Student leaders spark code opposition By ERIC MATTSON Second in a series When administrators proposed a student code 6f nonacademic conduct, for the first time in several years they provided students with an issue that is almost entirely their own. It doesn't carry the moral and ethical questions which drove the debate several years ago over the University's financial interests in South Africa, but which also were far-removed from the average students' interests. THE CODE also isn't an issue, like past Sbudget cuts in large schools,, which many students could let others fight for them. Of all the major campus issues in the last few years, the code seems to be most relevant students, the most directly pointed at them, and the most forced upon them. Yet the vast majority of students have responded to it with little more than a yawn. While some organized protests did get off the ground last year,-there has been almost no ,campus-wide attention to the issue so far this year. Even last year, the protests were often sporadic and poorly attended. PLAGUED by an apathetic student body and faced with an administration which threatens to bypass them completely, these leaders have succeeded only in stalling passage of the code while hoping for an organized student respon- se. "We're not giving up, but it's an uphill bat- tle," said MSA Vice President Steve Kaplan. And compared to code opposition, support for it has been almost non-existent. If the code has many supporters among students, they have yet to speak up in public. AS STUDENTS settle in this fall, however, the core of last year's opposition to the code, with a few new faces, is beginning another at- tempt to organize a unified student protest. Three groups are at the head of this op- position: the Michigan Student Assembly; No Code, a group assembled last year specifically to fight the conduct code; and Students Active to Stop the Code, a small group which was for- med this term and hopes to expand quickly. Although their tactics and approach will probably be different, all three groups agree that the present draft of the code is unaccep- table. NO CODE and SASC advocate outright rejec- tion of any code or at least tearing up the present draft and starting from scratch. Last year, MSA rejected the present code in a non-binding vote, but stopped short of saying the University shouldn't have some sort of code to govern student behavior outside the classroom. The biggest difference between the groups, however, is that MSA has a direct say in whether the code is adopted, while the other groups have to rely on protests and activism to gain input. UNDER CURRENT University bylaws, MSA has to approve the code before it can be adop- ted. Although leaders of all three groups are unified in their opposition to the code, getting them to agree on its worst aspects is nearly im- possible. MSA president Scott Page said the worst part is that administrators can amend any part of the code without approval from MSA or any other representative student body. HE ALSO said administrators have failed to even demonstrate a need for a code. "Do you see crime and pestilence? I don't. I see a reasonable amount of partying and fun- making," he said. "I don't see a University in turmoil. I don't see things out of control." Lee Winkleman, an LSA senior who formed SASC, said "the judicial system is perhaps the single most horrible part of the code." HE SAID because the proposed judicial system is designed to process students faster and with less red tape than a real court, there are bound to be violations of students' rights of due process. Eric Schnauffer, a first-year law student and head of No Code, said the system's rules of evidence, which are lower than those in a real court, ' also violate students rights. See STUDENT, Page 2 Page ... opposes proposed code Of 1 11 Sunny with a high around 80. Editorial Freedom r Vol. XCV No. 13 Copyright 1984, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Thursday, September 20, 1984 1 et ih ae Female! SAT sco NEW YORK(AP)-Women and future teachers were among the biggest gainers as average scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test registered their largest rise in two decades last year, The College Board announced yesterday. Average math SATs were up three points to 471 in 1983-84, while average scores on the verbal section of the exam rose a more modest one point from the previous year to 426. The SAT exam is scored on a scale of 200 to 800, with 800 a perfect score. Nearly a million college-bound high school seniors take the SAT each year. VERBAL SCORE averages were up in 32 states, fell in eight, and were unchanged from 1982-83 in 10 states. Math scores rose in 37 states, declined in 11 and were unchanged