1973-02-23; Central Michigan Life

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Volume 54, Number 18
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Central Michigan University
Friday, February 23,-1973
Trustees meet
Discuss futare campus
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By Scott Esterly
LIFE Staff Writer
CMU's Board of Trustees heard
three staff reports which included
campus crime, female faculty quotas
(see related stories) and plans for
campus beautification in its second
meeting of the semester Wednesday.
In regular action the board approved amendments to the campus
traffic ordinance, considered faculty
retirements, appointments and
resignations and granted Emeritus
status rank to four faculty members.
Over $35,000 in gifts and grants
received during January was also
accepted,
Central's manned parking lots
were officially sanctioned under
amendments td the ordinance
governing the control of parking
traffic and pedestrians1*
The amendments provide for
paid parking lots with attendants
and adoption of University decals or
vehicle permits in designated areas.
Emeritus status was granted by
the  Board  to  four  CMU  faculty
members for "faithfully serving
CMU and contributing their personal
and professional talents to its
growth and improvement."
The board expressed its ap-
preciation to Olaf W. Steg„Dean of
the School of Graduate Studies and
Hazel T. Emry, associate professor
English.
Russel Villars, manager of the
University Center (UC) Bookstore
and L. J. Ross, assistant professor of
Business Education were also
honored.
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CM LIFE photo by JCII Eaton
WALTER WIGHTMAN, CHAIRMAN of the CMU Board of Trustees, confers with President
William B. Boyd over a point under discussion at Wednesday's board meeting in the UC.
Leaves of absence with pay
were granted to: David Fisher, Art;
Frederic Messick, Library] Maureen
Mills, English; Eugene Rydahl,
Speech and Dramatic' Arts; Leroy
Sterling, Health Education; John
Weatherford, Library; and Russel
M. Ragan, physician at the
University Health Service.
Gifts for the month of January
totaled' $17,675.50 and $20,5000 in
grants were accepted.
Arthur E. Ellis, vice-president of
Public Affairs outlined progress of
the Campus Beautification Committee's study of the continuation of
Franklin Mall through to Brodmfield
Rd. and to Daniel P. Rose Center,
Franklin mall is located in back
of park Library and runs past
Brooks and Moore Halls to married .
housing. The wide black top
sidewalk replaced what was formally
a city street seven years ago,'*
reports Paparella. Increased
pedestrain traffic and more bicycles
at CMU made this improvement
necessary upon the completion of
Moore Hall in 1971.
University architect Anthony
Paparella said no contractor has
been hired by Central, but he is
working close with a Lansing ar-
chitectual firm.
"Hopefully improvements will
be complete by Fall, 1973 if all goes
well," Paparella said.
The beautification project will
follow the present layout behind
Park Library, past Brooks and
Moore Halls.
"The University will eventually
close most streets inside campus to
motor vehicles and swing toward
peripheril parking," Paparella said.
Plans for this project include
wide sweeps of black top sidewalk to
accomodate increased traffic with
the opening of the Daniel P. Rose
Center next fall.
The South Grill will also see
some improvement with the removal
of steps to make the snack bar safer
and more convenient.
"Presently the South Grill is
barely visible. We hope to provide
wide entrances and perhaps create a
ramp to meet the tremendous shift
in campus traffic predicted for Fa 11,"
Paparella said.
Thorpe and Sweeney parking
lots will have new entrances from
Washington St. and east on Ojibway,
parallel to pedestrians.
"To screen pedestrain and bicycle
traffic from automobile movement,
earth mounds will be used,"
Paparella said.
The next meeting of the Board
of Trustees will be March 6 at 2 p.m.
in the President's Council Room,
first floor of the U.C,
Trade expansion    sought
U.S.,China set up liason offices
WASHINGTON' "*(A^)'~Tlre
United States and China announced
yesterday they will establish official
governmental liaison offices in
Washington and Peking to speed up
normalization of relations between
the two countries.
The development was announced in a joint communique
issued in Washington and Peking.
Presidential aide Henry A.
Kissinger said the offices will serve
as the principal contact points on the
expansion of trade "as well as all
Other matters except the strictly
formal diplomatic aspects" of ties
between the countries.
