ACT TEST See editorial page Ninety Years of Editorial Freedom 1~Iai4g IMPROVING .See Today for details WVol. XC, No. 105 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, February 7, 1980 Ten Cents. Eight Pages U' falters in recent women and V By LORENZO BENET Chances that many new faculty positions at, the University will open up for women and minorities are slim, according to Associate Dean for Academic Appointments Robert Holbrook. The University has entered a no-growth era that means less hiring of new faculty in general, and therefore less for women and minoriti'es, explained Holbrook at Monday night's LSA Faculty Assembly meeting. "OVER THE past two years," he said, "the College of LSA has lost 17 women faculty mem- bers and gained only 18." During that same period, seven minority faculty members were lost and ten added. The 5th Ward hopefuls *differ. on property tax issue By JOHN GOYER Finding a solution to the city's high property taxes, is the main issue con- fronting four Republican candidates for City Council in the Fifth Waid. The four will compete in a Feb. 18 primary for their party's endorsement. The winner will then run against Democratic candidate Thoman Blet- cher in the April city elections. EACH OF THE four candidates - RI Joyce Chesbrough, William Gudenau, ha A. J. LaLonde, and Lou Velker - has a different solution to the property tax " problem. "Any City Council candidate that tells you he can do something about it (taxes) is probably not telling you the truth, because it's something that has to be done at the state level," candidate Chesbrough said.recently. Chesbrough, a civics teacher at Slauson Intermediate School, supports a-tax proposal thought up by two state legislators, Perry Bullard (D-Ann Ar- bor) and Roy Smith (R-Ypsilanti). t THE PROPOSAL would allow to schools, which currently swallow about p 60 per cent of local property tax do revenues, to be funded through a local income tax. The plan would shift the tax a burden to those with higher incomes. P Chesbrough and another-of the four Republican candidates, Gudenau, are y said to have the best chances in the Fif- th Ward primary race.la Both have political experience Cl Gudenau as a local campaign manager b( and head of the city Republican Party e for three years, and Chesbrough as a c member of the Ann Arbor Transpor- tation Authority and a Republican for 20 years. b See CANDIDATES, Page 8 past five years have brought five new black faculty members to the LSA faculty, and the college has picked up one woman professor and three from minority groups over the last two years. LSA currently has about 800 faculty mem- bers in all, of whom 91 are women and 55 minority members. LSA DEAN Billy Frye said that the current numbers of minority faculty members does not reflect University affirmative action efforts. "Over the past five years, we've increased the portion of women faculty members by 50 per cent," he explained. "But our problem lies in the fact that %Ye have limited resources, a small pool of qualified candidates, and a low rate of faculty turnover. FRYE ALSO stressed that the University will not hire mediocre professors, regardless of race and sex, at the expense of the University's high standards. "WE ARE looking for the best available," Frye said. But "the competition is steep. Every other top 10 school wants the same people we do." Another problem lies with the high attrition rate of women and minority professors. Ten minority and women faculty members resigned from their posts over the last two years, while six others were fired, according to an LSA Executive Committee report. "The University loses many good people to the West Coast and Boston," Frye observed. "Others have left to join their spouses or to talra nn now h c Lake on new ousi FRYE DID no the six professor that they genera set by the Univer Currently the' affirmative acti conducting a co review of top-ra appointments ar funds to bring m to the Universit junior positions women candidat retiring facultyr women and mino "We've also in cin minority hiring ness ventures." brings women and minority scholars for lec- t want to' go into detail about tures to increase their visibility on campus," s who were fired, except to say said Holbrook. illy didn't meet the standards HISTORY Professor John Broomfield does sity. not think the administration has made a con- University maintains several certed effort to add women and minorities to on practices. These include the faculty. Illege level affirmative action "I don't see willingness to reallocate resour- anked candidates before any ces to place affirmative action as a high e authorized, providing extra priority," commented Broomfield. "We've inority and women candidates done poorly in this area in the last five or ten ty for interviews, upgrading years when resources have been plentiful, and when qualified minority or now that future resources will become less es are available, and replacing available, the outlook looks