Twosome
suspected
n attempt
to torch
spouses
IRVINE, Calif. (AP) - Three months
before their marriage collapsed, Bill and
Marsha Lamar witnessed the wedding
of John Wagster, Bill's buddy from
work, and Ingrid Dietrich, who called
Marsha her best friend.
Butboth couples soon broke up. John
moved in with Marsha. Ingrid rented a
room in Bill's house.
BILL'S HOUSE burned down
Tuesday.
John and Marsha were booked on in-
v estigation of attempting to murder
their estranged spouses.
The blaze at 2:30 a.m. Tuesday gutted
the house on Highcrest Circle that just a
few months earlier had been the
Lamars' home.
"IT'S OUR belief that the intent was
to burn the house down with the people
inside. Arson was obvious," Police Lt.
Bob Lennert said yesterday. He said
the garage had been doused with an un-
determined flammable substance and
ignited.
Although Lennert said neither Lamar
nor Ms. Dietrich reported any threats,
"There's some hard feelings all around.
The husband from one family was
living with the wife from the* other
family, so there was no love lost, ap-
parently."
See COUPLE, Page 7
The Michigan Daily-Thursday, February 3, 1983-Page 3
RHA seeks recognition
and student involvement
By DOUG LAURIN
The Residence Hall Association is
fighting to gain acceptance among
students and University administrators
despite four years of low budgets and
limited influence.
"We've done a lot to strengthen the
organization internally this year," said
RHA Vice President Pam McCann.
"That's the only way we can gain
credibility and get started representing
occupants."
EACH University residence hall is
represented on the 27-member RHA
council except the Law Quad and Hen-
derson House. Larger halls like Bur-
sley, Baits, Markley, and South Quad
each have three representatives on the
council.
McCann said that the growing
organization opened an office on the
fourth floor of the Michigan Union this
year, distributed a newsletter
describing its activities, and attracted
more students than usual to its
meetings and planning committees.
In addition, RHA has become more
active outside the dorms. "We are not
just a housing committee or just a
legislative group - we also get in-
volved in community services," said
RHA President Brian Woolery. RHA
sold concert tickets, organized and
helped bake the "Giant Wolverine
Submarine Sandwich" last November,
an event sponsored by the University
Activities Center.
RHA ALSO allocated funds to send 27
students to a November leadership
seminar of the Great Lakes Association
of Collegiate Undergraduate Resident
Halls at Michigan State University.
Despite a more active year, some
residents and dorm government
leaders question RHA's effectiveness.
"I don't know what they're supposed to
do. I don't think anybody does," said
West Quad resident Jim Trouba.
"I'm just waiting for RHA to get
something done so residents will know
about them," said Kurt Gerber,
president of the West Quad-Barbour-
Newberry Council. "Nobody accepts a
new thing."
THE MAJOR problems deterring
RHA are its newcomer status and its
minimal budget, according to Gerber.
RHA was recognized as a student
organization only four years ago and its
$5,000 budget - the housing office gives
RHA 50 cents per resident each year -
is still only half of what most large
dorms are allocated for programming.
RHA had been operating on even less
in the past, until housing agreed to in-
crease its budget from $500 per year to
$5,000 at the beginningof last fall term.
"We just couldn't do anything for the
students" with last year's budget, Mc-
Cann said.
According to Woolery, RHA will push
for new meal contract options which
would allow students to choose between
a contract with no meals, only seven
meals, or the standard 13 meals per
week.
AT ITS WEEKLY meeting last night,
RHA members discussed supporting a
boycott of Campbell's and Libby's
products by the University's food ser-
vice.
The boycott's sponsors, the Farm
Labor Organizing Committee, asked
RHA to endorse the boycott as part of
an effort to protest the alleged poor
treatment of migrant farm workers in
Ohio.
RHA decided to postpone their
decision on the boycott until they hear
from Campbell's and Libby's
spokespersons. RHA members,
however, will be asking dorm councils
this week if they would support the
boycott, and whether they think RHA
should be involved with political issues
like this one.
RHA meetings are held each Wed-
nesday at 7 p.m. in the Michigan Union.
The office is located at 4109 Michigan
Union.
Ski Kansas r
If you want to visit a white wonderland during spring break, then Topeka,
Kansas is the place to go. Here, L.D. Jenkins is trying to rid his sidewalk of
some of the excess snow.
Hoover Dam, located in the Black
. Canyon of the Colorado River, is one of
the world's highest concrete dams and
helps supply electric power to Arizona,
California and Nevada.
Police
notes.
HOIILD
H APPENINGS-
Highlight
WCBN, Ann Arbor's student-run, non-commercial radio station, kicks off
its fourth annual On-The-Air Fundraiser at 9 a.m. today. The fundraiser will
run for 88.3 hours. WCBN promises to offer the "very best in special
programming" during the fundraiser.
