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TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE
Movie scrutinized by more than a single critic
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Athletes more apt to stay at CMU
Study tracks freshman graduating from their original college
By Gary Cichon
LIFE Staff Writer
Students concerned with graduating from CMU should consider the statistics involved
before worrying about the future.
The federal government mandates that the National Collegiate Athletic Association Report
utilized to track students over a
five year period. The most recent
report covers two freshmen graduating classes, the 1983-84 class
and the 1984-85 class.
Pat Podoll, Assistant Athletic
Director for Academics, said athletes graduate at a higher rate
than the general enrollment.
"Athletes tend to graduate at a
higher rate because athletes feel
they have a responsibility and
committment to CMU," Podoll
said.
According to the report, the
total number of entering fresh-
David
Duke
speaks at
banquet
For related story. See page 15.
By Marjorie Schultz
LIFE Staff Writer	
SHERIDAN — Tension and
controversy loomed on Saturday
as David Duko spoke at a banquet hosted by the National Association for the Advancement of
White People.
The streets surrounding the
Community Center were packed
with police vehicles, curious
onlookers and those who wanted
to hear Duke speak.
The cost of the event was $15.
with proceeds going to NAAWP.
Other items were available such
as Duke for President paraphernalia and pictures of Duke himself.
In Duke's hour-long speech he
addressed issues including racism, anti-semitism, lesbianism
and affirmative action.
"(The) real racism is against
the white middle-class Americans," Duke said. "You have a
basic right to get jobs and scholarships if you are the best qualified. Anything contrary to that is
racism."
"(The government) gave more
recognition to Martin Luther
King than the founding father of
our country." He went on to label
King as a "communist open
Marxist."
Duke said many of his views
that are deemed racist are practiced by the U.S. government.
"(In Isreal) there is an exclusive Jewish culture, segregated
schools and some laws against
intermarriage," he said. "And our
government supports it."
Duke claimed the black community is "worse off than any
other time in history. They are
slaves to drugs and government
welfare handouts."
One member of the press,
asked Duke, "You seem to equate
whites with values, are they the
only people who have values?"
"I am sure they do, but I'm glad
our values aren't rap music,
promoting the execution of police
officers, massive illegitimacy,
poverty and rampant crime," he
See DUKE Page 15
yBy Gary Cichon
ime Staff Writer
rofs not surprised by study
esults, 'motivation' cited
|& Athletes graduating at a higher number than general students at
iCMU does not come as a surprise to some professors.
||p: Richard Fleming, professor and chairman of mathematics, said
^athletes have a lot of motivation. <3-^   • r    ~ -   *  ■-- '.--^-."~.-v-« c •*'
if- ^People are watching over athletes and wanting them to stay in
school," Fleming said. "A lot of them are on scholarships."   : .    ■\,-\
||He added athletes tend to transfer less out of a school than other
students in the general enrollment, because they have a commit-
See PROFS Page 2J
men for the two classes combined
were 2,344 men and 3,240
women, which consisted of 92
men athletes and 56 women athletes.
"The graduation  rate for stu
dent   athletes   is   66    percent,"
Podoll said.
Podoll added the report due out
next summer will cover the
tracking of entering freshmen
from the 1985-86 school year.
Gary Shapiro, director of Insti-
tutional Research at CMU, said
the general graduation rate for
freshmen is over 50 percent.
"The graduation rate for general enrollment is about 53 percent," Shapiro said. "That is not
to say the remaining will not. graduate somewhere else."
He said CMU does not have
available information on students leaving Central for trans-
fering or other reasons.
"Some reasons for leaving
include academics, inability to
pay or some decide college was
just not for them," he said.
• "Athletes tend to graduate at a
higher rate than the general
enrollment because they have
financial aid and more ties with
the school."
Shapiro said this years total
enrollment   was   16,349   and   of
See CMUGRAD Page 16
Dining Commons
damaged by wind
By TJ Bucholz
LIFE News Editor and
Christopher Richardson
LIFE Arts & Entertainment Editor
Carey Dining Commons sustained a moderate amount of
damage early Sunday morning
during a rainstorm.
The damage, which occurred
about 3:30 a.m., tore the upper
part of the dining commons roof
off and broke several windows
in an adjacent hall in the Southwest Quad. A cause for the damage has not been conclusively
identified by University officials, but some believe a strong
gust of wind was the culprit.
