1974-02-06; Central Michigan Life

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Volume 55 No. 53
Central Michigan University, Mff, Pleasant, Michigan 48859
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n fund allocation
by TERRI BURKHARDT
LIFE Staff Writer
Student Senate accepted a
jiodified version of the resolution
pertaining to Senate allocating funds
student organizations Monday
ht with one senator walking out
lecause of the "way it "was
presented."
The original resolution, in-
roduced by off-campus Senatpr Cam
[)avis, was referred to .Committee A
;the Jan. 21 Senat'e meeting. When
committee gave its report
londay, th'ey included the modified
iersion  with  the   recommendation
Iver-riding its chairman  3-1,  that.
|enate accept it, since it was "not
hat different from, the old one;
nstead it was just a rephrasing of
|he same motion."
Committee chairman Steve
Javis, Wheeler Hall senator, said,
|Cam (Davis) told you to get up and
Lay that. The committee never saw
the modified version until tonight
Lnd then there was a hoax of a
Committee meeting with you people
deciding to recommend it. Not even
ill the committee members are here
to decide on it. Senate would be
foolish to accept it on these
grounds." He then left the meeting.
"Th,e three-point proposal still
iemains intact, but instead of
lemanding that Senate !be the fund
Illocating body we are asking it,"
}ff-Campus Senator Davis ex-
llained. '*
"I think the only hope Student
(Senate has to becorne a Yiable.
flganization^and representative ofr
lie students is through this means?
le are suppdsed to be the body on
lampus, to represent the* students,
lnd we are in the position to tell
khich organizations the students
vant strengthened or phased out,"
he continued.
In other action Senate:
—Approved,a.resolution calling
for the establishment of a Senate »
Executive Board consisting of the
president, vice:president and
treasurer of Student Government,-
the president pro-tem of Senate and
three Senators, to set agendas land
schedule Senate meetings. The three
student senators serving on the
board include Woldt Senator Liz
Lentz, off-campus Senator Pat
Schulte and off-campus Senator Bill.
Pilchak., '   ,"\
—Passed a resolution calling lor
the president of the student body to
propose a "Student Government
budget for the remainder of tjhe 73-
.74 academic year with Senate approval. .
—Established'a committee with
Lentz  as  chairman, to  investigate
proportional   representation    in^
Senate, •
— Appropriated $50 for the
purpose of joining the National
Institute  of Student  Governments
—Approved two students, Mark
Hanner, Jackson senior and Jim
Cunningham, Jackson sophomore, as
Central representatives to the
National Student Lobby Conference
Fe'b. 22 to 27.
The following resolutions were
referred to committees:   '
—That Student Senate allocate
$250 to coyer the cost of implementation of the proposed
Student Body Constitution if it
ultimately is accepted by Student
Senate.       * '       ,
—That Student, Senate support
the request of the Public Interest
Research:- iGrojip,.;; iw«'/Mi^higjt:ri*
(PlRGiM) '|that a referendum be
held in conjunction with pre,-
registration for the fall semester in
April to determine student opinion
on the group the establishment of a
local chapter of the group ..."
Wednesday, February 6, 1974
's assistant
to take leaye,
finish doctorate
Charles House, executive
assistant to President William B.
Boyd, announced Monday he will
take an educational.leave to finish'
his doctoral program.
"I made the decision- suddenly,"
House said. "It was.simply that, for
the first time, I had a chance to sit
back and see where I was going. I
decided it was now or never."
House will finish his dissertation
for an administration and higher
education doctorate at Michigan
State University. "I've been working
on it on a piece meal basis since
he said.
Donald Kilbourn,  professor of
CM LIFE PHOTO BY PAM NEILL
NO LINES AT THE POLLS-Voting began at 9 a.m. Tuesday for vacant Student Senate seats, but by noon
only 1;9 students had voted. All CMU students are eligible to vote, though there was little response throughout"
thcaay. ,
Robinson Hall refuses
to participate in elections
by TERRI BURKHARDT
LIFE Staff Writer
The_ Robinson" Hall Dorm
Council voted 6-3 not to participate
in the Student Government Senate
elections and refused to allow
Student. Government polls in the
dorm for the election of Robinson
senators.
The decision came at a Monday
night   emergency   dorm   council
meeting.    Senate    elections    were
Tuesday and Robinson was the only
dorm   with   a   contested   race   for
vacant Senate seats.     .       /
'■"fr^&iA&Wt^lSm ,   has!    not;.
recognized Student Government for'
almost a year due to an  incident
Which occurred during last spring's
Student Body President elections.
Ballots destroyed?
