Ninety-five Years of Editorial Freedom cl ble Sit 43UU 1 Iai1 Nordic Cloudy, with highs near 38 degrees. rr" *Vol. XCV, No. 71 Copyright 1984, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Saturday, December 1, 1984 Fifteen Cents Eight Pages U-Club to pay $00 in fines By GEORGEA KOVANIS The Union's University Club Bar must pay a total of $600 in fines for two violations of its liquor license which oc- curred when alcohol was sold to non- club members. The meeting between State Liquor Control Commission representatives and U-Club officials was a pre-trial con- ference to discuss the club's violations. It was held at the request of the U-Club board yesterday. HOWEVER, the administrative law judge who was in charge of the con- ference said that the penalties will be more severe if the club should acquire more violations. The U-Club was cited during the summer and again this fall for violating its "private club" liquor license when it sold drinks to liquor control officials. Under this license, only members of the University Club - students, faculty, and staff members and alumni - are allowed to purchase alochol. Club members may purchase alcohol for guests who accompany them to the club. The club was given the option of responding to its violations by mail, see STATE, Page 3 Reagan views budget freeze to cut deficit From AP and UPI WASHINGTON - White House Chief of Staff James Baker said yesterday that a federal spending freeze is "an option that the president is con- sidering," and Senate Majority Leader- elect Robert Dole indicated strong congressional support for the concept. Baker and Dole met to discuss what to do about the massive federal deficits, running above the $200 billion mark, and afterward the White House staff chief emphasized that "no decisions have been made" by Reagan. REAGAN IS more than halfway through a line-by-line examination of next year's budget and will make cuts in the spending requests of each depar- tment, spokesman Larry Speakes said yesterday. ONLY SOCIAL Security is off limits, because of Reagan's 1984 campaign promise not to cut the retirement program. Speakes said the Department of Education, spun off into a separate department by President Jimmy Car- ter and which Reagan tried to eliminate his first two years in office, will remain alive, although possible with less money. "ALL departments will have cuts or reductions in growth of spending than had been planned," Speakes said. Defense spending, part of which has already been set in law, would continue growing, although by how much was still in dispute. In their talks, White House officials were trying to put together a budget package for the upcoming fiscal year that could limit outlays to the $830 billion figure projected for this year. In- terest on the national debt, pegged at some $130 billion, is not included in that total. The budget advisers have set a goal of slashing federal spending by $45 billion in 1986, $85 billion in 1987 and $110 billion in 1988, but the president has not yet adopted that recommen- dation, one official said. Such a plan would force the deficit down to a range of about $165 billion to $170 billion in 1986 and to a bit more than $100 billion in 1988. The 1985 deficit is projected at $206 billion, which would surpass the record of $195.4 billion in 1983. It was $174.3 billion in 1984. Graphic art Associated Press Undressed coeds open the eyes of Northern Illinois University graphic arts student, Mike Whealan. The N.I.U. coeds bare all, or almost all, in a popular calendar produced by an off campus printer. 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But an amendment to MUBR's charter ap- proved by University Vice President for Student Services Henry Johnson in May took away the MSA committee's right to screen the applicants by creating a MUBR panel-which includes one MSA representative to handle the applicants. MSA protested the change saying the move violated their rights as specified in the regent's bylaws to appoint students to University com- mittees. MSA vice president Steve Kaplan sent a letter of protest to MUBR on Monday and in- formed the assembly of his correspondence at the meeting Tuesday night. BUT AFTER yesterday's meeting between LSA senior Michael Perigo, chairperson of MUBR, and MSA leaders, the two groups ap- peared closer to working out a solution. "We presented out views. They presented their views," said Kaplan, "and we came away with a clear picture of each other's interests." Perigo seemed optimistic about the discussion. "It was a really good meeting. It helped get our views out in the open," Perigo said. HE SAID part of the problem stemmed from "bad communication among the wrong people." "MSA was upset that we didn't go in front of their assembly with the amendment," Perigo said. "We only went through their represen- tative, John Haughton." When the amendment was being considered last spring, MSA didn't know the change might actually be approved, Kaplan said. Last year's assembly was notified of the amendment, and the group sent a letter to Johnson outlining the assembly's opposition, he said. AFTER THE assembly took over, Kaplan said, MSA president Scott Page and Haughton spoke with Johnson, who gave them the im- pression that he would not approve the change without further discussion. Controversy arose when MSA saw adver- See MUBR, Page 2 .. ,: .. :rH ...... .. . .... .. . . . ......... . ...