even bleaker." members early when qualified Frye admitted that he doesn't expect the im- rity candidates are identified, balance to be made up over the next five to ten nplemented a program which See 'U', Page 8 Bani-Sadr denounces militants Daily Photo by DAVID HARRIS BUSTY WRIGHT instructs the audience on how to achieve what he calls "Dynamic Sex." Wright, a Christian activist, as spoken to audiences in the Power Center for the past three nights, lecturing on a variety of subjects. Dynamic Sex, Rt i Rusty- Wrigyht says it can be fun By The Associated Press Iranian President Abolhassan Bani Sadr, taking on the Moslem militants at the U.S. Embassy directly for the first time, attacked them as lawless "dictators" yesterday after they engineered the arrest of a government minister as an alleged ally of the CIA. Later yesterday, immigration authorities at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport detained a 49-member American delegation for four hours. after it arrived in the Iranian capital at the invitation of the militants. WESTERN JOURNALISTS in Tehran quoted airport sources as saying there was confusion over the status of the Americans' entry visas. The visitors were permitted to leave the airport for a hotel in downtown Tehran early 'today, but it was not immediately clear whether they would be allowed to stay in Iran for 10 days as planned. The developments seemed to foreshadow a possible showdown between the young radicals and Bani Sadr's emerging government that could affect the fate of the approximately 50; Americans held hostage at the Tehran, embassy for 95 days. Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and his, Revolutionary Council have accepted a U.N. plan for; an investigation of the ex-shah's regime that American officials hope will lead to: the relesae of the hostages. BUT THE Iranians continued to make conflicting statements yesterday about whether and when the hostages would be freed. Bani Sadr's bitter denunciation of the militants followed the arrest of the minister of national guidance and information, Nasser Minachi. The militants alleged in a national television broadcast Tuesday evening that documents they found in the embassy showed that Minachi had "close links with the CIA." Minachi, who denied the charges, was arrested by the militia-like revolutionary geards at his home at about midnight. IN LONDON, the Guardian See IRANIAN, Page 8 By GREG GALLOPOULOS According to Rusty Wright, an author and traveling lec- rer for Campus Crusade for Christ, God and sex go gether. Speaking at the Power Center last night before a redominantly student audience, Wright said, "God is not own on sex. He designed it all - even the plumbing. "Sex is meant to be fun," Wright continued, and is not, s some Christian sects have said, "solely for rocreation." But sex is not strictly secular, he said. "JESUS CHRIST," Wright proclaimed; "can make our sex life better - how's that to raise a few eyebrows.. Last night's lecture on Christian "dynamic sex" was the st in a series of three that Wright gave this week, all on Iristian topics. Wright's other lectures dealt with "out of ody experiences" - mystical experiences that many ersons who "clinically died" but were then resuscitated aim to have had while "dead" - and with the historical proof" for the resurrection of Jesus. Although all of his lectures included a declaration of his ersonal faith in Jesus Christ as the Son of God, Wright egan each by telling his audience, "I didn't come here to force my views down your throat. I just want to get you thinking." WRIGHT URGED his audience to come to Christ, but said, "I'm not a high pressure salesman. I think people appreciate a low-key approach, not a hellfire and dam- nation sermon." Avoiding verbal pyrotechnics, Wright used his topical subjects to engage interest, and then kept it with an in- formal, frequently humorous speaking style - studding his speech with deliberately corny jokes: On -the absence of all but one of the disciples at Jesus' crucifixion, Wright joked, "They (the disciples) all took off for the weekend. Guess they thought it was Easter vacation." Wright did not ask to be "taken on faith," but offered "proof" of his major points. The resurrection, Wright maintained, is historical fact,-and he presented "evidence adequate to prove it" in a court of law. WHILE HE admitted that the resurrection could "not be verified scientifically, because it is not reproducable," Wright asserted that the scientific method is never ap- See RUSTY, Page 8 Bil couldaid~ state renters I POWELL DENIES ZUMWAL T'S STA TEMENT: No, decision announced on WASHINGTON (UPI)-The White House said yesterday President Carter has not told even his closet aides whether he will seek power from Congress to register women for the draft. Elmo Zumwalt, former chief of naval operations, said Carter told him he would ask Congress to include women in draft registration. WHITE HOUSE press secretary Jody Powell responded