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GETTING A GRIP
Men's basketball team overpowers Eastern
59-56; MAC tourney within reach, 10
CREATIVE OUTLET
iCMU students start their own Film Society with a focus that'
different from most broadcast and cinematic arts classes, 8
OPTIMISTIC
Shepherd resident Kurt Fisher hopes to
replace Emmons in 99th District seat, 6
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Mostly cloudy today
with a chance of
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FRIDAY
February 23, 1990
Serving The University Community For 70 Years
Board hears students'
objections to user fee
Complaint of 'hidden' tuition increases
not likely to sway decision on $90 cost
by YVONNE C. CLAES
LIFE Assistant News Editor
Despite heated objections from students, the
Board of Trustees will likely approve a user fee for
(lie Rose addition today.
The proposal would require full-time, off-campus
students to pay a $90 fee for the Physical
Education and Recreation Phase II Building. The
fee will pay for 12 months of use.
Fees will help pay operational costs of the
building, such as maintenance, supplies and
materials and staff.
The rec center is a partial result of a 1985
survey      Student     Government     Association
■ See related story about SGA's reation to possible
user fee. Page 3   ■ - -
conducted to see if students were willing to pay up
(o $100 a year for a new indoor recreational facility,
Hill said.
Although University officials say the fee is
necessary, about 20 students attended the Board
meeting to express their disapproval of the added
cost. v
Jeffrey Johnston, Flushing senior, said the
Board should not rely on the 1985 SGA survey
because    it   does    not   represent   what   current
See REACT P§ge 15
"The  students   who
made   the   decision
are now not here to
pay the fee."
as***.*****Jeffrey Johnston
"I'm really disappointed about where
the funds are going
— I'd rather see it
go other places, like
the library."
Nathan Volz
"This
Club
sity."
is  CMU,  not
Med   Univer-
■Dan Kreuger
Rose Center, addition
both subject to user fee
for off-campus students
by YVONNE C. CLAES
Lt(-E Assistant News Editor
Students living on campus have helped pay for the Rose addition
since 1987 and Board of Trustees action today could make full-time,
off-campus students pull their weight by fall 1990.   ■
The Board will consider a proposal requiring all full-time,
off-campus students to pay an annual $90 "user fee" to cover
operational costs for the Physical Education and Recreation Phase II
Building.
On-campus students have paid $112 per year — in the form of room
and board payments — to fund construction of the addition since 1987.
On-campus students will continue to pay the $112 until 2016, when
the University's debt refinancing is paid, said James Hill, vice
president for Student Affairs.
He added the Board approved the debt's refinancing in 1987 and the
Rose addition is part of that restructuring plan.
See FEE Page 2
Better than good
Alliance for Excellence organizer wants
to make a 'positive impact' on University
by MARY CHURCH
l IFtr Staff Writer
Heidi    Quellman    considers ■■
Central  a  great  University but
she thinks it can be better yet.
"We're happy and we're good,
but we want to go beyond that,"
Quellman. Essexville senior,
said..
Quellman organized the
Alliance for Excellence — a
committee consisting of
students, faculty and administrators trying to make CMU the
best it can be for everyone.
"The whole reason I did this
thing was I wanted to leave a
positive impact on the University." she said.
Quellman recently presented a
formal proposal about the
Alliance for Excellence to President Edward B. Jakubauskas.
"He endorsed the idea 100
percent," Quellman said. "I don't
know what I would have done if
he'd said no."
Quellman said Jakubauskas
wants to be a member of the
committee.
The committee will consist of
five students and 10 faculty and
■ See
related
story
about
SGA's
reaction   to
the
Alliance,
Page 5
administrators approved by the
president, she said. ■
Quellman said the main
committee will then break into
subcommittees, which other
people can join, to work on
specific ideas.
"The main committee is the
car and the subcommittees are
the wheels to move us," she said.
Most of the current members
of the Alliance for Excellence will
have recommendations to be the
"founding fathers," Quellman
said. The final decision is up to
the president.
"The type of people on it is
key." she said. "We're not going
to get stifled with people saying
no to ideas."
Quellman said she does not
foresee problems with Jakubauskas about selecting the right
type of people to the committee.
"He recommended four or five
people and they were already
working with us," she said.
Showing off CMU is one of many things Heidi Quellman, Essexville senior, hopes to accomplish with the organization
LIFE Photo/Chris Birks
she formed —
See EXCEL Page 15     Alliance for Excellence.
