1986-10-29; Central Michigan Life

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WEDNESDAY
October 29,1986
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University should purchase
60 more microcomputers,
task force report suggests
BY CHRIS MURRAY
UFE Staff Wr.ter
CMUs mainframe computer system may have at least 60
additional microcomputers by May — at a price tag of more than
$250,000.
The University's Academic Computing Task Force report was
released late last week recommending the University purchase hew
microcomputers. The task force began work on the report during
the 19Rr> fall semester.
Ed Grant, interim vice provost of Academic Administration, said
a University-wide task force has to approve any recommendations
from other task forces, including this one. He said he did not know
when the task force would make a decision.
The decision to join a new computer network already has l>een
made, Grant said.
"We're making a sincere effort to open an additional open
computer lab, but it's m the early stages. The main problem we're
dealing with is space."
Please See REPORT Page 12
Residence hall students set to receive
coupon books as flood compensation
BY ANNE SEEBALDT
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Residence hall students will
get coupon Ixxiks redeemable at
the Bovee University Center —
not Sunday meals -- from CMU
for cooperation during September
flooding
After consulting with the President's Council Monday, President
Arthur Ellis accepted one of
Residence Hall Assembly's six
alternative flood refund projxjsals.
Students will be able to use
these coupons, valued at $10,
toward the purchase of any item
in the t'C
The University originally
intended to offer residents extra
meals on Sundays after home
games and the Sunday prior to
finals as a "thank you" in response
to flood inconveniences.
Rut those meals will be discon
tinued since the RHA plan was
accepted, said Jean Lindley, assistant vice president for Residence
Hall and Auxiliary Services.
Residents already were served one
extra meal Oct. 12.
RHA members composed the
proposals after Ellis said a
monetary refund would not make
sense in the long run. None ofthe
six RHA suggestions involved
monetary* refunds.
The decision, expected last
week, was delayed. Ellis said,
because he wanted other administrators to be informed alvout the
issues involved
Ellis said he did not know how
much it would cast to print and
distribute the coupons.
"I don't think it's going to be
very much," he said.
He said he was impressed with
all of the RHA proposals
presented to him Oct. H.
"I think the  RHA group acted
responsibly and made some very
good suggestions," Ellis said.
The other five alternatives
were:
■ Giving each hall council a
certain amount of money for
programming.
■ Providing a general fund for
hall improvements.
■ Bringing back a Student
Initiated Request for Funding
(SIRF) fund.
■ Creating a "wish fund" for
halls to purchase something for all
residents to use, like a microwave.
■ Creating a general fund for
residence hall desk purchases.
Ellis said he is pleased with the
accepted alternative.
"I see this as a responsible way
to do something about the inconvenience this has caused
everyone," he said.
"I would have preferred the
decision to be made later. We don't
know at this point what all the
costs (incurred by flooding) will
be, what will be reimbursed and
what won't be reimbursed."
RHA Chairwoman Marilyn
Pyne said she was happy with
Ellis' decision.
"I'm also really glad it's over. I
think everybody's had just enough
of the refund issue," Pyne,
Kalamazoo junior, said.
She said the decision will make
it easier for RHA to work with the
administration in the future.
Pyne said the coupon books
probably will be printed up within
a week and will be distributed
immediately, but no method of
distribution has been determined.
UC Director Shaun Holtgrieve
said Tuesday he had not heard
enough about the decision to
comment on how issuing coupon
books might affect the UC's
business.
Mount Pleasant couple
files $10-million lawsuit
against newspaper firm
;by marcia Mcdonald
LIFE Stjtt Wrier	
A $I0-million lawsuit for excessive noise has been filed against
Central Michigan Newspapers Inc . by a couple living next door to the
Mount Pleasant Morning Sun.
Peter and Anne Reale, 233 N. Main, filed a complaint Wednesday in
Isabella 21st Circuit Court against the publisher ofthe Morning Sun
for money damages and for injunctive relief from the noise Central
Michigan Newspapers Inc. is a Virginia Corporation.
"I don't believe I have a comment at this time." said Clifton E.
Forrest, president and publisher ofthe Morning Sun, 215 N. Main, on
Tuesday. Forrest would not reveal the names of any legal counsel
being sought.
Morning Sun editor Robert B. Boswell also declined to comment.
The Reales are being represented by I-ansing attorney Raymond J.
