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FOCUS EMU Produced by the Officeof Public Information Summer construction includes more parking By Kirk Carman the move to continue into June, when the old Physical While construction on campus Plant building will be demol this summer will include the ished. standard patching of potholes and Construction of the new 27,000 repairing of air conditioners, plans square-foot building, which is also call for the additiortof 300 approximately more parking spaces. the size of The 300 new spaces will be part its predeces �ON� of new paved parking lots to be sor. began added on to the east and west sides in September NTE of the main campus parking 1994 and has � � structure. located on West Circle remained Drive. within budget and on time. Construction plans also will Smart said the building's include repair work at the intersec location is ideal and was chosen tion of Oakwood and Washtenaw, ''because plant activities exist including the reprogramming of the primarily to support instruction. signal light. Physical Plant Director Moving the Physical Plant away Bill Smart said that any inconve from central campus will provide nience as a result of the intersection room for the academic core. repairs will be "minimum." including the new library, to Smart also said that while expand and develop." Like Father, Like Daughter- Dennis Paul, EMU plumber, supervises his 15-year-old daughter, April, Physical Plant staff have already Construction of the new as she grinds pipes on "Take Your Daughter To Work Day" (April 27). Recognized across the nation moved into the new Physical Plant library should begin shortly after as a special day for young women (ages 9 to 15), the event was organized after research found that building, located off of Ann Street girls face particular risks during adolescence, causing their self-esteem to drop dramatically during See Construction, page 4 these formative years. and Huron River Drive, he expects LcAMPUS CAPSULES,________ ____.) Board of AmeriCorps Currently 'Get Fit' This Spring Three EMU Design Lectures Explore Regents Accepting Applications At The Rec/lM Students Win Honors Dinosaurs And Gangs The AmeriCorps Program is Payroll deductions can now be The followingthree EMU EMU's spring Foodfor Thought to meet accepting applications for full- and accepted as payment for the Rec/ interior design students won top lecture/discussion series currently is part-time positions in the fall. IM's Total Fitness 1995 Spring honors in the three state design underway. Applications may be picked up Aerobics and Fitness Classes. competitions: The series will continue for the on May23 in the Office of Campus Life in 11 The classes, which meet at a Jill Van Dyken, who won first next four consecutive Tuesdays TheBoard of Regents will McKenny Union. The deadline to variety of different days and times, place in the American Society of from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at EMU's meelTuesday, May 23, with apply is Wednesday, May 17. include step aerobics, hi/low Interior Design Senior Design Depot Town Center, at 32 E. Cross the following meetings For more information, contact combo, low impact, hatha yoga, Competition. St., with the following presentations: scheduled; (Please note the the AmeriCorps Program in aqua step, aqua aerobics, and body Jennifer Doran, who won first • "Gangs and Juvenile Delin �ew time schedule} Campus Life at 7-3045. sculpting. place in the ASID Junior Portfolio quency" by Dr. Joseph Rankin, For more information, call Competition. EMU professor of sociology, � Student A!fairt Basketball Camps Kristi Jacobs at 7-1338. JenniferFranke, who won first May 9. CommiJJeeMeeting- For Boys Available Spring Tuition Waiver place in the Ghiordies' Knot rug • "The State of Homelessness in 8:00a.m. Two basketball camps for boys competition. Michigan" by Dr. Richard Douglass, 205 Welch Halt Deadline Is May 12 EMU students competedagainst director of EMU's health adminis (ages eight to 18) will be held The last day for staff, faculty Sunday through Thursday, July 3, students from several schools, tration program, May 16. � FacultyA/fail$ and spouse/dependent tuition including Michigan State Univer • "Pretrial Publicity and Its CommideeMeetin through Aug. 3, and Aug. 6-10. waiver application submission for g The camps will feature games, sity, Kendal School of Design, Impact on Low-Profile and High i:ooa.m. Spring 1995 is Friday, May 12. Adrian College, Western Michigan Profile Cases: From John Doe to 201 Welch Halt contests, stations and instructions. Tuition waiver applications are The camps will be held in University and Wayne State OJ. Simpson" by Dr. Gregg Barak, available in the Benefits Office University. head of the Department of Sociol � £dutfl1JionalP()lides Bowen Field House with day and (301 King Hall). overnight camps available. All prizes were announced at ogy, Anthropology and Criminol Committee Meeting For more information, call GMAT/GRE/LSAT the April 7 Career Day for Interior ogy, May 23. 