OPINION Page 4 Sunday, February 5, 1984 The Michigan Daily A shot in the arm for Markley PSN IN HIS FAMOUS book, The Plague, Albert Camus was able to find deep existential meaning in communicable diseases. Markley residents are merely finding theirs to be a far less heroic annoyance. Although it isn't exactly an epidemic - in fact only two cases have been reported - an hall sometime in the next ten days. Two Markley residents have, been layed up with the disease - specifically called rubeola, the more severe of two types of measles - in the last two weeks. The most recent case was diagnosed Wednesday evening, and another case is suspected in Mosher Jordan, according to University health officials. Because the virus appears to be attracted to Markley, residents in this hill dormitory were invited to kick off the vaccination drive Thur- sday. Nine hundred faced the needle - or more accurately the vaccination gun - in the first two days of the drive. The good news about the two stricken Markley residents, at least for the rest of the campus, is that they are isolated in their rooms where they are unable to infect many people. The bad news, however, is that both of them attended classes for three days while they were contagious and unaware that they- had the disease. Sit-in success It seems like you just can't keep a secret anymore. The Progressive Student Network had originally planned to hold a sit-in at the North outbreak of measles in Markley this week prompted University and state health officials to begin a massive immunization program which will cover all the dormitories on campus. So if you live in a dorm and are afraid of shots, it may be advisable to start your spring break early. On the other hand, if you want near-guaranteed protection against this childhood menace, drop in at Health Services today or wait for the roving vaccination ban- dwagon to visit your neighborhood residence Campus lab of Professor Theodore Birdsall Thursday. Plans fell through, however, when PSN was met at the door by six University security guards. Birdsall, a professor of Electrical and Com- puter Engineering, has been accused by PSN of doing research with "Direct applications" to anti-submarine warfare. But Birdsall main- tained that, although his research could aid in tracking submarines, the connection is "in- direct." The projects in question are funded wholly by the Office of Naval Research in the Depar- tment of Defense. Nobody knew who tipped off the University strong-arms, or the rest of the campus for that matter. But PSN didn't just pack up and go home, they took their protest elsewhere - to University president Harold Shapiro's office. After Shapiro greeted the defiant group with a candid, "What's up?" he sat at his desk and answered questions from PSN members on defense research at the University. The president also agreed to make an ap- pearance at a PSN sponsored forum on Military research on the ninth of February (or send a suitable representative in his place.) Although PSN member Tom Marx called the day's activities "A victory," he was concerned about the information leak to University security. But even with those worries Marx and the rest of the PSN members can point to a very real success in establishing a forum with University officials. Looking into research Like certain undesirable social diseases, some things have a tendency to pop up again and again. Take the issue of research guidelines at the University. When the regents voted down a faculty proposal on guidelines for non- classified research last August, they probably hoped and expected that the issue was dead. But the University's top faculty governing board, the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs (SACUA), is contemplating sponsorship of a forum on research and academic freedom. The debate on University military research may come to a head once more. The proposed conference is the brainchild of medical professor David Bassett who brought the idea to the attention of the faculty Senate. Assembly ,in November. "It seems to me that somewhere in academia, the issue needs to be addressed, and the University is the appropriate institution," he said. Daily Photo by REBECCA KNIGHT For this Markley resident a measles inoculation proved painful, but not as bad as getting the disease. SACUA has asked another faculty group for advice in considering the proposal. The Collegiate Institute on Values in Science (CIVS) is due to give a recommendation to SACUA by late this week. After studying CIVS's evaluation, SACUA will then decide whether or not they should sponsor such a forum. A conference on research might finally get the regents to give the problem a more serious look. Problems are avoided by silence, but few are solved. Since many voices within the University community are calling for a closer examination of the role of military research in this institution, the regents should not be im- mune to those requests. Slave trial continues Inconsistency in several witnesses' statements marked a bizarre slavery trial this week, where a Chelsea farming couple has been accused of holding two farmhands as slaves for over 10 years. The state's first slavery trial in over 60 years began last week with several testimonies from friends of the accused family, former tenants, neighbors, and