Judyexecuted, keeps resolve in the end The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, March 10, 1981-Page 3 'U' RESEARCHERS STUDY INA CC URA TE ELECTION PREDICTION Low turnout fouls ele MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. (AP) - 'eventy-one minutes before he was rapped into the electric chair yester- day, condemned killer Steven Judy almost changed his mind about the execution he had wanted so much, his attorney said. "If you ever have another client that wants to be electrocuted, talk him out of it," attorney Steven Harris quoted the 24-year-old murderer as saying when he was summoned to Judy's cell at the ndiana State Prison at 10:54 p.m. Sun- y. Behind a curtain in the cell the freshly varnished black oak chair was ready for Judy's appointment with death just after midnight. "HE, JUDY, said it was almost too much, the pressure building toward the execution," Harris said. "When I first saw him, he was like a little bitty kid in a cell," his attorney said. "It was sad because I could tell he felt scared, he was almost to the panic stage." But Judy, calmed with the help of Valium, remained firm in his resolve to die rather than spend his life in prison for the slayings of a young mother and her three small children in April 1979. He became the first person executed in Indiana in two decades, and only the fourth in the United States in more than 13 years. Judy's brother said yesterday that Judy's execution in the Indiana electric chair was simply a last and successful attempt at suicide by the convicted murderer. "THIS WAS NO execution," Michael David "Danny" Judy said in , a telephone interview. "This was no more and no less than a simple suicide." Steven Judy had attempted suicide at least twice while being held in jail. By DOUG BRICE Low turnout was to blame for public opinion polls' failure to predict Ronald Reagan's huge electoral win over Jimmy Carter last November, University researchers recently announced. Actual voter turnout in the presidential race was only 52 percent (unofficially), down two percent from the 1976 turnout, and apparently considerably lower than the pollsters had been assuming for 1980, said Warren Miller, director of the Center for Political Studies at the University's Institute for Social Research. CHANCES FOR A Republican victory are in- creased when voter turnout is low, he explained, because more Democratic supporters stay home on election day. Noting that only 26 percent of the country's eligible voters actually voted for Reagan, the researchers concluded that the American public "has not provided a mandate for the new Republican President." Media and national opinion pollsters simply overestimated the public's enthusiasm for both the campaign and the candidates, Miller added. THE STUDY ALSO said that on some major issues, Americans have become more conservative, but downplayed the extent of the shift to the right. Political Science Prof. Arthur Miller said that early in the campaign, "Voter responses in interviews con- ducted by the Center indicate . . . that Americans were becoming more conservative on two major issues-economics and foreign policy. The conser- vative tide did not affect other issues such as ERA, abortion, decriminalization of some drugs, or civil rights," he added. The more conservative trend, ac- cording to Arthur Miller, is tied directly to people's concern with declining U.S. prestige in the world and military strength, as well as with economic issues. "The main thing that seems to have undone Jimmy ction polls Carter in this election was people's troubled financial situations," researcher Michael Traugott said. "Over the past four years the voters felt their per- sonal economic situations had worsened, and they apparently saw no better prospects ahead with Car- ter. People are concerned with taxes and how their money is spent as well as the U.S. position in the world," Traugott added. "IN MANY RESPECTS," Arthur Miller explained, "the final vote may have reflected a negative reac- tion