A Ninety-five Years of Editorial Freedom Lit1v 3Uf lE ail Shiny Partly sunny, 60 degrees today. Vol. XCV, No. 18 Copyright 1984, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Wednesday, September 26, 1984 Fifteen Cents Ten Pages II n. Dueling candidates Vice President George Bush holds up a fish head after helping filet a trout in the making of gefiltefish at a Chicago market yesterday while Democratic* Soviets criticize Associated Press Vice President candidate Geraldine Ferraro holds up a jersey presented to her at Stevenson High School in Sterling Hights. See story, page 2. \i From AP and UPI MOSCOW - The official Soviet news agency yesterday rejected President Reagan's assurances of a U.S. desire for arms cuts as "absolutely groun- dless," and the top Kremlin leader said the White House has no real desire for better ties with Moscow. "The president tried to present in a somewhat modified form the self-same policy aimed at further aggravating in- ternational tension, achieving military superiority and interfering in the inter- nal affairs of other states," the news agency Tass said. THE TASS report and a speech by President Konstantin Chernenko made clear the Soviets are not retreating on major East-West disputes, despite milder U.S. rhetoric and Reagan's scheduled meeting Friday with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. In a speech to the jubilee meeting of the 50-year-old Soviet Writers Union, Chernenko renewed charges that the Reagan administration is responsible for what the Kremlin calls an increased nuclear war threat. In Washington, Reagan brushed off the Soviet criticism of his speech to the United Nations on Monday, when he assured Moscow that the White House seeks an end to the nuclear arms race. "I never get good reviews from the of- ficial Soviet news agency., Tass," he said. DEPUTY WHITE House press secretary Larry Speakes, appeared to dismiss the critical comments. Speakes said the White House looked forward to "the substantive Soviet response" during diplomatic talks in the coming weeks and months. In his first major speech since last spring, Chernenko said the world could not hide from the nuclear threat or "turn it into a joke," apparently referring to Reagan's joke in August that he had signed legislation outlawing the Soviet Union and was about to begin bombing. I- II MSA p lans action against code peeh Chernenko .. nuclear threat great By MARCY FLEISHER The Michigan Student Assembly last night spoke out against the proposed student code for nonacademic conduct, passing three resolutions to organize student opposition. The assembly actions ranged from calling for University President Harold Shapiro's participation in a public forum on the code to planning a rally before the public comments' session during the Board of Regents' October meeting and a "No Code Show" during the Homecoming football game Oc- tober 13. "WE SHOULD have at least a little bit of say (about the code) with 35,000 tudents and eight regents," MSA President Scott Page told the assembly. Steve Kaplan, MSA vice president, said the assembly's actions will "show the students and the administration Assembly calls for rally, forum, show that MSA is serious in its attempt to work on a code and to protect its rights under the regents bylaw 7.02." Student leaders fear that the regents may -change .the bylaw which gives MSA veto power over the code in order to approve the set of guidelines despite student opposition. "WE MUST ,be sure that the ad- ministration doesn't suspend our veto power," said LSA representative .Ben Long. The assembly voted to organize, fund and promote a public forum on the code and ask Shapiro in a letter to attend. Page said Shapiro is "completely sheltered" from student opinion. "We want Shapiro to prove he is in- formed about the code, concerned, and show his beliefs," Page said. MSA ALSO passed a resolution' asking the administration to give the assembly the right to approve the proposed code and its accompanying judicial system. Under the regents' bylaws, the judicial system could be passed without MSA approval, Henry Johnson, vice president for student services, said last week. MSA has veto power only over a change in conduct rules, not the judicial system, he said. But MSA also asked that students have the right to approve or reject any conduct code, whether it is for students or other members of the University community. In another attempt to unify student opposition to the code, MSA approved plans for a "No Code Show" during the University's Homecoming football game on Oct. 13. The show will include balloons, banners, "No Code" cheers, and a "big surprise" according to Eric Schnaufer, head of MSA's code com- mittee. Law scholar's death called a 'tragic loss' 'S "The grim truth of the present inter- national situition is such that the nuclear threat is, regrettably,,great," Chernenko told the Soviet writers' union, according to a summary carried by Tass. "One cannot hide from it, nor turn it into a joke." CHERNENKO added, "But they in the United States, as all signs indicate, either do not want, or are not yet ready, to understand that there is no sensible alternative to" the principles of mutual respect and equality. Chernenko offered no new openings for resuming the stalled U.S.