Registration harassment See Editorial, Page 4 Ninety-three Years of Editorial Freedom !E~aiIr Brighter Mostly sunny and mild today, with a low in the mid-60's. Ali . Wvol. XCill, No. 41 Copyright 1982, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, October 26, 1982 Ten Cents Ten Pages .4 City to vote on 'no liqor'law for plazas By STACY POWELL Using the "out of sight, out of mind" theory of government, Ann Arbor Mayor Louis Belcher's office is proposing an amendment to the city's park regulations which would prohibit any open alcohol at two urban park areas. Sculpture Plaza Park and Liberty Plaza 'Park are areas off sidewalks where city "street people" and other residents gather. Employees in the areas have made complaints to police and the mayor's office of verbal harrassment and at least one case of physical harassment. "A GROUP OF women who get off See CITY, Page 2 Stock market drop worst Daily Photo by ELIZABETH SCOTT Helen Foulks and other visitors to Liberty Plaza and Sculpture Plaza Parks may no longer be allowed to have open alcohol containers if a proposed amendment affecting only these two areas is approved by City Council on Dec. 12. U' may b oost DNA By JIM SPARKS Genetic research, hailed by experts as the scien- tific wave of the future, will likely get a major boost ±vith a new center at the University. Officials say they hope to increase ties with in- dustry with a proposed Center for Molecular Genetics, and in the process make the University one of the top five schools in the country in the field of genetic research. . 41OPEFULLY, the center would hire 10 more faculty members and increase genetic research fun- ds from their current level of $8 million, according to Alan Price, assistant vice president for research. Currently, 14 departments and 40 faculty members onduct molecular biology research, which involves he manipulation of genes in organisms, as well as creating new enzymes and proteins. Approval by the Regents at one of their next meetings is needed to launch the center. Price said that after the expected approval, the center will search for a director and an executive committee. Eventually, Price said, the University hopes to house the center in the Medical Science Research Building, which is still in the planning stages. PLANNERS SAY the center is designed to arrange "partnerships" with chemical and biological firms, as well as coordinate research done by faculty. For example, said Dale Oxender, chairman of the center's steering committee, Monsanto, a chemical firm, recently began a $23 million, 5-year contract with the Washington University of St. Louis. Part of the money to begin the new push in molecular genetics has already come in. In 1981, the Thurnau Trust Fund awarded $750,000 over a 5-year period to the molecular biology faculty, Price said. EARLIER THIS month, Price and microbiology and immunology Prof. Ronald Olsen traveled to a research, conference at Pittsburgh's Carnegie-Mellon Institute to present proposals to industry representatives. "Oddly enought," Olsen said, "industries in the state have done their development elsewhere" and more out-of-state firms seemed interested in suppor- ting the University. To help attract research dollars, Price said he hopes to hire-nationally-known senior researchers. "We don't have the names that say Harvard and Stanford have in this area," explained Oxender. "We certainly aren't in the top five." But Price said that as the center recruits more people, and the current staff gets more visibility, he expects the University to be ranked in the nation's top five or' ten schools in a few years. THE PUSH to reach the top of the biotechnical lad- der sharply contrasts with the controversy that once surrounded such research. Dr. Robert Helling, Professor of biological See 'U', Page 5 since'I From AP and UPI NEW YORK- The stock market suf- fered its biggest one-day loss since 1929 yesterday, a sharp reversal from the two-month buying spree that last week propelled a key indicator to its highest point in nearly a decade. The Dow Jones average of 30 in- dustrials, which had risen more than 250 points since mid-August, tumbled 36.33 points to 995.13. That was the largest single-day drop since the blue- chip average plummeted a record 38.33 points on Oct. 28, 1929, in the Great Crash of that year. MONDAY'S loss, however, was much smaller on a comparable basis-only 3.52 percent against 12.82 percent on the 1929 date. To match the 1929 percentage drop, the Dow would have had to fall 132 points. More than eight stocks fell in price for every one that rose on the New York Stock Exchange as 83.72 million shares changed hands. The outburst of selling was blamed on widespread disappointment that the Federal Reserve had decided not to cut its discount rate, and on a rush to cash in on the market's recent gains. ONCE THE stock market began dropping, traders scrambled to cash in their recent profits, putting further downward pressure on prices. "This pullback is overdue," Richard Proposal may -stop legislator ticket evasion t Protesters of Republican policies set Ranches" across the country which w Vf t " x few ays .: .> T 29v Minshall of Capital Advisers, Tulsa, said. "I'm not surprised. What was surprising was we didn't have one before now." The New York'Stock Exchange index fell 3.03 to 76.65 and the price of an average share decreased $1.25. DECLINES routed advances 1,577- 193 among the 1,968 issues traded at 4 p.m. EDT, one of the broadest margins ever. Big Board volume totaled 83,720,000 shares, down from the 101,120,000 traded Friday. Analysts noted the relatively slower trading as an in- dication of the absence of panic. The heavily capitalized bluechip stocks that led the market up from a 27 -month low in mid-August to a 10- year high last week were hit hardest by the profit taking. "THIS LOOKS like a full-blown retreat," William LeFevre, Purcell, Graham Co. vice president said. "All the Dow stocks are down and most by a point or more. But I don't think this is the end of the bull market." Blue-chip Exxon, which reported third-quarter earnings of $1.23 a share vs. $1.25 a year ago, was the most ac- tive NYSE-listed issue, off 12 to 30. Composite volume of NYSE issues listed on all U.S. exchanges and over the counter at 4 p.m. totaled 95,422,100 shares compared with 116,938,200 traded Friday. Former 'U' student killed i n Evanston after game By FANNIE WEINSTEIN A former University student was killed early