1992-01-22; Central Michigan Life

              Central
Michigan
WEDNESDAY
January 22, 1992
Pipe problems pull plug on SW Quad
By Erin Wilson
LIFF  St.iff Writer
Students typically must do without certain amenities during
their college careers, but few probably would consider water, electricity and heat expendable.
But most Southwest Quad residents had to do without these
"luxuries" from late Monday night at least through this morning.
Expansion of freezing water in a 6-inch fire-sprinkler supply line
underneath Cobb and Troutman halls caused a pipe elbow to crack,
exposing the frozen water. When increasing temperatures this week
melted the ice. water bled from the damaged elbow, flooding the
Cobb electrical well under the quad to a height of more than three
feet.
Rising water reached the electrical gear in the well late Monday
evening, short-circuiting transformers for both Cobb and Wheeler.
In addition, the electrical switch for the entire complex — located in
Cobb — was damaged, impairing use of the transformers for Carey
and Troutman.
Facilities Management crews set up diesel generators Tuesday
afternoon, allowing for minimum hallway lighting, but for quad
residents, the ordeal has brought on both frustration and humor.
"I'm going to the Comfoi-t  Inn," said Danielle Desmarais, West
MWe had flashlight wars with the other
dorms and some people were doing morse
code. ."• We ..were considering going to the
president's house.^We;heanit's.warm and
lighted,?!
Renee Greensberg
Bloomfield freshman. "I mean, we're not camping here.
"And it's worse than camping; you're sitting there looking at your
appliances and you can't use them. You can't even Hush the toilets."
Renee Greensberg, Clarkston freshman and Troutman resident,
tried to make the most of the blackout.
"We had flashlight wars with the other dorms, and some people
were doing Morse code," Greensberg said.
"We were considering going to the president's house. We hear it's
warm and lighted."
Desmarais, a Troutman resident, found humor in the blackout.
"I wanna' go home!" she said. "Torch the Towers! Kill this zoo! It's
been just like Western Weekend, since the lights went down — sex.
sex, sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll."
Scott Linton, LaPere freshman, had a certain difficulty with not
having working shower facilities.
"I smell," Linton said. "And I hate smelling."
"We just all feel scuzzy," said Stephanie Kozle, Farmington Hills
freshman and Troutman resident. "And (the blackout* is also a
problem for those of us who study at night.
"I'll be at Rush tonight, so I guess I'll be studying at the librarv at
10 p.m."
Earl Morrow, director of Facilities Operations, hopes to have life-
back to normal for Towers residents sometime today.
Facilities Management sent the dampened transformers to Lansing where they will be dried thoroughly. Morrow said. He expects to
have both transformers back in place and operational by this afternoon.
Installing the transformers entails shutting off all power in the
facilities for a short period, he said.
Crews will put contingencies in place in the future to ensure the
incident does not happen again. Morrow said.
Quick response and cooperation from desk staff and assistants
helped the evening to proceed "as well as it possibly could." said
Rosemary Stanek, Complex manager.
SAC may
have a new
glow soon
By Brian D. Bell
! !F-F  Assistant News Fditor
The neon sculpture might
have a new home in the future.
Desires to prevent further vandalism of the sculpture — now
located east of the Dow Science
Complex — motivated Russ Her-
ron, vice president for University
Relations, to look into relocating
it.
The west end of the Student
Activity Center's main corridor is
one possible site for the sculpture, said Herron, secretary to
the Board of Trustees.
"I would like to put it in the
SAC," Herron said. "The artist
really liked that location. That
was his first choice."
Vandals have damaged the
$70,000 sculpture twice since its
Oct. 7 installation by San Francisco artist Cork Marcheschi.
The first incident was reported
Oct. 31. Two CMU students
tossed a bicycle rim onto it,
cracking a circular, yellow acrylic
panel about halfway up the
18'/2-foot sculpture. Vandals also
tossed toilet paper onto it and
defacated at the base.
A second attack was reported
Dec. 2. Vandals shattered two
yellow acrylic panels and interior
neon tubing of the previously
damaged circle.
If the sculpture is not moved, it
probably will suffer more attacks,
Herron said.
"We have to protect ourselves
against the few nuts," he said.
"These are obviously people who
are willing to just destroy things
they don't like.
"I think that's a hell of a way to
operate in society."
Although moving the statue
inside the SAC might prevent
vandalism, relocation isn't possible without state approval, he
said.
The sculpture's funding was
provided by the state in connection with Science II, and state law
requires placement near the
building.
In a Dec. 19 letter to Eduard
Markwart, director of the design
division for the state Department
of Management and Budget, Herron conveyed concerns about securing the sculpture and the possibility of moving it.
Although Markwart received
the letter, he has not discussed it
with anyone yet.
"We haven't come to a resolution on that yet," he said. "I
haven't acted on it."
Markwart plans to look into
the situation in the near future.
