'No' on B See Editorial, Page 4 I Ninety-three Years of Editorial Freedom 43ktI Marvey Partly cloudy and mild today as the high reaches to the delightful upper 60s. w Vol. XCIII, No. 43 Copyright 1982, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, October 28, 1982 Ten Cents Twelve Pages A rroyo 'barson tial concludes By SCOTT KASHKIN Prosecution and defense attorneys in the trial of alleged Economics Building arsonist Arthur Arroyo presented their closing arguments yesterday, en- Sding two months of testimony from police, psychologists, chemical experts, and other wit- nesses from as far away as Saudi Arabia. . For nearly three hours the opposing lawyers un- derscored the main points of their cases to Judge Henry Conlin, who will deliver the verdict in the non-jury trial. Conlin said he will today announced the date when he will deliver a verdict in Arroyo's ease. f ARROYO, A former University employee, is charged with breaking into the Economics Building last Thanksgiving to steal a typewriter, and with setting fire to the 125-year-old structure Christmas Eve. In yesterday's first argument, prosecuting 4 lawyer Robert Cooper stated again and again his contention that Arroyo intended to destroy the building when he set fire to it. "It's like walking up to a person in the courtroom and setting his clothes on fire, and standing back to say, 'I only intended to set the clothes on fire," Cooper said. "He (Arroyo) had to reasonably ex- pect, when he set fire to papers in a 125-year-old' wooden building, that the fire would spread," be argued. ARROYO HAD confessed in an oral statement to Ann Arbor police last February that he set the fire, but said he told them he only intended to burn a small stack of papers in the basement hallway. The suspect said then and in his testimony last week that the rapid spread of the fire surprised him. He said 'he thought perhaps the fire had ignited some chemicals that were already in the building. During the course of the trial, fire experts and ' The App *Police detectives have testified that there wereTh Ap "splash patterns" in the basement hallway's Bobbing for apples charred remains. Such patterns usually indicate ar- at the Ann Arbor Co son, they said. nity helped with the See TESTIMONY, Page 3 the planning and cha Art students *brighten Diag with billboards Brezhnev pushes for MOSCOW (AP)- President Leonid Brezhnev, in an unusual meeting of senior military and Kremlin officials yesterday, urged a military buildup and better ties with China to counter what he called U.S. adventurism. Brezhnev reasserted his role as commander in chief of the Soviet ar- med forces, heaped praise on Defense Minister Dimitri Ustinov and hinted that reorganization may be under way in defense industries-the respon- sibility of Andrei Kirilenko who has been rumored to have retired due to failing health. THE OFFICIAL Soviet news agency Tass said Brezhnev called the meeting at the request of Ustinov, one of five members of the ruling Politburo atten- ding. The 76-year-old Kirilenko, who had been considered a strong contender to succeed Brezhnev, was absent. Two other possible successors, ex- KGB chief Yuri Andropov and Konstan- tin Chernenko, sat on Brezhnev's right; Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Premier Nikolai Tikhonov sat at his left and Ustinov was seated behind him. Western diplomats said they were unable to explain the timing and pur- pose of the meeting, but they said they believed it was to underscore the unity of Brezhnev's "collective leadership" and its close ties with the Red Army. THE SPEECH lasted 10 minutes, ex- tremely short for a Brezhnev address, and was televised. The 75-year-old leader read the speech in a strong voice, but slurred much of it. Cameras avoided Brezhnev as he walked to and ilu Brezhnev le Dunkig Gang Photo by DEBORAH LEWIS and carving pumpkins were only some of the activities for children to participate in ommunity Center's Halloween party last night. Members of Omega Psi Phi frater- festivities by supplying cider,, carmel apples and pumpkins as well as helping with aperoning. ... U.S. foreign policy unsound from the podium. Brezhnev said that "Washington's aggressive policy.. . is threatening to push the world into the flames of nuclear war." He called the U.S. policy one of "adventurism, rudeness and un- disguised egotism." Brezhnev asserted Moscow still seeks detente with the West, which he claimed is not totally lined up behind President Reagan's efforts to "isolate" the Soviet Union and its allies. See BREZHNEV, Page 6 I 3FRO= WN By PINA SBROCCA There's a big surprise on the Diag *this morning students simply won't be able to avoid. A handful of art students last night silk-screened four colorful billboard messages to the drab con- crete, and it's hard to miss the 12-foot square displays. The eye-catching project, undertaken by the group Student Awareness, "was. not done to create a visual distraction," said co-organizer Pat Wilken, "but to present students with a thought." FORMED AS a student-to-student communication link, the group uses the Diag messages as part of a campaign ,drive to create loyalty to the Univer- sity, said group supervisor Prof. Chauncey Korten. The organization's long-term goal is to help make a more loyal alumni body, so that in the future, they will provide the University with much-needed donations, Korten said. "If you want to make students better S alumni, we have to develop ways to get them involved while they're here," said Korten. TO BEGIN generating interest, one of the billboards encourages students to "check out" the renovated Michigan Union. Another lauds the accomplish- ments of