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CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY. MT. PLEASANT. MICHIGAN, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 6. 1959
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Central students received a stern warning from Mt. Pleasant's police chief Wednesday. Chief Haun said, "We are not going to
stand for any foolishness and the police are
going tp take-a policy stand with court action
if any more of these incidents occur."
Chief Haun was referring to the recent
fights which have broken out between University students and students from Sacred
Heart Academy and Mt. Pleasant High
School,
Should any more oi these skirmishes
break out the University obviously will suffer. Central has not been getting a good
press lately, and it is not hard to imagine
how some newspapers in the state would
react to news oi such fights.
Central's student body will also suffer if
Ihis sort of thing goes on. We maintain that
when we come to college we should be recognized as responsible people. How responsible would we be considered if we are publicized for fighting high school students?
It is likely thai if more fights do break out
Central will bear the brunt of the blame. We,
as University students are considered to be
much more responsible for our actions than
are the high school students.
About the situation. Dr. Daniel Sorrells, dean of students, said, "I would hope
we, as students, conduct ourselves discretely this weekend and not be the cause
oi any irregularities. Since we are college
students lets's act our age and not provoke
difficulties and conflicts.
"We (the administration) will back our
students in their actions," Sorrells said, "as
long as they are right."
Of course, its obvious that Central students have a right to protect themselves but
should we be the cause of an unpleasant
situation we will be the ones to answer for it.
On the other hand, if the police are
called out, they are not going to ask who
started the fight. Discretion may well be
the better part oi valor this weekend.
What it all boils down to is that if we
make trouble we can expect trouble—
trouble from the police department and the
administration not to mention the bad publicity Central would receive.
So if the rumors of a fight this weekend
are true, think twice before you act. It would
lead to nothing but trouble, injuries and hard
feelings toward the University and its students.
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Vincent Sheean, world fa-
m o u s author-correspondent,
comes to Central on November
10 for the Artists Course program.
This popular journalist returns to ihe lecture platform
after   living   abroad   for   the
past    five    years.    He    will
speak  on  "The  Struggle  for
Supremacy in Asia."
His   latest   book,   "Nehru   In
Power," is an outgrowth of his
extensive travels in India and
his   friendship   jvith . Gandhi's
successor.
Sheean has returned half a
dozen times io India since ihe
fateful day in 1948 when ho
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was standing a scant ten feet
away from Gandhi as an assassin's bullet felled ihe great
Indian loader. One of his most
notable books. "Lead, Kindly
Light."   a   Book-of-ihe-Monih
Club selection, dealt with
Gandhi's mission.
Convinced that thc aestiny of
our world lies in the East, Mr.
Sheean attended the historic
Afro-Asian conference at Bandung and made frequent trips
throughout Southeast Asia.
Sheean has been a newspaper reporter in Chicago,
and New York and a foreign
correspondent in Europe. After a visit to Persia and China
for ihe North American
Newspaper Alliance, Sheean
began free-lance writing for
magazines, fiction as well as
articles.
Sheean was an eyewitness to
many of the major events that
led to World War II in Austria,
Germany and Spain. He served
in the intelligence division of
the Army Air Corps and saw
action in Europe, Africa and the
India-China theatre. He also
served as a war correspondent
with General Patton's Third
Army.
He covered The San Francisco Conference and the Paris
meetings of the Foreign Ministers Council. i
Now, bacK in American oncej
again, the distinguished author-
journalist enriches his audience
with his wealth of experience
and broad philosophic outlook.
The box office hours at which
students may"prdcur'e 'reserved
seats for the program are as follows: Monday, November 9,
from 8 to 10 a.m.; Tuesday,
November 10, from 12:30 to 2:30
p.m.; and from 7 to 8:15 p.m.
Reserved seats for students
are free upon the presentation
of an activity card. Students
may present a maximum of four
activity cards apiece.
