Page 2-Wednesday, February 15, 1978-The Michigan Daily AUTO COMPANIES MAY HALT PRODUCTION: Power cultbacks rise as coal supplies dwindle (Continued from Page 1) Chrysler Corp. officials have predic- ted a similar production halt and the layoff of 160,000 Chrysler workers by ecftrieit1 u edon' use March 1 if the strike is not settled. Ford Pre can help keep in dus- Motor Co. and American Motors Corp. officials also are predicting some Ps operating, and house production curtailments. t, as coal stockpiles Ohio Edison, a major supplier of elec- tricity in Ohio, has announced a 50 per- Kindle.' cent cut in electrical service next week -Jam es '- Brinkerhffbecause of dwindling coal supplies. - n ff That would knock out service to dozens OLI SCI GROUP TO MEE"T TOMORR OW: Committee to re ( Continued from Page 1) among students and faculty in the de- executive committee recommenda- partment, who questioned the basis of t in a 16-3 vote and decided not to Samoff's tenure rejection. Twenty it tenure to the professor. political science graduate students saw ;Iter the decision, Samoff addressed Uniyersity President Robben Fleming official appeal to Frye, who told him in protest of the tenure denial. Fleming delay the appeal in hopes that the told them he would look into the situa- iflict would be resolved. Samoff said tion. will file an official appeal if the Critics of the verdict said Samoff cutive committee refuses to grant received glowing evaluations from n tenure. sources within and outside the Univer- sity and is respected for his teaching of auto supply plants in the state. DETROIT EDISON said it probably would not have to order rotating blackouts until mid-March. But in- dustrial customers were asked yester- day to cut consumption by at least 10 percent to help save what coal the southeast Michigan utility has left. University officials said yesterday that the utility asked the University to cut its electric consumption by up to 10 percent. In response to this request, Vice President and Chief Financial Of- ficer James Brinkerhoff asked all students and staff to turn off all un- necessary lights, and to turn ther- mostats down to 65 degrees. "We should do all we can to cut our use of electricity, without jeopardizing our operations." Brinkerhoff said. "Electricity we don't use here can help keep some industries operating, and houses lit, as coal stockpiles dwindle." UNIVERSITY Hospital, the residen- ce halls and the athletic department are being asked to cut back on electricity consumption wherever possible, he ad- ded. "By Feb. 22, I expect the Plant Department will be able to take steps to reduce electrical consumption in the University's larger buildings during the work day," he said. "The steps will be those which, in our opinion, should not adversely affect the University's operations." In western Michigan, spokespersons for Consumers Power and Indiana and Michigan Electric companies-the two main utilities in the area-said yester- day that customer response to cutback requests has been good. Both utilities have switched to gas and oil at some plants to save coal, but that tactic combined with increased power purchases from Canada are ex- pected to increase bills considerably in the next few months. 4 'consider Samoff tenure denial HE DECISION provoked uproar ability. "I think to desdribe them (critics of the decision) as frustrated, concerned, and ................ - that's a fair- ly accurate description," said Oscar Morales, who sits on the Political Science executive committee and is president of the Graduate Political Science Association. SOME OBSERVERS say Samoff was denied tenure on the basis of his re- search efforts and not his skill in the classroom. "The reason (Samoff was refused tenure) is that the quality of the resear- ch is not up to Michigan standards," Morales said. He also said that quantity of Samoff's research was not con- sidered. "Everyone knows that Samoff is an excellent teacher. . . peer reviewers said his research was excellent," said Len Suransky, a former Political Science teaching fellow. "One gets the impression that you can only make it if you go the quantifying route in the de- partment. "YOU'D EXPECT THAT in a great university there would be some open- ness for alternative methods of resear- ch that the students are certainly asking for," he added. A junior faculty member in the de- partment, who asked to remain uniden- tified, said quality of undergraduate education is not a primary concern in the department and that is reflected in the attrition rate of faculty members. The average rate of attrition among tenured and non-tenured professors in the political department since 1969 is about seventy-seven per cent. "IF RESEARCH and public work get awarded and teaching doesn't, the in- centives will be in those areas," he said. Suransky also pointed to an affir- mative action component in the Samoff case. He said Samoff, who also teaches for the Center for Afro-American and African Studies, is popular among black students and that the University's affirmative action attempts would be hurt with Samoff gone. "Samoff, even though a white man, attracts black students," said Suran- sky. "He is one of the few that keeps them here." THE JUNIOR faculty member in the department said the senior faculty's re- jection of Samoff probably is not be- cause of his