Ninety-five Years of Editorial Freedom C I be £ir 43f i~Iai1r Boo Morning clouds move out bringing afternoon sunshine and a high near 55 degrees. Vol. XCV, No. 48 Copyright 1984, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan- Wednesday, October31, 1984 Fifteen Cents Ten Pages i OPEC agrees on 9 percent production cut GENEVA, Switzerland - OPEC's 13 oil ministers tentatively agreed yester- day to share a temporary production cut of 1.5 million barrels a day in a bid to bolster sagging world oil prices and prevent a global price war. Indonesian Oil Minister Subroto, OPEC's acting president, said the production rollback would take effect Thursday and that "everybody will take part in the production cut." THE AGREEMENT was reached af- ter a three-hour bargaining session at the Organization of Petroleum Expor- ting Countries' emergency summit in Geneva. "The conference has decided to reduce the production ceiling of 17.5 million barrels a day by 1.5 million barrels a day, effective Nov. 1," Subroto said. OPEC still had not begun to tackle the thorny issue of price differentials, or how much members can charge for various qualities of crude oil. THE INDONESIAN oil minister said the 9 percent production cutback is ex- pected to last two months until rising winter demands helps erase the world oil surplus and shore up oil prices. Earlier in the day OPEC officials said there was bitter wrangling over how to parcel but the production cut among the oil cartel's 13 member nations. A PERSIAN Gulf delegate said an atmosphere of "suspicion" prevailed at the crisis talks with some producers worried that other members would violate their reduced output quotas. Earlier, Nigeria had said it would not participate in the production cut. But Subroto told reporters at the end of the closed-door talks that "everybody will participate in the production cuts." He declined to say by how much each nation would reduce its quota. Sources said OPEC had considered a compromise plan under which Saudi Arabia, the group's largest producer, would bear the brunt of the output cut. The rest would be absorbed by several of OPEC's richer members. MANY ANALYSTS were skeptical about OPEC's decision to lower its production to 16 million barrels a day since they estimate the cartel already is producing at that level. Some observers believe OPEC, which claims its output is close to 18 million barrels a day, is trying to bluff on a production drop until rising winter oil demand salvages prices. Daily Photo by STU WEIDENBACH Leaf me alone A University employee steers clear of a student as he cleans up the debris of fall on the Diag yesterday. MSA to decide on cyanide proposal By NANCY DOLINKO The Michigan Student Assembly voted last night to table discussion on a referendum asking the University to stockpile cyanide pills until the national elections have passed. The referendum, similar to the one passed at Brown University in Rhode Island two weeksa ago, reads: "WE, THE students of the University of Michigan, request that the Univer- sity of Michigan Health Services stock- pile suicide pills for optional student use exclusively in the event of nuclear war. "This proposal is intended to provoke serious thought and discussion of the urgent need to put a halt to the arms race. We believe that nuclear war threatens thinking of life in terms of the future and has the effect of negating choice." The assembly agreed to wait until af- ter the elections so students could pay more attention to the issue. See 'U', Page 3 Top educator lauds liberal arts By GREGORY HUTTON The mastery of language is the key ingredient to an educated person as well as a "distinctly human" power needed for effective communication between cultures, said Dr. Ernest Boyer yesterday afternoon at the Michigan Union Ballroom. "Language is the centerpiece of lear- ning; its mastery is a task that is never completed," said Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Ad- vancement of Teaching. "Language, including music, dance, and the visual arts, (defines) civilization by the breadth of the symbol system used," he said. NEARLY 300 students and faculty members turned out yesterday to hear Boyer, voted top educator in a national survey of his peers, speak on the value of a true liberal arts education in America's schools today. Boyer, who implemented a number of educational reforms as the U.S. Com- missioner of Education during the Car- ter Administration, came down hard on education yesterday saying that it is too narrowly defined. Students, especially those limited to the physical sciences, about our own and other cultures, he said. BOYER WENT on to say that silence has been ignored as an acceptable means of communication. "We trust noise and utterances, (while we) ignore silence, a necessary introspection to seek the true meaning of life," he said. Boyer said education secretary T.H. Bell's recent comment that American education had "the sniffles"' was not surprising because it had "pneumonia" during the 1960s. He defended education as an in- stitution from those who called today's schools socially divisive by blaming other social institutions. "People in- creasingly expect schools to do what families and churches cannot," he said. "We cannot have excellence in a sea of indifference." he