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Volume 79, Number 48
Mt. Pleasant,   MI 48859
©1997 CM LIFE
77 years of serving the community
WEDNESDAY
January 15, 1997
16 pages
Design will
bring Athletics
'up to speed7
By Jennifer Ackerman
LIFE Editor	
There's been talk of possibly
upgrading the face of CMU
Athletics for a long time, but now
the department may be closer
than it's ever been to getting a
facelift.
However, the department is not
talking about a little tuck here
and a little smoothing there — it is
proposing a whole new look
through a $26 million enhancement operation.
The fate of this proposed multi-
million dollar plan to build a new
indoor athletic facility and expand
Kelly/Shorts Stadium will be
decided today by CMU's Board of
Trustees.
Included in the proposed plan,
which is still being finalized, is an
indoor sports facility that would
include two "bays." One would
provide practice space for softball,
baseball, field hockey and football.
The other section would house
men's and women's indoor track.
The new facility would also contain a weight and training room
and academic enhancement facilities such as study and computer
rooms for athletes.
"We're excited about the opportunity to move this project forward to the Board of Trustees,"
said Herb Deromedi, CMU
Athletics director. "It will mean a
great deal to the entire university,
the Athletics department and certainly the athletes."
On-campus issues
top meeting agenda
■ Director of Native American Programs presented problems of the Michigan Indian Tuition Waiver program
By Liz Wis haw
LIFE Assistant News Editor	
Student enrollment, tuition
costs, waiver issues and reorganization topped discussion at
the Academic Senate's first
meeting of the spring semester.
Martin Reinhardt, director of
Native American Programs, presented the Michigan Indian
Tuition Waiver program and its
problems to the Senate.
Reinhardt said last semester
157 students were self-identified
Native Americans, "with the
numbers not including Extended
Learning      stu-   _______
dents.
Sixty-two students were paying for college
with the
Michigan
Tuition Waiver
and 11 were
deferred from
the waiver.
This semester
the numbers
receiving the
waiver are
down by six,
Reinhardt said.
As the Native
American
Indian   Student    —————————————
Organization advisor, Reinhardt
said students have relayed their
concerns to him over the waiver
not being available next year.
"CMU will be honoring the
waiver for the summer of'97 and
the fall of '97. After that, I am
unable to advise students on
using the waiver at CMU or
other Michigan Public
Universities," Reinhardt said.
He said Native American students have the right to attend
college at no further cost
because the Native Americans
exchanged land with Michigan
for the right to go to school.
"I don't use the term "free," it's
at no further cost," Reinhardt
said.
"CMU is built on land
described in documents as
Isabella   Indian   Reservation.   It
"CMU will be honoring the waiver for the
summer of'97 and the
fall of '97. After that, I
am unable to advise
students on using the
waiver at CMU or
other Michigan Public
Universities."
MARTIN REINHARDT
Director of Native
American Programs
was exchanged by the federal
government to the State of
Michigan. Indian public education is at 'no further cost,'"
Reinhardt said.
Joe Chisholm, assistant vice
president for Government
Relations, said last year Gov.
John Engler told the State
Legislature that he would veto
funding for the next budget. He
didn't, but the legislature is taking his threats seriously.
Chisholm said the
Commission   on   Indian   Affairs
has   no   budget   for   reimburse-
mbmmbmw-    ment to universities.
"We are operating programs
within the
structure of the
laws. (But) the
law says two
different
things,"
Chisholm said,
referring to old
statutes in the
State
Legislation.
Provost
Richard
Davenport
delivered      the
■--———■———  president's
report  for University  President
Leonard Plachta.
Davenport said Peter Ewell, a
nationally known consultant
from the National Center for
Higher Education Management
Systems, will visit campus Jan.
24 to meet with the Task Force
on Academic Reorganization.
This will be his third visit to
campus and he will work with
the task force on reorganization
restructuring issues.
In a memo addressed to
Davenport, dated Dec. 31, Ewell
said strengths of the report,
"Final Recommendations for
Academic Reorganization,"
issued on Oct. 4, were: clear
descriptions of the processes
used to obtain input from affect-
SeeA-SENATE Page 11	
Alumnus killed in
Flight 3272 crash
By Jennifer Ackerman
LIFE Editor
A CMU alumnus and aspiring law student was among the
29 passengers killed in the Jan. 9 crash of Comair Flight 3272.
Gregory Barrow, 31, Ferndale resident and 1992 CMU graduate, was flying back to Michigan to celebrate his girlfriend's
birthday after visiting his parents in Florida when the plane
he was traveling on crashed in a field in Monroe County.
Barrow's     father,     D
Russ Hcrron. vice president of
University Relations, will be presenting the proposal to the board
today.
"Its exciting for us. We just
haven't had any new major athletic facilities in a long time. \\\ some
areas we've been tailing behind
our sister schools, and this will
bring us up to speed."  I lenon said.
