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Vol. LXXXIX, No. 149 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Friday, April 6, 1979 Ten Cents Eighteen Pages
Project.
Outreach
faces
revision
By JOHN SINKEVICS
The Literary College's (LSA)
Executive Committee has asked the
University's Psychology Department to
make major revisions in its Project
Outreach program, or face possible
revocation of Teaching Assistant funds
for the project.
The changes are to be made because
the Executive Committee "does not ap-
prove" of the current experiential for-
mat of Project Outreach and said un-
dergraduates who 'currently supervise
other undergraduates in the program
are not qualified to serve in this role.
The action is viewed by many in-
volved in the program - and students
who served on the LSA Curriculum
Committee that made certain revisions
in experiential course guidelines - as a
severe blow to the future of Project
Outreach.
"I FEEL LIKE I wasted my time,"
said LSA Student Government
Representative and Curriculum Com-
mittee member Valerie Mims. "We
gave up a lot of our time (assessing and
formulating guidelines for experiential
courses), and our point was not
adequately relayed to the Executive
Committee."
The Curriculum Committee conduc-
ted a major review of Project Outreach
and other University experiential cour-
ses this year, and passed on recom-
mended guideline revisions for such
courses to the Executive Committee.
Last week, members of the Executive
Committee decided to make their own
decisions on Project Outreach, and
stated they did not approve of the
current status of the program for the
following reasons:
* Too many undergraduates are in-
volved in Outreach for one faculty
member,' Psychology Prof. Shula
Reinharz, to have any significant im-
pact upon them;
" Undergraduates should not super-
vise and grade other undergraduates as
they do in Project Outreach. Students
should be_ closely supervised by
teaching assistants, if not by faculty.
See PROJECT, Page 17
Carter to lift
oil ceilings,
ask profit tax
Daiy Pnoto CYKI
Anti-nuke
protest draws
over 200
By TIMOTHY YAGLE
In the wake of the Harrisburg, Pa.. nuclear accident, 200
to 250 anti-nuclear protesters marched across campus and
downtown Ann Arbor yesterday chanting slogans such as
"No nukes is good nukes" and "Stop nuclear power."
The demonstration, sponsored by the Arbor Alliance, a
local organization opposed to nuclear power, began with
an hour-long rally alongside Ann Arbor's Detroit Edison
building on the corner of Main and William Sts.
UNIVERSITY MATH EMATICS Prof. Arthur Schwartz,
one of three instructors of a Residential College (RC)
course on nuclear engineering, said the protesters were
demonstrating their "indignation at the building of yet
more nuclear power plants.
"The country is being gulled into believing they're
(nuclear power plants) safe," said Schwartz during the
protest. "It doesn't replace oil. It produces only elec-
tricity. People are finally beginning to wake up," he said
of nuclear power.
The demonstrators, some of whom wore silver metallic
painton their faces as "symbolic of the radiation,"
walked east on William to Regents' Plaza, adjacent to the
University Administration Building. There they heard
several speakers, including Paul Beiver, a student from
Luxembourg. He said companies such as Babcock and
Wilcox - who built the troubled Three Mile Island reactor
- and the University's nuclear research reactor on North
Campus, are building plants across the U.S. and in
See OVER, Page 10
From APand Reuter
WASHINGTON - President Carter
told the American people last night
"each one of you will have to use less oil
and pay more for it" as he announced
plans to gradually lift ceilings on U.S.-
produced crude oil by 1981.
In a televised address from the Oval
Office, Carter said he is asking
Congress to impose a "windfall profits
tax" that would sop up half the extra
revenues that oil companies would get
from higher prices under decontrol or
from price increases dictated by the
Organization of Petroleum Exporting
Countries.
ALTHOUGH Carter may legally lift
controls without congressional ap-
proval, the House and Senate must ap-
prove the tax, which faces an uncertain
fate on Capitol Hill.
Emphasizing that revenues from the
tax would go to- poor families, mass
transit projects and efforts to develop
new energy sources, Carter sought to
put lawmakers on the spot by
declaring:
"Every vote against it will be a vote
for excessive oil company profits and
for reliance on the whims of the foreign
oil cartel."