toward Carter rather than enthusiasm for Reagan." He reported that all three candidates got only lukewarm ratings on the ISR survey's "feeling thermometer." Warren Miller suggested that any conservative- trend has been overplayed in the media. He cited a nation-wide voter rejection of tax revolt measures as strong evidence against the media's theory of a rightward surge. Have you been thinking -H APPENINGS FILMS Cinema Guild -19th Annual Ann Arbor Film Festival, all different shows, 7, 9,11 p.m., Michigan Theatre. Ethnographic Film Series - Fence in the Waters, filmmaker Peg Dice, 7 p.m., MLB 2. SPEAKERS Urban Planning - Robert Marans, "The Quality of the Urban Environ- ment," 11a.m.,1040 Dana. CREES - Ludmila Kuznetsova, "Our Contemporaries: Rukhin, Bogomolov, Zhurkov, Bordachev, and Churilov," noon, MLB 3rd Floor Commons. ECC & IC - Zeev Schiff, "Israel in the '80's," noon, Int. Ctr. Medicine - Arthur Vander, "The Iron Controversy," noon, Med. Sci. II W. Lec. Hall. Psychobiology - Timothy DeVoogd, "To Sing or Not to Sing: The 'Anatomical and Hormonal Correleates of Song in the Canary," 12:30 p.m., 1057 MHRI. Radiation Control Service - A. P. Jacobson, "Biological Effects of Radiation," 1-3 p.m. SPH II Aud. Bio. Enggin. - Robert Marshall, "Short Time EEG Frequency Analysis," 4 p.m., 1084 E. Engin. English - John Knott, "Sir Thomas Browne and the Labyrinth of Truth," 4p.m., 451 Mason. Geology - Larry Ruff, "Great Earthquakes, Great Asperities,g and Seismic Coupling," 4 p.m., 4001 CCL. Great Lakes and Marine Env.-Stephen Bowen, "The Role of Epibenthic Algae and Detritus in the Detritivorous Fish, Tilapia Mossambicus," 4 p.m., 165 Chrysler Ctr. A' Space Advocates - "Space Operations Center: Next Goal for Manned Space Flight?" 7:30 p.m., Union Conf. Rm. 2. SAE - Larry Koles, "The Importance of Regular Car Maintenance," 7:30 p.m., Cooley Aud. SPAM - Pauline Norton, "American March Music of the Nineteenth Cen- tury," 7:30 pVin., g $urt' T er Guild of Natural Science Illustrators - Denis Lee, "New Modling and Sculpture Materials;" t:30 p.m., 2107-8 AAB. : r PIRGIM - Adrienne Selko, "What You Should Know About Toxic Shcok Syndrome," 7:30 p.m., Rm. 126, E. Quad. Wash. Chapter of NOW - Patricia Reuss, "Women's Issues: Their Fate in "the Reagan Years,"8 p.m., Kuenzel Rm., Michigan Union. PERFORMANCES School of Music - American Trio, Joseph Curt, Charles Avsharian, ,Jerome Jelinek, works by Beethoven, Copland, Tchaikovsky, 8 p.m., Rackham. Children's Community Center - "Rock 'N' Roll Revue," benefit concert, 8 p.m., Rick's American Cafe. 'U' Musical Society - Alvin Ailey Dancers, 8 p.m., Power Center. 'U' Musical Society - Paul Plishka, Basso, 8:30 p.m., Hill Aud. (can use Nov. 16 Talvela tickets). 'U' Dance Company - Spring concert preview, 12:30, 'U' Club, Union. MEETINGS Pol. Sci. - information meeting for potential concentrators, 3 p.m., Aud. C, Angell Hall. Senate Judiciary Sub-Committee on Corrections - 3:30 - 5:30 p.m., Rm. 401 of the State Capitol. His House Christian Fell. -7:30 p.m., League. HSO - Lesbian / Gay Health Professions, 7:30 p.m., 802 Monroe., MSA -7:30 p.m., 3909 Union. Orienteering Club - film, skills workshop, 8 p.m., CCRB. GEO -8 p.m., Guild House. MISCELLANEOUS Computing Ctr. - Chalk Talk, "Simple Assembly Language Debugging," 12:10p.m., 1011 NUBS. WCBN - Call-in, Tenant Advocace Show, call with any tenant problems, 6:30-7 p.m., 763-3500. UAC - workshop, Impact Dance, 7-9 p.m., Union Ballroom. Rudrananda Ashram - Hatha Yoga Class, level I,7:30 p.m., 640 Oxford. Union of Students for Israeli - workshop, "The Arab-Israeli Conflict (Pt. 1),"8 p.m., IGLI Multipurpose Rm. Rec. Sports - Clinic, "Nutrition and Exercise," 7:30-9 p.m., 1250 CCRB. Rec. Sports - Squash Club Match, 6:30 - 9:30 p.m., CCRB. Rec. Sports - IM Foul Shooting Meet, 7:30 p.m., IMSB. Rec. Sports - IM Volleyball Officials' Clinic, 7:30 p.m.,-IMSB. To submit items for the Happenings Column, send them in care of; Happenings, The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI., 48109. Geography students detail department's, faculty s strengths (Continued from Page 1) rapport with students and the "tutorial apprenticeship type teaching."