EXPENSIVE AIRBAGS See Editorial Page Y 41t iAzu Eighty-Four Years of Editorial Freedom Pa it# DREARY High-34 Lor-18 See Today for details Vol. LXXXV, No. 123 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, February 26, 1975 Ten Cents Eight Pages I IFUSEE W1 AAMCALL yj\y For the birds Bird watchers take notice-a number of house sparrows in Stallings, Mich. have been winged- tagged in the East Quad area to study the flocking behavior inbirds. If you see a bird with brightly- colored tags on its wings, please note the following: (1) the color of the tag on each wing; (2) the time of day; (3) location; (4) number and kind of birds accompanying tagged birds; and (5) whether it's flying normally or abnormally. Please send any such information to Marina Wong, Bird Division, University Museum of Zoology. Oops! Yesterday we reported that the GermanDept. will be holding make-up sessions for those who have missed classes because of the GEO strike: however, sources in the department stressed today that the classes are not make-up; they are emer- gency sessions and the department will continue with the regular syllabus as scheduled. In addition, the times of the sessions reported yesterday were apparently erronious-the actual schedule will be as follows: German 101 (MTWThF)-1 p.m. B119 MLB German 102 (MTWF)-12 noon 2008 MLB German 222 (MTWF)-11 a.m. B110 MLB Also, we reported yesterday that the cost for a four inch ad in The Daily's annual Summer Sublet Supplement will be $7 unless the ads are submitted after March 7, in which case the cost would be $9. In fact, however, the cost for an ad submitted before March 7 will be $8. Incidentally, yesterday's report on the local voter registration sites elided listing the fire station at the corner of Beale and McIntosh, near Bursely Hall on N. Campus. In order to be eligible to vote in the April city elec- tion, you must register before March 10. " Sex note State senator David Plawecki (D-Dearborn) has introduced a new obscenity bill at the Lansing Statehouse. If passed, the legislation would ban movies that are "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy or indecent" from showing at drive-in theaters. Any X-rated movie is also included in the ban. The wide-sweeping measure would disallow skin flicks that are visible beyond the physical boundaries of the theater. Violation of the law would be punish- able by a fine up to $1,000 and a year in the clinker. Happenings ... are eclectic today. Singer Loudon Wainright III will be ready and willing to shake your hand today at noon, in the record department of the U Cellar. It will be a strictly "bring your own skunk" affair . . . the film "We Are the Palestinian People" will be shown at 7 and 9:30 p.m. tonight, along with another film focusing on the Arab peoples, "Ramparts of Clay," at 8 and 10:30 p.m., both at the MLB. The double bill is sponsored by the Friends of the Ann Arbor Sun Film Series .. . anyone interested in supporting the Wounded Knee Legal Defense/Offense should attend a meeting of the group at 7:30 tonight, in Rm. 25 Angell Hall . . . the University of Washington's Robert Paine will deliver a lecture on the subject of ecology at 3 p.m. in MLB 4. The talk will be sponsored by the Museum of Zoology and the School of Natural Resources . . . a discussion with women in non- traditional jobs, sponsored by the Commission for Women, will take place from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Plant Department Conference Room (326 E. Hoover) . . . Tyagi Ji, a cosmic transmitter, will be holding an open session at 7:30 p.m. at the Friends Meeting House, 1416 Hill. The meeting will be sponsored by Students for Self-Realization ... and registration for speed reading and learning skills classes will take place from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 1610 Washtenaw, in the University Reading and Learning Skills Center. 0 Aborted ruling West Germany's highest court yesterday over- turned a law to permit abortion on request, saying it violated the constitutional "right to life." Ernst Benda, president of the Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe argued, "The usual phrase, interruption of pregnancy, cannot disguise the fact that basic- ally it is a homicidal act." The court ruled on a law the governing Social Democrats pushed through parliament last year and which would have permitted abortion on request during the first three months of any pregnancy. Benda said the majority of the justices considered legalized abortion in violation of Article Two of the Basic Law, which says that "everyone shall have a right to life." Benda said in the ruling that only abor- tions performed on women victims of rape or to prevent the birth of a deformed child will be permitted. O On the inside ... Edit Page features an informal guide to housing by Norris Klein . . . Sports Page includes an interview by Leba Hertz with hockey stars Randy and Chris Manery . . . and Arts Page is highlighted by the weekly food column by Robin Hergott. On the outside"... Winter's not over yet. If you don't believe that, Fewer dorm rooms open for fall By GLEN ALLERHAND Students reapplying for dormitory rooms next year may be turned away to make space for an increased number of incoming freshmen, ac- cording to the Housing Office. Housing Director John Feldkamp reports, "We'll have room for about 3000 students (in the traditional residential