A White House statement accom-
panying Carter's televised speech on
energy said the new legislation would
stop a practice allowing oil companies
to use excess credits to shelter other
funds from low-tax income, such as
shipping and refineries.
Credits would be permitted only in
relation to income from oil and natural
gas extraction, it said.
CARTER ARGUED that these and
other measures he is taking or
proposing will combine to cut U.S.
demand for imported oil while in-
creasing domestic energy resources.
"Even with the windfall profits tax in
place, our oil producers will get sub-
stantial new income - enough to
provide plenty of incentive for in-
creased domestic production," the
President argued.
Carter said he will demand that the
oil industry use the extra income for
energy development "and not to buy
department stores and hotels as some
have done in the past."
Administration officials, briefing
reporters on condition that they not be
identified publicly, asserted that the
gradual oil decontrol proposal will add
four to five cents per gallon to the price
of gasoline and home heating oil by Sep-
tember 1981.
Some other estimates have ranged as
high as 15 cents a gallon.
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Daily Photo by ANDY FREEBERG
YOUNG PROTESTERS sport hand-made signs in yester-
day's anti-nuclear energy rally at Detroit Edison offices
in downtown Ann Arbor. The two anti-nuke demonstrators
were part of a crowd of more than 200 who braved the
cold to march against nuclear power. Yesterday's
protest came in the wake of the accident at Three Mile
Island nuclear power plant in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
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Violence interrupts Iran forum
By AMY DIAMOND members told the man that he must be member of the SYL, the group had ex- necessary in order to secure the safe
and JOHN SINKEVICS quiet or he would have to leave, pected the possibility of violence of SYL members and others who att
Police were -called to the Michigan The Iranians raised their fists in the because a similar forum was held on ded the forum.
ion's Kuenzel Room last night, after the campus of Wayne State University HOWEVEaR, THiE OIMS stude
fight broke out between a group of For photo, see Page 17 (WSU) two days ago. Morse said th were allowed into the Kuenzel Ro
inian students and members of the OIMS were trying to storm the without being searched after
artacus Youth League (SYL). The situation." Michigan Union oifficiastsatedt
By AMY SALTZMAN
A little over a year ago, Ann Arbor
adopted a human rights ordinance
touted as the most sweeping
declaration of human rights ever at-
tempted by a local government.
Shortly after the law was adopted, the
city'sHuman Rights Department,
charged with implementing the or-
dinance, merged with the Personnel'
Department at City Hall. Since that
merger the department has been
plagued with severe staff cutbacks, un-
certain leadership, and ambiguous ob-
jectives.
THE COMBINED result: Ann Ar-
bor's human rights ordinance has been
considerably less than the "model" for
civil rights its proponents made it out to
be.
Although the law was designed to
guard against any possible types of
discrimination, staff members at the
Human Rights Department say the ex-
panded ordinance has not produced any
increase in ,the number of
discrimination complaints being han-
ety
en-
ants
Mm
a
bat
dled by the city, and that the depar-
tment has become much less efficient
in handling those complaints it does
receive.
The city's human rights ordinance
prohibits discrimination against any
AnR Arbor resident because of race,
color, religion, national origin, sex,
age, condition of pregnancy, marital
status, physical disabilities, source of
income, family responsibilities,
educational association, or sexual
orientation. Those who, don't comply
with the ordinance could face a $500 fine
and 90 days in jail.
DEPARTMENT members primarily
blame staff cutbacks for the current
problems in implementing the ordinan-
ce. "Due to the merger of the two
departments (the Personnel and
Human Rights Departments) we just
haven't had the staff to deal with com-
plaints," said Claude Rowe, a field
representative at the Human Rights
Department.
The merger led to a combined loss of
See HUMAN, Page 10
violence erupted during a speech by an
Iranian woman, D.L. Reissner, to SYL
members.
The Iranian students, members of the
Organization of Iranian and Moslem
Students (OIMS), objected to the anti-
Khomeini views of /the speaker and
tried to make their feelings known
during Reissner's talk.
