Ninety-four Years of Editorial Freedom cl ble Litvi4a ?E~a1 Dreary Cloudy today, chance of rain, and a high in the mid-40s. ol. XCIV-No. 60. Copyright 1983, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Tuesday, November 15, 1983 Fifteen Cents Ten Pages 'Nuclear Saints' take over Senior's lab Daily Photo by DOUG McMAHON Professor Thomas Senior watches the Members of the Nuclear Saints of America begin their "research" yesterday as the man they call Pr second sit-in in as many weeks in his East Engineering laboratory. Facirulty hdge n ee Research Policies Committee (RPC), to decide By THOMAS MILLER whether they wanted to look at the issue again or Although the Unversity's Board of Regents rejec- merely make a statment to the regents that "ex- ted the faculty's proposed guidelines for non- presses discontent with the decision taken by the classified military research last June, the issue could regents," Hildebrandt said. arise again pending the action of the top faculty The proposed guidelines would have prohibited governing committee. Business Prof. Herbert Hildebrandt, chairman of non-classified research which had a "substantialte (SACUA), said yesterday that the commiteee will human beings." Each school or college would have consider a number of options including asking the set up a panel to monitor non-classified research, and regents to reconsider their decision. a central committee would have overseen the HILDEBRANDT SAID the committee's action has monitoring procedures of each school. nothing to do with last week's student takeover of RPC decided against further research into the Engineering Prof. Thomas Senior's radiation issue, Hildebrandt said. "RPC spent nearly two years laboratory or a similar sit-in at the lab yesterday. on the subject. Many people feel that if people were Earlier this year, SACUA asked members of the not persuaded by now, then they aren't going to be committee that originally drafted the guidelines, the persuaded. There has been a complete venting of the rophet trch dbt issue." HE ADDED that RPC could draft a statement ex- pressing their displeasure with the regents' decision at their meeting Friday. RPC Chairwoman Edith Gomberg, however, said last night that she was not aware the issue would be raised at the meeting. According to Gomberg, a professor of social work, research guidelines are not one of the group's major priorities this year. Hildebrandt said SACUA will have several options once it receives the research committee's statement. "WE MAY SEND the statement back to the regents asking them to reconsider the non-classified research proposal. We may wish to pass the document along without further comment. Or we could send the letter to the regents recommending that there be additional See RESEARCH, Page 6 By SUE BARTO , I Engineering College Prof. Thomas Senior and the rest of the researchers in the East Engineering Building's radiation laboratory had some com- pany again yesterday when 12 students walked in insisting they be allowed to do "around-the-clock military resear- ch." The students, donned in white lab coats, Walkman headsets, and sunglasses, are calling themselves the "Nuclear Saints of America," and remained in the lab as of press time last night. SINCE BEGINNING their effort at about 1:30 p.m. yesterday, the students have not let down their veil of sarcasm. They are calling for the University to require students to conduct applied military research and are insisting on pursuing their own brand of research to make up for time lost last week when 26 other students staged a more straight- forward sit-in in the lab to.protest Pen- tagon sponsorship of Senior's projects. Friends of the group inside the lab say the new demonstrators are not af- filiated with the Progressive Student Network, which staged last week's sit- in, but that they are sympathetic to PSN's cause. Although two University security guards remained in the labs, University officials last night made no indication that they would force the students out. University President Harold Shapiro, who is responsible for deciding how to U.S. sends first cruise missiles _.. _._ ~ h:, handle the demonstrators, sai late last night that he had no comment on the situation. NO ONE IN THE LAB was sure when the students entered yesterday after- noon or'whether the group was sincere in its request to assist in the research. But it soon became apparent that the group was there in opposition to the operations of the lab, where Senior and his students study the effects of an elec- tromagnetic pulse on aircraft. Op- ponents of Senior's work say that such a pulse is being studied because of its similarity to a nuclear detonation, but Senior said last week that he was only studying the effects of lightning. None of yesterday's demonstrators would identify themselves by their real