Ninety- Three Years of Editorial Freedom I cl tL IC Sir ir3I 41IaiI Fluctuating Cloudy and breezy with a ehance of rain mixed with snow, and a high near 40. 3. m -.al. XCIII, No. 101 Copyright 1983, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, February 2, 1983 Ten Cents Ten Pages University media ervices to face preview By GLEN YOUNG L University media services will be the ext area to face a performance review, with possible budget cuts looming in the future, University of- ficials said yesterday. The purpose of the review is to "pull together the wide array of activities going on in the various departments and see what dan be done to coordinate them more efficiently," said University Vice President for Academic Affairs Billy Frye. BUT, HE ADDED, "We have a neaking suspicion there are savings to be made and that is what is propelling us, but we won't know until we uncover some of the facts." Robert Holbrook, associate vice president for academic affairs, said, however, budgetary considerations were not the major priority of the review. "It's hard to say until we know what's oing on whether there can be a avings. One of the questions which must be asked is whether there is ex- cess here, too much service there, and so on," he said. "On the other hand, you have to ask, is there not enough service, in one area.", ONE SERVICE that will almost cer- tainly be reviewed is Michigan Media, which coordinates all visual media at the University, according. to Holbrook. "Michigan Media will probably be in- cluded in the review because they are e largest and most diverse," he said. But Michigan Media Director Hazen Schumacher said the service, which received a $250,000 cut two years ago, would have a hard time handling another budget reduction. "Right now we're operating at minimum. Just last week we had to lay-off six people, so I hope they don't cut us," he said. Schumacher said he thought the main purpose of the review was to eliminate he duplication of services. "Last time two years ago) the question the com- See MEDIA, Page 2 Trucker killed as strike continues From AP and UPI Ambushers attacked truck drivers along the nation's turnpikes yesterday with bullets, rock and bricks in attem- pts to enforce the independent truckers' strike. A Teamster Union driver was killed and two other persons seriously injured in the bitter hit-and-run warfare. MANY OTHER drivers were hurt by flying glass as the violence that began early Monday spread to 21 states. Pennsylvania and Ohio, the main corridor between East and Midwest, were the hardest hit, with trucks hit by sniper fire, rocks, bricks and metal ob- jects. Trucks were burned, tires slashed and nails strewn in parking lots. Three independent truckers were arrested on charges connected with the strike. TEAMSTER TRUCKER George Capps was killed by rifle fire Monday night while driving between Smithfield and Newton Grove, N.C. "We must condemn this sort of horrible violence," said Teamsters President Roy Williams in a statement yesterday. "We are deeply saddened and troubled by this action." Williams called for government protection for Teamster dri'ers, and added, "We are also developing programs to minimize the exposure to violence in such situations." "I'M AFRAID of violence," said in- dependent trucker Claudie Dalton, of Fairfield, Calif., who pulled his rig off the road. "I got shot a lot in Vietnam and I don't need any more of that here." Five truckers were hurt yesterday when bullets or rocks hit their trucks in unrelated incidents in Alabama, Maryland, Florida, Connecticut, and Oregon. Two drivers were injured Monday in Pennsylvania and Michigan. Strike organizers claim 1,000 of Michigan's independent truckers were expected to shut down their rigs in protest of new federal laws that will in- crease highway user fees and raise fuel .costs by five cents a gallon. ONE INDEPENDENT driver said the pickets he met at a Grand Rapids institutional food supplier's warehouse were courteous and made no threats. "They asked us to turn around, but shoot, we weren't going to turn around," said Timothy Moening, who works for Dart Cups Truck Co. of Mason. Moening said he sympathizes with the strikers' goals but maintains he really cannot affort to shut down his rig. "THE COMPANY tells us if we don't want to run, they'll find someone who will. I told the company I'd rather not run but if I don't, it just means ... I'm out of a job." The Independent Truckers Association, which claims to represent 100,000 drivers who own their rigs and haul loads for a fee, called the strike to protest the Reagan administration program to hike taxes on fuel and road use. The majority of the nation's truck drivers, however, are members of the Teamsters Union who work for wages under contracts. The federal truck-use tax that has angered drivers doesn't take effect un- til July 1985. The truckers also want a lid on state highway tpxes, a rollback of the new federal levies and a recon- sideration of the 55 mph speed limit. A nickel-a-gallon boost in the federal gasoline tax takes effect in April. Daily Photo by JON SNOW' Friendly neighbors Third floor residents introduce their dorm, Markley, to the parking struc- ture across the street. Congress may arrest EPA head WASHINGTON (AP) - A congres- sional lawyer said yesterday the House may arrest the head of the Environ- mental Protection Agency if the Justice Department won't prosecute her for contempt of Congress. Stanley Brand told reporters at U.S. District Court that direct action by the legislative branch may be necessary if executive officials persist in their refusal to seek a grand jury indictment against the EPA Administrator Anne Gorsuch. THE HOUSE, on a vote of 259-105 last December, cited Gorsuch for contempt' because she refused, on President Reagan's orders, to produce sub- poenaed documents. The House action directed the U.S. attorney to present the case to a grand jury, but the Justice Department has declined that order. Brand said Congress may be forced to bypass the administration. "The department may force us into that position if they continue to thwart the statutory provision . . . if they con- tinue to refuse to apply the laws that we passed," Brand said. His comments came after a hearing before U.S. District