NOW comes of age See Editorial, Page 4 P Ninety-three Years of Editorial Freedom 43Iai i Sprinkles Patchy fog should lift by this mor- ning, remaining mostly cloudy with a chance of light rain. Temperatures should reach into the low 60s. Vol. XCIO, No. 29 Copyright 1982, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, October 12, 1982 Ten Cents Ten Pages; Shapiro calls unity in hard for times By JIM SPARKS While the burden of budget cuts has lan- ded most heavily on a few departments, the University must avoid dissension in these hard times, President Harold Shapiro said last night. "It's a time of sacrifice and commit- ment," Shapiro said to a crowd of about 300 people who gathered at Rackham Auditorium for the president's State of the University speech. "The sacrifices are not always uniformly distributed. Such a situation can create serious tensions." THE CAUSE of these tensions can be quickly discovered: The University's critical financial position must take most of the blame, Shapiro said. Over the past four years, the Univer- sity's budget has declined by 23 percent, while over the past decade, student fees have risen by an average of 11.7 percent per year, Shapiro said. Despite the in- creases in tuition, the University has un- dertaken a program to trim $20 million from its budget by cutting funds from targeted departments. This process of reduction, Shapiro said, has been very painful. "The human and emotional costs have been very real," Shapiro admitted. "The fact that some respected and admired colleagues, at all job levels, who were among us last year are not among us this year is very troubling." DESPITE THE morale and budget problems, Shapiro did point to some bright signs for the University. In response to declining state aid, the amount of private funds donated to the University rose to more than $45 million last year, a 40 per- cent increase over 1980. Shapiro also pointed to the University's faculty as a sign of strength: Sit professors received Guggenheim Fellowships this year, and three weie ap- pointed Senior Fulbright Scholars. SHAPIRO granted that solutions to the problem of mixing fairness and budget cuts are hard to come by: "This is proving to be a complex task, a task for which no simple recipe is available, whether it is 'smaller but better,' 'bigger is better,' or 'status quo is best,' " Shapiro said. But Shapiro pointed out that other schools are currently facing far worse problems. The Univeristy of Bristol in England has had to reduce its faculty from 800 to 600 in two years, he said, referring to a conversation he had recently with an of- ficial of that school. The night, however, opened on a positive note, with $18,750 in awards given out to 17 See SHAPIRO, Page 7 DoHv hcm!c by F EUZAlBE i ~ In his annual State of the University speech, President Harold Shapiro said last night that recent budget cuts are causing tension in the community. Apartment vacancies still high By BETH ALLEN Renters searching for the ultimate in campus living can afford to be pickier this year, as campus area vacancy rates remain high foi the second year in a row. Figures from the University Housing Office show a 13.21 percent vacancy rate as of last Sept. 10, down only slightly from last year's 13.7 percent rate, in a survey of 21 of the larger management companies registered with the office. HOUSING Advisor Brenda Herman said yesterday that although the figures reflect only the vacancies of the larger management companies and are restric- ted to an area bounded by Main St., Fuller Rd., Ox- ford St., and Burns Park, they still indicate some new trends in student living habits. For example, students have decided to give up their single rooms and switch to doubles this year as a means of coping with the dismal economy and rising tuition bills, Herman said. "The one area students find they can save money in is housing," she said. Herman said the doubling up in rooms is one of the major reasons for the area's high vacancy rate. HERMAN ALSO said that the economy has left more vacancies in buildings further from campus, which are sometimes offering financial breaks such as a rent-free month to draw students further from central campus. The drop in the University's enrollment over the past few years may also be affecting the campus area vacancy rate, she said. The drop has been attributed largely to a decrease in the number of graduate stud- ents coming to the University, Herman said, and graduate students are more likely to seek off-campus housing than undergraduates. In addition, the higher vacancy rate may have for- ced campus area landlords to work harder to capture the renters' interest, as the traditional 12-month lease has given way to four-to-eight month leases, and ren- ts have stayed the same or dropped in many of those cases, Herman added. ANN ARBOR Tenant's Union Director Dale Cohen agreed that the current housing market has given the renters advantages that they could not have expected several years ago, including lower rents and a better position to negotiate lease terms. "If you've got a landlord who wants to see his mor- tgage paid, he'd rather take a slight cash flow loss than leave an apartment empty," Cohen said. See VACANCY, Page 2 Solidarity defies Polish order, strikes shipyard WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Founding members of Solidarity at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk defied the Com- munist government's new ban on strikes with a sit-in yesterday deman- ding reinstatement of the outlawed in- dependent union and the release of union chief Lech Walesa. Western reporters who left the Baltic port city six hours after the eight-hour strike started said the police had taken no action by then. But Polish television reported the police used "means of coercion" on "several groups" of