Suspect Seized in Hospital Towards Student
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Monday The man ... Partly cloudy... who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than . and warmer with a he who distrusts them. MICHIGAN chance of thundershowers. —Cavour STATE High 93. UNIVERSITY East Lansing, Michigan July 18, 1966 10c Vol. 59, Number 19 CITY DRAINS DUMPING SEWAGE INTO RED CEDAR RIVER By ROBE R T A Y AF IE of those in the older part of the city system, carrying both water he added. "We will be working on a clean-up project this summer." State News Staff Writer and waste. Exclusive - The State News The sewer follows the river bank, staying on the north side and Two steel doors, opening onto the river, come out of a cement crossing over at the Women's IM to Jenison Field House. There it Raw sewage, including human wastes, is being dumped into the vault, partially surrounded by guard rails, on a raised area at the crosses back and down to Harrison Road and the sewage treatment Red Cedar River by the City of" East Lansing. rear of the building's parking lot. ,plant. They are along the inceptor, which runs to the sewage treatment The city's sewer system is contaminating the river through two plant and are a provision for storm weather flow. The raw wastes being dumped, however, are untreated. Bruce storm vaults, about one-half mile upstream from campus, behind The flap gates are designed to release overflow resulting from said that there are no treatment facilities available in times of overflow storm conditions. Water's Edge Apartments. heavy rainfall. When such conditions exist, pressure automatic .lly He said that there is another storm gate at Harrison Road by The river's flow carries the sewage downstream through MSU's opens the gates and the water flows into the river. Stitt said that three weeks ago, on a perfectly clear day with no Old College Field, near the putting green. campus. previous heavy rains, the sewer had been dumping "at full force." On the other side of Grand River Avenue, the 6-6 sewer is con- Michael Stitt, manager of Water's Edge and River's Edge, says The flap gate was open about three to four inches Wednesday, nected up to Burcham Drive, near the high school, bringing storm Through These Doors .. that the problem has existed for two years'. July 13, following Tuesday's heavy rains, dumping first water and water from that area to the river. It extends no farther west than "The state came out twice to look at it," he said. "The second then raw human wastes into the Red Cedar. Charles Street, picking up east as far as Gunson, between Kedzie, time, they brought the city engineer. This was last spring. The Too much sewage for the capacity of the diversion chambers or Orchard and Burcham. Raw sewage enters the Red Cedar River through trouble stopped for about a month, and has been going on and off improper functioning of the sewer downstream could be responsi- The sewers become smaller in diameter as they go away from these vault doors. They are located beh ind the Rivers since then." ble for such a back-up, Robert M. Bruce, the city engineer, said. the river. All the lines from the houses in the older part of the city Edge Apartments east of campus. Involved in the dumping are two city sewers, one 42 inches and the "There is a strong possibility that the sewer needs cleaning,' are connected with them. Photo by Tony Ferrante other six feet, six inches. Both are combination sewers, as are all SAID KILLER OF NURSES MSl's Attitude Suspect Seized In Hospital Towards Student CHICAGO (UPI)—Richard Speck, the "born to-raise hell" loner man, drifter and ex-convict from Dallas. Rights Improves wanted for the slaughter of eight young student nurses, was captured Sunday ,in a skid row flophouse where he had tried to kill himself Wilson said latent fingerprints found on a bedroom door had with a gash from a broken wine bottle. In announcing the withdrawal of Paul M. Schiff's suit against the marked Speck as the soft-spoken The sole survivor of the massacre was expected to be brought to University, the American Civil Liberties Union declared Friday that butcher who slipped into a town- Speck's bedside in the county jail infirmary for a face-to-face con- the University's attitude towards student rights has shown great house apartment on Chicago's frontation with the man accused of one of the worst mass slayings improvement in recent months. far south side Thursday morning "Since the filing of the suit in September, the MSU administra- in modern history. and killed eight of the nine nurses tion has come to recognize the rights of its students to associate See Related