Ninety-Two Years of Editorial Freedom cl bt LIE igan IEIUIIQ TYPICAL One to two inches of snow through this afternoon. Highs in upper 20s; low of 20. .., Val. XCIL No.91 Copyright 1982, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, January 21, 1982 Ten Cents Ten Pages Landlord can 't end lease for late rent, court says By LOU FINTOR with UPI reports The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that a landlord cannot ter- minate a tenant's lease merely because rent payments are late, unless the tar- diness is "flagrant." The ruling reversed a Jackson County district and circuit court rulings involving the lease termination of a low-income housing project resident. THE COURT noted that officials of the project served the tenant with a notice to terminate in May 1979 after she had been late with the rent for 13 out of 20 months. -The rent was almost always paid within a month of when it was due and a $5 late fee was faithfully included. In reversing the lower courts, the ap- peals court said the landlord continued to accept rent after the date specified in the notice, leading the tenant to believe further proceedings were not, forth- coming. it also said lease provisions requiring a late fee for tardy payments imply that no further actions will be taken. ACCORDING TO the court, regar-. dless of this "tardiness of rental payments would still not be just cause to terminate the tenancy where the tar- diness was. not flagrant or' for long periods of time." See COURT, Page 7 UAW, GM contract talks break down Doily Photo by DEBORAH LEWIS DENNIS NOWICKI, a printing salesman from the Detroit Metro area, seeks repose from periodic tensions in an isolation tank, owned by Ann Arbor resident Stanley Zurasky. Altered states surface in silent, tank o dreams. From AP and UPI DETROIT - United Auto Workers negotiators broke off emergency con- tract talks with General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. yesterday, amid predictions the breakdown might fur- ther dgress new-car sales. UAW President Douglas Fraser an- nounced the collapse of the GM talks shortly after noon, saying the two sides were deadlocked on economic and job security issues. He refused to elaborate. FOLLOWING the lead of the union's GM committee, the Ford negotiators decided to recess their talks pending a meeting of the entire council Saturday in Washington, said Don Ephlin, UAW vice president and head of the union's. Ford Department. Ephlin said he did not believe the breakdown meant an end to the negotiations. "I assume that we will resume bargaining sometime soon," he said. The two bargaining councils will have to decide whether to- continue bargaining now, or wait until the traditional mid-summer opening of contract talks. Fraser said. HOWEVER, because of the economic uncertainty of the auto industry, he said "The odds are with going now. We've got to make a decision." "We're disappointed," Fraser said at a news conference. "we wanted to work this agreement out. It's disap- pointing and regrettable." Contract concessions are needed because "we need to respond to slum- ping sales very, very quickly,"Alfred Warren, GM's vice president for in- dustrial relations, told reporters after talks broke down. "I don't think the in- dustry can wait. I think the industry needs something now." HE SAID he had "some fears" that car sales would be damaged by the decision to break off the talks. The talks began Jan. 11 and the union had set a bargaining deadline of Satur- day, but Fraser said the inability to reach a settlement "wasn't a question See AUTO, Page 3 By SUSAN SHARON You are submerged in a bouyant pool of water. No light or sound permeates the darkness. The only noise you are aware of is that of the blood rushing through your veins and the beating of your heart. This is not a scene in a surrealistic film. It is an experience in an isolation tank. Although films such as Altered States and Simon don't present accurate depictions of the experience, they have caused an upsurge of interest in isolation tanks. Because he owns the only tank in Michigan Ann Arbor's Stanley Zurasky has been kept fairly busy during the last year. FOR $10 you can find an altered state of consciousness by becoming one of the many floaters. According to Zurasky, up to 100 people a month float in his tank, which is situated in Spice Tree apartments on Washtenaw Avenue. "We get them from all over Michigan," he said. Dentists, teachers, pilots and students seek out Zurasky to sate their curiosity. And, he said there has never been a negative experience. "Everyone who gets in feels more relaxed, passive, and in touch." Floating is probably the closest experience imaginable to a return to the womb. Without any extraneous stimuli, people are "forced" to relax, and to get in touch with their minds and bodies.j The glories of isolation were discovered by Zurasky in 1978. See TROUBLES, Page 7 Student organizations protest financial cuts . _____________________________-___ Dial far for free, ad By HARLAN KAHN Long distance is the next best thing to being there, according to a flyer boasting a telephone credit card number which it claims belongs to the Bendix Cor- poration. The scrawled flyer, posted in several campus telephone booths, pictures a simple-looking male identified as Luis Bunuel. "Got a sweetheart far away?" he asks pay phone patrons. "Long distance is the next best thing to being there. And now you can call him/her free of charge! Use the Bendix Corp. (Yes, the makers of the Minute Man Nuclear Missile) Credit Card Number, 313-827-5000-6834." BENDIX OFFICIALS responded to inquiries about the flyer with confusion. "You're kidding," said Susan Garbrecht,a cor- porate recruiting executive. "I'll be damned." Gar- brecht said she had never heard of the number, and denied, allegations that the flyer might be part of a Bendix recruitment campaign. A Bendix switchboard operator confirmed the validity of the flyer's claim. "Yes, it's one of ours," she said.' BUT THE corporation's executives were not so cer- tain. "I know absolutely nothing about it," stated Bendix spokesman Burl Falbaum. "Read that to me again slowly, would you? I want to write that down," he suggests said Dave Taylor, director of News and Public Affairs at Bendix, refuted the operator's claim that the num- ber on the flyer belongsto the corporation. "It is not a legitimate number," he said. The number for Bendix World Headquarters