tFru SE NMCkVM Gt D.' Y Snow job Snow fell in huge quantities yesterday morning, and the University maintainence crew kept busy clearing sidewalks and salting steps. Witha 11 of that snow to clear it was a good thing the crew got some help in front of West Quad. Leon West, the dorm's building director, was outside the Quad, all bundled up and operating a snow blower. We know that West's extra duty makes living in West Quad just a little bit easier, but when is he going to get around to plowing Ann Arbor streets? Take ten While battalions of U.S. marines along with other allied troops were launching the biggest seaborne assault of the Vietnam war on the Batanga Peninsula, on Jan. 14, 1969, the operating committee to the Office of Student Affairs agreed that the University should comply as much as possible with a rent strike that was being held. The rent strike organizers requested theBureau of Off-Campus Housing to inform all students seeking housing information about the rent strike. 0 Candid camera Norma Taylor, principal of John Adams Junior High School in Charleston, West Virginia, has an interesting way of keeping an eye on students who are goofing off. Taylor takes photographs of the rowdy kids and then confronts them with the developed pictures at conferen- ces in her office. We've heard rumors that students at the junior high school are becoming extremely camera shy.x Living 'out 'in Ypsi At the new $120,000 Stampler home in Ypsilanti, the outhouse is out front. The family, without a sewage connection six months after a permit was issued, put a portable outhouse on the front lawn last week. "They've been giving us the run-around," Cathy Stampler said. Although acknowledging she faced a possible fine and the wrath of neighbors, Stampler said the portable potty was "better than nothing. I'll put a heater in there and I may even get to like it." It would be a shame if the Stampler's are fined for their outdoor toilet antics. As the saying goes, "when you gotta go, you gotta go." Happenings Sunday FILMS Cinema Guild-The Caine Mutiny, 7, 9p.m., Old Arch. Aud. PERFORMANCES Music School-Piano chamber recital: SM Recital Hall, 2 p.m. Musical Society-Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro," Canadian Opera Co., Power Center, 3, 8p.m.. Eva Jessye Afro-American Music Collection-Dr. Jessye's 84th Birthday Celebration; lecture, performances, photo display; Pen- dleton Rm., Union, 4 p.m. Israeli Dance Performing Group at Hillel, 12-1 p.m., 1429 Hill St. Open Israeli Dancing at Hillel, 1-3 p.m., 1429 Hill St. Michigan Dance Association-Free performance by University faculty and students, 5 p.m., Studio A, University's Dance Building. SPORTS Men's Gymnastics-Big Ten Invitational, 10 a.m., 2:30 p.m., Crisler Arena. MISCELLANEOUS Folklore Society-Square Dance with live string band and caller, 8 p.m., Hillel basement, 1429 Hill St. Monday FILMS Cinema Guild-Man Ray experimental films, 7, 9:05 p.m., Old Arch. Aud. Ann Arbor Film Co-op-Lubitsch night, The Oyster Princess, 9:30; Madame Du Barry, 10:30, Aud. A, Angell Hall. Washtenaw County Coalition Against Apartheid-Last Grave at Dimbaza, 7:30 p.m., Rm. 126, East Quad. PERFORMANCES Ann Arbor Public Schools-Kayjona Jackson, John McCants, and the Back Alley Players will put on a performance for children kin- dergarten through sixth grade; 2-3 p.m., meeting rm., Ann Arbor Public Library, 343S. Fifth Ave. Disabled Student Services-Demonstrations of the Kurzweil reading machine for the blind, 10 a.m., 2211 Michigan Union. SPEAKERS Med-Sci II-Rep. David Hollestar; "The Medical Treatment Decision Act," Noon, S. Lecture Hall, Med-Sci II. SPORTS Women's Basketball-U-M vs. Ohio State, 7 p.m., Crisler Arena. MISCELLANEOUS Xanadu Co-op-Scottish Country Dancing, beginners welcome, 7:30-9:30 p.m., 1811 Washtenaw. Bridge to Heaven? Daily Photo by ANDYFREEBERG Actually, New York's Whitestone Bridge doesn't go as far as heaven. The bridgejconnects the boroughs of Bronx-where this cemetery lies-and Queens. U.S. STUDY OF CHILDBIRTH: Anesthetics linked to infant brain damage NEW YORK (UPI)-Pain-killing and anesthetic drugs routinely given American women during childbirth cause brain damage to their babies, a government study shows. A government health officer admits this may mean many children are being born with "less than a full deck." THE STUDY-submitted for publication eight months ago but still delayed by the government-makes a "clear-cut" link between obstetric medication and impairment of brain development, particularly thinking ability, motor skills, and behavior in children born during the last century. "It is difficult to' avoid concluding that the damage is permanent," said Dr. Yvonne Brackbill, author of the study, in an interview. The effects are subtle in most children and they appear to function normally, she said. BUT, SHE SAID, even the subtle ef- fects of these pyschoactive medications administered