/ BUCKS FOR GEO See Editorial Page : 'l S41c ati NON-CUMULATIVE See Today, Page 3 Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 34 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Sunday, October 16, 1977 Ten Cents Eight Pages plus Supplement Ethnics, politicos get no office space By LINDA WILLCOX No ethnic groups and few political organi- zations will get office space in the Michigan Union because "they don't reach enough students," according to students who helped made that decision. "We want to stay away from ethnic and political organizations because there have been problems in the past,"' said Michele Sprayregen, chairperson of the Student Organizations Board. That board makes all recommendations of groups to get office space to the Michigan Student Assembly (MSA). "We feel that we've tried to clean up the of- fices and make them more responsive to the students,"she said. MSA USUALLY ratifies all Board recom- mendations, according to Chris Batchelder, MSA vice president. Jasper DiGuiseppe, vice-president of the board, said the number of students affected by the individual organization, the past record and future aims of the group, and the orientation of the group were all criteria in the decisions. "It's certainly discriminatory against political and ethnic groups. We plan to form a coalition (of all such groups) to fight it," said Debbie Benjamin, member of the Young Socialists' Alliance (YSA). RICHARD GARLAND, formerly the Black Advocate for the University, said, "There's no reason to deny ethnic groups space on the basis of how many students they reach. You can't reach people if you don't have an office space to work out of." "MSA is supposed to represent. all organizations. If in fact they are going to allocate space for some organizations, but not for all organizations, they are not representing the students," he said. Sprayregen said office space is limited on the fourth floor of the Union. Consequently, any MSA-recognized organization can apply for the space, but nobody is guaranteed anything, she said. SHE ALSO said publicity for the applications and deadlines was limited to the MSA office. Fifty to 60 applications were filed for less than half that many offices, she said. "The thing about the whole thing is that it's been so arbitrary," Benjamin said. She said although the YSA, the Revolutionary Student Brigade and the Farmworkers' Support Group have all lost space, the'Ann Arbor Committee for Human Rights in Latin America and Washtenaw Friends of the Earth groups both gQt offices. Most of the ethnic groups are foreign organizations, said DiGuiseppe. SPRAYREGEN said American ethnic groups would have been likewise rejected, but none applied for office space. Still, Russ Smith, president of the University chapter of the National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People (NAACP) called the move racist. "I don't care how they say they do it (distribute the space)," he said. "It's racist. "I guess that just shows the whole way the University would be going soon, if the students are doing it first." CHARLES HAGWOOD doesn't feel quite the same way. As chairperson for the Christian Students' Union, a group which got office space for the first time this year, he said, "We prayed that God would give us office space. If He sees fit for us to have office space and He didn't give other people office space, I can't see it in my mind to question it," he said. Don Alexander, a member of the Revolutionary Student Brigade, a group which lost its office, said, "We're planning n raising hell about it. As a student organization, we've got every right to be there." Sprayregen said, "It's always been in the past that whoever has an office one year gets it the next year." For that reason, she speculated, several groups with offices didn't fill in the extra details on the application which they might have if they had "really" wanted to keep the office another year. Blue crunches Badgers, 56-0 By SCOTT LEWIS A showdown battle at Michigan Stadium yesterday, turned into no more than a confirmation that "Big Two and Little Eight" aptly portrays the Big Ten in 1977. Previously undefeated and 14th- ranked Wisconsin, perched atop the conference standings, was forced to face reality by a devastating Michi- gan team, and became the victim of a 56-0 thrashing. THE SCORE definitely indicated the relative strengths of the two teams yesterday. Michigan contin- ually pounded away at the relatively powerless Badgers with a balanced offensive attack, and a stingy de- fense. Wisconsin's highly-touted of- fense did not get into Wolverine terri- tory until but 2:43 remained in the game. "They'd been leading -the Big Ten in a lot of categories, and we just wanted to show them the type of football that we could play," said Michigan quarterback Rick Leach, who has been disproving his critics week-by-week. For the second time in three weeks, Michigan's passing game, counter-# acting a defense geared toward the run, helped by converting many key third downs and blew the game wide open. LEACH AND his mates converted 16 of 21 third down situations into either first downs or touchdowns with a mixture of pin-point passes and straight-ahead running plays. "We played the option well and we forced them to throw," said Wiscon- sin coach John Jardine. "But they tore us up on third down with the pass and the draw. They took the steam out of us. "We played a great football team today. They embarrassed us. We got beat by a hell of a team," he added. THE SWEETNESS of the victory was further enhanced by the play of. backup tailback Roosevelt Smith. Starting in place of Harlan Huckleby, who sat the game out with a pulled leg muscle, Smith tallied 157 yards on 25 carries, and grabbed two third- down passes on Michigan's first drive of the game. "Rose did a good job in his first start," prased