Tuesday, November 29, 1977-The Michigan Daily
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privileges:
Supreme Court
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By BETH ROSENBERG
Suppose that you've borrowed 88
oks from the Graduate Library
d they're a week overdue. If you're
average student, your fine is 25
nts per book per day. Whipping out
ur pocket calculator, you quickly
termine that $22 a day equals $154
r the week, and very possibly as-
rtain that your budget for the week
s been blown out the window.
But if you happen to be one of the
any faculty members who have
erdue books, you won't have to
rounge around for "return for
posit" pop bottles to pay your fine
because your debt will be consid-
erably less, due to special library
rules regarding faculty borrowing.
ALTHOUGH THE case of the
student with 88 overdue books is com-
pletely hypothetical, one faculty
member finally lost his borrowing
privileges because he's had 88 books
out for six months. The library keeps
very definite records of faculty with
overdue books, and right now the list
of those with revoked borrowing priv-
ileges is at 940 people, according to
Willard Davis, head of Circulation
Services at the graduate library.
he gra
Widespread abuse of borrowing
privileges by faculty members
forced the University Senate Assem-
bly to pass a resolution on June 18,
1973 ordering the library to enforce a
sanction against those faculty mem-
bers who fail to settle their accounts.
This resolution went into effect on
July 1, 1975.
The sanction stipulates that faculty
may borrow books for the usual
eight-week time period. But that
doesn't count a 16-week grace period
beyond the due date which must
expire before the sanction is inflict-
ed. In other words, books may be
borrowed for 24 weeks, or six
months, before the individual is
penalized. Delinquent borrowers re-
ceive notices two, 56, and 105 days
after the due date. Revocation of
borrowing privileges occurs until the
books are returned and $1.25 fee is
paid for each book to cover the cost of
maintaining and distributing current
delinquent borrower registers.
THE BREAKDOWN of the 940 on
the list shows that teaching assist-
ants comprise 27 per cent of the de-
linquent borrowers, followed by fac-
ulty (22 per cent), non-teaching staff
(18 per cent), faculty who have left
the University (15 per cent), faculty
from other University campuses
(nine per cent), non-instructing pro-
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fessionals (four per cent), visiting
scholars (two per cent), special
students (two per cent), and non-
student guests (.1 per cent).
Since 15 per cent of the 940 - 141
people - have left the University and
the books they took with them cannot
be recovered, the system is hardly
foolproof. "The unreturned books
upset the library from the standpoint
that most books cannot be replaced,"
Davis said. "Once they're gone,
that's it."
Those on the list account for
approximately 1,615 books.
Many of the two million books in
the graduate library are rare edi-
tions or unavailable elsewhere. Copy-
right difficulties prohibit photocopy-
ing as the solution to obtaining the
works, Davis stated.
ANOTHER dimension of -the prob-
lem is thq expense of replacing the
books. "The cost of processing unre-
turned books (including labor, order-
ing catalogues, etc.) is $12," said
Davis, "and we assess a $4.50 fee."
The library must absorb the $7.50
difference.
The library has no limit on the
number of books any one individual
may borrow. "We try to watch those
who take out a lot of books," Davis
said.
When a delinquent borrower tries
to check out a book the computer
automatically rejects his name.
FACULTY MEMBERS are usually
indignant when told they are not al-
lowed to borrow books, Davis re-
marked. "It's an unpleasant, incon-
venient experience," he said, but
faculty are "not embarrassed, and
they don't look around to see if
anyone is listening."
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AT&T a
WASHINGTON (AP)-The Supreme
Court, taking action in about 200 cases,
turned down an appeal by the American
Telephone & . Telegraph Co. (AT&T)
yesterday aimed- at getting the huge
firm out from under a federal antitrust
suit.
The justices' action means the gover-
nment can continue pressing its efforts
to dismantle AT&T, which claimed in
its appeal that it could not be sued for
antitrust violations because it is heavily
regulated by the Federal Com-
munications Commission (FCC) and
state agencies.
THE GOVERNMENT'S suit was filed
in 1974but has not yet gone to trial. The
Justice Department wants to have
AT&T stripped of its controlling in-
terest in Western Electric, the world's
largest supplier of communications
equipment, and to separate the firm's
Long Lines Department from its 23
wholly or partially owned "operating
companies."
In appealing to the Sreme Court af-
ter losing its immunity argument
before a federal trial judge and an ap-
peals court in Washington, AT&T
argured that "effective competition" is
precluded by state and federal laws
"which require coordination . . . to
establish a single unified national
telecommunications network."
AT&T contends that the pending an-
titrust lawsuit will take more than 10
years to resolve and will end up costing
more than $1 billion..
"BECAUSE THE Bell System is a
regulated public utility enterprise the
public will ultimately bear the expense
of both sides of this litigation," AT&T
attorneys told the court.
In another case, the high court turned
its back on three attempts by public of-
ficials to revive unsuccessful libel suits
against a newspaper, a magazine and
the author and publisher of a book.
In each of the cases, lower courts had
ruled that recovery of damages was
barred by a 1,964 Supreme Court
decision requiring that public officials
and public figures prove "actual
malice" in libel suits even though the
plaintiffs may have been harmed.
ippeal
THE LEGAL definition of actual
malice as applied by the court is that
the statement was made "with
knowledge that it was false or with
reckless disregard of whether it was
false or not."
In other action, the Supreme Court
said it will review a decision by New
Jersey's highest court that a state has a
right to prohibit the dumping of out-of-
state garbage within its borders. 'he
final ruling could have a great impact
on many states facing a growing shor-
tage ovailable waste-disposal sites.
also declined to review a
i 'a ruling that test piolots in
their Scannot be taken off their jobs
solely because of their age. A federal
appeals court had ruled that McDonnell
Douglas Corp. violated the Age
Discrimination in Employment Act
when it grounded Phillip Houghton in
1971 at age 52.
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