to the baily! Call 764-0558 CITY COUNCIL PAYCHECKS See Editorial Page L LIE 41rn augi SWEET! See Today for details 0ol. LXXXVIII, No. 3 The Michigan Daily-Saturday, September 10, 1977 Free Issue Twelve Pages Again, the Grind The day's consensus:'It's good to be back' By PATTY MONTEMURRI For whom did the bell toll? Well, the Burton Tower carillon heralded the fateful hours yesterday, and students from all corners of cam- pus, guided body - though not necessarily soul - through the ritual first day of classes. FRESHPEOPLE - bright-eyed and bushy-tailed - diligently tramped to in-, troductory chemistry, calculus and art history lectures, rife with anticipation. Some of them, like one blue-jeaned, back-packed freshperson, even looked a bit cocky. Why not? "I know where I'm going," the in- dustrious soul boasted. The day before, he had traced the steps that will take him for the rest of the term fron his Frieze Building English class to ast Engineering for trigonometry. The seasoned veterans - sopho- mores, juniors and seniors bushy-eyed from partying the night before - traipsed to their destinations, stopping to chat with faces last seen in the spring. These students knew that many classes would only last for ten minutes because many professors seldom get far past roll-call on the first day. IN A MASON Hall classroom, a por- tly professor expounded on exponents and told his none-too-enraptured stu- dents what mathematics text to buy and the date of the midterm. Some upperclass students seemed excited about the first day of class. Dave Burrows, an LSA senior, bubbled about "trying to get courses I enjoy, even if they're not marketable in ten years."~ Tom Malone, an LSA junior, said he thoroughly enjoyed the term's start. "It's kinda nice not having any classes on Friday," deadpanned the speech major. LEAVING HER first Art History lec- ture, Kathe Tellingator "was kind of overwhelmed to have so much homework on the first day." Faced with a full weekend of reading, the LSA freshwoman said her first day at college was "a change from high school where you had a week to prepare and acquaint yourself with what's going on." Tellingator wasn't the only freshper- son feeling a bit overwhelmed. Fresh- woman Carolyn Chavis, one of ten people on the UGLI's first floor yester- day afternoon, sat with her pen poised over the first page of her newly- acquired notebook, taking notes 'from page one of her chemistry book. "I usually don't study at all, but I thought I'd get a head start," she ex- plained. "I was very scared going into class," she admitted. The feeling Chavis said, didn't diminish after the professor assigned the weekend's homework. But no one summarized the day's ex- pectations better than Maureen Repuc- ci. "It's okay," said the LSA sopho- more. "It's good to be back." DAILY Photos by BRAD BENJAMIN Glen Gormezano, a junior, has all the quiet he needs yesterday while studying in a deserted UGLI. But don't get too used to it,'Glen, midterms are just around the corner. Percy to probe whether Lance backdated checks WASHINGTON (AP - Sen. Charles Percy said yesterday he will question Budget Direc- tor Bert Lance about why he wrote checks totaling $193,000, when his checking account held only $27,000 at the end of 1976. Percy suggested that Lance may have backdated the checks to allow him to take in- come tax deductions for 1976.1 A SPOKESMAN for Lance denied that the checks had been deliberately backdated. Percy, in his remarks at a hearing of the Senate 'Governmental Affairs Committee, did not say he had evidence of any income tax violation. A spokesman for the Illinois Republican said later the senator did not know Lan- ce's motive but said that Lax ce must have either backdated the checks or written them without knowing where the money would come from to cover them. Thechecks for $152,667 and $40,275 were drawn on one of Lance's Georgia banks and were made out to two New York City banks to repay principal and interest on two loans. The checks passed through the New York banks on Jan. 14 and 15. INTEREST is deductible for income tax purposes. Percy said Lance's $3.4 million loan from the First National Bank of Chica- gawas not approved until Jan. 6. If the dates on the checks were accur- ate, Percy said, Lance would have had no way of knowing for sure where he could get the money. PERCY ASKED Comptroller of the Currency John Heimann whether this indicated that Lance might have delib- erately written the wrong date on the checks. "Is it a reasonable question that there is a possibility the checks might have been backdated, and income tax deduc- tions might have been improperly taken?" Percy said. "Is