Ninety-five Years of Editorial Freedom j:j; b r Lit an 1~I.i11! Flip-flop Sun in the morning, clouds and a chance of rain in the afternoon. High in the upper 50s. u Vol. XCV, No. 19 Copyright 1984, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Thursday, September 27, 1984 Fifteen Cents Ten Pages Mich. Bell broadens options for long distance By THOMAS HRACH Ann Arbor residents will feel the benefits of deregulated phone service this fall when Michigan Bell begins to give customers direct access to the long distance company of their choice. Beginning Dec. 1 Michigan Bell will allow phone customers to hook up to any long distance company by just dialing "1." Ann Arbor residents can arrange service with one of five long ,distance services-AT&T, MCI, SPRINT, and credit card calling through Sears or American Express. AT&T will continue to service customers who fail to make arrangements with other long distance companies, according to Bob Wroblewski, a representative for See DEREGULATION, Page 7 UAW chiefs endone GM agreement Associated Press McDonald's razed A bulldozer scoops up debris after demolishing the McDonald's restaurant in San Ysidro, Calif. yesterday. The restaurant was the site of a massacre in July where a gunman killed 21 people before being slain by police. The site has been donated by the city and residents and will be turned into a memorial park. South Quad t-shirt tussle ends ST. LOUIS (AP) - United Auto Workers leaders from around the nation yesterday endorsed the union's tentative contract with General Motors Corp., and will send it to 350,000 workers for ratification. The union's 300-member GM Council approved the contract by an over- whelming show of hands at its meeting in St. Louis. DISSENTERS said the pact would not keep GM from sending jobs to non- union shops or to the Orient, where labor is cheap. But UAW President Owen Bieber has said the contract would provide "in- novative" means of preserving jobs. Job security was the union's No. 1 goal in bargaining this year. Meetings will be held beginning soon at 149 UAW locals in 27 states to discuss the corn- ples settlement, said chief, UAW bargainer Donald Ephlan. All votes must be reported by Oct. 14, he said. SHOULD THE pact be ratified, the UAW will go to Ford Motor Co., where it says it wants to match the provisions of the GM accord. Peter Kelly, a member of Bieber's negotiating team, issued a formal minority report yesterday urging UAW members to reject the set- tlement. "Not one job is protected against plant closing, outsourcing or new technology," declared Kelly, a longtime union dissident. Outsourcing is an auto industry term for subcontrac- ting of labor outside a company. A 23-page summary of the contract was released to the public and union members, but the UAW said it would keep the 417-page contract secret until ratification. A COPY OF the agreement, con- tained no explicit guarantees that union jobs won't be farmed out overseas or to non-union shops. However, the three-year pact would provide for wage increases amounting to $8,730 for the average worker over the life of the contract, assuming a con- stant inflation rate of 5 percent. The document contains letters from GM to the union pledging that the com- pany will do what it can to keep jobs at home. It also includes provisions for a $1 billion fund to pay and retrain workers who lose their jobs to subcontracting and automation, and a "golden han- dshake" under which non-retirees can be bought out for $10,000 if they have less than two years' seniority to $55,000 for those with 25 years' seniority. The settlement - far more complex than previous UAW auto contracts - was reached last Friday after the UAW staged six days of spot strikes. that crippled the nation's largest automaker. Sororit y ablaze A fire broke out in the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority house late last night, forcing evacuation of the building. Residents of the house, located at 1322 Hill St., said they smelled something burning after the lights flickered earlier in the evening. The fire department was summoned just after 11 p.m., and firefighters found a fire apparently in the attic toward the rear of the building. At press time last night, firefighters were still working to control the blaze. By SEAN JACKSON The showdown was set for sunset. The members of South Quad's Gomberg House Council strode into the office Building Director, Mary Antieau, at 5 O'clock yesterday. BEHIND THE closed doors of her office they discussed the question of the Gomberg House t- shirt-a t-shirt that had split Antieau and the residen- ts of Gomberg House, an all-male hall. It all began two weeks ago. The House Council opened up the annual house t- shirt design contest to all members of Gomberg House. On Sept. 16 the House Council discussed the designs and then chose the one they liked by unanimous vote. THAT t-shirt chosen depicted a man with a beer. mug in his right hand and a keg underneath his left arm with the words Gomberg . . . Ah" above his According to student Dave Homyak, Resident Director. Dawn Sagorski was present at the vote and recommended that the word "keg" be removed from the keg. That change would make the shirt "fine," he quoted her as saying. During the week following the vote Sagorski took the design to Antieau, a strong supporter of drinking policy reforms. Antieau said the t-shirt "flaunted irresponsible use of alcohol." SAGORSKI returned to Gomberg House and "said we could not do the shirt," explained Dave Litchman, the House's vice president and treasurer. The root of the disagreement, explained Steve Lyn- ch, a Gomberg House resident adviser, "has to deal with the new University alcohol policy." The alcohol policy, approved by the Housing officials, went into effect Jan. 1. It prohibits the use othall fUnds to buy alcohol, and says money cannot be collected at a par- ty, all alcohol must be kept in the room, and referen- See SHIRT, Page 2 I- Proposed Gomberg House t-shirt design head. The back of the shirt featured O label with "Gomberg" on it. a Budweiser Jewish New Year leaves some lone ly By ELIZABETH REISKIN As sunset marked the beginning of Rosh Hashanah, yesterday found many students torn between attending class and celebrating the Jewish New Year with their families. Students said the holiday, to be ob- served through sundown tomorrow, is a time for new beginnings, assessment of the year's progress, and reflection on the year's sins. "IT'S A HAPPY event," said Licia Groner, a freshwoman. "You eat a lot, you go to services to ring a happy new year."