Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, April 12, 1984 RSG ends election controversy By JOHN ARNTZ After almost three months of com- plaints, delays, and bickering, the Rackham Student Government last night finally elected a president. At their weekly meeting last night RSG members voted to disqualify president-elect Kodi Abili because of charges that he was campaigning too close to a voting site during the March 29 and 30 elections. INSTEAD, his opponent, Angela Gan- tner, was appoifited president. "Mr. Abili is disbarred from the election and Angela Gantner is the new president," said outgoing RSG president Rich I want to inform the election committee that I am going to take it to court.' - Kodi Abili, former RSG President-elect worker tried to persuade him to vote for Gantner. Lee said that althoughrthe worker tried to encourage him to read Gantner's platform, the incident didn't influence his vote. The RSG council decided last night to disregard that incident because it didn't influence the outcome of the vote. But ballots for the March election have not been counted yet and won't be for at least another year, added Fontenot. Luker last night. An angry Abili vowed to sue the RSG council for running elections unfairly and discrediting his reputation. "I want to inform the election committee that I am going to take it to court," said Abili, a graduate student in the education school. "I know there is a conspiracy against me," he told members. RSG HAS held two elections this year, both of which have been blocked by charges that the candidates did not follow election procedures. During the first election in February, Gantner, a graduate student in English, charged that Abili distributed mail-in ballots after polling booths closed. Failure to agree on whether Abili violated RSG's bylaws forced the group to schedule another election in March. But that second attempt was marred by several reports that Abili was cam- paigning too close to an election booth in the lobby of the LSA Building. . ABILI SAYS the group is intentionally trying to keep him from being elected and damaging his reputation. Dwight Fontenot, a member of RSG's election committee, however, says the group has given Abili a fair chance. "We bent over backwards to allow him to represent his case, but he has not acknowledged (our efforts) at all," Fontenot said. LAST FRIDAY, Graduate student Jason Lee testified that an election Judge grants light penalty to farmowners THE DAILY CLASSIFIEDS ARE A GREAT WAY TO GET FAST RESULTS CALL 764-0557 (Continued from Page 1) one-third of the fine. "I respect the court," said John Kozminski before Joiner issued the sen- tence, "but I feel in my heart ... that I'm innocent of the charge that I have been found guilty of." The two farmhands, Louis Molitoris, 59, and Robert Fulmer, 57, will each receive $6,190.80 to compensate them for lost wages since the men were removed from the farm at 4768 Peckins Rd. last August by State Social Service Department workers. Joiner said the fine must be paid within six months. DEFENSE Attorney Ivan Barris said he was "pleasantly surprised" by the lighter sentence. Barris who represen- ted Ike Kozminski, said he expected Joiner to issue at least a one-year prison sentence. But John Kozminski's attorney Thomas Stringer said he was in a "state of shock" that his client received the same sentence as the Kozminskis. "It seemed to me the judge changed his mind right there and decided to fine (John)," said Stringer who was surrounded by TV cameras and repor- ters yesterday outside the Federal Building. All three Kosminskis also are "being sued for $13.9 million in a civil suit filed by relatives of the two farmhands to recover back wages for the more than 10 years they worked on the farm. During the two-and-a-half week trial earlier this year witnesses testified that the men were held on the farm against their will, without pay, and forced to live under unsanitary conditions. JUDAIC STUDIES PROGRAM Meeting of Concentrators and Students Considering a Concentration in Judaic Studies Information on Courses and Requirements Discussion of Thesis Topics by Graduating Seniors Playboy begins campus hunt Thursday, April 12 3050 Frieze 4 p.m. (Continued from Page 1) Marcene Root, a Women's Studies teaching assistant who protested the recent Marilyn Monroe Look-Alike Con- test. "The magazine is used as a forum for exposing women as a plaything. A woman's prime value (as portrayed in Playboy), is what she can provide for men's pleasure," she said. SOCIOLOGY Teaching Assistant Nicki Beisel, who is teaching a class this summer on gender roles and sexuality, said the Playboy image rein- forces the imbalance of power between the sexes.s Just because Playgirl Magazine did a similar feature on men in the Big Ten in 1982, said Beisel, does not mean women are represented as their equals. "Men have more power; males are not raped by females," Biesel said. "Playboy is constantly reinforcing the physical threat of rape. "Playboy is explicitly trying to degrade women. Men get off on it. It's a power trip," she said. The criticism barely fazes Chan. "If I had a daughter...and she became a cen- terfold, I'd be proud," he said. "I would hope they would do a good job of it like Playboy...when we use the girl, we use her in good taste: A center- fold is a piece of artwork," he said. JOSTEN' S GOLD RING mSALE