1977-03-02; Central Michigan Life

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Volume 58 No. 63
Mt. Pleasant, Michigan
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Wednesday, March 2,-1977
University involvement charged
file shows surveillance of YSA
byJOHNGROGAN
CM UFE Reporter
and
HOLLY HAYES
LIFE Managing Editor
An 18-page FBI file which documents a four-
year period of surveillance of CMU's chapter of
the Young Socialist Alliance (YSA) will be
released this morning in Detroit by the Com'
wtittee for Free Speech.
Meg Hayes, secretary for the Committee for
Free Speech, is expected to release ^a statement
at a press conference today linking the CMU
administration to the surveillance;.
The 18 pages of correspondence between an
unidentified informant in Mt. Pleasant and the
special agent in charge at Detroit FBI
headquarters was obtained by the Committee for
Free Speech through the Political Rights Defense
Fund, a non-partisan committee involved in a
national suit by theYSA and Socialist Workers
Party (S WP) against the FBI.
"These files prove beyond a shadow of doubt
that the administration is not a neutral party in
this case, as they claimed," Hayes said Tuesday.
She added some of the information in the file
could only have been obtained from Student
Recognition Forms which are kept in the Student
Affairs Office. President Harold Abel Tuesday,
said the forms are confidential.
"I'm amazed and abhorred that information of
that kind was gathered on any legitimate
organization, and I sympathize with them," Abel
said Tuesday afternoon. "I'm disturbed to see
that someone on campus was feeding such information to the FBI."
Student recognition forms are filled out and
filed in the Office of Student Affairs by student
organizations wishing to be sanctioned by the
University. ' '
However, after conferring with John Mc-
, Cauliffe, director of the Department of Public
Safety, later that afternoon, Abel discovered DPS
has been supplying the FBI with information on
Central students and campus activities regularly
for the past several years.
According to McAuliffe, supplying information
to other law enforcement agencies is routine
procedure, adding the majority of FBI inquiries
are standard identification checks and other "non-
consequential" investigations.
FBI officials in Detroit were not available for
comment Tuesday evening.
On reviewing the files, McAuliffe said, "It looks
like most of it came from us, but I don't want to
say blankly that it all did."
McAuliffe stated the FBI has not contacted
DPS "in a long while."
The information in the file was censored
before being received by the Committee for Free
Speech, retaining the secrecy of the source and
(See "Surveillance—" page 8)
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Enrollment drop spurs
drive for state council
byJOHNGROGAN
CM LIFE Reporter
Pressure is being applied
from various quarters in Lansing for the creation of a centralized coordinating council
which will oversee all Michigan
tifiiverSltifes, mhfeti^Fblkbtt,
QMtJi representative H the
Association of Michigan
Collegiate Faculties (AMCF),
reported to Academic Senate
Tuesday.
Folkert's report came after
attending the AMCF meeting
Feb. 10 to 11 in Lansing.
The pressure for such a
council stems directly from the
drop in enrollment in Michigan
universities in. recent years,
Folkert said. A Council of his
nature would coordinate
university programs and
enrollment ceilings, he added.
Folkert said the majority of
pressure for a council of this
nature has come from the
governor through the Executive
office, rather than the
legislature.   ,
Such a council, if instituted,
would have no legal powers, but
rather would have persuasive
powers, Folkert said. At
present, state officials .are
discussing the possibility of
putting the idea of a coordinating .council up for
legislative debate, he added. .
• -Also reported at < tHfe* AMCF
meeting .was the possibility the
Supreme Court may find the
State Bonding Authority, which
creates $19 million annually for
capital outlay, unconstitutional.
If the authority ' is found
unconstitutional, the con^
struction of university academic
buildings will have to be.curtailed, unless funds are taken
from other areas of Michigan's
budget, Folkert said.
He added, under such cir- •
cumstances, there would be a
good chance funds for capital
outlay would be taken from the
higher education budget
allotment.
In other action, Academic
Senate carried a motion to
require mathematical testing of
all students seeking an
elementary education cer-"
tificate.
Also passed by Senate was
the approval of a netf course in
the business department. The
course, introductory FORTRAN
for business applications, is a
general computers class
required of all business Major*.
- -'Senate j*lsd "approved,^-*a
request by ,. the Physical
Education Department to revise
a minor option1 in the bulletin
regarding the general
requirements for Physical
Education majors and minors.
The election of three faculty
members to the advisory
committee on selection of vice
provost of academic administration was postponed
until Senate's > next scheduled
meeting March 22.
