r For home delivery, call 764-0558 Ninety-Two Years C COOLER Of F ~ Z4 14 U1 ~~I It will be partly cloudy and Editorial Freedom' cooler today with a high in w Tthe upper sls. Vol. XCII, No. 5 Copyright 1981, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, September 15, 1981 Ten Cents Twelve Pages plus Supplement Alumni board votes to keep frat coed By JOYCE FRIEDEN Even though it will probably mean expulsion from the group's national' organization, the alumni board of the Michigan chapter of Theta Xi voted. Sunday night to keep the fraternity coed. The board, composed of 12 alumni and two delegates from the house, voted seven to four (with one absten- tion) in favor of keeping the house coed. qwo board members were not present. 'We considered the active members of the house and what their feelings were. We had to consider the feelings of the alumni. We also had to project into the future and figure out how the house would best remain viable," said Bob Wolf, alumni board president. THE MEETING, which lasted a grueling 5 hours, signaled the end of a controversy that has plagued the fraternity since 1979, when the Theta Xi national organization passed a resolution prohibiting chapters from rushing woman members. The Michigan chapter has been coed since 1972 as part of a "coed housing. experiment" which was approved by the national organization. In July, however, Theta Xi national put the Michigan chapter on suspension' for not complying with the national's demands to reduce the number of women pledging the fraternity and phase out the election of women to house offices. The suspension tem- porarily revoked the local chapter's voting privileges. REVOKING THE house's charter will not be discussed until next sum- mer, when Theta Xi holds its biannual convention. Marty McDonald, a member who lived in the house last year, said there was a "strong possibility" that the group's charter would be revoked by the national organization. "The alumni board has already discussed a new name for the chapter if we should have to reorganize," McDonald said. Although the reactions of house members differed, none were willing to predict how the national convention would view their decision. "I'm totally psyched," said house resident Carrie Dolan. "People (in the house) were kind of nervous before .. . They were afraid that the campus was going conservative and that the 'traditional frat' is a big thing- ob- See THETA, Page 5 i 'Censoring God' Reader's Digest condensing Bible Daily Photo by BRIAN MA5CK Diag distractions LSA student Sally Petrella pauses from her reading outside the Graduate Library yesterday o watch activities on the diag. NEW YORK (AP)- The Moral Majority has a new group f sinners to worry about- the editors of Reader's Digest. The New York chapter of Moral Majority yesterday con- demned what its president called a "hellish" plan by Reader's Digest to publish a condensed version of the Bible. "YOU CAN'T change the word of God," said the Rev. Daniel Fore. "It's censoring God.': The Reader's Digest Bible, scheduled for publication a year, from now, will be a reduced version of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, which also has been criticized y fundamentalists. U Fore acknowledged he had not seen any manuscripts of the condensed Bible, but he insisted it would be a sacrilege. "THEY'RE SAYING to God, 'You didn't know what you were talking about,' " Fore complained. He accused Reader's Digest of "trying to water down religion.. . to take the blood out of the Bible." Fore said Moral Majority was not proposing that the book be banned- only that it neither be bought nor read. "OURS IS A ministry of influence," Fore said. "We can only speak out, and hope people will listen." He predicted that Roman Catholic and Jewish leaders would join the outcry when they learn how the project is being handled by "a group of people whose only motive is profit." Fore said he was speaking only for the New York chapter of the conservative political organization. William Faulkner, a spokesman fdr the national organization, said Moral Majority President Rev. Jerry Falwell was traveling and unavailable for comment. JACK WALSH, editor of the Bible project, said from Reader's Digest headquarters in Pleasantville, a suburb of New York City, that he expected "great interest" in the con- densation. 'Many people want to read the Bible but never have because of its length and complexity," he said. "It will sound exactly like the RSV, but 40 percent shor- ter," Walsh said. "True condensation never interferes with the essential substance of a text." Steiner:, Fewer faculty toreceive tenure By ANDREW CHAPMAN The budget ax has fallen again-this time right on the neck of the LSA faculty. In the comming academic year; only 14 LSA faculty, members will be gran- ted tenure, down 23 from a year ago, LSA Dean Peter Steiner announced in his first faculty address yesterday. "WE ARE IN the process of reducing the tenure track faculty from 750 to 700 over the next five years," Steiner said. In addition, Steiner also said only 62 new appointments to the LSA faculty will be made this year, 32 fewer than last