Ninety-five Years of Editorial Freedom cl be Litwi 3a ~Iai1Q Conspiracy Increasing cloudiness with a chance for light snow in the af- ternoon. High around 30. Vol. XCV, No. 74 Copyright 1984, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Wednesday, December 5, 1984 Fifteen Cents Eight Pages MSA fights for minority recruiter By NANCY DOLINKO The Michigan Student Assembly last night voted unanimously to send a let- ter asking the dental school to retain a minority admissions officer. " The letter, written by MSA's black student researcher Roderick Linzie, condemns the school for eliminating the position of Lee Jones, program recruiter, counselor, and admissions officer, who is responsible for recruit- ment of minority students in the school and assuring that financial aid is available to these students. * THE POSITION is being eliminated due to budget cuts, Jones said. a Jones' position, which also includes academic counseling for minority students, was created in 1970 as a result of the Black Action Movement and the Equal Opportunity Program. At that time, the University set a goal of 10 percent black enrollment. See MSA, Page 2 Court finds protesters in contempt Daily Photo by STU WEIDENBACH Frozen faces Engineering sophomores Eliot DeWit and Ann Dwyer use different tactics to shield their face and ears from the bitter cold yesterday, when temperatures stayed stubbornly below the freezing mark. By LAURIE DELATER Special to the Daily PONTIAC - The 13 demonstrators arrested Monday at Williams Inter- national Corp. in Walled Lake were found in civil contempt of court yester- day for blocking the plant's entrance. The protesters were released until Friday morning, when they will be formally sentenced. Under civil con- tempt charges, they can be sent to jail indefinitely until they agree to obey a year-old court injunction which prohibits blocking the firm's front gate. THE DEMONSTRATORS, however, said they might return to Williams in the future in order to protest the firm's production of cruise missile engines. Dawn Phillips, an attorney for Williams, asked Oakland County Cir- cuit Court Judge Francis O'Brien for the civil contempt sentence rather than a maximum 30-day criminal sentence. "We are not here to punish. We are here to gain cooperation and observan- ce of this injunction," Phillips said. THE JUDGE'S decision came after an emotional 90-minute trial during which the protesters explained why they could not promise to obey the in- junction. "My actions . .. came as a result of what I feltwas a calling of the Holy Spirit," said LSA junior Carter Cor- telyou, one of the five University students arrested on Monday. "To promise that I would not violate the injunction would be saying that if the Holy Spirit called me again, I would- State can't control 'U' ratios O'Neill ... might demonstrate again By SEAN JACKSON University officials are currently violating a state legislature appropriations bill, but because of previous court decisions, the state can do little to en- force the rule. Over the years, the number of out-of-state students accepted into the University has steadily increased as officials try to compensate for an expected drop in the number of qualified in-state students. THE LAW, passed in the 1970s, stipulates that no public state university with less than 20 percent of its students coming from out-of-state could exceed that percentage in the future. Universities which had already surpassed the 20 percent figure can't exceed the percentage of out-of- state students they enrolled in 1974. In the year the law was passed, the University's three campuses enrolled just under 20 percent out-of- state students. This fall, the ratio of out-of-state students enrolled by the University has increased to 25 percent. Despite the apparent violation, the law is not enfor- ced because the courts have ruled that such man- dates are a violation of the universities' autonomy. "IF IT IS expressed as a mandate, it is uncon- stitutional because the legislature" cannot tell the University how many non-Michigan students they may enroll, said Roderick Daane, the University's general counsel. The state can, however, tell the public universities how many students it will fund. The legislature can say that it's going to base appropriations on a certain amount of students and that they will fund the University only for those students, said Gary Selanger, a higher education fiscal analyst in Lan- sing. And, although the University is technically not in violation of the law, they may still incur the wrath of the legislature. SSee ST ATE, Page 2 have to violate that calling," he said, adding he is a candidate for the ministry. O'BRIEN repeatedly questioned Cortelyou and the other demon- strators who gave similar responses. In regard to Residential College junior Ken Jannot's remarks, the judge asked, "Is the Holy Spirit talking to you too? Or is something else?" O'Brien asked the protesters why they chose to block Williams' em- ployees from going to work instead of See PROTESTERS, Page 2 Colleges strive for new images From the Associated Press Quick: What pops into your mind when someone says "University of Miami? Berkeley? Bennington? Brooklyn College? Rose-Hulman In- stitute of Technology?" Schools' images can sometimes make or break them, say some higher education administrators, especially if the image is negative, misleading or outdated and thus stigmatizes the school and repells potential students. TRUE OR NOT, many high school students and their parents regard the University of Miami as "Suntan U," Berkeley as a hotbed of radicalism, Bennington as a pricey haven for ar- tists in the Vermont woods, and Brooklyn College as a once glorious but now downtrodden city school. Image is a growing concern at colleges and universities as com- petition intensifies to attract able high school graduates and as the quality and direction of higher education comes under attack in federal studies. 