that a possibili- ty and a question that Lance should an- swer?" Heimann, who has been reluctant to elaborate on his Aug. 18 report on Lan- ce, said he would ask a different question. "I WOULD ASK for proper cash flow to explain this happening," he said. "What does it mean?' Where did the funds come from?" Percy said he will ask Lance about the checks when Lance appears before the committee next week. A spokesman for Lance said, "There is nothing in the comptroller of the cur- rency's report which shows anything irregular about this period. There was certainly no deliberate backdating of any checks." PERCY'S INFORMATION on the ' checks and Lance's bank balances See PERCY, Page 5 DAILY Photos byBRAD BENJAMIN Bouncing Czechs A quartet of Czechs bedecked in the garb of their native Czechosivakia down a few native beers at last night's open- ing session of the Ethnic Festival, Main Street between Liberty and William. Festivities continue today. w.. MOTOWN IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Govs' bash boosts Detroit By JULIE ROVNER Special to the Daily DETROIT--Two years ago, when the renaissance Center was little more than a large hole in the ground, Gover- nor William Milliken convinced the National Governors' Conference-now the National Governors' Association (NGA)-to hold its annual conference here. Instead of spending the three days of meetings at a resort, the Governor wanted his colleagues to see a real city, "warts and all." That's exactly what they did. ALTHOUGH THE meeting officially ended yesterday,, with Milliken taking over the chairmanship of the organization for the coming year, it will have long-lasting effects on Detroit-a city already in the midst of a surprising rejuvenation. "The conference put a spolight on both Michigan and the city of Detroit, which I think resulted in a lot of changed impressions for the better," Milliken told the Daily. "The urban orientation of the con- ference allowed the governors to get out into the city and see exactly what was going on, and it allowed the national media to see it also," he said. IN, AN INTERVIEW Thursday, Mayor Coleman Young expressed similar views: "This kind of thing lets influentials see the city as it really is, and not just how it's reported to be. Perception and image are everything, and I think a lot more positive things are going to come gut of this." During their stay, the governors took part in activities designed to show Detroit's better side, inciuaxig trips to Belle Isle and Greenfield Village. NGA's six standing committees ven- tured yesterday into the heart 'of the city to see various programs at work. They visited the Medical Center com- plex, the Fifth Precinct Police Station, General Motors headquarters and a Chrysler assembly plant. During the trips, they discussed everything from crime control to retaining businesses in American cities. For the first time, the Governors used their host city as a laboratory. They viewed, first-hand, the topics discussed in the lavish confines of the Plaza Hotel. See DETROIT, Page 5 T-shirts come c Sex-layer Collins may move to tighter prison By M. EILEEN DALEY Before becoming too suspicious of an obviously pregnant woman wearing a T-shirt which proclaims "I'm a virgin," be sure to catch a glimpse of the back of the shirt - it will probably say "But this is an old T-shirt." The suggestive double entendre is about as old as the rubber crutch, but young, chic women have been plucking T-shirts with slogans like "I'll try any- .. - - - - & --1,-' 11r lr shirt with bright gold glitter proclaim- ing "Detroit," but added that some slo- gans were difficult to unload. " 'I'm a virgin' was hard to sell," she recalled. "A lot of pregnant women and adolescents bought them." TOWN AND COUNTRY'S Loretta Weg found the stores biggest sellers were shirts reading "Perfect" and "Avant-Garde." "We told people 'avant-garde' meant A saleswoman at State Street's Saks Fifth Avenue recalled seeing a co-work- er's boyfriend wearing a shirt advertis- ing ski binding which said "Deliver us from premature release." Not everyone however, has found the slogans amusing. "I THINK they're crude," said fresh- woman Susan Finger. "I knew a guy who had one that said 'Cunning Stunts' on it, a little spoonerism." By KEITH RICHBURG John Norman Collins, the man con- victed in the last of a series of local sex murders in the late 1960's, will probably be moved to a more secure prison be- volved," said Brown. "He made it (his confession) to the (prison) deputy and later to the state police." Brown said an investigation into the matter will continue before Collins is f,.rna .nearr tIn mmnfim V rnfn tiri..fv