l 7 cy1JYU SE E NES KPP11CAL -AJLY New tradition? More than 60 students mingled and munched out last Friday at the firstt annual Graduate Reserve room party held in the Grad. Library's student lounge on the third floor between 4 and 6 p.m. Planned by a Political Science grad. student who wished to remain unidentified, the, party was intended for all graduate students who've seen each other studying in the Reserve Room for nearly three years or more. Take ten On March 25, 1969, more than 25 persons led by Students for a Democrptic Society (SDS) kept a naval recruiter locked in a room in the West Engineering Building for five and one-half hours, preventing engineering students from keeping their appointments with him. The student protestors were opposing the role of the University in "legitimizing'" the military and its operation..Also that day, the nude body of 16-year-old Maralyn Skelton was found near Earhart Road, in the vicinity of North Campus. The killing marked the fourth murder of a young woman in the Ann Arbor area since 1957. *0 The Michigan Daily-Sunday, March 25, 1979-Page 3 Gas prices hit record high, statio From the Associated Press Gasoline prices across the nation are higher than ever, and many service stations are cutting hours or closing on weekends because of tight fuel supplies, an AP spot check has found. And connections don't appear to help. The gas station in Plains, Ga., owned by President Carter's brother Billy closed last week because it had used up its March allotment of gasoline. According to the Labor Department's consumer price index, gasoline prices rose 2 per cent in February and are up 18 per cent since last June. PRICES HAVE risen so much-in many cases a dime a gallon or more in the past year-that many gasoline dealers say $1-a-gallon gasoline could be a reality later this year. Gasoline prices are highest in Chicago and New York, with premium leaded gasoline selling at some stations for more than 90 cents a gallon. "A dollar a gallon? Sure it's coming, and soon," said one dealer in a suburb of Chicago who now is charging 90 cen- ts. Bob Jacobs, executive director of the Illinois Gasoline .Dealers Association, said he expects "the public is going to be paying $1 a gallon by July 4th." "IT'S THE WORST period since the days of -the '74 oil embargo," said James Benton, executive director of the Gasoline Retailers Association of Nor- theastern New York. But the reasons are somewhat dif- ferent this time. Although the shutdown of Iranian oil production for the first two months of this year put a squeeze on the world's supply of oil, gasoline supplies were tight even when Iran was pumping oil. Gasoline demand rose 3.4 per cent last year, with the biggest jump coming in the unleaded gasoline, which is required in all new American cars. THE 'OIL companies say they don't have the refinery capacity to keep up with the demand and even before the Iranian revolution they were limiting the amount of gasoline they would sell to dealers. The tight supplies have created a supply and demand situation that is forcing the price up. In addition, the shortage of crude oil brought on by the Iranian crisis has made that com- modity-the main ingredient for gasoline and other petroleum produc- ts-more expensive. The effect of all this? Less gasoline at higher prices. ns closing In Opa Locka, Fla., for example, Alex Cifuantes, manager of the Alex Mobil station, is closing two hours earlier. His price for a gallon of premium leaded gasoline is 87 cents-11 cents higher than it was a year ago and 6 cents higher than three weeks ago. CIFUANTES ATTRIBUTES the in- crease to the rise in the wholesale price caused by higher crude oil prices and the change in government rules. He says higher prices discourages some customers, lessening his supply squeeze. But the problem is still there. "This month I got a big allocation. but next month there's going to be a big cut," he said, because allocations are based on the same month a year ago and his business was off last April. But most dealers say the skyrocketing prices don't appear to be deterring motorists from filling up. "No one is saying anything," said Lex Brodie, owner of Fast Gas in Honolulu. "They're just accepting it. S. Court's Weber decision may fy Bakke ruling Happenings SUNDAY FILMS Dutch Film Le Soleil des Hyenes, 1 p.m., Toestanden Situations, 2:45 p.m., Auditorium A, Angell. Cinema II-Goodbye Columbus, 7 p.m., Diary of a Mad Housewife, 9 p.m., Aud. A, Angell. Cinema Guild-The Wild One, 7,9:05 p.m., Old Arch. Aud. PERFORMANCES Music School-piano chamber music, 2 p.m., harp recital, Holly Lanning, 4 p.m., piano recital, Barbara Brooks, 6 p.m., saxophone recital, Gary Crowe, 8 p.m., Recital Hall. Musical Society-Detroit Symphony Orchestra, conductor Antal Dorati, all-Strauss program, 2:30 p.m., Hill Auditorium. Music School-Menotti's Fantasies in Opera and Dance, 3 p.m., Power Center. Classical Studies/Program in Comparative Literature-Seligson Players, Menander's Dyscolos, 8 p.m., Foyer, Angell Hall. Folklore Society-square, contra dance, live string band, 8 p.m., 1429 Hill. SPEAKERS Kelsey Museum-gallery talk, "Carthage Then and Now", Harriet Schwartz, 2 p.m., Kelsey Museum. Chug Aliyah-Howie Levin, "Aliyah and the founding of Kibbutz ' Yahel, 5 p.m., 1364 Geddes, Apt. A. Council for Exceptional Children-Bonnie Consolo-her life as a handicapped person, lecture, mass meeting, film, 7:30 p.m., Aud. 4, MLB. MISCELLANEOUS Alpha Gamma Delta-Easter Seal Disco Dance-a-thon, 10 a.m. West Bank, Holiday Inn. Senior physical therapy class-demonstration of electrical stimulation,'hydrotherapy, therapeutic exercise, sports medicine, biofeedback, 2 p.m., Physical Therapy Department, University Hospital. Ann Arbor Veggie Society-veggie pot luck dinner, 5:30 p.m., East Quad South Cafeteria. Markley Minority Affairs Council-Rhapsody in Black V-Awards Banquet, 6 p.m., Union Ballroom. Israel Students Organization-celebration of peace, 7:30 p.m., Alice Lloyd Blue Carpet Lounge. Michiganensian-signing for senior portraits, 9 a.m.