MSA ELECTION See editorial page V' Lt +U Eighty-Nine Years of Editorial Freedom flU11Qit SHOWERS TO FLOWERS? High-320 Low-20° See Today for details 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. A 2Human iiug hts De p.faltering 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. Mid IR ANIAN STUDENTS, SPAR TACUS YOUTH LEAGUE BRAWL: P Una a f Ira; Spa 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- X X 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. u ::: A g