1973-02-07; Central Michigan Life

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[Volume 54, Number 11
Central Michigan University
Wednesday, February 7, 1973*
Second forum tonight
Students react to
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SOPHS IN DORMS~St\xient Body President Tim Koran, Southhaven senior, talks tor a moment with
Albert S. Miles, vice president of Student Affairs concerning the possible sophomore residency
requirements. About 40 students turned out for the open forum Monday afternoon.
. Administrators met with
student leaders and Greek
organizations Tuesday afternoon to
discuss possible alternatives to an
impending sophomore requirement
to live in the dorms next year.
Albert S. Miles, vice president
of Student Affair si George Jennings,
Housing Programs director and
Susan Repp, Jennings' assistant,
met first with leaders of student
organizations.
"We want to talk about alternatives," Miles explained. "That's
why we've asked you for your help.
We must fill the dorms but we want
to do it the fairest way possible."
The bonds on the dorms are of a
self-liquidating nature which means
a minimum amount must be paid
each year.
"When we talk about paying off
these bonds we're talking a
minimum of 5,500 students in the
dorm to keep the dorms financially
solvent," Jennings said.
Robert Kohrman, Chemistry,
addressed the student leaders on the
possibility  of residential  colleges.
Heated reaction at   dorm   hearing
By Cindy Helms
LIFE Staff Writer
To reach the bulk of students
vho would be affected by the
Isophomore residence requirement,
another open forum to discuss the
problem will take place tonight in
The Towers residence hall complex.
At       Monday's        student-
bdministrator   assembly   in the .
Jniversity Center (Ij;C):,.Audit(oriwm, f
Itudents displayed heated reaction
lo the proposal to make on-campus
jiving mandatory  for  sophomores.
Many indicated it is unfair for
(them to have to take responsibility
for the University's problem.
"It's a bunch of crap," one
student shouted. Another asked,
"Why should we suffer because the
administration goofed the whole
thing (budgeting) up?"
The majority of* complaints dealt
with meals, expenses and rules. •
Albert Miles, vice president of
Student Affairs, indicated the ad-
miniBtrat]on inay. be forced to adopt
viable alternative is offered.
Working with students to make
dorms more attractive is the best
one he has heard so far, he said.
He  had   to   remind   students,
amidst the complaints, that the
forum was just to give them a chance
to suggest alternate solutions.
Director of Housing Programs,
George Jennings, outlined • some
ideas presently being considered.
One goal is to keep board and room
rates from skyrocketing.
Regarding food services,
Jennings suggested there could be a
greater time spread for me'als and
nypi-e monetary differenpj? jp fhjj
meal options, with variation in their
structures.
Cable TV seems a very probable
innovation,   and   he   expects   the
alcohol policy to be liberalized.
Better educational opportunities and residential learning
centers were other suggestibns.
Figures compiled from a random
student survey indicate that without
the requirement there would be
1,496 sophomores in the dorms in
Fall 1973, making the total of dorm
occupants 5,308.
"Residential colleges are similar
to the situation we havem Larzelere
with the Honors Program. Students
not only live in the dorms but attend
certain classes there also.
"The impression we've gotten
from Larzelere residents is quite
favorable," Kohrman said. "We could
use this for pre-law, pre-med, science
or ecology students. It has "exciting
possibilities." . '
Brad Wick,' Grand Rapids
sophomore and Student Government
vice president, asked, "How many do
you think we could interest in this
type of a set up?" '
"We could try more than one
area of study to a dorm. For
example, have several interdisciplinary studies located near
each Other so that if there, was a
speaker or advisor, everyone from a
related field could take advantage of
that person and not have to go across
campus to get information."
Kohrman explained that many
universities now employ residential
colleges.
"Our intent is not to restrict the
students but rather to offer them
alternatives so they will want to
return to the dorms. This situation
could really be "an educational
climate," Miles said.
"We want to accentuate the
positive and that's why we're going
to the students to get their feelings
about viable alternatives that could
work and would make students want
to live in the dorm," he continued.
