Ninety-Two Years Of Editorial Freedom :1' 41v 41w IEIUIQ WARM Cloudy with a chance of thunder showers today, high in the mid 70s Vol. XCII, No. 15 Copyright 1981, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, September26, 1981 Ten Cents Ten Pages T ired or lack o credentials By DAVID CRAWFORD After lecturer David Frisque announced to announced to his junior-level computer engineering students on the first day of class that there wasn't a teaching assistant to teach the course's second discussion section, it looked as if the problem was solved. After class, two students approached Frisque and offered to teach the section of ECE 364 - one even came with the recom- .endation of the other TA. After a brief meeting with the associate chairman of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Depar- tment, one of the students, Joe Gardella, was hired. BUT LATER, after he had presided over two section meetings, it was discovered that Gardella, an undergratuate, had never taken the course, and in fact, was enrolled in it him- self until he was hired to teach it. At least one student complained to ECE department administrators about Gardella's teaching, and later, after inquiries from a Daily reporter, the ECE senior was fired. "Hiring the student was not standard policy by any means. It was a bad mistake," said George Haddad, chairman of the ECE Depar- tment. Haddad said Gardella was fired Thur- sday, a day after Haddad became aware that Gardella did not possess the standard TA qualifications. BOTH FRISQUE and ECE Associate Chairman Keki Irani, who hired Gardella, said they had no idea Gardella was enrolled in the course at the time he was hired. The two faculty members said Gardella was hired mainly on his recommendation from the course's other TA, Mark McMillen, and because of Gardella's enthusiasm. According to standard procedure for hiring, teaching assistants, applicants must fill out an application, submit references and faculty recommendations, and be interviewed by the hiring faculty member. FRISQUE AND Irani said this procedure was bypassed for Gardella because of the need to hire a TA quickly to open up the new section so that wait-listed students could register. Said Irani: "I presumed he (had taken) the course, when he said he could teach it." FRISQUE SAID when Gardella approached him after the first lecture and asked to teach the section, he assumed that Gardella had already taken the course and had walked in after the lecture. "I did not know that one of them (the two students who asked for the See ENGINEERING, Page 3 Dude rstadt ... admits department mistake U Kelly's i attorney asks to Continuous meal service popular, but in convenient *move trial By ANN MARIE FAZIO Charging that his client cannot get a fair trial in Ann Arbor because of excessive publicity, the attorney for Leo Kelly yesterday requested that the trial be moved from Washtenaw County. Kelly, a former University student, is charged in the April 17 shooting deaths of two fellow students in Bur- sley Hall. HIS ATTORNEY, William Waterman, has asked fthat .Circuit Court Judge Ross Campbell grant a change of venue-transferring a trial from one county to another-because of prejudices resulting from the "notoriety" the case has received. "My client can't get a fair trial here," Waterman said. "This has been the most publicized case in'the Ann Arbor area in years." Waterman is also requesting that the Oct. 19 trial date be rescheduled. He has not yet received the tran- scripts of the preliminary examination which was held this summer, he said, and may want to file additional emotions after reviewing them. CAMPBELL WILL also decide on whether or not to honor Waterman's request to reduce the charge from first-degree to second-degree murder. "Regardless of the so-called planning acts" that the prosecution brought up in court, Waterman said, "there was no premeditation or deliberation.' The prosecution is saying that evidence such as guns and ammunition found in Kelly's room indicates that the murders were premeditated. "There's a big difference in a young man facing one or the other (first or second degree murder)," Water- man said. See LAWYER, Page 2 Daily Photo by MIKE LUCAS THESE ANCIENT PILLARS have been gracing Tappan St., next to Lorch Hall, and confusing students who walk by for the past 30 years. The columns were actually built in the 1930's for architecture students to study. Barren archWa lead into intrigui ng -history By MINDY LAYNE Unlike the Arc de Triomphe in Paris that leads to the cosmopolitan Champs d'Elysees, this barren archway leads to a vacant steel and concrete building. The weeds are thick and sinuous. A wobbly staircase brings an unwelcomed intruder to the front door. Locked. A sign on the door mocks the courageous few who dare to embark upon the mystery beyond. "Think Safety," it reads. DOWN THE STAIRS and through the archway, hints of contemporary culture flash: A brown paper coffee cup from the UGLI, styrofoam quarter- pounder cartons, a muddied drop/add form. No, the University has not excavated an ancient temple. The forlorn columns are actually from old 'buildings. They were originally placed in the spot next to Lorch Hall during the 1930s - along with 10 other ionic, doric, and corinthian columns - for ar- chitecture students to study. A few pink columns from the group still sit in front of Dominick's restaurant, on Monroe, but most have been moved to North Campus. FOR THE PAST 30 years, the remaining columns have merely served as a facade for an unattractive steel and concrete building4 And while the ancient- looking columns get the most attention from passers-by, it's the building - which for the past three years has served as a construction office - that has the history. See COLUMNS, Page 7 By JENNIFER MILLER Although the new continuous meal service at Markley appears to be gaining in popularity, very few students from central campus dorms are taking advantage of the program. An average of 200 students per day come to Markley from other dorms for breakfast, lunch, or dinner, but most meal transfers are from Alice Lloyd, Bursley, and Mosher-Jordan, said Markley food service manager Dave Kluck. MARKLEY cafeteria is open between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m. for any student with a regular two-meal dinner card. A three- meal ticket is available for an extra $225, or students can buy 'spot-meal' tickets at the Markley desk. Breakfast is served