OPEN MEETINGS See editorial page LtE 431W 1Ekti1 FIVE-STAR High-52 Low-34 See Today for details Figh Ity*-N n C Year of Editorial Freed1 Vol. LXXXIX, No. 157 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Sunday, April 15, 1979 Ten Cents Fourteen Pages plus Supplement Students on Executive Committees: A By JOHN SINKEVICS A dLUUr11 hi b1Ihin } i1U UIUTI1 17In1iIl S WKA -iA vL e rveu o n 0e11. mkin a decision via T1 I -- # Executive Committees at the University make some of the most important decisions on cam- pus. Their members decide the fate of tenure recommendations, committee reports on curriculum, and budget proposals. However, only two colleges at the University currently place students on their Executive Committees: the College of Architecture and Urban Planning and the School of Public Health. And even though both faculty members and students on these committees say the student' participation has worked out well and has been valuable, indications are that other colleges will not follow suit. PAUL SILVERBERG, a fourth-year graduate stuaent in Arcitecture and Ur an running anda a member of that college's Executive Committe (which has four students and six faculty mem- bers), said students have been effective in forumating important policies. "Students on the committee have been effec- tive in getting their ideas across, and I think a lot of positive benefits have come out of our par- ticipation," he said. "I would rule out totally the notion of student irresponsibility in such a position," he continued, "because I think the students bring another valuable perspective to the committee. I think we are treated as equals by the other members and we have established a good deal of credibility." T 1UDVENTSb HAVE served on the collegeo Architecture and Urban Planning's Executive Committee for four years, and the idea came about as the result of changes in the structure of the college. Assistant Dean Herbert Johe said that following the college's abolishment of depar- tments, regulations were rewritten to include student input on the Executive Committee. "We felt that students should share in the discussion of matters pertaining to the college, and this participation has been very valuable when we talk about promotion," said Johe. "The students will attain information on the teaching competence of professors up for promotion, and we carefully consider their suggestions when niml g UMZl. However, students do not formally vote on the issues because the University's Regents' bylaws state students can only serve on executive com- mittees in an advisory capacity. The Regents will not consider student votes in making their decisions. BOTH SILVERBERG and Johe had serious reservations about the inclusion of students on the LSA's Executive Committee because they said the college was much larger and involves broader issues than does the College of Architec- ture and Urban Planning. "While this college is small-everyone seems to know everyone else on a one-to-one basis-LSA is scattered, and there are a lot of bue ptanr. issues which students may not know a great deal about," said Silverberg. "Even with a small college, there are still a lot of issues that I don't have any idea about." Johe agreed. "There is a real in-house comradery in this college, and the issues are easily focused. I don't see how you could struc- ture anything like it in LSA," he said. "I THINK STUDENTS are basically reluctant to commit themselves for a long time to something like this; they are not on the same level as the faculty," he added. Johe said he felt student organizations voice their opinions on various matters in r.epresenta- See SOME, Page 2 Saudi oil in doubt for 80's Shake your booty Daily Photo by LISA UDELSON Members of the Ann Arbor Morris Club performed the "morris" on the Diag in the spring to welcome the new season. The club meets once a year to perform yesterday. The dance is an ancient English fertility rite traditionally performed the dance. WASHINGTON (AP) - Saudi Arabia's oil production will fall far short of worldwide demand by the late 1980s, touching off the potential for "a fierce political and economic struggle" among consuming nations, a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee said yesterday. The study said that while Saudi Arabia has more oil reserves than any othier nation, previous optimistic forecasts of its ability.and willingness to produce as much oil as is needed should be discarded. UNLESS THE United States and other industrialized importers of Mideast oil sharply revise their energy policies, there will be "adverse im- plications for the lives of people everywhere," the report said. Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho), chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, said the report's findings demonstrate that "it would be im- prudent for the United States to rely on Saudi Arabia to increase its oil produc- tion capacity . . . to bail us out of our long-term energy dilemma." The subcommittee on international economic policy's study of Saudi Arabian oil reserves stirred controver- sy because of the sensitivity of U.S. relations with the Saudis. SOME OF THE report's findings were based on subpoenaed records from two, big U.S. oil companies, Standard Oil of California and Exxon Corp. Both are members of Aramco, the group of four oil companies which explores and drills for reserves in Saudi Arabia. The State Department and the Saudi Arabian government raised objections to the investigation, and Church acknowledged that some information in original drafts was deleted. Congressional sources said some consideration was given to keeping the document secret. Public release of the study had initially been scheduled weeks ago. CHURCH SAID the study was not in- tended to influence how much oil the Saudi Arabian government sells to the United States, despite the report's generally gloomy findings. Nonetheless, the report said there is risk of major international conflict unless demand for oil is somehow reduced. By 1990, it said, "The consuming nations could begin a fierce political and economic 'struggle for scarce sup- plies, straining relations between Western allies and between richer and poorer nations." THE REPORT estimated current Saudi oil reserves at 177.6 billion barrels, one-quarter of the world's total. Several years ago, the Saudi Arabia government believed it could produce 20 million barrels daily through the end of the century, the report noted. As late as 1977, it was estimated that production could be sustained at 16 million barrels daily, it said. NOW, THE