Page 12-Wednesday, May 16, 1979-The Michigan Daily Brown orders pumps open on weekends LOS ANGELES (AP) - Tempers flared and at least one fight broke out at California gas pumps Tuesday as lines grew to as long as four blocks in Los Angeles. Gov. Edmund Brown Jr. signed an order forcing some of the state's service stations to stay open on weekends. Brown said police will enforce the or- der, although he admitted that penalizing violators will be difficult, since it will be hard to tell if a station is closed or simply out of gas. That was the plight of a station in Covina where six outraged drivers kicked and pummeled two attendants yesterday, forcing them to seek refuge inside their office. They had no gas left to sell. As Brown signed the stay-open order just before flying to Washington to discuss the gasoline shortage with President Carter, he said: "This will spread out the distribution of gasoline that is available. That should relieve the number of people who need gas during the week" TheCalifornia stations will be required to open either Saturday or Sunday, depending on whether their business license ends in an odd or even number. The only stations to be affec- ted are those in the counties with odd- even rationing and those that pumped more than 750,000 gallons of gas last year. Plans for a shutdown of service stations from Thursday through Sun- day to protest federal price controls seemed about to collapse yesterday amid fears of a consumer backlash and government retaliation. But many stations may close anyway because they've run out of fuel. In other developments in the gasoline crunch yesterday: * House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill said Congress could not meet President Carter's challenge to come up with a new gasoline rationing plan. " The nation's large car-rental agen- cies say their business has not suffered because of the gasoline situation, but many smaller companies say times are hard. In Washington, Saudi Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani said his country will oppoae another price in- crease next month at a meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries but warned "Saudi Arabia alone cannot do much.," oto CALIFORNIA GOV. Jerry Brown signs an order forcing the state's service stations to stay open on weekends. Lines at California gas stations have been unusually long since earlier this month. Track members' sex discrimination charges answered (Continued from Page 1 scheduling of practice times for the women's track team. The students allege that the Univer- sity has violated Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which prohibits discrimination by sex in any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. The charges include: the lack of a women's cross country team, lack of equal funds for shoes and warm-ups, poor quality track uniforms, lack of equal money for meals during away meets, unequal promotion for meets, unequal use of electronic track equip- ment, unequal size of varisty letters, unequal accessibility of training rooms and trainers, unequal advantages for v football and basketball players in dorm lotteries, unequal representation of coaches in the University staff direc- tory, lack of sole use of track facilities, and giving the football team top priority for space, even when it is not football season. THE ATHLETIC Department's responses to the allegations were writ- ten by Phyllis Ocker, associate director for women's athletics, and Charles Harris, assistant athletic director. The formal responses disputed the women's complaints and both Ocker, Harris, and Charles Allm and, acting director of Affirmative Action Programs said that Mayberry and Supler lacked certain information, which led them to make charges which had no firm basis. "There was a great deal of misunder- standing," Allmand said. "The respon- se hopefully answers their questions." ALLMAND ALSO said he and of- ficials from the athletic department could have better explained the. situation to the women through an in- formal meeting. But, he said, the women were unable to meet with the of- ficials. Mayberry said it was difficult to meet because the officials requested the meeting during finals, even though repeated attempts were made to schedule an informal meeting to ex- .plain responses to the women's allegations. "Some of their information was not correct," Ocker said. "They should have done their homework a little bet- ter." She also said the department was aware of some of the problems, such as scheduling practice time, and although these problems were being looked at, nothing could be effectively handled while school was in progress. "WE'RE TRYING to keep abreast of, those things," Ocker said, "But sometimes people get a little impatient - wanting to affect changes tomorrow. We were going to sit down this summer and work out things like practice time. It's more than the track team that's af- fected." Ocker said that although she was sen- sitive to the students' concerns, she did not think the rest of the women on the track team supported Mayberry and Supler. But Mayberry said that "in- dividually each member agreed with at least one of the grievances." MAYBERRY SAID the women, who are planning to attend the meeting tomorrow, are not completely satisfied with the Athletic Department's respon- ses. "It can be looked into more. I feel there's been a lot of misunderstanding - that's for sure." She said that although a women's cross country team had been approved, she knew of no money appropriated for it, and that money taken out of the women's track program would have to support cross country, "spreading thin" funds for women's track. "I don't think they've resolved this problem totally," Mayberry said, "and I can't accept their answers unless I feel that they're adequate - that they've tried to solve the problems. They've stated what their policies have been and will be, but that's it." She said the women went to the Regents to inform them of the problem, and said she was pleased a report was being filed. However, Mayberry said, "They're (the Regents) just com- plementing us, and wishing us the best. I don't feel like they're doing anything other than that." COME TO For our new HAPPY HOURS Tuesday through Saturday * half-price onevery drink * from 8-10 pm Tuesday and Thursday half-price on pitchers * all night 611 Church St. 995-5955 Pilot plans improvements (Continued from Page 3 determine what kinds of programs Pilot residents would like to see. FORMER PILOT student Alan Llooster said he feels that structuring the curriculum is "definitely a -good idea". He said that the classes last year were "pretty easy" and "people got credit for doing absolutely nothing in some cases." Alan Rosenbaum, a former Student Advisor for the Pilot Program, said, "There was a lot of lying about getting 'theme experience' credit. Now that the class, in which students used to get points for seeing speakers and movies, will be more structured, Rosenbaum said the problem of students lying to get points might be solved. Seventy students are returning to the Pilot Program. Douglas said he hopes to pick up more than 200 incoming freshpersons at orientation. Radcliffe said she is optimistic about the "revamped" Pilot Program. "The new freshmen are really going to get the royal treatment," she said.