that the president had not informed his closest aides-or Zumwalt-what he would do. Zumwalt was among a group of the Committee for a Democratic Majority that discussed registration with Carter at the White House last week and the likely difficulty such a proposal would face in Congress. POWELL SAID probably would announcement-one I 'President Carter told me . . . that he plans to se from Congress to include women in the proposed m tration.' -Elmo Zumwalt, former chief of navE drafting women the president Speculation that Carter will seek to make his register women along with men for the way or the draft has been fueled by Rosalynn Carter's support for such a move. Mrs. Carter seldom if ever publicly disagrees with her husband on ek authority important issues.. ZUMWALT, HOWEVER,/ told a rilitary regis- Virginia Senate committee meeting in Richmond he had discussed the issue with Carter last Thursday. al operations "President Carter told me, and I expect him to announce today, that he plans to seek authority from Congress to include women in the proposed ow at the latest. military registration," Zumwalt said. Carter already has power to register itol Hill said men for the draft, if he gets money for Armed Services the process from Congress. But if even been told women are to be registered,.Congress must pass new legislation. L By LISA LAVA-KELLAR Landlords would pay 5 per cent interest on security deposits to tenants if a bill approved yesterday by the House Consumers Committee passes in the full State House. Sponsored by Rep. Perry Bullard (D- Ann Arbor), the bill calls for interest payments of five per cent per annum, payable upon termination of occupancy by a tenant..After renting three years, the tenant would be reimbursed annually, rather than when he or she moves out. THE BILL, which was sent to the full House in a 7-4 vote, exempts landlords operating fewer than five units and allows the interest to be applied to damages in excess of the deposit. "The bill is a common sense extension ofcurrent law which states that security deposits are the tenant's property, not the landlord's," said Bullard aide Dan Sharp. "We believe that if the landlord holds the tenant's property, the tenant should receive interest." But Ann Arbor realtors and bankers did not hold such optimistic sentiment. "I DON'T THINK it's a good bill," said Rick Thomas of Chestnut Properties. "Tenants don't realize that the costs will be passed on to them." The interest payment on the deposit costs the landlord money, according to Thomas, in terms of added handling costs, increased bookkeeping and the amount of time needed to proces the extra paperwork." "I can understand the tenant's position; it's a hell of a lot of money to tie up," said Thomas. "But somebody's going to have to lose money, and you can bet it won't be the landlord." THOMAS FAVORS the implementation of a security deposit insurance bond, which would be bought by the tenant at the beginning of the lease. "It's non-refundable, but it's the only cost the tenant has to pay, and covers losses due to unpaid rent or damaged furniture," he said. The landlord is assured of having his property insured, according to Thomas, and fewer costs are incurred. If a tenant "skips town," the insurance company bears the responsibility. SHARP SAID the increased cost of administrative paperwork is the main argument of the opposition. "It's a crock, but the legislators are buying it," he said. "They (opponents of the bill) claim that the minimum cost will be $26 per tenant. But how long does it take to write a check? Is that $26?" Inflation is reason Lloyd Weingarden, regional manager of McKinley Properties, opposes the legislation. See LANDLORD, Page 8 "The president did not at that time state what he intended to do," Powell said. "It is possible, I suppose, from that discussion an implication could have been drawn, but he did not say wht he was going to do." other-today or tomorr A source on Capi members of the Senate Committee have not what the decision is. because of their outstanding qualities. But Robert Strauss, chief of President Carter's reelection campaign committee, gave two other reasons yesterday in a fundraising letter addressed to the Daily. "I could give you many reasons why," Strauss wrote, "but I have declared my support because of mainly two: One is Senator Kennedy, who is a good Senator, but who is more needed in the U.S. Senate. The other is Governor Brown, who is a good Governor, but who is more needed in California." Strauss concluded his plea for funds with his thanks and the assumption that "the 56 per cent of the persons surveyed favor the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, while 36 per cent say they are opposed. In the poll, men backed the ERA at 59 per cent rate while only 54 per cent of the women supported it. Overall, 55 per cent of those surveyed believed women would be drafted to serve in combat if the ERA were passed. i I ~.m..S.___'w low ..lF . - . rIn II