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l«7a Central Michigan LIFE
Mount Pleasant, Michigan 48859
Wednesday, Oct. 18,1978
Levin slams opponent
during CMU campaign
-CM LIFE PHOTO BY STEVE FECHT
Carl Levin
by PETE ENGARDIO
LIFE Asst. News Editor
and
DAN GUIDO
LIFE Staff Writer
Boosted by gains in opinion polls, a confident Carl Levin wisked
through Mount Pleasant Monday as a campaign stop in his bid to
become Michigan's second Democratic U.S. Senator.
Touting himself as a battler of federal bureaucracy, Levin took
pokes at government waste, lack of response to environmental
conerns and incumbant Republican Sen. Robert Griffin's attendance
and voting records.
Levin downplayed findings of a recent Market Opinion Research
poll showing Michigan voters favor Levin over Griffin by 7 percent.
The poll also showed Levin is faring surprisingly well outside his
metropolitan Detroit domain, leading Griffin slightly among out-
state voters surveyed.
"I'm not claiming that kind of lead," Levin told CM LIFE. "That's
just according to one poll. However, I think this does show that the
public is catching up with Griffin. For too long he has abandoned
Michigan and has proven ineffective."
Levin, as part of his appeal for outstate votes, was in town to
meet Domocratic state legislature candidates and local officials,
after taping an interview with WCMU-TV, channel 14.
Levin listed the top campaign issues as inflation, unemployment
and "scepticism in government." He said his top objective as
senator would be to make federal government more effective on the
local level.
"I believe the biggest problem we have is making federal
programs useful in Michigan," Levin said.
Officials see no threat of
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'Legionnaires' outbreak
University officials say there is no danger of a "Legionnaires'
disease" outbreak on campus, after receiving confirmation Sunday
that a student had the disease.
President Harold Abel said the Univesity is virtually certain the
student was carrying the non-communicable disease when she
arrived on campus at the beginning of the semester, and could not
have transmitted it to anyone.
He said since there have been no other cases of the disease on
campus since the student first reported illness Sept. 1, there is no
danger others can still contact the virus.
Abel and University Health Services Administrator Edward
Brown said they would be doing everything possible to prevent
panic over the disease, no longer feared in medical circles after
discovery of a treatment drug.
The student, who has been in an Ann Arbor hospital since early
September, is now in satisfactory condition and was recently
released to go home, according to Brown.
"No person-to-person spread has ever been reported," Abel said,
underscoring the University's opinion there is no danger of the
malady spreading to the campus population:
Abel said a "young lady," who he declined to identify, reported to
• the University Health Service Sept. 1, complaining of flu symptoms.
"She was  seen  by  one  of the  health  service  physicians,  who
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suggested rest, and to report to the health service if she didn't feel
better. Two days later she returned reporting nausia," Abel said.
"Because she had other symptoms at this time besides the flu, she
was transfered to Central Michigan Community Hospital immediately, under the care of a staff physicain there," Ablel said.
When the pneumonia-like chest symptoms persisted, she was
transfered to University Hospital in Ann Arbor by emergency
vehicle, he added.
"I think it's important to note that school opened on the 27th of
August," he said, adding this particular strain, diagnosed as the
"Pontiac" type (named for an outbreak believed to have occured in
that city in 1968), has an incubation period of from two to 10 days.
"Even if she reported on that initial day, there's every indication to
believe she arrived here incubating it, he concluded.
UHS Administrator Edward Brown said that the sickness,
believed by doctors to be a variant of pneumonia caused by a
bacillus, cultures in heating systems, air conditioning systems, or
cooling systems, emphasizing it is not communicable from person to
person.
"I think simply because it was a large outbreak in Philadelphia in
1976, where it got its name, everyone became alarmed about it.
"There's every indication that (the disease) is not as bad as we
first assumed," he said.
CMU offers career blues
by BERNADETTE JOZWIAK
LIFE Managing Editor
For years, higher education in
Michigan has busily armed
students with knowledge and
skills to be used in the job
market.
But what it has not done as
consientiously is affording
students specific ways to get to
know themselves to help them
choose their life's work.
Recently, however, strides
have been made to correct that,
and.a commitment to career
exploration at CMU can be
counted among them.
A major part of the commitment here is through a one-
credit-hour humanities course,
HUM 397: "Career Exploration,"
which will be in its fifth
semester starting in January.
The class was developed after
38 percent of the students who
responded to a 1976 Counseling
Center study indicated a desire
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choices.
"Most people have several hundred skills.
The course gives strategies to help them
zero in on them so they can meet their
employers' needs."—Joan Hornak, CMU
career exploration coordin.ator
It has blossomed from one
pilot section in 1977 to about a
dozen in recent semesters.  *
Career exploration can
benefit all students, according to
Joan Hornak, CMU career
exploration coordinator.
