Page 2-Thursday, January 18, 1979-The Michigan Daily Lesbian wins child custody case (Continued from Page w Carter gives vote of confidence to Iran The case went to the Court of Appeals for the first time in January, 1978, where a three-judge panel ordered Judge Ziem to rehear the case. Judge Ziem returned the same decision after relating the facts of the case to Michigan's child custody statute which addresses the emotional well-being of , " 'children involved in custody litigation. Attorney Shirley Burgoyne, who han- - a died Miller's case until the Supreme Court appeal, again took the case to the Court of Appeals, where Ziem's decision was upheld. Attorneys Michael Moran and Tom O'Brien, who were part of the team who successfully defended Filipina Narciso and Leonora Perez in .the VA Hospital case, took over for the Supreme Court appeal. "WE ABSOLUTELY had reasonable grounds for our appeal," said Moran. "The burden is on the person who wants to change the custody to prove that the child's best interests aren't, being ser- ved in their present situation. That simply wasn't proven." "The whole ordeal was traumatic and extremely expensive," said Miller. "I'm hoping that my fight will mean that others won't have to go through the same thing. I really feel that someone shouldn't have to lose their child over a problem with lifestyle." Miller added that she hopes her son will come back to live with her. i Miller, who still lives 'with her lover, was extremely grateful for the backing that she has received during her ordeal. "People have been amazingly supportive," she said. party for me when they heard the go "There has been no discrimination at news, and bought me a card sayin work. In fact, they threw a champagne 'Congratulations, you're a mother'." A2minter meanslotis of slipping and slidingy od ng, (Continued from Page l) previous night, or by noon the next day if the snow falls during the day. Yet from the looks of Ann Arbor sidewalks, it appears as though this ordinance is not strictly enforced. "The only time we enforce it is in the event we have a complaint," said city construction inspector Bill Northrup. "Then the person responsible has 24 hours to remove the snow. After that, the city has the right to hire a con- tractor and charge the owner for the snow removal." SEMINAR T. MICHAEL WALKER Ohio State University Speaks on "Endorpins and 5ehavioral/Control" THURS., JAN. 18 Rm. 1057, MHRI Bldg. TEA: 3:15 SEMINAR: 3:45 This seminar co-sponsored by Psycho Biology ARMY SURPLUS Daily Official Bulletin THURSDAY, JANUARY 18. 1979 Daily Calendar: Physics/Astronomy: P. Lepage, Cornell-U.,"QCDI Predictions for Exclusive Processes." 20:38 Randall Lab- 4 p.m. School of Music: Piano Chamber Music, SM Recital Hall, 8 p.m. SUMMER PLACEMENT 120 0SAR B763-4117 Inverness Country Club, Toledo, Ohio. Opening for Assistant Manager. Supervisory work for staff and maintenance. WSI or Sr, Life Saving Cert. required. Further details available. Commonwealth of Virginia offer a one year internship in State Government Administrative services. Internship begins July 1. Deadline for applying Mar. 9, '79. Further details available. IBM, Rochester, Minn. Summer Program for students completing their junior year and Ist vear grad student's. Fields open - everything in engr. and systems programming, systems analyst, and applications programming, accounting, etc. and technical writing. Further details available. Dept. of Defense, Virginia. Summer intern program for students who have completed junior year or better in Political Science (Foreign Affairs & Intern. Relations). Deadline for spplying Feb. 28. Further details available. Welch Foods, New York. Summer Marketing Internship. Student must have completed one year of their MBA in Marketing. Excellent opening. Details, available. Michael Reese Medical Center, Chicago, Ill. Summer Medical Research Fellowship. Must have completed sophomore year. Excellent opportunity. Further details available. Deadline for applying .Jan. 25a. Some local residents are more con- scientious about snow removal. "We shovel the sidewalk all the time. Otherwise the hordes of women who come to our house could never get in," said University law student Mark "Buck" Norby, while standing beneath the "Chateau de Bacchanalia" sign hanging above his front porch. (Bac- chanalia means wine, women and song.). IT'S A LITTLE early in the year to give up on shoveling," remarked homeowner William Gilliam, while lif- ting another load of snow off his sidewalk. "But later on, I can under- stand it. The back gives out and you just say, 'Let it melt'." Just around the corner on Packard, Bill Crawford was busy shoveling snow into an economy-sized garbage can, and arranging it into a neat row bet- ween his house and his neighbor's house. "I'll tell you a secret," confided Crawford. "The reason I'm piling snow up like this is because my neighbors like to use their back yard for parking, - and the only way they can get to it is by driving across my front lawn." "It really messes up the lawn," con- tinued the Ph.d. candidate. "But this should stop them." Engineering school sophomore John Fialka decided it was easier to walk in the street than to cope with snow- covered sidewalks. "If two people are coming down the sidewalk, it's just too narrow and it's a hassle," he explained. Though most of us are complaining about the slushy streets, bruised legs, and the snowy conditions in general, there are some who find the weather delightful, third-grader Jeff Conn and second-grader Shelly Crow, for exam- ple. The two Burns Park Elementary School students agreed as they sledded down the sidewalk, "We couldn't have so much fun without the snow." (Continued from Page 1) pressed a desire to see the former president. Nixon, who has accepted the invitation, will be returning to the executive mansion for the first time since he resigned in the heat of the Watergate scandal in August 1974. The afternoon