The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, September 15, 1982-Page 3 Section of Fuller Road closed for construction _ Y 'i w- i s . "{ Y sx V, Hey, look at this one! Students Jim Van Wyk (left), Kathy Treciak, and Tom Debolski sort through merchandise on sale at the Print and Poster sale. The sale will continue through Friday in both the Michigan Union and the Fish Bowl. Anyone interested in working during the sale can receive a free print for each hour worked, simply volunteer your services. By KRISTIN STAPLETON As part of the three-phase project to alleviate the traffic congestion near the Replacement Hospital Project, a large portion of Fuller Road between North and Central Campus will be closed off beginning today and continuing through December. The traffic diversion from Fuller Road will allow construction of the Fuller Bridge and the surrounding roads to be completed, according to Ann Arbor City Engineer Leigh Chizek. THE DETOURS will reroute traffic from Fuller Road to the new West Loop Road over the Nichols Bridge to Catherine. This second phase will be in effect until early December, Chizek said. The first phase was the construc- tion of the Nichols and Maiden Lane Bridges. The $7-million project to reroute the traffic was approved five years ago because of bottlenecks and delays caused by too much traffic in the area of the old Fuller Street bridge and the University hospital, Chizek said. He estimated that 22,000 cars across the bridge each day. ccident learning for characters, structures and themes. But his novels also showed a wide range of language, themes and tones. "The Sunlight Dialogues" made the bestseller lists in 1972, a sprawling saga that drew comparisons with Melville, James and Faulkner. The novel focuses on a jail escape, the Sunlight Man, who in a Cain-like fall from grace has become a demonic anarchistic magician. Critics said the character embodied the restlessness of the American spirit. THE 1976 novel "October Light" won a National Book Critics Award for fic- tion. Set in rural Vermont, it tells of the battles between an elderly hot- tempered and conservative widower and his widowed sister. They live together, but she goes on strike against him after he shoots out her television set. She spends her days locked in her room, reading a deliberately trashy novel within the novel. The original Fuller Road traffic redirection would have stretched the road across the Fuller Recreation Area or widened it along its original route. The proposals met with opposition from citizens groups who objected to altering the parkland, Chizek said. The plans were then changed by the Urban Area Transportation Study, to another proposal designed, instead of IASRMY SURPLUS 201 E. Washington at Fourth OPEN M-SAT, 9-6 OPEN FRI. 9-8 ,,4-3572 widening the road, to allow construe- tion of a special lane for "high. og- cupancy vehicles"-such as buses and. carpools, Chizek said, adding that a bike path and wide sidewalks are also planned. Chizek estimated that the traffic redirection project would be completed sometime this spring. 15% OFF ALL MERCHANDISE WITH THIS COUPON (Except Sale items) Selected Merchandise up to 50% off in our new bar- gain basement. U Expires Saturday, Sept. 18, 1982 MDE -- - - Read and Use 4? Author Gardner dies BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (AP)- Author John Gardner, who used his skills as a classicist to become one of America's most innovative contemporary writers, was killed in a motorcycle accident yesterday, officials said. The silver-haired novelist, critic and poet was 49. The accident occurred in Oakland Township in Susquehanna County, Pa., about two miles from Gardner's Pen- nsylvania home, said Dr. John Conar- ton, county coroner. GARDNER, author of "The Sunlight Dialogues," "October Light," and other novels, had been head of the creative writing program at the State -HAPPENINGS Highlight A no-cost, self-help group for individuals with Anerexia Nervousa and associated disorders and/or their families, meets tonight at St. Joseph's Hospital, 8 p.m. in the Education Center classroom. For more info, call 973- 9700. Films CFT-Hamlet, 5 & 8 p.m., Michigan Theatre. Hill St-A Thousand Clowns, 7 & 9 p.m., 1429 Hill St. Alt. Act. Pol. Series-Eight Minutes to Midnight, 8:30 p.m., EQ. AAFC-Nosferatu (1922), 7:30 p.m., Nosferatu (1979), 8:45 p.m., MLB 3. Performances School of Music-Piano Recital, Rico Saccani, DMA: Recital Hall, 8 p.m. Speakers Russian & East European Studies-Brown Bag Lunch Lec., Renata Siemienska, "Some Sociological Perspectives on Poland Today," Commons Rm., Lane Hall, 12 p.m. Chemical Eng.