7r' '1MSEE N ATE N CALL r)LY EMUpresiden tial woes Eastern Michigan University faculty and students seem to have fought in vain for more input into the presidential selection process at the Ypsilanto school. The field of candidates was reduced to one unnamed hopeful when Tim Dire, John Porter, and Robert Leestamper dropped out of the race, according to a student government spokesman. Leestamper, however, did say he will resubmit his name if EMU Regents conduct another search for potential presidents. Apparently he withdrew because of contractural obligations at his present job, a concern he has voiced in the past. Meanwhile, EMU Vice President for University Relations Gary Hawks said three additional people have been invited to campus for "Pre-screening interviews." Electronic tellers The age of automation may be upon us, but that doesn't mean all of us have to like it. An article in the Graduate School of Business Administration's Business Review reports that automatic bank machines, which have swept into Michigan by the hundreds in recent years, are avoided by some bank customers. People are afraid to use the automatic tellers, claim the two researchers who wrote the article, because they feel a lack of mechanical ability or miss the friendly faces of human tellers inside. According to the article, consumers would be more apt to take advantage of bank machines if they were equipped with a telephone. Then customers could use the phone to consult a reassuring voice when problems with' the computer-like device arise. People just don't want to give up those long lines inside the bank and sometimes rude or harrassed tellers at the counter. Apparently, technological revolution can't always compete with personal service. Take ten About this time ten years ago, two young University professors decided to make themselves candidates for the Ann Arbor mayor's seat. In a tradition that was upheld by the last mayor, Albert Wheeler, an associate professor of microbiology, Profs. Robert Harris, 38, of the Law School and Richard Balhizer, 36, of the Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering department, put their mortar boards aside and threw their caps into the ring for the job. Republican Balzhiser was a former city councilman and had held a position with the U.S. Defense Department. Harris, still with the University, had been a consultant to the New Detroit Committee and to the White House Conference on Human Rights. The Michiaan Dailv-Tuesdav,Januarv 9. 1979-Page 3 Oil tanker explodes near Irish coast ; BANTRY, Ireland (AP) - Two explosions ripped through the big French tanker Betelegeuse unloading at a Gulf Oil terminal here yesterday, cutting the vessel in two and hurling the bodies of the crew into a sea of flaming oil. The death toll was placed at 50, including the crew of 41, two representatives of the tanker's owners, and seven local workers engulfed in the ball of fire. By nightfall, only 15 bodies had been recovered - all badly mutilated and horribly burned, some with limbs blown off in the blast. The owners said in Paris just two were identified, a sailor and a woman, the wife of the ship's baker. ONE EYEWITNESS said: "It was like looking into the flames of hell as the ship went up." Gulf Oil officials could give no immediate cause, but oil experts in London speculated the blast may have been triggered by highly volatile gases in the ship's emptying oil tanks. Cork County pollution officer Liam Mullins said if initial reports about the amount of oil spilled were correct, then the resulting polition would be 20 times greater than the biggest previous spill at Bantry in 1974. The Betelgeuse was carrying 31 million gallons. Terminal manager Don Ashe, an American, said the spillage was likely to be minimal, however. THE RECORD Amoco Cadiz spill off France in March 1978 was estimated at 39 million gallons. The explosion occurred when the 121,430-ton deadweight Betelgeuse, owned by the Compagnie Navale des Petroles, had unloaded two thirds of its cargo of crude oil through undersea pipes into the -terminal on Whiddy Island. The Betelgeuse was standing about three miles offshore at the time. While large, the Betelgeuse was well below the 200,000-ton size of the supertankers. Some of the bodies were blown over 500 yards from the small jetty, reaching out from the island, and yesterday afternoon an emergency morgue was set up in a hanger at a small airstrip outside Bantry. The tanker began sinking in a sea of flames as rescuers tried to reach the crewmen's bodies floating around it. By mid-morning, only the tanker's burning bows were visible. The rest was lying in 130 feet of water at the end of the still flaming jetty. A fireman at the scene called it the "towering inferno" with bits of oil- covered bodies protruding from the black water. Ji amonth for 2 or 3 hours a week of your spare time. donate plasma You may save a life! It's easy and relaxing. Be a twice-a-week regular. $10 cash each donation, plus bonuses. this ad worth $5 extra New donors only. Phone for appointment. ANN ARBOR PLASMA CORPORATION 662-7744 Happenings - FILMS Ann Arbor Film Coop-Two Lane Blacktop, MLB Aud. 3, 7 p.m. only; The Goalie's Anxiety and the Penalty Kick, MLB Aud. 3, 9 p.m. only. Cinema Guild - Martyrs of Love, Old Architecture Aud., 7, 9:05p.m. LECTURES Bioengineering - Gary Herrin speaks on "Human Considerations in the Design Experiments," 4 p.m., 1042 E. Engineering Bldg. Medieval and Renaissance Collegium - G. A. Patrides, "Like a Sunrise from the Sea: A Preface to Athenian Civilization," 4 p.m., Aud. I, Angell Hall. MEETINGS University Students World Hunger Task Force - "Bread for the World," Christian Citizens Movement, 7:30 p.m., Conference Room 1, Michigan Union. Project zoutreach - Mass meeting, 7:30 p.m., Hill Auditorium. Sparatus Youth League - "The Russian Revolution and its Degeneration," 7:30 p.m., Room 122, East Quad, first of a six part series. "Jewish Star"- Newspaper staff and journalists needed, open meeting, 7 p.m., Hillel, 1429 Hill. Computing Center - Advanced Use of Keypunch, 7-10 p.m., Room 1084 East Engineering. Basic Use of Keypunch, 7-10 p.m., Room 1500 East Engineering. MISCELLANEOUS Dean's tea with Medieval and Renaissance Collegium and Student Counseling office, 3:30 p.m., Greene Lounge, East Quad, coffee and doughnuts. Music School - Cellist Jerome Jelinek and Pianist Joseph Gurt, 8 p.m., SM Recital Hall. International Center - Luncheon, $1, noon, International Center Recreation Room. Booking in paradise While sub-freezing temperatures and wind-chill factors are on everyone's mind these days, a professor at the University of Hawall is offering an enticing temptation to spend the summer in Tahiti. Only about 20 people will be acceptable to the program, which could include a frolic among the palm trees and travel through French Polynesia, during June and July, all for credit from the University of Hawaii. Meanwhile the University of California is giving graduate students a chance to escape next year's winter doldrums by researching such topics as non-conventional energy sources, soil management, and foreign investment policy, in India. Apparently undergraduates will have to settle for five weeks in the South Pacific. Does he or doesn 't he? An observant victim of a gang rape near Traverse City may have an unusual bit of evidence against one of her accused rapists. Michael Haley, assistant prosecutor for Grand Traverse County, filed a motion Let's face it. In 25 years or less, the world of energy as you know it, will be entirely different. So will we. Today, we're a leader in the petroleum industry. And tomorrow, when your children are grown, we hope to be meeting their energy needs as well. WeVe committed 83 million dollars this year alone to research and development programs that continuing'the important search world-wide for igew ones. 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