Ninety-Two Years of Editorial Freedom E L~t i§UI l ltig COLDER Rain changing to snow- showers this morning, win- dy and colder with a high in 'the miid-30s. ---- Vol. XCII, No. 73' Copyright 1981, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, December 8, 1981 Ten Cents Twelve Pages 1 MSA asked kWyk g FkFtr E s *a t az z u i n'F yY ( r9 a a M1# r( Y, o consi er tentative ' hazing By BETH ALLEN The Michigan Student Assembly will consider a long-awaited set of anti- hazing guidelines tonight in another step toward making the guidelines of- ficial University policy. Written by a group of fraternity and sorority members under the direction of the administration last year, the guidelines define hazing and call for the University to "impose appropriate san- ctions" on violators of the guidelines. THE GUIDELINES define hazing as "'willful acts, with or, without the con- sent of the individual" that inflict men- tal or physical injury or discomfort, degrade or humiliate a person, force a 0person to eat or drink any substance, put a person in physical danger, impair academic performance, or violate the law. The guidelines are intended to apply to any group within the University community, including fraternities, policy sororities, and athletic groups. MSA is only one of three groups that will review the guidelines before they are passed on by the University executive officers to the Board of Regents for approval, according to vice president for student services Henry Johnson. The Senate Advisory Commit- tee on University Affairs and the University Council, a committee established to set behavior and conduct rules within the University, must also review the policy. "IF THERE are no substantive dif- ferences" over the policy-as it is writ- ten, "we'll pass it to the Regents," Johnson said. But before the executive committee can present the guidelines to the Regen- ts, it must also decide how to handle violators, Johnson said. Earlier this year, Johnson said that the guidelines may run into trouble See MSA, Page 2 Union renovati*ons shapingup New chem. building " may be constructed By ANN MARIE FAZIO Renovations that its supporters hope will tran- sform the Michigan Union from a place where many students simply buy books twice a year to the center of social and business activity for students are set to begin next month. The $4.6 million remodeling job will include some drastic changes on the Union's ground floor; which will be restructured into an open mall featuring a variety of restaurants, the ticket office, a con- venience store, and a souvenier shop. ALTHOUGH UNION Director Frank Cianciola said he couldn't set a completion date for all the changes, he did say he expected a significant por- tion of the main floor renovations to be finished by September. Some of these changes will include a new student lounge, an expanded campus infor- mation center, and a remodeled University Club, he said. The Union renovation plan was conceived in an ef- fort to "re-establish the Michigan Union as the front door to the University," according to Cianciola. The facilities need to be updated in order to "meet the needs of the campus in a social, recreational, and educational way," he explained. WHEN THE building, the third oldest college student union in the country, was opened in 1916, its the front door University.' to the -Frank Cianciola, 'We want to reestablish the Michigan Union as Michigan Union Director By PAM FICKINGER The University's Chemistry Building is as old as the basic concept of pH, but it has not endured the 75 years since as well, and is now in desperate need of replacement, some chemistry professors say. As a result, chemistry professors are throwing their support behind a proposal before the University Regents to erect a new, $50 million chemistry building in the grassy lot where Waterman Gymnasium once stood. If the Regents approve the plan at their meeting next week, ground could be broken for the four-story structure as \early as the fall of 1983. ALTHOUGH the Chemistry building has in the past met most of the needs of the chemistry department, today the labs are a health hazard, the facilities are outdated, and the classrooms are overcrowded, according to Chemistry Prof. Russell Larsen. The University is the only Big Ten university that has not built a new chemistry facility in the past 20 years, he added. THE NEW chemistry building, ac- cording to department Chairman Thomas Dunn, will feature new teaching, lab, and research facilities, and will be constructed on the site of the old Waterman Gym, next to the present Chemistry Building. The new building will also have a new ventilation system, Dunn said. The current ventilation system does not meet the minimal requirements set by state and federal health agencies, he said. If all goes as planned, the new facility