1965-02-26; Central Michigan Life

              MICHIGAN'S   NUMBER  ONE   COLLEGIATE WEEKLY
Board Adopts Nondiscrimination
Central Michigan University, Friday, February 26, 1965
Number 16
Clause For Off-Campus Housing
The Central Michigan University Board of Trustees at
its Feb. 17 meeting adopted a
non-discrimination policy to
further the existing policy
which includes part of Article
1, Sec. 2, of the Constitution
of the State of Michigan.
The adoption portion of Article 1, Sec. 2, of the Constitution of the State of Michigan
reads in part as follows. "No
person shall be denied the
equal protection of the* laws;
nor shall any person be denied
• the enjoyment of- his civil or
political rights or be. discriminated against in the exercise
thereof   because   of   religion,
race, t color or national origin.
The Trustees' action also included the following. "It is the
policy of the University that
in all of its operations and activities there shall be no discrimination on the basis off religion, race, color or national
origin."
To implement such a policy
with CMU approved off-campus housing as adopted by the
Board of Trustees and agreed
upon by the Michigan Civil
Rights Commission, the University was directed to include the statement of gener-
LEAVE A BURNING cigarette in an ash-tray and combine with crumpled paper and you have a delightful recipe
lor a blaze.
Reporter Finds Negligence While
Mgating Thorpe Hall Fire
US Must Negotiate In
Viet War -- Schlesinger
'  By Neil Hopp
Life Staff Writer
"The best and probably only
way out for America   in   the
By Sharon Freye
[        Life Staff Writer
[ Negligence caused a dormitory fire resulting in §3000-
14000 damages.
( Thorpe hall became the University's ninth fire call when
a fire started in a wastebasket
in Room 205 Sunday, Feb. 21,
i860. At the time the fire
started there was no "one ir,"
the room. The fife was discovered by M i ik e Roberts,
Grayling   senior,   and   Jerry
Contracts have been awarded and construction is scheduled to begin within a week on
a General Classroom Building
at Central Michigan   Univer-
Isity, according to Dr. N. C.
Bovee, vice president of business and finance. -
, The building will be named
in honor of Dr. C. L. Anspach,
president-emeritus of the Uiii-
I versify.    He served as president for 20 years from 1939 to
1959. *"
The new building   will   be
constructed  east of Washing-
■ ton  St.   between   St.   Mary's
[Catholic Chapel and the Washington Court married   student
apartments.
Departments to be housed in
the building include "English,
sociology, history and political
science, journalism and Information Services. The University's television- offices and
studios will be moved into the
building. The office of the
°ean of School of Art and Sciences will also be ^housed in
we building.
Barich, Royal Oak 'junior.
They quickly put out the fire
with the dorm extinguisher;
however, the fire department
was called. Damage was mainly to the study area.
Lee Polley, director of housing, pointed out that for the
most part, occupants are responsible to any damage ac-
curing to school property as
the result of negligence. In
this instance, however, it was
difficult to place the blame
on any one person.
The Thorpe Fire climaxes
an eventful year of fires for
the Campus security police.
Each fire can be contributed
to negligence either on the
part of the university or the-
students- involved.
-The first fire occured in
Room 201 Calkins hall on
Sept. 17, 1964, soon after
school resumed. It occurred
in a wastebasket. No one was
in the room at the time, and
the fire was spotted and extinguished by a student assistant in the room above.
The second fire reported
was in Room 6 Merrill Hall on
Sept. 24,- 1964. An electric,
blanket smouldered an began
to smoke. The only damage
was to the blanket.
On Sept. 28, 1964, city firemen were called to Washing-,
ton Court when a clothes dryer caught fire. The fire resulted in $200 smoke damage
and $250 damage to the dryer
and clothes involved.
A fourth September fire occured on the 30th. A student
in Ronan was studying with a
plastic lamp, on her bed trying not to. disturb her roommates. She fell asleep and the
lamp tipped over burning
■ through the shee, pad and mattress* The blaze was extinguished by the student and her
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Student Rights
"I don't know if I have any
rights at this university," Joe
Sweeney, student.body .president, told student senators at
Monday nights meeting.
"If I do have any, I don't
know what they are."
Sweeney told senators that
"people I graduated from high
school with, who didn't go on
to Central, have more rights
than I do,"
He continued by saying the
university has no definition of
rights of students and protection of any rights.
Women's late hours and off
campus housing for people 21
years and older were his prime
concern.
