1979-04-30; Central Michigan Life

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© 1979 Central Michigan LIFE
Volume 60 No. 83
Mount Pleasant, Michigan 48859
Monday, April 30,1979
Students rally for anti-draft drive
by JAMES KIRLEY
LIFE Staff Writer
Efforts over the last two weeks to rally opposition to federal draft
legislation have netted more than 400 letters to congressmen and
1,200 petition signatures from concerned Central students.
The Public Interest Research Group in Michigan's Committee
Against Registration and the iSraft sent the letters, the product of
several letter-writing tables set up around campus recently, to
Congressmen Bob Traxler and Lucien Nedzi.
Committee member Rose Jackson, Grayling junior, said
PIRGIM's CMU chapter was paid 15 cents postage and given letters
to one of the two congressmen by "at least 400" students.
Jackson said last week Traxler, D-Bay City, was quoted in a
downstate paper as opposing current draft legislation. Traxler sits
on the House Appropriations Subcommitte on Housing and Urban
Development and Independent Agencies, a committee empowered
to grant the Selective Service funding.
"If the draft comes back, women will be in
the lottery too. When they hear that they get
interested. "—Sam Northrup, petition
organizer
Jackson said PIRGIM's 30-member task force has subsequently
sent Traxler a letter thanking him for his stand and apologizing for
any protesting letters received after his public announcement.
Nedzi, D-Detroit, sits on the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel. PIRGIM members say he is still
being sent letters and at present the group is not sure of his position
on draft bills.
The group reports last week's petition campaign found more than
1,200 students willing to sign. Sam Northrup, Flint sophomore who
drew up the petition, said large support was found in the dorms and
campus apartments canvassed by committee members.
"Basically, the petition says anyone who signs it is against
registration for the draft," Northrup said.
The petitions have yet to be sent. Group members said Nedzi will
probably receive copies as will other Michigan congressmen in
Washington and House and Senate members on committees dealing
with any of the eight draft-related bills currently pending.
Northrup said those who signed the petitions were both male and
female. "It was pretty even," he observed. Women, he said, were
interested, "particulary when we told them the current legislation
that has the best chance of passing doesn't grant deferments for
women. It says 'person.'
"If the draft comes back," Northrup*contends, "women will be in
the lottery too. When they hear that," he remarked, "they get in
terested."
(See "Draft—"page-2)
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Storage area
may be ready
for use by fall
Pickin' in sunshine
-CM UFE PHOTO BY ROGER HART
While Bluegrass music was filling the rafters of Finch
Fieldhouse Sunday afternoon, a group of musicians
gathered on the lawn outside the building for an impromptu "pickin' " session. The Bluegrass music and
other activities were all part of the second annual
Wheatland Reunion sponsored by the Wheatland Music
Organization of Remus. For more photos, see back page.
byDANGUIDO
LIFE Staff Writer
A solution has been found to
the question of the storage of
highly flammable chemicals in
Brooks Hall, a University official
said Friday,
Karl Lindfors, Chemistry
Department chairperson, said
that as a result of a meeting last
week between University officials and Chemistry Department faculty, the flammable
chemicals storage building,
which lacks a number of needed
additions, should be completed
and ready in the fall.
Provost John Cantelon said no
official estimate as to the cost of
completing the building could be
given at this time. He added
money for the project may be
derived from surplus money
determined from various CMU
accounts, with amounts to be
determined at the end of the
fiscal year.
The chemical storage
building, built in. 1977, stands
alone on the west side of Brooks.
By using the building to store
bulk quantities of chemicals the
University would alleviate the
problem of storing 5 and 55-
gallon drums of flammable
chemicals in a smaller storage
room in Brooks.
Lindfors said those present at
the meeting last week discussed
the "whole problem", including
the installation of necessary
shelving and supports for the
drums to be stored on in the
storage building.
Lindfors said the possibility of
heating the building by tying it
into existing steam lines which
are found throughout campus,
also was discussed.
Lindfors explained that heat
was needed in the building to
prevent certain types of
chemicals from freezing in the
winter.
"We also decided to determine the need of air conditioning
in the building, by monitoring
the temperature inside
throughout the summer,"
Lindfors said.
"If there is a demonstrable
(See "Chemical—" page 2)
Is that any way
to treat a guest?
The next time a certain Western Michigan University
student comes to Central, she will probably ride the bus.
Laurel Ann Simons, apparently visiting CMU this weekend
may have spent more time with Department of Public Safety
officers than with friends, as her car was towed away twice
within a 24-hour period.
Her weekend experience began Friday night when DPS
towed away her car for parking in a fire lane near the Towers.
But sometime before midnight, the car was removed from the
impoundment area behind the DPS office.
At noon Saturday, a patrolling DPS officer discovered a car
x parked in lot 46 near Thorpe Hall. The car was once again
towed to the impoundment area.
About an hour later, the woman paid the original parking
ticket and the two towing charges, totalling $24. Her car was
■ then released.
Buckley talk set for theatre
by DAN GUIDO
LIFE Staff Writer
One of America's most prolific and articulate
conservatives, William F. Buckley, Jr., will speak
on "America in Perspective: The Problems of
Freedom," today at 8 p.m. in Bush Theatre.
The speech is open to the public free of charge.
Buckley, an author, television personality and
syndicated columnist is known across the country
for his conservative opinions on the government
and business community in the United States.
His nationally syndicated column, "On the
Right," appears in more than 300 newspapers,
including the Detroit Free Press.
A tireless writer, Buckley writes a book a year
in addition to several guest articles and columns
in many established American publications.
Buckley is the author of "God and Man at
Yale," "Up From Liberalism," "Stained Glass"
and "A 'Hymnal." He is also the editor of a
number of publications, including "American
Conservative Thought in the Twentieth Century."
In 1955, Buckley founded "National Review," a
prominent conservative magazine and is
president of National Review Inc.
Buckley collaborated with his brother-in-law, L.
Brent Rozell in the early 1950's, in the writing of
"McCarthy and his Enemies," a book which has
been called an intellectual justification of former
Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy's purge of so-called
"communists" from United States government
positions, private media corporations, television,
movie studios and publishing companies.
In the same publication, Buckley is quoted as
saying he founded "National Review" because he
was convinced that the "faulty analyses and
mistaken prejudices of liberals are dangerous for
the United States."
Buckley has been described as a totally
engaging platform speaker, who delivers his
message with wit, eloquence, class and charm.
His speech will be the second event Of the
Charles L. Anspach Platform Series. He is the
final speaker of that series for the academic year. •
William Buckley
In brief
Listening Ear, the Mount Pleasant crisis
intervention center, and its volunteers were
honored Saturday in. recognition of the
organization's tenth anniversary.
State Representative Gary Randall, R-Elwell,
presented a legislative tribute to Listening Ear
for "providing the community with crisis intervention for 10 years."
Campus
An optimistic
Harold Abel discusses
why he believes the
University < has
overcome the turbulence that plagued it
last year.
Page 7
Sports
Central's women's
track and field team
scored 307.33 points
and captured its own
CMU Invitational
Saturday at Alumni
Field.
Page 9
Index
Classifieds 13
Comment  4
Doonesbury 4
Entertainment 6
Horoscope.............. 13
Off the'wire. ..*.....,..., 2
Sports  9
Spotlife , 13
TV Listings ,. 12