1986-11-12; Central Michigan Life

              WEDNESDAY
November 12,1986
City assault reports
on the rise, expected
to shatter '85 figure
Browsing through the poster collection at the art ssle in the
Bovee University Center, Noelle Mramor. Rochester freshmen,
left. Colleen Pawsat. Grosse Pointe freshman. Sue Pasternak,
Troy freshman, and Mary Zavadil. Grosse He sophomore, admire
selections of posters in ballrooms A and B Monday afternoon.
SGA to poll students on financial aid
BY DR. BASSO
l iff   S!*'1 •.*.'< V r
Student (Jovernnient As.-i.ciat ion representatives hope tn find out
what .students know and think aliout CMU's Financial Aids Office this
*.\eek
An opinion poll was supposed to have In-gun Tuesday, but printing
problems delayed it until today, said Bernadette Ellsworth. Opinion
I'oll Committee chairwoman
The pxill will include (■ue.-.tum.s about recent change* m the financial
Consultants to examine
CMU teacher preparation
program in three-day stay
aiel administration, rules and regulations concerning financial aid.
terminology and other student loncern-, I)i trie! Throe l{epre-.<nta-
tive Ellsworth said
"We have a little .-pace at the bottom *~e> students i\u\ make
.suggestions if they* have any." .Ellsworth, Pontiac sophomore, said
"iSGA Hiinl.*. to find out' how people feel about things that go »" 'n
Financial Aids."
Ellsworth said she would like to net .11)0 poll responses
BY BRYAN LAVIOLETTE
LIFE Stall Writer	
Assaults — ranging from
simple to criminal sexual — are
up in Mount Pleasant, and the
city's police chief says the outlook
is grim.
For example, eight aggravated
assaults — more than half of
1985*s total — were reported to
city police during the first six
months of the year. Police Chief
Martin Trombley said.
"We're going to go way over last
year's total," he said.
Fn 1985, 14 aggravated assaults
were reported to the department.
Those totals do not include
simple or criminal sexual
assaults, which Trombley also
said have increased.
He said it is hard for his
department to give up-to-date
figures on crimes because records
are l>eing transferred to computers.
Assaults throughout the
country have increased in the last
year. Trombley said. The 19S5
Uniform Crime Report states a 9
percent increase in assaults since
1981 in the United States.
The UCR is published annually
by the FBI
Aggravated assault is "an
unlawful attack by one person
upon another for the purpose of
inflicting severe or aggravated
Ixnlily injury. This type of assault
usually is accompanied by the use
of a weapon or by means likely to
produce death or great bodily
harm." according to the report.
Trombley said alcohol abuse is
the    primary   reason    for   the
Police chief
blames booze
for assault
BY BRYAN LAVIOLETTE
UF£ Staff Wnter
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BY ROGER MORGENSTERN
Seeking an updated outline' lor
teacher preparation at CMU.
administrators invited three
consultants to campu- next week
to examine* the program
Michael Kent, acting di'.m of the
sihexil of Health. Education and
Human Services, -.aid the thni*
consultant > will examine all
a-peets of teacher preparation at
the University, including talking
lo students, faculty and administrators
The con-ultarits' three-day visit
next week is slated fur Tuesday,
Wednesday and S"o\ JO. Kent
said Deans I rom I he I 'niversity ot
North Carolina-Charlotte and
Western Kentucky University,
and an ollicial treem a national
accredit.it ion council .ire evicted
to comb the campu-
Kent drew up a pro[.o-al this
summer to develop .tn updated
model for leather preparation,
which includes the consultants'
visit and a 1 ti-member task force
formed to study the consultant*'
findings and examine other items
relating to CMU's program
The task force-, made up of both
campus and community teaching
professionals, also will examine
the .-lew of documents published
in the last several year.-,
pertaining to education, said
Deborah Slade, a.-si-tant vice
provost for curriculum ami
instruction, planning, instruction
and research
Slade sail! -he* think- the visit
will he po-itive
"It's going to be helpful for
people to leeok ahead it's not
unusual to have consultants
visit," she said
Kent said he hopes a teacher
preparation model will be
iumpleted hy thi-end of this sche»il
year, and hopefully put into
practice next >e-ar
The National Council fur Accreditation of Teacher Education
<NCATK> is scheduled to vi.-it
during the l!l.*vS-.-.;i .-choo! year,
Kent said
Although the consultants' visit
is neit directly associated with the
accreditation visit. Kent said he
hopes the teacher preparation
model will lx* in place* by then
One ofthe ivn-ultants. Harold
Heller, el.•an e>f the College of
Education and Allied Professions
at the University of North
Carolina-Charlotte, -aid he is
looking   forward   to   next    uiek'.s
Visit
"It's always good to see another
program Michigan is a good
education -tate." Heller said "It
always, helps an institution to
have* an external viewpoint
Heller said University officials
have given him and the other tw:<
consultants, (ilnna Chernay ofthe
Council of Professional Accreditation in Washington. I) C . and .J T.