Senators began a detailed
revision of the group descrip-
Udns for the University
Program at Tuesday's meeting.
After making several minor
amendments, Senate adjourned.
The amendments of the
University Program will take
several meetings to complete.
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||t P|ea»ani fire filters were e»|le«i jtq the Towers Tuesday morning when smoke began seeping out
>ot intinerfUnrTMRWoif some of the floors in Carey Hall; The smoke was caused by a small fire which
started when a power failure to the automatic, charging system—a device which drops trash to the
incinerator—allowed excess trash to build up^A closed vent at the top of the chute added to the
problem, however there were no injuries (LIFE photo by Brad Drewyor).
Incinerator fire causes
minor smoke damage
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A power failure in ■ the incinerator control system caused
minor smoke damage to Carey
Hall at 9:02 a.m., Tuesday, according to the Department of
Public Safety (DPS). There were
no injuries..
Loss of ' power to the
automatic charging system, a
system which drops trash to the
incinerator, caused excess trash
to build up. Something, possibly
a cigarette or ashes, ignited the
trash, starting a small fire, DPS
reported.
DPS and the Mt. Pleasant
Fire Department put the fire out
in a few minutes by opening the
damper,    according
Officer Jim Herald. ,
to    DPS
Herald said the fire was
confined to the incinerator
shoot, causing smoke in the
hallways of the second, third,
fourth and fifth floors. Residents
of Carey Hall were evacuated.
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Overdue accounts targeted
CMU to hire collection agent
Central Michigan efedenis waiting to lease or make lease
chanfes for apartment rentals next fall suffer in long lines
despite 30 degree temperatures Tuesday afternoon. In all, about
SO students lined along the sidewalk in front of the Consolidated
Apartments main office, 315 E. Bellows Ave. Many of the
afetdents waited in Hue, which began at 2 p*m. for what they said
wa« a "go<>d 45 minster (LIFE photo by Rob Denting),
by STEVE WRIGHT
CM LIFE Reporter
CMU will hire a collection
agent to help improve the
collection procedure for
delinquent accounts, according
to University officials.
The University also is considering . using a collection
agency in certain circumstances
and charging a flat service fee
for delinquent accounts.
The collection agent will be
hired after a role officially has
been defined and. all other
studies of collection procedure
alternatives have been completed. The studies hopefully
will be completed by July 1,
according to University con*
troller Mike Roy.
Improving on the collection
inMiw^
Cash taken from focal
Catholic church—page 3
-Ceramic artist explains sculptures—page
7
—Diekema  hopes   to
defend title-page 13
procedure for delinquent accounts was onis of the recommendations made fry the
Michigan Efficiency Task Force
in its cost-cutting study of CMU
and all state agencies released in
November. ■■'•'.■
CMU    divides    delinquent
accounts   into   business   and
student. accounts. The
Universityc "would handle a
delinquent business account by
taking the commercial business
to court, Jerry Tubbs, vice
president for business and
finance, said.
Presently, Tubbs said, there
is no exact figure for delinquent
accounts  because the amount
*-oWed the University constantly
changes. ,?*-**
A delinquent student account     J
presently   is   handled   by   not *'
allowint the student to register
for   another   semester   unless
(See   "Delinquent   accounts—"
page 10),
LandiordssaylegssSatson
will not affect busmess
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by STEVE SPALDING
LIFE Ass't News Editor
< Mt.. Pleasant   landlords   and   apartment
managers say they will not be affected by a law
which took effect Tuesday protecting tenants
against illegal evictions.
They said they,rarely have had to use the
prohibitions listed in the law,.
"With this new law, I think it's ail against the
landlord but I don't think it will affect us; we haye
a Smooth operation/'. Fred Harken, manager of
Concord Apartments, 1IJ0 Vernon Drive, said.
The law prohibits and makes provisions for
dollar   damages- .incurred/, fronrt-any. .of—the-
fbllowiftg;
- use or threat of force.
-removal, retention or destruction of the
tenant's personal property.
-change, alteration or addition to locks
without providing the tenant with the appropriate keys.
- removal of doors, windows or locks.
- termination of heat, running water, electrical
or gas services.
"The new law is .designed t6 be simple enough
to be enforced by tenants in small claims court
without an attorney. All that is necessary is that
tenants have witnesses or other evidence that
they were forced out of their rental unit without
legal process" Roger Winthrop, Public Interest
Research Group in Michigan (PIRGIM) Lansing
(See "Landlords—" page 10)
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