Fill on 'Enchanting Sp
Ie le Presented Ktaw. 14
taMed by WCft
The Campus Radio Station
WCRG will broadcast a jazz
concert on Monday evening,
November 9th, at 10 p.m. This
is a rebroadcast of the concert
which was done orginally last
spring over WCRG.
The big feature is ihe fact
ihai all of ihe music is supplied   by   students   of   CMU.
It features Jack Gridley and
h i s    Swinging    Chips    wiih
Sandy Bowerman as vocalist;
ihe  Beaver  Boys  wiih  Iheir
famous   dixieland   style;   and
The Four Delis, who have recorded professionally.
This program was thc first of
it's    kind    to    be    done    over
WCRG.   Thc   station  manager,
Bob   Whaley,   announced  more
shows  of  this  kind  are  being
planned    for    the    future.    He
said it is the station's hope to
get   as   much   local   talent   on
Radio  Central  as  possible.
One   of   the   most   popular
shows   on   ihe   radio   station
lasi year was "The House of
Good Sounds" v/iih Ed Phillips as host. During ihe hour
thai   he   was   on   Ed   played
joss records and made comment about the different recordings and ihe artists who
made .hem.
Ed graduated last year but
"The House of Good Sounds"
stays with us. The program
this year is in the capable
hands of Sam BrittOn. Sam
may be heard every Wednesday night at 9:00.
"Enchanting Spain," a color
film taking in all of Spain from
just south of the French border
down to the British Territory of
Gilbraltar, will be presented by
world traveler Russell Wright
in Warriner Auditorium at 8
p.m. Saturday, November 14.
This will be the second presentation in the Travelogue
Series for the 1959-60 season.
Admission will be by ID card
or season ticket. Single admission tickets for non-students are
500.
Russell Wright's experiences in Spain qualify him as
expert io bring ihe richness
of  the  country  lo  his  audiences.  In  1931   when Wright
was a freelance photographer,
he saw ihe last King of Spain.
Alfonso XIII, go into exile.
A visit in  1932 brought into
the   trials' of  a   new   republic.
Then again in 1937 Wright, as a
war   correspondent,   saw   blood
flow on the battle ground during   the   Spanish   Civil   War's
most  disastrous  days.  Mr.
Wright has represented Associated   Press,   European   Picture
Service,    London   Daily    Telegraph,   Universal   Newsreel   as
reporter   and   photographer   on
numerous assignments.
Today, as a film producer,
he is constantly visiting foreign lands in ihe search of
new 'and timely material. In
ihe United Siaies, he travels
from coast io coast as a narrator on world affairs presenting f i 1 m-1 e c i u r e programs.
Spain is a nation with a brilliant past. Much of today's pageantry and customs date from
before and during the early
days of Christianity. You will
gain insight into how these customs aid and sometimes retard
the lives of today's Spaniard.
In ihe Granada Region you
will    waich    ihe    passionate
gypsies as they   dance io ihe
rhythms ihai have stirred the
world for centuries. Then off
io   ihe   Island   Majorca,   She
playground for tourists from
all over ihe world.
You visit the Basque section
in the north where the people
are   different   in   nature   and
character  than all  the  rest of
Spain.   In   realistic   color   you
will visit Barcelona,   the busi-
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Beaver Island, 14 miles long
and between three and six
miles wide, is the largest of a
group of eight islands called the
Beavers. The islands are located 35 miles southwest of the
Straits of Mackinac in Lake
Michigan,
Charlevoix is the point of departure from the mainland for
Big Beaver, as the island is
sometimes called. Plane service
and ferry-boat service both are
available to visitors.
The fact ihai ihe island is
an important point in history
and ihe opportunity io "get
away from il all" makes
Beaver Island an extremely
attractive vacation area.
Father    Frederic    Baraga,    a
Catholic    missionary,    left    the
earliest white man's records on
j Beaver Island in 1832.
Soon after Baraga had lived
on   the   island   and   had  introduced   the   Indians   to   civilization    and   Christianity,   James j
Jesse   Strang,   leader   of   renegade offshoot Mormons, recognized Beaver Island as an iso-j
lated    location   for   his    small'
group and in 1846 settled there.!
