From horror, hope See Editorial, Page 4 C E sitr Ninety-three Years of Editorial Freedom 13tIai1 Blase Increasingly cloudy today with a high in the mid-70s. Vol. XCIII, No. 18 Copyright 1982, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, September 29, 1982 Ten Cents Eight Pages German scientists ecreate new element in cyclotron, By PERRY CLARK Special to the Daily EAST LANSING- German scientists have created the heaviest element ever made by man or nature. The startling disclosure Monday of the synthesie of Element 109 surprised and delighted researchers here at the International Conference on Nucleus- Nucleus Collisions. "I'M VERY excited," said David Scott, director of the Michigan State - University conference. "It's a *remarkable feat." Prof. Gisbert zu Putlitz, scientific director of the GSI Heavy Ion Research Laboratory in Darmstadt, West Ger- many, said that only one atom of the substance was formed, and that it existed for only five millisecon- ds-about five million times longer than the time required to identify an element-before decaying. The discovery group was led by Peter Armbruster and Gottfried Munzenberg. * THE ELEMENT was synthesized in the West German laboratory Aug. 29. Formal disclosure had been set for Oct. 2 10 to allow time for peer review, but word of the synthesis leaked and spread throughout the conference. Zu Putlitz explained in an interview with the Daily that the still-unnamed element was created by accelerating iron attoms to a speed of 18,600 miles per second in a linear accelerator, or tom smasher, and then crashing the Iron atoms into bismuth atoms. It wasn't as easy as it sounds. Zu Putlitz said a big problem was learning how to smash the elements together witht just the right speed to make them fuse without heating up enough to blow See GERMAN, Page 2 Congress to vote on funds for student aiADdA By GEORGE ADAMS Daily Photo by BRIAN MASCK 'Art School Dean George Bayliss tells art students yesterday to defend the art school during the University review of it. More than 100 art students attended the all-school meeting at the Chrysler Center on North Campus. Dean asks art students to defendtheir program By FANNIE WEINSTEIN Art School Dean George Bayliss yesterday told his students that while they should not become preoccupied with the current review of their school, they should become actively involved in its defense. Bayliss, speaking to the students at a meeting called yesterday, also urged students to look at the review of the school's budget and quality in a positive light. "I SEE THIS (review) as an oppor- tunity rather than a threat," Bayliss told the more than 100 art students gathered at the Chrysler Center on Nor- th Campus. "We have to, in a sense, strut our stuff." "I still don't think it's time to do anything gross. What is timely is to ad- dress yourself as individuals," he said. "It's not a time to get all panicky and fretful. I think we've built a solid case for the school." Bayliss urged the students to write letters defending the school to mem- bers of the special faculty committee reviewing the program. Students should also press influential members of the art community to write to save the school, he added. DEFENSE OF the art school by students is crucial, said Bayliss. "You are the ones whose future is most at stake," he said. But Bayliss also warned students against allowing worries about the review to dominate their lives. "I urge you all to maintain courage and for- bearance," he said. "Students didn't pay all their money to come here and worry about (their) school being reviewed. We have to keep our priorities straight; you mustn't let this thing get too-important." Bayliss praised the faculty review See DEAN, Page 5 United States senators and congressmen will be scrambling today and tomorrow to meet Friday's deadline for maintaining federal finan- cial aid to college students at present levels. The move, called a continuing resolution, would keep federal funds for financial aid - including Basic Educational Opportunity (Pell Grants, College Work Study, Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants, and National Direct Student Loans) - at current levels until Congress can decide on new levels for next year. All financial aid amounts, however, would be adjusted to keep up with in- flation until new levels are set. THE MOVE IS necessary because a definite appropriation for financial aid programs was not prepared in time for the Oct. 1 deadline, according to Thoas Butts, the University's Washington D.C. representative. The