FREE ISSUE SUOSCRIBEI 764-0558 FREE ISSUE, 'Presidents move to curb athletic abuses By BILL SPINDLE Athletic scandals on campuses across the nation have pushed college presidents near their breaking point this year. And starting next week, they intend to put their foot down. Led by Harvard chief Derek Bok and backed by the American Council on Education, the presidents are spon- soring a controversial proposal at the National Collegiate Athletic Association convention in Dallas next week which would greatly increase the power chief executives wield over Ninety-four Years Of Editorial Freedom NCAA rules and regulations.. THE PROPOSAL would create a board of college presidents which would h ave the power to create new NCAA by- laws or veto by-laws passed by the NCAA delegates at the convention. University heads across the nation, including University president Harold Shapiro, are praising the idea. "A committee of presidents can im- prove the quality of the NCAA," Shapiro said in a recent interview. "Regarding the responsibility of academic interests, they know a lot 'The presidents are concerned because when a scandal occurs, it's usually the president who gets egg on his face.' - Paul Gikas, University representative at the NCAA convention. puses across the nation. The University of New Mexico suf- fered heavy sanctions for forging the transcripts of several basketball players. The University of San Fran- cisco completely abolished its basket- ball program two years ago after being placed on probation for the second time. Only recently has the program been reinstated on a smaller scale. Closer to home, the University of Illinois football team spent two years on probation for violating eligibility guidelines. The list goes on and on. And when scandal hits a university the president pays the highest price. "THE PRESIDENTS are concerned because when a scandal occurs, it's usually the president who gets egg on his face. He's the one that gets the em- barassment," says medical Prof. Paul Gikas. As faculty representative to the Big Ten Conference, Gikas will be casting the University's vote at the convention. "Because they (presiden- ts) are the ones being embarrassed, See COLLEGE, Page 3 more. It is not the responsibility of the athletic director or faculty represen- tative to be responsible for the integrity of the University. The president, and ultimately the regents, are respon- sible." OVER THE last decade, major athletic scandals have erupted on cam- E Air ~~Iai1Q Breakthrough The day will open with clouds and possible flurries, but things'll clear up a little in the afternoon. Highs expected between 25 and 30. Vol. XCIV-No. 81 Copyright 1984, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Sunday, January 8, 1984 FREE ISSUE Pages 2 Marines wounded; Lebanese peace talks p anne From AP and UPI BEIRUT, Lebanon - Two U.S. Marines were wounded yesterday by a shell fired in a battle between Druze Moslem militiamen and the Lebanese army despite an agreement by rebel leaders to discuss a Lebanese peace plan. The U.S. troops at Beirut Airport were forced onto Condition One alert - their highest state of readiness - as they suffered their first casualties in more than a month. A spokesman said U.S. forces did not return fire. "TWO MARINES sustained minor in- juries when a large-caliber round of unknown size or origin landed near their position on the southeast perimeter of Beirut International Air- port," said Marine spokesman Maj. Dennis Brooks. The U.S. casualties were the first since eight Marines were killed Dec. 4 in shelling of their positions by rebel forces. That fire came in retaliation for See TWO, Page 2 M' cagers clp Hawks, By RANDY BERGER The youthful Michigan basketball team came of age yesterday as they held off determined Iowa 53-49 before a sellout crowd at Crisler Arena. Freshman Antoine Joubert's two free throws with 10 seconds remaining sealed the door on the Hawkeyes, picked by many to win the Big Ten title this year. THE WOLVERINES built up a 20-3 lead early in the game and even had a fifteen-point bulge at intermission but Iowa, behind an effective trapping defense, fought back in -the second half and it looked as if Michigan was headed for another heartbreaking loss in the final seconds. However, this year's Wolverine squad proved that it has matured and that it has the poise to keep secure wins from turning into disappointing losses. "It was a great victory for us," said Michigan head coach Bill Frieder. "I was very concerned at halftime because Iowa, after getting 12 down at Michigan State, came back and completely dominated the last 15 minutes of the game. I knew they were going to come out and play in thesecond half and that their press would give us trouble and they did." However, no matter how much trouble the Iowa defense gave the young Wolverines, Michigan never collapsed and Iowa never did take the lead. Iowa's twin towers, Michael Payne and Greg Stokes, were both held under ten points and could never get Iowa's inside game going. "THEY (MICHIGAN'S BIG MEN) seem to be more aggressive this year," said Iowa's 6-foot-11-inch center Payne. "We outrebounded them in the game but it seemed that they got all the rebounds." Payne and the rest of the Iowa team's frustration can 53-49 largely be attributed to the outstanding play of the Michigan bench. Even if Michigan proved nothing else yesterday they proved they have as much depth as anyone in the league. Because of foul trouble to Tim McCormick and Butch Wade, Freider had to go to his bench often - and it responded. "It was like a toy store and they just kept bringing more toys in," said Iowa head coach George Raveling. "They ought co have a rule that you're only allowed so many good players." "WE HAD THREE or four