during childbirth cause an average IQ loss of 4 points. With an annual U.S. birth rate of 3.7 million, this comes to a total national * loss of 14 million IQ points a year, which "should put the problem of obstetric medication at the head of the class of national health priorities," Brackbill said. Brachbill, a pyschologist at the University of Florida in Gainesville, specializes in the study of the effect of drugs on the brain. HER STUDY constitutes the largest- based test in medical literature of the effects of obstetric medications on in- fant development and has far-reaching social and medical implications. Brackbill estimated that in 1977 "95 per cent of births in the United States hospitals nowadays are medicated. This means 3.5 million medicated bir- ths out of 3.7 million births a year." She said contrary to the common belief that natural child birth is in- creasing, the number of drugs being given to women during gestation, labor and delivery is rising. She cited a study in Houston which showed the average mother consumed 19 different drugs during pregnancy and delivery in 1977, up sharply from an estimated 3.6 drugs taken by the average mother in 1963. DRUGS DISCUSSED in the study in- clude all the inhalant anesthetic drugs used to put women to sleep during delivery as well as the routinely used pain-killers-meperidine (Demerol), promazine (Sparine), promethazine (Phenergan), scopolamine (Hyoscine) and secobarbital (Seconal). THE MICHIGAN DAILY Volume LXXXIX, No.87 Sunday. January 14, 1979 is edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan. News phone 764-0562. Second class postage is paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109. Published daily Tuesday through Sundaymorning during the University year at 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109. Subscription rates: $12 September through April (2 semesters); $13 by mail, outside Ann Arbor. Summer session published Tuesday through Saturday morning. Subscription rates: $6.50 in Ann Arbor; $7,00 by mail outside Ann Arbor. According to Brackbill, the effects on infants are related to drug strength and dosage-the stronger the drug and the higher the dose, the more serious the ef- fect. "The most substantial effects follow cases in which mothers received the highest potency drugs," she said. Asked if in laymen's terms the study means children are being born, "with less than a full deck," Dr. Samuel Drage, who is responsible for the study at the National 'Institute of Health (NIH), said: "Well, if you want to put it that way, it may be that this study shows that several generations of chilren born in this country under ob- stetric medications may be starting out life with a deficit-less than a full deck." BRACKBILL SAID her study, which was ready for release last April, was BRIDGE TOURNAMENT January 16-7:30 pm Michigan union Assembly Hall $3.50 per pair being withheld by NIH as a result of pressure brought by obstetricians aid anesthesiologists. "I am very afraid that they are going to take this study which makes a vei'y clear-cut, cause-and-effect relationsh-p between the obstetric medications and degradations in behavior and iii- telligence, and water it all down by put- ting in a lot of qualifiers," she said. ,If they do that, I will take legal action . This is too important to be changed br hidden." UMOM COPIES ON A SUNDAY? The PAPER CHASE IS OPEN: SUN: 12-11 pm MON-FRI: 8:30-11 pm SAT: 12-11 pm in the Mich. Union 665-80 next to U-Cellar X6 4. Do a Tree a Favor: Recycle Your Daily GLENDA JACKSON in Peter Brook's Marat Sade A play within a play on film-the inmates of a French insane asylum stage a play concenring the death of the French revolutionary leader Jean Paul Marat, at the hands of Charlotte Corday. The inmates' disorders tend to intrude upon the proceedings, and the interior play is directed by the asylum's most noted inmate, Marquis de Sade. A stunning drama, and an absolutely spellbinding discussion of madness and revolution. GLENDA JACKSON steals the show in an early screen performance. With PATRICK McGEE, IAN RICHARDSON, and the ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY. (115m) (1967) FRI-DOUBLE FEATURE Sci-FI classicsl TONIGHT AT ANGELL HALL AUD. A CINEMA 117ONGH1.5 EDWARD DMYTRYK'S 1954 THE CAINE MUTINY The other famous mutiny film, Bogart is unusually cast, but superb as the paranoic Captain Queeg, the skipper of the CAINE, whose obsessions trigger a modern-day mutiny. With an all-star cast including JOSE FERRER, VAN JOHNSON, FRED MacMURRAY, and LEE MARVIN. In color. Bring your ball bearings. MON: MAN RAY EXPERIMENTAL FILMS-The works of the Philadelphia-born Man Ray who went to Paris, became a Dadaist, surrealist pointer and photog, rapher, and it shows in his films. (Free at 7 and 9:05) Tues: THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (Free at 7 and 9:05) TONIGHT AT OLD ARCH. AUD. CINEMA GUILD 7:00ad,:15 $1.50 I I I