1998-11-04; Central Michigan Life

              Central JVIichigan LtLb ii.
Volume 81, Number 29
Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859
©1998 CM LIFE
79 years of serving the community
Wednesday
November 4, 1998
18 pages
Caul slides past Smith in race for State House
By Anthony Judnich
LIFE Staff Writer
Republican Sandy
Caul found out she will
be the new State
Representative for the
99th District soon after
midnight, totaling
12,238 votes to
Democratic opponent
Sue Smith's 11,200
votes.
at the Comfort Inn, 2424
S. Mission St., and said
she looks forward to
starting the new year
representing the people
of mid-Michigan.
"I   am   going   to   work
the hardest that I can to
be  the  best  representative  that you  can   have
CAUL here      in      Clare      and
Isabella counties, and I extend
Election Day '98
Caul thanked her supporters     my   heartfelt   thanks   to   every
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one of you for making it a successful night for all of us here in
the 99th District," Caul said.
"My heart goes to you.**
Caul said she was pleased
overall with the race for State
Representative.
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**I think we were very fortunate,** Caul said. "We had two
great candidates this year. We
both worked very hard, and I'm
just happy that the people in
the 99th District have selected
me to go to Lansing and repre
sent them."
Sue Smith was stationed at
the White Wagon Restaurant, in
Rosebush during the election
results. She said she was
pleased with her campaign as
well.
"I'm proud of my campaign
and how it ran,** Smith said. "Of
course, I*m disappointed with
the results, but I'm very appreciative of all the work done by
my    supporters,    and    I    wish
Sandy Caul my best."
Smith said she will continue
working at CMU as director of
the Master of Science in
Administration Program, but
isn't sure yet if she*ll return to
teaching management and law
at CMU.
"I have a full-time administrative position, so we'll just
have to see," Smith said.
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ENGLER
Engler wins
third term
DETROIT (AP) — Republican Gov. John Engler
easily won a third term Tuesday, his relentlessly
upbeat picture of Michigan's economy helping to
capture broad support and defeat Geoffrey
Fieger's blend of scattershot verbal assault and
political independence.
Engler, 49, won what term limits mean will be his last term as
governor. It was his 10th victory
in the 10 times he has run for
public office, starting with his
first election to the state House at
age 22.
With 65 percent of precincts
reporting, Engler had 1,195,541
votes, or 62 percent, to Fieger's
736,073, or 38 percent.
"I want to thank the people of
Michigan for this unprecedented opportunity to
serve you for the third time as your governor,"
Engler told a rally of his supporters in Lansing. "I
accept this challenge. I am ready to serve you for
four more years." »
Without conceding the race, Fieger thanked his
campaign staff.
"To the thousands of people who have suffered
under the policies of those cruel people in
Lansing, I say do not lose heart," Fieger told hie
supporters in Detroit. "We have struck a match in
the darkness, we have raised a voice in the
wilderness. The cause endures and the struggle
continues, and we concede nothing tonight."
Fieger, the wealthy attorney who gained fame
with his bombastic and successful defense of Dr.
Jack Kevorkian, was seeking public office for the
first time at the age of 47.
"I'm voting Engler. He's been doing a pretty
good job," Virginia O'Neill, a 63-year-old retiree
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Damaged wing
of Rowe will
be demolished
By Leah Nixon
LIFE Staff Writer
A portion of Rowe Hall which was damaged this
summer in a lire will now be demolished.
Kim Ellertson, vice president of Business and
Finance, said University President Leonard Plachta
has recently made the final decision to demolish the
portion of Rowe Hall which housed the College of
Extended Learning.
"The president really had a strong preference for
not putting it back up," he said.
The wing previously occupied by CEL is the only
portion of Rowe Hall to be demolished, Ellertson
said. No other CMU departments will be affected.
Ellertson said the decision was made to demolish
the wing during a meeting Thursday in Provost
Richard Davenport's office. Delbert Ringquist, dean
of the College of Extended Learning, and Davenport
were advised of the decision.
