Cheating: Little ris little guilt SMegee I Ninety-four Years Of Editorial Freedom :1- 41v fiHltrbt]9 ttn 1~Ia41Q No comment High winds. Partly sunny. High near 39. Twelve Pages Vol. XCIV-No. 137 Copyright 1984, The Michigan t Dailv Ann Arbor, Michigan - Friday, March 23, 1984 Fifteen Cents Twelve Pages .... J .. Summer sublet saga begins again By MIKE WILKINSON For those staying in town this sum- Mer, Ann Arbor housing is Nirvana - offering a multitude of apartments and houses close to campus and real cheap. But those renting out their rooms can run into a whole range of problems, from the minor hassle of being stuck with a disconnected phone to the major trauma of having to pay rent for sublet- ters who have split town. ANN ARBOR housing officials, however, have a few words of advice for students hoping to sublet this spring -plan ahead. "Before you enter into a sublet lease, know your legal rights," said Lincoln Ashida a volunteer with the Ann Arbor STenants Union. Prospective tenants should be chec- ked out before you agree to take them on as subletters, Ashida said. Credit ratings, rental history, and how easily the person can be located after the lease expires should all be prominent factors in subletting, he said. ASHIDA advised that the primary tenants do this checking. But he cautioned that subletters must also be approved by the landlord before any lease is signed. Landlords cannot deny a tenant the right to sublet unless they can cite a specific problem with the potential sub- tenant such as bad credit or problems with past landlords, according to Jo Rumsey, an assistant director in the housing information division. Once a subtenant is approved and both sides are ready to sign a lease, the main tenant should take steps to minimize the losses which can occur if the sabletter leaves town or refuses to pay. THIS CAN be done by having the sub- tenant pay the first month's rent and a security deposit equal to one and one- half month's rent before moving in. One problem with subletting which even the most thorough forethought cannot solve, is the market. Thousands of students leaving campus, hoping to' pass off at least some of their rent on subletters, flood the supply side of the market. As the end of school comes closer and closer, students who want to rent their rooms get more and more desperate and have to drop their prices lower and lower. Expect to sublet a room for about 50 See SUBLETTERS, Page 3 Co ouncit candidates square off on issues at City Hall B Apple Bound Cagersh on, oust tough Xavier in NIT By RANDY BERGER In only two years Michigan has gone from a 7-20 team to a final four team. In only one season, it has gone from a ninth- place team in the Big Ten to a final-four team. So what if it's the NIT and not the NCAA's, the rapid metamorphosis in Michigan's basketball program, is something to brag about all the way to New York City. IN FACT, the team won't have to shout about it as it can tell everyone in person when it arrives in the Big Apple for Monday's semi-finals after beating scrappy Xavier, 63-62, at Crisler Arena last night. But, Michigan could have easily been left eating the core as the Musketeers never let the Wolverines off the hook. "Xavier is a scrappy, good team," said an exuberant coach Bill Frieder after the game. "When you let up against a scrappy team, they're going to make big plays." NUMEROUS TIMES throughout the game it looked as if Michigan was going to send the Musketeers and their faithful following back to Cincinnati. In the first half, both teams played directly according to the scouting books. Michigan worked the ball inside to Tim McCormick, who finished with 13 points, and Butch Wade, trying to take advantage of Xavier's small size. Meanwhile Xavier did what it does best, shoot the ball from outside. Both teams jostled back and forth until the Wolverines were finally able to dodge some Musketeer swords and opened up a 30-23 lead with six minutes left in the half, mainly See BLUE, Wage 12 's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Daily roto by DAN HABI Sophomore center Roy Tarpley goes up for the slam in first-half action during last night's NIT quarterfinal game at Crisler Arena. w0 'Ustudent aquitted of. ticket-scalping .charge By DAVID VANKER Haughton testified yesterday, "and I said 'this is going to sound silly, but I've A jury found a University student not gotta ask, are you a police officer?' He guilty yesterday of scalping tickets to said, 'As a matter of fact, I am.' last November's Michigan-Ohio State Seyfere then arrested him, Haughton football game. testified. After deliberating for more than an Michigan law defines scalpling as hour, a six-person jury in Ann Arbor's selling tickets in a plublic place for 15th District Court ruled in favor of greater than the advertised price. Engineering junior John Haughton. But Haughton's attorney, Keith Leak, HAUGHTON admitted he had agreed maintained that "There was no offer over the phone to sell four tickets to a and no discussion of price on the police officer for $240, but he contended streets." that the sale never went through. IN HER rebuttal to Leak's closing Haughton had advertised the tickets, argument, Assistant Prosecuting At- which were worth $52 at face value, in torney Marilyn Eisenbraun said, "I The Michigan Daily and The Ann Arbor don't have to prove that there was an News. exchange of money or tickets. It makes Ann Arbor polace officertThomas sense that Haughton would say no price Seyfere responded to the advertisement was discussed, after all, he was caught on November 17, and the two met in