SUNDAY MAGAZINE See Inside YI r *fr&igu :43 a t t4p FETID Tflighd-29 s Loiv-26° See Today for details Latest Deadline in the State Vol. LXXXVII, No. 72 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Sunday, December 5, 1976 Ten Cents Ei ght Pages ,F you SE wwS RAPPM.CLtY Driven Everyone knows kids can be a royal pain in the ass, but Esther Cobb, a 21-year-old De- troit school bus driver, probably tooki things a bit too much to heart. She was scheduled to be arraigned yesterday on charges of pulling a gun on a bus load of unruly middle school students. Detroit police said no shots were fired in the in- cident, which occurred at about 8:30 yesterday morning. Cobb allegely ordered 34 students from the Cerveny School in northwest Detroit off the bus for unruly behavior, relented, and when loud talking resumed, she again ordered the students off. A pushing and shoving skirmish broke out, and, according to student Larry Crunk, 14, she pulled a pistol from her purse and shouted "I am going to kill one of you or all of you. Mat- tie Lee, a teacher's aide also on the' bus, stepped between the gun and the students as the young- sters rushed off the bus, police said. Neighbors notified police and Cobb and Lee were taken into custody. Lee was later released. " Brewhaha The City of Grosse Pointe Farms held a beer bash Friday, but nobody had a sip of the stuff. .As officials looked on with dismay, a snowplow methodically destroyed 400 cases of untaxed Coors beer on orders from the Michigan Liquor Control Commission. The beer was discovered by police in October, stashed in an unoccupied home. The. brand is not sold in Michigan, and thebeer was declared contraband and seized. State alcohol tax on that much beer would have come to $186. "What a waste," moaned one fireman who watch- ed the snowplow destroy the brew. Happenings .. begin at 9, with the Ann Arbor Potters' Guild's annual Christmas sale, at 201 Hill. It runs until 3, in. case you want to sleep in ... The Cen- tral Student Judiciary (CSJ) meets at 1 in the MSA offices at the Union ... There is a Russian festival at the Russian House, 623 Oxford, from 2-5. Everyone interested in Russian language and culture is welcome ... The Canterbury House Gay group discusses "Death and Dying, at 3. Canter- bury House is at the corner of Catherine and Division ... The new Women's Studies Consortium Lecture Series presents Prof. ,Annis Pratt, speak ing on "Women in Literature: Black Hole in Space or Undiscovered Galaxies?" from 7-9 at the Holy Trinity Church, Ypsilanti ... Selo Black Crow speaks on Native American Indian religion, cul- ture, and an 1863 treaty still abrogated by the United States, 7:30 at the Lord of Light Church on Forest and Hill ... On Monday, two speakers from the Human Sexuality Office talk about male and female homosexuality, at 3, in 2402 Mason Hall ... The U-M Women's Studies Program pre- sents the \film "The Pumpkin Eater," in MLB Aud. 3, at 7 ... The U-M Concert Band performs at Hill Aud. Monday evening at 8. Admission is free. Boys tvjll be boys So you think that Michigamua's old initiation rites were a bit kinky, 'eh? Well, check out Phi Delta Theta's chapter at the University of Texas, in Austin, where police stopped a van weaving through the streets Friday night to find 29 frat brothers, 27 nearly naked, covered with hot suace, raw eggs, and corn chips. Residents of Cedar Park, a community just north of Austin, had complained that the van's occupants were throw- ing open the doors of the van, yelling and hurl- ing empty beer cans. The boys were charged with drunk driving and disorderly conduct.. Evel lurks With Greyhound buses and the Snake River Canyon apparently not enough of a challenge, Evel Knievel has announced that he will attempt to jump his motorcycle 90 feet across a tank containing 12 sharks in Chicago next month. Each of the sharks, promotors of the act said Friday, will be "no less than eight feet long." They will. be captured in Florida and shipped to Chicago for the daredevil stunt, which will be part of a television special. British basket cases A leading London psychiatrist said yesterday that three former British cabinet ministers were suffering from serious mental disorders and rec- ommended psychological tests for all members of Parliament. Dr. Robert Greenberg, who de- clined to name the ministers, said he made his diagnosis from watching them on television, read- ing their speeches, and in face-to-face meetings. Tell-tale flushes, tearfulness, throbbing veins, and dry mouths were among the symptoms he said he observed. On the *iside . . ... The Sunday Magazine features Dan Tsang's look at the 4th Annual Gay Academic Conference in New York ... On Sports Page, Don MacLaugh- lan and Scott Lewis recount Michigan's bruising 78-57 decision over the Rams of Fordham at Cris- ler yesterday. Carter bones up on military;- staff rumors abound From Wire Service Reports PLAINS, Ga.- President- elect Jimmy Carter yester- day sajd he was studying the miltary chain of com- mand so he will be well pre- pared if there was an in- ternational military crisis when he takes over the White House.