1997-10-13; Central Michigan Life

              Central Michigan LIFE
Volume 80, Number 22
Mt. Pleasant,   MI 48859
©1997 CM LIFE
78 years of serving the community
MONDAY
October 13, 1997
14 pages
CMU 'digs' $28 million project
By Jim Pesta
LIFE Staff Writer
The future of CMU sports got a little    brighter    this    weekend    when
administrators broke ground for the
new  indoor  athletics   complex  and   football
stadium expansion.
In pregame Homecoming festivities
Saturday, Central officials showcased plans
for the $28 million project.
"Today we break ground on one of the most
significant complexes in CMU sports history," said CMU Athletics Director Herb
Deromedi. "We opened bids last week and
they were on target and I am happy to
announce that construction will go as scheduled."
County
studying
accident
concerns
By Angela S. Vandenberg
LIFE Staff Writer
A speed study and the possible
future implementation of a push
button pedestrian crossing are
actions being taken to try to
reduce accidents on Broomfield
Road.
Ray Casey manager of the
Isabella County Road
Commission, said they are doing
a speed study pursuant to
Michigan State Police procedures.
"We will put counters on the
road, probably by Monday,
which will record how fast people drive over them and tell us if
speed is a problem on this road
or not," Casey said.
The counters will calculate the
85th percentile of speed on
Broomfield Road, between
Mission Street and Crawford
Road. It takes a day or two to
survey the speed and then up to
three weeks possibly for engineers to review the information,
Casey said. Then the results are
sent to the State Police.
"We're required to follow procedures with setting speed limits," Casey said. ''We cannot just
change them ourselves."
Casey said his department has
previously looked at implementing a push button crosswalk
near Campus Drive for pedestrians, but when they have applied
to the Michigan Department of
Transportation, who must
approve it, they were turned
down.
"Possibly we will continue to
apply for safety program funding for a push button pedestrian
See STUDY Paqe 2
I  N  S..I  D  E
Indoor athletics complex should be
finished by the end of 1998
Construction will start on Kelly/Shorts
Stadium directly following the last home
game of the year against Marshall Nov. 1.
Expansion should be completed by Sept. 12
for the 1998 home opener.
The expansion of Kelly/Shorts Stadium
will increase seating from 20,000 to 30,000
and add private boxes and a new press box.
"The expansion of Kelly/Shorts will make
sure that we stay in compliance of NCAA
guideline for a Division I-A school,"
Deromedi said.
The indoor facility will house the
men's and women's indoor track and
provide practice space for softball,
baseball, field hockey and football.
The plans call for weight and training rooms and space to help meet the student-athletes' academic needs.
It also will include computer facilities,
study areas and rooms for athlete academic
advising, tutoring and general team meetings.
"The indoor complex will be done by the
latter part of 1998, and will be operational
when we start our second semester . . . the
See GROUND Page 2  	
AUTUMN FLUTUR • CM LIFE
Jim Fabiano, chairman of a steering committee that is seeking private donations for the athletics expansion project, addresses the
crowd at the ground-breaking ceremony for the new complex.
Tailback Dan Myrick and
the CMU football team lost
to Toledo 41-10. See page 8
Classified
Crossword
Et cetera
Sports
Voices
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TONY CEPAK • CM LIFE PHOTOS
CMU Homecoming Gold Ambassadors Todd Price, Alpena senior, and Jocylin Stevenson, Muskegon Heights senior, stand before
an estimated crowd of 19,700 at halftime.
Various events entertain alumni, students
By Angela S. Vandenberg
LIFE Staff Writer
Who caught the
first opening
kickoff in
Perry Shorts
Stadium?
Dave "the real" McCoy, an
alumnus from Rochester, who
played for CMU from 1970 to
1973 as No. 10 before it was
called Kelly/Shorts Stadium.
McCoy, an attendee of
Saturday's homecoming game,
said it was good to be back.
