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I HE MICHIGAN DAILY Sunday, April 4, 1976

I HE MICHIGAN DAILY

Sunday, April 4, 1976

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AN INTRODUCTION TO THE
Transcendental Meditation
(TM) Program
as taught by MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI
Tuesday, April 6 at 7:30 p.m.
Multipurpose Room UGL It
ALSO
Every Wed. at 12 noon and 8:00 p.m.
and Every Sunday at 3:00 p.m.
at the offices of the
Students International Meditation Society

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THE WEEK IN REVIEW

BACK
Some observers have related
the decline in the passions to
the Socialist Human Rights
Party's (SHRP) lowered profile.
SHRP, so the argument goes,
always served as a force to in-
sure that leftist options were
discussed, even if party's elec-
toral record was spotty.

PSC bombshell

1207 PACKARD

PHONE 761-8255

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THE MICHIGAN Public Ser-
vice Commission (PSC) took'
a first step last week toward
a massive restructuring of the
electric industry. Acting on a
Detroit Edison request for a rate
increase totalling $178 million,
the PSC granted the utility a
pared-down $62 million hike in
a 2-1 vote.
More importantly, however,
the PSC ruled that Edison would
have to revise the way it charges
its customers. Formerly users
paid a high rate for the first
block of kilowatt hours used,
but were charged less for sub-
sequent blocks.
The PSC ruling will require'
Edison to charge higher rates
for increasinguse of power. The
thheory behind the change is
that by increasing the costs for
electricity use, consumers will
have an incentive to conserve1
energy.

Critics of the electric industry
have long contended rate struc-
tures which lowered the prices
for increasing use led to waste-
ful and excessive energy ex-
penditure.
The PSC also mandated that
Edison adopt "peak-load" pric-
ing, which means that consum-
ers will be charged a higher
rate for electricity used between
9 a.m. and 9 p.m.
Finally, the PSC provided Edi-
son with an incentive to find
cheap sources of primary energy
by ruling that only 90 per cent
of all fuel cost increases could
be passed on to consumers in
the form of rate hikes.
'THESE REFORMS, if they
stick - for Edison announc-
ed immediately that it would
battle the action in court -
represent a wholesale victory
for critics of the industry.
In the long run, the move
could alter the way domestic

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consumers use electricity. To
Edison, however, the biggest
danger is that industry, a much
heavier user of the utility,
might build their own genera-
tors or switch to other energy
sources.
To the extent that the growth
in the use of energy slows, or,
actual use declines, Edison
would be forced to either stabil-
ize or reduce the level of its
capital equipment. And because
regulated utilities such as Edi-
son make their profits in pro-
portion to the size of that capital

The Republicans should coast
to their usual victories in Wards
Three and Five, but the other
races are dogfights. The Dems,
running Earl Greene, should
control Ward Two, but they may
face a surprising threat from
the GOP in their traditional
stronghold, Ward One. The field
in the ward is odd and diverse.
The Daily chose to support the
Kenworthy SHRP write-in entry, Diana
y Autin, in what may be the
base, their income could actual- party's last stand.
ly decrease. Naturally that pros- THE REAL SWING ward in
pect doesn't enthrall industry the city is four, where in-
execs, and explains most of cumbent Democrat Jamie Ken-
their opposition. worthy faces opposition from
Republican Mary Lou Slater
City politics and SHRP candidate Madelyn
Elder. As always, the turnout
CITY ELECTIONS have been will play a role in deciding who
curiously muted this year. takes the ward. If the students
Without the emotional issues of go to the polls in sufficient num-
rent control or marijuana fines, bers, Kenworthy will likely win.
some of the zip has gone out But last year the Democrats
of the rhetoric being used by the lost tht ward because they failed
participants in this year's edi- to tllrn out the liberals en
tion of the Municipal Follies. masse. Such a lesson may have

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U of M Dance Dept., School of Music
PRESENTS
"MELI-MELO"
(A DANCE CONCERT)
FRI. & SAT., Apr. 9 & 10
-8:00 p.m.-$1.50
SCHORLING AUDITORIUM
(SCHOOL OF EDUCATION)

APRIL 8-6:30 P.M.
CRISLIER ARENA
FOR FOOTBALL POM-POM GIRLS
MALE & FEMALE BASKETBALL SQUAD

Pa44J'ep .at I/i//el
We are now t a k i n g reservations for
PASSOVER SEDERS and all other Pass-
over meals.
ALL RESERVATIONS MUST BE MADE BY
TUESDAY, APRIL 6
CALL 663-3336

sunk in on the Donkeys. Last
year they may have simply been
too cocky and complacent, after
upsetting popular incumbent
William Colburn in 1974.
-STEPHEN SELBST

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Practice Sessions: April 5, 6, 1

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STUDENT ELECTION
" Pirgim Board of Directors
* LSA Student Government
s Board for Student Publications
e New Central Student Government
" CIA/NSA Recruitement Question
VOTE: APRIL 6, 7, 8
ACROSS CAMPUS
UM student election committee

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at the
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6:30 p.m.

