Ninety-five Years of Editorial Freedom P LIE ian I3Iai1ij Glug Colder and rainy, with high tem- peratures just reaching the fif- ties. Vol. XCV, No. 57 Copyright 1984, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Saturday, November 10, 1984 Fifteen Cents Eight Pages Suicide pill proponent visits U' By NANCY DOLINKO Jason Salzman, an organizer of the drive to stock suicide pills at Brown University, told a group of University of Michigan students yesterday that the movement is aimed more at making people aware of the nuclear threat than forcing universities to supply the pills. At a press conference sponsored by Students Against Nuclear Suicide (SANS), a campus group trying to place a similar referendum on the April Michigan Student Assembly ballot, Salzman conceded that the idea of having health services stock the pills for students to commit suicide during a nuclear war is unconventional, but he said, "at least we've gotten people to think about (nuclear war)." STUDENTS at Brown passed a referendum to stock the pills last mon- th, though officials of the school have no plans to heed the non-binding vote.. Another proposal to stock suicide pills at the University of Colorado was defeated a few weeks ago. Salzman said the vote was not a loss for the movement. "It's no less even though it was defeated," he said. "People are talking about it. It's our task now to get the campuses to take it seriously. We want to motivate action." Salzman said he and fellow organizer Chris Ferguson have received hun- dreds of letters since the election at Brown last month. HE SAID curbing the arms race must become an important issue when choosing candidates for public office. "We have to make this the number one issue on how we judge our can- didates. Our priorities need to be around the arms race," Salzman said. A recent poll which showed 50 percent of the population under the age to 30 See PILL, Page 2 Reagan w111 won't affect financial aid officials say By KERY MURAKAMI Despite President Reagan's overwhelming vic- tory this week, education officials say he will probably continue to face major obstacles from Congress in implementing the financial aid cuts he pushed for in his first term. The president's coattails simply were not long enough to cripple opposition to his educational policies in the House where Democrats lost a small number of seats, or the Senate, where the Democrats actually gained two seats, they said. "EVERY INDICATION seems to show that the Reagan administration (plans to) continue to cut educational funding," said Bill Krueger, director of public affairs for the American Council on Education. '(But) Congress has been pretty good in rejecting the administration's proposals. I'm pretty sure they will do it again for us." Thomas Butts, the University's lobbyist in Washington, agreed that 'things are pretty much the same" in the capitol. The real test, however, will come in the next six months as congressmen will probably shy away. from the big battles while they attempt to deter- mine exactly what kind of support Reagan does have from the people and what issues it applies to, Krueger said. "THE PRESIDENT will have a honeymoon un- til about next summer," he said. "Until then, Congress will be looking at the kind of mandate he really does have." If the president can't rally grassrouts support for his educational policies by then, the ad- ministration will be in "big trouble," Krueger said. "Congress will say to themselves, 'this is our ballgame now, we'll do whatever we want.'" Another key to next year's education ap- propriations is the replacement for Rep. Paul Simon (D-Ill.) as the chairman of the House Sub- committee on Post Secondary Education, Krueger said. Simon will be moving to the upper chamber of the house after defeating Sen. Charles Percy last week. 'SIMON HAS been as experienced and well respected a supporter of education as you'd find in the House. But we don't feel that his loss will hurt the sub-committee," said his press secretary David Carle. 'He'll seek an appointment with the Senate Committee on Education where an education would have a harder time getting through. We feel that it will benefit higher education overall." Simon's replacement on the House committee will likely be Michigan Rep. William Ford (D-1st District). Ford was chairman of the House Sub- committee on Higher Education before he became chairman of the Committee on Post Offices and Civil Services. Supporters of higher education are less con- fident, however, about the make-up of the rest of the House Sub-committee on Education. And the committee will be especially important in the next year because it will be examining the Higher Education Reauthorization Act, Butts said. THE reauthorization act, which occurs every five years, is an examination of all financial aid programs and traditionally dictates the direction those programs will take in the following half- decade, Butts said. "Both the House and Senate sit down, look at all the existing programs in eduction, includng finan- cial aid programs, and decidee which ones to keep and what changes have to be made," he said. Since last year, however, the sub-committee has lost five Democrats. "It's difficult to see what the sub-committee will look like," said Wolomin. "We won't know what new representative will come." In one final positive note for students, Butts said that this congres will probably reject major cuts in Social Security Educational benefits, which the last Congress passed four years ago as part of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act. The act cost University students about $20 million in benefits which have never been made up, he said. Assocatred Press Remembering the war Herman Woods, a Vietnam veteran from Petaluma, California, who has two artificial legs, touches names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial yesterday in Washington. A bronze statue was unveiled yesterday at the Memorial in honor of the men who fought in that war. The statute stands 80 yards from the memorial site. Classified research proposal tabled I By CHARLES SEWELL A research committee yesterday put off a decision on whether to recommend that the