Strang wanted io establish
a kingdom and by 1850 had
organized his group enough
ihai he celebrated his corona-
lion. Strang established
King's. Day as a Mormon holi-
.-day*, wftieh is >still jrecognised
by the church. King Strang,
ihe only man io be crowned
in the United Stales, controlled all from ihe priesthood io
highway planning on ihe island. In 1852 he moved what
few Gentiles that remained
off ihe Island.
After the colorful reign of
King Strang the Gentiles immediately moved back, ran the
Mormons off the island, and began their own ways of life.
Groups of Irishmen, who
were looking for freedom, discovered the Island and decided
that the island was a satisfactory substitute for their old
Ireland. The majority of the
people who inhabit the island
now are still of Irish decent.
The Catholic religion became so
predominant on the island in
early colonization that Beaver
Island is included as a segment
of history of the Catholic
Church in the U.S.
Commercial fishing used io
be  ihe island's  big  business,
but now fishing is only a fun
proposition    ihere.    The    last
big shipment was sent out in
1946. The ruin of commercial
fishing   is   attributed   greatly
io ihe lamprey ells when ihey
invaded ihe great lakes.
The first written account of
education  facilities   on   the   island is mentioned in the Mormon records and history. Now
one    public    grade    and    high
school, conducted by Dominican
Sisters, serves the island.
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A picture of the Beaver Island Conference house over which a controversial fury
peared in the Detroit Free Press last Friday.
The house which cost $30,000 will be used
(or students and faculty.
Four
ty Teen-Age
Four Central Michigan University students were attacked
late Saturday night by a group
of young teen-agers.
The .rouble apparently
started in the downtown area
where the students were threatened and molested by the gang.
When the students got in the
car the mob attempted to lure
them out by kicking and banging at the automobile. A parade
of cars followed the victims to
their residence in Ronan Hall
and attacked the outnumbered
students before they could
reach safety.
Chains, hammers, and can
openers were included in the
weapons used by the gang and
before is was over one student
had been hit by a hammer on
the head and the others were
beaten.
Police  investigation  included!
the   arrest   of   eight   teenagers
| and the release  of the'se boys
because of the lack of evidence
against them.
The first two recipients of the
newly established Central Michigan University Development \
Fund Scholarship program have
been named, announced Austin
Buchanan, director of admissions and secretary of the scholarship committee.
Sue A. Wilbur. Battle
Creek freshman, and Edward
ft, Langenburg, Bay Ciiy
freshman, have each received
a thousand-dollar scholarship,
payable over a four-year period.
Miss Wilbur had the second
highest scholastic record in her
high school graduating class.
She was secretary of the ushers
club, vice-president of the
mathematics club, picture editor of the yearbook and a member of the national honor society. .
Mr. .Lahgepburg was senior
Class president, a member of ihe
varsity club and active in football, wrestling, and golf.
The Central University Development Fund, an alumni
sponsored    movement,   began
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Freshmen AWS Candidates
The two freshmen candidates
for AWS representative are Sue
C. Bauer from Alpena and Kay
J, Hursey from Trenton. The
election Will be held Tuesday,
Nov. 10 and only freshmen girls
are eligible to vote.
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fm Twirp We®
President Judson Foust has
been named "Mayor of Dog-
patch" for this year's twirp
week  activities.
Twirp week was formally
introduced ihis Wednesday
wiih ihe circulation of an official proclamation declaring
November 5 through 7 as
''the  time   when   the   women
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Nationally renowned Buddy
Morrow and his fourteen piece
"Original Orchestra" will play
at this years Annual Military
Ball. The dance which is scheduled for January 16, 1960, will
be preceded by a Morrow featured concert or "jam session"
in the field house.
The combination of ihe
Buddy Morrow orchestra v/iih
iho season's only formal
dance should bo one of iho social highlights of ihe school
year. Military uniforms or
dinner jackets are considered
appropriate male attire for
iho evening.
