1971-04-26; Central Michigan Life

              CENTRAL
MICHIGAN
Volume 51, Number 79
Mt. Pleasant, Michigan 48858
Monday. April 26, 1971
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State approves low bids
for construction of HPER
[PAM HART, Jackson sophomore, models a green pantsuit
in the second annual French Club .(Le Salon Bleu) style Show
[and buffet.    Approximately 70 persons attended the show,
I held yesterday in the Okaya room of the Embers.
By MARK BEGO
LIFE Staff Writer
Central' Michigan University
has been given the official signal to begin construction on its
new Health, Physical Education
and Recreation (HPER) building,
from Lansing.
The approval of low bids on the
project totaled $4.9 million. Of
that the state will pay $4.6
million, with an additional $1
million to be supplied by a grant
from the Department of Health
Education and Welfare.
The proposal was accepted last
week by the building committee
of the State Administration
Board, and will go before a meeting of the full board for the final
legislation this week.
The building is slated to be
constructed south of campus on
Broomfield Rd., and is expected to take two years for completion. It will be used not only
for intercollegiate athletic
events, but for instructional pur-
HA constitution must recoive
ifljority appro¥dl of dormitories
By GLENN SCHICKER
LIFE Staff Writer
A new Residence" Hall As-
embly (RHA) constitution was
pproved by that body last week.
Fo become effective, the doeu-
jjent must now be approved by
majority of voters in thir
teen residence halls in the May
4 balloting.
The - new constitution would
replace a document drawn up
last summer. Major changes
appear in the sections covering responsibilities of RHA and
constitutional amendment
procedures, Harrower said.
The - new constitution gives
iea musicians, choirs
perform Tuesday night
By SHARON GRIFFIN
LIFE Staff Writer
| The combined voices of over
M singers  from throughout
Jie mid-Michigan area will be
pred in  concert tomorrow
veningwhen Central's department of music presents a per-
M-mance      of     Beethoven's
[MissaSolemnis."
!The 8 p.m. performance fea-
res the  Saginaw Symphony
pchestra, with theCMUCon-
fl Choir, Alma College Choir,
Iff Valley College Choir
lc> Saginaw Symphony Chorale
so Performing. Gideon Grau,
the    Saginaw    Symphony
/nestra,    will conduct   the
pbmed choral group.
to addition to these groups,
^professional guest soloists
g be Participating. Unlikethe
7, soloist who works sepa-
««y from the group as in
^Messiah, "the four will com-
r«e more of a solo quartet
esL W°rk is he^ily ^
S": the ^tal per-
fSSn Sald Ste^Hob-
y^MUConcertChoirDirec-
N soloists willbe Eliza-
■ " Kraus (soprano); Rose*
J Russell (mezzosoprano);
21 *atters™ (bass), all
g*. of the University of
scar ? mUsic faculty an«
^ Henry (tenor), head of the
icLo;6^4"16^ ** Eastern
IC»»igan University.   "■
Unlike other music department concerts, there will be an
admission charge of $1 for
adiilts and $.50 for students in
order to defray the cost of
bringing the professional
groups to CMU. Tickets are
available today at the University Center Ticket Office and
will also be  sold at the door.
Commenting on the presentation, Hobson noted that the
idea had been developed over
a year ago as a joint project
of the groups involved with the
goal of "combining our respective forces in a major musical
oratory as a cultural exchange
for the central Michigan area."
The "Missa Solemnis"
(Solemn Mass) itself follows a
typical Mass structure in which
the performance is set on the
Ordinary of the Mass, Hobson
explained. He added that this
musical work "has extreme
technical demands on both the
instruments and singers.*'
Although the respective
choirs will be combined incon-
■ cert tomorrow evening, they
have prepared their music and
rehear sedseparately, practicing
as a J>ody only twice. Besides
the performance at CMU, the
"MiSsa Solemnis" was presented last night at the Saginaw Auditorium.
Tuesday's concert will be the
final performance of CMU's
70-member Concert Choir for
the 1970-71 year.
RHA new and expanded responsibilities in several areas.
These include: an advisory
capacity to the Student Judiciary on the dorm court system;
investigative power into corruption or misallocation of
residence hall funds; authority
to freeze or disperse to
the residents of a dorm the
social funds of a dorm whose
council fails to submit a constitution that meets RHA guidelines; power to approve 24 hour
open lobbies and lounges
following guidelines set by the
Housing Office; representation
of any residence hall wishing
to approach the administration,
on approval of the Assembly;
and regulation of solicitation in
the dorms.
Amendments to the new
constitution must be approved
by a two-thirds majority of the
assembly, and, within three
weeks of approval, by two-
thirds of the residence hall
councils. Under the old document, amendments could be
passed by a three-fourths
majority of the assembly, without approval of individual dorm
councils.