_ "My interaction with the faculty has been tremendous," said pre-doctoral candidate John Oppenheim. Op- penheim, whose interest is geography of environmental systems under stress, wrote his Master's thesis on the dif- fusion of PBB contamination in Michigan. He constructed a spatial model based on geographic theory which predicted 60 percent of -the locations of contaminated farms in his study. Oppenheim told the committee that such models are useful in directing policy makers. As in last week's geography review hearings, students at yesterday's session warned elimination of the geography department would reduce liberal arts educational opportunities in times where "education for the sake of knowledge" is giving way to " 'whether or not I can get a job out of this.''' DAVID SHEVRIN, a junior geography major, said the possible discontinuance is not the fault of the geography department but of the priorities of education. Shevrin tran- Have you been thinking about concentrating in 0101 L/ tSCIENCES*? Prospective concentrators in Biology or Bot- any are cordially invited to attend an OPEN HOUSE sponsored by the Division of Bio- logical Sciences on Thursday, March 12, 4:30 p.m., 3056 Natural Science. sferred here from the University of Colorado when several faculty mem- bers left that university's geography department in the face of severe cut- backs in state aid. Review committee members reiterated what they said at last Thur- sday and Friday's public review hearings, telling the geography studen- ts the committee is not bound to make an absolute decision. "I would see our range (of possible recommendations) as anywhere from putting more money into the depar- tment to abolishing it," said committee member and History Prof. Sidney Fine. Committee Chairman and Economics Prof. Harvey Brazer said last Thursday he hopes the committee will make its recommendation to the LSA faculty and Executive Committee by the end of this month. He said the committee's extensive review of the geography department has included examining Ph.D. disser- tations written during the last ten years, data on student to faculty ratios, and job placement. The committee has also met with every faculty member of the geography department. IRAEL an unforgettable summer at an unbeatable price We've been leading unforgettable touring, study and kibbutz programs for 30 years. If you know someone 15 to 22 years old who wants to find out more, CALL (212) 751-6070 for our FREE brochure and additional information or write American Zionist Youth Foundation Dept." 3 " , 515 Park Avenue New York, NY 10022 Supreme Court OKs double ehargyes for pot smugglers.. WASHINGTON (AP) - Marijuana In writing for the court, Justice smugglers may be convicted and William Rehnquist said the two defen- punished for two separate crimes - dants "read much into nothing." importing and distributing the drug, the "Importation and distribution of of Supreme Court ruled yesterday. marijuana impose diverse societal By a unanimous vote, the court said harms, and.. . Congress has in effect such double-barreled criminal liability determined that a conspiracy to import does not violate the Constitution's drugs and to distribute them is twice as pr9hibition against double jeopardy. serious as a conspiracy to do either ob- THE RULING UPHELD the convic- ject singly," Rehnquist said. tions and prison sentences of two men arrested in Miami four years ago for smuggling more than 50,000 pounds of CHE94NANA A marijuana into the country. The court ruled that federal law can punish separately the crimes of impor- wl pa ntetpc E ting and distributing marijuana LATIONSHIPS: SPIRITUAL PER- because each crime requires proof not SPECTIVE. Wednesday, March necessary for proving the other. 11 at 8:00 p.m., Angell Hall Convicted drug smugglers Thomas Auditorium D. 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