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Bam blaze
Firefighters assess tha damage to a barn at 5441 E. Broadway,
above. John Gall, Mount Pleasant resident, left, gazes at tha
remains of tha barn that ha was going to use to store scrap
wood. Firefighters bsttle the blaze, below, which lasted about
an hour and a half.
Board slates talks;
on proposed hall:
housing rate hike
Administrators say
added funds are
needed for quality
BY MARY FRANCIS
UFE Editor	
On-campua living could cost
$234 more per student next year
after .Board of Truat.eer*action this
week.
CMU sdministrstors will
present a recommendation for the
room-and-board increase to the
Board's finance committee
Thursday.
.And although the increase
would propel CMITs residence
hall living from eighth-most
expensive in the state to the
fourth-most costly, administrators
say more money is necessary.
"We're never pleased when we
have to have increases like this —
most of us are parents and we
understand what it's like to have
kids in college," said Jean Lindley,
assistant vice president for
Residence and Auxiliary Services.
"But it's something we're going
to have to maintain. . .it's
certainly reasonable. When you
consider the services provided, we
operate efficiently."
CMITs housing held the least
most-expensive ranking in the
state's 12 colleges and universities
from 1983-84 to 1985-86. However,
Lindley said she's talked with
students, and most understand
the rationale behind this year's
$2,850 room-and-board rate (on
the 20-meal plan).'
"It's a reasonable increase  in
light of the fact that CMU in the
past has been the lowest. If we are
going to maintain quality, it's
necessary," she said.
"I talked with representatives of
Residence Hall .Assembly and
their only concern was whether
increases were related to the
student recreation building. I
assured them not one penny of
this increase could be attribute
to that building."
The funding methods for s
proposed student recreation
building have not been finalized,
but trustees and administration
have discussed a refinancing
option. The refinancing would
involve borrowing additional
monies on the debt in CMU's
capital fund.
CMU's rates still are "in the
ballpark" with other state institutions, said James Hill, vice presi.
dent for Student Affairs, in an
earlier interview. CMU's one-year
increase of $234 is substantially
more than the projected average
state increase of $132, but its total
charges are just $37 more than
the projected state average of
$2,813.
"Am I concerned? Yes. I like to
see costs kept down," Hill said.
"But it doesn't do any good to have
an institution where you dont
provide students with facilities
just to keep costs down."
Lindley said a sizeable portion
of the increase can be attributed to
the maintenance and renovation
of residence-hall facilities. A
10-percent increase in utilities
and telephone charges also is
expected next semester.
Wheeler Hall residents
claim recent incident
not racially motivated
BY MARK LaROSA
UFE Staff Writer
Wheeler Hall residents said
a dispute — which led to a
confrontation involving ',75 to
100 students last week -r- was
not racially motivated.    ',
"It wasn't a racist incident at
all," said third-floor Wheeler
resident   Wendy   Cameron,
Grand Blanc freshman.
Black students gsthered
Thursday in the Towers lobby
to support Lansing freshman
K&rla Allen, a black student,
after she had a conflict with one
of the white women who lives
across the hall from her.
Cameron   and   a   group   of
Please See RACE Page 16
SGA upholds executive-election results
BY RUTH VIOLANTE
LIFE Staff Writer
Losing team's contestation denied
Student Government Association's newly-elected board will
remain intact even though two
candidates contested the recent
election.
Defeated executive team candidates Mike Nunneley and Dawn
Trahey submitted their contestation of the April 1 and 2 election
Friday. The contestation was
based on an election committee
rule regarding campaign posters.
The SGA elections committee,
however, denied the contestation
on   Monday,   because   the   SGA
board never approved the rule
that stated aH campaign posters
had to be taken down by a
midnight April 1 deadline.
The Nunneley/Trahey team
distributed the written contestation to SGA elections committee
members, the media, SGA
President-elect Ann AuxTinee and
Vice-President-elect Frank
Tizedes.
In the document Nunneley,
Alpena senior, and Trahey,
Hartland junior, contend the
winning team of AuxTinee, St.
Joseph junior, and Tizedes, South-
gate senior, disregarded the
elections rules and did not remove
posters on time.
The elections committee drew
up the rules and distributed them
to candidates. The SGA board
discussed, but never voted on the
rules. Neither the committee nor
the board included any sanctions
for violating the rules, and
members said the poster rule was
intended to keep posters from
littering the campus.
Both teams presented their
cases at an elections committee
review meeting Monday, called to
discuss the contestation.
At the meeting SGA Elections
Director Jim Rhinehart said
neither executive team made a
good effort to take down their
campaign posters by the first
deadline — March 30 at midnight.
Rhinehart said he then
contacted a member from each
executive team and said he was
going to extend the deadline until
midnight April 1.
Rhinehart said he and the
committee canvassed the campus
Thursday morning. Upon finding
posters from the AuxTinee and
Tizedes    team    still    up,    the
Please See CONTEST Page 11
Academic
Three students garner top
spots for May graduation
BY SALLY GIRARD
LIFE Staff Writer       .	
Three students will share top honors during
graduation ceremonies May 9.
Valedictorian Karen T. Kenworthy, West Branch
senior, and co-salutatorians Maxine M. Gerber,
Feirysburg senior, and Thomas R. Leistner,
Rockford senior, will graduate at the top of a class of
2^59 students.
After majoring in management information
systems and accumulating a 3.99 grade-point
average, Kenworthy will receive a bachelor of
science degree in business administration.
Kenworthy said she hopes to land a job as a
Officials discuss rec center funding
BY MARY FRANCIS
LIFE EcMor
KENTWORTHY    LEISTNER
systems analyst. The occupation entails anrlyzing a
business situation, and then designs a system of
computer programs to fit the business' needs.
Kenworthy said she has some job opportunities in
Michigan, but foresees a probable out-of-state
transfer in the next two to three years because of the
broadening market. She said she doesn't necessarily
want to move, but if it will help her get ahead in the
field, she will.
■Kenwoi-thy is a member of Sigma Iota Epsilon, the
business honorary, Phi Eta Sigma, the freshman
honorary, and the Data Processing Management
.Association. She also has worked at Park Library
Please See SCHOLARS Page 16
CMU administrators plan to
discuss financing options today for
a proposed $16 million student
recreation center.
Thomas .Repp, assistant vice
president for Financial AfTairs,
said the administration would
attempt to determine its
refinancing standpoint before
addressing the Board of Trustees
finance committee Thursday.
Repp said JeiTy Tubbs, vice
president for Business and
Finance, and President Arthur
Ellis are expected to meet today to
prepare a report for the trustees.
Both Tubbs and EUis were
unavailable for comment Tuesday.
The refin-ancing option could
free up to $26 million for capital
improvements including the
proposed recreation building. The
options have been narrowed to
three plans — $16 million, $20
million and $26 million — which
were presented to the trustees in
March.
Tubbs said in March the
administration hoped to have a
specific refinacing recommendation by the Board's May meeting.
CMU has nine individual trust
agreements, or mortgages, for
capital projects that cany an
approximate $16 million debt in
the University's capital fund.
CMU currently pays about $3.4
million yearly for that debt and
interest on it.
With the refinancing plan, the
University will borrow additional
money but continue to pay about
the -ame amount yearly — for a
longer period of time.
If trustees opt to refinance for
more money than needed for the
recreation center, funds might be
used for other capital projects like
parking lots or computer facilities.
James Hill, vice president for
Student Affairs, said a state use
and finance statement for the
proposed recreation center should
be completed by May with board
approval of a financing method.
The statement demonstrates
CMU's ability to manage the
facility's long-term operating costs
Please See REC Page 16
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