meeting with reporters was the president's first formal news conference since he announced to the nation his decision to extend diplomatic recognition to China. It was also Car- ter's first nationally televised ap- pearance since the overthrow of the Cambodian government and since the turmoil in Iran forced Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi to leave the country. CARTER SAID that although the administration strived during negotiations with Peking to win a public commitment that China's dispute with Taiwan would be resolved peacefully, "this was not possible to achieve." The best the United States could do was ob- tain a statement from the Chinese saying that they "expect" the matter to be resolved without violence, he said. Carter also defended his inter- pretation of Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev's initial response to the China decision. The Soviet news agency, Tass, had disputed Carter's assessment as too upbeat. But the president said yesterday that the Brezhnev statement was "constructive and positive, coon- pared to the anticipation I had...." IN OTHER MATTERS, the president said that: " He had no quarrels with is National Advisory Committee 4n. Women, even though he fired the group's co-leader, Bella Abzug, last Friday. Carter said, however, that "there has not' been good cooperation between the committee and my ad- visers, or cabinet members or me." " Despite last week's report by the surgeon general warning anew of the dangers of cigarette smoking, he would continue to back government price supports to tobacco growers. At the same time, he said, "it's a completely legitimate action for the government to point out the dangers of smoking." " While the United States is "very in- terested" in oil and natural gas supplies in Mexico, the administration will n~ot encourage the Mexicans "to develop them more rapidly than they desire." U.S. citizens beating inflation, By The Associated Press The government reported yesterday that Americans earned a shade more in 1978 than inflation took from them and that they built homes at a booming rate. The new economic reports promised to cushion the economy against the 1979 recession that has been widely predic- ted by economists outside the gover- nment. But they enhanced the prospect of still another year of the stubborn in- flation that has dogged the economy. THE COMMERCE Department said the average American increased his personal income last year by 11.7 per cent. The increase outpaced inflation, which rose in 1978 at a rate of slightly more than nine per cent. Another government report said in- dustrial output rose at a robust rate as the year ended and a report due today is expected to place overall economic gov t says growth at a healthy five per cent for the last three months of 1978. Stimulation for the economy cane also from a 19'78 homebuilding surge that almost mached the record for ary year and that grew stronger even as mortgage interest rates climbed. In another development, it was lear- ned that President Carter's budget- which he will send to Congress on Mon- day - will call for a $20 billion increase in spending to help people through in- come security and public assistance programs, most of the increase man- dated by existing law. Another government report showed industrial output rose at a robust pace as the year ended and a report due Thursday is expected to place overall economic growth at a healthy five per cent for the last three months of last year. $13.49 20 % OFF -- - . a ' 201 E. WASHINGTON-994-3572IA W.j MON-SAT 9-6 ' - New writing program shapes up for '79 (Continued from Page 1) the University are now setting up their own guidelines for the writing requirement and these will be approved by the ECB. IN GENERAL, this will involve a single course set up by a particular department which will deal with writing "as a process" - organizing and arguing a point related to the specific field that the student is pur- suing. "We will oversee the courses, but we want the departments to teach them with their own faculty," said ECB Associate Director Barbara Morris. "'In the case of the smaller departmen- ts, (which may not be able to offer a composition course), we will select one of our lecturers to look at a student's collection of writing and then assess it to see if he has fulfilled the writing requirements." Although ECB lecturers are confident and enthusiastic about the new set of programs, some loopholes currently exist. Students are required to take a post-test at the end of their composition course so that the ECB can assess the success of their tutoring and instructing efforts. Since this post-test does not af- fect a student's grade in the course, some students did not bother to take the test at the end of the fall 1978 term. "SOME PEOPLE will slip through," said Clark. "There are people like that, and there may be ways of getting around it (taking the post-test) that we may not know about." Another important aspect of the ECB program involves the Writing Workshop which is staffed by five members of the ECB and provides professional help in writing to students. "We are dealing with writing that's in process - papers that the students are doing," said Barbey Dougherty, a lec- turer from ECB. "We'll deal with the paper in any number of stages - giving it a sort of audience reaction - before it goes into the professor. What we don't do is proofread." DOUGHERTY also said that some students who are having difficulty either in their English composition courses or in the tutorial program may be referred to the workshop by their teaching assistants. The ECB also has a significant relationship with the Coalition for the Use of Learning Skills (COLS) and its BRIDGE program. This program selects 50 high school seniors each year who have low test scores but have demonstrated the capacity to do suc- cessful college work. 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