1969-11-03; Central Michigan Life

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Monday, November 3, 1969
April completion
set for U-Center
BIG BILL EVANS was challenged Friday by two teams of champion eaters in the "Eat-In"
sponsored by WCHP - AM radio. Evans promised to alone eat more than any two people and the
final score was 17 hamburgers eaten by Evans alone and 23 eaten together by the two-man team
from Emmons Hall. Barnard Hall also challenged and ate 20, abiding with the rules that one
coke, must be drank for every three hamburgers eaten. Eighty burgers were provided by Dan's
Drive In, who offered a free shrimp dinner to the winner.
By KATHY KULINEC
LIFE STAFF WRITER
. Overall construction completion of the University Center is
Scheduled for April, according
to Anthony J. Paparella, head of
construction.
Paparella said the $2)4 million
project is on schedule and areas
of the center will be opened for
use as soon as construction is
completed  in  the near future.
Within two months
"Expansion and renovation of
the grill should be completed
within two months. The new
grill will utilize a scatter system
of serving instead of the existing
food service line and wiU accommodate twice as many students as before," said Faperella.
Another change on the lower
level of the center includes the
addition of eight more lanes in
the bowling alley increasing the
Free registration
'working well'
Unlimited registration has
worked out- extremely well for
the Free University according to ■
Tim Fallon, one of its founders.
"Registration is still open and
Vou can drop in. the middle of
the semester." said Fallon.
' Since . registration was not
limited this semester, some
classes are too large. Some,
according to Fallon had over
40 students each. <
The only classes with limited
registration have been sensitivity
training and tinkering and tuning, since small groups are necessary for these classes. According to Melanie Sarachman,
head of Free University, sensitivity training was closed 10
minutes after registration.
Both Miss Sarachman and Fallon agree that all the classes are
going exceptionally well. The
main objective of .the University
is purely academic says Miss
Sarachman. - She added, students
go to classes because they want
to. _ . "-
Presently Free.University has
.about 300 students enrolled in
15 classes. The classes are
being taught be several professors, some students and a
local minister. According to
Miss Sarachman they are being
held in dormitory lobbies to detract from the feeling of student-teacher rules present in
the classrooms.
The two main types of classes,
according to Fallon, are the pure
thought discussion type and
practical classes. He says they
hope to add more classes of
the practical type in the spring
.to appeal to people outside the
University community.
Miss Sarachman hopes that a
questionnaire; to be handed out
in a few weeks, will give more
insight into the interests of the
students. Suggestions are welcome for new classes, and instructors and discussion leaders
are needed.
Free University gives .the instructors a chance to experiment, and to teach classes not
offered in the University bulletin.
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Representatives from 25 Michigan colleges and their
surrounding communities gathered here Saturday to develop
plans for statewide coordination of Vietnam Moratorium
activities for Nov. 13 and 14. __
Conference and work shop participants expressed the
need to permit the majority of Michigan citizens to voice
their desire for peace in a variety of ways^
The Detroit office and the CMU Moratorium office were
selected as two centers for providing services to Vietnam
Moratorium offices across the state. These services will
include providing speakers, acquiring films and literature
and coordinating publicity. Both offices will be in constant
contact with the National Moratorium office in Washington,
D.C.
Building on the October Moratorium, plans for Michigan
are to expand the activities to include broader segments of
the business, labor, religious, civic and campus communities.
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capacity to 20 lanes. The game
room  is  also being expanded.
Cafeteria
"The cafeteria, on the second
level of the center is also being
expanded," Paparella said. Its '
total area has beenincreased one
and a half times and partitions
will subdivide one area of the
cafeteria into four private dining
rooms."
The UC Book Store will undergo a 40 per cent area increase
with more offices added.
Small MMHUrnim
"A small auditorium seating
300 people is included in the top
level floor plan," Paparella said,
"General meetingrooms will also
be located on this floor."   .
* The new Speech and Dramatics Arts building is on schedule," he announced. " Completion of the L-shaped building is
set for February of 1971."
Lecture halls
The east-west leg of the building will contain four lecture halls
and a four-story classroom section. Speech and bearing clinics
will be, located on the top two
floors of this section.   •    .-
the north-south wing will
house a 500 seat theater with
• entrances on the second floor
of the building. The circular
stairway already built will aid
stage hands with scenery.
Other innovations
"Other • innovations of the
building include a TSva' or conference room in the round located at the joint of the two wings,
in addition to radio-television
instruction facilities differing
from the production units in Anspach Hall," Paparella explained.
The Speech and Dramatic Arts
building will cost a total of $5K
million, paid for with $4^million
of state funds and $1 million in
federal funds.
Oakland to achieve
independent status
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LANSING  (AP) - The State
Board of Education has adopted
a resolution approving independent status for Oakland Uni-
. versity. -
The trustees said they approved of a resolution adopted
.by the University Senate asking
the Michigan. State University
Board of Trustees to take action'
to assist Oakland in becoming
an independent institution;
The education board. resolution Said it encourages the MSU
trustees to begin the process
that will eventuate in Oakland
becoming  an independent uni
versity "at the earliest possible
date."
The board noted that, its state
plan, for higher education had
indicated that branch campuses
in Michigan should become independent as soon as possible.'
Rep. .George F. -Montgomery,
D-Detroit, has introduced a resolution in the House also endorsing the idea, of Oakland cut-
. ting away from the MSU apron
strings.
The education board also approved a schedule for' moving
meetings- from Lansing to five
other areas later this year and
next.
TOM GUNN, POET and critic of poetry for the "Yale Review**, will read selections from his
work and speak on poetry at 8 p.m. tonight in 161 Anspach. Gunn, sponsored by the English
department, has contributed poetry to such publications as ••Poetry wt ^Southern Review",
•■Listener'* and "Critical Quarterly".
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