The Michigan Daily - Sunday, September 30, 1984 -Page 3 Students hit the road in race or prize By GREGORY HUTTON It could have been a scene from a detective drama. The car careened past corners and squealed through turns as if a villain in another vehicle were chasing it. The race was on. AND THAT'S exactly what it was - a race. Over 200 students turned out to make their way through the race course of the National Collegiate Driving Champion- ships at Crisler Arena's parking lot yesterday. The event, free to students, challenges contestants to drive a Dodge Daytona sports car through a road rally type course marked with pylons. The goal: to qualify for the national championships which will be in Daytona, Fla. this February. CHRIS MARVEL, won the two-day event by completing the course in 16.1 seconds and will move on to Florida next year, where the national winners get a chance to win $5,000 in scholar- ships and the free use of a Dodge Daytona for a year. Most students, however, were content just to make it through the course. 'I almost hit one of the (officials) at the start of the course. I was surprised that they let me get as far as I did.' - Mike Perlow Student racer Some managed to run crushing the rubber outlined the track. off the course, pylons which "I almost hit one of the (officials) at the start of the course," said Mike Perlow. "I was surprised that they let me get as far as I did," he said. MOST students said they showed up to try their hand at racing because it was an unusual opportunity. "If you're given a chance to drive a nice car as fast as you want around a track, what would you do?" said Mike Kean. "I've never done anything like this before," said Dan Cheng. "It was great." Some passersby, however, were less enthusiastic. "This is the most stupid thing I've ever seen," said one student. But in addition to being fun, the championships are beneficial because they teach good driving skills, said Russ Marlow, an event coordinator. Most participants watch video tapes about drunk driving and safe driving habits while they are registering to compete, he explained. Daily Photo by MATT PETRIE. A contestant in the National Collegiate Driving Championships weaves through the course at the Crisler Arena yester- day. The winner, Chris Marvel, cruised the track in 16.1 seconds. Gromyko unimp: WASHINGTON (AP)-President ficial said there had been an extensive Reagan said yesterday that he assured discussion of arms-control issues with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko - suggesting it was a turning Gromyko the Soviet Union could get "a point because Moscow had been un- fair deal" in negotiations with willing to discuss the subject following Washington, but Gromyko left a the Soviet walkout from the Geneva ressed by talks meeting with Secretary of State George Shultz giving no public hint whether *oscow was interested. "Nothing more," were Gromyko's only words when asked if anything had been achieved during the session at the State Department.. It was not clear whether he was referring to a lack of results or to a desire not to answer any questions. BUT A SENIOR State Department of- -HAPPI negotiations last year. Shultz would only say after the two- hour, 15-minute meeting that they held "substantive discussions" and had agreed to "keep in touch. . . through diplomatic channels." He hinted at other agreements but did not disclose them. Shultz and Gromyko also had con- ferred for about three hours in New York on Wednesday. N-G x Sunday UAC's Hitchcock Film Festival continues at the Michigan Theatre today beginning at 11 a.m. with The Lady Vanishes. The afternoon unwinds with Frenzy at 1 p.m., Spellbound at 5 p.m., The Birds at 7 pm., and Vertigo at 9 p.m. Films Cinema II - It HappenedOne Night, 7 p.m., Breakfast at Tiffany's, 9 p.m., Angell Hall, Aud. A. Cinema Guild-Les Miserables, 7 & 9:15 p.m., Lorch Hall. AAFC - Teorema, 7 p.m., Greaser's Palace, 8:45 p.m., MLB 4. U-Club - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, dinner theatre, 7 p.m. Performances School of Music - American Trio & guest artist Donald McInnes, 4 p.m., Rackham Aud. REAGAN, IN HIS first public report on his 31/2 hours of talks with Gromyko on Friday, said in his weekly radio ad- dress that those discussions were "useful" and there was no effort to "paper over" differences.He said he was frank in the possibilities for im- proved superpower relations. "Now the Soviets will return home to ponder our exchanges," Reagan said. "And while they know they will not secure any advantages from in- flexibility, they will get a fair deal if they seek the path of negotiations and peace.", . Following his meeting with Reagan, Gromyko issued a statement that in- im a m-E NEW YORK (AP) - It's partly how the candidates make you feel. It's par- tly what Tom Brokaw or Dan Rather or Peter Jennings talks about. And it's partly how you see through your political "eyeglasses." Things like that, say experts in voter psychology, "will help guide millions of voters Nov. 6 when they cast ballots in the presidential election. STUDIES OF voter psychology af- firm that the images projected by can- didates are vital: Votes can depend on things like how candidates make people feel and what kind of people they are judged to be. But research