Ninety-five Years of Editorial Freedom C, be Mit i4a Iai1Q Crisp Sunny with a high around 65. Vol. XCV, No. 23 Copyright 1984, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Tuesday, October 2, 1984 Fifteen Cents Ten Pages PSNli I i i i V a sub na to Shapiro River Daiy Poto by DAVID FRANKtL River Romance rrt Ann Arbor residents Rex Brueggemann and Kim Tayloer sip white wine as they contemplate the Huron River by Nichols Arboretum yesterday afternoon. Congress to consider new Solomon bill By CHARLIE SEWELL The attorney representing 11 students arrested during a sit-in last year added University President Harold Shapiro and Engineering Prof. George Haddad to the list of officials subpoenaed to appear at the students' trials. In August defense attorney Donald Koster subpoenaed University Regents Sarah Power, Thomas Roach and Deane Baker and Vice President for Academic Affairs Billy Frye to appear at the trials. KOSTER SAID he plans to subpoena several other witnesses but would not give their giames. The 11 Progressive Student Network (PSN) members arrested during the sit-in last March at Haddad's laboratory were charged with trespassing and ordered to stand trial in late August and early September. The trials were later postponed until November. Koster would not discuss what he hopes to gain from having University officials testify. But when asked by he issued the first subpoenas in August he said, "I assumed subpoenaing people like these in August would probably engender an adjournment so I could go on a vacation." LAST NIGHT both Shapiro and Had- dad said they knew nothing about the subpoenas and would not discuss them. Koster 4said the subpoenas had been given to a process server and would be delivered soon. Roach also declined to discuss the subpoenas, although he said he would attend the trial, saying "When you get subpoenaed you haven't got much choice. According to Judge S. J. Elden, who will hear the case in 15th District Court in Ann Atrbor, the trial was delayed because Elden expected the defendants to appeal his ruling denying their right to use a controversial defense. KOSTER SAID he planned to argue that the PSN members' actions were justified under international law because by blocking nuclear research the students were preventing the com- mission of a future crime. Elden said in his written opinion that the defenses were excluded because they did not meet the four conditions required for such a defense: ON APRIL 27 Koster submitted to the court a brief description of the defenses he planned to present at the trial. This notification is not required by law, but it provides the prosecution with an op- portunity to file a motion against the use of such defenses. See COURT, Page 3 By CURTi MAXWELL The latest attempt to strengthen the tie between student financial aid and draft registration may die this week as Congress wraps up its term. The provision, named Solomon IV after Rep: Gerald Solomon (R-N.Y.), extends the original Solomon Amendment to cover students enrolled in health-related schools. The original law requires students to say they are registered for the draft before they can receive federal aid money. ACCORDING to the University's Washington lob- byist, Thomas Butts, different versions of the bill have been passed in each house of Congress and a conference committee to iron out differences is ten- tatively scheduled to meet today or tomorrow. Once the bill clears the committee it must return to the House and Senate for approval and then be signed by the President. Butts would not specualte on whether that process could be completed before Congress adjourns. In addition to the provisions extending the Solomon Amendment to cover health profession students, the Senate version of the bill, passed on June 28, included a penalty for schools which helped students get around the law. SEVERAL MAJOR universities, including Har- vard, Yale, Northwestern, and Swarthmore Univer- sities, said they would provide private funds to any student denied federal aid under the Solomon Amen- dment. The clause in the Senate's version of the new bill would withhold federal research grants from schools which offers such alternative aid. But in the House version of the bill, Solomon replaced the proposed penalty with a call for a study to determine how many schools and students were complying with the regulations. GROUPS SUCH as the American Council on Educ- See CONGRESS, Page 5 Reagan accuses ,Mondale of tax 'addiction DETROIT (AP) - President Reagan told the Economic Club of Detroit yesterday that his Democratic challenger has a "knee-jerk addiction to tax increases," while Walter Mon- dale accused the Republican incumbent of offering a "parade of alibis" to ex- plain the Sept. 20 bombing of the U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut. While Mondale concentrated on foreign policy, Reagan focused on the economy, ridiculing his opponent's plan to reduce the deficit. "SOME PEOPLE have labored so long at making government bigger they've developed a knee-jerk addiction r to tax increases," the president said. "And every time their knee jerks, we get kicked." With just five weeks to go until Elec- tion Day, the rhetoric intensified in ad- vance of Sunday's presidential debate. Both Reagan and Mondale planned to spend a good part of the week preparing for their televised confrontation, the first of two planned before Nov. 6. "In Central America, there are no talks," Mondale said. "In the Middle r East, there is no policy. In Lebanon, there was no protection. And on Earth, there is no arms control." GERALDINE Ferraro, meanwhile, criticized the Reagan administration's economic policies, chiding Vice President George Bush for pulling out House votes to return tax-exempt status to TAs By CURTIS MAXWELL The U.S. House of Representatives, by a voice vote, yesterday approved a bill that would allow graduate staff and teaching assistants to collect past taxes withheld from their tuition waivers and would return the waiver to tax- exempt status. The House bill, widely supported by the Michigan