Films
Ann Arbor Film Co-op - Claire's Knees, 7 p.m., Chloe in the Afternoon,
8:45 p.m., Auditorium A.
Mediatrics - Excalibur, 7 & 9:30 p.m., Nat. Sci. Aud.
Classic Film Theatre - To Catch a Thief, 7:30 p.m., North by Northwest,
9:30 p.m., Michigan Theatre.
Cinema Guild - Katzelmacher, 7 p.m., Fiffi Briest, 8:40 p.m., Lorch Hall.
Netherlands American Universdity League - Screenings of the
videotapes of the two visits of Queen Beatrix to the U.S., 8 p.m., MLB, Room
B137.
Performances
Oberlin Players - "Hot Ice" and "Strange Wonderous Snow," acting and
lute, 12:10 p.m., Pendleton Room, Michigan Union.
Community High School-West Side Story, 8 p.m., school auditorium.
School of Music - University Philharmonica and Chamber Winds, 8 p.m.,
Hill Auditorium.
School of Music - Laura Ross, violin recital, 8 p.m., Recital Hall.
Ann Arbor Civic Theatre - An Evening of Ionesco, 8 p.m., Main. Street
Theatre.
Residential College - 9th annual Minority Arts and Cultural Festival,
opening ceremonies, 7 p.m., Room 126, jazz concert, 8 p.m., R.C. Aud.
Second Chance-Rapture, Second Chance.
Theatre and Drama Dept. - Auditions for Beggar on Horseback, 7 p.m.,
Power Center, Rehearsal Hall.
Speakers
Computing Center - Forrest Hartman, "The Xerox 9700 and MTS," 3:30
p.m., 131BSAD.
Computing Center - Dave Whipple, "Integrated Graphics II," 3:30 p.m.,
176 BSAD.
Computing Center - Bob Blue, "Introduction to MTS-File Editing," 3
p.m., 2235 Angell and 7 p.m., 131 BSAD.
College of Engineering - Thomas Huang, "Three Dimensional Motion
Estimation From Image Sequences," 9 a.m., 2080 E. Engin.
College of Engineering - Robert Laughlin, "The Physical Science of
Triacontanol Colloids," 11:30 a.m., 1017 Dow Building.
Dept. of English - . C. Goodson, "Coleridge's Semasiology," 7:30 p.m.,
East Conf. Room, Rackham.
Center for Japanese Studies - Maida Coaldrake, "Flash-point of Crisis:
The Northern Territorial Issue 1983," noon, Lane Hall Commons Room.
Campus Chapel - Len Suranski, "U of M and Southern Africa," 7:30 p.m.,
1236 Washtenaw Court.
Museum of Art - Art Break, Barb Krause, "The Nude," 12:10 p.m.
Vision - Nathan Gross, "Excitation and Suppression Within the Cochlea,
Cochlea,"
12:15 p.m., 2055 MHRI.
CRLT & Univ. Library - Faculty Instructional Workshop, "Library
Research & Course Design," 7 p.m., registration required.
Meetings
Campus Crusade for Christ - 7 p.m., 2231 Angell Hall.
LeGroc/Lesbian and Gay Rights on Campus - 7:30 p.m., Welker Room,
Michigan Union.
Ann Arbor Libertarian League - 7 p.m., basement of Dominick's, 812
Monroe.,
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship -7 p.m., Union.
Med. Center Bible Study - 12:30 p.m., Mott Children's Hospital, Room
2230.
Center for Western European Studies - Foreign Study Orientation
Meeting, "Summer Session in London, England," 7 p.m., 13 Angell Hall.
Alliance of Lesbian and Gay Social Work Students - 5:15 p.m., 2075
Frieze.
Racquetball -8 p.m., Courts 10 and 11, CCRB.
SOS Community Crisis Center - Interviews for volunteer crisis coun-
selors, for more info call 485-3222.
Spartacus Youth League - class, "Trotskyism, Revolutionary Marxism
Today," 7:30 p.m., Conference Room 6, Union.
Kiwanis Club - 57th Annual Sale, 10a.m., Kiwanis Club Activities Center.
Scnttih COuntrv Dncers - Reinning class 7 n m. Intermediate class 8
Pedestrian hit on
North Campus
Icy conditions were blamed for an
accident involving a pedestrian and a
car on North Campus Monday. Ann Ar-
bor police said 20-year-old Donald Bar-
thel, a Bursley resident, stepped off a
University bus and was hit by a car
driven by student Heidi Rosner. Rosner
was travelling at approximately 10
miles per hour when shetried to pass
the bus, which was stopped at the cor-
ner of Bonisteel and Murfin. Barthel
was taken to University Hospital,
where he was treated and released.
-By Halle Czechowski
Correction
The building which houses The Ark is
"architecturally significant because its
Georgian colonial style did not become
prominent until many years after the
house was built." A typographical error
changed the meaning of the sentence in
yesterday's Daily.
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