will be completed in late 1985, Dunn said. It took the University four years to put the proposal together, Dunr said. "When you've worked as long and as hard for this, you can't help but fee a bit of excitement and hope," he added. Although University Regent Dean Baker said he hasn't seen the proposal for the new chemistry building, he said a new facility "is a need of the Univer- sity and always has been.' original charter stated the Union should do the following: " Serve as a University center ; * Enhance the quality of campus life; * Serve as a unifying force in the lives of students, staff members, faculty members, and alumni; and " CREATE AN atmosphere where members of the University community can feel comfortable, meet informally, and relax. In 1978, when the authority over the Union was transferred from a separate, independent Board of Governors to the Vice Pretsident for Student Ser- vices, Henry Johnson, a task force was created to evaluate the Union's role on campus. The group decided the Union's original charter wasn't being followed and that revisions were needed. THE TASK force concluded that to fulfill the charter the building needed physical renovations. At their April 1981 meeting, the Regents authorized the Union Renovation project be funded in part by a special fee that students are required to pay. PLANS FOR the physical renovation were developed by a group of students and staff mem- bers, formed in August of 1980, who interviewed representatives of different architectural firms and studied similar projects. Theyhired Peter Tarapata, a former University student, to, design the plans, and continued meeting about once a week for eight months to discuss possible changes and additions. A main concern of the group was that the original structure of the building be maintained, Cianciola said. Although they desired to preserve the natural beauty of the building, they had to be sensitive to the needs of the present community, he said. Students have been involved in the renovation process "all the way through," Cianciola said, in' cluding redefining the goals, selecting the architect, and contributing to the final plan. "WE COULDN'T be more pleased with the student input," said Marc Dann, LSA sophomore See RENOVATIONS, Page 2 Four hija TEQUCIGALIA, Honduras (AP) - In a rash of hijackings yesterday, terrorists stormed three planes in Venezuela, one in Libya, and one man was arrested by federal agents in Ohio after he attempted to commandeer a jetliner. , Hijackers forced three Venezuelan jetliners carrying 262 people to land in Colombia in a coordinated operation yesterday, freed 67 of their hostages and then ordered the planes to Hon- - @ - 0 ( Kings in duras and Guatemala. COLOMBIAN officials said t, hijackers were armed with sub achine guns and grenades. Two of the planes, Aeropostal DC-9 landed in Honduras at Tegucigalpa Toncontin International Airport and tl hijackers demanded to speak to tl Venezuelan ambassador and a RomE Catholic church representative. The third plane, an Avensa Boei 727, landed in Guatemala City, acc Venezuela and ding to a Guatemalan tower An airportt he spokesman. to be identifi m THREE Lebanese Moslems armed negotiatingv with grenades hijacked a Libyan for the return 9s, jetliner over Italy yesterday and forced Shiite clergy 's it to fly to Beirut where they said they August 1978 he were seeking the return of a Shiite whereabouts he Moslem leader who disappeared three MEANWH an years ago, set bond at $2 They threatened to order the plane danian nativ ng back into the air and blow it up, airport hijack a TV or- officials said. Hopkins Inte LIb tower official who declined ed said the hijackers were with officials and calling -n of Imam Moussa Sadr, a man who disappeared in after visiting Libya. His remain a mystery. ILE, A federal magistrate 200,000 yesterday for a Jor- ve charged with trying to WA jet from Cleveland's ernational Airport to Iran. Environmental factors pervade cancer picture By JOYCE FRIEDEN Although cancer research is an inexact science, researchers say they are certain of one fact: 85 to 90 percent of the types of cancer found in humans are at least partially caused by an en- vironmental factor. However, environmental factors are not necessarily man-made chemicals, according to University Physiology * Prof. Arthur Vander. "FOR EXAMPLE, the most common cause of skin cancer is sunlight," Van- der said. "And many potent car- cinogens are found in naturally- occurring substances, such as (rotten) peanuts and betel nuts, a favorite in some Asian cultures." But Vander also said there are about 25 chemicals known to cause cancer in humans, and 1,000 or more others have each been found to. causecancer in at least one study of animals. Because there are so many possible causes of cancer, Vander said, resear- ching it