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© 1979 Central Michigan LIFE
Volume 60 No. 75
Mount Pleasant, Michigan 48859
Monday, April 9,1979
Death ruled natural; questions linger
by PETER LUKE
LIFE Staff Writer
TRAVERSE CITY-Although state and Grand
Traverse County investigators have attributed
the cause of death of a CMU student to brain
swelling, the reasons for that condition remain
unknown.
In a statement released Friday by the Grand
Traverse Prosecutor's Office, the investigation
into the death of Allen Clemons now is completed
and a determination has been made that he died
of "natural causes."
Grand Traverse Medical Examiner Lawrence
Loesel said Friday while the official cause of
death has been listed as brain swelling, it still is
unclear why and how it happened.
"In this, particular case, I do not know," Loesel
said. "It's a finding that we are attributing death
to but we are somewhat frustrated in our ability
to undestand it. We don't understand it."
University Health Services Administrator
Edward Brown, who has been acting as CMU's
spokesman in the Clemons incident/said it would
be inappropriate for him to comment on the
state's conclusion.
Also, demons' parents, contacted by telephone
in Detroit, said they had no comment on the ruled
cause of death.
Loesel said again the reason for Clemons' death
remains a mystery but added for the purpose of
his office, the formal part of the investigation—to
determine if the cause of death was other than
natural —is over.
He added however, that other assessments
may be made in the case,- but added, "from my end
of it, I don't think we will know (the reasons for
Clemons' death)."
When asked if brain swelling could explain
Clemons' emotional behavior prior to admittance
to the Traverse City Regional Psychiatric
Hospital, Loesel said he could not comment.
Clemons was found dead in his room at the
' hospital March 30 at 6:15 a.m., approximately 10
hours after being admitted.
(See "Clemons—" page 2)
Price hikes,
fees needed
to lure bands?
Stealing the show
-CM UFE PHOTO BY MIKE OREEN
Denny Purtel, Midland graduate student, (left) and
Mike Mayle, St. Joseph senior, coordinators of the MDA
dance marathon, talk with Mary Zantol of Essexville, who
captured the hearts of the participants as she expressed
her appreciation for their dancing efforts with a poem
she wrote. For story and more photos, see back page.
byBRADFLORY
LIFE Staff Writer
If CMU is to see big-name
concerts on a'regular basis in
the years to come, Program
Board officials say either higher
ticket prices or a $5 student
activities fee. will be necessary.
Presently, Program Board
receives no budget for concerts,
making each one a financial risk.
"Anytime we have an event
that loses money, like
Muhammad Ali did this year,"
says Program Board' Chairman
Chris Brush, "it drains, our
general funds, which means we
had better be certain anything
else we schedule will at least
break even,    v
"Under this system," says
Brush, Grand Rapids junior,
"big-name concerts may be a
thing of the past at CMU in 10
years."
One solution to this problem,
say Brush and other officials,
would be the institution here of
a student activities fee—
possibly $5 per student each
year—to subsidize possible
concert losses.
Brush says students at CMU
now pay a form of student activities fee with their $20
registration fees. Some of that
registration fee is allocated for
student organizations and a
small percentage of the total is
"I see no move
toward an activities
fee here, but if there
was one I'd support
it all the way."-Tim
Robisch, Program
Board concert
coordinator
eventually budgeted to Program
Board.
However, he says Program
Board has no real concert
budget. Ideally, each concert
should break even or make
money, with the money allocated
to the Board going toward
movies, lectures and other
events.
"Students should realize that
if there was an activities fee,"
said Tim Robisch, Program
Board concert coordinator, "it
wouldn't mean we would then
have free concerts. It would just
put us in a bargaining position
(See "Concerts—" page 2)*
LIFE awarded
All American
Central Michigan LIFE has been awarded Ail-American status
for the 13th straight semester by the National Scholastic Press
Association/Associated Collegiate Press.
LIFE received marks of distinction in writing, content, opinion
and visual appearance in winning the highest honor possible for
college newspapers. The award is for issues published Fall
Semester 1978.
"Plaudits. LIFE does it again-another winner," NSPA/ACP
judges wrote after scoring LIFE with 4470 out of 4500 possible
points.
•Judges praised the newspaper for "clear, impersonal copy" and
"mature and reasonable coverage." Graphically, LIFE was judged
(See "All-American—" page 2)
POWER
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Week brings 'nuke' R IS 0 Ul'
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discussions and debates this week on campus. .   I«# r"
"Nuclear Energy in Michigan - An Academic View," is the topic     I r,
of the seminar that opens the Student Association Nuclear Energy ~ >
Week at 8 p.m. today. s
Five CMU professors will participate in today's panel. They are: *
Jeffrey Barbour, economics professor; William Chaffee, physics
professor;  Ray   Hamton,   biology   professor;   and   Carl   Shonk,
chemistry professor. Ro"bert Ringel, assistant director of Physical
Plant, is an alternate for the discussion.
"Nuclear Energy in Michigan - An Opponent's View," will be the
topic of Tuesday's panel discussion. Participants in the discussion
will be: CMU's Public Interest Research Group in Michigan;
ICARUS of Mount Pleasant, the Lone Tree Council of Bay City; The
Huron Alliance of Flint; and Robert Slocum, associate professor of
physics.
(See "Nuclear—" page 2)
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In brief
CMU has named a former University of North
Carolina at Asheville official as assistant
director for academic services at Central's
Institute for Personal and Career Development.
Robert S. Trullinger, Jr., former chairman of ^
the Humanities Program at the North Carolina
school,   will   be  responsible  for  developing
academic policies and procedures and coordinating curriculum programs for the IPCD.
Campus
Students will get
the chance to choose a
new dormitory room,
or keep their current
one, beginning today.
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Sports
The CMU baseball team
swept a doubleheader from
the University of Detroit
Saturday at Alumni Field
to bring its record to 16-4
for the season.
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