Page 12-Friday, June 15, 1979-The Michigan Daily Allon protester pleads no contest By JOHN SINKEVICS A demonstrator arrested on assault and battery charges at a speech last December given by former Israeli Prime Minister Yigal Allon yesterday entered a plea of no contest in an Ann Arbor District Court. Nasir Habash, from Detroit, was arrested December 17 in connection with an incident which occurred during the speech at Rackham Auditorium. According to sources who were at the talk, members of the Palestine Human Rights Committee and others were demonstrating against Allon because they said he bears responsibility for op- pressing the Palestinian people. HABASH WAS arrested by officers from the Ann Arbor Police Department after a scuffle broke out between the demonstrators and some Israeli students. "This Israeli student was taking pic- tures of us, and many Arab students were afraid he might give the pictures to the authorities," said Sarkis Elmassian, a student in the School of Education who attended Allon's speech. "Habash shouted at him and tried to take the camera out of his hand, and they began to shove each other." According to District Court Judge S. J. Elden, Habash's case now has been referred to the Probation Department which will recommend sentencing. Elden said the sentencing has been slated for July. ENROLLMENTDOWN WASHINGTON (AP)-A 4 per cent drop in enrollment has been reported at state universities and land-grant colleges in the current academic year. The decline was reported by the National Association of State Univer- sities and Land-Grant Colleges, which said the total dipped from 3,362,846 in 1977 to 3,231,948 in the fall of 1978. Economic council calls for steel price limits WASHINGTON (AP) - The Carter crease, on a percentage basis, to be no administration's anti-inflation council more than the average of the best two of challenged the steel industry yesterday the last three years. to hold the line on prices or risk The wage-price council's statement violating the nation's voluntary price yesterday seemed designed to keep guidelines. other companies from following U.S. The Council on Wage and Price Steel's lead. That, in turn, could force Stability suggested that the nation's the Pittsburgh firm to roll back its in- largest steel producer, U.S. Steel Corp., crease. might be compelled to roll back a 3.5 "Most other steel firms cannot follow per cent hike in steel prices announced U.S. Steel's price increase and remain Wednesday. in compliance with the price standard The council, which monitors com- unless they offset steel price increases pliance with the anti-inflation with price reduction on their non-steel guidelines, had said Tuesday that U.S. business," the council said. Steel had been given permission to ex- IT NOTED that only three other steel ceed the price standard if it abided in- companies had asked for exceptions stead by an alternate, profit-margin from the price standard. None have yet ceiling. been approved. The administration UNDER THE price guideline, firms yesterday also moved to deny future are supposed to raise prices no more federal contracts to two companies than a half percentage point over the found in violation of the 'price average rises of 1976-77. guidelines. The action came despite a The Pittsburgh-based steel giant, the court ruling that such penalties are nation's 15th largest industrial cor- illegal. poration, followed Tuesday's gover- The action against Amerada Hess nment announcement by immediately Corp. of New York and the cement unveiling the 3.5 per cent price ,in- division of Ideal Basic Industries of crease. It was U.S. Steel's third in- Denver came one day after the gover- crease this year. nment urged a federal appeals court to U.S. Steel announced its action after overturn a lower court ruling against getting permission from the wage-price the administration's guidelines enfor- council to abandon the price standard cement mechanism. and operate under the profit-margin standard, which allows it to pass along No matter how the U.S. Court of Ap- "uncontrollable costs" to consumers, peals rules, the case is expected to wind THE PROFIT-MARGIN standard up before the Supreme Court. requires that a company hold its in- Freshpersons find out how to cope at the big 'U' ROCKY HORROR FANS MICHIIGAN PREMIER! TONIGHT & SATURDAY NIGHT AT MIDNIGHT ONLY ADVANCE TICKETS 8 to 9 PM & AFTER 10:30PM All Costumed Characters Dressed Entirely in Red With Green Hair-Wig Admitted Two For The Price Of One A NEW MUSICAL-COMEDY.. . HORROR PICTURE SHOW0. .. (Continued from Page3) Perigo, who has been in charge of orientation for eight years, says his program involves 92 per cent of all in- coming freshpersons and transfer students, most of whom will stay at South Quad for around $45. What they pay depends on whether they are new students or transfer students and whether or not they commute. HE EXPLAINED that the other eight per cent are mostly students who aren't accepted to the University until after summer orientation has ended or those who went away for the summer. The program is staffed by 25 people, including Perigo. Sixteen paid student leaders act as chaperones for the new students, taking them on hour-long walking tours of Central Campus and acquainting them with what makes the University tick. Four leaders are hired to inform the students' parents, who can particiapte in their own orientation program, about what their children can expect during their four-years in Ann Arbor. Perigo says the leaders talk about the Univer- sity's excellent national academic and athletic reputations and the type of city Ann Arbor is. PERIGO SAYS the parents' concerns include how to handle soaring college costs and crime in the city._ Some parents may hear rumors about crime in Ann Arbor, and then be reluctant to let their children attend a college as large as the University, in a city which they believe may be dangerous, Perigo says. "Rumors are hard to dispell. We play a supportive role (for the University). We have to accommodate different styles of life different paces. It's no PR. (public relations). It's strictly business," Perigo explains. "All sorts of concerns are discussed." Perigo says his program has received favorable feedback. "Ninety-nine per cent of what we get is extremely positive," he said. "It's a product of the student leaders .. . who are all super. They are the fines who make or break a program." STEVE LAVEY is one student who is going through the orientation program. He says he loves it. "It's a really good program," the future accounting major says. "I was hesitant because this place is so big. But the people have been really super. I thought they were just going to take us around and get us familiar with the campus. But people have been really friendly. They tell you exactly what (courses) you have to take." Lavey, who said he will be the foot- ball team's equipment manager in the fall, said, "They're (student leaders) small college people running a big college." LAVEY SAID the only problem he sees with the program is the lack of time students get to spend by them- selves. (All of our time) "is taken up in something. There's no time to mingle," he concluded. Perigo said aside from a few minor changes in the orientation of the program, such as a game designed to help students communicate better with each other, there have been no drastic changes in the past few years. 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