1965-09-24; Central Michigan Life

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VOLUME 46
CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1965
NUMBER 1
Men's Union Offers Name Talent
Serendipity Singers Open Series
Research Grant To
Provide Delivery of
[Local Daily Paper
The Panax Corporation
falong with the CMU Alumni
[Development Fund have made^
[possible the daily "delivery to"".
[students of .the Mount. Plea-
fsant Daily-Times News;
This program was instituted
[through the efforts of Rich-
lard L. Milliman, vice-presi-
[dent of Panax and the De-
[velopment Fund.
It was the hope of Milliman
[to help establish a greater in-
i ter-relationship of the Uni-
i versity student with the corh-
fmunity, and a greater aware-
jness by the community of the
j'aims, desires and problems of
j.the University complex,
For those purposes the Panax Corporation proposed a
research • grant of $1,400 per
semester for the school year
1965-66, to be used in the following way:
To   provide   as   many  as
possible on-campus resident
students with access to daily  newspaper   coverage   of
" affairs   and   events   of   the
• community in which they
[: are spending their univer-
j* sity years, with the end of
helping these students to be
more keenly aware of  the
problems  and opportunities
{' of the community,   and of
• the impact they as students
• and    university-year    residents   command   in   the
• Mount Pleasant community,
and to encourage communi-
• ty participation as well as
community awareness.
• The Daily-Time News,
starting last Tuesday, will be
delivered free of charge to
every dormitory room mail
box on campus.
It is the hope of Woodward
C. Smith, vice-president of
public affairs, that this program will be used to its greatest benefit academically. "We
see where we can get some
valuable research out of this
thing," said Smith.
. According to Smith this is
the first known program of
this type ever to be tried in
the world.
Investigators
Won't Return
Immediately
One of the questions, asked
most often on Central _ cam-
Pus is, "When will the state
senate investigating team resume its work here?"
Life forwarded that question
to the Lansing office of Senator Edward Robinson, chairman of the investigating committee. Robinson was "unavail-
01e for comment." Robinson's
secretary indicated that, bemuse the state senate is still
f session, the senator has
Probably has not had an opportunity to look into the matter yet this fall.
Limited Number of rickets
A vailable far Performances
The Serendipity Singers will appear at Central Tuesday
at 8 p.m. in Finch .Fieldhouse as the opener of the Men's
Union Pop Concert Series.
A limited, number, of season tickets are still on sale at
the University Center ticket office for the concert series
which includes top entertainment for the entire school year.
The Serendipity Singers will    —' ———~~~ "
live up. to their chosen name,
taken from the,original "Greek
meaning . . . "an unexpected,
discovery of a new and happy
s
The Serendipity Singers will present o "Hootenenny
Special" Tuesday at 8 p.m. in Finch Fieldhouse as the
first in a series of five Pop Concerts sponsored by Men's
Union.
Off'Campus Students To Be
Represented by 12 Senutors
Student Body President,
Gene Ragland, today urged
interested students from the
i2 new off-campus student'
senate districts to pick up
petitions for office.
The off-campus students
have until Wednesday to obtain petitions, have them
signed by 25 students from
their district and turn the
petitions into the Student
Government office.
Ragland is concerned because this is the first year that
senators from the new districts will be elected and, consequently, interest in the new
offices may be lacking.
The re-districting was intended to section off the campus into 12 areas, each containing approximately 150 off-
campus students. Because of
the new apartment buildings,
however, one of the sections
will have considerably more
than 150 students in it.
Under the constitution, re-
- districting takes place every
four years. Ragland says it
would take an amendment to
the constitution to give the
senate completely equal representation again.
Student Senate elections will
take place October 5. The first
election of the school year will
also include balloting,, for the
Homecoming Queen and the
selection of • four freshmen
class officers.
Campaigning will begin
Thursday at 7 a.m. and conclude October 4 at 7 p.m. with
the Homecoming Queen's candidate assembly following that
evening.
Voting will be conducted
Oct. 5 at 17 sites on campus,
but off-campus students will
be required to cast their ballots either in the University
Center or Warriner Hall. The
Homecoming Queen's dance is
also scheduled for Oct. 5.
Each off-campus student's
activity card was stamped with
his district number at registration and off-campus voters
must bring their activity card
when they vote.
Chuck Middleton has been
appointed as elections chairman, but he will have no official committee with which to
work. Elections committees are
^to be appointed at the first
regular meeting of the senate,
which (because there will be
no senators until after the
election) will not take place
until Oct. 11.
Continuing Busy
Schedule Tomorrow
CMU's marching band, under the direction of Norman
C. Dietz, is the largest and
busiest in its history.
Already this semester the
Marching Chips have given a
half-time presentation at a
Detroit Lions game, played at
the Red Feather contest in
Saginaw and tomorrow they'll
be playing host to five high
school bands in the annual
Band Day festivities.
This year's marching band
includes 130 men and is one of
three all-male college bands in
Michigan. In addition to band
members, five other performers also entertain the football
crowds at Central.
Bob McDaniels, Bay City
Junior, is drum major and has
the important job of coordinating the band with whistle
signals. Majorettes are Carolyn
Merkel, Joan Swartzloff, Lori
Park and Bonnie Saurbrun.
event" as they perform for
CMU students in a Hootenanny
Special.
The first major appearance
of the Serendipity Singers was
as headliners at New York's
"Bitter End," a coffee house
owned by Fred Weintraub who
is well known for having discovered such notables as Peter, Paul, and Mary. The
group's first recording was a
national album hit from which
came the single hit, "Don't Let
the Rain Come Down."
The group of nine singers is
presently touring colleges
across the U.S. with the Ford
Caravan of Music. They have
appeared on six ABC-TV
"Hootenanny" shows and most
recently on the Jack Paar
Show.
O t h e r name entertainers
booked for the series include
the Dave Brubeck quartet on
Oct. 28, Ferrante and Tiecher
on Nov. 15, Louis Armstrong
on Feb. 28, and Godfrey Cambridge and Ian and Sylvia on
March 29.
This is the first time that
such a program series has
been tried on Central's campus. According to John Stov-
all, president of .the sponsoring organization, Men's Union
wanted to bring more top entertainment to our campus
and with this in mind, began
contacting various entertainment agencies last spring in
order to bring to CMU a di-^
versified program to hit. the
likes of all students.     - • •
Director Norman Dietz leads CMU's 130 member band played before a crowd of
Marching Chips in their halftime perform- 46,000 as the Lions opened the season with
ance- last Sunday at Tiger Stadium. The    the Los Angeles Rams.