is difficult. Cancer research involves two areas: One involves the study of humans and the other involves the study of laboratory animals. TWO OF THE research methods in- volving humans include the following: * Watching persons who have been heavily exposed to a suspected car- cinogen ( cancer-causing agent) for an extended period to see if they have an unusually high incidence of cancer; and " Comparing persons who already Many potent carcinogens are found in naturally- occurring substances, such as (rotten) peanuts and betel nuts, a favorite in some Asian cultures.A' -Physiology Prof. Arthur Vander have a particular form of cancer to a control group to see if the cancer vic- tims have any outstanding charac- teristics. SACCHARIN (a possible cause of bladder cancer) is an example of a suspected carcinogen researchers have tested using both animals and humans. The tests using people who were ex- posed to large doses of saccharin were not significant, according to Vander, because diabetic subjects were used. Persons with diabetes have many characteristics that distinguish them from the rest of the population, making it difficult to draw valid conclusions. Of the studies done on patients who already had bladder cancer, only one showed a positive correlation with ingestion of saccharin, Vander said. The saccharin tests involving animals caused much controversy after. the results were published because the scientists involved fed laboratory rats each day the human equivalent of sac- charin contained in 800 bottles of diet soda. IN HIS BOOK, Nutrition, Stress, and Toxic Chemicals, Vander explains the logic behind this procedure. The researchers began by supposing that the human equivalent of the saccharin, in one bottle of diet soda a day would cause cancer in one out of 10,000 rats. He writes, "I had to say.. . suppose ... because, even were this fact true, we would never know it, 'for we would never use enough rats to detect it." Given a limited amount of time, money, space, and personnel, the biggest group that can be tested is 50 rats, he said. "Scientists also assumed that there is 'no threshhold'-that even the smallest k possible amount of saccharin may cause cancer in-oneanimal," Vander said. "Using a linear relationship, the more saccharin you give to an animal, the higher the rate of cancer you would expect to find." So, instead of giving 10,000 rats each the equivalent of saccharin found in one bottle of diet soda per day, the resear- chers gave 50 rats the equivalent of saccharin contained in 800 bottles of diet soda per day. They found an unusually high rate of bladder cancer (at least five bcases in a sample of 50 rats), Vander said. He criticized both the press and the Food and Drug Administration for their See RESEARCHPge 2 TODAY Betting on the right horse, 75-YEAR-OLD retired bricklayer rapidly par- layed a $24 investment into $36,000 at an Off Track Betting parlor in Utica, N.Y., before officials stopped him - "for the man's own good," they said. But he won another $38,000 within two days. Albert re~nrdnaalia nf fUtica cashe in 19 winning 9 tickets onn a Scordanaglia returned the next day and became angry when his bet was refused again. Police gave him a ticket charging him with disorderly conduct. But Scordanaglia bet again Wednesday, reportedly by giving someone else $1,500 to put on a daily double for him, and won $19,000. "He is a very lucky man," Blanchard said. Scordanaglia lost $3,200 Wednesday night at Vernon Downs harness race track in Vernon, N.Y., but then $200 worth of bets suddenly paid off - and he won another $19,000. Bar hopping town 120 miles northwest of Los Angeles. Hudspeth said the "medium-sized" elephant barely made it through the front door. "When he did his tricks, everybody was going crazy. I wish I could have let him sit around for a while," Hudspeth said. "But it would have been a hell of a mess if he had fallen through the floor." The elephant, evidently deciding to go bar hopping, left the Goldstone and took his business down Main Street to the California Country Cocktail Lounge. "I don't drink so I could tell it was real," the lounge's bartender said after the animal poked its trunk in- to the bar. Bartender Hudspeth was asked what an elephant nn dn in a sma11 nwn h r "Anvthin he wante tn " Hud- light, said Phillipsburg Police Sgt. Brian Kolterman. 'I just got tired of her saying the car was nothing but a piece of junk," said Mongeau, manager and part owner of a Phillip- sburg cement company. "I didn't think it was a piece of junk. But since she thought it was, I figured I'd make it one." His wife, from whom Mongeau is separated, could not be reached for comment. Mongeau's vehicle, which was used by his wife even though the couple is seeking a divor- ce, was a complete loss, and was particularly inadequate in leg room. i i .1