6 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, February 9, 1984 Econ. department move delayed By COLIN ZICK About the only indications that there once was an Economics Building are a brick preserved in a bench and a small patch of trees pasted onto the cover of the Student Directory to hide the bare space where the building once stood. Since an arson's fire destroyed the structure on Christmas Eve 1981, the department has been exiled to old St. Joseph's Hospital, now the North Ingalls Building, waiting for University planners to find it a new home. THAT wait is going to be much longer than economics professors originally thought. Originally, the 'department was supposed to move into -Lorch Hall by August of this year, but the date has been moved back to Christmas 1985, according to assistant chairman Richard Porter. Economics Prof. John Cross said the detailed drawings for the project took much longer than expected. "It took us a long time to get our act together. It kind of dragged out as we thought it through," said Ross, who is working with the architects on the project. BLAND Leverette, administrative manager for LSA, said he has "no working drawings, no bids, and no fun- ds yet," although he expects the rough plans should be ready in a few weeks. The renovations, expected to cost about $4 million include construction of a mezzanine level between the first and second floors of the building's north wing, and partitioning some of the building's larger rooms into smaller faculty and TA offices. Porter says he is "most anxious to get out" of the North Ingalls Building, a feeling that is echoed by other Economics professors. SINCE students now have to make the big trek to the ninth-floor of the old hospital, "there's been a sharp drop" in the number who come for office visits, said Prof. William Shepherd. Prof. Daniel Fusfeld said "the location in Lorch Hall will be far more convenient than up here. Access to the library is a serious problem for me." To make way for the Economics department, CRISP, the Women's Studies, and the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies will have to move out of Lorch. Thomas Karunas, assistant Univer- sity registrar, said he expects CRISP will be out of the building by October of this year but said "no decision has been made" about its new location. Leverette said the Women's Studies department could go to West Engineering, Angell Hall or Mason Hall, and said the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies will eventually move to West Engineering. Man arrested aifraternity for bad checks By MIKE WILKINSON. A California man who stayed at a University fraternity house for three days this week was 'arraigned in Grosse Pointe Farms Municipal Court yesterday for allegedly writing more than $40,000 in bad checks. Thomas Miller from Riverside, Calif. was arrested Tuesday afternoon at Phi Sigma .Kappa fraternity house at 1043 Baldwin St. by Gross Pointe police who had been trying to track him down for several mon- ths. . MILLER came to Ann Arbor last Friday and leased a room in the fraternity house paying the president $300 in cash, according to a fraternity member who asked not to be identified. According to Detective John Drummond of the Grosse Pointe police department, Miller is being held in Wayne County Jail on three charges of felonyfor non-sufficient funds. Bond has been set at $100,000, Drummond said. Miller was brought to the fraternity house by a friend, but members said they had no idea he was wanted by the police. POLICE have collected $40,000 in returned checks from Miller's father who lives in Grosse Point, but Drummond said he expects the amount to reach $100,000 by the end of the investigation. "I've been in the business about 25 years, and I haven't seen anything like it," Drummond said. "(Miller) was preparing himself to go to work in Ann Arbor - and go to work big." When Miller was arrested in Ann Arbor he already had a voter registration card and a driver's licence with the fraternity house listed as his address, Drummond said. Miller lived with his mother in California since 1977 and came to Grosse Pointe last-fall, Drummond said. Miller's father gave the returned checks to the police, Drummond said. Miller is scheduled to appear Feb. 15 for an examination at Grosse Pointe Municipal Court, Drummond said. Join the Daily News Staff! RSG election results in limbo a-- DAYTONA BEACH '84 $j490 Full Price includes: * Round trip Charter Bus -soda and beer enroute to Fla. * All accommodations-ocean, front Hotels and Motels " Free Beer and entertainment daily " EPCOT-Disney World option * Sea Escape (Loveboat) option -one day cruise! contact: Ed 668-1829 Jan 668-6137 TRIP OFFERtD BY FUN TIME TOURS, Inc. P.O. Box 6063 Sta A DAYTONA BEACH, FLA 32022 904-672-7673 By JOHN ARNTZ Concerns that a mail-in presidential candidate for the Rackham Student Government elections may have illegally collected votes have sparked an investigation and postponed final results for another week, said RSG Director Vickie Buerger last night. Kodi Abili defeated Angela Banter for, RSG president 107 to 74, but RSG coun- cil member Clay Hysall said Abili may have made copies of some of the ballots in order to win the election. AFTER THE polls closed last Tuesday Abili, a doctoral student in higher education, announced that he would run as a mail-in candidate again- st Banter who was running unopposed. Hysall said that most of Abili's votes were from graduate students in the- education department. Outgoing RSG President Rich Luker said that