federal financial aid system, however, has been working on similar continuing resolutions for the past two years, said Harvey Grotrian, director of the University's Office of Financial Aid. A resolution passed 381 to 19 in the House last week, and the Senate passed a similar version two weeks ago. A joint House-Senate conference commit- tee last Thursday reconciled minor dif- ferences between the two versions, and the final resolution awaits passage today and Thursday, something Butts and other University officials consider very likely. FOLLOWING the vote this week, the resolution will be signedorsvetoed by President Reagan. Butts said it "wasn't clear whether or not the President will veto the bill," but said Grotrian ... veto will have little effect that an override is possible in light of the overwhelming vote in both houses' for the resolution last week. Grotrian said a veto of the resolution would have minimal effect on students for the 82-83 academic year, but could cause problems later on. If the president vetoes the resolution, Congress would be forced to set concrete fund levels for 1982-83financial aid; and would probably have to compromise on the amount of the appropriation, Grotrian said. THE NEW resolution, if passed, would run from the date of its signing until either Dec. 15 or Dec. 22, depen- ding on which version Congress agrees to. When the new Congress takes office See CONGRESS, Page 5 Marines ready to land in Beirut From the Associated Press Israeli troops and armor evacuated Beirut's harbor yesterday and prepared to leave the airport after, resolving a dispute with the United States that cleared the way for landing 1,200 Marine peacekeepers. The Israeli government, meanwhile, approved a full-scale judicial inquiry nto the massacre of Palestinians in west Beirut, and the PLO's chief of staff, Brig. Saad Sayel, was reported ambushed and killed in eastern Lebanon. THE U.S. sources, who requested anonymity, said a "satisfactory arrangement had been worked out" on the airport, and the American con- tingent in the multinational force probably would be able to deploy in Beirut today as scheduled. The departure of the Israelis left French, Italian and Lebanese forces in control of the port for the first time sin- ce Israeli forces invaded west Beirut on Sept. 15, one day after the assassination of . then President-elect Bashir Gemayel. In Jerusalem, Prime Minister Menachem Begin's government decided to set up a full-scale judicial inquiry into Israel's conduct during the massacre at Sabra and Chatilla. CABINET Secretary Dan Meridor said the government was giving the in- vestigating committee free hand to probe any question related to the killings in the camps and to call any witness, including ministers and generals, to testify under oath. Israeli Cabinet sources said Begin hoped the inquiry would take the edge off the furor that swept Israel when it was revealed that Israeli troops allowed Christian militiamen into the refugee camps. The sources said that by ordering the probe, the government hoped to dispel any impression, especially abroad, of a cover-up. ISRAEL invaded Lebanon to rout the Palestine Liberation Organization, and thousands of PLO fighters were evacuated last month. But Israel's U.S. ambassador, Moshe Arens, said in Washington that Israel believes many guerrillas returned to Lebanon "by the back door" and are now in the eastern part of the country with Syrian forces. See MARINES, Page 5 Get to know all the Michillaneous facts Hacky Sackers alive, kicking $y GEORGEA KOVANIS There's nothing new in the idea of students taking time out from classes for a little rest and recreation. But this year they're getting a real kick - quite literally -out of a new fad they've found to fill that time: footbag. Players of footbag, commonly called by the trade name Hacky Sack, are hard to miss around cam- pus; they're the ones standing around in a circle on the Diag, or in the middle of a street, picking a small leather bag to each other. They try to keep the pouch in motion for as long as possible by kicking, punting, and knocking it with their knees and legs. Last August, a new world record of 13,901 con- secutive kicks was set at the national footbag cham- pionship in Portland, Ore. This feat took two hours, 18 minutes, and 12 seconds. "IT'S NOT GOING to be a big sport, but it's fun," said John Markus, a senior in engineering who has taken up the game. "I mostly play soccer. It (foot- bag) takes less room, and is a little easier to play.'" Actually, Hacky Sack - the