delegation, reinstates the tax-exempt status which ended last January when Congress failed to renew an Internal Revenue Service regulation. THE UNIVERSITY began last January to withhold taxes from the tuition it paid for graduate staff and TAs. The University pays for one-third of their tuition. The tax averaged $75 a month per student. The University is the only institution in the U.S. that withheld the tax on the tuition waiver after Congress failed to renew the I.R.S. bill. This fall, however, the University has not withheld taxes from the tuition waivers, according to Dan Gamble, manager of compensation and staff relations for the University. UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS have not yet deducted taxes because they expect the new tax measure to be adopted by the full Congress, Gamble said, adding that all of the money held since January will be returned if the bill finally passes. Cindy Palmer, president of the Graduate Employee's Organization, said she would be delighted to see the new tax code approved. But Palmer added that she hoped that, if the tax code fails to be renewed on time in the future, the University would not withhold taxes in the meantime. "We cannot be vulnerable to this again," Palmer said. "We will continue to be concerned about it." The bill is now pending before the Senate. Thomas Butts, the University's lobbyist in Washington, said he was fairly optimistic the Senate would approve the bill before it adjour- ns this week. Group registers student voters Associated Press. Anti-Reagan protesters march outside Cobo Hall yesterday as the President addresses the Economic Club of Detroit inside. his wallet to illustrate his belief that pocketbook issues are all that matter to voters. "That spontaneous gesture of selfishness tells us more about the true character of this administration than all their prepaid commercials," the Democratic vice presidential candidate said at a rally in Akron, Ohio. "Of cour- se we care about money. But this is an election, not an auction, and the U.S. government is not up for sale to the highest bidder." Bush, also in the South, said Mon- dale's latest criticism of Reagan's meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko amounted to "more See FERRARO, Page 2 By DOV COHEN For many people, registering to vote is a hassle which is easy to avoid. But this week a campus group is trying to make the process painless and easy in an effort to add 1,500 new voters to the rolls. Anyone who is not registered by Oct. 9 will not be able to vote in the Nov. 6 general election. THE CAMPUS drive, by the Public InterestCResearch Group in Michigan (PIRGIM), has already registered over 2,600 students in the last month, accor- ding to PIRGIM Chairman Jeff Par- sons. "We've been extremely successful," Parsons said. "I think 2,600 voters is a significant amount who wouldn't have voted if PIRGIM hadn't been there." This year's election is particularly important to students because it "will affect higher education funding, in- cluding possible budget cuts," Parsons said. THIS WEEK'S drive will include registration tables in the Fishbowl and at the Undergraduate Library, contact with people standing in movie theatre lines, and an intensive campaign in the dormitories. "We're increasing the number of hours and number of volunteers we're sending out," said Phillis Engelbert of PIRGIM. "We're going on another sweep through each dorm . . . and stationing tables outside the cafeterias or going table-to-table in the cafeterias." As the final push for voters began yesterday, 130 students signed up in the fishbowl in a three-hour period. Some of the new registrants are students who registered elsewhere and will now vote ,in Ann Arbor, according to registrar Kathy Morse. "(Registering) has been on people's minds but we make it more convenient for them," she said. The registration campaign is part of a national student registration effort. Locally, the project involves a number of groups including the National Organization for Women, Michigan Alliance for Disarmament, the Democratic Party, and several other organizations. r TODAY Bank on it rather than taking his $100 deposit, the machine made a few "unusual noises" Friday night and spewed out $5 and $10 bills at a rapid pace. Bell "doesn't use his card because he doesn't know how," said Hoae. "So I said, 'Come watch me make a deposit. It's real simple.' So I took him to my bank's automatic teller and I said, 'All you do is put the card in like this,' But nothing happened," Roae said. The machine "went blank" so Roae said he "tapped" it with his hand. "After that, I heard it making this funny noise and I picked up the little money door and it came flying out. It's the dar- nedst thing you ever saw. It would take my money, but it sure gave me a lot back." As soon. as the two men gathered such a frenzy that the University of Wisconsin-Madison student government is lobbying to get reruns shown locally. Avram Rosen, student government co-president, said last week that a major campaign and petition drive will be launched in an effort to get one of the city's commercial TV stations to show the reruns late at night. "Student interest in bringing back "Batman" has steadily risen to the point of a fever pitch," Rosen said. WMTV had run the show until four years ago, when its syndication contract ran out. Program director Fred Sole said he's got- ten only "one or two calls a year" since then in suppport of the show. And program director Jill Koehm of WISC said visited the lavatory. "She was somewhat beside herself," said a TWA spokesman who spoke on condition he not be identified. A TWA report said simply: "When nature called, the money went down the tube." After TWA's Flight 701 landed at Kennedy Airport, the woman explained her plight and two TWA ramp servicemen volunteered to check as the effluent was pumped off the plane, and found the money. The. $100 bills were "laundered" and returned to her, the spokesman said. The airline did not release the names of the women or the helpful ground crew. I I I