9:30un. Brian Miller at 7-0464. Workshops Available Design Students, sponsored by • "Dinosaurs: Extinct Myths and 205 WelchHall the Michigan Design Center and Radical New Theories" by Dr. Dave EMU's Lifespan Learningwill ASID. Thomas, head of Washtenaw FinanuCommittu HPER&D Celebration offertest preparation workshops Is On May 13 Washtenaw United Way Community College's Geology Medi1ig for the GMAT, ORE and the Department and EMU instructor, EMU's HPER&D Department 10:30a.M. LSAT this fall, for students Helps Oklahoma City June 6. will celebrate its I OOth birthday 201WekhHaU: planning to enter graduate school. Washtenaw United Way is Food for Thought presentations Saturday, May 13, with a "Coming The workshops are designed to joining in the relief effort underway have a fee of $8 per person, with Home" celebration. + Regu/arBQllfdMeedli� assist students in preparing forthe in Oklahoma City, Okla., devas discounts provided for those The celebration begins with noon graduate entrance tests. The tated recently by a deadly bomb registering in pairs. registration at 3 p.m. in the Warner 201 WelchHall training focuses on the essential blast. For more information, call 7- Building and a tour of the Olds -t ".;' aspects of effective test-taking, Washtenaw United Way will 0407 or 7-6815. m Robb Students Recreation/ reviewing logical and analytical contribute $10,000to the United ··· � RMesif(d Luttth 12:30p.m. Intramural Complex. Participants reasoning and enhancing confi Way of Metro Oklahoma City Discounted Cell Phone then will gather at the Hoyt dence. Disaster Relief Fund. The fund has Program Available -I RtcttlllleneRega/Qr Jr Conference Center dining area for The workshop will meet on been established to help provide Ameritech Cellular is offering a BottnlMeeting a social hour from 4 to 6 p.m. with a variety of days at different assistance to the injured and to the discounted cellular phone program dinner following. times. familiesof those killed in the to EMU employees. l:30p.m. A slide presentation, alumni The cost of a workshop is bombing. WUW's contribution to Ameritech will be in the recognition and a periodfor guests E· A spec.iatm,eettng'ls $249, which includes all class the fund comes from interest McKenny Union Tower Room scheduled to freely reminisce about their time room and study materials. income generated by the Tuesday, May 9, from 8:30 a.m. to for Tuesday, in the department will conclude the For specific dates and times or Washtenaw United Way 12:30 p.m., and Wednesday, May June rt� at 8 a.m. • 201 evening. more information, calJ EMU's Humancare Endowment Fund. I 0, from I to 4:30 p.m. WelchHalt, which.t canulls For more information, call Continuing Education/Lifespan To make a contribution, contact For more information, call �July ZS�meeting. Claudia Wasik at 7-0090. Learning at 7-0407. the WUW's Info-Lineat 971-9191. Sherry Bittles at 7-6936. 2 Tuesday, May 9, 1995 FOCUS EMU EMU's Jay Weinstein believes citizen Ypsilanti Chamber militia groups follow fascist pattern honors Fountain By Kathy Hulik the armed services. As soldiers, they learned how imper EMU broadcaster and former sonal government can be. They also learned that the EMU Vice President for Groups like the Michigan Militia, the so-called "hate government always is making mistakes- "not letting the University Relations John C. groups," are specifically fascist in their philosophy, their Army do its thing," "issuing stupid orders," "promoting the Fountain was awarded the 1995 goals, and the means by which they expect to achieve these wrong people." For them, the military was a formative Distinguished Service A ward goals, according to an EMU professor. experience where they learned to react negatively and by the Ypsilanti Area Chamber Dr. Jay Weinstein, professor of sociology, said these characterize the government as something not on their side. of Commerce at its annual groups are the current version of a fairly old type of "They also are helped by the comments of legitimate dinner last week. movement, born during and just after World War I, which authorities who, just as in the '20s, constantly criticize the Fountain, the longtime voice was both anti-democratic and anti-communist. ''The fascists government,"he said. "They hear Rep. Gringrich and Sen. of EMU football and basketball, were autocratic, armed, determined to seize the state by Dole say people don't want government, they are tired of worked at EMU from 1966 force of arms, and now they are in Dexter, Michigan," government, government is against the people, give the until his retirement in 1986. Weinstein said. country back to the people. While here, he served as sports Like movements in the earlier period of this century, "The men in the militia say, 'Yes, it's thegovernment.' information director, director Weinstein said today's groups are being fueled by the Then they bomb governmentbuildings.