original footbag - was developed as a rehabilitation tool for knee injuries by John Stalberger of Portland, Ore. Stalberger discovered that the leather bag filled with polyurethane pellets was useful as a warm-up device and training supplement for athletes, and in 1977 put the footbag on the market. Since then his company, Kenncorp. Sports, Inc., has sold 700,000 Hacky Sacks, according to Sales and Promotion Director Bruce Guettich. Kenncorp also sponsors the National Hacky Sack Players Association, which sends teams across the country to perform at school assemblies, NBA half- time shows, and professional soccer halftimes. BECAUSE HACKY Sack was developed in the nor- thwestern part of the country, Guetich said its popularity is most heavily concentrated there. But, as a glance at the Diag and similar spots on other Mich- See HACKY, Page 5 By ANDY MEAD A rash of elliptical UFOs flashing red and green lights flew, dipped, hovered, and landed in the Ann Ar- bor-Dexter area for three days in the spring of 1966. Law Enforcement of- ficers and more than 50 reliable citizens spotted and chased the ob- jects. Selfridge Air Force Base con- firmed radar contact and then Congressman Gerald Ford requested a Congressional in- vestigation. Cathy Burke married her former skydiving instructor, John "Chico" Martinez, during a 90-second, 3,500 foot fall over Ann Arbor's Tecumseh Airport on June ;5, 1979. Seventeen friends fell in diamond formation af- ter the quick ceremony, performed by a skydiving minister. The bride wore a wedding dress under her jumpsuit. THESE FACTS, and anything else you never knew about Michigan or Ann Arbor, are listed in Michillaneous, a new book by Gary Barfknecht of Davison, Mich. the book is a collection of anecdotes and lists of the unusual and the com- monplace, ranging from two major interracial riots, to three dogs who shot their masters, to a 10-pound, 12- ounce celery stalk. r Among the bizarre items in the book is this one: "Ann Arbor - June, 1975. A 29-year-old yoga in- structor mysteriously died while ex- perimenting in a rare form of Hindu meditation. The completely healthy man, with no history or evidence of medical problems, was discovered dead in a classic yoga position." Doctors at first speculated that he had died while in a deep self-induced trance that somehow had slowed his heart to the point his brain received too little blood. Yoga practitioners felt he had projected his soul through 'astral projection' to a dif- ferent time and place. An autopsy ultimately revealed that he had died See NEW, Page 2 The official Hacky Sack ball TODAY Do it today, don't delay T ODAY IS THE day at CRISP, for several reasons. If you have given up getting an education and want to go to Mexico with a little spending money, today is the last day to withdraw with only a payment of a disenrollment fee and registration fee. Tomorrow, the first tuition payment is due. If you only want to slack off a little, do it today, the last day of drop/add with lecture on women's issues. Steinem will appear Oct. 8 with authors Kate Millett and Alice Walker in an evening spon- sored by the Friends for Women's Credit, a group formed to offer forums on women's issues, and by the Women's Studies Program. The lecture, originally scheduled for Hill Auditorium, has been moved to the Power Center to ac- commodate a larger audience. Tickets for the event are $10 and are available at the Michigan Union ticket office. fl Big bank boo-hoo said the clerical error was a good example of why people should check their bank statements. Others would say it was a good example of why they should ignore the statements completely, and just keep writing those checks.e Review hearing THE COMMITTEE currently reviewing the School of Art is open to suggestions. Persons wishing to reserve a speaking time before the committee are welcome at the hearing, to be held Oct. 14 from 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. in the Also on this date in history: " 1972-District Court Judge Sandorf Elden voided the city's $5 marijuana ordinance, substituting a $100 fine and/or a 90-day jail sentence. " 1971-LSA held the first in a series of coffee hours. Bringing together nearly 100 college administrators, faculty members, and students, the sessions were "aimed at promoting communication within the literary college." * 1966-Members of the Voice political party held an all- night sleep-in outside of the office of Vice President Wilbur Pierpont to protest the use of plain-clothed policemen during demonstrtins. r, mt i I