1987-04-13; Central Michigan Life

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CMU athletics mull drug-test program
Keilitz says policy may be written within month
BY STEVE FARMER
LIFE Assistant Sports Editor
and KEN McDONALD
LIFE Sports Ed-tor	
The CMU athletic department
is considering implementing a
drug-testing program for Central
athletes.
Athletic Director David Keilitz
said Friday he asked former CMU
athletic trainers Ron Sendre and
Ken Kopke to study other drug-
Area police ask
students to aid
investigation of
woman's death
BY BETH MENGE
LI*F Mows i d tor
Area police contacted CMU
students Sunday hoping to
identify a partinlly-clothed
woman in her early 20s found
dead in Midland County.
The body's hand was stamped
with the word "sex," leading police
to investigate whether she might
have been stamped to gain admittance to a party or bar.
The body of the white female
was found by a passing motorist
about noon Sunday near M-18 and
US-10 in Midland County, about
14 miles northwest of Midland.
The motorist contacted the
Michigan State Police at the
Mount Pleasant Post, Post
Commander Jerry Hyland said
Sunday. Hyland said he does not
know the motorist's identity.
Mount Pleasant City Police
officials joined in the investigation, contacting CMU Greek
organizations in attempts to trace
the stamp on the body's hand.
"Our only involvement is
checking the fraternities inside
th<* city because she had a stamp_
on her hand that indicated she
might have gotten it at a party," a
city police spokeswoman said
Sunday.
The woman was about 21 years
old. fi-foot-1 to 5-3. weighed about
1 1 ."> [rounds and had medium-
length wavy brown hair, a state
police spokesman said. The body
was clad in a li^ht-purple, turtle-
reek long-sleeved sweater, white
hr.i and yellow and bi.uk panties,
the spokesman said.
The body had a yellow-gold ring
with a blue or black oblong stone
with three recessed simulated
diamonds on each end She also
was wearing a black-velvet,
ribbon-type necklace with a
heart-shaped pendant, a state
police release stated
However. (Tiers handed out in
Mount Pleasant Sunday stated
the body was found without
clothing near a tree
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testing programs nationwide and
suggest alternatives the University could employ.
"We're going to sit down next
week to start putting together
some different ideas and
thoughts," Keilitz said.
"I want to have a drug-testing
program in writing (within a
month)," he added. "I want to have
taken a look at it. We would
review it and then talk to the
administration. The majority of
the (coaches) are in favor of it."
The proposed program's
specifics — such as cost, which
drugs the athletes would be tested
for, which athletes would be
tested, when the testing could
begin   or   possible   disciplinary
policy against athletes testing
positive — have not been determined.
Sendre, a member of the
National Collegiate Athletic
Association's drug testing
committee, said he and Kopke wilt
research other drug-testing
programs and present findings to
Keilitz.
An obstacle in implementing
any drug-testing program is cost,
Keilitz said. Depending on the
type and number of drugs tested
for, he said maintenance of most
programs run anywhere from
$22,000 to $28,000 annually.
Keilitz said funding for a testing
program would not come from the
present athletic fund. He and
other   University   officials   are
Board gives go-ahead
to housing-rate hike
—■—————-'———       Keilitz:   "nesting)  may
Please See DRUG Page 16   strong deterrent to drug use."
Ellis, trustee say
firm stand needed
on campus racism
BY MARY FRANCIS
LIFE Fdtor
Racism will not be tolerated at CMU, President
Arthur Ellis said Friday in response to the recent
events in Wheeler Hall.
As Board of Trustees members discussed the April
2 assemblance of about 100 students in the Towers
lobby, Ellis released his written response.
"Without reference to that incident, however, I
wish to make clear what should need no explanation
on an American campus or in our society. Racism
will not be tolerated at Central Michigan University
in any form or disguise," the statement reads.
"The people of this University — students, faculty,
staff — have inherent rights as citizens and as
human beings."
Ellis' statement is reprinted in full on page 5.
Black students gathered in the complex to support
Karla Allen, Lansing freshman, a black student who
had a conflict with one of the white women who lives
across the hall from her.
A dispute began between Allen and her friends
and the women she suspected of hanging a sign that
read "Bitch" on her door along with trash bags, Allen
said in an earlier interview.
The conflict reportedly involved derogatory
name-calling and physical contact between one of
the white women and another black woman.
Trustee Bernadine Denning,
who is the director of the Detroit-
based Department of Human
Rights, said institutions must
take stands against racism first —
and then others will follow.
"1 spend my energies and efforts
to work on institutions. As long as
the powers that be do not respond,
then students will behave the way DENNING
they do," Denning said at the Board's open forum.
"It's important for the chief executive of this
country, the chief executive of this institution to
take a stand. When it comes from on high that it's
not OK, the people will know it's not OK."
Denning was at the University of Michigan as a
faculty member during 1970-75 when that
administration set a goal for a 10 percent black
enrollment. She said Friday U-M and CMU, as well,
could attain that percentage.
"If you want 10 percent you can get it. But you
have to have a commitment to get it," she said. "The
commitment is not there the way it should be."
Trustee Mitth Kehetian said many black students
may opt for U-M or other schools rather than CMU
because the Mount Pleasant community does not
have a black base.
"If   I   was   a   black   student   at   Cass  Tech   or
Please See STAND Page 16
BY WAYNE KAMIDOI
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The Board of Trustees approved an 8 9-percent increase — the
largest hike among the state's colleges and universities — in
on-campus living costs for the 1987-88 academic year.
Residence hall room-and-board rates next year are set at $2,850 ~ a
$2.34 rise from the 1986-87 fee for a 20-mcal plan — as the trustees
Please See RATES Page 15
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2 students ask court for dismissal
of criminal-sexual assault charges
BY MARCIA McDONALD
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Two CMU students charged
with multiple counts of criminal
sexual conduct 1CSC1 filed a
motion for dismissal Friday in
Isabella County 21st Circuit
Court.
Scott Hudecek, Ovid junior, and
David   M.  Zynda,  Grosse  Pointe
junior, were arraigned Oct. 17,
1986 in connection with two
September CSC incidents.
Both men charged with two
counts of second degree CSC. one
count of assault with the intent to
commit sexual penetration and
one count of attempted first
degree CSC.
Zynda also was charged with
one count of fourth degree CSC.
During the Friday pre-trial
hearing. Isabella County 21st
rCircuit Court Judge Paul O'Con-
nell ruled the defendants may file
a motion to quash information.
The motion to quash information is basically the equivalent of a
district court motion for dismissal,
an Isabella County Prosecutor's
Office spokeswoman said Friday.
Please See ASSAULT Page 16
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INSIDE
INDEX
Briefly
May 1 s the last day stuoma can tak«
the elcrnenary teacher'* math profcoency
lest rha semester
Party busters
Last Lansing faults Cedarfest celebration
w/th 2 local ordnances
Wishful thinking
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PS dscusses Up-narr* acts, reafcsng
budgetary Infaflons
Big plans
SGA presidcr.! eieel hopes to rattst
ijrocp's recognition
Good timing
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/Page 6 Baseball splits Miami serks/Page 12
BJ Taylor qualifies tor NCAA natSonab n
S.rXXMttttriun
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Combing Campuses page 3
Comment page 4
Bloom County page 4
Entertainment page 6
Placement Notices page 11
Spottfe page 11
Pobce Reports pagell
Sports P*r«12
CLxaOeds page 15