~ But other students, especially fresh- persons, said they wished they could be with their families. "It makes me really sad not to be with my family," said Lorin Rosen, an LSA sophomore. "Tonight, eating in the cafeteria I had this pit in the bottom of my stomach, knowing that my whole family is together. But I can't afford to fly home." "THE MAJORITY of Jewish holidays are family-oriented," said Amy Levin, also a freshperson. "one of the things I'm aware of is that I'm really away. Everybody in my family is together, and I'm not there." See HOLIDAY, Page 3 Yale classes move to church New smoking labels approved * WASHINGTON (AP)-The Senate and House gave final congressional approval yesterday to a bill that would replace the general health warning on cigarettes with four alter- nating warnings about the specific dangers associated with smoking. The bill was approved by voice vote in both chambers with little debate. Approval came after adoption of an amendment agreed to by all segments of the tobacco industry, including growers, distributors, warehousers and retailers, and by a coalition of health groups, said Sen. Wendell Ford (D-Ky.) who fashioned the compromise in the Senate. THE LEGISLATION now goes to President Reagan. Marlin Fitzwater, deputy White House press secretary, said, "The administration took no position on the bill throughout the debate and now that it's passed will have to review the 'legislation before Reagan decides whether to sign it." "I'm certain the president will sign the bill because it is a victory for both sides," said Rep. Albert Gore Jr. (D-Tenn.), a chief sponsor of the bill. "The industry has demonstrated a progressive and courageous attitude and the public health TODAY- Caution: I brake for dates THANKS to a couple of new dating services in San Antonio, Texas, when two cars get together on the freeways it's no accident. "Moving Singles" and "Bumper Connections" are two dating services that offer members a special bumper sticker designed to help singles make contact. "This is a really informal way to meet people," said Sheryl Wood, one of two women who groups have achieved their major objective-that of getting better and more up-to-date information to the American public about the extreme health risks associated with smoking." The current warning on cigarettes states: "The surgeon general has determined that cigarette smoking is dangerous to your health." The four new rotating warnings would state, following "Surgeon General's Warning", that: " "Smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema and may complicate pregnancy." * "Quiting smoking now greatly reduces serious risks to your health." " "Smoking by pregnant women may result in fetal injury, premature birth and low birth weight." * "Cigarette smoke contains carbon monoxide." UNDER THE amendment, a section of the bill was removed that listed certain findings of the U.S. surgeon general with regard to smoking dangers. They included such statements as "cigarette smoking is the largest preventable cause of illness and premature death in the United States, and is See CONGRESS, Page 5 NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - About 1,800 clerical and technical workers struck Yale University yesterday in a dispute they say stems from unequal pay for women. The strike disrupted food service at the Ivy League campus and prompted many teachers to hold class in movie theaters and churches. Local 34 of the Federation of Univer- sity Employees, which represents 2,650 workers, went on strike at 5 a.m. after its negotiators rejected the Ivy League's school's latest contract offer. The union has never had a contract with Yale, and has been negotiating with the university off and on since October 1983. UNION officials said the school's of- fer was "totally inadequate," but, Yale President Bartlett Giamatti said it was all the university could afford. No new negotiations were scheduled. The strike is the fifth in the past 16 years at Yale. The last one was in 1977, when maintenance and food workers walked off their jobs for 82 days. The strikers want a three-year con- tract with across-the-board salary in- creases and step raises totaling 38 per- cent. They also want assurances there will be no layoffs because of the con- tract's financial effects. WOMEN represent roughly 82 per- cent of the local's members. "As women, we have always settled for lower pay," said Beverly Esposito, an administrative setretary at the Yale See YALE, Page 5 Associated Press Yale University President A. Bartlett Giamatti walks past a striker on his way to a news conference on the Yale campus yesterday. tities are protected until both parties agree to meet. "I used to be in sales and 80 percent of my time was in the car," Wood said. "The only people I'd meet were business associates. This way, the opportunites to meet people are endless. It doesn't have to be at a happy hour." Be a ski bum THAT first round of tests is coming up and yesterday was the last day for drop/add. But there's still time to get out, and the people from Vail Associates are offering a always a risk that you may never return to school. Many residents of Vail, Kincade said, explain how they ended up there: "I was on my way to someplace else...I stopped in Vail - and here I am 10 years later." Even if you've never been on skis in your life, Kincade says there are plenty of jobs available in food service, day care, or snow shoveling. Achoo ! IF YOU DIDN'T listen to your grandmother when she suggested chicken soup for your head cold, maybe you'll listen to the respected Mayo Clinic. The Mayo Clinic Health chicken soup." Why chicken soup rather than a cup of cof- fee or hot tea? Dr. Joseph Kiely, medical editor of the let- ter, said that in a 1978 study at Mount Sinai Hospital in Miami Beach, Fla., doctors found that chicken soup did a better job than a cup of hot water alone of clearing stuffed- up nasal passages. This nasal clearing not only helps a per- son feel better, but gets rid of a lot of the virus, he said, and that may help the body's natural defenses gain the upper hand. However, there is no proof that this actually speeds recovery. "Chicken soup tastes good when you feel crum- my and don't want to eat anything else," Kelly said, adding I I I i I