Ninety-Two Years of Editorial Freedom I E iau :43 tti BEARABLE Increasing cloudiness today with a chance of snow this afternoon, and a high around 3o. Vol. XCII, No. 101 Copyright 1982, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, February 2, 1982 Ten Cents Eight Pages LSA to require English exam for foreign TAs By BETH ALLEN Foreign University students will be equired to pass an oral examination in the English language before they can work as teaching assistants in Septem- ber, an administrator told LSA faculty members yesterday. The exam will be required of all TAs who received their college diplomas outside of the United States, according to LSA Dean for Curriculum Affairs Jens Zorn. Current TAs and those ap- pointed for the first time in the fall will both have to prove their proficiency in peaking English before they can teach undergraduate courses. THE PLAN FOR testing foreign TAs was spurred by demands by members of the LSA Student Government, who complained that some TAs were unable to communicate with their students, and has since been endorsed by the LSA Executive Committee and the LSA Curriculum Committee, two faculty policy boards. Under the plan, TAs who failed the exam would be required to take classes to improve their oral English through either group sessions or private tutoring while they teach their first semester of class. If the TA fails a re-test before his or her second semester, he or she would not be allowed to teach. ZORN SAID TAs who fail the tests would be offered other monetary sup-. port to help pay for their education, such as a position grading papers or coursework, to make up for the loss of their teaching job. The exam would probably consist of a See LSA,Page 2 Geography eimination report sparks debate By LOU FINTOR A report on the elimination of the geography department sparked con- troversy yesterday as LSA Dean Peter Steiner delivered his monthly message to LSA faculty members. Steiner said relocation of the geography faculty was going smoothly, and the administration was not having any difficulty making accommodations for the displaced geography students. SOME FACULTY members, however, were not as positive in their ,remarks on the administration's discontinuance procedures. "My feeling is that the University gained absolutely nothing," said John Nystuen, cujrrent chairman of the geography department. NYSTUEN attacked the elimination proceedings because recommendations by more than 300 faculty members to- keep the department were not followed by the Executive Committee. "We are not really a participatory democracy, we are a representative democracy," Nystuen said, adding that not only should members of the Executive Committee become more responsible to the faculty in their decisions, but that a mechanism for impeachment of the Executive Of- ficers should exist. "The Executive Committee should have responded to that (the LSA vote) expression of the faculty," Nystuen said. It means nothing for the Executive Committee to listen to the faculty and then make a decision See GEOGRAPHY, Page 5 Daily Photo by BRIAN MASCK To obad A car locked in by a snowplow's work displays words from a sympathetic pedestrian. Faculty response to surve By PERRY CLARK Response to a questionnaire regar- ding faculty unionization has provoked a disappointing lack of response, ac- cording to Tim Case, a research associate for the Committee for the Economic Status of the Faculty. The questionnaire was prompted by petitions sent to faculty governance groups last November expressing diseontent over salaries and interest in the possibility of unionization. Mem- bers of both the physics department and the art history department petitioned CESF for more information about faculty unions. Some 2,740 questionnaires were sent to faculty members on Jan. 18, but only 775, or 28 percent, have been returned, Case said, adding, "It's not as good as I hoped." IN A COVER letter accompanying the questionnaire, CESF Chairman Ronald Teigen wrote, "Our purpose is to determine the extent to which the faculty shares the concerns and desires for information (about unionization) that have been expressed to CESF by the individuals and groups of petitioners." The questionnaire concentrated its 23 questions, however, on the University's merit-based salary system, which awards increases based on excellence in research and teaching. Many faculty members have recently expressed con- cern over the University's practice of granting its top professors-called "academic hotshots"-disproportion- ately higher salaries. Faculty members were asked whether teaching, research, or service should be rewarded, if salary distributions are equitable, and if age is a factor in determining salary in- creases. ONLY ONE question, near the end of y sappointing the survey, deals specifically with necessary to make a decision. unionization, although Case described "NO ONE knows for sure wha it as the most important issue. faculty union would be like," Case sa "We were careful about the order of 'There isn't a peer university the questions," Case said. "We wanted Michigan that has been unionized,' people to begin to think abou the issues. explained. All issues associated with unionization Case said the questionnaire w are listed before, so it (unionization) is designed in consultation w at the end. That's the real issue we were professors and researchers at the looking at." stitute for Social Resarch to make s Last November, Teigen said the the questions were appropriatea questionnaire would not ask directly unambiguous. whether professors supported A computer analysis of the comple unionization, adding the faculty lacked questionnaires will begin this Frid the information on unionization Case said. The results will be availa by the middle of the month. t a aid. to he was with In-. ure and eted day, able Women warn of security .problems in dorms By PERRY CLARK Incidents of sexual harrassment have become such a problem in University dormitories that many female residents feel unsafe, accor- ding to several women who spoke last night at a dormitory student government meeting at East Quadrangle. According to sophomore Barbara Sinnett, who was one of 38 people who gathered at the