Schembechler. "He came in here and got hurt as a fresh- man last year and didn't play, but he's done a great job. He started fourth team this year and worked his way up. It's great to see a young guy like that come through when the pressure is on." The Wolverines virtually put the game away in the first half. The 21-0 locker room lead, though impressive, still did not reflect the Wolverines' total dominance over the Badgers in the first half. ALTHOUGH THE Michigan of- fense marched within Wisconsin's 30-yard line on each of its six posses- sions of the half, only three of those resulted in scores. After taking the opening kickoff, Michigan took less than six minutes in marching to the game's winning touchdown. The offense seemed in control the whole drive, but it took a desperation fling into the end zone by a scram- bling Leach to get the points. Making a leaping catch, over the outstretched hands of the-Wisconsin defender, in the end zone was sopho- more tight end Doug Marsh. THE NEXT two Michigan posses- sions resulted in no scoring after deep penetrations into Badger terri- tory. Gregg Willner missed a 45-yard field goal attempt, then Dennis Stejskal intercepted a Leach pass in the Wisconsin end zone on the next possession. Michigan drove 62 yards in nine See BATTLE, Page 8 i' Daily Photo by ALAN BILINSKY Tight end Gene Johnson tiptoes through the Badgers for an early score. . .......+ K ... ,: t: - m.,W. a n .. U.S.-Panama statement will aid passage of Canal treaty: Byrd WASHINGTON '(AP) - The U.S.- Panamanian reaffirmation of the American right to defend the Pan- ama Canal will help President Carter win support for his proposed canal treaty, Senate Majority Leader Rob- ert Byrd said yesterday. Byrd, at a Capitol news confer- ence, said he remains personally uncommitted on the treaty issue. But he added that without the assurances that emerged from Friday's meeting between President Carter and Pan- ama's Gen. Omar Torrijos, the canal treaty could not win Senate ratifi- & gm m BULLETIN RALEIGH, N.C. (AP)-Joan Little, whose trial on charges of killing her jailer made international headlines, has escaped from prison, the North Carolina Correction Center for Women said late last night. "We discovered she was gone about 6:30 p.m.," said Sgt. G. G. Barber. "I don't know how she left here." Little was acquitted more than a year ago of charges of murdering a Beaufort County jailer. She testified the jailer had attempted to rape her and that she stabbed him with an ice pick in self defense. Following her acquittal, Little was returned to prison to serve a sentence for breaking and entering. She had been cation. Republican opponents have not changed their minds and will con- tinue to fight ratification of the pact, a GOP spokesman said. After their White House meeting, Carter and Torrijos issued a "state- ment of understanding," clarifying two disputed points about the treaty, which ends U.S. control of the canal in the year 2000. Carter recently had admitted the treaty was in trouble in the Senate and White House officials said after Friday's meeting that the adminis- tration was counting on the clarifica- tion of the agreement to move some support to the treaty. But Sen. Paul Laxalt, whom Re- publican opponents of the treaty have designated as their spokesman, said Friday's statement "will satisfy no one. It doesn't reach the basic issue of why we should give up the canal at all. "In addition, those who want the entire agreement within the four corners of the treaty won't feel bound by a verbal understanding of two leaders who are both in serious politi- cal trouble in their own countries on this issue," he added in a telephone interview. IN PANAMA, the issue is whether the treaty gives the United States a right to interfere in Panamanian af- fairs. A plebiscite on the issue is scheduled there for Oct. 23. Meanwhile, Sen. Bob Dole (R- Kan.), issued a statement saying he will introduce amendments seeking to incorporate the Friday agreement into the treaty. Dole described the Carter-Torrijos statement as "a step in the right direction." Daily Photo by ANDY FREEBERG While some protesters burned their utility bills and marched along the streets of Detroit sporting placards denouncing the construction of nuclear power plants, others protested the protesters by defiantly sleeping through the whole thing. AnLi-nuk ers march Byrd R--- .,,..,- ....- . . By ENID GOLDMAN Calling nuclear power "danger- ous, expensive, immoral and un- necessary," approximately 100 persons burned their Detroit Edi- son utility bills yesterday after- noon at a Kennedy Square rally sponsored by the Detroit Safe Energvalitnimon- (I.Om Wavh- troit Edison wants to raise our rates" to a few curious on-lookers. "THE RALLY and bill burning was held to symbolize our opposi- tion to using public money for technologies hazardous to the public safety," explained Sandy Knoll, a SECO coordinator. "We an hn n M h nain o nda mnua_ (H] Christian group skirts 'U' policy By MARK PARRENT Crisler, Hill Auditorium and the charge of renting Crisler, gave and SUE WARNER Power Center for popular entertain- HVYFC authority to stage the event Huron Valley Youth for Christ ment unless UAC handles the produc- when they were told it would be a re- [VYFC) managed to pull off a tion. ligious revival, not a pop concert. concert featuring singer B. J. Thom- as in Crisler Arena last night, but left some local events planners with the feeling that God was not on the side of the religious group. F o l l o w i n g the performance The University enacted the policy last year because of technical, mana- gerial and security problems it says accompanies pop concerts. "THEY MISLED US. said Young CUTHBERTSON said the show was a mixture of popular and gospel musical selections interspersed with religious testimony. However- som e neeonrsRaid I