report stated, the Saudis probably will limit production toa bout 12 million barrels daily starting in the early 1980s. Even at that rate, reserves would being to run out in 15 to 20 years, it said. At the 16 million-barrel daily rate, the Saudis will begin to run out of oil in about seven years, the report said. It said Saudi Arabian officials have clamped tight limits on how much oil they will permit Aramco to take from the fields. Currently, production is running at 9.5 million barrels daily. PERFORMANCE OF NRC IN DOUBT: Nueleai From AP and UPI WASHINGTON-As the threat of potential disaster faded at the crippled Three Mile Island nuclear reactor last week, attention shifted to the confusion that hampered responses to the ac- cident by key officials. More and more questions were raised about the Nuclear Regulatory Com- mission (NRC) and its ability to handle problems at the nation's nuclear power plants. It also became known that many nuclear plants suffer from problems similar to those that triggered the Three Mile Island accident. PRESIDENT CARTER, aiming to get some answers, appointed an 11 member commission to study the ac- cident and the official handling of it. And the NRC intensified its review of plant design and procedures with a more informed eye for possible problems. As the week began, the tone was op- timistic. ant S Pennsylvania Gov. Dick Thornburgh told pregnant women and young children that it was safe to end their 11- day exile and return to their homes within five miles of the plant. "THIS MEANS that it is now con- sidered safe," he told a Harrisburg news conference: "Thid does not mean that we will relax our vigil. We will con- tinue to monitor the entire situation on a 24-hour basis." Thornburgh also said schools within five miles of the plant could reopen, state officials could go back to business as usual and Civil Defense operations could be geared down. Dropping temperatures in the damaged core of the Three Mile Island reactor were permitted to stablize again yesterday as officials pondered their next step in a cautious cooling process to end the nation's worst nuclear plant crisis. "The temperature is holding at 250 degrees Farhenheit and pressure at 900 till cooling down pounds per square inch, and it looks like it's going to stay there for awhile," said Karl Abraham, a Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman. "It looks like that's where the reactor wants to go." A PHASED FINAL cooling to reach a benign, long-term reactor condition called cold shutdown started Friday when operators began reducing core cooling water temperatures at a rate of about five degress an hour. NRC authorities refused to set an exact timetable for achieving cold shutdown, saying they laced sufficient technical data and had to analyze each action carefully before proceeding. But there was another development last Monday that wasn't public and that struck a quite different note. THE NRC'S Advisory Committee on Nuclear Safeguards wrote a letter that day saying that 42 other U.S. reactors like Three Mile Island could be vulnerable to a major instrument problem. And that could mislead the reactors' operators toward another near disaster. The letter got to NRC Chairman Joseph Henrie the next day, Tuesday. And on Wednesday, the NRC staff called for new safety measures for pressurized water reactors. Three Mile Island Unit 2 is such a reactor. The problem, the NRC said, is that instruments designed to measure the amount of vital cooling water in the reactor may give conflicting readings. Rhodesian warplanes attack guerrilla SALISBURY, Rhodesia (AP) - Rhodesian warplanes blasted a black nationalist guerrilla- base in Zambia yesterday, just 24 hours after a Rhodesian commando raid on guerrilla headquarters in the Zambian capital of Lusaka. A terse military statement said the air strike 100 miles inside Zambia was against "a terrorist camp at Mulunguhsi, which is situated 66 miles north to northwest of Lusaka. All Rhodesian aircraft returned safely to base." IT MADE NO mention of casualties. -Sundcay This is the last issue of The Daily for this semester. The summer edition of The Daily begins publication May 2. Best of luck on finals and have a good base inside Zambia Secondhand clothing shop sells more than clothes By JOYCE FRIEDEN Virginia Morton is more than just the proprietor of Second Hand Rose, a used, clothing store at 211 N. Main St. She is its atmosphere and its creator. Morton, a charming middle-aged woman, presides over her store from an antique chair, dispensing shopping ad- vce, neauty hints, and counseling to customers with equal enthusiasm. A VISIT TO Second Hand Rose is like a trip to a by-gone era. Gibson Girl. pic- tures from the 1920s and antique mirrors cover the walls. Beer steins rest on the shelves. Boxes sitting on the floor are filled with feather boas and a variety of hats-enormous hats, tiny hats, wide-brimmed hats, and hats See SECONDHAND, Page 8 Lt. Gen. Peter Walls, Rhodesia's supreme military commander, told reporters at a news conference there might be more raids before next week's general election. "Who know," he said, "it might be on again tonight." Earlier, the military command an- nounced that Rhodesian troops had killed 90 guerrillas inside Rhodesia in the heaviest fighting of the six-year war. IT ISSUED a communique saying the guerrillas killed two Rhodesian soldiers and five black civilians in the fighting and one "terrorist collaborator" was killed. It said the battle erupted after Friday's assaults inside Zambia. Yesterday's air raid was the latest in a series of cross-border strikes that have occurred almost daily in the past week. Walls said the air strike was directed against a base of Joshua Nkomo's Zim- babwe People's Revolutionary Army. - HE CLAIMED Friday's commando assault that destroyed Nkomo's home in Lusaka was not aimed at killing or kidnapping the guerrilla leader. Zambian sources reported at least 10 guerrilla guards and three raiders were killed in the Lusaka attack, but Walls denied any raider had been killed. VIRGINIA MORTON, owner of Second Hand Rose, examines some- of the store's line of used clothing.\ T he newspaper game: A toss-up in A By GREG GALLOPOULOS Second in a two-part series About 2,000 copies of the New York Times are unloaded in Detroit daily. table and impress their friends," Bishop said with a grin recently. BISHOP HAS little reason to worry The editor says the role of the News ought to fill is to be "first and foremost" in local news coverage, and -ad he onnsiders this "A great resnon- l +S Y S =. Y * e. _.. .+ .. ti.