f See Inside Pr Lit igan i1 FROSH EDITION See Inside Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 1 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, September 8, 1977 Six Sections I Ii.. VA nurses face possible life term I G The best to you each morning Let the Daily help you get your day off to h better start. We'll greet you every morning (except Monday) with the latest sports scores, election re- suits, film and concert, reviews, plus news of other happenings across campus or around the world. For a mere $6.50 a term, you can put your very own copy of the Michigan Daily on your doorstep. Subscribe for both fall and winter terms and it's just 12 bucks-a. veritable bargain. For subscrip- tions mailed outside Ann Arbor, it's only a dollar more. To start your subscription, stop by the Daily offices on the second floor of the Student Publica- tions Building, 420 Maynard, or call our circulation department at 764-0558. Hope to be seeing you again soon. 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(Offer void where prohibited by law.) .bingo!r Most University students consider their law school brethren to be overservious compulsives who obtained their coveted slots byspending their Saturday nights in the library as undergraduates and eschewing fun as not covered on the LSAT. But now word comes from the ivied Law Quad that even the wogs have a sense of humor. The latest prank involves playing a special version of bingo in class. It works like this: each player gets a bingo card and a list of his or her classmates. From the class list, each player fills in the card with names of classmates. When a person whose name appears on the card is called on or volun- teers in class, the corresponding space on the bingo card may be covered. The first person to get five classmates in a row is supposed to leap to his or her feet and proclaim victory, loudly- in class. Although law students are tittering at the notion of interrupting the supposedly Socratic classes, nobody has tried the stunt-yet. s Striking a pose Art student April Holmes was just finishing some work on the second floor of the near-empty Art School one evening last winter when she was inter- rupted by a young man with a sketch pad, who asked if she needed a male model to pose for her. She didn't, and she didn't particularly need one attired as this one was-with no attire at all. She told him so and he casually went his way down the hall. Not particularly funny perhaps, but one won- ders where he went 'from there. 0 Happenings... ..normally what you'll find in this spot each day is a listing of events - lectures, free films, poetry readings, rallies, sessions with cosmic trans- mitters; virtually every type of local. event finds its way into the Daily's Happenings. As for now, just a few reminders: The dorms open September 4 .. the 9th is the first day of classes . . . if you're feeling inclined to drop or adi a course or two or haven't registered yet, CRISP will be open this week. Dial POINT-50 for further information. By KEITH RICHBURG Filipina Narcisco and Leonora Perez, the two Veterans Administration (VA) Hospital nurses convicted of poisoning five patients in 1975, will be sentenced September 15 by Federal District Judge Philip Pratt. Supporters of the two women plan to pro- test the verdict at a rally at the Federal Building in Detroit. The sentencing date was announced after Judge Prat received a report on Narciso fd Perez from the U.S. Probation Office, t e ntents of which are being kept con- fide -tial. Tae n irses face a maximum sentence of life imprisonment for the poisonings, and a maximum of five years for conspiracy. Meanwhile, calls for a congressional in- vestigation into the mysterious 1975 breath- ing failures continue to mount. In an August 18 letter to President Carter and Sen. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.), chairman of the Veter- ans Affairs Committee, the 8,500-member Michigan Nurses Association (MNA) de- manded "an objective and thorough investi- gation" into the affair. The MNA cited the "heavy use of Pavu- lon (the poison ollegedly used to murder the victims) with no controls . . . by the hospital." The MNA also pointed to the "conduct" of the medical chief of staff, Dr. Martin Lindenauer, and brought up the oft-repeated charges that the staff chief at- tempted to bribe witnesses during the in- vestightion, and that he and the U.S. gov- ernment attorneys were working in cahoots to convict Narciso and Perez. Lindenauer was a source of controversy in the 10-week-long trial. The Daily recently learned that r hospital employe g r o u p supporting Narciso and Perez tried to find witnesses who heard the staff chief ask an intern to change a recent death certificate. The sources said that Lindenauer told the intern to change a patient's death certifi- cate from "respiratory arrest" because the label was an unpleasant reminder of the 1975 breathing failures. Over fifty breathing failures swept the VA that summer, but the seizures ended abruptly on August 15th when the FBI en- tered the case. THE FBI set up headquarters in a fifth See NURSES, Page 8 Narciso Perez 'U'hi. costs By GREGG KRUPA When the University Regents announced the fifth tuition in- crease in six years at their July meeting, Regent Robert Neder- lander (D-Birmingham) observ- ed, "Within seven or eight years, undergraduate tuition will approach the $2,000 level if we stay at our present pace." - Former University Vice-Presi- dent for Academic Affairs Frank Rhodes added, "We are very conscious of that, and there is no end in sight." THIS BLEAK picture of the rising cost of higher education is nQ secret to students who, have attended the University over the last four years. During that time, tuition has increased nearly 25 per cent. The average increase for the 1977-78 school year is 8.75 per cent. Students will also pay higher room and board rates this year. Single rooms in campus dormii- tories will cost $1,906, up from $1,756 last year, an 8.6 per cent increase. Double rooms will cost $1,638, up from $1,511 last year. Room. and board rates have jumped 37 -per cent in the last four years. THE TWO major reasons cited by most administrators for the rising price of education are in- creased operating costs and dis- proportionately smaller increas- es in aid frQc the state of Michi- gan. The University's general fund budget for 1977-78 is $188,248,240, an increase of $25.5 million