r 1 i l Page 8-Friday, April 20, 1979-The Michigan Daily RIGHTS RESTORED TO STUDENT GROUP Spartacus.Youth League suspension lifted BY AMY 'DIAMONI)those damages and now allowing us to use the Union April 5 forum. raises the question of our organizational status in According to SOB member Roy More, theS Four members of the student government's general," explained Meg Grulich, a member of the violated six articles under the general regulat Student Organization Board (SOB), decided last SYL. governing student organizations. These violation night at a hearing to lift the suspension which had Grulich began the hearing by presenting SYL cluded: finances - credit standing, bad debts, fij been placed on the Spartacus Youth League (SYL) demands which included dropping the charges again- cial accountability, open activities, sponsors' resi barring them from using Michigan Union facilities, st the SYL, restoring SYL's full rights, and stating . sibility, and financial responsibility. The SOB hearing, which took place in Michigan that Fatima Khalil must be allowed to speak tonight After a 15-minute recess, the SOB announced t Student Assembly (MSA) offices, resulted from the in the Undergraduate Library at an SYL forum on decision to the SYL. SOB members stated that violence which had disrupted an SYL forum earlier Workers Revolution to Defeat Islamic Reaction. In process of law had been violated and all rights this month. addition, Grulich presented various letters of support privileges of the SYL would be recognized. DURING THE April 5 forum "No to the Veil," a written by University professors and a petition with IN AQDITION, the SOB said the suspension w series of skirmishies developed between members of 200-250 signatures. be lifted and that the SOB would "serve as advoc the Organization for Iranian Moslem Students ANOTHER member of the SYL, Bruce Richard, to the SYL" in relation to Union manageme (OIMS) and the SYL which resulted in some broken maintained that if the SYL's organizational status broken window complaint. glass of the Kuenzel Room's entrance door in the was lifted, "it would set a bad precedent for others "This was new territory for our committee and Michigan Union. and that there would be a green light to this kind of general regulations governing student organizat "They (Union Management) wanted us to pay $100 stuff" such as the violence that went on during the are vague and out of date," More said. SYL ions s in- nan- ,pon- heir due and ould ates nt's the ions for the damages. but the SYL is not responsible for 'U' study forecasts rise in traffic deaths By TOM MIRGA A recent study by a University pro- ject manager at the Highway Safety Research Institute (HSRI) projects a six per cent increase in traffic deaths after 1985 due to the "downsizing" of the nation's auto fleet. Howard Bunch, who presented his findings in a paper given at a Harvard University symposium last October, said his study indicates that laws restricting every auto in the U.S. to a maximum weight limit of 4000 pounds will lead to the greater number of fatalities. "THIS SIX per cent figure doesn't surprise people," he said. "We've talked to people involved in biomechanics, vehicle dynamics, and other mathematical disciplines, and they generally feel our number is right in the ballpark." Bunch's disheartening analysis resulted from "fatal flaws" in previous downsizing studies, par- ticularly in prior research predictions of what the standards for downsizing meant. "The problem is that there is a mixed bag of automobiles on the road," Bunch explained. "The large car fleet as op- posed to the small car fleet will not be the same down the road beyond 1985. We tried to predict what that fleet would look like then." he said. THlE AVERAGE weight of a car in 1975 was over 5000 pounds. Bunch's analysis used Texas highway fatality data collected between 1975 and 1976. The entire data base was chopped off at 4000 pounds and under and used as a surrogate sample for the future auto fleet. The findings indicated after the fleet was totally stabilized, taking into ac- count the increasing age of the population and other variables, vehicle size showed a direct relationship to a six per cent increase in traffic deaths. The study also examined the benefits of passive restraint systems-such as the three-point seat belt-that are ex- pected to become standard equipment in 1981. "Still, every parameter that we took into account, including passive restraints, did not change our findings or in any way relate to the six per cent figure," Bunch said. PROJECTIONS now show significant increases in the total car population in the future. Bunch said there were approximately 107 million cars on the road in 1975. In 1995, the number should rise to 136 million. But the major safety consideration for the future is not how many cars are on the road, he said, but the total miles travelled by those cars. "It is a direct, one-on-one exposure meter," the researcher explained. "If a vehicle miles travelled increases, injuries go up in a linear fashion. Authorities are claiming future in- creases in both total car population and vehicle miles travelled, Bunch said. In 1975, the average passenger car travelled 9635 miles. 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