-Brice Cartnahan, "An Introduction to Digital Computers and Computing Languages," Nat. Sci. Aud., 7-9 p.m. Near Eastern and North African Studies-Phil Habil, Bassam Tibi, "The Renewed Role of Islam in the Middle Eastern Societies,"200Lane Hall, 4 p~m. Natural Resources-Gary Guenther, "Overview of the DNR," & "En- vironmental Protection," 1040 Dana Bldg., 3-5 p.m. Chemistry-Analytical Sem., Marge Carter, "Monitoring the Control of Diabetes Mellitus: A Current Analytical Problem," 1200 Chem., 4 p.m. Physicians For Social Responsibility-open meeting, Dr. Alvin Saper- stein, "National Security in the Nuclear Age," Scott Hall, Wayne State University, 7:30 p.m. I&OE Department-Seminar, Professor Stephen Pollock, "Decision Analysis and the Huang Pu's 'Black Stink'-Reflections on a UM-China Joint Project," 4-5 p.m., 218 West Engin, Meetings Science Fiction Club-Mtg., "Stilyagi Air Corps," Ground Fl. Conf. Rm., Union, 8:15 p.m. Academic Alcoholics-Mtg., Alano Club, 1:30 p.m. Transcendental Meditation Program-Public Lees., 4313 Union, 1 p.m., & 528W. Liberty, 8:15p.m. Hospitals-New Volunteer Organizational Mtgs., 6th level amphitheatre, Main Hospital, 7-8 p.m. Research Club-Emeritus Joseph Kallenbach, "American State Gover- nors Over Two Centuries," & Walter Loesche, "Recent Advances in Treat- ment of Perindontal Infections," W. Conf. Rm., Rackham, 8 p.m.: The Council will meet at 7 p.m. in the West Alcove, 4th fl., Rackham. CEW- "Women in Science Workshop," Vandenberg Rm., League, 7-9:30 p.m. Lecture-Intro. to Display Terminals-3:30-5 p.m., Michigan Rm. BSAD, Forrest Hartman. Michigan Men's Glee Club-auditions and interviews, 7 p.m., Appointment necessary. For info call David Moreland, at 764-4718. Latin American Solidarity Committee-Orientation Meeting at the Inter- national Center of the Michigan Union, 7:30 p.m. Miscellaneous Student Wood and Crafts Shop-Power Tools, 537 SAB Thompson St., 5-11:30 p.m. School of Music-Tour of the Carillon, top of Burton Tower, 4-5 p.m. ARK-Open-Mike Night, 1421 Hill, 9 p.m. University Musical Society-Usher position interviews, Hill Auditorium Box Office, 2:30-5 & 7-9. To submit items for the Happenings Column, send them in care of: Happenings, The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI. 48109. in cycle a University of New York at Binghamton since 1978. "I agree with. Tolstoy," he wrote in his 1978 book "On Moral Fiction," "that the highest purpose of art is to make people good by choice." Gardner, born in Batavia, near Rochester, studied at DePauw Univer- sity and received his bachelor's degree from Washington University in St. Louis. He was a Woodrow Wilson fellow at the University of Iowa, earning his master's degree in 1956 and his Ph.D. in 1958 in classical and medieval literature. HIS FIRST published novel was "The Resurrection," in 1966. Along with his novels, he had a prodigious outpouring of criticism, short stories, translations, children's stories, biography and poetry. He had translated Old and Middle English texts and was identified as a philosophical writer who drew upon his 130 130EI o.I Z F Z= uI Daily Class ifi eds INTER-VARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP Join in fellowship with students committed to the Lord Jesus Christ FREE PICNIC Sunday, Sept. 19 rides from League at 2 p.m. Meetings: Thursdays at 7 p.m. Michigan Union for Hill dorms: in the League Students gain in changing Ann Arbor housing market U. (Continued from Page 1) THIS TREND has been a cause for con- cern among local landlords. "If people are looking out there," she said, "they're obviously not looking around here." In the scramble to rent to those students who were returning to Ann Ar- bor this fall without a lease, many lan- dlords offered incentives such as scholarships and television sets, said Housing Advisor Brenda Herman. DURING THE summer, the Wilson White Company distributed flyers ad- vertising gift certificates totaling $250 at stores including School Kids Records and Ulrich's bookstore in exchange for a signed lease. Local landlords, however, don't think the situation is as severe as the Univer- sity's housing office claims. According to the results of an infor- mal survey, many landlords claim they have few vacant units remaining. In addition, most claimed they have been able to hold rent increases to a minimum. Few landlords said they were of- fering incentives in order to rent units although some said their rental policies were flexible. Jan Hilscher, manager of Old Town Realty, said the agency charges a 25 percent premium for an eight-month lease but that the figure is negotiable. "We try and go by the individual," she said. FRA TERN ITY ____R USH=- MASS MEETING SEPT. 16 Michigan League Ballroom Guest Speaker: Vice-President Henry Johnson Sponsored by Inter Fraternity Council TAs to vote on contract (Continued from Page 1) The proposed contract is the result of months of negotiations between University and GEO officials. FOR YEARS, the University had refused to acknowledge GEO's right to represent graduate teaching assistants at the bargaining table, claiming that graduate assistants were primarily students and not unionized employees. Last November, however, the Michigan Employment Relations Commission ruled that graduate assistants were considered employees and that the University had to bargain with GEO. Negotiations opened the following April and ended in July whe bargainers agreed upon the proposed contract. Rejection of the proposed contract - which GEO officials point out is very unlikely -would send GE O and the University back to the bargaining table. 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