1970-05-04; Central Michigan Life

              Senate gallery closes
l^ahthers
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Tuesday with a high today of 65.
LANSING, Mich.    (AP) Radical White  Panthers, who want
to legalize marijuana, tried to
"blow some minds" in the Michigan Capitol Thursday.
Samples of what state police
analyzed as "high quality" marijuana was sent to Gov. William Milliken and more than
a score of legislators with instructions bearingthe White Panther seal.
When they came to plead
their cause in Lansing, carrying small purple Panther banners and a couple red flags of
revolution, they were ejected
from the gallery of the Michigan Senate.
It was the first gallery closing during a legislative session
that Capitol workers--including
those who'd worked there for 40
years—could remember. One
Senator * called the situation
'potentially riotous."
A brief attempt to force entrance to the governor's office
--punctuated by Panthers rapping on a glass door with sticks
—was turned back by police and
the   Panthers   left the Capitol.
The name of the Panthers,
who  push   for   elimination    of
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marijuana laws as well as freedom for their jailed leader, John
Sinclair, was placed next to a
small Panther emblem on a
sheet of instructions for smoking "joints," the slang for marijuana cigarettes.
Rep. Loren Anderson, R-Pon-
tiac, immediately called in State
Police, who reported there was
top quality marijuana in his cigarette.
The White Panthers, who reside in Ann Arbor, support revolutionary goals, and such organizations as the Black Pan-,
thers. Sinclair is serving a pris -
on term on a marijuana conviction.
Within hours, the Panther
group, about 100 strong, convened on the Capitol steps,
called "legalize pot" to passers-
by and clapped their hands to
the recorded music of Buddy
rWly   and other rock singers.
State Police, meanwhile, gathered in the Capitol and, after
the Panthers * trooped into the
Senate   gallery, some troopers
marched through too.    Others,
carrying nightsticks and wear-
eje
ing riot helmets, walked through
the Senate chamber and into a
nearby office. The Panthers
cheered.
Senate Leaders conferred behind closed doors and decided
the session would be held as
usual.
Rep. Leonard Walton, D-Detroit, quickly called in postal
officials, who reported the
stamping machine permit,
through which the letters had
been processed, was that of the
university.
Rep. James Smith, R-Davison, called the university and
discovered President William
Keast also had received a Panther mailing. An investigation
was launched at Wayne State, he
reported.
Milliken's letter as well as those
of some lawmakers, were shipped
off to the State Police without
being opened. Others turned the
cigarettes   over  to the police.
I dont object to demonstrations in the gallery," declared
Sen* Robert Huber, R-Troy,
"but these people had only one
purpose to disrupt the Senate
meeting."
Vol. 50 No. 76
Mt. Pleasant, Michigan 48858
Monday, May 4, 1970
n
discuss it
Valedictorians on way out ?
In its regular meeting tonight,
[Student Senate   will  discuss a
resolution to abolish valedic-
torians    and salutatorians and
^establish   in   its   place   "distinguished student awards."
Bobby Gills
named MEB
Bobby Gills, Muskegon Heights
sophomore, was crowned Most
Eligible Bachelor Saturday night
t   the     Associated    Women
Student's spring ball.
In the final activity of MERP
(Men's Economic Recovery Program) Week, Gills was crowned
by AWS president Jeanie Stevenson.
Gills was sponsored in the
jannual contest by Sigma Kappa
|«orority.
1 Friday women students voted to
Pet the bachelor they felt most
Pgible as sponsored by campus
Parities an<* women's residence
ftunners-up as announced by
I Miss Stevenson were Jack
fjnphie, Okemos junior and
l^ve Field, Sturgis senior.
if
The resolution, which was submitted by the Academic Affairs
and Curriculum Committee, will
provide for an award to be given
to one eligible student majoring
in each department.
Also on the agenda is a resolution that the executive branch
of the proposed Student Body Constitution be brought up for decision and approval.
The new constitution is supposed
to be placed before the student
body sometime next month.
There are Three other items
on the agenda, one to reaffirm
Central's membership in the
National    Student   Association,
Homecoming
theme needed
Kathy Anderson, Muskegon
junior and co-chairman of next
year's Homecoming, has announced that theme suggestions
for Homecoming may be turned
into Karl Metzger* director of
Student Activities, starting today
and continuing through Friday, at
5 pjn.