Kissinger said the liason offices
will have full diplomatic privileges
but will in no way imply establishment of formal diplomatic relations.
Kissinger, who returned
Tuesday from four days of extensive
talks in Peking with Communist
party Chairman Mao Tse-tung and
Premier Chou En-Iai, also discolsed
that:
—Two  American  airmen  held
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Henry A. Kissinger
Prisoner by China since being shot
tywn over Chinese territory will be
leased in the next few weeks* They
are Air Force Maj, Phillip E. Smith,
* prisoner since Sept. 20,1965, and
Navy Lt. Cmdr. Robert J* Flynn,
"eld since Aug. 21, 1967.
-The life sentence of John
Thomas Downey, a Central In*
diligence Agency employee held
«nce the Korean War, will' be
reviewed in the last half of the year,
finger said he had been told
Downey's sentence could be shorted for g00a behavior and that he
**> informed Downey's conduct as a
Prisoner had been exemplary,
"'The United States has  no
immediate. pteiii 'to Withdraw M
remaining military forces from the
Chinese Nationalist island of Taiwan
but the subject will be reviewed
periodically, with decisions based
principally on Washington's
assessment of the danger of war in
the area,
-Secretary of State William P.
Rogers and Chinese Foreign
Minister Chi Peng-fei will begin
discussions in Paris next week on
settlement of private American
claims against China, totalling some
$250 million, and some $78 million of
blocked Chinese assets in the United
States. The aim will be to resolve the
issues quickly through negotiations.
The agreement to establish
liaison offices in each other's capitals
apparently was the most significant
development to come out of
Kissinger's Peking talks. He said the
two governments felt the existing
formal channel for contact through
their Paris embassies "was
inadequate."
While the heads of the two
offices will not hold formal
diplomatic titles, Kissinger said they
will enjoy full diplomatic privileges,
including the right to communicate
with (their home governments by
code.   '
The communique said Kissinger
and the Chinese "agreed that the
time was appropriate for accelerating the normalization of
relations."
To this end, they undertook to
broaden their contacts in all fields.
They agreed on a concrete program
of expanding trade as well as
scientific, cultural and other exchanges.
"To facilitate" this process, and
to improve communications, it was
agreed that m the near future each
side will establish a liaison office in
the capital of the other. Details will
be worked out through existing
channels."
Kissinger reported that, as part
of the exchange effort, China will
send to the United States next year
its priceless exhibit of archeological
artifacts housed in Peking's Forbidden City. In addition, 'three
scientific groups and a gymnastics
team will visit the United States this
year.
The United States, he said, will
send the Ph0adelphia Symphony*
groups of doctors, scientists and
elementary school teachers,
Congress members and athletic
teams to China during 1978.
Asked if the talks envisioned
^cftanges" of 'journalists, Kissinger
said he felt there was "an understanding in principle" on the
subject but that details would have
"to be worked out.
He said the Chinese expressed a
willingness to send journalists to the
United States and that American
news organizations are eager to
provide more extensive coverage of
Chinese affairs.
Responding to another question,
Kissinger said there was, no
discussion of possible American
visits by Mao, Chou or other Chinese
leaders.
Asked to give details on his talk
with Mao, Kissinger said he
could not do so, but added:
"The atmosphere was cordial.
Chairman Mao was apparently in
good health and spoke animatedly
for nearly two hours."
CM LIFE photo by ~Tf4 BlOtim
FATHER ROGER DUNIGAN and' his' fiance, Nancy Cover,
December 1972 graduate of CMU, quietly reflect on Dunigan's
resignation from his post as co-pastor of St. Mary's Chapel.
Marriage problem solved—
Dunigan leaves, parish open
By Brian HIavaty
LIFE Managing Editor
An agreement calling for Father
Roger Dunigan to leave St. Mary's,
the chapel not to be closed and the
prayer-vigil to end was reached
Wednesday said John Petras, Iparish
council president of St, Mary's.
The agreement, reached
Wednesday between Petras and
Father John Thome, head of the Mt.
Pleasant deanery and spokesman for
Bishop Francis Reh, came after
eviction papers were delivered to
Dunigan from Reh's attorney on
Tuesday.
