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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