1997-03-19; Central Michigan Life

              Central Michigan LIFE
Volume 79, Number 70
Mt. Pleasant,  MI 48859
©1997 CM LIFE
77 years of serving the community
WEDNESDAY
March 19,   1997
16 pages
Plachta hopes to increase budget
By Emily Gerkin
LIFE Staff Writer
University President Leonard Plachta is
making his annual trip to Lansing today
to      discuss      further   	
President will try to acquaint committee
with CMU during trip to Lansing
funding for CMU.
Plachta will be giving a 45-minute presentation to the House
Appropriation
Subcommittee on
Higher Education,
highlighting Central's
stronger programs and
discussing the possible
2.5 increase in funding
for Michigan universities.
"I'm prepared to try and acquaint the
PLACHTA
members of the subcommittee panel with
CMU," Plachta said. "I will point out
items of importance, highlight our
stronger points and what we, as a university, are trying to accomplish.
"I will also point out our low per student
funding from the state," he said. "We need
to be better funded and not at the bottom
of the list. The state should avoid across
the board increases because it only broadens the gap between the richer and the
poorer schools."
Plachta said he will point out the uni
versities efforts in health related programs, such as the physical therapy program and the new physicians assistant
program; the new technology programs
and CMU's ranking in U.S. News and
World Report as one of the top 15 schools
in the Midwest.
Plachta said he will try to illustrate the
needs of the university and the importance of receiving more than Governor
John Engler's 2.5 across the board
increase proposal.
"I  readily admit  it's  all  about getting
more money," he said.
Plachta will give his presentation along
with four other university presidents from
Eastern Michigan University, Ferris State
University, Grand Valley State University
and the University of Michigan-Flint.
The subcommittee has been conducting
these hearings of university presidents for
the past four Wednesdays. They will submit their decision April 9 to the House
Appropriation Committee, who will in
turn submit a proposal to the House floor.
Plachta said the goal is for the House to
pass the entire higher education budget.
The Senate will start their own investigations "on the road" in April. Members
from the Senate will be visiting CMU on
April 25.
Midland Symphony,
School of Music hire
joint director
By Sara Kuehlhorn
LIFE
-E Staff Writer
The School of Music and the Midland Symphony Orchestra
recently hired a joint director to start in August.
Carlton Woods is the new director of orchestral studies at CMU
and music director of the Midland Symphony Orchestra.
Edward Kvet, chair of the school of Music at CMU said this will
be the first time CMU and the MSO have shared a position.
"A relationship between a symphony orchestra and a college provides the opportunity to work with both professionals and aspiring
professionals, the students," Kvet said.
The joint position is expected to make CMU and the MSO closer
to one another than they have been in the past.
"I am hoping to make a stronger union between the MSO and
CMU," WToods said.
Kvet said CMU and the MSO will work cooperatively. Next year,
CMU should see more MSO concerts on campus and more students
trying out for a seat with the MSO.
"I think the change will be a positive one and very beneficial,"
said Holly Attar, Walled Lake sophomore, violist in CMU's orchestra and MSO performer.
The MSO benefits from the collaboration because closer ties with
CMU improve the source of string musicians qualified to play with
See DIRECTOR Page
11
Career Day participants
should be prepared
By Rachel Sprovtsoff
IFE ~    	
LIFE Staff Writer
Career days and job fairs
at universities can be
the key to a student's
success after graduation, but
there are some preparations
they need to make before
attending one.
"If they miss this, they miss a
lot," said Vivian Como, assistant
director of Career Services.
She said there is a basic
checklist a student should follow
when getting ready to meet
prospective employers.
The first thing a student
needs to do is prepare an error-
free resume. Learning ahead of
time who will be at the fair is
also a good idea so that one
knows what companies will be
there, Como said.
Also, it is a good idea to prepare a one-minute "commercial"
about oneself to pitch to the representative or employer, she
said. Also preparing good questions to ask the representative
or employer will help the student learn more about the company.
When getting ready to actually go to the fair, Como said
dressing professionally is also
important.
"You need to dress the part,"
she said.
Upon arriving at the fair, she
said to get there early and plan
to stay late. Also, bringing plenty of resumes is a good idea
because a student never knows
how many employers they will
See CAREER Page 11	
Anthropology
prof discusses
campus rapes
By Heather N. LaFave
LIFE Staff Writer
Anthropologist Peggy Reeves Sanday told
an audience of approximately 100 people
Tuesday night that society needs to look at
attitudes which produce courtship violence
to deal with the problem of acquaintance
rape.
Sanday, professor of anthropology at the
University of Pennsylvania, visited campus
as a part of the Women at Risk series.
