1998-08-31; Central Michigan Life

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Central Michigan LIFE
Volume 81, Number 2
Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859
©1998 CM LIFE
79 years of serving the community
Monday
August 31, 1998
18 pages
Police disperse crowd of 1,000 after Saturday night party
By Matt Edick
LIFE Staff Writer and
Liz Wish aw
LIFE Editor
About 1,000 students were pushed out
of Main, Washington and University
streets early Sunday morning as local
law enforcement agencies asked them to
disperse.
About 12:55 a.m. Sunday, Mount
Pleasant police officers asked for assistance from local law enforcement agencies in ousting the 1,000 students from
Central
looking to
dry out frats
By Angie Fenton
LIFE Staff Writer
A CMU fraternity president says administrators are thinking about making campus
"dry," but administrators says they don't know
what he's talking about.
Eric Viener, Gaines senior and president of
Phi Kappa Tau fraternity, says there's talk of
looking into a dry campus with the residence
halls, called Project 2000.
However, several CMU staff and administrators deny knowledge of any measures being
taken toward implementing a dry campus policy.
Dean of Students Bruce Roscoe said implementing a dry campus policy has not been
talked about.
"We don't have anything at CMU called
Project 2000. There has been no proposal put
forward to anyone with regard to this."
If (Viener) has one I would like to see this.
I have no idea what he is talking about. I don't
know anything about a Project 2000 at CMU,"
Roscoe said.
Viener said this summer, campus alcohol
problems and policies were examined by an
out-of-state third party, which is also investigating other universities in Michigan.
"Their goal was to come up with solutions,"
he said.
Viener said the university is attempting to
"eliminate some of the symptoms of the problem" involving alcohol at CMU.
"They are merely treating symptoms. I have
no clue whether or not it is actually affecting
the problem," Viener said.
Roscoe said he does not remember discussing any plans with Viener, though Roscoe
said Viener may have been part of a large
group discussion at some point.
See ALCOHOL-FREE Page 6
Freshman hit
by car while
Rollerblading
By Kelly Taylor
LIFE Staff Writer
A Midland freshman was hit by a car 'while
in-line skating as she crossed Ojibway Court
near Washington Apartments Saturday afternoon.
Katie Stevenson suffered multiple scrapes
and bruises on her legs and face and received
stitches in her left abdomen, but was released
from Central Michigan Community Hospital
at approximately 9:45 p.m. Saturday.
Stevenson said that besides a few aches, she
was feeling OK Sunday morning, but she
knows she was fortunate.
"I'm damn lucky. I should have been dead,"
she said.
Stevenson was on her way to Woldt
Computer Lab to check her e-mail when she
skated onto the road where she was hit.
"I looked both ways and started to go, and
all of a sudden this maroon car came barreling
at me and that's the last thing I remember,"
she said.
Although Stevenson may not remember
what happened while she was lying in the
road before the ambulance arrived, there was
one person there who helped her get through
it.
Cathy Deskin, Bay City freshman, didn't see
Stevenson get hit, nor did she know who she
was, but she was the first on the scene to come
to her aid.
"I wouldn't call myself a hero," Deskin said.
"I was just trying to keep her calm and keep
her talking. I figured she was scared. I sure
was."
Deskin said Stevenson remained conscious
throughout the ordeal.
"As long as I was talking to her, she was
talking," Deskin said.
Wendy   Day,   executive   director  of Gratiot
See FRESHMAN Page 2	
CMLTs "party blocks" — from Bellows to
High streets and Washington to
University streets.
It took the officers about an hour and
a half to escort the students away from
the blocks, asking them to go home or
return to their porches. Aiding the city
officers were officers from the CMU
Police, Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe,
Michigan State Police post of Mount
Pleasant, Isabella County Sheriff's
Department and the Department of
Natural Resources.
Also 12 police cars headed to the
Chippewa Village condominiums on S.
Crawford Street to break-up parties
after fireworks were reported to have
been shot off. Officers were also asked to
break-up parties on Arnold Street.
Sunday morning's wrap-up was just
part of the week before school festivities
for some students — and some students
paid the price for their misbehavior.
At least 40 CMU students received
minor in possession tickets from
Thursday, the first official day to move
on-campus, to Sunday morning, according to CMU Police and Mount Pleasant
Police Department.
There were also 30 complaints of nuisance parties, 10 citations issued for possession of an open container and four
drunk driving arrests.
But there seems to be much disagreement among students and law enforcement agents about how much partying is
too much.
Jason Beukema, Wyoming sophomore
and member of the Sigma Phi Epsilon
fraternity, feels the police have gone too
far in their efforts to preserve public
peace.
