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City police chief
informs, answers
student concerns
BY MARCIA McDOMALD
LIFE SUH Wr.le- 	
Mount Pleasant's top police
ofTicial fielded student questions
Sunday night about party
problems, police brutality and the
upcoming weekend.
During the lecture, entitled
"How to Stay Out of Trouble,"
Police Chief Martin Trombley
addressed questions from an
audience of about 25 people in the
Saxe-Herrig Residence Hall lobby.
Students asked questions about
the parties that traditionally
follow Saturday's football game
against Western Michigan
University. And there were others
who claimed they experienced or
witnessed unprovoked force from
police at parties.
The best response I can make
to excessive force is that specific
incidents,   I   can   respond   to   —
generalities, I cannot. I do think
(police) tolerance here is much
greater," Trombley said.
The police must use riot gear
when dispersing large parties,
specifically with Trombley** order.
"I can show pictures of cars with
bricks thrown in, with police
officers sitting in the cars. So my
order is to use protective gear. The
police should not be taking abuse,
and people won't get that way
unless they are drunk," Trombley
said.
Tom Doerr, Union Lake junior,
said he attended the forum "to
find out what I can and cannot do
this weekend. I learned the cops
will come on calls of excessive
noise, and that's about it."
Other students at the forum, he
said, seemed to think that the
police will arrest who they can and
not who they should.
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Officials mull party-control plans
BY KRIS HAHN
ll*-[- SMM Writer
City and police officials met Friday with University representatives to establish a game plan for dealing with unruly party-goers
following Saturday's football game.
Friday morning Isabella County Prosecutor Joseph Barberi, City
Manager Tom Martin. Sue Repp, assistant vice president of Student
Affairs and Martin Trombley, Mount Pleasant Police Chief met to
discuss party-control methods for the coming weekend, Martin said.
"We went over arrangements for this coming weekend's Western
(Michigan University) football game and particularly after the game,
and the various things each of us has to do to control the situation,"
Martin said.
Part of Friday's meeting concentrated on the request of a temporary
restraining order banning large street parties in two city areas this
weekend, Barberi said.
He said he is requesting the order today from Judge Paul O'Connell,
Isabella County 21st Circuit Court. The order, if granted, will prohibit
anyone from planning, conducting or participating in street parties
Saturday on Main Street and at Edgewood Apartments. The
Edgewood area includes Edgewood and Deming streets, he said.
"The purpose for requesting the injunction is to help put people on
notice that we're not going to tolerate it (parties)," Barberi said.
Barberi's complaint requests the restraining order include the hours
between 4 p m. Saturday and 4 a.m. Sunday.
Barberi said areas may not necessarily Ih* roped off with a police line
Jury to consider range of
verdicts in murder trial
BY PAT HOUSLEY
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The eventual verdict a Mount Pleasant man m.ty receive could Ih*
of lesser offense than tho second-degree murder charge he faces,
Isabella County ProM-cutor Joseph HarTtM-ri said Friday.
The eighth day of testimony begins today in the trial of Michael R.
McCord, who is charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing
death April 19 of Scott Allen, a Michigan State University student at
the time.
McCord. 19, also is charged with assault with intent to commit
murder in the stabbing nf Allen's brother, Craig, Iron Mountain junior.
E.arberi said Friday Isabella County 21st Circuit Court Judge Paul
O'Connell can instruct the 14-person jury to consider any verdict,
ranging from a felony charge of four years imprisonment to
second-de grit* murder. The accused could also Ih- found not guilty
"It could include a wide range in between," he said
Second-degree murder carries a penalty of life imprisonment with
eligibility for parole A charge of manslaughter carries a maximum
penalty of 15 years imprisonment
In order to substantiate the second-degree murder charge, the
prosecution must show malice and forethought, said (ihazey Aleck,
co-counsel for McCord
Aleck said forethought is not premeditation, but means intending
to kill a person right before action is taken to do so
The judge considers the accused individual's previous record and
mitigating circumstances while deciding on a sentencing.
The 10-woman, four-man jury' listened to seven days of testimony as
part of the prosecution's case. Twelve jurors will be chosen by lot to
deliberate the findings after all the evidence is presented. The two
remaining jurors will serve as alternates if one of the chosen jurors
cannot attend.
unless a problem develops The restraining order is indeper.dent from
the ability to cordon off an area, he said.
The ability to cordon ofTan area stems from a city ordinance stating
police lines may be established if police determine an area lo be
dangerous to residents
Barl**n said several students were "partying in the streets" at an
End of the World party alnrnt two years ago, and were almost killed by
a truck which traveled through Main Street at 4f> mph. He said he
hopes the injunction will prevent situations like that from occurring
again.
