I nursd ay, July 7, 1977 Ir1t MIt(ti(,A N DA IT wage 4 hree y - q p'i J'p q Q L J 2- r F t .t' $, JZ '^v t^ la" t Local 'coke' users not fazed by study By RON DeKETT Pnd GREGG KRUPA "Coke adds life." "It's the real thing." "Things go better with coke." "The pause that refreshes." No, not a soft drink commer- cial, just some of the claims made by cocaine users ("coke" for short) and Ann Arbor has a slew of coke users. "The people that do the most abundance of coke (in Ann Arbor) are not amateurs," one coke user said. "A lot of business people use it and I know at least three teachers who are chronic coke users." THE NATIONAL Institute 'n Drug Abuse (NIDA) yesterday issued a four year, $4 million report on cocaine, its uses and its abuses. The report said the drug has increased in popularity to the point that it "has become a serious drug of abuse." "It is a social drug. You take it for some- thing special like seeing the-fireworks the other day or music at a concert." -A cocaine user Ann Arbor has always been a little ahead of the country witere drugs are concerned and it is not surprising to many here that more people use coke than ever before. Students, professors, busines persons, and professional people indulge in the expensive hobby of snorting cocaine. Some users claims that several first string players on the University football and basketball teams also inhale; the infassssus white powder. But according to Lieutenant (liff Murray, commnandistg offlcer of the Narcotics Unit of the M'chigas State Police it l)etroit, co caine use has leveled off, in the Ann Arbor area. "I DON'T think there hass hben an increase over the loss year, but prior to last year beginnittg in 1967 cocaine had increased sharply then leveled off last yer in use," Murray said. Cocaine - sometimes called the rich man's drug - is an ex- pensive hobby. The street value for one gram ranges between $75 and $80 and an ounce can go for $2,000 to $2.51 The inhibiting price gives the drug an uia of excltsivity. See DOES, Page 10 Clericals sekNew union ; '. THE SWELTERING temperature doesn't bother these escapees from the heat, as they enjoy themselves in the cool, refreshing water of Fuller Pool. Overheate city residents list ways to escape record highs By DENISE FOX If you feel like you are going to drop dead from the uamercifully high temperature and humidity, but notice "strange people" who seem to be having a jolly old time of it, don't tsink that something is wrong with you. Some people like hot weather, humid or not. "I LOVE" IT," exclaimed Huron High stu- dent Renee Braxton. "I think this weather is fantastic. it's just like Florida." Braxton claims that you simply have to get used to "he hot weather and then you will certainly enjoy it. "I hate winter," she said. And Mike Seesholtz doesn't spend his after- noons in the house with the air conditioning, on full blast, or hiding timidly under the shade of a large tree. Seesholtz prefers sitting on his porch with a beer, enjoying the weather to the utmost. "Heat doesn't bother me," he said. "Cold does. When it is really cold you have a chill. There's too many ways to beat the heat." Seesholtz said he definitely thought this Emma~ggy semns'ggv.a~sen weather was preferable to the unbearably cold winter we had. "DURING THE WINTER you get the ther- mos up to and the heat still isn't on. You pay 320 do Lars for rent .." Besides those who lose hot weather, there are many who feel miserable but have found their own special ways of coping wit it. As he sa:intered jauntily across the Diag, Steve Hill claimed the heat hardly affects him aiy tmsere. "I MUS' BE immune to this heat," con- fided Hill. "I've been taking saunas." Hill said that instead of making him feel more hot and uncomfortable, the saunas have just the oppc site effet. "After a sauna this will feel like cool winter weather," ie said. "IT'S NO'T a very popular idea. People just haven't caught on yet.." However, there is a second ingredient in Hill's ,uccess in coping with the heat-lime- See HOT, Page 10 By SUE WARNERD The Organizing Committee for Clericas f(OCC) will meet again tonight in hopes of moving closer to their goal-re-organiz- ing a union of University cler- icals. Patty Schwartzman, interim recording secretary for the group, said yesterday that com- mittee members should finish establishing bylaws for the OCC at tonight's meeting. The group also plais to re- view a recent economic survey on clerical contracts at various colleges and universities across the state, By comparing the contracts of union and non- union clericals, OCC hopes to be able to see clearly which offers more advantages. Schwartzman said 0CC cler- icals will also discuss plans to attend an upcoming statewide clerictits conference at astetrn Michigssns University. The session is designed tit provide a forum for university clericals from all over the stale to discuss setting up a snion, contract demands and cosllective brgainng. f)CC activity currently centers on circlatisng cards which auth orize a uniion to baragin collec tively for clericals who sign the aithorication cards. How ever, before it can petition the Michigan Employment Rela tionss Commission (MERC), the OCC must attain authorization from 30 per-cent of the prop*>sed bargaining unit, roughly 1,108 of the University's clericals. Officially, clerical employe; will be able to re-organize as of August I-one year after mem bers of the disbanded clerical' union, UAW Local 2001, voted to decertify. F TODAY Hot stuff R has been so hot and muggy these last few days that it was not unusual to see philosophy students wandering about in a daze muttering, "I sweat therefore I am." Anyone who had the gumption to look at the sun may have felt that it seemed to loom larger than ever as it became classified as an overachiever. Well looms are deceiving. The sun couldn't have been further away. Jim Loudon, Uni- versity staff astronomer said, "the greatest annual distance between the sun and earth occurred on July 5 of this year." To add frostbite to heat stroke, he said the earth came closest to the sun, "in the beginning of January - during one of the winter's coldest cold snaps." Loudon said it's the tilt of the earth's axis ratthEr than its distance from the sun that is responsible for the earth's seasons, Happenings Drug Help i still interviewing people interest- ed in volunteering to answer crisis phones, call 994-HELP . . . mime Michael Filisky will perform at noon in the Pendleton Rm. of the Union . . . there will be a meeting of the Christian Science Organiz- ation at 7:15 p.m. in Rm. 4304 of the Union.. . at 7:30, the Reconvilation/Gay Catholics will meet at the Fr, Richard Center . . . also at 7:30, the films Braverman's Condensed Cream of Beatles, and Yel- low Submarine ,1ill be shown in MLB Aud. 3 free Of char e and nt _ the MA Hsin L .w Prn Judge Philip Pratt gave the case to the jury then, Assistant U. S, Attorney Richard Yanko told the re- porters that the prosecutors have indeed been tak- ing bets on how long the nine women and ten men would deliberate. At that time, Yanko publicly pre- dicted "about three or four daays." Well, if that's what Yanko bet on in the jury pool, he may be out of luck - the jury just completed its first week of deliberation. Federal Prosecutor Richard Delonis, the other U. S. attorney at the trial, was asked how he fared in the jury sweepstakes. Delonis stiffened and replied 'Oh, I never gamble." 11111 g . . . wu tb, L gV1t 1 bS aw Yr- ject will present the film It Just Ain't Right: The On the outside Ann Arbor lousiug Crisis at Markley Hall. Today's guest weatherman is Noah Webster. -t Sweltering: extreme heat which causes persons to Jur y p ol suffer, and perspite profusely. Needless to say, that means we can expect more of the same, with to- Federal Prosectitors in the Veterans Administra- day's high in the low 90's, and tonight's low in the tion (VA) poisoning trial aren't talking anymore low 70's. Remember, it's just five and a half months about a "jury pool" started last Wednesday. After until winter.