High hopes; low turnout See Editorial, Page 4 C I tr Ninety-three Years of Editorial Freedom ~Ialij So Blue Partly sunny and cold today with a chance of snow showers and a high in the 30s. Vol. XCHII, No. 57 Copyright 1982, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, November 13, 1982 Ten Cents Ten Pages UAW leaders select new president to take over after Fraser exits From AP and UPI DEARBORN- United Auto Workers union Vice President Owen Bieber was selected yesterday by the union's 26-member executive board to succeed retiring President Douglas Fraser as leader of the nation's third-largest union. The UAW steering committee is expected to ap- prove the board's choice and pass it on for rank-and- t file members to finally decide at a convention in Dallas in May. THE SELECTION came after the executive board \ huddled behind closed doors for about four hours casting secret ballots. Bieber was chosen by the board on a 15-11 vote after a few initial ballots in which none of the three can- didates received the necessary 14 votes for the board's nomination. Bieber, 55, has been a UAW vice president since June 4, 1980. He also is director of the UAW's General Motors Department, the largest in the union with ap- proximately 450,000 members. ON THE WAY into the executive board meeting yesterday, Bieber told reporters he was confident. "I think I will win," he said as he entered the room at the suburban Detroit hotel. He would not say by how many votes. President Douglas Fraser has reached the union's mandatory retirement age of 65 and is to step down at the convention in Dallas. Challenging Bieber for the top spot were Raymond Majerus, 58, secretary-treasurer, and Donald Ephlin, 57, vice president in charge of the UAW's Ford Motor Co. department. Daily Photo by JEFF FRASER, the fifth president in the union's 46- Incredible egg feats year history, has been president since 1977. Officials say the new president will be the first of a John Pazdera jubilantly shows the crowd his egg wasn't broken after new era. Previous presidents were involved in the ping it from the roof of the Dennison Building. Pazdera, a sophomore union's earliest, and often violent, days. but all of School of Architecture, was a mong the participants who dropped eggs those men will be gone after Fraser leaves. extreme heights in the Engineering Society's Egg Drop Contest. See Page 2. Hazardous heda hones Headsets a\\ \\\might hurt S... \~~Z hearing, \~ v prof. says By JACKIE YOUNG People have always been warned S about what is good for them. Experts say you can't eat anything because it Scauses cancer. There is the advice ' v" about looking both ways before \ C crossing the road. And, of course, there v,,," v .. .are the parents who warned their children of rock and roll's devastating effects on the human ear. SNow, come warnings from East Lan- sing that the portable stereo head- phones gaining popularity across the tv. _ country combine the effects of rock and roll with the hazards of crossing the vroad with your eyes closed. "MANY OF the earphones used with \\ z\ \' stereo or sound equipment cause tem- b wz z.' t.N porary threshhold shifts if listened to d, v vvA for extended periods of time," warns Michael Chial, an associate professor of t audiology and speech sciences at A s Michigan State University. n And what's worse, he said, is that the c headsets "may interfere with the Daily Photo by JEFF SCHRIER auditory system as a warning system," A A pair of portable stereo headphones shield Julie Eriksson from University making the wearer susceptible to ac- p life yesterday. An MSU expert warned the headsets because they make people cidents. susceptible to hearing loss and accidents. See HEADSETS, Page 2 n Former KGB chief Andropov will succeed I From AP and UPI MOSCOW- Former KGB chief Yuri Andropov suc- ceeded Leonid Brezhnev as Communist Party chief yesterday with a warning to the West he would defend Soviet interests with the "uncrushable might of the Soviet armed forces." Andropov, 68, was elected unanimously by the Cen- tral Committee to succeed Brezhnev as general secretary of the Communist Party, the most powerful position in Russia. NO ONE WAS named immediately to succeed Brezhnev in the lesser post of president. U.S..officials have little doubt that Andropov, the longtime head of the KGB, will pursue an arms buildup as he attempts to solidify his standing with Soviet generals. Even Brezhnev, who died Wednesday, was perceived as going out of his way to curry favor with the military in his waning days. Despite cultivating a reputation in the West as a "closet liberal," Andropov is known to take a harsh approach to organized critics of Kremlin policies. ANDROPOV, who ruled over the feared Soviet in- telligence agency for 15 years before leaving in May to enter the political mainstream, promised the Central Committee he would "devote all his energies, knowledge and experience of life to the successful im- plementation of the program of building communism," the Soviet news agency Tass said. "We know well that you cannot beg for peace from imperialists," he said. "It can only be safeguarded by relying on the uncrushable might of the Soviet armed forces." Andropov led the Kremlin hierarchy in paying respects yesterday to Leonid Brezhnev, whose body lay in state in a flag-draped building in downtown Moscow. After the leaders left, tens of thousands of Soviets began walking past the casket for a final look at Brezhnev Brezhnev, who died of heart failure at the age of 75. ANDROPOV was named head of the committee arranging Brezhnev's funeral in Red Square Thur- sday. The