WCBN: Is anybody out there even By PAMELA KRAMER T HERE YOU ARE, thumbing through your albums, trying to decide just exactly what it is you're in the mood to hear. You're tired of everything in your collection. You want something new, something different. So you turn to WCBN (88.3 FM), eagerly anticipating the sound of some unfamiliar artist, or perhaps some ob- scure music from one of your favorites. Suddenly, a host of crickets begins to chirp soothingly from your speakers. "Well, that's interesting," you think as you settle back for some reading. "You'd never hear anything like that on commercial radio." Twenty minutes later, however, the crickets have lost a good deal of their charm, and CBN has lost a listener. The crickets will continue to chirp for another 2 hours. "When something like that happens, if the disc jockey has a reasonable ex- planation of why he did it, then we talk about it," says Charlie Saxe, CBN's program director. "In this case, he was trying to provide ambience. And really, I'd rather1hear three hours of crickets than three hours of Muzak." Crickets are not typical fare at the student-operated station by a long shot. But that memorable show is one of the best examples of why most people who have heard CBN either love it or hate it: It has a freedom that allows spon- taneity, unpredictability, and diversity that can be annoying, unnerving, or-when it works-some of the most- impressive radio you'll ever hear. Take the day after Reagan's presidential victory, for instance. Now, that was a proud moment in CBN history. Ken Freedman, program director at the time, suggested that the station pump out Leslie Gore's "It's My Party, And I'll Cry If I Want To" for 24 hours . . . that's right-all day, non- stop. Most of the disc jockeys on the air that day shared Freedman's sentimen- ts about the election. Their shows were uninterrupted Gore-occasionally played at varying speeds to avoid CBN's dreaded foe, Monotony. rstening? "Being an alternative station means you can do a lot of things," Freedman explains. The 23-year-old dj has been at CBN for four years, working on everything from comedy to news to music. Last year as program director, he had the opportunity to help shape the station's overall personality. When he talks about CBN, Freedman sounds like an overworked parent-now frustrated, now elated. In fact, the time and energy he devoted to the station as program director cost him a great deal academically-his grades were too low for him to stay in school. "For once, people down here are con- cerned (about CBN's quality)," Freedman says. Agrees General Manager Eugene Lisansky: "We're not just throwing shit against the wall and seeing what sticks. We're pushing really hard." CBN just isn't the hippie station it used to be, and Freedman says he sees the change to "radio art" as a vast im- provement that provides a necessary alternative for listeners in the area. See WCBN, Page 8 EUGENE LISANSKY, WCBN general manager, selects the next album for the station's freeform broadcast. Ninety-Two Years of Editorial Freedom . P LIttig9ati 14IaiIQ DRIZZLE Light rain tonight with a high in the low 50s. +. Vol. XCII, No. 67 Copyright 1981, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, December 1, 1981 Ten Cents Twelve Pages h Talmers, Hathaway win LSA elections By BETH ALLEN Incumbent Vice President Margaret Talmers and her running mate Will Hathaway won the presiden- tial and vice-presidential seats by a large margin in last week's LSA Student Government elections. Talmers and Hathaway, of the Students for Academic and In- stitutional Development party, received nearly 600 more votes than the second-place slate, presidential can- didate Mark Klein and his running mate Monmeta Wilson of the Experien- ced Students in Politics party. APPROXIMATELY 1,500 students voted in the election, which was a "low turnout," according to election director Bruce Goldman. Goldman attributed the poor turnout to student apathy and a lack of can- didate campaigning as well as to the scheduling of the election right before the Thanksgiving break. SAID candidates won 10 of the 15 LSA-SG representative seats. The five seats not filled by SAID membes went to three independent candidates and two ESP party members. TALMERS SAID the winners from the SAID slate were "very excited" and eager to begin their new duties. The new LSA-SG council will assume office tomorrow. The new council will meet twice before the end of the term, Talmers said, but probably will begin the bulk of its work next term.. Talmers has indicated that she hopes SAID will increase student input into administrative decision making, create a TA training program, and help the University attain its affirmative action goals of better minority recruitment and services. Results also were tabulated on two ballot proposals. Students voted 771 "yes" to 662 "no" on Proposal A, which asked students if the University should place a 50-cent tax on all tickets sold through University offices for enter- tainment on sports events. The tax would go to the University's General Fund to ease the current financial troubles. Students voted 1,217 "no" to 189 "yes" on Proposial , which asked if the University shold be allowed to continue its "smaller but better" policies without direct student representation in the decisions. The ballot proposals do not bind LSA7 SG to any action, but will help them determine how students feel about the two issues, Talmers said. "We can use them (the proposals) as a tool," Talmers added. Candidates winning representative seats are Tracey Easthope (SAID); Stacy Fleisher (ESP); Keith Green (SAID); Vince Ho (SAID); Michael Jones (Independent); Benna Kushlev- sky (SAID); Jodie Levey (SAID); Judy Levey (ESP); Leslie Rock (indepen- dent); Peter Ross (SAID); David Surovell (SAID); Todd Walker (SAID); Mark Waters (independent); Mark Weissman (SAID); and David Wolfe (SAID). Ar .A P oto FANS GATHER in anticipation of last night's Rolling Stones concert at the Pontiac Silverdome. More than 75,000 heard the band's distinctive rock'n'roll at the first of their two shows at the stadium. Ston"es, and their fans, all arrived to lay By LORENZO BENE' AND MICHAEL HUGE PONTIAC - Eight, barrel half-empty