- Carter said he is taking a look at the command system linking the Presi- dent, as commander-in- chief, with America's "field forces" worldwide because. "in case of a crisis the day I'm inaugurated, I need to know all that before I as- sume responsibility.". THE PRESIDENT-elect spent the day at ease, enjoying a barbecue with brother Billy, but rumors of potential cabinet and government appointees, abound- ed. Among them: 0 John Doar, staff director of the House impeachment inquiry against ex-president Richard Nixon, was under consideration as Carter's attorney general, ac- cording to the New York Sun- day News. * Atlanta attorney Robert Lipshutz has been picked as White House counsel, reported the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. * Juanita Krebs, vice-presi- dent of Duke University and a prominent economist, was re- portedly being considered for either a post on the Council of Economic Advisers or as la- bor secretary. Judge, doctors let comatose woman die By AP and UPI JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A 26-year-old woman whose vital functions were controlled by machines for two weeks died yester- day 13 minutes after she was disconnected from the devices on the order of a judge. The machines attached to Celia Cain were disconnected at 12:25 p.m., according to John Corrigan, a spokesman for St. Vin- cent's Medical Center. A death certificate was signed about 1:15 p.m., he said. DOCTORS SAID Cain had been clinically dead for two weeks, that her brain was partially dissolved and that her blood was be- ginning to coagulate within her blood vessels. The mother of two children, ages four and nine, Cain entered St. Vincent's Medical Center for a routine hysterbctomy on Nov. 19. She underwent surgery the following day, but developed breath- ing problems. She was then rushed to the intensive care unit and put on the respirator. She lapsed into a coma about five hours after the But Carter said yesterday he is taking his time picking Cab- inet members because "it would suit me fine if I wound up the four years with the same Cab- inet member I pick now." THE NEW YORK paper said Doar, who held top Justice De- partment posts in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, was one of three persons un- der consideration for attorney general. It did not name the other two. It also said it had learned that A. W. Clausen, chairman of the Bank of America, had asked that his name be with- drawn from consideration as Treasurv secretary. It said oth- --s being looked at for the Tr'-pn~irv iob were Irving Sha- niro. chairman of E.I. du Pont dq Nemours & Co., and Robert Poosa, a member of a Wall Stroet investment firm. An early Carter supporter, Iinshut7's annointment would m nke him the next president's chi-flwyer and a policy ad- viser in a number of areas. UTPSTHITITZ. 54, vice chairman of the Georgia Board of Hu- rman Resources, declined to conmment about reports on his selection. He would have to divest himself of private bank- i-v and financial interests be- f-e taking the White House Tinshntz, 54, is vice chairman of the Georgia Board of Human Resources, a post to which he was originally named by Car- ter as governor in 1972. Linshutz is now commuting between Atlanta and Washing- ton, where he is serving as legal adviser to the Carter transition staff. LIPSHUTZ supported Carter See CARTER, Page 7 Doily Photo by ANDY FREEBERG Art for art's sake , Throw away your Rembrandts and Eschers - "Professor Guy Paleozoic", self-styled prehistor- ic artist, is going to take on the world of .art by storm if he can keep turning out oiaster- pieces like this one. The art instructor has been putting in gag appearances at local art fairs this weekend. QUADDIES PUSH FAST BUCK SCHEME: t Needmoney By PAULA LASHINSKY You say you want to go to the Rose Bowl but can't afford the price of a tour? You've been waiting all season but your bank balance is a little bit on the short side? Is that what's been bothering you? Well, some enterprising stu- dents at West Quad have come up with a get-rich-quick scheme that's going to make you feel better in no time. For a simple $20 investment, the ambitious entrepreneurs promise, a stu- dent can end up with a'cool 320 bucks, almost enough to send an ardent Wolverine fan to Pasadena and back. THE PLAN resembles the "chain letter" concept in some respects, but instead of receiv- ing postcards, the gambler is supposed to get cash. All busi- ness is conducted outside the U. S. mails to avoid any viola- tion of postal laws. Here's the plan: one pur- chases a letter for ten dollars, respirator was put in place, and DR. JACOB GREEN, a neu- rologist, testified that he diag- nosed the woman's brain as dead that night and asked the family for permission to dis- connect the respirator Nov. 23. "I said absolutely not," her husband, Gerald Cain, testified. "I prayed that God would give us a- sign." But a week later, he changed his mind. I FELT WE got the sign when her condition worsened and the doctors convinced me her brain 'was dead," Cain said. He gave his permission Nov. 30, but Green became uncertain if he had the