names. One, calling himself Randell McMurphey, said the group would stay in the lab until they had completed a "reasonable amount of research" or until they had received acknowledgement from President Shapiro. Soon after the group arrived, the students began work on so-called military research projects. One, who called herself Doris Petri, began knit- ting a maize and blue "nose cone war- mer" to protect missiles from the cold of winter. ANOTHER STUDENT said he was trying to create life from Frito's Corn Chips and refried bean dip. "I'm trying to create life. In the event of a nuclear See NUCLEAR, Page 6 'U' admits errors in list of GEO members By JAN RUBENSTEIN University officials yesterday admit- ted that mistakes had been made in determining the membership of the Graduate Employees Organization, causing delays in the union's vote on a proposed contract. Most teaching and staff assistants join GEO by asking the University to deduct union dues from their payroll checks. But GEO officials charged over the weekend that the University in- correctly failed to credit more than 100 prospective members as having paid their dues. GENE Goldenfield, GEO's elections committee coordinator, said the union has submitted to the University a list of 169 graduate student assistants with unclear membership status or inac- curate payroll deductions. Goldenfield estimates that about 126 people from that list should be union members, See 'U', Page 6 -. _ . / to Britain From AP and UPI LONDON - An Air Force 'cargo plane yesterday delivered the first of the new U.S. medium-range nuclear missiles due for deployment in five European countries, provoking outcries from Britain's opposition lawmakers and anti-nuclear protesters who called the step "a major tragedy." , BUT THE BRITISH government said it could easily withdraw the low-flying missiles if American and Soviet negotiators reach an arms-control agreement in Geneva. The talks are scheduled to last six more weeks. The C-141 Starlifter, carrying two long crates covered with canvas, arrived at the Greenham Common Air Base 50 miles west of London. The cargo - ringed by armed paratroopers - was then transported toward missile storage silos at the base. Several hours later, Defense Secretary Michael Heseltine informed Parliament of the missiles' arrival, shouting to make himself heard above opposition lawmakers who screamed "shame! shame!" HESELTINE DID not say how many missiles were in the first shipment. They are the first of 572 cruise and Pershing 2 missiles that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization plans to deploy starting next month if the Geneva talks remain stalled. The next round is scheduled for today. The Soviets have threatened to quit the Geneva talks if the NATO deployment proceeds and say they will install more missiles in response. NATO has said that arrival of the U.S. missiles in Europe does not constitute deployment. "THE NATO deployment is planned to be completed over a 5-year period. It can be halted, modified or reversed at any time," Heseltine said. Each 20-foot-long missile, designed to fly like an airplane at slow speed and hug the ground, will give NATO the ability to strike a target hundreds of miles inside the Soviet Union. Heseltine said "the delivery of these See FIRST, Page 2 AP Photo A U.S. Air Force Starlifter is surrounded by tight security yesterday at England's Greenham Common air base. The plane was believed to be carrying the first of the U.S. missiles which will be deployed in Western Europe. TODAY Protesting protests W HILE ONE student group danced around a research laboratory yesterday to show its opposition to military research by supporting it, another group sat on the Diag to show their support for military research by op- posing it. Confusing? You bet. Both the left and the right figured they could make their point by trying to show the and AIDS are both due to scientific research," he said. Wrong Decade calls itself a "thoroughly democratic, communistic, socialistic, equal-opportunity, feminist, masculinist organization made up of persons of all codes, creeds, and sexual tastes. The protesters did have their troubles. In their literature, the mock-liberals made a James Watt-like slip of the tongue by referring to Native Americans as "Injuns." That was a mistake, said Lawren- ce Lane, another LSA freshman, "we're not going to use that word again." annual economic predictions, which showed the nation was in for a "mild" recession. * 1974 - The regents warned University officials not to purge confidential information from student files. The vote came in response to a new federal law that granted students 4access to their files. * 1971 - University President Robbin Fleming announ- ced the University would sever its ties to Willow Run labs, which conducted most of the military research on campus. I