The Michigan Daily Edited and managed by Students at the University of Michigan Wednesday, May 12, 1976 News Phone: 764-0552 TU: On a winning streak HE ANN ARBOR TENANTS Union (TU) court victory Monday in the four-month-old Reliable rent strike Is yet another indication of the progress being made by the student-ron organization in bringing the Ann Arbor housing scene up to date. At the same time, the court case serves to under- score the disraecfil ways in which some landlords ex- ploit student renters all too frequently in this city. Monday's court action saw a jury rule against a suit filed by Reliable owsner Edith Epstein, seeking payment of the withheld --it of seven tenants. The jury also set a precedent by rulin' in favor of a counter-claim filed by the tenants, rewarding them $1900 beyond the withheld rent for experiencing grossly substandard living condi- tions. The tcnants introduced in court fecal matter from a sewage backflow and told tales of the landlady's chronic laxity in seeing to the overall maintenance of the house. But what seemed the worst was the house's ability to meet city code specifications when inspected in March. What conritions must prevail for a house to fail the city's test? Evidently, the city fosters its own ideas as to what constitites adequae housing, but its standards are far off the line. Fortunatelv. the Tenants Union has been working hard in not only -liblicizing but reforming some of the atrocities that evi't within the housing market. Land- lords such as Endnri,1 must be made aware that they can no longer contin "i,&to tao students' bank accounts in return for deficient housing and non-existent mainte- nance. We apol)ind the Tenants Union for its most recent victory and hone it can bring the Reliable strike to a speedy and suer-K-fail close. It is heartening to know that there are An,, Artorites devoted to the improvement of our housino conditions. 5lb s~/, '-Shrn' Ton TiM s(CTcK KEN PARSTOTAN C-Eiirors-n-Chif t -w4_ COLOSLS OI Letters to The Daily ClericalIs To The Daily: As a University clerical, two things. pset mehWednesday, May 5. One was the ad in the Daily soliciting names for the decertification drive. The sec- onod was the UAW Interna- , tional's heavy - handed deci- sion to run the re-election of our officers. The ad stated that 946 cleri- cals said that they didn't want Local 2001 to represent them. The last thing that clericals, here or on any other campus, need is to be unorganized in the face of a ruthless management. Don't fool yourself. The Uni- versity is not going to give you the equitable wage you deserve for making its bureacracy work. The University is not going to cut Fleming's or the Regents' or the Deans' salaries but wants to hold all new union contracts to a five per cent maximum in- crease in times of double-digit inflation. Without a strong union what guarantee do we have that there will be any raises? Without a de- termined union what job securi- ty douwehave? Without a mili- tant union what peace of mind do we have about the grievance procedure? Without anactive uncompromising union how can we make progress in our de- mands in the upcoming contract talks for such things as full tu- ition refunds, a settlement on the issue of using students as scab labor, longevity, free park- ing, a reform of the transfer procedure or day care? And the responsibility for cre- ating a strong, progressive union rests upon our shoulders, not with the International. All Big Labor wants is our dues and our compliancy. Yes,there has been bickering and disputes within Local 2001. But I'd rather see these signs of real struggle within a young local tryingdtodorganize itself than I would dupes and pup- pets of Big Labor from the out- side coming in to mind our busi- Don't decertify. Help organize. Jerry Whiting, C-3 Printing Services, Clerk II May 6 ,JAY ILEV7N JIM TOBIN - e itoril Dim!tors FTLAINE FLEYTC 'TERT ANN MARIE LIPINSKI ,upp?>1ment!Editors SUE ADES MARGARET vAO . MICHAEL. PT UN1 iILD LANI JORDAN GEORGE LOOSENZ JNNY vMItLLER,. MIKE NORTON MICHAEL YELLIN. BARB ZAHS ...NightEditnor Night Editor Ass't Night Editor Ass't Night Editor Ass't Night Editor Ass't Night Editor Asst Night Editor Asst Night Editor TODAY'S STAFF News-Phil Bokovoy, Ann Marie Lipinski, Jenny Miller, Ken Parsigian, Tim Schick Edit-Jay Levin Arts-Jeff Selbst Photo Technician-Scott Eccker Health: On sharing the pill, dilet'ing' dilemma By SYLVIA HACKER and NANCY PALCHIK Question: I'm furious. I had to wait a whole month for an appointment to get birth control, so the blazes with Health Service, I borrowed my friend's pills and we've decided to share theta from now on. Until the Healt/h Service Handbook resumes in the fall, /he Daily will occasionally re-ran some of last year's most frequently asked ques- /ions as a service to its readers. This is the first installment of "The Best of S1lria and Nancy". Answer: The noise you just heard was three people fainting here at the Gynecology clinic. You can't borrow other women's birth control pills! Pill dosages are individually prescribed and matched as closely as possible to your body type and your medical history. You can be doing yourself a lot of physical damage by taking any medication not prescribed specifi- cally for you. It's true you have to wait for an appointment since the gyn clinic serves a huge population here on campus, but you'd probably have to wait even longer for a pri- vate medical appointment. So, for heaven's sake make an appointment to find out which contraceptive method is best for you (we discuss all of them) and while you're wait- ing, come to our Health Service phar- macy and buy some condoms and foam. The two of them used together are almost as effective as the pill for pregnancy prevention. Question: Everytime I go off my diet I gain weight. This is very dis- couraging. I wonder if this is peculiar to my own body or true for every- one. Answer: First of all, food, being a four-letter word, involves problems like other four-letter words. Secondly, bodies are fascinating machines. Each person's is unique and processes food in its own unique fashion. However, here are some general facts: Most people are not aware that when one goes off any diet designed to reduce weight and resumes an increased cal- orie intake, the body will tend to hold a little more water. It is therefore realistic to expect an immediate weight gain of two to five pounds to allow for this fluid shift. Moreover, if a person had been on an improper- ly balanced reduction diet (eg., high protein and low carbohydrate), an even greater increase of five to ten pounds can be expected afterwards. Weight loss via starvation diets re- sults in even more weight gain upon resuming greater food intake. A bal- anced nutritional diet can be designed to fit one's own body type by moni- toring one's reactions and learning how to vary it in order . to main- tain a relatively constant weight level, Sylvia Hacker and Nancy Palchik are health educators at Health Serv- ice.