1987-04-27; Central Michigan Life

              For better business
Steelcase, K mart each contribute $50,000 to $6-million campaign
BY KATHY PETERSEN
UFE Assistant News Editor
CMU President Arthur Effis accepts a check from JoMph E.
AntonbiL president of K mart, Friday at tha Park Inn, 666S E.
Pickard.
The school of Business Administration moved 9100,000 closer to
a $6 million Campaign for Excellence goal Friday night
Two $50,000 grants were announced during a Campaign for
Excellence dinner Friday night at the Park Inn International, 5665
E. Pickard. Steelcase and K mart corporations each donated
$50,000 to the school.
Joseph E. Antonini, president and chief-operating officer of K
mart Corporation, gave President Arthur Ellis a $10,000 check
Friday, with the promise of four more during the next four years. A
Steelcase representative was not present.
The campaign's goal of $6 million would be used for a $1.7 million
applied business studies complex; $2.14 million applied business
studies program endowments; $1.14 million faculty endowments
and awards; $520,000 in student awards and scholarships and
$500,000 in current facility renovation.
And already scheduled for the fall is an executive in residence
program. Under this program, business executives will lecture in
CMU classes and visit students and faculty.
In February Dow Chemical Co. donated $250,000 and the Roliin
M. Gerstscker Foundation gave $150,000 toward constructing the
applied business studies complex.
Leonard Plachta, dean of the school of Business Administration,
said Friday the school needs to develop a partnership with business
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Officials set to
release report
about Wheeler
Hall gathering
BY MARK LaROSA
Llf E Staff Wr.ter	
Administrators plan to meet
today to decide if students
involved in an allegedly racially-
motivated conflict in Wheeler Hall
April 2 violated the student code
of conduct.
Laura Gonzales, director of the
Office of Minority Affairs, said
administrators investigating the
incident now are trying to decide
what happened and who is to
blame. She said they will prepare
a report once a decision is made.
Glenn Starner, director of the
Office of Student Life, said if they
determine students have violated
the code, the University may not
press charges. He said that
decision will be included in the
report.- • •---• -   —
Gonzales said she expects a
decision, based on interviews of
people involved in the incident, by
Tuesday or Wednesday, and the
report by the end of this week.
The conflict involved Lansing
freshman Karla Allen, a black
student, and her white neighbors.
After finding a sign that said
"bitch" and some trash bags taped
to her third-floor Wheeler door,
Allen and a group of her black
friends became involved in a
dispute with the neighbors, whom
she blamed for hanging the sign.
Soon, approximately 100 black
students were in the Towers
Residence Hall Complex lobby to
"support their sister."
Other third-floor Wheeler
residents, who watched the
incident said it was not racially
motivated, and said the women
accused of hanging the sign were
innocent.
Gonzales said the investigators
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Expansion plans stay in gear
CMU officials keep trio of campus
building additions on priority list
BY MIKE HEREK
LIFE Staff Writer	
University officials plan to discuss financing
construction and operation of a proposed student
recreation center Wednesday.
Meanwhile, they also expect to open bids for the
planned industrial education and technology
building early next month, while plans for the
proposed new science building — Science II —
progress on schedule.
Tom Jones, campus recreation services director,
said Sunday he will meet with President Arthur
Ellis; Jerry Tubbs, vice president for Business and
Finance; and Thomas Repp, assistant vice president
for Financial Affairs; to write a report outlining fund
allocations for the recreation center.
The recreation project discussion will be part of a
meeting concerning the University's overall budget
for the upcoming year.
Jones said CMU officials must address funding
alternatives for the proposed center to answer the
remaining five or six questions on a four-page
use-and-finance questionnaire from the state.
Repp said if the application is completed, it will be
presented to the CMU Board of Trustees "as a
matter of protocol to see if they have any problems
with it. If they will take a vote on it — I don't know."
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A-Senators
slate second
debate on
writing plan
BY MARK ALLEN
LIFE Assistant News Ed.tor	
Round two of the "significant
amount of meaningful writing"
debate is scheduled for Tuesday's
Academic Senate meeting.
At its last meeting, A-Senate
failed to approve a proposal that
would require 50 percent of a
University Program course grade
be baaed on written work —
providing a definition of a "significant amount of meaningful
writing," currently in Writing
Across the Curriculum.
And Academic Senate Chairwoman Barbara Dixon warned
senators Tuesday's meeting, the
last of the semester, may be a long
one. She said if the agenda isn't
cleared, an extra meeting might
have to be added during final
exam week.
The senators adjourned without
making a motion on the proposal
during its April 14 meeting.
During the two weeks between
meetings at least three efforts to
amend the proposal have
developed, said Peter Koper,
General Education Subcommittee
member. The General Education
Subcommittee, part of the
A-Senate's Undergraduate Curriculum Committees, wrote the 50
percent proposal.
Koper, associate professor of
English, said there has been a lot
of conversation among interested
parties" during the past two
weeks.
"This is the kind of thing that
has many dozens of hours of
debate behind it already. There
are still things left to be said,"
Koper said.
The tone of the April 14 debate
"was disturbing to many supporters" of the 50 percent requirement, Koper ssid. However, he
added, "I think the 'anti-' spoke
firsL"
Koper said he is confident the
proposed definition will pass.
Sen. Roger Hatch, religion
department chairman, said
Sunday he will propose the "50
percent" wording be dropped and
replaced with "hair or "about
half."
*I guess 1 would characterize it
as "a friendly amendment,"
Hatch, associate professor of
religion, said.
Wayne Kiefer, geography
department chairman, said he
also is working on amendments to
the proposal.
Kiefer, professor of geography.
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INDEX
UFE-urtre page'Z
Combing Campuses page 3
Oxnrnenl page 4
Bloom County page 4
ErteTtairunent page 6
Court Reports. page 11
Potice Reports page 11
Cede ol Conduct page 11
Sports page 12
Qasslneds page 15