beer bottles never into the Silverdome yesterd 75,000 Rolling Stones fans di were treated to about two hou Stones' distinctive rock 'n' rol A crowd began descendin concert site around 10 a.m. y and the fans partied in park Howard Witt goes toa Arbor Stones concer wasn't, on the OpinionI until gates opened at 2:2 Security was tight and at le guards searched each person ties and cans of liquor. THE STONES had the cro merized from- the opening the classic "Under My Ti Lead singer Mick Jagger, ou a yellow blazer and tight whi with kneepads, sounded T strong as ever as he strutted around ET the stage. s full of During the third song, "Let's made it Spend the Night Together," a female fan jumped Jagger from behind and d - and But kissed him as he roamed off into the d nd wings. Security officials quickly ir f h ushered her from the stage and n. Jagger continued without missing a g on the note. esterday The crowd was quite orderly, ac- king lots cording to security officials. No arrests were reported before the start an Ann of the Stones' concert. rt that "Things were better than expec- Page. ted," said Pontiac police Sgt. Robert Belt. 0 p.m. THE ONLY unusual occurrence east four was that scalpers were selling tickets n for bot- for below the $15 face value. "I bought four tickets two months wd mes- ago as an investment," said Richard number, Margos, a junior at Wayne State humb." University in Detroit. "But I'm tfitted in selling them under face value because te slacks of the second show. I put ads in the vocally school paper and couldn't get rid of them." Due to heavy demand, Brass Ring Productions added a second show a week after tickets went on sale for the first concert. Tonight's concert is set to begin at 6 p.m. The Stones are ex- pected to take the stage at 10 p.m. INSIDE THE Silverdome, con- cessionaires and drug dealers were doing a brisk business. Fans wanting Rolling Stones T-shirts had to pay up to $13. "Want to buy some acid?" asked a blond-haired man in a black leather jacket. Before two reporters could ask him any questions, however, he slipped into the crowd. Nurses in the first aid station, meanwhile, refused to say how much business they had had during the day, but nurses did note a few cases of "fainting and vomiting."r Twenty-five-year-old Mark Pinis, an Ann Arbor resident, said he was somewhat apprehensive about atten- See STONES, Page 5 Coroner says Wood's death was accidental LOS ANGELES (AP)-- Natalie Wood, slightly intoxicated and angry over an argument between her husband, Robert Wagner, and another actor, apparently fell off the Wagners' yacht and drowned while trying to board a dinghy, County Coroner Thomas Noguchi said yesterday. Wood, 43, wearing a blue nightgown, knee-high socks and a red down jacket, disappeared about midnight Saturday from the 60-foot power cruiser Splen- dour while it was anchored in Isthrus Cove in a remote northern area of Santa Catalina Island. NOGUCHI SAID Wood apparently fell into the water and drowned before she could get into the dinghy, and her body and the dinghy then drifted away from the yacht. "The cause of death has been cer- tified as accidental drowning," Noguchi told a news conference. His of- fice also released a written statement that there was "no evidence of foul play." Wood's body was found Sunday mor- ning a half-mile from the yacht. It was just beneath the surface of the water off Blue Cavern Point and about 200 yards from the dinghy. The Coast Guard said her clothing could have made it hard for her to swim. NOGUCHI SAID, "Apparently there was a non-violent argument between Mr. Wagner and the other actor (Christopher Walken). Apparently this was the reason she (Wood) separated herself from the group." On board the yacht at the time were Wood, Wagner, 51, Walken, 38, and the yacht's captain. Wood ... drowned in Pacific TODAY Welcome back! F YOU ATE TURKEY in Livonia instead of studying these past few days, don't despair. The Undergraduate Library is extending its hours to help bleary-eyed students make it through the next three weeks. Next Sunday, Dec. 6, the UGLi will open at 10 a.m.-two hours earlier than usual. As an added bonus, the UGLi will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 a.m. Sunday Dec. 13 through Monday, left without most of his staff. President Reagan, in a veto confrontation with Congress over government spending authority, ordered thousands of federal workers deemed "non-essential" sent home for the day on Nov. 23. That in- cluded most of the employees in Buch's office. A planned Bush trip to New York for a speech also was scrubbed. What did Bush do? He came to his office in the Capitol. Sin- ce he is presiding officer of the Senate under the Con- stitution and Congress had approved a money bill for its own operations, Bush has a small staff on Capitol Hill that was not affected by the shutdown. "He really wasn't needed iyn orn h~f n h rs n vrh r on1- n " 1 A ^ ^ +^ C,,-+ Bonaventure Hotel to browse through films, records, trinkets, and collected stuff about the former British rock group. Singer-songwriter Nilsson, known for "Without You" and "Everybody's Talkin," sold kisses and autographs to raise money for anti-handgun crusaders who contend that the shooting death of ex-Beatle John Lennon' might have been prevented by gun control laws. Nilsson was a close friend of Lennon. At the fair, which ended Sun- day, posters for the "Magical Mystery Tour" movie's Los Angeles debut in 1973 brought in $10. Little "Apple" labels were $5 apiece. Also available were coffee mugs, bumper ,.inkes hnth a ht hnh nprwuad Conte (R-Mass.) then rose to defend the Italian trip, which he helped set up. At the State Department's request, a bipartisan delegation would visit earthquake-ravaged areas and sign various relief contracts, Conte said, so "it is not a junket. If you want to fault anyone, Mr. Solomon, fault me," Conte said, turning on his GOP colleague. At that point, Rep. Millicent Fenwick (R-N.J.) joined the fray, of- fering to address colleagues "in pure Italian, if anybody wants to hear it." She defended the trip as "an excellent expression of the concern that this country feels for our Italian friends." Solomon took his seat and dropped the issue MPI a II