Ninety-five Years of nEditorial Freedom' j:j; b r 4itcia i Iai1 Drowsy Mostly cloudy with light snow showers. High in the 20s. m. /ol. XCV.No. 100 Copyright 1985, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Thursday, January 31, 1985 Fifteen Cents Eight Pages i 'U'Council takes new pp roach on code By ERIC MATTSON The University Council yesterday agreed to try a new approach to for- mulating a code for non-academic con- uct. Instead of trying to develop a code that would cover all safety problems on campus, the council will discuss exac- tly what those problems are and possible alternative solutions to them. THE PROBLEMS include assault, property damage, arson, theft, and sexual harrassment. According to members of the council, past councils ran into problems in writing a code because they tried to ad- ess too many issues at one time. Under the new plan, the council will address problems with violence and problems with petty crimes separately. STUDENT leaders have fought to get the council to start from scratch in revising the code, while faculty mem- bers and administrators suggested that the council treat old versions of the code as working drafts. According to student representative aughn Alliton, the council has to "un- derstand our problems before we start talking about our remedies." At next Wednesday's meeting, the council will discuss the problem of Violence on campus and what the University's role shold be in dealing iwith violence. SOME STUDENTS have argued that violent crimes should be handled through the criminal justice system in- stead of through the University. But Virginia Nordby, exectuve bssistant to the president, argued at yesterday's meeting that an internal system would help keep dangerous students out of the University pending trial. Council members had asked Nor- dby to attend the meeting because she has served previously on the Council. Nordby cited a case in which an un- stable student caused a disturbance during a midterm exam, but was released and allowed back in . the Plassroom because the University had no way to keep him out. See 'U', Page 2 Ad prompts ** of U-Club By JERRY MARKON The Union's University Club Bar is under investigation once again by the state's Liquor Control Commission for possible violations of its liquor license, according to commission officials. This time the U-Club is being investigated for possibly breaking liquor laws by publicizing Labatt's beer along with the U-Club as sponsors of the "World's Largest Nacho Platter" in-newspaper advertisements and flyers hung around campus last November, said Jim Marohnic, an area supervisor for the Liquor Con- trol Commission (LCC). THIS INVESTIGATION is the third time the U-Club has been probed by the Liquor Control Commission since last summer. The bar has violated its license twice by selling liquor to patrons who were not U-Club members. The current investigation surrounds an advertisement which listed the U-Club as the place of a Nacho eating event, and featured the Union logo along with Labatt's name. Marohnic quoted the LCC's book of liquor rules: "The name of a retail licensee shall not appear in the advertising of a manufacturer of alcoholic beverages." HE SAID an advertisement for the U-Club's event, which JOIN US AT THE U-CLUB SATURDAY NOVEMBER 17.1984 mentions Labatt's as a .spon- sor, could also be considered ,iioEsc - an advertisement for the beer company. e The investigation will determine whether this adver- tisement was an adver - tisement for Labatt's. The in- ACHO PL . TER i t te d Kick back and watch as the wclve-ies lake cn the Bckt-e e O S01 vestigation was prompted PLACE: U-CLUB. UTICKETS: $2 when the LCC received a copy TIME: I HIGAN UNIOT of the ad anonymously, accor- ding to Walter Keak, deputy director of the commission's Adrertisement licensing and enforcement ... prompts investigation division. Officials of Labatt's San Diego office declined to comment on the ad. BUT MAROHNIC said "yes, it's advertising for Labatt's. The Labatt's name is advertising, and it's also advertising for the U-Club." Marohnic said the U-Club could be cited on a second violation if the investigation discovers that Labatt's and the bar entered into the advertisement jointly - an illegal arrangement known as "cooperative advertising." Labatt's donated 50 t-shirts to the Nacho Platter eating event, said Sherry Letavis, the University Activities Center vice president for publicity. SHE SAID "Labatt's sponsored us, we wanted to give them credit" by putting the company's name on the advertisement. "Whenever anybody sponsors an event we always put their logo on our posters," she said. 'If you do something for years without getting in trouble, you assume See STATE, Page 3 Daily Photo by DAN HABIB South Quad residents cope with strange yellow rain while waiting for dinner. URINALS LEAK THROUGH CEILING Beware of drips in Quad By SEAN JACKSON Things were a bit wet and stinky in the main lobby of South Quad yesterday after the pipeline from the third floor urinals sprung a leak. Sections of the lobby were taped off so that students, on their way to dinner in the dorm's cafeteria, could avoid the pools of water. BUILDING maintenance officials were called about the leaking pipe, desk worker Nancy Koch said, and the repairmen will probably begin to fix the problem today. Koch did not know what caused, the leakage. Maintenance of- ficials could not be reached for com- ment." No damage to the third floor bathrooms was reported. Housekeepers mopped up the mess before they left for the day and set out buckets to catch the dripping water, but by 5 p.m. new puddles had already for- med on the floor. A sign stuch onto the taping around the sectioned-off area said: "What you smell is what it is! Watch the drips!" STUDENTS passing