4 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, October 19, 1984 Shapiro urges Reagan to sign TA tax bill IN BRIEF By ERIC MATTSON Special to the Daily DEARBORN - University President Harold Shapiro yesterday told the University Regents that he telegrammed President Reagan urging him to support a law restoring tax-exempt status to teaching assistants' tuition waivers. The law, which has already passed the House and Senate and awaits Reagan's signature, would renew the tax-exempt status teaching assistants enjoyed on their tuition waivers before last January, when Congress failed to approve an Internal Revenue Service regulation allowing the exemption. THE UNIVERSITY has since withheld about $75 a month in taxes from the one-third discount teaching assistants received on their tuition. In other action at the Dearborn session of yester- day's regents meeting, Student Legal Services attor- Regents clash ney Jonathan Rose again condemned the student code of non-academic conduct, which would regulate students' behavior outside the classroom. "The code and (judicial) system, I think, are very dangerous," Rose said. "We don't have to choose between order and freedom in our community." ROSE, WHO said he is planning on leaving Student Legal Services soon, suggested two ways the ad- ministration could deal with problem students without using a code. First, he said, the administration could talk infor- mally with the student, and recommend that he seek counseling or pay restitution for damages he caused. If a compromise cannot be reached or if the alleged offense is very serious, Rose said, the University should take the case to court. The regents also decided to ask for $14.7 million in- state aid for capital improvements next year. Projec- ts in the request include the new engineering building on North Campus, renovations for the Chemistry Building, and renovation of the Natural Science building. Robert Warner, Archivist of the United States, was appointed dean of the University's School of Library Science. Warner, a former professor of history and library science at the University, will assume the positon next April. The regents also appointed Prof. Dee Edington to head the newly created Division of Physical Education which will replace the Department of Physical Education in the School of Education. The new division will report directly to the vice president for academic affairs instead of being part of any par- ticular college. The regents held the afternoon portion of their meeting in Dearborn to mark the 25th anniversary of the University's campus there. Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports Canadan strike may affect U.S. TORONTO - General Motors of Canada workers picketed the company's 13 plants yesterday on the second day of a strike that could force layoffs in the parent firm's U.S. operations. Negotiators for both sides were meeting at a Toronto hotel mulling local plant issues but there were no plans for so called master bargaining talks in a new national contract for 36,000 workers, who belong to the Canadian branch of the United Auto Workers union. The strike, the first to hit Canada's largest carmaker in 14 years, began at noon EDT Wednesday after the expiration of a deadline set by the union for reaching a tentative agreement. The previous two-year contract expired Sept. 14. GM officials in Detroit said the strike would begin affecting American plants dependent on parts produced by Canadian facilities by the end of this week or the beginning of next. They said at least nine American GM factories would have to be closed, but were unable to say how many jobs would be affected. 0 with faculty over free zone (Continued from Page1) said Cohen, , who teaches philosophy in AND WHILE Bassett and Axelrod said arms reductions will help prevent a nuclear war, Prof. Carl Cohen told the regents that the only way to reduce the threat of war is to increase the stock- piling. "I don't know who is correct, and it is the essence of this act to foreclose the question under the assumption that the answer ... is known with certainty," the Residential College. Cohen charged that the proposal is a "pernicious"~ attempt to use criminal and civil law to suppress some types of in- tellectual inquiry. The ban will cause some professors to steer clear of con- troversial research and drive others from the campus and the city, he said. "THE CHILL imposed by the possibility of criminal or civil action is MICHIGAN STUDENT ASSEMBLY NEEDS YOU! Positions are now available on the following Regental and University Committees: HONORS CONVOCATION - Three students needed RESEARCH POLICIES - One grad student needed AFFIRMATIVE ACTION - One grad student needed MILITARY OFFICER EDUCATION PROGRAM - One student needed INSURANCE - Four students needed STOP BY THE MSA OFFICE FOR A FULL LISTING OF OPEN COMMITTEE POSITIONS. APPLICATIONS ARE AVAILABLE NOW. DEADLINE for submitting applications is TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, '84 5:00 P.M. INTERVIEWS WILL BE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1984 For more information contact Laurie Clement, 3039 Michigan Union, 763-3241 widely understood," Cohen said. "It has always been a central weapon in the armament of those who would sup- press inquiry." Regent Deane Baker (R-Ann Arbor) agreed with Cohen. "I come down on the side that freedom must be unrestrained," he said. Medical School Prof. James Neel told the regents that he opposes the free. zone proposal even though he has worked extensively for the nuclear freeze. "THE BANNING of any kind of ac- tivity by local government.. is a slip- pery slope open to all kinds of abuse" he said. The scope of the ban is far broader than most people realize, said Regent Thomas Roach (D-Saline). "I would have to urge everyone. . . to read the fine print," he told the group. The ballot question is full of "weasel words," Roach said, such as the clause which would exclude basic research as long as its "primary purpose" is not the development or use of nuclear weapons or delivery systems. "IN TODAY'S environment, I don't know that any one of us, or any of you can draw a clear line between basic and applied research," Roach told the professors. The ban, for example, could prevent You are warmly invited to attend a public lecture on Christian Science healing... . Tou Canst Be Cut Off From God Sunday, October 21, 1984 4:00 p.m. Ann C. Stewart, C.S.B., member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship, will speak on this subject. Admission to this lecture is free. Free at First Church of Christ, Scientist, Ann Arbor 1833 Washtenaw Avenue parking and child care orovided. i,.., ., .b ...... ............... ., .......... aeronautical engineering students from doing any work on military aircraft and naval architecture students from desi- ning military ships and submarines, Roach said. Moreover, the ban could stall high technology research in Ann Arbor and its surrounding areas, ultimately threatening the recovery