CO-ED JOHNS See Editorial Page 'YI e '*6 4tj U DaitF SOGGY High -- 46 Low -- 29 See Today for details Latest Deadline in the State Vol. LXXXVII, No. 111 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, February 12, 1977 Ten Cents E ght Pages By NICK KATSARELAS 1U SEE NEWS W&j p ty N.ALlZtAglY The good, the bad and the UGLI' Just as students' minds crumble while studying in the UGLI, the library's outside wall is falling apart, too. According to J. P. Weidenbach, Uni- versity director of physical property, the metal ties that hold face bricks together in the northwest corner of the building are so badly bent that a 40. by -.50 ft. section of bricks is being removed in order to replace the structural fault. "It's a prob- lem we have had with this building. The face bricks have pulled away . . . for reasons we don't know," said Weidenbach. Last year, the UGLI's northeast corner suffered. a similar problem, and the replacement of the face -bricks put the Uni- versity out about $20,000, the same cost which is estimated for this year's repair work. Although the noise from the construction has not affected student use of the library, UGLI director Rose- Grace Faucher says the din is annoyipg to students trying to crack their books. "The worst place," Faucher said, "is in the audio room." Co-ed johns, cont. Yesterday, the Daily reported in its story on co-ed bathrooms that East Quad was the only dormitory in which residents decided to comply with University policy and abolish the joint facili- ties. However, Alice Lloyd residents took a similar action Thursday night. We regret the deletion. 1" Happenings ... .. start after dinner today. At 7 p.m., listen to "A Musical Anthology" by folksinger-writer Fred- erick Douglass Kirkpatrick, at Trotter House, 1443 Washtenaw . . . also at 7, the Gay Community Center, 612 S. Forest, will be open for your use until 11 . . . Hillel sponsors a viewing of the movie "The Fixer" in the Blue Carpet Lounge of Alice Lloyd Hall at 8. Admission is 50 cents . . . finally, at 9, pucker up with your sweetie at a Valentines Day dance, in East Quad's North Cafeteria . . . Have a nice day! Gas pains Federal Energy Administration chief John OLeary, the man rekponsible for allocating the nation's petroleum supplies, had a little trouble Thursday with his own supply of energy. He ran out of gas on the way to work. Addressing a meet- ing of the Consumer Federation of America, O'Leary sheepishly admitted that his gauge reg- istered empty on the way to a morning television interview. But like any good energy chief, O'Leary discovered an alternative form of power. "I jog- ged the last couple of miles," he said. Cityca bbies throttled by Diali-A -Ride For years Ann Arbor cabbies ruled the streets. Like a bar- tender with the only saloon in town, they and their metered autos dominated the city's direct transportation business. But lately the big yellow people movers have been nudging up to even bigger purple Dial-A-Ride vans at just about every stop sign and, accord- ing to the cabbies, there's not room in this town for both of them. "They're driving us into bankruptcy," complained Alice Mar- tin, manager of Veterans Cab, the largest taxi company in Ann Arbor. MARTIN'S FEELINGS echo those of many cab drivers in the city, who are competing with the much cheaper means of trans- portation offered by Dial-A-Ride. Dial-A-Ride, a service of (the Ann Arbor Transportation Au- thority (AATA), will take you anywhere in the city not covered along AATA bus routes. And for 25 cents, few will turn it down. Cab drivers, on-the other hand, charge $1.20 for the first mile, and Est cents for every mile after that. "It's impossible to compete with them," said Gerald Voice, who has driven a cab for 40 years. In August 1971, Voice and five other cab drivers and owners sued the city on grounds of "unfair competition." The suit was dismissed, as was an appeal, and a month later Dial-A-Ride began service. A CHECK OF the city controller's files, which stores quarterly reports made by the cab drivers,verifies that the taxi business may be in trouble. In 1970, Yellow Cab, the only other taxi com- pany in the city, had between 21 and 24 vehicles. Now they oper- ate 18, and last summer they had only 11 cabs on the road. But Veterans suffered a more dramatic loss. In mid-1971, 45 cabs operated under them. Now, the number has dwindled to 36. Masao Kon, a driver for Veterans since 1949, said his income has gone down because of Dial-A-Ride. He proposed to the head of the AATA that, in order to save the taxi business, improvements should be made in the bus service so Dial-A-Ride could then be eliminated. But his efforts were fruitless. Dial-A-Ride started with three vans in 1971 as an experiment conducted jointly by AATA and Ford Motor Company. It served See TAXIS, Page 2 ...........::.;.+v:i..i:..::....::::::. . ., ..................:.. ...............'.........................iiiiii;:<> nneni usually a period of bitterness between management and employes, have been relatively peaceful for AFSCME and the University. When AFSCME scheduled a mass un- ion meeting to decide whether or not to give its negotiating team the power to call a strike, the Universiy called the action routine. No hnrsh words were