Ninety-five Years of Editorial Freedom j:j; b E LIE I3U i~Iai1Q Calico Clouds in the morning and a little bit of sunshine in the afternoon. Vol. XCV, No. 41 Copyright 1984, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Tuesday, October 23, 1984 Fifteen Cents Ten Pages Mondale win not enough, profs say By DOV COHEN Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale's performance in Sun- day night's debate was good but may not be enough to overcome President Reagan's lead in the polls, several University political science professors said yesterday. Though most of the professors said Mondale won the debate, they said it's simply a case of too little, too late. "THIS DEBATE has a plus effect on the Mondale camp, but not as great an effect as the last one," political science Prof. John Campbell said. Accordin to political science Prof. Donald Kinder, the contest's importan- ce centered upon how badly Reagan might do and not on whether Mondale would win. "Mondale needed Reagan to give a stumbling, bumbling performance," Kinder said. "And Reagan didn't give him that." "The expectations created out of the first debate imprisoned Mondale. He had no chance of meeting the expec- tations in the second debate. He had to W win decisively, and he didn't do that. In that sense he lost," Kinder said. While most experts said Reagan's performance was greatly improved over the first debate, several professors said he made a few mistakes. One weak point, they said, was the question about CIA manuals for Nicaraguan rebels. "Reagan's answer was pretty pitiful," Campbell said. "He kind of ducked and flubed the answer." KINDER agreed with Campbell's analysis. "His conclusion was a mess. It was rambling, and he didn't finish in time See PROFS, Page 3 Bell tenmpers criticism of colleges. Tornado trash The debris remains yesterday from a tornado which slammed into an apartment complex, ripping off roofs and dum.- ping the wreckage on parked cars in the Houston suburb of Pasadena, Texas. No serious injuries were reported. Todlays shidents 'ripe for fascism, 'pro INDIANA, Pa. (UPI) - Fifteen years ago, college students were demonstrating against war, imperialism, and discrimination. Today, the so-called ugliest college man holds sway on the Indiana University of Pennsylvania campus. ARE STUDENT concerns really so different in so few years? Harvey Holtz, chairman of IUP's sociology and an- thropology department on the southwestern Pennsylvania campus for 12,000 students, sees only isolated student events aimed at social and political change. A vacuous conser- vatism on campuses makes him think students are "really ripe for fascism." "There's been a tremendous change," said Holtz, noting there is little scientific data on the nature of current and '60s 4 essor says students. "I find students to be more conservative, yet it's not a thoughtful conservatism. It is based on empty allegian- ce. "I GUESS I see a new emptiness. They do not support the current (Reagan) administration. They're looking for ex- citement and don't know what to be excited about. They have little interest in politics." He said that might explain the "tremendous interest in ugliness," spurred by an author's light-hearted assertion that IUP has the ugliest college males. IUP's Bruce Morgan and Katie Neidhold of te University of Alaska-Fairbanks, chosen ugliest college man and woman, had a date at IUP Friday. "STUDENTS COME here to find their identity," said See PROF, Page 3 WASHINGTON (AP) - Education Secretary T.H. Bell said yesterday that a critique by a team of scholars shows "American higher education has the sniffles" and needs to take precautions to avoid getting "a bad cold or even pneumonia." But Bell said the diagnosis rendered by the scholars was less harsh than he had anticipated, and he said colleges were not in as much difficulty as the nation's elementary and secondary schools. "EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS are a bit like people: They can grow old and top out and go to seed if they don't renew and reinvigorate themselves periodically," Bell said. "American higher education has the sniffles. It might come down with a bad cold or even pneumonia if we don't do something about it," he told reporters at a news conference at George Washington University. Among the recommendations in the report, "Involvement in Learning: Realizing the Potential of American Higher Education," are that colleges devote more resources to teaching and advising freshmen and sophomores; that they make students pass proficien- cy tests, not merely acquire course credits, to get a .degree; and that all students take at least two years of liberal arts courses, even if that forces them to extend their stay on campus beyond four years. THE PRESIDENTS of five major Lebanese president makes unexplained trip to Libya higher education groups issued a statement applauding the study and expressing hope it would stir up as much interest as "A Nation at Risk", the study on high schools by a Bell commission last year. But they also said the report slighted adult learners and gave the false im- pression "that all of higher education is composed of 18-21-year-olds all pur- suing a baccalaureate degree." They also took issue with the report's statement that only half the students who start college aiming for a bachelor's degree "actually attain this goal." The American Council on Education said its statistics show that 65 percent of freshmen complete the degree within five years and 75 percent after 10 years. The criticism came from the heads of the council, the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, The National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, the Association of American Colleges, and the American Association of Com- munity and Junior Colleges. Rep. Paul Simon (D-Ill), the chair- man of the House subcommittee on post secondary education, defended vocationally oriented courses, saying, "Postsecondary education is an accep- ted requirement for far more jobs than it was 20 years ago." "WE MUST resist temptations to simply overlay the goals of the past See BELL, Page 3 Suspect charged