This week is your last chance to register to vote FOOTBALL SCHEDULES See Editorial Page Y Airigan Bait SOGG(A High-60 Low-41 See Today for details Latest Deadline in the State Vol. LXXXVI1, No, 17 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, September 28, 1976 Ten Cents Eight Pages plus Supplements I -I _. r r . IYOU SEE NEt,+S APENICALL r6)-LY Headliners If you have ever wanted to see your name in a banner headline or if you just want to cast aspersions on a friend you'll have your chance Thursday. From 2 p.m. until 10 p.m. The Daily will for a small charge let you make your own headline at the Activities Fair in the Union Ball- room. There will be other groups represented as well. If you want to be a marshall at the fair or if you want your group to be included con- tact the general manager's office in the Union by 5 p.m. today. Happenings... ... commence at a civilized hour today, noon, at the Ecumenical Campus Center, 921 Church. Journalist Roy Whang speaks on Korea: Caught in the Struggle." If you would like a reserva- tion for lunch, call 662-5529 ... Prof. Charles Tilly speaks on "Social Tensions in 17th Century France," 3 p.m. in Rm. 2012 of the MLB ... New members are encouraged to attend a meeting of the University of Michigan Papers in Womens Studies, 4:30 in Rm. 1050 of the LSA Building . the Women's Crisis Center holds a mass meet- ing to coordinate their anti-rape effort, 7:30 at the Corntree Co-op, 1910 Hill; men, as well as women, are welcome ... A group planning to study the ideal of Paul Goodman holds an organiza- tional meeting at the Canterbury House, 8 p.m. on the corner of Catherine and Division. The exorcist Shortly after midnight Saturday, James Mat- kowski walked up the stairs of his Philadelphia home, entered his three-year-oPd 's second floor bedroom, and calmly plung i knife into his son's left side. Police reported that Matkow- ski, 27, said he felt he had to kill his son be- cause he thouhgt the child had been possessed by the Devil. The father is now free on $25,000 bond and is undergoing psychiatric treatment while the boy, who underwent surgery for a col- lapsed lung, is reported in satisfactory condi- tion. Police said Matkowski was apparently in- fluenced by the spate of recent movies (The Omen, The Exorcist) depicting children possessed by Satan. Stop, thief! The Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Orleans is probably used to having its expensive, gold-col- ored towels stolen by the transients who spend the night then move on to points unknown. Still, reporters with President Ford's weekend motor- cade in the Gulf Coast were a little surprised when they peeked into the White House limou- sine and saw two of the towels laying on the rear seat. Both Ford and the travelling press corps had spent Saturday night in the hostelry, and with the almost unbearably hot weather in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama - most men were shirtless that day - it's a safe bet Ford made good use of the towels. Has anyone checked the White House bathrooms for little bars of Ivory soap? ' About those rings ... You're just worried sick about the truth be- hind Saturn's rings, right? You stay awake nights wondering how they got there and what they're made of? Worry no more. Soviet astronomers have concluded that the huge planet's beautiful rings are actually rainbows, according to a Tass news agency report yesterday. Tass said astrono- mers at Kharkov University in the Ukraine ex- amined the rings with a 27-inch telescope and found that the ring phenomena is an optical ef- forts. Scientists have long known that the rings consist of particles in orbit around Saturn but, Tass said, the Soviet scientists concluded the par- ticles are transparent and reflect light. Take that, Carl Sagan. " Family poverty The number of American families officially liv- ing in poverty increased by a whopping 2.5 mil- lion last year - the biggest jump since the Census Bureau began keeping track of such statistics. High inflation, recession, and widespread exhaus- tion of unemployment benefits combined forces to place a total of 25.9 million families below the government - defined poverty level of $5,500 an- nual income for a nonfarm family of four. The new figures were somewhat less than good news for President Ford, as Jimmy Carter has made the incumbent's handling of the economy a key issue in the presidential election contest. Nearly four million families have slid into poverty since Ford took office. Ot the inside * Susan Hildebrandt leads off the Editorial Page with part two of a report on juvenile code re- Michi By LAURIE YOUNG Michigamua, a secret, all male organization on campus, has been charged with violation of Title IX, a law which pro- hibits sex discrimination in fed- erally funded institutions. The complaint was filed with the Department of Health, Edu- cation and Welfare (HEW) Re- gion V Office in Chicago last Friday by Vice President of Michigan Student Assembly (MSA) Amy Blumenthal and Anita Tanay, a former MSA member. Through the MSA Stu- dent Legal Advocate Program (SLAP), it alleges that Michi- gamua members get preferen- gamu tial treatment concerning Uni- versity facilities, without being a properly recognized student organization. AN EARLIER