I kfU SE E WLKAPEN CcA L Y Sort offgood news When some University students bring home mid-term exams with less than perfect scores, they can keep one thought in mind - they're flunking out of one of the top five universities in the nation, according to a survey conducted by two social scientists. The researchers asked 4,000 faculty members across the country to "name the five depar- tments nationally in your discipline that have the most distinguished faculties." Twenty-four per cent of the instructors listed a university department among their top five choices. Only Harvard University, the University of California at Berkeley, and Stanford University outranked the University. Yale University and the University of Chicago also netted 24 per cent of the faculty members' choices, while MIT ranked behind the University with 22 per cent. Add that to your grade point." Take ten The Regents emerged from a stormy closed session with'a mild. reprimand of the earlier performance of the controversial play "Dionysus in '69" held in the Union Ballroom. The play included two scenes in which the actors had appeared totally in the nude. For this, the entire 10-man cast was arrested by the Ann Arbor police at the end of the play for "indecent exposure." The Regents said there was "minimal value attached to the performance as measured against the loss of good will which the University suffered" as marked by the en- suing "substantial public criticism of the University." On the national scene, backers of George Wallace's presidential bid met in Louisville, Kentucky to form a permanent third party. The new party would try "to preserve America within the limits of the Constitution." The 176 delegates from 25 states planned to form a party structure "which can survive the loss of a strong leader," one delegate explained. MMMOMM7 0 Happenings FILMS Minority Student Services Minority Film Festival, Union Lob- by, 12:10 p.m. to 9:40 p.m.- A-V Services - Starphac; Five Minutes to Live, Aud., SPG II, 12:10p.m. Union of Students for Israel - Open meeting featuring new documentary film The Peace Copflict, Hillel, 1429 Hill St., 7:30 p.m. National Alliance Against 'Racist and Political Repression - Harlan County U.S.A., Angell Hall Auditorium A, 8:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Ann Arbor Film Co-op - Spielberg's Duel, Nat. Sci. Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. Cinema Guild - Bedazzled, Old Arch. Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. Mediatrics - Wings, Assembly Hall, Union, 6:45 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. PERFORMANCES Studio Theatre - Manet's "The Duck Variations," Arena Theatre, Frieze Building, 4:10 p.m. R.C. Players - two original one acts: "The Babysitter" by Scott Cummings and "The Six-Page Play" by Blake Ratcliffe, East Quad's Half-way Inn, 7:30 p.m. Guild House - poetry reading, D. Dudley and M.A. Gunsaulus, 802 Monroe, 7:30 p.m. Canterbury Loft - "Stone," performed by the Radical Arts Troupe, 3225S. State St., 8 p.m. Music School - Jazz Band, Rackham, 8 p.m. Benefit for People's Produce Co-op - featuring Prismatic Band, Nymbus; Trees, Peter Stark, Sharon Hollow String Bank. Munchies served. 109/ N. Main St. above the Star Bar, 8 p.m. Ark - Louisiana Aces-Cajun Music, 1421 Hill,,9 p.m. LECTURES Ted Bakewell III - "World's First Self-sufficient Transportable Home," "Passive Solar Office Buildings," and Metaphysical Gym- nasium," Room 2104 Art and Arch. Building (North Campus), 12:30 p.m. Department of Anthropology and CWS - Professor June Nash (NYU) leading seminar "Community Relations and Political Con- sciousness," West Conference Room, Rckham, 1-3 p.m. CEWS - Panel discussion, "University Governance in the Netherlands," West Conference Room, Rackham, 4 p.m. Professor Rex. E. Crick - "Patterns of Evolution in Ammonite Genus Icosmoceras," 4001 C. C. Little Building, 4 p.m. -Collegiate Institute for Values and Science - Dr. Dennis Tierney, "Risk Analysis and Social Values: Adequacy of Existing Environmen- tal Review Procedures," 231 Angell Hall, 4 p.m. Coalition for Use of Learning Skills - Tarik Mikdashi, "Middle East: The Current Oil Crisis," 1020 Angell Hall", 4 p.m. PTP - Edgard Albee, "Playwright versus Theatre," Men- delssohn, 7 p.m. Department of Anthropology and CWS - Professor June Nash (NYU), "The Ethnography of Class Consciousness in Women's and Men's Autobiography," and the film, Bolivian Tin Miners - I Have Spent My Life in the Mines, 200 Lane Hall, 7:30 p.m. Russian Festival - Anatole Senkevitch, "The Arts and Crafts Movement in Russian Architecture, 1870-1919," Auditorium A, Angell Hall, 8 p.m. Hillel - Professor Lloyd Gartner (Tel Aviv University), "Assimilation in American Jewry," Hillel, 1429 Hill St., 8 p.m. MISCELLANEOUS Department of Romance Languages - Information meeting on Summer Study Programs in Salamance, Spain and La Rochelle, France, Lecture Room 2, MLB, 4 p.m. Michigan Economics Society - Weekly meeting, Room 301, Economics Building, 5 p.m. International Night - Chinese cuisine, Michigan League cafeteria, 5-7:15 p.m. International Center - Latin American benefit dinner for Ven- ceremos Brigade including slide show of Cuba and discussion, 6 p.m. Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade - First of five study groups on Marxism-Leninism, Anderson Room A, 8 p.m. And don't spit in the wind The police department of Daytona Beach, Florida sent a word of warning to college students "up North," which we found in our mail yesterday morning between a letter for the Farm Editor and a press release from a museum in Toledo. The Daytona Beach police listed a collection of local ordinances applicable t6 the hordes of students ex- pected to invade the Sunshine State during the Spring Break season. "Motorists must not drive in the water," advised the department's note, and sunbathers "should not recline or sit so as to interfere with traffic." The memo also noted that no parking areas are designated by "No Parking" signs, and motorists can make a right turn on a red light, unless there is a "No Turn on Red" sign at the curb. Perhaps such elementary warnings are more appropriate for the pre-college set. - Midas touch According to the news service Reuter, an Iranian paper reported yesterday that the private plane of disposed Shah.of Iran contains a solid gold toilet. The cistern and flush are also gold, as are the taps and basins in the bathroom, the newspaper Etela'at reported. The plane was flown back to Tehran from Morocco yesterday. Calling the Boeing 707 "the most expensive plane in the world," the newspaper said the gold fittings were worth $2 million, while the overall cost of the plane waG 5115 millinn. t ,. _..._ Judge. OKs NOW convention boycott KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A federal judge yesterday upheld the right of the National Organization of Women (NOW) to use a convention boycott as a tool against states that have not ratified the Equal Rights Amendment. He called the boycott a legitimate political venture. The case "involves political opponen- ts, not commercial competitors; and political objectives, not marketplace goals," U.S. District Judge Elmo Hun- ter said in his 30-page decision. HIS ACTION came 51 weeks after Missouri Attorney General John Ash- croft filed a suit charging that NOW's convention boycott tactics violated the Sherman Antitrust Act. NOW Officials maintain that the boycott has cost Kansas City more than $8 million in convention business and has cost St. Louis about $11 million.. Similar boycotts in the other 14 states that have not ratified the ERA have resulted in millions of :dollars in lost business, NOW says. . State officials contended that the boycott was "taking states as economic hostages with the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment as the ran- som." HUNTER DISAGREED, saying that the convention boycott "can be charac- terized as non-commercial in that its participants are not business interests and its purpose is not increased profits." And he said the boycott was not undertaken to advance the economic interests of the participants. The "interest sought to be advanced by NOW, and especially the con- stitutional interests involved in protec- ting NOW's ability to exercise its right to petition and right to political association, outweigh the interest in protecting the business expectancy in- volved," the judge said. The amendment, which would ban discrimination based on sex, has failed to win approvalin the last six sessions of the Missouri Legislature. No ERA bills have been introduced during the current session, but two joint resolutions recommending a non- binding public referendum have been introduced. One was by Sen. Mary Gant, the only woman in the state Senate, who said she wanted to show that Missouri residents do not want ERA. DR. LINDA Thurston, president of the Kansas City Urban NOW chapter, said she was surprised by the decision. "We have worked so far and often taken three or four steps backward for every step forward," she said.P Ashcroft's office declined comment until the decision was reviewed. BOB JONES, director of infor- mational services for the Kansas City Convention ,and Visitors Bureau, said that despite the boycott, the city set a record in 1978 with $228 million in con- vention business. The ERA Must be ratified by 38 states by June 30, 1982, to become part of the Constitution. The original deadline of March 22, 1979, was extended by act of Congress. The ERA has been approved by 35 states, but four have since rescinded approval. The validity of that move still is in question and it is up to Congress to decide. The Michigan Daily-Thursday, February 22, 1979-Page 3 Engineers/Programmers GIVE YOUR CAREER A FAST START WITH A GROWING CALIFORNIA COMPANY Back in 1973, when we started, sales of Triad computer systems were only $200,000. Last year we sold nearly $15' million worth of systems, and next year we'll deliver even more. You may find it hard to believe, but we've grown to only 280 employees! Now we need a few more. 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