"It is just crazy," Beukema said
Sunday afternoon. "We got a ticket for
broken glass on the sidewalk (Sunday
morning), even though we offered to
clean it up on the spot. They have been
much harder on us this year than last,
by far. I mean, we can't even have a good
time."
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Madness consumes the Towers parking lot Thursday afternoon, as CMU freshmen arrive to move in.
Students voice concerns about overcrowding
By Kelly Taylor
LIFE Staff Writer
Whether they are simply annoyed
by lack of space from overcrowding
or enraged about room assignments, many freshmen living in the
residence halls this fall blame CMU
for their predicament.
Mike Orlando, Shelby freshman,
said he was denied a room assignment with a friend and found out
only a week ago that what he had
looked forward to all summer was
not going to happen.
"I was planning on bringing this,
he was planning on bringing that.
Now we find out that we aren't
going to be living together and we
have to go out and buy a lot more
sh—," he said.
Orlando is angry he is forced to
live with four strangers, and thinks
that, combined with overcrowding,
will effect his grade point average.
"Here it is, a big step in my life
and I'm living with four kids I don't
know and to top it all off, it's overcrowded. I'm here to learn, but not
in an overcrowded room."
CMU should have kept the number of students living in residence
halls at capacity and dealt with the
loss of those who might have moved
out later, he said.
"On CMU's part, it's poor planning and irresponsibility. CMU's
money hungry," he said.
Chris Stacer, Deckerville freshman, said lack of space is a problem, but overall he doesn't think it
will be too bad.
"I don't think it will be a really
big problem, once in a while minor
disruptions maybe," Stacer said.
His mom, however, is worried
about the affect on her son's stud-
would drop by having five people,"
said Jo Ann Stacer.
Jo Ann Stacer thinks CMU
should solve the problem by letting
more people move off-campus.
"If they're overcrowded, I don't
see why they don't let them," she
said.
Tracy Adamski, Shelby freshman,
said she hates being overcrowded.
Although she has gone to her resident assistant, she said no one at
CMU seems to care about her problem.
n wonder how much (his GPA)     See OVERCROWDING Page 2
Business Administration dean resigns
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By Liz Wishaw
LIFE Editor
Terry Arndt says he'll relish his
sixth year as dean of the College of
Business Administration — it will be
his last one.
Arndt announced Tuesday to his
staff and faculty that he's stepping
down from his administrative position. His last day will be June 30,
1999.
Arndt said he's looking at the possibility of returning to teaching at CMU
or another university or working in a
non-academic position.
"The past couple of years I've had
offers from public companies but did
not follow through with them," he
said.
Arndt came to CMU in 1993 after
serving as associate dean of Business
and professor of accounting at Ball
State University.
"I've done a lot and accomplished a
lot. There are other opportunities I
would like to explore," he said about
reaching his goal of becoming a dean
at a Mid-American Conference
school.
He said he's enjoyed his time at
CMU but feels it's time to move on.
ARNDT
Also his wife, who is a professor of
nursing at Michigan State University,
is tired of the daily
commute from Mount
Pleasant to East
Lansing and he would
like to have the
chance to spend more
time with her.
"I've thoroughly
enjoyed my dean-
ship," he said. "It's
been wonderful working with the faculty
and staff. I have some
of the best faculty on campus."
"We've put together mammt top quality programs and had phenomenal success over the past five years in the college."
He cites the turnaround in the college's declining enrollment and the
advanced technology that's being used
in the classroom as some of the things
that he and his faculty helped
improve during his deanship. The college was also reaccredited by the
American Assembly of Collegiate
Schools of Business, which he says is
"like the Rolls Royce of accreditation "
He has also seen an improvement in
the logistics and management information systems majors, added an
entrepreneurship major and
revamped the masters of business
administration program.
"I give full credit to the faculty.
They took on these difficult tasks. . .
they're providing a better education
for the students," he said.
Provost Richard Davenport said he
wishes Arndt well in any of his future
endeavors. Davenport said Arndt had
been talking about leaving his position for the past year.
"He has one more year, then he's
hanging it up for good," Davenport
said. "I'm just glad that he notified us
early enough to find a replacement for
next year."
A national search for Arndt's
replacement will be conducted this
fall, along with dean search for the
College of Education, Health and
Human Services.
Students will be asked to sit on both
search committees, Davenport said.
*Tm pretty optimistic that we'll get
good candidates in both searches. I
hope to have people appointed by next
spring who can start at CMU by the
summer," he said.
Comedian-puppeteer Taylor
Mason appeared at CMU
Friday. See page 14.
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