6-year-old won't be The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, March 30, 1982-Page 3 Fire damages room tried for h From UPI and AP GAINESVILLE, Fla. - Prosecutors yesterday agreed to drop aggravated assault charges against a little girl after her parents decided the case belonged in the hands of a community arbitrator in- stead of a jury. State Attorney Eugene Whitworth said the parents of blonde and dim- pled Nancy Jo Burch, 6, agreed yesterday afternoon to allow a juvenile court arbitrator resolve the case. He said he would drop charge s after arbitration is completed. "AS FAR AS we are concerned, it is over," Whitworth said. "The Bur- ches have agreed to let it go to an arbitrator and I have agreed to dismiss the charges. I am happy it itting friend has been resolved this way. This is what we wanted all along." Nancy Jo was charged with hitting playmate Shirley Lynn Nickolls with a stick while a 13-year-old boy held her arms last January. The boy will be tried separately. Last Friday, Nancy Jo's attorney, Alan Wilhite, moved that she be tried as an adult because he believed she would be acquitted by a jury and her record would be expunged. UNDERwFlorida' law, Circuit Court Judge R. A. Green had no choice but to grant the motion. "I may suggest that we all go to dinner and the movies together; bring the kids. We may all go to Disney World or something," said Gary Weinstein, who will function as arbitrator. in East Qu A small fire in East Quad dormitory Sunday night has prompted some con- cern among residents about the dangers of dorm room fires. Dorm residents were forced to evacuate the building for more than an hour Sunday when an overloaded ex- tension cord started a fire which caused extensive damage to one room and, caused smoke damage to much of the third Anderson hall. FIRE FIGHTERS were able to ex- tinguish the small blaze which apparen- tly started when an extension cord sparked and caught a nearby stack of newspapers on fire. Because the room's two freshman roommates, Kim Park and Ann Tabor, were out of the room at the time of the fire, they were not harmed. But some dorm residents and officials remained concerned about the potential for in- jury. Ed Soper, a city fire inspector, said the two women were lucky they were not sleeping at the time the fire started, because "they might not have woken up. SOPER POINTED out that Sunday night's fire-one that most dorm residents would never have predicted- is typical of dorm room fires. "It's the little things that start fires," he said, recalling that the only two earlier incidents of fires at East Quad this year were one caused by an over- cooked poptart and one caused by a pot of chick peas left on a lit stove over- night. Neither of those incidents ac- tually ignited into fires, though they both caused some smoke damage. East Quad Building Director Lance ad Morrowi residents fire haza precauti prevent s "Althou the letter have had while the Daily Gretchen this stor hall issued a newsletter to dorm yesterday warning them of ards and listing a number of ons residents can take to uch accidental fires. ugh there were no injuries," r read, "this fire could easily- I tragic results had it occurred residents were sleeping. staff writers Ben Ticho and !n Wright filed reports for y. Detroit judge speaks out against sentence bargaining (Continued from Page1) Ford, a 1948 University political science graduate, attended law school at Wayne State University in Detroit. She has served as a recorder's court judge for more than 15 years and was in private practice for ten years before that. Ford claimed that judicial sentence bargaining goes on only at the "lowest level," because such defendants have. no one to argue for them. "It's not done in Grosse Pointe, Birmingham, 'or Bloomfield," she added. "NOBODY realizes what the hazards are. . the same person who threatens tries you," Ford said. According to Ford, one lawrelated problem that has plagued women has been their reluctance to help each other. "There's some way that we as women are missing . . I think we haven't gotten over that female jealousy pattern," she said. "The women somehow have not' overcome that simple feeling," Ford added. "It exists when there's no reason for it to exist." FORD SAID she was unsure of how to reorganize the legal system but stresseolshe felt the problem was more with the people involved than the System itself. "If I were going to be in charge of the whole thing, I wouldn't build any more prisons. I'd get some really hot teachers. That's where I'd put my money: in teaching," she said, adding, "If I were wealthy now, I'd resign and do it." She also suggested requiring judges to have more experience before being allowed to serve. "You can always absorb a few people who don't know how to do the job, but we're getting massive numbers," she said. FOR EXAMPLE, Ford noted, judges should be required to have ten years of private practice behind them before being eligible for appointment and should have trail experience before serving on an appellate court. For aspiring lawyers, Ford, who will be running for the appellate court this November, emphasized the process of thinking. "I think it's exceedingly im- portant if you can have debating ex- perience, philosophy, and logic. You really need to learn