1991-04-10; Central Michigan Life

              Backstage pass
A behind-the-scenes look at theatre
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Unexpected result
Pitching comes out in split with Western
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Central
Michigan
WEDNESDAY
April 10, 1991
A-Senate reverses
previous decision;
will discuss ROTC
by CORRIE PERIMIK
LIFE Copy Editor
At its last meeting. Academic Senate decided to delay voting on a
recommendation  to  phase out ROTC, but senators  rescinded that
decision Tuesday after realizing a delay would worsen the situation.
•   The Senate planned a special session to discuss the issue at 3:30
p.m. Tuesday in Pearce 138.
■ The motion to rescind the March 26 decision, which would have kept
the issue out of the Senate until March 1992, came from Joseph Finck,
chair of A-Senate's ad hoc military science committee. The committee
made the recommendation to the Senate in a report submitted in
February.
The recommendation, which advises phasing out ROTC because of a
Department, of Defense policy prohibiting homosexuals from participating in the commissioning program, raised dissent in the Senate
and the University community.
Since the motion to table the issue passed at the senate's last
meeting, individuals representing both sides of the issue tried
contacting senators with similar views.
James Jones, assistant professor of German, supports the position
See ROTC Page 1 8
Forum addresses
racial questions
by MARY CHURCH
LIFE Assistant News Editor ....-■.•.-    •..
Almost 300 people met Tuesday night to discuss racial issues at
CMU and suggest solutions. ,
Members of the audience talked about issues including relationships between minority students and white students, faculty members
and administrators; the treatment of minority athletes on campus;
CM LIFE's coverage of minority issues; and the resignation of former
basketball coach Charlie Coles.
"It's time for CMU to take a firm stand on all levels of racism," said
Saginaw graduate student Tonya Casey, an intern with the Office of
Minority Affairs.
- Administrators and representatives from the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People sat on a panel to answer
questions, but most of the evening was devoted to audience members'
concerns.
Panelists were Carl Breeding, president of the Michigan division of
the NAACP; Josephine Toliver, president of the Lake and Newaygo
counties NAACP branch; Delbert Sanders, president of the Michigan
Youth and College Division of the NAACP; Laura Gonzales, director of
Office of Minority Affairs; Sue Repp, assistant vice president for
Student Affairs; and Glen Starner, director of the Office of Student
Life.
"Education, understanding and developing a sensitivity to our
differences is the key. But that's not going to happen overnight," said
Sanders, a student at the University of Michigan.
Repp said the University is revising the Student Code of Conduct
and will specifically address racism-provoked harassment by
students.
An audience member suggested requiring students who are found
guilty of racial harrassment to take cultural diversity classes.
John Dinse. associate professor of political science, said the
Academic Senate recently agreed to add a cultural diversity course to
University Program requirements.
Some students suggested that minority faculty members teach
those classes.
"I would want a black person teaching me about my race and my
history," said David Emerson, Mount Clemens sophomore.
Several audience members discussed the need for more minority
faculty to serve as role models for minority students.
They also said Coles' resignation resulted in one less minority
faculty member for minority students to identify with.
Coles, who said he attended the forum to "make sure I was not
talked about badly." agreed with the need for more minority faculty.
; See FORUM Page 2
Mixed Panel Discusses Hemp Issue
LIFE Photos/Nile Young
Elvy Musikka,     Florida  resident,  lights  up one of her perscription  marijuana cigarettes during the Hemp Tour
Monday afternoon.    Elvy  Is one of only nine people in the nation allowed to smoke marijuana legally.
Marijuana
defended at
Hemp Day
by DARRON MARKWOOD
LIFE Staff Writer
Hemp seed cake, hemp
paper, hemp designer shorts,
hemp granola bars?
"Hemp Day" provided these
actual hemp products for
students to observe while
speakers discussed the legalization of the hemp plant.
More than 100 people
gathered in the pouring rain in
front of Park Library to listen
to speakers and get information
about the plant, its history and
its medical uses.