Discussion also centered around
better food preparation, apartment-
type living, disbanding the system of
resident' assistants and allowing
alcohol in the recreation rooms and
lobbies.   Widening   the   choice   of
lifestyles was also explored.
Miles, Jennings and Repp then
met with Greek organizations who
have, as Miles termed it, "a very
special interest in housing
regulations." ;
"We realize that this could be a
life or death matter for fraternities
and sororities because you draw sp
much from the sophomore
population," Miles said.
"We realize it's a bad idea to you
to require sophomores to live in the
dorm and we know-how it will affect
you," Jennings said. "You're getting
commitments from students right
now who are signing contracts to live
in the sorority or fraternity house
and this-may mean trouble if we
require sophomores to return to the
dorms." ;
One fraternity member said,
"Fraternities and sororities are
already in a tight spot. Why? First of
all, because of the 18-year-old
drinking age which means more
students get together at a bar rather
than joining a fraternity and
secondly, the University has become
more lenient. Either way we lose arid
this will be even worse."
A sorority member pointed out
that 35 to 40 per cent of her group's
membership comes from the
sophomore class.
"Right now we have deferred
rush," said Jane McNamara, Delta
Zeta advisor.
"Freshmen are eliminated from
rush because of the residency
requirement for them. Then if you
take the sophomores, we have them
possibly for a year or a year and half
at the most because of student
teaching."
WIC leaves AWS?
Hypnotherapy; aid
to the psychologist
By Nancy Clay
LIFE Staff Writer
"Listen to me. I want you to
npletely relax." Thus it begins.
j)r. Charles P.Poole, certified con-
lulting psychologist, attempts to
lelp one of his patients -by. hypnotherapy.
Poole presently has offices in
Flint and at 901 Watson Road in Mt.
peasant.
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Dr. Charles P. Poole
To be hypnotized is to be in a
state of complete relaxation, comparable to a deep sleep, according to
Poole.
Poole first tried hypnosis while
he was- a graduate student at
Harvard in 1921 and since then has
hypnotized hundreds of people.
"Hynotherapy has a wonderful
value if handled discreetly," he says.
"I engage in it advisedly and never
take a clinical case without first
clearing with the patient's medical
doctor."
Poole uses hypnotherapy to help
individuals who are unable to bring
particular imbalances to. the surface.
. Through hypnotherapy, Poole
has tried to help people overcome
such problems as shocking,
alcoholism, losing weight, childbirth,
reducting phobias and anxieties and
• many others.
"There are many unknown
variables in hypnosis. It is dangerous
for unskilled! people toNwork with it,"
Poole says.
He,tells of a novice who had
successfully hypnotized another
person but was unable to awaken his
subject and they both panicked.
Not everyone can be hypnotized
and those who can have degrees of
receptability, according to Poole. It
may take from five to 30 minutes to
hypnotize someone, he says.
To be hypnotized successfully,
Poole feels a patient must be of
normal intelligence, have complete
faith in his doctor and have a desire
to be hypnotized.
Poole once hypnotized an
athlete before he was to participate
in a track meet.-The boy threw the
shot-put farther than he ever had
before and won the contest, according to his coach, Lyle Bennett.
"This was due to his relaxed state,"
Poole feels that people normally
will not do things while in a hypnotic
state that they would not do in
waking life.
Although Poole has never tried
it, he thinks that if someone was left
in a hypnotic state without being
awakened, the person would wake
up by himself.
orm dwellers determine
rates for coming year
Room and board rates for the'
P'ng year may do'one of three
|tog& Jerry R. Tubbs, vice
Resident of Business and Finance
iPorts,
.   Depending on the number of
Nents living in dorms next fall,
|t*s could go down, stay the same,
Wwesse, Tubbs says.
H■■the dorms fill to capacity
m* exists a possibility that roomr
* board would go down between
and $40, according to Tubbs.
Should only 5,500, or 800 less
Pn capacity sign up for dorm oc-
muf, rates might Increase as
much as $25, he adds.
There is also the chance rates
will stay the same, Tubbs says.
' In the last three years room and
board has gone up a total of $94 or
8.8 per cent. If costs rise $25 for the
1978-4 academic year, it would mean
an increase of 2.2 per cent, Tubbs
figures.