Local phone calls could cost businesses 8 cents
by MARGARET WOLFGANG
I IFE News Editor
Local telephone calls will cost some Michigan businesses receiving
GTE service — including CMU and those in Mount Pleasant — about
8 cents per call if a rate change is approved by the Michigan Public
Service Commission.
Telecommunications Director Ken Johnson said GTE officials
informed him Monday the 8.2 cent charges would apply to calls placed
by businesses starting Thursday, March 1. '•■■■'■
. Johnson said as a result, Telecommunications will pass on a charge
of 9 cents for local calls placed from telephones in campus locations —
excluding those placed from campus residential and courtesy
telephones. However, if for example, a department on campus makes a
local call, it will be charged the 9 cents.
The  exclusion   of local   calls  made  from   campus  residential   or
courtesy phones was made possible through a private agreement
reached between GTE North Inc. and CMU. Calls placed through
residential or courtesy phones are not considered business calls,
Johnson said.
(See related story about the 9 cent charge to CMU business
customers, page 5.) ■ ' "
Johnson said, however, that Telecommunications will not bill CMU
customers for the charges until the MPSC approves the proposal.
Local calls placed by businesses in the Mount Pleasant area include
those to Mount Pleasant exchanges — 772 and 773 — as well as the
828 prefix in Shepherd and the 644 prefix in Weidman.
The new local call charge will not affect residential phones in Mount
Pleasant, only businesses. ; :
Johnson said the prospect of businesses paving charges for local
See GTE Page i
UHS physician: some CM
students are HIV positive
U
Meteorologist says state covered with 'bad weather'
by KAREN EMERSON
LIFE Assistant News Editor      -    '
A meteorologist with the
National Weather Service said '
students heading home for the
weekend. — no matter where
they live in Michigan — better
take their long underwear.
The   forecast:   cold   weather,
snow and more cold weather.
*    "The whole state is  covered  v
vith   the   bad   weather,"   said ■
\ "Yank Michelson, a meteorologist at the Houghton Lake-based-
weather service. "Anybody going
anywhere better pack their long
underwear. .   \\   -*i:\ ;'v"':'7-f-; *" •'
"The temperatures are going
to fall steadily."
The central Michigan area
received about two inches of
snow on top of rain and slush
Thursday afternoon, Michelson
said. '
A spokesperson for Central
Dispatch said . there were 16
weather-related accidents in
Isabella County between 1 p.m.
and 7:30 p.m. Thursday.
' There was one "minor"
personal injury accident at the
intersection of Leaton Street and
M-20 in which an ambulance
was called, the spokesperson
said.
As of. 8 p.m. Thursday, a
spokesperson at Central
Michigan Community Hospital,
1221 South Drive, said there
were no admissions as a result of
weather-related accidents.
V The dispatch spokesperson
said there was a four-car
accident in the  city Thursday
'. afternoon. No one was injured.
Cloudy   weather   is   expected
• today   with   occasional   snow
.  flurries, Michelson said.
"The biggest problem is that
*when the snow first started
: falling on top of the slush it was
: just like grease," Michelson said.
: "It'll stay slippery (today), so for
anyone out rambling around it's
; not going to be easy." '"     .
'    ' Bad weather should continue
• through the weekend, he added.
See SNOW Page 2
by MATTHEW BACH
LIFE Assistant News Editor  	
The human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, is what
causes AIDS — a breakdown
in the body's defense system.
Although health officials
tyave not reported cases of
AIDS acquired in Isabella
County, there are people at
CMU who carry the virus,
said Gay Freeman, staff
physician at University
Health Services.      ' :*■   •
"There are students who
are HIV positive and the ones
I do know are doing well and
are in good health and will
probably live a decade," she
said. " '   '
Freeman said it is impossible to say how many people
at Central have HIV, which
means they are carriers of
AIDS.
"We don't go through
.testing students in the
cafeteria lines," she said.
HIV*
POSITIVE Ml
■ See   related ' stories   about
sexually   transmitted   diseases
and '   different      forms      of
• contraceptives, Page 13 ' '
. A recent survey of nearly 20
universities by the Centers for
Disease Control in Atlanta
showed about two of every
1,000, college students carry
the "virus, said Ed Brown,
director of UHS.
"Some campuses have zero
cases. Some have more than
two in 1,000," he said.
"(Having) HIV means you've
got something that will be
with you for the rest of your
See AIDS Page 16
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