* q. a.i.a w . .. . ,A : .. ., ::.. ... :. .v r.:r;R.::.... ,:.:.r.r..:n. p."'r * * AS ES O SIGN DISPUTED .:.. , ..... .:.....:....r. .. .A... _...... .. :. :..... '. ao ,-':' Asbestos concerns By GEORGEA KOVANIS University employees who work in Lorch Hall con- tinue to remain concerned about the traces of asbestos found in the air in that building. The traces of asbestos left after asbestos insulation was removed from the pipes in the building are under the maximum amounts allowed by the government. PROF. THOMAS Holt, director of the University's Center for Afroamerican and African Studies (CAAS) which is housed in Lorch, said he is concerned about the situation. Holt added that he was concerned because the asbestos level tests were done about three weeks af- ter the asbestos was removed from the building's wing which is under construction. He acknowledged the testing results and added, "but that of course ... was done after the fact." It is possible that higher levels of asbestos in the air were present during the time it was removed. "IT'S A big question mark," he said. "It would seem logical to me that the levels would be higher (during the asbestos removal)," he added. "We have no reason to believe we were exposed to hazardous levels but at the same time, we don't know." Barry Johnson of the Washtenaw County Health Department's environmental safety division, agrees. The levels of asbestos "certainly would have been ' workers higher at the time of the removal," he said. No asbestos level tests were taken during the removal because the workers who removed the asbestos were confident that their removal method would not allow the asbestos to contaminate the air, said Tom Schlaff, the University project engineer overseeing the Lorch Hall renovations. THE UNIVERSITY'S occupational health and safety office didn't perform any tests until Nov. 12, 16, and 20 because University employees working n Lorch did not complain until Nov. 9, said Gary Monroe the office's manager. See ASBESTOS, Page 2 Mazda announces plant, UAW negotiations From AP and UPI DETROIT-Mazda Motor Corp. an- nounced yesterday it will spend $450 million for an all new assembly plant on an old Ford Motor Co. site, and will be the first Japanese automaker to bargain with the United Auto Workers Union. Mazda, Japan's third-largest car- maker, said it planned to break ground in Flat Rock, Mich., this spring and begin turning out cars in the fall of 1987, gradually building to a top output of 240,000 cars a year by 3,500 employees. THE COMPANY said it was negotiating the sale of some of the cars' to Ford Motor Co., which would market them under the Ford name as 1988 models. Unlike the three other Japanese companies with U.S. car and truck plants, Mazda included the United Auto Workers union when it set up discussion,- eight months ago with local and state. political leaders and auto supply com- panies. The company and the UAW said they had reached "an understanding" about labor force representation at the plant. "WE DO have a basic understanding with Mazda about the operation at Flat Rock and we will have moreI about that in due course," President Owen Beiber said. to say UAW "We are particularly pleased to acknowledge Mazda's statement that it is going to participate in the United States market by producing cars locally," Bieber said. "That is what we have been saying, in essence, to all the Japanese auto companies." Mazda seated Bieber next to thei highest-ranking member of its delegation, Managing Director Hirotaka Iida, during the company's Detroit news conference. Bieber said later, "I wouldn't be here if we didn't have the basics put together." Governor James Blanchard, who visited Mazda's Hiroshima plant in June, said supplies could generate three to five times the 3,500 jobs at the site. A large construction force also will be required. "It will reverberate throughout the Detroit area and Michigan for years to come, perhaps 20,000 jobs, I don't know..." he said. "You are witnessing, I believe, a milestone in United States-Japanese relations," Blanchard said. Superpig Associated Press Victoria Herberta hugs her pet pig Priscilla, the American Humane Association's Stillman Award winner. Priscilla's rescue of a drowning 11- year-old boy from certain death last summer won her the title of the year's most heroic animal. TODAY Novel Name t's a sure bet that the first word spoken by a Raleigh newborn won't be his own name-one with 8,000 letters, which his parents say is the world's longest. The name for the 7-pound, 7-ounce boy, born Wednesday at Wake Medical Center, will probably fill hnut 34 single-snced tvnewritten noaensccrding to his Funny faces P articipants in the 10th annual grinning festival put on their best funny faces Thursday in North Hollywood, California, and these three came away win- ners. From left to right they are Ralph Fleming, of Whit- tier, California, who took first place; Linda Conrad, who placed second; and Gary Johnson, a resident of Sepulveda, California who placed third. I~ ~ I