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Volume 58 No. 25
Wednesday, Ogtober 27, 1976
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Protest planned
by JEFF ELLSWORTH
CM LIFE Reporter
Students will be given a
chance to speak on campus issues
at a demonstration today at 2 p.m.
in Warriner Hall protesting various
University decisions.
The demonstration, according
to sponsor, Matt Mertz, 621 S.
University St., will feature a
"soapbox, where students can get
up and talk about anything they
want to.
" I'm not going to put myself in
a position of dictating what people
talk about," Mertz, former Student
Assocaition (SA) Board of
Directors Small Organizations
Council Representative, said.
Speakers will be limited to 10
minutes, Mertz said.
"I've talked to a lot of people,
and they've said that the
University has to have a visual
demonstration of concern," Mertz
said. "We've got to show them that
we care."
A letter explaining the
demonstration specified. three
recent University decisions. They
are the arrest of Young Socialist
Alliance members for trespassing
during last Wednesday's  Daniel
Housing committee
presents proposals
A revision of University policy
and procedure concerning search
and seizure and an amendment to
married housing maintanence
policy will be presented to administrators Friday by the Student
Entrance Policy Revision Committee.
' The committee, which was
proposed by Student Body
President Mike Fraser at last
week's Student Association Board
of Directors meeting, is composed
of four students who will meet with
four administrators Friday at 9
a.m. in the Coaches Hall of Fame
Room in the University Center to
discuss the entrance policy in
married housing.
< "When we present our
proposed^ guidelines, we* will ask
that our search and seizure policy
replace gres^enj policy, when the
'jiext contract is signed and that we
stick . wijh  present  rtjaintanence
policy, with an added amendment,"
Joanne Hammis, Married Students
Council representative to the
committee, said.
The policy will apply only to
married student housing, Hammis
explained, "When dealing with
Residence Hail Assembly (RHA),
we couldn't demand exactly what
we wanted, because we had to
consider RHA's point of view,"
Hammis, Saginaw junior, said. "I
see no reason why the administration should have to
compromise on any points of our
proposal."
The proposed policy is in three
sections, dealing with entry, search
and seizure in University housing.
In the proposal, procedures are
more specifically outlined than
under present regulations, Hammis
said,       ■ . - * ■-*.■■••
The  fourth ' section   would1
implement  the  present   main
tanence procedure, with amendments requiring notice of entry
after any repair work done while
no resident is present,
Hammis said the proposed
policy contained no major changes,
and "the University'would not be
asked to give up' any responsibility."
"We are not tying their hands,
and are not asking them to give up
any responsibility. We are just
asking them to close some of the
loopholes that appear in our
present contract," Hammis said.
Schorr speech, the ban on "heavy
metal" concerts on campus, and the
failure to implement a revised
entrance policy for University
housing. —..
Representatives from
Program Board', Married Students
Council and the SA Board of
Directors have been invited to
speak at the demonstration, according to Mertz.
"I approached them not as
sponsors for the demonstration,
but as student leaders who can add
valuable input to the discussion,"
Mertz said.
A similar letter, inviting
University administrators to the
demonstration was being drawn
up Tuesday, Mertz said.
As of Tuesday evening, CMU
President Harold Abel said he had
not heard of the planned demonstration. However, Abel said the
students would be welcome.
"In so far as it's an orderly
, group  of students who wish  to
discuss an issue, it wouldn't matter
if it's one or a large group," Abel
said.
Abel also said he would
welcome a chance to meet in a more
"comfortable environment" with-a
group of students. Last year Abel
had   informal   meetings    with
(See "Protest
page 12)
CM LIFE PHOTO BY ROLLIE mTkAN
REGISTERING—Although it is only mid-term, pre-registeration
for Winter Semester already has begun. Brad Wyman, Midland
senior, fills out some of the paperwork necessary to complete a
schedule for next semester. Registration continues in Finch
Fieldhouse through Friday.
Board members baffled
react to 'bugging'
Special section
covers election
With the general election less
than a week away, CM LIFE today
has devoted an entire section to
previewing some of this year's
candidates and issues.
"Election 76" features profiles
of the county and city races, the
hotly  contested  89th   District
representative race, U.S. Senate
and representative battles and
Proposals* A, B, C and D. "
It also includes interesting
features and informative stories on
how and where to vote in and
around Mt, Pleasant.
by STEVE SPALDING      """
LIFE Ass't. News Editor
Members of * Student
Association (SA) privately have
said who they think "bugged" the
office of student body president but
are puzzled why anybody would go
to the extreme of placing a
microphone behind a painting.
Most persons who are or have
been involved in student government said they thought the
bugging had something to do with
the events surrounding the
resignation of former Student Body
President Doug Thomas last
semester.
Student Body President Mike
Fraser found a microphone hidden
behind a painting in his office
Friday as he was arranging furniture.
