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CMU lays official
ground work for new
music building
By KAREN JOSEPH
LIFE Staff Writer	
Friday's groundbreaking
ceremony for Central's new
music building was appropriately set to the melodies of the
CMU chamber singers and the
CMU marching band.
President Leonard Plachta
gave the opening remarks,
expressing his pride in the
music department and his gratitude toward the Capital Outlay Committee, which last week
approved final plans from the
South field architechture firm of
Harley Ellington Pierce Yee
Associates, Inc.
The groundbreaking ceremonies took place on the south
side of Moore Hall, the future
site of the two-story, $21 million, state-funded building. The
building has been more than 10
years in the planning.
The building will feature
106,000 square feet of classrooms, lecture and rehearsal
halls, music technology laboratories, teaching studios, practice rooms and offices.
Event host Ed Kvet, chairman of the music department,
said he appreciates the efforts of
the many individuals who
helped make the long-awaited
building a reality.
Among those he thanked
were Central's music alumni;
the department's emeriti professors; the current faculty; the
music building committee;
Jerry Scoby, assistant vice
president for Business Affairs;
Bob DeBruin, assistant vice
president for Academic Administration; Barb Ringquist,
director of academic space; Kim
Ellertson, vice president for
Business and Finance; Mel
Remus, director of Plant Engineering and Planning; John
Haeger, dean of the College of
Arts and Sciences; Leonard and
Louise Plachta; and the day's
featured speakers.
On hand to speak were state
Rep. Jim McBryde, R-Mount
Pleasant; Donna Arduin, chief
deputy director of the Michigan
Department of Management
and Budget; and Sid Smith,
chairman of CMLTs Board of
Trustees.
State Sen. Joanne Emmons,
R-Big Rapids, was scheduled to
speak but could not attend due
to an illness.
Construction will begin in
spring and the final project is
expected to be completed by fall
1997.
UFE Photo/John Elbers
Music students from left to right Susan Dean, Alpena junior.
Christina Taylor. Mount Clemens junior and Megan Williamson.
Mount Pleasant junior, check out the mock display of the new
music hell during ground breaking ceremonies Friday morning.
ng rape
reported
A 19-year-old female student reported being raped by seven men in a
residence hall room early Sunday morning, according to CMU Public
Relations Director Rae Goldsmith.
The student told CMU Department of Public Safety officers she
attended an off-campus party with friends Saturday, but lost track of
their whereabouts.
She accepted a ride to campus from several men and was taken to a
residence hall room, where she was sexually assaulted by seven males,
she told police.
DPS officials said that according to the female student's testimony,
each of the men engaged in first-degree sexual assault, which involves
forced genital or oral penetration, Goldsmith said.
The woman reported the criminal sexual conduct to DPS shortly after
2 a.m. Sunday.
As of press time Sunday, DPS officers had identified six suspects and
were continuing an investigation.
Goldsmith and DPS declined to release further details with the case
still under investigation.
Police receive
6 more bomb
threat reports
Caller might have
made previous calls
By TODD FETTIG
LIFE Staff Writer
This large recital hall Is one feature of the 106.000
win house.
feet of
practice, office, and performance
the music building
A collect caller who phoned in
a bomb threat to Rowe Hall
Thursday might have been
responsible for similar calls to
area residences and businesses
throughout the week.
Six new bomb threats were
reported Friday to the Mount
Pleasant Police Department, said
Cpl. Don David. Two private residences, an animal hospital, a
church and two banks reported
the bomb threats.
Police have not determined if
the six threats are related to the
Rowe Hall incident or two similar
bomb threats earlier in the week,
one at the Davis Clinic on Wednesday and the other at Fabiano
Brothers Inc. on Tuesday.
No bombs were discovered
after police officers and firefighters searched Fabiano's, 1219 N.
Mission St., and Davis Clinic, 314
S. Brown St.
Several people voluntarily evacuated following the Rowe Hall
threat. Police found no explosives.
Mount Pleasant Police Department officials said the caller for
the Fabiano Brothers and Davis
Vacated TKE house needed
,000 in fire code repairs
Student accused of CSC
fails to get bond lowered
By BRAD MONAST1ERE
UFE Staff Writer
Tau Kappa Epsilon social fraternity's old
house at 805 S. Main St. remains closed, pending
more than $32,000 worth of fire hazard repairs to
the house.
Chris Cross, equipment operator for the city of
Mount Pleasant and the original inspector of the
house, said this is just the latest in a long line of
problems the fraternity has had with its houses.
"We've had to close three other houses of theirs,"
he said. TheTKEs have always been pretty rough
on their houses.9
During an inspection May 22, fire marshalls
reported various fire code violations at the house,
including five broken doors, no functional smoke
detectors, holes in walls and ceilings,
and full gas canisters stored in the
ment, according to the fire marshals' report.
Upon the initial inspection, Cross told the renters of the house they had 30 days to finish all the
necessary repairs, Cross said, but didn't contact
them again until Aug. 8.
"We give them a courtesy 30 days to do the
repairs," Cross said. "We then begin calling them
to schedule re-inspections. When we went back for
another inspection on Aug. 20, the situation got
worse. Through the fire marshals, we decided it
would be best if we deemed the house unsafe to
occupy."
Robert Bryer, owner of the house and a Bedford
resident, said he was not given enough time to
make any of the repairs.
-I had a real hard time getting a contractor in
Mount Pleasant to do the work," he said. "It was
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Clinic incidents identified himself as "Tim" to the people who
accepted the collect call's
charges. He then warned a bomb
was planted in the building and
he had a detonator.
The caller identified himself as
a public official to have the call
accepted.
"Tim" continued to carry on a
conversation with the recipient of
the call, at times becoming extremely obscene, police officials
have said.
Sgt. Jack Shiveiy, of CMU's
Department of Public Safety,
said Thursday that the characteristics of Rowe Hall's threat
matched the Davis Clinic and
Fabiano Brothers incidents and
believed the caller is the same
person.
The case remains under investigation. Police have no suspects.
Man pulls
handgun in
altercation
outside
Wayside
A man leaving Wayside Central, 2000 S. Mission Street., was
threatened at gunpoint at 2 a.m.
Friday after a confrontation with
someone in the parking lot,
according to a Mount Pleasant
Police Department report.
The confrontation started
when a vehicle nearly hit the man
leaving the bar.
The man and the driver of the
vehicle exchanged verbal threats
until the driver pulled a handgun
from his waistband then drove
off, the report stated.
The case remains under investigation. Police have no suspects.
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