legal authority to disconnect the machines and Cain's lawyers then petitioned the court to intervene. The order was issued by Duval County Circuit Judge John Cox, who decreed that the devices be removed for a period of 45 minutes. If there were signs of life at the end of that time, the support system was to be restored. If not, Ms. See WOMAN, Page 2 never regained consciousness. Death haunts Texas murderer receiving a list of six names, a brief description of the process involved, and a five-dollar money order. The buyer is ask- ed to give the money order to the first person on the lisi, then make two copies of the list, moving each name up and adding his or her own name to the bottom. The next stop is to purchase two $5 money orders and attach one to each of the letters. The buyer. now becomes a seller and tries to unload his enve- lopes for. $10 apiece. THE IDEA was initiated by Mike Arvidson, a West Quad sophomore who was involved in a similar scheme last year at Western Michigan University. "Everyone needs some extra money, so I thought I'd try and talk it up," said Arvidson. He added that the idea caught on quickly, and that he had four letters sold before they were typed. Arvidson said the money-mak- ing scheme didn't work out well at Western because "there were eleven names on the list and the process was too long." SOME STUDENTS, naturally, become skeptical as the plan goes throughuits stages, and discontinue out of fear of los- ing their money. Others refuse to gamble at all.-"I can't afford to take the chance." said one woman student. "It is too risky." See FAST, Page 7 HUNTSVILLE, Tex. (UPI) - At the gray steel tablei day room just off death row, Robert White's lips tremble; talks of dying in the electric chair. But his mouth tightens in at the thought of life behind bars. in the as Aie anger Like convicted Utah murderer Gary Gilmore, who observed his 36th birthday on Death Row yesterday, White has asked to be- executed. And like Gilmore, an appeal of his case is pending be- fore the U. S. Supreme Court. TORMENTED BY life and death at the same time, he steadies his tattoed arms under laced fingers and leans forward, speaking nervously in almost a whisper. And his rage matches his fear. "Do I feel like I should be executed? I feel like I should be punished," White says. "But they asked for my death and I gave it to them on a silver platter. "Now they can't accept it." WHITE, HOWEVER, sees his execution, set for Friday, as a sacrifice to show the cruel and unusual punishment of dying at the hands of the state. "People ought to think about it. They're not hurting the man himself. They're hurting the people on the outside. The innocent people. "I'm doing this for the people - for the people on death row and their loved ones," he said in an interview. "There are thous- ands of people out there who are going to be hurt when their loved ones, their sons, their daughters, husbands, get executed." WHITE KILLED an elderly grocery attendant and two teen- age customers during a $60 robbery in 1974 in rural north Texas. After two years and three months on Death Row he asked a Collin County judge to sentence him to death and be done with it. "I don't want to live with myself no more," he said. '[ve asked them to let me go ahead and be executed. The main thing I want to show the people is capital punishment is not the way for See ANGRY, Page 7 .....*....***....".*.. . . .. . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . .. ,_... .. . . .............::......:....:......:::...::.. <. . . Recount Luker reflects on MSA. called in student election By BOB ROSENBAUM "A very large mistake" in the vote tally has prompted the Michigan Student Assembly (MSA) election director to call for a complete recount of last wk's voting results. Director Myra Willis said yes- terday that MSA officials had mistakenly allotted a candidate .30 iistead of three votes in their tallies. A recount for the 11 dMSA seats is set for noon todniv. THE REVITSED) tallies "verv woes of apa By LANI JORDAN '.I can sum up my nine-month term as presi- dent of MSA in one word," said Calvin Luker, "and that is 'survival'. All we were able to do was keep MSA alive." But Luker, who took the helm of Michigan Student Assembly after the organization's first election last spring, said his time hasn't been wasted, despite MSA's problems. "THERE'S CREDIBILITY with the -adminis- tration now," he said in an interview before last week's semi-annual election. "They think MSA has some notential." Laker did not follow the traditional path to the Universitv. After dropping out of Ann Arbor High Scho'l in 1996 at age 17, he johd the Army and eventually served 13 months in Viet- 11a11. thy, discord of Americans?' and he would say 'Me no care Americans, me no care Vietnamese.' All he real- ly wanted to do was work in his rice paddy and not worry about a bomb hitting it." 'I've probably spent a fourth of my time working on productive things and the rest trying to fend of counter-productivity on t h e part of MSA members.' -11ISA President Calvin Luker / '&~. V%~ .-IrtV cmrr'Tr'i' Nt1hT.k. A ,.x. didn't nr vpntT ,i.