of the state's economy, he said. DURING pointed questioning, Regent Paul Brown (D-Petoskey) asked Axelrod why Ann Arbor voters should have the right to decide the ac- tivities of a state-owned school. Axelrod said the nuclear freeze movement is easiest to launch on the local level. But Brown interrupted him, saying "University plolicy comes from the regents, not from the citizens of Ann Arbor who vote in an election." Regent Sarah Power (D-Ann Arbor) added that she doubted banning nuclear weapons research in the city would have any impact on the nationwide freeze movement. And Power said the University may ultimately be compromising its newly - won right to pursue ideas outside the social norm by taking stands on political and moral issues. She referred to an editorial written last summer by University President Harold Shapiro for Science magazine that concluded a university "remains a creative part of society only as long as it remains an intellectually open com- munity and not the ally of a particular point of view." Haig accuses Soviets of influencing debates GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (UPI) - Former Secretary of State Alexander Haig said yesterday the interview Soviet President Konstantin Chernenko granted the Washington Post was timed to influence Sunday's presidential debate. "Clearly the timing of his little dissertation, coming a few weeks before a national election and a few days before the foreign policy debate, could lead one to be a little suspicious," Haig said. Chernenko's unusual face-to-face in- terview with the newspaper's Moscow correspondent resulted in an article in which Chernenko indicated progress on any one of four Soviet nuclear arms proposals could lead to positive talks between the two superpowers. Haig was in Grand Rapids to serve as a consultant to the Amway Corp. and address the World Affairs Council. He said it is foolish for people to believe the cooling of relations between the two countries is related to President Reagan's sometimes harsh statements about the Soviets. TR-SHIRT 'PRINTNQ Ann Arbor's fastest! From 10-800 T-shirts screenprint- ed within 24 hours of order. Multi-color printing our specialty. You supply art or use our expert design staff. Hundreds of surplus T-shirts only $2. each. Located Oehnd the Bnd Pg Cafe 208 Fi E rstSt Phone T94-1357 -" I-' woi. 14NN AR il3oW Salvadoran rebels renew attacks SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Leftist guerrilla threats kept traffic off El Salvador's major highways yesterday - three days after the first peace talks between rebels and the government - and bombings left some towns without electricity. No explanation was given by the rebels for their renewed attacks, which led to scattered skirmishes with the army. There were no reports of casualties. The nation's two major highways, the Pan American and the Coastal, and accessory roads were virtually deserted after the guerrillas' clandestine Radio Venceremos repeated an earlier warning that rebel troops would be intercepting drivers. "No vehicle, public or private, should circulate starting in the early hours of Thursday, the 18th of October," until further notice, the rebels said in an early morning broadcast. The guerrillas have issued such-warnings against traffic periodically in the past. Some previous warnings have said that any vehicle could be sub- ject to attack, although there was no such specific threat yesterday. Personal income and sending up WASHINGTON - The nation's personal income climed a healthy 0.9 per- cent in September and, in a significant turnaround, consumers started spen ding again in a big way after a lifeless summer, the Commerce Department said yesterday. The large 14 percent increase in personal spending - the biggest jump. since April - followed a slight decline in August, no change at all in July and a weak 0.3 percent increase in June. The figures suggested consumers are armed with ample income and enough enthusiasm to spark an economic rebound during the Christmas season, despite the current economic slowdown. But factory incomes suffered in September, the report showed, just as in- dustrial employment, production and use of capacity also fell off in three other government reports for the month. Early 'snowstorms last Utah The earliest and heaviest snowstorm on record yesterday buried Salt Lake City with 22 inches of snow that knocked out power to as many as 15,000 people, closed schools, made a mess of highways and caused a 50-car pileup that injured 17 people. The stormy weather has claimed at least two lives, one in a traffic ac- cident in Colorado during the week's first storm and one in an avalanche Wednesday. In addition, two mountain climbers found dead in California may have died from exposure. The newest storm approaching from the Pacific threatened to dump as much as a foot of snow on northern California, and winter storm watches were posted for last night and today for California's Sierra Nevada and Nevada's Lake Tahoe basin. The snow around Utah's Salt Lake City was the heaviest on record there for October, and the 16.5 inches at the airport as of 10 a.m. Thursday was the second heaviest 24-hour snowfall ever, said National Weather Service meterologist William Adler. All the schools in Salt Lake City were closed - as well as many others countywide. Molester faces new charges OREGON, Ill. - A bicycle racing coach twice convicted of child molesting, was held yesterday on $500,000 bond on charges of sexually assaulting as many as 20 young boys in what investigators say could be one of the biggest child molestation cases against one person. Richard Grigsby, 41, met his victims through his association with a BMX bicycle team, gaining confidence of boys' parents and traveling with the boys to races in neighboring states, Batavia Police Chief F. Shellie Reed said. "He was traveling with groups of kids under the pretense his son was on the team also," Reed said, noting that Grigsby had no son of his own. "Whether it was fear or shame (by the boys) no one had ever come to us before. We didn't find any real evidence of open threats, like he was going to beat the kids, but there was a subtle type of brainwashing." Grigsby was convicted in 1977 of molesting a boy in Woodstock and served nearly four years in the Menard Correctional Facility, Reed said. He also was convicted in 1975 of taking indecent liberties with a child in Jefferson, Wis., and was placed on probation for two years. Vol. XCV -No. 38 The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967X) is published Tuesday through Sunday during the Fall and Winter terms and Tuesday through Saturday during the Spring and Summer terms by students at the University of Michigan. Sub- scription rates: September through April - $16.50 in Ann Arbor; $29.00 outside the city; May through August - $4.50 in Ann Arbor, $6.00 outside the city. Second-class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan. 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