0 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, March 30, 1984 WSU pro defends By MARLA GOLD Although the insanity plea is often abused, abolishing it will not solve the problem, said a Wayne State University professor of law and psychiatry. Speaking at a conference yesterday on psychiatric- legal issues, Prof. Ralph Solvenko defended the in- sanity plea in criminal cases, but admitted that "psychiatric testimony often falls on deaf ears - particularly judges." AS MORE doctors and psychiatrists are being called into courts to testify in criminal cases or to defend themselves in malpractice suits, they need to be aware of legal issues, added Dr. Gerald Schmit director of Mercywood Hospital, which sponsored yesterday's panel discussion at St. Jos Hospital. If a judge accepts an insanity plea, def sentenced to a psychiatric hospital instea Pleading not guilty by reason of insan commonly used by first-time offenders t prison sentence, Solvenko said. The "public outrage" following John trial for his attempted assassination o Reagan in 1981, sparked an America Association (AMA) drive to ban the insani MEMBERS OF the AMA group say t plea is "some kind of defense based on thl of the defendant," Solvenko said. insanity plea eph Mercy But he argued that using the insanity defense only limits the typeiof evidence the court can consider. endants are The individual is still tried, he added. d of prison. In such cases, however, prosecuting attorneys try nity is most to compensate for the omitted evidence by over- o divert the charging a defendant, Solvenko said. And defense lawyers push to lower charges to win their clients a Hinckley's hospital sentence. f President Michigan, however, is one of 12 states that in 1975 an Medical adopted a new insanity plea, "Guilty, but mentally ty plea. ill," which the AMA also opposes. he insanity Under the 1975 defense, hospital sentences are e character prohibited, but Solvenko said jury memers often aren't aware of that restriction. IN BRIEF SMART's Page gets narrow MSA win ,. _, (Continued from Page1 ) be to get the assembly members to know each other so that we can begin to develop a team," Page said. "We must build a rapport with each other so that we can best meet student needs together." MSA election chief's job in question Page said he has already received a cost analysis of the Night Owl bus system which SMART will use to evaluate the campus security. Page was also appointed to a student financial aid committee under the University's Campaign for Michigan to raise funds from alumni. "I see this (appointment) as a good preliminary step to the revolving student loan and endowment plan that we want to initiate," Page said. SMART's program would reserve $10 million from the University's capital campaign for student loans. The following candidates won the elections in their respective schools: Art - Kaye Krapoh (IOU); Architec- ture - Susan Gordan ((YOU!); Dental - Renee Dubois (LMNOP); Education - Beth Schiller (YOU!); Law - D. Iglitzin (IOU); Library Sciences - G. Mensching (LMNOP); Nursing - Kris Jacobus (SMART); Natural Resources - Kurt Muenchow (LMNOP); Music - Andrea Lang (LMNOP); Medical School - Brian Cook (LMNOP); Public Health - Ann Ryan (IND); Social Work - Janny Hullsman (IOU); Pharmacy - Janet Feldman (LM- NOP); Engineering - Ed Charrier (SMART); Kevin Michaels (LMNOP); and William Vivian (RAP); Rackham - Fred Barney (RAP), Tara Ward (IOU), Bob Paley (IOU), Dora Aksoy (YOU!), and Angela Gantner (YOU!); Business - Marc Wernick (LMNOP) and Walt Guldman (SMART). By MARCY FLEISHER Election problems that overshadowed this year's Michigan Student Assembly continued into the ballot counting early yesterday morning. MSA election director Dave Surovell said he was excluded from counting votes-last night by Assembly leaders. ALTHOUGH current MSA President Mary Rowland said Surovell wasn't fire, she "isn't at all pleased with his performance," and blames him for many of the problems during the first day of voting Tuesday. Several voting booths didn't open Tuesday and a number opened late due to staffing problems. Surovell said he "lost his ad- ministrative authority" some time Wednesday night." "MSA DECIDED to finish running the elections," he said. "I didn't quit, but other people were making the decisions." "I think- some people at MSA are pretty angry at me," he said adding that some of the criticism he is receiving is justified. Surovell helped count ballots Wed- nesday night, but was told last night they didn't need his help. "Mary said that she didn't want me to come over. I feel that my input isn't desired or facilitated any longer, in any way," 4I do want to finish the job," he said. WMU dorms offer weightlifting, exercise r. .I ICELANDAIR KALAMAZOO, Mich. (UPI) - One