Page 2-Thursday, October 18, 1979-The Michigan Daily A,2 A consumer group TREASURY SECRETARY, VOLCKER, ISSUE WARNING Miller: cut spending tries to bea By T HI CY YAGLE A group of Ann Arbor consumers, convinced that inf ition is here to stay, have formed an organization they hope will soften the blow on helpless wallets. The Southeast Michigan Consumer Alliance (SEMCA) is a group of more than 50 people who "are fed up with high prices." In response they are of- fering Ann Arbor citizens discount prices at area businesses, according to one of the organization's founders Bart Loeb. THE BUSINESSES associated with SEMCA agree to'offer 20 to 50 per cent discounts to anyone carrying the club's yellow and black membership card, Loeb said. Cards are now available at all area Pizza Bob's shops for $6. Mem- bers also pay $1.83 in monthly dues. The group was formed 10 months ago, Loeb said, and was modeled after a similar group in Minnesota. SEMCA currently has nearly 1,500 members in this area, and will soon open a branch office in Jackson. Ann Arbor's branch is located at 100 S. Forest. t inflation "WE DON'T charge the (member) stores anything," Loeb said. "Businesses love it because it increases volume and they can afford to offer discounts." About 25 per cent of the group's members are college students and the rest are young businesspersons, Loeb said. He added the group particularly wants college students to join because they can get the discounts as well as at- tract other students and customers. There are more than 80 area businesses now associated with SEM- CA, including such student favorites as Tech Hifi on William St. and Bell's Greek Pizza at 700 Packard St. LOEB ADDED that he thinks "the group will be a model for other groups in the country." We hope to make this the best, most complete consumer net- work anywhere. Everybody goes crazy when they first hear about SEMCA because they can't believe it. They think that there is a catch to it, but there's not," Loeb explained. WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans face a reduction in their living standar- ds if inflation is to be brought under control, the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board said yesterday. "The standard of living of the average American has to decline," Paul Volcker told the Joint Economic Committee of Congress. "I don't think you can escape that." VOLCKER SA)ID Americans must accept less because they are producing less with the same amount of effort as before, while the nation is losing billions of dollars of its wealth each year to oil-producing nations. "If we fail to recognize that, and people try to catch up with the existing standard of living, or try to increase their standard of living . . . up goes the price level some more," he said. Volcker said his best outlook for in- flation this year is to reduce the annual rate of price increase below 10 per cent by the end of 1979, down from the current 13 per cent annual rate of in- flation. ON ANOTHER front, Charles Schult- ze, chairman of President Carter's Council of Economic Advisers, said the administration would consider its policies successful if inflation falls below 10 per cent "in the not-too-distant future." Volcker and Treasury Secretary G. William Miller appeared before the congressional panel to explain recent government actions to drive up interest rates and to slow economic growth in the fight against inflation. American consumers are saving too little and borrowing too much, Miller. said. He also said he did not want to. "foreclose the possibility" that the, government might need to impose. direct controls to limit consumer credit. But Miller said he didn't think this action will be necessary. MILLER CONCEDED that the' tightening of credit "is a worry" for the' housing industry because it could slow the -amount of money available for' home building and home-buying. But he said the growth of money and credit in the economy has to be restrained. "If we do it rapidly enough, and for- cefully enough, then housing does not have to go into a tailspin," Miller said. iiller ... worried about credit UAC offers new mint-courses abortion?. .a }Free Pregnancy Testing mmediate Results Confidential.Counseling r Complete Birth Control Clinic Medicaid * Blue Cross (31) 91.1810An n A rbor and Downriverarea w , (313) 559-0590 Southfield area t Northland Family Planning Clinic, Inc. l By MITCH STUART To balance out a course load of horrors such as organic chemistry, Econ 401, and foreign language requirement, the University Activities Center (UAC) is offering a series of 13 mini-courses including Magic, Dream Analysis, and Disco Dancing. The courses will be taught in the Michigan Union nd will range in length from one session of one or two hours, to six, two-hour sessions. Tickets