I F tu SEE N&S A EM CAL AL-cYX Canine candidate Rufus T. Hunsberger is unquestionably the underdog in this week's Michigan Student Assembly, mainly because Rufus is, in fact, a dog. Rufus is officially a candidate for an MSA Rackham seat, and he belongs to Engineering student Todd Hunsberger. According to G. J. DiGiuseppe, MSA election director, although there is no "Rufus" Hunsberger registered as a student, the canine candidate is on the ballot because "T." Hunsberger is eligible. Junior Craig Horn who was behind the plot said "It's not like a prank. It's just sort of a tongue- in-cheek comment on student government at the University of Michigan." According to DiGiuseppe, if Rufus wins the election, the seat will go to his owner, Todd. Both Todd and Rufus T. Hunsberger are in Chicago and could not be reached for comment. Happenings .. sleep in late today, because nothing is happening before noon, when the Ann Arbor Committee for Human Rights in Latin America golds'its weekly brown bag lunch. Meet in Suite 1 on the third floor of the Michigan League ... if you can wolf down lunch fast enough, you can make Prof. Edward Stasheff's talk on "Monodrama - Dramatic Soliloquies from Major and Minor Poets", 12:15 at the Main Ann Arbor Public Library .. at noon, Music at Mid Day presents Jeanine Leslie singing French and Russian songs in the Union's Pendleton Room... at 4 p.m. you're going to have a difficult choice to make. You can either attend University of Chicago Prof. Bill Beckner's con- troversial lecture on "Logarithmic Sobolev Inequalities' in room 3201, Angell Hall . . . or you can hear Peter Schriener discuss "Speech Processing Aid for Persons with Profound Sensorineural Hearing Loss", room 5804 Med Sci II .. if neither one of those interest you, Henry Regier of the University of Toronto talks about "Toward Restoration and the Rehabilitation of the Great Lakes" .. . or you can drink tea with LSA Dean Billy Frye at 110 S. University. The Center for Afro-American and African Studies along with the Student Coun- seling Office are sponsoring toe Dean's Tea . . a special symposium on "Aging in Japan" starts at :30 in the Rackham Amphitheatre. The symposium is designed for professionals working with elderly Americans in program planning, policy, and direct services . . . Students for Israel meet at 7:30 in the UGLI Multipurpose Room ... Asian American writers Frank Chin and Lawson Inada will read some of their works and other major Asian American authors works, 7:30 at the Trotter House. A discussion will follow . . . Gordon Clarke will speak to the Christian Science Organization about "The Touch of Spirit". The talk starts at 8 p.m. in the Michigan Union's Kuenzel Room ... Jodi Braxton will read selections of her poetry at 8 p.m., Charing Cross Book Shop. Center seeks volunteers The Washtenaw County Community Mental Health Center has an- nounced new openings and new training for volunteers in the center's several services, including the Assault Crisis Center, or working with retarded adults with emotional or other personal problems. Volun- teers work once a week, and must make a time pledge fromt six months to a year. You must be 21. Training starts May 13. On the outside ... After yesterday's temperatures, we hate to print today's forecast. As you read this paper, the mercury should be falling. The warmest part of the day will be in the morning. Rain should continue with tem- peratures in the upper 50s. By late afternoon the thermometer will be around 50 and the rain should taper off. There is even a slight chance of sunshine. Tonight will be partly cloudy and much cooler, with a low from 35 to 38. Tomorrow should be partly sunny with a high in the mid 50s. Daily Official Bulletin The Michigan Daily-Tuesday; April 11, 1978-Page 3 Tribal base severs S. African ties to advocate 'majority rule' I, UMTA TA, Transkei, South Africa (AP) - Transkei, South Africa's first independent tribal homeland, said yesterday it was breaking diplomatic relations with the nation that created it and would press a "struggle for liberation" toward black rule in white- govered South Africa. Transkei's independence is recognized only by South Africa, whose policy of racial separation calls for con- signing its 19 million blacks to nine scattered homelands. Opponents of apartheid say the existence of Transkei helps perpetuate the dominance of South Africa by its 4.5 million whites. Transkei Prime Minister Kaiser Matanzima, announcing the rupture in a speech to parliament here, said his government "can no longer take it. "WE HAVE BEEN compelled to join the liberatory movements and claim the whole of South Africa as belonging to blacks and whites, with blacks con- trolling the majority. .. We are going to propagate majority rule in southern Africa. From now henceforth this is the fundamental policy of our struggle for liberation." Matanzima said he would recall Transkei's ambassador and consuls and eject the South African am- bassador by April 30. There was no immediate reacton from the South African government. THE OPPOSITION leader in the South African parliament, Colin Eglin, said: "It is ironic that the first homeland to get independence in terms of the ruling National Party's grand design should now .have decided to sever relations with the government." Matanzima predicted not only a con- frontation between Transkei and South Africa but a "bloody struggle" between black and white South Africans. Other black states in southern Africa - in- cluding Tanzania, Zambia, and Mozambique - harbor nationalist guerrillas training for combat against the governments of South Africa and Rhodesia. South Africa's "comtemptuous and brutal" rejection of his government's claim to East Griqualand; along Tran- skei's northern border. If