young woman pedaled on an exercise bicycle while another ran on a tread- mill; a third lifted weights with a par- tner. Across the room, another woman did sit-ups and a young man worked on an exercise machine. On another floor, a number of people were walking through a cafeteria line, studying the calorie count of each item before making a selection. THE SCENE is common at many an urban health club and would not be con- sidered unusual at the headquarters of a major corporation. But in Western MichieanUniversity residence halls, it's something of a breakthrough. $468 ROUNDTRIP Super Bargain fare k. DETROIT - LUXEMBOURG Depart Detroit May 11, 18 or 25 Booking payment and Ticketing 14 days in advance. Minimum stay 7 days/Max. 45 days LIMITED SEATING Ask about our Free Bus service and Bargain Train Transfers Contact your local travel agent or Icelandair for full details Fare subject to change and government approval 1 Attention University of Michigan Students, Staff and Faculty. . See the new desktop ZENITH Z-100 COMPUTER now on display at the University Cellar, 341 E. Liberty "I think it's a great idea," said Chris Graf, a freshman from Ann Arbor. "This is the nicest weight room on campus." "I picked this dorm because of the weight equipment," adds Todd Williams, a sophomore in business from Livonia. "I don't get down here as much as I'd like, but I really like it here." THE WEIGHT ROOM and associated equipment, like the dry sauna, is only a part of the overall health program of- fered at the LeFevre and Eicher residence halls. The 250 or so students living in the halls also are invited 4.o participate in regularly scheduled aerobics classes and weight control programs. Intermit- tent workshops also focus on such topics as how to deal withsstress and better manage your time. "The response has been super," says residence hall director Joe Aubain. "Last year this hall was closed down because of the low number of people living on campus. "THIS YEAR, I have had students trying to move in here because of it," he said. About 50 percent of those living in the two residence halls have participated in the weight training, aerobics and health classes, Aubain said. The response has been so en- couraging that Aubain said he plans to seek approval for some $7,000 in sophisticated weight-training equip- ment and exercise machinery for the coming school year. ALSO ON HIS shopping list is a hot tub for the courtyard inside the building complex. "It's something to get involved in at the dorm. The unity it has brought is great," said sophomore Donna Lewis. "It brings you together and helps you meet people rather than, just living in the dorm, going to class and coming back. "BEFORE, YOU might just know the people on your floor. Now, I meet people from all over the building and when you see them on campus, you can say "'hi,"' she said. The weight training equipment and other health-related programs were financed through student fees and are part of an overall strategy to attract and retain students in on-campus housing, said Ruth Stevens of WMU's news services department. Residence hall occupancy was relatively stable at or near full capacity during the 1960s and throughout most of the 1970s but began to decline in the 1981-82 school year, she said. THE DORMITORY population is now at approximately 4,700, about 1,000 students below capacity. A number of halls on campus have theme programs, she said, all of them designed at the request of students. "Health halls were the brainchild of people who live in the halls," she said. One dormitory caters to computer users. It now has personal computer terminals for resident use and next year will have additional equipment and a new name - "High-tech hall." Police Complied from Associated Press and United Press international reorts Meese surrenders gift cufflinks WASHINGTON - Edwin Meese and nine other White House officials received expensive jade and gold cufflinks from the South Korean gover- nment in November and are only now surrendering them, a senior White House official said yesterday. The pale green jade blocks, decorated with gold crests, were appraised at $375 a pair, said the offical, who spoke on the condition that he not be iden- tified by name. Federal employees must report or turn over to the U.S. government within 60 days any gifts they receive that are valued at more than $140. Three other senior officials - White House chief of staff James Baker, deputy staff chief Michael Dearer, and Robert McFarlane, Reagan's assistant for national security affairs - handed over the jewelry to U.S. authorities shortly after they received it during President Reagan's trip to Seoul in November, the official said. Meese was said by the official to have filed a report on the gift Tuesday and to