UGANDA See editorial page \: ' Eig t -Nine Years of Editorial Freedom E aiIQ JINXED High--65o Low-52 See Today for details Vol. LXXXIX, No. 155 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Friday, April 13, 1979 Ten Cents Sixteen Pages A Tenants Union continues By AMY SALTZMAN On November 11, 1968 a large white sign with bold black letters hung again- st the stark brick wall of an apartment building on E. Hoover, The sign read: .Join the Tenants Union Rent Strike." ;three months later, 1,500 Ann Arbor tenants had pledged to withhold their rent in what was hailed as the nation's largest rent strike. Today, more than a decade after the first angry tenants plastered their walls with words of defiance, the Ann Arbor Tenants Union (TU) is still organizing, WCCAA to appeal 'court rulin g By MITCH CANTOR The Washtenaw County Coalition Against Apartheid's (WCCAA) attor- aey yesterday said the group will ap- peal Wednesday's decision handed down by Circuit Court Judge Ross Campbell allowing the University Regents to move their April meeting to bar potential disrupters. WCCAA members have not yet decided whether to file for an emergen- cy appeal, according to WCCAA attor- hey Thomas O'Brien. He added that §hould members favor that option, the ase has a good chance of coming before a judge again prior to next Thur- sday and Friday's Regents meetings. If the appeal is requested under normal circumstances, however, it will not likely meet that deadline, the attorney said. THE LAWYER, who met with two representatives from the coalition Yesterday afternoon, said the group tnay opt to wait on the matter because preparation for the appellate hearing "would drain from their efforts (to prepare for) the Regents' meeting." O'Brien said it is likely the coalition will likelydecide on that issue before Monday. The first step in the process, regar- dless of the WCCAA decision, is the filing of a claim of appeal, wpich. O'Brien plans to do today in Lansing. Thv case will eventually come before the Michigan Court of Appeals in the state capital. The interpretation offered by Cam- pbell is the first judicial ruling of Michigan's 1977 Open Meetings Act. While the decision allows the Board to relocate in the face of disruption, it in- sikts that only the protesters may be excluded from the relocated meeting. Campbell, however, did not prescribe a method for distinguishing all the demonstrators from non- demonstrators.. counseling and defending the rights of the city's tenants. BUT EVEN though their motto - "Housing For People Not Profits" - still graces the surface of an occasional kiosk, over the past few years, the TU's organizing efforts have come up again- st some major obstacles. The organization is still feeling the severe financial and spiritual effects of a 1977 embezzlement of thousands of dollars from its escrow fund. "I know it (the embezzlement) has had an effect on our reputation," said TU coordinator Chris Strempek. "It's just something we have to deal with that we inherited from our past." Strempek said since the theft, TU has made several fund-raisingefforts in an attempt to pay back all of the money. He said "at least" 40 per cent of the money has been refunded, although he could not cite specific figures. LAST WEEK, the TU suffered another setback: The Literary College's (LSA) Curriculum Commit- tee announced plans for cutting back and possibly eliminating Project Outreach credit for organizati( the TU. The majority of the students TU are receiving Project Ot credit and some members ag loss of such credit could problems for the organization. lose Project Outreach support look difficult," said Forrest Tie LSA senior, and TU group leader Tiedman said the immediatee the loss of Project Outreach would be a substantial reductio hours. The organization, locate( despite ons like fourth floor of the Michigan currently open five days a we at the a staff of 25 to 30 students., utreach ALTHOUGH THE Unive ree the began granting credit four y create interested TU members, som "If we said it was this credit whi things provided them with the incen dman, a the organization. r. "I would never have gott effect of with the TU if it hadn't beenf credit Outreach," said TU mem n in TU Flood. d on the Other TU members, howe n Union, is particularly concerned about the ek and has possible loss of Outreach credit. "This place will be here even if Outreach rsity only doesn't provide the students,'' said ears ago to Strempek. ne students Strempek said if the organization ch initially loses Outreach support, the TU will be ntive to join forced to shift its focus to the com- munity. But Strempek said he is in- en involved terested in doing that regardless of the for Project Project Outreach situation. "We are ber Frank going to try to spread more throughout the community and not depend so much ver, aren't See TENANTS, Page 9 Two resign * :Y~~z from By JULEENGEBRECHT Two Central Student Judiciary (CSJ) justices resigned