Crisler Arena

SUNDAY, April 4
1 :30 p.m.j
HILL AUDITORIUM

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ELEC EARWY
FIRST WARD CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATE
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Watch Out!
GARGOYLE
A761A9700 Is Coming!
Xenwor ~ ent0(5. we need Ox adi
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Counc (to fo cus on is sues , nat personw tws.
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PAID POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT Kenworthy for Council, Ashlev Weeks. Treasurer

AT 994-2725 BETWEEN 8 A.M. AND 5 P.M.

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Why You ShouId Vote for Ezra Rowry
EZRA will bring to council a record of social activism and involvement with the problems of people. As chairman of C.O.R.E. and the Model Cities
Policy Board, he has no illusions about quick and easy solutions to the city's problems. But neither is he one to accept a status quo, business as usual
attitude in City Hall. Ezra is a fighter. He will work to turn goals into programs and ideals into reality. He will work to institute programs which
affect you.I
DOOR-TO-DOOR REGISTRATION PREFERENTIAL VOTING (Proposal B)
(Proposition A) What is Preferential Voting?
It's a system for insuring that the person who holds the office of
There was a time in Ann Arbor, and not too long ago, when Univer- Mayor of Ann Arbor was put there by the votes of a MAJORITY of
sity students were barred from voting in this city solely because they the people of Ann Arbor.
were University students. There was a time when few working people It's a system of voting that allows EVERY VOTER to express her or his
or blacks were registered to vote here because they weren't able to FULL RANGE OF PREFERENCES among the candidates for the office
be at City Hall during the hours when voter registration was allowed. of Mayor of Ann Arbor.
Door-to-door voter registration changed all that. Preferential Voting was adopted by the voters of Ann Arbor. In
If you are voting for the first time in Ann Arbor this year you were November, 1974, a clear majority-52%-voted to accept Preferential
probably registered by a door-to-door registrar. On Monday, April Voting as the method they wanted for choosing the Mayor.
5th, you will be asked to express your opinion on the door-to-door On April 5th you will be asked to decide whether or not to keep this
registration proaram. If you believe that voter registration should be system of selecting your Mayor.
easy, that City Hall should come to the door of every qualified voter In November, 1974, 1 voted to adopt PV, and so did 3,837 voters in
in the city and insure that those who wish to are enrolled to vote, the First Ward, 65% of those voting. This year I will vote against
let the GOP know Vote on Monday, April 5th. Vote YES on Proposi- repealing PV, and I urge the voters of the First Ward to do so, too.
tion A, the door-to-door registration referendum. Vote NO on Proposition B.

BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI'S

1968

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"It's the same old story of a man who meets his double; they dream
together," Bertolucci has said of this film. Loosely based on Dosteovsky's
The Double, it's a compelling and romantic film in which Bertolucci
cites his intellectual and political sources. By the director of The Con-
formist and Lost Tanqo in Paris. In color and Italian. "A director who
talks like on intellectual but makes movies like a poet."-Vincent
Canby, New York Times.

TUES: Rossellini's OPEN CITY (at 7)
John Garfield in FORCE OF EVIL (at 9:05)

CINEMA GUILD

TONIGHT AT OLD ARCH. AUD.
7:00 & 9:05 Admission $1.25

HISTORICAL DRAMA

1974

The Missiles of October

ns in this I would have no qualms about instituting rent control in Ann Arbor. I
attempts will insist only that any rent control plan we adopt be effective and be
time the suited to the housing situation in Ann Arbor. It must be an ordinance
ormation which will protect the tenant without destroying the local rental market.
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The realistic reenactment of the Cuban missile crisis is told behind the
scenes as Robert Kennedy, Robert McNamara, Adlai Stevenson, war-
crazy Pentaon generals and other well-known government officials
bicker, brainstorm, and fret around a confused, but cool President Ken-
ndcv, while unawares America and the world hovered over nuclear

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