Harrower expressed disappointment that RHA's efforts
to keep room and board rates
from going up had not been
entirely successful, and that the
assembly's recommendation on
the elimination of hot breakfast had been rejected by the
Board of Trustees. However,
"we did manage to get some
cutbacks, which kept the increase smaller than it might
have   been,"   Harrower   said.
RHA also appointed Mike
Reece to head a committee to.
investigate a disagreement bet-
.tweenthe damage control board
of Merrill Hall and the dorm's
quad manager.
Housing coordinator George'
F, Jennings spoke about the
Barnes Hall meal options. He
explained that Barnes residents
will vote at the beginning of
next year to narrow the four
possible meal options down to
two.
poses and large concerts as well.
Because CMU has one of the
nation's largest physical education departments, the new building will cover 168,700 squarefeet -
of area and will contain two
full-size swimming pools, a basketball arena seating 5,400, and
27 "teaching stations" to accommodate 840 students at one
time.
The plans for the buildinghave
been postponed many times due
to financial reasons. Last year,
the state legislature approved an
appropriation of $2.1 million to
start the building in the fall, only
to have $1.5 million of it recalled in a budget cut.
Within the first quarter of this
year Governer William Milliken
replaced the recalled funds and
said that the balance would be
raised sometime next year.
According to A.N. Languis,
state building director, "Wehave
about $500,000 now to start on
construction of the building,"
On the awarding of contracts he
said, ."We'll have to time the
actual award of the contracts
carefully so that the money will
stretch."
Languis also remarked that the
two per cent contingency fund, or
difference between the low bids
and the authorization, is smaller
than for most building complexes
of its size, increasing its plausibility for construction at this
time.
The lowest bid for the building's general construction was
submitted by the Christman Company of Lansing at $3.2 million.
The     subcontracts    will   be
awarded to   the following companies for their low bids on which
they   could   complete the job:
mechanical—Davaney   Plumbing
and Heating of Flint, $895,000;
electrical—Tri-City   Electrical
Company of Saginaw, $424,828; ^
site work—Katerberg      Landscaping  Incorporated of Grand
Rapids, $46,597; lockers—Lyon
Metal Products of Flint, $66,750;
synthetic flooring—Bauer-
Foster Floors Incorporated of
.Detroit, $204,600; and bleachers—Jaches-Evans .Manufacturing of St. Louis, Missouri,
$103,890.
State Building officials said
the project. aroused the interest
of many state and > national
bidders. The received bids numbered 10 for general construction, 11 for electrical work, eight
for mechanical work, .six for
site work, four for flooring and
bleachers and two for lockers.
According to Anthony Pap-
eralla of the Physical Plant on
campus, the rumor that the football field accompanying the project would be ready for use in
September, was possible with
one of the tentative plans. However, this goal has not been made
official.
CMU names Schmidt
as speech chairman
John W. Schmidt, who joined
the CMU faculty this past fall
as an associate professor, has
been named acting chairman of
the Speech and Dramatic Arts
Department. His appointment
was approved by the Board of
Trustees April 24.
Schmidt will serve as acting
chairman for the 1971-72 academic year. He will fill the
position left temporarily vacant
by Jerry M. Anderson who has
been selected as an American
Council on Education (ACE)
Fellow in the 1971-72 Academic
Administration Internship Program. He will intern during
the academic year with Charles J. Ping, provost and vice
president for academic affairs.
Schmidt came to CMU from
Washington State University
where he taught graduate courses in speech. He also served
as director of forensics at the
University. His academic
experience includes teaching at
Bradley University as instructor and director of debate, and
at Wisconsin State University
at Oshkosh.
He earned his undergraduate
degree from Illinois College,
where he earned the Pi Kappa
Delta Degree of Special Dis-
• tinction in Debate. His M.A.
degree was earned at Bradley
University and his Ph.D. at
the  University  of Minnesota.
Schmidt is a member of
several professional organiza-
VOTE TUESDAY!
SEE PAGES 6 and 7
for
CANDIDATE PLATFORMS/
tions and honorary societies
in the fields of debate and
speech.
Bargaining teams
resume meetings
Bargaining teams representing the Board of Trustees and
faculty resume negotiations today following last week's rejection by the faculty of a three-
year contract proposal.
The first session aimed at
arriving at a new agreement
will be held at 4 p.m. The two
teams met briefly last Wednesday" in the wajce of the faculty's
rejection of the contract proposals, but did not resume negotiations.
Both President William B.
Boyd and William T. Bulger,
president of the CMU Faculty
Association, the faculty's exclusive bargaining agent, expressed hope that a satisfactory proposal could be achieved.
Thur sday the F acuity Association distributed a questionnaire to the faculty Seeking to
determine areas of faculty discontent with the initial proposal.
The questionnaire was to have
been returned and tabulated
Friday night.
Negotiating teams arrived at
agreement on the three-year
contract April 6 after more
than a month of negotiations.
The proposal was defeated last
Tuesday by a vote of 222-173
with 70 per cent of the 586 eligible voters casting ballots.
The . faculty's current one-
year contract expires June 30,
1971.
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