Ninety-five Years of Editorial Freedom I C be Lit46 1~Iai1r Reprieve Windy and warmer today. Clear with highs in the fifties. Vol. XCV, No. 60 Copyright 1984, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Wednesday, November 14, 1984 Fifteen Cents Ten Pages Suicidal sniper terrifies Oregon camp us From AP and UPI EUGENE, Ore. - A 19-year-old sniper who killed a former Olympic sprinter and wounded a student wrestler before taking his own life had taken about 300 rounds of ammunition into the University of Oregon's stadium, police said yesterday. Police had not yet counted the car- tridges found in Autzen Stadium after Michael Feher opened fire Monday with two high-powered rifles, but they estimated 65 to 75 shots were fired, said police Sgt. Eric Mellgren. "SINCE HE is dead and didn't talk to anybody before it happened, we may never know what went through his head or why," Mellgren said. But friends and relatives of Michael Feher suggested he "must have gone haywire" and carried out a "grander scale" version of a suicide try he halfheartedly made last summer at the same site - the University of Oregon's Autzen Stadium. He had a hard time dealing with even small problems, they said, and was confused and bothered by grades, girlfriends, and finances. FEHER, WHO had taken two ROTC See SNIPING, Page 5 MSA vetoes suicide pill referenduim By NANCY DOLINKO spirit." MSA HAS formed a committee to The Michigan Student Assembly last work with SANS on rewording the night turned down a ballot proposal proposal. which would request that the Univer- According to Karen Mysliwiec, an sity Health Service stockpile suicide LSA senior who is the leader of SANS on pills for optional student use in the campus, the group isn't discouraged by event of nuclear war. the proposal's defeat. "We'll be back," However, MSA members said they she said. would probably discuss the proposal The group is seeking to increase the again. public's awareness to the threat of MSA had two major concerns with nuclear war. "We're not trying to the proposal. The first is the use of the promote suicide," said the SANS word suicide. "I don't feel this is treasurer, who refused to give her healthy for the community," said An- name. drew Hartman, an LSA junior. AT LEAST one MSA member said he THE OTHER concern was over the was disappointed with 'his group's legitimacy of Students Against Nuclear decision to reject the proposal. "I'm Suicide (SANS), the group behind the disappointed it didn't pass. People I plan. "SANS has to prove that it's more talked to supported it," said J. Homer than a media event," said Eric Thiel, an MSA member. Schaufer, MSA's law school represen- SANS is scheduled to generate more tative. publicity today as they plan a die-in in Twelve out of 20 MSA members front of the Michigan Union. SANS vetoed having a referendum on the pill members declined to give the time of s on :next April's ballot. the protest. "We defeated it but its not like it's not DUE TO misunderstandings of the coming up next week,' said MSA Vice- -rules of MSA, the Assembly accidently President Steve Kaplan. "The wording closed discussion on the SANS proposal was defeated, not the idea, intent or See PILL, Page 2 Daily Photo by STU WEIDENBACH Gretchen Matz, from the Panhellenic Association is awarded a plaque from Scott Ruble, of the national Institute of Burn Medicien. Pan-hel donated over six thousand dollars through a plant sale fundraiser to the Institute. Reagan signs bill to increase financial aid in 1985 WASHINGTON (CPS) - Students locked out of 1984 federal financial aid programs could find some opened doors next year under the fiscal year 1985 education funding bill signed by President Reagan last week. Student financial aid funds comprise nearly half of the $17.9 billion education package, with $3.6 billion earmarked for PELL grants and $3 billion for Guaranteed Student Loans. The funding- represents a $1.7 billion increase from last year's budget, and is nearly $1.5 billion more than the. president wanted in the 1985 budget. "WE THINK the increases will loosen up financial aid sub- stantially," said Lou Dietrich, a spokeswoman for the Depar- tment of Education. "The budget exceeds our request for 1985 and provides a great deal of aid." He says "there are increases in just about every program for 1985. It certainly provides students with more aid op- tions." The Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants (SEOG) program will get $40 million more, National Direct Student Loans (NDSL) $35 million more, and College Work/Study $37.5 million more than 1984 levels. REAGAN HAD requested last February, that PELL grants be funded at current levels, NDSL's be drastically cut, and SEOG's and State Student Incentive Grants eliminated. He also proposed to increase Work Study and Guaranteed Student Loan Allocations. In addition, the Office of Management and Budget earlier this year proposed letting inflaton eat away more aid programs by keeping budgets the same through the next four years. Instead, the Congress passed legislation, increasing the total educational budget by 14 percent. Bill Krueger, director of public informaton for the American Council on Education, sees some significance in Reagan's signing of the bill. He sees this as an indicator that he won't pursue his financial aid proposals as strongly as he had in the past. COLLEGE fiinancial aid directors around the country, bat- tered by four years of aid cuts, seem relieved but not content. "We've always had a problem here with lack of funds," said Alan Shipley of Northern Arizona University. "Any in- crease will make it easier for students to apply for and receive the dollars they need." See MORE, Page 3 Nicaragua escalates state of national alert From AP and UPI MANAGUA, Nicaragua - Defense Minister Humberto Ortega yesterday said U.S. officials are conditioning the American public to accept an invasion of Nicaragua and vowed to step up a national alert to protect his country r against attack. "If the Marines invade, they will see what the tanks are for," Ortega said, ,referring to the dozens of Soviet tanks positioned throughout Managua for the second straight day. THE RULING Sandinista junta Mon- day declared a national