halls) and a demand by about 4000 students." HE ADDED: "the demand for residence halls is up while the number of freshman applications has increased 30 per cent." Feldkamp attributes the increase to "the Uni- versity's fine academic reputation" and to a gen- eral trend whereby "education does not neces- sarily suffer in tight economic times." Housing Office policy is to first place incoming freshpeople requesting on-campus housing in residence halls. Feldkamp says, "The increase in freshman ap- plications means 50 to 100 more freshmen must be housed." Consequently, those current dorm residents seeking to return to their halls next year will be competing for fewer spaces. Thus, some of them will be forced out of on-campus housing. FELDKAMP commented, "We're going to have some pretty upset students." The Housing Office determines who lives in the dorms by a priority system. Of those who wish to return the following year, students re- questing the same room stand the best chance of surviving the housing squeeze. Next in line are those reapplying to the same houses within the dorms. Third on the priority list are resident hall occupants seeking to come back to the same dormitory. The last on the list are people within the dormitory system ap- plying to different halls for the next year. Feldkamp notes that residents reapplying to Return spaces not guaranteed the same house within a residence hall will get in "providing no more than about 40 per cent of the house wants to return." REAPPLICATION procedures will start after spring break. According to Feldkamp, "The pro- posed reapplication starts on March 17 and goes through March 21." If the students vying to get back into the dorms next year are rejected immediately, their chances to find alternate housing are fair. According to Shirley Lowell of Wilson White Company, a local rental agency, "Bigger apart- ments are gone by the end of February and the first part of March. All are rented by Septem- ber." She claims that a student has got "pretty good chances if he doesn't want anything big." Jane Fisher, of Campus Rentals, says that her company's apartments are "75 per cent gone." Fisher comments, "The real rental rush happens the last couple weeks in January. After March 15, things are pretty gloomy.'.' A REPRESENTATIVE of Summit-Hamilton Management Company notes that a person's chances of finding off-campus housing are "still pretty good." We would only have 35-40 per cent of our apartments gone by mid-March." Even if those turned away from the dormitory spaces get apartments or houses, they must con- tend with ever-increasing rental costs in the Ann Arbor housing jungle. Elaine Price, of McKinley See FEWER, Page 2 Dems pave way for oil depletion allowance cutback WASHINGTON (A-Dem- ocrats struck a blow at the controversial oil depletion allowance yesterday, agree- ing to let the full House consider its elimination as part of an emergency tax package. The caucus of House Democrats voted 153 to 98 to instruct the Rules Com- mittee to clear the way for a vote on an amendment killing the depletion allow- ance and virtually all na- tural gas retroactive to the Accord start of this year. Their action overruled the Ways and Means Committee. THE amendment, sponsored by Rep. William Green (D-Pa.) would be attached to the eco- nomic emergency tax cut bill now under consideration. The caucus action also will allow a vote on a proposal by Rep. Charles Wilson (D-Tex) to let small independent pro- ducers continue to receive the depletionallowance for up to 3,000 barrels of production a day if these producers have no interest in service stations or refining. close stri~ke In other major energy-eco- nomic news: President Ford assured U.S. oil producers that a minimum per barrel price would be set for all oil sold in the United States. -The Federal Power Com- mission ordered complete re- porting of the nation's proven natural gas reserves. Previously only reserves available to inter- state pipelines under FPC juris- diction have had to be reported. -The Senate Interior Commit- tee added to an energy con- servation bill a provision re- quiring that any attempt to de- control domestic oil prices will be subject to quick review-and possible veto-by Congress. Currently, the oil depletion allowance permits 22 per cent of gross income from petroleum property to be deducted from taxable income up to a top of 50 per cent of taxable net in- come. Industry spokespersons insist this is a crucial invest- ment incentive, but critics con- tend it is a symbol of tax law inequity and an unwarranted tax favor for oil companies. HOUSE Speaker Carl Albert (D-Okla.) said: "I'm sure the Democratic members of the Rules Committee will follow the caucus dictate." Albert also said he thinks the House will pass a depletion repeal. "The depletion allowance isn't very popular these days-except in the Southwest. That's the last stand." Common Cause, the self-styled citizens' lobby, applauded the caucus action and said repeal of the allowance "will retire a granddaddy of special interest See DEMOCRATS, Page 8 in GEO By JIM TOBIN Negotiating t e a m s for the University and the Graduate Employes' Organization (GEO) reached a tentative agreement on their dispute over class size after four and a half hours of bar- gaining yesterday afternoon. Two major problems continue to divide the parties-economics and agency shop. Further the parties