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Volume 55 No, 50
Centr^rMt^bigan.-Universi^.Mt^PleasanVMichigan 48859
Friday, January 31, 1975
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Black out!
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Water leakage causes
15-hour power failure
by KATHY JENNINGS
CM LIFE Reporter
A short circuit in a 12,500 volt
cable |eft 4,000 dorm residents and
300 families in apartments without
electricity for 15 hours Wednesday.
A leak in a splice between two
cables allowed water into the cables
resulting in the short circuit at 9:30
a.m. Wednesday, according to R.
Burney Long, Physical Plant
director.
High voltage electrical workers
were called in from Reed City to
repair the splice.
The splice was repaired by 5:45
p.m. Wednesday and power was
restored to the Towers for about 3
minutes. However, turning on the
electricity caused a terminal to blow
up, causing a major short circuit
which dimmed lights all over Mt.
Pleasant, according to Long.
Long said electricians  believe
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when water leaked into the splice,
moisture was sucked into the terminal causing it to shatter when the
electricity was turned on. It took
until 12:30 a.m. to install the new
terminal.
THE SOUTH END of
campus, including Merrill, Sweeney,
Beddow, Thorpe, Saxe, Herrig,
Woldt, Emmons, Cobb, Carey,
Wheeler and Troutman Halls,
Keewadin Village, Washington
Apartments and Rose Center, was
blacked out.
Both the junior varsity and
varsity basketball games were
cancelled and all classes in Rose
Center during the day were called
off.     ;
An emergency generator
powered two boilers which create
steam for heat. The fans, which
circulate the warm air through the
building, are electrically powered,
(See "Power Fails" page 5)
CM LIFE PHOTO BY JOHN THOMPSON
TROUBLESHOOTING -Physical Plant workers worked to uncover a manhole near the Towers, looking for a
faulty electric cable that caused the blackout Wednesday,
Students study, party
when power fails
CM LIFE PHOTO BY RICK McKAY
ROMANTIC?—Students on the south side of campus were forced to
eat dinner by candlelight Wednesday night because of a 15-hour
blackout.
by KATHY JENNINGS
CM LIFE Reporter
Students without electricity'did
everything from partying down in
the dark to studying in the well-lit
Library Wednesday night.
Dave Shirley, reference
librarian, worked from 6 to 10 p.m.
Wednesday night and said he
believed every seat in the library
was filled.
BUT IN EMMONS, according to
Dave Sinclair, Edmore freshman,
residents were throwing water at
the girls in Woldt and partying in the
halls. "I like it better in the dark. I
"We're going crazy without music, there are about 40
guys singing in the hall. It's hard to have a party
without music so we started a sing-along"^-Mark
Shobe, South fieldsophomore.
wish I could find a way to keep it like
this," Sinclair said.
Many students missed their
stereos and radios and said the
dorms were a lot quieter.«
"The only things you can use are
the telephone and the toilet," Andrea Dickey, Grosse Be freshman,
said.
"We're   going   crazy   without
Ignores University request
Milliken sets CMU budget
The University's request for
more funds due to a projected increase in enrollment was ignored by
Gov. William G. Milliken in his
budget recommendations for 1975-
76, according to Arthur Ellis, vice
president for public affairs.
Ellis said this was the most
significant thing coming out of the
recommendations, which were
released Thursday.
The University had requested
funds for an additional 700 students
because enrollment applications for
next year have increased 30 per cent
from last year.
Central was allocated $21,473
million, a $1.4 million increase from
last year. However, because'part of
that is a carryover from, last year's
budget, Ellis said the increase ac-^-
tUal.ly is only about $1 million.'
Earlier in  the  year,  Milliken
Two students
arrested
Two Saxe Hall residents were
arrested Thursday by Department
of Public Safety (DPS) officers and
charged with possession of
marijuana.
David Boeicke, Stevenaville
sophomore and Timothy Perry,
Southgate sophomore, were
arraigned Thursday morning at 10
a.m. in 76th District Court. A
hearing was postponed until Monday
at 1:30 p.m. to allow the students to
consult an attorney,
required Universities to cut their
budgets by 1 per cent'to save for the
next year. Later, an additional .5 per
cent was cut making the total
carryover 1.5 per cent, in Central's
case about $306,000.
Ellis said this does not
necessarily mean Central will have
to decrease its enrollment for next
year. ,
"It doesn't mean anything yet,"
Ellis said. He explained the budget
must be passed by the legislature
before implementation.
