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Vol. XCIII, No. 90
Copyright 1983, The Michigan Daily
Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, January 20, 1983
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82 economy
worst since
World
WASHINGTON (AP) - In a stark
new measure of the recession's
severity, the government said yester-
day the economy sank further in 1982
than in any year since the aftermath of
World War II. But Commerce
Secretary Malcolm Baldridge said the
steepest drop, at year's end, was the
last gasp of the long downturn.
"We're in a recession, there's no
doubt about that," said Baldrige, "but
the recovery is beginning this quarter."
Administration officials also predicted
recovery a full year ago, but their hopes
were dashed when interest rates
remained high through, the summer,
slowing sales and stifling business in-
vestment.
"THERE'S A big, big difference now
because interest rates are down,"
Baldrige said.
He spoke with reporters after his
department released figures showing
the U.S. economy - as measured by
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real, or inflation-adjusted, gross
national product - fell 1.8 percent in
1982.
That represented the biggest one-
year decline since the 14.7 percent of
1946, when U.S. industry was gearing
down from its war effort.
REAL GNP, which measures all the
goods and services the nation produces,
was falling at an even faster 2.5 percent
annual rate in the final quarter of 1982
after rising slightly in the previous six
months, the report said.
But Baldrige said that was simply
due to businesses temporarily holding
back production and selling off inven-
tories, thereby making room for new
production. The auto industry, which
sharply reduced its inventories in the
fourth quarter, already has stepped up
production, he noted.
"That made it bad for the fourth
See ECONOMY, Page 8
NCAA rule
change was
needed -
Canham
By BOB WOJNOWSKI
Calling the new NCAA rule that tightens academic
standards for athletes "something that had to be
done," Michigan Athletic Director Don Canham
yesterday voiced his approval of the idea behind the
ruling but questioned some of its specifics.
The new rule, passed at the annual NCAA conven-
tion in San Diego last week, calls for stricter
guideliness in determining a prospective athlete's
eligility to attend a Division I college.
BEGINNING AUG. 1, 1986, entering freshmen
must have compiled a high school grade point
average of at least 2.0 in a core curriculum of 11 cour-
ses and must have scored a minimum of 700 on the
Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) or a minimum of 15
on the American College Testing (ACT) test in order
to compete athletically their freshman year.
"I don't think there's any alternative," said
Canham, "but I'm not sure that test scores are the
best criteria I know for predicting success in
college.'-'
Black educators have branded the rule racist
because blacks score an average of 694 on the SAT,
which means a large percentage of black athletes
would be adversely affected by the ruling.h.
THlE RULE, 'however, states that an athlete who
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M ar~quism1enders Daily Photo by ELIZABETH SCOTT ,
David Deveen and John Moore aren't trying to get into the State Theater without paying admission. The
two were on hand yesterday to make repairs on the building's veneer.
Nine students earn
Poet Merrill speaks
at awards ceremony
Hopwoo ds
By JACKIE YOUNG
Nine University students walked
away from Rackham Hall yesterday
with prize money totaling $1,950 after
winning the 1983 Hopwood Under-
classmen Awards in Creative Writing.
The presentation was highlighted by
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet James
Merrill, who read selections from his
work to an audience of more than 250
people.
THE HOPWOOD Underclassmen
awards were begun in 1931 by University
graduate and Broadway playwright
Avery Hopwood to recognize the talents
of University students. Each year, the
Hopwood committee awards cash
prizes to winners in three categories:
essay, fiction, and poetry.
Prize money was also awarded
yesterday to winners in several other
writing contests sponsored by the
English department.
Professor John Aldridge, chairman
of the Hopwood committee, conducted
the ceremony.
HOPWOOD officials said 74 con-
testants submitted 96 manuscripts for
the awards. Jennifer Kwon, LSA
sophomore, received top honors in
both the essay and fiction categories.
Her essay "Fortas, Hart, and Griffin:
The Senate's Role in the Confirmation
of a Justice," and her short story "A
Foreign Girl" netted her $450 in prize
money.
Douglas Warshow, whose essay
"Cubism Extended: Frank Stella's
Swan Engraving V," won him an
award, said he was inspired to write his
essay by Frank Stella's exhibit at the
University Museum of Art last fall.
Warshow said he wrote the essay for
a class, and was "in a state of shock"
after winning $250 for it.
ANOTHER winner, Jody Becker,
LSA freshman, said she too wrote her
poem "Kaleidescoped: My World" for
a class also.
Becker attributed her winning poem
to the "excellent instruction" she
received in her English 340 class.
"I'm really honored. I'm excited,"
she said. Becker also said the Writers
in Residence Program, which brought
Carolyn Forche and other writers to
campus, gave her inspiration.
AFTER THE awards were given,
Merrill congratulated the aspiring
writers and read from his own poetry.
Merrill won the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for
Poetry and the National Book Award in
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Daily Photo by ELIZABETH SCOTT
Gene show
Dale Oxender, head of the University's Center for Molecular Research, ex-
plains genetic research to an audience at Rackham Auditorium last night.