Abili handed out several ballots to his friends. Councilmembers "have taken votes out to the people (in the past), but the candidates have never taken the votes out to the people," said Luker. IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports Astronauts walk -unaided in space{ CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Two Challenger astronauts refueled their backpacks yesterday for an encore venture into open space, while officials on the ground worried that rain and clouds might prevent the first Florida shuttle landing on Saturday. Mission Control told the crew that "you're the talk of the world" after the spectacular excursion that Bruce McCandless and Robert Stewart made into space Tuesday with no rope to anchor them to the shuttle. McCandless and Stewart are scheduled for a second walk beginning at 6 a.m. EST today, but their three fellow astronauts joked they might fight for the chance "to share all the good deals." President Reagan will telephone the astronauts at 1:25 a.m. today from his ranch near Santa Barbara, Calif., deputy White House press secretary Larry Speakes said. Speakes said McCanless and Stewart "will be outside their spacecraft" when they receive the call. The five Americans weren't the only humans orbiting the Earth; the Soviet Union launched a Foyuz spacecraft carrying three cosmonauts to it's Salyut-7 space station. House overturns new government regulations to hike electric rates WASHINGTON - The House yesterday voted to overturn new gover- nment regulations that have allowed utilities to seek more than $100 million in electric rate increases in the past seven months. Acting on what proponents called "the most important pieceof consumer legislation we'll handle this year," the House voted, 288-173, to reverse a decision by government regulators allowing utilities to bill their customers for part of the costs of new but uncompleted power plants. The regulations, adopted last June by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and supported by the Reagan administration, allowed utilities to start including in their wholesale rate bast half the construction costs of new power plants as they are being built. White House, Congress budget deficit talks get slow start WASHINGTON - Talks between the White House and Congress aimed at scraping together a $100 billion "down payment" to reduce enormous budget deficits got off to a slow start yesterday as the two sides agreed only to rule out changes in Social Security. "I'm neither optimistic nor pessimistic," said House Majority Leader Jim Wright (D-Texas) reflecting the feeling among participants that little progress had been made in breaking the stalemate on reducing the flow of 'federal red ink. The first round of talks ended after nearly two hours and it was unclear when the discussions would resume. Meanwhile, Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker added a note of urgency with new comments on possible ill effects of Congress and the Reagan administration fail to reduce deficits now expected to stick at $180 billion or more a year.] Bill may set drinking age at 21 WASHINGTON - States would have two years to comply with a proposed new national minimum dr.inking age of 21 years. under legislation headed toward House floor action. The measure, adopted Tuesday by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, would prohibit most bars and liquor stores from selling alcoholic beverages to anyone under 21. The measure next goes to the House floor. No time for a vote has yet been set. Establishments violating the law could be subject to fines up to $5,000. "Factual evidence supports the close correlation between the drinking age and fatal highway accidents involving alcohol. Over :25000 people die in alcohol-related crashed every year. In disapportionate numbers, thse ac- cidents are caused by those under 21," said Rep. Norman Lent, (R-N:Y.,) a sponsor. The committee adopted an amendment by Lent to the measure that would delay the bill's effective date for two years to let states with lower drinking ages change their own laws to come into.compliance with the federal stan- dard. Leukemia linked to well water BOSTON - Drinking water from wells near one of the nation's worst chemical dumps apparently caused childhood leukemia, birth defects and other children's diseases, Harvard reserachers said yesterday. Their discovery of "a consistent pattern of positive associations" in suburban Woburn results from the largest study ever conducted on the effec- ts of industrial poisons in a single geographic area. They found that the more bad water people drank, the more likely they were to get sick. The wells were closed five years ago. "The evidence seems pretty compelling to us that the adverse health ef- fects are tied directly to the wells," said Dr. Stephen Lagakos, who directed the research at the Harvard School of Public Health. The researchers cautioned that the absolute increase in sickness at- tributable to the wells is small, and many of the illnesses would, have oc- curred anyway. Even when the incidence of an uncommon ailment doubles, that may mean only one extra case each ear in a single town. "As far as having a major impact on the community, it's rather minimal," said Dr. Marvin Zelen, another researcher. "But for individuals, it's a calamity. One is too many." Environmentalists have long feared the effects of toxic waste dumps on people who live nearby. Actual evidence of harm, however, is scarce, since population studies proving a link are expensive and time-consuming. Code