Judge John Lewis Smith, in which the House sought to dismiss an unprecedented civil lawsuit brought by the Reagan administration against Congress. The suit is seen by the Justice Depar- tment as a way to resolve the executive privilege issue without prosecuting Gorsuch. Assistant Attorney General J. Paul McGrath argued that the law requiring Gorsuch to be prosecuted "does not deprive the executive of his discretion'" on whether prosecutionis justified. The House, however, argued that the law is clear and that putting Gorsuch on trial is the only legal way to proceed. BRAND ARGUED that the suit violates the Constitution's speech and debate clause, which provides that congressmen cannot be challenged in court for their legislative actions. The House wants the lawsuit dismissed so the department is forced to present the case to the grand jury for an indictment. Smith said he would decide later, ob- serving only that the issue is "obviously an interesting and important question." The subpoenaed documents involve the EPA's enforcement of the $1.6 billion "superfund" program to clean up abandoned chemical waste dumps. The House Public Works investigations subcommittee said it had quesitons about whether EPA was vigorously pursuing polluters. ... charged with contempt Ark may be named historical landmark F By CARL WEISER The building which presently houses The Ark, Ann Arbor's avante-garde cof- fee house, will probably be spared the wrecking ball because of efforts to have the structure named an historical lan- dmark. Louisa Peiper, staff director of the city's Historical District Commission, said she was "absolutely positive" the city council would approve the com- ission's proposal to declare the building, known as Hill House, part of a Local Historic District. STRUCTURES which are designated part of such a district may not be torn down, Peiper said. Officials of the First Presbyterian Church, which owns Hill House, have been considering selling or demolishing the house to make way for a parking lot. Senior Minister William Hillegonds aid the building is badly in need of repairs which the church cannot afford to make. Kathleen Dannemiller, co-founder of The Ark, said the designation probably won't help The Ark stay in its rent-free home of the last 15 years. "THE ARK can't afford to buy the house," Dannemiller said. "We offered to help fix it up but they just want the money."~ A majority of the congregation present at a recent church meeting voted in favor of demolishing the house, Hillegonds said. But, he said, the final decision on what to do with Hill House will be made at a meeting of the church's governing session on Feb. 9. Peiper said the process of having a structure designated part of the Historic District begins with conduc- ting extensive research into the building's past to prove its historical value to the community. SO FAR, commission researchers have uncovered a number of details about the home's history. Hill House was built in 1895 for Henry Adams, a world-renowned professor of economics at the University, Peiper said. She said. the house is architecturally insignificant because its Georgian colonial style did not become prominent until many years after the house was built. The house remained in the Adams family until 1963, when the church pur- chased it. Church officials intended to, tear it down immediately to make room for a parking lot. See ARK, Page 2 Weather forecasting not" always reli~able By TRACEY MILLER If the weatherman said it, you can forget it. Or you should at least question it, retired atmospheric studies Prof. Nelson Dingle said last night at a lec- ture on the unseasonably warm weather in Ann Arbor. "Beware of the false prophets," Dingle told an audience of about 40 people gathered at the Space Research Building on North Campus. DINGLE USED ripened fruit as an example of why weather forecasters can't wait to see the weather before they predict it. But even though there is no way to predict the weather several months ahead of time, it is possible to make daily and weekly forecasts, Dingle said. Air circulation is the only physical factor which can be used to accurately predict the weather, according to See WEATHER, Page 2 Daily Photo by JON SNOW. Retired atmospheric studies Prof. Nelson Dingle shows how the wind flow patterns of the United States during the past few months have triggered a warm winter in Ann Arbor. 0 rTO DAY Fine job UTURE SCANDAL makers should take note of the recent efforts of Western Michigan University teaching assistant Ann Mackin to stop the news of her traffic fines. It seems the WMU Herald, the school's free newspaper, decided to run a story about Mackin's $1294 in traffic fines despite protest from Mackin. So the teaching assistant and several of her friends rounded posting of notices on newspaperboxes asking people to limit posting of notices on newspaperboxes asking people to limit themselves to one copy each. Husband for sale T WAS ONLY A birthday joke, but Sheryl Weidall's ad- vertisement offering a "husband for sale cheap" brought an unexpected number of replies-some of them serious. Weidall, of Isanti, Minn., decided to put her husband Garth on the market partly in frustration over his devotion to sports. Garth was out of the house playing softball, foot- ball, hockey, and golf as well as hunting and fishing while were women who were interested in him. "Most of them sounded older, and they were without husbands at all," she said. "They said one that's not there is better than no husband at all. One called four or five times. She said, "If he's not for sale or trade, can I rent him?" To end it all, she ran another ad: "No help wanted. Due to overwhelming response, not for sale or trade one dearly loved husband, whose birthday joke got out of hand. Sorry, Hon." [] The Dailv alma nac * 1967-Members of the Voice political party and Students for a Democratic Society picketed Central Intelligence Agency recruiters at the Student Activities Building. The SDS charged that the CIA was attempting to recruit "'assasins, spies, and counter revolutionaries," S1968-Education officials complained to President Johnson that graduate schools were in a state of choas because students were uncertain of the draft situation. Q On the inside