1988-09-07; Central Michigan Life

              Season premier
Play opens at Bush Theater
ENTERTAINMENT, PAGE 8
SOGGY PERFORMANCE
Chippewas lose football opener to Kentucky 18-7
SPORTS, PAGE 10
BRIEFLY
Tola/ 3rd ThiirvJ.jr' on ?r<3 floor
Wirrmer M3'! tif Stuarts 'fee <ie,{
financial <i'3 A pctu-e I D i^.J
verification ca'd a-e r-pfc!t\j to p-ck
up thi> advices
Central
Michigan
Big Winners
Wares Fair today
NEWS, PAGE 3
WEDNESDAY
September 7, 1988
Fire besets woodchip
plant storage silo
Spontaneous combustion possible cause of incident
by MARK LaROSA
A fire tli.it -larted Sunday in tin- north storage
Mlonf the C< ntral Knrrgy Facility. i in Fa-t Campus
Drive, was -till smoldering Tuesday .mil will con-
tinur to iin mi until worker- can empty  the wood
thill-  llllt   nl   till-   -lla
Farl Morrow, liircitiir (if Facilities Operat inns,
said Tuesday wnrk mmlil In- done all night tn i-rupty
tin- chip- nut ul tin- silo
Miirmw -an! tin- fire started around I [> tn and
H.s probably t Ik- re-uit of -|>ontaneou- combust lan
"\V<- ;irc >|» ctilat i ri lT --|" nt.iti-mi- i '<>mhu-tion.
lull ui- ttia>  tn \ir know." Morrow  -aid
He ~.inl tin- tin- ha- U-.-n i-nlated to th.- silo ami
nobody  ha- hi-i n injured ilm- to th>- incident
Morrow .-.ml la- liaji|n tit d tn Im- driving l>> the
plant  mi  K   Campu-  litui' mi  hi- w.i\  home way
from church Sunday when he not ued mi in- than the
usual amount of steam coming out of tin- silo He
said he ha<i the silo inspected and the fire wa-
di-covcred
Although the fire is causing plant worker- a headache, he -aid campus, a- Well a- the plant's operational fnnet ion-, have not ln-en affci ted Ilecau-o t he
-il<> i- one ot two which are u-ed only for stnr.ige
The plant produce- steam to heat water, provides
heat for the buildings and generate- some cloctric-
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He -aid it i- not known haw much any damage
w ill in-t the I'niversity. how long it will take them
to i lean up the mess or the future ramifu atioii- of
the fire Any study of the situ.it ion w ill have to he
done after the fire l- extinguished
"We w on t know t he ramification- unt il we a—-r--
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Moving towards teamwork
Jakubauskas' A-Senate address rings of consolidating efforts
by MARGARET WOLFGANG
President Kdward It .I.ikuhau-ka- addres-ed
the Aiademic Senate Tuesday about a step he
instated toward improving ("Ml"'- inner-workings
Hecau-e of the president's fixu- nti two key area-
external affair.-, and budget and capital affairs
some I'mversitv  dealing-  now   will In- directed to
vice presidential unit- instead ol the president himself, said F.d tirant. for Admuu-trative Affairs
.lakubau-kas said the administ r.it ion will
restructure vice presidential olVm-s so they operate
similar to the way tho-e office- worked at the State
I'niversity of New York at (ieiH—eo. the -lie of hi-
fnnner presidency
Tin.- move should nimlii.ir sitnilar dutie- under
the same units, Cirant -aid Jakubauskas 1-
at tempting to con-olid ate campu- faction- that deal
with external affairs such as fund raising, government contacts, and dealings w ith the media and
alumni, (irant said
Some issues that used to go directly to the presi-
dent   and  other  departments  will  go  to  the  viie
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GTE workers strike nears no
end, both sides won't budge
by MARK LaROSA
The tiTK workers strike is
still going strung, and one ofTicial
says then- is no end in sight
unless members of th*' International Brotherhood of F.lectrical
Workers n-consider their position.
