia
LIFE Staff Writer
Violence seized Mount
Pleasant Saturday night as a
mob of 3.000 people burned
cars, uprooted traffic signs and
attacked police in riot gear dur-
ing the infamous Western
Weekend.       i
A   night   on   the   streets.   See
page 2.
And in the wake of glass-
covered streets, increased
emergency room cases and a
possible $100,000 damage estimate. Mount Pleasant officials
are wondering if the football
game is woi-th it.
"As public safety director for
this city, I am in charge of protecting all of the citizens," said
Martin Trombley. "Western
Weekend is the center of attention for all of this, a reason for
people all over the state to come
to Mount Pleasant.
"I will be recommending to
the City Commission that we
seek what we can do for the eno
of that event, to cancel the game
or have it played somewhere
besides here."
Dave Keilitz, CMU athletic
director, disputes the riot's
cause.
"The fact that you play a
game will bring people to town,
but an incident like this may
happen under any event or circumstances," Keilitz said.
"They used to have End-of-the-
World parties, but the University didn't call exams off.
"All we do is play football and
outsiders bring all these problems in," Keilitz said. "The University and the city need to figure out how to prevent this."
Finding such a method is
almost impossible for the Mount
Pleasant City Police Department, which has limited resources and manpower.
"We called in 10 agencies to
assist and it still wasn't
enough." Trombley said. "We
aren't the military. We don't
have all the equipment and a
license to use excessive force
until a gathering reaches a riot
status."
Weekend   vandalism   started
See VIOLENCE Page 5
LIFE Photo/Bonnie Morrison
Saturday night during Western Weekend activities several people
overturned an automobile on Douglas Street between Bellows
and Gaylord and climbed onto the car, while bystanders chanted
and cheered. The car was later set ablaze.
8 cars destroyed in front
of owners and bystanders
1]§)§)D
By Anthony Batkie
and Nancy Saila
I IFF.'  Staff Writers      '
Out-of-control revelers ovei -
turned and burned eight automobiles in the Main Street area
Saturday night during the Western Weekend melee.
"This is bullshit. I can't believe
it." screamed Rebecca Browning
as she helplessly watched the
crowd flip her 1987 Honda Accord
and throw a burning rag into it.
Flames shot higher than telephone wires.
Browning of Sterling Heights
was visiting her brother. William
Browning, who is a Mount Pleasant senior.
"I just came up here for a fun
weekend." said Browning, 19. She
and a friend were joking about
the riot when someone said the
car was on fire.
"T went crazy," Browning said
of her reaction to the burning
Honda.
o^   ^
Daniel Skapyak. a friend ot
Browning, protected his nearby
car with a baseball bat in hand.
"This is f—ing stupid." said
Skapyak, Sterling Heights
senior.
Mount Pleasant City Police are
still completing the incident
reports from the weekend and
expect to have by Wednesday
more details about cars set
ablaze.
Three houses away from
Browning's blazing auto stood
Margie Fountain, a resident of
1032 Franklin for the past 35
vears.
Fountain, a Receivable
Accounting senior clerk,
surveyed the scene with her husband Arthur, a CMU custodian,
and their son Jerry.
"This is terrible." she said. The
Fountains watched drunken people throw beei- bottles, ignite fireworks and knock over trash
dumpsters.
"The University should just
cancel all the football games."
-Jerry Fountain said. "This is ridiculous."
As the Fountains checked their
property for damage, they discovered vomit on their front lawn
and a woman urinating near the
house.
"Say goodbye to your house. It
is going to burn!" screamed a
woman passing the Fountains'
home.
Two Mount Pleasant Fire
Department trucks and about 10
See FIRES Page 14
■ WESTERN
WEEKEND
■ Between 32 and 35
people were
apprehended and
lodged in Isabella
County Jail in connection to Saturday's riot in
the Main Street area.
■ Eight automobiles
and numerous dumpsters and stop signs were
destroyed.
■ Ten police agencies
assisted with crowd control.
■ Mount Pleasant
Director of Public Safety
Martin Trombley called
for an end to the annual
Central-Western game in
order to protect citizens.
■ The riot continued
until about 4 a.m. Sunday, spilling onto the
Northwest section of
campus by Larzelere
Hall.
Over 30 people
arrested Saturday
By Nancy Saila
Llt-f: Sniff Writer
Between 32 and 35 people were apprehended and lodged in the
Isabella County Jail in connection to Saturday's riot in the Main St reel
area.
Police forces from 10 surrounding agencies wrote an unknown number of appearance tickets. Seven people were arraigned Sunday and
about five more arraignments are scheduled for today. Preliminary
examinations are set for Nov. 26 at 8:30 a.m. at the Isabella County
Courthouse.
Sunday arraignments included:
■ Steven C. Lukens, a 19-year-old Michigan State University student,
was charged with resisting and obstructing an officer. Lukens was
released on a $5,000 bond.
■ Noel   Jacob   Slowik,   an   18-year-old   student,   was   charged   with
See ARRESTS Page 1 4
UC pajama party turns violent
Brawls lead to two arrests, one serious injury
By Nancy Saila
! IFF  St,'ft Wnt.<r
A student pajama party
turned into a brawl Saturday
night in which a Bovee University Center ballroom window
was smashed.
One person was hospitalized
as a result of the fight which
occurred at a Phi Beta Sigma
fraternity dance around midnight.
Upon leaving the riot near
Main Street, three responding
police   officers   found   three   or
tour groups of two to 10 people
fighting in the UC, said John
McAuliffe, Department of
Public Safety director. Ten to 1 2
additional officers were called
to assist.
One glass baliroom window
was shattered and various other
damage was done.
Two people were arrested for
a variety of charges which
included felonious assault,
malicious destruction of property, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.
Chiiva Alex-Rudolph Donnell.
a 2()-> ear-old Detroit resident
imd student at another school,
was arrested and arraigned for
resisting and obstructing an
officer at the L'C. Donnell was
released on a $5,000 bond and
has a preliminary examination
scheduled forS:30a.m. Nov. 26.
Donnell also was issued an
appearance ticket for disorderly
person and must appear at 9
a.m. in 76th District Court Nov.
25. Donnell was wanted on a
See FIGHT Page 7
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