UDALL LOSS See Editorial Page Y iau Daitl LUDICROUS High-2d Logy-27° See Today for details Latest Deadlline in the State Vol. LXXXVI, No. 154 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, April 8, 1976 10 Cents Ten Pages YCU SEE NEWS APPE CALL6-DILY Nurses voting The Michigan Nurses Association (MNA) votes today whether to ratify its first contract with the University. The MNA, which represents about 800 non-supervisory nurses at the University, is ex- pected to approve the contract. Neither side will divulge details of the contract until after ratifica- tion. It appears, however, that both sides are rea- sonably satisfied with the agreement, which is the product of 13 months of hard bargaining. The MNA bargaining team will recommend that the membership approve the contract. The election will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. in the West Lecture Hall of Medical Science II. Snuffing Suff A group of 35 Ann Arbor women, calling them- selves "Women to Stop Snuff," have been meeting regularly recently to discuss tactics for preventing the widely discussed film from appearing in the area. The women, who will speak publicly only as a collective, object to the racist and sexist nature of the film, which shows the simulated dismem- berment of a woman. The group argues that the film "shows violence in an erotic way . . . for the sake of profit and supposed entertainment." They feel the film is "a threat to our existence," and say it should be banned from this country altogeth- er. "We don't know where, when, or if the film is coming," they say, "we just want to be on our toes." Happenings ... begin pretty early today with a demonstra- tion at the Department of Social Services at 120 Catherine St. at 9:00 to protest cutbacks in wel- fare services . . 'U' Carilloneur Hudson Ladd talks about playing the bells at noon in the Pen- dleton Center of the Union . . . Tonight's your last chance to take a first jump course offered by the U-M Skydivers, at 7:00, 1042 East Engineering . . Pi Lambda Theta, the national honorary sorority for women in education, is holding its annual initiation at 7:00 in the fourth floor assembly room of Rackham . . . The sex and sexuality conference concludes this evening in the Union with work- shops on women and their sexual identity, the poli- tics of contraception, and bioenergetics, starting at 7:30 . . . D. Clinton reads from his poetry at Guild House, 802 Monroe, at 7:30 . . . The Under- graduate political science association meets in 6602 Haven Hall at 7:30 . . . Carl Oglesby and others speak on "Politics of Bliss & the Psychic Revolution, also in Rm. 126 of the Residential Col- lege, at 7:30 . . . The Residential College Players present Shakespeare's The Tempest this evening at 8:00 and Friday at 2:00 and 8:00 at the East Quad Auditorium, for $1.00 Cheating Some 100 West Point cadets could be involved in a cheating scandal now under investigation, the Army says. The case centers around a home study assignment in an electrical engineering course tak- en Mostly by juniors at the U. S. Military Acad- emy. First word of the inquiry came in a tele phone call Tuesday to the New York Times. "It makes me angry," said the caller, who would iden- tify himself only as a cadet. "I don't cheat, why should they?" This mess coincides with yester- day's opening of a grand jury investigation of a plebe football player accused of raping a house- wife at knifepoint at her home 10 miles from the New York school. Close Call A 14-year-old boy brandishing a toy gun in imi- tation of what he had seen on the cop show "Star- sky and Hutch" nearly triggered a real life tragedy yesterday, as nervous members of the Miami po- lice's special weapons team rushed to his apart- ment in response to a neighbor's call. Johnny Bar- cena, described by his mother as having a learn- ing disability, pointed a realistic-looking gun at a group of elderly neighbors and said, "Don't move. This is the police." All nine members of the city's Special Weapons and Tactics Squad and about a dozen other officers surrounded the building in what became a two-hour standoff. They were espe- cially uptight because three area police officers had been killed in an incident less than a week ago. The situation became further complicated when Johnny's mother, away from home, heard radio reports that there was a gunman in the building, and called Johnny to instruct him not to open the door to anyone. The situation was re- solved when the boy's stepfather grabbed a police bullhorn, and explained the misunderstanding to him. " On the inside... Editorial Page has a Pacific News Service story about America's Vietnamese orphans . . . Art Page features Records in Review . . . And on Sports Page Bob Miller serves up the story on Michigan's tennis match with Eastern Michigan University. UDALL, JACKSON, CARTER CLASH Top State House nixes pot, reform By GEORGE LOBSENZ By the slim margin of 54-52, the Michigan House voted down Tuesday a bill which would have reduced the penalty for the possession of less than 18 grams of marijuana from a pos- sible one year in prison and a $1,000 fine toa 90-day jail sen- tence. Initially introduced in Rep. Perry Bullard's (D-Ann Arbor) Civil Rights Committee, the measure under-went several attempts before emerging in its considerably weakened form for Tuesday's vote. THE MOST significant revi- sion was the removal of a con- troversial provision which had called for automatic probation for first offenders. The deletion came after a preliminary vote last Wednesday, resoundingly rejected the legislation. The mo- tion was supposed to have at- tracted the support of crucial wavering moderates. Bullard and chief sponsor Rep. William Bryant (R-Grosse Pointe) pointed to political mo- tivations as the reason for the bill's failure. "I thought we had a decent shot at it," said Bryant, "but the longer it went on, the more people started to think about things like re-election." BULLARD echoed this view saying: "People voted the way they thought their most back- ward and ignorant constituents wanted them to. They didn't want to be on record as voting for it." Bullard also charged oppon- ents of the proposalgwith con- ducting "a lot of unrealistic See STATE, Page 10 Dems face Pa. showdown Harris may shelve quest for presidency By The Associated Press Jimmy C a r t e r, Henry Jackson and Morris Udall- the candidate who woke up yesterday morning a loser- plunged without pause into the campaign for Pennsyl- vania's presidential pri- mary, a contest that could be their Democratic show- down. There are other candi- dates waiting to test them later, and there is Sen. Hu- bert Humphrey, biding his time and looking for run- UIdull ning room after the pri- mary season is over. 1 BUT IT IS evident now that the Pennsylvania balloting on April 27 will sort things out among the current crop of pri- mary contenders, w h i c h ap- parently shrunk by one yester- day. Sources in Washington said former Oklahoma Sen. Fred Harris, whose campaign has been dogged by a lack of funds,