M' athletics: Out o control By BILL SPINDLE Dave Wilson was the star quarterback r one season at the University of Illinois. That season earnedhim several Big Ten and NCAA passing records and a contract for over $1 million in the National Football League. It cost Illinois a season of probation, a huge loss in television revenues, a chance at a bowl game, and a part of its academic reputation that cannot be measured. Wilson never should have been Mlowed to step foot on the field, the Big en ruled, because his academic tran- scripts from junior college were not good enough to allow him to compete. CHAMPAIGN, Ill., and its campus - more than 300 miles from Ann Arbor - may seem a long way off, but accor- ding to some people close to Michigan athletics, Illinois' problems in 1980 may hit closer to home than many people think. Several months after his term ex- pired as the University's faculty representative to the Big Ten, Prof. Thomas Anton now is talking about the sad shape of Michigan athletics and its domination by one man - Don Canham. After six years of working on the Board in Control of Intercollegiate Athletics - three as a member and three as the Big Ex-Big Ten rep. assails Canham trolling athletics. The operation has become too big and too complicated for boards to run." Anton, a political science professor, and Brown, from mathmatics, say the University's situation is not uncom- mon. All athletic departments in the Big Ten are controlled by athletic directors, although the conference was founded on the basis of faculty control. Anton places the University somewhere in middle ground on how much control faculty members have. The University is better than some but not as good others, he says. The Board in Control of Inter- collegiate Athletics, made up of faculty, administrators, alumni, and students, has a reputation of being so impotent it: is jokingly referred to as "The Board Out of Control of Intercollegiate Athletics" by many faculty members. PART OF THE problem comes from the board members themselves, says Anton. "The fundamental problem with faculty is they are not interested in athletics," he says. "The attendance record is not very good, and when they go, they can't do much because they are so uninformed. Most are quite content to let the director have his way on policy matters. See MICHIGAN, Page 9 Ten representative - Anton says that control of athletics has slipped from the hands of the faculty into the lap of Athletic Director Canham. "We tend to put all our eggs in one basket," Anton says. "I don't think our board has much control. AND ANTON isn't the only insider who feels that way. "The board in con- trol is really a board of advisors to Canham," says Prof. Morton Brown, who began his term on the board last fall. "They may provide helpful advice on some issues, but they are not con- Ninety-Three Years it of 4j 3t fr~ 4i ~Balmy Editorial Freedom Highsilp~ in ~11 the upper 30s with clouds Tn Centssin toar n a ges Vol. XCIII, No. 106 Copyright 1983, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, February 8, 1983 Tein Cents Ten Pages General Motors reports pi $1 billion profit DETROIT (UPI) - Despite an 8 percent drop in worldwide sales, General Motors Corp. said yesterday it made $962.7 million in 1982, nearly triple the $333 million profit earned in 1981. The No. 1 automaker credited the profit to tax credits, cost cutting effor- ts and increased income from its finan- cing and insurance operation. THE PROFIT is GM's largest since 1979, when it earned $2.83 billion. It lost $762.5 million in 1980. GM said the latest profit is equal to, earnings of $3.09 per share, up from $1.07 per share in 1981. The profit was in line with the predictions of analysts who expected GM to make about $1 billion for the year. The automaker had net sales last year of $60 billion, down from $62.6 billion in 1981. It had a $252.2 million tax credit, compared to $123.1 million last year. GM WAS the first automaker to ,report its 1982 earnings. Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler Corp. are expected to issue their statements next week. GM Chairman Roger Smith and President F. James McDonald described 1982 as "another year of mixed results." They said the earnings-which amount to 1.6 percent of sales-are "far below the level of capital generation needed to operate the company suc- cessfully over the long term." Part of the earnings can.be attributed to concessions-made last March by the United Auto Workers union-that reportedly will amount to $3 billion by the contract's expiration in the fall of 1984. 17 truckers arrested S- for riotin From the Associated Press Police in Ohio seized 17 people on rioting charges yesterday in the biggest arrest of the independent truckers' strike, and the strike leader later told reporters the shutdown may last another week. As police cracked down on the rock- throwing and sniping that has killed one person and injured 63 in the 8-day-old strike, Mike Parkhurst said his In- dependenit Truckers Association is making progress in talks with "top" administration official, a claim the government denies. POLICE reports of sporadic violence, continued yesterday, but at a slower pace than the hundreds of shootings reported last week. A bullet tore into a truck in Tennessee and slugs smashed windows of a truck in Georgia, but no one was infured, officials said. In Marrero, La., a group of indepen- dent truckers on Monday called for an end to the strike. "Everyone down here