state of alert, mobilizing tens of thousands of armed forces, regulars, reserves, militia. members and high school students. Pentagon spokesman Michael Burch ' yesterday repeated U.S. denials that an invasion was planned. But he charged there was "enough circumstantial evidence" to indicate Nicaragua may be planning an offensive against neigh- boring El Salvador or Honduras. "We do believe that Nicaragua poses a threat to the sovereignty" of El Salvador and Honduras, Burch said. "If our assistance was requested, we would provide whatever is appropriate." BURCH refused to elaborate further when asked if such assistance might in- clude the deployment of American troops. Tensions between Washington and Managua exploded Nov. 6, when Washington reported that a Soviet freighter that could be carrying MiG 21 jets had docked in Nicaragua. The Reagan administration warned it would not tolerate delivery of advanced com- bat jets to the leftist government in Managua. The Reagan administration said yes- terday that Nicaragua has been receiving advanced weapons from the Soviet Union and other allied countries at "an unprecedented rate" in the last six weeks to two months. AT THE State Department, deputy spokesman Alan Romberg said that even though there is no indication Nicaragua has received advanced combat aircraft, the level of heavy weaponry that the Sandinistas have been acquiring "exceeds anything which is justifiable in purely defensive terms. " Since Reagan's warning, leftist San- dinista leaders have warned the nation's 3 million citizens that a U.S. invasion is imminent. Sandinista leaders say plans by the United States to destroy their leftist revolution crystalized after President Reagan's re-electioin. Junta leader and president-elect Daniel Ortega first signaled his government's fear in a speech before the United Nations in September. THE DEFENSE minister, Kaniel's brother, said "the most reactionary circles of the United States" are con- ditioning the American people td accept a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua as they accepted the U.S. invasion of Grenada. Reciting what he called evidence of the American plans - increased U.S. See U.S., Page 5 x 4 /ur ace chge ies uso wons evr uns.tmc .ler, ..d mantiin Au th DAde no. ?w *4 ' ; :::-:::2;:. ":"r::;"o-:.::.;;:::::iia "it:;3;;::i::: ::i:;::2;Ys5s:::',""::r ::r<:::'tr:?:3>:::::> ::: ;:;;;::>: ;;:: >: :.:: :,:.::::. : ............ .. ..................... ... ...... ....... ... .... .. ..... .... .......... . LSA-SG elections proceed smoothly By THOMAS HRACH After the first day of voting for LSA Student Government (LSA-SG), all is running smoothly according to elections director Miriam Dushay. Yesterday a continuous stream of voters turned out to cast their ballots for the LSA counci. But noticeably absent from the polling places were any signs of the SPOCX party headed by LSA junior Greg Degraff. Michelle Tear, who is running for president on the SAID ticket, was at the Undergraduate library along with some of the representatives on the ticket. The elections, which end tonight at 9 p.m., have been run by the Pi Beta Phi sorority which agreed to administer the polling places at the request of Dushay, a pharmacy school senior. Megan Gugino, and LSA senior, said she saw manning the tables at the UGLi last night as her "philanthropic duty" to Debbie Van Tuyl, and LSA junior who cast her ballot last night, said voting was 'very important no matter what the election. "Some of the candidates I knew previously, but for the others I just listened to their propositions," Van Tuyl said, explaining how she chose her candidates. Some of the LSA voters cited a lack of information about all the representatives on the ballot. Kathryn Grimes, a LSA sophomore, said she didn't know enough about the represen- tatives to vote for all 15 positions. Grimes said she did go out of her way to vote yesterday because she had a friend on the ballot running for a represen- tative postion. See LSA-SG, Page 5 . *.*. . . . ........ ...... TODAY- A kosher pig? ANIMAL HUSBANDRY researchers say they have found a pig-like creature in the wilds of Indonesia that is not only kosher but might injunction is that for an animal to be kosher, it has to have two things: it must chew the cud and split the hoof. If it has those qualities, then it would be kosher," Zeldin said. Ordinary pigs have cloven hooves but do not chew their cud and are therefore not considered kosher. The babirusa, which eats leaves, berries and grubs in the forests of eastern Indonesia, has even drawn the attention of the U.S. Agency for International Development. The creature's ex- tra stomach "may make the babirusa a more efficient meat producer than the pig in some environments," the agency said in its quarterly publication "Horizons." "In addition, cultures that do not eat swine might accept the babirusa," 01 .w ln fn - - e -r season, according to spokeswoman Sonia Samelson. And she says it doesn't matter whether the person in the Santa suit is a man or a woman. "We really don't think of Santa as male or female," she said. "It's just important to be easygoing, cheerful, have an understanding of children and parents. "Our Santas have been college students, retired senior citizens, housewives, professional types like lawyers and certified public accountants...just everybody who has the Chrismas spirit." What do students learn at Santa U.? Things like never shouting "Ho, ho, ho" to easily frightened 3-year-olds. Prospective Santas are also taught how to make their eyes twinkle, and crucial facts, such as how many reinder Santa has Western Ohio Pizza Inc., the Domino franchise holder here, began test-marketing the "bake-ups" on Monday, and the 17 Domino's stores in the Dayton area sold about 394 of the pies, said Western Ohio President Eric Marcus. "We could have done a lot more. I think it's not bad for the first day," Marcus said. The other pizza breakfasts are ham, cheese, and egg; bacon, tomato, and egg; and aple and blueberry with cinnamon streusel topping. The 10-inch pies are available from 5 a.m. to 11 a.m., sell for $4.95 and come with 24 ounces of coffee and a free USA Today newspaper. Domino's even makes wake-up calls. I i i