over last year. The general fund cov- ers expenditures incurred by teaching, research, library serv- ices, public services, student Iies ti iltionl Doily Photo by ANDY FREEBERG The Snyders made a stop at West Quad this week. Son Richard was staying for good. Leaving the nest is fun, but cuttingl"I the strings is tough j um p. 6% aid, and administrative and must retain its tradition of scho- business operations. lastic excellence. He called for In presenting this year's bud- more revenue for higher educa- get to the Regents in July, tion from the people of Michigan Rhodes made special note of through the state legislature, utility costs, which are up more "Unless and until people of the than $44.7 million over the 1976- state or the legislature decide 77 school year, although the Uni- they want to spend more money versity recently announced a on higher education," said double-barreled energy conser- Roach, "tuition costs are going vation program which could to continue to rise." save as much as $1 million. An example of increased REGENT THOMAS Roach (D- spending by the University, in- Detroit) said tuition was too duced by the state legislature, high, but said the University See REGENTS, Page 8 The yster"y Of the Single-vote mad11 ate By GREGG KRUPA There has never been, and will never be, a closer election than Ann Arbor's 1977 mayoral contest - unless two candidates finish in a dead heat. On April 4, Mayor Albert Wheeler was reelected by a single vote. The repercussions of that sliver-thin majority continue as Wheeler's Republican challenger, Fifth Ward councilman Louis _ Belcher, contests the results in court. BELCHER .spent the summer in the courtroom of Monroe County Circuit Court Judge James Kelley, charging that Wheeler is holding the mayor's office illegally.. His law suit asks the court to declare Belcher the winner of the election or declare the election void. If it is declared void, Judge Kelley may order a new election. However, the city charter provides that if an election is declared invalid, City Council must determine who will occupy the mayor's office. The council is currently composed of six Republicans and five Democrats. ORIGINALLY, Belcher's case centered around several ques- See WILL, Page 8 By ANN MARIE LIPINSKI His Wolverine T-shirt aside, Richard Damm was no fan of Michigan yesterday. Standing outside South Quad, wailing regrets, Damm made one last plea to 17-year-old daughter Christina 'to pack her bags and come on back home. "MY LITTLE girl," Damm sighed, lugging suitcases out of his blue Pontiac. "And all these handsome men." "Tough," sniffed the brazen freshwoman. "I like it here bet- ter already." Not all of the visiting parents, their cars transformed into mov- ing vans for the occasion, were as jittery as Damm, who threat- ened to check into a local Rama- da Inn for the weekend "to keep an eye on my baby.", EVEN MARJORIE Damm, Christina's mom, was cooler than her husband. "Father," she teased, winking at Damm, "is having apoplexy. He wants her at home every night so he can count heads. On the way up here he kept saying, 'I don't know why you just didn't See CUTTING, Page 8 Daily Photo by ANDY FREEBERG Lorraine Merkovitz, unloading her daughter Denise, strikes a wistful pose. JOn the inside.. / 4 p . aGreat Truth-60-page newspapers do not appear overnight, at least not at the Daily. We've worked most of the summer to bring you this spe- cial Frosh Edition, which includes the biggest news of the last year in this first section. In "perspec- tives" we touch on some of the people and life- styles which make the 'U' 'U'nique, our sports section offers an overview of Wolverine athletics, " 'U' turns" takes a look at life and times on cam- pus (and features a 'clip-out' calendar to get you through that first hard month), while "take it easy"-our arts, leisure and, entertainment section -includes a guide to local restaurants and bars. If you're wondering where you are by this point, check-out the full-page map of Ann Arbor in "city' limits," our look at the city which surrounds the 'U'. Read on!! 0 On the outside ... The trouble with forecasting weather in a Frosh Edition is that it's put out in September but com- piled largely in July. So unless you're clairvoyant, it's pretty impossible to write up q weather forecast that's anv more reliahl than a On is hnard. Tet PROGRAM CUTS. New life for SHS? *Cramped? d better get use to it By JULIE ROVNER If you're a male living 'in one of the University's dorms, the fact that there will be two per cent more women in the:: dorms this year will probably But if you're a female, you'd probably be happy if some of those women would leave. It seems the housing office has 100 to 120 freshwomen for whom there is no room, and as more students arrive each day, conditions in the dorms are rapidly becoming downright un- comfortable. "WE HAVEN'T quite figured out what happened yet," said housing director John Feld- kamp. "But we're confident Ithat the actions that we've t a k e n to accommodate the overflow will only be tempo- # ., rary." Those action] include putting " By PATTY MONTEMURRI and RON DEKETT The Speech and Hearing Sciences p r o g r a m (SITS), may have a new lease on life. Despite earlier proposals to scrap the entire SHS@undergraduate and graduate program from the Medical School curriculum, a review com- mittee "has recpmmended that SITS phase out its undergraduate major, strengthen its graduate offerings, and stay in the Medical School. LAST SPRING, the Medical School Executive Committee recommended the elimination of SIS, a controversial decision based on a 1973 review committee report and a 1976 accreditor's evalua- tion. The Office of Academic Affairs appointed a ra,,,ncxr nan-. .-itt-a rn n,.nrn ar4 ni c.,, nra - fac.c, the Physical partment. Medicine and Rehabilitation De- A NEW CHAIRHAN, Dr. Charles Krause, was appointed head of the Otorhinolaryngology De- partment August 1. Krause comes from the Uni- versity of Iowa, where a strong Speech and Hear- ing Sciences program operated under a structure similar to the review committee's proposal. The committee's report also recommends that SHS concentrate on research more than clinical training. The committee's proposal to phase out the SHS undergraduate program contrasts with University President Robben Fleming's call last spring for greater stress on undergraduate educa- tion at the University. 1 L- nr . .r n - . ___. s a-_-- . _. --.--