Both employees of the college and those working
in Rowe Hall were not notified of the decision,
Ellertson said. The section of the hall to be demolished is already boarded up, he said.
"Quite frankly, CEL won't be greatly affected by
it," he said.
It was also decided not to put library books in
Rowe Hall since the wing is being demolished. Some
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Taking part in the democratic process
LIFE photos by Tony Cepak
Above: A candidate for secretary of her sixth grade class, Leila
McQueen (left), helps third graders Paul Cortez (center) and
Joshua Pittsley cast their
votes in Gamard
Elementary's student government elections Tuesday.
The boys are lunch helpers
who cast their votes while
returning from lunch. Over
the past three weeks, students have been learning
about the voting process by
having to register and vote on their own time.
Left: Across the hall from the student government elections, Lillian
Griffin of Mount Pleasant casts her vote in the first precinct voting
center, located in Ganiard's gymnasium.
Student recovering after accident
UFE Staff Reports
A CMU student who was injured
last week in a freak accident on her
20th birthday is doing OK.
Geri Kabala, 20, Fenton sophomore, said Tuesday she will return to
classes sometime next week.
Tm extremely lucky," she said
about the accident.
Preliminary hospital and police
reports had listed Kabala with
extensive injuries, but Kabala said
she has a sprained ankle, severe
abrasions to her back and other
abrasions and scratches to her limbs.
Early Thursday morning in the
Wayside Central parking lot, 2000 S.
Mission St., Kabala was dragged 50
feet by a red Sunbird GTE driven by
her roommate Thea Kampfer, 19,
Clarkston freshman. Kabala had
been celebrating her 20th birthday
with her roommate and other
friends, when she decided to leave
the bar and get some fresh air,
according to police reports. Kampfer
got into the car and proceeded to
drive away until other passers-by
stopped her.
Kabala  told  police  she  had  not
been drinking at Wayside.
Kabala said Tuesday she wanted
to clear up some rumors that were
floating around campus about her
and her roommate.
Thea did not know I was there,"
Kabala said, about her sitting next
to the car. "She's my best friend and
roommate. I just wanted to clear the
air about things that are being said."
Kampfer was arrested and
charged with operating under the
influence of liquor. She was released
from jail after posting a $300 bond.
Her court appearance is Nov. 11.
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Union may reach contract agreement soon
By Renee Lutz
LIFE News Editor
More than 280 CMU service and
maintenance employee union members,
who are working toward a new contract
agreement with the university, may
reach an agreement as soon as
Thursday.
The American Federation of State,
County and Municipal Employees Local
1568 union may finally reach an agreement with university administrators
after more than two years without a
contract.
Diane Rigotti, director of the
AFSCME     Council     25     and     chief
spokesperson for the union, said union
workers have been in contract negotiations since Oct. 31, 1996.
Rigotti said she is not at liberty to
give any details on a recent fact-finding
report released at the end of October,
but said there is much anticipation that
an agreement be reached.
"I hope we can reach resolution,"
Rigotti said.
Maxine Tubbs, director of Staff
Personnel Services, said bargaining for
a new contract took place prior to Oct.
31, 1996, before coming to the pending
ratification point.
Tubbs    said    if    an    agreement    is
reached, the new contract will take
effect immediately after ratification.
However, several provisions on the proposed contract will become effective on
different dates.
"(Provisions include) things like
when wages change . . . how we're going
to handle vacancies or any other provisions," Tubbs said.
Another of the provisions is focused
on the issue of subcontracting university Dining Services — of which ARAMARK is a consideration, Tubbs said.
"I can't specify details (on the tenta-
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postponed
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1 was overturned by the Tribal Council,
and two individual* who would have won
could not take their
Tribal Council invalidated the
they felt there were
_ the membership of some pee*
pie mx*& some of the candidates running for
said Judy Whitman, director oft
The two* Phil Peters mod Sue Durfee
sued the council memhers individually.
Peters and Durfee claimed there were no
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