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Monday, April 1; 1935
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Bar owners
citedby LCC
by PAUL MASON
LIFE Managing Editor
Liquor Control Commission
agents Friday, as part of a
statewide effort to crack down
on underaged drinking, cited
three Mount Pleasant bars for
underaged customers drinking
in their bars.
Liquor inspector William De-
Vore said Sir Richard's Pub,
106 N. Court; Nick's Wagon
Wheel, 1111 S. Mission, and
The Wayside Central, 4066 S.
Mission, were cited for having
an underaged customer drinking alcohol in the bar. Also, the
American Legion Club was
cited for serving alcohol to a
non-club member, DeVore
said.
In each of the bar cases, four
LCC agents entered the bars
and observed a customer,
under 21, illegally drinking.
Owners of the bars said they
did not sell alcohol to the
minors but sold to a customer
21 or older who then gave the
alcohol to a minor.
Each owner will face a hearing in about four to six months
before a LCC hearing commissioner, DeVore said. Penalties
for the violations range from
no penalty to license revocation, DeVore said. In these
types of incidents, a fine of
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We're going
right back to when
we checked bars
six years ago.
—William DeVore,
liquoi inspector
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$150 to $300 is usually levied,
he added.
"The state has started up a
program of weekend assignments and night work to try to
build an effort of more closely
monitoring the drinking age
and determining certain areas,
particularly college towns,
where the liquonage is not
complied with." DeVore said.
The LCC checks, the first in
more than six years, will be
conducted by LCC agents on a
regular basis, headded.
♦See "LCC" page 18
City to consider
property tax breaks
by SANDRA SUTTON
LIFE Staff Writer
If a resolution to Rive tax breaks to property developers is
approved Mount Pleasant could receive more than $2 million in federal funds.
The Mount Pleasant City Commission will consider the
resolution during its regular meeting tonight.
By receiving tax breaks from the city, developers are able
to rent apartment units to low income people, Sid Smith,
developer of the plan, said.
The proposed apartments, The Meadows, would be built
east of town on the north side of Broomfield Road and would
consist of 120 units.
Sid Smith, president of W.S. Smith Co., a property management agency, in a letter to the city commission said the
entire city would increase its chances of receiving a
$2,045,720 federally-funded grant by setting aside some of
the planned units for low income people.
The grant would be used to finance the project and other
housing projects, Smith said.
Assistant City Manager Dave Pasquale said the decision
to set aside some units for lower income residents is to get a
mixture of different income groups in the complex.
Pasquale said the developers of the project will receive a
tax break. They will not be taxed as high a rate.
Smith told the commission the apartments would increase
tax revenues of the city in the long run.
Martin suggested the commission consider accepting the
plan at the March 18 meeting.
"There is a great need for affordable housing and this
would also provide on—going revenue in light of diminishing federal dollars," City Manager Tom Martin said. "I
think the potential benefits to the city are numerous."
"Now the property planned for the project is a corn field,"
Pasquale said. "But we want to start development there
later this year."
Commissioner Don Breckon called the project "intriguing" at the last regular meeting.
"I think it is addressing a great need in the community,"
he said,.
After the Meadows project, Smith is considering developing more housing units. The taxes collected from the
Meadows project could be used for the next housing project.
Smith said.
Tonight's meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Mount
Pleasant Municipal Building, 120 S. University.
In Brief
The Student Budget Review and Allocation
Committee is accepting applications for the
1985-86 school year. Applications are available in the Office of Student Life, 251 Foust
Hall.
Hot contest
Preparing their team's
chill was a tasteful job for
(left to right above) Max
Love joy, Juan Zamudio and
Terree Yardley. RIGHT:
George Garland, one of the
five chili judges, chuckles
at a joke cast by a neighboring judge before tasting his
sample. BELOW: A few of
the 65 samples provided by
13 teams await judging.
See related story on page 6.
Senate
to eye
task
force
byTlMMcAVOY
LIFE Staff Writer
Creation of a summer task
force charged with determining how appropriate current
degree and curricula procedures will be considered Tuesday by the Academic Senate.
