WOMEN'S STUDIES See editorial page i:l;bt Ninety Years of Editorial Freedom LktiI BRIGHTER See Today for details A WVol. XC, No. 157 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, April 17, 1980 Ten Cents Twelve Pages Diverse management characterizes A 2 housing By MARK WILSON Third in a seven-part series Landlords, owners, investors, and management companies form a complex web of Five local landlords discuss renting to stu- dents, tenants' rights, and finances. See story page 7. business persons who operate the apartments and houses in the campus area that are rented by University students. The bulk of the rental units near campus are owned and managed by individuals, but the remainder are managed by management com- panies. REPRESENTATIVES OF management com- panies and individual owners cite both advan- tages and disadvantages of various owner- management relationships and the problems of dealing with student tenants. The largest management company in, the campus area, McKinley Associates, owns very few of the 600 rental units they manage, accor- ding to Elaine Daily, vice president in charge of the campus division. "It's our name on the building, but most of our units are managed for other owners," she said. THE MANAGEMENT company acts as a middleman between the owner and tenant, collecting rent and maintaining the units. "Many times the owner will invest in property in Ann Arbor and live in some other section of the state. Or others who just plain don't want to dpal with the problems of renting to students," said Don Taylor, vice president of operations at McKinley. The typically cited "problems" include student rental inexperience, high turnover rate among transient University students, and University Student Legal Services. "GENERALLY through lack of experience, students fail to keep up and maintain their apar- tments properly. We try to work them in gradually," said Suzanne Feliks, rental manager for the Maize and Blue Co. Students with complaints against their lan- dlords can receive free legal advice from attor- neys at Student Legal Services, a factor that some landlords consider a problem. "They don't operate under the same rules as regular tenants '(non-University students). There is no pressure on them to settle because their case is free, while it costs us to go to court. That's one of the prices you pay for operating in a University town," according to Steve Welch, real estate manager of Ann Arbor Trust Co. which maintains 35 units in the city. INSTEAD OF dealing with these problems See RENTAL, page 9 Renting in A2: 8a LD Home sweet home? 600 rally to 'Save t Women's Studies' Daily Photo by PETER SERIING MORE THAN 600 people attended yesterday's noon rally to save the Women's Studies Program. After the rally, the demonstrators marched to LSA Dean Billy Frye's office to express their support of the program. AIDE SAYS 1AR TER MA Y ANNO UNCE NEW MO VES: 'Iansanctions weighed By LORENZO BENETr More than 600 students demonstrat- ing to "Save the Women's Studies Program" marched to LSA Dean Billy Frye's office after a noon rally on the Diag yesterday., Representatives for the Coalition to Save Women's Studies presented Frye, the vice president for academic affairs designate, with a list of demands and a petition with 3448 signatures. Frye, who was having lunch with former President Gerald Ford when the crowd arrived at the LSA Building, left his luncheon date prematurely and en- tered the building through a back en- trance to meet with the demonstrators.. Five undergraduates majoring in Women's Studies presented Frye with a list of three demands including: " That the Women's Study major and curriculum be maintained; " That the College of LS&A make funds available for TAs to teach two particular courses in the program, if other faculty cannot be found; and " That the program be given the autonomy to make its own curriculum decisions. The program has undergone an ex- tended review by both external and in- ternal review committees during the past several months. After considering the committee's reports, the LSA Executive Committee presented the program with several recommen- dations. One recommendation called for curriculum cuts and the phasing-out of TA teaching responsibilities in upper- level courses in the program, to be replaced by faculty-taught courses. HOWEVER, NO additional funds would be provided to. the program by the college to hire additional faculty members, and teaching assistants, freed from their instructional duties, would be encouraged to pursue research- oriented activities, the Executive Committee report said. Frye, sporting a "Save Women's Studies" button on his lapel, told the tightly-packed crowd outside his office he would make their concerns known to the Executive Committeee, which will meet today to discuss the program. He said he could not guarantee the group a definite response to their demands by the Committee. "The Executive Committee. has no will to damage the Women's Studies Program," Frye said in the midst of Secret Service men preparing the building for Ford's entrance later that afternoon. "We want to work with you." Officials from the Coalition to Save Women's Studies, which sponsored yesterday's rally, said they would demonstrate outside both today's Regents and LSA Executive Commit- tee meetings. THE CROWD requested that Frye open today's Executive Committee meeting regarding the Women's Studies Program to the public, a request Frye said he could not comply with. During an impromptu press con- ference in his office, Frye said the final decision on the future of the program must be based on its needs and merits, not from overt pressure. The rally demonstrates "an "im- pressive show of support and interest for the program," he continued. "The support showed the program will be taken into consideration at today's Executive Committee meeting," he said. THE GROUP had gathered earlier in the day under sunny skies on the Diag to demonstrate their support for the program. Thirty-seven community and University organizations endorsed the protest. See PROGRAM, Page 3 From The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - President Carter may order fur- ther retaliatory moves against Iran as early as today but will