year. "This is the first time in memory I can remember figures like this," said Communications Prof. William. Colburn, LSA Faculty Parliamen= tarian.r UP UNTIL now, University officials have said that tenure appointments would not be influenced by budgetary limitations. Explaining the new policy, Steiner said the faculty can no longer rely on help from higher authorities, such as Washington, Lansing, and "Billy .Frye," vice president for academic af- fairs. "It was very brave of him (Steiner) to talk about comparisons this way," Colburn said. "He did it to show the faculty the extent of the (budget) See STEINER, Page 5 New 'M' song MICHIGAN GO GO BLUE Arranged by Words and music by MARTY GOLD WILLIAM D. REVELLI MarchTempoand composedMaMACK WOLFSON c C7 F C7 Gm7 C7 over dinner By FANNIE WEINSTEIN It was conceived over dinner in a restaurant and par- tially composed on a table napkin. The two authors put the V67v finishing touches on it while they were several hundred ___ miles apart. - "We never sent each other any score, we just sang it tov each other over the phone," explains former Michigan Band Director William Revelli. THAT STORY MAY sound unusual, but that's how Revelli and song writer Mack Wolfson co-authored the new Michigan fight song, "Michigan Go Go Blue," un- veiled Saturday at the Slippery Rock-Wayne State football f WPM game.I Wolfson and I were talking about Michigan's fight . songs over dinner last January when we realized that one Y hadn't been written in a long time," Revelli said. '' "'Varsity"was written more than 60 years ago and 'Vic- tors' before this century. So we decided to compose our . own. ' "It is just another fight song," Revelli saiad "We're not trying to replace 'Victors' and 'Varsity.' They're See FIGHT, Page 2a University may adopt anti-hazin g By BETH ALLEN Some campus initiation rites could be a thing of the past if a group of students and administrators comes to an agreement on a set of hazing guidelines. If adopted, the anti-hazing policy would prohibit initiation practices that could cause physical or mental harm, force and initiate to drink or eat, impair academic performance, or break the law, said Chris Carlsen, a consultant in the Student Activities and Organizations Office. THE STATEMENT was written by a group of fraternity and sorority :mem- bers and other interested students last spring and is now in the hands of Vice President for Student Services Henry Johnson, Carlsen said. Carlsen, who was an appointee to a statewide committee to investigate possible solutions to hazing; said she and the students wanted to set down some hazing guidelines "before we got into a big problem." guidelines "We didn't want to be in a reac- tionary positon," Carlsen said. The policy statement is the result of work beginning in April 1980 which in- cluded investigatons of anti-hazing laws and policies around the country in such states as Virginia, Texas, and New York. Meanwhile, State Rep. Perry Bullard (D-Ann Arbor) said yesterday that anti- hazing legislation he proposed last :spring has been shuffled around this summer to make way for higher priority legislation, but that drafting of the bill would begin "hopefully by mid- October." The legislation would give the University the responsibility of setting guidelines for hazing practices and could include penalties for violating hazing rules. Bullard said the legislation he hopes to enact in Michigan is most like that currently enforced in New York, where universities are responsible for "inter- nal enforcement of order" rather than the State. Searching for peanuts DON'T EVER ASSUME a 4000-pound elephant can't squeeze through a 32-inch gap in a fence. Because the agile Sneezy, a 10-year-old elephant resident of the Tulsa Zoo, did just that and Where'd they all go? Racing outhouses on wheels will roar through Jackson- ville, Ore., next month as part of festivities to mark its 121st birthday. "This is something we hope people will associate with Jacksonville," said Chamber of Commerce president Dick Lucier. Lucier says he hopes the Oct. 11 outhouse race will rival a bathtub race at Gold Hill and a rooster crow at Rogue River, two other Jackson county towns. The rules say the privies must be mounted on wheels no larger than five inches in diameter and powered by crews of up to five yes, but mother says no. The mother is 82-year-old Devorah Sharon, whose son, Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, said last week that his mother kept a gun under her pillow. Israeli newspapers said Sharon made the remark to Secretary of State Alexander Haig Jr. to dramatize Israel's concern with security. But in Sharon's home village of Kfar Malal, Mrs. Sharon was quoted as saying: "What? Arik said that? It surely must have been a joke." e " ce former Beatle John Lennon was shot last December, some rock stars have been reluctant to tour, but Jagger is philosophical. "You can.'t spend your life being paranoid. There'll always be the nutters and you just have to watch out for them. You take every precaution and when you're on stage you just have to watch the first 30 rows for the nutters with the handgun." Q II I i