political views. "I don't think his stand on South Af- rica has anything to do with the deci- sion - it's symptomatic," he said. "But political influences can be very discreet." "It's certainly not unheard of in aca- demic circles for decisions to be made on personality grounds and political grounds or by others who are extrane- ous," Samoff said. NEW DIRECTOR OF QUEENS MUSEUM NEW YORK (AP) 8 Janet Schneider was recently named exec- utive director of the Queens Museum. Ms. Schneider joined the museum staff in 1973 as Curator of Exhibi- tions. She later served as Director of Programs and as Acting Director. The museum, which opened in 1972, is located in Flushing Meadow- Corona Park. Besides featuring an ongoing series of rotating art exhibi- tions, the museum is the home of the Panorama of the City of New York. C arter orders coal aiks to White House (continued from Page 1) lities in truck convoys led by riot- has predicted will force up to 25,000 ined state troopers. layoffs. The glass, steel and aluminum James Smith, Bowen's executive industries are expected to be the har- sistant for police matters, said three dest hit. lities, which he would not name, WHEN COAL stockpiles fell to a 30- quested the escorts because of "an day supply last week, the utility im- irming amount of violence" in the posed a 10 percent cutback on large- ilfields. scale users of electricity. By Friday, n West Virginia, the Monongahela the stockpiles were expected to be down wer Co. said it would impose a 30 to a 25-day supply. reent power cutback Monday on 400 West Virginia also faced up to lustrial and commercial another problem yesterday: shrinking stomers-a measure which the West state revenues because its coal industry rginia Manufacturers Association was shut down. It clamped a freeze on state hiring, pay raises, and most new m COUPON equipment purchases. THATS RIGHT! In Ohio, officials were planning shelters for thousands of people in the 2I/COPY event of lengthy blackouts-a IBM 111-5 possibility some officials discounted ZEROX 9200 6 plus but for which they said they had to be prepared. DOLLAR BILL COPYING _ 611 CHURCH 665-9200 Revenue of state governments from ABOVE BLUE FROGGE all sources totaled $185.2 billion in fiscal - "GIVE US YOUR 2C" 1976, while total state expenditures rose * BOOKS, 14" /2 EXTRA to $182 billion; reports the Commerce OOOONLY2.16-2118 ClearingHouse. Teacher 's hearings wind, up (continued from Page 1 Blue jean-clad students lined the walls, breaking out in laughter several times when Ann Arbor School Board at- torney James Tobin cross-examined Clark. Wendy Barhydt, president of the school board reprimanded the students in the jammed room and said if they could not remain quiet they would be ejected. Witnesses finished testimony last evening. Next Tuesday the Ann Arbor School Board will hear the final argu- ments of the prosecution and the defen- se. They then have ten days in which to make their decision. CLARK AND THE student have both denied charges that they engaged in an "intimate embrace" in his apartment last June and that they were alone when they took a trip west last summer. Two 14-year-old boys, one the younger brother of the student, have testified that they saw Clark and the student in an "intimate embrace" at the student's apartment. The student has testified that the trip last summer was to visit his mother in Salt Lake City and that another person went along with him besides Clark. Clark supported this testimony. CLARK HAS ALSO been charged with urging a female student to "show her independence" by walking around alone on the University campus late at night. The teacher has testified that she did not make such a statement. The female student has not testified at the hearings. Mike Moran. Clark's at torney, said yesterday, "The parents of the girl have been very irate that this proceeding is even going on. In yet another charge, Richard Churchward testified Monday night that he saw Clark leaning back on the student in a sitting position as he lay on his side. Churchward said the incident took place around 8 a.m. one day last June. Churchward is the husband of Community High School's Assistant Dean, Elizabeth Gray, but he has denied that he knew Gray at the time of the alleged incident. CLARK RESPONDED Monday night that she had spent the night at the student's apartment sometime in June because her car had broken down after. a birthday celebration with other students. Clark has also admitted at a previous hearing that she allowed the student to drive her car before he had a license. "This hearing clearly demonstrates that the current tenure process resem- bles the due process as much as the Salem witch trials did," said Larry Steward, president of the Ann Arbor Education Association, yesterday in an interview. "I don't expect a fair hear- ing," he added. Students supporting Clark have gathered about 150 signatures on a petition that reads in part, "The charges are slanderous gossip and have absolutely no relevance to her teaching career." "We're getting really sick and tired of the thing going on and we're sick and tired of the thing going on and we're sick and tired of the bullshit," said Community student Sean McCellen. "We're mad that the Board can do something like this to a teacher and not even care." Clark TO: Student Groups seeking to wise funds or earn money