how to think." "Ann Arbor gives you the freedom to think about and explore all these things without feeling threatened," Ford said. "In Ann Arbor, you move more towards what the world ought to be." Daily Photo by JEFF SCHRII AVI OZ, a visiting professor from Tel Aviv University speaks yesterday against Israeli policies he claims are oppressive. Palestinian, Israeli denounce By JIM SPARKS and NATHANIEL WARSHAY An Israeli and a Palestinian professor yesterday joined in denoun- cing Israeli policies as supressive and discriminatory. Both professors were in town yester- day to speak on "Academic Freedom, on the West Bank," and both agreed that the Israeli government has tried to stamp out dissenting voices in univer- sities. THE CLOSING of Bir Zeit University and the de-facto closing of Bethleham University "is part of a wider policy to supress any kind of opposition to the of- ficial Israeli policy coming from the Camp David accords," said Prof. Avi Oz, who is here visiting from Tel Aviv University, in an,interview before his talk. Prof. Munir Fasheh, who teaches mathematics at Bir ZeitUniversity, said that opposition is growing to what he said are the discriminatory policies of the Israeli government. "The Palestinians have been the missing ingredient in any formula about the Middle East," said the Palestinian. professor. Fasheh said the government has paid only "lip service" to Palestinian needs and that it has at the same time denied them basic rights and liberties. OZ SAID that the government has come increasingly under fire for its policies since it first closed Bir Zeit University last November. Oz said he formed the Israeli Committee for Solidarity with Bir Zeit University after it was closed last fall. He said his group has protested the closing and Israeli policies in general at the university and at several other cities in Israel. Oz's group wants Palestinians to be suppresson' part of the negotiations for peace in the mid- dle East and that Israel withdraw from the territories it occupies and allow the Palestinians to create a state "alongside Israel." "My intent is to convey to the Jewish community that there are growing numbers of Israeli's that think differen- tly and who protest actively," he said. "HOWEVER, dthe press ignores the Palestinians," Fasheh added. "The Palestinians were deliberately forgot- ten by the media." He said that because the pressdoes not publicize Israeli suppression, many people are unaware of the plight of Palestinians in Israel. He said that the closing of Bir Zeit University is only the most blatant of many acts of Israeli suppression. "Most other Palestinians institutions have been attacked (by Israeli discrimination), but you (the public) haven't heard about it," he said. Both professors said Israeli discrimination has dealt a serious blow to academic freedom in the country.. "The closing of Bir Zeit University means an attack on higher education," Fasheh said. "It says: Stop thinking. Stop Existing. The main 'crime' of Bir Zeit University is that it is Palestinian. In Israel, it means unwanted, un- desirable. They want us to become in- visible." This is to be accomplished See MIDEAST, Page 7 EUROPE AND BEYOND Traveling the open road. Freestyle. 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Huron St. Ann Arbor, MI 48104 ~ (313) 662-3149 LHAPPENI1NGS HIGHLIGHT The University of Michigan Art School, Department of Metalwork, will be hosting "Metals III, an Invitational Undergraduate Show." The Metals show -will be exhibited March 30th through April 9th. The opening show will be held March 30th from 7:30 to 9:30 in the University of Michigan Art and Architec- ture Building in the corridor adjacent to Slusser Gallery. FILMS Residential College-Automation the Next Revolution & Machine, 8 p.m., 126 EAst Quad. Women's Studies-The Double Day, 12 p.m., 2203 Angell Hall. PERFORMANCES School of Music-Fortepiano Recital, Penelope Crawford, 8 p.m., Recital Hall. SPE AKERS Law School Student Senate and Union of Students for Israel-Israeli Judge Micha Lindenstrauss, "Terrorists Before the Bench in Israel", 4:30 p.m., Lawyers Club Lounge. Chemistry Department-Prof. Gideon Fraenkel, 3/4"Structure and Dynamic Behavior of Organolithium Compounds," 4 p.m., 1300 Chemistry Building. Department of Statistics-"Resistance of Some random Electrical Net- works," 4:10 p.m., 439 Mason Hall. Turner Distinguished Lectures-Prof. Donald Gray, "Killer Landslides in California," 4 p.m., 4001 C. C. Little Building. Center for Chinese Studies-"The State and the Grain Supple in China: Granaries During the Ch'ing Dynasty," various speakers, Noon, Commons Room, Lane Hall. The Wildlife Society-Guest Speaker, Bob Haas, "Angler Recreation Behavior and Preferences in the Detroit Area," 4 p.m., 1040 SNR. MISCELLANEOUS Hospice of Washtenaw-Bereavement Support Group, 7:30-9:30, Hospice' Office, 2530 S. Main. i+I 9,. happy Hour Pitcher of Stroh's Mug of Stroh's FrenCh Fries $2.75 .50 .25 The Hofstra University School of Law will again offer a "Pre-Law Summer Institute " for five weeks from June 1 to July 1 for the weekday section (Tuesdays & Thursdays) and for the evening section (Mondays and Thursdays excep tfor June 1) and from May 29 to June 26 for the Saturday sections. 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