Martin said there could Im- a (xitential problem this weekend if
parties get "out of hand."
Barberi said decriminalization of the charge "minor in possession of
alcohol" by state officials in I.ansing contributed to Mount Pleasant's
party problems.
Currently it is only a civil infraction to lie a minor in possession of
alcohol. Barberi said If caught, the most any Michigan minor has to
pay is a $25 fine, which is not a deterrent for underage college
students who want to drink, he said
Barberi said if police crack down enough >>n parties, party-goers will
eventually give up. or parties will Ih* small enough not to \m a threat.
"If we shut down these different areas, students will eventually get
the message that this is not the pi.lie to come for great parties."
Barl-eri said
Barln-ri said he could not give much mure information about the
meeting as a security measure. He s.ud if students know the areas
poller- are monitoring, parties may move elsewhere
Board requests groups
appoint representatives
for presidential search
BY MARY FRANCIS
IDF-  N.w-., hdt.ir
The selection process for a
new University presidential
search committee should begin
soon, following Board of
Trustees action Friday.
The Board directed that
letters be sent to Student
Government Association, the
Alumni Association and the
Academic Senate, requesting
the groups each appoint
representatives to the search
committee.
Acting Provost Janice
Reynolds said she expects
search committee selection to
completed by December.
A-Senate Chairwoman
Barbara Dixon said she
received a letter Friday afternoon, but said the A-Senate has
not made plans yet for
appointing its eight search
committee members.
SGA will appoint three
students and the Alumni
Association gets one meml»er.
Trustees expressed good
feelings about the presidential
search and the needs assessment, a telephone survey of
University constituents gauged
to determine what CMU's goals
should Ih*.
"I personally am very excited
about it," Trustee Rachael
Moreno said.  "This  is  exactly
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Calming the storm
Police intervention breaks tradition of WMU street bash
tEditor's n,<tt- 7Wn>, CM 1.1EE
begins a series examining the
I'lfUS r</' tiriathcr campus
community nhout issues anil
cunts in common \cith ('.Ml'
LIFE Editor Wayne Kamutoi.
Assistant Sens Editor .John I)
(lonzalez and Sfx>rts Editor Ken
McDonald recently travel) d to
Western Michigan Unuersity to
i>et the attitudes of students,
administrators and Kalamazoo
police about the rivalry ami
revelry attached to this ueekend's
football name and party'intake
problems )
KA1.AMAZOO -- The Hop.In
party store appropriately served
as the corner signpost to I-afayette
Street, a two-block pothole-filled
lane
Time was when as many as
10.000 peopte annually gathered
along this eroded, tree-lined
street Never mind the drug
pushers, the escaped convict or
the tear gas. this party -- created
to   celebrate   the   beginning   of
school to Western Michigan
University —- forged on. For six
years, the I-afavette Street bash
picked up steam.
But the hash here is no longer
Ixuling. A tradition — similar to
those attached to CMU's End of
the World party and Western
weekend — is coming to an end.
At least that's what Kalamazoo
police. WMU students and
administrators lieheve
"l-ifajette Street was subdued,"
said WMU junior Paul DevUt, of
Royal Oak, of the surrealistic
scene  Sept.   5   —   the  scheduled
date of this year's I-afayette Street
party.
"No revelry allowed," added
Devitt, who resides in West
Campus Apartments on 1-afayette
Street, the most-populous area for
off-campus students
The 1986 version went without
major incident as more than 200
police officers equipped with riot
gear patrolled the neight>orhood
until 2:30 a m.. Sept G Police,
who had the blockade set by 6:.'10
p m., arrested only three.
Police arrested five in 1985, in
contrast to  59  arrests  made   in
19S4 ■- the year polite resorted to
volleying tear gas at party-goers
to ijuell the -situation.
A temfk-rary restraining order
- issued hy Kalamazoo Counts
Circuit Court Judge Kichard Ryan
Lamb in 1985 - barred
non-residents from entering the
I-ifayette Street area if police
cordoned it
The injunction prohibited "the
planning, organizing, conducting
participating in, and'or attending
the annual Lafayette Street
party."
Much like the restraining order
sought by Isabella County Prosecutor Joseph Barberi for the
CMU's End of the World party in
May, Western students living in
the Lafayette Street area were
issued passes to enter and exit the
area. Anyone crossing the line wa*
arrested on a misdemeanor
charge, and was subject to .'10 days
in jail or a $100 fine
"As  far  as  the  success of the
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credit balance wiH be given out
Tuesday from 830amto430pm
in the second floor foyer in Warrtner
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will be mailed to students
Wednesday Picture identification is
required.
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