until 10:30 a.m., and lunch un- til 4 p.m. Only five students haye purchased a three-meal contract, Kluck said. Many student said they think the continuous meal service is a good idea. BUT MOST students at central cam- pus dorms interviewed by the, Daily said they haven't eaten at Markley yet because they had no schedule conflicts with their own dorm's meal hours, or, as West Quad resident Mike Gruskin said, "it's inconvenient to go ll the way to Markley. "I think they should have expanded meal service around here," Gruskin, an LSA junior, said. Many central campus and Bursley residents agreed, saying they would like to see either South Quad or Bursley serve meals from 7a.m. to 8p.m. e ASSOCIATE Housing Director Norm Sunstad said the housing office Will study student response to the ex- perimental meal service, and may in the future expand it to South Quad or Bursley. Some problems have occured with the continuous meal service. Kluck said he has had to hire three persons for temporary full-time positions, and the Markley kitchen is "very short- staffed." An increase, in the labor budget will be necessary, Kluck said. It will not be clear whether the ser- vice has raised food costs until the figures are computed next month. But, Kluck said, "In theory, they (food costs) should remain the same. SUNSTAD SAID that if the meal ser- vice increases costs, but is popular with See CONTINUOUS, Page 2 , I Woodcock criticizes Reagan lab By ANDREW CHAPMAN The Reagan administration is rever- sing the great progress made by previous administrations in both the field of labor relations and foreign policy, Leonard Woodcock, a former labor leader and former ambassador to China, said in an interview yesterday. Woodcock, former president of the United Auto, said the administration's handling of the air traffic controllers' strike was "ruthless" and warned that Reagan proposals to sell arms to Taiwan could deal a dangerous blow to U.S.-China relations. WOODCOCK, HAVING left his post in Peking in March, is now a visiting professor at the University's Center for Chinese Studies. Woodcock warned that if Reagan follows through on his intention to nor- malize U.S. relations with Taiwan, China's fiercest enemy, it would un- 'Reagan 's action towards PA TCO was ruthless,' -Leonard Woodcock, University professor and former UA Wpresident or policy and Carter's policy toward the Chinese. "Our relationship with China should be based on the merits of that relation- ship and not their (China's) .position against the Soviet Union," Woodcock said. JUST AS the Reagan ad- Ministration's foreign policies have jeopardized progress made with the Chinese, its uncompromising stance against the striking air traffic con- trollers domestically could .mean a serious setback to the progress made by organized labor, the former UAW. president said. Woodcock lauded the Solidarity Day march held in.Washington last week to protest Reagan's attitudes toward organized labor, but added that' many of the marchers may very well have been responsible for putting Reagan in the Oval Office in the first place. "Quite a large number of the people See WOODCOCK, Page 2 dermine the cooperation between the United States and China forged by Presidents Nixon and Carter. China would likely react to Reagan's over- tures to Taipei by pulling back from relations with the Western world into the isolationism it practiced before the Nixon visits of 1971, said Woodcock, who was the first U.S. ambassador to the People's Republic of China. "It (U.S. arms sales to Taiwan) would be challenging China to go backwards politically," Woodcock said. "It would be a setback and only be useful to the Soviet Union." "IT IS HARD to realize that it is less than three years since we normalized relations with mainland China. A great deal of progress has been made," he said. "The Chinese think that both Nixon and Carter were great people. Reagan is a question mark with the Chinese." Woodcock, who has been given an of- ficial invitation to return to China whenever he pleases, praised Nixon's Daily Photo by MIKE LUCAS LEONARD WOODCOCK DISCUSSES the Reagan administration's relation- ship with organized labor in an interview Yesterday. iTO DAY Ketchup is ketchup TAKE IT from a senator who ought to know: Ketchup is 1 not a vegetable. Sen. John Heinz, (R-Pa.), took to the floor yesterday to brand as "ludicrous" a proposed Agriculture Department rule that would permit ketchup and relish to be considered vegetables in subsidized school lunch menus. "Ketchup is a condiment," said Heinz. "This is one of the most ridiculous regulations I ever heard of, and / data inputs. Six couples have tied the knot electronically in the heart of Silicon Valley,-so named because of the number of computer firms there. And, though the ceremony seems more like-a bank transaction than a wedding, the idea is being taken quite seriously by people looking for that cer- tain "something new." Hello, my name is Rev. Ap- ple. . . . Press space bar to continue," says the video display screen on the electronic preacher, an Apple II com- puter. "Groom, what's your name?" The first couple ex- changed data on Valentine's Day. Another pair - the bride in white, the groom in a tux - asked for a printout of their wedding as a romantic souvenir. Rev. Apple is the brain- alternative for local mail delivery has been thwarted by the U.S. Postal Service. "I got put out of business," Cooper, 29, said Thursday night, only three days after starting his Wausau Courier Service. "The Postal Service threatened to prosecute any business that gave me business." Cooper, a former real estate agent, offered to deliver letters for businesses within the city of Wausau at 10 cents each. He had planned to limit the service to businesses during a two- month trial period, although future possibilities could in- clude handling personal letters as well. However, postal of- ficials informed him that federal law permits only the U.S. Postal Service to deliver first-class mail. Cooper said he' Thursday he proved good to his word by delivering a bushel of Michigan apples to Maryland Gov. Harry Huges - his end of the wager on last week's Thomas Hearns-Sugar Ray Leonard fight. Milliken bet the fruit that Hearns, a Detroit native, would defeat Leonard, who makes his home in Maryland. Hughes had put up a bushel of crabs. The payoff was delivered at a meeting of the executive committee of the National Governor's Association. 0 On the inside I . I I