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Grable reinstated to
cheerleading squad
Mount Pjcasant. Mich/48859.
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by WAYNE KAMI DCH
UFE Staff Writer
Craig Grable was back cheering for the
Chippewas on Sunday.
Grable, the 3 Vi year veteran of the CMU
cheerleading team who was banned from
cheering during the basketball season for not
cutting his long hair, was reinstated to the
squad Saturday.
Still sporting the controversial four-inch
braid on the back of his head, Grable saw his
first action of the basketball season at Sunday's CMU-Northern Illinois game.
In a meeting Saturday, Associate Athletic
Director Walter Schneider informed Grable he
could rejoin the cheerleading team.
Grabel said no specific reasons were given
for his reinstatement, nor was he asked to cut
his hair.
Prior to the season, Schneider told Grable he
would be allowed to cheer only after he cut his
braid.
Schneider had no comment Sunday on the
issue.
"It was very much to the point," Grable said
of his meeting with Schneider. "He came in
and told me I was on the squad."
Grable said Friday he was not sure if he
would rejoin the cheerleading team, even if
Schneider changed his mind.
"I came prepared to cheer today. I wanted to
make sure I talked to both Athletic Director
(David) Keilitz and Dr. Schneider before I
made up my mind," Grable, Dearborn senior,
said.
"In talking with Athletic Director Keilitz (at
11:30 a.m. Sunday), I finally made up my
mind," Grable said.
Keilitz said the issue was an unfortunate one.
"We certainly don't like anything like that to
happen. The cheerleaders are a big part of the
athletic program. It's unfortunate it had to happen," Kielitz said.
"I believe it's now resolved. And as far as
they (Grable and Schneider) are concerned,
it's resolved. I'm happy about what has transpired," Keilitz added.
Grable said he was happy to be back on the
team and "would hope" the new decision will
set a standard.
"What I wanted most is that no one else go
through something like this. At the beginning, I
was bitter. But I looked at the issue from both
sides of the issue, also."
♦See "Cheerleader" — page 2
Bonaccinie withdraws plea,
faces trial In rape case
by PAUL MASON
LIFE Managing Editor
Former Sigma Phi Epsilon president Paul
Bonaccinie withdrew his no contest plea to
fourth-degree sexual assault Friday when a
circuit court judge sentenced him to jail. He
now faces trial.  -  -
The 24-year-old Bonaccinie, of Birmingham,
charged with raping a former CMU female student last May 31, withdrew his plea of no contest to the reduced charge when Judge Paul
O'Connell sentenced him to 90 days in jail and
two years probation.
O'Connell rejected Assistant Prosecutor
Thomas Plachta's recommendation of no jail
time. The fourth-degree charge was reduced
from third-degree criminal sexual conduct in a
plea bargaining agreement Dec. 28.
Because O'Connell rejected the recommendation, Bonaccinie had the option of
accepting the sentence or withdrawing his plea
and requesting a pretrial under the original
third-degree charge, which carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison.
Pretrial is scheduled for Friday in Circuit
Court.
"All the parties agreed (to the plea bargain
agreement and sentence recommendation) —
the prosecution, defense, the victim — and
we're extremely disappointed." said Bonacci-
nie's attorney, Dan O'Neil of Mount Pleasant.
"The judge should have followed the agreement."
O'Neil said the decision to accept the plea
bargain he called "too good to refuse" was an
"agonizing decision" for Bonaccinie.
O'Neil said he will seek a change of venue
because of publicity the case has received, and
will ask that O'Connell be removed from the
case. "He (O'Connell) has formulated an opinion in the case," O'Neil said.
♦See "Bonaccinie" — page 2
Newly reinstated CMU cheerleader Craig Grable, Dearborn senior, cheers during
the women's basketball game Sunday in Rose Arena.
Clubs' benefits questioned
Heart patient's health better
byMARYG.GEDDES
UFE Staff Writer
A CMU sophomore continues
improving in her recovery after a Jan. 20 heart transplant
surgery at Stanford University
Medical Center.
Kathy Schultz, 19, is "up and
moving." talking and eating
solid foods, a Stanford nursing
supervisor said Sunday afternoon.
"She is doing well and the
next step now is for her to
move to a general unit out of
the Intensive Care Unit," the
nursing superviser said.
Schultz is in good spirits and
her recovery has been without
complications, Shirley Kraus,
Stanford spokeswoman, said.
"However, we can't really
say when she will be moved to
another unit," Kraus said. "The
doctors will not predict when
that will be."
Heart transplant patients
typically remain in the intensive care unit for about three
weeks after the operation, and
then spend another few weeks
hospitalized, Mike Goodkind,
another Stanford spokesman,
said last week.