At that time Robinson residents
roposals made to improve
omen's athletics program
the
(Editor's Note: The following is
first of two articles in a series
eating first with a study^by an
nglish class' of women's athletic
olicies and then with the reactions
f organizations and officials in-
olved.) ' .
by JIM WITTEBOLS
LIFE Staff Writer
Scholarships for women athletes
nd 'equal use of' facilities for
omen's as well as men's teams
ere two proposals an English/101
submitted after studying the
roblem of women's athletics last
emester.
\ The study, under the direction
f David L. Hay, assistant "professor
English, was a. class project
itiated to improve research and
riting techniques. The study in-
icated there is no scholarship
rogram for women's athletics at
MU.
Comparison     of     the   ' two
^rational  budgets   indicates'  the
en's  department  gets  about   12
iimes as  much  support   in   dollar
[erms as  women's .at $105,000  tq
,500.
Beyond that, men's scholarships
r athletics totaled 10 per Cent 6f
money Financial Aids Office
llocates, $102,689, as opposed to the
omen's department which received
o scholarships, according to >the
Report. "V
The report also indicated no
other Michigan college has
scholarships for women's athletics.
Adrian and Alma Colleges are not
permitted to give athletic schpK
arships to men or women because
they belong to the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic' Association
which doesn't permit athletic
scholarships of any kind, according
to the report.
Ferris State 'College doesn't
offer athletic scholarships of any
kind, according to a survey the
students took of Michigan schools.
Other schools surveyed, such as the
University of Michigan, Michigan
State, Eastern and Western-
Michigan Universities and' - Lake
Superior State College offer athletic
scholarships to men but not to
women.
Students compiling the study
also took a random opinion survey of
200 students at CMU. Results indicated 79 per cent of the students
questioned favored women's athletic :
scholarships while 21 per cent did
'not. Seventy-eight per cent favored
and 22 per cent opposed equal rights
for women's athletics; 69.5} per cent'
of the students felt, women.'s athletic
programs should be proportional to
men's and 31.5 per cent-did hot.
The study proposed an athletic
board composed of an equal number
of women and men From .the athletic
departments, along with student
representatives, be set , up. The
board's purpose would be to decide
how the money from the athletic
budget would be divided.
Another proposal provides for
the establishment of a scholarship
program for women athletes if the
program for men is to be continued.
Extra money for adequate
officiating of events and transportation, plus the necessity of
equal sharing of facilities between
men and women also were proposed
by the study.
1 The study and proposals were
sent to various campus officials and
organizations.'
claim "half of our ballots were
destroyed when the ballots were
counted off-campus. They lost the
key to the ballot box and instead of
unscrewing the top they just
reached inand pulled the ballots out.
We question the way Student
Government was run last year and
again this year." •■
Elections Director Steve
Salowitz/Warren senior, was at the
/ emergency meeting. "Just because
you were upset with the Presidential
elections last year and there was
something wjj^g^.^ith.;tIi.e.t.eI^ctions
process, which has been totally
revamped, why penalize all Student
Senate on account of it?" Salowitz
■ asked.
"You have two guys running for
the office and between them their
petitions have 121 signatures. You
say the dorm council voted against
recognizing Student Government
but is itTeally representative of the
hall?" Salowitz continued.
Several members of the
Robinson Hall Dorm Council pointed
out the council provided true
representation because any resident
could be a, voting member of the
council if he came to two meetings.
Robinson not hurt
."I don't see how we are beihg
hurt by not , being in Student
Government, we have sponsored
several projects as a dorm. We were
in Senate before and it didn't do us
any good. We have helped out the
campus just as much, if not more,
without Senate," said council
member Steve Washburn, Reed City
senior.
"I don't feel that not being in
Senat'e has hurt us at all; maybe we
can start a domino theory effect. If
people see we can do without Senate
then maybe other 'dorms will do
away'with it too until something new
is established," said Council
President lien Warren, Perry
sophomore.
Salowitz offered the dorm
council the option of postponing the
elections in Robinson for a week and
presenting both sides to all residents
so they could find out how many
people did want Student Government representation in the dorm.
Later Council member Pete Holmes,
.,* Oxford sophomore, madesatmotion to
Hhat effect.
It- was rejected, however,
because "it would establish a
precedent and probably ruin the
dorm council."
"What it all boils down to," said
Washburn, "is who is the voice of
Robinson Hall?"
"Th<e people who wanted
Student Government could have
come down here tonight. The Dorm
, Council is the voice of the dorm. If
we go around asking the residents if
they want to recognize Student
Government when we already have
decided, it will hurt all the decisions
we make in the future," Washburn
continued.