University graduates and urges students to keep up the pace. "Nobody pats students on the back and lets them know that they're among the best just by being here," Wilken said. ; Another,-billboard addresses University redirection plans and budget reallocations. "Not so much the redirection itself," Wilken said, "but the fact that people don't know what's going on. We want people to think about things and not let them go unquestioned." THE BILLBOARDS are a positive communication," said Wilken. "Our first thought was to use graffiti, because everybody reads that," said senior art student Mary Weisenberger, "and this is just a classier wasyto present it. Posters just fade into the wall, students can't ignore this," she said. It's a great way to advertise the University," said MSA art school representative, Andrew Keenan, "everybody is always walking with their head down. They should be effec- tive this weekend with all the alumni in town for homecoming," he said. Plans for the project were begun last January. Students worked through the night with the aid of car lights in order to finish the project before the weathert See SIDEWALKS, Page 6 Marshals arrest 21 draft protesters in Iowa DES MOINES, Iowa (UPI)- Federal marshals yesterday arrested 21 protesters who locked arms in a human chain to block the entrance to a federal courthouse where a draft registration resister went on trial. Inside the building, a 10-woman, two- man jury was selected in the trial of Gary Eklund, 22, of Davenport-the fir- st Iowan to be indicted for failure to registers for the draft, and the 13th nationwide. MOST OF the arrests made by 15 U.S. marshals were peaceful. But one demonstrator said, "You'll have to drag me," when asked whether he preferred to walk or be dragged away from the courthouse entrance. About 125 placard-waving members of the Blockade Task Force, singing spirituals and chanting "Stop the political trials," marched from a down- town plaza across the Des Moines River to the federal courthouse. U.S. Marshal Warren Stump said 21 protesters were arrested when they sat at the west entrance to the courthouse, formed a human chain by locking arms and quietly awaited their arrests. DEMONSTRATORS also linked See U.S., Page 2 rhoto by DEB RH LEWIS Elmer White, a local attorney, explains the Michigan Indians' claims against the University before the University-Civic Club yesterday. The brief (inset), prepared by White, was filed before the United States Supreme Court. Indians take 'U'to hi gh court By DEBRA IMMERGUT An 11-year legal battle between the University and several native Michigan Indian tribes reached the United States Supreme Court yesterday, with the In- dians seeking educational rights they say were promised in an 1817 treaty. In a speech before the University- Civic Club yesterday, Elmer White, at- torney for the Indian tribes, said the suit concerns 1,920 acres of ancient tribal land the University received from the Indians in the Treaty of Fort Meigs of 1817. THE INDIANS are now seeking educational benefits which they claim were promised them in exchange for the land, according to White. The University claims the land was a gift with no strings attached. In 1981, the Michigan State Court of Appeals upheld a 1979 decision which ruled that the land was indeed given as a gift by the Indians and no legally bin- ding promises were made in the treaty. White said in an interview yesterday that the decision represented "the grandest larceny in the history of Michigan. . . the Regents stole almost 2,000 acres from the area's native residents." HE SAID THAT the University could fulfill its 165-year-old promise to the In- dians by setting aside scholarship money for Michigan tribe members. White said the suit, filed yesterday, has "about a three percent chance of actually being heard" by Supreme See INDIAN, Page 2 -TODAY- GEO deadline uncertain AT THEIR regular steering committee meeting tonight, GEO members may discuss extending the newly negotiated labor contract ratification deadline which expired Wednesday. Members said rumors of extension were started after members My professor's a fool jPATRICIA Limerick is a professor of American history at Harvard, and a serious academician. She's also been a fool for years. "In the presence of a fool, pedple behave wonderfully," says the 31-year-old Limerick, who began dressing up in fool's makeup and costume in 1977 while at Yale. She thinks Harvard ought to make her fool's status official because the campus could use some whimsy: "Harvard and Yale have a very high percentage of students fearing to make fools of themselves. They write safe and James Thompson. However, she still awaits official recognition. O King of Orange ENE RHODES, the pumpkin king of Kalamazoo, G grows 10 tons of pumpkins a year. But he doesn't leave it at that-his bathroom is orange, he drinks from an orange goblet, drives an orange car, and wears an orange ranch hat and an orange shirt. "I almost sided the house in orange," the 46-year-old said with a grin. "If I could have found a halfway decent orange, I would have done it." Each high school girls wanted to attend college primarily for social purposes. A spokesman at the center stated, "Because we fail to provide adequate channels for gratifying their real aspirations, many girls are forced to assume a pretense of intellentual interest to enter colleges and universities." Also on this date in history: " 1917-In compliance with a request from the gover- nment, the Woman's Committee Council of National Defen- se undertook the registration of the woman power of the state for war service. " 1950-A poll revealed that Michigan men preferred