through were left rather confused, but did not seem upset with the smelly mess. "I have no idea what it is,' said Bruce Irving, a sophomore in the engineering college, who after stum- bling through the lobby with a befud- died look said "I'll just hold my breath and bear it." After learning what was dripping, Kara Swanson, an LSA sophomore said, "I'm glad you told me . . . you just ruined my dinner.". BUT, SHE added, "it doesn't smell worse than the food they serve here." After a rash of fire alarms last fall, some students said a drippy ceiling was not out of the ordinary. "It's typical of the Quad, you expect things like that to happen. It always smells like sweatsocks anyway," said one resident, who asked not to be named. For students waiting in line to enter the cafeteria, the aroma did little to in- spire a ravenous appetite. "It's pretty disgusting and it doesn't really help my appetite," said Jessica Durrie, a LSA freshperson. ..... .......... MSA requests minority report By MARLA GOLD The Michigan Student Assembly Tuesday night unanimously passed a resolution condemning the Univer- sity's executive officers for withholding a report on the status of minority students. The 150-page document, written by Niara Sudarkasa, associate vice president for academic affairs, analyzes recruitment, retention, and-financial aid levels for minority students on campus. The report, the first of three studies on various concerns of minority students, was originally planned to be made public last November. EXECUTIVE officers are keeping silent on why release of the report has been stalled. -According to MSA President Scott Page, the report was initially completed Nov. 2 and turned over to the executive officers for approval. The report included recommendations for improving recruitment and retention of minority students, Sudarkasa said recently. But she declined to say whether the executive officers had endorsed or rejected those recommendations. Rather, she said sections of the report are still incomplete- and that she does not want to release the completed portions separately. She refused to comment on any aspects of the report. SUDARKASA is out of town and unavailable for comment this week. Sudarkasa last week told the Council of Minority Concerns, a panel of minority administrators, that she still "needs more facts and figures" before the report can be completed, according to council chairman Ron Aramaki. According to Roderick Linzie, MSA's minority researcher,. the student assembly has repeatedly been denied copies of the report. MSA members have been allowed to read the report, but said they would not comment until it is made public. See MSA, Page 2 Shapiro denies Daily compromise By ERIC MATTSON University President Harold Shapiro yesterday denied The Michigan Daily's request that he promise to appoint the Daily's first choice to the next opening See Editorial, Page 4 on the Board for Student Publications. Shapiro said he could not guarantee the appointment of Urban Lehner, bureau chief of The Wall Street Jour- nal in Detroit, because the next opening on the board will not occur until May. SHAPIRO said that appointing Lehner to the board is "not technically possible" because it would "fill a vacancy when none exists." The Daily said Lehner's appointment would rectify a mistake made by the administration in the selection of the newest member of the board. The president of the University is responsible for appointing three professional journalists and the board's faculty chairman to the board, while the Michigan Student Assembly appoints the three student members and the faculty Senate Assembly ap- points the other three members. THE DAILY contended that Shapiro violated a regental bylaw last Decem- ber when he appointed Frederick Currier, chairman and chief executive officer of Market Opinion Research in Detroit, to fill a spot on the board vacated by a member who resigned last August. According to the bylaw, Shapiro is supposed to appoint members from a See SHAPIRO, Page 3 Daily Photo by KATE O'LEARY Swing your partner Allison Pines and Mark Shervin sashay across the Diag in an improvised square dance yesterday. The two LSA sophomores find that dancing in the open air can be good clean fun. k. T ODAY Frosty the snowman SPARTANBURG, S.C. FAMILY tired of waiting for snow brought a truckload of it from the North decided we would just bring some back with us," Glover said. The family moved to Spartanburg from the North Carolina mountains two years ago, and since they've been here, the winters have been cold but virtually without snow. "We love the snow, and we've been missing it since we've been here," she said. R/ n r T U's n advantage of being able to turn viewers into political sup- porters. "I own a TV station," said Johnson, who leases his airtime from the cable network. "I can go on anytime I want and talk to the people." Johnson said that makes his grassroots connections stronger than the "society politics" of the incumbent, Lionel Wilson, and another opponent for the job, City Councilman Wilson Biles. He says he will waste no time debating them. Instead, he'll do his talking between music videos. "Being a promotions specialist," he said, "It's going to take someone with a lot of wits to beat me." Johnson says he has an annual income of $250,000 a ar fnm " nhlbat" nnerations in Oakland and Detroit. sion. "I understand there's four or five floors-I've only been on two of them," said Gov. Booth Gardner. He said the first time he got home from a trip to Seattle it was late at night and he thought there must have been 100 lights tur- ned on. "So like I would in my own home, I went around and started to turn them off," he said. "But after about half an hour I only had about a third of them off." On the incidp .al I i 1