The Michigan Dily-Tuesday, August 1, 1978-Page 3 'U'sends house's walls tumbling down By MITCH CANTOR Many students seem to get lost in the midst of the University's bureaucracy, but this week the school caused an en- tire house to vanish. The two-story building, previously known as 225-227 S. Thayer, was levelled last Saturday, though the crew working on the project won't have the job finished until sometime this week. UNIVERSITY officials already have plans for the lot. "There will be some landscaping and some parking (replacing the house)," said Director of Business Operations J. P. Weidenbach. He said the space would be used by University vehicles which need access to the Modern Languages Building (MLB). The vehicles had previously parked on the street. The University purchased the 75- year-old home in September from Rose Lueck. "It's only logical that we should own it (the lot)," Weidenbach said. The area, which includes 4,356 square feet of land, is bounded by the MLB, Hill Auditorium and Burton Tower. Prior to the purchase, it was the only lot on that strip of land which was not University- owned. ACCORDING TO University Plant Director Paul Spradlin, the building was "an old brick house with a garage falling down in back." Weidenbach added-that the structure "could no longer meet the (city housing) code asa residence." University officials did not destroy the house during the school year because several people had leased rooms through last May. Weidenbach said the house "had never been used for University purposes." Demolition was done by the Detroit- based Mid-American Construction Company. Daily Photo by JOHN KNOX A big yellow bulldozer lies waiting to clear away the rubble of a 75-year-old house which was located next to the MIR. The site will be paved to put up anarking lot. LOCAL CARRIERS A T TACK BOLGER: Re Asso reco unio agai cont Th take conv over lead ratif up to Union leaders urge pact's defeat By MICHAEL ARKUSH RATIFICATION ballots have been show union members their disap- HE EMPHASIZED it was the first epresentatives of the National mailed and members are expected to proval," said Schaefer. time in negotiations with the Postal ciation of Letter Carriers (NALC) receive them within a few days. THE UNION leader said many of the Service that union members have op- mmended yesterday that the Jim Schaefer, vice-president of the 8,000 officials at the convention are posed a postal contract. The last two n's rank-and-file members vote union's Ann Arbor Local 434, said union concerned that the union membership pacts were approved by postal em- nst ratification of a tentative postal leaders also agreed to try to renegotiate will vote for ratification. ployees. ract, a local union official reported. another contract if the temporary one is "People here are worried that The tentative three-year contract, e nearly unanimous voice vote, rejected as expected. He said members without the leadership there to advise would provide workers with a 19.5 per n during the union's week-long will strike if there is a long deadlock in the members, they might decide cent wage increase in base pay and ad- 'ention in Chicago, demonstrated subsequent talks with the Postal Ser- to quickly sign the new pact," he said. ditional cost-of-living benefits. But whelming opposition by union vice. . Schaefer said representatives in union members have complained the ership to the pact. The final "It was clearly the mood of the con- Chicago attacked the pact's cost-of- agreement fails to improve working ication decision, however, is still vention that members are emphatically , living allowance, wage increases and conditions or compensate for an- the 170000 NALC members, opposed to the contract and want to working condition rules. See NALCPa t 1 r t r ,toda -rr - - i7' ttiA, ~ G Happenings ... quite simply are nowhere to be found. We knew it was bound to happen (or should we say, not happen) sooner or later. There are no happenings today. That's right, none. Zero. Zilch. Goose eggs. take the day off. weeks ago, Amy was asked in a written interview what she thought of the Berlin Wall. "Skip it," she replied. A few days later, she told mother Rosalynn about the interview and about her reply. "Well, what did you think of the wall?" her mother asked. "I think the same thing about the wall that I do about apartheid in South Africa," Amy said. Shirt-changed Howard Friedman was only trying to keep cool, but now he's burned up because a Royal Oak restaurant owner gave him the cold shoulder last week. Friedman, of Oak Park, has filed a sex discrimination complaint with the Michigan civil rights commission after a bartender at the Red Coat Tavern told him he wouldn't be served because he was wearing a tank top shirt which bared his shoulders. "I was in shock," Friedman said. "I asked him why and he said it was because I was wearing a tank top. So I looked around me and everywhere I looked there were women with bare shoulders, or with strings holding up tube tops or in tank tops like mine." But restaurant owner Pete Brown appears unmoved by Friedman's suit, calling it "the most stupid thing I'cve ever heard. We don't have the same dress codes for men and women." Until the complaint is resolved, it looks like Friedman will just have to grin, but not bare it. tourists apart in New York City. Tourists look up at the skyscrapers while the residents keep an eye on the ground, cautious of where they step. Beginning today, however, there's a chance NewYorkers may be able to look up once again. A new state law goes into effect requiring dog owners to clean up after their pets. Dr. Alan Beck, an animal behaviorist and ecologist who heads the Animal Affairs division of the city's Department of Health, estimates that every day, the city's 700,000 dogs leave 350,000 pounds of fecal material and 166,000 gallons of urine in New York's streets, lots and parks. Such a waste. so Beck and others are hoping the threat of a $100 fine will convince owners to arm themselves with homemade or store-bought "pooper-scoopers" when they take their Fido for his daily con- stitutional. But the way Beck talks, you'd swear he came straight out of Detroit, not New York. "You have emission controls on your car," he explained, "and now you have emission control for your dog." Ah, but how many miles does the dog get per gallon? On the outside What lack of imagination. Today will be just like yesterday-partly sunny with a high in the low 80s tomorrow, a few more clouds with a chance of showers and a higharound 85 Amy Carter Maybe 10-year-old Amy Carter is a lot smarter * than we'd been led to believe. On her homeward Here's the scoop flight from Germany with her parents a couple o Some people say it's ey ves aid . . . . . . . . . . .