1990-04-02; Central Michigan Life

              SELF-STARTERS
Detroit band Second Self has the talent
and gutsy sound to make the big time, 8
CLEAN SWEEP
Baseball team smears the GVSU Lakers 14-0 and 6-4
in a double-header at Theunissen Sunday, 10
TIME FOR CHANGE
CMU's Creative Peace Movement sponsors
Central America Week to educate public. 5
32/20
Windy   today   with   a
possibility   of   snow.
Michigan
MONDAY
April 2, 1990
Serving The University Community For 70 Years
LIFE Photo/John Starks
Family gathering
Pow Wow a chance for father, long-lost
daughter to experience their culture
by JILLIAN BOGATER
LIFE Slail Writer	
For Mary Spoerl, .the Second
Annual Central Michigan
University Pow Wow was more
than a weekend of American
Indian culture.
It was a reunion of sorts.
Spoerl's father attended the
Pow Wow Saturday and Sunday
to participate in the festivities
and enjoy a visit with his
daughter — who recently found
him after a 36-year search.
Adopted at the age of two from
the Bethany Home Orphanage in
Grand Rapids, Spoerl spent 20
years with her adopted parents
who worked aa missionaries with
the Dutch Reformed Church.
Spoerl said her natural mother
took her away from her natural
father when she was a small
child. She added her mother did
not let her father know where his
wife and daughter were.
Her mother, an alcoholic, lost
custody of Spoerl and had to
relinguish custody of her to the
state.   Her  natural  mother has
SGA presents
options to fee
President says 10 alternatives
not ready for Board's discussion
■ See related
Paga 13
story and   photos,
by BRIAN O. BELL
LIFE Staff Writer
FEE ALTERNATIVES
since    passed    away    due    to
alcohol-related complications.
"My father would  never give
me away. He didn't know where
President Edward B.
Jakubauskas said he does not
plan to discuss 10 options to the
$90 rec fee at the next Board of
Trustees meeting.
"I don't think they're ready for
the Board," Jakubauskas said.
"They're simply too complex,"
he' said. "They involve many
factors."
Student Government Association Rep. Nathan Volz, President
Nancy Ward, Clarkston senior,
and Dist. 3 Sen. Jason Laker
presented alternatives to the
Physical Education and Recreation Phase II Building fee
Friday. Students For A Voice
researched the options presented
to the president.
Jakubauskas said because the
Board meeting is Friday, there is
not sufficient time to examine
the proposed alternatives for
viability. :.-, • <«•
"Those options are long-term,"
Jakubauskas said. "(The necessary research) simply can't be
done in one week."
Laker said he does not plan
to let Board members go
uninformed.
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See OPTIONS Page 15     b
Proposed community
rec facility could end
up on University land
by COLLEEN NEWVINE
LIFE Staff Writer
See REUNION Page 15
LIFE Photo/Rens Hooyanga
TOP: One of the first things noticed when walking into Finch
Fieldhouse during the weekend was the forceful American Indian
drumbeat at the Second Annual Central Michigan Pow Wow.
ABOVE: At this year's Pow Wow Mary Spoerl, Wisconsin, was able
to meet her real father after a 36-year search.
University property may one day house not one, but two,
recreational centers if a group of area citizens is successful.
The group is planning a community center for use by local residents
and one proposed site is in University Park, bordered by Crawford,
Broomfield and Deerfield roads and Mission Street, committee
member Bart LaBelle said.
Another piece of land under consideration is in Union Township on
Pickard Avenue, east of the city limits, said LaBelle, president of the
real estate division of LaBelle Management, 405 S. Mission St.
Committee member Ed Grant said the group, which has numbered
between three and 12 members since it first started meeting a year
ago, envisions a center with two swimming pools — one for recreation
and one for relaxation — and several multi-purpose rooms.
See CENTER Page 2
The Doors' Jim Morrison alive?
Only on April Fools' Day as many
pranksters look for the best joke
by ERIC BORYS
LIFE Staff Writer
Asking CMU students about their most unusual April Fools'
Day prank as either the puller or pullee can uncover sea stories
worthy of Melville.
Sure they're true. Really.
The scary part is they just might be. A day set aside for deceit
can spin the diabolical wheels in even the most saintly. Here is a
sampler of the best and the brightest at their nastiest and most
gullible.
Don't leave the driving to Brett Banfietd, Rockford senior. At
some point in his high school career, many April Fools' Days ago,
he and some friends discovered that taking the side mirrors off the
principal's son's Volkswagon greatly reduced the width — so much
that it might even fit through a high school utility door leading to
the cafeteria. It did.
See FOOLS Page .15
Creative Peace's
vigil to show plight
of homeless people
by JULIE NORRIS
LIFE Staff Writer
A full stomach, a warm bed and a sense of
security.
Most people take those things for granted, but
for the approximately three million people
currently homeless in the United States, each day
presents a new struggle for survival.
Creative Peace Movement is sponsoring at an
all-night  vigil  for the homeless  on  Wednesday,:
April 11. Participants in the vigil will sleep outside
Park Library from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m. !
'  The vigil is "an awareness event," vigil organizer
Mary Irvine said. '
"It will give people a better understanding of
what it's like to be outside for a night," she said.
Creative Peace Movement is requesting
donations of canned or boxed food. All donated food
will be distributed to the soup kitchen located at