Upperclassmen    enrolled   in
advanced ROTC will find themselves   in   great   demand   next
week,   predicts   Keith   Reed,
dance    ticket   chairman.    Each
juhior and senior ROTC student
will   be   authorized   one   extra
ticket for the dance. The dance
ticket    which    also   admits   a
couple to the jam session is §4.
Jam  session tickets  ($1.00 per
person) and a "very few" dance
tickets will go on sale in Warriner Hall early in December.
"Freshmen  and  sophomore
ROTC   cadoSs   responded   so
enthusiastically    two    weeks
ago to tho opportunity io reserve tickets for the hall Stall
only   a   limited   nufi&Gr   -of
dance tickets will be offered
for general sale, siaied Reed,
More than 500 basic students
already have reserved tickets,
and the 104 advanced course
cadets will attend en masse.
"Commissioning" the Kay-
dettes, coed sponsors of the
various units of the ROTC
Brigade, will highlight intermission activities. Competition
for the post of Kaydette Brigade Commander should be
unusually keen this year, with
campus housing and social organizations being invited to
enter candidates for the first
time.
a man."
On Saturday night "Daisy
Maes" all over campus will
have the opportunity to escort
their chosen "Little Abners" to
the annual costume ball. Held
in the gymnasium, the ball resembles a smaller version of
"dogpatch".
Music for ihe evening will
be played  by  ihe  Don Warner band. The dance will be
from 9 until 12 p.m.
Prizes will be given for the
most original and to those who
look the most like inhabitants
from    "dogpatch".   The   prizes
will be awarded by the honorable   Mayor   Foust    at    about
10:45 p.m.
Art Exhibit
An, exhibit of 35 drawing in
various media from University
of Michigan art faculty is now
being shown in the Wightman
Hall Gallery until November 7.
The Gallery is open until 8 p.m.
Monday through Friday.
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"Where are all the cars?"
seems to be the question residents of Mt. Pleasant are asking these days, The city ordinance stating that cars must be
off the streets between the
hours of 2 a.m. and 5 a.m. went
into effect November 1.
It is an especially difficult
folic can go out a-hunting for ^problem for homes  that  house
in the spring of 1958. The
money, solicited annually
froirf-alufcraii. will- Be'UBed-'for
projects recommended by the
University for things not ordinarily provided through
slate appropriations. Additional scholarships will be
provided as the fund grows.
In additional to the scholarships, the money will be used
to encourage and foster research
and study programs, acquire
valuable and useful library col-'
lections, support alumni communications and publications,
provide furnishings for special
projects, aid in acquiring an
adequate natural science laboratory, and advance any other
worthy projects that may arise
for which no funds are available.
The Board of Directors, all
alumni-'of CMU, allocates ihe
- the funds.. Money has been allocated   to   help- furnish   the
alumni lounge in the new student union building.
Elected officers of the board
are;   Dr.   Everett   N.   Luce   of
Midland, chairman; G. R. Den-
nison   of   Mt.   Pleasant,   Vice-
chairman; Maxine Addy Reeves
of  Ithaca,   secretary;   Dr.   Don
Borchard of Saginaw, treasurer.
Other members of the Board
are: Dr. Judson W. Foust, president of CMU;  Dr.  Woodward
C.    Smith,    vice-president    o f
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several students who own auto-1 Thirty.five Central students
mobiles. But according to the|have been elected to ^^
Mt. Pleasant police, there has
been very little opposition to
the enforcement of the ordinance.
"We don't know where
they're putting them, but
they're off the streets. After the
first night, when we issued 156
warning notices, we have had
very few violators."
Violation of the ordinance
means a ticket and fine. If the
car isn't removed, it will be
tolled away and the cost of the
tolling bill will be added to another fine.
A call to the contractors in
town who supply 95% of the
cement for the Mt. Pleasant
area, revealed that over 200
drive-ways were either enlarged or added. Approximately
§5,000 has been spent by Mt.
