Tuesday, November 29, 1977-The Michigan Daily { aculty borrowing privileges: Supreme Court turns down leadaches for t 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- s EARN EXTRA CASH - CASH PAID FOR YOUR BLOOD PLASMA NOW This is your opportunity to help supply this need for blood plasma $ . 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"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." Umom 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. Senate McClellan, REGIONAL PREMIERE The Cinematic Event of the Year TWO SHOWS ONL Y THE 1BATTLE OP CHILI 81 dies A LANDMARK IN THE PRESEN- TATION OF LIVING HISTORY ON FILM ...charged with the day-to- day immediacy of those trau- matic months... None of the new crop of Hollywood conspiracy-assassination movies can match the suspense packed into these frames." -Judy Stone. SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE n "ESSENTIAL VIEWING. -.few his- torical events have been so comprehensively recorded... the 6inema's equivalent to John Reed's "Ten Days that Shook the World." -David Robinson, THE LONDON TIMES TUES., NOV. 29, MLB Aud. 3 AWARDS Grand Prie. Grenoble lnternalional fdm Festvl .176 French film Critics' Association Award. Granrl Puize.Ranalma dena tnlernahiiva1 Film festival 1976. Grand Prrvo f the lntPrn Ilona, Jury. I1aioiq Mnrrational Fdm Festival. 1976 "A UNIQUE JOURNALISTIC ACHIEVEMENT... It's also an exciting sociology lesson.F comparable to THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS." -Craig Rock, THE DAILY CALIFORNIAN "EXTRAORDINARY PASSION... with a narrative drive not found in most features.. Highly recommehded." - Scoff Meek. TIME OUT (London) WED., NOV. 30 Angell Hall Aud. 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