'We plan to become smaller, but better.' - Dwight Smith University of Denver president In some cases, college images are simply outmoded. Berkeley is a long way from its 1960s radical past. Most students are still politically liberal. About 70 percent voted Democratic, ac- cording to spokesman Ray Colvig. But there is now a sizable conservative presence on campus. The "Berkeley Barb," the prototype for underground student newspapers a generation ago, died four years ago, replaced by a con- servative weekly, the "Berkeley Review." BENNINGTON is still exceptionally expensive - about $16,000 a year total cost - and still appeals to the ar- tistically inclined. But president Michael Hooker has introduced com- puters into the curriculum to broaden the school's appeal. "We always had a certain smugness. We were sometimes misperceived as being a luxury that students could ill af- ford," he said. Likewise, land grant schools like Michigan State University have outgrown condescending imagery like "Cow College," or "Moo U." Most remain committed to agricultural research, but many have also taken the lead in such areas as biogenetic engineering. OCCASIONALLY a school's image problem is lack of image. Rose-Hulman Tech, one of the nation's better technical schools, is virtually unknown outside Terre Haute, Ind. Its anonymity is due partly to a name change in 1972, after being known as Rose Polytechnic for 100 years, and partly to a lack of athletic teams to get the school's name on television. Self-effacing humor has helped solve the problem, said Rose-Hulman president Sam Hulbert. He recently started "Operation Catapult" as an at- tention-getter - a tongue-in-cheek mailer to prospective students that in- cludes a "Ski Terre Haute" poster and boasts that a major campus activity is "going to the local truck stop and wat- ching gas tanks rust." Apparently it's working. This fall, there were 2,809 applications for 350 See IMAGES, Page 3 ..:v:::n"::::; .:}:K..:}:}i'}iiJL":""::....::.:.:.:......:::..::::::: :.;::::......... ..... ............. ........ ::......... .................... ........34:}}:::::. . . . . . . . . . . . . ..:v::: x.4::v :. ::". v:. ::n.:: ...: . .:....v .. ...r....:: v ::v..::. r:. :......... Computer backers harass reporter SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Teenage computer hackers seeking electronic revenge against a Newsweek reporter who cracked their secret network and wrote about their abuses, have threatened his life, stolen his credit card numbers, and put him on "teletrial," he said yesterday. "The hardest part about this is remembering how significant what they've done is," said Richard Sandza. "Calling me up and harassing me is one thing. But going into my credit reports got my attention. That really ticked me off." THE HARASSMENT began after the magazine's Nov. 12 issue described what Sandza found when he infiltrated the electronic underground, a network of young hackers who routinely outwit official computer security systems and post their findings on com- puterized bulletin boards nationwide. "Most of these people traffic in illegal information - credit card numbers, dial-up access numbers for long-distance phone service, how to do this or that: everything from picking locks to making nitroglycerin," Sandza said. Access to the bulletin boards is not automatic, he said. "You have to tell them why you deserve it. I took the name 'Montana Wildhack' and began dialing in and establishing myself through messages. I had the lingo down and could tell them why I should get in," said Sandza, who described himself to other hackers as "knowing a lot about computer security and having a lot of contacts." WITHIN WEEKS, he had infiltrated some of the See HACKERS, Page 3 Associated Press Peace on earth Residents of Lake City, Mich. pose with a greeting card they made yester- day which will be sent along with a 25-year-old blue spruce tree to the White House Blue Room. :" ..............................::...::...........................:....::::::".::::::::. ::::..:.::. . . . ............................................................ .............. ..........................:. .... .. ........................... :. r :;:.; ;: ;.::<;.::;:.;r:<">:.;:. ":: :-:? . TODAY Charity brain trust n most marathons, participants flex their muscles not their brains. This Saturday, students at Pennsylvania State University will do the opposite in a five-hour "study-a-thon" to help charity. Participants in the study-a-thon, sponsored by the Penn State Undergraduate Student Government Senate, will study to benefit Big Brothers and Big Sisters and a local home for wayward boys, John Ross, a student government senator, said yesterday. According to Ross, the study-a-thon is the direct Penn State's Hetzel Ballroom will be transformed into a study room, complete with long tables and comfortable chairs. The participants are expected to undergo five hours of quiet study time with five short intervals of rest. Penn State did not say whether doctors have been contacted in case of any immediate dangers of stress. However, TAs will be stationed in separate rooms for student tutoring. Ross admits that a study-a-thon is a unique way to earn money for charities. However, he said, "If people weren't interested, we never would have started it." Bourgeois denim from American-style denim trousers to Chinese-designed "Apples" and "Teleweebs," the report said. Western-style clothing was unheard of in China until a few years ago, because the Communist Party's 1966-76 Cultural Revolution accused those who did not wear loose-fitting trousers and jackets of bourgeois vanity, foreigner worship, and in- dividualism. But when the jeans came under official attack last year, the movement was quickly squelched because it was so unpopular. "When I first tried on a pair of jeans, I felt I was doing something bad and was uneasy," the paper quoted an unidentified 16-year-old as saying. "But the jeans were so attractive that I just could not resist them." associated with the prison, so they requested the name chang. Opponents of the switch suggested a few other possible labels such as "Lily of the Valley" and "Daisyville." A contest was held to come up with the new name, with the Cedar Junction idea winning final approval. The name was taken from an old railroad station formerly located on the site of the corrections facility. On the inside... i i ,I