Friday, July 16 1976 Locals THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three find ways to beat the heat By JENNIFER MILLER With the humidity matching the 90-plus degree tempera- tu-es these past few days, you either have to come with your own special way of dealing with it, or suffer unbear- ably. F-or some, of course the hot weather is a time to relax and enjoy, to soak up the sun at the beach or country clih, and sip lemonade under a shady tree. UNFORTUNATELY, this is a rare circumstance, and for most the work must go on. Ellis Adger, a University bits driver for three years, is one of these. "It gets pretty hot in here at times," he sighed, lounging back in his seat, On days like today, the fans just blow hot air." And with this humidity you stick to the chair." Ie laughingly demonstrated. On days like yesterday, with no air-conditioning avail- -tle, the faster Adger can push his bus the better for all concerned. "The best place is Fuller Road," he said, "you can get up to 30 (mph) there, and get a nice breeze blow- WhILE ADGER tplanned to go home after work and turn up the air-conditioning sky-high," there are others who thrive in the summer heat. Terry Oppermann, selling flowers on State St., said the sun is "cosmic" for him. "I like the heat because it's as close as people can get to running around naked," he said. "I love it," said Jan Lampe, heading down State St. in shorts and a halter top. "I think it's sensational. It makes See SUMMER, Page 6 Don Powell and his friend Eros cool off in the fountain outside the Michigan Union. As yester- day's temperatures soared into the 90s, many people found imaginative ways to beat the stifling heat. 'U'-GEO wage hike dispute rages By GEORGE LOBSENZ Iie University and the Graduate Em- iiies' Organization (GEO) made it tstal clear yesterday that they are headed for deadlock on the issue of a pay raise for graduate student assistants fGSM). After a two-hour bargaining session which included discussion of several technical issues besides the wage dis- pute, chief University negotiator John F1rsyth said, "Our offer to them is the same as our offer to the faculty. The figure won't change." The University pOisition would stay the same, Forsyth declared, even in the face of an immi- ueist strike. THE UNIVERSITY has offered a five ier cent pay increase for 1976-1977. Con- t, sversy has arisen, however, because the five per cent pay increase is accom- panied by a 9.7 per cent tuition increase. GEO claims that the tuition increase offsets the pay increase to the extent that the new wage proposal would amount to less than a 2 per cent hike. However, the University maintains that tuition has nothing to do with gradu- ate students as emptoyes. Saying they view the tuition increase as part of GSAs' student status, Forsyth said in an mterview, "if tuition goes up 9.7 per cent, it goes up for everybody-graduate students as well as undergraduates. Why should GSAs be exempt? . . . they're not paying tuition to teach, they're paying tuition to learn." FORSYTH ALSO said the University could allocate 1.8 per cent of the pay increase toward tuition grants, thereby maintaining present tuition levels. How- ever, if this was done, Forsyth said the pay increase would only amount to 3.2 per cent. GEO called the proposal "ludicrously low," while citing figures showing that Michigan GSAs received the worst pay of any area colleges. According to one GEO bargainer, the proposed pay boost of 3.2 per cent (with tuition grants) "doesn't even cover the effect of inflation. Look at the history of the salaries we've received-these are substantial erosions." THE SESSION started out on a prom- ising note as the two sides agreed on initial employment and re-employment, an article which stipulated notification dates for GSAs newly hired or re-hired. This brought to eight the number of articles tentatively agreed upon by the two sides. Following this achievement, however, the negotiations quickly re- turned to an adversary state. The first part of the meeting was de- voted to a largely fruitless discussion of pay periods and employment fractions. GEO bargainers objected to the cur- rent 17-week pay period and proportional fraction-computation system. TO REPLACE the 17-week period, (EO suggested a 15-week period that would guarantee Graduate Student As- sitants (GSAs) uninterrupted vacations. An employment fraction refers to the number of hours a GSA works in rela- tion to the full-time employment stand- ard. Hence, whatever fraction of the full- time employment standard a GSA works, he will receive an employment fraction BUT GED president Doug Moran re- futed Forsyth, saying the proposal would only guarantee GSAs official University vacations as well as preventing the dilu- tion of GSA salaries because of the in- clusion of vacation weeks. "Right now," remarked Moran after the session, "we're paying the Univer- sity for our vacations. If a GSA has to work during a University holiday he should get a larger fraction. He should be paid for the extra work instead of having it taken out of his previous pay- checks." which will allocate an equivalent frac- tion of the salary designated for the full- time employment standard. Commenting on the pay period de- mand, Forsyth said, "What they're pro- posing could change the standard a max- imum of 250 hours. Basically what they want is more money ror less hours, They want tin economic increase." Cartoon While flipping through your Daily to- day, check out the Editorial page and. our newest feature - a comic strip. The strip, unnamed for now, is the brain- child of Pete Schneeberger and John Guillean and will appear every Friday for the rest of the summer. According to Pete, they began the strip while working on separate cartoons. John had trouble drawing and Pete ran dry of ideas - so they decided to combine their artistic and conceptual skills. We hope you'll enjoy it. Happenings ... are stim. Today through Saturday 20 antique book dealers will be particip- ating in Ann Arbor's first Antiquarian Book Fair held in the Michigan League Tonight at 7:00 Tyagi Ji, a cosmic transmitter, will hold a session at the Friends meetitig house, 1420 illt Ad- misst is free. Weather or not Well, it's finally going to cooi down Today's high should only(?) be in the mid-80's. There is a 30 per cent chance of rain, and that would certainly be welcome. The low tonight will be in the low 60's, but the humidity will still make comfortable sleep nothing more than a dream Hoffa killer may be known iT"fROIT (UPI) - The Detroit News q..,ed federal sources yesterday as say- Sinvestigators now believe they know ws killed former Teamsters Union Pres- dent James Hoffa. "Ve believe we now know all the 5'ificant details of the case and who killed Hoffa," the source quoted by the ti said. "We've got just a couple of Problem areas There will be indictments. l;e evidence is growing each day." HOWEVER, another source quoted by the News said that while the FBI has made "major progress in the case," no immediate indictments were expected. Speculation that the FBI was about to make a major break in the nearly year- old case was refueled Wednesday when the 23-year-old son of reputed Detroit Mafia kingpin Anthony "Tony Jack" Giacalone testified under immunity from prosecution before a federal grand jury probing the Hoffa disappearance. Joseph "Joey" Giacalone spent nearly 90 minutes answering grand jury ques- tions Wednesday after U.S. District Judge John Feikens signed a grant of immunity at the request of the U.S. Organized Crime Strike Force. NEITHER Giacalone nor his attorney, N.C. Deday LaRene, would comment on what questions were asked by the grand jury. However, LaRene said he did not expect that Giacalone would be called before the grand jury again. The News said the FBI believes that Hoffa was abducted in Giacalone's car July 30, 1975, the day Hoffa vanished from the parking lot of a suburban Detroit restaurant. Giacalone, who had loaned the car that day to Charles "Chuckie" O'Brien, appeared before the federal grand jury last fall but refused to answer questions.. FBI agents siezed Giacalone's car last August and found a 12-gauge shotgun and ammunition inside. O'Brien said he used the car to deliver a 14-pound salmon to the wife of a Teamster official who lived about six miles from the restaurant.