1965-07-22; Central Michigan Life

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Volume 46
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Central Michigan University, Thursday, July 22, 1965
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Number 31
NIU Plans To Leave IIAC Conference
Full Grant-ln-Aid Program
Violates IIAC League Rules
SANDRA PENNALA and Robert Bennett
go through fined rehearsals in a scene from
"Blood Wedding." Scenes from six well-
known plays will be featured tonight and
tomorrow night starting at 8 pjn. in Warri
ner Auditorium.
Students in the Speech Department's
Sommer School Directing Class will oversee
the productions.
Army Awards Two Year
Scholarship to Centralite
Cadet Terry May, Belleville,
111., is one of 600 college students who have been selected
to receive the first two-year
Reserve Officer Training
Corps scholarships ever to be
given by the Army.
Five Seniors
Given Stipends
Five senior students have
been awarded stipends to cover their senior year at Central.
They are: Barbara L. Baurie-
del, Midland; Duane Chapman,
Mount Pleasant; Constance
Crocker, N i 1 e s ; Mary Ann
Manning, Mayville and Yvonne
Zamiara, Grand Rapids.
These students are all on
the program for preparation of
teachers of mentally handicapped children. Their stipends
are provided under the provisions of Public Law 88-164.
Each of the stipends amounts
to a $1600 tax-free grant and
the students are permitted free
tuition.
Miss Zamiara's grant was
made through the Department
of Public Instruction but the
others were made directly
through a grant that CMU
received from the U.S. Office
of Education.
In addition to the stipends
for students, monies are available under the grant to further
the program for the preparation of teachers of the mentally retarded.  Steps  are be
The award is made t o
outstanding ROTC students
who will enter their junior
year of college this. fall. Each
scholarship will pay for tuition, textbooks and fees and
will provide the recipient with
an allowance of $50 a month
for the duration of his award.
May was nominated for
the scholarship by the military science department and
college officials on the basis
of his academic and extracurricular record, performance
during his first two years of
ROTC, the scores received on
the ROTC qualification test,
physical qualifications and interviews by Army officers and
faculty members to determine
that he is highly motivated
toward a career as an Army
officer.
The Army ROTC program
provides approximately 85 per
cent of the new officers entering the Army each year.
This is approximately twenty
times the number of officers
commissioned a t West Point
annually.
In approximately two weeks,
Prior Admission
Needed for All
All off-campus students
who plan to take either undergraduate or graduate credit
work should obtain prior admission to CMU. Undergraduate applications may be obtained from Austin Buchanan,
the Secretary of the Army will
announce the names of 400
high school graduates who will
receive four-year ROTC scholarships, with the same benefits as the two-year awards.
The scholarships were authorized by the ROTC Vitaliz-
ation Act, which President
Lyndon B. Johnson signed last
Oct. 13. It authorizes additional Army scholarships to be a-
warded each year until a maximum of 5,500 are in effect by
the 1970-71 school year.
Northern Illinois University,
largest school in the current
five-team Interstate Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, has
indicated that it plans, to leave
the IIAC at the end of the
1965-66 school year.
The DeKalb, 111. school announced last Thursday through
Athletic Director George Evans
that it would ask a special
meeting of the IIAC Faculty
Representatives to approve its
petition to leave.
The IIAC Faculty Representatives, CMU's Lester Serier, mathematics, among them,
are scheduled to convene in
DeKalb, along with league
Commissioner Clifford Horton,
to consider eligibility rules and
special case hearings today
and tomorrow.
Evans, president of the IIAC
for 1965, requested that a
special meeting be held at this
time to consider NIU's request
to leave. Evans has no vote
in the matter since only the
five faculty representatives
may vote on such actions.
The move follows NIU's approved full grant-in-aid program which was approved by
the Illinois State Teacher's
College Board last month. This
allows the- NIU school, by
means of a raise in student
fees, to provide student athletes with more than the customary IIAC allowable grant
of tuitions, fees and books and
a job. NIU now could also
grant its athletes room and
board allowances.
NIU had asked the league to
raise the grant-in-aid limits at
the regular May meeting, but
the request was turned down.
Under current rules of the
IIAC, Northern, under its
grant-in-aid procedure, would
be in violation of league rules.
Northern has indicated that
it would implement its new
policy during the 1965 - 66
school year, and that freshmen enrolling this fall would
be able to receive so-called
"full rides."
If NIU leaves, as is apparent
it will, the IIAC Will drop to
four schools. The application
of Northern Michigan for membership was tabled at the May
meeting, but can be brought
up again for action at the regular meeting in December.
Eastern Michigan, a former
member of the conference
which left the group in 1962,
has withdrawn from the President's Athletic Conference and
is rumored as a possible member again now that a new
president assumed office July
At
Northern Illinois has been
rumored headed for the MidAmerican Conference which
includes schools in Michigan,
Ohio and West Virginia for
more than a year and a half.
Reportedly standing in their
way was the "full ride" aspect
of the grant-in-aid program.
The matter is no longer a
problem.
If NIU leaves, it will be the
third school to have left in
the past half-decate. Southern
Illinois left to become an athletic independent in 1962 along
with Eastern Michigan. No
schools have been added in
that time;
Northern has won the IIAC
All-Sports Trophy each of the
last two years after a tie for
the top spot in 1963 which
represented the first time the
Huskies had ever won or shared the All-Sports Trophy.
During the first 12 years of
the existence of the Interstate
Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, NIU had won only six
league titles in the 10-sport
program of the league. Beginning with the 1962-63 school
year, the DeKalb school has
won or shared eight league
crowns out of a total of 30 possible titles.
Expected enrollments at the
five IIAC member schools for
fall 1965 include, Northern Illinois, 14,750; Illinois State,
8,300; Central Michigan, 8,200;
Western Illinois, 6,000; and
Eastern Illinois, 5,400.
director of admissions.  Applications for the School of Grading taken to do rhatTbeginning     uate Studies may be obtained
'n September. from George Nelson, dean.
SUMMER IS THE time to ponder over little things such
UD this little lost bird found near married housing. The
anonymous onlooker, seems quite content to just look and
not touch.
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Two Centralites
Save Swimmers
Two students enrolled in a
Central summer recreation
camp have been credited with
saving two persons from
drowning at Petoskey.
Charles Jordon, Clio junior,
and Regina Kern, Oscoda
sophomore, were looking for a
missing boy along Petoskey's
bathing beach when they
heard a woman scream for
help in the water.
A man went to her rescue
but got into trouble himself
when the woman struggled
with him. The two Central
students swam to the scene,
freed the woman's grip on her
would-be rescuer and brought
her to shore.
Jordan and Miss Kern are
both enrolled as counselors in
the Petoskey Recreation Program, one of 10 summer camps
directed by Central faculty
members.