1970-07-09; Central Michigan Life

              Speech clinic lends helping hand
Central's 24th annual Summer
Speech Clinic is in the midst
of their six-week session
and 144 students and 74
counselors are partici paring,
Students are from every age group
from all over Michigan, and are
being aided in the areas of articulation, defayed language, hearing,
stuttering, reading, cleft palate
rehabilitation and cerebral palsy
defects.   The clinic is under
the direction of Richard Powell.
LIFE   PHOTOS   BY   PAMM   WEBB
CENTRAL
MICHIGAN
LIFE
Vol. 51N laiber 3
Mt. Pleasant, Mich. 48858
Thursday July 9, 1970
Gover
ent center set
With the help of a project being
started this fall at Central, smaU
Michigan communities may find
some solutions to their perplexing municipal problems.
The project is formally known
as the Center for Study and Resource in Local Government, a
name even director Gerry Church
concedes may soon be more popularly known as the Local
Government Center.
Right now, the name and the
director are about aU the center
has to offer — along with a
battery of ideas and plans which
will provide an educational response to the municipal problems
of small communities.
"The center isnt a building or
a geographical location,"Church
explains. 'It's really just a
name for an emphasis; an effort
by the University to develop a
structured program for graduate
and undergraduate students which
will enable them to prepare for
administrative positions in state
and local affairs."
The training of qualified professionals to fill posts in municipal management, finance,planning, and recreation is one of
four primary goals for the center.
Consultant service
Others include providing a resource capability and consultant
service, building an in-service
training program, and developing an on-going research facility.
The full program may take
several years to become operational. Much of the groundwork
will be done this fall when the
director hopes to be able to begin building a program of studies
and cataloging the combined resources the center can provide.
"We'll start by organizing a
course of studies which wiU place
an emphasis on local government administration, "Church
said. "The program should give
students a course in pubUc administration, supplemented by
and psychology, and practical
training.
The practical training, he
suggests, might involve students
in actual field study of daily
routine in county, viUage, or city
offices.
Once the field study and the
curriculum patterns begin to function the community service aspect of the center will take on
significance.
**What we'll try to do is mobilize the entire resources of
the University and make these
resources available to be applied
to the discussion, analysis and
solution of aU types of community problems in small
towns," Church explains.
Work with students
One day an advisory staff, composed of faculty from all fields
of study within the University,
wiU serve as consultants to the
center. And the staff will be
available to work with both students and local governments.
At that point it may be possible for the center to help local
officials in Alpena analyze a
community recreation program
while at the same time help
planners in Bad Axe modernize a
community health program,
"The center will not be a
substitute for professional community planning from engineering
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Library    open   Sundays
Effective Friday the new hours for the Ubrary will be:
Monday through Friday 6:50 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Sunday 1:00 p.m. to 10 p.m.
consultants," Church points out,
"but it wiU attempt to provide
to local communities what small
services may be needed when
there's not enough money to go
out and hire the professional
service."
Continuing research
Then too, the center someday
will carry on continuing research
projects ofinterestto many small
communities and its services will
provide a range of in-service
training programs for city,
county and village officials to
reinforce their professional
skills.
The concept for the center and
its work belongs to the University's Department of PoUtical
Science.
The center's new director will
serve within the department this
fall on half-time assignment as
an assistant professor of poUtical science.
Formerly a teacher at Ferris
State CoUege and Compton (Cal.)
Junior College, Church joined
the CMU faculty in July. He
holds a bachelor's and master's
degree from North Texas State
University and is completing
study for the PhJ). degree from
Claremunt (CaUf.) College.
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Bus service to
continue in fall
The bus service that connects CMU with the business district
will be in operation again this fall, according to Chuck Schrenk,
manager of the City Chamber of Commerce.
There was serious doubt whether the service was going to be
offered again. Subsidized by sponsoring merchants and fares,
the bus service broke even during the 31-week period it was in
operation last year.
*The last half of the year we had an unfair situation in that
only a relatively few businesses paid the bus subsidy. It is the
opinion that the service will not continue next year under these
circumstances," said Bill McCarthy, chairman of the retail
committee of the Chamber, in a letter to other retail merchants
early in June.
However, over $700 a month has been pledged by nearly 20
downtown merchants to continue the bus service. This will amount
to approximately 60 per cent of the operating costs. The remaining expenses wiU be paid by the 20 cent fare charged for a oneway ride.
"Any surplus of funds at the end of next year will be rebated to
the subscribers," said Schrenk.
It was hoped that enough support could be enlisted to keep the
cost at $25 per merchant per month, but area businesses have
contributed between $10 and $100 a month for the bus service.
During the spring semester, the average cost, because of a small
number of participants, was $50 per month.
**The bus service will tie in with the university calendar,"
said Schrenk. "We have found that it was used very Uttle by the
local residents, although the service is extended to all residents
who want to travel within the city, but who do not have transportation."
Over 22,000 people rode on the bus during the 31-week period
it was in operation last year. Due to the increase in the university, population, that figure is expected to be surpassed.
The routing is expected to remain the same for the six-day
a week service, said Schrenk.
Ordinance
questioned
GRAND RAPIDS AP - A poUtical group at Michigan State
University has been ordered to
show cause at a July 21 hearing
why its request for an injunction forbidding prosecution of
those arrested for violating the
campus loitering ordinance
should be granted.
The suit, filed on behaU of
132 members of the action group
to combat racism, contends the
ordinance violates the first and
14th amendments to the constitution.
It also contends that prosecution of those arrested under the
law during a May 19 incident at
Michigan State would intimidate
them in exercising their rights
of  free   speech and assembly.
The suit names the university's
trustees, its president and Ingham County Prosecutor Raymond
Scodeller as defendants.
In its complaint, the group
contends it was holding workshops in the university's student
union when it learned of the
closing hours for the building.
The suit contends the group asked
that the closing hours be lifted
and group members believed
their   request was acted upon.
But the suit claims that when
the group was asked to leave
the building more than two hours
after the 11 pjn. closing hour,
they were met outside by poUce
who arrested all 132 and jailed
them overnight on charges of
trespassing.
Bookmen's
exhibition
closes today
The 1970 version of the annual
Michigan Bookmen's Exhibit
closes today in Finch Fieldhouse.
More than 80 exhibitors are
displaying the latest textbooks,
audio visual equipment and other
educational materials during the
exhibit, the largest of its kind
inthe state.'
The exhibit, held annuaUy on
campus, usually draws great
numbers of teachers and school
administrators from all levels
of education. It is open to the
eneral pubUc and no admission
is charged.
The 1970 exhibit opens at 9:30
a.m. today and remains open
until 1 p.m.