OPINION Sunday, December 4, 1983 Page 4 The Michigan Daily Jail, classes, and nuclear arms protests T WO UNIVERSITY students were among at least 54 people arrested this week at demon- strations against an Oakland County manufac- turer of cruise missile engines. LSA sophomore Anita Ringo and LSA senior Margaret Garrigues, plan to stay in jail as a protest of the nuclear arms race. They even arranged to get incompletes for all of their classes this term. If convicted of all the charges they face, they could spend the next 14 months behind bars. Ringo, who was arrested Thursday morning, and Garrigues, arrested Wednesday, were protesting production of the missile engines by blocking the entrance to the Walled Lake protest when they sat down in front of the plant entrance alongside a full scale replica of a cruise missile. One of the five had fastened himself to the model and Oakland County police had to cut him free before placing the man under arrest. The week-long protests ended yesterday. ADVICE and consent The end of the term ritual students affec- tionately call CRISP is under way again, but a guide to help them pick classes was a little late in hitting the streets. The Michigan Student Assembly-published ADVICE course guide wasn't distributed until the middle of the week, though un- dergraduates, particularly seniors, had already begun registering Monday. The delay was caused by a delay in the booklet's printing. ADVICE, which has been helping students pick LSA classes by evaluating both classes and the professors teaching them for four years, had to rely mainly on the efforts of its coordinator for the past two years, Richard Layman, and a few other devoted souls. This edition of ADVICE also was a little dif- ferent than in the past because it relied on data accumulated in past years instead of using surveys primarily from the corresponding term the year before. In fact, this issue con- tains no information on last winter's courses because ADVICE staff members did not collect survey results in CRISP lines last April. That, in part, is because the guide will now rely on course evaluations filled out in classes. Layman said the move is designed to get more accurate information, get more of it, and get it under less harried circumstances. The University's Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, which already conduc- ts such surveys, will provide ADVICE with the information though professors must consent to the release. The hope is that ADVICE can make the tran- sition and give students a useful supplement to the LSA Course Guide. But without more staff, one of MSA's most worthwhile projects could be in danger of falling by the wayside, as similar efforts have in the past. Smokey the RA University dormitories have been hot spots over the past week, as two minor fires provided residents with some added excitement in the usually tense days between Thanksgiving and finals. But quick thinking residential advisors and an observant student helped make sure the hazards didn't become more than small routine-breakers. The first fire began Sunday in West Quad's kitchen when a rag caught fire on the coils of a linen dryer. LSA sophomore Erich Heidenreich spotted the trouble and alerted his RA, who then pulled a fire alarm. Had Heidenreich not noticed the problem, almost 1,200 West Quad residents could have come back from Thanksgiving break to more than just burnt toast. There was no damage to the kitchen. The second fire, this one at Mary Markley Hall on Thursday night, was apparently caused by dripping wax from a Chanukah candle. Again, quick thinking kept the flames from doing serious damage, as RA Ernst Van Bergijk heard a smoke alarm go off, located the fire, and pulled an alarm. Houtsing security officials put out the fire before the Ann Arbor Big deal A chicken in every pot, a car in every garage, as the old saying goes. And a computer ter- minal on every desktop is a promise fast becoming a reality at the University, according to Engineering Dean James Duderstadt. This week, Duderstadt announced that two leading computer firms, Apple Computer, Inc., and Apollo Computer, Inc., have agreed to sell the Engineering college $8 million of computer equipment. Everyone involved with the sale agrees that the University is getting a real deal on the 800 terminals it is purchasing - "sub- stantially reduced prices" seems to be the favorite catchword - but nobody wants to be more specific than $4 million $7 million for the package. The college will finance the purchase with corporate gifts and research funds. Despite the size of the purchase, Duderstadt says it is only the first step toward equiping "each student, faculty, and staff member of the college...with a personal computer work station." That would mean several more hefty purchases from major corporations. At a press conference announcing the agreement, Duderstadt said his ultimate goal "is to create the most sophisticated environment ment of any university in this nation. headquarters of Williams International Corp., a Department of Defense contractor. The protests involved many Detroit area peace groups and even a group from Milwaukee. Those arrested face charges for trespassing, conspiracy to commit a misdemeanor, and contempt of court' The contempt charges stem from the protestors' refusal to obey a court or- der not to interfere with work at the plant. Ringo and Garrigues already have been con- victed of the contempt of court charges and were sentenced to 30 days in jail. The five protestors arrested from Milwaukee provided the highlight of Thursday morning's Ready, set, CRISP. Those familiar lines began forming again throughout the corridors of Lor- ch Hall. Fire Department arrived, and minor damage was limited to the sixth floor dorm room where it started. Markley residents, though, were a might slow in responding to the alarm because of the frequency of false alarms in the building, ac- cording to one student who did not want to be identified. When the alarm persisted, though, students finally left the building. The Week in Review wascompiled by Daily editor David Spak and Daily staff writer Georgea