I Ninety-C 0 Editorial )ne Years I Freedom J cl Lit l43lalig AFTER THE FALL It will be windy today and much colder, with snow showers likely. Vol. XCI, No. 113 Copyright 1981, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, February 11, 1981 Ten Cents Ten Pages [ R Court rejects Polish farmers' plea. I From AP and UPI WARSAW, Poland - Poland's highest court rejected private farmers' demands for an independent union yesterday and recommended they form an association instead. In a complex decision, apparently an attempt at compromise between the farmers and Communist party leaders who oppose a farmers' union, the Polish high court said it did not have jurisdiction to rule on the demand and sent the-case back to a lower court. SUPREME COURT Justice Antoni Filcek said the farmers' organization Rural Solidarity was in fact a union, since it grouped people of the same profession. But, he said, Polish law stated that a trade union can only legally be formed - and apparently, recognized - when it involves employees of an organization. Because most Polish farmers own the land they work, he said, they cannot be considered as such. Solidarity union leader Lech Walesa called for an end to strikes after the or union Polish Suprenie court rejected legal registration of the farmers' union. CALLING THE ruling a "draw," Walesa said, "Now is the time for us to get some respite, end strikes, and build up our organization." He advised the farmers to register as an association. The 10-million strong Solidarity labor coalition had threatened to declare a general strike if the court refused to recognize Rural Solidarity as a legal farmers' union. MEANWHILE, Polish newspapers reported without comment the gover- nment shakeup naming Defense Minister Wojciech Jaruzelski, an army general considered a moderate, as Polish premier. In Washington, State Department spokesman William Dyes said the shakeup was "an internal Polish mat- ter." Asked about Soviet intentions, he said, "We do not consider that soviet military intervention is imminent, or that it is inevitable, or that it is justifiable." The Sejm, Poland's parliament, is expected to meet today to approve the appointment of Jaruzelski, designated to replace Premier Jozef Pinkowski at a party Central Committee meeting Monday night. It was the fifth gover- nment shakeup since August. Jaruzelski, a 57-year-old four-star general, has a reputation as an effec- tive military commander. According to a story circulated widely, in Warsaw, Jaruzelski told hardliners on the Cen- tral Committee last August during nationwide strikes that as long as he was defense minister, "Polish troops will not fire on Polish workers." Jaruzelski is said to be a close ally of Polish party chief Stanislaw Kania.. There was no comment on the shakeup from the Soviet Union. The Kremlin has thousands of troops massed near Poland's borders, fueling fears in the West that the Soviets may consider intervention to end Poland's ongoing labor crisis. Chairman: geography board may be biased Doily Photo by DAVID HARRIS Shoat the groundhog FEBRUARY STORM COATS students and campus with six to 12 inches of wet snow yesterday. Spring seems far away as students slosh their way to class in front of Angell Hall, Blizzardsht n By RITA CLARK Two members of the geography review committee may be "biased against" continuing the department because they served on a 1975 College Priorities Committee which was highly critical of the department, according to Geography Department Chairman John Nystuen. Nystuen said yesterday that since the committee has two members who served on the 1975 priorities committee, it makes the committee "more attuned" to the ad- ministration's wants. ECONOMICS PROF. Harvey Brazer, chairman of the review committee, said the experience he and co-member Sidney Fine received from serving on the 1975 priorities committee has given them a "broader" and "deeper" acquaintance with the review process. "I'wouldn't serve on a committee on an issue that I already had my mind made up," Brazer said. The committee will probably not rely heavily on reports of past review commit- tees, he added. LSA Dean John Knott announced on January 26 that proceedings had begun which could lead to the elimination of the geography department. Knott said he and the College. Executive Committee decided to set the proceedings into motion "after careful deliberation, in the context of severe budget constraints facing the College." KNOTT NAMED THE members of the special review committee Monday. The four-man group has to submit a recommendation later this term on whether the department should be discontinued. The committee consists of Brazer, Fine, Psychology Prof. Albert Cain, and Zoology Prof. Ar- nold Kluge. The committee will submit its recommendation to the LSA Dean and the executive committee by March, at which time the LSA faculty will be given a chance to voice its opinion at its monthly meeting in April. If the college decides to recommend discontinuation of the department, the Regents will make the final decision. Originally, the review committee was only going to be con- prised of Brazer, Fine and Cain. The college later added Kluge after Nystuen complained that the committee lacked a representative from the natural