Reagan takes a bad turn See Editorial, Page 4 C I tr irt Ninety-three Years of Editorial Freedom 43 ti Mega-rays Mostly sunny today with highs in the mid-70s. O1. XCIII, No. 23 Copyright 1982, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday October 5, 1982 Ten Cents Ten Pages Staff may get new salary Program The administration announced esterday that it will recommend a alary increase program for non- faculty University staff at this month's Regents meeting. In addition, the temporary hiring freeze in place at the University since last month was lifted, according to key University administrators. 'WE HAVE always recognized that our non-instructional staff members are as essential to the University and are as committed to its well-being and *uality as anyone else on campus," said Billy Frye, vice president for academic affairs. Considerable controversy had emerged over the past few weeks over whether a salary program should be created for non-teaching University staff, including clerks, secretaries, and janitors. University clerks and secretaries staged a rally in front of the administration building during the Sep- tember Regents' meeting. The temporary hiring freeze had also created concern among faculty mem- bers who said lack of newly hired help would slow down the beginning of classes. THE DECISION to call for a 1983 staff salary program was made based on the recent announcement of the state's committment to increased aid to the University. "We have said that our highest priority or any funds that may become See UNIVERSITY, Page 2 Elderly warned of Tylenol dangers From AP and UPI CHICAGO- About 1,300 volunteers fanned out through the city yesterday to warn the lonely and elderly who may not have heard about cyanide in Extra- Strength Tylenol. Lab technicians, meanwhile, tested empty capsules and powder found in a parking lot a day before the first victim died. Hundreds of frightened Chicago residents have turned in Tylenol cap- sules to police for testing in the wake of the murders, and police were trying yesterday to contact people who still might not be aware of the danger. "We're going door to door in some places like senior citizen complexes," said Deputy Police Superintendent Ira Harris. "We canvassed a lot of chur- ches yesterday, and it will be a con- tinuous effort. This is the first time See VOLUNTEERS, Page 9 Camelot liv esDaily Photo by ELIZABETH SCOTT No, this is not a rare photo from the Middle Ages - it's the Ann Arbor Society for Creative Anachronisms in the Diag. Acting as an anachronism in its own right, the radio reveals the true century. See story, page 5. Black's show low SAT By LISASPECTOR With wire reports Blacks score on average about 100 points lower than the national norm on the Scholastic Aptitude Test according to a report released yesterday examining the performance of minority students on the test, the College Board said. Yesterday's report followed another released two weeks ago announcing that SAT scores on the average rose in 1982 for the first time in 19 years. SOME EDUCATORS assert that the scores of black compared to white high school students reflect the relatively lower. socio-economic status and poor quality of education available to them. According to University Associate Director of Un- dergraduate Admissions Lance Erickson, the SAT scores in areas of lower socio-economic status are "common to all groups not just minority groups." Blacks who took the exam posted median scores of 332 for the verbal part of the test and 362 for math, while white students had a median verbal score of 442 and math score of 483. WHILE THE report showed a distinct difference in scores according to race, it also showed a marked dif- ference in scores of different class groups. The report showed that as students' family income and the level of their parents' education rises, so does the average SAT score. It also showed a marked disparity bet- ween average income for whites and minorities. "Of all the variables, race has the lowest impact," said Henry Frieson, a research collaborator with the National Study of Black College Students at the University of North Carolina. "Primarily it is the lack of educational opportunities overall," he said, "which starts from kindergarten on up,, Frieson asserted that if one compares the average aptitude of blacks and whites from a sample population they are closer at early ages. He asserted that the gap between the aptitudes of blacks and See BLACKS, P. 2 MSU student hangs self after arrest By GREG BRUSSTAR With wire reports A Michigan State University