Ninety,-four Years of,. Editorial Freedom . Mit ian iEati1i Hibernate Cloudy and windy with snow flurries likely. A high of 23 degrees. ot. XCV-No. 105 Copyright 1984, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Sunday, February 5, 1984 Fifteen Cents Eight Pages Markley vaceiatio By SUSAN MAKUCH Although University health officials maintain that a measles vaccination drive in the dormitories is purely voluntary, Mary Markley residents received a memo Friday saying they would be "jeopardizing (their) housing lease' if they did not seek an inoculation. The memo, issued by Markley Building Director Charla Weiss, said that "students who have not been inoculated are a serious threat to the University com- munity." IT SAID THAT "If you do not have a valid reason (for not being inoculated) and have so far refused to be inoculated, you are jeopardizing your housing lease." Weiss, however, tempered the statement in the memo when interviewed yesterday. She said that despite the memo, "the whole program is voluntary." "I MADE THE threat, but didn't want to go through with it," she said. "(The memo) doesn't mean I'm going to put you out (of the dorm)." Caesar Briefer, director of health services, which is running the inoculation drive, also said the program is still voluntary. "I had nothing to do with that (memo)," he said. "(The program) is voluntary." After discovering early Friday that only 60 percent of Markley's 1,200 residents had received inoculations, Weiss said she issued the memo to encourage more people to get shots. "The slow turnout' Friday morning worried us," she theatens 11 evaders said. "We need as many students as possible to respond to the program," she said. SHE ALSO SAID she wanted to keep track of the students who did not receive inoculations. "No one was forced," she said. "They have the full right to refuse, but they have to explain why," she said. And students can refuse the shots simply on the grounds that they do not want one, she said. The vaccination drive began in Markley Thursday after two residents came down with rubeola, the har- sher of two formes of the measles, in a ten-day period. The most recent case was diagnosed Wednesday evening. Because mesles is one of the most highly contagious diseases, University and state officials have decided to sweep through all the dorms attempting to inoculate as many students as possible before spring break begins on Feb. 17. By 6:45 Friday night, 950 of Markley's 1,200 residents had either been vaccinated~or cleared as safe from the disease. Vaccinations will continue at Health Services this weekend and expand to begin covering the dormitories on Monday. Currently only two cases of the disease have been reported on campus. Both were in Markley. Health of- ficials have not yet been able to determine if another suspected case in Mosher Jordon is actually the measles. Dow ntow n guy Daily Photo by JEFF SCHRiER Singer Billy Joel welcomes the cheers of fans last night at Crisler Arena during "Big Shot." Billy's Uptown Girl Christie Brinkley dan- ced to his songs from the sidelines. a nr r hobics learn'to face fears By DAVID VANKER Mark's to more debilitating ones si menurnhhi a fr o nen smac uch ,cs Slightly before 7:30 p.m they begin to arrive. Tense and cautious, Phil avoided the elevator and headed up the stairs to the third floor of the Children's Psychiatric . Hospital. Gloria, a tall pretty woman immaculately dressed, sat at the long rectangular table, fum- bling with her necklace. ALONG WITH seven others, Gloria and Phil (not their real names) have come for their weekly Thursday night session with Dr. Bruce Thyer,t a therapist who treats severe phobias. For years, Phil's claustrophobia has forced him away from elevators, tun- nels, and planes. But nursing these fears has seriously disrupted his life. Gloria's passion for hygiene keeps her so worried about her appearance that she has virtually isolated herself from men. 'The first ten minutes are petrifying. But the difference between success and failure may be a matter of toughing it out.' - Mark a phobic student WHEN DR. Thyer calls the meeting to order, Mark, a University student since 1979 who suffers from an intense fear of eating in front of people, opens a bag of Doritos to share with the group. Dr. Thyer urges everyone to "munch away freely" during the. meeting - and for Mark, that is a major achievement. Mark (not his real name) has been so self-conscious about the noise he makes when he chews that he has ended relationships with women simply because he could not bear to eat in their presence. "IT FEELS like someone is holding a microphone to my mouth (when I eat)," said Mafk.' Phobias effect about one out of six people, or a startling 17 percent of the population, according to Dr. Jerilyn Ross of the Phobia Center in Washington, D.C. Although Ross added that the number included all phobias, from relatively simple fears such as as agorapno ia, a ear ui upu bpv or crowds. Treating phobias is a lengthy process because there are no magic cures. And doctors have yet to offer a definitive explanation for the cause of phobias. Although many can be tracked to traumatic childhood events, there is no clear hereditary link. ENCOURAGING Mark to crunch during the session is part of a therapeutic technique Thyer' uses called "flooding." Through flooding in- ---dividuals. are .expose-toAhe,.cause of. their fear in brief intervals to gradually