East Quad Representative Assembly meeting last night, reports of "Peeping Toms" and sexual assaults are becoming more and more frequent in campus dorms. THE HILL area dorms have been having security problems for mon- ths, Sinnett said, but recently in- cidents have become increasingly common at East Quad, where she lives. "Men have been in almost all the girl's bathrooms," Sinnett said. "The incidents have been creeping up. Some people (female residents) want to go to the bathroom and shower in pairs," she said. See EAST, Page 5 Polish authorities hike pp prices to post-war high From AP and UPI WARSAW, Poland- Polish authorities imposed massive price in- creases on food and household necessities yesterday, and the port city of Gdansk was placed under new restrictions because of weekend riots. Under the new pricing, p pound of sugar is to cost 29 cents, up from the previous 7 cents and a pound of ham is $3.45, compared to $1.15. MOST SHOPPERS greeted the highest prices in Poland's post-war history with a mixture of resignation and mild shock. Warsaw streets were quiet and there were no apparent protests in big factories on the city's outskirts. Due to the communications blackout isolating Warsaw from other Polish cities since martial law was imposed Dec. 13, it was impossible to determine the reaction to the price hikes elsewhere in the country. Many observers cautioned that reac- tion to the price hikes might be subdued until people felt the impact on their budgets. THE LAST major attempt to raise food prices,-in July 1980, triggered strikes that launched the now- suspended independent union Solidarity. Previous attempts to raise prices in 1970 and 1976 resulted in bloody riots, and in leadership changes in 1970 and 1980. There were no new reports on the situation in Gdansk, where 14 people were injured and 20 arrested when youths clashed with police Saturday in the Baltic seaport where Solidarity was spawned as the first independent labor federation in the Soviet bloc 18 months ago. While martial law authorities relaxed controls elsewhere in Poland, Gdansk came under tighter restrictions. See POLISH, Page 3 James Joyce's 100th celebrated Ii By DAMIAN KASSAB Where is Leopold Bloom? At least until Friday, James Joyce's lovable charac- ter will be at the Canterbury Loft, where the Univesity and the Center for the Advancement of Peripheral Thought are presenting a Centenary Celebration of Joyce. Born in Dublin 100 years ago, Joyce loved and hated Ireland. Rebelling against both church and state for the conventions they placed on society, he has always been a highly controversial literary figure. Yet, critics consider Joyce - along with T. S. Eliot - one of the primary forces in the emergence of modern English literature. Among his most popular works are Ulysses and Portrait of An Artist as a Young Man. THIS WEEK'S Centenary Celebration features a series of lectures by University English Prof. Bert Hor- nback. Today's presentation will be "Joyce and Einstein: The Creation of the Universe." The connection between Joyce and Einstein is simple, Hornback ex- plained. "In 1904, Joyce ran away with Nora Barnacle from Dublin to Zurich,"' he said. "It just so happened that Ein- stein was staying at the same inn as they were. We also know that Joyce made love to Nora for the first time at the inn and, strangely enough, nine months later the theory of relativity was born," he quipped. "Seriously," Hornback continued, "it is their concept of simultaneity that so closely relates the two." By comparing the two, he said, it is easier to get a bet- ter understanding of Joyce. FOLLOWING the final lecture on Friday, the Loft will host a free per- formance of "Yes to the Universe: A Dramatic Clarification," complete with a Henry Moore reclining figure. Hor- nback wrote the play, and will star in it as Bloom. The film version of Ulysses, preceded by a reading by English Prof. Frances See JOYCE'S, Page 3 Doily Photo by BRIAN MASCK LANCE MORROW, the building director of East Quad dormitory, discusses methods of rape prevention and security on the University campus at a meeting last night in East Quad. -TODAY- Changing of the guard T HIS IS IT. Today's Daily is the first issue published under the direction of the 1982 senior editors. The Daily's new managing desk is headed by Editor-in-Chief David Meyer, a junior history student from St. Louis, Mo.; Executive Editor Charles Thomson, a junior political science student from Charles City, Ia.; Managing Editor Pamela Kramer, a junior from from Ann Arbor majoring in Communications; and Business Manager Joe Broda, a fifth-year art student from Dearborn. Fashion-conscious profs Isn't it bewildering that some University professors can manage to look like they walked off the pages of a Saks Fif- th Avenue catalogue on their meager salaries? Help us determine which of these mod mentors deserve recognition for acquiring this stylish skill. Send your nomination, in- cluding the name of your favorite fashionable professor, his country is in for six more weeks of winter. If he doesn't there will be an early spring. This year, a Southern challenge to Phil is being mounted at a wildlife area at Stone 'Mountain, Ga. "We're tired of this snowbound Yankee groundhog predicting our weather," said Art Rilling, director of the Wildlife Game Ranch at Stone Moun- tain. "So we decided to set up our own central groundhog forecasting center." Rilling said five "good old boy Southern groundhogs" ought to be able to get together and predict the weather as well as the Pennsylvania groundhog. As usual, Punxsutawney Groundhog Club President *. . * , L U . . _.1 . .. ... . k t... anymore in the superstition about ladybugs being lucky. Someone released four bags full of ladybugs Friday night in the bar of Dixon's restaurant, the Kirklander, in Kirkland, Wash. Dixon figures he lost between $2500 and $3000 in bar and dinner receipts. As the ladybugs spread throughout the restaurant, he said, he had to send about 35 diners away from their dinners. Dixon had to close his restaurant and call a fumigator. Dixon said a reward of $500 plus a dinner for four will be paid for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for the crude joke. Q I i E i