is hoping for the same thing, peace and work,' said Louis Alleman, a spokesman for the Louisiana Independent Truck Operators Association. Alleman estimated the membership in the association at about 3,000 drivers. A GROUP of 130 Southern Oregon in- dependent truckers, most of whom were not taking part in the strike, voted Friday in Medford to reaffirm their boycott of the job action. See TRUCKERS, Page 2 An Ann Arbor snow plow tears through the early morning snow on South University, cleaning off the street after the season's first major snowfall. What to do, where to go when the snow hts har By LAURIE DELATER Last weekend's snowfall prompted not only memories of blizzards past, but also questions about Ann Arbor's con- fusing snow-removal policy. Should the city be buried in snow this year, drivers are advised to know where and when to park their cars if they want to avoid being ticketed. ACCORDING TO Ann Arbor Director of Transportation John Robbins, during a snow emergency car-owners are prohibited from parking on even- numbered sides of secondary streets on even-numbered days. Similarly, cars parked on odd-numbered sides of the streets on odd-numbered days will also be fined $20. In other words, on even-numbered days, park on the odd-numbered side of the street. Robbins also said that during emergencies, citizens may violate regular parking rules on some streets in order to follow the odd-even ordinan- ce. SOUND CONFUSING? It is. Ann Arbor residents were bewildered when the ordinance was first enforced in 1981, and many recceived parking tickets because they were misinformed about the parking regulations. University snow removers are somewhat more lax about parking violations. Plow trucks will pass up a car in their snow removal routes the first time, a spokesman for University grounds maintenance said. But if the removers return later the same day and find the car still parked illegally, it can be towed and the owner ticketed. - - - ................. ~~~~~~~~~~....... .. ................. .. . . . . . . . . . . ..:............ ' report reaffirms S. African 10holdings By LISA CRUMRINE The University should pursue ambitious reform of discriminatory policies in South African companies, while retaining its present investments in companies operating in the apartheid nation, recommends the faculty panel charged with reviewing the issue. The Senate Assembly Advisory Committee on Financial Affairs' report was reviewed today by its parent body, the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs (SACUA). The full faculty Senate Assembly will discuss the report at its monthly meeting next Monday. THE FINANCIAL affairs committee recommends that "the University play a more active role" in en- couraging the companies in which it invests to im- prove the conditions of their black employees in South Africa. SACUA took no stand on the memorandum, although the committee did pare down the financial affairs committee's four-page report to two recom- mendations for the purpose of focusing the Senate Assembly's discussion next Monday on the actual resolution, rather than on the background material. Financial affairs committee members passed the recommendations last week with one dissenting vote cast by student member Ben Davis. Finance Prof. Thomas Gies, chairman of the group, said that of the two "obvious strategies" - divesting of South African holdings or "staying in the arena and continuing to struggle for change" - the latter made more sense to the committee. "WE URGE the University to stay with the com- panies and to strongly participate in those policy decisions where stockholders are able to, in order to accomplish the Sullivan principles," said Gies. The Sullivan principles call for equal pay and ad- vancement opportunities regardless of race, progress toward desegregation, and improved quality of life for black workers in South Africa. Members of the panel stressed that by maintaining investment in the South African companies, the See 'U', Page 3 Hanging Laces A deserted pair of tennis shoes hang aimlessly from an electrical wire on the, corner of East University and Hill St. ..... .. . .. ..... X-. .... ....... . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . ........ . . . . . . . . . ............~ . ...... ...............I. TODAY- Ding, dong-doper calling MICHIGAN STUDENTS have learned to survive the long, cold winters with a little help from Ann Arbor's friendly pizza delivery services. Some New York residents have it even easier-they have their pot self-proclaimed "pope," 41-year-old Michael Cezar, says he is making $30,000 a day. Police said the mat- ter was being investigated but declined further com- ment. Cezar said if the group is taken to trial, mem- bers would claim marijuana is their "church's" religous sacrament. But do they deliver in thirty minutes or less? Gobbling games DAC-MAN FEVER has reached epidemic propor- store was estimated at $5,000. Police have no suspec- ts in the theft, but they are guessing the truck that gobbled up the wall and the game is sure to have a considerable amount of damage. Q The Daily Almanac O N THIS DATE in 1968 the Student Government, Committee demanded the University investigate the nature of CIA activities on amDUS. "America can do anything in manned space flight that it desires;" " 1980-Jackson Prison inmate Gustave Jansson announces that he is running for governor, even though he concedes that he is not the best man for the job. On the inside ... ..1 i i