The Michigan Daily-Friday, October 12, 1979-Page 3 Student groups begin vote drive By JOHN GOYER In an effort to get more students in- volved in the upcoming City Council and Regents elections, a campus-wide voter registration drive sponsored by three student groups will begin Mon- day. Sponsors of the voter drive include the Public Interest Research Group in Michigan (PIRGIM) and the Michigan Student Assembly (MSA). A THIRD GROUP - Students for a Progressive Government - organized recently and is composed mostly of student Democratic Party workers. Group members will go door-to-door registering student voters in the residential sections of the heavily student populated First and Second Wards. Members of all three groups swore in yesterday as deputy voter registrars at the City Clerk's office in City Hall. Each group has different reasons for launching the registration drive. STUDENTS FOR a Progressive Government hope to have teams out surveying voter attitudes, followed by deputy registrars aiming at securing the Democratic vote, according to Stasi Stephanopoulos, a founder of the group atnd a Democratic Party regular. Beginning Monday, Students for a Progressive Government will also register voters twice a week in the Fishbowl between Mason Hall and Haven Hall, she added. Stephanopoulos, who was a prime mover in bringing the three groups together, said the Students for a Progressive Government hope their registration campaign will result in a higher student turnout in the City Coun- cil elections next April. Five out of 11 Council members will be up for re- election. PIRGIM SPQKESMAN Dave DeVar- ti said his organization plans to set up tables at dorm meal lines and go door- to-door at fraternities and sororities to register students. - DeVarti noted that PIRGIM, which is composed mostly of students but is led by a small professional staff, supports issues, not candidates. He explained that his group sees a need to push students to vote on upcoming ballot proposals. "We just like to get people to par- ticipate, like when "Proposition D' came along, there was a massive effort to get people organized," DeVarti said. JACK HALL, an MSA member in- volved in the registration drive, said MSA had no specific plans to give funds to support the drive. Hall said the groups' student registration drive is aimed at the 1980 Regents election. He said he.hopes the students will elect a Regent sym- pathetic to student concerns. Two Regents will be elected by voters statewide for terms of eight years. Regental elections normally do not at- tract many . voters in non-University areas. Robert Bring, chairman of the city's Republican Party, said yesterday the GOP had no plans yet to register voters. His party has normally avoided heavy campaigning on campus. "IF PEOPLE have an inclination to vote, I think it is incumbent upon them to involve themselves," Bring said. But he added that voter registration will be discussed at a meeting of the Ann Arbor Republican Party next week. "I think we have to take a look at it, because we are aware the Democrats are out doing door-to-door registration," Bring said. Ann Arbor City Clerk Albert Vollbrecht said voter registration drives create paperwork for his office. "We don't mind going through it," he said, "if they exercise their right to vote." But Vollbrecht said students often register and then don't show up at polls. 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If you're a senior of high academic standing and looking for an above average career, contact your Placement Office for an interview with our representative. We will visit your campus on: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6 Daily Photo by DAVID HARRIS DEPUTY VOTER registrars are sworn in at the City Clerk's office yesterday as a student-sponsored voter registration drive is organized. FILMS Alternate Action-A Streetcar Named Desire, 7,9:30 p.m., MLB, Aud. 4. Cinema ll-Death In Venice, 7 p.m., Open City, 9:15 p.m., Aud. A, Angell Hall. Center For Western European Studies-The Medici, Parts 2 and 3, 3 p.m., MLB Aud. 3. Couzens Film Co-op-Logan's Run, 8, 10:30 p.m., Couzens Hall Cafeteria. Gargoyle Films-Deliverance, 7,9 p.m., 100 Hutchins Hall, Law School. Mediatrics-Superchick, 8:30,10 p.m., Nat. Sci. Aud. 7. PERFORMANCES Department of Dance-Video and Dance, Doris Chase and Gay Delanghe, Dance Building, Studio A, 8 p.m. Youth Good Will of the Republic of China-Chinese Flower Drum Dancing, Folk Songs, Drama, 8 p.m., Lydia Mendelssohn Theater, Michigan League. Canterbury Loft- "Pardon Me Your Honor," Poetry Reading by Robert E. Clifford, 8p.m., 332 S. State St., second floor. University Musical Society-Detroit Symphony Orchestra conducted by Antol Dorati, 8:30p.m., Hill Auditorium. SPEAKERS Beardsley Symposium on Japanese Archaeology and Prehistory-Hitoshi Watanabe, Prof., Univ. of Tokyo, "Subsistance, Seasonality and Community Organization," 9:30 a.m., East Lecture Room, 3rd Floor, Rackham. Guild House-Representative Perry Bullard, "South Africa, the Draft and Students," noon, Guild House. Beardsley Symposium on Japanese Archaeology and Prehistory-Kiyotari Tsuboi, "Cultural Resources and Their Management: The Heritage of Japan," 1:30 p,.m., 'East Lecture Room, 3rd Floor, Rackham. 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"We were afraid it (the food) wouldn't sell because it wasn't fresh," Foy said. But she added, "People supported us and bought it." Foy said the co-op's financial problems stemmed from a lack of money to purchase inventory and a number of unpaid bills. Foyadded that customer dishonesty ,became a problem, too. "People were actually ripping us off," she said. "They were taking food or telling us wrong prices. Out of our 30 per cent mark-up, we were only seeing a five per cent profit." Foy also said customers sometimes made mistakes in their calculations when they weighed purchases. TO SOLVE THE problem of customer error and dishonesty, Foy said the co- op's workers have rearranged the store, enabling cashiers to weigh any purchases. "We're seeing a difference already," Foy said. "We're making a profit. We got enough money together to go to market." In addition to customer purchases, Foy said the co-op also requested donations. 'WE'VE RECEIVED $100 in donations since this started happening (a week ago)," Foy said. The co-op workers had applied for a loan from the Michigan Federation of Food Co-ops to help them through the crisis, but as yet they have not received any funds. "The loan wouldn't go through until the end of the month," Foy explained. The two-and-a-half-year-old store is staffed primarily by volunteers. In ad- diton, the co-op has one salaried coor- dinator, who is paid through a grant frokm the Comprehensive Employment Training Act (CETA). FOY, WHOSE last day at the co-op was yesterday, said the new coor- dinator, Stephen Brown, had been em- ployed at the co-op by CETA for about three months. Until April, Foy said, the fresh fruit and vegetable store had been staffed solely by volunteers. Foy said she was unsure how long the co-op would be able to stay on its feet. "It depends if we're getting the loan (from the Michian Federation of Food Co-ops)," Foy said. "We have a lot of bills to pay." 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