Senate votes to halt legislator 's privileges I The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, February 29, 1984 - Page 3 London workers r ban onu10ns LANSING, Mich. (UPI) - The Senate yesterday gave final approval to legislation taking away decades-old protections lawmakers have had from being served lawsuits and other civil actions. The three-bill "legislative immunity" package, which also removes legislators' special privileges from traffic tickets, won unanimous ap- proval in the upper chamber and was sent to Gov. James Blanchard for signing. AFTER BLANCHARD signs the bills which he has vowed to do - lawmakers will be treated more like ordinary citizens when it comes to being served lawsuits, subpoenas or traffic citations. The action results from a 1982 ballot question in which voters directed lawmakers to limit immunity. The new measure limit the protection to days when the Legislature meets. THEY ALSO protect lawmakers :from lawsuits filed for actions related :to their official legislative duties, and protect their legislative files and tapes from subpoena. Legislative immunity privileges were established in the state's 1908 Con- stitution, which was revised in 1963. Under those provisions, lawmakers are protected from being served lawsuits and subpeonas on days when the Legislature is "in season." But in 1963 when the Constitution was amen- ded, lawmakers worked part-time. When the Legislature later became a full-time body, the provision resulted in virtual blanket protection for lawmakers. And when state traffic laws were decriminalized in 1978, traffic tickets became civil actions, therefore making lawmakers immune from receiving speeding citations under the immunity provisions. Critics charge that those changes left lawmakers with a lot of room for avoiding traffic tickets and civil suits. One senator, for example, recently avoided a ticket for driving 85 miles an hour down a Lansing freeway to get session. -HAPPENINGS- Highlight Timothy Donaldson, the chairman of Fisk University and a member of the board of trustees for the Bank of the Bahamas, speaks on "The Fisk Crisis and the Survival of Black Colleges." The appearence is sponsored by the Center for Afroamerican and African studies and begins at 12 p.m. in Whit- ney Aud. Films Oxford Film Guild-The Graduate, 6,8 & 10 p.m., Nat. Sci. Reel Change-Poletown lives, 12:15 p.m., room 4068 Frieze Building. Women's studies-The Double Day, 12 p.m., Lecture Room 2, MLB. Ethnographic film series-High School and Desert People, 7 p.m., Lecture room 2, MLB. Hill Street-The Truth about Communism, 7 & 8:30 p.m., Hill Street Cinema. Performances School of Music-Guest Saxophone recital, lecture and performance theory, 8p.m., Recital Hall. Minority Music Students Assoc.-"A musical tribute to Fisk University," 8p.m., Hale Aud., School of Education. }Speakers natomy and Cell Biology-Michael Welsh, "The Continuing Saga of Calmodulin in Mitosis," 12p.m., toom 5732, Med. Sci. II. Russian and East European Studies-Sergei Kan, "Russian Orthodox Missionaries and Tlingit Indians: An Ethnohistorical Perspective," 12 p.m., Lane Hall Commons. Dentistry-Tom Green and Leopold Klausner, "Professional Burnout in Dental Education," 4p.m., room 1033 Kellogg. Computing Center-Bob Brill, "Fortran 77 in MTS, II," 3:30 p.m., room 165 Buss. Ad. Leigh Daniels, "'Using the Apple Microcomputer with MTS," 3:30 p.m., room 140 Bus. Ad. CRLT-Robert Kozma, "Using computer simulations in the classroom," 2 p.m., CLRT. ILIR-Charles Bryan, "Dynamics of Progressive Union Leadership: Bargaining Workplace Democracy at Eastern Airlines," 12 p.m. Michigan Map Society-Lawrence Sommers, "Fish in Lake Michigan-Distribution Factors-a New Atlas Project," 8 p.m., Clements Library. Department of Statistics-Noel Cressie, "Spatial Statistics," 4 p.m., room 451 Mason Hall. Chemistry Department-Jeff Nichols, "B-Carbanions," 4 p.m., room 1300, Chemistry Building. Judiac Studies-Avraham Balaban, "The Religious Yearning in Modern Israeli Prose," 4 p.m., West Conference Room, Rackham. Industrial and Operations engineering-Sunder Kekre; "New Principles of Lot Sizing and Capacity Planning in Jobshops," 4 p.m., room 241, IOE Building. Meetings Science Fiction Club-8.15 p.m., Michigan League. Michigan Gay Undergraduates-9 p.m., Guild House. Academic Alcoholics-i1:30 p.m., Alono club. Tae Kwon do Club-6 p.m., CCRB Martial Arts Room. Engineering Council-7 p.m., room 311, West Engineering. Miscellaneous Canterbury Loft-Meditative Celebration of the Holy Eucharist, 5:15 p.m., 332S. State Street. Lutheran Campus