Sand. fur. dean of the college eet
Education and liehavmral
Sciences at Western Kentucky
University, a "wide perimeter" to
work with while vi.-iting campus
When an assault occurs,
mors than likaly alcohol win be
involved, according to dty and
University officials.
Assaults are increasing in
the country and in Mount
Pleasant, said City Police Chief
Martin Trombley. And alcohol
is a direct cause in many, he
said.
"1 relate it (the increase) to
the overconsumption of
alcohol,* Trombley said.
Assadlts are up in number
nationwide by 9 percent from
1981 to 1985. according to the
Uniform Crime Report,
published by the FBI.
In Mount Pleasant, there
were eight assaults in the first
six months this year — more
than half of 1985's total of 14.
Trombley aaid. And those six
months, January through
June, generally are slow
months for the Mount Pleasant
police.
Statistics for June to the
present are unavailable,
Trombley said.
Trombley said a person's
behavior becomes much more
"bizarre" aa ha or she drinks.
An individual becomes more
"belligerent," and  his person*
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Bo$$ business
Springsteen cashing in on steady
stream of sales on 5-side live set
H CAr,. mmrt:
Bruce Springsteen's latest album has sold well since its debut
Monday Shawn Mason, of Mount Pleasant, is one of the
employees at Full Moon Records kept busy with the brisk sales.
BY JOHN D. GONZALEZ
!   • f   '.'.v,:.i-i N.-.vv, F j ?<.'
If Bruce Springsteen was Horn
tn Kurt, then mayln* his latest
five-alhum spectacular which hit
stores Monday was horn to shatter
records.
Reports from record outlets
across the country are that the
•ID-song package, Ilrtue Springs
teen and the E Street Hand
Lucllir75 H~y, is selling like The
Promised I^ind.
"Every' report we've gotten say
that sales are just phenomenal,"
said Dane Venahle, manager of
college marketing for CHS records
in i\ew York.
"As far as exact sales, we don't
have any numhers yet, hut wo
pressed 1.4 million copies
initially." he added
Eull Moon Records. 1901 S
Mission, was the only store in
Mount Pleasant to have the LPs.
cassettes and compact discs (CDsI
on Monday.
Eull Moon Manager Tom Ball
said first-day sales Monday were
above what he expected.
"We sold 24 records. 10
cassettes and one CD. I really did
think sales would be good, but not
like this," Ball said.
"We sold 24 records,
10 cassettes and one
CD. I really did think
sales would be good,
but not like this."
— Tom Ball,
Full Moon manager
Records and cassettes are
S25.99 and CDs $50 at Full Moon,
and Ball said more orders were
put in Tuesday to keep up with
the demand.
"I had people waiting in the
store Monday and numerous
telephone calls all day and it's
going to keep going." said Ball,
who predicts the "Boss* live LP to
be the biggest Christmas record
this season.
"I've heard that possibly this
album could be No. 1 and that's
almost unheard of for a boxed set,"
he added.
Another major record store in
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v\->
Briefly
Deadline for f.liruj ,*, repeat course
request c.mi It.r the {".ill Semester is
Nov 14 Cards »ue dv.vljble in
Warriner 2t*0 Students currvr.;!y
enrolled m j course previously
completed should file the cjrd so the
correct adjustment can be made in the
cumulative total* when this semester's
■grade* are recorded	
Crowded conditions
ff-wror vsvs ibrsr, rvpj-yey, r«e* lid-,
.nreOAr fur.,!*
INSIDE
INDEX
/Page 3
High school revisited
"Peeggy So* Got Mamei" but the rw<*
m no honeytTKOn kx auAi*nc«
Dance time
A semester of hard work prepares
0:< hesis members for fall concert
/Page 7
Whipped Wolverines
/Page 6 Ku>gbees at Foolery Page 6
CMU vofleyfeal team d^a UH in marathon
rr-atcre
/Page 10
L!fTiA«e
On TheJob
Corr-Tier.I
Boom County   .
Litensinment
Beg Guy on Cam pus
Sports
Chjppeaa Profile
Potce Reports
Spo&e 	
Classifieds.	
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