Moving the sculpture to the
SAC would require construction
of a new base, but Herron said it
See SCULPTURE Page 2
LIFE Photo/Dustin A. Wymar
Seated from left to right are: Tom Benedict, Clarkston junior; senior. Hudgens holds a plaque commemorating Scot Cohee
Derek Montroy, Livonia junior; Terry Hudgens, Grand Blanc Memorial Scholarship winners, as well as an article about Cohee's
sophomore; John Reising, Clarkston junior and Brad Forrer, Troy    killer's release last week.
(Johee gone, not forgotten
By Colleen IMewvine
! Ihr News Fditor
Terry Hudgens remembers
the day in June 1985 when the
phone rang in his family's home
with the bad news.
His older brother Chris
Hudgens, then-president of
Sigma Phi Epsiion, took the
call. Terry still recalls the look
on his brother's face as he
learned another member of the
social fraternity lay dead at the
hands of a gunman.
"It was almost like losing a
family member." said Terry
Hudgens,  Grand  Blanc sopho-
Sig Eps recall brother slain in 1985
whose killer was released Jan. 13
more. Three older brothers —
Chris, Pat and Tim — were Sig
Eps and took the news hard.
A fresh newspaper clip now
hanging near the door at the
CMU fraternity house reminds
the younger Hudgens — now
the group's secretary — that
Scot Cohee is gone but not forgotten.
The article details the current
status of the case: 33-year-old
William   Carson   —   found   not
guilty by reason of insanity for
the June 20, 1985 shooting —
was released from custody Jan.
13 as an outpatient when he
filed for release.
Doctors decided Carson is not
a danger to himself and to society if he takes his medication,
though he has a history of
refusing medication. He will
report on a regular basis to a
community mental health
board    in   Standish,   where   he
lives with his mother.
Oakland County Prosecutor
Richard Thompson tried unsuccessfully Friday to have Carson
returned to a facility. But Oakland County Circuit Court
Judge Sandra Silver did declare
the Jan. 13 hearing void and
agreed to rehear the case.
A second hearing scheduled
for Tuesday afternoon was
adjourned until this morning
after more than an hour of testimony from a doctor from the
Center for Forensic Psychiatry-
near Ypsilanti, Thompson said.
See COHEE Page 2
Science II should open on schedule
By Crystal Harmon
LIFE Staff Writer
irfe. As Science II nears completion, a lack of state funding has
blocked progress^ with other
building and "(renovation projects.
*-; The state provided CMU with
$323,000 to put toward opening
costs for Science II. The University requested $2.6 million, "i
But a recent change m
accounting methods —- from
accrual to cash-based accounting— has freed up an additional
$8.2 million at CMU, and University officials have decided to
allocate more than $1 million of
those funds to opening Science
II. -*   s-i./-      V
jVS;' Officials have, not yet deter-
?| mined if the .approximate $1.4:
^.million wfflJbe enough to open:!
the building or -where any additional funds may come from.
The building is expected to
open in time for fall semester
classes, said Jim Tryon, Science
II project manager for Facilities
Management.      *      .'-'„>
Opening costs include onetime expenses such as custodial
helpv«aai|rtenance equipment;
-'te fh^fetjfchree^^bf-tilrj
Currently, the building's
interior is undergoing *finish-
ing touches," Tryon said. Workers are installing electrical and
mechanical details as well as
floor and ceiling tiles. :
.  Sometime after May graduation ceremonies. Tryon expects
the chemistry, physics and geo-
| graphvifd«partment# „taSm^ke
Greek fliers
put groups'
best faces
on the wall
By Erin Wilson
-F St.if* W'
Sigma Chi relies on detailed
graphic design and local business
Print Tech for its Rush postvr*.
Alpha Sigma Phi calls upon
Lucifer.
Lucifer — also known as Red-
ford senior Paul Kostrewa — is
the Alpha Sigma Phi member-
responsible for the social fraternity's humorous and offbeat Rush
posters.
"We like to be different and not
follow the mainstream." said
Charles LaClear, Alpha Sigma
Phi Rush chairman and Capac
freshman.
Kostrewa's pencil-sketched
posters include one with a partially squeezed tube of toothpaste
declaring "9 out of 10 dentists
prefer Alpha Sigma Phi;" and
another- displaying cartooned
faces of George Washington,
Albert Einstein. Abraham Lincoln and Jimi Hendrix and the
statement: "If we weren't dead,
we'd rush Alpha Sigma Phi!"
Eric Noonan, Sigma Chi Rush
chairman, devoted a lot of his
semester vacation to perfecting
the professional tone of his
group's posters. The heavy-stock
posters are oversized compared
to the SVli by 1 1 inch format of the
plethora of others on campus, and
sports thin yellow and white
stripes as a background to the
red- and blue-inked message to
rush Sigma Chi.
"It takes a lot of time, but it's
crucial to catch the eyes of potential Rushees," said Noonan,
Houghton   Lake junior.  "And  at
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INDEX
News  3
State, Nation, World  3
Opinion  4
Arts, Entertainment  8
Sports  10
Basketball Page  11
Police Log  14
Classified Ads  16-17
Crossword  17
Comics  17
WEATHER
Increasing cloudiness with a
30 percent chance of rain. High
temps for Wednesday should
range from about 35-40 degrees.
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