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Parking problems plague students across campus Police chief: no formal complaints issued By Jake May Senior Reporter
Students are complaining that parking is a problem at Central Michigan University. The parking lots behind Moore Hall and the Music Building are congested,
packed full with nowhere for incoming cars to go. So is the lot north of the Towers near Pearce Hall. Some students are angry, blaming faculty members for not taking advantage of faculty-only lots. Specifically, a new lot adjacent to the Education and Human Services Building. It is available to faculty and staff members only, but many are not using it, said East Tawas sophomore Taylor Phillips. Instead, he said
they continue to park in Lots 22 and 33 by habit. “Maybe our teachers need to be more educated,” said Phillips, who parks his car at the back of Lot 33 every day. “They have another parking lot that would place them even closer to the buildings they teach in anyway. Why wouldn’t they want to park there? They are just making it really hard for us to get to class on time.” CMU Police has sold 10,940 parking permits for
By the numbers... w Student permits: 8,794 w Faculty permits: 2,146 w Spaces on campus: 11,196 w Lot 33: 971 spaces w Lot 22: 873 spaces (22 designated spaces for faculty) w EHS Building: 297 spaces the 2009-10 academic year. Of those, 8,794 are students and 2,146 are faculty members, said CMU Police Chief Bill Yeagley. There are 11,196
parking spaces on campus. Lot 33 holds 971 spaces, designated as an all-student lot. Lot 22 holds 873 spaces, 22 of which are designated parking for faculty members. The EHS building lot holds 297 spaces, all designated for faculty and staff parking only. Yeagley said the new EHS lot has been, at most, threequarters full. That leaves about 75 of the 297 available parking spaces empty on any weekday.
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Yeagley said there have not been any formal complaints filed at the police department.
‘Ridiculously full’ Since the EHS Building lot’s opening two weeks ago, many students were issued tickets. Yeagley said the sign at the lot’s entrance was incorrect, stating students were eligible to park. The sign was changed Tuesday,
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Thursday crucial day for Michigan state budget By Edward Schutter Staff Reporter
Although Michigan budget cuts have yet to be finalized, lawmakers expect to meet the Thursday deadline for $1.2 billion in budget cuts. “All of the budgets are in various stages right now,” said Liz Boyd, spokeswoman for Gov. Jennifer Granholm. “No balanced budget plans have reached Gov. Granholm’s desk yet.” If the state does not finalize cuts, it must pass a continuation budget by the Thursday deadline, or it will experience a partial government shutdown. Boyd said the state is trying to avoid a shutdown at all costs. “Everyone is working right up to the budget deadline to get this done because we do not want a government shutdown,” she said. As of Tuesday evening, the Senate had adjourned and the House remained in talks to resolve issues.
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Traverse City freshman Aly Jarosz laughs as she smears ice cream toppings over the windshield of a Volkswagen Beetle with her bare hands for an ART 126 class project Monday afternoon outside Anspach Hall. The class covered an entire vehicle in ice cream toppings to turn it into a ice cream sundae.
Students douse Volkswagen Beetle with ice cream, toppings for extra credit By Eric Dresden Student Life Editor
Brittney Koenig, Seth Blackey and Ally Jarosz all ran up to Koenig’s Volkswagen Beetle and started licking the chocolate topping off it. While the scene seemed uncommon for those walking past, about 40 people surrounding the car Monday afternoon outside Anspach Hall, the
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group had already seen something like it in ART 126: Introduction to the Visual Arts. “It was a work by Allen Kaprow, called ‘18 Happenings in Six Parts,’ and one part had a Volkswagen with jam on it and people were licking it off,” said Ben Mepham, the group’s instructor and assistant professor of art. Mepham said he showed the picture in class and Koenig brought the idea to him about recre-
ating it. He said if the group did it, he would give each student extra credit. “(Mepham) said to do something different (than just putting jam on a car), so we turned it into a chocolate sundae,” said Koenig, a Highland freshman. Blackey, a New Hampshire freshman, said the A sundae | 2a
No need for backup? Michigan revenues are at their lowest in 45 years. The state expects to be short nearly $3 billion of its yearly budget for the next fiscal year. More than half will be covered by stimulus money, which leaves $1.2 billion to overcome. Some of the budget cuts may include aid to cities and townships, Medicaid and state help for the mentally ill. “We will not need backup plans because they are very confident that the deadline will be met,” said Abby Rubley, spokeswoman for House Speaker Andy Dillon, D-Redford. Political science instructor Alper Dede said he does not expect all the money to come from budget cuts. “A parallel policy is increasing taxes,” he said. “It’s not just budget cuts.” The state is expected to tax items such as bottled water and vending machine items. Granholm suggested cutting spending by more than $800 million, which would leave the rest of the deficit up to raising taxes. metro@cm-life.com
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Financial officer once a lieutenant colonel Burdette spent 28 years in the U.S. Army By Emily Pfund Staff Reporter
Editor’s note: This is the first story in an occasional series on senior officers about what they do or have done outside their work at Central Michigan University. If you do not know who David Burdette is, he probably does not mind. “We’re the behind-the-
scenes people,” said Central Michigan University’s vice president of Finances and Administrative Services. “If we’re doing our job right, no one needs to know. It’s when we’re not doing our job that you’ll hear about it.” Burdette oversees many departments in the university, including Residence Life, facilities management, budget and planning, financial services, office of student accounts, payroll, health services, general counsel, recreation and Special Olympics. “I watch other people run everything,” Burdette said. But there is something most
students might not know about Burdette. Before beginning his career in administration, Burdette served in the U.S. Army for 28 years, attaining the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, the thirdhighest rank. “I defended the coastal United States. I prepped for Vietnam, but never went,” he said. His first experience with violence was in Attica, N.Y., in 1971 at the Attica prison riot, which he said was “terrible.” His unit worked blizzard duty in Buffalo, N.Y., during the A burdette | 2a
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David Burdette, CMUS’s vice president of Finances and Administrative Services, speaks about his time at CMU Sept. 22 in the Finance and Administrative Office of Warriner Hall.
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