Ninety-five Years of Editorial Freedom P cl LIE an IEaIIQ Relief Partly sunny with a high near 40. . ... ge Vol. XCV No. 77 Copyright 1984. The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Saturday, December 8, 1984 Fifteen Cents Eight Pages .r , ,> C F p Syr C4 Age .................s...eq. . Reents oppose v~~~.......s M2 C kYCR ~IrYIS appointed board By KERY MURAKAMI Members of the University's Board of Regents yesterday called a proposal to replace the board with an appointed panel "a mistake." The plan to have the governor appoint the boards at Michigan State and Wayne State Universitities and the University of Michigan is one of 24 recommendations which will re released next week, the Detroit Free Press reported yesterday. THE Governor's Commission on the Future of Higher Education will release a six-page outline of ideas they are con- sidering in their study of the state's colleges and universities. Regent Thomas Roach (D-Saline) said giving the Governor the authority to appoint members to the university governing boards will "take away the University's autonomy that it has en- joyed since 1862." He said that elected regents are more accountable to the people than appointed.- ones would be. The plan would allow the University to "be made into an agency of the state," he said. ROACH SAID there are problems with elected regents because people don't know what a regent is and tend to vote along party lines instead of on in- dividual merit. But in states that have appointed regents, there have been problems. "In Texas," Roach said, "the governor wanted to appoint his brother as dean of a law school." Regent Gerald Dunn (D. Garden City) also opposes the plan, calling it "useless" and predicting that it wil be removed before the list of recommen- The University would 'be made into an agency of the state.' - Regent Thomas Roach dations is released next week. HE SAID IT has been recommended in "every major educational study in the last 20 years," and never received the support of either of the parties. The controversial proposal will probably be removed from the report so that the "committee will not distract attention from other recommendations when it has no chance of even getting on the ballot," Dunn said. In order for the recommendation to be adopted, it would take an amen- dment to the state constitution ap- proved by the voters. THE COMMITTEE also plans to request increases in student financial aid, including raising Michigan Com- petitive Scholarships from their current maximum of $950 a year to $1,150 a year with cost of living in- creases in the future. The report will also recommend for- ming a state-funded work.astudy program and merit scholarships for high school students interested in teaching. The regents agreed with these recommendations. "I'm absolutely in favor of it," said Regent Gerald Dunn. "With the federal cuts in student assistance, universities and the stud- ents have had to take up the slack." A SURVEY conducted by the com- mission with the Michigan Association of Governing Boards found that one- third of those interviewed has had someone in their household apply for financial aid, with a significant number unable to attend college solely for financial reasons. An even larger num- ber of Michigan residents said someone in their household had had to withdraw from college because of money. Along with increases in financial aid expenditures, the new report also recommends $100 million for campus building renovations. Regent Deane Baker (R-Ann Arbor) said "all of these ideas should be im- plemented," but asked, "where will the money come from?" THE REPORT also calls for "im- mediate measures" to stabilize state college tuition costs, the nation's highest, but doesn't say how. Richard Kennedy, the University's vice president for government relations, said it would be unwise to comment because he hadn't yet seen the report, but did say that if "stabilizing" state tuition meant See GOVERNOR'S, Page 2 Associated Press Berkeley protest University of California police grab anti-apartheid protesters sitting in on the Berkeley campus Thursday. Four hundred demonstrators were on hand and eight arrests were reported. T Amay fire 12 TAs over 'union dues By LILY ENG The University may fire 12 graduate teaching and staff assistants who have failed to pay their mandatory fees to the Graduate Employees Organization, union officials said yesterday. Under the terms of the contract between GEO and the University the union is an agency shop, meaning all TAs must pay the dues regardless of whether they belong to the union. IF THE 12 fail to pay by mid- night Monday the University will comply with the terms of the con- tract and fire the TAs, according to Colleen Dolan-Greene, the University's assistant director of personnel. GEO's bargaining unit - the people they represent - numbers around 1,800. A member of the bargaining unit must pay the union bee but does not have to belong to the union. Of the 1,800, about 1,100 belong to GEO, said union vice president Matt Schaefer. GEO President Cindy Palmer said the Univesity sent each TA a statement at the beginning of the term explaining the union fee. "A majority of (TAs) ignored these statments," she said. GEO SENT deduction authorization cards out in Oc- tober so TAs could give jr- mission for the University to automatically deduct the dues from their paychecks, Palmer said. TAs who did not pay before See 'U,' Page 2 Lorch employees seek physicals By GEORGEA KOVANIS At least 23 University employees who have been exposed to asbestos will mail forms to the University Monday requesting free physical examinations. The employees, who work on the National Study of Black College Students, (NSBCS), a Center for Afroamerican and African Studies project, all work in Lorch Hall. The NSBCS team and other Lorch Hall employees were ex- posed to the potentially cancer-causing asbestos in October during renovation work. Tests conducted in mid-November showed asbestos levels in the air were within legal limits, but employees say they are worried "At least what we could expect to accomplish is to try to get a physical on the University's expense," said Adrienne Garcia, a NSBCS secretary. "I definitely do not think (we'll get physicals) but we'll definitely pursue it...because I'm not going to just sit here with my arms crossed." Garcia said physical exmaninations now which show that the employees are presently healthy would be helpful in proving the cause of any future illness. Ken Schatzle, director of the University's occupational safety office, said he did not know whether the requests for physicals would be granted. Protes By LAURIE DELATER Twelve anti-nuclear demonstrators were jailed indefinitely yesterday and another faces a lifetime of community service as a result of the group's non- violent protest Monday at Williams In- ternational Corp. in Walled Lake. Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Francis O'Brien yesterday sentenced the protesters to either of the two civil * contempt terms until they promise to obey a court injunction which prohibits blocking the plant's entrance. BUT ALL 13 refused to make that promise during their trial earlier this ;ters get week. They said the promise would deny them their right to protest the firm's production of cruise missile engines in the future. "You can translate that (sentence) into the following: life-imprisonment or life penal servitude, because they have said they won't agree not to go back," said University English Prof. William "Buzz" Alexander, a spokesman for the Ann Arbor Peace Community. All five University students arrested Monday for blocking Williams' front gate to employees chose the jail senten- ce. David Braun, a farmer in Ann Ar- bor Township, opted instead for com- 'life' sentence munity service work at the Salvation to the demonstrators. Army. EARLIER this year other Williams LATE yesterday afternoon the 12 protesters were released from in- prisoners sent a letter to O'Brien ex- definite jail sentences after they won a plaining why they turned down the stay from the Michigan Court of Ap- community service sentence. peals. The court's final, opinion on The court "failed to recognize that whether a judge can legally force the work we already do is service to the protesters to obey the injunction has not community ... We therefore choose to yet been handed down. "It could be remain in the Oakland County Jail weeks. It could be months," Goodman doing our service to the community," said. the letter said. Some of the demonstrators arrested The protesters, however, may appeal this week objected to fighting any sen- their sentence early next week, accor- tence set by the circuit court, saying the ding to Bill Goodman, an attorney in Detroit who acts as a free legal adviser See GROUP, Page 2 New Massachusetts law kills BOSTON (AP) - Drinkers mourned the death of the happy hour on Friday, the last workday before Massachusetts bans bars from luring customers with cut-rate cocktails. But tavern managers said they won't miss the after-work promotions for "liquid dynamite." New regulations outlawing liquor promotions such as two-for-one specials and chug-a-lug contests take effect Monday throughout the state as part of a cam- paign against drunken driving. "I THINK it stinks," said Michael Utera, 34, pf Braintree, as the sipped-a glass of scotch at Chadwick Park, a downtown Boston bar. "I think there are enough regulations in this country. Somebody doesn't have to tell me how to drink." A handful of bars and restaurants have advertised last-chance happy hours, but most said they planned to pass the final weekend before the ban without fan- fare. State liquor officials said they expected no unusual enforcement problems. happy hour "The regulations still say if you're caught serving an intoxicated person you can lose your license, and I don't think anyone is going to jeopardize their license to have one last blast," said George McCarthy, chairman of the state Alcoholic 'Beverage Com- mission, which drafted the new regulations. "It isn't so bad as it may look because it brings everyone to the same standard," said Steve McGrath, manager of Guido Murphy's on Cape Cod. "Now the guy up the street who used to serve two-for- ones won't hurt us." Precious commodity Associated Press An Ethiopian merchant exhibits a sack of powdered milk from the United States. Reports have uncovered that many local merchants buy food sent for relief from Ethiopian army officers, and resell it to the Sudan. TODAY- Bird-busters HE UNIVERSITY of Texas campus has been converted into what some say could be a set every night," he said. The birds feed away from the cam- pus during the day, but McKelvey said they return at night because the buildings provide them with wind shelter and the campus is relatively free of predators. "They just sack out here," he said. "They leave at dawn. When it's light enough to navigate, they boogie." University grounds and maintenance workers are using a pistol that propels firecracker-like explosives over the birds' treetop roosts to combat the problem, McKelvey said. "We're giving them a dose of their own medicine," he said. the company is expected to take in $300,000, about 10 times more than in 1976, its first year. Its customers, small municipalities in the Los Angeles area, find it cheaper to use than city workers. Tim said he got the idea for the com- pany when he operated a janitorial business in East Los Angeles, which has a persistent graffiti problem. In 1976, the brothers spent $1,500 for a gas-powered paint spraying machine, and in a year business was booming. mT 1rar during the same period last year, ranking 149th out of 173 elementary schools. "I promised the kids that if they reached 95 percent, they could shave my beard," Jones said. His offer was too tempting to pass up, and 36 students who showed up for every day of class got to take a swipe at his whiskers during a shaving ceremony Wednesday. "I knew you could do it," Jones told the students as barber Walter Chisholm, on hand in case of an emergency, tied an. apron around the principal's neck. "You earned this." I I i