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Vol.61       No, 20
©   Central Michigan LIFE
Mount Pleasant, Michigan 48859
Telephones:    774-3493      774-3880
16 pages
Development sets H2 million goal
byKELLYJ.KOLHAGEN
LIFE News Editor
Described as its most ambitious project ever, the
Development Office will officially begin a six-year program
in January aimed at bringing
between $12 and $14 million in
private and foundation dollars to
the University.
The funds, said Development
Office Director Dennis Vest, will
be    used    to    fund    various
University improvements which
the state, feeling its own
economic pinch, is not likely to
finance.
At least one of the privately-
financed improvements,
$260,000 worth to Alumni Field,
is only about $32,000 short of its
goal, Vest said.
' About $135,000 of that came
from 8 donors, he said
Another project already
begun is securing of endowments for academic chairs,
two, dealing with petroleum, to
By-law blocks
PIRG
by MIKE WRIGHT
LIFE Staff Writer
Central's chapter of the Public
Interest Research Group in
Michigan is discussing plans to
sponsor one of its members as a
write-in candidate for the Mount
Pleasant City Commission.
PIRGIM's action was the
second step in the group's plan
"We've accomplished something by getting
people out of their
houses on a cold
day to register,"
Tim In gals bee,
PIRGIM coordinator
to battle student apathy. The
first step, PIRGIM's plan to
register students to vote in the
city election, netted about 200
student signatures.
"Our original plan of action
was to put candidates in office,"
said Tim Ingalsbee, PIRGIM
coordinator.
However, many obstacles
stand in the way of announcing a
candidate. The first is a PIRGIM
state by-law which says PIRGIM
is not allowed to sponsor a
political candidate.
The group discussed the
possibility of sponsoring a
candidate without using the
PIRGIM name. However, if that
plans
were done, it wouldn't be able to
receive funds from the state
office.
The other problem for
sponsoring a candidate is the
three-year term for city commissioner.
Many' PIRGIM members
stressed there would be
problems of remaining a Mount
Pleasant resident to fulfill the
term, which would begin in
January.
Members discussed
developing more research into
the campaign before deciding on
a candidate.
The members also talked
about supporting a candidate
who already is running.
"We can work with the
candidates who are already
running," Ingalsbee said. "We
have to get more information
about those candidates and see
if one of them agrees with our
views."
PIRGIM hoped to get into the
campaign to voice its views on
campus-related subjects, such as
housing conditions, block parties
and other problems between the
city and campus.
Although PIRGIM has run
into a Wall of obstacles in supporting a candidate, many
members still like the idea.
Many said they believed
supporting a candidate was the
second step after the
registration drive.
"We've accomplished
something by getting people out
of their houses on a cold day to
register," Ingalsbee said.
PIRGIM members also
discussed setting up a forum for
candidates to discuss their
views in front of a student
audience.
"You have to have about 40 percent of
your, goal in the bank before you announce a drive. In January, we'll begin
looking for that 40 percent."—Dennis
Vest Development Office director
be in business school and the
geology     department,     and
another, probably in the School
of Education, Vest said.
State and national petroleum
companies have been approached to . contribute $1.4
million for the petroleum chairs,
a project beginning to "fall into
place," according to President
Harold Abel.
Long-term projects to be
financed with the money would
include student scholarships,
buildings and equipment and
improvements on CMUowned
property away from campus
such as Neithercut Woodland
and Beaver Island.
"There will be something in
this program for virtually every
school," Vest said.
The six-year program will
include all current Development
Office  campaigns,   the   annual
Roll 'em
- CM LIFE PHO TO BY DA VE DEXTER
Beth Coglianese (right) shows Joey Brown the correct way to bowl at the University
Center bowling lanes Monday. Beth and Joey both were involved in married housing
children's bowling, sponsored by the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority.
faculty and staff drive. Senior
Challenge, Century Club, First
Nighters and alumni
solicitations.
The Development Office also
will begin to official contact 28
Michigan foundations for
dollars, Vest said.
