Gunning for med school grades See Weekend Magazine Ninetyfour Years 1 11 r~ Malaise Of II Morning snow showers. Cloudy Editria Fredomand windy. High near 40. Vol. XCIV-No. 149 Copyright 1984, The Michigan D aily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Friday, April 6, 1984 Fifteen Cents Ten Pages -- Council approves homeless. shelter. funding By ERIC MATTSON After .months of heated debate, the Ann Arbor City Council last night unanimously approved a resolution to make a $25,000 down payment on a shelter for the city's homeless, Council, which has already pledged to Sfund $69,000 of the project, approved the motion after a 90-minute public hearing where 14 speakers urged Council to make the down payment, and six people voiced their opposition. PAUL BROWN, president of the non- profit group which Council authorized to find a shelter site, said the former church located at 420 W. Huron St. will be an excellent shelter because it will require little renovation and fits the ! zoning requirements. But some people speaking on the behalf of Lurie Terrace, a senior citizens home located about half a block from the site, said they were concerned about the safety of the home's residents and other families in the neighborhood. Peggy Hinchey, director of the Senior Citizens' Guild, referred to the present shelter at St. Andrew's Church by saying "I have documented reports that it hasn't been all that nice." Other members of the audience refuted that claim by saying there has been little or no trouble with the guests at the current shelter. The Shelter Association, the non-profit group in charge of the shelter, will close the deal for the proposed site on April 10. New code forum plays same old tune By CLAUDIA GREEN Nearly all the students who spoke last night at a University-sponsored hearing on the proposed student code of non- academic conduct said they objected to all or some parts of the code. Twenty-two of 24 students who spoke said they would like to see some revisions in the code or have it thrown out altogether. The other two students said that they would like to see a code of conduct for student behavior outside the classroom. The proposed codewould allow the University to punish students who commit offenses such as arson, sexual harassment, vandalism, or theft - punishment which the University currently leaves to civil authorities. THE UNIQUELY STRUCTURED hearing was set by the University Council, a committee which drafted the first copy of the proposed code, to see if opposition to the code was the opinion of a vocal minority, or shared by a large number of students. To try and gain a representative sample of students on campus, the council sent out invitations to 500 ran- domly selected students asking them to attend the hearing. The hearing was also open to the public. But despite the invitations, only about 125 people turned out for the forum, leading some at the meeting to say the forum still didn't bring out a represen- tative sampling of student opinion. "I HEARD THAT there were 500 in- vited," said University Regent Thomas Roach (D-Saline), who attended the hearing. "Not everybody came. Who tends to come? The people who See NEW, Page 7 Officials delay vote on code un The University regents will not vote on the proposed code of non-academic conduct until students return to campus in the fall, officials announced yester- day. "There simply is not sufficient time to receive and assess student and faculty input in time to act at the April regents meeting. The regents have already indicated they would not act on til fall term the issue when the students are away from the campus, said Richard Ken- nedy, University Vice President for State Relations, in a statement released to the press. BECAUSE THE April meeting is the last time the regents will gather before school ends, Kennedy said the earliest the issue would be discussed is Septem- See OFFICIALS, Page 2 Daily Photo by TOD WOOLF LSA freshman Charles La Via speaks against the proposed student code of non-academic conduct at the University Council hearing last night at Rackham Hall auditorium. PSN member to run for regent By DAVID VANKER David Miklethun would like you to think of him as something more than a "student activist." Miklethun, who helped found Ann Arbor's chapter of the Progressive Student Network in the summer of 1982, yesterday announced he is running for a seat on the University's Board of Regents in the November election. MIKLETHUN, an LSA senior who is not enrolled this term, said if he is elected he will try to bridge the communication gap between the regents and the - public. "Two or three board meetings ago I realized the regents weren't listening to what people were saying," Miklethun said. "It wasn't that they didn't want to hear, but there were different languages being spoken.' Miklethun advocates guidelines to govern military research, abolition of the proposed student code of non-academic conduct, the establishment of a peace studies program on campus, and a greater financial commitment by the University to increase minority enrollment. "IT'S NOT JUST the students that I'm running for," Miklethun said, "There's a number of segments that aren't cluded." represented - faculty and staff in- The terms of regents Gerald Dunn (D-Garden City), and Robert Nederlander (D-Detroit) expire on Dec. 31, and neither has announced whether he will seek reelection. In order to win the Democratic nomination, Miklethun would have to earn the support of a majority of the delegates at the state caucus. "THE REAL BLOCK to me getting in is running against the Democratic establishment," Miklethun See MIKLETHUN, Page 7 1 Mi kes ai n ... announces campaign Poe portrait looks out on Liberty St. Senate approves $ 61 million, in Salvado ran aid By KIMBERLY TAYLOR On a particularly warm afternoon in February, Richard Wolk stood on a scaffolding outside of David's Books and began to paint the outlines of a six- foot portrait of Edgar Allen Poe. As Wolk applied the brush to Poe's mouth, his friend Matt