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Inside: Opinion Campus Life Concerts Sports Professionalism Classified Ads Crackdowns Legalizing Volume 22; Issue Number 8 Read M y Turn, page 4 Grand Valley State University j T H E L A N T Downtown Center Move Draws Mixed Reactions Let There be Light By Gina Fernandez Proposal was sponsored by Kelly Student Senate, Tim Hondorp. By Michael Newell pus, or in this case, campuses. News Writer J. Israels and ratified by the According to Hondorp, the Guest News Writer Ben Danenberg, a senior in the business school was sympathetic Student Senate on October 29th, illumination of the walkway 1987. Downtown may be where the to transportation problems whicii The lights have finally been from Parking Lot J to the Grand put up on the path. Last week This proposal was fun is but it’s not usually where the will undoubtedly surface with the Valley State University Water the contractor that the Physical recommended by the Student classes are. Many students, fac­ move. On a positive note, Danen­ Tower became necessary as more Plant hired finished the job that Senate to Physical Plant, "after ulty, and administrators are won­ berg said, “You’re closer to the students lived at the apartments was started before the semester some stories about attempted dering how much longer before business community and possible and the walkway was used more even began. assaults," explained Executive many core classes will be offered internships.” often - especially at night. The Pathway Lighting Assissant and Vice President of exclusively downtown at the L.V. Brian Sayers, a junior in the According to Physical Plant Eberhard Center. school of education approached Director, Terry Sack, "Public The Student Senate held a meet­ the situation with a good rationale Safety expressed some concern Eric Marks travels the newly lit path Photo/ Bob Cooley ing Thursday, October 13 and the “You might as well look at it as a over the amount of -usage by subject of certain classes and •career move and I don’t think students during the evening schools being moved to the down­ going downtown is unreasonable hours.” He also added, "If it’s town center was on the agenda. provided they are classes you take going to reduce the auto traffic, Social work, education and busi­ after you’ve been admitted to the then I’m all for it.” ness are the three schools under school of education.” Hondorp said, "The walkway consideration for the move with Candace Cowling, Student used to be lit but the lights the Seidman School of Business Senate President, is in no danger weren't maintained." emerging as the frontrunner. of being affected directly by the Jim Hamm from Physical The proposed move will tenta­ move but voiced her concern in Plant said the lights weren't the tively take effect beginning with the matter. “They have to be very right type of light and weren't the Fall Semester of 1989. The careful this doesn’t split-up this functioning. "But these (new chosen department would offer university. That’s what they’re lights) are higher fixtures," many upper level classes at the trying to avoid” Cowling is a explained Hamm, "and there are downtown center that would not senior studying French and psy­ .more of them. There are four, be duplicated on the mainp cam­ chology. total." pus in Allendale. TheExecutiveCommitteeofthe "Essentially we (Student The main reasoning of the move Senate, comprised of faculty and Senate) filed a petition for some is to occupy some of the vacant administrators, will meet on Fri­ lights with Terry Sack," stated space at the downtown center day, October 21, and the topic of Hondorp. "It got ratified and put during the day and alleviate some a split-campus is on the agenda the 'things-to-do list'." of the crunch in parking and according toCowling and Dean of That was in October the crowded classrooms that are Students, Bart Merkle. previous year. Physical Plant was hampering the main campus in Merkle put the whole thing in a to begin construction on the new Allendale. nutshell as he addressed the issue. lights during the summer of Problems immediately come to “There are many that are spread 1988. The work was performed mind when one thinks of more out either in one location or mul­ just ahead of the rains from than one campus for a single uni­ tiple sites that do it and do it very Hurricane Gilbert, although some versity. Among the problems effectively. Whether it is the best clean up still remains. brought out were transportation, thing for this university is what The money was allocated in the scheduling conflicts and where a we’re trying to figure out.” Only summer and a contractor was student should live to be within a time will tell. awarded the job in August, Sack reasonable distance to their cam- said. J "Crackdowns" Aren ft Common at U-M . M SIL Does Ottawa County Environment Lead To Student Partying? By Tim Syrek DeGrand. help step up enforcement at the people arrested last weekend were is distraught at the recent events. News writer While party crackdowns are not school. students. “It’s really unfair that students common at the larger universities, Ll Larry Beld of the Ottawa The Grand Valley Department cannot have any fun on weekends The recent crackdown on they are becoming rou tine at Grand County Sheriff Department feels of Public Safety is responsible for without a police escort,” said partying by Grand Valley students Valley. that officers are just following the patrolling the campus, while Coomer. is not the norm statewide, but the Over the last two weekends the law and issuing citations to those county deputies patrol off-cam­ Andy Bos. a freshman at Grand direct result of the college’s quiet Ottawa County Sheriff Department who break it. Beld added that the pus. The campus security officers Valley, added, “I feel other col­ and conservative Ottawa County has been trying to keep the campus landlords played an important pan could be called to aid county depu­ leges have just as many parties. neighborhood. and its neighborhood a peaceful in the additional patrols. ties, according to Grant Schliewe, Allendale is so ultra-conservative At the state’s two largest uni­ place. The addition of five police “For landlords liabli ty insurance an investigator with the campus that complaints will arise over versities, the University ofMichi- cruisers on weekend party patrols is like car insurance. For every safety department. whatever we do.” gan and Michigan State Univer­ is intended to keep partying in claim that is made for an accident “Our main responsibility is to Ottawa County Sheriff Robert sity, police issuing tickets to stu­ check. or property destruction the insur­ protect students and the campus Dykstra has pledged constant pa­ dents and looking to bust parties Those under21 and are found in ance rates go up. In the long run property,” said Schliewe. “We are trols to curb the parties at Grand aren’(common, according toCapt. possession of alcohol are given the landlords may be saving the official deputies to the Ottawa Valley, Richard DeGrandofthe Ann Arbor appearance citations and ordered students money in rent increases,” County Sheriff Department and The students feel that Grand Police Department. tostand before a judge in Hudson- said Beld. can be called in by a unit if needed." Valley is not being treated fairly in “Withtwostabbings.arape.and ville District Court, where they In Ann Arbor, fraternities and Beld said, “The Ann Arbor situ­ that other colleges have larger several muggings, issuing citations could receive fines up to $ 100,90 sororities have learned to police ation is different from that at Grand parties that go undisturbed. is not a priority for our staff,” said days in jail, and must pay court themselves. Valley in that the area is far more Coomer sarcastically added, “If DeGrand. costs. “They realize that if a minor is conservative and peaceful than we were to have an ice cream DeGrand said that students at Funds for the patrols came from injured or dies due to alcohol ob­ Ann Arbor and that is the reason social we would send out invita­ U-M and MSU are not searched various sources. The county tained at their party they are liable for Grand Valley problems. “ tions and set out extra plates for out to be issued court appearance commision approved $2,700 for to law suits and expulsion from Grand Valley's incidents have the police.” citations for underage drinking. the financing of the patrols along school,” said DeGrand. been well documented by the local According to DeGrand, of the “If we were to list every name with a similar amount pledged by Beld felt that local television media. Students aredisturbed that Ann Arbor Police Department, “I that could be given a citation the landlords. Allendale and Geor­ news coverage has done an injus­ a small population of the campus wish that just one weekend we list would be as long as the New getown townships each contrib­ tice to the school in not making is degrading the reputation of the would have the problems that York telephone directory,” added uted $ 1 ,400 for a total of $8,200 to clear that only six of the twenty school.