sciences. BRAZER SAID HE and the other members of the commit- tee were chosen because of their integrity and status as social scientists. "We are capable of making rational judgments," he said. Knott said that the review committee is in no way bound to what he or the executive committee says.' "They are free to reach any conclusions they want," he said. Nystuen, who said he would "have chosen another commit- tee," voiced his dissatisfaction with Brazer and Fine to Vice- President for Academic Affairs Bill Frye. Frye, however, See CHAIRMAN, Page 10 Students plow through snow . . By DENISE FRANKLIN The first look out the window yester day brought a glimmer of hope to man3 students. With six inches of newfaller snow on the ground, it looked as if classes might be cancelled. Alas, no such luck. "WE ARE WAITING for the County Road Commission to issue a 'red alert' warning before we cancel classes," ex- plained Vice-President For Academic Affairs Bill Frye. The decision to cancel classes rests with Frye and Vice- President and Chief Financial Officer James Brinkerhoff. The possibility of a red alert exists, Frye said. The Detroit Weather Service expects 6 to 12 inches of wet snow to ac- cumulate by this morning. Students should listen to WUOM or call the in- dividual departments to find out if classes have been cancelled, Frye said.' The storm, which hit Monday night, put the city in a yellow alert situation. THIS MEANS the roads are icy and driving conditions are hazardous, ac- cording to University officials. Classes remained open yesterday, although heads of operating units were free to allow staff members to leave early because of the weather conditions, the officials added. Campus snow operations were run- ning smoothly last night. The Univer- sity Plant Department expected to have campus route salted or sanded early today. Meanwhile, the North Campus Bus Service was a little behind schedule, but still running. The Vehicle See CITY, Page 2 The housing safari .but wre not alone By The Associated Press Driven by high winds, the biggest storm of the winter swept from the Rockies to the eastern Great Lakes yesterday, bringing blinding snow and bone-chilling cold that contributed to at least seven deaths, including one Michigan youth. Tornadoes struck to the south, .meanwhile, killing at least one person in Texas and hitting a grade school in Alabama. Two of the students and a bus driver were seriously injured. SCHOOLS IN MORE than a dozen Michigan counties were closed yester- day because of the snow and the state -House of Representatives canceled its afternoon session. The National Weather Service forecast up to six in- See NATION, Page 2 By PAMELA KRAMER In most normal college towns, apartment-hunting can be a pleasant experience - you can jump in the car on Saturday afternoon with classified ads in hand, knowing somewhere out there that "special place" you'll soon call home is waiting. But, of course, Ann Arbor is not normal. A vacancy rate of less than one percent brings an entirely different meaning to apartment-hunting here. The expletives used by students to describe the task are endless. "IT'S A PAIN in the ass, that's what it is," LSA junior Joan Ring said. "Some of the places around here can be so nice, but the others are pits." Since housing competition is so stiff, many students go knocking door to door in search of vacancies, while others have resorted to offering cash rewards to anyone who can See CONNECTIONS, Page 3 You've GOTTA BEKWvpiN1 You WANT $600 A Ilot FR~ THAT APARTMEtIT YCO )SNOWED ME VSERVA TRE. oN'E THAT WAS -CRAPEPD, utopNw HEAT d' BOKEN PLUMING'4C?t A PER?/OM IMVJIP tHAVE REKr 1+TPLACE.! ELCOME 7th ANN ARBOR. ©"~ r~r TODAY- Snow advisory in effect SNOW ADVISORY was put into effect yesterday by the city administrator's office and will continue today. Car-owners should park their cars on the even-numbered side of the street, beginning this morning. The snow advisory will stay in ef- fect until the city determines the emergency to be over. grappling in competition with girls? No way, said the Board of Education, thereby cutting short the budding wrestling careers of Caroline Lee and Julie Puffer, both 14-year-olds in the 9th grade at Central. At first, wrestling coach Robert Stadlander couldn't understand why anyone would object to the girls' competing. He had second thoughts, though. "I guess it's that it isn't ladylike for girls to tumble around on the floor with boys," he said. Q Censored bodies The City Council in fashionable Palm Beach recently adopted unanimously an ordinance requiring joggers and other athletes to wear "some dress" above the waist. An exception would be made at the beach, where men would still be free to swim bare-chested. "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder," City Councilman Walter Rathburn said. "A 270-pound man bicycling in short shorts may be beautiful to his eye, but he's not to my eye." Women are probably in- veteran. One side of the map shows a close-up of center city and historic sites; the other shows main routes of Philadelphia and their access roads. Capt. Nicholas Mar- tino of the Traffic District said the reactions have been in- teresting. "You hand them a map. They're stunned, but they like it," he said. On the inside , i