onlookers who defied orders to disperse after dusk fell. THE OFFICIAL news agency PAP said workers went home peacefully but several groups 'disturbing the peace" outside the shipyard and at the Gdansk railway station were dispersed by police using force. The Western reporters said leaders of the protest decided to strike again today for eight hours. They told the shipyard's 17,000 workers to assemble outside the gates if the government closed the yard. The government television, service admited "a section of the work force at the Gdansk shipyard stopped work" but claimed pictures taken in the yard showed there was "not much interest" among other workers. However, the telecast said the pictures were taken between 3 and 3:30 p.m., after the strike was scheduled to end for the day. WITNESSES said about 8,000 workers at Lenin shipyard as well as workers at the nearby Northern and Repair shipyard stopped work at 6 a.m. with the start of the first shift, locking the shipyard gates and refusing to let anyone in or out. Near the end of the strike, however, policd staged a show of force by driving a convoy of four armored vehicles in- cluding a water cannon, past the shipyard gate, the witness said. The government cut all telex and telephone communications with the coast at 11 a.m., and highways to the area were blocked to incoming traffic. THE STRIKE in the giant shipyard where Solidarity was born August 1980 had been scheduled to last only two hours. But the Western reporters said the workers decided it would continue six hours longer, until the end of the day shift at 2 p.m. PAP reported that "the workers of the first shift left the shipyard in peace," indicating that the strike ended as scheduled. One official source in Warsaw said privately there could be trouble in all five of the coastal provinces and two in See SOLIDARITY, Page 7 Daily Photo by BRIAN MASCK: Sen. Mark Hatfield argues for a nuclear arms freeze to a standing room only crowd at Rackham Amphitheatre Sunday night. Hatfield blasts armS racebefore hundreds By KENT REDDING While the Reagan administration is claiming that the United States does not have enough money for social ser- vice programs, it wastes billions each year on the arms race, Sen. Mark Hatfield (R-Ore.) told a packed house at Rackham Amphitheatre, Sunday night. "We are a confused people when we say megatons are the only measure of our strength. It's a question of misappropriation of resources," Hat- field told the crowd of more than 1,000 nuclear feeze supporters, less than a third of whom were students. HATFIELD, co-sponsor of the nuclear freeze resolution in the Senate and one of the first senators to speak out against the Vietnam War, said the current emphasis on building more and more weapons is creating im- balances in the national economy. The arms buildup takes away productive capacity from civilian industries, thereby forcing the U.S. to import more goods, he explained. "If we are really concerned, let us realize the sacrifice we are making for this nuclear madness," Hatfield said, suggesting that the nation put more of its resources into health, education, and transportation systems. The crowd, many sporting buttons advocating the freeze proposal, which is on the state's November ballot, in- terrupted Hatfield nearly a dozen times with enthusiastic applause. ONE OF THE more terrifying aspects of the nuclear arms race, he said, is the possibility that an accident could cause a nuclear holocaust. 1n only 20 months, Hatfieldsaid U.S. warning systems were falsely triggered over 4,000 times, once by a See SEN., Page 7 Remembering a friend Placing a plaque in memory of Jodi Spiers, a University student killed in an auto accident, are her cousin Steve Katz, left, and LSA Student Government President Margaret Talmers. The tree in the background was planted shor- tly after Spiers' death. See story, Page 3. TODAY Reckless driving LEONARD AND Lillian Gioia of Westbury, N.Y. discovered a prowler in their den at 2:15 a.m. Saturday. He was driving a Ford at the time. Police arrested John Knaust, 18, of Westbury, and charged him with driving a car across the Gioias' lawn, ramming their 1972 Buick, barreling into their garage door, slamming into a second car, knocking that car through a- they are beginning to show different personalities. "We Baffling babies IT TOOK FANCY footwork by a police detective in Fort Walton Beach, Fla. to solve the case of the baffling babies. Rona and Mark Hater, both 22, called the Okaloosa County Sheriff's office last week because they couldn't tell which of their identical 7-week-old twins was Jessica and which was Alaina. Investigator Jules Borio cracked the case by taking each girl's footprint and comparing them with footprints on their birth certificates-no easy task heazue the nrints were nearlv idential. The twins were they are beginning to show different personalities. "We needed help." Just hanging out . EMPLOYEES IN a row of stores in Mission Viejo, Calif. have finally found out what has been making the attic go bump in the daytime for the past two months. "It was definitely a swishing type noise, kind of like water running through pipes," said Barbara Bartnick, an agent at Realty World, one of the companies in the row of stores on Alicia Parkway. The noise whispered across the attic in the after- .......... ...l The Daily almanac O~N THIS date in 1967, Student Government Council voted to recognize "the right of freshman women in in- dividual residences to make their own hours." The vote was a response to a resolution passed in Markley which eliminated the punishment for curfew violations. Also on this date in history: " 1971 Actor James Earl Jones returned to Ann Arbor to accept an honorary doctorate, and to reminisce about his wild college days. 1966 - The state legislature announced that it was n-