CARTER'S PARDON See Editorial Page Y Siri DaitF MAUDLIN High: 30° Low: 12 See Today for details Latest Deadline in the State Vol. LXXXVII, no. 94 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, January 25, 1977 Ten Cents Eig ht Pages Millage defeat In yesterday's special millage election, Washte- naw County voters resoundingly rejected a 1.5 mill charter millage increase for special edu- cation funds. Washtenaw Intermediate School Dis- trict (WISD) officials hadtasked for the increase to cover rising costs. In the wake of yesterday's defeat, WISD administrators reacted with dismay. For details, see story on Page 2. Lend a hand Just 'in case you've been trapped in the steam tunnels for the last week, we thought we'd re- mind you again about our mass meeting for pros- pective reporters, sports and editorial writers, arts reviewers and photographers. That meeting's to- night, at 9 p.m., in our offices on the second floor of the Student Publications Building (420 May- nard). If you can't make that, show up at one of five upcoming dorm meetings we're also holding: On Wednesday, we'll be at Markley's Angela Davis Lounge at 7 p.m. and in Bursley's East Lounge at 9 p.m. Thursday, we'll inhabit the Green Lounge at East Quad at 7 p.m. and Couzens Hall's living room at 9 p.m. A week from today, Feb. 1, we'll visit the West Lounge at South Quad at 7 p.m. Join us! Easing the burden It's like, putting a Band-Aid on a bazooka wound, but state Rep. Jackie Vaughn III (D-Detroit) wants to take at least some of the hurt out of state in- come taxes for students. Under a bill Vaughn has introduced in the legislature, students or their parents would be allowed tax credits for educa- tional expenses - tuition, fees, books and school supplies - needed for college undergraduate stu- dies or vocational schools. (Sorry to all you grad students). The credits would start off with a maxi- mum of $100 in 1978, increasing by $50 a year until 1981, when a credit of up to $250 could be claimed. "The escalating costs of higher education and vo- cational schools threaten to price them out of range of even middle class families," Vaughn said in a statement which should surprise no one around here. Picture it - a tag on your next Econ text: "This book is tax deductible" Happenings ... today are calculated to blow those third- week blues away. The Ann Arbor Art Association unveils its exhibit called "Printmakers: Some New Faces" at 8 a.m. on the second floor of City Hall. The show will be open until March 4th, so you've got plenty of time to check it out . . . VISTA and Peace Corps recruiters will be interviewing candi- dates for volunteer positions today through Thurs- day from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Career Plan- ning and Placement offices at the Student Activi- ties Bldg. . .. Alpha Phi Omega's blood bank will be in the Anderson Rm. of the Union from 11 a.m to 5 p.m. . . : Prof. Milton Heumann speaks on "Perspectives on Political Science" at noon for the Undergraduate Political Science Association's brown bag lunch, 1017 Angell Hall . . . The Socio- cinema 100 film series offers "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" at 4 and 7:30 p.m. in MLB Lecture Room 1 . . . Career Planning and Place- ment offers a guide to resume writing and a gen- eral meeting of Women in Communications at 7 p.m. in South Quad's West Lounge . . . Legal Aid hold a Q and A session for students interested in applying for or appealing resident status, at 7 p.m. in Rm. 4202 of the Union . . . Open House for fra- ternity rushes are this week, from 7 to 10 p.m. each night through Thursday. Call 663-4554 for more details . . . Spartacus Youth League spon- sors a program entitled "Revolutionary Status for the Colonial World" at 7:30 p.m. in Rm. 3209 of the Union . . . Anyone interested in working in Wash- ington, D. C. should attend a workshop in Rm. 126 of East Quad at 7:30 p.m. . . . and TM program co-ordinator Bruce McCracken lecfures on TM as "Education for Enlightenment" at 7:30 in the UGLI Multipurpose room. Hloive no i Allan Howe is looking for a job. Howe, you'll remember, was the Utah Democrat who lost his seat in Congress after trying to buy a good time from some police decoy prostitutes. Now, his at- torney says, Howe is knocking on doors in Wash- ington and may become a lobbyist. As a former congressman, Howe enjoys floor privileges - meaning he can mingle with lawmakers as they do business. Attorney' Dean Mitchell also says he expects a federal judge to overturn the convic- tion on grounds of excessive publicity. Howe isn't talking much about the matter himself, and dis- patched a reporter's questions with a curt: "You guys ought to get some new copy, get a new vic- tim for 1977." On the inside... The Barbour-Waterman Gymnasium controversy is examined under MSA President Scott Kellman's microscope on the Editorial Page . . Don Mac- Lachlan takes you to Columbus for all of