yesteray, protesting the manner in which the judiciary body handled last week's Michigan Student Assembly (MSA) election certifiction. Sunday night, CSJ decided not to cer- tify last week's election. After a question arose as to the legality of that hearing, however, CSJ met Wednesday to decide whether another hearing would be necessary. The two justices who were present decided that no second hearing was needed and that Sunday's ruling would stand. "Due process is being raped," said LSA senior Kim Gardner, who resigned along with LSA senior Shelly Drew, "and I can't be a part of it." IN A LETTER addressed to MSA, Assistant Vice President of Student Services Thomas Easthope, and Chief Justice Dennis Persinger, Gardner and Drew stated, "We do not advocate cer- tification or non-certification of the election, rather we advocate that CSJ fulfill its obligations as established by the All-Campus Constitution and the Compiled Code by hearing all sides of the question. "It is obvious to us from the Court's actions of 11 April that the court has lost sight of its purpose as a judicial body," the letter continued. "We feel that we can no longer remain members of a body that has demonstrated such an unwillingness or inability to perform its duties." Richard Barr and Thomas Potter, former CSJ justices, are also displeased with the actions of the judiciary and the body's decision not to certify the election. The former justices posted a notice in MSA offices early yesterday stating that CSJ did not have a proper quorum at the preliminary hearing Wednesday night, and that the certifiction hearing Sunday night was illegal because of a rule which requires CSJ to hold such a hearing not less than five and not more than 10 days following the last day of an election. IN THE LETTER, Gardner and Drew also said the certification hearing Sunday was unquestionably convened prior to the expiration of the required five-day waiting period. Wednesday night's preliminary hearing was required because of a suit filed by MSA treasurer and Student Alliance for Better Representataive (SABRE) party President Brad Canale saying that CSJ had violated its rules. However, most justices bad not been in- formed of the hearing and only two- justices are required at a preliminary hearing. See MSA,,Page 16 Dily Photo CYRENA CHANG MEMBERS OF PEACEMAKERS Unlimited, a group of local citizens opposing military recruitment, have set up a table at CRISP. The table is next to one set up by ROTC recruiters, although both groups say there is no hostility between the two. SETS UP DESK AT CRISP: Group challenges R 0 TC -1regirstration By WILLIAM THOMPSON Controversy has grown recently over whether students should get academinc' edit for Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) courses at the University. Now, one group - trying a direct approach to curb ROTC registration - has set up shop right next to military recruiters at CRISP lines. Peacemakers Unlimited is composed of a handful of local citizens who oppose military recruiting. Members say their goal is to act as a "counter presence" to ROTC recruiters. TO ACHIEVE this counter effort, group members discuss the value of ROTC courses with students at registration lines. They also pass out a flyer advising students to "sign up for classes . . . not for the military." Mike Pennanen, a member of Peacemakers Unlimited, said his group wants students to realize that the purpose of the military is to prepare people for war. "It's their job to get people to join," Pennanen said of the recruiters. "We want to help people find their vocations." Peacemakers Unlimited member Susan Johnson said though her group is opposed to the military, it doesn't see at- tacking ROTC as part of its role. "WE'VE GOT nothing against the people in the military - just the institution," she said. "We have a very good relation- ship with the ROTC group." ROTC recruiters, who sit only a few feet from Peacemakers Unlimited, agreed that relations are friendly between the two groups. "There hasn't been any conflict," said ROTC cadet Barry DeCicco, a University freshman. "They (Peacemakers Unlimited) haven't leveledany criticism," added Don Hall, a sophomore ROTC cadet. He said the group has "the right to be there." BOTH RECRUITERS said the presence of the group does not affect their recruiting efforts. "We're trying to play our recruiting casual," Hall said. "We're not wearing uniforms." The purpose of the ROTC table at CRISP, said Hall, is to make people aware of their program. "We are trying to boost our enrollment," he added. Workers from both groups said reactions of students toward their pitches have been apathetic. Johnson attributed this to a general lack of interest in the military. Pennanen, however, said "most people just want to get through the See GROUP, Page 12 South Africa expels three U.S. officials l1a5 arrested, officer charged w Five persons were arrested yester- day and charges of assault and battery were filed