1969-03-25; Central Michigan Life

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Central's seventh president William B. Boyd
wiH be inaugurated in a "swinging" ceremony
on campus May 12. The. inauguration will take
•place nearly 10 months after- Boyd assumed
office on July 1, 1968..
The inauguration ceremony will be an internal university affair conducted'in an informal
'manner in contrast to the ceremony and pageantry usually observed in traditional inaugurations
of university presidents.
Included-in the inaugural celebration will be
an address by President Boyd at the inauguration ceremony at 2 p.m. and a free - student
inaugural concert featuring folk singer Buffy
Saint-Marie. -■ >     ......
The inaugural ceremony .will be  held  in
Finch Fieldhouse and will be open to faculty,
'administrative staff- and students. Tickets for
the event will be distributed on" a first come,
first served, basis at a later date. Immediately
following the ceremony the entire University
-community is invited to attend a reception in
the University Center. Ticket information for
the inaugural concert also will be distributed
on a first call basis at a later date.
Formal invitations were mailed this week
to university and college presidents throughout
the country. The letter requested funds that
would otherwise have been spent on sending
representatives to the inaugural be used to support programs for disadvantaged students at the
various schools invited to attend the event.
University funds which would have been
spent on a formal inauguration will be directed
at Boyd's request into a fund to assist disadvantaged students at Central. As much as $5,000
could be channeled to the special fund according
to an administrative spokesman.
In the letter of invitation Alfred J. Fortino,
Board of Trustees chairman, stated, "Contem
porary problems- highlight the urgency for an
institution such as ours to concentrate its efforts
and resources toward meeting the needs of all
social and economic segments of our society.
"Central Michigan University will, therefore,
allocate the funds which would have been designated for the traditional formal inauguration
of Dr. Boyd to a fund to assist disadvantaged
students.
"We hope that you will share the spirit of
this inauguration with us. You may in fact,
wish to direct the expense funds which may
have been incurred ... to your own university's
projects for disadvantaged students."
Boyd assumed his duties as president of the
University on July 1, 1968, succeeding Judson
W. Foust who had held the position since 1959.
Boyd served as vice chancellor of student
affairs at the University of California, Berkeley,
before being named Central's seventh president.
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VOL 49, NO. 45
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Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan
Tuesday, March 25,1969
TRACK SQUAD
CAPTURES
FIRST INDOOR
TITLE
P. 7
Accident Ends Life
Of Freshman Coed
by TOM MARQUARDT
Life Associate Editor
Two separate accidents involving four Central students resulted in the death of one coed
Friday night.
Carol Wilson, Kalamazoo, freshman, died as a
result of injuries sustained in a one-car accident
at 10 p.m. Friday on Broadway near Summerton
Road, according to the state police post in Mt.
Pleasant.
Miss Wilson was a passenger in a car driven
by Michael Staneck, Haslett senior. Both students
were taken to the Central Michigan Community
Hospital where Miss Wilson died at 10:45 that
night. Staneck is reported, in "very good" condition, according to a hospital spokesman.
Car Struck Rut
State police ^report Staneck was speeding . and
ran off the right side of Broadway where he struck
a rut in the shoulder of the road. His vehicle then
swerved to the left side of the road, hitting a culvert and rolling one and a half times into a ditch.
The car was a total loss, according to state police.
No ticket has been issued while the accident is
still under investigation.
Funeral services for Miss Wilson were held
at St. Monica's Catholic Church in Kalamazoo
Monday.
Two Boys Killed
In another accident only one-half mile away,
two Midland boys were killed after being struck
in the rear by a car driven by a Central student,
according to the state police.
Killed at 6:45 p.m. on Pickard Road east of
Summerton Road were Joseph Raab, 13, and Randy
Raab, 12, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Raab of
Midland. The boys' father was driving the car...
The police report added that Patrick Neff, Mt.
Pleasant freshman, was traveling at a "high rate
of speed" when he struck the Raab auto. John
Richmond, also a Mt. Pleasant freshman, was a
passenger in the car.
Richmond was released from Central Michigan
Community Hospital Saturday and Neff is reported
in "very good" condition.
No ticket has been issued in the accident which
is still under investigation by state police officers.
Students Vote Today
In Campus Elections
Elections are being held today for student body
president and vice president, as well as class officers and junior and senior class Men's Union representatives.
Poll hours in the dorms will be 11 a.m. through
12:30 p.m., and 5 p.m. through 6:30 p.m. There will
also be polls open in Anspach, Rowe and Brooks
Halls, as well as the University Center.
The hours for these polls are 9 a.m. through
4:30 p.m. The poll at the University Center will
also be open from 7 p.m. through 9 p.m.
Students must present their activity card to
vote.
The candidates for this election are Lou Oates
and Paul Jagenow (Key); Tim Fallon and Bob
Jilek (Scope); John Fraker and Greg Mikulich
(Plastic); Bill Willett (Ombudsmen) and Jim
Metzger   (Burschenshaften).
Fraternity Offers Absurd Theatre
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Members of Alpha Psi Omega, honorary dramatics fraternity, will present "an evening of
absurd theatre" this Thursday and Friday at 7:30
p.m. in Warriner's Little Theatre.
The first play to be performed is Edward
Albee's "The American Drean." According to
Albee, the play is ".. . an attack on the substitution
of artificial for real values in our society, a condemnation of complacency, cruelty and emasculation. It is a stand against the fiction that everything in this land of ours is 'peachy-keen' . . .
The second play, also by Albee, is "The Sandbox." In this 14-minute-long play, the characters
in "The American Dream" are placed in a situation
different but related to their predicament in the
first play.
The "absurd theatre" is unique in that the same
characters are used in both plays and are played
by the same people.
Tickets are on sale in the University Center
ticket office at 75 centsfor students and $1.00 for
non-students.
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