The Michigan Doily-Wednesday, September 21, 1977-Page Biko's death stirs grief, shame At Know thyself Remember way back in your grade school days when you yearned to know the forbidden-your IQ quotient? Well, at long last you may be able to satisfy that curiosity to some degree. The folks over at the Learning Evaluation Center are offering free individual assessmens of intellectual ability along with suggestions on how to improve your performance in school-related activities. Along with an initial evaluation session, an interview is scheduled so you can discuss the results with a staff member. The service is especially extended to parents or pre-school and school-aged children who suspect their tot may be exceptional or have special learning problems. Who knows, a potential Einstein may be hiding behind a bib at your dinner table. Happeings--. ... as usual, are a potpourri... Students interested in Project Outreach can drop by 554 Thompson from 9 to 12 and 1 to 5 p.m... .Registration for youngster "Story Times" at the Ann 'arbor, public library is 2 p.m., 343 Fifth Ave.... Grade School English Lessons at Pound House Children Center, 1024 Hill, begin at 4 ... At- tend the workshop "Sexuality and Education and Counseling for Professionals", from 6:30 to 10 at the Ed School ... Beth and Bob Duman, regional representatives of the North Amrican Wildlife Park Foundation, present a program entitled "Wolves", 7:30 at the Univer- sity Botanical Gardens ... Also at 7:30 hear a lecture on the Fortran IV Programming Language I, whatever that is, in the Natural Scien- ces Aud. . Admiral Gene LaRocque will speak on "How Much Defense is Enough?" 7:30 at the Wesleyan Foundation, attached to the north end of the First United Methdist Church, State and Huron ... Physics Prof. Ernst Katz speaks on "Thinking as an Ap- proach to Spiritual .Reality" in Markley's Concourse Lounge at 8 ... and a reminder-there is still time to sign up for Project Com- munity, which is offering two to four credits for work in the com- munity. Interested? Rm. 2204 Michigan Union's the place, or call 763- 3448 ... Have a nice Wednesday! What would Elvis say? Ted Nugent needs gobs of sweet chocolate. Joe Cocker requires two cases of $30-a-bottle Dom Perignon. Bruce Springsteen asks only for a dozen Hostess Twinkies. Big-time rock 'n rollers seems to have a run- ning contest these days over who can outdo the other in making bizarre demands on concert promoters. Of course special requests are nothing new on' the egocentric music business, but never until now have they gotten so extravagant. For example, one promoter estimates it would cost $2,000 to meet all the food and beverage requirements of Paul McCartney and Wings. There was a time when promoters would pick up the tab for such posh dining. They aren't so anxious anymore. Still, if the act is big enough, even the oddest tastes are catered to. Nouveau-rock idol Iggy Pop showed up for a gig in Philadelphia and informed the promoters he would not go on unless an ambulance was parked just outside the stage door. "I get so excited sometimes that i want to hurt myself," he explained. On the Outside... Our weather elves tell us Mother Nature has had yesterday xeroxed and is trying to foist it off on us today. We'll have another installment in our currtent series of dreary days. Skies will be monotonously cloudy today with temperatures raching up to a high of 71. And lest you form wild fantasies about Thursday being a nice day, be informed that it ought to be pouring by tomorrow afternoon. . :. b .L? ....L . !" *+1..t.*L6 *...r". ___.. .cf a ........ . i:. Daily Official Bulletin 5555 Mg.Mam:sim: 353:333:3:3..c.................:533 JOHANNESBURG* South Africa (AP) - Shame, sorrow, embarrass- ment and fear have enveloped racial- ly-divided South Africa as a result of the death on detention of black leader Steve Biko. White liberals - often given as rough a ride as government conserv- atives by Biko's Black Consciousness Movement - have joined with black leaders, newspaper columnists and churchmen in assessing the life and death of the 30-year-old Biko as something special. OPPOSITION newspapers, which have long protested the govern- ment's wide-ranging powers of de- tention without trial and demanded judicial inquiries into previous deaths, are pressing harder than, ever for repeals and probes. Many white South Africans winced with embarrassment at the laughter that broke out at a provincial congress of the ruling National Party when James T. Kruger, the minis- ter of justice, police and prisons, said of Biko's death Sept. 12 that it was a person's democratic right to starve himself to death. Biko had been on a hunger strike but the cause of his death is under in- vestigation and has not been an- nounced. THE DEATH, seen at home and abroad as a national loss for people of all races, shapes up as a public relations disaster for South Africa's widely condemned white-minority government. Those who knew him speak of the awe with which Biko was regarded by young black, militants, of his lack of bitterness, breadth of vision, moderation and intellectual stature. The conception of Biko as a martyr has been enhanced by his death in the hands of the security police and by the comment of Kruger at the time that it "leaves me cold." But even without that comment by the now embarrassed Kruger and the grave suspicions surrounding deaths in detention, Biko's career stands out in a country that has no shortage of aspiring political liberators. HE WAS born one of four children of poor Xhosa parents in Ginsberg, a segregated black township outside King William's Town on the east Cape. Apart from five years of university study in Natal, he lived there most of his life. Expelled from the university halfway through medical 'school, Biko was working on a law