BOYCOTT See editorial page j:1; 4 E LIE 43UU IE aIQ YUCK! ! ! See Today for details Ninety Years of Editorial Freedom Vol. XC, No. 127 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, March 13, 1980 Ten Cents Ten Pages Diekey Virgil no longer gridders Five others implicated in alleged drug involvement Dickey Kligis Kwiatkowski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..........,.4,. Via. ,,:.::.:..x.::i::- :.::< :..:.t. "'.. "" "..:> ' :, THESE FIVE University football play- ers were suspended for alleged involve- ment with narcotics, informed sources said. Wolverine coach Bo Schembech- ler refused to issue a'statement con- cerning the charges. Athletic Director Don Canham confirmed the gridders suspension. By ALAN FANGER Quarterback B.J. Dickey and place- kicker Bryan Virgil are among the five Michigan football players suspended from the team for alleged involvement with narcotics, informed sources confirmed yesterday. At least two other prominent players were reportedly put on probationary status in relation to the narcotics charges. THE SOURCES, including team members and officials close to the team, said outside, linebacker Ben Needham, wolfman Mike Kligis, and offensive tackle Dan Kwiatkowski were also placed on permanent suspension by head coach Bo Schembechler, Virgil, the only player that commented on the matter yesterday, denied that he had been suspended. "I just decided not to play out my fifth year. I just decided electrical engineering was too much and wanted todevote more time to it," Virgil said. He is a senior who has one remaining year of athletic eligibility. KWIATKOWSKI AND Needham said they would decline comment until a 1 p.m. news conference today. Dickey and Kligis could not be reached for comment. Schembechler refused to issue a statement about the suspensions. "He said it's been his policy since he became head football coach that all internal matters concerning the football team are private, and he would not com ment," said Will Perry, the University's sports information director. Athletic Director Don Canham confirmed that the suspensions did occur, but he refused to disclose the names of the players involved, "THE BOTTOM line is that they were suspended for violating athletic department and football squad rules," Canham said. '"They were suspended," he continued, "and we're not going to say anything about it because there's no sense in embarrassing the athletes anymore. The penalty is suspension and I don't think it'll be reversed." "I think Schembechler handled this with great dignity, great dispatch, and he was 100 per cent right," Canham said, adding that Schembechler alone is responsible for disciplining his players. ACCORDING TO several teanr members-all of whom asked that their names be withheld-the five players were informed of their suspension either before or during a meeting Monday for players with one remaining year of eligibility. Schembechler conducts such a meeting prior to the start of spring practice every year. Three of the five suspended players were starters on the team at one time or another during the 1979 season..Dickey, a native of Ottawa, -Ohio, started in seven of the Wolverines' first eight games as quarterback. He then suffered a shoulder separation in the game against Indiana, and did not return to the lineup until the Gator Bowl Dec. 28. NEEDHAM, originally from Groveport, Ohio, started all but one game for Michigan last season-he was suspended for one game by Schembechler for "disciplinary reasons." Needham finished the regular season with 30 solo tackles and See U', Page 7 Waldheim sees UN conRAInuXsslon ....................... ... t. z ."..*f:.#' .;.::;... Needham Virgil p 'LEA OF INSANITY REJECTED: From UPI and AP CHICAGO - John Gacy Jr., called by prosecutors "the worst of all mur- Sderers," was convicted yesterday of the -hex slayings of 33 young men and boys. The jury of seven men and five women deliberated only one hour and 50 minutes.' He could face the death penalty. GACY - CONVICTED of more mur- ders than anyone else in U.S. History - winked and waved at a bailiff as he left the courtroom. Relatives of his victims rejoiced and called for swift senten- cing. Court Clerk Violet Botica read 33 murder verdict forms, one for each of silty of 33 killHings From UPI and AP Insisting that its mission had not yet failed, the U.N. inquiry commission returned to the United Nations yesterday to confer withdSecretary General Kurt Waldheim and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance on the next step in the 130-day-old Iranian crisis. In Tehran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini whipped up more anti- American fervor to exhort his followers to vote in next Friday's first round of elections for a new parliament-one of whose tasks will be to decide the fate of the 50 Americans ;held hostage in the U.S. Embassy. "YOUR PARTICIPATION in the elections will dash the hopes of the enemies of the Islamic Republic, the agents of the overthrown regime and its followers, especially the oppressive U.S. government. Arise ... and storm the ballot boxes," Khomeini said in a radio address. Vance flew to New York from Washington to meet with Waldheim and the co-chairman of the U.N. inquiry commission. The commission left TehransTuesday after Khomeini, reneging on a promise made by his government, refused to allow the diplomats to visit the embassy hostages unless they agreed to first sign a statement denouncing the United States See related story, Page 10 and its support of the deposed shah's regime. IN WASHINGTON, State Department spokesman Hodding Carter called the commission's failure "clearly very serious" but indicated that President Carter was still willing to give the United Nations more time before considering other remedies. Carter administration officials, See VANCE, Page 10 the victims Gacy killed during a seven- year period. The killings, which Gacy concealed even from his wife, ended in late December 1978 with the discovery of the bodies by detectives investigating the disappearnce of 15-year-old Robert Piest, Gacy's last victim. GACY, 57, also was found guilty of taking indecent liberties with a child and deviate sexual assault. Piest's brother, Kenneth, 26, said af- ter the verdict, "Nothing less than the electric chair will satisfy some of the relatives of John W. Gacy Jr.'s victims. It's not revenge, it's justice." "For the first time in 15 months, I am happy, but it's