41 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, April 5, 1984 RSG debates violations of election rules I IN BRIEF By JOHN ARNTZ The Rackham Student Government last night discussed allegations that Kodi Abili, a candidate in last Friday's presidential election, violated the government's election rules. Friday's election was RSG's second attempt to select a president this term. The council declared an election in February invalid after Abili handed out mail-in ballots to graduate students Abili; in turn, accused his opponent, Angelo Gantner, of campaigning too close to the polling booths. Abili won the election 107-74. IN LAST NIGHT'S meeting, one student said Abili,. handed him cam- paign leaflets in the lobby of the LSA building Friday, close to the polling booth's location. If true, the act violates RSG election bylaws stating that candidates cannot be within 50 feet of a polling booth. THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEN'S GLEE CLUB Patrick Gardner, Director ANNUAL SPRING CONCERT Saturday, April 7, 1 984 8:00 p.m. - Hill auditorium Tickets: $5, 4, 3, $2 students Hill Box Office April 1 - 7 "This time he hung himself with his own rope because he's the one who made the rule of getting too close to the polls," Gantner said. ABILI, WHO was out ot town last night, has denied any wrongdoing, and last Friday accused RSG President Rich Luker and elections director Vicki Buerger of conspiring against him. In the meeting last night, RSG mem- bers said Abili has charged a polling booth operator with trying to influence students to vote for Gantner. A special election committee will review the charges in an open meeting in the RSG Council Room tomorrow and will make a recommendation next Wednesday. CLAY HYSALL, a member of the election committee, said "Kodi was campaigning within 50 feet, that is a clear violation, and as things stand now, he will be disqualified." However Hysall said that if Gantner is also found to have violated election rules, the government will simply count the ballots and declare a winner. "We really don't want to go through all this again," Hysall said. FEMALE PARTICIPANTS WANTED For Psychological Study at Med Center Must be healthy and between ages 20 and 55 $8 per session CALL NANCY for further information 763-1096 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. Shuttle showers AP Photo Heavy rains over the Kennedy Space Center yesterday create puddles which forced the cancellation of a rescue practice. The Space Shuttle Challenger sits on its pad awaiting Friday's scheduled launch. Council to hold forum to gain code input. - i JERUSALEM LEADERSHIP SEMINAR9 The Committee to Sponsor the Jerusalem Leadership Seminar is offering an eight week summer program in Israel. The program will combine study and touring and is open to college age Jewish men from the Cleveland area. For the twenty-five accepted applicants the total cost will be $350.00 including airfare. For more information, application and brochure call (216) 292-4980. All applications must be received by April 10. Summer Program in Israel Including Airfare: $350.00 (Continued from Page 1) drafted the proposed code, issued invitations to 500 randomly selected students asking them to attend the hearing tonight. By sending out invitations, the, council is hoping to receive a better turnout than two past meetings on the code and hear from students who haven't yet spoken out publicly on the proposed code. It is the first time this type of hearing-has been held at the University, said University Council president William Colburn. SEVERAL University officials have said much of the public opposition to the code may be the result of a vocal minority of students on campus. They say that a more representative sample of students may show that many favor the code. "We want to hear what students have to say," said Colburn. He said that the special hearing is the council's attempt to get a "balanced" appraisal of student opinion. on - THE UNION DR AWING APRIL 6 "IT MAY BE that a number of people (at the hearing) are opposed to the code. If so, then we have to find out why," he said. Students who are invited to the hearing will be given special seating in Rackham Auditorium and will be allowed to make comments or ask questionsaabout the proposed code, Colburn said. The hearing will be open to the whole University community, but those who are not invited by the council will only be allowed to ask questions and make comments after the invited students are finished. Eric Schnaufer, a graduate student who has vocally opposed the code, said the council was trying to minimize op- position to the code by relegating public comments to the end of the meeting. "What happens at the end is con- sidered less important," he said. "(The Council) hopes that people who have minor objections speak first and then people with major objections speak last." The council agreed late yesterday to allow Schnaufer to make a five minute statement at the beginning of the forum. Along with the nine-member Univer- sity council, Daniel Sharphorn, a University policy advisor who has worked extensively to draft the code, and Schnaufer will be answering student's questions and gathering in- put. Compiled from Associated Press and United Press international report Proposal 'imiting troops sent to Central America fails in Senate WASHINGTON - The Senate turned aside a move yesterday to restrict presidential power to send combat troops to El Salvador after a debate in which Democrats charged that President Reagan is likely to send fighting men into Central America within the next year. By a vote of 59-36, the lawmakers rejected a proposal by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) to bar the president from sending U.S. armed forces into El Salvador or Salvadoran airspace for combat unless Congress has declared war or enacted a specific authorization. Leahy said the proposed amendment to an appropriations bill containing $61.7 million in emergency military aid for El Salvador because of his "clear conviction that we are going to reach the point of having American combat forces in El Salvador within a year." Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.) referring to Reagan, said, "I believe that the day after he is re-elected, if he is re-elected; we will see American troops fighting in Latin America. *z Soviets demonstrate sea power LONDON - A Soviet battle fleet conducting i'nassive military exercises in the Norwegian Sea yesterday demonstrated its anti-submarine capability and air power in a show of strength on NATO's 35th anniversary. More than 50 Backfire bombers and Badger long-range reconnaissance planes conducted mock-attack soties on Soviet surface vessels, an official at NATO's Eastern Atlantic headquarters said. The fleet, comprising at least 40 destroyers, frigates, cruisers and submarines, also continues anti-submarine maneuvers with Soviet aircraft trying to locate submerged submarines, the official said. The armada poured into the North Atlantic from the Arctic port of Murmansk, the Soviets' biggest navy station, and from the Baltic Sea. NATO chiefs were concerned at the speed and capacity of the buildup, according to news reports from their top-level meeting in Cesme, Turkey. The exercise, described by NATO as probably the largest staged by the Soviet Union in the Atlantic, came less than a month after a large NATO exercise in the region last month involving 150 ships from nine nations and. 40,000 men. Police arrest 300 in N. India CHANDIGARH, India - Police arrested about 300 people yesterday during a general strike to protest growing violence in northern India, and a Sikh terrorist group threatened to kill a politician a day until its demands were met. The government declared Chandigarh, joint capital of violence-torn Punjab and Haryana states, a "disturbed region." The declaration empowers police to shoot lawbreakers on sight and to make sarches and arrests without warrants. In Parliament, the opposition demanded that Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's government step down for failing to curb Sikh terrorism that has claimed more than 125 lives in two months. Militant Sikhs are waging a campaign for greater religious and political autonomy in Punjab state, about 150 miles northeast of New Delhi. While a minority in Hindu-dominated India, they are the majority in Punjab. Sikhs resent being classified as part of Hinduism. Unlide Hindus, they believe in one god and reject the caste system. 82 arrested in. casino strikes LAS VAGAS, Nev. - Striking hotel-casino workers smashed automobiles with their picket signs yesterday and bomb threats were received at a number of gambling palaces along the Las Vegas Strip in the third day of a massive walkout. Union leaders accused the police of brutality and urged that the National Guard be brought in to keep the peace. At least 82 people had been arrested in scattered outbreaks of violence. One of those arrested yesterday was a kitchen worker armed with three Molotov cocktails. The strikers blocked entrances at many of the gambling palaces. The walkout by thousands of waiters, musicians, stagehands, cooks and bellhops seeking pay hikes and other benefits was in its third day. It affected 29 gambling resorts. Gambling was not affected since dealers are non-union. Bailiffs flatten peace camps GREENHAM COMMON, England - Bailiffs, backed by hundreds of police, evicted women protesters yesterday from their 2%/2-year-old "peace camp" outside the U.S. nuclear missile base here and ripped down their plastic-sheeting home. Jeering women at the base's main gate set fire to some of their shelters as bailiffs tore down the rest and workmen quickly fenced off the site and began drilling for a road-widening project. Local government workers pulled down five of the six other camps strung around the nine-mile perimeter fence in the most determined attempt yet to drive the women out. At the main camp, police dragged away protesters who refused to move and arrested 30 of them. Opposition Labor Party legislators accused Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government of using the road-widening project as a guise for "political persecution" of opponents of the missile deployment. The air force base houses U.S.-built cruise missiles, part of a NATO aresenal of 572 nuclear rockets that the alliance plans to deploy in Western Europe to counter the threat of Soviet nuclear missiles in Eastern Europe. Get Mirti an atILI Thursday, April 5, 1984 Vol. XCI V-No. 148 (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 Ann Arbor. Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to THE MICHIGAN DAILY, 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. 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Sale Ends Saturday, April 7th A a 20% OFF All Michigan Items 16 Another year at the laudronat? Stop! At University Towers our laundry facilities are Adults Sweatshirts Jackets Sweatsuits T-Shirts Jogging Suits Children T-Shirts Jogging Suits Jackets Jerseys Sweatshirts Miscellaneous Glass sets blankets Hats Flags Thermos bottles .just to mention a few. 1 1