Ninety-four Years of Editorial Freedom cl bic Litr 43Iai1Qj A la carte It will be sunny early today with a high in the low 30s. But watch out tonight - the light snow will change to sleet an dthen freezing rain. Low around 27. LVol. XCIV-No. 72 Copyright 1983, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Saturday, December 3, 1983 Fifteen Cents Eight Pages p' Canham sells hoop television rights to cable By JIM DWORMAN Wolverine basketball fans won't be able to watch their team free on television this fall. Michigan Athletic Director Don Canham has sold the broadcast rights to 12 basketball games to Nashville based SportsView Co., a pay-per-view organization, leaving Detroit-area Channel 50 out in the cold. CHANNEL 50 originally was scheduled to telecast 15 Michigan games as part of a network formed by Consolidated Telecommunications, Inc., (CTC), the company which arranged this fall's tape-delayed broadcasts of Michigan football. CTC, however, couldn't piece together a network but Channel 50 still planned to televise the games before Canham sold their rights to Spor- tsView. George Williams, vice president and general manager of Channel 50, said he thought Canham had given the produc- tion rights to CTC. Williams said CTC's ob Lipson agreed to give the rights to Channel 50 after his own network failed to develop. "WE HAD A verbal agreement," said Williams. "He (Lipson) came to us and said, I'm in trouble,' and we said we'd take it (the broadcast rights). Somebody came in at the 11th hour and offered more money.,, Lipson said, "In the process of discussions, the SportsView people came in with a better offer." Canham would not reveal the exact terms of Michigan's agreement with Sports View. He said it contained a flat guarantee plus 25 percent of gross revenues. SPORTSVIEW, WHICH also bought the rights to the cable telecast of last month's Michigan-Ohio State football game, plans to charge $5.95 per game for the basketball broadcasts. Crisler Arena seats cost $6.00. The games will only be available See JOBLESS, Page 2 Officials fear recalls will hurt 'U' At a press conference in the Chrysler Center yesterday, Steve Jobs (right) founder and president of Apple Computer Inc., says students will soon use computers as routinely as they now use calculators. Engineering Dean James Duder- stadt sits to his right, and Apollo Computer Chairman William Poduska is pictured at the far left. Computer firms kick of By JACKIE YOUNG As two Democratic state senators clean out their desks in Lansing and an- ti-tax group celebrate their victories in recent recall elections, University of- ficials and state legislators are warning that the new tax revolt will threaten higher education in the state. University President Harold Shapiro was noticeably cautious in his appraisal yesterday of the recall situation, saying that the University "will just have to wait and see what happens." BUT OTHER University officials took a stronger stand against the two recent votes which ousted State Senators Philip Mastin and David Serotkin who voted for the 38 percent temporary tax increase earlier this year. That tax increase, University of- ficials have said, enabled the state to restore some of the appropriations to higher education that have been cut over the last four years. The University administration "doesn't view this as a positive step in the arena of public politics," said Keith Molin, assistant to the University vice president for state relations. When the government comes to a halt and legislators lose the ability to act on crucial bills, then it goes beyond a mat- ter of simply partisan politics, he said. "If the legislative process becomes one that is vindictive and highly political, then it will be hard to get the legislature to fund capital outlay projects and to make rational judgements on appropriations decisions," he said. "WE ARE somewhat uncomfortable with the future because we don't know who we will be working with," Molin added. Lawrence Lindemer, president of the Alumni Association and a former University regent, said yesterday that the use of recall on single issue cam- paigns is an abuse of the process that is intended for it in the state constitution. Earlier this year, Lindemer distributed a letter to the University community calling the recall process disruptive and inappropriate. "The problem with government is that it is complicated. Issues bear upon other issues. You cannot judge.issues singly, in isolation," Lindemer said. "The legislature is going to be in paralysis. There won't be any hard issues decided." STATE REP. Perry Bullard (D-Ann Arbor), speaking at East Quad yester- day, said the recalls "are going to hurt the University budget. It's going to make it harder to get the appropriate funds for higher education." Bullard, who also voted for the tax in- crease and has been named by anti-tax groups as a potential candidate for recall, said the recalls may teach the legislature "never to vote for a tax in- crease," even if it's the responsible thing to do. And, he added, the long term economic problems in the state which effect education, human ser- vices, and economic development will be worsened. Some legislators will learn caution is far more beneficial to them than the overall need of state citizens, Bullard said. "The Republican position is no more taxes regardless of human need," Bullard said, and "now they may be able to take control of the Senate." BUT STATE Rep. Edgar Geerlings, a Republican from Muskegon, said that, although he voted against the tax hike, he "wouldn't have voted to recall" the two senators who were just ousted. He said that the impact of recalls on the legislature may be demonstrated in the next five to six years when con- troversial topics draw fear of further recalls to mind. Geerlings said he didn't believe education appropriations would be af- fected. He said most Republicans un- derstand that education has been cut short over the past years. "Our attitude is to reverse that trend," Geerlings said. But this doesn't mean that See OFFICIALS, Page 7 4'U, deal worth millions By NANCY GOTTESMAN Top executives from two major com- puter firms - including