Rubiner intoned, "And quoth the raven nevermore," to commemorate the unveiling of the master of the macabre. THE POE painting will be the first of four portraits which will replace the abstract mural on the corner of State and Liberty streets. Before he settled on Poe, candidates for the portraits ranged from William Shakespeare and Ernest Hemingway to Oscar Wilde and Woody Allen. But Wolk said he decided writers like Poe, with less recognizable faces, might prompt people to step into the used bookstore and ask for the name, and maybe a book, too. Although he isn't saying who the other three artists will be, Shakespeare won't be one of them because Wolk will not paint from drawings or pain- tings of historical figures. "AMONG THE constraints I set is that I will only work from photographs. I don't want to do interpretations of in- terpretations," says Wolk, who graduated from the University last year with an English degree. One of the problems he faces in painting is the sheer size of the wall. The working area is about 40 feet long by 13 feet high, and as he is within inches of the surface when he paints, he often has to climb down the scaffolding to check the proportions from across the street. Winter weather also puts constraints on the work because the outside tem- 'perature must be 50 degrees or warmer for the latex house paints to take.. WOLK FIRST approached the owners of David's Books in January about doing the mural, and said that if the weather cooperates he should finish by the end of April. The Poe portrait is not Wolk's first try at mural painting in Ann Arbor. Last winter he united in paint such diverse personalities as Vincent Van Gogh and Ringo Starr in a mural out- side of Wherehouse Records on South University. "I want you to imagine what might happen if Ringo and Vincent Van Gogh bumped into each other," Wolk says. "What would they have to say? Maybe Van Gogh would tell Ringo he liked his drumming on 'Golden Slumbers.' "What if Lenny Bruce bumped into Jesus in line at the bank of something," Wolk asks, "They might become very close friends." Wolk said his portrait is prompting many people to ask about the identity of the writer, like Pratima Patel, a recep- tionist in the dentist's office across the street who said, "I like it. Is it Ein- stein?" WASHINGTON (AP) - The Republican- controlled Senate approved $61.7 million in emergency military aid for El Salvador and $21 million to assist anti- leftist guerrillas in Nicaragua yester- day after beating back a week-long series of Democratic attacks on President Reagan's Central American policies. THE MEASURE now goes to the Democrat-controlled House, which plans to take a long weekend and return next Tuesday, leaving only three days to try to complete congressional action on the bill before a 10-day Easter recess that begins April 13. In one of its last actions before the final vote, the Senate rejected 50-44 an amendment by Sen. James Sasser, (D- Tenn.), that would have required congressional action before temporary U.S. military installations in Honduras could be made permanent. The amen- dment would also have barred use of the installations for anything but training exercises. Four Republicans joined 40 Democrats in supporting Sasser's amendment. Sasser said several GOP senators "indicated they wanted to vote for my amendment or were seriously considering it and changed their minds at the last minute." "THERE WERE, I judge, a number of phone calls going back and forth," Sasser said. The Senate also rejected amendme- nts to delete or trim the $21 million for the anti-Nicaragua rebels and to cut the amount for El Salvador or tie it up with 'restrictions.. The mainly Democratic supporters of the amendments charged that Reagan is trigger-happy and leading-the United States closer to war in Central America. "The Senate has voted for wider war in El Salvador, secret war in Nicaragua and the brink of war in Honduras," Sen. Edward Kennedy, (D-Mass.), said in a closing speech. Administration supporters said the amendments would make it more dif- ficult to stem a rising communist tide in a region only a few hundred miles from the United States border. "We are niggling and nitpicking and nipping at the heels of anything that would seem to offer serious resistance to the expansion of Soviet power in our own hemisphere," said Sen. John East (R-N.C.). Richard Wolk, an Ann Arbor artist, portrait of Edgar Allen Poe, outside Liberty and State Streets. TODAY- Bozo bows out THE CLOWN with the wild red hairdo and baggy costume went before his boisterous television audience in Chicago for the last time Wednesday as station executives began hunting for the proper man to fill Bozo's WGN did not announce that Bell was taping his final show, the children in line outside the studio knew they were get- ting their last look at the Bozo they've come to know. "I'm sad Bozo is leaving, I wish he'd stay because he's so funny,' said nine-year-old Page Schrieffer of suburban Northbrook. "His hair is the funniest." The final program taped Wed- nesday will be broadcast April 17, but shows starring Bell will continue to appear until the end of the summer. 1 Nn m Aro hf The Daily almanac O N THIS DATE in 1974 representatives of the LSA Student Government (LSA-SG) announced plans to "grade the faculty" by distributing evaluation forms around campus. Faculty members would receive a grade for each course they taught and a cumulative grade point average. LSA-SG President Jonathon Klein said copies of the evaluation results would be sent to the professors' parents to give faculty members a "taste of their own medicine." Also on this date in histnruv " 1967 - Director of the University's Center for Research in Reproductive Biology Dr. S.J. Behrman announced at a conference that 29 women had been impregnated by male sperm frozen for up to two-and-a-half years. But Behrman warned that "The day when we can preserve the sperm of an Einstein'or Beethoven for reproduction in future cen- turies is still a long way off." On the inCi~tl q I i i