have agreed to request postponement of the fact-finding hearing which is scheduled to begin this morn- ing in Detroit. Should fact-finding occur, the 15-day-old strike will be dragged on for up to two or three more weeks as the fact-finder hears the cases from both parties and forms his recommendation for a contract. THE CLASS size provision is essentially a spirit clause. Departments will be required to consult the GEO on matters concerning class size policy. Also, departments will be encouraged to formulate a policy on class size where none exists. In addition, See ACCORD, Page 2 AP Photo Traveling through time Doug Parkin dismantles a clock on Salt Lake City's Main Street. Erected between 1868 and 1880, the clock was first run by a waterwheel, then by springs and batteries, and finally by an elec- tric system. Parkin is removing the clock temporarily while a Main Street renovation goes on. PROGRAM IN FLUX: Teamster, UAW negotiators may join GEO strike talks Pilotd By BILL TURQUE Despite the threats posed by cutbacks and changing student values, the Pilot Program is attempting to surmount its chal- lenges and take on new dimen- sions. Pilot, housed in Alice Lloyd, is designed to provide an ideal intellectual living-learning at- mosphere, causing problems in evaluating its success. "I THINK Pilot's problem is that it has set for itself very high ideals, and they're very seldom met," said Dick Munson, the current Pilot director. Munson is frustrated at Pilot's perpetual aspiration to the living-learning ideal, which he feels by definition can never be fully realized. As a result, he has put a fooks to recent emphasis on tangible, socially useful projects, such as the "People's Yellow Pages," and the voter registration ref- erendum drive. ANOTHER problem Munson acknowledges is Pilot's size. The program attracts students with varying levels of conmit- ment to the program. "Obviously," he said, "in a dorm this size you are going to have people who are apa- thetic." Changing student values also hamper Pilot. During the sixties the program became a center of student activism in the civil- rights, anti-war and ecology movements. In the seventies people became more interested in traditional academic pursuits. "WHEN we were in college future back in the late sixties," said Bill Milczarski, a resident di- rector for the program, "I don't remember studing as hard for all my classes put together as some people here go at one course. People are really into studying now." "Something got lost," ad- mitted Tom Lobe former Pilot director. "Something doesn't work anymore." "They're getting more sel- fish," stated one student, who spent two years in Pilot Pro- gram. "People are saying 'Well, I have to study and I can't spend any time with the com- munity," he added. OTHER students respond in the opposite manner. Some of Pilot's students and staff feel See PILOT, Page 8 By ANN MARIE LIPINSKI A source close to the Grad- uate Employes' Organization (GEO) revealed yesterday that Chuck O'Brien, Teamster Inter- national organizer for the Mich- igan area, may join the GEO at the bargaining table "if the Uni- versity tries to mess around with these last minute negotia- tions." The source also stated that "there's a chance" a United Auto Workers (UAW) represent- ative may be called upon to en- ter into GEO negotiations with the University. The source did not rule out the possibility that UAW President Leonard Wood- cock or Vice President Doug Fraser may be sent should the GEO call upon UAW for assist- ance in bargaining. HUBERT EMERICK, Assist- ant Director of Technical Office and Professional for UAW, and top aide to Fraser said yester- dav "If the GEO makes the morning reiterating his offer. The source said the GEO may now accept O'Brien's offer, "to show that we can still hold pres- sure on the University." "They're (GEO) a y o u n g group, they're a new group, they've asked us for support be- cause they need it, and we're willing to supply the support they need," O'Brien said yes- terday. EMERICK s a i d yesterday that, "Although the GEO has not yet asked us to assist them at the table in this round of ne- gotiations, they know where I'm at. Whatever they've asked of us so far, we've given them." Emerick maintains that "the University probably won't roll over and play dead if a Team- ster or UAW representative See TEAMSTERS, Page 2 Daley triumphs 0 in By AP and Reuter CHICAGO - Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, last of the big city political bosses, last night won a surprisingly easy Demo- cratic party endorsement - tantamount to re-election - for a record-breaking sixth term in office. man known locally as "King Richard" - an outside chance of winning. The other two Democratic candidates were black state Sen. R i c h a r d Newhouse and former Prosecutor Edward Hanrahan. Neither man was a factor in the race. the Democratic party hie in Chicago within the a years was a prime car issue but Daley, in his manner, ignored most of1 sues raised by his oppon He said that the indic and conviction of former Otto Kerner and former uJhicago rarchy those in any large urban cen- st two ter. mpaign Despite an army of several usual thousand policemen, lawyers the is- and members of private citizens rents. groups watching over today's ctment primary elections, officials re- r Gov. ceived 600 complaints of alleg- rCook ed voting irregularities and 12 2 - .