THE FIGHT itself began when black-
gloved members of the SYL attempted
to remove an OIMS member who was
interrupting the speech. The SYL
air and started shouting "Long Live
Khomeini" while more than 20 SYL
members, who had been asked to stand
in a circle around the room to protect
people from violence, forcibly removed
the protestors from the room. One
student was struck by an SYL member.
The glass in the doors shattered and,
minutes later, the police arrived to help
break up the skirmish between the two
groups. No one was allowed into the
Kuenzel Room after the police arrived.
ACCORDING TO Judy Morse, a
LSA-SG investigates
nunority attrition rate
At first, the Iranians objected to the
forced frisking by SYL members to en-
sure that no weapons were brought into
the meeting.
According to Morse, the search was
BULLETIN
Last night's storm
caught many Ann Arbor
residents off-guard. City
police reported that small
trees, electrical wires, and
larger tree limbs fell due
to winds of up to 50 miles
per hour. A spokesman for
the local Detroit Edison of-
fice refused to comment
on power outages that
briefly hit several parts of
campus.
Poll shows mistrust of officials
By TOM MIRGA
A scant 15 per cent of those polled
in la nationwide political, survey feel
President Carter can effectively deal
with inflation and other economic con-
cerns-issues they placed at the top of
their priorities-according to Univer-
sity social researcher Arthur Miller.
Miller is director of the biennial sur-
vey of political attitudes, conducted by
the Center for Political Science at the
Institute for Social Research, which has
had a major impact on the way gover-
nment leaders and the media have
viewed voting behavior since the sur-
vey's inception in 1952.
"IN 1976, 50 per cent of the people we
surveyed said that Carter would be able
to handle inflation," Miller said, "and
now they have had their expectations
dashed."
This does not mean, however, that the
public does not trust the President or
feels he is incompetent, the researcher
said. The survey showed that 59 per
cent of the subjects trusted Carter,
down one percentage point since the
last survey was conducted in 1976.
Miller said a major thrust in political
change is the increasing mistrust of
government officials. "The popular
notion is that mistrust stens from
Watergate, but our study shows that it
started as far back as the mid-60's as a
reflection of dissatisfaction with
policies in the areas of civil rights,
Vietnam and the economy," he said.
MILLER CLAIMED that the worst
result of public lack of confidence in
government officials is an increasing
level of apathy among potential voters.
Slightly more than half of those polled
said that they voted in presidential
elections, while roughly one third cast
See SURVEY, Page 7
such a search could not be made.
Morteza Moboraz, the student who
was struck by an SYL member, said he
would not bring . charges against the
group, because he said he would not get
a fair trial.
By SARA ANSPACH
Prompted by concern over the
University's "urgent" problem of
minority attrition, the Literary College
Student Government (LSA-SG), has
been compiling data on campus
minority issues, including faculty af-
firmative action, admissions, and
budgeting.
"We tend to be skeptical of any an-
swers the University gives (for its at-
trition problem)," said Bruce Kozar-
sky, a member of LSA-SG's minority
affirmative action/attrition committee.
"It's not credible for any institution to
investigate itself," he added.
THE ,COMMITTEE, which was for-
med in January, has been investigating
faculty (68.5) are 'in non-tenure
positions than the percentage of white
male faculty (28.2). In LSA percentages
of non-tenured women and minorities
are even higher, with 75.7 per cent of
the women faculty and 54.4 per cent of
minority faculty in non-tenure
positions.
"I really didn't expect to find such a
great discrepancy," said Kozarsky,
who has done most of the research on
minority and women faculty status
himself.
VICE-PRESIDENT for Academic Af-
fairs Harold Shapiro said University af-
firmative action efforts, and increased
availability of minority and women
faculty, have been responsible for in-
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PAC to sue MSA in election dispute,
objects to dormitory poll closings
By BETH PERSKY
The People's Action Coalition (PAC) plans to sue the
Michigan Student Assembly (MSA) because of a refusal by
Central Student Judicial Chief Justice, Dennis Persinger,
and MSA Elections Director, Emily Koo, to extend voting in
that there's any widespread problem as far as the balloting
procedure goes." Arnson said that there were found to be
"less than a hundred" ballots in danger of being invalid this
year, less than last year.
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