The winner will be awarded
$30 from the Program Board..
another to approve the revised
constitution, of the Physical Education Majors and Minors Club.
The third item involves possible
investigation of unexcused
absences by student   senators.
reek Week Schedule
[Monday
3 pjn.
3:30 pjn.
4 pjn.
7 pjn.
Tuesday
12 ajn.
3 pjn.
3 p.m.
4 pjn.
7 p.m.
Alpha Sigma Tau
Phi Kappa Tau
Phi Sigma Epsilon
Alpha Chi Omega
Tau Kappa Epsilon
Alpha Gamma Delta
Sigma Pi
Theta Chi
Alpha Xi Delta
Walkathon
Log Saw
Track Meet
Volleyball
Billiards
Volkswagen
Race
Track
Between UC
& Warriner!
Track
Finch   Gym
UC
Lot 20
Bicycle Race       Washing. Ct
B-Ball Dribble
Dance Contest
Finch front
Finch Gym
I
Wednesday
1-5 p.m.
Community Project Day at the Mt. Pleasant State
Home	
Sigma Chi gets award
Dave P. Wolds, Livonia
senior and former student body
president, has been named a
Province Balfour Award winner
for Sigma Chi fraternity and now
becomes a nominee forthe Inter- •
national Balfour Award, which
will be -awarded this summer.
Wolds, who was president of
the CMU student body for the
1968-69 school year and president of the CMU Sigma Chi
chapter this past year, was announced as winner for the Michigan Province at the Detroit
Alumni Banquet on April 24.
One representative from each of
the   six  chapters   in  Michigan
(University of Michigan, Michigan State, Western, General Motors Institute, Albion and Central)   competed for the award.
The International Balfour A- ters.    The award is based on
ward, which will go to one of erade P°int> campus and frater-
'   ^   ..    .      „. o^..o+« nity activities, and on recommen-
warded to the top undergraduate ...       .       *   .   •    .,
w«irueu w w«= t. y          *, dations from university person-
Sigma Chi out of the 151 chap- nel.
Stillings receives service award
Frank S. Stillings. dean of the
School of Fine and Applied Arts,"
received a "distinguished service award" this week from the
department of industrial education and technology.
The award was presented to
Stillings Friday at the CMU
* alumii luncheon held in conjunction with the annual Michigan
Industrial Education Society convention in Grand Rapids. More
than 100 CMU alumni attended
the luncheon and awards pre-
sentation.
The award was presented to
Stillings "for his many contributions to the growth and development of this department and
to the School of Fine and Applied
Arts."
Stillings joined the CMU administration in 1966 after having
served as chairman of the School
of Music at Kent State University
since 1962. He served as associate professor of music at the
University of Michigan from
1952-62.    .
listening
is
ears and heart
fty SUE REEVSS
Life Staff Writer
Last   October the   idea for a
Jjbcal crisis center began when a
irw students became interested
TJ. ^ Listening Ear program in
|East Lansing.
f, to January,  plans  began to
f Mtrmulate a similar program in
If1. Pleasant, Students began
|» seek help from qualified people
(pJ»thin the University as well as
fancies outside.
; In early March* a location was
found for the center and the
Listening Ear name was attached.
Bud Delavan, Saginaw graduate
student, began to recruit student volunteers to work in the
program.
Students who were interested
began meeting and learning what
Listening Ear was really all
about. Each volunteer was
screened and then had to undergo
a   week   of   training sessions.
Each worker received between
45 to 50 hours of training on such
topics as boredom3 loneliness,
depression, suicides, drugs and
pregnancies.
The center has about 60 staff
members and at least two or
three are on ciuty at the center
at all times.
The training program used
resource people from the
counseling center as well as
medical doctors and experts on
such areas as family and peer
relationships.
The training session included
role  playing of various crisis
situations. According to Delavan, it was important that the
staff be trained so that they could
handle any situation that comes
in.
Listening Ear is open every
day, all day. Delavan said,
"No problem is too big or too
trivial for us to listen to.
The crisis center works like
a clearing house. Someone will
call in with a problem, the staff
member will help avert the immediate problem and then direct
the person to where he can receive more help.
Listening Ear has a. file of
what help is available in the
area of money problems as well
as a half dozen other types
of sources.
If you have a problem, call
Listening Ear at 772-2918 or 772-
2919 to help. You dont have to
give your name, and they will
never ask.
Listening Ear is there to help*
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