unusual speed with which the party acted- seemed designed to assure the Soviet public-and the. world-of continuity, stability and unity in the Kremlin. The funeral is set for noon (4 a.m. EST) Monday. Konstantin Chernenko, Brezhnev's most trusted aide See SOVIETS, Page 2 U' profs react to new Soviet le ader By DAN GRANTHAM The recent change in Soviet leadership may give the U.S. an opportunity to improve relations with the Soviet Union, according to several University professors. Political Science professor Arthur Meyer, who said the Soviets are "scared to death" of the present ad- ministration, stressed that "this is a marvelous time for us to make some sort of gesture allaying their fears." The new Soviet general secretary's connection to the KGB, the Soviet's secret police, shouldn't hurt his See PROFS, Page 3 Prof. speaks on collective By FANNIE WEINSTEIN Although the loss of autonomy, merit raises, and a good image are all legitimate concerns of a university faculty, they are not necessarily con- sequences of collective bargaining, ac- cording to Prof. Victor Stone, national president of the American Association of University Professors. "Collective bargaining can settle, regulate, and diffuse explosive and destructive situations (between faculty and administration) on campus," Stone said yesterday at a meeting of the University's AAUP chapter at the Michigan League. bargaining BUT, STONE, who is a law professor at the University of Illinois, said collec- tive bargaining can also create some unwanted situations for faculty. "There are people who don't want to be related to organized labor in any way, shape, or form," he said. "Collec- tive bargaining is associated with in- dustry; associated with labor instead of management. That polarization will be accentuated by the adversary roles taken in collective bargaining." There are faculty members at many universities, Stone said, who fear See PROF., Page 6 Stone .. unionizing has its problems Contracts of WSU non-tenured pro fessors may not be renewed By JERRY ALIOTTA Some nontenured Wayne State University professors will be issued pink slips within the next two weeks to help balance the $5 million budget deficit facing the Detroit institution. "We are not firing people or laying hem off," said WSU President David Adamany. "We are simply giving notice that we are not able to renew contracts that expire next summer." AS PART of an agreement with the American Association of University Professors-the WSU faculty union- administration must give a six-month notice to any non-renewable one year contract. The pink slips aren't anything new claims Norm Kopmeyer, president of WSU's AAUP chapter. "It's happened every year. But this year is not nearly as bad as the past two years," Kop- meyer said. "There are no layoffs. There is a profound difference between contracts that will be non-renewed and layoffs," Kopmeyer said, agreeing with Adamany.. ADAMANY released a 12-page agen- da Thursday proposing to reduce some long-term plans he attributed the cut to reduced state aid for higher education, and the expired contracts were con- sidered a small item in the package. - "It was one small part of a very large document," said Elizabeth Martin, director for public relations at Wayne State. "There are a variety of other things that are going to be cut," she said. Martin said that professors are often given notices for reasons other than tenure. When people resign, retire, or when deaths occur these reductions are also applied to the budget cutback, she said. ACCORDING to the WSU faculty con- tract, only if a state of "financial exigency" exists can layoffs occur. See WSU, Page 2 TODAY- International Iowan aid fund? F THE leaders of 23 nations were perplexed at getting a request for foreign aid from the mayor of a tiny town in Iowa, the mayor was at least as perplexed by one of the responses he got. After Emerson Mayor Jack Evans asked z speople raised $50,000. But Evans said the town's requests for federal aid were turned down. SO the mayor compiled a list of 23 nations that have received $1 billion or more in foreign aid from the United States since 1945 and wrote them all a letter asking for a little of it back. Evans only wants enough to rebuild the town's community center. He figures $225,000 would do it. "I've been a salesman all my life. All they can do is say no," Evans said. Norway said the request had been referred to the nation's Parliament, but m anv n e ein h vpnot rpnnandpr#Thp a ve nr Pvpnent ae harassment I've suffered at the hands of the U.S. gover- nment." In June 1981, Hilliard was arrested in New York City and accused of being absent without leave from the Army. He was held for a week at Fort Dix, N.J., before the matter was straightened out. Last week, Hilliard got a let- ter from the Internal Revenue Service ordering him to pay $267 in overdue 1980 taxes within 30 days. The IRS claimed he failed to report earning $4,906 from the Army in 1980 and another $390 from the General Mills Restaurant. Hilliard S e ve1r h naj in i eArmv o ar markrd far thei sequent decisions outlawing segregation in public parks, playgrounds, and on public golf courses. * 1970-Stephan and his 200 followers, a caravan, spoke at Canterbury House in a discussion of "yang" and "ying" and "four marriages", usually between two males and two females, to gain recruits to their communal life-style. * 1972-A group of Alice Lloyd residents participated in legitimized racism for a Pilot Program class on Race Relations. Two groups of students, the Scugs and the Hvklnn h ad ton lternate iking snperin rnd inferinr 7