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Volume 58 No. 33
Monday, November 15, 1976
Five warrants sought
in dorm gun case
by KATHY JENNINGS
CM LIFE Reporter.
Warrants will be sought this
week from the Isabella County
Prosecutor's Office for five
Robinson Hall residents, some of
whom were involved in shooting
incidents from dorm windows.
In connection with the investigation of the shooting incidents, a number of other cases
have been "cleaned up" according
to John McAuIiffe, Department of
Public Safety (DPS) director.
McAuIiffe added the students
admitted involvement in other
incidents as the shooting investigation continued.
McAulliffe indicated the
students involved in the shooting
incidents have been indentified,
but no names have been released
pending issuance of warrants.
Investigation began after two
windows in Calkins Hal! had holes
shot in them by a BB pistol Nov. 2.
A second incident occurred Nov. 3
when a female student was hit in
the arm with a BB while walking on
Hopkins court, just south of
Robinson Hall. She was not injured.
McAuIiffe reported that apparently the gun used in the
shootings was shoplifted from K-
Mart, 2125 S. Mission St. He said
students involved in the incident
reported the gun now is in the
Chippewa River.
As    a    result    of    the    in
vestigation, $250 of stolen
propoerty was recovered.
Recovered property includes a
leather coat from JCPenney, in the
Mt. Pleasant Shopping Center; a
leather coat from Beatty and White
Men's Shop, 117 E. Broadway; a
chair from the; Wayside Central,
corner of Broomfield Road and
Mission Street, and assorted books
and glasses.
It also was determined by DPS
some Of the students had been
involved in an Oct. 17 auto theft
from Kewadin Village, The auto
was recovered several days after
the theft, abandoned near River-
wood Golf and Bowling Club, 313 E.
Broomfield Rd.
Another incident the students
apparently were involved in waa
the theft of a battery from a
student's car parked on Vernon
Street. The battery was taken Nov.
2.
Warrants are being sought for
felonious assault (assault with a
weapon), auto theft, larceny o^er
$100, larceny under $100 and
larceny from an auto, McAuIiffe
said.
McAuIiffe indicated more than
one warrant is being sought for
some of the students.
He added the investigation
conducted by DPS Det. Sgt. Lea
Bonstelle and officer Mike Fronc-
zak was "greatly assisted" by a
number  of  students   who   came
forward with informtion regarding
th. case.
He said students who were
"tired of having this type of activity going on in the dorms and on
campus," came forward with the
information.
The incident also resulted in
the firing of a Robinson Hall
resident assistant, John Geriach,
who kept guns in his dorm room.
Residents of the floor told officials
Geriach had told them it was-
permissable to keep guns in their
rooms.
University policy, however,
bans guns from dorm rooms. Guns
are to be locked in specially
designated storage rooms in each
dormitory, according to the
policy.(See related story, this page)
READY TO GO-Karen Karner (foreground in
white jersey) readies to set sail goalward as
teammate Pam Byron (background), Detroit
junior, watches the goings on. The field hockey
team    won    the    regional   title    Saturday    in
PHOTO BY tNFORMATION SERVICES
Charleston, 111. thanks in part to goals by both
Karner and Byron in the quarterfinals and
semifinals, and now head for the national championships in Philadelphia.
Field hockey team wins regionals
CMU advances to natioi
byBOBSTIEGEL
LIFE Sports Reporter
Philadelphia has long bjeen
known as "The City of Brotherly
Love."
Central's field hockey Chippewas, the best team in the state,
in the Midwest, and possibly the
whole U.S. of A., will find that out
for themselves during the national
field hockey championships to be
in the Bicentennial City this
Thanksgiving- holiday.»■=-.*»-
There may be love in Philly
but it will be hard to match the
feeling of this past weekend in
Charleston, 111,, the site of the
Midwest Regionals of the
Association of Intercollegiate
Athletics for Women (AIAW) and
Central's second straight championship.
It   was   lovely   indeed   as
Central'*} defending champs won all
there was to be won.
 Three times  the  Chippewas
took on the best in the Midwest,
three times coming away with
impressive wins.
It all came to an end on a
frosty but sunny Saturday afternoon as the Chippewas defeated
Ohio State, 2-1, before a largely
partisan "anyone but Central"
crowd.
Central struck quickly, as they
had all weekend, when, at the four
minute mark of the first half,
Karen Karner, 'Bay tJity junior,
while 11 others went wide.
"Patience, Patience!"
screamed Central's first year coach
Mary Bottaro during the Ohio
assault. "Patience" has become the
call word for the Chippewas in the
post-season play.
"I felt we were the better
disciplined, better caliber players,"
a calmer Bottaro said after the
game. "We maintained our game
plan, possession and pursuit, better
than* the others."
Dorm head residents discuss
gun storage controversy
intercepted a pass deep in Ohio     (See "Field hockey ..." page 9')
by DAVID OPFERMANN
CM LIFE Reporter
Guns should not be stored in dorms, various head residents
questioned about the University's present gun policy have said.
Ron Gishpert, Robinson Hall head resident, said, "I wish the
Department of Public Safety (DPS) could take care of them (guns). We
really don't have the facilities to store them properly."
"Personally, I would like to see them at DPS, whenever they get
around to building a new huildihg," Nancy Parker, Herrig Hall head
resident said. "But it might be a tremendous inconvenience for students."
