1991-11-22; Central Michigan Life

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STATE
Manistee man
charged with drug
smuggling
y1 GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. —
A Manistee businessman has
been    ordered   jailed    on
charges   he   conspired   tc
smuggle and sell some two
tons of cocaine from Panama.
^     But an attorney for Tho-
; mas W. Lane said the owner
;of Michigan Properties Inc.
. knows nothing about smuggling   drugs.   Furthermore,
\ attorney Grant Gruel said,
Lane   is   working  with   the
Panamanian government to
lintercept drug shipments.
> "He is working on a contract with the Panamanian-.
: government to provide highspeed boats to the govern-
; roent to intercept drug traf-
; tickers,"   Gruel   said.   "The
i boats   would   be   built   by
Challenger Boats Co. of Big
Rapids."
Lane was arrested Wed-
', jnesday on charges of conspiracy to import and sell
cocaine, possession with
intent to distribute cocaine
and possession of cocaine
during 1990 and 1991.
NATIONAL
Bush OKs civil
rights bill
WASHINGTON — Presi-
i dent Bush signed a civil
. rights bill Thursday that he
•*T «aid~would 'fight the^evil of
Incrimination,* and tried to
silence a new furor over race
by withdrawing a tentative
order to end government hiring preferences for blacks
and -women. -
The new law negates
Supreme Court decisions
that made it more difficult for
minorities to -win lawsuits
charging job discrimination
by employers. It also expands
the rights of women and religious minorities to sue and
collect damages for job discrimination, including sexual
harassment.
"For the past few years the
issue of civil rights legislation has divided America,"
Bush said. "No more."
INTERNATIONAL
Soviets receive
economic break
MOSCOW — The world's
richest industrial democracies on Thursday gave the
Soviet Union a reprieve from
the bill collectors, deferring
$3.6 billion in debt payments
and offering new loans that
would be secured by Soviet
gold reserves.
The agreement is aimed at
allowing the Soviet Union to
save its traditionally good
credit rating and gives it time
and money to implement
vital economic reforms.
Fighting continues
in Yugoslavia
VXJKOVAR, Yugoslavia —
Hundreds of people killed in
the siege of Vukovar were
buried in mass graves Thursday and Yugoslav army
troops were massing at a
■ nearby town, according to
news reports and diplomats.
Elsewhere in the secessionist Croatian republic,
refugees fled towns turned
battlefields on the Adriatic
coast.
/• The fighting began in
'■,.: Croatia after the republic
* declared   independence   on
ll June  25. .,y-
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reports\
Blast from the past
Three-part Aerosmith release a treat
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Sliding by
Central loses to Marathon Oil, 89-84
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Central
Michigan
FRIDAY
November ?2, 1991
Owners of
burnt cars
hot over
big losses
Police want to roll riot reel
Broadcasting department subpoenaed for news footage
By Ken Welsch
LIFE Staff Writer
STERi
By Chad Bush
UFE Staff Wnter
Kristi Jones' 1985 Mercury
Topaz is gone but not forgotten.
"It was ray first car — I just got
it a month ago," Wood Haven
resident Jones said about the
vehicle she lost to one of three car
fires the Mount Pleasant Fire
Department handled Saturday.
Until she pays off the $2,500
loan left on the totaled car —
which her liability insurance will
not cover — she'll have regular
reminders of her visit to Mount
Pleasant for Western Weekend
1991.
Jones was visiting Milford
junior Thomas Manley for the
weekend when she let two friends
use her car. she said. While the
Topaz was parked on Washington, rioters overturned the car,
smashed windows and torched it,
Jones said.
"When we went to look at it in
the towyard it still had a stop sign
on top of it," she said. "I wish the
people would've stopped and
thought about the people -whose
property they were destroying."
Last weekend's riot resulted in
one overturned and three burnt
■ WMU WEEKEND
Hi Local authorities
subpoenaed the broadcasting department for
its news footage of the
weekend riots.
■ Car owners who had
their vehicles set ablaze
duringthe melee are still
tallying damages.
A subpoena issued to the
broadcast and cinematic arts
department head prompted him
to turn over videotaped footage of
the weekend's riots to local law
enforcment authorities Thursday.
The segment of the film which
aired Monday on MHTV, cable
channel 34. was a small segment
of what student cameramen Eric
Granowicz and Dan Zacharek
captured following the
Central - Western melee.
The prosecutor's office made an
initial request for a tape of the
broadcast   earlier   in   the   week.
said B.R. Smith, department
chairman, but he waited until he
was served a subpoena Thursday.
"We were just trying to make
sure that due process was being
followed," Smith said.
"We're giving (Isabella County
Prosecutor Larry Burdick) a copy
of our news footage," said Grey-
don Hyde. MHTV manager.
"They're getting all they can, but
what they got from us was just
what was aired on TV."
Both Granowicz and Zacharek
were working independently of
MHTV during their filming, but
offered the station use of their
footage. Smith said.
The unused film is the private
property of Granowicz, Bloomfield Hills junior, and Zacharek,
Warren junior. Both refused to
discuss the matter, and Grano-
wicz's attorney, Mark Papazian,
was unavailable for comment.
