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© 1979 Central Michigan LIFE
Volume 60 No. 88
Mount Pleasant, Michigan 48859
Monday, May 7,1979.
Poll results:
roll of UHS
misconstrued
by TOM HENRY
LIFE Staff Writer
Students' lack of understanding exactly what
campus health services are
available is the main problem
facing the University Health
Services, according to its administrator and recent student
government poll results.
More than 83 percent of the
students polled who have never
visited the UHS said they
thought the UHS provided
emergency health care.
In addition, 63 and 28 percent
of those same students were
either uncertain or perceived
the UHS as a first-aid station
and hospital, respectively.
The UHS serves none of these
three functions, UHS Administrator Ed Brown said.
Although 84 percent of the
students polled who have not
visited the UHS correctly
perceived the UHS as a basic
health care clinic, Brown said he
"We need to
improve our public
relations and tell
students what we
really do."-UHS
Administrator Ed
Brown
was concerned about what roles
students incorrectly thought the
UHS assumes.
"One . reason why students
may get their perceptions is
because they don't have any
reason for seeing us until
they're not healthy," Brown
said.
"We   need   to   improve   our
public relations and tell students
(See "Survey—" page 2)
Graduate student
dies in accident
Services will be conducted Wednesday in Gladwin for
Dennis M. Wagar, a CMU graduate student who died Saturday
in a two-car collision on M-20 near Coleman Road.
Michigan State Police at the Mount Pleasant post said
Wagar, 27, was driving alone on westbound M-20 in Oil City at
1:28 p.m. when a car pulled from a stop on northbound Coleman
into his path.
Wagar, according to police, lost control of his vehicle in an
attempt to avoid the car, and swerved off the right shoulder of
the road. He then drove back across the road, and into the
eastbound lane, where he was struck broadside by another
vehicle.
All three passengers in the eastbound vehicle were
hospitalized in Central Michigan Community Hospital.
Wagar, according to a CMCH spokesman, was dead on
arrival. No cause of death was available Sunday night.
Wagar had started graduate work at CMU in August.
A resident of 904 N. Arnold Street, Wagar is survived by his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. DeVere Wagar of Gladwin; two
brothers, a sister and his grandmother.
Services will be 2 p.m. at the Mathews Funeral Home in
Gladwin, followed by burial in McClure Cemetery.
Making   no   bones   about   it,   these   supporters   at
1— PIRGIM's anti-draft rally Friday are dead serious in their
opposition to a renewal of the draft. These and other
Petition signatures gathered
CMU students turned out in force in front of the library
pond to listen to speakers and folk singers lash out
against the draft.
Students rally against draft
by JAMES KIRLEY
LIFE Staff Writer
"Whenever there's been a
draft, it's been advocated by
people who want other people to
do something they wouldn't do
voluntarily."
That was the message Joe
Tuchinsky, co-director of the
Michigan Citizens Lobby told a
crowd of approximately 130
listeners at the anti-draft rally
conducted Friday afternoon at
the library pond.
He was one of several
speakers CMU's chapter of the
Public Interest Research Group
in Michigan invited to the five-
hour event. Entertainment was
provided by local musicians, as
well as poetry readings by
members of the CMU Poetry Coop.
"I don't feel like getting drafted. I don't
think anybody else should be able to tell me
what to do."—Eric Tubbs, Sandusky
sophomore
While PIRGIM members
circulated through the crowd
handing out information and
answering questions on current
draft legislation, Tuchinsky and
others addressed the crowd on
both the morality and the
politics of a draft.
Tuchinksy told the crowd that
since the draft ended in 1973,
the military has had the same
funding basis as other public
service-type agencies, such as
the fire department or the
police. He advocated paying a
competitive wage to an all-'
volunteer military.
He said that one way to save
money was to "enslave young
people" in a draft. "The purpose
of the draft is to control all
people, not just the Army," he
said.
"The reason the Vietnam war
was possible," Tuchinsky said,
"is the military did not have to
convince the American people
that it was just and necessary."
Norman Rasulis,, assistant
professor of English, told the
gathering that organizing
resistance to the current draft
effort may be more difficult than
it was in the 1960s. "There was a
hot war going on then. Now, it's
a little harder to stir interest,"
he said.
He warned the crowd that the
kind of assumption involuntary
service makes, leads to
authoritarian government.
"The need to regulate and
channel people's lives is a step
toward a military state," Rasulis
said.
Both Tuchinsky and Rasulis
were    active    in    the    draft
resistance effort in the 1960s.
(See "Draft—" page 7)
Troubled Big Rock plant to remain closed
CHARLEVOIX-The troubled Big Rock Point nuclear
power plant near here probably
will remain closed until September for repairs to a water
leak and removal of an obsolete
device within the reactor core, a
Consumers Power Company
executive said Friday.
Russell Youngdahl, Consumers vice-president for
energy supply, -said at a news
conference that removal of an
out-of-use baffle plate in the core
will complicate efforts to return
the plant to production.
The facility was shut down in
February for maintenance and
refueling. On April 20, a leak of
radioactive water from within
the reactor core during warm-up
tests forced cancellation of plans
to restart the plant.
Youngdahl  said  Consumer's
Palisades nuclear plant , near
South Haven would be shut
down for two or three more
weeks to correct possible
deficiencies in the plant's ability
to withstand earthquakes. The
problem was revealed last week
when an analysis by the plant's
construction contractor indicated two of 14 emergency
back-up systems within the
plant might by susceptible to
damage in an earthquake.
Consumers said the cost of
replacing energy normally
supplied by the Big Rock Point
facility would be $30,000 daily,
while the figure for Palisades is
10 times higher.
Ninety percent of these increased costs will be paid by the
utility's customers, Youngdahl
said.
Although he maintained that
he did not expect it to do so,
Youngdahl said the economic
desirability of nuclear-
generated power could disappear "depending on (investment)
risks and unknown (future)
regulations. Until that's solved,
I think we'll have a problem."
The Nuclear Regulatory
Commission has requested a
hearing in Washington on
allegations   by   opponents   of
nuclear power that Consumer's
attorneys tried to withhold
information in a 1976 hearing on
the under-construction Midland
nuclear plant. This latest action
is not expected to curtail construction progress at the
facility, which is scheduled to be
completed in 1981.
Consumers said the April 20
leak at Big Rock Point involved
about two quarts of water which
(See "Big Rock—" page 10)
In brief
With this issue, CM LIFE concludes its
regular three-times-weekly publication schedule
for the 1978-79 academic year.
LIFE will begin a weekly summer publication
schedule May 23, and will resume its'regular
publishing schedule with a special back-to-
school issue Aug. 27.
The LIFE staff wishes the University com-
raufiity a safe and happy summer.
Campus
Some of the past
year's most noteworthy events are
captured through the
lenses of the LIFE
photography staff/
Page 9
Sports
CMU's women's
tennis team puts its
pride on the line today
in the AIAW v state
championships against
Wayne State
University.
Page 16
Index
Classifieds 19
Comment  4
Doonesbury ....... 4
Entertainment....... 7
Horoscope , k... 17
Off the wire  2
Sports  12
TV Listings  18
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