0 OPINION Page 4 Sunday, April 10, 1983 The Michigan Daily" Sieges, HE INSURGENTS were well-equipped and thought their rear assault strategy would serve them well. Indeed, they pulled off the fir- st part of the manuevers without a hitch, sur- prising the regime headquarters without suf- fering a single casualty. The war games took place in the University administration building Thursday and Friday. The insurgents were 35 members of the Progressive Student Network who were elections: Winners, osers The three other ballot proposals won easily. The plans allow the city to raise property taxes and use the funds for upgrading city parks,convert two city dams into hydroelectric power generators, and repair the Allen Creekp drain system. frustrating, but with finals at the Law School I'm too busy to worry about results," said Jamie Zimmerman, an unsuccessful indepen- dent candidate. Despite the delay, Goldman said the com- puter will save up to $1,200 compared to the cost of counting the ballots by hand. Who said high tech wasn't worth it? Mixed bag protesting the University's budget redirection process. Armed with granola, walkie-talkies, and bail money, the group used the ad- ministration building backrstairs to gain access to Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Billy Frye's outer office. PSN members vowed to stay there until their demands for a more open budget review process were met. Frye took a hard line, refusing to give an inch, so the group settled in for a long siege. When it became apparent the group would spend the night, security officers locked the building, not allowing in shipments of food or fresh troops armed with guitars. The telephones in Frye's third floor office were also shut off. So PSN members had to make due with the bread, fruit, and granola they brought along and their contact with the outside world was restricted to the sounds of WCBN. Daily Photo by SCOTT ZOLTON Frye: No longer lonely on the third floor. The siege ended peacefully at noon Friday when the infiltrators marched single file to Michigan Student Assembly chambers for a .much-needed meal. Frye, on the other hand, sounded a little lonely when he said his office is "like a vacuum" now that the battle is over. IOU a computer VOTERS CAME to the Michigan Student Assembly polls in droves this year - at least in comparison to the past few years - but the announcement of the results was slowed by, of all things, the computer assigned to count the new-fangled ballots. It took almost five days for Mary Rowland and Jono Soglin of It's Our University (IOU) to discover officially they had been elected president and vice president of MSA. Can- didates in the schools with only one elected representative were luckier - they found out the good or bad news Saturday night, only four days after the polls closed. The stubborn computer was to blame, accor- ding to MSA Election Director Bruce Goldman. It seems the computer only was able to count the ballots at a rate ten times slower than originally projected. That didn't upset many of the candidates too much, though. Most were happy the election was over and proud to have been part of the democratic process. "The wait was rather E NOUGH STUDENTS and liberal types got out and voted to save Ann Arbor's progressive pot law, but not to dump the man who started the campaign against it, Mayor Louis Belcher, in Monday's city election. The Republican incumbent won a narrow victory over Democratic challenger Leslie Morris. When the counting was over, tallies showed the proposal to repeal the pot law was rejected by a three to two margin. And despite Morris' defeat, the Democrats picked up a seat in the city council and now only trail their Republican counterparts by a six to five seat margin. Democrats Jeff Epton and Kathy Edgren pulled off upsets in the 3rd and 5th wards respectively by wiping out Republican incum- bants. In the student-dominated 1st Ward, Lowell Peterson rolled to an easy victory over his 81 year-old Republican challenger Letty Wickliffe to earn his second term on the coun- cil. Republicans Thomas Deem and Larry Hahn coasted to victories in the 2nd and 4th wards, respectively. Of the four ballot proposals other than the pot law repeal, the only one defeated was the weatherization proposal. Ann Arbors destitute landlords banded together to ensure student utilities bills remain high by r.ejecting the plan that would have forced them to install a minimum level of insulation in their buildings. Win with WIN M AYOR BELCHER and the successful MSA candidates weren't the only WIN- ners this past week. University officials an- nounced they would continue funding the Women's Information Network (WIN) Bulletin after all. The WIN Bulletin's editor, Deeda Stanczak, had charged the University was withholding the publication's $1,100 budget because the Bulletin had been critical of the University's salary program. But Virginia Nordby, the University affirmative action director, said the money was withheld becuase the 14 year-old publication dealing with women's issues did not have publishing guidelines. Nordby denied that the University executive officers were upset with the editorial content of the newsletter. "No one who has expressed criticism (of the administration) has been criticized back." Stanzcak said she submitted the guidelines to Nordby in Februaryand they had been ap- proved last month. She now wants to c'ncen? trate on increasing the Bulletin's circulation and improving its distribution. Still, Stanczak is not certain when the next issue of this week's other WINner will be published. The Week-in-Review was compiled by, Daily staff writers Kent Redding, David Spak, and Jim Sparks. Edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan Wasserman Vol. XCIII, No. 151 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Editorials represent a majority opinion of the Daily's Editorial Board Reagan goes to school _,,,, G o r.J ", / ' / T APPEARS President Reagan has yet to learn his lesson in cooperation. Reagan failed another test on the subject - this time on the military budget. Once again, Congress played teacher, as Democrats and Republicans of almost all political backgrounds agreed that the president had gone too far in requesting a 10 per- cent increase in defense spending. Despite warnings from fellow Republicans, Reagan said 10 percent, "take it or leave it." Now the House and a key Senate committee have left it, the House voting for a 4 percent in- crease, the Senate committee a 5 percent hike. If the story sounds familiar, that's because it is. The president has lost similar battles over the recently passed multi-billion dollar jobs program and the Social Security bailout legislation. With the jobs bill, Reagan wanted a much smaller plan and would do little to compromise until it was obvious he would lose the fight. The pattern was much the same with the Social Security legislation - the demands, the conflict, and the president finally giving in when the obvious became apparent to him. Reagan has been less fortunate in the struggle at the Environmental Protection Agency. For months he stood firm behind Anne Burford, the former director of the agency, despite enormous political pressure and allegations of wrongdoing. Even when Burford resigned, Reagan lashed out at the "extremists" - which included just about everyone - who forced out Burford. The lesson is getting difficult to teach. It appears that Reagan doesn't understand that he can't win all the time in Washington. Someday, maybe the president will learn his lesson. FREEZE U??O t To Do?~- IL TNER'5 f*E SOVIET UNION?~ -[1A WOULD R1AM ~A, LOT MIEOSENSEIF. -1'} EWAR AF~~ZE IMOVMNT IN RUSSA PUTTING& RESURE ON THE KREALA 4