Herron pointed out that CMU
has had to cancel its home track
seasons for the second straight
year    because     of    broken-down
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track facilities. As a result, the
mens and women's track teams
have to compete on the road
"Our track facilities, indoor and
!?utdoor have Mist b**en horrendous. . It's embarrassing," he
said.
Herron said CMU's Lyle
Bennett Field needs to be completely rebuilt from the ground up
to be useful once again. Therefore,
under a proposed plan, a new out-
See PLAN Page 2
Leonard Barrow, said his
son was just one semester
away from earning his
master's degree in tax law
from the Wayne State
University Law School.
Gregory would've graduated in May and planned
to take bar exams in both
Michigan and Florida.
His father remembered
Gregory as being a student "really focused" on
his future, adding that he
took classes year round to
finish the accounting program    at   CMU    in    four
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Commuter engine
replaced five
days before crash.
5 (AP) — The right engine of
the Comair twin-engine turboprop that crashed in a snowstorm had been replaced five
days earlier during regularly
scheduled maintenance, the
company said Tuesday.
Asked whether that was a
factor in the crash, Comair
Inc. spokeswoman Meghan
Glynn said: "No. But I can't
comment further."
LIFE Photos/Kent Robinson
(above) Parti Methner from Four Seasons Floral of Mount Pleasant examines a Boston Fern in the plant house.   "The plant house
works out nice for the plants with all the light this time of year" said Methner.   (Below) A & B Crafts of Mount Pleasant carry many
artificial flowers including this colorful Peony.
Local flower shops still thrive during winter
By Barbara Kaloz
LIFE Staff Writer
The flow of the holidays is past
and the rush of Valentine's Day
is yet to come, according to local
florists.
Linda Dening, owner of Jim
and Donna's Flower Shop, 1008
W. High St., said January is the
lull between Christmas and
Valentine's Day, but funerals
and special occasions keep business steady.
Dening also said sales drop in
late December and early
January because CMU students
are away for the holidays.
Char Young, designer at Jim
and Donna's Flower Shop, estimated that one-third of their
sales come from CMU students,
especially at Valentine's Day.
Despite the long Michigan
winters and the short-lived gardens, flower shops still prosper.
"Winter does affect our sales,
but not always in a bad way,"
Dening said. "The cold may
affect the plants, but we sell
more cut flowers. Summer is
actually our slow period."
Sue Robinson, designer at
Elliott's Greenhouse Inc., 800 W.
Broadway St., said they use
their greenhouse to keep flowers
and plants and make sure they
wrap each sale well to keep the
plants from the cold.
Jim and Donna's Flower Shop
carries a wide gift line, but
Dening said cut flowers are the
most popular.
Flowers can be sent for a variety of occasions including birthday, anniversary, sympathy, get
well and congratulations.
Dening said roses are the most
popular, while Robinson said
long-lasting flowers like carnations and daisies seem to sell the
most.
A box of a dozen roses sells for
$40 at Jim and Donna's Flower
Shop, Young said.
Robinson
Greenhouse
said
allows
Elliott's
them    to
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Close vote leaves some tribal council seats undecided
By
LiFI
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With 81.8 percent of the votes
tallied late Tuesday evening,
the race for 10 open seats on
the Saginaw Chippewa Indian
Tribal Council was close, with
the possibility of a run-off election lingering on the horizon.
At 12:30 a.m., there was a
three-way tie for the ninth and
tenth tribal seats.
The results were vote totals
available at press time are the
following: Kevin Chamberlain,
170; Gary Quigno, 155; Tim
Davis, 154; Alvin Chamberlain,
150; Josephine Jackson, 130;
Ben Hinmon, 125; Shelly
Foster, 121; Thomas Kequom,
119; Mary Lynne Chippeway,
118;   Sue   Durfee,   118;   David
Otto, 118; Clinton Pelcher Jr.
113; Brenda Chamberlain, 108;
Bernard Sprague, 106; Angel
Quintero, 101; Charmaine
Benz, 100; Carol Shanks, 100;
Gary Sprague, 99; Dorothy
Dale, 98; Mark Shafer, 87;
Bruce Hinmon, 74; and Faith
Montoya, 66.
Voter   turnout   was    higher
than ever before with 374, or 67
percent of the 559 registered
voters, participating in the election, said Joe Sowmick, public
relations director for the tribe.
The day before the tribal
council election, interim council
member Ron Jackson temporarily stepped down from his
position.
"He said he wanted to agree
with Judge (Bruce) Havens' ruling. . . He stepped down
because he didn't want to make
any decisions until the new
tribal council was in place,"
Sowmick said. However,
Sowmick said Jackson will
resume his position as an at-
large council member after the
new members are sworn in on
Jan. 22.
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