1998-01-28; Central Michigan Life

              Central Michigan LIFE
Volume 79, Number 52
Mt. Pleasant,  MI 48859
©1998 CM LIFE
78 years of serving the community
WEDNESDAY
January 28, 1998
16 pages
CMU hires
soccer coach
for fall season
By Brian Mackie
LIFE Assistant Sports Editor
Salisbury
CMU has
finally named
a head coach
for the new
women's soccer
team — Mark
Salisbury from
the University
of Missouri-
Rolla.
Sali sbu ry
will have the opportunity to
build CMLTs soccer team from
the bottom up as the team is
scheduled to begin in the fall.
Tm looking forward to it,"
Salisbury said.
Associate Athletics Director
Marcy Weston was happy with
the selection.
"I was very pleased. He is outstanding and will get us in the
thick of things," Weston said.
With the signing deadline
approaching a week from today,
Salisbury will not have a lot of
time for recruiting. He will,
instead, start with the club
team and go from there, he said.
"There is not a lot of time to
get kids so we will build from
the club team," Salisbury said.
"We will recruit madly for the
available ones and build up the
team one year at a time."
Salisbury will see to it that
every girl who wants a chance
to play for the Chippewas will
receive that opportunity.
"My office will be wide open. I
want to give everyone a chance
to play. I hope that there is not
a single person that can play
but doesn't. Everyone who
wants to play, I want to give
them a chance so we can find
the best ones we can," Salisbury
said.
Although building up a new
program is a tough job,
Salisbury has proven that he
can build up a losing program.
Salisbury has been the men's
and women's head soccer coach
at the University of Missouri-
Rolla for the past three seasons.
While there, he inherited a
women's team that was coming
off of six straight losing seasons.
During his three years at the
helm, the team totaled a record
of 30-22-4,   including  a  15-3-1
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Rand admits foul
language; not
harassment
By Jennifer Ackerman
LIFE Editor
Almost two weeks after filing a lawsuit against CMU for failure to
release personnel files requested under the Freedom of Information
Act — David Rand admits he used foul language, but maintains he did
not sexually harass anyone.
Rand, CMU's director of Greater Michigan Programs for CMU's
department of Extended Learning, filed the lawsuit after he was reprimanded for alleged sexual harassment in December.
"I have been singled out for this," Rand said. "I admit I occasionally
have a raunchy sense of humor. ... They've confused foul language with
sexual harassment."
Del Ringquist, Rand's supervisor and dean of the College of
Extended Learning, said he could not comment on the situation since
it is a personnel matter.
"I don't know what he's talking about. It being a personnel matter,
I'm not inclined to speak on the matter at all," he said.
While university officials are reluctant to discuss details of the reprimand, Rand said he has been accused of unzipping his pants and
saying, "I have more of this," during a meeting in which comparisons
were being made with regard to appearance. He is alleged to have
made this gesture in response to someone's statement to have more
hair than him.
Rand denies the whole incident.
Also, he said he has been accused of using phrases with sexual
See RAND Page 2
Cheering up
THe game of life
■ Fab Five days inspire Jay
Smith to take men's basketball
team to visit children's hospitals
By Emily Aldrich
UFE Sports Writer
Tt's a well-known fact that children idolize
JLgrown-up athletes.
The devotion kids have to their favorite
players is unconditional. An athlete could be
struggling through a poor season, but a young
fan's admiration will remain untouched.
Children don't realize that athletes are
human like everyone else. Their innocent
minds see only divine heroes, not capable of
any flaws. It doesn't even matter if a child has
never heard of a certain player until they
meet. The fact that the person is an athlete
makes him or her superhuman.
Some children's fondest memories are the
moments when they do have the chance to
meet their favorite athletes. For many kids,
that little contact can provide inspiration that
lasts a lifetime.
As for the athletes, there are some that
don't see taking time to give kids attention as
especially important or memorable.
But then there are those cases when children can leave just as strong of an impact on
the players, as the players do on their little
fans.
No. 25
CMU men's basketball head coach Jay
Smith was serving as an assistant coach at
the University of Michigan when he started
visiting Mott's Children's Hospital in Ann
Arbor with some of his players. It was during
one of these visits in 1992 that he and team
member Juwan Howard met Randy.
As a patient at the hospital, Randy suffered
from cancer and AIDS. And as a lifelong fan of
Michigan basketball, he worshiped the ground
Howard walked on.
Smith, Howard and some of the other
Wolverine players visited sick children in the
hospital of their own will, without receiving
any type of pay or additional playing time in
return. They simply wanted to touch the lives
of children like Randy.
Randy was 16 years old, though his illnesses made his body appear to be years younger
and weaker. His condition limited what he
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(lop) Eleven month old Kayla
Webb, and her mother Nichole
Webb are playfully presented
with a Chippewa pompon by
CMU Guard Luke Johnson,
Gaylord freshman. (Above)
After receiving a bone marrow
transplant from his seven year
old brother Alex, Aaron Kramer
stands marvefing at the gift the
CMU men's basketball team
brought him Friday night.
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Americans watching Clinton
had scandal on their minds
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The speech was about the State of the Union, but
Americans who watched it had scandal on their
minds. Some of them thought the president did,
too.
"You can tell he is still thinking about what's
going on. I can see it in his eyes. They are different," said Cynthia Adams, a 25-year-old business
student at Sacramento State University in
Sacramento, Calif.
Some Americans thought Clinton should have
addressed allegations that he had an affair with a
White House intern; others were glad he focused
instead on the business of government.
Tm impressed," said Darren Welch, 26, of
Hoboken, N.J., who stayed after his waiter shift at
Television City in Manhattan to watch the speech.
"Frankly, it was too much on Geraldo and all that.
I hoped the president wouldn't foil under that
hype. I wanted to see something serious tonight
and I did."
Jeannine Hummel, 67, said Clinton should have
talked about the scandal, which never got a mention. As president, she said, he should set an example for her five granddaughters.
That kind of irresponsibility really offends me,"
said Hummel, who watched the speech with her
husband, a retired minister, at their home in Sun
City, Ariz.
Steven Wong, 38, who works for a San Francisco
software company, said Clinton's "credibility is
shot."
"At the very minimum, his morals are questionable and his judgment is questionable. Nothing he
said so for has made me change my mind about
that," Wong said.
Wendy Smith, a Boston doctor who watched the
speech as she ran on a treadmill at her health club,
said she "watched tonight to see if he could pull it
off. And he has — he's very dynamic"
But while it was the substance she listened for, it
was the scandal she talked about.
*IWo housemates in the Kentucky mountains did
not expect Clinton to mention allegations that he
had an affair with former White House intern
Monica Lewinsky — and neither wanted to hear
about it.
1 really think he should avoid talking about it,"
said Dr. Mary Wiss, a former nun, sitting in her
bathrobe in an easy chair at home in Pikeville, Ky
"It wasn't the topic for the conversation or for the
address. It had nothing to do with it."
Wiss* roommate. Dr. Mary Fox, a longtime public
health director, watched with her, whooping and
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