Phone foil!
lowest utility
at $15,964.38
What would you do if your
phone bill was $15,964.38?
CMU administrators do what is
expected - they pay it.
Records show that for January
1973, CMU's-phone bill Was exactly
that.
Other monthly billings also run
high - as a matter of fact, the phone
bill is the second lowest expenditure
of all the, utilities, '
Figures released by Jerry R.
Tubbs, vice president of Business
and Finance, indicates the University's expenses for January utilities
total $107,812.36.
Natural gas cost $66,019.91;
electricity was $32,359.7$ and water
rait Up to $12,973:28 Tubbs said.
Both sides said the agreement,
was satisfactory.
The Bishop ordered the church
closed and stripped Dunigan of his
priestly faculties last Saturday after
the parish council at St. Mary's
voted to continue as a parish with
Dunigan as co-pastor.
At an open meeting Sunday
nightr members of the parish voted
to refuse to close the church and set
up a continuous prayer-vigil' Until
they would be evicted.
Dunigan was removed after his
refusal to resign over his planned
marriage this summer to Nancy
Cover, coordinator of CMU's
Student Information Center.
The terms of the eviction notice
gave Dunigan until March 23 to
leave the church grounds. He said he
will do so "as soon as normal church
services are resumed," and will live
with community families.
There may be a conflict in
resuming church Services because
Thome said Thursday night "nothing
will begin Until Dunigan leaves."
Thome said Father Stephen
Vesbit, St. Mary's co-pastor living at
the Sacred Heart rectory since
Sunday, would say mass at Sacred
Heart this Sunday. Vesbit moved to
Sacred Heart when Reh ordered St.
Mary's closed and the co-pastors to
leave. *  •
It is doubtful at this_ time
whether Father Dale LaBrie and
Father Donald Clark will be back at
the chapel for this weekends
masses, Dunigan said he will say
mass to anyone who wishes to hear it
this( Sunday if no co-pastors return.
Dunigan said LaBrie and Clark
had planned alternate masses on
campus and had posted announcements around campus so
would probably go through with
those masses.
Dunigan Said he will now go
through a church legal process called
"due process" to prove the Bishop
had no grounds to remove him
before his marriage took place. He
said he will take civil action against
the Bishop if due process breaks
down.
He will still he a priest he said,
but not in the institutional church.
"I'll say private mass," he said.
The agreement reached
Wednesday said, "Bishop Reh has
served legal papers ordering Father
Roger Dunigan to leave the premises
of St. Mary's. Father Dunigan will
respect this directive and leave.
"Out of respect for the Bishop's
action, the prayer-Vigil which was
instituted on Sunday, February
18th, will be ended and in turn
Bishop Reh, through his local
delegate Father JdBn Thome agreed
that his decree closing St. Mary's
will be rescinded and normal services will again be offered as soon as
proper arrangements have been
made."
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The vigil members, who have
received national news coverage in
the past three days, have maintained
all along thfcWJhe reason they stayed
on was to keep the church open and
not to support Duuigari.
Thome said.he was not in a
position to comment on whether the
prayer vigil did any good but
Dunigan and Petras agreed that it
did.
"I feel the people have gained an
important point in keeping the
parish open," said Dunigan. Petra*
agreed and said the implications of
what this meant to the larger church
was important.
"It's (the vigil) unique , in
American Catholicism because it's
the first specific application of the
abstract Vatican II church dogma
that says the people are the church
and have a right to be heard and an
obligation to be heard," Petras said,
Cover, who has kept silent and
in the background during the past
three weeks' events at St. Mary's
was happy it was over.
"I think it started people
thinking," she said. "And really, the
purpose was not to get support for
us (herself and Dunigan) but to get
people thinking,"
Housing code
regulations
to be discussed
A panel discussion explaining
how Mt. Pleasant's new housing
licensing code will affect off-campus
housing regulations will be "conducted 7 p.m. Feb. 28 in the UC
auditorium.
Representatives from various
organizations including Mt. Pleasant
City Commission, Mt, Pleasant
Taxpayers Association and Mt.
Pleasant League «f Women Voters
wilt be present to outline important
housing code segments to students.
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