complaint had been filed in May by Blumen- thal while a campus wide self- evaluation was occurring. Michigamua members, whose alumni include President Ger- ald Ford, refused comment last night. "The complaint is under in- vestigation," says Affirmative Action Officer Gwendolyn Bak- er, "and our offices are work- ing with Vice President of Stu- dent Services Henry Johnson." UNDER TITLE IX the Uni- 'a accused of sex bias versity cannot provide signifi- cant assistance to student groups who discriminate on the basis of sex. Social organiza- tions, such as fraternities or sororities, are not covered un- der Title IX. Honoraries, organ- izations whose functions 'are not social but are to bestow distinc- tion upon its deserving mem- bers, fall into the category of student groups. "Michigamua does not vio- late Title IX because Title IX has no application to Michi- gamua - Michigamua receives no federal funds," said John Feldkamp, director of housing, and unofficial adviser to Michi- gamua. However, Baker believes that Michigamua may be using Uni- versity funds. "As far as I have been advised, according to leg- islation, it (Michigamua) is covered by Title IX, because it uses University facilities," Baker said. "IF Michigamua is not an honorary, then it is exempt from Title IX only to the ex- tent of membership practices," SLAP lawyer Diane Fowler ex- plained. "However, as an all male or- ganization it is then faced with the other allegation. Why do they receive significant assist- ance from the University that the University does not provide to other social groups? This in itself is a violation of Title IX." Blumenthal alleges t h a t Michigamua members get pre- ferential treatment concerning football tickets and job infor- mation. ALSO, Michigamua uses Ra- drick Farms, a University owned golf course, for their an- nual pow-wow where food "was brought out to the Farms in University trucks, using Uni- versity gas, and was cooked by University cooks," Blumenthal claimed. "Michigamua uses Radrick Farms but other groups on campus cannot," Fowler said. "And Michigamua uses it free. I called Radrick Farms once to see and was told that it was only for golf-related activities." Michigamua members meet every Monday night on the sixth floor of the Union in a room, which according to Fowler, has never been paid for nor reg- istered with the University. It is believed that they' have a lease dating back to 1932, which was donated to them by Field- See MICHIGAUMA, Page 8 African leaders seek black rule Undergrad education questioned By JAY LEVIN University President Robben Fleming last night termed the status of undergraduate educa- tion on campus "our most seri- ous problem at this moment", and urged an optimization of teaching talent by pumping more professorial types into undergraduate classrooms. Fleming, speaking before a predominantly faculty gathering at his annual State of the Uni- versity address, made a refer- ence to the College of Litera- ture, Science and Arts (LSA) as a focus of undergraduate ills. "IT IS reasonably apparent that a great many students do not really want a liberal edu- cation," Fleming told the Rack- ham crowd. "The question now may be whether we have really thought out what we think an undergraduate education ought to be." As examples, the University President questioned such inno- vations as mini courses and pass-fail elections. "We have been told that pass- fail grading would encourage students to take courses in which they feared, bait woilld broaden their education," he said. "yet the evidence seems to be what really haunens is that thev simnly take more of the kind of courses which they would have taken in the first place." AS A result, Fletning urged increased innovation in under- graduate programs. "I.do not believe we can sit and maintnin the status quo in ed'ration," he warned. Fleming also elicited a desire See FLEMING, Page 8 Rhodesian guerrillas want military power By The Associated Press and Reuter News Service SALISBURY, Rhodesia - The leader of Rhodesian black guerrillas based in Mozambique said yesterday his forces should be given military control of Rhodesia under the proposed transi- tional government leading to black majority rule. Robert Mugabe, who claims to command some 10,000 guer- rillas of the Zimbabwe People's Army (ZIPA), said in an inter- view in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia: "THERE MUST BE a disintegration of Prime Minister Ian Smith's military power. Our forces must move in to replace the settler forces in Zimbabwe, or else the proposals would be a sham and hollow." Smith heads the white minority government of Rhodesia, a Daily Photo by PAULINE LUBENS UNIVERSITY President Robben Fleming (left) hands distinguished service awards for Instruc- tors and Assistant Professors to James Jackson (center) as Milton Heumann, also an award recipient, looks on. LAWSUIT CA USES CHANGE: Hall removed from band skit By GEORGE LOBSENZ In a last twist to the Gus Hall-Michigan Band controversy, Band Director George Cavender removed the Communist Party presidential candidate from last Saturday's half-time "applause meter" skit to avoid influencing in any way a pending lawsuit filed by a campus Communist group against the University. According to Cavender, Hall