have turned the jewelry over on Wednesday. A deputy to Meese, Reagan's top policy advisor, declined comment. The senior White House official declined to name the others who kept the jewelry. He said officials of the National Security Council staff, the Treasury Department and the State Department had also received gifts. Economy continues to improve despite record trade losses WASHINGTON - The government reported yesterday that its main economic forecasting gauge rose a healthy 0.7 percent in February, prom- pting the White House to proclaim that the economy is "still on a roll." Official optimism, however, was tempered by a separate report that the United States' foreign trade deficit broke into double digits for the first time in history, reaching $10.1 billion in February. Taken together, the two reports showed the unusual nature of the current recovery from the 1981-82 recession, in which a robust economy is forging ahead despite mounting trade problems. The government also reported that new-honie sales surged 7.8 percent higher in Februrary to a seasonally adjusted rate of 721,000 single-family homes. The increase put February sales 22 percent above the level a year ago, when the housing industry was climbing out of the recession. Nurse convicted in Calif. deaths RIVERSIDE, Calif. - A 45-year-old nurse was convicted by a judge yesterday of murdering 12 elderly patients at two hospitals with overdoses of a drug designed to control the heartbeat. Robert Diaz, whom prosecutors called "nothing but a killer," faces a possible sentence of death in the gas chamber for the 1981 slayings. Immediately after the verdict, his wife, Martha, said she would file for a legal separation later in the day. Diaz sat quietly, drumming his fingers on a table, as Superior Court Judge John Bernard read his verdict in the five-month trial at which the defendant waived his right to a jury. Defense attorneys John Lee and Michael Lewis said they would appeaL "I'm depressed and disappointed," Lewis said. Beirut faction gives up position A Christian Phalangist militia gave up its positions along Lebanon's coastal highway and headed for Beirut yesterday as part of a new agreement with the rival Druse faction. The Christian troops, known as the Lebanese Forces, removed tanks, jeeps and armored personnel carriers from the strip of road they held bet- ween the Israeli line at the Awali River and the city of Damour 12 miles south of Beirut. The liaison officer of the Lebanese Forces said at the Awali Bridge the- militias were moved to Beirut as part of the Israeli-sponsored agreement. An undetermined number of Cristian Phaangist" rilitias also would' pull out of south Lebanon, under the agreement reported by Israeli sources. The sources said the plan had a long-range goal of allowing 50,000 Druse refugees back to their homes in the Chouf Mountains. Many Druse fled to Beirut, Aley and other towns after sectarian battles broke out in the wake of Israel's Sept. 4, 1983, pullout from the region. D'Aubuisson concedes first round of Salvador presidential election SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Rightist candidate Roberto d'Aubuisson conceded yesterday he finished second in El Salvador's presidential voting and criticized a right-wing death squad that threatened the lives of election officials. Electoral rules call for the two top contenders to meet in a runoff election if no candidate gets more than half the votes. D'Aubuisson said he expected to pick up support from other conservative parties for a runoff expected in April or early May. D'Aubuisson, who during the campaign repeatedly called Duarte a "communist" and a "traitor," yesterday offered his good wishes to the PDC and Duarte "for their great work" in winning public support. The political leader condemned a communique issued Wednesday by the Secret Anti-Communist Army, or ESA, the nation's most active death squad. It threatened to "punish" election officials for their part in the mass con- fusion that marred Sunday's election. "Really, this seems to me evil and those gentlemen do not know the damage they are causing us internationally-," said d'Aubuisson. "This type of activity in no way favors the Salvadoran people." Friday, March 30, 1984 Vol. XCIV-No. 143 (ISSN 0745-967X) The Michigan Daily is edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan. Published daily Tuesday through Sunday mornings during the University year at 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109. Sub- scription rates: $15.50 September through April (2 semesters); $19.50 by mail outside Ann Arbor. Summer session published Tuesday through Satur- day mornings. Subscription rates: $8 in Ann Arbor; $10 by mail outside AIan Arbor. 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