1989-10-04; Central Michigan Life

              HOMELESS
Vigil in front of Park Library gives students
a rare look at the plight of the homeless. 9
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Sunny today, fair
tonight. Increasing
cloudiness Thursday.
Details. 2.
Central
Michigan
DOIN' THE FLIP
CMU soccer team member has an unusual
but effective inbound pass technique, 10
WEDNESDAY
October 4, 1989
Serving The University Community For 70 Years
Library to get
computerized
catalog system
by YVONNE C. CLAES
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Finding information at F'ark Library is
expected to net much easier in the next few months
dm- to a new computerized catalog system which
promises to make the current system obsolete.
Park Library officials are hopeful that installation ofa new computerized online catalog system
will reach completion hv the end of fall semester.
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western Online Total Information System, offers
several advantages over the current card catalog
system. Dean of" Libraries Thomas Moore said.
"Speed is one big advantage." Moore said. "You
will Ih- able to search for material in ways that you
can't now ~
XOTIS i> a mainframe computer system
develojH-d m the 1970s at Northwestern University. Evanston. lil. Moore said although the system
was developed years ago. it is continually revised.
and periodic enhancements to CMU's system will
occur over time.
"It is truly an exciting addition to the- library and
mil- patrons will be pleased to use."
He said efforts to create a data base for (.'Mi's
XOTIS system began alxiut IU years ago.
"It's Ih.-1-ii an extraordinary etTort by people in
telecommunications and computer services," he
said, adding several people have helped implement
Ih- new system.
Moore explained the software package is a
lirect-user system which allows users to search for
listings of materials on specific subjects.
Moore said the computerized system will contain
listings of hooks and pc-rodicals — and essentially
'.unthing in a traditional card catalog."
He said the system will "pinpoint" materials for
patrons by combining subjects.
For example, a student ranj want a listing of
ulerence mate-rials on the subject of special
education with emphasis in the area of the
handicapped.
Moore said the Online Public Access Catalog
would search through its database files and
combine   the   topics   to   come   up   with   a   list   of
See NOTIS Page 14
Record enrollment
for blacks result of
search for diversity
by TIM DYKEMA
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('Ml* set two enrollment records this fall with
I 7.•_':»» students.
Of the 724 minority students. 414 — the highest
numlH-r CMU has ever enrolled — are black.
Minority students make up 4.17 percent of the
total student population at CMl'. according to
iigures provided by the Admissions Office and the
Registrar's Office.
The University has 9~> Native American
students enrolled this semester; 141 Hispanics;
and 74 are Asian or Pacific Islander, according to
See ENROLL Parse 1-1
SPINOFF
LIFE Photo Jim Famnger
In the Bovee University Center Creative Arts Gallery. Monday afternoon. Judy
Guilford. Charlotte junior, finishes up the formation of her clay pot.
Sister city
Local Rotary clubs trying to help
Mount Pleasant recover from Hugo
added.
are   as
such  a
by KAREN EMERSON
When Hurricane Hugo blew
ashore about two weeks ago. it
nearly wiped Mount Pleasant
out
Mount Pleasant. SC . that is
Mount Pleasant. S.C.. is a
community of approximately
'J.->.0(H) people and a suburb of
Charleston -- a community
which received publicity as omul the areas hardest hit by Huko.
And when members of two
local Rotary clubs here heard
another Mount Pleasant needed
help, they started a fund-raising
lelief effort to send money and
non-perishable foods, said Kin
SchaefT'er. governor of Rotary
district (i.'fl which includes over
:n Rotary clubs — including the
two in Mount Pleasant.
"We contacted Rotary International in Evanston. (111.', and
found where several relief areas
were located." Schaeffer said
Among   many   others.   South
Carolina was targeted as an area
where    substantial    help    was
„ncuded. he said.
Delta Sig injured in fall
now in stable condition
Joseph K. Dible. Orand Ledge junior, remains in critical but stable
condition at a Saginaw hospital after falling down the basement
stairway in the Delta Sigma Phi house- Sunday morning, his father.
Richard Dible. said.
"He's not improving, but he's stabilized." Richard said.
Joseph, who is treasurer for the Delta Sigma Phi social fraternity, is
in the neuro-intensive can- unit of St. Mary's Medical Center.
He will remain there until spinal fluid, which is coming out of his
left ear. stops leaking. Richard said.
Joseph sustained a skull fracture above his left ear from the fall.