"The damage inside the
dining commons wasn't too bad;
interior damages were minor,"
said Steven Howard, supervisor
of Carey Hall Dining Commons.
"Any roof damages were fixed
quickly enough so that no water
leaked in."
Jean Lindley, assistant vice
president of Facilities Management, confirmed part of the
dining commons roof was torn
off, but no permanent repairs
were made as of yet.
"No permanent repairs have
been made yet, but we did do
some emergency preparations
to make the dining commons
operational," Lindley said. "It's
business as usual."
An unidentified resident
assistant said RAs were told by
Mary Hawkey, Carey Hall residence hall director, that the
cause of the damage was a tornado.
"It happened really fast, there
See WIND Page 14
Peek-a-boo
Bush train
greeted by
12,000 in
Plymouth
By Amy Alfonso
LiFE Staff Writer
Two members of the CMU Marching Chippewas peer over their
cymbals during Saturday's halftime show. For more of CMU's 28-9
LIFE Photo/Dee Sayers
victory over MAC rival Toledo, please see page 10.
Cafe Express closing disappoints profs
By Chad Bush
t IFF Staff Writer
Several faculty members are
disappointed with the closing
this semester of Cafe Express, a
former dining facility in the
Bovee University Center.
The restaurant-style cafeteria,
one floor above the Down Under
Club, was a popular place for
faculty and staff to exchange
ideas over lunch. It closed over
the summer.
.   The   University   lost   approximately - $100,000    last   year   by
operating the underused facility,
said President Leonard E.
Plachta.
Warriner Hall's business people reviewed all the numbers and
decided to close the facility, he
said.
"Given tough times, we would
have had to raise the prices so
high we'd have even fewer customers," Plachta said.
Ross Herron, Vice President of
University Relations, said he
misses eating at Cafe Express,
but budgetary priorities are more
important.
Quentin Peterson, professor of
chemistry, said administrators
closed the Cafe for reasons beyond the budget.
"I think back to World War II",
he said, "whenever anyone gets
into command, they don't like
groups of people to talk about
how their regimens — or administrations — are doing."
"What, in effect, they're saying
is, 'no groups of people larger
than four,'" Peterson said.
The   reasons   the  administra
tion gave for closing the facility
are not logical, he said.
Administrators claimed asbestos ceiling tiles in Cafe Express
were dangerous, Peterson said,
adding the tiles are commonplace
and innocuous.
The budget was not a logical
reason to close Cafe Express
either, Peterson said.
"You don't close something
down, when the food is priced
ridiculously low, just because it's
not making money," he said.
See CAFE Page 15
PLYMOUTH — An estimated
crowd of nearly 12,000 braved the
rain Saturday night here to hear
President Bush speak during a
torch lit gathering.
The President and Mrs. Bush
ended the day's whistle stop campaign tour aboard the "Spirit of
America" train.
"Here's my hand, let's take this
country foward again," Bush said
to a less than cheering crowd.
Focusing his speech on "cleaning the house and family values"
Bush said, "Bill Clinton is putting down America by focusing on
its problems and not its
strengths.
"We are a nation on the rise not
in decline." Bush said.
Governor John Engler opened
the ceremony and the Plymouth
Fife and Drum enertained the
crowd who waited for Bush for an
hour and a half.
Michigan State freshman
Laura Anderson was curious to
know why Bush had time for a
two state tour aboard a train
after cancelling his debate with
Clinton, scheduled for her
school's campus.
"I'm here to get some answers,"
Anderson said.
Bush spoke only briefly to the
youth in the crowd.
"Young people, what kind of
nation do you want," he said.
"You can't build a home without a
hammer and you can't buy a hammer without a job."
Dave Pata, a 1987 graduate of
Canton High School, wasn't
excited by Bush's fifteen minute
speech.
"This is a bunch of baloney —
non-issues and diversions is all I
heard," Pata said.
President Bush spoke
repeatedly about Clinton's intentions and said Clinton's raising
taxes will affect the middle class
the hardest.
"Governor Clinton is no friend
to you — the middle class," Bush
said. "He wants to tax your
clothes, gas, and yes — your
beer."
With less then five weeks until
election day, Bush said he hoped
See BUSH Page 2
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