Ministry-Ecumenical study of baptism, eucharist, and ministry, 8 p.m., Campus Chapel. The Michigan Daily-Campus Meet the Press, 4 p.m., Kuenzel Room, Union. WAAM Radio-Ted Heusel Show, "Nuclear Power Plants," 11 a.m. To submit items for the Happenings Column, send them in -care of Happenings, The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Malicious Intent Snowdaze AP Photo An Evansville, Indianasnowman bears the message that rang across the Midwest for the second straight day yesterday. Supreme Court reduces Ti LONDON (AP) - Tens of thousands of workers joined a "Day of Action" strike yesterday protesting the gover- nment ban on unions at a top-secret in- telligence center, and the walkout blocked porduction of all national newspapers in London. The strike also halted some trains, buses and ambulances, disrupted in- dustries and government services and, in one London borough, forced the post- ponement of several funerals. JUBILANT union leaders hailed the protest as a "stupendous" success, but the Institute of Directors, an employers' organization, said the strike had no ef- fect on 95 percent of the nation's in- dustries. Most newspaper unions had urged their members to work normally to en- sure full coverage of the "Day of Ac- tion," but the engineering union decided yesterday to withdraw its members, halting production of Lon- don's Wednesday editions. the Newspaper Publishers Association it would sue for "maximum damages." Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said she "deplored and condemned" the one-day nationwide protest. She told lawmakers it "hits out at ordinary people" and provided "further justification" for her ban on unions at tie IX effect but the college refused to comply and faced losing federal funds. The college, located 70 miles north of Pittsburgh, was founded in 1876 and is affiliated with the Presbyterian Chur- ch. In opposing the paperwork requirement, it pictured itself as the victim of bureaucratic meddling and noted that it historically has sought to mainain its independence by refusing all government assistance. The Supreme Court said vesterdav that the only program at Grove City which is covered by Title IX is the college's financial aid program. In his opinion for the court, Justice Byron White said the receipt of the federal grants "by some of Grove City's students does not trigger institution- wide coverage under Title IX." The grant program represents "federal financial assistance to the" college's own financial aid program, and it is that program that may properly be regulated under Title IX," White said. the Government Communications Headquarters in Cheltenham, west of London. THE PRIME minister contends the union ban, which takes effect Thur- sday, is needed to guarantee there is no disruption in the center's monitoring and sifting of worldwide com- munications, as there was during pay disputes in 1979 and 1981. Britain's largest labor federation, the Trades Union Congress, called on its 10.5 million members to strike for at least some part of the day. It was impossible to determine exac- tly how many workers participated, but union estimates were more than 100,000 strikers nationwide. THE WALKOUT began just hours af- ter Thatcher won parliamentary backing in a 201-25 House of Commons vote Monday night. Virtually the entire Labor Party, Britain's socialist op- position, abstained. Yesterday morning, railway workers and bus drivers walked off the job in several cities, bringing chaos ,to the morning rush.hour. A quartersof all British Rail trains were canceled and many of the rest were delayed, officials said. 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"'President Shapiro has made it clear that he is absolutely committed to equal opportunity for male and female students and staff," Nordby said. SARRI, however, isn't convinced of Shapiro's committment to protecting women's rights. "We haven't made progress for women at the University. We've been slipping behind in the num- ber of women faculty in the ad- ministration." Women comprise 20 percent of the University faculty. Several college officials nationwide said the decision would not change their schools' policies because they" don't discriminate against women anyway. Some women's rights advocates in Washington said they will turn to Congress for help. This case, which has been one of the most closely watched by women's rights groups, started as an obscure dispute between the Education Depar- tment and the tiny Grove City College in Grove City, Pa. 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