chip away at their anxiety. It is important that the exposures are brief so that an individual does not become overwhelmed, said Thyer. "If you want to cure someone of a 'See PHOBIC, Page 2 * Protesters call local 1theater contest sexist By JACKIE YOUNG More than 20 men and women carrying signs marched in front of the Michigan Theatre last night to protest a Marilyn Monroe look-alike contest. "We are protesting this look-alike contest because we believe it's a way of socializing women to take on this kind of sex role," said Roxanne Friedenfels, a member of the National Organization of Women who helped organize the demonstration. THE PROTEST is a "way of going against the narrow rules for men and women that the culture often pushes on us," Friedenfels said. Dressed in drag, wearing a tie, a vest, and a short black hat, Friedenfels said Monroe's screen image as a sex symbol promotes a negative stereotype for women. In films such as last night's "Gent- lemen Prefer Blonds " and "The Seven Year Itch," which drew a mixed crowd of more than 350, Monroe struts in tight skirts and typically portrays a con- tradictory child-like yet sexual charac- ter, for a sort of virgin-whore effect, according to Friedenfels. BUT THE majority of last night's. audience found no offense at the movies or the contest which followed. Marian Corbin, a contestant who resembled Monroe from her platinum blond hair to the birthmark on her right cheek said she simply enjoys the movies. "I just like watching movies. Movies aren't sexist. I'm as much for women's rights as anyone else," Corbin said. EARLIER IN the night protesters handed out pamphlets to people waiting in line. One man asked a woman distributing leaflets if she would object to a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest. The woman, LSA senior Ellen Mon- tague, responded that a similar contest for men would also be sexist if the only criteria for winning was the con- testant's appearance. "Everytifne you wonder if something is sexist you should wonder if there are the same (types of) things for men." Last night's crowd ranged from senior citizens to eight-year-old's holding their parents hands and even City Councilman Raphael Ezekiel (D- Third Ward). Many said they were devoted Monroe movie fans and cared little about the contest. "I came because they are good films. I'm not staying for the contest," said See PROTESTORS, Page 2 Daily Photo by DAN HABIB Flakey Heavy snowflakes decrease visibility in the Ann Arbor area yesterday without blanketing streets during two outbursts from the sky. Satellite 1lost tinspace aifter shuttle launch SPACE CENTER, Houston (UPI) - Western Union Corp. officials said yesterday a $75 million com- munications satellite missing in space is fully insured and its loss would have no impact on cutomers. "We feel that this is 'not a kind of situation where we have a catastrophic loss without coverage or without a way to serve our cutomers," said Bill An- derson, a Western Union spokesman. WITHIN hours of its launch from the shuttle Challenger Friday, Western Union lost contact with the Westar 6. Officials raised the possibility that the $75 million Westar VI com- munications satellite exploded 45 minutes after it was ejected from the space shuttle Challenger and is now merely chunks of lifeless junk orbiting the Earth. "So far, we.have not been able to raise a peep out of it," said Bill Ziegler, a spokesman for Western Union, which owns the satellite. All the vast tracking facilities available - NASA, the military and private - were sweeping the heavens for the satellite which vanished Friday. See WESTERN, Page 3 Daily Photo by DAN HABIB Protestor Ellen Montague passes a leaflet to a woman standing in line to see two Marilyn Monroe movies and a look-alike contest held at the Michigan Theater last night. Fish fight RITIAN'S MILITANT animal rights have taken on fox hunters, hare chasers, p shooters, and badger baiters, and now t going after sport fishermen. The Hunt Sa Association, in the latest issue of its magazine, H wied ik memhrs tn nut un false health warnin activists heasant they are boteurs' fowl, ad- gs in the .h cn t~ idea that fish feel pain." Although The British love for animals is legendary - with masked raiders attacking leading research laboratories and setting free dogs, cats, monkeys and rabbits so far fish have had to face the angler shook alone. But the campaign against the sport does have more than just squeamishness behind it. A study by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals concluded that fish do feel pain when they are caught, even if they don't show it. Island auction to command a more humble price. The islands, less than an acre each are such meager real estate that "they could go for one pound ($1.40) or less," the spokesman said. Bird officers TALKING MACAW, in Fresno, Calif., has played the crime victim one too many times. Mac, a 30-inch tall South American bird, has been used in a crime prevention program to show grade school children how they can get in trouble- to strangers and crossing streets without looking both wavs.fDoug fHns~en.the bird's. traine~randlowner of students take "pass/no-entry" classes where a failing grade would not be recorded. Also on this date in history: " 1969 - 75 students and faculty rallied on the Diag to protest Iraq's execution of 14 Jews for allegedly spying. 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