Vest, who has been working
closely* on the program with
Abel and Executive Assistant to
the President Charles House,
said the Development Office has
(See Fund—page 2)
Convict
remains
at large
Warrants on ' five charges
against Frank E. Schanualt were
issued Tuesday in connection
with his Weekend jail-break and
abduction of a Mount Pleasant
resident.
Meanwhile, Schanualt, of
Westland, still was at large
Tuesday after he abducted
Donald Shain, 24, of 915
Mulberry Lane, Sunday and
subsequently drove to Novi.
Shain was later released
unharmed.
• Warrants were issued against
Schanualt by the Isabella
County Prosecutor's Office on
charges of armed robbery,
kidnapping, felonious assault,
possession of a gun in the
commission of a felony and
conspiracy to jail-break.
His sister, Pamela Ann, also of
Westland, was arrested shortly
after Schanualt's escape. She
was spotted two blocks from the
jail and had her brother's
clothes in the trunk of her car,
Isabella County Sheriff officials
said.
Pamela was arraigned in 76th
District Court Tuesday on
charges of conspiracy to jail-
break, possession of cocaine and
possession of quaaludes.
Sheriff Donald F. Gillis
released Tuesday further information on the abduction.
Shain was taken from his
home Sunday morning by
Schanualt at gun point, Gillis
said. Schanualt forced Shain to
drive him to a shopping mall in
Novi.
Gillis said Schanualt knew the
Shain residence because he and
three others allegedly robbed
the house in May.
(See related story, page 7)
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tims expected to get marijuana
by SHEILA LOHSTROH
LIFE Staff Writer
The Medical Marijuana bill is
expected to be approved by the
Michigan House of Representatives today, according to
Roger Winthrop, State Coordinator of National Organization
for the Reform of Marijuana
Laws.
"I  can't  even  envision   the
possibility of not having it pass,"
said Winthrop. "There hasn't
been any opposition to it.
"We've had support from
physicians, Gov. (William)
Milliken, patients and NORML. I
think the Department of Health,
police and the American Cancer
Society will also be pleased."
The bill was approved by the
senate in June.
Passage by the House and
formal   approval   by   Milliken
would mean prescriptive use of
marijuana for cancer and
glaucoma patients would
become legal.
Similar bills have been passed
in 14 other states; four of which
occurred within "the past year.
While marijuana is not a cure
and does not replace cancer
treatments, it does reduce side
effects of chemotherapy,
researchers agree.
In fact, some cancer patients
In Brief
Orders are now being accepted for 1979-80
Chippewa yearbooks. Books can be ordered for
$10 at Anspach 8.
Campus
Student organization leaders say they'll
pad their budget
requests if the Student
Budget Allocation
Committee persists in
making drastic cuts,
page 3 •
report they only were able to
continue treatment because of
relief marijuana gave from
chemotherapy.
Winthrop estimates 30,000
Michigan patients could benefit
from the bill.
Marijuana also can lessen or
stop the effects of glaucoma by
reducing fluids in the eye, according to researchers.
The bill makes marijuana a
schedule 2 drug, meaning it is a
non-narcotic with medical value
and abuse potential.
It was made a schedule 1 drug,
which is of no medical value by
definition in 1970.
"This bill will also help people
take another look at the issue.
They'll realize it's not a killer
weed. A lot of fear and
ignorance about marijuana will
be stripped away because of it,"
Winthrop said.
The   bill   did   not   pass   on
Tuesday because of an attempt
to tack on an amendment which
would legalize Laetrile for
cancer patients. Laetrile is an.
illegal drug thought by some to
cure cancer.
"The bill should be in effect by
the end of this year," said
Winthrop.
• "First the Department of
Health will have to have federal
approval, which involves a lot of
paper work."
Sports
T
The CMU women's
field hockey team
defeated Western
Michigan Tuesday on
Rose Field.
page 10
Index
Arts and Leisure 8
Classifieds .15
Comment  4
Doonesbury ....... 4
Horoscope. 15
Off the Wire 2
Sports <.. 10
Spotlife ...15.
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