Ninety-four Years of Editorial Freedom j:jj; be Lit Ia 413 all tj Fifties Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain and a high near 50. m 1/ol. XCIV-No. 146 Copyright 1984, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Tuesday, April 3, 1984 Fifteen Cents Eight Pages I - - - - - - - - - - CRISP stings first victims By NAOMI SAFERSTEIN Spring just wouldn't be Spring without two key nuisances: mosquitos nd CRISP. Both are critters by which people unavoidably get stung. And the first batch of victims waiting in line to CRISP yesterday at Lorch Hall was no exception. FROM THE un-godly hour of 8 a.m. until the doors closed at 4:30 p.m. students waited for the mighty com- puter to decide whether next term's course schedule would be doom or elight. Although some students try to out- smart the computer - one student said he entered the building through the back door to beat the crowds- the ugly fact remains that CRISP usually comes out ahead, EVEN THE chosen few who were lucky enough to CRISP first yesterday did not escape the frustrating "Closed" reply which appeared without fail on the screen. LSA prft adopt weakened teaching guidelines By TRACEY MILLER After a seven-month battle, LSA faculty members yesterday passed a watered-down version of teaching uidelines proposed by a joint student- faculty committee. The revised guidelines only "urge" faculty members to comply with the standards unlike the initial proposal, under which the rules were iandatory. "ORIGINALLY (the guidelines) were a code of laws, but the faculty will still be able to know what is expected of them. No one is obliged to follow it, though, the way it reads now," said OFrench Prof. Roy Nelson, who is co- Wchairman of the committee. Faculty members objected to the initial document because they said the guidelines were too restrictive. Under the code faculty members would be required to distribute syllabi and class outlines at the beginning of a term, hold regular office hours, critique students' work along with assigning grades, and speak English fluently, except in ad- vanced foreign language courses. Some faculty members such as *Philosphy Prof. Carl Cohen said they fear that teachers would be sued for not following the guidelines under a man- datory code. The original proposal was See LSA, Page 2 _....... Registration opens with lines, closed courses LAST YEAR, LSA junior Joel Israel thought he had reached success with his schedule. "I brought (my schedule) to the computer and it came up 'succeed, succeed, succeed - close,"' he said. "And that one close wrenches your whole schedule. It might as well have said: close, close, close, close." Yesterday, Israel's luck wasn't much better. "I go and sit down at the desk and the lady punches in my course number and 'Inactive Course' appears on the screen." "INACTIVE course? What's an inac- tive course?" Israel asked the CRISP operator. "But she just shrugged her shoulders. You see, even if you CRISP first you still can't win." For less experienced students the CRISP experience can be threatening. "I remember the first time CRISPing before freshman year," recalls Israel. "I was waiting in line and these two girls in front of me started crying. I became really scared, I thought it was some kind of torture chamber in there." AND ONE of those tearful students might have been Debbie Morrison, and LSA junior. "Before freshman year, when I came to CRISP T had to wait in line for two-and-a-half hours. By then I was so miserable that if you touched me wrong I would have started crying." But Morrison made the fatal error of not checking the closed course list before she climbed the stairs to the computer room. "When I fin'ally got to the lady she asked me if I had even bothered looking at the closed course list, because everything I wanted was closed - then I really did start crying. "And I kept crying while my boyfriend filled out my entire schedule." IN THE PAST three years, however, Morrison said her scheduling problems eventually worked out. The trick is not panicking, adds LSA junior Jean Weinman. "Yes, it all works out and I no longer have nervous breakdowns like I used to." Students aren't the only victims of frustration during CRISP. For CRISP admninistrators the ultimate disaster is when computers break down, accor- ding to Tom Karunas, assistant Univer- sity registrar who coordinates student registration. "THE BIGGEST problem we have See STUDENTS, Page 2 The first group of lucky victims of the University computers wait in line to CRISP for classes at Lorch Hall yesterday. Republicans Y1 I1 IS City Council majori[ty By ERIC MATTSON and CAROLINE MULLER Republican City Council candidates won three of the five ward seats in yesterday's city election, securing the GOP's majority on Council. In the Second Ward, Republican in- cumbent James Blow defeated Democrat James Burchell by 675 votes and GOP newcomer Jeanette Mid- dleton scored a narrow victory, upset- ting Democratic incumbent Raphael Ezekiel by 78 votes in the Third Ward. GERALD JERNIGAN won by 650 votes over Democrat John McNabb in the Fourth Ward. The two Democratic wins were in the First Ward by Larry Hunter, who ran unopposed, and in the Fifth Ward, where Doris Preston defeated GOP candidate Sally Pennington by 487 votes. Preston said last night she was "ec- static" with her victory over Pen- nington. But Pennington attributed the win to the number of Democrats registered in the Fifth Ward. "There isn't one person on my campaign who thinks I'm a loser. Neither do I." "IT'S NICE to be a winner," said Jeanette Middleton last night. "I had a great deal of help. I think Rafe (Ezekiel) is a good guy, (but) I thinkw'e just worked harder than he did." Ezekiel said he was disappointed with the loss, but added that he expected the race to be close. Burchell blamed his defeat partly on poor voter turnout in traditionally Democratic precincts such as Mary Markley Dormitory. At Markley, less than 35 people voted, Burchell said. Burchell also attributed his loss to the strong GOP support in the Second Ward and said he "wouldn't rule out" running next year. But he added that "the key would be to get more students to vote." MOST OF THE winning candidates said their victories resulted from a solid campaign organization. Fourth Ward winner Gerald Jernigan said campaign volunteers going door-to- door helped secure votes. Two of the three ballot proposals were passed by voters yesterday. Proposal B calling for a 1.5 mil tax over five years for repairs on major city streets was approved 8,312 to 5,835. Voters also approved 16,605 to 5,327 Proposal A which would allow citizens to petition for changes in city ordinances. The plan to improve city bike paths was the only proposal that failed yesterday. The proposal lost 8,057 to 5,081. The unofficial results of the election are as follows: " First Ward - Larry Hunter (D): 794 votes (ran unopposed). Preston .. takes Fifth Ward T ab.in Daily Photo by CAROL L. FRANCAVILLA Tie a blue ribbon Eric Goldstein wears the blue crepe paper a group of students wrapped around the Administration Building yesterday. The group is protesting the proposed code of non-academic conduct and plans to surround Central Campus with blue yarn Friday morning. See story, Page 3. " Second Ward - James Blow (R): 1,611 votes; James Burchell (D): 936 votes. " Third Ward - Jeanette Middleton: 1,748 votes; Raphael Ezekiel (D) 1,670. " Fourth Ward - Gerald Jernigan (R): 1,775 votes; John McNabb (D): 1,125 votes. * Fifth Ward - Doris Preston (D): 2,301 votes; Sally Pennington (RY: 1,814 votes. XX X.-: .......... X X X ....... ... ... ........ ....... . ........... ............ Gunmen wound 48 in High court to review 'moment of silence law WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court, while adhering to its 22-year ban on officially sponsored school prayers, said yesterday it will consider letting public schools provide a daily "moment of silence" for students. The justices said they will study an Alabama law that allowed periods of silence at the start of each school day for student meditation or prayer. THE LAW was struck down as unconstitutional by a federal appeals court that said the legislation's main purpose was promoting religion. At the same time yesterday, the justices agreed with the appeals court that a separate Alabama law that allowed public school teachers to lead willing students in prayer is unconstitutional. The high court, showing no intention of recon- sidering its 1962 decision outlawing officially spon- sored prayer sessions in public schools, limited its review to the "moment of silence" law. ' Similar laws have been enacted in 22 other states. They are A rizona, Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pen- nsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Virginia. LOWER COURTS have struck down the New Jer- sey, New Mexico and Tennessee laws. But the Massachusetts law was upheld by a three-judge federal court in 1976. The Reagan administration is urging the high court to allow states to provide brief, daily periods of silen- ce for "prayer or meditation" in public schools. Government lawyers said such measures pose no threat of establishing an official religion, but merely represent an "accommodation of and toleration for private religious beliefs and practices." "PERMITTING school children to maintain a mormgnt of silence in the public schools . . . evinces a benevolent neutrality," the government contended in a "friend-of-the-court" brief. President Reagan favors a constitutional amen- dment to allow officially sponsored prayer sessions in public schools - the type of activity the Supreme See COURT, Page 3 Jerusalem From AP and UPI JERUSALEM - Three Arab gunmen wildly sprayed West Jerusalem's main intersection yesterday with sub- machine gunfire and grenades, woun- ding 48 people. A bystander shot one assailant dead as the crowd shouted "Kill him, kill him." Two Damascus-based Palestinian groups claimed responsibility for the attack in the heart of the Jewish sector of the disputed city. Interior Minister Josef Burg said the assailants came across the border from Lebanon. "IT WAS like a wild west show," said Dr. Ephraim Elazeri, one of the woun- ded threated at Sha'arey Tzedek hospital. "Everyone was shooting at rampage everyone else. It was hard to tell who were the villains and who' were the heros." One of the assailants was killed by an Israeli civilian who dashed from a cof- fee shop, seized a rifle from a soldier, and opened fire on the gunman. The two other attackers were captured. As the gunmen crumpled on the sidewalk, bleeding from a stomach wound, Israelis rushed from coffee shops and stores, yelling "Kill him, Kill him." FORTY-EIGHT people were woun- ded in the attack, three of them seriously, from either bullets-or shrap- nel from the grenades, which the See 48, Page 3 ::- TODAY- Joke mail UNDREDS OF GULLIBLE South Quad residents, began to panic yesterday when they learned that the dorm's mail sorters had gone on strike- sort of. The "strikers" demanded recognition of South Quad as a U.S. Post Office substation, a raise to $6 an hour, better.working conditions, and an end to mass stuf- fings. But the joke was on the residents who spent valuable PSN prize IS THE PROGRESSIVE STUDENT Network an honorable organization? Apparently it is, at least in the eyes of University Vice President for Student Services Henry Johnson. In a letter to the PSN last week, Johnson told the PSN that it is one of 17 groups nominated for the Univer- sity's Student Recognition Award. Johnson said he had "mixed feelings" about telling the group of the nomination but having to also inform them that PSN was not among the final list of groups receiving the award. "Your group should included an exhibition and a teaching session at Crisler Arena. Also on this date in history: " 1944 - Only 1,000 people voted in city elections for supervisors, aldermen, and constables. Republican can- didates captured 17 of 21 seats at stake. " 1970 - Fifty students who had been convicted for par- ticipating in a September LSA sit-in awaited action on their appeals. Most of the convicted students had received seven- day jail sentences and been charged $45 fines and $200 in court costs. INA . 'Nom I