1971-02-05; Central Michigan Life

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MICHIGAN
Volume 51, Number 50
Mt. Pleasant, Michigan 48858
Cmctrt crot^^ntrol promised
Friday, February 5, 1971
Byrds to appear
By JOANNE CLEMENT '
Art-Social Editor
The Men's Union and Program
Board Pop Concert Committee
[will be presenting the "Byfds''
• and Tom Rush next Tuesday at
9 p.m. in Finch  Field house.
Lack of publicity and little advance notice of the upcoming con
cert was attributed to difficulties
in formulating a contract acceptable to the performing groups and
the concert committee, said Mike
Malaney, concert committee
member and Grand Rapids
senior.
Malaney continued by explaining, "that the contracts contained
a great, deal of discrepancies be-
Classes offer
computer work
By NANCY ASHLEY
LIFE Staff Writer
To meet the needs of a job
market presently starving for
people, the mathematics department recently introduced a major
and minor in computet science.
These programs will be included
in the 1971-72 catalog, according
to Edward H. Whitmore, department chairman of mathematics.
The major will involve at least
30 semester hours of mathematics and computer science
courses. A minor will require
20 semester hoars in these areas.
The need for people with degrees in computer science is very
great, said Harold W.Zeoli, professor of mathematics and director of the computer science center, "Not one person I know
who took coures at Central and
applied for work involving computer science failed to get a
job," he said,
Zeoli said many people want to
go into this program, and all
present computer science
classes are overflowing.
Computer science requires
looking at matematical processes
in a different way and training
People in a new line of think-
a* .
He added that Central will
be able to provide a much better mathematical background for
its graduates in the computer
science program than trade
schools are able to.
"All students in the program
will have a semester of 'hands
on* learning experience in the
computer science-center/' Zeoli
said. The present equipment,
which rents for $2000 a year,
will be sufficient for the new
major and minor, although more
staff members will be needed.
The center now contains computers, key-punches, a device to
{dot curves and graphs, and
several other pieces of equipment. Ann Fallon, who is in
charge of operations there,
makes the center available to
- anyone engaged in research requiring the use of a computer.
The new major and minor
require the implementation of
several new courses. They will
deal with computer science, computer programming and data
structures.
"Computers are now such an
important part of society in bus-
iness, education and industry that
people trained in this field will
be .invaluable/' Whitmore concluded.
cause of clause riders (items
and provisions demanded by the
performing groups). These dis-
crepencies took time to straighten out.'*
Both the "Byrds", whose
music could be labeled as a type
of country-rock, and Tom Rush,
a contemporary folk singer, will
perform for one hour. Tuesday will be Rush's second visit
to CMU. He performed during
the Moratorium last year.
Finch Fieldhouse will accomodate 4,000 people daring the performance. The stage will be
located on the present basketball court with bleachers located
on three sides of the court. The
upper balcony will also be used
for seating.
Becuase of the success of
"crowd control" during the Chicago Concert last fall the same
procedure for entering Finch will
be in effect Tuesday. Franklin
Street will again be ' closed
between Preston and Bellows and
concert goers will form four
single file lines while waiting in
line to enter the fieldhouse.
Loudspeakers will again be
placed on the roof of Finch to
direct all those waiting in line.
If the crowd becomes disorderly
the doors of Finch will be closed
and not reopened until order is
resumed.
Tickets, which are $3 per person for the performance, are
available at the U.C. ticket
Office. The ticket office is open
Monday through Friday from
9 a.m. until 4 p.m.
Men's Union and Program
Board Pop Concert Committee
will also be sponsoring DiOnne
Warwick who is scheduled to
appear on Feb, 25. Also tentatively scheduled to appear in
late April or early May will be
either "The Jefferson Airplane"
or "Ten Years After".
W ONLY DID  this lovely young cqed go out early and start her boyfriend's car, but she also
aped the show and lOe off the cai*'s windshield while he sat in the warm car.
Professional
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installed tonight
FINALLY! Delta Sigma Chi charter members will be initiated into Sigma Delta Chi, the national journalism society,
tonight. The initial banquet was snowed out in December.
Mary Pat Foran,  Elsie sophomore, examines an SDX pin.
Central chapter joins
SDX professionals
Forty-five CMU journalists
and nine professionals from the
Mid-Michigan area will be initiated into SigmaDeltaChi(SDX),
national professional journalistic
society tonight at the Holiday
Inn.
The ceremony, which was originally scheduled on December
11, had to be rescheduled for
tonight due to weather conditions
which prevented the December
meeting.
Frank Angelo, managing editor
of the Detroit Free Press and
past national president of SDX,
will present the CMU chapter
with its charter. Keynote speaker
for the event will be Al Fitz-
patrick, news editor of the Akron Beacon Journal, who supervised the newsroom^ coverage
of last spring's Kent State University incident.
An. estimated 100 professional
journalists from throughout the
state and midwest have been invited to the installation and initiation ceremonies and dinner.
To be eligible for membership in Sigma Delta Chi, a student must plan on some aspect
of journalism as a profession.
Besides the print media, members are sought from broadcast
journalism and journalism education.
. When a student graduates from
college, he can then join the
professional chapter in the area
of his employment. SDX is the
only national-international professional organization for journalists. It has over 20,000 members.
The Central chapter when initiated will become the largest
student chapter in Michigan and
the second largest in its region.
It will be one of only three
in Michigan which has a professional membership.
Roily plonned in April
for peace and memory
The Student Mobilization Committee (SMC) is planning a rally
commemorating the death of
Martin Luther King which is
tenatively scheduled for,April
5 " said Richard Ropers, coordinator of Central's SMC
chapter.
"The nationally designated days
are April 3-4 but that is a weekend and we hope to get abetter
response on the 5th. The purpose of the rally is to break
the ice of repression on campus and to start a mass move-
. ment on campus working for
peace," he said.
According to Ropers the SMC
is the largest anti-war organization in the Country. It emphasizes democracy in the movement as it is non-exclusionary
and open to anyone who wants
immediate troop pull-out of Vietnam.    "SMC is a single issue
organization," Ropers said, "it
is strictly anti-war."
Included in the demands and
proposals of SMC are: 1. The
immediate and unconditional
withdraw! of all troops and
materials from Southeast Asia.
2. Defend the constitutional
rights of high school and college
students. 3. End campus complicity (such as ROTC and military recruiters). 4. Bring
about the self-determination of
third world people.
Last night Don Gurewitz,
National Secretary of the SMC
spoke on the topic of 'The Crisis
of Nixonization',
Feb. 19-20 the SMC will be
attending a National Student Anti-
War Conference in Washington.
At that time plans will be made
for a massive anti-war march
on April 24.
SMC meets Tuesdays at 8 p.m.
in room 3D of the University
Center.
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