A drbp in fates of $40 with 6,000
students would equal $25 million
while a $25 boost would provide
$150,000 in additional funds to the
University. 	
Money losses to the University
become self-liquidating at present
rates when 5,500 people live on
campus. Tubbs calls that "the breakeven point."
.He explains every 100 dorm
residents, over the break-even point
represents a profit for the
University.
.The profit is realized because
direct food costs remain 'relatively
the same at those levels. Excess
room and hoard money is used to pay
additional interest on the $33 million
worth of bonds the University is
presently paying off* "That makes
the bonding company happy," Tubbs
remarks,
By Diane Doppke
LIFE Staff Writer
After presenting a list of nine
grievances to the Associated Women
Students (AWS) Council last night,
Women's Information Center (WIC)
volunteers announced that as of Feb.
12 WIC may become an independent
organization.
Nancy Grosvenor, Lansing
senior and WIC coordinator,' explained WIC's reasons for considering withdrawal.
"WIC is presently listed as an
organization in the. student . handbook, yet, as an ad hoc committee,
we are under the rule of AWS. A lot
of the volunteers do hot even feel
associated with AWS. ■
"Most of our grievances are
organizational hassles, such as not
being able to set up our own hours. A
lot of tension in WIC has been
building up over a -lot of little
decisions."
Listed first in their list of
grievances, WIC charged they were
not allowed to give counseling in the
WIC offices.
"WIC is a very progressive
organization," Grosvenor said.
"Counseling should not be done in
secret. Because of the location of our
office, women and men can walk in
and ask to talk to us but we know
that it is against the structure of
AWS.'
-"However,   when   a   woman
" comes  in   here  pleading  for  help
because  she  is frightened  of her
pregnancy, I cannot turn her away."
Other grievances include not
being allowed to pick their own
coordinator, questions over
dispersing of funds and not
recognizing two men, who have
worked for WIC, as AWS members,
s "We've really done a lot of soul-
searching on this. It is not a fly-by-
night decision. We don't in any way
want to slander AWS, hut we are a
..very progressive orgapization and
must appeal to students. Otherwise,
we wouldn't have so many calls,"
Grosvenor added*
.- She also said that the failure of
AWS "to recognize'Women's Health
Project as intertwined with WIC is
another reason for their considering
withdrawal;
"We work very closely with the
Women's Health Project, but AWS
will not recognize it. Basically, we
are  questioning  a  lot  of  AWS's
principles, such as who they
'represent."
AWS Council members reacted
with mixed feelings to WIC's
decisions.
"I don't walit to see WIC pull-
out, but it looks like they will no
matter what we decide," commented
Nancy  Burns,  Grayling freshman.
Leone Weber, AWS advisor,
asked why no one in AWS knew
about the grievances.
"Up until tonight no one «ven
knew about this," she said. "If they
had all these grievances why didn't
they say so?"
The1 majority of the council
members were willing to resolve the
grievances if WIC would stay a part
of AWS.
"We aren't looking for AWS's
approval," Grosvenor commented.
"We've already checked into
becoming an independent
organization and we will be able to
get funds from the University
because they feel that we are a
worthwhile organization. If we still
need more money to continue, then
we will ask for donations.
"We are asking, though, to keep
our space in the University Center
and our phone number because we
have become established and people
know where to firid us. This is not
just my decision but the decision of
the entire WIC council."
WIC began as a referral center
under AWS in No. 1971. At that time
its goals were to present information
about abortion and prevention of
pregnancy. Since then it has expanded its services to become a
people's information center for both
men and women.
WIG will meet with AWS Feb. 9
at 4 p.m. to discuss possible alternatives. A meeting place has not yet
been decided.
AWS-WIC-Jeah Massberg, Howell junior (left) and Chris Thompson,
Muir junior, look over the Women's Information Center's (WIC) nine
grievances as Peggy Simmons, Battle Creek junior and Associated
Women Students (AWS) president listens intently to discussion. WIC
members presented their grievances as reason for breaking away from
the- auspices of AWS.
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