employees - one who said he saw a bust of Adolf Hitler in the family's living room. Ike Kozminski, his wife Margarethe, and their son John, are each charged with one count 'of conspiracy to violate civil'rights and two counts of involuntary servitude for allegedly holding two mentally retarded farmhands. Louis Molitoris, and Robert Fulmer, against their will. Testimoney this week included statements from the two farmworkers themselves, two of their siblings, a psychologist, a brother of the farmowner, and a friend of the family. Ike Kozminski's brother William Perry, told of both his and his brother's experiences in several Nazi concentration camps, describing in detail how the two children had seen their mother being pushed into a truck by German soldiers and then gassed to death. Perry denied ever seeing a bust of Adolf Hitler in the Koz- minski farm. The two farmhands' testimony conflicted with earlier statements made by witnesses who said that the only food they had ever seen "Bob and Louie" eat was moldy breadand that there were maggots in their frying pan. Fulmer and Molitoris said they had been given a long list of items to eat by the Kozmin- skis, including ham, sausage, bacon, fresh fruit, hot dogs, pizza and doughnuts. As the trial continues on Monday, the Defen- se Attorney Ivan Baris is expected to provide a psychologist testifying in support of the Koz minskis. The trial is expected to end around the middle of the week. The Week in Review was complied by Daily staff writers Toth Miller, Caroline Muller, Pete Williams, and Daily edi- tor-in-chief Bill Spindle. Daily Photo by DOUG MCMAHON University President Shapiro returns to his office Thursday to find some familiar visitors from PSN. Edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan 1-4 Mlc}41 7A 9-., N - I Vol. XCIV-No. 105 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 // Editorials represent a majority opinion of the Daily's Editorial Board ya Olympic s.pirit inSarajevo 7- 1 , 5 .t \ y , t jr STARTING TUESDAY, Americans will hear the familiar voice of Jim McKay as the fourteenth Winter Olympics are broadcast from Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. Americans can remember with pride gold-medal win- ners such as figure skater Dorothy Hamill and the United States hockey team. But this year as they settle down in front of the tube for almost two weeks of athletic competition, all should keep in mind as well, the true beauty and victory in this kind of con- test. The Olympics are always a tribute to human potential and a celebration of friendship between people from vastly different nations who meet in an arena of healthy rivalry. But this year's Olympic site holds the memories of some of ournworld's most unpleasant human actions. In 1914 a bloody period of history was initiated in Sarajevo when a student by the name of Gavrilo Princip stood and fired the pistol shots that launched Europe into World War I. Sarajevo has a history of being a crossroad of violence. In 1941 Hitler, invaded Yugoslavia and the mountains around Sarajevo became a center of fierce battle. Both German and Allied forces raided the city and nearly 15 percent of its inhabitants died in the war. In ad- dition, the country has survived divisions arising from antagonistic religions and the existence of five language groups. For those 25,000 tourists and millions watching on television, Sarajevo's con- flict-ridden past will easily be forgot- ton in the excitement of each country's quest for the Gold. National anthems will play, the Olympic Torch will burn, and patriotism may well up in even the most unpatriotic citizens. But for those who knowof Sarajevo's unhappy past, the Olympics will mean much more. The Games will signify a contest in whiich the competitors need not fear for their lives, and in which the friendship of people from different cultures and of differing ideologies is affirmed. o ° LEG L ,, ' Li), jp TIf 1 \ U\- illll l (IMjj 4 YOU CAN'T BE Too CAREFUL IN AN ELECTION YEAR. Sy mptom of a dying city By William Beeman The assassination of Malcolm Kerr, president of the American University of Beirut, was a despicable act. But people in dying communities turn to despicable acts to advertise their plight when they feel that things are so despite the war surrounding the institution. So why was he assassinated? The answer lies in understan- ding the power of simple and symbolic acts in the violence of today's world. For if Kerr was not a symbol of American im- perialism, he was an excellent symbol of the status quo in Lebanon, protected by American the best act is the act that gets the most publicity. Killing a high- visibility figure occupying a position of high symbolic impor- tance fills the bill entirely. However, we must read beyond the act itself in order to discover its meaning. Kerr was a benign individual with no personal political role in Lebanon beyond maintaining his Gemayel regime will make no concessions to the Muslim majority of the nation. The talks drag on and on in Geneva with lit- tle progress. Meanwhile, the United States maintains its sym- bolic - for it can be little more than that at this point - troop support for that government, and Israel refuses to make any con- cessions leading to a pullout. 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