against an Ann Arbor police officer in connection with an incident involving "about 70" persons at State and William. According to witnesses, the distur- bance began shortly before 5 p.m., when members of the AAPD attempted to disperse a crowd gathered on the corner across from the Diag. "The majority of them were black kids hanging around in front of the (Focus) pinball joint," said witness Stacy Stin- son. WITNESSES said that police poured out one man's bottle of beer and then arrested him as he walked around the corner. "People stayed on the corner - ith assault 17. Jim Wallace, an LSA sophomore, said that he saw a police officer jab Arletta James, 16, in the stomach "for no reason." "It didn't seem right to me that he should do that," said Wallace, who said he was just passing through. "I went and asked him his badge number, and . he lied to me. I asked him about it again and he pushed me and said, 'It's none of your business!" Wallace went to Police Headquarters and filed assault and bat- tery charges against the officer, iden- tified only as Officer Wise. Captain Robert Conn of the AAPD said that "a couple (of persons) were charged with loitering, a couple with hindering and opposing." All were released on personal recognizance. CAPE TOWN (AP)-Prime Minister Pieter Botha charged yesterday that some U.S. Embassy personnellhave snooped on sensitive areas of South Africa with a specially equipped "spy plane," and he ordered them to leave the country within a week. The embassy said it would have no comment, but the State Department in Washington said three U.S. Air Force personnel assigned to the embassy were ordered out. The State Department identified the personnel asked to leave as Air Force Colonel Alvin Crews, the defense at- tache; Major Bernd McConnell, assistant air attache; and Master Sergeant HoraceWyatt, crew chief of the embassy plane. A SPOKESWOMAN said the plane was the defense attache's C-12, a thin- engined aircraft sometimes used to transport U.S. Ambassador William Edmondson. The bombshell announcement sent U.S.-South African relations, already badly strained, into a tailspin. In Washington, a State Department official confirmed an airplane assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria was equipped with a camera and took aerial photographs, but said he would not call the photography espionage. An em- bassy spokesman said it would have no comment. "WE DON'T have all of the facts ;yet," one official said. "But if we wan- ted to spy on South Africa, we have fan- cy satellites that can do it better than a Piper Cub." Botha, appearing unexpectedly on the country's 8 p.m. television news broadcast, accused the embassy of using Edmondson's airplane as a "spy plane" to take pictures of "very sen- sitive areas" of South African territory. Botha described the affair as "disgraceful" and "a great violation of See SOUTH AFRICA, Page 11 Friday-- A University study claims that one out of three victims in fatal car crashes could have been saved had they been wearing seat belts. See Story, Page 3. * More of the Shah's suppor- ters in Iran were executed yesterday following their convic- tions in secret trials. See story, Page 12. Peg Sead the Today column, Page 3 lk: 4: .>::::... .... Police, guards, protect campus Doily Photo CYRENA CHANG GLEN RICHTER, NEW director of the Michigan Marching Band, told 100 members yesterday that he foresees no major changes in band traditions. Richter is replacing George Cavender, who held the position for 27 years. Marchin Band director * will continue traditions By BETH PERSKY and KEVIN ROSEBOROUGH Last in a three-part series The security of students on the University campus hinges on three for- ces-the protection provided by patrolling Ann Arbor police, the security organizations employed by the University, and the awareness of the in the city. He did point out, however, that there were "more readily available crime victims" on campus. "By the very nature of the campus and its buildings, which are open to the public, there are more occasions for robberies and larcenies," he said. "There's always the usual hasssling on the Diag, due in part to the large flow of people through there. Panhandling and universities have their own police department-we do not. We work closely with the Ann Arbor police-the University has every problem the city has." The University Safety Depar- tment is staffed by 22 officers, accor- ding to Stevens. "MOST OF OUR officers are recruited with the desirability of them having prior police experience, prior The University Department of Housing Security works with the Safety Department, but is a separate entity. Guards from Housing Security are stationed in dorms at night, and are ex- pected to patrol their halls. "WHAT I'M expected to do when I come on is do a very thorough check," and one' Housing Security guard. "When I'm off, I make sure that all the 1" Q W'IUgPt V UWlI7 I By DE:1HFlURSKY Cave'~under.who hbecame the Muici 2i