The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, May 2, 1979-Page 3
Utilities
rate cut
idea aired
n Council
By JOHN GOYER
and ELISA ISAACSON
In an effort to distribute the financial
burden of local sewage treatment im-
provements, City Administrator
Sylvester Murray proposed to City
Council Monday night a sewage sur-
charge on new building developments
as an alternative to the city-wide 23 per
cent rate hike now in the proposed 1979-
80 city budget.
The proposed increase would cover
the costs of hauling excess sludge and
costs related to the expansion of the
sewage treatment plant. The plant is
Hangin arnd Doily Photo by MAUREEN OMALLEY currently being expanded in order to
accommodate waste from new
Former University pole vault champ Jim Stokes practiced near the Track and Tennis Building yesterday, on the first sunny developments and outlying townships.
day in over a week. See COUNCIL, Page 7
CONSERVATIVES REMAIN CONFIDENT:
Callaghan edges Thatcher in poll
From AP and Rester said, and said she did not believe it London Stock Exchange, where the of Commons, responded to the news
LONDON - Britain's election cam- would stop her becoming Britain's first value of shares fell by $2 billion, confidently.
paign neared conclusion yesterday with woman prime minister after THE UNEXPECTED poll gave a "Lose the election? Such a thing is
the latest of the conflicting opinion polls tomorrow's vote. boost to Callaghan, who entered the totally inconceivable," he said at a
putting Prime Minister James ALL PREVIOUS opinion polls have campaign trailing badly after his news conference. "The polls are begin-
Callaghan's Labor Party-in the lead for put the Conservatives ahead with a lead minority government collapsed after ning to catch up with what I've always
the first time, averaging 7.7 per cent. failing to win a vote of confidence on said."
Conservative leader Margaret That- Thatcher is campaigning on a March 28.
cher brushed aside the survey in the manifesto more right-wing in content The lead was inconclusive, con- CALLAGHAN, 67, fighting what is
Daily Mail newspaper showing than that of any post-war Conservative sidering the margin for error in a almost certainly his last election as
Callaghan ahead by just 0.7 per cent. leader. polling sample, but Callaghan, fighting leader of the Labor Party, hopes to
"I'm not in the least worried," she But the opinion poll in the Daily Mail an uphill battle in his bid to win a retain office despite the damage inflic-
t i- a Conservative paper - affected the majority of seats in the 635-seat House ted to his prestige by a winter of strikes.
r-toaay
It doesn't look like
summer, but. . .
Wecome back to the die-hards who are staying in
town for the summer. What you're holding is the
Daily's first edition of Spring term. The Daily will
also publish during Summer term. Subscriptions
can be had for a mere $6.50 for the whole summer.
Call 764-0558 or drop by the Daily offices at 420
Maynard between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. to order your
subscription.
Summer bus schedule
University buses started running on a new sum-
mer schedule last Sunday. Monday through Friday,
Northwood buses will run every 12 minutes between
7a.m. and 5:30 p.m.; every 18 minutes between 5:30
p.m. and 10:30 p.m.; and every 30 minutes between
10:30 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. On Fridays, the buses will
run until 1 a.m. On Saturdays, buses will run at 20-
minute intervals between 7:10 a.m. and 8:50 p.m.:
and at 40-minute intervals betweeen 8:50 p.m. and
1:30 a.m. On Sundays, buses will run every 40
minutes between 7:30 a.m. and 12:15 Monday mor-
ning. University buses will not run the Bursley-
Baits route during the summer. Commuter bus.
schedules will remain the same.
Free Ernie who?
Signs posted around the University Hospital, on
.State Street, and at the Juvenile Court Building
demand that the public "Free Ernie." Ernie who,
you may ask. Is Ernie a political prisoner? Is he a
dissident from a South American country? Or are
the posters simply advertising the availability of a
new product monickered "Ernie?" Wrong, wrong,
and wrong. Ernie Bickland is a nine-year-old foster
child, an inpatient at the University Children's
Psychiatric Hospital. Ernie's former foster paren-
ts, Richard and Jill Hall of South Lyon, claim Er-
nie's tenure at the hospital for nine months is
"illegal". Ernie has been in the custody of the
Washtenaw County Friend of the Court since 1973,
when his natural parents divorced. The Halls are
trying to find out why the Friend of the Court took
custody of Ernie after he spent five years in their
care, and apparently they decided a poster cam-
paign wuld bolster their efforts.
Correction I
In the Daily's article on executive committees
which appeared in the April 15 issue, it was in-
correctly reported that only two colleges at the
University currently have students serving on their
executive committees. In fact, the School of
Education has three students serving in a non-
voting capacity on the college's executive commit-
tee. Unlike the executive committees on the College
of Architecture and Urban Planning and the School
of Public Health however, students in the School of
Education are barred from Executive Committee
meetings when personnel matters-promotions,
tenure considerations-are discussed and decided.
Carol Luckhardt, a senior in the School of Education
and a member of the executive committee, said
even though student input is important she would
like to see the University move to allow students on
executive committees 'to vote on all matters. "I'd
like to see more power for students," said Luckhar-
dt.
Correction II
An article in the last Daly erroneously reported
that on April 20 the University's Regents passed a
resolution calling for a "socially responsible prac-
tices" committee to be comprised of four minority
students, two staff members, two faculty, one
Regent, and one administrator. The resolution
passed actually referred the matter back to the
University's vice-presidents to consider the
feasability of such a committee.
happenings ...
... are spairSO today. Sleep in until 2 p.m., when
Larry Coryell of the One Truth Band will be at
School Kid's Records, autographing album
covers . . .catch Coryell and the rest of the One
Truth Band featuring John McGaughlin at Hill
Auditorium, 8 p.m., presented by Eclipse Jazz.. . a
Science Fiction Seminar Abroad is being offered
through the Eastern Michigan University (EMU)
English department. Graduate and undergraduate
credit is awarded for study during August at
University College in London, England, and at the
University of Sussex in Brighton, England. For
more information, call Dr. Marshal Tymn of EMU's
English department at 487-0155.
On the outside
Today will be mostly cloudy, with a chance of
showers. The high will be close to 55', while the low
will dip near freezing. Don't store away those down
jackets yet.