1992-01-24; Central Michigan Life

              Central
Michigan
LIFE
FRIDAY
January 24, 1992
Bentley: Bills will make Washington pay
Former CMU star pumped for second
consecutive Super Bowl with Buffalo
By Rick Lubbers
LIFE Sports Editor
and Colleen Newvine
LIFE News Editor   	
When Ray Bentley takes the
field in Super Bowl XXVI, his
coaches with the Buffalo Bills
■will give him commands. But
Herb Deromedi will give him
inspiration.
"Herb was a great coach — you
can print that 10 times," Bentley
said. "I think about him every
time I hit the field. His philosophy of winning has made me
what I am today.*"
The former CMU standout
linebacker and current special
teams player for the Bills
explained CMU football coach
Deromedi's philosophy: "Throw
on your uniform and do the best
that you can and never ever think
that you did less.
"That made my career. Everything he said made me what I am
today."
Deromedi and the 31-year-old
Bentley make sure to send each
other notes and talk on the phone
from time to time.
Bentley's favorite piece of
advice?
"Put on your uniform, put your
head down and do the best that
you „ can do," - Bentley .recalled
Deromedi saying.
Deromedi said he enjoys the
prospect of watching a former
player in the Super Bowl.
"Obviously I'm pulling for the
Buffalo Bills." Deromedi said. "I'd
have a hard time rooting-for any
Redskin team, be it from
Washington or Miami.
"I'm excited for him. To have
the athletic career he's had and
play in the Super Bowl twice —
that's outstanding."
Bentley's excited, too.
"This is it — Washington is
good, but we're going to
snuff-em," Bentley said. "The
Bills are fired up and Thermol
(Bills' running back Thurman
Thomas) is ready. If we can control the turnovers and get some,
we're going to win.
"We're gonna win this year.
Nobody's stopping us this year."
The contest will mark Buffalo's
second consecutive trip to the big
game, but Bentley and crew look
for a different outcome this time
around.
The New York Giants beat the
Bills 20-19 last year when Bills'
Then
BENTLEY
Now
CCObviously I'm pulling for the Buffalo
Bills. I'm excited for
him. To have the athletic career he's had
and play in the Super
Bowl twice — that's
outstanding. 33
Herb Deromedi
kicker Scott Norwood  missed a
•   47-yard field goal in the waning
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"We were happy to get there
last year, but this year we want
it."  Bentley  said.  "We're  pretty
loose, we think we can do it."
A lot of professional athletes
are superstitious and Bentley
isn't any different.
For good luck before a game, he
puts on his left sock first, then
everything else, then his right
sock, then hits the wall really
hard.
Bentley enjoyed a stellar
. career on the CMU football team
from 1979 to 1982 where he was a
fixture at linebacker. His 443
career tackles still mark the
highest of any Chippewa, and
nobodj' has yet matched his 1982
performance of 173 tackles and
five interceptions en route to
receiving the Mid-American Conference Defensive "Player of the
Year" award.
After college, Bentley played
with the Michigan Panthers and
the Oakland Invaders of the
United States Football League
before going to the National Football League and the Buffalo Bills
six seasons ago.
STEVE
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Ray Bentley, former CMU standout, will play in his second-stra
member of the AFC Champion Buffalo Bills.
LIFE File Photo
ight Super Bowl this Sunday as a
Bentley's life doesn't stop with
football, however. He is the
author of several children's
books, all centering on character
Darby the Dinosaur.
A father of five children himself — one an infant born this
month — Bentley said his children help him out when he
writes,
"I find that I get a lot of ideas
from my kids," Bentley said. "I
always wanted to play football
and write books. (The books) are
doing well, so a knee injury
wouldn't screw me up."
Having a father who plays professional    football    makes    for
proud offspring, but so does
knowing their dad writes children's books. The Bentley kids
brag about both.
"They say daddy's two kinds of
people," Bentley said.
As for the big game, Bentiey
has plenty of predictions.
"If we're down by seven early,
we're going to win by at least 14
points," he said. "<Mark) Rypien's
gone down nine times this year. I
bet we get him at least six times.
■ Bentley even  knows the  final
score.
"37-10 — Us."
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Super Hype:
It's MTV to
Kelly as tree
For two weeks now, we've been
pummeled by it.
Inundated, overexposed, just
plain exhausted — of the Super
Hype.