in Indiana fraternity blaze BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) - A 23- year-old man was arrested yesterday and charged with murder and arson in a fraternity house fire that killed an In- diana University student and injured 34 people, authorities said. Investigators said Jerry Zook, a non- student, had fought with members of the fraternity on Saturday night and returned later to splash turpentine in the fraternity house living room and set it on fire. THE PRE-DAWN fire at the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity killed Israel Edelman, 19, a sophomore at the university's Richmond campus who was a guest at the fraternity house during homecoming weekend. He died of smoke inhalation, accor- ding to Monroe County Deputy Coroner Dr. Tony Pizzo. A nurse at Bloomington Hospital said four fraternity members were admit- ted, three with second-degree burns and smoke inhalation, and the other with wrist and back fractures and smoke inhalation. THIRTY OTHER people, including See MAN, Page 3 From AP and UPI BEIRUT, Lebanon - Lebanese President Amin Gemayel left on a hurriedly arranged visit to Libya yesterday at the invitation of Col Moammar Khadafy, a brief palace statement announced. It gave no ex- planation for the surprise trip. Before leaving, Gemayel headed an emergency Cabinet session which decided to close down illegal ports operated by Lebanese militia groups. The ports, a major cause of dissension in the government, have cut into gover- nment customs and duty revenues,- diverting millions of dollars to Christian and Moslem militias. GEMAYEL and his party flew 125 miles by helicopter to the Mediterranean island of Cyprus where he boarded his presidential jet for Libya. The jet had flown from Beirut International Airport to Iarnaca, Cyp- rus, earlier in the day. Sources at Beirut airport said Gemayel apparently decided to avoid using the airport because of fighting in the adjacent Palestinian refugee camp of Bourj el-Barajneh. Police said at least eight people were killed and 14 wounded in battles that began in the camp Sunday and con- tinued, on and off, into last night. CAMP residents said the fighting was between Palestinians and Amal, the military arm of Lebanon's ShiiteMoslem community. Amal issued a statement saying its people were not involved, but Lebanese military sources said at least some of the dead were Amal militiamen. At the time Gemayel was en route to Cyprus, all approaches to the camp and surrounding roads, including the main airport highway, were sealed off by Lebanese army troops who intervened to halt the fighting. Monday's visit to Libya was Gemayel's second since he took office in 1982. A group of opposition Lebanese leaders headed by Druse leader Walid Jumblatt visited that radical North African nation last week. UNDER KHADAFY, Libya has strongly supported anti-government forces in recent rounds of the nine-year- old Lebanese civil war. Yesterday's Cabinet session was called in an attempt to arrest a rapid deterioration of Lebanon's currency and to discuss possible indirect talks with Israel on security arrangements in south Lebanon, which Israel has oc- cupied since its invasion of Lebanon in June 1982. The Lebanese pound has gone from 5 to the dollar to more than 9 to the dollar in less than four months. Also in Beirut yesterday, U.S. diplomats were under tightened security on the eve of the first anniver- sary of the suicide bombing of the U.S. Marine base in Beirut while five people died in clashes between rival Palestinian factions. The U.S. Embassy in recent days has cut its staff drastically because of con- tinuing threats and fears that terrorists might stage an attack before the Nov. 6 presidential elections to embarrass the Reagan administration. Embassy spokesman Jon Stewart said the remaining U.S. diplomats were under heavy guard on the eve of the Oct. 23, 1983 suicide bombing of the U.S. Marine base that killed 241 American servicemen. i Daily Photo by DAVID FRANKEL Mondale monger LSA junior Gil Preuss walks across the Diag yesterday publicizing presidential candidate Walter Mondale's rally on campus today. The Democratic nominee will arrive at the Diag at 1 p.m. with Sen. Gary Hart and Gov. James Blanchard. Following the rally Mondale will depart for Chicago. Khadafry .. . invites Gemayel to Libya Seafood surprise WHAT DID you have for dinner in the dorm last night? Menus in the future could include sausage made of seafood. It might sound fishy, but the noint is that it doesn't taste that way. mw to tell a difference between the fish sausage and regular pork sausage, says Anderson and his family. The family started experimenting with fish recipes shortly after An- derson suffered three heart attacks and had to eliminate foods high in cholesterol and fat. It took four years to per- fect the sausage, which sells for 1.89 a pound at Anderson's Fish Market. What's next for the Andersons? They're working on a line of fish chili. Plain English WXHILE MICHIGAN fans Saturday were suffering an June after her graduation. The unusual marriage proposal cost $250 but it was worth it, said Clemens, a Fort Dodge native who graduated from Iowa's college of pharmacy. Collins said she was engrossed in Iowa's game with Michigan when she noticed her fiance and other friends around her acting strangely. "He was sitting there laughing so hard, then I saw this airplane and I about died," she said. "He has a way of doing some unusual things, but I had a feeling something was up when he came home all the way from Dallas just for a football game." Pi 1£r Of'Un something special," she said. So Kerr got up before dawn Friday, mixed blue and red food coloring with water, they spray-painted one of her 500 cows with the purple mixture. She got the idea from seeing painted animals at fairs in other states, she said. Pixie didn't have to kump over the moon to get attention when she arrived at the fair. Hun- dreds stopped by to see her and collect stickers declaring, "I saw the purple cow at the Arizona State Fair." Pixie will be on display for the rest of the week, Kerr said. Unless it rains, that is. On the inside I I .( I