Officials of General Telephone
said the telephone cable the
microphone was attached to waa
not hooked up to any telephone
lines.
"It wasn't hooked up to our
extension. The cable was probably
ours, but someone just picked it up
around campus," Dick Krasue, of
General Telephone, said.
Joseph Barber'i, assistant
prosecuting attornery, said he is
not sure if any laws were broken.
"I wouldn't know unless I
researched the laws. I have a hunch
if they broke any laws they would
be Federal," Barberi said.
Former Student Body Vice-
President Carol Dodson said she
noticed the telephone cord last
semester when she was vice
president.
''Both Pant (Maxwell, student
body president last semester) and I
saw the cord in the corner of the
student government office last
semester, but we never thought
anything of it," Dodson, now living
in Edmore, said.
Program Board Chairperson
Marc Berkley said he remembered
seeing the cord, "but I always
thought it was the telephone cord."
The cord ends up underneath
the desk of the Media Information
Services (MIS) desk in Room 3,
next door. No one occupies the
of MIS until Doug Thomas resigned
after admitting he had used money
from a special descretionary fund
desk this semester. Dave Demers,
now in Rochester, was the director
for personal reasons. Dave
Rinehart, now in Potterviile, took
over for Demers for the remainder
of the semester.
Both have indicated they have
no knowledge of the "bugging."
Fraser, Lansing senior,  said .
SA is going to try to find who
planted the bug in his office, but
that there is not much they can do.
"There is not a lot the police
can do. We're looking around, but it
is a dead-end street," Fraser said.
Fraser said he did not think
the "bugging" was a joke. "If I
never had moved the picture, it
never would have been found."
Berkley, Mt. Pleasant senior,
speculated the bugging came from
the events surrounding Thomas'
resignation.
"I don't understand why
anyone would bug the office, the
information could have come from
standing outside the door," Berkley
said.
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Department heads
sympathetic to plan
LIFE receives national
collegiate press award
For the second year in a row.'Central Michigan
LIFE has been awarded the Pacemaker Award by the
American Newspaper Publishers Association (AN-
PA).
The award, given by the ANPA in conjunction
with the Associated Collegiate Press, is the top honor
a college newspaper can earn. In its category of
papers published two and three times a week, LIFE
was the only paper in tha country to win tha award.
Heading the LIFE staff last year as editor in chief
was Steve Morse, soon to become news editor of tha
Ypsilanti Press. Serving as managing editor was
Mitch Head, Redford senior, while Paula Pock,
\
present LIFE editor in chief, served as news editor.
Holly Hayes, present managing editor, and Pam
Klein, present news editor, were assistant news
editors last semester. Rick McKay, currently photo
editor of the Hillsdale Daily News, was LIFE photo
editor.
'        Approximately SO reporters completed the news
department last year.
The sports department was headed by Ron Kirk-
wood, Dowagiac senior. Kirkwood was assisted by
John Sanford, Saginaw senior. Approximately 15
reporters completed last year's sports department.
An informal survey of
department chairpersons shows
many are sympathetic toward the
position adopted by the Sociology
and Anthropology Department
Friday saying it would not cut its
budget as ordered by the
University.
But while sympathetic, most
chairpersons Said they were not
entirely in support of the
resolution.
The University had ordered
departments to cut their budgets
to cope with a projected 1976-77
budget deficit of $815,000.
However, partly in response to a
recent 2.9 per criet pay increase
received by administrative personnel, the department had
adopted a resolution saying it
would not cut its budget or submit
a program plan for 1977-78. (See
related story, page 3).
Joyce * Pilotte, Philosophy
Department chairperson, said,
"Individually, most of our
department supports it. We're
upset with this action by the administration when they have to cut
the academic programs. WeVe
trying to decide now whit would be
an effective way of protesting."
Rollin Dunsdon, chairperson of
the Business aad Administration
Department, Said* 'TM sympathetic with their concerns, buj; I
wouldn't aggree this is the way to
go about it. There's no doubt in our
department, since we've just
completed our five-year plans, that
we feel the process is worthwhile."
Provost John Cantelon said it
is "very legitimate that faculty
and departments make known
their reactions." Cantelon added,
however, it is regretable if a unit
does not participate in a decision as
to how students are served.
"We must engage in self-
correction," Cantelon said. "When
we don't have results that satisfy
that doesn't mean we throw them
overboard, we correct it. The
alternative is not to involve
departments at all, and I think that
would be a great loss. A full range
of University personnel must be
involved in planning."
Ronald Johnstone, professor of
sociology and anthropology,, said
his department was receiving some
comments on the resolution.
"I've heard some comments
from faculty and departments,"
Johnstone said. "I think a lot of
departments are taking up the
issue for discussion."
SOFT JWCff-Central's Gina Mazzolini dinks one
over the net against Wayne State iir volleyball
action Tuesday night at Finch (see story page 17).
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