also suggests that voters be influenced, consciously or otherwise, by the issues emphasized by television newsAnd voters tend to view campaign events through the filter of their politcal party leanings. The factors differ in strength from voter to voter, and the full story on them is not yet known. IN GENERAL, about 70 to 85 percent of presidential votes follow party lines. But that is not just loyalty, according to Warren Miller, principal investigator of the National Election Studies at the University of Michigan. Instead, party identification reflects a sort of internal filter that affects a voter's reaction to candidates, gover- nmental performance and other elements of the political world, he said. Few people simply vote for their par- ty's candidate no matter what, but many voters' judgements are "very much shaped by their stable, pre- existing sense, 'I am a Democrat, I am a Republican,' " he said. dicated he was not impressed with what he heard. He said it was apparent that Washington was not willing "to take a realistic stand on the substance of the acute problems of war and peace." Despite his conversations with Reagan, Gromyko said he could not "draw a conclusion about practical positive changes in the foreign-policy course of the U.S. administration." He called again for actions, not words. Without a change in U.S. policy, Gromyko asserted, "a turn for the bet- ter is impossible either in Soviet-U.S. relations or in the international situation." dia shape voter's will VOTERS SEEM to lean more on their assessment of- a political party's per- formance than on how a national elec- tion will affect them personally. For example, nobody has shown that people affected by the economy generally vote in reaction to that, said Ray Wolfinger, political science professor at the University of California in Berkeley. Miller concurred, saying laid-off workers tend to blame a local circum- stance like a plant closing rather than tying that to national policy. As a result, Wolfinger said, a recession can hurt the party in power not because unemployed people retaliate at the polls, but because it makes the administration look bad to voters in general. In presidential races, said Yale University psychology professor Robert Abelson, "we don't have people deciding on the basis of processing issues deeply. We have an impression race, people getting a quick fix, a summarizing of complicated things." ABELSON and colleagues studied the last presidential race and found that the way a candidate made voters feel and the personal traits voters assigned to a candidate seemed to have more impact than issues or party affiliation. Once a voter assigns a trait to a can- didate, it probably sticks longer than emotional reactions do, Abelson said. "If a candidate is regarded as incom- petent, especially, it's very hard for people to discover through new infor- mation, "By gosh, he really is com- petent,' " he said. Though emotions evoked by a can- didate, like anger or pride, are more fleeting, they seem about as powerful as perceived traits, he said. Such changeable feelings can help change the course of a presidential race, Abelson said. "If a leading can- didate made people feel angry about something he said, for example or afraid by something he said, that might have an influence much more readily than changes in traits or issue stands or so on." THE CHOICE of news stories on TV may also affect some voters. In a series of experiments in Connecticut, volun- teers visited a campus laboratory every day for about a week to watch the national news. In an informal at- mosphere, they chatted with friends, flipped through magazines and newspapers, drank coffee, and even dozed off during newscasts. But questionnaires showed that skillful manipulation of the newscasts, which included different stories for different groups, had altered their approaches to judging the performance of the president. "We are finding that television news has a very powerful effect on how people think about elections," said Shanto Lyengar, associate professor of political science at Yale. "As a candidate I would like to be particularly careful about the last half of october," he said. "Whatever hap- pens to be coming across the airwaves immediately before the election has tremendous impact." Gromvko ... sees no change in U.S. policy Students indicted in hazing death BRYAN, Texas (AP)-A grand jury indicted four Texas A&M University students Friday on misdemeanor criminal charges in the Aug. 30 death of a sophomore who suffered a fatal heat stroke during a hazing incident. The charges were filed in the death of Bruce Goodrich, 20, of Webster, N.Y., a sophomore transfer student and a member of the corps of cadets. Unive- sity officials have said he was rousted from his bed at 2:30 a.m. and forced to run and do pushups and situs for about an hour in hot, humid weather. OFFICIALS said he collapsed but was encouraged to keep running. Three juniors present when Goodrich collap- sed were indicted on charges of negligent homicide. They are Jason Miles, 21; Louis Fancher III, 20, and Anthony D'Allesandro, 21 A I were members of corps unit F-1, which Goodrich has joined the week of his death. The charge carries a maximum penalty of a year in jail and a $2,000 fine. The