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Volume 55. No. 57
Central Miphigan University. Mt. Pleasant,.Michigan 48859
Monday, February 17, 1975
Misunderstanding!
Campus to get violations bureau?
, by CHARLES GAMBLE
CM LIFE Reporter
Two    misunderstandings    between the city of Mt. Pleasant and the"*
University    may    lead    to    the
establishment of a parking violations
bureau on campus.
A recommendation to establish
the violations bureau for tickets
issued on the CMU campus may be
made to President William B. Boyd
later this month if the misunderstandings •• aren't resolved, according to Jerry Tubbs, vice
president of Business and Finance.
TUBBS PERSONALLY
delivered a letter Tuesday to Bill
Barron s, Mt. Pleasant city manager,
asking Barrons " to discuss the
matter,
The letter concerns two
.misunderstandings between the city
of^Mt. Pleasant and the University.
The first deals with a contract made
between the city and the University
in February* 1969 and a later
amendment to that contract in
February 1971. The second concerns
the amount of time it takes the Mt.
Pleasant municipal violations
bureau to request warrants for
parking violators, Tubbs said.
"The letter will cause him
(Barrons) to have a meeting with us
or dump the matter in our laps,"
Tubbs said.
The contract placed the city of
Mt. Pleasant in charge of collecting
fines from parking tickets issued on
the CMU campus. The contract is a
continuing agreement between the
city and the University and may be
broken by either party after 60 days
notice, according to City Clerk
Charles Deibel.
In 1971, an amendment was
added to the contract stating the
City of Mt. Pleasant would return to
the University $6,000 for expenses
incurred in the issuing of the tickets.
The city paid the $6,000 in 1971
through 1973, according to Deibel;
but   last   year,   Deibel   said,   "the
auditor approached us and said 'how
come   you   are   paying  this?   The
agreement   doesn't   say   you   have
to.' "
"THE ORIGINAL intention was
for the city to pay $6,000 a year to
cover the cost of enforcement, (pay
for student officers) and they even
asked us to pay for the cost of the
, tickets," Tubbs said. "In July of 1974
they wrote us and said their auditors
had questioned the contract."
According to Tubbs, the letter
stated the $6,000 was to be paid only
for the year 1971. However, Tubbs
Giardini opens
reserve funds
Five student organizations will
receive funds from the $18,000
discretionary fund set up last
November with money not allocated
to student organizations, and other
requests are still pending, Patricia
Giardini, dean of students, said.
Student' organizational leaders
questioned Giardini's use of the
discretionary fund at a Student
Assembly meeting' earlier this
month.
Estimated allocations from the
reserve fund to the five
organizations are Volunteer
Organizations" Council, $500;v
Chippewa Big Brothers-Big Sisters
Program, $1,000; Associated Women
r.. Students, $400; Gay Liberation, $150
and an undecided amount to the Ski
Club.
According to Giardini the
reserve fund was set up to cover
different expenses the original
student organizational budget
requests did not include.
To petition Tor extra funding,
student organizations must apply
through the funding process used
last semester—first examination of
the request by the Funding Review
Committee (FRC), then reevaluation
and recommendation of monetary
requests are completed by the
Funding Allocation Committee
(FAC) before going to Giardini for
final approval.
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said if the whole contract was taken
in context the $6,000 was to be paid
every year to offset the cost of
writing the tickets.
"Mr. Barrons agreed and said it
would be worked out," Tubbs said. "I
wrote them a letter asking them to
give us the $6,000 in accordance with
the continuing nature of the" eon-
tract."
Tubbs said he never received a
reply from Barrons.
The Mt. Pleasant municipal
violations bureau collected $77,000
last year from parking violations. Of
that $77,000 almost $53,000^ was
collected from parking violations on-
campus.
ACCORDING TO Tubbs, the
disputed section of the contract is in
the amendment made Feb. 15, 1971.