degree by correspondence at the time of his death. Under a restriction order imposed in 1973, Biko was confined to King William's Town, and a banning order, still in force even after his death,'bars publication of a quotation by him in the South African press. AT AGE 22 Biko, disenchanted with the liberal, white-led National Union of South African Students, founded the South African Students Organization (SASO) embracing all students who are not white - Africans, Indians and coloreds, as those of mixed race are officially called. Each group attends segregat- ed universities across the country. The breakaway of the non-whites was, a blow to left-leaning white student leaders, some of whom paid for their political beliefs and activi- ties with bannings, restriction or- ders, and withheld passports. But Biko denied charges of black raism, as he did in founding the Black People's Convention f o u r years later. HE ARGUED that the barriers erected by whites are based on a belief that "black is inferior and bad," and South African blacks must assert their own values, culture, and pride in blackness to find psychologi- cal liberation from centuries of white domination., He saw a strong black solidarity as the antitheses to "white racism." "Out of these two situations we can therefore hope to teach some kind of balance - a true humanity where power politics will have no place," Biko wrote. Expounding the black conscious- ness theme in one essay, Biko rejected integration sought by white liberals as based on "exploitive values in a society in, which the whites have already cuxt out their position somewhere at the top of the pyramid." Voieeprint evidence banned in state trials LANSING (UPI) - The Michigan Supreme Court ruled yesterday that voiceprints may not be used as eviden- ce in criminal trials unless their scien- tific validity as an identification tool is clearly established. In a unanimous opinion, the high court reversed the Washtenaw County Circuit Court conviction of Bradley Lynn Tobey on charges of illegal sale of heroin. Voiceprints had been admitted into evidence in Tobey's trial. THE STATE COURT of Appeals had ruled the voiceprints inadmissable, and the Supreme Court affirmed that ruling - but made it clear it applied only in this particular case. "We conclude that the people have failed to demonstrate that voiceprint evidence has achieved general scien- tific acceptance as a reliable identifi- cation device, and therefore the trial court erred in admitting the voiceprint evidence," the Supreme Court said. We echo the statement of the Cali- fornia Supreme Court that this 'decision is not intended in any way'to foreclose the introduction of voiceprint evidence in future cases ... where there is demonstrated solid and scientific ap- proval and support of this new method' of identification," the court said. ACCORDING TO the high court's rendition .,the facts of the case, an un- dercover police officer recorded three telephone calls to Tobey in connection with a heroin purchase. The telephone conversations were subjected to voiceprint analysis and compared with recordings of the voice of the accused. Prosecutors sought to establish the admissibility of voice-print evidence through the testimony of two experts in the field. THE SUPREME COURT held, how- ever, that general scientific recognition cannot be established unless it is cor- YEA RS OF OUR LIVES Frederic March, Myrna Loy and Dana Andrews in the Oscar-Winning Clssic about 3 WW 11 Veterans returning home to post-war U.S. Thursday:SPELLBOUND CINEMA GUILD ADMISSION: $1.50 7:00 & 10:00 roborated by "disinterested scientists, whose livelihood was 'not intimately connected" with the new technique. The court also ruled that Tobey was entitled to separate trials on each of two charges of selling heroin to an under- cover officer. The trial court had joined the two charges on grounds they were similar in character, even though they had allegedly occurred 12 days apart. "While Tobey's conduct in selling heroin on different days to the same person is substantially similar conduct, it is not the same conduct or act," the high court said. 175 YEARS OF TIME-KEEPING Simon Willard, clockmaker extraor- dinaire, requested a patent for "an improvement in time pieces" in 1802 and the Banjo Clock was born. A UNIQUELY American timepiece, the Banjo clock has become a very desir- able item among antique collectors. Several examples of the Banjo clock by Simon Willard and his brother Aaron are on exhibit in Greenfield Village and Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Mich- igan. The first patent for a roll film camera was issued September 4, 1888 to George Eastman. The camera weighed 22 ounces, took circular pictures 2 inches in dia- meter and held 100 feet of film. East- man 's early cameras and other photo- graphic apparatus are on exhibit in Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Mich- igan. ,,:11 I L'U I I U LA LYZIE'A1AA'1'PU UDM ALILY EARLY BIRD MATINEES -- Adults $'. .25 DISCOUNT IS FOR SHOWS STARING BEFORE 1:30 MON. thru SAT. 10 A.M. til 1:3b P.M. SUN. & HOLS.12 Noon til 1:30 P.M OPEN THURSDAY AND FRIDAY EVENINGS UNTIL 9:00 Wednesday, September 21, 177 DAY CALENDAR WUOM: National Town Meeting, "Disarmament. Sincerity or Illusion?" Live coverage-from Washing- ton, D.C., guests Morton Halperin, Dir. Project on National Security an4 Civil Li es, & Adm. Elmo' Zwmwalt, moderator Charles (wddry, Baltimore Sun, 10:30 a.m. Statistics: Dr. Fred Bookstein, "Linear Machinery for Morphological Distortion," 3227 Angell, 4 p.m. THE MICHIGAN DAILY Volumfe LxxXvIII, No.12 Wednesday, September 21,1977 is edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan. 'News phone 764-0562. Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109. 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