w-m 9 Ninety-Two Years of Editorial Freedom i, e~it I 3ZI l lailt DREARY Snow flurries ending today, beoming slightly colder and overcast, with a high in the mid-40s, and a low in the lower-30s. Vol. XCII, No. 39 Copyright 1981, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, October 24, 1981 Ten Cents Ten Pages acult questions research corporation By ANDREW CHAPMAN The proposed Michigan Research Corporation, though praised for its possible role in the revitalization of the state's economy; may also pose some serious problems for the University, some faculty members have said. The MRC, which was proposed by a University task force committee on in- dustry and University interaction last week, would be a University controlled corporation that would attempt to bring industry money to the University's research community through contracts and grants. THOUGH THE MRC is still only a proposal, the University community is already debating its pros and cons and raising questions about a research cor- poration's purpose, ramifications, and control within the University. Psychology Prof. Donald Brown said because all the details of the MRC have not yet been clearly defined by any committee, faculty can only raise con- cerns about the MRC and not true ob- jections. Brown said much of the concern was voiced over who would control the MRC. It has not yet been decided what percentage of control the University would retain over the MRC, nor who would guide its policy. Education Prof. Lauren Barritt said his main concern is with the amount of control the faculty would be able to exercise over the MRC. Barritt said the MRC would have a faculty advisory committee, but the committee would be concerned with matters of a technical nature and might not advise the MRC in matters of major policy. The University may find it has problems harnessing the large cash flow the MRC would bring, Brown said. "WE NEED TO be very careful of the policies and integrity of the Univer- sity," said History Prof. David Hollinger. The University must be sure that the corporation's actions would be con- sistent with the values and concerns of the University, Hollinger said. Hollinger said the Board in Control of Intercollegiate Athletics is a good example of a part of the University that has grown too independent and is now becoming hard to control. Hollinger added that the faculty is concerned that the MRC might acquire that type of in- dependence. Another concern raised was whether or not the proposed MRC would have any monetary and educational benefit to the University or whether it would just be a drain on University funds and faculty members. "I'M NOT SURE what a corporation like this would contribute to the Univer- sity," Barritt said. Advocates of the MRC proposal argue that such a corporation would open up new research opportunities and bring money to the University through paten- ts and royalties resulting from faculty and research.. Engineering Prof. Robert Howe, chairman of the task force that prepared the MRC report, said industry research could "enrich" the teaching abilities of many University professors. BUT ENGLISH Prof. Richard Bailey said he hopes the MRC would not become "a halfway house for people leaving the University on their way to industry jobs." "We don't want to subsidize people who are leaving the University anyway," Bailey added.. Bailey added that if the University is going to invest in something like the MRC then it should be rewarded for taking that risk. Hollinger explained that the task for- ce report made the MRC appear to be a businesslike venture and that faculty may want the corporation to be more of a University enterprise. Mathematics Prof. Morton Brown, who is chairman of the Faculty Senate Advisory Committee on University Af- fairs, said a research corporation could have a subtle but far-reaching effect idi the type of research that goes on at th¢ University. He explained that having a financial See FACULTY, Page 5 Military units used to halt Polish riots WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Special military units will be deployed across Poland to halt rioting and economic decline, the government announced yesterday in a response to rapidly spreading strikes and protests. "Tension is growing," government spokesman Jerry Urban said in a televised statement. "Thestate leaning toward a fall must undertake all indispensable actions in saving the state." Citing rioting in Katowice on Tuesday, and a less violent confrontation between crowds and police in Wroclaw on Wednesday, Urban said, "Damage done to the country's internal life forced the government into taking strong, if unpopular, measures. These include the suppression of street provocations and forcing people to respect the rule of law." EARLIER IN THE day, leaders of the independent labor federation Solidarity called a one-hour nation- wide strike for next week, but urged union locals to halt the wildcat protests that have broten out in about three-fourths of Poland's provinces. Union leaders on the Country Commission, or regional legislative body of the independent union, said a one- hour protest over food shortages, alleged police harassment and government policies would begin Wednesday at noon. There was no immediate reaction to the government announcement from the union leaders meeting in Gdansk, the Baltic port where the union was formed during a wave of strikes in the summer of 1980. THE DECISION TO use the special military units, reached in a government presidium meeting yester- day, came less than a week after the Polish Communist Party named Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski as its chairman. He already was serving as premier and. defense minister. Urban said the special military units, composed of See MILITARY, Page 2 'U' alumni reminisce at H omecoming events By MIKE McINTYRE Snow flurries fell on floats, pom pon girls, and into tubas last night, but it failed to dampen the spirits of the participants in the 1981 Homecoming Parade as the procession made its way through town before thousands of enthusiastic Michigan supporters. Earlier in the day, spectators crowded around the Diag to watch the annual Evans Scholars' Car Bash, then proceeded to the Count of Antipasto restaurant on S. University to cheer on the teams competing in the Homecoming pizza-eating contest. AMONG THOSE watching the Homecoming events yesterday were a large number of University alumni who were able to make the annual return to their alma mater. They could be seen, donned in their Maize and Blue neckties and scarves, walking through campus reminiscing and talking of the changes that have taken place in their absence. "I'm amazed at how the campus has grown," said Klemme Jones, who graduated in 1949. "With all these one-way streets, I don't know where I'm going." Jones, who now resides in Miami, Florida, returned for Homecoming