See story, Page 3.
By SHARON SILBAR
Daily Photo by ELIZABETH SCOTT
James Merrill, a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book'
Award for Poetry, reads one of his poems yesterday at the presentation of
the 1983 Hopwood Awards.
'IJU, officials
investigating
gays plea
for equal
treatment
Last month, one University employee didn't
bring her lover to the office Christmas party:
She was afraid that if her boss found out she
was lesbian, she would lose her job.
Students supporting Lebian and Gay Rights
on Campus (LaGROC) want to put an end to
this type of fear, and the potential for
discrimination, by amending the University's
by-laws to include "a non-discrimination
clause based on sexual orientation," according
to LaGROC leader Donovan Mack.
LAST FALL, LaGROC members sent letters
to the Regents and executive officers informing
them of the group's intention to submit a for-
mal proposal that the by-laws be amended.
Richard Kennedy, University Vice-president
for state relations, accepted the letter as a
formal proposal and gave it to the Office of Af-
firmative Action for investigation, Mack said
yesterday.
Duringthe next few months, the Office of Af-
firmative Action will be looking into the
legality of having the clause in the University's
by-laws, as well as assessing the extent and
nature of the problems gays encounter on cam-
pus.
THE UNIVERSITY amended its by-laws
four years ago to include non-discrimination
clauses based on age, handicaps, and veteran
status. State law required the amendment.
'LaGROC's situtation is a little different,"
said Virginia Nordby, director of the Univer-
sity's affirmative action program. "This is a
proposal to add something that is not legally
required."
The University's non-discrimination policy is
committed to working for the elimination of
discrimination not only within the University, but
See NON-DISCRIMINATION, Page 8
Students petition to get
PIRGIM out of CRISP
By LISA CRUMRINE
Engineering junior Dan Baker says he
doesn't mind CRISPing so much, but the use
of the University's registration process by
special interest groups for fundraising is what
makes him mad.
So he and 14 other students, calling them-
selves the Student Committee for Reform and
Progress, have launched a petition drive to
prevent groups like the Public Interest
Research Group in Michigan (PIRGIM) from
having a donation slip attached to Student
Verification Forms.
"BASICALLY, we believe the University is
a public institution and that partisan groups
shouldn't be using the University in this
way," Baker said. "Also, because PIRGIM is
so big, other student organizations stand no
chance of getting on the SVF form."
The committee's efforts coincide with the
upcoming PIRGIM petition drive to have the
present donation checkoff system switched to
a refusable-refundable policy.
Under the new policy, students would
automatically be assessed the PIRGIM fee on
their tuition bill. If a student did not want to
See STUDENTS, Page 8
TODAY-
Nuclear gift idea
T RYING TO BUY a gift for the person who has
everything? Why not gift wrap a 697-ton pressure
vessel from an abandoned nuclear power plant.
The Public Service Electric and Gas Co. of Lower
Alloways Creek, N.J. put the reactor up for sale by adver-
tising in the local paper, The Sampler. The reactor
vessel-62 feet high, 21 feet wide, and 6 inches thick-was
declared surplus when the utility decided not to complete
Hope Creek II nuclear power plant in southern New Jersey.
two months. And its like she never left. Actually, the 15-
pound snake had been at the Irvine Science Center at St.
Timothy's School in Stevenson, Maryland, all the time, ap-
parently hiding out in a false ceiling and subsisting on mice,
said staff naturalist Bill Hilgartner. The boa escaped Nov. 6
after someone failed to latch her cage, and a search by
students and teachers turned up no trace of the 10-year-old
snake. A few days later, the school received a card that
said, in part, "Miss you all. Will be back soon. Love,
Slinkette." Hilgartner found the snake when he checked out
a creaking sound in an overhead tile. "There was quite a
cheer among the students on the campus when they heard
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were dealing and we had to arrest them just like anyone
else," said Lt. Richard Sproules, who added "we treated
them with respect because of their age, and we wanted to
make this as gentle as possible for them." Arthur Perry
and two friends he lived with - Jean MacDonald, 63, and
her 18-year-old son, Walter-were arrested after neighbors
complained for a few months of teen-agers standing outside
their house with the smell of marijuana in the air. The
police seized photographs depicting Perry and Mrs. Mc-
Donald measuring and rolling marijuana. "They were
buying probably a pound or so at bargain prices, cleaning it
up and selling it as joints for a dollar each," DiCarli said. D
Also on this date in history:
" 1913 - The University decided to add two new subjects,
architecture and designing. The subjects would be taught
on a trial basis during the summer term;
* 1933 - Publisher Samuel French, Inc. brought suit
.against Mimes, a student dramatic society for defaulting on
play royalties. French also banned the use of all his plays
on the Michigan campus;
* 1973 - Richard Nixon is sworn into his second term. In
his inaugural address he said he envisions "a new era of
peace." At the same time 50,000 demonstrators protested
his inaururation at the Lincoln Memorial. Q