1981-09-23; Central Michigan Life

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Vol.63 No. 10
©1981 CM LIFE
Mount Pleasant, Mich. 48859
18 pages
Wednesday, Sept. 23,1981
Central student
killed on hike
The flag in front of Warriner Hall is flying at half-staff for a CMU
student killed Tuesday by a car driven by a Central professor on
Biver Road, one-quarter mile east of Meridian Road.
Dan Butler, 27, Croswell junior, was pronounced dead at the scene
after he was struck by a car driven by Ronald J. Lutz, 42, an Industrial Education and Technology professor. Butler was riding his
bike.
According to Isabella County Sheriff Department reports, both
Butler and Lutz were eastbound on River Road. Lutz told police two
large trucks, which were westbound and the sun, which was still low
in the sky, contributed to his inability to see Butler. The incident is
under investigation and no charges have been filed,
Butler was a bicycle enthusiast and recently completed a cycling
trip to and from Nevada, according to long-time friend, Robert
Ebner, technical supervisor for University Events.
"He rode all the way to Nevada and back with no incidents. He got
back here and then this happens," Ebner said.
Butler was a "very congenial" person, according to Ebner,
"There isn't anybody who'll say anything bad about Dan," Ebner
said.
Butler worked for University Events as a stage technician, running lights at concerts and helping to set up stages, according to
Ebner.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete but services will be at
Pomroy's Funeral Home in Croswell.
Pat Metheny to
jam at CMU
The Pat Metheny Group will kick off Program Board's concert
season Homecoming eve, Oct. 23, in Warriner Auditorium.
Ticket prices are $8.50 for reserved seat tickets with sale dates to
be announced later. The announcement was made Tuesday by PB
Concert Coordinator Tim McCarty.
Metheny comes from a family of musicians and currently is on
U.S. tour to promote his latest album "As Falls Wichita, So Falls
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"He is a fantastic young guitarist with a style of his own. He is a
leader in the jazz-rock field," said McCarty, Garden City sophomore.
Metheny's latest album is the seventh in his career. His second
album "Watercolors" remained on the "Billboard" jazz album chart
for 30 weeks. The other albums Metheny has recorded are: "Bright
Size of Life," "Pat Metheny," "New Chautaugua," "American
Garage" and "Pat Metheny 80-81."
The five-member group features Metheny on lead guitar and
vocals, Lyle Mays on keyboards, Steve Rudby on bass, drummer
Danny Gottlieb, and Nana Vasconcelos on percussion.
This is the second consecutive year PB has presented a Homecoming concert. Last year Molly Hatchet appeared during the fall
festivities.
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Mount Pleasant fire fighters hose down a car that burned Tuesday in the commuter lot across from Pearce Hall
Photo by Stuart L McConmH
Burning car was hot to trot
Midland senior Dave Selley said he was trying to figure out
what was going on.
Department of Public Safety Officer Lester Rosan said he'd
never seen anything like it.
Only minutes before making their comments, the two men,
along with several other people, tried to extinguish a smoldering car parked in Lot 22 across from Pearce Hall Tuesday evening.
Just before 7 p.m., Selley said he and his friend Kelvin
Jackson, Mecosta junior, saw the maroon two-door Vega smoking and went to examine the car closer. About the same time,
Rosan arrived on the scene.
Rosan said he entered the car and tried to pop open the hood
to put extinguishing powder on the engine. It was then the
car's starter motor somehow engaged, Rosan said, and the burning vehicle began moving forward toward other parked cars.
Selley, Jackson and others grabbed onto the car's back
bumper, and the auto stopped about six feet from another row
of cars.
Rosan and the other DPS officers covered the front end of
the Vega with extinguishing powder, sending clouds of smoke
into the air. At the same time, the Mount Pleasant Fire Department arrived and hosed down the car.
The owner of the car was nowhere to be found during the
whole event, and Rosan merely left his business card under the
vehicle's windshield wiper, with "Please Call" scrawled across
it.
The cause of the fire is unknown.
Citizens say no drilling in parks
by KEITH NAUGHTON
LIFE Copy Editor
No drilling!
This was the resounding cry
from a handful of Mount Pleasant citizens and organizations
against leasing county lands for
oil and mineral exploration.
The statements were made at
a public hearing convened Tuesday night by the Isabella County
Parks and Recreation Commission to discuss the County Commission's Sept, 16 decision to
lease oil artd mineral rights of
county lands.
The protests came from the
League of Women Voters, the
Wakelin McNeel Group of the
Mackinac Chapter of the Sierra
Club and citizens including
Louis Ecker, professor of Industrial     Educational     and
Technology.
