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WEDNESDAY
April 22, 1992
iVOLUME- 74; NUMBER 82
MOUNT PL£ASANT, MICHIGAN 48859
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Plachta appoints interim dean
By Erin Wilson
UF-E-  Stntl Writer
I Interim President Leonard
E. Plachta Tuesday announced
the appointment of John Haeger as interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
The void was created after
Ron Johnstone announced he
■would leave to take a similar joh
at Hall State University.
Haogov will fulfill his current
duties as dean of the College of
Graduate  Studies  until  July   1
when Johnstone leaves.
"(Haeger)    is    very    highly
qualified, a very able person,"
said Provost Robert Franko.
"Fie proved that as Graduate
Studies dean. He has excellent
qualiflcat ions."
Carole Beere, associate dean
of the College of Graduate Studies, will become interim dean
of that college while Haeger
makes the switch.
The void left by Beere's
interim status as dean of" the
College of Graduate Studies
likely will be filled by a temporary associate. Haeger said.
Haeger   actuallv    is   "return
ing" to the College of Arts and
Sciences, where he was a faculty
member for 20 years. He held a
tenured professorship in the
history department. He was a
department chairman for more
than three years.
"My responsibilities will
include keeping the college running smoothly, and handling
budget issues as they arise,"
Haeger said.
As Graduate Studies dean,
Haeger dealt exclusively with
graduate students. His new
interim    position    will    require
him to interact with both graduate and undergraduate students, as well as faculty.
"(Haeger) will have a large
faculty," Franke said. "There is
no question that being dean of
the College of Arts and Sciences
is very challenging."
Franke's selection process in
naming Haeger to the interim
spot included gathering opinions from faculty and department chairpersons in the College of Arts and Sciences and
elsewhere on campus. Haeger
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Freshman arrested
for pot possession
By Crystal Harmon
I IFE Staff Writer
A Muskegon freshman
charged with dealing marijuana
from Wheeler Hall faces a four-
year prison sentence, a $2,000
fine and suspension from the
University.
But fellow members of the
Hemp Environmental Activists
call Monday's arrest and Tuesday's arraignment of Jason E.
Appel a manifestation of the
"unjust   nature   of  the   War   on
Drugs."
Officers from the Department
of Public Safety arrested Appel
after receiving a tip last week
that he was using his residence,
702 Wheeler, as a clearinghouse
for marijuana. Lt. Ron Griffiths
said.
While the volume of traffic is
unknown, DPS Director John
McAuliffe said the department's
investigation shows 'sales were
going on on a regular basis."
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300 people march, chant at
Take Back the Night Rally
By Dee Sayers
I.IFF  Staff Writer
LIFE Photos/Ken Willow
Marchers take  part in the Take Back The  Night Rally by marching from Town Center to Finch
Fieldhouse to help raise awareness about physical abuse.
"Marching for our lives."
This was one of the phrases
300 women, men and children
chanted as thev participated in
the Take Back The Night Rally
march from Town Center to
Finch Hall Tuesday.
The rally was an opportunity
for CMU's women's studies
program. Women Initiating
Social Equality and other organizations and individuals to
raise awareness of the enormous problem of physical abuse,
said Donna Graves, coordinator
of women's studies.
"It's not someone else's problem," Mayor Susan Smith said
who led the rally with a motivating speech. Violence happens everyday and is a great
social problem of our culture.
Smith proclaimed Tuesday as
"Stop Domestic and Sexual
Violence Day." University
interim President Leonard E.
Plachta did likewise with a pro-
clamat ion of his own.
Participants in the rally
demonstrated their views on
domestic violence and wanted to
make others think about the
problem.
Some, however, had personal
motivation to attend the rally.
Lisa Hughey. Mackinac-
Island senior, said events in her
life have made her aware of the
problems of domestic and sexual violence.
"I'm tired of seeing how
women    are    victimized,"    she
Mayor Susan Smith gives a speech at Town Center as part of the
Take 8ack The Night Rally Tuesday night.
said.
People need to be educated on
the subject, she said.
"If we tolerate this, it's just
going to go on," she said.
Many men attended the rally
to support a cause they believe
in, as well.
"More men need to be educated and aware of women's
issues," said Greg Kozak. Warren senior.
Everyone has a right to a safe
and secure life. (Graves said, and
the participants are doing what
they can to promote awareness.
T-shirts and pins sporting
eye-catching and conscious-
raising logos were on sale to
promote the event. Profits from
these safes go into the rally fund
to pay lor the merchandise and
publicity. Graves said.
Entertainers at Finch after
the march donated their talents
to the event. Graves said.
Officials hope to streamline before cuts
By Jennifer Chrisrnan
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University officials are pro-
pal ing for the impact of Phase II
budget  cuts.
