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Vol. Ql No. 82
©   Central Michigan LIFE
Mount Pleasant, Michigan 48859
Telephones 774-3493-774-3830
22 Pages
CM LIFE PHOTO BY MICHAELS. GREEN
A group of students took advantage of the warm weather and chilly water Tuesday by
jumping from the swinging bridge. The bridge and the surrounding woods which is a
favorite socializing and recreation spot of students presently is without, an admission
charge but soon will carry a fee of $2 per day or $6 annually.
Members upset about s680
WHIP questions UC fee
by SUSAN KAIN
LIFE Staff Writer
Misunderstanding between
the Women's Health and Information Project and the
University Center has brought a
complaint by WHIP members
over a $680 rental fee of the UC
Ballroom for the 7th annual
Health Fair, conducted last
month.
Carol Brown, WHIP Health
Fair coordinator, said members
were upset because WHIP has
had the Health Fair rental fee
waived for the past six years
and was not warned of the
waiveT denial for the 1980
Health Fair before they
presented their budget for 1980.
Brown, Flint senior, said if
WHIP had been informed before
they presented their budget
request in Sept. 1979, the money
may have been included in their
budget allocations.
"I feel we deserved to be
warned ahead of time to make
other arrangements," she said.
However,    Elizabeth    Van
Over, manager1 of the UC said
that a notification was sent on
Oct. 25, 1978 to the director of
health services, informing the
group it had to seek funds from a
source other than the UC for
their 1980 Health Fair.
Van Over said requests in the
past have not always been
waived for student
organizations and each request
was reviewed individually.
"To    my    knowledge,    no
waivers have been issued in the
past year and none or very few
(See"WHIP"-pagelO)
Retroactive double count
receives Senate approval
by KIM CLARKE
LIFE Staff Writer
All students participating in CMU's General
Education Program may now "double-count"
classes, following Academic Senate action
Tuesday.
Prior to Senate's approval, only students on
next year's Bulletin could double-count classes.
Students on the 1978-79 and 1979-80 Bulletins
could not apply gen ed courses toward their
major or minor.
At the most, two courses offered by a department or interdisciplinary, program may apply
toward both the University Program and major
or minor requirements in that department or
program.
Senator Robert Barris, music associate
professor, argued against the double-counting
motion, saying the Bulletin is a published contract and it would be "unfair to change it after the
fact."
On the other side of the argument, senator
Robert McLaughlin said double-counting should
be allowed for pragmatic reasons.
"It would take a lpt of time, effort and
paperwork to re-sign majors for two classes of
CMU students working off the new Bulletin,"
McLaughlin, speech and dramatic arts professor,
said. Students on the 1978-79 and 1979-80
Bulletins could go forward in Bulletins if they
wanted to double-count* prior to Tuesday's action.
"It's not going to make a great deal of difference," Senate chairman Douglas Smith said
following the meeting. "It does free up some
hours for some students."
The motion to make double-counting
retroactive- was first made by student senator
Matt Hardy at the Feb. 12 Senate meeting. The
motion was referred to the Undergraduate.
Curriculum Committee, which sent it" W the
Senate floor.
At the time he made the motion, Hardy\ Birmingham junior, said it was "only fair" that
double-counting apply to all gert ed students.
Ironically, no student senators .were present
Tuesday when double-counting was approved.
County wants park fee
for Swinging Bridge
by DAVID C.FRITZ
LIFE Copy Editor
Access to a favorite fair-weather student party
spot, the swinging bridge area, may become
restricted to paying-customers-only late next
month, a county official said Tuesday.
A plan to have the county Parks and
Recreation Department manage and collect
entrance fees for the area has beeji approved in
principle by the department's advisory commission and the land's owners, the Mount
Pleasant Public Schools.
Once it comes within the county's jurisdiction,
cars entering the park will be required to show
either $6 yearly county park permit or a $2 per-
car daily sticker.
In addition, other rules applying to all county
parks, including a 10 p.m. closing time, will be
enforced at the facility.
The Memorial Forest land was purchased from
the state of Michigan in 1940. At the time it was
abandoned farm land that had been seized by the •
state for tax deliquency.
Since then various conservation groups have
planted more than 30,000 trees on the park's 74
acres along the Chippewa River off Winn Road.
Currently the district leaves the property open
for public use and also uses the land for nature
lessons and forestry classes.
