Ninety-Three Years of Editorial Freedom C, tic 4ftc~igan IEIUIIQ Looking up Partly sunny with a high in the mid- 30s. ~o XCIII, No. 135 Copyright 1983, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Wednesday, March 23, 1983 Ten Cents Eight Pages Students bump and grind on TVshow By LAURA FARRELL "Who will you vote for to be this week's host - the mannequin, or Hasbro Crashman?" asks emcee Bob Tool. Chants of "Vote for Bro" come from the packed dance floor, crowded with people adorned in everything from tuxedoes to New Wave garb. It's just another Friday night for the Safari Dancers of Video DanceSafari, a student-run, half-hour dance show broadcast in the Ann Arbor area on cable channel nine. The 25 to 30 people dancing to the latest pop, punk, and funk tunes are are to videotape next week's show, which is produced by area students. "IT'S LIKE American Bandstand, only local," said University film and video major Tim Tobisch, who is an intern with Ann Arbor's Community Access Television. Community Ac- cess, which is owned and operated by the city, provides the shows' equipment and a studio on the second floor of the fire station at South Fifth and Huron. The idea for the dance show was fir- st proposed to Community Access last spring by Video Dance Safari's 20- year-old originator and producer, Bob Mittenthal (alias "Bob Tool"). At first he said, he got no response. "I tried it Again and the idea was picked up," he said. See STUDENTS, Page 2 Law R okays By BILL HANSON The newly elected editorial board of the Michigan Law Review officially has adopted the affirmative action program proposed by the Review's outgoing editorial board. The program is a modest affirmative action plan that will offer membership to the top two minority students whose writing samples rank in the upper half of those submitted. SHOULD NO minority student's writing entry rank in the top 50 percent, however, no minority students will be offered positions on the Revie* that year via the affirmative action route. The number of minorities offered ad- mission under this affirmative action plan will be reduced by the number of minorities offered admission under the standard, anonymous system. Thus, if two minority students are offered ad- mission through the standard, anonymous system, no minority students would be selected via the af- firmative action program. The program was proposed by the Review's 1982-83 editorial board in a lengthy report on Review staff selection procedures issued last month. The Review's new editorial board "firmly adopted" the affirmative ac- tion plan and other revisions in staff selection criteria by a 20-10 vote, Review Managing Editor Marie Deveney said. Deveney said the new board voted solely on whether or not to adopt the eview board nulnoril 1982-83 board's lengthy report "as is" and that at no time was affirmative ac- tion or any other of the report's com- ponents discussed. Since the 1982-83 board's recommen- dations dealt with several aspects of staff selection - grade point averages and writing ability, for example - the 20 to 10 vote should not necessarily be construed a5 a breakdown along affir- mative action lines, Deveney said. Broderick Johnson, chairman of the Black Law StudentsAlliance, said he was happy with the Review's decision. "I think it certainly was important for the new board to adopt (the affirmative action program)." ALTHOUGH JOHNSON thanked those involved with instituting the af- firmative action plan, he questioned the new board's motives. "I'd be interested to know whether they adopted it because the old board recommended it, or because they have a real deep-rooted concern in getting minorities on the Review's staff," Johnson said. Johnson said he was concerned with this because, "if the system isn't productive (in getting minorities on the Review's staff), will they come back and change it?" WHETHER OR NOT the affirmative action program is successful in getting minority representation on the Review is something that Johnson will have to wait and see. .Managing Editor, Deveney said "we're certainly committed to the af- firmative action component (of the plan Johnson ... questions board's motives 1982-83 board's report)." She added that at the end of next year the editorial board will review the affirmative ac- tion program and the other staff selec- tion changes and issue its own report and recommendation on each. But for now - unless the Law School's faculty intervenes, which they have the power to do - affirmative ac- tion could play a part in the selection of the Review's 1983-84 junior staff. "It would be a surprise (if the faculty intervened), but that's their prerogative," Deveney said. Daily Photo by TODD WOOLF Students Ellen Strauss and Dan Rivkin, an LSA junior known as "lasbro Crashman," dance on TV's Video Safari. r Q Local lobby grou over weatherizat By JACKIE YOUNG Battle lines are forming between two Ann Arbor lobby groups over whether property owners should be required to in- tall a minimum amount of weatherization n their rental housing. The debate centers around a ballot proposal which, if passed, would require landlords to install insulation and other energy-saving devices in rental housing throughout the city. Proposal A, dubbed the "weatherization law," will appear on the April 4 city ballot. ALTHOUGH MEMBERS of both the lobby groups say they are in favor of energy conservation, the conflict over Wroposal A remains drawn along tenant versus landlord lines. Advocates of the proposal, who have formed a group called the Coalition for Better Housing (CBH), said they plan to take their campaign to the streets' today and tomorrow by handing out "A-OK" brochures and soliciting donations around the campus and downtown areas.. Their opponents, Citizens for Rational Energy Policy (CREP), say they have already mailed letters to area property Dwners asking them to fight the proposal. FRED GRUBER, spokesman for CREP and former president of the Washtenaw Property Owners