Ninety-four Years of Editorial Freedom i 11,.b]C Lt ibtjau E ai1j Fading away But radiating more warmth today. Cloudy with a high around 60. Vol. XCIV-No. 54 Copyright 1983, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Tuesday, November 8, 1983 Fifteen Cents Eight Pages Students seize 'U' research lab Activists call for end to defense projects By JIM SPARKS and PETE WILLIAMS Twenty-seven members of an activist student group seized control of a research laboratory in the East Engineering Building yesterday, vowing to "shut down" military research on campus. The demonstrators, all members of the Progressive Student Network, blockaded the door to the radiation laboratory at 1:30 p.m. and refused en- trance to the facility. LATE LAST night PSN members said they planned to stay in the. For a detailed look at what goes on in the radiation laboratory see page 3. basement laboratory at least until morning, but would not indicate how long after that they would remain. Director of University security Walt Stevens said the protesters would be allowed to stay overnight, but said "at some time (University President Harold Shapiro) might have to make a decision" to remove the students. PSN members chose the radiation laboratory because Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Thomas Senior, who runs the lab, regularly does research sponsored by the Department of Defense. SENIOR'S current project, called electromagnetic pulse (EMP) resear- ch, uses microwaves to simulate the pulses given off to aircraft by lightning or a nuclear explosion. Senior said he is working to develop sensors to measure the effect of light- ning on planes but previous projects have specifically referred to stimulating a "high altitude nuclear explosion." The protesters demanded an end to the EMP project, stopping all military research at the University, extending classifiedresearch guidelines to non- classified research projects, and disciplinary or legal action against the participants. "THIS WON'T be the last such demonstration this term," said PSN member and protest organizer Tom Kaeding. "We won't be satisfied until military research is completely off the campus. We are not out here just for the publicity. Certainly publicity will help us but our ultimate goal is to get the Pentagon off our campus." "The military in this country isn't a defensive system . . . It's not preserving life at all, it's destroying life," said PSN member Lee Winkelman while blockading the lab entrance. Senior said the demonstrators should direct their efforts at the University regents instead of disrupting research projects - if they want military research suspended. "THEIR DEMANDS concern policies of the regents and the Reagan ad- ministration. Disrupting the operation of a laboratory is not a way to get to the regents or the policy of the Reagan ad- ministration. I have nothing to do with those," he said. Shelves of. the laboratory are covered with scale-models of various aircraft, including the B-1 bomber and the F-16 fighter bomber. Researchers at the lab put the models on a pillar in a chamber covered with styrofoam and bombard them with microwaves. The waves simulate the pulse given off by lightning or a nuclear explosion. Senior came down to the lab several minutes after the group took over and answered student demands that he stop the EMP project by saying he would talk with students but would not respond to demands. "I will talk in the corridor, but I'm not going to talk in the pressure situation you have here," Senior said. "The lab is open until 5 p.m. Please don't do any damage and keep your hands off the equipment." When Senior left, the group quickly formed a human blockade in front of the door. Although University security officials and some graduate students stumbled through the blockade, some lab workers - could naT get past the protesters. Work-study student Peter Bauer, an LSA sophomore, was unable to pick his way through the crowd to take oscilloscope readings. Senior and See STUDENTS, Page 3 Daily Photo by DOUG McMAHON Prof. Thomas Senior listens to students Amos Cornfeld and Nancy Arnoff read off their list of demands during the students' sit-in at his laboratory yesterday. Protesters support PSN sit-in By GEORGEA KOVANIS About 150 protesters rallied on the front steps of the East Engineering Building yesterday afternoon in a show of support for demonstrators who took over a University researcher's laboratory earlier in the day. / The protesters, who called for an end to military research on campus, demonstrated while members of the Progressive Student Network (PSN) staged a sit-in at researcher Thomas Senior's laboratory. SENIOR, A professor of electrical and computer R engineering, is conducting research projects with possible military applications. "We want (Senior's) project off campus," said LSA sophomore Valerie Flapan, a PSN member who led the rally. "We have no intention of stopping our protest until we get him out of here," she said. Ann Arbor City Councilmember Lowell Peterson (D-2nd Ward) called for a stop to what he termed an increase in militarism on campus and