1998-04-06; Central Michigan Life

              Central Michigan LIFE
Volume 79, Number W^
Mt. Pleasant,  MI 48859
©1998 CM LIFE
Monday
April 6, 1998
14 pages
Top blows off SGA budget activities
Senators told to spend 'excess'
money in treasurer's fund
interests.
"It was the (unofficial) policy
to spend as much money as we
could within our expenditures,'*
Belmas said. "The money to my
knowledge was never stolen,
but it was spent as often as
possible to, number 1, get PR,
and, number 2, to minimize the
budget in an attempt to get the
money back next year.
"Additionally, this money was
spent in excess to what was
necessary to put on the pro-
See DISCREPANCIES Page 2
By Ebonii Broadus
LIFE Staff Writer
A former Senate leader said
it has been SGA's policy since
the beginning of the year to
spend as much as possible.
Despite the Student
Government Association's
Constitution which says SGA's
job is to represent its students
with good intentions, Johna
Belmas, last semester's Senate
Leader and recent CMU graduate, said SGA has not always
supported students* rights and
Global
education to
be subject of
conference
By Bradley Olsen
Life StaffWritef
Students will have the opportunity to voice their
opinions about global education at CMU Wednesday.
Global education would require students to either
take two years of a single foreign language in high
school, or at least one course of a foreign language
under the University Program.
This proposal is the focus of the conference, which
will ix? held from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Kiva in Moore
Hall.
Richard St. Andre, associate dean of the College of
Science and Technology, said, "Global education is a
high priority of the president and the provost, and the
entire campus in general."
St. Andre is part of an ad hoc committee on global
education at CMU, which works to enhance the global
education programs, including the study abroad program.
The committee discussed options for improving the
foreign language skills of CMU graduates, ways of
increasing the number of students involved in the
study abroad program and ways to improve global education in general.
In September 1996, the committee proposed to mod-
See GLOBAL Page 13
News Central
staff upset over
airing of parody
By Renee Lutz
LIFE Staff Writer
After a skit airing two weeks ago on Moore Hall television by the Kitty Litter Kings prompted upset viewers to call in. the group is on probation by verbal warning.
Mark Schindewolf, Sterling Heights junior and
MHTV station manager, said the comedy troupe performed a parody of MHTVs News Central show, which
airs from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. every day.
The Kitty Litter Kings, made up of CMU students
known for their Saturday Night Live-esque shows, did
not check with News Central producers about performing the skit prior to its airing, he said.
As a result, participants of News Central made complaints to Peter Orlik, chair of the broadcast and cinematic arts department, who then recommended the
Kitty Litter Kings be given some type of warning, said
Catherine Harris, Madison Heights junior and senior
member of the Kitty Litter Kings.
Brian Seifferlein, producer of the show and Dowagiac
senior, said they used the same set News Central uses
when they acted out the parody.
See PARODY Page 5
E-board statements contradict
one another as fiasco unfolds
By Jennifer Ackerman
LIFE Editor
The bottom fell out Sunday night when executive board members of the Student Government Association started pointing
fingers at one another and making weighty allegations about
the mismanagement of the organization's $34,000 budget.
After hearing about concerns raised by several SGA Senators,
e-board members expressed severe differences of opinion.
SGA Treasurer James Cone, Laurium junior, admitted to CM
LIFE late Sunday evening that he encouraged inappropriate
spending.
"I encouraged that kind of spending because I didn't know if I
could end the year at a surplus.    I was wrong," he said. "I was
See CONE Page 2	
Emergency meeting set for
tonight to hear SGA concerns
By Doug Fisher
LIFE News Editor
Stephen Thornhill, Senate
leader and Westland sophomore
called for an emergency meeting
for Student Government
Association Senators to be held
at 7:30 p.m. today.
The much-anticipated meeting, which will likely be held in
the President's Room of the
Bovee University Center, should
shed some light on the deteriorating situation concerning a
scandal with SGA's $34,000 budget.
Thornhill said Senators may
consider asking SGA President
Adam Miller, Paw Paw senior,
Vice-President Lacy Gapczynski,
Clinton Township sophomore
and Treasurer James Cone,
Laurium junior, to step down,
taking some disciplinary action,
impeaching the three, recalling
Gapczynski and Cone, who just
last week were elected on the
presidential/vice presidential
ticket for next school year, and
having a new election  or doing
See THORNHILL Page 2	
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Crossword 12
Et cetera        10-12
CMU baseball team
went 3-2. See page 6.
TONY CEPAK • CM LIFE
Before they were let loose to get their sacks of
Easter surprises, the two and three-year-old age
group played various games including a parachute game.
TONY CEPAK • CM LIFE
Holding her father's pinkie, three-year-old
Makaila Winnie, of Mount Pleasant, anticipates the start of Saturday's Easter prize
hunt in Finch Fieldhouse.
Credits for substitute teachers may be lowered
By Tony Judnich
LIFE Staff Writer
The Michigan House Education Committee
approved a bill that would allow the number of
college credit hours some substitute teachers
must have to teach to be lowered from 90 to 60.
The bill, proposed in response to a shortage of
substitute teachers, would require substitute
teachers who don't have 90 credits to be 21
years old and be working towards a teaching
degree.
Substitutes would only be allowed to teach in
kindergarten through ninth grade, because in
grades 10-12, the teachers would sometimes be
close to the same age as the students they are
teaching.
The bill stipulates that school districts would
have to hire substitutes with at least 90 credit
hours before hiring from the pool of teachers
with 60 credits.
Reasons for the shortage range from low pay
— from $50 to $110 a day in various districts —
to a decreasing amount of student teachers
available.
Kelvie Comer, dean of the College of
Education and Human Services, disagreed with
the notion that there is a shortage of teachers.
"Michigan produces more teachers than any
state in the country," she said.
"There may be some problems in some areas,
but there are qualified teachers to teach."
Amy Perkins, Battle Creek senior and teacher
education student, said lowering the requirements for substitutes would be risky.
See CREDITS Page 2	
PBS completes fund raiser; hopes to up participation
Sports
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By Patric Spence
LIFE Staff Writer
CMU Public Radio, WCMU FM
89.5's spring fund raiser came to a
close Sunday night, when $128,010
in listener support was raised from
1,699 donations.
This is an increase from $121,600
raised last year.
Thomas Hunt, Director of Public
Radio said this year the station did
nothing different in their fund raising campaign.
"Our listeners enjoy our regular
programs so we only (did) fund raising during regular breaks," he said.
Hunt said the station hopes to
maximize participation among listeners. "Right now only ten percent
of listeners support Public Radio.
We want to double that," he said.
Future fund raisers for WCMU-
TV channel 14 are scheduled in
October, and for WCMU FM 89.5 in
late October, early November. There
will also be a quiet campaign this
summer.
WCMU is affiliated with National
Public Radio, Public Radio
International, and Michigan Public
Radio. WCMU offers listeners news
as well as classical, jazz, and traditional music 24 hours a day.
WCMU FM 89 5 also has a new
transmitter ready to begin broadcast. The new transmitter, WCMB
FM 95.7, is located in Oscoda along
the Lake Huron shore.
WCMB will rebroadcast the signal
of WCMU. Hunt said the new
transmitter will begin operation
Msoon."
Four other transmitters simulcast
the signal of WCMU over most of
the central and northern lower
peninsula, along with parts of the
upper peninsula and Canada.
The transmitters are: WUCX FM
90.1 Bay City, WCML FM 91.7
Alpena, WCMZ FM 98.3 Sault Ste
Marie, and WCMW FM 103.9
Harbor Springs.