Parks and Recreation Director Peter Gorton
said an increase in vandalism in recent years
along with unauthorized ^entrance to the
neighboring Deerfield County Park through
Memorial Forest has made the management
agreement attractive to both his department and
the school board. '
v Gordon said the same basic set of rules, with
the. exception of the entrance fee, are in effect at
the facility now, but are enforced by Sheriffs
deputies only at the request of neighbors.
If the plan gets final approval, those rules will
be enforced by, full-time park personnel, possibly
as early as May 23, Gorton said.
While he said he isn't trying to discourage park
use by students, the 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. hours of
operation may be tough for some to take.
Although many parties currently do not get
started until near the closing hour, it is a park
wide rule and it would take considerable outcry
to change it, he said.
Gorton explained, while the rules do not
prohibit the use of alcoholic beverages on park
grounds, park personnel do require those involved with a party to respect the rights of other
park users.
Gorton is asking written input on the matter be
directed to him at the county building.
The entire management plan will be up for
consideration at the May 19 school board
meeting.
The plan calls for the entrance to the park be
closed from Nov. 15 to March 15 each year.
During that time the area only will be accessible
by foot or cross country ski.
Immediate improvements to be carried out
include:
— placement of-parking and park rule signs at
various locations in the park.
—repair of the entrance ramp to the bridge.
— improvements on the picnic shelter
— grading of road surfaces.
Other suggested projects for the upcoming
season include the elimination of little used and
confusing travel lanes, the establishment of
several additional picnic areas and the grooming
of the trails and ballfield.
Gorton said the first actual addition to the park
may take the form of restroom facilities.
These and other capital improvements in the
park grounds will be paid for by the school
district while all fees generated by the entrance
fees would go to the county, according to current
plans.
In addition, the district would be responsible to
the county for an additional $40 per month for
administrative and solid waste collection costs.
Senate plan recommends
Rose classes time change
by JERRY MORLOCK
LIFE Editor
Student foot races between 9
a.m. courses in Rose Center and
10 a.m. classes in Grawn Hall
would be as outdated as toga
parties at CMU under a
proposed new plan for class
rescheduling.
Classes in Rose would begin
and end 30 minutes before
classes in other CMU buildings,
allowing students more time to
travel to and from the physical
education building. That plan is
among the recommendations of
an Academic Senate committee
charged with studying students'
free time between classes.
The committee's report is "a
recommendation for further
study" only, said Senate
Chairman Douglas Smith. But
representatives of the School of
Health, Physical Education and
Recreation, the .Physical
Education Department and the
Registrar's Office have
discussed the proposal, he said.
"The School of HPER needs to
do some studying to see if it
would discourage students from
enrolling    in    their    courses,"
Smith said.
"There's no action being
proposed except that there be
continued study," said Smith,
who set up the committee last
November at the urging of some
faculty members.
The committee chose to
recommend the Rose course
plan over two other possible
alternatives: increasing bet-
ween-course time to 15 minutes
(See "Scheduling"—page 21)
Merchants wary
of rubber checks
Bad checks seem to bounce just a little too often toward the end of
the school year so a "friendly warning" has been issued to students
in order to prevent the spread of the rubber money.
Isabella County Prosecuting Attorney Joseph Barberi said area
police agencies report "an unusually high amount of bad check
complaints involving CMU students.'' He said the increase is caused
by students having a lack of- sufficient funds to cover the written
checks.
In a release issued by Barberi, he gave two reason for issuing the
warning to students. Barberi said he does not want to see students
prosecuted for bad'checks "simply because they, do not have enough
money to cover the check." Barberi was also concerned about the
Mount Pleasant merchant who must go through a lengthy process to
recover the loss caused by the bounced check.
(See "Bad Checks'*—page 10)
In Brief
Students living in residence halls and have
yet to pay their April 20 room and board
payment have until April 30 to settle their
debts, art Accounts. Receivable spokeswoman
said. Those who do hot meet the April 30
deadline will have their food cards invalidated
Mayl. ' .
Campus
Today LIFE looks at
the   lives   of   working
women    in    various
capacities' at CMU.
*■ page 8
Sports
The CMU women's
track and field team will
be in action at Alumni
Field today as it hosts,
the CMU Invitational. '
page 16
Index
Arts and Leisure ,. 14
Classifieds 21
Comment 4
Doonesbury   4
Horoscope. 21
Off the" Wire 2
Sports 16
Spotlife.,..!... .21
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