4 Page 8-Saturday, September 11, 1982-The Michigan Daily Sex-biased state laws under fire LANSING (UPI)- It is illegal in Michigan for men to use profanity in the presence of women-and that's only one example of outdated, gender-biased laws now in effect, legislators and members of a gover- nor's task force said yesterday. At a news conference, members of the Michigan Women's Commission urged passage of 16 bills ap-' proved recently by the House Women's Rights Com- mittee, representing the first phase of a legislative attack on sexual bias in state laws. ALTHOUGH NOT among the first 16 bills, the 19th century statute covering swearing in front of women was cited by members of a special commission task force as typical of the legislation that should be repealed. The task force was established by the women's commission in 1977 after Gov. William Milliken or- dered a thorough review of state laws that discriminate against one sex. Among the bills up before the full House for con- sideration is one that would prohibit the marriage of any person under age 16. Now, only females are prohibited from marrying at that age. THE COMMITTEE is also recommending passage of a bill repealing a law preventing children from being educated in "immorality." The law prohibits children under 14 from being "bound out, apprenticed or given away by its parents ... to ... the proprietor, keeper, or manager of a house of prostitution, a saloon or other place where intoxicating liquors or wine is sold." The commission said the law has not been used. Rep. H. Lynn Jondahl (D-East Lansing) said that while most of the proposed changes essentially con- cern "clean-up" of antiquated language, he said the measures will have to be carefully explained to gain passage. . VIRGINIA NORDBY, director of the University's Office of Affirmative Action and chairperson of the task force, said most of the laws in which change is sought are relatively old. She said the legislature in recent years, since the state voted to ratify the proposed Equal Rights Amendment, has been "more careful" in enacting laws which do not discriminate. Although commission members said more "sub- stantive" changes in laws governing property rights and crimes will be introduced next year, several of the 16 bills currently under consideration may have financial impacts. For example, the legislatioti proposes changing language which provides compensation for widows but not widowers, of firefighters, police officers and railroad employees killed on the job. I U.S. evacuation force pulls out of Beirut to board the 6th Fleet landing ship Manitowoc. The ship, blaring the country song "On The Road Again" from its loud- speakers, sailed from the dock at 8 a.m. (2a.m. EDT). A HUGE banner reading "Mission Accomplished-Farewell," fluttering between U.S. and Lebanese flags, hung from a crane-like superstructure sup- porting the ramp. "The excitement is gone for the Marines. They're ready to go," said the Marines' commander, Col. James Mead. Reagan phoned Mead aboard the amphibious ship Guam, thanking him for the "splendid job" the 800 Marines did, White House deputy press spokesman Larry Speakes said. SPEAKES quoted Reagan as telling Mead: "The day you went ashore I sent you a message that I expected you to perform with the esprit and discipline for which the Marine Corps is renowned. Well, you and your men have met the test, and our prayers have been answered." Speakes, with Reagan on the cam- paign trail in Ogden, Utah, quoted Mead as responding, "We stand ready to do what we can for our president and our country. Semper fidelis." Semper fidelis, Latin for "always faithful," is the Marine Corps motto. After the Marines departed, French paratroopers and Italian soldiers ser- ving in the multinational force took up positions in the port. THE 532 Italian troops leave Beirut today. France will withdraw its 800 paratroopers .Tuesday. The French troops were the first of the multinational force to arrive in the city, on Aug. 21, and become the last to leave. Meanwhile, the leader of the pro- Moscow Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine-whose evacuation was overseen by the multinational force-made his second defiant speech in as many days from near the northern Lebanese port of Tripoli. The Christian rightist Voice of Lebanon radio quoted Nayef Hawat- meh as saying at a news conference at an unidentified Palestinian refugee camp near Tripoli that the PLO would "continue its operations against Israel from Lebanon. Eat it up Alice Lloyd dormitory residents gaze hungrily at a twenty foot long birthday cake, presented at the residence hall's 20th anniversary party yesterday. The party was held in Alice's Restaurant, the dormitory's cafeteria. Attorney hints Arroyo may use insanity defense,. (Continued from Page 1) he was very worried and that it was an emergency," keller said. "When I saw him he asked me to help him leave town. "HE TOLD me he was responsible for the Economics Building fire," Keller told the judge. Early in February, Keller made an anonymous call to Ann Arbor police and. told them what Arroyo had said, and where he had gone. Before Keller's call, Arroyo was not a suspect in either crime. Washtenaw County District Court Judge Henry Conlin sustained defender Nelson's objection that Keller's testimony was inadmissible. Nelson said statements about the arson charge should not be brought out in court until the facts of the charge have been established. Keller's testimony was stricken from the record, and further testimony was restricted to the charge of breaking and entering. Michael O'Connor, another friend of Arroyo, said the defendant admitted breaking into the Economics Building early Nov. 27 and stealing a typewriter. ASKED BY Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Robert Cooper why he didn't question Arroyo about the theft, O'Con- nor said Arroyo's actions "tend to be very unpredictale." "For instance," O'Connor said, "hey publicly reprimanded the celebrant of mass at church over, what he regarded to be an inadequate ministry. During the course of moss he rose and started an argument, in front of five or six hun dred people," he said. Both Keller and O'Connor testified- that Arroyo often was very emotional; and that he overreacted to stressful situations. "He had a tendency to become very" agitated emotionally," Keller said. "That would happen with people not liking him because of his religious beliefs, politics, or sexual preferen- ces." According to his attorney, Arroyo , is an admitted homosexual. The defendant, wearing brown pants and a white shirt, sat quietly with his head down while his friends testified. His parents attended the non-jury trial. Testimony will resume Friday at 2 p.m., with witnesses from campus security and the Ann Arbor Fire Depar- tment. Concert ends the summer on a good note What would The Wizard of Oz have been without "Over the Rainbow"? a 0 0 E ~0 0 (Continued from Page 7) Ann Arbor just like anybody else," said Z, a former local jazz jock himself: "Nobody just listens to jazz or rock 'n roll, especially here-except maybe for a few kids. Diversity is important." Z will be very visible Sunday in his; role of master of ceremonies. Someone else certain to be visible is Greg Lutz, owner of Ann Arbor's Video Light and Sound. Lutz will be videotaping the show and producing an hour-long documentary of the event to be broad- cast on the local public-access cable channel within the next two months. Also visible Sunday will be represen- tatives of the University's Residence Hall Association, the Recreational Sports Department, and Eclipse, all ready to explain what they do to the eager incoming hordes. Bram and the Recreational Sports Department's Bill Canning both talked about the possibility, provided Sunday's results are encouraging, of not only doing it again but of also expanding the par- ticipants in future years to include all of the student groups around campus. "It's something we would like to con- tinue," said Canning, who said that although large scale "welcome back" events of this sort have tended to be less than successful here in the past, he is It's a fact: Louis B. Mayer almost cut "Over the Rainbow" from the release print in an effort to shorten the movie's black and white opening sequences. More than four decades later, college students everywhere are packing campus theaters to-see this and other classic films like Psycho, Gone With The Wind, and Casablanca. Find out why in the all-new issue of 0 - - - M -7 1-1- .