Pleasant residents for driveways, -while the cost of new
garages is about the same or
slightly above what has been
spent in past years,
Who in American Colleges and
Universities according to a list
released   by   the   Dean   of
Women's office. •
.. The Who's Who students are:
C. John Anderson, Hans Andrews, Stanley Barnett, Kay
Breidenstein, Karen Chamberlain,
Barbara Davis, Sheila Ford,
Barbara Graham, < Lynn Hag-
man, Judie Hauck.
Robert Jones, Jeanette Kern,
Ken Knauf, Daniel LaFave,
Myrna Maass LeBarre.
Ronald LeBarre, Betty Long-
necker, Lorraine Love, Nancy
Lowery.
Kathy McGuire, Neal Miller,
Sandra Moore, John Muma,
Lynne Peterson, Nancy Peterson.
Pat Phinisey, Dawn Poppen,
Kay Remenap, Clyde Saum,
Jack Saunders.
Jerry Sieracki, Sue Trimble,
James Trosko, Glenda Casey
Vandemark, Jerry Wiley.
BY MICKEY MIKESELL
Senator Elmer R. Porter, ap-.
propriations committee, chairman, told LIFE Wednesday that
even though he had said in May
that no state funds were being
used by Central to build a natural science laboratory building
at Beaver Island he now says
that the "building still used
public dollars."
The Detroit Free Press, in its
Oct. 30 issue, carried a story of
the facility in which Porter was
quoted "I'm surprised that the
State Board of Education would
approve a thing like this in
times of austerity."
The   article   explained  that
the  finances   were  from   the
operation   and   sale   of   war
veterans   housing   and   from
ihe sale of surplus equipment *
as   N.   C.   Bovee,   CMU   vice
president  in  charge  of  business and finance had said.
Porter   replied   in   the   Free
Press that this didn't make any
difference, that there still was
a    "question    of    judgement."
None of the money used for the
facility  was state appropriated
or borrowed.
Operation and financing of
the facility will also come from
users and in this respect it Will
be self financing.
A considerable amount of the
material that has gone into thc
building has .been surplus .material from" self-liquidating projects on campus.
Porter   admitted   that   his
reversal in attitude from last
May toward the facility is because   when   he   made   the
statement  last spring he
"didn't know what the building was to be used for." He
"didn't   know   it   was   to   b&
used   for   this."   He   "wasn't
told  what   the   building   was
to be used for."
Central   received   permission
in May from the State Board of
Education to build a facility on
Beaver   Island   for   the   educational uses of students, faculty!
and other CMU oficials, It w.as
to be called the Central Michigan University Conference
House and construction was- to
begin in June.
The Free Press article stated
that the facility "is not intended for student use."
Vice President Bovee said
thai ihis is a misquote. The
original plan was to not
schedule classes this fall—
but to open the facility to
classes beginning with ihe
summer of 1960. The building was completed in AugusS,
but like all new buildings,
Bovee said, the heating facilities, the water system, etc..
had to be adjusted before it
was ready to be used by large
groups.
Porter stated in the Free
Press, "I don't care what they
call it—it's just a social affair—
99 per cent social."
As was the plan when plans
for   the    building    were   announced   in   May,   the   facility
will be used for classes, short
courses,   workshops,   and   conferences. Areas of conservation,
biology, outdoor education and
related  fields   are  included  in
the program for the building.
Woodward   Smith,  .CMU
vice president and director of
public   services,   said   thai
classes can be conducted better ihere because of the laboratory   facilities   of   Beaver
Island will be held ihere.
The student facility is located
five miles from St. James, the
only village on the Island, on
part of a 40-acre piece of land
that  was  purchased  from   the
■Censervation Department in the
early 40's by Central for $i, The
lafld  was  purchased  with  the
idea of someday establishing a
conference house.
The block building, whleh
is complete with clQcssrousin.
living and dining facilities,
will accommodate 40 .poi&otia,
it is a dormitory stylo feui!$*
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Bovee said that Central plans
to keep the building open only
from about June 1 to Nov. 1
every year*
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