Stories Page 6 who lived there. for political purposes without first obtaining the University's ap- The meeting was at first expected to take place late bund. y. But One nurse, 23-year-old Cora- proval, to freely criticize University and city officials and poli- speculation arose later thai it might be postponed until tuuay. in zon Amurao of the Philippines, cies, and to protect those rights by legal action when necessary," any event, it was likely to be secret. escaped death by rolling under said George L. Griffiths, Lansing ACLU chairman. a bed while the killer was busy Chicago's top police officials handled Speck with kid gloves. Griffiths said he believed that the Schiff case helped to show slaying her friends, one by one. They didn't want to run the risk of damaging their case through the need for a recodification of the university's rules concerning any possible violation of the Supreme Court's new, strict rules Wilson said she had identified student conduct, so that the rules will be clear to students and to guarding the rights of accused men. Speck's picture. those who enforce them. Doctors said Speck's tough, Michael Spiotto, deputy chief of detectives, said-no policemen He commended the six-month study conducted by the Faculty will talk to their prime suspect about the killings. "He will be fully tattooed body had shaken off the Committee on Student Affairs in this area. Recommendations of advised of his rights," Spiotto said. RICHARD SPECK shock of his attempt to kill him- self by slashing a vein in his this committee are now being considered by the Academic Council's Police thought they had just another West Madison Street drifter UPI Telephoto steering committee. in custody until a young doctor at Cook County Hospital washed left arm with a piece from a ' broken wine bottle. He was able Schiff, who entered MSU in 1963 as a graduate student, did not away the blood on Speck's left arm and saw the incriminating tattoo: Scarcely eight hours earlier, attend MSU spring term 1965. During this period he edited Logos, "Born to raise hell." Chicago Police Supt. O.W. Wil- to talk and drink a glass of milk, doctors said. But he "shrugged a newspaper published by the Committee for Student Rights (CSR). It marked the rangy young man on his operating table as the most son had launched a nationwide Expeditionist Embarks Schiff became involved in a running battle with University adminis- wanted man in the country—the man charged with "the crime of the search for the 24-year-old sea- off" any questions about the slay- ings. trators and city officials concerning issues varying from on-campus centurv." Pathfinder Don Sockol is seen in the parting moments distribution of literature to racial discrimination in East Lansing. Speck apparently had wandered with his wife, Dawn, before leaving for a 10-day His application for readmission summer term was turned down. about Chicago—dodging from one trek across campus. Sockol plans on being-the first He was almost admitted fall term, but his application for readmis- shabby hotel to another, dosing person to cross the University campus on foot. sion was denied again, soon after he filed a suit against the Uni- himself on cheap wine, and elud- Photo by John Castle versity concerning his summer term readmission. Born To Raise Hell' Tattoo ing police trackers by a matter Oct. 10, 1965, a three-judge panel in a Grand Rapids federal of minutes—since police first court ruled that Schiff should not have been barred without a hear- started on his trail at a national ing. In November, a faculty committee, after an eight-hour hearing, maritime union hiring hall down All Systems Go ruled that Schiff had by his conduct discredited the University and Reveals Speck To Doctor the street from the murder house violated school rules in leading an unchartered student organiza- Thursday. Smith related at a news confer- tion and in distributing Logos in student dormitories. CHICAGO UP!—"I moistened my Smith, a resident surgeon at All indications were that Speck ence. "1 picked up his head and Schiff returned to court in December, seeking an injunction finger tips and rubbed. I saw a Cook County Hospital, related decided to kill himself when he looked at the nurse to see if she For Campusnaut against the University, which would force University officials to B. I rubbed some more and saw that the patient was brought in saw his picture on the front page had noticed. I said to her, 'get cease interfering with his readmission to MSU, and which would B-O-R-N." by police at 12:30 a.m. under the of every Chicago newspaper, read the paper.' erase all mention of the dismissal from his record.