FACULTY SALARIES See editorial page y 43UU Ninety Years of Editorial Freedom tttl UNBELIEVABLE See Today for details Vol. LXXXX, No. 37 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, October 18, 1979 Ten Cents Ten Pages Middle Kingdom dweliers hold court By GREG GALLOPOULOS It is a recent evening in the Middle Kingdom, Barony of Northwoods, as r.,, ra i " the Shire of Dearne Ansilet and two knights prepare for upcoming tour-sby, naments. They raise weapons in combat and the clang of sword against shield rings through the night air. LATER, IN the Kingdom most call ' the Midwest, in the Barony commonly known as Michigan, in the Shire that's ' r Ann Arbor, the pair will put away ar- mor and rattan swords to practice the fine and courtly arts - manuscript illumination, music, dance. J".r But for the moment, they parry and thrust with delight behind the Graduate Library, caught up in a typical meetingy of the Ann Arbor chapter of the Societyy for Creative Anachronisms (SCAq pronounced skah), in which authen- ticity is sacred. SCA has about 15,000 members W14111 nationwide, and is divided geographically into five kingdoms. Doiy Photo by MAUREEN O'MALEY Michigan is in the Middle Kingdom, MEMBERS OF THE Society of Creative Anachronisms (SCA) recreate medieval customs and hold mock battles on Massachusetts is in the East Kingdom, campus. Their diverse membership of about 15,000 includes students, professors, housewives and writers from all over See MEDIEVAIU, Page 2 the country. MO THER TERESA'S A WARD TO AID INDIA'S POOR: Black English class starts for teachers By MARIANNE EGRI King Elementary School teachers and professional staff receiving their first lesson yesterday in the Black English training program,-learned that one person's "couch" is another per- son's ."davenport." And they learned that while one individual may be "flat broke' another, is "financially em- ba'rassed." Yesterday's workshop was the first of five training sessions designed to im- prove the understanding of Black English. THE $3,915 training program is sup- posed to sensitize teachers to those students who have Black English backgrounds in order to assist them in reading standard English, said Superintendent of Ann Arbor Public Schools Harry Howard.. The plan resulted from the Black English suit filed on behalf of 11 children from the Green Public Housing Project on the east side of Ann Arbor. Federal District Court Judge Charles Joiner ruled last June that there is a language barrier for speakers of Black English, TIS BARRIER arises when teachers lack information about the Black English dialect that impaiirs the reading ability of black children from low-income families. Joiner ordered the school district to come up with a plan to help King School teachers recognize and understand the problems faced by students who speak Black English. ACCORDING TO Howard there will be no change.in classroom instruction or materials. "I think the changes will be much more gradual, and they are not measurable like a lot of people would like them to be," he said. - King School will have to report back to Judge Joiner in June and December of 1980. This report will consist of an "assessment based on the teachers' assessment of students, our (ad- ministrators) assessment, and the assessment of two linguistic experts, Hall and Shuy," said Howard. Joiner originally requested a test assessment of improved reading skills as a result of the training program, but according to Howard this would have been "impossible from such a small group over such a short time." THE PROGRAM will have been suc- cessful if "the teachers can say "I feel good about this" and they've learned something that will unlock the door for one or two students this year, a few more the next year, and maybe 25 students 'the year after that," said Howard. The teachers, some of whom wanted the school board to appeal the case, are "accepting the program' and will probably .learn from the instructional program, according to King School. Principal Rachel Schreiber. However, she said she didn't think Black English has had a negative effect on King School. After the workshop, 5-6 grade teacher Ron Pudduck described it as "a good firstrattempt. I'm not sure whether there was an awful lot of in- formation that I didn't know before, but time will tell." HE ALSO SAID he didn't think the Black English issue is a problem in King School. "I don't think the language issue has anything to do with the ability to learn to read," he said. The first three workshops, run by Dr. Thomas Pietras, director of the language department of Ann Arbor Schools will emphasize instruction in the nature and structure of dialect. "What I plan to do is help teachers in- crease their understanding about the See TRAINING, Page 10 Calcutta nun 0 OSLO, Norway (AP) - Mother Teresa, 'Calcutta's ,"saint of the gut- ters," work the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize yesterday and said she would spend the $190,000 purse on lepers and the destitute to whom she has dedicated her life. "Poverty and hunger and distress also constitute a threat to peace,' the Nobel Committee said in citing the six- th woman to win the prize. THE YUGOSLAV-BORN Roman Catholic nun, daughter of an Albanian shopkeeper and now a citizen of India, said she accepted the award "in the name of the poor." Her order, the Mission of Charity, was founded in Calcutta's slums in 1948 when Mother Teresa opened her first school with 40 cents in her pocket and special permission from Rome to live outside a convent. The order now runs schools, hospitals, youth centers and orphanages in 50 Indian cities and in others around the world, from the Bronx, New York, to Papua, New Guinea. The five-member Norwegian Nobel Committee said Mother Teresa, 69, was given the prize "in recognition