1978-09-08; Central Michigan Life

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by BEENADETTE JOZWIAK
LIFE Managing Editor
The weather is balmy, the skies are blue and the autumn won't be
around too much longer to take advanage of, By now, with two
weeks of classes under their belts, CMU students should be prime
for a 'let-loose" carefree weekend of frolic, A weekend different
from those 13 to follow, most of which will be spent holed up in Park
Library doing term papers or studying for tests. It's a weekend
made to order and made to be spent only in Mount Pleasant.
Even those who usually find it impossible to resist the beck and
call of the open road home every weekend would agree when
confronted with two major local events-the University's first
football game of the 1978 season on Saturday and the community's
annual Mardi Gras celebration, taking place today.
The 1978 Chippewa gridders will not be the only ones making
their debut on the field in tomorrow's season opener. Herb
Deromedi also will be making his first appearance on the scene as
head football coach. Formerly the team's defense coordinator,
Deromedi was named in August to his current post.
Even while some football fans will have their sights set
specifically on Deromedi and how he will "perform" Saturday, he
said he feels the same before this game as he has felt before any
other.
(See "Mardi Gras—" page 2)
CMUFEARTBYDOUQ BOVDIE
Volume 60 No. 5
Mount Pleasant, Michigan 48859
Effects of 'gen ed# tops list
Friday, Sept. 8,1978
Cantelon outlines priorities
byTONYDEARING
LIFE Editor
Studying the impact of
general education on students
and faculty will be Provost John
E. Cantelon's No. 1 priority this
year.
Cantelon also will be devoting
much of his time to a pair of
accreditations at CMU, the Area
of Broadcast and Cinematic Arts
and academic reorganization,
according to'a list of priorities
the provost released Wednesday.
In all, Cantelon's list contains
13 issues and challenges his
office considers top priorities for
the 1978-79 school year.
"I wanted to sit down at the
beginning of the year and make
a list of about a dozen, but I
guess I ended up with a baker's
dozen," the provost said. "Some
of the items on the list are obvious; others are concerns to be
reflected during the entire
year."
Many of the challenges listed
by  Cantelon  are  old,  familiar
issues, but some, like plans for
the learning assessment and
testing center, are new. A few
are personal challenges for
Cantelon, and will not have
much bearing on the full
University community.
At the top of Cantelon's list is
the new General Education
program.
The program is designed to
give students a broad-based and
diversified      education      by
"Some of the
items on the list are
obvious; others are
concerns to be
reflected during
the entire year."—
Provost John E.
Cantelon
requiring them to take 30 credit
hours in courses falling under
humanities, natural science,
social science and integrative
and area studies.
"You can't institute a major
program such as this without it
having some effect," Cantelon
said. "I will be monitoring the
impact of the program to see if it
gives signs of contributing to
the quality of education."
Cantelon also said he will be
United Way kicks off Oct. 15
Drive aims
watching io see how the
program affects credit-hour
production in academic
departments. He said it will take
at least three years to truly
begin measuring the impact of
general education here.
Cantelon's No. 2 priority this
year will be the North Central
Association accreditation of
CMU's doctoral program in
psychology..,a.n.d <?f».t,he Institute
for "Personal and Career
Development.
Failure to gain accreditation
would be a crippling blow to
either program's prestige.
Broadcast and Cinematic
Arts, an area detached from its
school and now under the
Provost's Office, also is a subject
of concern among the provost's
top priorities.
A group of five consultants
will be on campus individually
this semester to study the area
and "give us their best advice,"
Cantelon said.
The consultants' individual
(See "Cantelon—" page 8)
by KELLY KOLHAGEN
LIFE News Editor
CMU students may have got
off easy contributing a collective
$600 to United Way last year,
but Student Foundation
members hope to see that
change.
Unlike 1977*s campaign,
students will not be overlooked
when the Isabella County
United Way drive officially
begins Oct. 16. Instead, foundation members say they will
seek out students' dollars this
year.
Alan F. Quick, dean of the
School of Continuing Education,
LIFE
features
grid guide
With the first grid match of
the Chippewas' 1978-79 season
slated for Saturday, today's CM
I4FE features a football guide.
CMU's Chippewas will meet
Kent Sitate University's Golden
Flashes in Perry Shorts
Stadium. Kickoff is set for 1:30
p.m. and persons with CMU
student identification cards will
be admitted free to the event.
heads up the 1978 Isabella
County United Way fund drive,
and is looking at a goal of
$112,600, the highest goal ever
set in Isabella County.
