The Michigan Daily-Friday, October 19, 1979-Page 5 Chicago schools face segregation suit WASHINGTON (AP) - The gover- nment took the first step toward what could be the nation's longest and most bitter school busing battle yesterday, serving notice on Chicago that it will sue to . force an end to alleged widespread classroom segregation. Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) Secretary Patricia Roberts Harris said she notified the Chicago school board that unless an acceptable school desegregation plan is submitted by Oct. 27, the matter will be referred to the Justice Department for legal ac- tion. REGULATIONS IN the Civil Rights Act require a 10-day period between the time of a government decision to bring suit and the actual filing of that suit. Harris said she decided to turn the Chicago case over to the Justice Depar- tment because, "I have concluded that compliance cannot be secured by voluntary means and I cannot in good conscience agree to further delay in the guise of negotiation." She told a news conference she still hopes Chicago school officials might submit an acceptable desegregation plan, adding that this is "a real possibility." IN A STATEMENT released within two hours of Harris' news conference; however, Chicago school superinten- dent Joseph Hannon vowed that school officials will fight the government. "We will not sit down and discuss with anybody when there are pre- conditions," Hannon said. "That is not negotiating." HARRIS' ACTIONS followed a vote by the Chicago Board of Education on Wednesday rejecting 7-2 the guidelines set by HEW for reducingsegregation in the 475,000-student public school system. Under the guidelines, about a quarter of the city's students would have to be bused. If the city had accepted the conditions submitted by HEW last week, it automatically would have been given an extension until Nov. 17 to prepare a desegregation plan. Instead, the board voted 6-3 to ask HEW for an additional 170 days to come up with an acceptable plan. The plea was immediately rejected by HEW officials. AInvites YouTo Join Him For: New Happy Hours Mon-Fri 4p.m.-6p.m Mon.-Sun. 9p.m.-12a.m. pasto 1140 S. University " 668-8411 Mon.-Sot. 1 1 A.M.-2 A.M. Sun. 3 P.M.-1T2 A.M Teachers skip school AP Photo Cleveland teacher Kevin Spencer, who manned a picket line yesterday at Case Elementary School, was one of the 5000 members of the Cleveland teachers' union who walked off the job yesterday in a contract dispute, leaving more than 92,000 students without instruction. Four arrested in Boston busing riots BOSTON (AP) - Three cars were they were met by a line of 25 police who overturned and police cars and school stopped them from, entering the% buses carrying black students were building. They chanted, "We wantN stoned yesterday as Boston's long- White" - a reference to Mayor Kevint festering integration troubles spread to White - but instead they met withf Italian- American East Boston. school Deputy Superintendent Robert Four white pupils were arrested but Donahue. no one was seriously hurt when violence During the meeting, they demanded erupted in "Eastie," a neighborhood that metal detectors be installed at near 'Logan Airport that has been East Boston High to keep out weapons,t largely left out of Boston's court- and Donahue told them the school'sI ordered busing program, principal would consider the request. THE FLARE UP on the third straight "THEY ARE anxious. They are< day of racial trouble involving the afraid," said Mary Ellen Smith, a1 Boston school system was touched off school department spokeswoman. by a stabbing in East Boston High "The problem is adults outside the School on Wednesday. school who are raising pressures," she About 150 white students marched out said. "Things are very tense. You can of East Boston High and walked to a feel it when you walk the streets." subway station to take their protest to East Boston is separated from the City Hall, demanding protection from rest of the city by Boston Harbor. attacks. Because of the distance from the city.'s On the way, witnesses said they over- black neighborhoods, it was largely ex- nrned1lh ee cars and smashed win- cIuded from the busi'ngprogram dTawn dows in two police cars. Four pupils up by the federal courts. East Boston were arrested for "general hell High has about 1,200 students, 80 per raising," and charged with disorderly cent of them white. conduct, police said. In the stabbing incident Wednesday, EARLIER, unidentified attackers an 18-year-old white student at the high stoned buses loaded with black students school was stabbed in the thigh and cut on their way to another high school and on the hand and arm during a scuffle an elementary school in East Boston, with a 16-year-old black pupil. The school officials said. alleged assailant was charged with When the students reached City Hall, being a juvenile delinquent. Greek poet Elytis wins Nobel Prize 4-' Continued from Page 1) freedom and creativeness,"' the Swedish Academy said. "I WISH to believe that with this year's decision, the Swedish Academy wanted to honor, in my person, Greek poetry in its entirety," Elytis said in a statement from his Athens apartment. "I also wish to draw the attention of world public opinion to a tradition which, since the era of Homer until today, continues unabated within the framework of Western civilization," he added. Though