The Michigan Daily-Saturday, October 10, 1981 -Page 3 RA, RD firing decision postponed By JENNIFER MILLER plemented Housing officials met yesterday and and RDs t chose to postpone until Monday a hours asc decision on the possible firing of nine employme RAs and RDs who do not meet the 2.5 applicatio grade point average requirement. THOSE Robert Hughes, housing director, and requiremi John Finn, associate director of student minationr relations, said they will be discussing At the several options with the dorm4' problem c building directors. midst of ti "THERE'S a possibility of doing e delay wJ several things - we will review our op- getting tr tins," Finn said. "A solution is forth- the fall," t coming." Both Fl Hughes said that after further tran- the RAs a script review yesterday, only nine RAs the 2.5 ave and RDs may now lose their jobs. Ten ANOTH students' transcripts were in doubt sley Dire Wednesday, according to Charlene Bursley Coady, assistant director of in- GPAs we residence staff. two Burs The RA and RD jobs may be in Gould sai jeopardy as a result of a new policy im- ts' jobs w until Monday d this year. It requires RAs to have 2.5 GPA and 55 credit of the beginning of fall term ent, instead of at the time of n, as in the past. RAs AND RDs below the 2,.5 ent were to be given job ter- notices on Monday. heart of the issue is the of possibly firing RAs in the he fall term, Hughes said. Th-' as caused by "the difficulty of anscripts and information in he said. inn and Hughes stressed that nd RDs knew they had to have erage when fall term started. JER ISSUE raised is that Bur- ctor Caroline Gould and the students involved say their re affected by the murder of ley residents last April 17. d no decision on these studen- will be made until after Mon- day. The GPA and credit hour requirement "are long-standing regulations," Hughes said. The requirements are "to insure that the people advising students have a good academic standing. It doesn't inean( students with a lower GPA might not be a good staff member." Hughes also said that the demands of an RA job may cause academic difficulties for a student with a low GPA. Finn said the housing office had hoped the new policy would benefit RA and RD applicants, "but baby, it back- fired," he said. The policy would: benefit students by giving them extra- time between the time of application and the start of the fall term to attain a: 2.5 average, Finn said. The extra time would also provide "a better opportunity to recruit minorities,:, because of the adjustment problems a_ minority student usually has when he starts here," Finn said. AP Photo PRESIDENT REAGAN READS a statement of condolence for slain Egyptian President Anwar Sadat Thursday at the White House. Flanking Reagan are former presidents Ford, Nixon and Carter. The three former presidents will represent the United States today at Sadat's funeral. *Leaders arrive for Sadlat fueral; security tight From AP and UPI CAIRO, Egypt- In the emotional atmosphere of a mourning Cairo, the United States and Israel vowed yesterday to join hands with Egypt's new leader to- complete the peacemaking of assassinated President Anwar Sadat. The Egyptian government battled fundamentalist Moslem snipers in a city south pf Cairo and took strong security measures to protect the scores of world leaders who assembled in the capitol for Sadat's funeral Saturday. Riot police backed by ar- mored personnel carriers guarded the streets, key installations and the residence of President- designate Hosni Mubarak. THE ATMOSPHERE was charged by a warning from exiled leader Gen. Saadeddin Shazli that Cairo was unsafe for foreign officials attending the funeral, and an appeal from Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini for the Egyptian people to revolt and proclaim an Islamic republic. But Egyptian authorities said there was no unrest in Cairo and vowed to protect the dignitaries arriving for the services, including Secretary of State Alexan- der Haig Jr., former presidents Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.. Arriving aboard Air Force One after some delicate protocol maneuvers over how