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Central Michigan LIFE
Vol. 62 No. 8 7
,© 1981 CM LIFE
Mount Pleasant, Mich. 48859
16 pages
Friday, May 1,1981
Thumbs up
CmUFE/Sttnn C. Jettmon
15-year-old Robin Burden is "thumbs up" after placing in one of the events during the
Mount Pleasant Regional Michigan Special Olympics which took place Thursday at Finch
Track. Events included wheelchair races, frisbee throws and running. For more photos from
the event see pages 9 and 13.
CMU schools rollercoaster
by KIM CLARKE
LIFE Ass't. News Editor
Leonard Plachta's situation is
somewhat like the little old lady
who lived in a shoe — he's got so
many business students he
doesn't know what to do.
At the other end of campus,
William tfheunissen can be
likened to little Bo Peep and her
sheep—he's losing students and
doesn't know where to find
them.
But for each dean, his
situation is far from fantasy, as
either overcrowding or lack of
students hits home for both.
Since 1975, Plachta's School of
Business Administration has
increased in student credit
hours about 61 percent, while
there has been a 21 percent drop
in the School of Health, Physical
Education and Recreation,
headed by Theunissen. Both
shifts can be attributed to what
Provost John Cantelon terms
"an issue with the students" —
course preference.
Business booming
The    glut    of    students    in
Central's   business   school    is
me; sly    a    reflection    of    the
(See "Schools"—page 14)
Standards toughen
yet numbers jump
by KEITH NAUGHTON
LIFE Staff Writer
While enrollment swells in the School of Business Administration,
the admittance requirements tighten.
However, increasing enrollment is only a small reason for the new
(See "Admit"—page 8)
In Brief
Beginning Monday, graduating seniors may
pick up caps and gowns in the University and
Peninsula Rooms from 3 a.m. to 5 p.m. The cap
and gown cost $10.
Campus
The Faculty
Association   has _ formed   a Crisis Committee       in    case    of
bargaining problems,
page 3
Assault victim escapes
with minor injuries
by TOM HENRY
LIFE Staff Writer
Janice Hurt is thankful the bruises she's
suffering will heal.
The East Detroit senior claims she. was
assaulted Sunday afternoon on her way back to
CMU by a male student whose name she obtained
from the University Center ride board.
Det. Jerry Timmons of the Gratiot County
Sheriffs Department said the male probably will
be arrested sometime today. The student's name
will not be released pending arraignment.
While riding from Flint on M-57 with the white
male in his car, Hurt, a black, didn't expect
anything. After the driver turned north on U.S.
27, he travelled three miles, made a sharp U-turn
and stopped on a gravel road.
Then, according to Hurt, he grabbed handfuls
of her hair, squeezed her arm and a struggle
ensued.
"All I could think of was to reach the door and
get out," Hurt said.
After a brief struggle, getting out was exactly
"My hair can a/ways grow
back and my bruises will heal
but if something else happened, I'd be pretty messed up
mentally."—Janice Hurt, East
Detroit senior
what she did.
Hurt, a petite woman, said she had to use all
her strength to escape.
If she didn't get away, she believes she may
have been raped.
"My hair can always grow back and my bruises
will heal, but if something else happened, I'd be
pretty messed up mentally," Hurt said.
Because the incident didn't evolve into a rape
(See "Assault"—page 16)
Gentle Friday symbolic
gesture of peace, goodwill
(Editor's note; It's Gentle
Friday, 1981. But when LIFE
Editor Mary Look conceived the
day as a symbolic gesture of
peace and goodwill in 196f, ii
was a much different world. In
today's LIFE we are reprinting
Look's original Gentle Friday
article in an effort to transport
the reader back 14 years to the
beginning of what we celebrate
today.)
BONN, West Germany-The
diplomats did not mince words.
They each gave their positions,
explained their points of view.
There was no overt expression
of love. The public relations
techniques had been dropped.
Each was interested in world
peace. Each wanted freedom for
his people.
They worked at an
agreement.
It was Friday.
NEWBERRY, Michigan-The
first tulip poked its nose from
the thawing ground. And the
dog stepped on the tender
shoots.
The mailman stooped and
secured the crushed young
flower in the ground.
He whistled as he walked
away.
It was Friday.
SAIGON-The soldier
lounged back in his bunk
reflecting thoughts of home and
his family to the ceiling and back
He re-read the paper from
home noting the marriages,
births and deaths with a
systematic glance.
At night the air was bullet-
riddled but he was personally at
peace.
It was Friday.
BERKELEY-A demon-'
stration was staged by 4,500
undergraduates. They were not
carrying signs.
The motto of the march was
"For this we can be thankful."
They were well-dressed,
smiling. They had for a day
changed Irom challenging their
freedom of dissent to expressing
their feelings of assent with the
country's policy of allowing
factions such as them to protest.
It was Friday.
SIBERIA-The children
straggled home from school ...
some in groups, others in pairs,
some alone.
A small boy fell. The others
went on sliding and jostling in
the snow.
One playmate turned around,
came back, helped the snow-
suited child up. They ran arm-inarm trying to catch up with the
others.
It was Friday.
WORLD-The day is
peaceful. Life is going on as
usual.
Emphasis has been switched,
however.
The news is not the dead-it is
the living ...
It is not the vicious-it is the
gentle...
It is of the majority-not the
minority...
... It is Friday.
Jfflilltam (S. ^tlliken
filoiwnor of ifp j&tate of ^filicrjtgan
preeenie tips
in (Dbeertamce of
May  1.   IQ8!
lilMI.1. rRIMY
.tic often  ts cfi.irjtffri:inl hy nisunderstaridirt„-*misuri.fi refunding
betiieen rates, hetseen (uople mid between Reiterations.     I'erhap*
now. -lore th.irj ;tt  any prc\iou$ time  in our history, we Meed to
pursue v*ith renewed vigor that elusne atmosphere? of understanding
■ind compassion  for one another in all  that ue Jo
On Iridny. May 1.  1'iisl, Central Michigan LUl,  in cooperation with
other student  and university groups on i.i-pus,   ix sponsoring .i
special  day which seek* to renti* and refresh the kinship that  Mud*
us, one to Another.
Thureforo,   I. hilliuj 0.  Jlilliken.  Governor nf the state of Michinan,
urge all members of the Centra!  Michigan I'liivei'^it > *oor.unitv tn
join in appropriate ohser\am-f ot thi* dny, and to part h tp.ite
actively  in efforts designed to promote  .'.nod will among fa\nit>,
students iind the _i}m»)ii*rr,irion.
(iiveu under my hind mi this
twenty-seventh day nf M.irch  in
the year of Our lord one thousand
nine hundred eijjhry-niir and of
the Commonwealth one hundred
forty-fifth
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DeGarmo and Key, a
Christian pop group,
rocked Finch
Fieldhouse   Thursday
night.
page 6
Sports
The two top baseball
teams in the Mid
American Conference
will square off today as
Central entertains
Western Michigan.
page 10
Index
Arts ahd Leisure  6
Classifieds 15
Comment  4
Doonesbury   4
Horoscope. *........,... 15
Off the Wire 2
Sports 10
Spotlife 15
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