"The strike is status quo. we
an- now completing the third
week with no change." s.ud l-ow-
cll Kinney, state director of
Public Relations for GTE North.
Michigan operations
He said there has boon little
communication lietween management and the union workers,
who went on strike Aug   17.
He said union memlx-rs sent a
letter to Max Preston, (iTF. vice
president for General Management, saying they would be willing to negotiate if management
improved their offer.
"We responded hy saying our
offer is on the table, there is no
room for improvement," Kinney
said.
Incidents of vandalism to telephone lines, which Kinney Raid
have been at astronomical rates,
have   affected   people   in   more
wavs than one
Hob Wheeler, assistant vice
president of Chemical Hank. PMi.S
S Mission St., said when the long
distance lines go down, so do the
automatic teller machines
He said the machines were
down Fnd.iy when long distance
lines were out because the
machines cannot access account
information over its network.
Kinney said there have been
10,1 incidents of vandalism in the
past three weeks, aa opposed to
the usual 24 per year, but added
the frequency is reducing.
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President may
ask Board for
tuition rollback
by MARCIA MCDONALD
Full 11 im- undergrad uat ■■
-t u dent - (mild Tiieive a --_'| 7u
credit tnwanl tin ir winter tin
tMii it the pTo-idetit make- a
propo-.d to Hoard nt Tru-lee-
Vi idav
l'le-nli nt Isdwaid H -laku
hail-ka- saiil Tuesday it tla-
-late lomes thToiigh with a
^ I II.I'iMI reinibur-etlii-nt !ni
tlixid ilamage- that oicurieil ill
tall l!)>«i. he Will request tile
linaiil approve Friday a tuitl'ii
rollb.uk Irom its current 11 'J^
perienl mcrea-e to H '.l.s prr-
lent
The I'.nard meets at 1(1 :.lla in
111 the Pre-ldent's ('olifet elue
Itiwim in tin- Bovee I'niversity
Center
.lakuliau-kas said he had trnt
received confirtnat ion of the
state inotuv Tut—<la\, and said
if it doe- not come by Friday he
will hold olf a-king for a rollback
"II we dont get 'the reimbursement I I don't put in for a
tuition rollback," he said.
Please See TUITION Pacje 18
Trustees to look
at 'favorable' audit
at Friday meeting
Affirmative action
report and 'routine'
action requests
also on agenda
by MARCIA MCDONALD
l In Hoard of Trustevs will
1I1 -cu-s 1--ues lies ides the prop-
o-ed tuition rollback including
an audit ie|»>rt and affirmative
action   at  its meeting Friday
Tin- l.naiil will meet at In itll.i in m the President's Conference
kiM.rn nt the Hovee I'niversity Center
Tru-ti r- will he a-ked to accept the I'lliver-lty's 1.J.S7-MM .ludlt,
j«-[liirnied by Arthur Ander-eii & Company, the I'niversity's new
audit ing firm.
And tin- audit, a review of the I'niversity's regular financial
records, looks favorable
F.rrist & Whmiiey served a- CMC's external auditor since the
l'.M'.Os The t'niver-itv ilm-r Arthur Andersen & Co l.ist year to
serve a- auditor
Thorn.1- Kepp. a-si-t.int vue president for Financial Affairs, said
la-l year F.rn-t \- Whinney had -erved CMC will, but a rotation of
auditors lienefits the I'niversity
"It is healthy for an in-lit ution to Im- reviewed through fresh eyes,"
Kepp said
• Jerry Tuhh-. vice president for Business and Finance, said last
year the new firm probably will serve for five years, then l>e
rev lewed
In its Preliminary Financial Report dated Aug 1(>, Arthur
Andersvn & Co. said its opinion is the I'niversity operated "in
conformity with generally accepted accounting principles*
f»:i-,)',i: See BOARD Pago 18