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Central Michigan University
| Wednesday, July 11, 2012
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Trustees to consider on budgets, CMED funding Thursday By Catey Traylor Senior Reporter
The operating and capital budgets for the upcoming academic year, a College of Medicine update and financial plans for the university are among the topics to be discussed at Thursday’s Board of Trustees meeting. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. with presenta-
tions from the Academic and Student Affairs Committee, CMED, the Finances and Facilities Committee and the Audit Committee. According to an email from the Board of Trustees, a resolution for Central Michigan University’s 2012-13 financial plan will be discussed. The spending plan allocates a total of $442 million, including $6.5 million
increased funding for highpriority academic programs, a $1.1 million general fund increase in financial aid and a $3 million increase in wages for faculty and staff. The release states the plan includes no financial cuts. The board will also discuss the possibility of allocating an additional $1.6 million for the planning and completion of the Campus Facilities
Master Plan, which includes features such as a space utilization study, facilities condition assessment, utilities assessment and a 10-year plan addressing CMU’s capital needs, according to the email. An $800,000 request will be made on behalf of CMED for the design phase of a building for the East Campus, located in Saginaw. A previous allo-
cation of $950,000 was made to aid in site selection, programming and design. Dean of the College of Medicine Ernest Yoder will give an update on fundraising efforts, including the naming of rooms within the college. A total of 18 rooms will be named, and the names recognize donors who have provided a total of $2.1 million in support of the college.
Rather than holding the traditional pre-meetings the day before the collective board meeting, the board attended a retreat as a group. Thursday’s meeting will be a meeting as a “committee of a whole,” meaning that each individual committee will come together as one to discuss each item.
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Football
Judge denies attempt to revoke bond for White Former CMU RB also charged with home invasion in Livonia Aaron McMann Editor-in-Chief
An attempt by prosecutors Monday to revoke bond for Austin White was denied, but an Isabella County judge says the former Central Michigan running back cannot leave the state. Appearing back in Isabella County Trial Court, 20-yearold White, with his mom and brother looking on, stood silent as chief assistant prosecutor Risa Scully tried to convince Judge William T. Ervin to revoke his bond. Scully cited the three-count felony White has been charged with, stemming from an April arrest in which police allege he was growing and selling hallucinogenic mushrooms in his Celani residence hall room. She also reiterated recent charges — home invasion, larceny — following his June 25 arrest in hometown Livonia. But, in a new development, it was revealed that Livonia police are also investigating White in relation to a November home invasion. Chalk said the alleged home invasion took place sometime on Nov. 26 or 27 and was reported on Nov. 30. White has not been charged in the case, but Chalk said a report has been submitted to the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office. “I guess I’m not sure why his bond hasn’t been revoked earlier,” Scully said. Scully called Livonia police detective Tim Chalk to the stand, who said a neighbor took a photo of White leaving the Livonia home in which he is alleged to have entered June 14 and stole the prescription drug Adderall.
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SCHEMATIC DESIGNS/SHWGROUP
Building Dreams Early plans for new Bioscience Building include four floors, 220-seat auditorium, space for 40 faculty members
First Floor
By Aaron McMann | Editor-in-Chief
A recent increase in funding through academic prioritization could have allowed Ian Davison to hire four new faculty members. His problem? He has nowhere to put them.
The dean of the College of Science & Technology said Brooks Hall, the current home of the sciences, is packed beyond 100-percent capacity. The number of undergraduate biology majors has tripled in the last decade, while the number of graduate students studying biology has increased by 25 percent. “When Brooks was built, I’m sure they designed it to meet the needs at the time,” said Davison, also a professor of biology. “Clearly, as time goes on, that is no longer adequate.” Space might no longer become an issue with the $95 million Bioscience Building proposed for the current site of the Washington Apartments. In a recent sit-down interview with Central Michigan Life, Davison shared tentative plans for the building,
dubbed the largest investment in an academic building in university history. CMU recently secured $30 million from the state of Michigan to help fund the project; the rest must be made up through fundraising efforts and university reserves. While not complete, a schematic design prepared by SHW Group, the same architecture company that built the Education and Human Services Building on campus, illustrates a fourstory, 157,000-square foot facility. The entrance to the building will be found on the south side, highlighted by a glass atrium visible from the outside, similar in look to the renovated Events Center. The amount of glass on the outside might change as plans evolve, Davison said.
Inside, plans include a 5,000-square feet, 220-seat auditorium on the east side of the building. Three teaching classrooms – one larger (holding up to 50 students) and two smaller ones (each holding 30 students) – and more than 2,500 square feet of open areas for students to study dot the south end of the building. “We know from students and observations that the places where students can sit and talk are very popular,” Davison said. “The building will have a lot of that.” First-floor plans call for a 1,000-square foot herbarium, which will house rodents and other animals for testing, and several environmental chambers and animal holding rooms. ABIOSCIENCES | 2
Mount Pleasant adopts anti-discrimination law By Phil Pomber Staff Reporter
Charlotte Bodak/staff photographer
Mount Pleasant sophomore Marie Reimers and former SGA president Vincent Cavataio clap as the City Commission of Mount Pleasant adpots the ordinance on Human Rights during the City Commission meeting at City Hall Monday evening.
Resounding applause filled the hall as a new human rights ordinance was unanimously approved at the Mount Pleasant City Commission meeting Monday night. Under the new ordinance, traits including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sex, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, family status, sexual orientation and
gender identity are covered to prevent discrimination in the employment, housing and public accommodation of individuals. Gaining the most attention were sexual orientation and gender identity, which are not covered under state or national anti-discrimination laws. The ordinance was subject to considerable deliberation as it was rewritten over a number of lengthy meetings since its initial proposal by a citizen group
backed by the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Central Michigan last November. “I want to thank everyone who came forward to speak,” Commissioner Sharon Tilmann said. “It made our meetings very, very long, but I think it exemplifies democracy at its best.” Much of the debate surrounding the ordinance during its development was regarding the proper enforcement without interfering with
religious freedom. “(The ordinance) has a way of indicating to the public at large, the people that move here, the students who come here, that we are a welcoming community,” Mayor Bruce Kilmer said. “At the same time, it’s indicative that we do not want to infringe on the religious rights of some that may not agree with everything.” A LAW| 2
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