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Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan
Friday; May 10,1968.
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by LINDA GOODWIN
Life News Editor
I William B. Boycl, newly appointed president, has termed Central "a threshold univer-
LL- one of that emerging group to whom the
^ture belongs.
I "'This new job appeals to me because Michigan
pja fun place to live and the quality of my person-
nive is very important to me. Also, I have al-
jjys wanted to be a university  president,"   he
idded.
\ Boyd, who has been a vice-chancellor of Stu-
^nt affairs of the University of California at
erkeley for the past two years, will take office
uiy l.
No Inauguration Date
\ No date or plans have been  made   yet for
joyd's inauguration, said Wilbur E. Moore, vice
•resident  of  academic  affairs.
j; According to Boyd, Central has   most of its
evelopment ahead of it.
i "With a new period of expansion ahead, it has
i unique opportunity to develop more effective
\ys of responding to the demands of the new
fcouth and the needs of a society in transition,"
le said.
A New University
Boyd also considers Central as- a new university which is more susceptible-to change and
in which new educational patterns are more
asily developed.
• In announcing Boyd's appointment, Trustee
Ihairmtn Lloyd M. Cofer, said, "Boyd comes to
is with an outstanding record as a scholar, teach-
rand administrator. He is a man'of significant
cholarly activity and successful administrative
xperience."
I In his administrative capacity at Berkeley,
ioyd is responsible for policy formation in the
iudent affairs area, and for the operation of the
registrar's office, admissions, health services,
fiunseling service, dean of students office and
llacement center.
More Interested in Education
However, Boyd said he was more interested in
hanneling his interests into "educational concerns
hd creating a better learning environment.*"
Commenting to the Daily Californian, Berkley's student newspaper,, Boyd said the first is-
iie to command his attention .there was the Viet-
|am Day Committee (VDC) registration argument.
"I had never heard of the VDC when I first
lived here," he said, "It sounded like another
isease to me. That was my first introduction
) the Berkeley campus."
Boyd also told the Daily Californian, "The
|>art of my job that I loved the most were those
lobs which didn't receive any visible publicity."
Years in Michigan
| Director of t h e Ohio State University honors
pgram prior to his appointment to Berkeley,
poyd has spent 12 years on two Michigan campuses.
He taught at Michigan State University and
Iwas later a professor of history and dean of the
faculty' at Alma College until 1965.
K A native of Mt. Pleasant, S. C, Boyd earned his
Ifh.D. in modern European history at the Uni-
IVersity of Pennsylvania. He has also taught history at Emory and Rutgers Universities. "
Academic Homecoming
Schedule
page 4
Proposed to City
by HAROLD MAGESKI
Life Staff Writer
A housing ordinance which gives special
emphasis to substandard housing is expected
to be presented to the Mt. Pleasant City Commission as soon as final changes are worked
out by the Codes Review Committee, according
to City Manager Larry Collins.
The proposed housing code will be the first
ordinance to set standards specifically in housing
that is now being occupied.
Many buildings have been converted to student
housing without meeting minimum standards for
health and welfare, according to a sub-committee
report made last month. Specific complaints were
lack of adequate wiring, sanitation facilities, general over crowding .and "dilapidated and unkempt
conditions."
City Protects Students
According to Building Inspector Earl Ott, "We
are urging the City Commission to take a long
'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'
look at housing conditions. We are doing this for
the welfare and protection of the students."
The Housing Code together with a proposed
ordinance licensing boarding and apartment houses
would "provide minimum requirements for the
protection of life, limb, health, property and welfare of the general public and the owners and
occupants of residential buildings."
'Substandard' Defined
Any accumulation of junk or weeds or failure to
meet the requirements of the code would mean
a building is substandard.
The building inspector would then be given
the power to vacate the building until repairs are
made or order the building removed or demolished.
Collins expects the proposed Mt. Pleasant ordinance to include some, sort of board of appeals,
probably a separate board which will handle complaints relating to both the building code and the
proposed housing code.
It will also require a payment of a fee before
a license to operate a rooming, boarding or apartment house would be granted.
Play Begins Three-Day Run
Eight weeks of work will, end Thursday night
when the first performance of "Who's Afraid of
Virginia Woolf?" is presented.
"The main problem of the show is the length.
It takes so long for -rehearsal periods that it makes
it difficult to comment on the performances," Director J. Alan Hammack said.
"The language is perhaps even more coarse
than that used in the movie. It is our* hope that
the language will not interfere with the message
the play has to give," he added.
Four Unhappy People
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" is Edward
Albee's drama of four unhappy people, clawing at
life and one another.
The play primarily concerns Martha and George
and their complex relationship of love, hate and
interdependence.
The entire play takes place in one night and
the early dawn. It offers no tidy solution to human
problems but pounds home the need for emotional
honesty, according to Hammack.
4-Member Cast
Cast as George is Michael Cook, Port Huron
graduate student; Martha is played by Judith
Beber, Hamtramck senior; Dean Cobb, Owosso
junior, plays Nick and as Honey, Diane Anderson,
Royal Oak freshman.
"Both the movie and the theatre productions
of the show used box sets, which are very realistic.
Here at Central we are using a platform stage
and only the furniture that is necessary. For in-
instance, we have omitted all lamps in our set,"
Hammack said.
Theatre Effect
The intention is to enable the audience to view
the play as theatre. .      .     .
The stage lights are visible; the setting is simplified; the acting is sometimes stylized, sometimes
naturalistic; harmonica music is used sometimes
to reinforce, sometimes to comment on the action
of the play.
Color is used in light symbolism and masks are
used to clarify ideas.
"I feel the play is an important one to the
college audience. It is often at this time that people
start to conjure up particular aspects of fantasy,"
said Hammack.
William Valle is the technical director and Judy
DeVries, Wyoming graduate student, is the assistant director. The costuming will be done by Doris
Ramsey.
Performances on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening start at 7:30 in Warriner Auditorium.
Reserved seats go on sale Monday at the UC
ticket office.
Students will be charged $1 and non-students
$1.50.
Kennedy Sweeps Campus Primary
„ "Eugene McCarthy may-have been a win-
|er in the rest of the country but he was a loser
fere," said Andy Marks in announcing the
Jesuits of CMU "Choice '68" presidential pri-
Pary balloting.
I Marks, campus coordinator for "Choice '68"
IM that the 2,539 Central students voting in the
primary gave Robert Kennedy a first place total.
'Sft votes- Richard Nixon came in second with
m votes and McCarthy third with 468.
•.. Marks also pointed out that except for the top
if ee contenders, CMU voters generally followed
Pe national trend, giving Nelson Rockefeller 367
votes for fourth place and President Johnson 102
fOT Alabama's George Wallace had a Poorer showing at CMU getting 43 votes after John V. Lindsay's 50 and Senator Charles Percys 47.
In the referendum voting 28 per cent of the
Central voters favored immediate cessation of the
bombing of North Vietnam as contrasted with 2U
percent nationwide. Twenty-nine per cent preferred a suspension of bombing compared to 34
per cent, at the national level.
On all other referendum questions the CMU
percentage was within three points of the national
average. .
National Results — page 4
Photo by Fallon
BROTHERHOOD MEANS SHARING... at least
that's what eight Sig Ep's thought when they
took the famous Spartan head from the Michigan State SPE's. The head is a traditional mascot at MSU athletic events. It has already been
stolen by SPE chapters from Western and the
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