not consider military action to free Americans held hostage in Tehran until after mid=May, a top aide said yesterday. The aide, who declined to be quoted by name, indicated a Carter announcement of new economic and diplomatic san- ctions would come soon - perhaps in time for a nationally broadcast news conference tentatively scheduled for today. In any case, this source indicated, action would be likely by the end of next week. The source also said the U.S. government has told its allies that Iran should have ample time by mid-May to espond to the sanctions Carter ordered last week, which in- cluded the severing of diplomatic relations with the Tehran regime. If the Iranian response is not positive, he said, the allies will be asked to carry out additional non-military steps aimed at increasing pressure on Iran to free the 50 Americans who have been held hostage since the U.S. Em- bassy in Tehran was seized on Nov. 4. White House press secretary Jody Powell later em- phasized that each ally will not necessarily be expected to adopt identical sanctions or to impose all the sanctions put in place by the United States. But he suggested that fresh U.S.-imposed sanctions might have added significance because, he said, the United States would not ask allies to adopt sanctions it had not em- braced itself. Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini has said the fate of the hostages will be decided by a new Iranian parliament, which may not be selected by the middle of May. One official in Tehran said it may be as much as three months before the parliament debates the hostage issue. White House press secretary Jody Powell labeled as inaccurate a Boston Globe report yesterday that the United States has told its allies and Iran that it is ready to stage a naval blockade if the hostage crisis is not settled by the week of May 11. The newspaper said Secretary of State Cyrus Van- ce planned to visit European nations that week to discuss such a move. Powell told reporters no decision on a possible blockade or similar move "has been taken or communicated." Doaily Photo bDAVW~ID nHuuKu PETER McCARUS,' an LSA senior, accepts a Hopwood Award for major fiction from English Prof. John Aldridge, chairman of the Hopwood Com- mittee. 50th HopWoodshow rewards creativity .~....Ford urges auto tax N'.' ......r.gU.s...i aid duri~ng U visit By JOHN GOYER Former President Gerald Ford suggested yesterday during a visit to the University that Congress consider changes in industrial taxes in order to protect the nation's ailing auto in- dustry. Ford said the government should allow big business to gain tax credits for 'depreciation of plants and equip- ment over-a shorter period of time. A 1935 graduate of the University, Ford returned yesterday as an adjunct professor in the political science depar- tment to teach a large class of un- dergraduates and to lead three infor- mal seminars. Yesterday's visit was Ford's fourth to Ann Arbor as a professor since he step- 4'. ped down from the presidency in January 1977.4 "I believe that some of our taxa policies in this country are very unfair in comparison to some of the tax, policies in other countries, such as s a Japan and West Germany," giving auto manufacturers in those countries a competitive edge over American car makers, Ford said. But he cautioned that he was not proposing "trade barriers that were See FORD, Page 2 w: ;}i{::ii:4}iei"ioviiiimvm :'i:?".:. By JULIE BROWN Thirty University students-award winners in the 50th annual Avery and Jule Hopwood Contest in creative writing-shared $29,200 in prize money awarded yesterday in ceremonies before approximately 200 people at the Rackham Lecture Hall. Daniel De Vries, a doctoral student in English, received the highest cash award, $3,000, for his entry, That Treeplanting Story (and others) in the major fiction or short story division. De Vries said he wrote the book in about six weeks. "I knew I was going to win something, but I didn't know it would be that much," De Vries said. Award win- ners were informed by letter last week that they had won an award, but were not told what the specific award was. Ellen Ilfield, a doctor of alts student in English, received $2,700, the second highest sum, for her novel, Go Children Slow and short story, Patching and Other Pieces. "I did the writing in about five to six weeks, but I've been working on it for about half a year," Ilfield said. "It's an early draft and I have to revise it. "I hoped to win," she added. "We knew we were going to win, but we didn't know what." The Hopwood awards are funded by an endowment left to the University by playwright Avery Hopwood, a member of the class of 1905. The awards are divided into a major awards category, See 50th, Page 5 - - - - - - - - - - - France has fine food, fine wine, and the highest alco- holism rate in the world. According' to government statistics, the French downed 4.2 gallons of alcohol per capita while consuming wine, cider, and hard liquor during 1978-almost twice as much as Americans. This consumption takes its toll-every 53rd Frenchman is a registered alcoholic, and 19,000 to 21,000 die an alcohol- related death each year. Though consumption is beginning to slacken slightly due to state-organized campaigns yesterday for an off-the-cuff remark made during debate on a bill banning sexual harassment in the workplace. Senator Steven Casey of Bristol, Connecticut was quoted during a lull in the debate Tuesday as saying, "I wish I were Isexually harassed." Casey went to the Capitol press room with a written apology for the remark. He noted he voted for an amendment to make the sexual harassment bill tougher. "I apologize deeply for the thoughtless and insensitive remark," said his statement. "Sexual harassment in the workplace is a most demeaning problem for anvone to suffer." E Bufferin and Excedrin, and Armerican Home Products, maker of Anacin, but are still unresolved. The moral of the story? Dbn't judge an aspirin by its cover-do comparative pricing. Q On the inside . . An ironic look at presidential qualifications, on the Editorial page. . . A review of The Little Darlings, on the Arts page ... and, in Sports, the men's tennis team plays Miami of Ohio. Q Imupplp- , - L -Jol , M, .. I I