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Volume 60 No. 9
Mount Pleasant, Michigan 48859
Monday, Sept. 18,1978
SA filings
due soon
Students seeking eligibility for election to Student Association or
Program Board's Board of Directors have until 5 p.m. Tuesday to
submit their petitions.
Petitions are available at the SA office, in the lower level of the
University Center, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and Tuesday.
One graduate, two seniors, one junior, two sophomore and four
freshman SA Board of Directors representatives are to be elected.
Interested undergraduates must submit 100 valid signatures and
be enrolled with a minimum of 12 credit hours while maintaining a
2.0 grade point average, according to the SA Constitution.
Graduate students seeking SA Board of Directors membership
must be enrolled with a minimum of 10 credit hours and maintain a
3.0 GPA.
Sophomores are classified as students with 25 to 54 semester
hours of credit; juniors, 55 to 84 and seniors, 85 or more.
Program Board's Board of Directors has openings for two seniors,
two juniors, two sophomores and three freshman class representatives in addition to five at-large openings.
Program Board officials were unavailable for comment regarding
requirements for election.
Eligible candidates will be announced Wednesday, Terry S. Rau,
Election Committee director, said.
Elections will take place Sept. 25 and 26.
Interim Plant
head chosen
Jon H. MacLeod, assistant
director of Physical Plant, will
be named acting director of the
plant when R. Burney Long
resigns his position Oct. 13.
«MmL%oA .will serve until a
new assistant vice president for
plant management is chosen by
a special committee, said
Thomas Repp, administrative
assistant to the vice president
for Business and Finance.
Repp   said   the   committee,
Jon MacLeod
which was formed by Jerry
Tubbs, vice president for
Business and Finance, will be
chaired by John McAuliffe,
director of Public Safety.
Other members of the committee are: Jerry Quick, vice
president of Residences and
Auxiliary Services; Robert
Ringel, assistant director of
Physical Plant; Charles
Stahlbusch, a Physical Plant
carpenter; William Theunissen,
dean of the School of Health,
Physical Education and
Recreation; Duane Wood,
assistant dean of the school of
Business Administration; and
Gerri Wright, staff developmental coordinator for the
Institute for Personal and
Career Development.
In addition, Repp said he will
serve as organizer of the
committee, but will be a nonvoting member.
At the end of August, Long
announced he will resign his
Physical Plant post, effective
Oct. 13, after nine years at CMU.
He will become director of
engineering for the Cloisters
Resort on Sea Island, off the
coast of Georgia.
(See "MacLeod—" page 2)
An unidentified Mount Pleasant firefighter seemingly
delights in helping Towers residents clean up their act
Thursday night after the residents' football match in the
rain-soaked grounds near the Towers. The firefighters
..PHOTO FOR CMLIFEBYJEFFHECKER
were at the four-dorm complex Thursday for a drill
designed to test the ability of their equipment to rescue
residents of the eight-floor dorms- irt- case- of-, an actual
emergency.
Phrases, not words, key
Readers hone skills in class
by TERI WILLIAMS
LIFE Staff Writer
Increasing reading speed,
comprehension and vocabulary
are the goals of various speed
reading courses available to
CMU students.
Students at Central can learn
speed reading through HUM
197: "Special Studies in
Humanities," a skills reading
course, or through Evelyn Wood
Reading Dynamics.
Reading Dynamics
representatives will be in the
Wolverine Room of the
University Center today
through Thursday at 4 and 7
p.m, and Friday
give hour—long
lessons.
HUM 197 is
course offered
University each semester
Tom Schmitt, regional
for Evelyn Wood
Dynamics Institutes,
the process of speed
at 11 a.m. to
free   mini—
a   six —week
through    the
director
Reading
explained
reading.
"There is no skimming or
skipping. By using the hand as a
pacer, we are training the mind
to see more than one word at a
time," Schmitt said.
"The mind can control 60,000
ideas a minute. On an average, 2
to 5 percent of a person's mental
capacity is used during
reading," Schmitt added.
Reading improvement is
assured in the Reading
Dynamics course by Evelyn
Wood representatives, they
claim. Reading speed is
guaranteed to triple and comprehension should increase 10 to
15 percent or one's money is
returned,     Schmitt     said.
CMU's course contains instruction on speed reading, but
also tries to teach other aspects
like critical reading and
analogies, said Joan Yehl,
director    of   the    Educational
Skateboard fanatics flirt with danger
by JULIE MORRISON
LIFE Staff Writer
James Johnson and Will
DeBper occasionally can be seen
walking the dog in the Anspach
Hall circle drive.
But instead of four legs, their
dog has four wheels.
Johnson, Onekama senior, and
DeBoer, Hawaii sophomore, are
skateboarders, and "walking the
dog" is one of many stunts they
perform.
They both said they became
interested in skateboarding
through friends a few years ago.
"I became interested a few
years back when skateboarding
was the craze," Johnson said. "I
had some friends who were
really good and they showed me
some stunts."
With only seven years of
experience between them, the
pair have developed their skills
to the point where they can ride
a skateboard downhill at speeds
up to 35 and 40 mph* They said
.they think their progress has
been helped by the gymnastics
training both have in their
backgrounds, since
skateboarding stunts require
much the same balance as
gymnastics.
DeBoer said skateboarding
can be an expensive sport, with
boards ranging in price from $10
to $300. He said the most expensive ones are used mainly by
professionals.
"Some of the boards have
more control for stunts," he said,
"but it really depends on the
rider."
Johnson said the boards he
and DeBoer use cost about $70.
He added anyone planning some
serious skateboarding should
invest at least $50 in a board.
The two said they always are
trying new stunts displayed in
skateboarding magazines, They
said they have suffered more
than their share of skinned arms
and legs, but will continue their
sport.
"I like to be radical. I like to
try the impossible," DeBoer
said.
DeBoer said the latest craze in
skateboarding is to ride up and
down the walls of an empty pool.
(See "Skateboarders—" page 2)
•M LIFE PHOTOS BY DAVID C FRITl
James Johnson
Skills Center.
The Skills Center is available
to any student needing free
tutoring in any subject, reading
improvement or study skills
improvement.
"Most students read word to
word and the mind is ahead of
the eyes," Yehl said. "By
following their fingers across a
page, students keep their eyes
moving faster and are forced to
read phrases instead of one
word at a time," she said.
The purpose of skills reading
is to learn to read at different
rates of speed according to the
type of material being read,
Yehl said.
"Taking into account notes
and previous knowledge in the
subject before determining how
fast to read the material is
important."
She said in the skills reading
course, the students are taught
"word attack" skills like prefix
and suffix meanings and expanding vocabulary through
mastery of root words. Other
skills impressed upon the
students are interpreting brief
quotations, determining between fact and opinion, working
with confusing words and
solving sentence-meaning tasks.
Inside
— Towers residents
conduct field dedication,
page 3
—Registrations still
accepted for Bailey
seminar, page 5
^-Chippewas scalp
Miami, page 10
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