FREE ISSUE SUBSCRIBE. 764-0558 FREE ISSUE I Ninety-four Years Drab , Showers possible in the after- noonandahigh inthemid r-3s. Editorial Freedom Vol. XCI V-No. 78 - - Copyright 1984, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan -Thursday, January 5, 1984 FREE ISSUE Ten Pages from.de( By SHARON SILBAR Sunshine and the beginnings of a thaw yesterday were little solace to the hundreds of students, staff, and faculty mem- bers who returned to find their rooms and offices damaged due to record-setting cold temperatures during semester break. Dormitories, fraternities and sororities, co-ops, and off- campus housing all fell victim to the deep freeze that beset much of the country during the last few weeks. The mercury dropped to 10 degrees below zero in the area on Christmas Day, the lowest reading during the break. PIPES FROZE and burst all over the city, flooding and destroying thousands of dollars worth of property. "Sincethe EL 23rd, we've been working around the clock;" said Gene Cummins of Hutzel Plumbing and Heating. "This is the worst I have ever seen." David Foulke, a University housing administrator, ns mess ep freeze estimated yesterday that total damages to University property, including residence halls and other buildings, is "certainly over $100,000 and maybe as high as $500,000." Buildings which sustained the most damage due to pipes freezing and bursting were the School of Public Health, the Institute of Social Research, East Engineering, and the Dana Building. Thermostats were not turned down in University buildings, but central fan systems were shut off, reducing the amount of air circulated, said Russell Reister, director of the University's plant operations. Reister said most of the damage has been cleaned up, and the most noticeable remnant is the smell of wet carpeting. ABOUT loo DORM rooms-mostly in Bursely and Couzens - were damaged by burst pipes. "The Couzens library was clobbered. The periodical collection is soaked and a computer terminal and some furniture were also See VACATION, Page 7 Daily Photo by DAVID FRANKE This Markley dorm room was one of several residence hall rooms severely damaged by broken water pipes over the holidays. Students can also expect to see many out-of-order signs like this one on a door in East Engineering (inset) while University maintenance crews continue cleaning up the aftermath of the deep freeze. jU' profs say Jackson's trip may By CHERYL BAACKE Rev. Jesse Jackson's successful mission to Syria and the release of Navy Lt. Robert Goodman could have real impact on the impasse in the Mideast, but it will have minimal affect on politics in the United States, Univer- sity professors said yesterday. Jackson and Goodman returned to the United States yesterday. Goodman was taken captive after being shot down during an American air strike on Syrian positions in Lebanon last month. Jackson went to Syria to ask for the pilot's release as "a humanitarian gesture." Political Science Prof. Jerrold Green, who specialized in Mideast politics, spur negotiations said the action is tied very closely to U.S. policy in the entire region, and he believes it is another sign that Reagan is becoming more and more isolated in the issue and will move toward changing present U.S. policy. JACKSON'S TRIP to Syria should not be looked at as a "stunt," but as a critique of American policy in the Mideast, Green said. "There is a lot of heat on Reagan to reconsider U.S. involvement in Lebanon," Green said. "This is simply another push to remove the Marines." Green added that releasing the . prisoner to Jackson makes Syria look more ready to negotiate than Reagan has portrayed them. "It's a very hard signal for (Reagan) to ignore," he said, "and it's also a slap in the face." THE ACTION makes Reagan look a lot more inflexible because he has said Syria is inflexible, but they made the first move toward negotiations, said Green. Rashid Bashshur, a professor in the School of Public Health who was born in Syria and grew up in the Mideast, agrees with Green. "It's up to the Americans now," he said. "The Syrians have made the first gesture.". Syria wants an overall *olution of the See JACKSON, Page 2 Defense can't do it all; Blue fals, 9-7' By RON POLLACK Special to the Daily NEW ORLEANS - Bend but don't break. That's been the battle cry of a Michigan defense beset by injuries all season. It was a battle cry trumpetted throughout the New Orleans Super- dome by the Wolverine defenders on January 2 in the Sugar Bowl against Auburn.: AGAINST THE Tigers potent wish- bone offense the Michigan defense never broke. In fact, it barely bent as it gave up points ever-so grudgingly. Un- fortunately, for Michigan fans, the defense bent more than it could afford to in a last-second 9-7 loss to Auburn. The Tigers won the game by methodically marching 60 yards in 7:21 to set up an Al Del Greco 19-yard field goal with 23 ticks left on the clock. "I sort of waited a long time at Auburn to do something like that," Del Greco said. "Everybody expected me to make it because it was short, and I should have." While Tiger fans, coaches and players erupted into a fit of delirium, Michigan players sat solemnly on the Superdome turf wondering how they could lose despite keeping Auburn out of the endzone. See SUGAR, Page8 "U' prof stabbed in San Francisco, By BARBARA MISLE A business school professor was tran- sferred to University Hospital in fair condition last night after he was stab- bed while attending a conference in San Francisco last week. For a look at other events during the break, see Page 3. Prof. Michael Bradley, 36, and his wife, Rebecca, were asleep in their room at the San Francisco Hilton early last Thursday morning when a man claiming to be a waiter knocked at the door. REBECCA BRADLEY, thinking the assailant was from room service, opened the door. Once inside