stirs controversy over- purpose. (Continued from Page 1) still a student." Under the recently proposed code students could be tried simultaneously in University, civil, and criminal cour- ts. The student was finally expelled un- der a special directive from former University President Robben Fleming, but Nordby called this method of ex- pulsion inefficient and unfair 'to studen- ts. It was the only time in the past ten years that a student has been expelled for nonacademic reasons, she said. In another case, in 1980, a group'of undergraduates broke into the Museum of Art through steam tunnels which run underneath the campus. THE STUDENTS were discovered by a security guard, but they sprayed him with mace and fled. The students were prosecuted in crim- inal court, but when the case was set- tled, the University had little choice under the 1973 rules and had to let them return to school, she said. IF THEY had been employees of the University, they would have been fired immediately, she said. But as students they could not be expelled. Nordby also said there were three sexual assaults in University dor- mitories last year, in which the victims did not want to press charges in criminal court but said they would have been willing to undergo a private University proceeding to kick the of- fenders out of the dormitory, Nordby said. Opponents of the proposed code,however, say that Nordby's reac- tion in those rape cases illust'ates the danger any code would present. "POLICE AND administrators often find courts a nuisance," says Jonathon Rose, an attorney at Student Legal Ser- vice and outspoken critic of the proposed code. "What police and ad- ministrators call technicalities are in reality fundamental rights." The proposed code would allow.the University to sidestep a lengthy court proceeding, at the expense of the protection courts provide for the ac- cused, Rose said. "The University's police would find it handy to avoid the constitutional protections afforded by the courts," he said. The arson, Museum of Art break-in, and rape cases are the most frequently cited by University officials when they defend the need for a code. But they say the code would be helpful in dealing with undersirable behavior ranging from vandalism to the illegal sale of drugs. THE 1973 rules for the University community, which were primarily aimed at controlling the large public Psi Chi and the UNDERGRADUATE PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY presents PSYCHOLOGY CAREER DAY and GRADUATE SCHOOL FAIR -Friday, Feb. 10, 1984 -4:00 - 6:00 p.m. -Kuenzel Room in the Michigan Union- -Speaker from Career Planning and Placement- -Professors from all areas of Psychology to answer questions- protests during that time, have spent the last ten years tucked away in filing cabinets, says Nordby. "In case after case they were not adequate," she said. "So we quit cir- culating them." Communications Prof. William Colburn, the chairman of the Univer- sity Council which would hear any current violations, says that nine ad- ministrators, professors, and students on the committee have in effect been "on call," but have never actually heard a case. NORDBY AND Colburn both said the 1973 rules are so vague any subject to individual interpretation that they are unenforceable. Where the present rules group violations into general categories such as physical force, property, and inter- ference, the proposed co.d e outlines more specifically prohibited behavior. Opponents of the code seem to divide into two groups: those who oppose any code in principle, and those who disagree only with the specific code the University has proposed. THE FIRST group tends to attack the idea of a code as a step back to the days when the University was as much a babysitter as an educator. Some also say that the University's claim to protect students is merely a smokescreen to cover a crackdownon activist groups and individuals who of- ten oppose the University ad- ministration. Says Rose: "The purpose of the code of nonacademic conduct is . . . to stifle dissent and civil disobedience (and) if the administration wants to hold student's careers hostage for taking part in dissent and want to dispose of constitutional rights, we are talking about a return to (a paternal Univer- sity) at best, a police state at worse." UNIVERSITY officials, however, deny that this is the goal of the code. If that was the goal, they say, the present rules, designed specifically for that reaaon, would be used. A Earlier this week, MSA, along with several other college student gover- nments, endorsed a letter objecting to certain parts of the proposed code. The letter said the proposed code could place students in double jeopardy by using both the public courts and the University judicial system. It also said the code violated studen- ts' right to a trial by their peers, and treated students unequally by it not ap- plying to professors and staff members. The second article in this series focusing on student codes for nonacademic conduct at other schools, as well as excerpts from the University 's code, will appear tomorro w. SWENSON, CRAWFORD & PAINE1 1984 FINLEY CARPENTER RESEARCH CONFERENCE sponsored by School of Education * The University of Michigan RESEARCH PRIORITIES FOR EDUCATION IN THE EIGHTIES Mark Yudof' School of Law University of Texas James Shaver Associate Dean for Research Utah State University Kenneth Mortimer Center for the Study of Higher Education Pensylvania State University Patrick J. 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