APPENINGS- SUNDAY Highlight A discussion led by the Physicians for Social Responsibility of the television movie "The Day After" to be aired at 8 p.m. will be held at Can- terbury Loft, 332S. State following the film. Films Cinema II- Swing Time, 7 p.m., You Were Never Lovelier, 9 p.m:, Angell Aud. A. Cinema Guild - You Only Live Once, 7 p.m., The Whole Town's Talking, 8:30 p.m., Lorch. Hill St. - Hill 24 Doesn't Answer, 7 & 9 p.m., 1429 Hill. Mediatrics - Tender Mercies, 7 & 8:45 p.m., MLB 4. Comic Opera Guild - Sweethearts, 2 p.m., Michigan Theatre. Performances University Musical Society - Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, 8:30 p.m., Rackham. Office of Major Events - The Persuasions, 9 p.m., University Club, Michigan Union. School of Music - "Albert Herring," 3 p.m., Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre; piano recital with Rachelle McCabe, 4 p.m.; horn students rectial, 8 p.m., Recital Hall. Wild Swan Theatre - "Tales of Tricks & Trouble," 12:30 p.m., Social Hall, Beth Israel Congregation, 2000 Washtenaw. Theatre and Drama Department - "Devour the Snow," 2 p.m., New Trueblood Arena, Frieze Building. Ark - Children's concert with Betty Cook, 2 p.m.; Bob Gibson and Anne Hille, 8 p.m., 1421 Hill. Comfort Inn - Jazz with Louis Johnson and Friends, 7 p.m., 2800 Jackson. First Presbyterian Church - The German Requiem and the Alto Rhap- sody, 4 p.m., 1432 Washtenaw. Safe Energy Coalition - Mad Cat Ruth,'Kruzer, Suspect, King Kong and the Xcons, and Fastrack,8:30 p.m., Joe's Star Lounge, 109 N. Main. Second Chance - Masquerade, 516 E. Liberty. Performance Network - "Waiting for Godot," 8 p.m., 408 W. Washington. Flying Taxi Theater - "Mrs. Warren's Profession," 3 p.m., Performance Network, 408 W. Washington. Speakers Jewish Law Students - Hillel talk with Allan Gerson, "The Mid-East Crisis & the United Nations,"7:30 p.m., Room 150 Hutchins Hall. Kelsey Museum - Gallery talk with Marcia Karrow, 2 p.m., Kelsey Museum. McGovern at Michigan Student Committee - George McGovern, 4 p.m., MLB 3. Meetings American Baptist Campus Foundation - Classes for undergraduates and graduates, 11:15 p.m., First Baptist Church, 512 E. Huron. Women's Weekend of East Quad - Organizational meeting, 6:30 p.m., Room 164, East Quad. Miscellaneous Hillel - Israel folk dancing, 7:30 p.m., 1429 Hill. A-Squares -10th anniversary dance, 2-5 p.m., Michigan Union Ballroom. Lutheran Campus ministry - Sunday worship, 10:30 a.m.; student sup- per, 6 p.m.; "Hunger at Home & abroad," 7 p.m., S. Forest at Hill. Ski CLub - Cross country ski racing clinic, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., Henderson Room, Michigan League. Straight Shooters - Turkey shoot, noon-6 p.m., Indoor Range, top floor of North University Building. Ann Arbor Rands-On Museum - Honey tasting, 3 p.m., 219 E. Huron. McGovern at Michigan Committee - George McGovern will speak at the Democrat Women's annual fall brunch, noon, Campus Inn; fundraiser for McGovern, 6-7:30 p.m., 1406 Beechwood. MONDAY Highlight The mass meeting for the University of Michigan College Bowl tour- nament, sponsored by UAC, will take place at 7:30 p.m., in the Anderson Room of the Michigan Union. The tournament will be held on Jan. 14 and 15, and 21and 22. Films Alternative Action - Anarchism in America, 8 p.m., Room 126, East Quad. Near Eastern & North African Studies - Saints and Spirits, Some Women of Marrakech, 7 p.m., Lorch. Performances Guild House - Poetry readings with Richard Tillinghast and John Woods, 8 p.m., 802 Monroe. School of Music - University Symphony and Concert Band concert, 8 p.m., Hill Auditorium; piano concerti, 8 p.m., Recital Hall; violin recital with Lisa Lantz, 8 p.m., Rackham Assembly Hall. Ark - The Dalglish/Larson Band, 8 p.m., 1421 Hall.1 Performance Network.- "Emily, Emily," 7 p.m., 408 W. Washington. Second Chance - Savage Grace, 516 E. Liberty. Speakers Near Eastern and North African Studies - Brown bag with Rashid Bashshur, "Lebanon: Problems and Prospects," noon, Lane Hall Commons Room. Center for Chinese Studies - Ji Chaozu, "Reflections on Sino-American Relations," 4 p.m., Lane Hall Commons Room. Saint Cosmas Aitolos Orthodox Christian Fellowship - Natalia Challis, "The Influence of Orthodoxy in the USSR," 7 p.m., Pond Room C, Michigan Union. Women From India at Michigan - Ranjana Damle, "Women in South Asia: Relevant Issues," 7p.m., International Center. Human Growth and Development - Pauline Yahr, "Sex Differences & Hormonal Effects in the Brain," noon, 1057 MHRI. Chemistry Department - Wendy Elcesser, "Carbon-Hydrogen Bond Ac- tivation by Organometallic Complexes," 4 p.m., 1200 Chemistry Building. Program in Cognitive Science Colloquium - Dennis Egan, "Understan- ding What It Takes to Learn a Complex Skill," 4 p.m., 146 BSAD. Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics - James Bennett, "Shape Optimization of Two-Dimensional Structures with Geometric Problem Description and Adaptative Mesh Refinement,'' 4 p.m., 1006 DOW. Studies in Religion - Hans Kung, "End of the World and the Kingdom of God," 8p.m., Rackham Auditorium. Germanic Languages & Literature - Cecile Zorach, "The Geographic Expedition in Modern German Literature," 4:10 p.m., Room 224 Tyler, East Quad. Meetings Tae Kwon Do Club - 5-7 p.m., CCRB Martial Arts Room. Ann Arbor FLOC Support Group - 7:30 p.m., 308 E. William. Christian Science Organization -7:15 p.m., Room D, Michigan League. SACUA -2 p.m., E. Alcove, Rackham. Senate Assembly - 3:15 p.m., Rackham Amphitheatre. Lutheran Campus Ministry - Bible Study on the gospel of Luke, noon, Room 3, Michigan League. Washtenaw Association for Retarted Citizens - 7:30 p.m., High Point Cafetorium, 1735S. Wagner. - - - - - .. - / .. n- .,,.A. n ~ m - r m 14 u~T . The Michigan Daily, Sunday, November 20, 1983-- Page Prof not taxi ngto his stu ents By DAVID SPAK Think of the most boring subject taught at the University. Now think of the most annoying thing you have to do every year. Accounting and taxes, right? So you'd probably want to steer away from a course like Taxation of Business Enter- prises and Property Transactions, also known as Accounting 570 - especially after you find out that it meets for three hours on Thursday nights. BUT AFTER a few minutes in Prof. James Wheeler's class, you might change your mind. Wheeler, the chair- man of the accounting faculty, will show you who the winners and losers of the tax game are. That, he says, will open your eyes. If learning how a corporation like General Dynamics got away with PROFILE paying no taxes - and even making a billion dollars through the system - doesn't grab you, then Wheeler's abun- dant enthusiasm and charisma will. Just ask the students in his tax class. "He's a character," said Larry Kohlenberg, a graduate business student. "There are very few professors you get a chance to know while you're here. He's one of the ones you want to get to know." ADDED accounting student Stuart Mills "He's dedicated to students." In fact, Wheeler puts so much into his classes he seems to be performing for his students. "There's enough ham in me to enjoy teaching," the 51-year-old teacher said. "I think the students get more out of it that way. I'd hate to regurgitate what's in the text. That could be awfully boring." The Thursday night class is, in a sen- se, a weekly show. It's even shown over closed circuit television to students at the University's Dearborn campus and Wheeler's small, but thoroughly cap- tivated audience laughs with him as he races around the blackboard one step ahead of the camera. HIS COSTUME may not distinguish him from the typical trim and healthy professor, but the tone in his voice is the clue to just how important a particular anecdote (call them tax skits) is, ac- cording to those who know him best. "You can easily assess his interest (in a topic) by his voice," said Michigan State University Accounting Professor Dennis Gaffney, a long-time friend of Wheeler's. "If it goes acapella, you know he's serious." One of the certainties of Wheeler's Thursday night show is at least one at- tack on Congress. Two weeks ago was no exception as he briefly discussed the Wall Street Journal's weekly tax report column. He noted that Congress voted to make the income of servicemen killed in Lebanon and Grenada tax exempt: "The people in Congress, they really care, he quipped. Later, he goes after another of his favorites, General Dynamics. The Pen- tagon had been paying the huge defense contractor 19,609 for each of a certain type of wrench. The only problem was the wrenches are worth about 12 cents each. On top of that, General Dynamics paid no taxes on the profit. "That's a half-decent profit margin," Wheeler screaches out in acapella. "Explain that to the public." WHEELER calls his fight for tax reform a "hobby" now. But it's a hobby he knows well. "He knows tax law better than any academic," according to his fellow. Accounting Prof. Michael Maher. With Wheeler's