Burdick declined to comment
on whether the two students' private tapes had been subpoenaed.
Speculation on behalf of Mount
Pleasant City Police Chief Martin Trombley would indicate that
the Prosecutor's Office will seek
any and all material relevant to
the events of Saturday night.
"They'll eventually try to subpoena   everybody   who   has   any
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vehicles according to reports
from the Mount Pleasant City
Police. In addition, rioters dented
and smashed the windows of
seven cars, including one police
car.
Firefighters put out three car
fires, but only two people have
filed complaints with police.
Natasa Sardzoski, a student at
Lawrence Tech University of
Southfield, said her 1990 Ford
Probe was destroyed by rioters
while visiting her friend Jeri
Bademian, Lincoln Park senior.
...- Sardzoski and Bademian.
parked the car on S. Franklin and
walked to a friend's house, only to
See CARS Page 2
Engler veto stands
despite McBryde no
By Colleen Newvine
LIFE News Editor ■
A local Republican voting
against the grain of his party
wasn't enough to help override
the governor's veto in a decision
Thursday.
The State House vote fell 10
short of the needed 73 to override
Gov. John Engler's veto of state
funding for the Michigan Public
School Employment Retirement
Act. Jim McBryde (R - Mount
Pleasant) ■was among the nays.
Seven universities and all community colleges will experience
cuts as a result of the vote on
House Bill 4573 for the Public
Schools Retirement Fund,
McBryde said.
The Engler veto means a loss of
about $750,000 to the retirement
fund for Central, said Greg Morris, executive assistant to the
president for Governmental
Relations.
Neil L. Van Syckle, manager of
retirement and workers compen
sation at CMU, said about 1,400
University employees from all
sectors of the University participate in the plan.
Although he generally believes
the government needs to make
cuts in spending, McBryde said it
is unfair to ax the retirement
fund for the seven universities —
Central, Ferris State, Eastern,
Northern, Western, Michigan
Tech and Lake Superior State —
that had their retirement funds
in the bill, while granting it to the
rest that included retirement
money in their regular funding
package.
"I'm one person who tends to
support the governor at all
times," McBryde said. "I didn't
see this as a good place to cut.
"I'm supportive of the governor
on most of the budget cuts, but
this was one area where I felt like
I had to support Central Michigan University, I had to support
Ferris State University."
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LIFE Photo/Brent Henderson
CLEANING UP: Ron Foster, Mount Pleasant resident, assists in cleaning up the ruins of the old
Honeggers Mill on Broadway west of Oak Thursday afternoon. A fire destroyed the mill in October
1990.
Temporary profs may unionize
By Heather Sweeney
LIFE Staff Writer
and Crystal Harmon
LIFE Assistant News Editor
Part-time and non-tenure-track faculty met
twice this week and unofficially decided to move
toward unionization.
"It was clearly expressed that we will push toward full unionization and do it as soon as possible,"
said Michael Stemmeier, associate professor of
religion and member of the temporaries' ad hoc
steering committee.
"We conducted a poll and there was almost unanimous support for an established union."
The five-member committee is currently persuing
the legal steps necessary before a union can be
formed, Stemmeier said. Tuesday and Wednesday,
non-tenured faculty discussed the two unionization
options available.
The group could seek affiliation with a local chapter of an outside union or could seek accretion with
CMU's Faculty Association, which currently represents tenured and tenure-track professors, he said.
The advantage of accretion, or getting member
ship in FA, is that "all faculty would be represented
by one collective-bargaining unit." The FA is affiliated with the Michigan Education Association.
A non-union bargaining unit was an option discussed and dismissed at the meetings in the Bovee
University Wolverine Room, Stemmeier said.
"We would have a hard time generating the volunteers needed and we wouldn't have enough clout
in our dealings with the administration," Stemmeier said.
Stemmeier said he hopes the union can come
together quickly enough to address the slated elimination of 58 full-time equivalent positions for the
1992-93 adademic year.
Job security, pay equity and benefits are some of
the non-tenured faculty member's biggest concerns,
according to a recent survey conducted by the ad hoc
steering committee.
Temporaries have it better in some departments
than others, he said.
"Some departments should be ashamed of how
they treat their temporary faculty when they do so
much for the University," he said.
See UNIONIZE Page 5
Directories expected
out in mid-December
By Brian D. Bell
LlFF Assistant News Fditor
CMU campus directories
might make great stocking stuf-
fers this year for people looking
for last-minute Christmas gifts.
Rae Goldsmith, Public Relations director, expects to have
the first portion of a two-part
directory ready for distribution
by mid-December.
"We're continuing to have
major problems with the
(departmentalized) faculty/
staff portion of the directory,"
Goldsmith said. "It's probably
b->en one of the most frustrating
projects here that we've ever
worked on."
Directories are usually out
by mid-October, but with delays
Goldsmith said she was aiming
for mid-November.
Although work on directories
began this summer, difficulties
working with a mainframe computer program are impeding
production of departmental
.listings, she said.
"We have to- play with the
computer program," Goldsmith
said.
In addition, progress was
slowed by the clerical strike and
temporary loss of a Public Relations staff member because of
illness, she said.
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