was withdrawn from the skit on the advice of University at- torney Roderick Daane. "DAANE advised me," said Cavender, "that because of the sensitivity of the 'courts towards pretrial publicity, Hall should be removed from the show." C a v e n d e r emphasized that Daane's suggestion was "not an order." Cavender also said that the decision to remove Hall from the skit came before the Michi- gan Court of Appeals' dismissal of the lawsuit last Friday. Filed by the Young Workers Libera- tion League (YWLL), in reaction to the Band's appearance at President Ford's speech at Cris- ler Arena, the suit sought to compel the Band to play for Hall at a Sept. 24 speech in Hill And. Despite the suit, Cavender last week announced the applause meter skit, in which band mem- hers would form an applause meter that would rate crowd support for presidential candi- dates Ford, Carter and Hall. However, Saturday's halftime show featured the applause meter with Hall conspicuously absent. DAANE CALLED Hall's inclu- sion in the skit "inappropriate" in light of the fact that the court had not yet handed down its verdict. "I thought it was inappropri- ate for the band to have fun with the matter before the court had d e c i d e d," maintained Daane, "it might have appeared as if the band was making fun of a piece of pending litigation." In Daane's view, if Hall had been kept in the skit, "I thought it might have appeared to a critically-inclined observer as an attempt to influence the court's decision." Daane said he thought it was entirely possible that See LAWSUIT, Page 8 breakaway British colony call- ed Zimbabwe by black nation- alists. Both Smith and the presidents of five nearby black nations have said they accept the idea, pushed by Britain and the Unit- ed States, of setting up an in- terim government to prepare Rhodesia for majority rule. BUT THEY HAVE disagreed on whether the interim admin- istration should be shared equal- 1v by Rhodesia's 278,000 whites and 6.4 million blacks, as Smith nroposed, or whether it should be under a black majority. At a summit meeting Sunday, the leaders of Tanzania, Zam- bia, Mozambique, Angola and Botswana-regarded asbthe "front line" states in the battle for hla'~k majority rule in Rho- des~a - also objected to letting Smith set un the interim gov- ernment, and said they want Britain to convene a conference o'tside Rhodesia for the pur- pose. The British immediately announced preparations for such a mePting. See AFRICAN, Page 8 BULLETIN DETROIT (UPI) - The deputy mayor of Detroit says Mayor Coleman Young will fire Police Chief Philip Tannian today. Deputy Mayor William Beck- ham said yestrday that Tan- nian no longer has the option to "gracefully" resign from his post. In a meeting Saturday, Young reportedly asked Tanni- an to resign quietly. However, Tannian told friends that he would refuse to step down and would force Young to fire him. Wheeler etoes day care measure. By MIKE NORTON After a week - long delay, Mayor Albert Wheeler yester- day vetoed a controversial city ordinance which would have placed child day care centers under the thumb of the Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA). The ordinance, which was passed last Monday by City Council's six-member Republi- can majority, would have al- lowed residents of single-family neighborhoods to have a large say in determining whether or not new day care centers could be started in their areas. IN HIS veto message to the Council, Wheeler listed the rea- sons behind his decision: First, the mayor charged, the sponsors of the ordinance had "presented no substantive rea- sons to demonstrate that the new procedures would be re- quired to improve the health, safety, and welfare of either the children enrolled in such centers or the neighborhoods in which the centers would be lo- cated." Second, Wheeler said, while many nersons had called him, and other Council members to protest the measure, he had heard few citizens praise it or See DAYCARE, Page 7 Proposal A spa rks con troversy By STU McCONNELL Michigan voters will be faced with four ballot proposals on November 2 but most of the controversy so far has center- ed around one - Proposal A, the so-called "bottle bill". Proposal A would prohibit the use of non-returnable bottles and cans for beer and soft drinks, set up requirements state House and Senate candi- dates from 21 to 18. " Proposal C, which would impose a tax and spending limit of 8.3 per cent of the combined personal income of Michigan on the state. * Proposal D, which would establish a two-step graduated income tax: a maximum rate of 3.9 per cent on every dollar "Proposal A is supported by farm groups, environmental groups, state agencies and oth- ers, but we don't have much monetary support," said Tom Washington of the Michigan United Conservation Clubs, which initiated the bottle bill petition drive. "It's a step in the right direction to change a wasteful society to a society xxrh nncorxaC, itc finite np nozzi emphasized that "those are low-paying jobs, jobs be- low the poverty level. Most of the lost jobs are in the $200 to $300 per week category." WASHINGTON contend- ed that he and other bottle bill advocates are "sensitive to the job issue, the retooling which has to be done in certain indus- :.