for the courses are available at Ticket Cen- tral in the Union lobby 12 school days before each class is scheduled to begin. Costs for the courses range from free to $20 per couple (or $12 per person) for Ballroom Dancing. BO MANNING, chairman of the UAC Mini-Course Committee, said the courses were created because, "Thee are various skill areas that students have wan- ted to explore, but have never had the time or mone; to get into a course." According to Manning, the mini-courses fill a gap for students who may not have the time to take a Univer- sity course they are interested in, but are not necessary for their degrees. Also, he said the UAC course fees are much cheaper than prices charged for private instruction. Although mini-courses have been offered for several years, the program will be expanded this term. In the past, mini-courses have been offered only one night, for free or at very low cost. This year, however, the courses have been expanded to include more material. IN PREVIOUS YEARS, the courses have been sup- ported financially by UAC, but this term those funds have been eliminated and according to Manning the mini-course program is now a "break even operation." He said the change accounts for higher fees assessed to students but Manning added that the fees are still less than for private instruction. Despite the fee hike, Manning predicts the mini- courses will remain popular this term. Disco dancing which has a 50 student limit and bartending, with two sections of 25 students, are expected to close first, but every course is expected to fill. COURSE INSTRUCTORS come from throughout the Ann Arbor community. A professional psychologist will teach the Dream Analysis class, the Basic Invest- ments course will feature a speaker from Merrill Lyn- ch, and Ballroom Dancing will be taught by Jim Hilton, the Union's operations manager and his wife Rhoda. Hilton said he and his wife teach the course, "in our spare time becaue we love it." Univesity credit is not offered for the classes, which generally do not offer any certification on completion. The CPR course, however, offers official Red Cross certification. MANNING SAID the committee is already finalizing plans to offer different courses next term. He said the committee has "total freedom" in deciding which courses to offer, and he urges anyone with coursb suggestions to contact the committee. Information on the courses is available in the UAC offices on the second floor of the Union. Courses offered this term are: Guitar, which beginis today; CPR, beginning Oct. 31 and Nov. 20; Sign Language beginning Oct. 30; Dream Analysis begin- ning Nov. 1; Magic beginning Nov. 5; Ballroom Dan- cing and Basic Investments beginning Nov. 7; Barten- ding beginning Nov. 12 and 13; Disco Dancing begin- ning Nov. 13; Massage, Plant Clinic, and Winetasting all beginning the last week of November, and Cross 1 GRAD STUDENTS: RACKHAM STUDENT GOVT. FALL ELECTIONS OCT. 30 & 31 APPLY NOW FOR THESE POSITIONS: PRESIDENT PHYSICAL SCIENCES & ENGINEERING VICE-PRESIDENT SOCIAL SCIENCES DIVISION REPRESENTATIVES: HUMANITIES BIOLOGICAL & HEALTH SCIENCES EDUCATION Country Ski December. Waxing, beginning the first week of Marines stage landing. exercise, in Cuba APPLICATIONS AT 2006 RACKHAM 763-5271 DEADLINE: OCT 22 : 2 A The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Second Distinguished Senior Faculty Lecture Series Professor Angus Campbell in a three-part series, will discuss Psychological Well-Bemg GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba (AP) - The U.S. Marine Corps flexed its might on soggy Cuban soil yesterday in a lan- ding exercise by 1,200 soldiers who surged onto the island's U.S.-held eastern tip aboard helicopters and am- phibious craft. Daily Official Bulletin T"U'RS A OCTOBER 18,1979 D~ailyCalendar: Center Western European Studies: Jean Carduner. "The New Right in France." League, noon. Division Biological Sciences: Dan Axelrod, "Motion of Cell-Surface Receptors," 1139 Nat. Sci., noon. MHRI: Richard L. Sprott, "Genetic Analysis of Avoidance Behavior," 1075 MHRI, 3:45 pm. Industrial and Operations Engineering: Stanley B. Gershwin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Analysis of Unreliable Transfer Lines with Finite Buffers," 243 E. Eng., noon. English: Wesley Morris, "The Irrepressible Real: Jacques Lacan and Poststreuturalism", W. Conf.. Rackham, 4 p.m. Physics/Astronomy: R. Brandt, MY-U., "Stability of Non-Abelian Magnetic Monopoles," 2038 Randall, 4p.m. Guild House: A. J. Lindenbery. Deborah Richar- dson, Amy Rohner, 802 Monroe, 7:30 p.m. Chemistry: Mustafa El-sayed, U-Calif.,; time Resolved Laser Spectroscopy; Spectral Diffusion in Solids and Conformation Changes in Photobiological Systems," 1300 Chem, 8 p m. Russian/East European Polish American