Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY AATU initiates rent strike against Reliable Realty Tuesday, February 3, 1976 TROUBLE NEXT FALL? ' U' grant cuts unlikely By JAY LEVIN The Ann Arbor Tenants Union (AATU) has organizedeapproxi- mately 80 Reliable Realty ten- ants to participate in a rent strike against the management company-the second such AA- TU organized strike action in recent months. According to Tenants Union organizer Jodi Wolens, Reliable Realty tenants began to deposit their February rents yesterday! in an AATU controlled escrowI account, withholding the funds measures and unreasonable from landlord Edith Epstein. rents. MEANWHILE, about 30 addi- MILLER SAID, "The sooner tional tenants this month have; we (the AATU) get recognition,I joined the rent strike against the sooner the strike against Re-! Sunrise Management Company, liable will end." Sunrise owner and its owner Dewey Black. I Black has been reluctant to fully I |irecognize the AATU as a bar- I fAccording to AATU Steering; gaining team .for his striking Committee Member Robert Mil- nitenantse ler, the strike action against Reliable was taken for the same Miller added that a demands reasons as Sunrise-allegedly in-i committee of striking AATU ten-' adequate maintenance, security ants will meet later this week to formulate their grievences in By MIKE NORTON University students who hold Basic Opportunity Grants are in I little immediate danger of losing them-abut there may be prob- lems ahead, all the same. The federally funded program has run out of money due to an unexpectedly high student re- sponse,. and unless Congress al- lows an advance of $160 million to be drawn on next year's ap- pronriation, some 1.2 million students nationwide may lose up to 20 per cent of their awards. BUT UNIVERSITY Director of Financial Aid Thomas Butts says that conditions here are! better than at some other insti- tutions-at least as far as this year is concerned. "The government intends to honor its commitments to schools who turned in their fi- I "THIS IS the Administration's nancial reports early," he said, favorite program," he said. "and we were able to do so. "There are people in the Con- We've been aware of these de- gress and people in the Admin- velopments for some time." istration who realize that we Other, less fortunate schools have a problem, and they're may be forced to share funds cooperative people. I think on a one-third basis, he added. they'll be able to work some- BUT ALL this is contingent on thing out." Congressional approval of the As for future grants, however, $160 million advance on next B. tts concedes that his office is year's budget. And if that ad- "concerned, very concerned." ditional funding isn't forthcom- "We're hoping for sufficient ing, Butts admits, there might funds for next year, of course," be trouble. The University might he said. "But students should be even be required to collect back aware that there could be some a portion of each student's doubt" about their grants. grant. "The probabilities are small," RICHARD English, associate he declared, "but you can imag- ; vice-president for academic af- ine what kind of a nightmare fairs, said he was "optimistic as that would be, especially since a well" about the Basic Grants lot of them (students) have prob- program. ably spent the money already." "But it all depends on Con- But Butts remains confident gress," English said. "We'll just that Congress will approve the have to play it day-to-day measure. around here." HI-t & T.V. Center YOUR T.V. & AUDIO SPECIALISTS t Reliable strike. Epstein was unavailable comment yesterday. 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In its 248- year orbit of the sun, Pluto, never comes closer than ,670,- 000,000 miles to the Earth, Na- tional Geographic says. Daily Photo by SCOTT ECCKER SOME 75 PROTESTORS gathered on the Diag yesterday afternoon to protest CIA recruitment at the University. The chilled group demanded the removal of all intelligence com- munity personnel from campus. DETROIT (A) - Instead of Ne z T a "hands off" approach, the Nw $6.1-million Detroit Science Center here will adopt a "please touch" attitude with its feature exhibits.e Visitors to the center's Learn- ing Lab will be invited to par- ticipate in demonstrations and WASHINGTON the actual use of scientific Congressional le equipment. The public may in- simistically yest vestigate principles of physics fast a new ca by using pulleys and examining law can be enac the nature of human perception primary candid with exhibits of optical illu- prospect that th sions, stereovision and sound. spigot will be tt By stressing the participational 1.l aspect of the exhibts, the cen- The Fe e ter aims- at stimulating learn- sionh (Feagr ing, understanding, creativity distribute mat and an appreciation of science. funds to candid The facilities, which stand to- as applications day on a 9,000-square-foot site this month. in a former automobile show- BUT IF Co room, eventually will be moved complied with a to a seven to eight-acre site invitation to rew near the central city. The ex- finance law by pansion is being made possible will apparently in part by a $500,000 grant from government qua the American Revolution Bicen- the campaign m tennial Administration. More The court ru than 70 per cent of the $6.1-mil- the commissior lion building fund goal has been federal election met, says its president Dexter pointed uncons Perry, with more than $700,000 permitted the F coming from Detroit area busi- functioning for ness and industry. gress could act ---- -_ if nothing is do man one man Ea =30 won won Ming ME Now BEER 6-8:30 Movies every Mon. & Tues. Nites HALF PRICE ON ALL DRINKS on Weds, from 6-8:30. 15c HOT DOGS every Friday from 2-5 p.m., while they last. $1.00 OFF ANY PIZZA with this ad this Sunday or Monday. NO COVER 310 MAYNARD --- WY13" Now v91 t ECONO-C 438 W. HURON 663-2033 AR N AC tE aj c1 re to E' ,e :c d; }p a w T al n, l n i is F 3 t, DT Kl C M VI' Of )T. ,S. ld ,e7 l oh'A LiJV law could end al election aid 9 (A) - While Asked if he still intends to aders spoke pes- abolish the commission, he said: erday about how "The court abolished it. It dis- mpaign finance embowelled it. I'm not a sur- ted, presidential geon-I can't put the bowels sates faced the together again." eir federal funds On Capitol Hill,, prospects in urned off March the Senate appeared reasonably Commis- good for the commission, but the ecinnst ay prognosis was poor in the House. eed yesterday to ching campaign SPEAKER Carl Albert told Sates as quickly reporters he doubts that the can be checked commission will be re-establish- ed as a group of presidential ngress has not appointees - apparently the Supreme Court simplest solution to the court's vrite the election duling. Feb. 29, there Albert said, "I don't think we be no agency of will go for anything that would lified to pass out let the President do it when the honey. whole trouble started with a led Friday that President-not this President." n, overseer of Other nations, including Euro- laws, was ap- nean countries, Canada and stitutionally. It Japan, have adopted limits on FEC to continue campaign spending similar to 30 days so Con- those ruled unconstitutional by , but ruled that the U.S. Supreme Court. te by then, the These countries do not, how- owers would be ever,, directly subsidize political d. parties, which the U.S. high Hays (D-Ohio), court allows. Canada reim- committee which burses candidates for some poli- ommission, has tical expenses under a bill to abolish the adopted last year but which has ith whom he's not yet faced the test of a over regulations nationwide election. ns. Several other countries, Italy, sterday the law Argentina, West Germany and ded to have the Sweden among them, directly eneral pass out subsidize their political parties, 1 c a m p a i g n usually based on how wide their I support is. Have a flair for artistic writing? 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