Citing how unique such
college courses are, Hornak said
other universities have
requested information on it to
set up similar programs.
Making career choices is an
anxiety-producing prooess and
the course helps to reduce that
Worry, she said.It sets forth in a
systemized manner how
students can choose the career
best suited'to them.
To that end, the class is
divided into four areas: self-
awareness, career awareness,
academic awareness and career
planning.
Hornak, who with William
Gillingham, associate professor
of counseling, wrote the book for
the class, described the pertinence of the sections on career
decisions.
The self-awareness section
allows students to deal with
their dreams, interests, personal
values, work values, personality
characteristics and skills.
This is helpful, Hornak said,
because one needs to start out
with an understanding of him or
herself before  thinking about
career potentials. "It's hard to
look for a career if you don't
know yourself very well," she
said..'
If, for example, students know
they prefer working alone or
prefer working with other
persons, they are able to use
that. awareness in picking the
right career.
The course also helps
students define their skills,
many of which they never have
thought about as skills.
''Most people have several
hundred skills. The course gives
strategies to help them zero in
on them so they can meet their
employers' needs," Hornak
explained.
In the section on career
awareness, students are exposed to CMU's two career
libraries —the one in the
Counseling Center and the other
in North Hall,
Letting students know how
CMU can work for them is the
(See "Career—"page 6)
He charged Congress with being unresponsive to state needs and
pointed to the Comprehensive Employment Training Act,
Department of Housing and Urban Development and agricultural
projects as programs plagued by "waste, insensitivity and
unregulation."
One possible remedy for this situation, he said, would be to give
Congress a veto over actions by federal agencies.
Although Levin's political experience has been on the Detroit
City Council for eight years, he claims he has much to offer outstate
communities as senator.
"Because of my experience battling federal bureaucracy in
Detroit, I understand how unresponsive and inflexible Congress is
to local governments," he said. "I have taken thejm on. The problems
we've had in Detroit with the federal bureaucracy are the same
every local government has."
Most of Levin's comments, however, centered on slamming his
Republican opponent.
When asked what Griffin's main deficiency is, he stated without
hesitation, "His record."
"He threw in the towel last year," Levin said, repeating the attack he's used throughout the campaign. "He had the second worst
voting attendence record in the Senate last year and the other
senator is deceased."
He also accused the incumbant senator of ignoring Michigan's
interests during his tenure.
"Griffin is not energetic enough to roll up his sleeves and take on
.the federal bureaucracy," Levin said. He then recalled Griffin's
announcement last fall that he would not seek re-election, due to a
need for some "new blood" in the Senate.
(See "Levin—" page 9)
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Trustees to face
light agenda'
The CMU Board of Trustees will face a light agenda as it
meets 9:30 a.m. today in the President's Conference Room of
the University Center.
The board, in addition to considering the University's
Auxiliary Services budget for approval, is expected to accept
$187,699 in federal, state and private grants awarded CMU in
September.
The largest of those grants, for $46,601, was awarded to the
Department of Special Education for the second part of a
program offering consumer education to the handicapped and
in-service training to agencies which deal with the handicapped.
In addition, the board is expected to approve approximately
76 appointments among its monthly personnel transactions.
The meeting is open to the public.
Memorial begun
for dead student
The CMU Chapter of Phi
Sigma Epsilon has established a
memorial fund for a member
killed Saturday in an automobile
accident.
The student, David Scott
Price, 18, a freshman from
Livonia, died, while another
student, Randy Holley, is listed
in fair condition in a Traverse
City hospital after the car in
which they were riding skidded
off a road and struck a group of
trees in Grand Traverse County.
Funeral services for Price will
be conducted 8 p.m. today at
Mans-Fergusen Funeral Home,
in Livonia.
Holley, 21, a Hastings senior,
was driving the car and lost
control rounding a curve, according to reports from the.
Traverse City Police Department. He suffered multiple
fractures.
Price was reported dead on
arrival at the Munson Medical
Center.
The accident still is under
investigation, according to
police reports.
David Price
Price and Holley were
returning from a cottage in
Traverse City owned by a friend
of Price, said Bloomfieid
sophomore Mark Kraus, a friend
and fraternity brother of the
two.
Price was in the process of
pledging the CMU chapter of the
fraternity Phi Sigma Epsilon, of
which Holley is a member.
Eventually, the memorial
(See "Prices" page 2)
—Italian Catholics' reactions vary on new
Pope, page 3
—Alumni return as substitute teachers,
pageS
—Tickets still available for Hall and Oates
show, page JO
—Field hockey team loses to Eastern, page
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