last night's exciting basketball game action for Sports and Stephen Pickover reviews PTP's produc- tion of "Sherlock Holmes" for the Arts and Enter- Milliken U' scor seeks S'. $9. recordb 7 million udget; ( ganl Tuition hike averted? By PHILLIP BOKOVOY Gov. William Milliken yesterday made public a re- cord $3.66 billion budget for 1977-1978 that includes a $9.7 million increase in funds for the University. University officials were cautiously optimistic about the proposed appropration, but President Robben Flem- ing said he would not speculate on the possibility that a tuition hike might not be required for the 1977-78 school year. BUT Regent Paul Brown (D-Petoskey) spoke more freely. "We'll keep the raise down, if there is one," he said. The ,University had originally asked for a $30 million increase in funding - $20 million more than Milliken's proposal. But the Dailv Photo by BRAD BENJAMIN COUZENS DINERS were unwilling hosts to some Alice Lloyd visitors last night, but they all made the most of a temporary population explosion. The Alice Lloyd students were protesting a proposed weekend meal consolidation plan. Alice Lyd residents fight orm ce consolidation budget request included plans for have to be cut from the budget the University's allocation. State Sen. Robert Vander- Laan (R-Grand Rapids), assist- ant Republican leader, said the legislature would probably in- crease the University's budget by $5 million -$6 million over Milliken's proposal. Rep. Perry Bullard (D-Ann Arbor) con- curred. SENATE Majority Leader William Faust (D-Westland) said that although it is still too early to tell for sure, he thinks the Senate Democrats are lean- ing toward a restoration of state aid to higher education to the high levels of the mid-60s. "We've shortchanged the universities," he said last night, and added that the austerity program instituted by Milliken two years ago had severely hurt higher education in Michi- gan. The University's increase was much greater than Michi- gan State's this year. According to Budget Director Gerald Miller, dollars that go to the University are better used' than those that go to MSU. MILLER said Milliken has begun a system of formula See GOV'S., Page 2 expansion, and those plans may if the legislature doesn't raise Carter will continue gasoline price limits By AP and Reuter WASHINGTON - President Carter, acting swiftly to s' ress his new authority, yesterday cancelled a plan by ex-President Ford to end gasoline price con- trols. Carter, in office only four days, withdrew the plan to' end gasoline price controls that President Ford submitted on January 19, the day before he left office. "CARTER does not by this withdrawal intend to imply any position on the ultimate merits or. dimerits of gasoline decon- trol," White Hotse Press Secre- tary Jody Powell told reporters. "Instead, he intends to conduct a review of these controls as an integral part of the development of an over-all energy policy. "Among other things, such a review will examine the prior administration's contention that competitive market forces would restrain prices for motor gaso- line below levels which would be permissible even if controls remained in effect." Consumer groups have disput- ed this Ford administration con- tention, arguing that lif ing the controls would increase the cost of gasoline for consumers be- yond increases which the con- trols allowed. THE PLAN, which would have taken effect on February 2 un- less vetoed by the Democratic- controlled Congress, aroused a major controversy with oppon- ents saying it would raise prices at least six cents a gallon and was a Christmas gift for big oil companies. Federal Energy Administra- tion (FEA) officials had said it would add only two cents a gal- Milli ken By BRIAN BLANCHARD More than 200 jostling residents of Alice Lloyd Hall ate dinner in the Couzens cafeteria last night, but they weren't invited. Rather, they came from next door to pro- test the University's latest attempt to cut costs - the transfer of students from three central campus dorms to three neighboring dorms for weekend meals. ACCORDING TO THE Single Student Rent Study Committee, composed of students and staff appointed by the Housing Office, the transfer would cut rent costs by $12 per term for stu- dents in Alice Lloyd, Bursley, Barbour-Newberry, Couzens, East Quad, Markley, Mosher-Jordan, South Quad, Stockwell, and West Quad. The plan would shift students from Alice Lloyd to Couzens, from Mosher-Jordan to Mark- ley, and from West Quad to South Quad each Saturday and Sunday starting next September. The protest, which was planned at the end of last term after a policy committee recom- mended the transfer plan, made dining uncom- fortable but didn't bring the meal to a stand- still. BUT THAT WASN'T their aim. The Lloyd people, according to protestor Bob Miller, were just "trying to show the Couzens people how bad it'll be." The group was also angry