And at least one vice president
hopes this is the end of the need
for such budgetary control measures.
"In my area, most of the expenditures are not discretionary,"
said Kim Ellertson. vice president for Business and Finance.
"They're primarily personnel services, utilities, employee benefits
and other- t hings."
Business and Finance took a
$700,200 reduction hit —- about
1.6 percent of the division's total
base budget, said Jerry Scoby.
executive assistant to the president  for Budget and Planning.
"I'm going to focus on elimination of activities and trying to
streamline programs," Fillertson
said.
Cuts in the division won't come
easy, however, because utilities,
employee benefits and other
similar areas can't be eliminated
or reduced by much.
"If that sounds like people,
that's the only area I have to
move," Ellertson said. "I can only
hope Phase II will be the end of it
for a while "
He hopes to acquire at least
some savings through attrition.
"Well absorb those (responsibilities) somewhere in the
accounting department, hopefully." he said.
The Student Affairs division
wili concentrate more on program elimination than position
elimination, said James Hill, vice
president for Student Affairs.
"What I have done is asked my
different directors to look at t heir
operations and set some priorities and make some recommendations to me," Hill said about
cutting his budget by 1.6 percent
to save $60,300.
Hill asked directors in the division to submit recommendations
to him last week and he will ineet
with them today to discuss plans.
"At this point. I don't know
where the cuts will come from,"
Hill said. "We have to be tough in
making priorities and providing
what students need in an effec-
t ivo way.
"We'll have to look at eliminating certain things," he said.
University Relations' 1.6 percent cut adds up to $96,500 and
hopefully those cuts will affect as
few people as possible, said Kuss
Horron, vice president for University Relations.
"I've given my directors the
numbers that have to cut," Her-
ron said. He also has talked informally with many people about
their cuts, but nothing is finalized
He said cuts in University
Relations were not divided across
the board, but every department
did receive cuts.
Two other University areas
took 1.6 percent cuts in their base
budgets with $1 6,000 in the president's area and $526,900 in
Academic Affairs, Scoby said.
Academic Affairs' 1.6 percent
cut did not include library-
acquisitions or instructional
full-time equivalents and faculty
salaries in that division's base, he
said.
Each vice president must submit his plan to interim President
Leonard E. Plachta by April 29,
Scoby said. The Executive Committee will review the proposed
cuts May 4 and implement them
with the July 1 start of the next
fiscal year.
The total of the five divisions
represents $1.4 million of the
University's Phase II budget
reduction plan.
The remaining $1.6 million is
under review by three budget
task   forces  created   by  Plachta.
The groups met last week for the
first time.
"We're looking at (everything),
not just the General Fund," Scoby
said. "What we have done is pull
out the General Fund,
University-wide accounts and
looked at them separately."
INDEX
News  3
State, Nation, World  3
Opinion 4
Arts, Entertainment 8
Sports  10
Comics....*  12-13
Classified Ads  12-13
Crossword  13
WEATHER
High in the mid 40s to near 50.
Southwest wind 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
Cloudy Wednesday night. A 30
percent chance of evening showers. Low in the mid 30s.
Friends of Earth
Day fast for event
By Christopher Richardson
l IFr   Staff Wnter
Earth Day might not be a
holiday of the same weight as
Christmas or Easter, but that
doesn't mean it shouldn't gain
national recognition.
That's what CMU's Friends of
Earth Day are hoping to prove,
planning an Earth Day celebration to further their goal locally.
As one way to promote Earth
Day, about 30 members of the
group fasted Monday.
• "I got through it, but I got
really hungry around 22 hours,"
said Paul Willard, Friends of
Earth Day co-president.
But food wasn't all these fas-
ters limited.
They encouraged other students to do without, to make a
statement on how overcon-
sumptive Americans are in a
variety of material ways, said
Willard, Novi junior.
"We want people to live as
basically as possible, to recognize alternative ways of living,"
he added.
The fasting Friends of Earth
Day wore white armbands and
distributed them to passersby
at 1 p.m. in front of Park Library
to encourage participation in
the living-with-less experiment.
Willard said.
They handed out about 50
armbands, he said.
"Going without makes you
realize what you have." Willard
said.
"1 want people to think more
about who they are. where they
live and their relationship to the
rest of the world," lie added.
Starting at 1 1 a.m. today, recognition of environmental
issues continues with entertainment from local disc jockey Crucial Curtis, environmental folk
singer Kirby. the CMU Steel
Drum band, and local bands
Focal Point and the Dopes,
playing until sunset, he said.
Scheduled throughout the
day are various other Earth Day
related activities, like nature
hikes through Vites Woods,
flower planting, children's relay
games, birdfeeder making and
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