Kraus said she did not know
if Schultz had undergone a
biopsy surgery to determine if
there were any signs of rejection of the donor heart. The
biopsy is usually done about a
week after the original operation, but details are not released to the media under Stanford's policy.
Schultz, a Mount Clemens
computer science major, suffered from post-viral cardiomyopathy, a disease which
causes heart muscles to turn
into fibrous material.
She has been at Stanford
since Jan. 11 when her failing
condition required that she be
transferred from Mount Clemens General Hospital, where
♦See "Patient" — page 2
by JEFF BENJAMIN
LIFE Staff Writer
Students considering a membership in
health club should first check it out and see
what they have to offer, Anna Boyd, University
Health Services physical therapist, said.
"People should understand before hand that
those clubs don't guarantee anything." she
said. "Most of them use the 'body beautiful'
appeal for sales and peer pressure to help encourage people to train."
In some cases health club employees have
little experience in physical fitness and rely on
psychological encouragement to fill that void.
Some earn their only experience as members
before they are hired, Boyd said.
As a manager of Dynamic Health Club in
Saginaw, Gary Horton, 22, said he relies on his
positive attitude to psych up and inspire
clients.
"A lot of what we do is psychological," he
said. "As long as we can create a positive
atmosphere people will get in shape."
Horton was a member for one year before he
was hired as an instructor, and six months later
he was promoted to manager.
Boyd said on the average, instructors are not
qualified to do more than psych up and encourage.
"What they teach is usually very general,"
she said. "If someone is overweight they will
tell them to work on abdominals. If a knock-
kneed woman comes in they put her on a stationary' bike. Nothing is very' specific."
Joyce Hendrixson, manager of Dynamic
Health Club, in the Campus Plaza in Mount
Pleasant, said the minimum requirement for
instructors is a high school diploma and CPK
certification.
"What we look for in instructors is a very
energetic and positive attitude." she said.
Incidents of injury, although seldom, do
occur. Most health clubs predominantly use
weight machines which are less dangerous
than free-weights.
The instructors are not there to take the
placeof a physical therapist and injuries usually depend on how zealous the instructors are.
Boyd said.
"Most of what they do is hit and miss." she
said. "If you do it and it hurts, stop; if it doesn't
hurt, continue."
Boyd considers many of the health clubs little more than social gatherings, some place to
go in a strange town.
Local 'Volunteers for Literacy' pilot reading program
by JEFFER Y MacGUINNESS
UFE Staff Writer
Mount Pleasant has been selected as one of two communities
in the nation to pilot a literacy improvement program that may
eventually spread across the United States.
The Mount Pleasant Volunteers for Literacy, founded in October of 1983, seeks to coordinate the efforts of several existing
agencies into a single goal: improvement of the reading skills of
the illiterate, said Mabel Kaiser, a founding member of the
group.
"We really have a lot of people, a lot of different groups
working together, which is what we're shooting for," Kaiser
said.
The pilot program is a result of a joint venture by the Laubach
Literacy Action Group and the Literacy Volunteers of America,
two national volunteer organizations, she said.
Funded by a grant from B. Dalton Booksellers, the two groups
seek methods of coordinating existing agencies for literacy
improvement as well as testing a reading program, she added.
Another pilot program has been started in San Francisco,
Calif., she added.
"After having decided Mount Pleasant well-represented a
rural area, the two groups contacted us in May 1983, and asked if
we would be interested in working together. We met with representatives from New York for several days, and decided to go
ahead," Kaiser said.
"They held a tutoring workshop in October (of 1983) to teach
us the program and to get us familiar with the materials. Then
they selected a couple of us to carry' on the tutor-training prog
ram," Kaiser said.
Although the group officially was established in the fall of
1983, actual operations did not begin until the fall of 1984. Alan
Quick, spokesman for the group, said.
"It took some time to get organized, to get volunteers and
funding together. We didn't actually start working with anyone
until October of 1984," said Quick, director of Continuing
Education at CMU.
The first of the annual meetings of the board of trustees of the
group was in October 1984, when a constitution and various
by-laws were drawn up, Kaiser said.
Among the groups represented in the organization arc Listening Ear, the Commission on Aging, the Mount Pleasant Chamber
of Commerce, the Adult Basic Education program from the
♦See "Literacy" — page 2
In Brief
Students who added more than nine credits
at Drop and Add will receive billing statements from Accounts Receivable this week.
The statements will be due Feb. 1. Failure to
pay the bills will result in withdrawal from
classes.
Inside
A CMU student enjoys snurfing, a unique activity combining snow and surfing.
page 3
Cedar Point representatives will interview CMU students
for summer jobs
Tuesday
page S
Sports
By stifling the top-
scoring freshman in
the nation, the men's
basketball team
earned its second
conference win.
page 8
Weather
Scattered snow
showers today and
Tuesday. High in mid
20s today.