Kovanis. Edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan Stew art 5' -i - Bl-AST OFF/III IA, 5LA Vol. XCIV-No. 73 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 "N Editorials represent a majority opinion of the Daily's Editorial Board Recall hurts 'U' E VER GET THE feeling that things were going just a little too well to last? Something always shows up to turn the tides. So University officials discovered as their recent optimism over improved state government-University relations was stemmed by the recent ouster of two Democratic state senators. Philip Mastin and David Serotkin were recalled from office because of their support for a 38 percent tax increase earlier this year. That same tax in- crease secured higher education a 9 percent funds increase earlier this year and had University officials beaming about a renewed commit- ment from the state. That kind of optimism is harder to find today, and unfortunately, for good reason. The two recalls and others which are sure to follow, certainly do nothing to encourage a strong com- mitment to education. The recall drives are aimed ex- clusively at Democrats who supported the tax increase. These are just the legislators who backed the higher education budget increase - one of the largest increases in several years. These are the legislators on which the University was basing much of its op- U TO P IfA YA IWOW r'At 95444y 5lC AND 7r--Ls } ,onr 4v65 NoT t~ timism. If Republicans are elected to replace Mastin and Serotkin, the political balance in the Senate will swing to the Republicans. This will make the passage of any future tax bill ex- tremely difficult, no matter how socially responsible it is. And when tax increases are necessary, higher education is usually one of the main reasons. But even above party politics, the recalls have chilled elected officials in the state. These recalls give legislators powerful incentive to watch out for themselves, rather than the good of the state. And part of that mentality ap- pears to be reducing expenditures - even the good ones. The anti-tax groups driving these recalls un- derestimate the tremendous need for the tax hike; they don't seem to realize the danger higher education and other state services would have incurred had the books been balanced by cutting. The University needs help financing buildings and programs. It needs money for its General Fund so that students don't have to bear exorbitant tuition costs to support the school. The recalls are not going to make this money any easier to get. 50 wtvfy 8o-ret - ' Move --.~ f- 4%4(VAI / / r, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ d ii III I ST OFFZ 5A t? QPLA5TQ A Fit ri pW~n OF, 9 e~qs h SEMA*r1 r . ra v G -...A -;. LETTERS TO THE DAILY: When did Reagan join 'Star Wars'? 4 To the Daily: In President Reagan's speech on the Lebanon massacre he referred to a "force" that was responsible for it, an evil force in the form of the Soviet Union and its influence on other nations such as Syria. In the Star Wars mode Yuri Andropov and the Soviet Union represent Darth Vader and the "evil empire" and Reagan is Luke Skywalker coming in to save the world from this evil threat. Though it sounds foolish, it is this kind of thinking that justifies for our ad- ministration the United States' foreign policy: Wherever the Russians may be we must stamp them out. The subject of Ronald Reagan and his foreign policy conjures up many topics and much anger. I could discuss Grenada, Lebanon, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and who knows where (we will surely be the last to know, in the name of "democracy"). But I'll confine the topic to Ronald Reagan and nuclear war. My greatest fear comes from and have at least 20 million sur- vivors. If all this sounds like something out of a science fiction movie, it is not. The aforementioned war policy is presently stored away in a Pentagon war office and is very real. The policy includes a whole tactical plan of how we can fight and win a nuclear war against the Russians. Not even in the Nixon, Ford, or Carter administrations was the possibility that we could win a nuclear war so openly discussed and actually believed. What it comes down to is that these men would sacrifice zoo million American lives, the whole Soviet population if need be, who knows how many other lives, and what sometimes gets forgotten: our precious environment. All in the name of "democracy". Reagan et al. would decide our fate based on their exaggerated fears of the Russians taking over the "free" world and rampantly spreading communism into every home. These thoughts are frightening enough in themselves but what's more frightening is Union and in one fell swoop destroy them without much retaliation? No one openly ad- vocates such a policy since it wouldn't be a sound political move, but our weapon "moder- nization" program may make Russian leaders wonder. Limited nuclear war is a fantasy and pre- emptive war is sheer insanity. Let me go back to Hollywood to illustrate clearer the absurdity of Reagan's ideas. In the film War Games the final message con- veyed by the computer is that one should not play the game of nuclear war because no one will win. I wish Reagan would relay on movies other than Star Wars to decide his policies. It seems that a top priority should be to get Mr. Reagan off his high white horse. We must band together to defeat the Reagan clan. Granted, no presidential candidate with a chance of beating Reagan is ideal but it is essential to put some sanity into the White House. We must talk about nuclear war and the fears we have of it. Nuclear war is not inevitable. We are only meant to believe it is so Reagan and his friends can go oh and live out their fantasies. We must not be afraid of facing the reality that these men presently control our fate and are putting us in the gravest dangers with the policies. In the name of democracy we must take control of our own fate and the first step is to dethrone Reagan. -David Guttchen November15 'Wrong Decade' perplexing To the Daily: While its refreshing to see students uniting to express strong dividuals laughing so easily at~a decade in which students were seriously concerned about thjr