Steven Jobs, one of the founders of Apple Computer, Inc. - came to North Campus yester- day to announce ah agreement to sell $8 million worth of computer equipment to the College of Engineering. The University will purchase some 800 computers from Apple and Apollo Computer, Inc. at what college officials say are "substantially reduced prices." Earlier this week, college officials said the purchase price would be somewhere between $4 million and $7 million. ENGINEEERING Dean James Duderstadt, at a news conference yesterday, said that the goal behind the purchase "is to move rapidly to the level in which each student, faculty, and staff member of the College is provided with a personal computer workstation, all integrated into a sophisticated communications net- work." Jobs said that the University's wide- scale use of the computer system will give his company a chance to witness the interaction of a "large community of computer users" with the company's technology and that a great deal of computer software will be produced from the venture. "Individuals can do gret things if you give them great tools," Jobs said. Among the advantages of the new computer system, Duderstadt said, is the opportunity for students to use elaborate computer graphics rather than committing designs to paper first. He also said that "the companies' new state-of-the-art computer equipment will be incorporated into ongoing in- structional and research programs ranging from robotics and automation to biotechnology and materials processing." THE COLLEGES' new computer Aided Engineering Network, which is made up largely of the new computers, will have 40 times the computational power of a large mainframe computer, college officials said. Although Jobs said he was unsure whether the company will reap any financial profit from the sale, William Poduska, chairman and chief exectuve officer of Apollo Computer, said that his company "is not a philanthropic organization, and we do not view our participation here as a gift. We are in- See 'U', Page 2 -Unemployment dips to 1981 levels From AP and UPI WASHINGTON - Unemployment fell to 8.4 percent in November, the lowest rate in two years, as 743,000 Americans 1 found work and swelled the overall job force to a record 102.7 million. The White House called the report "the best Christ- mas gift this country can receive. The new civilian jobless rate, down 0.4 from October's 8.8 percent unemployment, was far below the fourth-quarter estimate which had been projected by the Reagan ad- ministration last July. THAT assessment predicted unemployment would average 9.6 percent in the last quarter this year, and dip no lower than 8.6 percent a year from now. But the seasonally adjusted civilian rate for November came in at 8.4 percent, and total unemployment fell from more than 9.9 million to about 9.4 million. Deputy White House press secretary Larry Speakes said that "as each month passes, the . . economic improvement becomes stronger and the prospects for sustained job oppor- tunities becomes greater." The drop in the unemployment rate "points toward economic good times in 1984," said GOP national chairman Frank Fahrenkopf. MARTIN FELDSTEIN, chairman of the president's coun- cil of Economic Advisers, said the unemployment report "is really quite remarkable. It is a dramatic drop, two months in a row. Today's news is more indication of a strong economy." Meanwhile, the government reported that factory orders Unemployment Seasonally Adjusted 11.0- Percent of Work Force 10.5- 10.0- 9.5- 90- 8.5- 8 NDJ FMAMJ JASONDJ FMAMJJASON 81* 1982 1983 Source Dept of Labor AP for new manufactured good rose 0.7 percent in October, and that sales of new single-family houses the same month jum- ped 8.2 percent while prices slid from the record set in Sep- tember. Robert Ortner, the Commerce Department's chief economist, said the three economic reports yesterday were good news. "The only one who possibly doesn't like them is Alm ost! Daily Photo by JEFF SCHRIER Freshman forward Dan Goff appears to have a sure goal in lasts night's Wolverine victory over Lake Superior State, however the shot fell wide of the net. For the results of the game, see Sports page 9. TODAY No, thanks ECIDING THAT the paperwork needed to accept a $7,000 check from the federal government wasn't worth the money, a Salvation Army unit in Westminster, Calif., returned it. "At this time ofn year, we are too busy," army secretary Al Solivan said. "We don't have the time to fill out the forms...so we retur- ned the money." The federal Housing and Community to document statistical information on the money's beneficiaries if the Salvation Army accepts the check, Hun- tington Beach city official Steve Kohler said. The Hun- tington Beach City Council had allocated the federal funds to the Westminster Unit on the recommendation of the city's Human Resources Board. The board decided Wed- nesday to give the $7,000 to the Huntington Beach Com- munity Clinic, a family planning center, instead. TT^v-4 .4-n 1.na,4. was out on the street, I would go up to someone and shake his hand and explain to him it was the Day of Love. I think we're talking about consideration of our fellow man here." But City Clerk Doug Eads thought differently. "Well, you can't print the first thing I thought of," he said. "There are no massage parlors left, so that could kind of make it difficult, I guess." Love Day was the brainstorm of a retired real estate broker who wrote to all the country's governors and U.S. Senators asking that his wife's birthday - which was yesterday - be recognized as Love Day. Aww, how sweet. ficers to avert a sit-in by 30 students at the Administration Building. A confrontation did not take place. " 1975 - Arrests for possession of marijuana in Ann Arbor increased 28 percent between 1973 and 1974 at the same time the national rate increased by only 5. percent. Police Sgt. Harold Tinsey attributed the difference to the city's new "$5 pot law." " 1979 - Residents of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority were evacuated from their house for the evening when an anonymous caller threatened to blow up the building. i i i i