"I intend on introducing a
resolution to the senate Monday  night   on  both  women's
hours  and. off  campus  housing," Sweeney said after the
meeting.   "One will give wo-
huen 21 or older no hours, the
other  will  take  restrictions
from campus housing for both
men and women '21 and older."
At present, university policy
states only senior women have
special hours, a 2 a.m. late per
on   Friday   arid   Saturday
nights, with 11, p.m. on week
nights  and  1  a,m.  on weekends, the hours for all others.
"All I want is the   same
rights for, our students as any-
other   citizen   is   getting,"
Sweeney continued. "My point
was  a  call for  Specific  reorganization  of  some   administrative policy."   ■
.   Johnson's   proposal,,   which
. closely  parallels  a  statement
issued by Central's- Board of
Trustees   this  week,   read   as
follows:' "That student senate
strongly  recommend  a  statement of non-discrimination to
be required of all householders retained dn the university
housing list."
The resolution passed tanaM-1
j mously.
South Viet Nam situation is
through negotiation," Arthur
Schlesinger said last Thursday
night.
Schlesinger referred to that
crisis in his talk entitled, "The
Coming Change in World Affairs", delivered in Warriner
Auditorium.
"We must convince them
(both Viet Cong and the Saigon government) that this war
cannot be won militarily," he
said. "An illusion that the
American people have is that
North Viet is invading South
Viet Nam. This is not the
case—it started as a civil war,
wtih South Vietnamese fighting against South Vietnamese."
Therefore, Schlesinger poin-
ed out, negotiation on the local
level with local leaders is .the
answer to the problem. He
did say however that two-
other alternatives are open to
the U.S.—complete military
withdrawal o r stepped -up
armed strength, both of which
would favor the communist
factions. ,
When asked how the US
was /justified in making retaliatory bombings in North
•VietNam, Schlesinger said,
"The North Vietnamese killed
American soldiers, thus, the
point was reached where the
U-S. was within the right of
international law to strike
back."
According t o Schlesinger,
Russia wants to transform the
military system to economical
and social wars—in other
words, peaceful co-existence.
"T h e bonds of discipline
within the Communist Party
' have destroyed the ideology of
the party," he said. "The Communist movement today is in
a state of confusion, which is
approaching civil war. Russia
has had to modify its ideology
in this modern world of diversity—especially among the
new and underdeveloped nations."
"Russia still prohibits the
free sale of non-communist
books and the situation is
worse in China," he said. "Until democracy can circulate
freely in the Russian world as'
Russian ideas circulate in the
democratic world, only then
will peaceful co-existence he
reached."
al policy   in the   off-campus •
housing handbook for householders and students and referred   to in   the" off-campus
agreement.
The University would also
insert in "the handbook, a
statement that it is the responsibility of the University to
"Investigate any complaint [ of
discrimination againat any
person because 0 f religion,
race, color or national origin,
and to take appropriate action."
In regard to complaints the
following procedure would' be
followed:   Upon receipt   of   a
complaint, it would be the responsibility of the University
Housing Office   to obtain   all
pertinent information   and  if
discrimination   is  proven,   to
attempt to convince the person
that such   action   is  against.
University policy and that it
must cease.   If this cannot be
done, the person would be removed from the approved list
of off-campus householders. If
there   is   some   doubt   as to
whether or not discrimination
is being practiced after investigation, the   Housing   Office
would request the householder
to   sign   a   statement   which
would read as follows: "I understand that all approved off-
campus housing listed by the
Housing   Office    at    Central
Michigan University, must be
open to students regardless of
their religion,   race, color, or
national origin and I agree to
abide  by  this  requirement."
Senate Issues
The University Senate last
week approved a motion that
advisors to social and religious
organizations be a p p o i n t e d
from the University community.
In effect then, advisors may
include faculty, staff members
or their wives. Former policy
did not allow wives to serve
as advisors.
In other action, the Senate
voted to postpone until the
next meeting, action on approval of the' School of Arts
and Science faculty's request
for official recognition from ,
the Senate.
The request, according to Dr.
Elbert Bowen, Speech, was
prompted by the new University Senate Constitution which,
allows formal recognition of
individual schools. The action
of postponement was enacted
in order to supply interested
members of the Senate with
copies of the School's procedural document.
The next meeting of the
University Senate is scheduled
for March 15.
BULLETIN — E. Alien
Morril, Mount Pleasant was
reelected "chairman of the
Board of Trustees at Wednesday's meeting for the
1965 year. Morril has served as chairman since--the
Board was first set up. In'
other action, the proposed
library expansion was nam
ed after Charles Park, f <—**■
er librarian for many
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