Speaker Elvy Musikka said
she has been collecting signatures at every stop on the
Hemp Tour, urging people to
join the movement to legalize
marijuana.
Musikka said she was a
"guinea pig for experiments for
glaucoma patients" and was
the first woman legally allowed
See MARIJUANA Page 2
Hemp Tour members displayed different types  of
products  made from the hemp plant at Monday's
demonstration.
Both sides
come out
in debate
by NANCY SALLA
LIFE Staff Writer
About 100 students gathered
in the Bovee University Center
to hear a debate about the legal
use of hemp.
Two CMU faculty members
along with three speakers
traveling the country in a
75-city Hemp Tour addressed
the issue.
The faculty members'
platform concentrated on
health and legal issues related
to smoking the buds of the
plant cannabis sativa.
Smoking the plant's buds —
commonly known as marijuana
— escalates any behavorial,
mental, respiratory and circulatory problems.
"It's an individual's decision
to use marijuana and a very
personal one," said Ross
Rapaport, director of CMU's
Alcohol and Drug Intervention
See HEMP Page 2
Teach-in will examine 'new world order'
by NANCY SALLA
I IFF  Staff Writer
Organizers of a four-day
teach-in will attempt to introduce CMU students to the
issues surrounding George
Bush's "new world order."
"Teach In: New World Order"
features two workshops, two
panel discussions and a film
series, said Larry Tifft,
professor of sociology.
A "Non-Violence Training"
workshop is planned from 1 to 4
p.m. Wednesday at the Wesley
Foundation, 1400 S.
Washington.
Participants may learn how
to express their creativity and
views at attending a three-day
workshop on beginners' silk
screening. The workshop is 4 to
6 p.m. today, Thursday and
Friday at Wesley. Participants
should bring their own designs,
which should be no larger than
about 6 inches by 9 inches.
A panel discussion of the
"Political Economy of the New-
World Order" is 7 to 9 p.m.
Thursday in Bovee University
Center's Lake Huron Room.
Panel speakers and their
topics include James Julian,
sociology   instructor,   speaking
on the "new" world establishment news media; Brigitte
Bechtold, associate professor of
economics, speaking on the
economics of the new world
order, and Won Paik, assistant
professor of political science,
speaking about changing international structures in the '90s.
Tifft said three movies are
planned for Friday's 1 to 5 p.m.
film festival in the UC Lake
Huron Room. The films are
documentaries: "The Gulf War
and Its Consequences: Reasons
for NOT Entering the War,"
"The Global Assembly Line"
and "Roger and Me."
The program's final panel
discussion is 7 to 9 p.m Friday
in the UC Lake Huron Room.
Three faculty members will
talk about "American Life in
the New World Order."
Barbara Greene, associate
professor of political science,
will discuss the domestic costs
of the Persian Gulf War; Robert
Newby, associate professor of
sociology, will discuss "The
Rise of Racism in the New
World Order: A Call to Avert
the Next Holocaust," and Alice
Littlefield, professor of anthro-
phology, will discuss American
Indians in the new world order.
Attorney wants documents
to be held in Colbert case
by CRYSTAL HARMON
LIFE  Staff Wnter
A CMU attorney requested a protective order preventing release of
documents subpoenaed by a woman's attorney in a*civil suit against
Terra nee Colbert.
Mount Pleasant attorney Steve Martineau requested the protective
order April 4 because the three subpoenaed University employees
have "tapes, transcripts and notes from two disciplinary
hearings . . . (but) . . . believe they are not permitted to disclose
(them)," an Isabella County Circuit Court document states.
Subpoenas were served March 25 to Glenn Starner, director of the
Office of Student Life: James Hill, vice president for Student Affairs,
and Robert C. Mills, professor of counseling.
William F. McKee, the woman's Grand Rapids attorney, subpeonaed
the trio for "any and all records, documents, memoranda, transcripts,
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