-Soviet arms negotiations process. The Soviets used the "equaiiiy acau mutual respect" formula to reject U.S.negotiating positions at the suspended talks - including Moscow's firm refusal to resume discussuion while NATO continues deploying new missiles in Western Europe. See SOVIETS, Page 5 Follett's leaves AnnArbor By BOB GORDON Follett's Michigan Book store, one of the oldest commercial pillars on the University campus, Saturday closed their doors for the last time in Ann Ar- bor. Windows have been papered over, and a sign'taped to the front door an- nounces that the store is closed "for good," but officials from Follett's Chicago headquarters could not be reached for comment aobut why the company pulled out of Ann Arbor. IN APRIL, 1983, Follett's terminated their textbook sales leaving only two bookstores in that market. Tom Musser, manager of Ulrich's Books on East University, said he knew of the imminent closing of Follett's but was unaware that it had occurred. Musser added he belives Follett's may have closed because of the stiff com- petition among Ann Arbor bookstores. See FOLLETT'S, Page 5 By LILY ENG Thp death of Diao Xichen, a visiting researcher from China, was called a "tragic loss" yesterday by fellow law' scholars. Diao, a non-degree research scholar in the law school was killed Monday morning after he collided with a University truck while riding a bicycle. "I was very saddened to learn of the tragic loss of a promising young Chinese legal scholar," said Randall Edwards, a Columbia University law professor and a member of the Com- mittee on Legal Education Exchange with China. DIAO, 26, came to the United States in August. He was one of four visiting research scholars from the China ex- change program. The Committee on Legal Education Exchange, which assists in training Chinese lawyers, is the major exchange program between law schools in China and the U.S., ac- cording to Julie Bullitt, associate direc- tor of the program. Diao had just started his first semester at the University. "The fact that he was in the distinguished ex- change program shows that he was a bright and industrious student," said Professor Michael Oksenberg of the University's Center for Chinese Studies. While pedalling his bicycle Monday west across State Street toward East Madison at 11 a.m. Monday, Diao hit the side of the truck with the front wheel of the bike, according to Ann Ar- bor Police Sgt. Arthur Hughes. The in- cident is still under investigation. See DIAO's, Page 2 U '~ 'C~4,4,S Associated Press Mouseketeer march Pickets march outside the gates to Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif. yesterday. More than 1,800 of the Magic Kingdom's 5,000 employees went on strike after a contract offer was rejected. See story, page 2. Diao . . . dies in bike collision TODAY Watt revisited T O GET to-the political nerve of a student body, you have to hit where it hurts - in the concert schedule. That's what administration officials at North Carolina State University in Raleigh found Kenny Rodgers, N.C. State's political spirit, so long dor- mant,came to life. Letters to the editor poured in to the student newspaper, the Technician, as well as to the athletic office. Talk of censorship rocked the campus and the administration was forced to negotiate with the student government. The two groups have agreed that future rock concerts must be cleared through a four- student committee, which will give the OK for concerts largely attended by students. Included in the plan is a clause that says students have first rights to buy concert tinh~tc Mi-rining the first onnert of the fall is the town". Where is Mr. Mutual of Omaha, Marlin Perkins, when you need him? An ad circulated nationally by Ramada suggest that at other guest houses, it's hard to find one's room as it is to find Omaha." Gretchen Reeder, the chamber's manager of communications, wrote to Ramada's advertising director that "Omaha is not remote. It is not a 'hick' town." Reeder noted that the bottom line of the ad urged callers to dial Ramada for in- formation. The number includes an 800 prefix. "Do you know where you call when you dial that 800 number?" Reeder asked. "Omaha!" We are a telecommunications- burst into tears. In between sobs she explained that she had only done it to pay doctor bills for her son. That didn't stop her from posing again recently, this time without even shedding a tear. Why pose again after all these years, a meteoric rise to become one of dopey television's biggest stars? What do you think? $$$$$. I