across the country. He urged protesters to fight forsan end to military research by signing petitions, supporting nuclear freeze legislation, and voting against gover- nment figures who oppose the freeze. "I THINK WE should vote the bastards out," Peterson said. "Vote Reagan out, vote Pursell out." Not everyone at the rally agreed with Peterson and PSN members, however. "Military research is necessary for security," said David Wiltshire, an Ann Arbor resident wnc mounted the steps to challenge Peterson directly. "What's wrong with military research?" Wiltshire's comments were met wthjlod j ers and chants from audience members, including Diag regular Stoney Burke. "Nuclear war is suicide. Everything fucking dies," Burke said. LATER IN the rally, the demonstrators moved to the Church Street side of the building and stood out- see PROTESTERS, Page 3 Senate approval paves way for MX production From AP and UPI WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Senate yesterday endorsed the MX nuclear missile, casting the last major congressional vote needed before the weapon moves into full- scale production and handing President Reagan a key win for his military buildup. i On a 56-37 vote, the Senate rejec- ted an amendment offered by Sen. Dale Bumpers (D-Ark) that would have cut out $2.1 billion for building the first 21 of a planned 100 intercon- tinental missiles. "I BELIEVE it is necessary to make one last effort if only to clear my conscience," -said Bumpers, acknowledging defeat shortly before the vote. Bumpers also said that at an estimated cost of $17 billion, the missile is the most expensive weapon in the U.S. nuclear arsenal, outstripping by 60 percent the cost per warhead of warheads carried by the B-1 bomber or the Trident sub- marine. But Ted Stevens (R-Alaska). manager of the bill, said deleting MX funds would force President Reagan and his negotiators to "Go to arms reduction talks with one arm tied behind them." Bumpers was supported in brief remarks by several other Democrats, including Sens. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.), Carl Levin (D-Mich.), and Gary Hart (D.-Colo.), who led the unsuccessful fight against authorizing production of the weapon last July. "THE MX IS a missile without a mission and a weapon without a home," Kennedy said. President Reagan and other sup- porters say the MX is needed as a "bargaining chip" to pressure the Soviet Union to negotiate seriously at the Geneva talks on curbing strategic nuclear arms. To make the new weapon safe from Soviet attack, Pentagon oficals have proposed several basing schemes over the last 10 years. They ranged from deploying the MX in underground railroad cars to "dense pack" clusters of missiles designed to make incoming missiles blow themselves up. The Democratic House approved MX funds by nine votes last week, and In August, after an anti-MX filibuster led by Gary Hart (D- Colo.), the Senate approved con- tinued production by a 58-41 vote. The House approved the missile 217-208, dashing what many op- ponents saw as the last hope to stop the weapon before it moved into production. The first missiles are scheduled to be deployed in late 1986 or early 1987 in Minuteman missile silos in Wyoming and western Nebraska. Doily Photo by DEBORAH LEWIS' A University security officer climbs over the students who occupied Prof. Thomas Senior's radiation laboratory yester- day in the East Engineering Building. 7TODAY r.. . NUMBER OF DONORS MATCHING GIFTS NUMBER OF DONORS COUNTRY AMOUNT Australia 1 37.60 Belgium 125 Brazil 1 $25 $ 25 Canada 14 435 79.70 England 2 225 COUNTRY Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas 29 6 103 16 AMOUNT $ 1.235.00 245.00 4,401.00 425.00 26,726.00 MATCHING GIFTS $ 125.00 .00 150.00 50.00 5,260.00 Student types FOR ALL YOU Type-A personalities who can't wait to start worrying about what classes you are going to take next semester, and for all you Type-B types who will decide based on what time they are being offered: Do we have news for you. The University, the official sponsor of the Winter 1984 time schedule, has posted next semester's master list outside 1213 Angell Hall for your inspection. You'll have to wait until next week to get a portable one, and until the week of Nov. 20 to obtain the crucial Course Guide. Both will be placed outside 1407 Mason Hall, and should amount to some fascinating reading, no matter what Quad. A poll of students living in dorms, which was released the same day, showed that two-thirds of the students were in favor of co-educational living. Also on this date in history: "1951 - Student Government made its case to the Univer- sity for a four, day vacation for Thanksgiving. Students, at that time were only given one day off. .1956 - University officials were doing everything they could to prevent a panty raid after a pep rally to be held that night. "The occurence of a panty raid is likely to mean ... that this will be the last pep rally'for a good many years," one official warned. "1977 - The Daily reported that the University was making mnrrssn solving the nrnhhim ,of invPtaf c in i I \,IuanorIIO ari I i