But CMU's student drive will
be independent of any
solicitation from faculty and
staff, said campus director Jim
Glover,
Glover, Fowlerville senior,
said several objectives have
been set forth as' the campus
United Way committee, directed
by Student Foundation, readies
itself for the big drive.
"The drive will be widened for
the total campus," he said, "for
on and off campus students."
"We also hope to involve
• fraternities and sororities more
than we have in the past," he
said, "in addition to individual
organizations."
Another leg of the campaign
will be geared toward minority
students, said Glover, in an
attempt to increase contributions from all aspects of the
CMU student community.
• The campaign hopefully will
raise at least $1,000 from the
student body, Glover said, since
two years ago, that much was
raised:
"With a better organized
setup and pre-planning, we
should be able to make at least
$1,000, especially since we got
that much two years ago," he
said.
Although the county-wide
effort lasts through Oct. 27,
CMU's portion of the drive
begins officially Oct. 16 and runs
through Oct. 21. A week-long
Alan F. Quick
schedule of activities are
planned, and will be highlighted
by a massive door-to-door
solicitation campaign on one
night of that Week.
Those events tentatively
include a run-a*thon, to be
manned by Eta Sigma Gamma,
the campus health education
society and special pinball and
foosball   contests   in   the   dormitories.
CMU faculty and staff will be
included in the county's campaign, co-chaired by Isabella
County prosecutor Joseph
Barberi and Jack Harkins, an
offical of the Lease Management
Co.
Quick said he hopes between
$18,000 and $19,000 will be
generated from CMU. The
remaining $90,000 or so to be
collected will be in the hands of
the remaining residents of
Isabella County.
"United Way is the single
most important drive of the
year," Quick said, noting at least
12 agencies the United Way
funds in the county.
"Mount Pleasant is a community of givers," he said. "If
there's a single philanthropic
venture, it should be the United
Way."
Glover said after meetings
with Quick and after further
preperation, Student Foundation will have a definite
schedule of events for the
student drive.
"Right now, we're just getting
ourselves organized," he said.
Organization, he said, should
be the key to a successful
student campaign this year,
-CM LIFE PHOTO BY ROGER D. MART
William A. "B.J." Jack is one of two barbers operating
 in the basement of the University Center. When business	
-  gets --alow;'"B. J:'* dan often~be Weeri sitting in his chair
and strumming his guitar.
Guitar pickin'
fills day's lulls
byBILLWOLGAST
LIFE Staff Writer
When you enter the lower level of the University Center, you
may notice a barbershop directly across from The Reservation. And
this, of course, is the college's private barbershop, right?
Wrong! says barber William A. "B.J." Jack, who leases the space
from the University. Jack is an independent businessman who just
happens to work in the UC. But, he says, most students assume his
is a University-offered service.
Jack has been barbering in the UC since 1971. He graduated from
LaMar Barber College in 1968 and worked stints in his hometown of
Harrisville and Detroit before coming to Mount Pleasant.
B.J. can often be seen sitting in a chair strumming his guitar
during lulls in business. But he avoids performing for customers.
"It's just a hobby, something I like to do," he explains.
He also avoids association with the "Billy Jack" movie series,
preferring instead to be known as B.J.
Hair styles have changed a great deal in the seven years B.J. has
been here. But most of his customers just need to be shown how to
take care of their hair at home rather than have any major
alterations performed, he says. "You can buy a $30 hair dryer but
still make a mess out of your hair, he says.
The second of the UC barbershop's two chairs is manned by Dick
Becker. Becker returned to the shop in 1976 after working there in
1969 and 1970.
About the shop's "identity crisis," Becker says, "We've actually
had people who've come in here who thought we were part of a
barber training class at CMU. And they're scared we'll hack their
hair off."
The barbershop is open Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Walk-in business is welcome or appointments can be phoned
through the UC at 774-3282 ext. 263.
The common idea that people will bare their souls once they step
into the Barber's or hairdresser's chair isn't necessarily accurate,
says Jack. "Everybody's different. If the customer is in a bad mood,
then he probably won't talk. And I don't press him."
But athletics is a different story. Jack is an avid Chippewa fan and
keeps up with firsthand information from the coaches and trainers
who sit in his chair. He sees Central's football opener Saturday with
Kent State as a tight struggle matching teams with strong defenses.
But who's going to win, B.J.? "We are, of course," he says confidently.
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—Wheat/and Fast to fill air with strains of
bluegrass, page 3
—New era in football begins, page 9
—PIRGIM seeks student support page 14
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