"I come to see old friends and
old teammates because I love
the Chippewas," McCoy said.
"I'm fired up Chips through
and through," he added.
Like many other alumni who
played football at CMU, McCoy
said he wants to get back in
there and play again.
"There's nothing like college
football, this is just the happening experience," McCoy
said.
Gary Baginski, another previous football player also from
Rochester, said he came to see
the Chips play and kick
Toledo's butt.
See pg 13 for further coverage
on Gold Ambassadors
Baginski was a tailback, No.
44 and he played in the 1974
Championship Team. He said
he was also the only Chippewa
to score the first time CMU
played Kent State University.
Jim Maclean, a CMU alumnus from Mount Pleasant, said
he always follows CMU sports,
never missing a game. Well,
almost.
"I missed one game two
weeks ago because I got married," Maclean said.
Maclean said it's great to
come at half-time and see
what's going on but more people need to be watching the
game.
"The team isn't doing that
well today and they need our
support," Maclean said.
Paul Dannesberger, a 1966
CMU graduate, and Ed
Langenburg, who started in
1954 and returned to finish in
1957 from Bay City, said they
remember times when campus
life at CMU was very different.
"Girls had to be in the dorms
The CMU
Marching
Band was
among the
many
highlights of
this year's
Homecoming
parade.
by 10 p.m. on weeknights and
boys had to meet their dates in
the lobby. There was no coed
dorm situation or guys and
girls in each others rooms,"
Langenburg said.
"Back in those good old days
we   didn't   have   tailgate   par
ties," Dannesberger added.
Both men said they were
happy to be at the game.
"I come to every game, I
haven't missed one since this
See HOMECOMING Page 2
Central
adds 2nd
Sandler
show
By Lindsay Alien
LIFE Et cetera Writer
Students disappointed by the
lack of tickets to see comedian
Adam Sandler now have another
opportunity to hear "Lunch Lady
Land" in person, as a second performance has been scheduled for
Oct. 24.
Program Board adviser Kristin
Norton confirmed Friday that
Sandler will now perform two
shows Oct. 24.
"We are going to do a 7 p.m. and
a 9:30 p.m. (show)," Norton said.
"The people who bought tickets on
Tuesday — their tickets are good
for the first show."
: Approximately 1,300 people
will be able to attend the second
show, but not all seats will be for
sale. Those
people who
had vouchers from the
first show
and were
unable to
purchase
tickets may
buy tickets
this
Thursday   at
■ A second show
has been scheduled at 9:30 p.m.
on Oct.24.About
1,300 will be
able to attend
second show.
Box
the   Central
Office for the second show.
Norton said these students,
who were supposed to have registered in the box office last week,
will be contacted by Program
Board this week.
As long as those students can
present their vouchers and CMU
student identification at the box
office on Thursday, they are guaranteed tickets, Norton said.
For the rest of the student body,
tickets for the 9:30 p.m. show will
go on sale Friday. Tickets will only
be sold to students with CMU
identification, with a limit of two
tickets per student. The cost is
$12.50 per ticket.
A lottery system is in place to
distribute these tickets, Norton
said.
Students who want to be a part
of the lottery must be in Warriner
Auditorium at 9 a.m. Friday. Each
student present will be issued a
numbered ticket.
One number will be drawn at
random to designate the first person who will stand in line at the
Central Box Office when tickets
go on sale at 10 a.m., Norton said.
Students will then be allowed to
join the line in sequence following
the selected number.
"If our ticket numbers are
between one and 1,000 and we
pull number 560, 560 is the first
person to get in line and get tickets. 561 would get second choice,
562 gets third, and we'll go until
all the tickets are sold," she said.
The lottery was devised in order
to better organize the ticket sales,
which are again expected to
attract many Sandler fans.
"This is the fairest way to get
tickets to the most students,"
Norton said. "It eliminates students having to camp out."
The addition of the second
show is a direct result of the
increased student organization
fee approved by students last
spring, according to Program
Board officials.