Sanday, a best-selling author, said it is a
scientifically substantiated fact that
between 13 and 25 percent of women on college campuses report being forced to have
sex.
One study on sexual assault called it a
"tragedy of youth," and Sanday said the concept is appropriate because most women are
raped before they are 21.
There are five social factors Sanday identified as being related to rape, including the
RIDING ON
THE EDGE
LIFE Photo/Gabriel Guerrero
West Intermediate School student, Tim Smith, brought out
his in-line skates to enjoy the mild ternpertures Tuesday in
front of Finch Fieldhouse.
Tribes must
continue
payments
to state
The Associated Press
Michigan's seven Indian tribes
operating casinos must continue
to pay part of their slot machine
revenues to the state for the next
year or so as a result of a federal
court ruling.
U.S. District Judge Benjamin
Gibson said in a ruling made public Tuesday the tribes must continue millions of dollars in payments to the state until a non-
Indian casino is licensed in
Detroit.
"The court finds that the tribes
must make semiannual payments
under the consent judgment until
the MGCB (Michigan Gaming
Control Board) issues a license to
operate a casino to a person or
entity other than the tribes,"
Gibson wrote.
The ruling could mean as much
as $40 million for the state this
year alone, estimated Nelson
Westrin, executive director of the
Michigan Gaming Control Board.
Spokesperson from the
Saginaw Indian Chippewa Tribe
were unavailable for comment.
A spokesman for Gov. John
Engler applauded the decision.
"We feel very pleased with the
ruling and consider it a victory,"
John Truscott said.
The chairman of the
Hannahville Indian Community
was disappointed that the judge
rejected the argument that the
payments were no longer required
because the tribes lost their gaming monopoly in the November
election.
Tm really not happy with that
decision in that the referendum
clearly stated it would allow gambling in the State of Michigan
other than the tribes," Ken
Meshigaud said.
The payments — which
amounted to $30 million in 1995-
96 — were agreed to by the tribes
and the state in 1993. Tribes
promised to pay 8 percent of their
slot machine revenues as long as
they enjoyed the "exclusive right
to operate electronic games of
chance in the state of Michigan."
Gibson's decision technically did
not give Engler everything he
wanted. The administration
maintained tribes would have
exclusive gaming rights until a
non-Indian casino opened its
doors. But the tribes maintained
they lost the exclusive right to
gaming last fall when voters
approved a measure allowing
non-Indian gaming in Detroit.
"Had the parties intended that
the tribes would be obligated to
make semiannual payments so
long as they were the only operators of the games, the parties
could have so stated," Gibson
wrote in rejecting the administration position.
celebration of a macho/jock culture; homophobia; sexual self-indulgence; women seeking power with men by blaming women for
rape; and men encouraging each other to get
women drunk to have sex.
She explained some athletic groups and
fraternities abuse women, and teach abuse
to members by abusing them when they are
rushing or joining the organization. She said
this is dangerous behavior.
LIFE Photo/
Jai Bailey
Author and
anthropologist
Peggy Reeves
Sanday of the
University of
Pennsylvania spoke
on the issue of
"Acquaintance Rape
on Campus"
Tuesday evening in
Pearce Hall 127.
Sanday has
published such
bestsellers as
"Fraternity Gang
Rape " and "A
Woman Scorned"
"A sexually  abusive
culture affects all of us," she said.
Homophobia also has a strong role in
acquaintance rape, she said, because men
often try to prove their heterosexuality by
having sex with women and looking for
opportunities to get sex.
She said insecurity and bonding among
Student Government
Association candidates
will debate today
By Jeremy Russ
LIFE Staff Writer
Open debates of candidates running for Student Government
Association offices will take place at 7 p.m. today in Pearce 127.
The debate will begin with statements from students running for
SGA senate. Questions for the candidates will be collected on index
cards and reviewed at that time.
Students running for the position of president will preF^^t their
opening statement at 7:15 p.m. and each ticket will answer selected
questions from students.
Each question will receive a one minute response from each ticket running, followed by a 30 second rebuttal from the ticket that
responded first.
Students running for president, vice-president and treasurer are
running on one ticket. Each person on the ticket will be responsible
for the views of the ticket as a whole.
Andrew Devenney, Marshall junior; Nichole Roughton, Clarkston
sophomore; and Sarah Blink, Muskegon junior, are running on a
ticket.
Adam Miller, Paw Paw junior; Lacy Gapczynski, Clinton
Township freshman; and Jim Cone, Laurium junior, are running on
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See SPEAKER Page 7
See DEBATE Page 2