In the past few years, he said,
the legislature ha'sn't paid any attention ta the Governor's recommendations. Ellis doesn't think it will
be any different this year.
In" Milliken's budget recommendation for Central, he allowed
for funds for the new education
television' station, WCML TV.-
Channel 6, $1.1 million for the construction of a new general building
services building and. appropriations
for the renovation of Warriner Hall.
music," Mark Shobe, Southfield
sophomore, said. "There are about
40 guys singing in the hall. It's hard
to have a party without music so. we
started a sing-along."
"IT'S FUNNY to go to the
bathroom by candlelight," Madelyn
Baker, Utica sophomore, said.
Desk workers did not have too
many problems, but they heard a lot
of wise craclcs, "People keep asking
me 'isn't it romantic?'" Debbie
Brown, Mt. Pleasant freshman, said.
Beddow desk worker Robi
Thomas, Ohio junior, said you had to
get right under a candle to count
change.
At the Thorpe desk a worker
said" he   had  gotten  requests  for
candles and women. Neither were
available at the desk, however.
IN BEDDOW a few guys were
walking through the halls with
aluminum foil on their heads, according to Paula Peck, Plymouth
sophomore. They were hiding in
corners to grab and scare people, she
said.
John Holmes, Dearborn freshman, said he didn't mind being
without electricity. "We had to ban
the beer out the window because it
was getting warm in the refrigerator
and we also missed the Three
Stooges, but it's not too bad," he
said. Chuck Pelham, Hopkins
sophomore, said he missed the
pinball machines.
"You can't study and you lose all
track of time without clocks. I keep,
flicking the light switch," Bob Dates,
Ann Arbor-senior, said. "It makes
you realize how • much you take
electricity for granted."
"oil the inside
Should he profit, frotri criiries?
Some
ethics of Dean's talk
John W. Dean III
by DAVID N.BRABOY
CM LIFE Reporter
Is it ethical to permit John
Dean,'recently released Watergate
conspirator, to lecture at Central?
' That question has been raised in the
wake of an announcement Dean will
speak in Rose Center Thursday at, 8
p.m.
IN A RECENT CM LIFE informal poll of Central students,
faculty and administrators, opinions
about Dean's upcoming lecture have
ranged from complete agreement he
should be paid for" his talk to a firm
belief a convicted criminal should be
denied payment for describing his
illegal experiences.
The   poll   also   revealed   the
following:
,    — Nearly all1 students questioned ,
said Dean/has the right to speak.
—A majority of the students
opposed to Dean's payment are
. planning on paying the $1 admission
charge in order, according ,to a
nearly unanimous response, "to hear
what the man has to say about
Watergate."
—AH faculty instructors interviewed said the Dean lecture .will
be an excellent educational opportunity to listen to a national
newsmaker on a first-hand basis.
However, some persons weren't
thinking of education.
Debbie Werner, Blpomfield
Hills sophomore, said, "I don't see
why he was released from jail in the
first place, t don't think he should be
paid because of all'the misery he put
the country through with
. Watergate.'-'
Mark Sisson, Imlay City freshman, commented, "I don't think a
person should benefit for committing
a crime. I don't feel it's right."
ACCORDING TO Jeff O'Dell,
Davison junior, paying Dean' to
* lecture is a necessary incentive. "I
don't think he'd come if he wasn't
paid," he noted, "so I guess we'd
have to pay to have him lecture
here."
Dave Pearson, Oxford junior, is
strongly rigainst paying Dean to
Speak. "I won't attend Dean's
performance," he said, "due to the,
fact I'm tired of the Watergate
controversy and I don't feel Dean
should be making money off of the
situation." t        '
Several students presented
opposite arguments concerning
Dean's payment. Dennis Story,
Jackson, Miss, freshman, said he
believes the University is right in
paying Dean.   '
"It seems to me," fee said, "that
he knows a lot of what went on in
Watergate. So if we pay him to
speak, and if his information is
correct, then I believe it's all rightiV
Scott Tack, Grosse lie freshman, said, "I'll go because I want to
hear what the crook has to say about
the other crooks."
A number of other students said
Dean should be paid like any other
guest speaker.
Ray Laakaniemi, assistant
professor of journalism, said Dean's
talk- ''will be a good experience for
the students to see a national
newsmaker in person." Various
other CMU teachers expressed
similar opinions.
LAAKANIEMI ADDED, "I
think he should speak here, but the
fee we're paying is outrageous, In
many respects it's a rip-off because
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