Cagers whip North Carolina A&T, 71-55 Ninety-four Years of Editorial Freedom E Lit 43U itil Crispy Cloudy and colder with a 50/50 chance of snow showers today. High in the mid 30s. Vol. XCIV-No. 68 Copyright 1983, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Tuesday, November 29, 1983 Fifteen Cents Ten Pages Old course data used in Columbia new AWV' a unch puts By SHARON SILBAR ADVICE, the Michigan Student Assembly's course evaluation guide, is expected to hit the hallways again today, looking somewhat different than it has in previous terms because of a change in format. Now in its fourth year of publication, ADVICE -which originally was called Course Encounters - has been threatened by staffing problems but appears ready to con- tinue furnishing students with evaluations of LSA courses completed by their peers. IN THE PAST, ADVICE has been filled with data collected from questionnaires completed by students at registration during the preceding year. But no such questionnaires were distributed last April, when students would have been evaluating their winter term courses. The new edition will consist of data compiled from previous years' issues. Despite the fact that no new data was used, "the infor- mation is still valuable and useful," said Richard Layman, an LSA senior and coordinator of the project. "Because it is a compilation, in one publication the student can compare evaluations over time," he said. After this semester, the guide will go through yet another change in format, Layman said, when it stops using data collected in registration lines and begins using course evaluations conducted in class by the University. fTHE UNIVERSITY'S Center for Research on Learning and.Teaching, which already conducts in-class surveys for professors, will provide ADVICE with evaluations - but professors must consent to publication of results before they can be released. MargaretCole, a research assistant at the center, said that thus far, about half the professors for 3,000 class surveys she has looked at have consented to release of the results. Layman said the results from University surveys would be more accurate than those taken from people standing in registration lines because students have more time to com- plete evaluations and because the sample size will be much greater. Many students do not register during the two weeks that ADVICE typically does its surveys. Another ADVICE official estimated that only 40 percent of students completed surveys under the old survey, while 90 'percent will respond in-class. IN ADDITION to the overhaul in format, ADVICE has been See ADVICE, Page 5 Spacelab, into orbit FROM AP & UPI SPACE CENTER, Houston - The shuttle Columbia rocketed the world's largest space crew into orbit yesterday for nine days of experiments with the $1 billion European-built Spacelab research center. The launch was precisely on time, 11 a.m. EST, despite a looming weather front that threatened a two-day delay. Columbia carried into space the largest crew - six astronauts - and was the first U.S. launch to include a non- American, West German Ulf Merbold. ASTRONAUTS Owen Garriett and Byron Lichentenberg started turning on equipment in the 23-foot-long Spacelab, in the cargo bay of Columbia, just three hours after they and four crewmates were launched from the Kennedy Space Center. Mission commander John Young, 53- year-old veteran making his a record sixth flight, sounded like a rookie as Columbia orbited 155 miles above the Earth. "It is so neat up here," he said. "It is really something." Earlier he noted: "Things don't change any." "IT'S A beautiful flying machine," radioed pilot Brewster Shaw, 38, who - was making his first flight. "It's really some ride. It's the smoothest way to go you ever saw.'' The crew had a bit of trouble opening the hatch that covers the tunnel from Columbia's cabin to Spacelab. NASA beamed down TV pictures that showed the astronauts tugging and yanking to no avail for several minutes, until finally they freed a recalcitrant latch and the hatch-swung free. Then Garriott, Lichtenberg and Mer- bold floated through the 19-foot tunnel and made a joint entry into Spacelab, smiling broadly and shaking hands all around. They turned on the lights and quickly set to work activating the ex- periments. \Young also paid a brief visit before returning to the cabin. THEIR DAY was divided into 12-hour See COLUMBIA, Page 2 The shuttle Columbia lifts Spacelab One into orbit yesterday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Scientists will conduct experiments in space for nine days. Labor panel withdraws complaint against Apex By LAURIE DELATER The National Labor Relations Board last week withdrew a formal complaint against Apex Drug Stores alleging the company discriminated against union employees during its takeover last year of 29 Cunningham Drug Stores in Michigan. The decision reversed earlier NLRB charges that Apex of- fered employment to non-union applicants but illegally tur- ned away most of the unionized employees. Of 350 former Cunningham workers, 63 were hired by Apex. OFFICIALS FROM the United Food and Commercial Workers Union in Detroit said they will appeal the decision. According to Mary Ellen Gurewitz, attorney for the union, holders of a third of Cunningham stock essentially sold the drug store chain to themselves in order to get rid of unionized employees. Cunningham's is owned by CD Holding Co. Two shareholders in CD Holding, Mickey Shapiro and Spencer Patrich, also own 75 percent of Apex. DURING THE reopening of the stores under the Apex name, new employees were hired in at $3.75 per hour with no benefits. Cunningham's employees at the same stores earned $6.17 per hour plus $1.50 in benefits. Three Cunningham stores in Ann Arbor were bought out by Apex. In its complaint issued last July, the NLRB asked Apex to rehire Cunningham employees and give them full back pay. The settlement could have amounted to as much as $5 million. ATTORNEYS for the NLRB said they found the difference in identity between Cunningham and Apex sufficient to call the two unaffiliated. .................. .............. ................... Local * slaying puzzles Ann Arbor police * By MICHAEL ROLNICK Ann Arbor police still have noleads in the shooting of an Ann Arbor woman last Tuesday night near a grocery store at Plymouth and Green roads. Nancy Faber, 39, was shot in the head shortly after she left the Kroger grocery store at about 8 p.m. Tuesday. She died Friday morning at St. Joseph Mercy hospital. POLICE BELIEVE Faber .was for- ced at gunpoint to drive about a quarter mile down Green-Road after leaving the store. She was found in the car and her purse was missing. A $600 reward is being offered to anyone with information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the shooting. The Ann .Arbor News, where Faber's husbadd is an editorial writer and columnist, is providing $5000 of the award and WAAM radio has donated the remainder. Police have formed a task force to in- vestigate the murder, but all leads so far have left them empty-handed. Anyone with information is requested to call the police at a special task force telephone number, 996-3199. Faber was a speech therapist in the Plymouth-Canton Community School District. AP Photo Dad, send money Dave Uitermarkt of Boulder, Colo., fights snowdrifts to reach out and touch someone during a snowstorm yesterday. The weekend blizzard dumped as much as 27 inches of snow in some western states. . .WOO. . .... .. . ... .... . . . . ...... . . . . . . . . . . ...............................is.... . . . TODAY- Horse Some toy T HERE'S A NEW doll on the market that is driving the country crazy this Christmas season. In Hagerstown, Md., six police officers were called in to keep order when a crowd of 200 shoppers besieged a toy store hoping to buy '"Cabbage Patch Kids," the new dolls with computer- designed faces. Here in Ann Arbor, the manager of Kiddie- Land on Main Street reported that all 24 of the dolls the store received Wednesday were "none inside of 10 Coleco Industries Inc., of West Hartford, Conn., the distributer, has stepped up production and expects to ship 2.5 million of the dolls by year's end, said a company spokeswoman. Coleco's stock rose 31 points to 21%/4 yester- day. The Daily almanac *1977 - Former Michigan Gov. William Milliken told a campus energy conference that the nation should turn more to wood as a source of fuel. *1978 - The Public Interest Group in Michigan kicked off a campaign calling for a $5 fine for 18- to 20-year-olds caught drinking liquor. E On the inside 11 i I i