The Parks and Recreation
Commission also voiced
displeasure that it was not consulted in the leasing decision by
voting 6-0 to send a letter to the
County Commission.
"This commission was not
kept up to date on the progress
(of the County Commission's
plans to lease county lands),"
said John Mitchell, secretary of
the Parks and Recreation Commission.
Prosecuting Attorney Joseph
Barberi worked with the County
Commission since last March,
organizing a plan to lease county
lands for oil and mineral exploration. The Parks and Recreation
Commission was consulted in
the beginning of the process but
were cut out in mid-summer.
(See"Drilling"~-page2)
SGA pleads for money; legal aid yet to come
by DAVE ELLIS
LIFE Staff Writer
Student Government Association's top budget priorities are more
secretarial help, legal aid for students and an "awareness drive" to
make students more aware of SGA, Student Body President Kel
Britvec told the Student Budget Allocation and Review Committee
Monday.
Claiming SGA is the "organization of organizations", student
leaders asked for $29,820 — nearly three-eighths of the total $80,000
SBAC budget for this year. The figure represents an increase of
more than $12,000 from last year's request. No action was taken on
the budget request.
General operations, including secretarial help, account for $14,755
of this year's total. Special projects, including the "awareness
drive" and legal aid, account for $15,065 of the proposed budget.
"We're the organization ... if you're
going to consider us just another
organization, it's just not fair. "—Kel Britvec, student body president
Legal aid to students, estimated to cost $6,720, will be discussed
with the committee in early October, after Britvec has time to confer with Vice President for Student Affairs James Hill, Britvec said.
Hill is favorable to providing the service, Britvec said, but there
now is a possibility of a University attorney providing the service
instead of hiring another lawyer, Britvec said.
Britvec has in the past called the legal aid project his top priority,
proposing a plan which would provide students access to an attorney eight hours a week.
Britvec said he wants to confer with Hill before finalizing plans
for the legal aid portion of the budget proposal.
Britvec and the Student Body Vice President Steve DeMarco will
meet with the SBAC again Monday.
Britvec said more secretarial help is needed to increase productivity. He said he wants to have a secretary in the SGA office 40
hours a week this year, up considerably from 15 hours a week last
year. The cost of the clerical services would be $2,250, he said, adding, $1,800 was budgeted for clerical help last year.
The major complaints about last year's Student Association were
that the group was not productive enough, Britvec said. A secretary
(See"SBAC"-page2)
Reagan to seek education budget cuts...again
by MARK RANZENBERGER
LIFE Staff Writer
President Ronald Reagan Thursday will ask for
more budget cuts with the ax expected to come
down on education and energy spending.
Reagan will make a nationally-televised speech
at 9:00 p.m. to ask for the cuts, a White House
press aide said.
Theresa Bourgeois, press secretary to 10th
District Rep. Don Albosta, D-St. Charles, said a
series of "trial balloons" about possible cuts in
budgets have been floating around Washington.
She said bits and pieces of possible cuts have
been made public "to see if they'd fly."
Nothing official has been announced regarding
the cuts and will not be announced until Reagan
goes on television, she emphasized.
Financial aid programs probably will bear the
brunt of the education funding cuts, though, according to Financial Aids Director Robert Walling.
"I expect more of the same we've seen," he
said. A need formula for Guaranteed Student
Loans is already in place to take effect Oct. 1, the
start of the new fiscal year. The formula decrees
parental income must be less than $30,000 a year
to get a loan. Walling said he wouldn't be surprised to see that need formula tightened even further.
Walling said he thought money available for
Basic Educational Opportunity Grants and National Direct Student Loans also will be cut,- but
couldh't say how much. That will not be known
until Reagan says how much he wants the education budget cut and where he wants spending
trimmed.
Reagan, in his election campaign, had promised
to dismantle the Department of Education. In an.
interview with the Associated Press, Education
Secretary T. H. Bell said simply eliminating the
staffing of the department would not save much
money. He said his department's staff budget was
not large compared to other government agencies.
Bell said if education spending is to be cut further, programs would have to be cut. He came out
in favor of program cuts, saying, "if your economy
is sick, you can't have fiscally healthy schools and
colleges."
(See "Fed cuts"—page 2)
In Brief
Parents may register their children for the
fall series of story hours at the Mount Pleasant
Public Library or call 773-3242 for more information.
Campus
Residence     Hall
Assembly has a beef
about Sunday dinner
hours being changed,
page 3
How and where to
find a job.
page 9
Sports
Michigan State fell
victim to the CMU
volleyball team in
three straight games
Tuesday*
page 13
Index
Arts and Leisure ......... 6
Classifieds.  17
Comment  4
Donnesbury  4
Horoscope  17
Off the Wire ..2
Sports  13
Spotlife  17
Weather 17