sophomore hanged himself with his belt in an on-campus detention cell early Sunday morning after being arrested for drunk driving. John Joseph Hickey, a 22-year-old engineering student at MSU, was arrested by the campus department of public safety at 2:05 a.m. Sunday for driving under the influence of alcohol. He was taken to the E. Lansing Police Department where he failed a breath test. He was then taken back to the campus department of public safety where he was fingerprinted and detained, according to Denise McCourt, information officer with the MSU News Bureau. HICKEY, A former University of Michigan student, was placed in a detention cell at 3:20 a.m., and was discovered at 3:57 a.m. hanging from a makeshift noose fashioned from a belt and socks. See MSU, Page 9 scores Sorority Rush: Trauma for some By BARB MISLE It is an unfounded rumor that sororities are out to hurt women when they cut them in the rush process, said Panhellenic Advisor Mary Beth Seiler. "We don't like dropping people, but we can't invite 900 girls back." Eight hundred women participated in this fall's sorority rush, but there is only room for less than 600 in the University's 17 sororities. AND LAST Friday morning, the mix of ecstatic Police link slayings of elderly women By GREG BRUSSTAR The Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti police departments believe that three recent murders and sexual assaults of elderly women may be linked, and are coor- dinating a full-scale investigation of the crimes, Ann Arbor Chief William Cor- bett announced yesterday. There are distinct similarities bet- ween the three murders, Corbett said, explaining that all were elderly white women who lived alone in well- established neighborhoods, and each was sexually assaulted and either strangled or stabbed to death in the daytime. See SLAYINGS, Page 5 Ann Arb( ders of el faces and puffy eyes in the Michigan Union proved that those spaces are still highly contested by rush participants. The happy ones were accepted to the sororities they chose. Those who weren't so lucky settled for alter- nates-or for none at all-as they picked up their final bids, marking the end of the three weeks of rush. For some women, the trauma of getting cut was taken as a personal rejection, others took it in stride and moved on to different interests. "It was a letdown. It makes you ask yourself 'why didn't they like me over another girl, and what did I do wrong?' "said one woman who was cut and asked to remain anonymous. "You feel like you didn't pass inspection," she ad- ded. "Some girls took it worse, they were bawling their eyes out to their mothers on the phone." GETTING CUT, however, doesn't mean the mem- bers don't like a "rushee," Rush, Guide Linda Ef- finger said, "it all depends on how, many girls a See RUSH, Page 9 Daily Photo by ELIZABETH SCOTT Big Catch Perry Yarbough, disappointed with his first catch, baits his hook at Argo Park and hopes for a bigger fish to take home for dinner. Daily Photo by ELIZABETH SCOT or police chief William Corbett (left) and Washtenaw County Prosecutor William Delhey discuss recent mur- derly women in yesterday's press conference at City Hall. TODAY Try for glamour OR ALL THOSE University women who tried'out for the Playboy Women of the Big Ten spread and dAn't make it here's snmethinga hit mnre tame. Life on the quiet side AGNAR JONSSON, who for the better part of a century has lived as a solitary trapper in Canada's farthest frigid corners, has come to the big town for the first time since 1923. "It's a roaring city," the 84-year-old wood- sman marveled. Jonsson, more used to dogsleds than automobiles, wondered why there weren't more collisions in the speeding downtown traffic of Winnipeg. "They all seem to be in a horrible hurry to get somewhere and they burn up a lot of precious gas trying to get there," he said. The white-haired, cherub-faced Jonsson lives in a tiny gone as long as two silent years without human contact. But he insists he is not a hermit-he simply lives his own life. Q What's for dinner, Mom? NSECT HORS d'oeuvres, including deep-fried L ,3.,A.1 l The Daily almanac - O N THIS DATE in 1956, a post pep rally "panty raid" was squelched by University officials and student leaders. Two thousand men showed up for the raid on the women's hill dorms, but were disappointed when the event fizzled out. Also on this date in history: " 1971 - The Power Center for the Performing Arts opened with the production of the play The Grass Harp, starring Celeste Holm; " 1970 - Janis Joplin died of a drug overdose at the age of 27: -i ; I