added. "PUBLIC schools are more stable than the institutions around them," Boyer said. "People are worried about SAT scores from our high schools. I wish I had SAT scores for the Congress of the United States. . . or the courts . . or from the families and churches." Boyer said that there is a generation gap between youth and the outside See LANGUAGE, Page 2 Bover pushes foreign language do not become properly educated because they focus on just one discipline, he said. "It is a disgrace that the most power- ful nation on earth refuses to show respect to other cultures by refusing to learn their languages," Boyer said. He added that not learning the language of other cultures makes us ignorant of them. "We need to develop cultural literacy amongst our students" to learn Daily Photo by STU WEIDENBACH Fifteen members of the Bedtime for Bonzo Street Theater Ensemble sing protest songs, perform some skits, and reel of f reams of statistics in the Diag yesterday on President Reagan's poor record in defending women's rights. Group rallies for women's rights Ii SPOCK says 'no' to free zone By ANA GOSHKO "THE MAIN reason is that wer think that's an infringement o SPOCK's on campus. rights of students and the people o No, SPOCK is not the famed child town to study whatever they w psychologist, Dr. Benjamin Spock. No, said Shapiro, an engineering senior he's not the Vulcan science officer on The proposal is vaguely worde the Starship Enterprise either. said. "We think the outlined resea SPOCK stands for Students Proud of very vague. It doesn't say what re Campus Knowledge, a group against a ch actually entails. Is it studying proposal to make Ann Arbor "nuclear discussing ideas?" he said. free" I votrs ass the proposal in The group is currently posting a week's city election, "the de number of different flyers. One research, development, testing features Mr. Spock's warning, "Ban- production of nuclear weap ning technology is illogical." Other delivery systems for such wealpns SPOCK "spokesperons" are Mr. T and command control and communic the Three Stooges. systems for such weapons" woud SPOCK says banning nuclear resear- outlawed. ch is "illogical." It opposes the PROPONENTS of the plan sat measure for "a couple of reasons," said See STUDENT, Page 2 Eric Shapiro, a SPOCK member. really A the of the want," or. ed, he rch is ,esear- g, is it ng or pons; uld be .y that By JACKJ:, YOUNG They began by hanging their song lyrics on the steps of the Graduate Library at noor. yesterday. Fifteen people, mostly women, gathered togethier and locked arms, shuffled, and then shouted several :imes: "Keep our nation on the track. One step forward. Three steps back." The group, Bedtime for Bonzo Street Theater Ensemble, has been performing their theatrics in the Diag area several times a week over the past month in an attempt to "educate people on why they shouldn't vote for Ronald Reagan," said spokesperson Diane Meisenhelter, a University graduate student in history. TWO SEPARATE demonstrations held yesterday lasted five to ten minutes. Though some passersby stopped for a See WOMEN, Page 5 L.. TODAY Batty HALLOWEEN, THAT time of scary tales about ghosts and blood-sucking vampires, is a favorite holiday for Merlin Tuttle, of Milwaukee, who grabs the annual chance to debunk myths about the creatures he loves: bats. "The problem is that people fear most what they understand least. People don't know vampire legend -as portrayed in the tale of Dracula, the creature from the grave that relied on blood from the living to renew its life- to Europe before people there were even aware of the existence of blood-sucking bats that inhabit Latin America. And Tuttle said the vampire bat has little in common with Dracula. "You could walk .into a cave filled with vampire bats and never be attacked," he said. "They'd try to get away from you." He said the vampire bat is a "small timid creature" that sneaks up on its prey, often while the prey is sleeping, to feed on the blood. mitories. "I took him to a wedding last week and dressed him up in a tuxedo," Greg Woodman, 26, the creator of the $19.95 cardboard coach, said Monday. "People were dan- cing with him and holding him up. He's great for parties. " The soccer team placed one on the sidelines as an extra "coach," and "one guy had him strapped into a seat in his car," Woodman said. "People can use him for all kinds of stuff." Paterno said he will donate his 6 percent share of the proceeds to a book endowment fund for the school's Patee Library. About 2,500 cardboard Paternos are in stock and 450 have been sold so far, according to Woodman, a 1983 Penn State Graduate. day. "We were just about starting the unit on computer crime and computer ethics," Dolce said . The missing com- puters were valued at $40,000. "Some of the students had been working on programs since the beginning of the school year, and some had given the computers names," said Dolce. "They felt a real personal ownership of the com- puters. They were furious when they found out what hap- pened." The computers were insured and more have been ordered, but Provost Michael Foy said the loss "puts quite a kink in our computer program." Foy said all 60 students who attend the school were affected since each student is required to take a computer class. 1 i i , i