red-handed. What else could he say?" front of Ulrich's Bookstore November Seyfere and another police officer 18, the day before the game. "WE EXCHANGED greetings," See 'U', Page 7 By KITTY WILLIAMS With wire reports In just spring, when the world is slush-lucious, the little balloonman steps gingerly down the sidewalk and shivers in the mist. Spring officially arrived Tuesday, and so are students' spirits, after five months of scarves, mittens and hats. "IT'S DEPRESSING not to have, at least one beautiful day in March," said Kathy Hopps, an LSA junior. In Ann Arbor, winds gusting up to 20, mph left inside-out umbrellas sticking out of trash cans, and students bundled up. Some students, like LSA sophomore Kelly Groves, are trying to make the most of the snow, and can even see some good packing for snowballs. GROVES SAID since Tuesday's snow she has "made angels in the snow and had snowball fights. Wednesday night, the Diag was so pretty," she added. In other places in Michigan the weather wasn't so pretty. In the Upper Peninsula, the storm dumped 35 inches of snow and 40 mph winds produced near-blizzard conditions. Drifts piled up to 12 feet in some areas and made many roads impassable. It was the worst spring storm in five years for the UP. "The storm we had in 1979 was bad but we didn't have as much snow. We had the high winds but not this much snow," said David Obmann of the National Weather Service in Marquet- te. THE HIGH winds and impassable snowdrifts have been blamed for four traffic deaths, including one triple fatality on a snow-covered highway. In Wisconsin, a school bus tipped over and five children were slightly injured. Two days of heavy rain have flooded 24 of Ohio's 88 counties, and in the town of Vermillion officials drove a boat through an ice jam in order to break up the clogging that threatened to divert water from the Vermillion River into their city. Across the nation, at least 32 weather- related deaths have been reported since the storm moved into the Rocky Moun- tains on Saturday. See SPRING, Page 5 By SUE BARTO City streets, bike paths, income taxes, and taxpayer-supported police protection for Ann Arbor's annual Nazi demonstration were among the issues nine city council candidates debated last night at City Hall. The candidates are vying for council seats in the city's five wards. The debate was sponsored by the League of Women Voters. POTHOLES WERE ONE of the top items of discussion, since citizens will be voting on a proposed tax of up to 1.5 mills for the next four years to repair the city's streets. James Burchell, a Democratic candidate running in the 2nd ward, voiced strong opposition to the .proposal, saying that the current city council has not been creative in searching for an alternative way to fund the repairs. "We need to look at it throughout the year, not just at election time," he said. SALLY PENNINGTON, a Republican running for the 5th ward, shot down another ballot proposal asking whether the city should issue $950,000 in bonds to fund a set of bicycle paths in the' city. She said, however, that the money proposed for use on the bike paths should be funnelled into street repairs. "Bike paths are for recreation," she said. "People are more likely to kill themselves by hitting potholes than heading for Huron Park." There was little disagreement among any of the candidates on whether the city should pay for police protection See COMPETITION, Page 2 University snow removal crews thought they were finished for the season, but Mother Nature got the last laugh yesterday. Maybe the path will finally be clear for spring to arrive. TODAY Pizza prank IF YOU THOUGHT fortune was shining on you Wednesday night when you found that Cottage Inn coupon for a free pizza -,guess again. It seems hundreds of the counterfeit coupon sheets were slipped under doors in most of the dor- mitories on campus. The realistic certificates promise the hearer a free half-trav Sicilian nizza with two items and surprised that so many people believed the hoax. "It looks like it would fool anyone," she said. "It would fool me." D Blabber-vator N EW-FANGLED elevators in Omaha, Neb. are giving riders more than a lift - they're also getting digital weather reports, stock prices, and even a soothing female voice to tell passengers what's up, down, and on the floors in between, a manufacturer says. "Welcome to Otis," the. well-modulated voice says as a passenger enters the car. have been pushed. How much does the contemporary elevator cost? Lightweight materials make the car weight a third less than conventional ones and uses half the elec- tricity, he said. The price ranges between $90,000 and $65,000 depending on the number of stops needed, which is 15 percent cheaper than many traditional models, Illgner said. Q The Daily almanac O N THIS DATE in 1956 City Council members proposed a ban on riding 'and parking bicycles on sidewalks in snecified areas of Ann Arbor: Students opposed the bill would make possession of halliconegenic drugs, depressants, and stimulants a misdemeanor and sale of such drugs a felony. * 1974-Dr. Edward Pierce, who works at the University hospital, announced his candidacy for Congress saying that he wanted to help people who had been short changed by our society. "I have begun to realize that these people-and to a degree all of us-suffer from the deep-seated social ills of militarism, racism, sexism, and outworn economic philosophy. This realization has motivated me to run for Congress," Pierce said. *1983-Former FBI informant Gary Thomas Rowe ,Iripnii Akmi n'il riohts leadier Vin laLiuzzo 19 v ars ago I i 1I