1969-04-25; Central Michigan Life

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VOL. 49, NO. 51
Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan
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Friday, April 25,1969
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ajor Answers Anti-ROK
by ROSE BEAIRL'
Life Academics Editor
'■-'•■', -To abolish .ROTC is :to abolish academic
freedom," said Major Terry C. Pursel, Central's
- * ROTC executive officer. ..'in -answer to the cur-
J   ferit'anti-ROTC movement oh campus.
• Pursel said ROTC is. primarily concerned with
creating military instructors." He said-it is not here
tb train men to" do finger drills, or computerized
responses, .-:'_  ■        .   \
. Teaching to.Be Teachers
• "As I understand it," he continued, "many
other fields of study on this campus - are also
teaching their students to be teachers. A student
h'as as much right to- joiri ROTC as he does anything else." • '. ■*-.    \   ;.  t.
" ' He added, "T6* take something away because
a small minority does not like it is to inipare the
freedom of those who - just'might happen to'want
to take part in it: • -
"If these people disagree with America's military-policy, then let them keep in-mind that it is
not the military which majces 'the policies which
• they oppose. We may make recommendations, but
the actual decision making is leftrup to the civilian
law making hody of the* governmental structure,"
continued Pursel.
Attack the Primary Source
"If these people don't like the way things are
being run, then let them attack the primary source.
As voting citizens the American people have the
right to say what will-be done and what will not
be done. That was decided long ago when the
future of our country was placed in the hands of
the people — not the military," he emphasized.
"The military is designed to carry out the desires of the people. If you don't like what we're
doing then get out and vote if you're old enough,"
said Pursel.
Attitude Is Bad
"It appears to me that the general attitude concerning the military is 'bad' simply because we
are fighting, not because, we're right or wrong.
This is not logical. The military does not have a
choice;" he stressed. "We go where we are ordered.
It is not up to us to determine whether or not we
fight or where we fight or why we fight. Voter's
representatives do that."
Pursel continued by saying that it was the job
of the military to secure and maintain the rights
of the individuals. He said that the American people have a commitment through the actions taken
iii the past. The Southeast Asian Treaty Organization has left obligations on Americans which the
military had nothing to say about, because the
military did not make those treaties.
Armed Forces Depletion
Stopping ROTC would not deplete the armed
forces. They also get officers from direct field commissions, through military academies and officer
. candidate schools.
However, he pointed out that ROTC is designed
to train men within their own academically varied
backgrounds. He said, "We want men who will
know how to think in all,situations."
'Same Threat as McCarthyism'
Pursel commented, "Many of my men feel this
Proposed abohshment would be the same type of
threat as Senator McCarthy posed in thel950's
when he said the American people could not study
communism. Students rebelled then and said, 'Yes,
we can study anything we want to study,' and they
studied it." '...-.
Pursel concluded by saying, "Most students
today still want academic freedom, and I don't
believe they will stand by and let a small minority
tell them what to .do."  -'
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FIVE HUNDRED students and faculty members attended the anti-militarism 'rally Wednesday night.
Students were encouraged to circulate anti-ROTC petitions (shown above) while several groups sang
anti-war songs and others took part in a "happening" play depicting the. death of the world.
State Revenue May Be Short
For Budget Recommendations
by DAN CAULFIELD
Life Staff Writer
It is very possible that CMU will begin the
1969-70 fiscal year without its requested state
funds.
Roger L. Sanders, director of the University
budget said he is, "Extremely doubtful the University will receive the full amount of the request
because the Governor's recommendation was below the original request.
Central's requested budget was for $12,787,882,
Governor William M. Milliken recommended
$10,844,713.
Optimistic
President William B. Boyd said he is optimistic
Central will receive the entire recommendation
given by Gov. Milliken.
Sanders said the problem seems to be that
there is not enough revenue in sight to be used by
the state to cover appropriations.
Sanders added that many special interest
groups have been requesting additional funds from
the Governor's recommendations committee. "This
means consideration has to be given to ways of
increasing revenues," Sanders said.
Sit Tight and Stretch
In the event an appropriations bill is not passed
by"July I, 1969, the beginning of the fiscal year,
the University will have to "sit tight and plan to
stretch out what we have," Sanders said.
The situation is riot as bad as it might seem,
according to Sanders.
Carry Forward
"Some funds will carry forward from the current fiscal year and.no doubt we'll be authorized
minimum deficit funding if an appropriation bill
isn't enacted prior to .the first of July," he added.
Sanders said minimum deficit funding is often
authorized by the legislature and is a drastically
reduced budget request which allows the institution to operate until the original budget is approved.
Should the University receive the full $12.7
request, it would still need $7 million to make up
the $19,343,494 budget approved by the Board of
Trustees. This would be made up by tuition and
fees, investment income and carry over funds,
according to Sanders.
Some of the "stretching out" which would
have to be done if the University does not get an
early appropriations bill would involve, according
to Sanders, not improving the student-faculty ratio,
which at present is about 20 to 1, and following
strict priorities in expenditures.
Best Overall Paper
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Women Vote To Abolish Weekday Hours,
Weekends for Sophomores, Above in Survey
:      Women of sophomore -status and above
will no longer have hour.s-regulations if the
; proposal reached- in the second AWS poll is
, Passed by StudentJSehate and the Executive
Housing Committe"'e'.
Of the.2,954 'ballot-survey sheets distributed for the second pollj 2,332 women voted
for a 79 per cent election return.
Total abolishment of all hours for sophomores andrabdve received 1,268 votes and
the othir "alternative^- abohshmeijt of hours
for Sophomore-, and above on weekends only,
received 1^29/:   "   •   "       '    '   "      : '  -.
Off-C£,wipus approved-"housirig was included ih the survey to make the poll more
representative of all women students.
The poll had to be repeated because a
majority was not reached with the first vote.
The four choices and number of votes
received were to leave the hours the same,
290; abolish hours on weekends for sophomores and above, 565; abolish hours on weekends for second semester freshmen and
above, 310 "and abolish hours completely for
sophomores and above, 811.
At the AWS Council meeting Tuesday
night, the,Council passed a motion to recommend to Student Senate and the Executive Housing committee complete abolishment of hours for sophomores and above.
Award Won by Life
For the third consecutive year, Life won the
"Sweepstakes" award for the best overall newspaper in Michigan schools of comparable size
from the Michigan Collegiate Press Association.
At the annual MCPA convention held last
weekend at Eastern Michigan University, Life also
won five other honors.
Editor Phil Schneider, Saginaw senior, won
third place for editorials and a second place for
feature writing in class three, which included
four-year schools with enrollments of over 2,000.
Associate Editor Sandra Drake, Hartford senior,
won first place for news stories.
Sports Editor Dave Green, Wyandotte sophomore, won first place in' sports writing and Pete
Sandman, former sports writer, took a second m
sDorts
With the installation of the Associated Press
wire service, use of the service will begin m Tues-
day's issue of Life.