University reject a controver- sial classified research proposal. In a meeting yesterday, Nancy Aronoff, a representative on a panel which reviews all classified research proposals, told members of the Research Policies Committee (RPC) that the project would violate classified research guidelines. - ARONOFF's presentation raised some questions in the minds of the committee, said William Williams, chairman of the RPC. "Clearly, if there were not questions we would have voted this morning," he said. The committee's recommen- dation will be made after the December meeting, he added. Aronoff said the Department of Defense sponsored project is intended to help the U.S. Navy locate and track Soviet submarines, and that this violated the University's ban on projec- ts which endanger human life. UNIVERSITY guidelines prohibit research on classified projects "the clearly forseeable and probable result of which. . . or any specific purpose of which is to destroy human life." The project would help make a first strike nuclear attack more likely because the U.S. would be able to locate and destroy submarines the Soviets would use forsretaliation, Aronoff said. Because submarines, unlike land-based 'Clearly, if there were no questions we would have voted this morning.' - Chairman RPC, William Williams nuclear weapons, cannot currently be located and tracked, both superpowers are reluctant to launch a first strike. According to Theodore Birdsall, the engineering professor who proposed the project, the research is used to map temperature patterns in the ocean. It can also be used to improve weather forecasting techniques said Kurt Met- zger, Birdsall's assistant. Metzger said he saw no direct application to anti- submarine warfare. ANY RESEARCH done in the ocean See CLASSIFIED, Page 2 ....... ................................................ ...}hv.......-....1J..-.-.--.-.*. . ... .... . ... .... .. . .. ... ... ... .. .f. ... . . .. . . . . . .i .. .. .. . .. : .t: . ... .4 . .. " .1.. ...Y...............1 . L...... A+.*.r.f.ff.: .. ,.5...,f..5*.**".. 4 J a.*.: 1.* .1t" Weatfferization proposal gains signatures By VIBEKE LAROI A proposal that could force local landlords to make their rental property more energy efficient has gained 1,1200 of the 5,000 signatures needed to place the measureon the April ballot, a petition spokesman said this week. Dan Kaller, a member of Weatherization As Responsible Maintenance (warm) said the group should have trouble meeting the January 3, 1985 deadline for the signatures. "Not all the petitions have been brought back yet, and we're hitting the dorms next." A DIFFERENT weatherization proposal was defeated by Ann Arbor voters in April of 1983. The new proposal calls for insulation of ceilings, caulking of doors, and window frames, and weatherstripping of doors and windows. Kaller said the first proposal failed because it was too specific including provisions for storm doors, windows, and dual set thermostats when would have greatly increased costs to the landlords. Area landlords are not all happy about the new weatherization drive. According to Fred Gruber of the Ann Arbor Apartments Association, the proposal could undermine another project where landlords would voluntarily post the energy efficiency of the rental unit. GRUBER SAID THE tenants could compare the ratings while shopping for a residence. "This would encourage resident participation," Gruber said, while the new proposal "undermines the See PETITION, Page 2 Daily Photo by MATT PETRIE Dries, tries, Michigan dies Michigan center Ray Dries takes a shot at Spartan goaltender Norm Foster in second-period action at Yost Arena last night. The Wolverines lost 4-1, and will square off again against the Spartans tonight at East Lansing. ,.. ... ... . . . . ..... . . . . . . . ......-....:{-:{vr.}Y 1}$i.v7:}..:}:::. . . . . ..:: :.Y::.. . ..::::. ........... ..:. . . . . ..". .. . . e . ..} 4. .. . .. " ..... . . . . . . . . . . . .:... . . . . . . . . . .-.. . . . . . . . . . . . .x... . " " 111..." "..... .................. . . ...... . . . . . ................................. . . . . . . . TODAY White snow, red tape, part I or ice either on the ground or on the way, the city ad- ministrator can declare a snow emergency. It then becomes illegal to park on any street which is marked as a snow emergency route. Violators can be fined up to $25 plus towing charges. That's the easy part. Read on. On the secondary streets, meaning any street not marked as a snow emergency route, it's a bit more complicated. Section 10:143 of Chapter 126 of the Ann Arbor City Code says that during a snow emergency you can't park on the even side of the street (the side with even house numbers) on even- numbered days or the oddside of the street on odd- numbered days. Plowing will usually begin after four in- Ann Arbor to provide pedestrian walkways free of ice and snow and to encourage pedestrianisms," a city release says, "regular enforcement of the Sidewalk Snow Removal Ordinance will be in effect." Under this law (Chapter 49, Sections 4:60, 4:61, and 4:62), you have until noon to remove ice and snow which has appeared on the sidewalk adjacent to your property. Snow that falls or drifts onto the sidewalk during the day has to be gone by noon the next day. Other- wise the city will do it for you, they say, at a cost of 45 cents per foot for sidewalks 5 feet long and shorter and 90 cents per foot for those over 5 feet - plus a 10% collection fee. Elderly and handicapped residents may have the fee donkey dung to an unflattering newspaper, another called the FBI and others are asking for recounts. "It dawned on me that I had so much frustration with this paper and maybe I ought to make a gesture, so I did," Democrat Howard Greenebaum said after he placed a plastic cup of donkey dung on the desk of the published of The Capitol in Annapolis, Md. A donkey, named Demmy, was the mascot for Greenebaum's losing campaign against six-term Republican Rep. Majorie Holt. The Capitol was not amused. While it published no story on the incident, the newspaper said in an editorial Thursday that Greenebaum "stooped to what is believed to be an all-time low in election i i i