The Michigan Daily - Sunday, August 12, 1984 - Page 5 WMU investigates ceiling collapse An investigation is under way at Western Michigan University to deter- mine the cause of a ceiling collapse in a rehearsal room in the university's Dalton Center. Dalton Center, Western's newest facility; opened as the new home of the university's music school in the sum- mer of 1982. Although preliminary reports pointed to the building's sprinkler system as the cause of the collapse, officials are still COLLEGES unsure why it happened. Bill Bagin, of the Grand Rapids con- tracting firm that headed Dalton Cen- ter's construction, has examined the collapsed room twice and can offer no explanation. "It's still just too early to tell," Begin said. "That was a pretty complex ceiling in that room and right now we're in limbo, like everyone else, on the issue." The room, which was designed to be acoustically acceptable for music rehearsals, is the rargest rehearsal area in the building and one of the most frequently used. It is estimated that 450 music students at WMU will be affected by the collapse if the room cannot be reopened in the fall. -- The Western Herald 6 face bribery charges at N.M..college Charges of bribery, embezzlement, and fraud will again be filed against six past and present officials of Northern New Mexico Community College. Those charged include former president Frand Serrano. The charges were originally filed in May but were subsequently dropped because of technical errors in presen- ting the evidence to a grand jury. However, since the charges were dropped without prejudice to either party, they can be refiled. District Attorney for Rio Arriba County Eloy Martinez said all six university officials will be charged again. - The Chronicle of Higher Education Animal rights group disrups research at Penn. An animal rights group has disrupted research at the University of Pen- nsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine by freeing animals used in several experiments. Two dogs, three cats, and eight pigeons were taken by the Animal Liberation Front, a national organization that has opposed the use of animals in university experiments. A university spokesman said a dog was stolen by the same group earlier in the week. Most of the animals were being used for research that would animals as well as humans, the university said. That research included ex- periments on inner-ear disorders in dogs, bone fractures in bird wings, and breathing disorders that affect cats and humans. Campus security and Philadelphia police are conducting an investigation into the thefts. - The Chronicle of Higher Education Calif. court rules that interns are students The California Court of Appeal has ruled that medical interns and residen- ts at the hospitals on University of California campuses are students and therefore do not have the right to engage in collective bargaining. The ruling overturned a previous decision by the California Public Em- ployment Relations Board last year, which held that the interns and residen- ts provide services of "primary benefit" to patients and that the educational benefits obtained were "in- cidental and subordinate." The board said the interns and residents are covered by California's Higher Education Employment Act and could form an employees' union. However, the appeals court ruled that while the interns and residents are paid between $15,000 and $22,000 a year, their salaries bear little resemblance to medical fees currently charged for their services and do not indicate a valid employer-employee relationship. -The Chronicle of Higher Education Animal rights group vandalizes U. of Toronto The Animal Liberation Front, an animal rights group, has taken the credit for the theft of 21 rats from a psychology laboratory at the University of Toronto. The group also cut several power lines and spray-painted slogans on the laboratory walls. The university estimated the damage as between $500 and $800. Following the incident, the group distributed a press release stating that they had caused "thousands of dollars" in damage at the university. John Yeomans, a professor of psychology at Toronto, said that the group's action representated "nuisance 'vandalism rather than serious damage." - The Chronicle of Higher Education Compiled by Daily staff writer Pete Williams. Military journalism school boasts INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - When Walter Mondale was a lowly private, the Army sent him to school to learn to write news stories and take pictures. Actor Tony Dow later went to the same school, but, like Mondale, he found success in front of the cameras, not behind them. MONDALE, WHO hopes to be in the White House in January, and Dow, the older brother on the old "Leave it to Beaver" television series, are among thousands who have graduated from the military's journalism school. Today the school - now named the Defense Information School - annually teaches about 2,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen, Coast Guardsmen, and Marines how to inform their military comrades and the public about activities of the armed services. "In the skill area, we're as close to one journalism school as another," says Army Col. Gary Werner, w commandant of the school at Fort Benjamin Harrison. "We've always had a very high expectations for our students." OFFICERS, enlisted personnel, and civilians are trained in such areas as writing a news story, operating a radio or television studio, dealing with the news media, laying out a newspaper, or taking a photograph. They then carry these skills back to their base or post of assignment, where they might work for one at about 630 military newspapers or some 920 Armed Forces Radio and Television outlets around the world. The training also might serve them in writing news releases in public affairs offices or as liasion officers between the civilian press and the military. Among the graduates who have gone on to successful journalism careers outside the military are Paul Page, chief announcer for the Indianapolis 500 radio network; I.W. (Bill) Cole, dean emeritus of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and director of its Gannett Urban Journalism Center, and Gene Siskel, movie critic for the Chicago Tribune and co-host of the syndicated television program "At The Movies." "I owe my career to it," said Siskel, 38, who graduated from the military school in 1968. "It was my first exposure to journalism. Based on my 10 weeks there, I decided to go into journalism." Siskel, who won a gold watch for finishing first in his class, noted, "The watch doesn't work anymore but the training still does." Dow, 39, is best remembered' by television nostalgia buffs for his role as Wally Cleaver, older brother of Jerry Mathers in the "Leave It To Beaver" television series, which ended in 1963 after six seasons. He attended the school as a member of the California National Guard in 1967. "I thought the school was sensational," he said ina telephone interview from California, where he and other members of the original cast will begin production in August on a revival of the series for the Disney Channel. "I got a lot of my photo training there." notable ahmni The armed forces began their own training program for military journalists shortly after World War II. Before then, they drew many of their public affairs officers from the civilian press. The first military public affairs school was formed in 1946 as the Army Information School at Carlisle Barracks, Pa. It evolved into the Armed Forces Information School at Fort Slocum, N.Y., in the early 1960s, when Mondale took the course. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara issued a charter establishing the present school in 1964 and the school moved to Fort Harrison a year later. School officials are proud of the letter they received from Mondale in 1979, when, as vice president of the United States and a former graduate, he wrote to laud the school's accreditation by the North Central Board of the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education. On the school's Board of Visitors, which provides advice on curriculum, are journalism professors and key figures from the news industry, such as Richard Leonard, editor and senior vice president of the Milwaukee Journal and chairman of the International Press Institute. Leonard said the school "teaches people in the armed forces to communicate, and that's very important internally and externally. "I was skeptical when I got on the board. I thought it would be another Army by-the-numbers operation, but on my first visit I could tell it was something special." Police negotiator talks woman out of suicide (Continued from Page 3) "He saved a woman's life," Police Chief William Corbett said of Vander- pool. To coax the woman away from the edge of the parking structure, Cor- bett said Vanderpool talked about a number of topics until he found "something that turns the key" and got the woman to respond. WHILE VANDERPOOL talked to the woman for 45 minutes, firefighters, police, and an ambulance crew stood below with the woman's daughter. The black-haired, heavy-set woman "seemed emotionless, really depressed," Wallace said. "It seemed like if I got too close she would jump." At one point during the tense negotiations, the woman leaned for- ward as if to jump. Shortlyafterward; at 3:30 p.m., Vanderpool was able to Although police were called around 2 reach the woman and help her climb off p.m., Corbett said the woman had been the rail to safety. perched on the parking structure since sometime Friday morning. The woman was taken to the He said this incident was the "second Psychiatric Emergency Services unit contact we've had in two days" with the at University Hospitals, where she was woman. He would not discuss the admitted late Friday. No update on her previous incident except to say it was condition was available yesterday. . ,lis serious.