Super Hype sneaks in every
year with the Super Bowl, like a
menacing little brother tagging
along with his older sibling.
Super Hype is all the hoopla
which surrounds the big game —
ranging from stories on every
possible aspect of the stars and
even scrubs' lives, to pieces on
ignored assistant coaches and the
nicknames of groups of offensive
linemen.
Who really cares what kind of
tree Jim Kelly would be?
To. put it on a timeline, Super
Hype usually kicks off the Tuesday after the NFC and AFC
.championship games. It starts
subtly — perhaps a television
piece on a star quarterback, a
national wire story on the
"genius" of a head coach.
But once this monster starts
rolling, it just keeps accelerating.
Soon there are two, three, even
four or more stories a day on the
big game. This is just too much to
read. The teams that make the
Super Bowl usually are fairly
good, and have been written
about all season long. So much of
what we see is just a rehash of old
news.
Don't get me wrong — I like
hearing about the Super Bowl.
But not so much about it. It gets
intimidating trying to wade
through all that stuff.
Anyway, back to the timeline.
The information comes at a leisurely pace until the Monday of
Super Week. That's when Super
Hype accelerates to dangerous
speeds.
A good example came Tuesday.
The Associated Press ran a story
about the strange Super Bets
people in Great Britain can
make.
See HYPE Page 2
City officials will address
water treatment question
By Rochelle Reneker
I IFF Staff Writer	
It isn't too uncommon to hear
people complain about finding
rust-colored spots on their
clothes after doing laundry.
And perhaps you've heard people joke about how the color of
their hair changes after a few
showers in Mount Pleasant
water. Or, maybe you've just
noticed a discolored liquid pouring from your tap.
Although the water here isn't
always pleasing to the senses,
Mount Pleasant residents
shouldn't fear for their health,
said Duane Ellis, director of
Public Works.
"The water currently is high in
levels of sodium, iron, maganese
and other dissolved solids, which
is why it looks the way it looks,"
he said.
"The   biggest complaints  that
**The water is high in sodium. The biggest
complaints that we hear right now are that it
stains clothes and makes your hair feel
nasty. JJ
Duane Ellis
we hear right now are that it
stains cloths and makes your hair
feel nasty."
The high mineral concentrations are attributed to the fact
city water comes from ground
sources — which means it passes
through the ground and picks up
minerals, Ellis said.
Despite all the minerals, he
said, the water measures up to
Environmental Protection
Agency standards.
But there are differing opinions as far as how safe Mount
Pleasant water actually is, said
Marvin    Baumann,   director   of
Environmental Health for the
Central Michigan District Health
Department.
"A couple of years ago we sent
out some information to let people know that there are high
levels of sodium in the water,"
Baumann said. He said the city
also circulated information at the
department's request several
years ago.
"We just wanted people to be
aware that if they are on a
restricted diet of some kind, they
need to check it out," he said.
See WATER Page 7
INDEX
News 3
State, Nation, World 3
Opinion 4
Police Log   7
Arts, Entertainment 8
Sports :  10
Classified Ads 13-14
Comics 13-14
Cross-word  14
WEATHER
Scattered ^now showers.
Temps ranging from 10-20.
SPECIAL FEATURE
For wrestlers, battling the
scale is often tougher than any
fight on the mat. See page 12.
Task force shares
report on racism
By Erin Wilson
LIFE Staff Writer
.A report on racism at CMU delivered Thursday night isn't too
different from a similar report released a decade ago, said one University professor.
About 50 people attended an open forum to discuss the "Report on the
Public Hearings on Racism," prepared by the Faculty Association Task
Force on Racism, Sexism and Homophobia, the Affirmative Action
Council, the Office of Minority Affairs, the Multicultural Center, the
Women's Studies Program and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance.
"If you just take a look at the 1981 report (on the public hearings on
racism i it's the same thing (as the 1992 report)," said Joyce Henricks,
co-chairwoman of the FA task force. "You just reinvent the wheel all the
time."
The report included information obtained during public hearings in
April 1991 where members of the CMU community expressed concerns
about racial tensions and the campus environment.
The report addressed concerns reported in four areas — Academics,
Athletics, CM LIFE and Housing.
Several recommendations were made, including:
JH Naming an  ombudsperson who would work as an advocate for
students;
■ Provide multicultural training for members of the university community, including members of the student media and their advisers,
members of the Athletics department, Housing staff and faculty;
See REPORT Page 2
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