Sunday morning after he was struck by two cars while doing push-ups on busy Evanston, Ill. street, according to Evanston police. Jeffrey DeLisle, 22, had driven to Evanston to attend the Michigan- Northwestern game with two friends, University sophomores Rodger Evans and Leonard Rosenbloom, both 19. THE ACCIDENT occurred at about 1 a.m. on Sheridan road, which runs through the Northwestern campus. "They had been drinking but we don't know the extent of it," Evanston Police Sgt. George Scharm said. According to Evanston Hospital of- ficials, DeLisle was brought to the emergency room at 1:15 a.m., where he died a short time after. Evans was treated at the hospital about nine hours later for a bruised arm and then released. He was reportedly injured while try- ing to pull DeLisle out of the way of the second car. UNIVERSITY sophomore Andrew Porter, who had gone to Evanston to See FORMER, Page 3 By JANE JUNN With wire reports Under current law, state legislators Seed not worry about traffic or spen- ding tickets or even lawsuits - they can escape civil prosecution through an ob- scure Constitutional provision for legislative immunity. Passage of Proposal A., the first of seven proposals on the November elec- tion ballot, would allow the legislatur- to close that loophole, and allow the succesful ticketing of leadfooted legislators, according to its supporters. was drafted to guard against those who tried to keep politicians out of the legislature and in the court room, when both houses met only a few weeks out of the year. Now, legislators can abuse the privilege, according to Fred Ander- son, a Faust aide. A similar proposal on the 1980 ballot failed because voters did not fully un- derstand its intent, Anderson said. "The voters thought that they were giving immunity where none had existed before," he said. THE PROPOSAL faces a similar problem this year, even thoughsso far, there has been no organized opposition to it. "The only opposition is voter con- fusion," Anderson said. If Proposal A passes, Faust has in- dicated that the legislature which put the proposal on the ballot by a two- thirds majority in both houses, would ask the Michigan Law Revision Com- missin for assistance in amending the law. "The goal (in actually drafting the law) is to protect the legislators in of- ficial acts and in the functions of the legislature, as well as spurious lawsuits," Anderson said. In other words, legislators, according to Faust, "shouldn't be sued for the way they vote or for whatever they say on the floor.". up tents at Kennedy Plaza in Detroit. This ill operate from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. for the next "THOSE WHO make the laws should ot be above the laws," said State enate Leader William Faust, a major supporter of the proposal. Faust has been traveling around the state cam- paigning for its passage and said 99 percent of those who know about the proposal, support it. Originally, the 150-year-old privilege i f F F n r a 5 d a 50 0 protest Reaganomics By NEIL CHASE THE TENTS - reminiscent of THE PROTEST was organized by the Zora Monroe said she remembers the Hoovervilles, camps established during Tent City Coalition, a joint project of depression. She remembers when her the Great Depression to house the poor over 20 Detroit area church, labor and father had to work for the Works - were set up on Detroit's Kern Block. community groups. The coalition was Progress Administration, a job They were dubbed "Reagan Ranches," formed by the Association of Com- program set up by the federal gover- and appeared in 36 other cities across munity Organizations for Reform Now nment in the 1930s to find work for the nation as demonstrations timed to (ACORN). Nationwide, ACORN boasts millions of unemployed Americans. precede the Nov. 2elections. some 60,000 member families in 26 In what she called an attempt to The nation's economy is falling apart, states, according to spokeswoman Ellaa avoid another depression, Monroe and Monroe said. "They're tearing down Stulz. 50 other protesters pitched tents in too many houses that could be Although the protests in some other downtown Detroit Sunday for a "Vigil remodelled. We need jobs for our cities will continue around the clock un- against Reaganomics." people." See 50, Page5 i F l i r i a,.. .,_ .,.,.a,...... ...... TODAY The man in the moonth F THERE WERE such things as werewolves, they'd be happy as clams next month-November will feature two full moons this year, a real boon to sky-j gazers. University astronomy Prof. Richard Teske said the first full moon will occur at 7:57 a.m. Nov. 1- just on time for die-hard Halloween Ghouls-and the second one will be at 7:21 p.m. Nov. 30. "It is no accident," Teske said, "that the length of a month closely matches the inter- Making time THE TOWN of Gowrie, Iowa, might be a little behind this week-it's on Gowrie Central Standard Time. Last Wednesday's weekly Gowrie News advised townsfolk to set their clocks back one hour on Sunday, Oct. 24. The advice was a bit premature: Daylight Savings Time doesn't end until this Sunday. "If they are going to have so many dif- ferent times, we just decided to make up one of our own," said Gowrie News co-owner and editor James Patton, his tongue firmly planted in his cheek. "We've worked here for Graveyard ambience A CEMETERY in New Orleans was the setting for a pre-Halloween party last week. A woman wearing chains, teen-age males in T-shirts depicting skeletons and members of a punk-rock band seeking a ghostly at- mosphere were all charged with trespassing at the cemetery. After receiving phone calls from nearby residen- ts at 3:45 a.m., police officers feared a bizarre ritual or cult initiation. The 20 people, including four members of the band The Misfits, were arrested by police who found them loitering in the cemetery. One woman wore a black dress, after the Gomberg men stole the Taylor House practice rope. A truce team of resident advisers ended the fight, but not before a few of them were drenched. Also on this date in history: *1948-The Associated Press ranked Michigan first in its football poll. * 1972-Hill Auditorium's Security Office informed the University Activities Center that it would no longer be allowed to rent the building for rock concerts if destructive behavior continued. "Unless drinking, vomiting, and smoking at such activities is stopped, the building will no longer be leased for such events," a security official said. i