to seat the former presidents, the U.S. delegation was led by Haig, who paid a call on Mubarak and was staying on after the funeral for more serious Mideast talks. "THERE CAN BE no finer memorial to Anwar El- Sadat," Haig said upon his arrival, "than to bring to the Middle East a full and comprehensive peace and to Egypt the better life he*sought for his people." To "allow our grief to impede the task that Anwar El- Sadat began ... will have done him a greater in- justice than the assassins who took his life," Haig ad- ded. Sadat, his body still resting at the armed forces hospital, was to be buried next to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier barely 400 yards from the spot where he was gunned down while reviewing a military parade Tuesday. The government has discounted the claims of various groups that took responsibility for the assassination, saying the gunmen were four Moslem fanatics who acted alone. DISCLOSING MORE details of the deed, the Defense Ministry released the full name of the leader of the assassins, who were wounded and captured. A spokesman said army Lt. Khaled Ahmed Shawki Al= Islambouli planned the attack because he was "blin- ded by 'black grudge" following the arrest of his brother in a crackdown on Moslem militants last month. Sadat's simple funeral, the ceremony greatly cur- tailed because of security risks,,was to begin at 3 a.m. EDT. From there, Sadat's body was to be flown by helicopter to the parade ground where ironically he faced his own grave moments before he was shot. The body was to be placed on a gun carriage and followed by the assemblage of presidents and prime ministers and kings and princes( in a solemn 900-yard procession to the tomb. Haig said the atmosphere aboard Air Force One was "electric" as Carter, Ford, and Nixon took their seats in the plane that once carried each of them around the world. HAPPENINGS- HIGHLIGHT Dolores Keane, John Faulkner, and Eamonn Curran, from Ireland, will perform on pipes, concertina, bouzouki, and vocals at the Ark, 1421 Hill tonight. The door opens at 8:30 p.m. and performance starts at 9 p.m. 4 FILMSf ediatrics-Alien, MLB 3,7 & 9:30 p.m. y Cinema II-The Seven Samurai, Angell Hall Aud. A, 8 p.m. Cinema Guild-Mon Oncle D'Amerique, Lorch Hall Aud., 7 & 9:15 p.m. 4 AAFC - Urban Cowboy,;MLB 4,7 & 9:30 p.m. Alternative Action - Brubaker, Nat. Sci., 7 & 9:15 p.m. SPEAKERS Gray Panthers-Zina Zumita of the Ann Arbor Coalition for a Fair Budget, "Social Implications of Reaganomics," Ann Arbor Firehouse, 107 N. 5th Ave., 3-5 p.m. Center for Russian and East European Studies/Judiac Studies-A Festival of Yiddish Culture, Dramatic Reading, Joseph Buloff, "Readings from Yiddish Literature," Residential College Thrter, 8 p.m. PERFORMANCES School of Music-Faculty Dance Recital, Greg Ballard & Gay Delanghe, "Solo Piano and Solo Dance," Dance Bldg., 8 p.m. U -M Professional Theatre Program-Blood Knot, Lydia Mendelssohn Theater, 8 p.m. Steve & Annie Wamberg-Music, Comedy, and Drama, Church of the Nazarene, 409 S. Division, 7 p.m. Univ. Musical Society-Mozart's' "Don Giovanni," Power Center, 8 p.m. Office of Major Events--Concert, Gordon Lightfoot, Hill Aud., 8 p.m. MEETINGS A=Go-Club-Mtg., 1433 Mason Hall, 2-7 p.m. PIRGIM-Boycott Nestle Task Force mtg., Fourth floor Michigan Union, 2 p.m., New volunteers welcome. Grad. Christian Fellowship-Potluck, 445 So. 4th Ave., 6p.m. MISCELLANEOUS Artists and Craftsmen Guild-Fall Exhibition, Briarwood Mall. Wholistic Health Council-Psychic Art Workshop by Kay Gould, Detroit Unity Tenple, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Hillel-Mincha-Seudah Shlishis (light meal), 1429 Hill St., 6:30 p.m. Student Chapter of the Rusiananda Ashiam-Intro to Yoga & Meditation, 640 Oxford St., 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Lunch Inlcuded. $20 registration fee. To submit items for the Happenings Column, send them in care of: Happenings, The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI., 48109. You'll Have Fun Working on The Daily! Just because you're doesn't mean Maybe we should say ... GET we're not out ACQUAINTED WITH YOU. You are to get you invited to