guys coming off the bench so there was always a fresh player on Payne and Stokes," ad- ded Wolverine center McCormick. Part of Iowa's problem in setting up an inside game was that they had so far to come back. The Wolverines opened the game like a team possessed as they rolled up a 17-point lead halfway through the first stanza. The Hawkeyes, who scored 73 points against the Spartans Wednesday night went over seven minutes without a point. "They wouldn't let us score," said Raveling. "I didn't think that was nice of them." MICHIGAN'S STINGY defense allowed Eric Turner, who picked up where he left off from the Northwestern game, to control the transition game. Most of turner's four assists went to McCormick, who scored eight of his game-high 12 points in the first half. "We knew their talents and we knew they'd try to work it inside off Turner's passing," said Payne. "He's a master at that." Michigan remained on the attack throughout the first half as Iowa could only cut the lead to eight points, but the roles See MICHIGAN, Page 8 Daily Photo by DAN HABIB Michigan center Tim McCormick drives past Iowa guard Steve Carfino yesterday in the Wolverines 53-49 victory. The win leaves Michigan 10-2 overall while Iowa slips to 7-4. Soviets strengthen stand against talks in Geneva MOSCOW (AP) - The Kremlin yesterday strengthened its hard-line public stand on the disrupted medium- range arms talks, vehemently rejecting Western hopes that the Soviets might soon return to the Geneva bargaining table. The Communist Party organ Pravda accused U.S. and West German of- ficials of lying about the course of the talks, dismissed NATO's bargaining position as "absurd" and repeated the Soviet refusal to resume negotiations unless the Western allies agree to roll back the NATO missile deployment program. PRAVDA SAID: "The contentions by American and some West European of- ficials that the Soviet Union is on the verge of 'returning to the talks'...are nothing but attempts to deceive the peoples and absolve themselves of responsibility for the torpedoing of the talks." Quoting President Yuri Andropov's Nov. 24 statement on the Soviet walkout at Geneva, it said the Kremlin would think about resuming negotiations only "if the United States and other NATO countries display readiness to return to the situation that existed before the beginning of deployment of American medium-range missiles in Europe." The harsh attack on Western nuclear policy was part of a Soviet campaign that seeks to blame the United States and its allies for the Soviet walkout from the Geneva negotiations last Nov. 23. THE SOVIETS' campaign also ap- pears aimed at the Stockholm security conference that begins Jan. 17. The Kremlin, which usually takes a tough stand before such meetings, has been trying to place .the burden for com- promise on the NATO countries. At the same time, however, the Soviets also have rejected Western ex- pectations that a planned Stockholm meeting between Foreign Minister An- drei Gromyko and U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz might be used to lay the groundwork for a return to Geneva. "Ever since they walked out of the talks, we thought they would return because it is in their best interests to try to prevent full deployment of the missiles," a Western diplomat said Saturday. "The Pravda statement shows they are adhering to their position that the missiles must be removed." The Soviet Union left the Geneva talks after NATO began deploying the first of a planned 572 U.S.-built cruise and Pershing 2 missiles. The Kremlin then announced that it would begin deploying more missiles of its own in East Germany and Czechoslovakia. Almost lunch break Daily Photo by DAN HABIB A Detroit Edison worker putting in new street lamps drills in front of the Michigan League yesterday while two others watch. I TODAY Book 'em L ITTLE TYKES love reading a bedtime story, but some kiddie books in the Chicago area would have really given them a lift. Federal, state, and local drug enfor- cement officials arrested 17 people and seized more than .. .,. -ma i 4an hin hnae nio Shopping spree SISTER AQUIN Theobald and Sister Josefa Connonly made off with $643.93 worth of groceries in a five-minute sweep through a local supermarket in East Greenbush, N.Y., but it was all for charity. The free shopping spree Friday had been donated anonymously to Mercy House, a shelter for homeless women, by the winner of a contest by the Mechanics Exchange Division of the Dime Savings Bank of New York. The bank has a branch in the Star Sunermarket in East Greenbush and in November gave Roundup A GROUP OF ranchers want to eat up a steering com- mittee of a different kind during the Republican National convention, by bringing 150 longhorns to Dallas. The Texas Longhorn Breeders' Association plans to pen 150 steers in the Trinity River basin near downtown and con- duct trail drives during the convention, which begins Aug. 20. "Once, maybe twice a day during the convention, we'll head 'em up and move 'em out, move them up and down the river, down past the Reunion Tower, turn around and trail 'em back," said John Ball, a past president of the nranizatinn Rut first. the breeders' groun must present would seek formal recognition of their union as the collec- tive bargaining agent for students working in the Univer- sity's dormitories. Also on this date in history: *1968 - LSA faculty members defeated a resolution requesting the banning of military recruiting on campus. " 1960 - Three LSA seniors were expelled and a fourth was given a failing grade for cheating on a journalism test. " 1957 - Health Services doctors said they had been so swamped with students seeking polio vaccinations that shots would only be given on Thursdays in the future. Q I i i