The amendment says in J971 the city
will return to the University $6,000
to cover expenses in issuing the
tickets. "It should have said 'starting
in the year 1971'instead of 'however,
in the year 197*1 V" Tubbs said.
> "Our auditor says it waswrong,"
Barrons said. "I cannot pay
something that's not in the contract."
"I think what Mr. Tubbs is
trying to say is if that's the way it
was written, let's have a new
agreement. I'm trying to find an
answer; if there is a problem I
certainly hope we can correct it," he
added,
..   The, second,. misjinde^standingt
concerns the amount of time it takes
for   a   warrant   to   be   issued   to-
repeated parking violators.
"I HAD IN HAND three
warrants, each of which had at least
10 tickets" Tubbs said.
"I was trying to find out who
had them the longest. I first talked
to City Attorney Bill Shirley; he had
them a week. I talked to Ron
Downing, district court magistrate;
he had them a week. They left the
city offices in November of 1974.
That's 11 months the violations
bureau had them," Tubbs. said.
PHOTO COURTESY OF STEVE  PATTERSON
(See "Ticket bureau
page 10)
DOUBLE TROUBLE-Mt. Pleasant firemen battle the blaze at the Burger Chef restaurant Saturday which
gutted the building. Three minutes after returning to the station firefighters were called to extinguish a fire at
Western Islands Apartments which caused extensive damage to rooms in one of the buildings. Both fires were
located within a block of each other on Mission Street.
Busy day
Firemen battle Saturday blazes
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Firemen from the Mt. Pleasant Fire Department had their work cut out for them Saturday as
they were called to respond to two successive fires.
Firemen had just returned from a fire at the
Burger Chef restaurant, 1224 S. Mission Road, at
5:10 p.m. Saturday when three minutes later they
were called to an apartment fire at Western
Islands Apartments.
No injuries were reported at either fires, but
Hank Dell, officer-of-the-day for the fire department, said the restaurant was a complete loss. The
fire apparently was triggered by a grease fire in
the kitchen.
The cause of the fire at Western Islands,
Apartment 210, still is under investigation, according to Dell. Dell said the bedroom, where the
fire apparently began, had been gutted and the
other rooms are damaged badly. Other apartments
suffered smoke damage, he said.
Living in the apartment at the time were Ron
Mastin, Flint junior; Af Brown, Mt. Pleasant junior
and Ron Pikes, Lansing junior.
Firemen answered another call at Troutman
Hall about 7:30 p.m. Dell said, however no fire had
occurred and an alarm apparently had been set off
accidentally.
Organizing body asks Boyd's reconsideration
Association supports space requests
by PAULA PECK
LIFE Ass't. News Editor
An "appeal for reconsideration"
concerning the administrative
decision to prohibit -student
organizations use of the Gold Room
in   the    University    Center '(UC)
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Search committee
narrows list
The presidential screening committee, now in its fifth month of
meetings, "should narrow the list of candidates to between 12 and 16 by
Monday," according to Donald W, Kilbourn, committee chairman.       >
Kilbourn said the 16-mentber committee, reviewing the credentials of
more than 70 applicants for the position o,f University president, is-'*on
schedule," Thecommittee hopes to> submit to CMU's Board of Trustees a list
of at least six names for consideration by mid-April.   „ <\
Working over Christmas break to read and evaluate extensive resume
files; Kilbourn said "experience, references and academic background'* aire
among major factors considered* He added, however, no two individuals
would look at the same set of credentials in the same way, "Each person on
our committee has his own values, experiences and ideas of what makes a
good university president."
PresideritWilliam1% Boyd's resignation becomes effective June 30,
whenhe takes over thepresidency of the University of Oregon. *'
(commuter lunch room) for offices
was developed Thursday nigh't' by
the organizing Student Association
Board of Directors.
President William B. Boyd
rejected the *UO Board recom-4
mendation Student Foundation (SF)
move temporarily into the' Gold
Room until an investigation' into
different or better use of existing
space for student organizations could
be made. SF has been requesting
increased office space since
February 1974.