the room, the man pulled a knife, let in another man, and ordered the Bradleys to lie on the floor. The two men then covered the couple with sheets and blankets and demanded money, according to San Francisco Police Inspector Cal Nutting. Nutting said Bradley fought with the first intruder and was stabbed several times, severing his spinal cord and puncturing an artery in his arm. SHORTLY AFTER the stabbing, See 'U', Page 2 Daily Photo by BRIAN MASCK Auburn quarterback Randy Campbell evades would-be Michigan tackler Al Sincich during Monday night's Sugar Bowl. Campbell was 2 for 6 passing with one interception and rushed for -6 yards. Bradle ' .. brought to 'U Hospital _ Court hears confession in Faber case By JACKIE YOUNG At a pre-trial examination yesterday Washtenaw County Prosecutor William Delhey presented a taped confession allegedly made by the woman who is accused of killing Ann Arbor resident Nancy Faber in November. Seventeen-year-old Machelle Yvonne Pearson confessed to Michigan State Police Trooper Henry Tyler upon her irrest December 21st that she acciden- ally shot Faber in the parking lot of the Kroger supermarket at Plymouth and Green roads, Delhey said. PEARSON WAS CHARGED Decem- ber 21 in the Nov. 22 fatal shooting of Faber. Pearson faces one count of ar-. med robbery, one count of murder, and one count of possession of a firearm. In the confession, released for the fir- st time in court yesterday, Pearson told of an abusive boyfriend who she said gave her a gun and forced her to steal. "I didn't want to do it. He gave it to me," Pearson said in the confession before describing the murder. AFTER DRIVING from Ypsilanti to the Kroger parking lot Pearson said her boyfriend, Ricky Hart, told her to tell Faber she needed a ride home, then pull the gun and demand Faber's purse. Pearson confessed that she did what Hart told her because she knew he was right behind her and she was afraid. About a quarter-mile away from the parking lot Pearson said she asked Faber for her purse, all the while holding the gun down low in her left hand. PEARSON SAID she did not have her fingers on the trigger but realized when she smelled gunpowder and saw Faber slump foreward that the gun had gone off. She said Hart took Faber's purse and threw it into the Huron River after the shooting. Pearson was arraigned in 15th District Court Dec. 21. Her trial is scheduled for Jan. 17 at 8:30 a.m. in Washtenaw County Circuit Court. No bond has been set. FABER, A SPEECH therapist in the Plymouth-Canton public school system and wife of Ann Arbor News chief editorial writer and columnist Don Faber, died three days after the Nov. 22 shooting without regaining con- sciousness. State Police Trooper Tyler yesterday testified thathe first became acquain- ted with Pearson when she made a series of calls to the Ypsilanti state police post asking to speak to an officer regarding an assault. He said Pearson told him over the phone that she knew the whereabouts of a person police were looking for. She. also said she had information regarding Nancy Faber, Tyler said. Tyler and Pearson met with two Ann Arbor Police detectives Dec. 18and together they drove to the 'Kroger parkinglot where Pearson named Tony Frazier as Faber's killer. Tyler reported meeting withher several times to discuss the Faber shooting, and she he later got statemen- ts from Frazier and Hart. Pearson was arrested Dec. 21 and reportedly confessed to Tyler that day. Pearson, who has been described as a street person, was the third person arrested last month on murder charges in Ann Arbor. On Dec. 16, Robert Lee Williams, 23, and Lester Joiner, Jr., 27, were arraigned in the 'murder of 19- year-old Brian Canter, whose body was discovered floating in the Huron River See CONFESSION, Page 2 TODAY Rackham comments HE COMMITTEE reviewing the Rackham Graduate School is asking members of the University com- munity for comment on the function and oragnization of the school. Students, faculty, and staff interested in voicing their opinions should contact Michael Gay in the Office of Academic Planning and Analysis (764-9254). Handbook." Both handbooks, published within 90 days of one another, spoof the affluent baby-boomers, their pen- chant for what they believe to be the finer things and their mania for self-improvement and exercise. Crimmins' book, published in October, came first, but long Shado Books denied that "The Yuppie Handbook" is a knockoff of the Crimmins book. A YAP says Crimmins, uses words like interface and prioritize and network. He or she collects kit- chen appliances, but never has the time to cook, and is much into beepers. Crimmins actually passes along the phone numbers and addresses of take out stores. Pipemen n nti Ma+th-vmerely offer onfrd1ine tn the Yunnnilv Royal cover-up HATS OFF to Queen Elizabeth II and the officials of England's premier high-society event, the Royal Ascot Race, for issuing a hat warning to women this week. "In the enclosure, ladies will wear formal dress with a hat which must cover the crown of the head," the statement said. It seems some daring ladies have been attending with "nothing but a bow or a bunch of flowers on their heads," said Ascot spokesman yesterday. "This is not a new rule. We are just spelling it out for people in order to stop the lowering of standards," he added. The warning did not the sale were to be used for medical aid to China. Also on this date in history: " 1957 - University officials announced that the Student Activities Building would be completed within a month. " 1950 - Construction crews took advantage of un- seasonably warm weather to begin building South Quad. " 1930 - The various student publications announced that they would hire freshmen for the first time, provided the incoming students earned a minimum of one "B" and three "Cs" in the previous term. Q I 1 . :I