this year to attend the 100th anniversary of the Department of Naval Ar- chitecture and Marine Engineering. Joe Fischer, a 1959 graduate of the same depar- tment, reflected, "I'm sad to see that buildings have been torn down, and that the department has moved to North Campus." "I'M HOMESICK," said Charley Wessels of Min- neapolis, describing his elation in returning to Ann See 'U' ALUMNI, Page 5 Doily Photo by MIKE LUCAS PICTURED ABOVE RIGHT-South Fraternity members, winners of yesterday's Evans Scholars' Car Bash. Above-2nd place float winner, Triangle-Gamma Beta Phi. Students gather for strategy' conference By FANNIE WEINSTEIN Hundreds of students from campuses around the country are gathering at East Quad this weekend to devise strategies to combat policies of the Reagan administration. The students, meeting here for the second an- nual conference of the Progressive Student Net- work, will attend a number of panel discussions and "strategy workshops" on topics ranging from draft resistance to the anti-nuclear movement to black freedom struggles today. SPEAKERS AT the conference will include Chicago Eight defendant Dave Dellinger; Sean Sands, brother of the late IRA hunger striker Bob- by Sands; and Rev. Herbert Dougherty, chairman of the National Black United Front, as well as a number of student organizers. "This conference will set the tone for PSN (Progressive Student Network) activism over the next year," said David Sapp, a student from George Washington University who helped organize the PSN conference. "We hope to come off of this conference with a strategy for fighting Reagan's policies of cutbacks at home and aggression abroad. "Today's progressive student. movement is a dynamic and growing force on campuses across the country. This year's PSN conference will at- tempt to arrive at a coherent and responsible strategy for curtailing the recent right-wing offen- sive in this country," Sapp said. "The ultimate goal of the PSN and this conference is to develop a movement for positive social change in America." ELISA SELTZER, a local coordinator of the conference, said that at the start of the conference last night, more than 300 students had already arrived from around the country and about 200 more were expected today. Ann Arbor was chosen for this year's conference "because it has had in the past a reputation for student activism and we hop to activate studen- ts," Seltzer said. PSN's first conference was held, last year at Kent State University in Ohio. The local sponsor of the conference, People United for a Human Future, is a student group that has also been meeting in hopes of organizing students against Reagan administration policies. PUHF was fromed last January and organized a teach-in to protest the inauguration of President Reagan. The conference opened last night and will con- tinue today and tomorrow with more workshops and speakers. Ufer condition 'serious' By GREG DeGULIS Bob Ufer was listed in serious con- dition in the intensive care unit of Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit late yesterday after undergoing surgery to remove a blood clot in his brain. A hospital spokesperson released information from a statement on Ufer's condition prepared by the Ufer family. Ufer was admitted to the hospital Tuesday and as of late last night, the broadcaster's physician said Ufer's condition "remains serious." UFER, WHO has been broadcasting Michigan football play-by-play for 37 years, has been battling cancer throughout the year. In August of this year, Ufer underwent surgery to remove an earlier blood clot in his brain. As aresult, the broadcaster was for- ced to miss delivering the Michigan play-by-play for the first time in 362 games. Ufer has only broadcast the opening and closing statements of WJR's Michigan football coverage for the first four football games this season. After his doctors gave him the go- ahead, Ufer returned. to the play-by- play duties for the Michigan State game Oct. 10 in East Lansing. Ufer delivered the play-by-play for the Iowa game in Ann Arbor and had planned to be a part of the homecoming festivities for today's Northwestern game, but Mr. "Meechigan" was admitted to Henry Ford Hospital Tuesday. Part of the homecoming duties plan= ned for Ufer was the homecoming pep rally held in front of the Michigai Union last night. Coach Bo Schem- bechler told the crowd to keep Ufer in their prayers. E TODA- A4 flurry of egg rolls HE DIAG, famous for its entertainment between classes, got a brand new attraction this week. In addition to the traditional political rallies and the roving evangelists, a bicycling egg roll vendor has become part of the Diag scenery. Touting "fresh hot egg rolls; the best egg rolls in town," vender Rock Ewing from the Orient Express restaurant on S. State Street, rode minutes late to a meeting usually means being the first one there. But if one is meeting with 21 world leaders for the start of a "North-South" summit on the world's economic problems, it's not polite to be late, even if the summit is in Mexico. President Reagan created a stir Thursday when he failed to show up on time for the start of the two-day sum- mit with the leaders of seven industrialized nations and 14 poor countries. All the other world leaders were in their conference room chairs and summit host Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo, a stickler for punctuality, was already into his preliminary remarks. But between the Chinese and Philippines delegations there were two empty chairs-one for Reagan and the other for the Secretary of 04--A1--.. -- . ,v T..A < sn~aCnnn n r nn n ln Cali ng for help The call came into the Miami police department on the 911 emergency line. And it was an emergency. It was about an attempted burglary, and the call was made from the would-be burglar himself. The 16-year-old boy was trying to get into a house Thursday when he got stuck in the window grating, halfway in and halfway out, authorities said. So he picked up a telephone and called police. "He called and said he was trying to burglarize a house but got 'caught' and would we please rescue him," Metro-Dade police spokesman Dave Graveline said. "It was the first time we ever had a burglar call up and hand himself in." The youth his rescuers, "I'm embarrassed, this is my first burglary." Less daring feats Several categories of more dangerous feats such as sword swallowing are being removed from the Guiness World Book of Records, a company spokeswoman said. The spokeswoman for the Sterling Publishing Company refused to list the categories being changed in the new edition, but said they would be similar to those already made in the English edition. Blowing up hot water bottles}and sword swallowing are among those that have been deleted in England. The spokeswoman declined to say whether the American edition would leave in the names of the previous 7 I I I