-9 p.m., Michiganensian office, 764-0561, 420 Maynard St. MONDAY FILMS Dutch Film Festival-Keefman, 7 p.m., Scrim, 7:45 p.m., ex- perimental films, 9 p.m., Assembly Hall, Union. Russian Festival Cinema Guild-Shukshin's The Red Snowball Tree, 7 p.m., Old Arch. Aud. Ann Arbor Film Co-op-They Live by Night, 7 p.m., The Lusty Men, 8:30 p.m., Aud. A, Angell. PERFORMANCES Music School-percussion students recital, 8 p.m., Recital Hall, clarinet recital, Michael Waddell, 8 p,m., Stearns. SPEAKERS Macromolecular Research Center-Professor Vivian T. Stannett, North Carolina State University, "Polymerization by 'free' Carbeniu, Ions-Radiation and Chemical", noon, Chemistry Building, Room 3005. Institute for Social Research-Dan Goleman, associate editor, Psychology Today, "Publishing for the 'Real World': The Relation- ship of Social Science Research to the General Public", 3:30 p.m, 6006 ISR. Bachman Memorial Lecture-Prof. Duilio Arigoni, Eidgenossiche Technische Hochschule, Zurich, Switzerland, "Studies on Biological Alkylation Reactions", 3:30 p.m., Chemistry Building, Room 1210. Program in Child Development Social Policy-A. Sidney Johnson III, director, Family Impact Seminar, George Washington University, "Public Policies and Families", 4 p.m., 2225 Angell. Classical Studies-Richard Kannucht, professor of classics, Univer- sity Tubingen, "Helen-the Discovery of Eros in Homer", 4 p.m., 2009 Angell. World Politios Colloquium-James Ray, University of New Mexico. "International Dependency as a Source of Internal Conflict", 5 p.m., 1017 Angell. Music School-Ellwood Derr, Arts and Crafts of Musical Discourse series, "Wherefores of Keyboard Orchestral Accompaniment 1760- 1810, 8p.m., Rackham Assembly Hall. MISCELLANEOUS Xanadu Co-op-Scottish Country Dancing, 7:30 p.m., 1811 Washtenaw. Fraternity Coordinating Council/Panhellenic Association-Greek Week, Sigma Chi Swimathon, 8 p.m., Matt Mann Pool. WASHINGTON (AP)-"Great cases like hard cases make bad law. For great cases are called great, not by reason of their real importance in shaping the law of the future, but because of some accident of immediate overwhelming interest which appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment. "-Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1904. The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a major case this Wed- nesday. THECASE involving Brian F. Weber is expected to answer many of the dif- ficult and potentially divisive questions left unanswered by last June's much publicized "Bakke" ruling. Civil rights activists and legal scholars claim the court's eventual decision could determine the future success in the job market of racial minorities and women. What's more, some of them say, it could determine how the nation's future society copes with the sins of generations past. AT ISSUE is whether employers with no proven history of racial bias illegally discriminate against white mpen when giving preferences to minority and female employees. "The voluntary use of affirmative ac- tion in employment is what's at stake," said William Taylor of the Washington based Center for National Policy Review. "The danger of this case is that it might result in a cutting off of any stimulus for voluntary action by em- ployers," he said. WEBER, A 32-year-old laboratory analyst at Kaiser Aluminum Chemical Co.'s Gramercy La., plant sued his em- ployer in 1974 after he was denied a place in an on-the-job training program. Weber charged-and two lower federal courts agreed-that he was ex- cluded only because of his race. He is white. The lower courts ruled that the program begun that year by Kaiser to land more blacks in higher paying jobs was illegal because it fostered what Weber's lawyer called "reverse discrimination." THE PROGRAM, provided for in a Kaiser agreement with the United Steelworkers union, accepted black and white employees on a one-for-one basis. Weber chargedthat the quota worked against him because blacks with less seniority were chosen over him. Had trainees been selected solely on the basis of seniority, no black would have been included in the program at Gramercy. Weber's lawsuit charged that the program's quota violated that portion of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibiting all employers from discriminating against workers because of their race, sex, religion or national origin. March 28, 29 Conference on.'lonestown" Faith and Death In Jonestown: Criticial Questions For American Life 4:00pm Wed., Rackham Lecture Hall (free/public) GEORGE BAKER, Assoc. Dir. Program for the Study of New Religious Movements, Grad. Theological Union, Berkeley. 8:00pm Wed., Rackham Lecture Hall (free/public) ROBERT ELLWOOD, Prof. History of Religion, Univ. of Southern California This conference is to place Jonestown in the wider context of issues this event raises for the social, cultural, 'political and religious life in America. The second day, THURSDAY, will be a working session with short papers presented. If you wish further information please call Office of Ethics an Religion, 764-7442. 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