Richard said, adding the fracture is causing the spinal fluid leak
Richard said doctors surgically removed a blood clot above Joseph's
left ear Sunday and are now waiting to see it the leak slops If the fluid
does not cease in two or three days doctors may operate again, Richard
said.
Here in Mount Pleasant, the
two Rotary clubs have formed a
four-person task force for the
Rotary Hugo Relief Fund.
Schaefler said. And. he
the goals for the fund
"luuh as it can go
"Rather than help on
large- scope, we decided we'd do
Mount Pleasant to Mount
Pleasant." Schaeffer said.
He added be contacted the
president of the Mount Pleasant.
SI',  chapter Ted  Pettier
and    that    Petner   was   "elated"
alxiut the group helping.
"We asked ihim » if they needed
i liitlung and he said they had all
kinds of it." Sbaefler said "We
asked if they needed Iveddmg
and he said they had the Army.
Marines. National Guard. Salvation Army and the Red Cross
there and they hail plenty of
blankets.
" . . So we're asking lor cash,
a- well as non-perishable foods,
and tbey can assess what the
people need.
"I<" you can talk to the people-
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MINORITY ENROLLMENT
Of the University's record  17,229 enrollment, there
are724 minority students. Following is a breakdown
of those students.
95 a
People alert
Overpopulation causing
severe worldwide problem
by PATTY MARCUS
Source.: Registrars Office
fldmimon* Office
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Academic Senate develops plan
to combine teaching awards
by D. MICHAEL HEANEY
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In order to reconcile CMU's
Teaching Kxcellence Awards
with those sponsored by the
state, the Academic Senate has
approved a plan to combine the
two programs.
During its Tuesday meeting,
A-Senate approved an Executive
Hoard report that outlined a
number of changes in the
original   Teaching   Excellence
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cutting
Program.
The report was approved with
the addition of two amendments
following a lengthy floor debate.
With the exception of the two
minor amendments, the report is
the product of meetings between
the Executive Board and
representatives of CMU's
Faculty Association who were
involved    in    the    program's
development
Guy T. Meiss. associate
professor of journalism and chair
of the Excellence in Teaching
Award Committee, said the
decision to merge the two
programs offered the University
"the most economy of effort.
"Hy building on the work of
the committee that's already in
place, we'll meet ever} l>ody's-
deadline   and   have   the   least
See AWARDS Page 2
Overpopulation is a worldwide problem so
severe that Earth's capacity to support tne system
we have now may not exist in 17 to IH years, said a
nation.ills' known author and population expert.
Paul Ehrlich addressed the University
community in his speech. "The Environment,"
about the effects humans have on Earth's life-
siippott s\stein. University Events sponsored the
ev ent
Speakmg Monday nia;ht to a near-capacity
audience in Warriner Auditorium. Ehrlich i:.i\v a
^nn> view of life on Earth provided that the
population keeps growing and conservation
practices arc- not enforced.
"We're squandering our inheritance at an
incredibly fast rate and economists cal! it growth."
-aid Ehrlich. a biology professor at Stanford
Umvi rsity. Stanford, Calif.
"The entire planet is vastly overpopulated,"
Ehrlich said "Economic growth is the disease, not
the cure."
Alung with population growth comes u number of
environmental problems which need attention
now. he said.
"We're getting rid of our one-time bonanza by
living oil our natural resources." Ehrlich said.
"We're living on our capital."
Ehrlich defined three forms of disappearing
capital as deep-rich Agriculture soils that are being
destroyed around the world, ice-age groundwaters
that are being drained, such as the Ogallala
aquifer in the midwest region of the United States.
and destroying various species of organisms which
limits biological diversity.
LIFE Photo Jim faxsingor
Population   expert   Paul   Ehrlich   speaks   in
Warrfner Monday.
Stde effects ol the population growth are
depicted in his book "The Population Bomb." which
gives examples of how the environment is affected
by this growth
Ehrlich referred to some of these problems,
which are occurring now, in his speech and
stressed that action must Ik* taken before it's too
late
"If we can't get rid of CFC's ichloroflurocarlxinsl
then we might as well give up." he said.
('EC's, artificial substances that are manufactured by humans, are gradually destroying the
ozone layer that blocks the sun's ultra-violet blue-
rays from penetrating Earth, causing irreversible
damage.
Ehrlich   said  some  of the  damage   occurs   in
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