of her work in bringing help to suffering humanity." She has been nominated for the prize for several years and has of- ten been mentioned as a possible recipient. virs peac TIllS YEAR the world has turned its attention to the plight'of children and refugees, and these are precisely the categories for which Mother Teresa has for many years worked so selflessly," the committee said. Hundreds of beggars, lepers, the blind, the crippled, the dying, and the unwanted gather daily outside Mother Teresa's Calcutta mission for a free meal. For decades she has given the poor of the slums medical -care, schooling, a bowl of gruel, a slice of bread, or just a clean place to die. "I accept in the name of the poor because I believe that by giving me this prize they are recognizing the presence of the poor in the world," said Mother Teresa, reached at the headquarters of her mission in the slums of Calcutta in east India. She said she had heard the Oslo announcement on local TV. TALKING WITH reporters after evening prayers, she spoke of love, poverty, and greed. "Greed," she said, "is the greatest obstacle to peace in the' world today - greed for power, for money and for name." With her prize money, "I will build more homes for the prize destitute and the poor, especially for the lepers," she said. Past recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize include Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Henry Kissinger, the late Martin Luther King, Jr., and Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov. It was not known whether Mother Teresa would personally accept the award in a ceremony in Oslo on Dec. 10. The presentation is made on' th ean" niversary of the death of Swedish dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel. 76-GUIDE: Crisis counseling and other info 24 hours a day Mothe Te I''cresa Nobel Peace Prize winner. Nationwide demonstrations held to protest By The Associated Pre Union members, senior citizens, Americans demonstrated against the with protests in more than 100 cities de end to the energy price spiral. "I don't want to freeze to death in carried by a picketer outside the 'American Petroleum Institute in Wash THIE DEMONSTRATION at t yesterday was biled as part of a gras Lower Energy Prices," sponsored :Ehergy Coalition The coalition said t in more than 100 -ities with activitie: ins" by motorists o marches by pedes An Associate Press spot check s in several areas v< is smaller than pre Cleveland demon, tration said they a over 1,000 but only 150 people participa In Cleveland, !he 50 demonstrat -mall with an Athntic Richfield Co. prove gasoline m leag ' through bette .40 people watche the il company pre shortly before he t rotest rally b Kucinich said at he ro lly that Preside ;decontrol the pr ce of domestic oil Skyrocketing ol costs ySS rationing" because it will hit hardest at poor and middle-in- and hundreds of other come families. "Government should work for the people, not oil industry yesterday just the big oil corporations," he said. signed to help bring an IN MONTANA, however, AFL-CIO Executive Secretary Jim Murry said interest was high. "The phone has been the dark," read a sign ringing off the hook all morning," he said, adding: "These headquarters of the calls are from people not associated with the labor hngton, D.C. movement, like senior citizens groups and low-income he trade association groups." s-roots "Campaign for Montana members of the AFL-CIO went door-to-door and by the Citizen-Labor through supermarkets distributing "Big Oil Discredit Car- here would be protests ds," which urged Congress to put a lid on oil and gas prices, s ranging from "honk- appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the oil companies trians. and establish a publicly owned energy corporation. Millions howed that the turnout of the cards were being distributed on a nationwide basis. dicted. Organizers of a The oil companies generally have said that they are not anticipated a crowd of responsible for the rising cost of energy. They blame price ited. increases by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Coun- ors shared a downtown tries (OPEC), several of whose members announced fresh exhibit on ways to im- price increases earlier this week. r driving habits. About In Houston, eight members of the International sentation, which ended Association of Machinists union stood in front of the egan. Mayor Dentnis headquarters of the Shell Oil Co. and handed out bumper nt Carter's proposal to stickers reading "Cap Oil Prices." By ERIC ZORN Not too long ago, Dave had a big prob- lem on his hands. The young man on the other end of the telephone wire had attempted suicide by downing almost a bottle's worth of an unknown drug, and was clearly in need of immediate medical attention. DAVE, A three-year veteran at the University's 76-GUIDE telephone coun- seling service, handled the caller calmly at first. "I kept assuring him that I was concerned and that I cared for him," he remembers. "His speech was very slurred and his reaction time slow: He wouldn'tgive me his phone number or address." The minutes dragged on. The young man was calling from a hallway in the house where he lived, but said he didn't know anybody there well enough to ask them for help. "I have a friend who lives here, but she's left." The situation turned critical. Dave had tried almost every approach to get the caller to help himself, and finally had to do something before it was too late: "You're slowing down!" he war- ned. "Set the phone on the table and go grab the first person you see. Let me talk to him." AT LAST, half an hour after the call had come through, another voice came on. Dave arranged for the caller to be 'rushed to the hospital by a friend. 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