Ninety-four Years of Editorial Freedom C I be Lit it 9an l tUlQ Dotty Variable cloudiness today with a chance of sprinkles. High in the upper 60s, low in the 40s. Vol. XCIV- No. 28 Copyright 1983, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Saturday, October 8, 1983 Fifteen Cents Ten Pages Dorm companions: areal fish story By MARCY FLEISHER When students come to college for the first time, they often feel they're just little fish in a great big pond. Moving from a cozy home to a cold dormitory can leave a student lost and lonesome. For some students, being separated from parents is nothing compared to the loss of Fido or Kitty - that lifelong companion and trusted friend. To make up for such a loss, some students bring stuffed animals to school. And others - well, they bring fish. WHETHER IT'S a single goldfish in a glass bowl, or a huge aquarium filled with menacing piranhas, fish are becoming common dorm room objects. The craze of purchasing fish as pets is not entirely new. Since the establishment of the University's first dormitory, the rule has been: "No pets allowed." The regulation exists to protect dorm inhabitants who suffer from allergies caused by animals. But fish have somehow been able to elude the law for years, and according to University health officials, there have been no complaints in recent memory stemming from the presence of aquatic life within the dorms. "They're great," says Jay Knoll, an LSA junior who kept a basic goldfish bowl for his first two years at school. "You don't have to clean up after them, they don't bark, chirp, or whine, and you don't have to ever take them for a walk." Marissa Massey, a post graduate resident director in Markley, works a little harder at her hobby. Now in her third year as a fishkeeper, she has six exotic fish in two tanks. Maintenance of her five- and ten-gallon tanks has not cost her a fin and a tail, er, an arm and a leg, either. She says the fish cost only about $1.50 each and the tank costs close to $20. Food for her six friends runs less than $3 a month and she spends only $3.50 every 18 months for the right chemicals. "I miss having dogs and cats," Massey says. But "fish are fun to have. They grow on you, look nice in your room, and are cool to have." Paul Driessche, an LSA sophomore in West Quad, also likes the flavor fish add to his room's interior. "They have a calming effect and give a room a homey feeling that is peaceful and adds color." At home in Detroit, Driessche has four tanks, but in the dorm, he only has room for one. His next purchase, he says, will be a small shark, which runs about $15. The highlight of the dorm fish world is undoubtedly owner- See FISH, Page 6 Daily Photo by DOUG McMAHON Two of the many fish who accompany students to Ann Arbor each year swim laps in their campus aquarium. Mailer to speak at Hopwood award ceremony State's A By FANNIE WEINSTEIN Novelist Norman Mailer will be the featured speaker and presenter at the 1983-84 Hopwood Awards ceremony April11. The controversial Mailer, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1968 for "The Armies of the Night" and again in 1980 for "The Exe utioner's Song," also will conduct two seminars for the English and Communication departments. APPEARING WITH Mailer will be novelist William Gaddis, who won a National Book Award in 1975 for 'JR." "I suspect Mailer will draw the largest audience we've had in a long time," said English Prof. John Aldridge, chairman of the Hopwood Committee. "People will be curious about what he'll do and what he'll say." Past speakers include playwright Ar- thur Miller, novelists Saul Bellow, Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion, and Maxine Hong Kingston who appeared last year. OTHER WORKS by Mailer, 53, in- clude "An American Dream"(1965) and "The Naked and the Dead"(1948). The Hopwoods, awarded to un- dergraduate and graduate University students for excellence in creative writing, are among the top honors for young writers in the country. The English department also an- nounced the creation of a "Young Writers Series," this fall. In the program, emphasis will be placed on generating informal contact between student and younger professional writers, according to English Prof. Richard Tillinghast. "Younger writers are closer in age to people just starting and usually a little more enthusiastic and more ac- cessible," he said. joblesi dropS From AP and UPI Michigan's unemployment rate drop- ped more than a full percentage point to 12.3 percent while the nationwide unemployment rate fell to 9.3 percent in September. Michigan Employment Security Commission Director S. Martin Taylor said the September figure was the lowest level in Michigan in nearly two years. Statewide unemployment fell to 527,000 in September, a drop of 59,000 from the August level when the jobless rate was 13.4 percent, the MESC said. A year ago, Michigan's September unemployment rate was 14.5 percent, with 621,000 out of work. Taylor attributed the September decline in unemployment primarily to unsuccessful summer job seekers abandoning their search for work and to seasonal workers leaving their jobs to return to school. The loss of seasonal job seekers and holders reduced the statewide labor force by 76,000 to 4,294,000. The seasonal job losses were par- tially offset by substantial job growth in the auto and manufacturing in- dustries-a positive sign for the state's s rate economy-Taylor said. Total em- ployment fell by 16,000 during the mon- th to 3,768,000. Taylor said the September rate was the lowest for any month since Novem- ber 1981, when unemployment was 12 percent. It also was the lowest Septem- ber rate since 1981, when the rate was 10.7 percent. Michigan's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in September was 13.6 percent, down from 14.3 percent in August, Taylor said. The national unemployment rate fell to 9.3 percent last month, the lowest in 17 months, the government reported yesterday. Most Americans - whites, blacks, men, women and teen- agers-shared in the improvement, and nearly 400,000 jobless found work again. The White House hailed the news as "Extremely heartening," but Rep. Parren Mitchell (D-Md.), said it was still "a national disgrace" and top executives of some of America's biggest corporations said unem- ployment remained a critical national issue. The Labor Department said total U.S. See UNEMPLOYMENT, Page 6 Battle HymnAP Photo U.S. Marine Corporal Keith Shaffer relaxes with music and some light reading in a trench at Beirut's International Airport yesterday. Meanwhile, Druse and Shiite Moslem leaders agreed to a compromise on use of U.N. peace-keeping forces to police the cease-fire of Lebanon's civil war. 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"Our Consumer Protection Act doesn't allow potato growers to call their spuds 'Idahos' unless they are grown in the Gem State," Brown said. "The ',ion is king of the jungle and I agree that it's false adver- tising to call them either 'Detroit' or 'Lions.' " Noting the bill likely will be assigned to the Senate Judiciary Commit- tee, which he chairs, Brown encouraged Lions owner William Clay Ford and coach Monte Clark to start looking for a new name. "Perhaps after some careful thought, they will agree with me that the Pontiac Pussycats has a nice sound to it," he said, "or they could have a bake off and call +hmnv T,_ illeh~rv.n^1a n_. ifM Mark White hosting Oklahoma Gov. George Nigh to a fish fry for 200. The Sooners of Oklahoma beat the Longhorns in that contest, 28-22. White actually was paying off a wager made by his predecessor in office, Bill Clements, when he hosted the fish fry Thursday night. But he readily agreed to a wager over today's Sooner-Longhorn match: this year the losing governor, immediately after the contest, will have to direct the winner's band in a rendition of that team's fight song - either "The Eyes of Texas" or "Boomer Sooner." * 1968 - In a 108-page report, the State Auditor General withdrew charges of misrepresentation in the University's accounting procedures. " 1974 - Milliken warned University officials to expect at least a 4 percent cut in state appropriations for the current fiscal year. On the inside ... Tha(A in a: ra milts m. n. to a rais o ri. I I I