over a Housing Office survey of ten per cent of the residents of each dorm benefitting from the rent cut. Alice Lloyd visitors waiting in line for Couzens beef stroganoff and shrimp said the survey is unfair because four of the dorms polled - Burs- ley, Barbour-Newberry, East Quad, and Stock- well - wouldn't teel' the strain of the consolida- tion. "This may be just the first step to mass con- See RESIDENTS, Page 8 11 See CARTER, Page 2' Council debates, parking rates BOOST IN FUNDING HINTED: V.P. addresses NATO By LANI JORDAN In a special working session last night, Ann Arbor City Coun- cil members debated several proposals for funding the city's parking plan, including increas- ed parking fees and a down- town special assessment dis- trict. Although the city may face property owners who + would be hit by the special assessment, several Council members spoke in favor of the method last night. COUNCIL ALSO PASSED its Capital Improvements Budget and Program for the period 1977 to 1982. The proposed parking improve- ments would include- repairs to several city parking facilities including the Forest St. and Maynard St. parking structures, as well as a 'sinking .fund' to provide for future repairs on parking structures. Also included in the parking plan is the city's purchase of the Forest St. structure which it currently leases from a pri- vate owner. No additional as- sessment will be needed to pur- chase the facility as current rental fees paid by the city for use of the structure will equal the cost of the struc- COUNCIL MEMBER Roger Bertoia (R-3rd Ward) favored the special assessment for park- ing improvements calling it "the only possible solution." He add- ed that the possible lawsults would be useful methods of testing the legality of special' assessments. However, Mayor Albert Wheel- er favored an increase in park- ing rates rather than the spe- cial assessment to fund the re- pairs. Wheeler proposed a five dollar hike in monthly parking fees, currently $20 in most of the cities parking structures as well as a five cent an hour in- crease of the current 20 cent parking lot rate. But both Council members who See COUNCIL, Page 8 BONN, West Germany (t) - President Carter is considering boosting U.S. contributions to the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza- tion despite his plans to cut Pen- tagon spending, Vice President Walter Mondale told officials of the Atlantic alliance yesterday. Before flying to Bonn, the new vice president warned the min- isters that though the United States might make some unilat- eral increases. further increases would be made only as part of a cooperative effort by all 15 na- tions in the alliance. MONDALE'S comments came in a speech to the North Atlan- tic Council, NATO's minister- level supervisory body, at the start of his 10-day world tour to confer with major U.S. allies. Since taking office last Thurs- day, Car'er has restated his campaign promise to cut the de- fense budget by between $5 bil- lion and $7 billion by eliminating waste. Mondale said that with Car- ter's instructions he was report- ing to the NATO ministers. that "his new budget and these effi- ciencies will not result in any rope" and was essential to se- curity. The Mondale speech rep- resented an affirmation of tan- gible support. Informed sources here report- ed that during a question-and- answer session that followed the speech, Mondale said con- cern over the buildup of Soviet military capabilities should not lead to despair. He said he re- jected "the rhetoric of impo- tence" as counterproductive to a mature approach to dealing with it. MONDALE was later asked by reporters whether an in- crease in the number of U.S. troops in Europe was planned. "We had not " contemplated that," he replied. He also said the administration had not settled on a likely level of in- creased funding for NATO. See MONDALE, Page 8 Campus radio stations under assault by new FCC ruling By MARTHA RETALLICK The campus AM radio sta- tion, WRCN, and other college stations like it could be put out of business by a proposed rule change the Federal Communi- cations Commission (FCC) has tentatively accepted. The proposed change in regu- lations, officially known as FCC docket 207-80, seeks to reduce the carrier current system. Lawyers for the Intercolleg- iate Broadcasting System, which represents WRCN, are attempting to get the FCC to reconsider its tentative accept- ance of the proposal. If they fail, Domanski says, "We real-. ly don't know at this point" what the consequences will be. However all indications are that tests would have to be run proves the case WRCN may not be able to afford the cost of the necessary modifications. Domanski says the interfer- ence the FCC is trying to re- duce is caused by a variety of factors ranging from garage door openers to carrier signal radio stations. "THEY'RE lumping carrier current stations unfairly," as interference sources. Doman-