three were also charged with violating a state statute against hazing, as was Gabriel Cuadra, a senior who was the personnel officer for the corps unit. Cuadra was also charged with tampering with evidence. THE TAMPERING charge-which also carries a maximum term of a year in jail and a $2,000 fine-alleges that Cuadra destroyed an "exercise schedule" while police were conducting an investigation, Brazos County District Attorney Bill Turner said. Grand jury foreman Bill Adams and other members of the panel refused to comment on the ipdictments The panel returned the indictments about 10 p.m. after some four hours of deliberations. Its members heard nine hours of testimony earlier Friday, the second day of hearings on the death. GOODRICH DIED AT a Bryan hospital the same day he collapsed. A preliminary autopsy showed he died of heat stroke. Officials said a final autopsy report would not be released until Monday. Earlier, Donald Burton, comman- dant of the corps, emerged from the grand jury room, but refused to com- ment on the case. Burton, who has launched his own in- vestigation into Goodrich's death, reassigned the 17 juniors and seniors in the dead cadet's F-1 unit to other positions in the corps. Bill Kibler, the official overseeing university disciplinaryiaction in the in- log. Custom research & thesis assis- tance also available. Research, 11322 Idaho Ave., s206 WA, Los Angeles, CA 90025 (213) 477-8226. Miscellaneous Center for Russian & East European Studies - Annual Center' Picnic, 1 p.m., Delhi Park, Huron River Drive. Cobblestone Farm Association - Annual Fall Festival: Pioneer Ac- tivities, 1 p.m., The Ticknor-Campbell Farm, 2741 Packard Rd. Cont. Med. Ed. - Advanced Cardiac Life Support, 8 a.m., Towsley Center. Union Cultural Arts - Heinrich Schultz sight-singing session, 4 & 7:45 p.m., Kuenzel Rm., Union. p Monday Highlight Wilhelm Wachtmeister, Swedish ambassador to the United States will speak in the Board Room of the Alumni Center at 2:15 p.m. in tribute to the Swedish Language Endowment Fund. The $75,000 fund will enable the University's Scandinavian Studies Program to offer Swedish language study every year. The tribute is part of Swedish Heritage Week (Sept. 29 - Oct. 7), which also features a Swedish Film Festival and "Swedes in Michigan", a display at the Bentley Historical Library on North Campus. Films AAFC, Cinema II, Cinema Guild - Elvira Madigan, 8 p.m., MLB 3. Cinema Guild - Woman in the Dunes, 7 p.m., Lorch Hall. Performances School of Music - Piano students recital, 8 p.m., Recital Hall. Speakers Pastoral Care - Gelek Rinposhe, "A Tibetan Buddhist Perspective on Health Care," 12 noon, S6330 Main Hosp. Center for Near East and N. African Studies - lecture, "The Political Economy of Rifac Tahawi,"12 noon, 144 Lane Hall. Women's Research Club - Grace Kachaturoff, "The Michigan Social Studies Textbook Study", 7:45 p.m., W. Conf. Room. Rackham. Meetings Artist Peace Cooperative - Mass meeting, 8 p.m., 4th floor, Union. Asian American Association - 6:30 p.m., Trotter House. UAC - Soph Show mass meeting, 7:30 p.m., Pendelton Rm., Union. Miscellaneous A-Squares - Square dance workshop, 7 p.m, Anderson Rm., Union. Guild House - Poetry Series, Brenda Flanagan and Hernan Castellano- Giron, reading from their works, 8 p.m., 802 Monroe St. Graduate Library - Tours, 11 a.m., 1 & 3 p.m., N. Lobby, 1st floor. CEW - Applications available for CEW scholarships. 350S. Thayer St. Med. Chem. - Seminar, Richard Di-Pietro, "Histamine Homologs as Potential Mechanism-Based Irreversible Inhibitors of Mammalian Diamine Shapiro to speak at public forum (Continued from Page 1) they may ask the regents to pass the judicial system without MSA approval, since the student governing body has a veto only over the code itself. BUT IN a letter to MSA President Scott Page dated September 28, Shapiro said, "I am concerned. . . that such negotiations must take place without preconditions on either side, yours or ours. Preconditions would un- necessarly constrain what may be creative approaches to any particular problem." Shapiro last night said he rejected the precondition that the administration would not ask the regents to bypass MSA's veto power because "it's premature to even think about that.. . if 764-0558 there are bona fide negotiations going on, that's not an issue." Page said he was disappointed that Shapiro wouldn't accept any precon- ditions, but he said that "it's very good for MSA to be dealing directly with Shapiro." "I'm pleased-not ecstatic," Page said. "We're at least talking and we're talking with the right people. Shapiro is definitely the right people." MSA OFFICIALS will probably meet: with Shapiro this Thursday. Page also said a public forum on the code will help Shapiro understand the students' point of view. "It'll force him to see how many students are concer- ned about it," he said. A forum will also force Shapiro to research the code very carefully. "I'm sure he'll spend considerable time preparing," Page said. Shapiro said he would be pleased to have a forum on the code because nDFlITRV RFAlINA "there's a lot of feeling, a lot of misun- derstandings about it." A date for the forum has not yet been set. SOW&ekbe t The 1i4{ikias tDaie THOMAS M. 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