The task force, to be composed of five faculty members
nominated by the Academic
Senate Executive Board, also
will look at methods of improving the degree and curricula
system and methods of implementing the recommendations.
If approved by the Senate,
the task force will represent
the first time an intensive review of curricula and degree
procedures has been conducted.
Need for the task force came
out of the difficulties brought
on by the multiplicity of degrees and curriculum offered
by CMU, Provost John Cante-
lonsaid.
"Normally there is a bachelor of science or a bachelor of
arts, and there are basic undergraduate requirements that go
along with them," Cantelon
said.
"We have a multiplicity of
curriculum, with each having a
degree with requirements, and
several degrees can intersect
different curriculums," Cantelon said.
The idea for the curriculum
and degree review came as a
result of a planning process
committee, which consists of
Cantelon, five faculty members, and the associate deans of
each college, that reviews curriculum requests.
"As I listened to complaints
♦See "Senate" page 16
Two taverns ban fraternity members
by PAUL MASON
LIFE Managing Editor
One local bar owner has banned some Sigma Phi Epsilon
membeis from entering his
bar, and another has banned all
Sig Ep fraternity members following two separate incidents
last week.
Rick Swindlehurst, owner of
Sir Richard's Pub, 106 N.
Court, said he has banned
several Sig Eps and about five
CMU football players from the
Pub after an "altercation" between football players and Sig
Epsthere Thursday night.
And Elizabeth Harris, mana-
gerof theCabin,930 W. Broom-
field, said she has banned all
members of the fraternity
from entering the Cabin after a
bar employee was reportedly
threatened early Wednesday
morning.
Sig Ep president John Buckles, Charlotte senior, could not
be reached for comment
Sunday.
Swindlehurst said the incident at the Pub was a "pushing
match between football players and Sig Eps." Those involved were identified by employees as being football play
ers and Sin Kps, Swindlehurst
said.
Harris would not comment
on the Cabin incident but said
she has banned the entire Sig
Ep fraternity because of the incident, shortly after midnight
Wednesday morning
According to a police report,
about 30 individuals wearing
Sig Ep apparel allegedly
threatened a bar employee and
threatened to "blow up" employee cars in the parking lot.
Police currently are investigating the incident. Any possible charges would  follow
police investigation.
The Cabin employee told
police about 30 Sig Eps
threatened him when he refused to return a driver's
license to a male he believed it
did not belong to, police reported. The employee said he
believed the 30 males were Sig
Eps because they were wearing jackets, T-shirts and hats
with Sigma Phi Epsilon
emblems on them, police reported.
Police reported the employee said the subject and
♦ See "Banned" — page 18
Police search for suspect in theft
Police are searching for a man in connection with last week's
theft of a color video camera from Sneak Preview, 2005 S
Mission.
Composite drawings of the suspect have been distributed on
campus. Mount Pleasant Police Department Det. Howard Sage-
man said. He did not know how many were distributed or who
received them.
The man is a suspect in the March 25 theft of a Panasonic color
video camera, VHS model PK410, a report stated. The camera is
valued at $650.
The suspect is described as a caucasion male, 22 to 24 years
old, between 6-feet-2 to 6-feet-4 inches, with light brown hair
and weighing between 190 to 200 pounds, a report stated.
He reportedly was wearing wire-rim glasses, a maroon-
hooded, long-sleeve sweatshirt with "Central Michigan" in gold
on the sleeve and maroon sweat pants, a report stated. He also
reportedly was wearing a white T-shirt possibly with red lettering on the front.
The man also was reported to have been riding a gold, 10-
speed bicycle with a rack on the back and a water bottle.
Inside
Five CMU students
won the first Operation: Survive tournament Saturday.
page 8
Sports
CMU's baseball
home opener has
been postponed until
today at 1 p.m. at
Alumni Field.
page 12
Weather
Snowy and cold today. Cold temperatures in the low to mid
30's throughout today
and tomorrow.
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