in two, the board reported. President Reagan hailed the increase at a political rally in Waterbury, Conn., but said, "It's not enough. We've got td do better." - "Significantly, the increase in this year's math average can be attributed largely to women, whose scores rose four points over 1983, while men's rose by two," said College Board president George Hanford at a news conference. lead in 'e rise i Women still trailed men, however, with males averaging 495 in math, compared with 449 by women. IOWA LED the nation with average math scores of 570 and verbal scores of 519-but only 3 percent of that state's high school graduates took the test. Particularly encouraging in this year's results, said -Han- ford, was that seniors expressing an interest in majoring in education improved their math performance by seven points to 425, and by four points to 398 in the verbal section. Many educators have voiced concern lately over the steadily declining caliber of new teachers. Hanford said the nationwide gains meant that "instruction in the schools has been improving and high school students are giving greater attention to academic study." But he ad- ded there's a long way to go before schools make up the losses in test performance over the last 20 years. The erosion in average SAT scores has been cited as proof that public education has deteriorated. Hanford insisted, however, that "SAT scores do not paint a complete picture of the state of American education." Doily Photo by DOUG McMAHON Happy trails Laura ccaro, daughter of Democratic vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro meets with Ann Arbor attorney George Sallade during the opening of the Mondale/Ferraro campaign headquarters on State Street. Zaccaro was in town yesterday as part of a campaign tour through Michigan that will take her to the Michigan State University campus today. o ot urges crac kown on violence In home Man arrested at Mon SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A man with a knife. concealed under his pant leg was arrested yesterday as he tried to approach Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale at a noon rally, the Secret Service said. Rich McDrew, agent in charge of the San Francisco office of the Secret Ser- vice, said the man was spotted at the start of the rally in Justin Herman Plaza by agents and police officers who noticed he was "kind of a shouter" and was trying to work his way to the front of the line to get close to Mondale. HE WAS identified as Paul Fuentes, 28, of San Francisco. . Fuentes faces arraignment today on charges of possessing a concealed weapon and resisting arrest. San Francisco police spokesman Mike Hennessey said Fuentes never posed "an. immediate threat" to Mon- dale. McDrew said the officers approached Fuentes to ask him a question "to get a feel for what he was doing." When he didn't respond, they decided to keep a closer eye on him, McDrew said. FINALLY, as Fuentes approached the candidate, the man "pulled up his pant leg and a police officer and agent noticed a strap around his leg ... It tur- ned out to be a holster with a knife in it," McDrew said. Meanwhile, in Hamilton Township, N.J., police arrested a man along, President Reagan's motorcade route after they received reports of a gunman on the Atlantic City expressway, but all they found on the man was a camera. "It was not a gun. The guy had a camera and apparently he has been dale rally charged with a local violation," Secret Service spokesman Mike Tarr said. John Williamson, 28, of Hamilton- Township, has been charged with inter- fering with a governmental function, eluding police, hindering apprehension, and possessing an open alcoholic beverage container in a motor vehicle, according to Lt. Frank Lentz. Lentz said Williamson was standing on the expressway, which is off limits to pedestrians, waiting to photograph Reagan when the motorcade passed by. A motorist noticed Williamson and reportel to a state trooper that he saw someone walking on the highway and thought he had a gun. Hamilton police descended on the area and chased Williamson, who fled into a nearby wooded area. WASHINGTON (AP) - A Justice Department task force urged law enforcement officials Tuesday to lift the "veil of secrecy" surrounding family violence and crack down on spouse beating, child abuse and mistreatment of the elderly. "The law's protection should not stop at the family's front *door," said the report of the Attorney General's Task Force on Family Violence. "Violence is a crime, whether it's com- mitted inside the home or on the street, whether it's com- mitted by a loved one or a stranger." Attorney General William Smith, who established the task force, promised to implement the recommendations of the nine-member