The Michigan Student Assembly is conducting a SPECIAL ' ELECTION on WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22. Pursuant to this, -bids are being sought from interested groups on these two jobs, staffing of polling sites and delivery of flyers. Spe- cif ically-: 1.) Twelve people to work the poll sites on the 22nd for approximately 10 hours each, fora total of 110 man-hours. Each person must be able to work the entire shift (no accommodations will be made for classes), lunches should be brought along, and personnel will be rotated among polling sites at the discretion of the Election Director. S2.) Delivery of flyers to dormitories and buildings-Cost per 1000 1(x1 estimated). Delivery of flyers to student residential areas of Ann Arbor- Cost per 1000 (x0 estimated). Flyers must go under doors or in mailboxes and be all delivered within two days of receipt by group. For further specifics call MSA at 763-3242 or drop by 3909 Michigan Union. : Paid for by the Special Election Director. Council places millage proposal on Nov. ballot to fix potholes By KEITH RICHBURG City Council agreed late Monday to put a millage increase on the November election ballot to raise money to repair the city's blighted streets. Council also decided to wage an unprecedented campaign to convince city voters to ap- prove the tax hike. The five council members not up for re-election are organizing what is being called a "public education" campaign to rally enough public support to pass the tax hike for road repairs in Novem- ber's election. MAYOR Albert Wheeler said he con- 2kIVERITY IUSICALG8OCIETY present8 GGQ fi 9eed sidered putting the millage increase on the upcoming April election ballot but changed his mind after realizing that any such request for a tax hike would fail without an intense public education campaign before the election. "The public is just going to have to face the realities," Wheeler said. "We have to fix the roads. We're going to have to do a fairly major job." Wheeler said the campaign will at- tempt to win public support so voters won't view the additional millage request as "just another tax increase" and vote it down. Wheeler hopes the public will be willing to grant the tax hike by November, "if the Council does its job." "WE'RE GOING to have to give them a good picture of what the city's finan- ces are," he said. Although the city currently does not know how much additional millage it will need, Wheeler pointed out that the increase may have to be substantial, since one mill would only raise about $800,000. Reconstructing one mile of a single street costs up to $350,000 per mile and some city streets need com- plete overhauls. To drivers, the city's problem with battered roads is no secret. But Ann Arbor voters have consistently rejected millage increases for road repair. COUNCILMAN Louis Senunas (R- Third Ward) brought up the idea to precede the millage request with a public education campaign in Council's working session late Monday night. Wheeler quickly picked up on the idea and suggested that the five council members not running for re-election in April take the lead in convincing the voters that the tax hike "is for their benefit." "The general public has to under- stand that the streets did not fall apart this month," Wheeler said. "It's tough in the way of money to repair them. Some roads have to be reconstructed and that's not cheap." RETIRING Councilman Jamie Ken- worthy (D-Fourth Ward) suggested that the public information campaign included citizens' committee, since the city's reputation for road repair is not good in the public eye. "We're going to have to have an out- side group," Kenworthy said. "City Hall can do the preparation. I think November is going to be a beautiful ballot." Councilman Senusnas said one way to convince the public to support the ad- ditional millage would be to "not rush to fill any potholes" this spring. "Let's let people fall into a few, then they'll realize," he said. Daily Official Bulletin Wednesday. February 15, 1978 DAILY CALENDAR Psychiatry: Bernard L. Diamond, U-Calif., Berkeley, "The Legal Responsibility of the Therapist for the Acts of His Patients," Aud.. Children's Psychiatric Hosp., 9:30a.m. Ctr. Russian/E. European Studies: William K. Medlin, "Shades of Planning: East and West," Commons Rm., Lane Hall, noon. Inc./Olper. Eng.; Dr. A. Beradino, Bell Labs.. In- dianapolis, Ind., CAM/CAM at Bell Laboratories," 2.30; Dr. Donald L. Byrkett, W. Va. College of Graduate Studies, Charleston. W. Va., "The Design and Evaluation of a Parts Inventory System for the West Virginia Department of Highways," 229 W'.E., 4 p.m. Physics: L.R. Sulak, Harvard U.. "Sounds from the Deep ... Neutrino Physics Beyond 10 Tev." 296 Dannison, 4p.m. This is the Ann Arbor debut of the exciting troupe the New York Times calls "the company to see!" Clive Barnes says Feld is "the most talented classic choreographer of his generation anywhere in the world. "Tickets $5,.50 to $9, Burton Tower, Weekdays 9-4:30, Sat. 9-12, 665-3717. All choreography by Eliot Feld MONDA Y NIGHT: Harbinger (Prokofieff); Impronput (Roussel); Cortege Parisien (Chabrier); A Footstep of Air (Beethoven). TUESDA Y: The Real McCoy (Gershwin); Mazurka (Chopin); The Consort (Douw/and and anonymous composers). WEDNESDA Y NIGHT: Harbinger (Prokofieff); Santa Fe Saga INTENSIVE JOURNAL :