Reynolds. The Reales have been seeking legal action for the past five
years, but each ofthe two Mount Pleasant attorneys they hired "sat on
the case," Peter Reale said.
"All these years we've suffered, neither the sheriff", the city
commission, or the city attorney — no one thought we had a legitimate
Please See SUIT Page 14
Donning jeans
Campus group sponsors day
promoting civil, human rights
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Performing (or The Call Tom Ferrier and Michael Been jam it   up in Warriner Auditorium Monday night.
'Call' it a success
Organizers pleased with performance, packed house
BY TONY BITTICK
Coordinator Scott Guvig said
"Hut   that's   kind   of a   tough
  thing   to   <io   when   then-   are
m       .     _,,,, I i      . people  handing out  tree candv
About     Mill    proplt-    packed '      ' . _     ..
U,     I . mi at    trie     Irorit     door.       tmvig.
.irrmrr   Auditorium   Mondav
.    ,t , i-Mi--      .-     . Livonia senior, said
night    a.-   ( Ml   s    rir-~t    major
loiicerl of the year was hilled a With     only    a    few     trivial
success by org.ini/i-rs challenges    throughout    the
Perhaps the biggest evening,   it  was  a "tremendous
challenge   organizers   faced   at success"   for all   those  invoked
the   Heat   Rodeo   .mil   The  Call getting the concert on  Its feet.
concert    was    stopping    people PB   Chairman    Don   MarU-od
from     eating     in     Warriner said.
Auditorium.       PR      Concert "I   think   evervlxidv    on   the
I 'r o.T.iiu 15 irii a::d ■ a ■ i \ h< >dy
w ho helped wol 1-. tfe ' i.inert
should he i .:u;r .ilal.-l. A .-n a
great        s ik i e - s , M ,n I., ; ,i\
F.irmirigtoii Hills -rrii. r. -aid
at  'l'ue-d.i> '- I'M :i:e. tin.'
1 he     co nee r t .     uhhli     was
- [ i o 11 - . , r i i i in ; > a ! t h v t h e
Polltl.u   Spill   \!a.'.;/;ne   < 'i  liege
Con*, it   Tou
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laved   lor
. hour h. « au-e ot the late
arrival ot s,,:ne equipment Rut
bv showtime, more than MMl
people   were   gathered   between
the auditorium'.-- two levels
"This kind of concert experience is great for the students,"
MacLeod said "When you
attend a concert like this it's
right up in your face, there's
llist no getting away from it."
Concert costs were less than
originally expected
"Fverything was way under
budget," Maclxsod said "1 was
really   happy  when   I   saw   the
Piease See CONCERT Page 13
BY KATHY PETERSEN
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A campus group is asking
students and faculty Thursday to
don their I-evi's
Blue .leans Day. sponsored by
the CentraLesbian and (lay
Alliance, is designed to promote
awareness of human and civil
rights --- not just gay rights, group
memlier Ix-e Fisher said
Rlue Jeans Day is commonly
misunderstood, but that's not all
bad. Fisher, Mount Pleasant
graduate student, said
Many |<eople think wearing blue
jeans that day means the wearer
is gay. Fisher said In the past,
students sometimes rented
tuxedos to prove they are not gay-
It's these students, she said,
that actually help promote thi
alliance's cause.
"It also makes people look
ludicrous," Fisher said.
Blue jeans are the the symbol of
support Ix-cause most everyone
owns a pair. If the alliance used
"lavender hair nbbons or pink
shirts" as support syml>o!s, Fisher
said, not everyone who wants to
show support could
Also, students, who show
support but are ridiculed, can cop
out -- claiming they forgot it was
Blue Jeans Day, she said
People especially  those  who
inadvertantly forget it's Blue
Jeans Day and wear them - will
be better able to understand how a
homosexual man or woman feels
"People look at you all day,"
Fisher said "Then you get to feet
what discrimination is like"
Fisher said Blue Jeans Day --
which is organized throughout the
nation -- is celebrated around
Halloween lx-cause it is a "gav
holiday."
"Halloween is a very gay
holiday bocau.se it's fun You can
dress up and act strange." Fisher
said
Alliance member Brian
Edwards, who lived in Los
Angeles for five years, said Halloween is a big event in the gay
community —  especially for men
"They can get all dragged out,
and nobody thinks anything of it,"
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and the Resvaabon ' 'Jns
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