incorporated, the territory would unite Transkei's main part with a separate chunk isolated inside South Africa. OBSERVERS IN South Africa said more pressing reasons for the break in- cluded domestic pressure on Matan- zima to take a hard line against South Africa and his apparent belief that he may win some recognition abroad if he severs relations. Just after Transkei's independnce Oct. 26, 1976, the U.N. General Assem- bly voted 134-0 to declare the "sham in- dependence" invalid. Transkei remains economically dependent on South Africa, which provides more than half of its 1977-78 national budget of $274 million. MATANZIMA SAID: "Nobody should doubt the reaction of white South Africa to our decision. They will use everything possible to ostracize and apply sanctions againsi us. If they withdraw financial aid from us, it will be what we expected them to do." Group proposes new military pension plan' WASHINGTON - A presidential commission yesterday urged an end to 20-year retirements and "double- dipping" for the next generation of military personnel. President Carter received the report saying he ag;ees there are "serious defects" in the military retirement system. He said he would try to send a bill to Congress by January to correct them. The report by the President's Com- mission on Military Compensation urged a new system of old-age pensions and deferred pay to replace the present military retirement system. IT ALSO URGED some increases in military allowances and said the net ef- fect would be to cut projected retirement costs by one-third, begin- ning around the end of the century. Under the present retirement system military personnel may draw a pension of half their basic pay after 20 years service, beginning immediately and continuing for life, with inflation ad- justments. On the- average, officers retire at age 39. The cost of this pension system is now $10 billion a year, and is expected to grow to $30 billion in the next 20 years, the commission said. It eats up eight percent of the entire Pentagon budget. THE COMMISSION'S proposal also would prohibit those who retire from getting federal pension checks while working in the federal Civil Service, a practice known as double-dipping. "The current law can no longer be justified," commission chairman Charles Zwick said in a statement to Carter. "These awesome economic facts, plus the relatively young people receiving retirement payments, have coroded the credibility of military retirement in the minds of many Americans." The commission's recommendation's would have no effect on persons already retired, reservists or on those already in uniform, provided they have served at least four years. The panel said the government has an obligation to continue the present 20-year retirement system for those who re- enlisted believing they were working to ward such a pension. MEET TOM WOLFE at Cenifcore 336 Maynard 10 a.. Thursday, April13 Under the proposal, those who join military service in the future, or who have served less than four years, would earn credits toward a pension modeled after the Civil Service system. It would allow them to retire with an immediate pension at age 55, after 30 years of service. Those with 20 years of service could begin drawing a pension at age 60, in- stead of immediately on retirement as under the present system. It would also allow a pension with as little as 10 years service, half the present minimum, although payments would not begin un- til age 62. Howard Hawks' Double Feature BALL OF FIRE (at 7:00) GARY COOPER and BARBARA STAN- WYCK in a hilarious comedy about an encyclopedist who does slang research with a nightclub singer. 1941. Saucy & Witty. ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS (at 9:05) CARY GRANT, JEAN ARTHUR and RITA HAYWORTH fly by night with adventurous mailpilots in South Ameica. 1939 CINEMA GUILD OLD ARCH. AUD. $2.50 Both $1.50 Each OFFICE OF FINANCIAL AID NOTICE The Office of Financial Aid is availabale to provide financial aid, assist with student budgeting and help locate other resources for students. Students are encouraged to use the counseling services whether or not they are receiving.direct financial assistance. TYPES OF AID AVAILABLE: Undergraduates: Grants, loans, work-study employment Graduates; Loans, work-study Employment APPLICATION DUE DATES* -1978-1979 :I Application Re- ceived in Office of Financial Aid by: April14, 1978 April14, 1978 April 14, 1978 November 1, 1978 FFS & BEOG** Processed at ACT and Received in Office of Finan- cial Aid by: May 20, 1978 June 30, 1978 November 1, 1978 November 1, 1978 Approximate Notification Date: July 30, 1478 Comments: Maximum consider- tion August 31, 1978 Awards subject to availability of funds. November 30, 1978 Awards subject to availability of funds. Possible considera- tion for Winter 1979 only. Mid-December 1978 Awards subject to availability of funds. Consideration for Winter 1979 only. * All Dates Refer To Date of Receipt in the Office of Financial Aid ** BEOG Required for Undergraduate Applicants Only OFFICE OF FINANCIAL AID- 2011 SAB Ann Arbor, Michigan 48100 Phone: 763-2151, 763-2152 OK 7 UJ Summer Placement 3200 SAB 763-4117 Camp Sequoia, Mi. Will interview Tues., Apr. 111- 1. Openings include waterfront (WSI), arts/crafts, riding (western), archery, riflery. Crystal Mountain Lodge, Mi. Will audition at the Michigan Union, Assembly Hall on Weds., April 12 1 s.m. -1iO p.m. If you play a horn, bass, guitar or sing - (be part of a combo) register-for audition. Phone r63-4117 or register in person. IBM, Vermont. Offers a summer professional )rogram for students who have completed their junior year and beyond in elec. engr. or computer cience. Details and apps. available. 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