Dan York, Emmons Hall head resident, said he didn't think guns
should be allowed in the dorms at all, as did William Miltko, Merrill Hall
head resident who said, he would rather see them stored somewhere else,
if possible.
Miltko said storing guns in the dorm was an added responsibility he
would rather not have. "It's an arsenal," he said, "and it makes me a little
nervous to think of someone breaking in. It's just a potentially bad
situation."'
Daniel Eversole, of Carey Hall, was the only head resident
questioned who did not mind storing guns in the dorm. "It doesn't bother
me if they're locked up'in my case," he said,"because I know I've got
control of them."
John McAuIiffe, director of DPS, said, "We don't have the physical.
facility to store all the guns on campus." He added a new DPS office has
been planned, but no gun storage space has been included in those plans,
Burney Long, Physical Plant director, said the new building is in its
preliminary planing stage and no date has been set for its construction.
(See "Htjad ..." page 8) {
territory and centered to Detroit
senior Donna Provenzola.
Provenzola found Jackie Neil
sliding in on the left side and the
Stanton senior rammed it home for
one small goal for Central, one
giant leap to Philadelphia. An informal open discussion
The game stood 1-0 at the half    session with President Harold Abel
and for most of the final 35 minutes     will be conducted Tuesday at 3 p.m.
Abel talk
planned
as Central's defense withstood a
vicious Ohio attack on the goal.
For three minutes near the
end of the first half the Buckeyes
staged a regular siege on the
Gentral net, firing numerous ill-
fated shots and receiving six
penalty corner attempts in that
span, but to no avail.
In the game, goalie Sue
Roegner; Detroit senior, booted
away six Buck shots and watched
in Ballroom A of the University
Center.
All members of the University
community are invited to attend
the session, which will follow a
loosely-structured question-and-
answer format.
With Abel will be several
members of the Unversity administration who also will be on
hand to answer questions. Refreshments will be served.
CM LIFE PHOTO »Y BRAD DREWVOR
BIZARRE BAZAAR^-k jar of relish attracts Naomia Thering of
:Mt. Pleasant at Saturdays second annual "Bizarre Bazaar",
sponsored by St, Mary** Univeriaty Parish. *The items sold in the
church lounge included dolls, toys, Christmas' ornaments, baked
goods,and cookies. A handhooked wool rug and an afghan were'
raffled.
State task force outlines
CMU money-saving plans
byJIMREINDL
LIFE Ass't. News Editor
Seven ways CMU can save
money are outlined in a special
state task force's report on how
Michigan can cut spending, an aide
to Gov. William G. Milliken said
Friday.
Jim Phelps, special assistant
to the governor on education, said
the Michigan Efficiency Task Force
was appointed by Milliken' to study
ways to save money in all
government areas. The task force,
•composed largely of business
people, released, its report last
week.
In helping to cut state higher
education costs, the task force
recommended CMU should:
-reduce the custodial staff in
dormitories.
—increase the internal'
auditing staff.
—establish a nonreturnable
application fee for admission to the
University.
.   —revise the short-term loan
system.
—improve the collection
procedure for delinquent student
accounts.
-sell excess University land.
—increase health services
examination fees,      ,
As  of  yet,. CMU   officials
seriously have not examined the
report's recommendations, Arthur
Ellis, vice president for public
affairs, said Friday.
However, Ellis said he did not
think the University would have
any problems complying with the
recommendations, and, in some
cases,, they already have been implemented.
One of thg most significant
affects the task .force's CMU
recommendations could have on
students is. a restructuring of the
short-term  student loan  system.
Presently, students' may get
30-day loans of $20 from the
Cashier's Office in Warriner Hall
upon request by showing their
student IDs and another piece of
identification.
CMU is the only school in the
state with such a system, according
to Jerry Woodcock, assistant to the
vice president for business and
finance. But, Woodcock said, the
task force recommended CMU
move toward systems approximating those already
established at many other state
schools.
He said other institutions loan
higher amounts of money bu£ limit
the amount of loans per person, and
also establish stricter criteria for
receiving a loan.
Another significant affect of
the task force's recommendations
could be the raising of University
Health Services examination fees.
Ellis said the report recommends health service fees be raised
at every state school.
Health Service fees currently
are based upon a $2 per office call
. charge, with additional lab fees and
prescription drugs completing the
fee scale.
A third recommendation of
consequence to students would
tighten up the University's
collection procedures for
delinquent student accounts.
Long term Joans do not apply
to this, Woodcock said. Instead, he
said the task force was talking
about payments such as housing or
tuition.
Considerations within CMU
for tightening the_ .collection
procedures include doubling to two
the number of full time collection
•agents employed by the University, establishing interest rates for
delinquent payments or using
outside collection agencies to beef-
up the procedure. <
Ellis said only in recent years
has the University begun experiencing difficulty with collecting
student payments. .
"It is true students are paying
their bills slower and slower, we're
aware of it," he said. "It is a'
significant policy decision on how
hard to clamp down. If they-continue to get worse, we'll continue to
tighten up."
A task force recommendation
already met by Central is the
reduction of dormitory custodial
staff.
Dormitory custodial services
were restructured at the beginning
of Fall Semester, Jerry Quick,
associate director of Auxiliary
Services, said.
In the. spring, Robert Hayes
Associates of Chicago was commissioned to study work load
differences' between custodial
workers and housekeepers, "which
both have different University
classifications.
(See *Task ..," pageft
inside
• Commission approves
four public works
projects-*-page 3
• Central football team
beats Northern
Illinois—page 9
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