praised for his verses about, in the words of the academy, "the sea and the islands, their fauna and flora, the smooth pebbles and the beaches," Elytis is no simple nature poet. UNIVERSITY PROF. C. A. Patrides of the English Department describes Elytis as "a poet who habitually sees the past in terms of the present, and the present in terms of the past. Elytis evocatively creates moods that in- variably are states of mind." Often describing himself as a surrealist, Elytis has writtenwar poetry and epics based on the classical Greeks and the Bible which are also demandingly modern in form. Elytis was born on the island of Crete in 1911 into a family in the soap business. It is the family concern, rather than poetry, which has provided most of his income, according to family friends. Educated in Athens and Paris, Elytis read law briefly before turning to art - he still paints as a hobby - and poetry. His first published poems, in 1935, were highly surrealistic. In the early 1940s he fought in Albania against the fascist invasion, and during the war wrote the poem "Heroic and Elegiac Song for the Lost Second Lieutenant of the Albanian Campaign," based on his personal experiences. In 1948 he began writing "Worthy It Is" (To Axion Esti), his best known and perhaps most complex work. A poem cycle celebrating the birth, struggles and triumph, fhoth poet and nation, it was not finished until'1959. A bachelor and something of a" recluse, he addresses much of his poetry to a mythical woman who is the personification of beauty, erotic sen- suality and female allure. SECOND CHANCE 994-5350 0 I I Career Survival Finding your way out of the jungle of companies that visit your campus each year for interviews is tough. Sometimes you haven't even heard of them before they arrive. We'd like to help make that career decision easier by telling you about us now. 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On Campus: Tues., Oct. 30 'E 'I El f is CAR'S MILEAGE RATING IN TOP 10 EPA By TIMOTHY YAGL The Shetleymobile, as four-cylinder car which gets1 the gallon; was certified forf yesterday' by the Envir Protection Agency (EPA Vehicle Emission Labor Plymouth Road in Ann Arbor Michael Shetley of Oak Hill hoped his reworked red 197 Capri would run 80 to 100 m gallon of diesel gasoline. It d that mark, but after six days at the local lab, Certificatio Richard Harrington said Sh( will be certified for the 1979 m certifies Shetle Sthough it failed the more stringent 1980 soupd-up emissions test. souped-up THE SHETLEYMOBILE will be 43 miles to produced for the remaining two months production of this year under the 1979 certification, 'onmental Shetley said. He said he will try again k) Motor for approval under the 1980 guidelines. atory on Tested at the lab last July for fuel economy, the car achieved an average , Fla., had of only 43 mpg, averaging 34 mpg in 9 Mercury simulated city driving and 52 mpg on iles to the the highway. . idn't make But the auto sports an Avco engine of testing and performed well in emissions n Director testing, Harrington said. It did not, etley's car however, pass the 1980 standard for nodel year, hydrocarbon emissions. ymotbile TESTS INDICATED the car emitted one gram of hyrocarbon per mile when the EPA standard is .41 gram per mile. The vehicle emitted 1.64 grams of car- bon monoxide and 1.02 grams of nitrous oxide. EPA standards are 7 grams of carbon monoxide and 2 grams of nitrous oxide, Harrington said. Shetley said he would produce 150 cars this year, calling them the "Collector's Edition Mercury Capri," and selling them for about $9,400. Shetley said he would return to Ann Arbor in around three weeks to test three more cars for 1980 certification. 'U' may replace state in determining ACT competitive scholarship eligibility - - ... w . By MARY, FARANSKI The University and Calvin College, a small private school in Grand Rapids, are playing guinea pigs for a Michigan 'Competitive Scholarship Pilot Program this year which puts individual evaluation of students' financial recor- ds in the hands of school officials in- stead of the State Department of Education. Michigan Competitive Scholarships are given to needy in-state students at- tending a Michigan college and who achieved high scores on the American College Testing (ACT) test. THE TWO schools are now re'viewing students' state scholarship applications and sending award recommendations to the Department of Education. This PRISMATIC way, the schools can review other for- ms of aid before the state does, avoiding the cancellation of aid when the student is awarded "too much" money for his or her needs. Students must report any changes in aid directly to the schools, not the state. The pilot program also allows the school to send out the award notifications earlier, which is helpful in recruiting students to the University. Sandy Bertram of the University Financial Aid Office said the University and Calvin volunteered to try the program last spring due to concern that new increases in Basic Educational Opportunity Grants (BEOG) would cause many revisions in students' aid packages. The schools would be in a better position than the state to decide on the revisions. Bertram also stressed speed in in- forming continuing students of their aid situations. S, eluw Wt Sap 14,ei$,,Of~ r r 4 coFfEE grad students house 4Lt& 1 o goJ ;f S P~narWei Iohtb 1 I I I