Charles » House, executive
assistant to the president, said he
made a follow-up investigation at
Boyd's request and consequently
recommended Boyd reject the
proposal.
Bill   Pilchak,   student   body
president, and other members of the
tentative Board of Directors decided -
to present Boyd "personally" with
the appeal for reconsideration. '
The appeal cites  six  primary
reasons for increased office space. ;
They   are    increased    enrollment, /
overcrowed  studeht organizational
offices,       rapid       growth       Of
organizations     (Chippewa     Big
Brother-Big    Sister    Program),
organizations   with   no   offices. .
'(Residence  Hall  Assejribly  and
Married  Students  Council)  and
organizations with only temporary
housiiig   (Organization - for   Black
Unity,   Chicanes   Organized   for
Progress   and    Action1 and    Gay
Liberation).
"WE, THE MRTICIPANTS nf
the organizing Student Association,
find a decision not to expand student
organizations' office space into the
Gold Roont is in direct conflict with
the facts and continues to postpone a
very ; apparent, ever-growing
probleW the resolution states.
The resolution also recommended expansion of student offices
into one or more of four areas—the
Gold Room, the Little Union, the
Michigan High School Coaches Hall
of Fame and housing offices on the
second floor of the UC (with
relocation of those offices to -the
Little Union or   elsewhere).
The organizational Student
Association meeting also included
tentative decisions concerning the
inclusion of a veterans seat on the
Board of Directors.        ,
Pilchak, student body
president, cited the large number of
veteran students (about 800) as
Criteria for a board seat.
' A seat on the Board has been
accepted tentatively by the Greeks,
but funding problems will have to be
worked out, according to Pilchak,
Warren senior. Greeks now pay
$3.50 per semester to the In-
terfraternity Council or .the
Panhellenic   Council to finance rush.
Under the Student Association
concept, either the fee would be
dropped and rush Would- be funded
by the Greek budget from the
Association, .fund or the Greeks
would retain the fee and be funded
for special projects only,
THE M IN O R I T Y
Organizational Council (MOO also
absent at the meeting, has tenatively
accepted the seat On the Board.
Previously, MOC had threatened to
boycott the Student Association if it
was not given "at least two seats."
AWS and the Women's Health and
Information Project (WHIP) now
will share a seat on the Board, instead of separate seats, as originally
planned, because of the MOC
dispute.
The problem of determining
what organizations fit under Small
Organizations Council (SOC) was
discussed by the Board. The consensus of the group was * arty
organization not meeting all criteria
established for Board seat
qualification would be represented
by the SOC representative.
The   criteria,  established   two
weeks ago, are:
1. Seats are limited to student
organizations registered in the
Student Affairs Office and which
provide a service to the campus
community.
2. Board members are drawn to
represent discernable constituencies
and definable interests of the
student body.
3. Board members must 'be
matriculated students.
A projection of services each
organization will be able to include
and develop because of Association
funding was requested by Pilchak, in
order to begin advertising the
Student* Association concept.
Two plead guilty
to larceny charges
Two Herrig Hall residents pled guilty to simple larceny Wednesday in
76th District Court. '      '
Dann Manz, Roscommon sophomore, and John Michel, Detroit
sophomore, were arrested Wednesday morning by officers of the Department of Public Safety (DPS) for breaking into automobiles in a CMU parking
lot,
, DPS officers received a call at 12:06 a.m. Wednesday that two subjects
Were going through cars at parking lot 33, a parking lot for Barnes Hall
residents, -*'      '
Both Manz and. Michel were apprehended and a subsequent investigation by DPS recovered an estimated $1,500 in stolen property.
The stolen property included sporting equipment, four tape* decks,
about 60 tapes and assorted tools. -
A pre-sentence investigation is Scheduled for Manz and Michel Tuesday
at 3:15 p.m.
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