1972-02-25; Central Michigan Life

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Deportment chairmen respond to Speech 101 issue
MOTION PASSES -The University Curriculum Committee
^ of Academic Senate  met Wednesday tq discuss the fate of
the Speech 101 requirement of .years past.
By NANCY GORGON
LIFE Academics Writer
A motion recommending that the Speech
101 requirement come under jurisdiction
of individual department heads was adopted
by the University Curriculum Committee.
of Academic Senate Wednesday afternoon.
Department chairmen will have until
April 12 to register "their opinions on
the proposal with the committee. "These
responses will then be sent to Senate
for action," Chairman Leslie Cochran
said.
The proposal to drop the speech requirement followed the committee's decision last fall to recommend eliminating
the physical education activity and political science requirements on all cur-
riculums.
"As it stands, Speech 101 is not a
University-wide requirement for graduation. What is'involved here is a state
regulation requiring those students
seeking teacher certification to exhibit
speech competency before they can be
eligible for candidacy," Cochran
explained. "In some curriculums, Speech
101 is not mandatory.1'
The move places authority to determine curriculum requirements in the
hands of individual departments, but the
ultimate, decision still" rests with Academic Senate, Cochran added.
Questions about the present speech program were directed to Dan Millar, spokesman for the Speech Department.
"Students can now waive Speech 101
if they take a competency test, but this
again depends upon the particular curriculum. Job opportunities are demanding a greater dependency upon our ability
to communicate, As long as we can
assist the student in that goal, we'll
continue a speech program," Millar said.
Millar also went on to explain the purposes and goals of the television lectures
currently being used in the course.
"The content of each TV presentation
is a visual supplement of theory and
material offered in the text-^how they
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Volume 52, Number 60
Mt. Pleasant, Michigan 48858
Friday, February 25,1972
Weekender" edition
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poor turnout hampers election
• .-. - By MARK LETT- . "*    -:
LIFE Student Affairs Editor
A meager voter turnout dampened Wed^-
pesday's Student Government elections and
prought a decision on the proposed con-
litutionaL amendment to a standstill.
^Also determined in the election were;;
*"•'""' responses to a statement calling
for a city housing licensing code; 15
Student Senate vacancies and a presi^
dehtial preference poll.        " " *J: *^^
7   Only 1,232 students of the University's
'nearly  13,500  total  student body went
to the polls—significantly less than was
/needed to determine the outcome of the
amendment proposal. A voter turnout of
at least 10 percent is required before an
official dead,
Flint Beecher tense
FLINT,  Mich*  (AP)--: The  assistant principal of a racially
troubled high school was found dead in his study yesterday of an
apparently self inflicted gunshot wound.
Announcement of the death of Paul L. Cabell Jr. was made
over the loudspeaker system at Beecher • High and caused many
of the 1,000 students to-break into tears. '^
"His death reflects the tension and duress that I have witnessed
fo the school system all vear," said a fellow teacher, Harold C.    \
Ford. •."■ :      > ■•'-.-.■•._' '
Cabell, a black, had taken part in efforts by school administrators to pin * down the causes 'of racial strife that erupted last
Friday at the school with several fights breaking out and one
student being hospitalized.. There had been minor flareups since.
At the time that white* Principal Robert M. Towns.made the
announcement 6f Cabell's death oyer the school PA system,, a
group _f white students, was meeting hi.the school cafeteria with
x * white counsellor,. Jack yan. Wagoner; who was trying to persuade them to forget their differences' with -other students and to
resume normal.operations;atthe school.
thThe Public address system was not piped into the cafeteria and .
de students there  die?    „t  bear the announcement of Cabell's
iuTt      IronicW»:,theynapped ai -»pe of Van Wagoner's remarks
just as the principal was finish^    <s address over the school
system. ■*■'., '   . ,.
in* Te black .students mistakenly thought the whites were cheer-
S.™f news W Cabell^ deathiahd several fights broke out before
uiooi officials,' aided by  a. small detacliment of Flint police,
restored order.       .    ;        .   , .        •.["■"
shi?ef ann9u»cement of. Cabell's death',* a large number of black
«Baents congregated in the hall outside his office but left after   -
tot? mmutes'iW-Wijbnjse to requests from school a'ministra-
2;:   Many o* the studehts,'about, 4S0 of whom are black, were
^ng openly as they left the school building. ;
mi? * '  26'  ^d been atthe Beecher school for two years. A
SJJat.e of Western, Michigan University, he received his ma's-
-   Miohi    gree ift  scho°* administration from  the University of
£«M?an and was working' on his doctorate.
rouce said Cabell's wife, Carlitta,, found his body in the study
renmfruh0m? earlv today> a "shotgun by his side. There were
firm I a    leffeat lsast one note but authorities, declined to con-
«i or deny this pending.lujr.theMnve^tigation.      .   ■   >  :{■
amendment, can be incorporated into the
constitution.
■i       f      PERCENTAGE" LOW* ' ■"■""
The proposal called for abolishment of
the required 2.00 grade point average
for Senate candidates and stipulated that
the Student Senate President may temporarily fill off-campus Senate vacancies until the next general election.
It would have also established elec-'
tion dates for student senators during
the fourth week of fall semester classes.
Student Body President and Vice President would be elected in April and would
take office two weeks following the election,
'.The vote was substantially in favor
-of Jjiei amendment proposal but the necessary  10 percent just wasn't met,"
explained Dave   Haney, elections direc-
<tdr.
Six Senate vacancies were determined
by press time. The remaining five pn-
campus vacancies (Herrig, Saxe, Sweeney,
Wheeler and Trout) and three off-campus
vacancies (District One, District Three
-and Crawford Road complex) will be
decided by write-in votes.
The successful Senate" candidates fol-:
low: Carey—Dave Wells, Bay City freshman; Emmpns—Timm Culby, Benton Harbor freshman. Sweeney—KathyGrost, St.
Johns freshman; Tate--Pat Wilkins, Novi
freshman; Woldt--Linsay MCLauchlan,
Trenton freshman; Thorpe —Richard
Higginbottom, Royal Oak freshman, and
David Schreiner, Royal Oak freshman.
UNDER CONSIDERATION
The housing code statement, which asked
if the city of Mt. Pleasant should develop a housing licensing code for rental
properties, collected 831 yes votes to
174 no ballots.
Tenants Union is expected to present
the results to the Mt Pleasant City
Commission for consideration in an upcoming meeting.
Of the total voter turnout, the freshman class tallied the highest number of
voters with 444 freshmen casting ballots.
Turnout in the other classes was: soph-
omores-275; juniors-250; seniors-124,
and other (graduate students)-48.
"Basically the election was disappointing," commented Haney. "We expected
a better interest in the presidential preference poll especially."
Nixon tops candidates in poll
IN THE po'residential preference poll, President Nixon drew a whopping 316 votes
to easilv ten all other candidates. Edmund Muskie placed second with 196 votes and
George McGovern finished third with 133 ballots.   The final preference order was:
VOTES
CANDIDATE
Richard Nixon
Edmund Muskie
George McGovern
Ted Kennedy
Eugene McCarthy
John Lindsay
Pat Paulsen
Shirley Chisholm
Hubert Humphrey
George Wallace
Pete McCloskey
Linda Janess
Birch Bayh
Wilbur Mills
John Ashbrook
Henry Jackson
Sam Yorty
Write-ins not
-tabulated at press
316
196
133
116
90
65
55
49
26
25
15
15
8
4
4
3
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