Assoc., said his group's primary complaint against the proposal is that it is "inflexible" because it is written to be a charter amendment. The city coun- cil may not alter a charter amendment without approval by public election. "Everybody is for energy conservation but the charter amendment route is just not the thing," Gruber said. CREP also argues that the proposal is discriminatory because it singles out landlords for com- pliance, without making reference to the energy problems of owner-occupied homes, public buildings, or industrial or commercial property. Gruber said CREP members, among them most of Ann Arbor's major landlor- ds, also believe that the mandatory penalties for non-compliance are "totally inappropriate for an economic issue, especially when no cooperation from residents is required." BUT DAVID DeVarti, spokesman for CBH, said many of the objections CREP has against Proposal A are "distortions and downright lies." He said the proposal concentrates on rental property owners because they have s clash ton plan power over capital investments which will affect large numbers of tenants. He calls the issue one of safety because poorly in- sulated . housing can affect a person's health. DeVarti argues that the proposed penalties for non-compliance are no har- sher than those required for other laws. Under the proposal, landlords who cannot comply because of financial hardship will be granted multiple extensions. "IT'S GOING TO take money out of the landlords' pockets to insulate and out of the tenants' pockets if landlords don't in- sulate," DeVarti said. "As it is, there are no incentives for landlords to insulate ... Since roofs aren't allowed to lead water, a renter should be able to get roofs that don't leak heat." Maureen Delp, an advocate of Proposal A and program director for the Ann Arbor Tenants Union, agrees. She said she has heard complaints from a number of tenan- ts whose "heating bill was higher than their rents. "There is a certain degree of insulation protection tenants deserve," she said. BECAUSE A weatherization plan in the form of a city ordinance would be more See LOCAL, Page 2 Daily Photo by JON SNOW Last call Greg Panzica, Beta Theta Pi fraternity member, races to fill his teammates' glasses with beer in the Waiter Race yesterday. The "waiters" ran between a keg and drinkers, and the team that drank the most beer won the Greek Week event. Thief snatches radioactive sign By HALLE CZECHOWSKI The thief who snatched an exit sign from the Michigan Union Monday night is in for a little surprise. It seems the sign contains radioactive materials. Monday night, someone walked off with an exit sign from outside the com- puter terminals at the Union, officials said. The sign, a standard exit marker, contains a glass vial of radioactive materials which could be released "if the sign is damaged or if somebody tampers with it," said Dennis Jawor- ski, supervisor of computer operations. THE TOXIC material is used to keep the red lights glowing at all times, to prevent the sign from going out in a fire or power failure Jaworski said. Still, the health risk from exposure to the vial is minimal. "They're not going to drop dead, but it is an unnecessary exposure to radiation," Jaworski said. He said he didn't know what long term effects the radiation would have. The sign was ripped out of the ceiling. "It was something we didn't assume someone would take, which was a mistake," Jaworski said. JAWORSKI HOPES that the person who has the sign will return it to prevent health risks to innocent people who may be exposed to the vial. As for the whereabouts of the sign, Jaworski says he has no clues. "It's probably just sitting in a dorm room," he said. Daily Photo by JON SNOW A sign like the one above was stolen Monday night from the new computing center in the Union, and officials said yesterday the stolen sign contained dangerous radioactive material which could escape if the sign is damaged. .~ ~ . .~........................ . ~ ::;~:::::~;:~;:..::.:~....... .. . . .. .... .. TODAY Scheduling troubles F YOU CHECK the schedule for next fall's classes, you may have noticed that the first two days of classes on Sept. 8 and 9 coincide with Rosh Hashanah. But the University noticed, too, and students need not worry about losing their spaces in classes where non-attendance San th Aw nawdrn mean a vin onnihve to the onurse for some say is already too short, and decided not to begin the term earlier because out-of-state students would have to spend the money to go home for the holiday just after they had arrived in town for classes. Beverage wars MILK AND BEER are vying for recognition as the of- ficial thirst-quencher of Wisconsin, a state noted for its dairies and its breweries. Rep. Steven Brist of Chippewa Falls, is drafting a resolution suggesting that milk be given LL . L--- - T . .. '] - .rf--__ . Farming governor WINNING A MILKING contest is udderly simple, says Indiana Gov. Robert Orr-you just have to pick the right cow. Orr snapped Lt. Gov. John Mutz's two-year win- ning streak in the Agriculture Day cow milking contest Monday by squirting two-thirds of a cup in two minutes. The governor, winning the coin toss, chose a black and white matron by the name of Betsy, who had already spilled some milk onto the bricks outside the city market. Mimi, a butter-colored cow, was left to Mutz. Although the governor later modestly credited his success to choosing Betsy, ob- ding houses, and of the use and presence of liquor in student quarters, but did not forbid them. Also on this date in history: " 1942 - A group of campus leaders met with University authorities to discuss forming a new group to channel all student efforts to support the war through one centralized body.. " 1953 - A Daily survey of 30 campus organizations showed membership trends away from student government positions and toward activities such as dramatic and musical groups. . 1A - University Vice President and Dean of Facult .j .j 1