not over. None of us will be satisfied until he is put to death. He destroyed my life, my family's life, my girlfriend's life, my brother's life. This See JURY, Page 7 'U' nuclear reactor used for training A2 schools release racial balance plan By MARY FARANSKI Some additional busing and reassignment of students may be forth- coming to achieve racial balance in Ann Arbor elementary schools, accor- ding tothe first draft of an action plan presented at a Board of Education meeting last night. Also included in the plan, drawn up by Ann Arbor School administrators, are recommendations for curriculum and instructional strategies for educational opportunities. While trying to bring the district toward state guidelines in racial balan- *e, Superintendent Harry howard said the administrative team that drew up' the plan tried to minimize the potential disruption of students. As a result, not all the city's elementary schools will be involved. ABOUT 17 per cent of Ann Arbor's 8,000 students are black. The state deals only with blacks in minority statistics because the percentage of students classified as other minorities (native Americans, Hispanics, and Asians) is very small. THe state allows each school's caucasian-black ratio to differ by up to 15 per cent from the district's ratio as a whole. In Ann Arbor, this means that. schools should have blacks composing no more than 32 per cent of the student body and no less than two per cent. Presently six schools are considered affected by the state guidelines: Mack, Northside, Freeman, Bryant, Lakewood, and Logan. After the proposed shifts, Northside and Bryant will continue to have too large a percen- tage of blacks in their student bodies, but Howard said that removing more students from these schools would wipe out the schools' populations. Howard also mentioned the plan was to move toward meeting the ratio guidelines and that total compliance was not part of the goal. "I think we ac- complished what the board set forth for us to do," he said at a press conference See A2, Page 10 By MARGARET HELTON Certainly a nuclear reactor that is shut down and started up ten times in two weeks would seem to have some troubles; the infamous Three Mile Island plant required only one very definitive shutdown last year. In fact, at the University's Ford Nuclear Reactor, located on north campus, the frequent harmless shutdowns are part of a year-round training program for nuclear reac- tor operators. THE PROGRAM includes trainees from Detroit Edison, Con- sumers Power, and Indiana and Michigan Electric Power who work at the Ford Reactor for two weeks of their total two-year training programs. Although the Ford Reactor is only a two megawatt plant (commercial reactors generate 3,000 megawatts), it provides real experience for the trainees, according to Reactor Manager Bob Burn. "In a real power reactor, everything is done so slowly and cautiously that the trainees never get a feel for what happens," Burn explained. -"In our small reactor, you can really see how a reactor responds." THE PARTICIPANTS in the program are screened by the power companies that send them. Burn said that about half of the trainees had some college background while, the other half had only high school degrees. A significant number are from the Navy, he said. "We give the trainees reactor theory experience that we think is valuable," Burn said. He added the trainees are surprised when they discover they can learn more here than at their own utilities. "At the utility, they don't want to shut down, so operators don't get much ex- perience. Here, they get ten reactor start-ups in a mere two-week period," Burn said. Despite emphasis today on affir- mative action programs, Burn said there still are very few women and minorities in the nuclear field. "We do our best to try and institute af- firmative action. It is very difficult, especially in this field. There is just not enough, interest, which is sad because the job opportunities are great,"Burn said. BURN ADDED that he also sees attitude problems within the in- dustry. "Some actually believe women cannot be reactor operators. Some people want only ex-military. We want a mixture." The University does not provide any funds for these training programs, though the Ford reactor is funded by the University. "They ask us if we'll do it and we say O.K." Burn explained. "It is on a commercial basis totally." See NUKE, Page 7 Daily Photo by DAVID HARRIS LOCATED ON North Campus, the University's Ford Nuclear Reactor is. frequently shut down and started up again as part of a nuclear training program. _________________________________________ I by numerous student groups, has also been scheduled for tomorrow. "Basically, it is not so much a boycott as it is an encouragement of students and faculty members to take time out and go beyond the normal routine to examine these vital issues," said DeVarti. D] Green beer and Irish whiskey St. Patrick's Day should be a wee bit merrier this year for many residents in the northwest Lower Michigan communities of Hershey and Shelby. By a margin of only two votes, residents of the Osceola County village of Np'chp this wppk onir irnx,1y nnig 3n mpci ra , rnrnrvinl Shelby drinkers might be advised to think twice about ordering up a round of gin and tonics for the folks at the local bar and stick to straight gin instead. Prevention magazine recently reported that Army and Navy pilots have been told to stay away from the popular summer drink because recent studies have shown that the quinine in tonic water may produce night blindness, blurred vision, double vision and abnormal color vision in hypertensive persons. So while the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C. continues studies, Navy pilots have been asked to shun tonic beverages before flying. Army pilots side - and a green light towards the rear," Hager said. "As far as making out a shape of the body, we really couldn't tell." The t.wo officers were joined a few minutes later by two additional deputies from the Delta County Sheriff's Department, whose office had received calls from citizens about a UFO at about 1 a.m. The four men tracked the mysterious object as it sped west, but lost sight of it after about a half hour. Not far away, two officers from the Escanaba police department also saw the object and gave similar descriptions. "It kind of gave you the chills, you know," Hager said. "We've had reports of UFO's and stuff 4 U), *Vt