is 827- 5000, Taylor said, but the last four digits listed on the flyer are "a bogus format." Michigan Bell will determine the origin of the num- ber, he said, adding that Bendix will not pick up the tab on any calls charged to the number. The flyer bears an attribution to a group called Non-Aligned Members of the January 12th Coalition and Campaign for Frontal Nudity. A scrawled seal stating, "one big bunch of grapes-Local 10583." By BETH ALLEN Several student groups are com- bining efforts today in a petition drive protesting federal cuts in-student finan-, cial aid. Members of groups including the Michigan Student Assembly, the Public Interest Research Group in Michigan, and Rackham Student Government will be stationed in the Fishbowl and at din- ner lines in the dormitories today and tomorrow to collect signatures on the petitions addressed to President Reagan and Congress. THE PETITION calls not only for a halt to further financial aid cuts, but'for a "roll-back to 1980 levels" for student aid funding. MSA Legislative Relations coordinator Dan Perlman, one of the drive's organizers, said the groups want to start fighting next year's financial aid cuts now. Budget legislation may come up for a vote during the summer, he ex- plained, when students are scattered and lobbying is more difficult. MSA President Jon Feiger said the University groups are fighting several massive cuts proposed by the Federal Office -of Management and Budget. These include the elimination of the; Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant, the State Student Incentive Grant, and the National Direct Student Loan programs, and reductions of Pell Grant funds from more than $2 billion to just over $1 billion, and of the Work/Study Funds from $528 million to $400 million. ' FINANCIAL aid funds received cuts last' December when budget reductions of more than $191 million cut into the Pell Grant, SEOG, SSIG, NDSL and Work Study Programs. All of the programs recommended for reduction or elimination next year suf- fered last December with budget reduc- tions of more than $191 million. I U2 die in labor's clash with Gandhi forces NEW DELHI, India (AP) - Both the payments and repeal of the 1980 law government and opposition labor banning work stoppages in essential leaders claimed victory yesterday in services. the test of strength posed by a 24-hour The strike which ended at 6:00 a.m. general strike, which left 12 people yesterday morning, was called by eight dead, 30 injured and thousands im- labor federations affiliated with op- prisoned. position parties ranging from left to Labor Ministry officials said 4 million right wing. Trade unions connected of 19 million members of'the organized with Gandhi's Congress Party boycot- workforce joined the strike. The ted the action and much of the violence organizers said 12 million responded in started with clashes between the rival the first major struggle between Prime groups. Minister Indira Gandhi and her foes since she returned to power two years SEVEN PEOPLE were killed in ago. fights between strikers and opponents THE STRIKE'S organizing commit- of the action and five by police gunfire.. tee issued a statement citing a The deaths were reported in the states "remarkable response" to its call for of Utar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala protest action against "continuous and Wedst Bengal. price rises and the government's anti- labor policies." The union leaders' statement deman- It threatened further strikes unless ded immediate release of 50,000 union the government enters negotiations on activists it said were rounded up before major demands such as unemployment and during the strike. Pulitzer poet aks at annual, Hop'woods By LAUREN ROUSSEAU Ten university students received public recognition - and a total of $2,000 in prize money - at the annual presentation of the Avery and Jule Hopwood Awards in Creative Writing held yesterday. The ceremony, held in Rackham Auditorium, featured a reading by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stanley Kunitz. The Hopwood Awards are funded by a bequest of university alumnus and Broadway playwright Avery Hopwood.. See POET, Page 7 Doily Photo by DEBORAH LEWIS JOHN ALDRIDGE, CHAIRMAN of the Hopwood Committee presents over $2,000 in Hopwood awards during yester- day's ceremony in Rackham Auditorium. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stanley Kunitz honored the winning students by reading selections from his work. gsTODAY Signs of health UNIVERSITY Health Service is now accepting entries for a logo design contest. A prize of $250 will be awarded for the design which best exemplifies the theme, "Health Care for the Campus Community." Designs should bear the UHS name and be adaptable for multiple use. Entry forms are available at various places around campus and will be ac- of actual explanations of citizens' vehicular vexations: " "An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my vehicle, and vanished;" . "The indirect caise of the accident was a little guy in a small car with a big mouth;" " "The pedestrian had no idea which direction to go, so I ran over him;" " "I saw the slow-moving, sad-faced old gentleman as he bounced off the hood of my car; " " "I was on my way to the doctor with rear-end trouble when my universal joint gave way, causing me to have an Sheriff's officers in Garfield County towns, which are growing because of the oil shale boom, routinely take in- mates to jails in Aspen, Leadville, Salida, Grand Junction and even Denver. On Dec. 31 in response to a class-action suit, U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch in Denver gave the county 30 days to reduce the number of inmates and im- prove conditions at the jail, or face federal investigation. The county is considering adding on to the old jail, putting cells in the basement of the new county courthouse or building a new facility in the western end of the county, where the impact from oil shale exploration is greatest. -. -N 1~z battle what he calls "three days of sin and corruption." Lewis said he was coming into town for the first time, with his wife, and found the convention underway. "It was Sun- day morning and there were beer cans all over, people drunk in the streets and half-naked ladies with their arms draped across men in firetrucks." e added, "I thought, 'Man, this is really a good place for a church.' " On the inside i I i