panel of law enforcement officials, psychologists and family experts, and to coordinate the effort with the Health and Human Services Department. At a news conference, the task force chairman, Detroit Police chief William Hart, noted that "a victim of family violence is no less a victim than one set upon by trangers." "The legal response to family violence must be guided primarily by the nature of the abusive act, not the relation- ship between victim and abuser," he said in presenting the report. The report, apparently anticipating criticism for en- couraging police and prosecutors to intervene in what it called "traditional family matters" said the government has a responsibility to act in obvious cases of violence. TODAY- The protest that never was SARM NOW!" was the cry of a protesting student vesterdav on North Campus, "Child abuse, spouse abuse and the abuse of the elderly, incest, and child molestation are not matters of personal belief or how to deal with children or keep order in the house," the report said. "They are crimies. They are prohibited." Assistant Attorney General Lois Haight Herrington, who heads the deaprtment's justice assistance division, noted in an interview that the report called for aggressive but fair in- vestigations of family violence. The report recommended that: " People charged with violent family crimes be arrested just as if there was no relationship between the victim and the alleged attacker. " When no arrest is warranted, the investigating officer file a report on an incident. " Prosecutors cease requiring alleged victims to sign a formal complaint against a close relative to initiate prosecution. " Victimized children be handled with greater sensitivity by prosecutors and judges. The panel proposed videotaping the testimony of children so they do not have to confront their alleged attacker in a courtroom. " Judges jail violent abusers who inflict serious injury. When appropriate, the panel said, judges should have the op- tion of imposing weekend or evening jail sentences to preser- ve a family's financial stability. Computer center to replace UGLL *study lounge By CARRIE LEVINE Within the next week, Michigan Ter- minal System (MTS) computers will begin to take the place of lounge chairs and tables that occupy the un- dergraduate library's fourth floor lounge. And by the end of the year, the lounge will house computer terminals, not pop machines and candy dispen- sers. "We feel that the need for a computer facility for general student use was so great that we could trade off the lounge for (a computer center)," said David Norden, UGLi director. "THE UNIVERSITY spent millions of dollars renovating the Union with all the new food places so we don't need the food there anymore," Norden said. According to Norden, trading the lounge for a computer center was a mutual decision between the computer center, the engineering school, and the UGLi. The computer center needed more space for their MTS terminals, the engineering school needed to expand their existing facilities for engineering students, and the UGLi wanted to make the best use of the available space, Norden said. "It was a once in a lifetime occurren- ce that everyone's plans coincided and See COMPUTER, Page 3 Tuesday members of the Progressive Student Network, a campus activist organization, were able to muster a respectable 25 students to protest. Yesterday, however, it just looked like they bit off more than they could chew. What's in a name? JAMES WILLIAMS didn't know what he was getting into when he promised his wife Cosandra that she could meivoleshiwhalkinibeoachellecaundeuesheaalalusondrily nneyeanettiemyranaekuesaundrilynnezekeirahelnbaunet radeuonneyaliondalaterneshcaevontaepreonkeinneseelav iavelyadawnefriendsettajessicannelssciajoyvaelloyhdiett eyvettesparklerescsaundrieaquenllaekalilyaeveashawne oarliaevaekizzrsshijiranewandalesciannerenayitheliapre ciousnecessvenneaccloevliatyronevekacarrioneheirietta escecleonpatrickrutheliachlendrameokyanionealoisealoy nnaasillaymeciacusbillaparissalondonveschvenequamon ecaalexetiozetiaquiorenghiafranchephosharomeshounme havauhouiteihaciavcennshankchraifriennalaocratrionne McMuseum B ILLIONS OF BURGERS later, the original McDonald's restaurant will become a, one might call it McMuseum, in tribute to the company's history, McDonald's Corp. of- ficials say. "There are only about 15 McDonald's left in terms of original style," spokesman Steve Leroy said Tuesday. "We thought we might restore this one to reflect the role McDonald's played in all of our families' histories." The iate Ray Kroc opened the red-and-white tiled restaurant on April 15, 1955, and started selling where an Air Force F-15 fighter bomber was on display. Few were listening, I I , I