ter, IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports Murderer claims 360 killings DALLAS - Convicted murderer Henry Lucas, already a suspect in 103 slayings nationwide, now claims he has shot, burned, beaten or even "crucified" about 360 people. But authorities said yesterday they may never determine the exact number of his victims. "I don't think the claims will ever be confirmed," Monroe police Sgt. Danny Miller said. "There's a strong possibility they - Lucas and sometime companion Ottis Toole - may have committed them, but we're not able to say 'Yeah, he did it,' and close the book." In a videotaped statement made Feb. 16 and played Tuesday in the San Angelo courtroom where he is on trial for capital murder in the 1979 slaying of an unidentified hitchhiker, Lucas told investigators he believes he has killed 360 people. "I'd estimate 60 in Texas but I know there's a lot more," he said in the interview. "I killed them most every way but poison. . . . As far as I know, there's no way I haven't killed them," he said. He calmly told on the tape how he had shot, stabbed, burned, beat, strangled, hung and "crucified" his victims, and that some had been "filleted like fish." Poland criticizes U.S. sanctions WARSAW, Poland - The Communist government issued a "white book" yesterday that renews criticism of U.S. sanctions against Poland and says strained relations with Washington are not expected to improve soon. The 270-page book published by the semi-official news agency Interpress said Western economic sanctions imposed in response to martial law have cost Poland $12.5 billion. Among the sanctions is a freeze on credits, which the Polish government claims blocks the import of products needed by its export industries. Those industries generate much of Poland's hard currency earnings. The white book, printed in an edition of 10,000 copies, sold for the equivalent of $1.60. "There are no elements to indicate that improvement in U.S.-Polish relations can be realistically expected within a short period of time," the book said. The white book said the sanctions cut Poland's national income by $2.5 billion in 1981-83, but said that $7.1 billion of the damages accrued in 1981, before the sanctions were imposed. House approves tax increase WASHINGTON - The House yesterday approved the key element of the government's deficit-reduction effort - a $49 billion tax increase affecting liquor, cigarettes, telephones and businesses. The bill was passed 318-97, with 223 Democrats and 95 Republicans supporting it and 31 Democrats and 66 Republicans voting no. Although it was written by the Democratic-controlled Ways and Means Committee, it was backed by Republicans, in great part because it does not tamper with president Reagan's across-the-board tax cut for individuals: The Reagan administration supports the tax increase, provided it is followed by legislation to make major cuts in federal spending. House Speaker Thomas O'Neill hailed the bill as a fair one that "closes tax loopholes without hurting the average family. It rejects Reagan's 'supply- side' economics, puts the government on the firm footing of pay-as-you-go, and cuts the Reagan deficit," said O'Neill, (D-Mass.). Indian, and Soviets conclude joint nine-day space mission MOSCOW - India's first man in space and two Soviet cosmonauts landed their spaceship yesterday on a snowy field in Soviet central Asia, ending a nine-day mission that included yoga exercises to test the effects of weightlessness. The landing was not televised live. But evening news showed film, shot from a helicopter, of the Soyuz T-10 capsule slowed by a huge red-and-white parachute as it descended toward the ground yesterday aftrnoon. Soyuz T-10 took the space travelers to a rendezvous with three Soviet cosmonauts aboard the Salyut 7 space station. On Feb. 8, Soyuz T-10 had taken those three Soviets into orbit to be transferred to Salyut 7. Tass, the official Soviet news agency, said the space travelers who returned yesterday - Rakesh Sharma, of India; and the two Soviets, Yuri Malyshev and Gennadi Strekalovn - were fit and feeling well. Sharma, smiling broadly, said, "I would like to work in space, but live on Earth." The evening news showed him and his Soviet colleagues after they were out of the spacecraft. The cosmonauts, wearing garlands of red and white carnations, talked to space officials and Soviet reporters. Chernenko rises to presidency MOSCOW - A triumphant Konstantin Chernenko became the Soviet Union's 10th president yesterday, giving him the top three leadership posts and a stature equal that of his two predecessors. Chernenko, 72, has been Communist Party secretary general, the most powerful position in the Soviet Union, since after the Feb. 9 death of leader Yuri Andropov. He also took over as chairman of the Defense Council. He smiled broadly, waved and clasped his hands over his head when the joint session of the 1,500-member Parliament voted to also make him president. "Ircertainly realize the great responsibility of the duties and powers connected with my position," he said in a brief acceptance speech. "We now, more than ever, need to work to improve the economy and the living conditions of the Soviet people." Looking tanned and fit, he pledged to pursue a foreign policy of "constant activity, firmness, consistency in the search for ways to sensible accords. 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