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Central
Michigan
LIFE
WEDNESDAY,
NOVEMBER 1,
1995
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VOLUME 78, NUMBER 28
MOUNT PLEASANT, MICHIGAN 48859
©1995 CM LIFE
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Schorrnan's season over
toocaus© of broken clavicle
The CMU football team
has received some more
bad news, as it learned
freshman receiver Bryan
Schorman will miss the
rest of the season with a
broken clavicle.
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student-directed show
"Dial *Mf for Murder," is
scheduled to take the
stage Friday and
Saturday as part of a dinner theater in the Bovee
University Center
Ballrooms. Clarkston
senior Stacy Grutza
directed the mystery.
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CAMPUS
Exhibits give students a
chance to learn
CMU students will be
given a chance to learn
more about Native
American culture through
art, crafts and dance
exhibits.
PAGE 3
Lawmakers want PBS answers
Hertel, Gagliardi keep up pressure
By JENNIFER ACKERMAN
LIFE Assistant News Editor	
In the midst of a full scale
review, the controversial future
of CMU Public Broadcasting
continues to raise questions in
the minds of two state representatives.
In a guest editorial published
Tuesday in the Traverse City
Record Eagle, House Minority
Leader Curtis Hertel, D-Detroit,
and House Minority Floor
Leader Pat Gagliardi,
D-Drummond Island, criticized
CMU's administration and the
CMU Board of Trustees for
operating under a "conspicuous
silence" with regard to PBS.
"As public officials, we feel an
obligation to bring this issue to
light," the editorial stated.
The editorial made reference
to a series of "disturbing" events
including the Aug. 2 meeting
when university officials met to
discuss a confidential memorandum outlining the possible
shutdown of CMU's Public
Broadcasting. Also mentioned
was President Leonard Plachta's
Sept. 11 address during which he
questioned whether or not the
university should continue to
subsidize Public Broadcasting,
and the Sept. 29 firing of PBS
director Bill Grigaliunas.
"Throughout this series of
disturbing events, there was a
conspicuous silence on behalf of
the university board and
administration," the editorial
stated. "This silence is a disser-
See PBS Page 2	
PBS fund raiser
begins ThurSe
CMU's   Public  Broadcasting
Radio    Station    fund    raiser!
{begins Thursday  at   approxi
mately 6 a.m.
Tom Hunt, radio station man-l
ager, said he is optimistic that
this year will be more success-!
ful than last year's fund raiser.
Last year the fund raiser collected $118,000, but he said
due to increased costs more
will be needed to keep the]
station functional. Those inter
ested in donating can call!
beginning Thursday at 1-800-|
999-5656.
94 percent of surveyed
faculty want PBS to stay
By ANNA LAM PI
LIFE Staff Writer
Based on a recent survey,
most faculty members believe
CMU should keep Public Broadcasting.
The Senate Committee for
Public Broadcasting's report to
the Academic Senate found 82
percent of 239 faculty members
who responded to the question-
aire "strongly disagreed" that
CMU should give up its public
television license. Another 12
percent "disagreed."
Bill Dailey, committee
chairman and assistant
professor of speech communica
tion and dramatic arts,
presented the committee's report
at the A-Senate*s Tuesday
meeting. He said 244 questionnaires made the Oct. 27
deadline.
He said there were two sets of
questions. One set got faculty
opinion on allocation of money to
PBS and the nature of CMLTs
broadcasting licenses. The other
set investigated how well PBS
was carrying out the university's
academic mission.
When they took the survey,
Dailey said 30 percent of participants favored CMU increasing
See A-SENATE Page 11
Man robbed on
railroad tracks early
Sunday morning
By CHRIS C DAVIS
LIFE Staff Wnter
A 25-year-old man visiting
friends at CMU early Sunday
morning rmpmwtmd hmo? *gb|»sd
by three ~ unknown aaaaHants
police said Tuesday.
Ron Williams. associate
director of CMLTs Department of
Public Safety, said the man told
DPS he was walking alone along
the Ann Arbor railroad tracks at
approximately 2:30 a.m. Sunday.
The victim said he was
surprised by three individuals he
did not recognize near Northwest Apartments, Williams said.
The suspects demanded the
man's wallet. One of the suspects
produced an item believed to be a
handgun, and pointed it at the
victim. The victim could not
verify if the item was actually a
weapon because of the lack of
light in the area, Williams said.
After turning over his wallet to
the suspects, the assailants
removed an undisclosed amount
on the ground and told the man
to leave the area. As the man did
so, one of the suspects punched
the man in the face, Williams
said.
suspects to        be        about
20-years-old.
The victim believed the first
suspect to be a white male,
standing 5 feet 10 inches tall,
and weighing about 170 pounds.
He was wearing a light blue
winter hat and a light blue
sports team jacket.
The second suspect was
believed to be a black male,
about 5 feet 8 inches tall, and
weighing 150 pounds. He had
short hair and was wearing a
dark-colored sports team jacket.
The third suspect was
described as a black male,
weighing 170 pounds, and
standing 6 feet tall. He also was
wearing a dark sports team
jacket.
The incident is under investi-
of money, then threw the wallet     gation.
Van Pelt back at work
for CMU as supervisor
Four months after he was laid
off from his Supervisory
Technical position in CMU
Dining Services, Bob Van Pelt is
back to work as a CMU
employee.
As a result of Friday's administrative hearing between the
university and CMU's Supervisory Technical Association,
Van Pelt was offered a job as
building services supervisor in
Facilities Management. He
reported for work Monday
morning.
Van Pelt said he could not give
specific details about the settlement he reached with the
university, but said the ST union
to withdraw its charges
in exchange for the settlement
"We amicably resolved our
differences," he said.
He wasn't sure how many
CMU STs were affected by the
hearing, but said, "as far as I
know I was the only person who
was out anything."
Van Pelt was hired in 1989 to
work in Building Services. In
1992, he began working as an ST
in Dining Services and continued
to work until his job was reclassified and his position was eliminated.
Van Pelt said he is happy to be
back at CMU.
aI feel good to be back," he
said. "The whole thing happened
so quickly
CMCH expansion includes helicopter landing pad
CMCH expansion
By COREY JENKINS
LIFE Staff Writer
Central Michigan
Community Hospital has landed
a $10 million renovation and
expansion project that will add a
new helicopter landing pad to
the premises.
Pat Housley, director of
community relations for the
hospital, said construction of
parking spaces and a new
helicopter landing pad began in
early October. That's just one
part of an overall hospital expan
sion project scheduled to begin in
the spring of 1996.
The project will take several
years to complete, she said.
The expansion will add 8,000
to 10,000 square feet to the
hospital. It will include a new
emergency room, new surgery
space and a new professional
arts building.
The profetM»ional arts building
will house the Wellness Center,
the Center for Human Performance and some specialty
clinics, she said.
Housley said the hospital's
addition is scheduled to begin in
the spring but "it depends on
how soon this (construction of
the parking lot is finished)," she
said.
Housley said there's always
been a helipad at the hospital,
but it's just been a grassy area in
the northeast corner of the
hospital campus.
The new helipad will be
located in roughly the same spot,
she said. But it won't be avail
able for use right away, since the
area will be needed for parking
until the construction is
complete, she said.
Architects for the hospital
bra in stormed ways to keep the
helipad on CMCH property, she
said. They also discussed other
options, including creating a
helipad site near the hospital's
campus, such as the airport or
another open area.
This has always been one of
the options," she said.
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