STUDENT SUNDAY Sadat's active widow takes solace in Islam CAIRO, Egypt (AP)-Jihan Sadat, an bear it bravely because this is what active partner in slain President Anwar Anwar would have expected of me." Sadat's drive for a progressive Egypt in Fate and the will of God, or Allah, are their three decades of marriage, has key tenets of the tradition-bound taken solace in the Moslem faith that Islamic faith.. sustained her devoutly religious MRS. SADAT, 48, had been married husband in his crises. to the late president for 31 years and A witness to his assassination during was perhaps the most active first lady a military parade Tuesday, Sadat's in the Middle East. A mother of four shaken widow has received close frien- children who returned to college for ad- ds and family expressing condolences vanced degrees in literature, she and remained under sedation ordered pushed women's rights and im- by doctors. provements in the lives of all Egyp- SHE COLLAPSED murmuring "An- tians. She championed birth control, war" at Maadi hospital when told he literacy and charitable causes. She had died, friends said, and tearfully has was undaunted by criticism from ultra- told them she accepts his death as conservative Moslems leveled at her as Allah's will. well as at her husband, believing "It is.his will, and this is my fate," economic well-being was a key to she mourned to an old friend. "I must Egypt's stability. s Egypt warned Of plot against LOS ANGELES (UPI)- Security ween the CIA a forces in Egypt uncovered an The Egyptians assassination plot against Anwar Sadat who disclosed t last month and advised the CIA, but a taken into cust roundup of 70 plotters failed to thwart The Egyptiai the gunmen, it was reported yesterday. CIA believe th The Los Angeles Times, quoting tremists-som unidentified U.S. intelligence sources, and perpetra reported that the assailants arrested sources told th Tuesday, revealed under questioning sources also that they were directly connected to the Libyan or othe plotters arrested three weeks ago. spiracy has be "The Egyptians thought they had it The Times; all," one of the American sources told experts were the Times. mance of Sadi When the plot was first discovered they had been three weeks ago, the newspaper said, country as pa there were extensive discussions bet- enhance Sadat' CIA "The financial situation is the most important thing to concentrate on," she said in a 1979 interview before Sadat headed to 'Washington to sign a peace treaty with Israel. "If it is not im- proved, then we could -kexpect something lilfe happened in Iran. Later on, not this year or next year, but it will come if the financial situation will stay as it is." In an interview published this week in the Los Angeles Times, Mrs. Sadat said she had put her faith "in fate" when she realized that her husband's peace policy with Israel and his drive for progress had made him a marked man. Mrs. Sadat became a lecturer at Cairo University after receiving bachelor's and master's degrees in literature. Knot David with Zakes Little Mokae MICHIGAN ENSEMBLE THEATRE Mendelssohn Theatre October 8-11, 15-18 Tickets at I*-+3 in Mich. League 764--0450 Sadat and Sadat's security men. arrested about 20 people the identities of 50 others Cody. n security forces and the hat a small group of ex- e in the military-plotted ted the assassination, e paper. The intelligence said no sign of direct r outside aid for the con- en uncovered. said American security chagrined at the perfot- at's bodyguards because trained for a year in this art of a CIA program to 's safety. C .s t n.. _." ^1 \ t ,a , '!c, LATINOAMERICA CANTA PsENAEARKTHE e MUSICA DEhMERICA LATINA-A SERIES OF CONCERTS OF LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC. "PENA" in Latin America is a reunion of musicians in an informal atmosphere sharing their music and art. Empanadas, punch and the pursuit of Solidarity are part of the meaning of "pena". We invite you to join us. October 11, Sunday 7:30 pm/Admission $3.50 ISMAEL DURAN (Chilean) has performed widely in the mid- west and has also sung with Los Companeros in Toronto. JOSE DOMINGO MURILLO (Colombia)