enthusiasm, Maher said his push for reform "becomes almost a religion." Gaffney added, "He's committed to reform, to the plight of the little guy. He does that by illustrating the abuses (in- the tax system)." Like the General Dynamics case. OR IN HIS work from 1970-71 (the year before he came to the University on a permanent basis) on Congress's joint tax committee. "My committee work made me so upset it bothered me," he said. "I had sleepless nights because my sense of inequity in the system was deep. My father paid taxes every year while General Dynamics and others pay nothing." Wheeler doesn't get that upset anymore - or at least he channels the energy in different directions. One of those directions was the White House. About two years. ago the president at- tempted to get the Internal Revenue Service to give segregated schools like Bob Jones University tax exempt status. Reagan argued that the IRS had not authority to withhold the school's tax exempt status - it was Congress's responsibility. In a letter to Reagan, Wheeler noted a similar circumstance of the IRS acting on its own to decide tax exempt status when the agency declared income from Social Security to be tax free. That 1941 ruling now costs the government $140 Daily Photo by SCOTT ZOLTO Accounting Prof. James Wheeler makes the mundane subjects of taxes and accounting interesting by entertaining his students each week with "tax skits" and governmental anecdotes. billion a year. So Wheeler asked that if agreed. "In this area you can do a lot or Reagan washgoing to force the IRS to your own. You don't have to go over i ease up on Bob Jones and company, the step by step. He can do the cases ol president should repeal the 194ruling abuses which magnifies what happens as well. In both instances the IRS had to the problems). It's a stepping stn taken action that only Congress could tohenouti de word ."Yt apparently take. Kohlenberg added, You want to d ALL WHEELER got back was a the work for him and he's always recep "Dear Friend" letter from the tive to students and their questions." president's director of correspondence Wheeler said he just plain loves his - though New York Times columnist work, though it requires ploughing Tom Wicker did call attention to through daily tax reports, often Wheeler's logic in an article in working until midnight, and oc- February of last year. cassionally missing one of his thrice- It's these kinds of situations that get weekly five-mile runs. On top of all that, Gaffney said his students interested in tax accounting, friend is "a hell of a fisherman. He Wheeler said. Because of that interest he doesn't "have to brow-beat a student should be as good a teacher as he is a to do the work." fisherman." he joked. Another of his studentsTerry Bates, Not to worry, James Wheeler's students are hooked. POETRY READING with RICHARD TILLINGHAST and JOHN WOODS READING FROM THEIR WORKS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21 -8 P.M. GUILD HOUSE, 802 MONROE Food co-op tosses debts, turns profits (Continued from Page 1) are both top notch," said Andyr who has worked at the Packard ANOTHER PROBLEM was that for three years. many food staples were sold only in But McKim said the changes1 bulk, and customers had to take the ex- affected the nature of the co-op tra time out to measure and weigh the relations are still more relax products. Today, the co-op sells many friendlier here than other plac more pre-packaged items, worked. I think it makes me bet The Packard store is not the only customers. I feel like I'm repre branch that has experienced a financial the store." turnaround. Drew McGuiness, who was appointed store manager of the Fourth Avenue branch in May, said losses have been cut by carefully monitoring the prices of products that competing grocery stores also are selling. Changes in management also have made a difference. Bill Vandore, for example, works as a financial coor- dinator for the stores. He overseesL buying and accounting between all three stores and makes organizational recommendations. There also have been management changes within the individual stores. In C IaSSifie( the past, the Fourth Avenue branch employed three general managers who worked together to set store policies. Last summer, however, the Board ofe Directors appointed a single manager. Co-op members, who trade hours at the co-op for food discounts, said the changes have made a difference. results! 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