"If the people cared they would
be here; if they aren't here then they
don't jgive a damn," he said.      s
Wheji Student Body President
Rick Marshall heard of Robinson's
decision, he. indicated since there
: was some interest in Senate elec-'
tions in that dorm, it might be
possible to have a special election
later in the week at the University
Center with Robinson residents
showing meal cards before voting.
Charles House
counseling, will replace House "The
initial inquiry was made last week,"
Kilbourn said.
"I think Professor' Kilbourn's
long concern for civil rights, made
him a natural for the job," Boyd said.
House has been working on the
affirmative action' program for
•Central, a plan to eliminate
discrimination.     „
"Kilbourn will have the same
role House had before he left," Boyd
Donald Kilbourn
said. Kilbourn will take over
House's role as affirmative acti6n coordinator.
Kilbourn still will spend some
time in the Counseling Center, Boyd
said. "He has a few clients he will
continue with until they are finished
with him. It'll hardly affect his job."
House expects to return July 1.
Mentard pick-ups paper
Dorms donate to recycling project
'Save
on the i
Credit, no-credit not as popular-page 3
'Ricards Augustus vs. King William'-page 4
'The Shadow' returns to CMU radio-page 9
Curious about income tax forms?-page 11
tagers roil past Northern-page 12
a '     tree->Recycle,
Newspapers Here" reads the green
and white sign on a laundry cart in
Calkins' .lobbyi •,
Laundry carts 'donated s by the
University are collection centers for
not only newspapers but magazines,
and cardboard. ,
/    Dorm > pick-ups   are    every
Thursday.
IBM   centers   in   Warriner,
jPearce, Foust, and Grawn halls are
on ,. the  collection  list,  along  with -
Wightma'n Hall.
' A drop box is available,
beginning,Thursday in the south end
of parking lot 20 near the Towers. '
This semi-trailer w'ill be manned ,9
a.m. to noon every Thursday and
Saturday.     ;,/"'• ''    '
The campus recycling program
was begun by Volunteers for
Recycling (VFR). VFR received
University apprpvaland acceptance
into the Volunteer 'Organizations
Council .in November* Since then
collection carts have been set tip in
residence halls with, representatives
'from   each   dorm . responsible   for
notifying VFR whenever a pick-up is
needed, and seeing papers are
bundled and tied.
Pick-ups are scheduled with
Mentard, a newly-formed Mt.
Pleasant. association providing jobs
for the mentally cetarded through
paper recycling.
Duane Bouliew, Mentard
founder, describes - his purpose as
giving jobs to * mentally retarded
individuals residing in the community.
-Bouliew and his one  full-time-
employee   operate  two   vans   and
store'.papers in the Chicory building,
on W. Pickard Avenue.
Paper    is . transported    to
Friedland -Iron    and    Metal'  Co.,
Lansingl where ink is removed, and '
the   pulp As    turned    back    into .
newsprint, according to Bouliew.
"Mentard operates eight hours a
day, six days a week and in its first
seven weeks of operation processed '
137,890 pounds of paper," Bouliew
said at a recenjt meeting of the VFR.
'•<     " Ar,*^T*T-v5r"rtil2r Jl W p'ri'i
were collected January 12 of which
over 9,000 was newspaper," Bouliew
Said. As of Monday Mentard is
handling 25,000 pounds'a week.   (
In addition, to the full-time
worker, Mentard employs two
people part-time and plans on three
full-time .workers when it opens
another plant soon.
"We figure we, could handle
250,000 pounds a month depending
on campus and community
cooperation," Bouliew said.
Papers need to' be bundled and
sorted if possible because Mentard
doesn't have the labor available for
that part of the operation itself.
"Papers have to be sorted before
they ■'can be recycled," Bouliew
explains, "I realize many students
don't have-string for bundling. If so,
just putting them in a sack would be
a help."
City residents /bring their'
papers, magazines, and cardboard to
the Chicory buiiding.1 Some
businesses in Mt. Pleasant and
Shepherd also drop' off papers.
Merfcprd took over where the
■Mt.   Pleasant  League of   Women
Voters left off. Recycling began "two
years ago when the Isabella County
Citizens For Recycling collected
glass and later included newspapers
and cardboard, according to1 Cil
Lorand, a former member. ,
Recycling also saves space.
"Cardboard is a poor substance in a
landfill because it never compacts;
the Mt. Pleasant landfill has one and .
a.half years to go before it is all used
up," Bouliewcommented. The city is
.presently seeking another site.
Table lamp
causes fire
The   Department   of   Public
Safety. (DPS) said Tuesday a shaded
table lamp apparently caused the
• fire which destroyed a room in, Woldt
Hall Jan. 27,    ',
Authorities said a cloth placed to
shade the lamp apparently
overheated and ignited.
The fire caused an estimated
$15,000 damage. No one was Injured
in the blaze.    >,
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