Congress: Jerzy Turowics. "The Popeand Poland." Lec. Rm. 2, MLB, 8p.m. * ' No weapons were fired, and no in- juries or problems were reported in the maneuvers at the U.S. Navy base on Guantanamo Bay. PRESIDENT CARTER ordered the landing earlier this month. Carter said at the time that he wanted there to be no doubt that the United States could stand up to the threat to American shores posed by the presence of Soviet combat troops in Cuba. In the landing exercise, the Marines moved into the 45-square-mile base in a downpour yesterday morning. The troops then entrenched in positions they, would take to reinforce the base in an emergency. Military spokesmen said they saw no evidence of Soviet surveillance yester- day around the base - the only United States base on communist soil. HOWEVER, THE officials said a small Cuban observation boat was spot- ted about two miles from the base and about 2,000 yards from a Navy carrier early yesterday. The Cuban boat moved away after a Navy frigate ap- proached it. Officers planning the exercise em- pliasized .that it was a routine maneuver. U.S. officials put the cost ofl the exercise at $500,000. Col. Louis Piantadosi, commander of the landing forces, said live am- munition was kept nearby but not loaded into weapons because "This is an exercise. We do not want anybody to get hurt," THE RAIN delayed some parts,.of the landing for a few minutes, but Pian- tadosi said he considered the operation a success. "I think what the exercise does is show the American people thaf the resolve is there and we have the capability to defend," he said. It took a week. to move the Marines-- and supplies from their base at Camp Lejeune, N.C., to Guantanamo. But of- 'ficials emphasized that in a real emergency, Marines would be flown to the isolated base in a matter of hours. : CREATIVE ANACHRONISTS ON CAMPUS: 4 Medieval enthusiasts hold cou rt (Continued from Page 1) and Pennsylvania is fought over each year. No one seems to know how many devotees live in this area. SCA ATTRACTS a diverse member- ship of students, professors, housewives, and writers. Both young and old are welcome, and students in the organization come from both grammar schools and universities. From mock battles to 25 course feasts that feature authentic costumes, table- settings, foods, and etiquette, SCA members immerse themselves in a Medieval lifestyle. Combat is a part of that lifestyle, and SCA members who aspire to knighthood must gain proficiency in the medieval martial arts. NOVICE FIGHTERS are carefully trained by experienced knights, and, according to SCA member Linda Glasscock, "injury is very rare." Prospective knights are taught to recognize the relative severity of blows in terms of the injury they would cause if they were delivered with sharpened steel instead of tape-wrapped rattan. Fighting is on the honor system - com- batants admit "injury" when they are hit in the proper manner._ The Pensic War, as the war for Pen- nsylvania is called, is a major event - about 700 attended last year - in which knights from the Middle Kingdom bat- tle knights from the East Kingdom. War is waged for three to four days. The loser wins Pennsylvania. Knights are expected to be more than "sword jockeys," as one SCA member put it. Indeed, many SCA members devote themselves solely to the arts. COSTUMING IS a popular art, and October 4, 1979 October 11, 1979 October 18, 1979 ,Psychological Well-Being Well-Being Through the Life Cycle Well-Being and Ill-Being i A' rccclitif in Ractkhami Assembnly Hal.ll will followv thy fi nal lecnrr PINBALL AT THE UNION 50 machines You name it, We've got two of each! UNION LANES AND UNION STATION Kay of Triastrium,/known outside of SCA by her "mundane name" of Deborah Anderson, is a master costumer. She appeared at a recent meeting in a velvet and taffeta costume patterned after those found in the late 16th cen- tury court of Elizabeth I. Equipped with a hoop skirt and a steel-canvas corset, Kay sacrifices comfort for authenticity. All SCA members have personas: separate names and personalities that exist only in the medieval world of SCA. SCA members act, dress, speak, and function as their chosen personas when attending events. Personas are often elaborate, and backed up by lengthy - personal histories and numerous idiosyncracies. THE MICHIGAN DAILY (USPS:344-900) Volume LXXXX, No. 37 Thur'sday, October 18, 1979 is edited and managed by students at the University of ichigan. Published daily Tuesday through Sunday mornings during the University year at 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109. Subscription rates: $12 Septem- ber through April (2 semesters) ;$13 by mail outside Ann Arbor. Summer session published Tuesday through Saturday mornings. 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