Page 2 -'The Michigan Daily -- Friday, February 1, 1985 -- -----mm m mmm- -- mm- - - - 1 Ann Arbor's I 1 Authorzed Dealer I 1 1 Apple Computer Dealer is II offering you special savings on all MacintoshW software in stock. 10% off when you buy 2 or more! I (with this ad) I MICROSOFT. Basic I Mulitplan and Chart i Sargon I11(computer chess) I 1 Transylvania (adventure) ' Trivia Dollars & SenseT 1 _________________ LearningCenterLtd. Macintosh is trade-1 1 mrark registered to 1 computer and software specialists A40ecomputerinc. 1 1 381 N. Maple Rd., Maple Village Shopping Center 996-1616 Principal taps tones to titillate tardy teens CHICAGO (AP) - A high school has cut its tardiness rate in half by calling the homes of chronically late students and relaying a tape-recorded message from the principal - what one disgrun- tled parent calls a "glorified wake-up service." "Your child has been continually late in coming to school," the recording says. "I will continue to make this call until the problem is solved. Thank you for your cooperation." WALTER Pilditch, principal of Morgan Park High School, said studen- ts targeted by the $9,000 computerized calling system are not taking his advice lightly. "The students don't like it, but many more of them are getting here on time,'' said Pilditch. An average of 110 students had been reporting late for class at the far South Side high school with an enrollment of 2,200. "THAT was about 5 percent of the FREE BOOKLET: "Summary of Electronic Surveillance Techniques Available to the Ann Arbor Police." CAPITOL INFORMATION Box 8275, Ann Arbor, MI 48107 student body and we considered that much too high," he said. "Now, only 45 to 50 students are tardy each day." Pilditch believes Morgan Park may be one of the first schools in the nation to combat chronic tardiness with a message from what he calls the "robot phone." The calls have not been well received by the mother of at least one chronic oversleeper. "THE telephone is in our room so it's me and my husband who are getting woke up, not my son. We're the ones being punished," said Lucy Wistreich, whose son Matthew is a senior. Lew Armistad, spokesman for the National Association of Secondary School Principals, agrees that Morgan Park's approach to tardiness is novel. "The association is in favor of any plan that gets more students in school," Amistad said in a telephone interview from Reston, Va. "We need to instill a sense of responsibility in ourchildren and they're not going to get that at home in bed." However, Armistad said he was con- cerned that the program might create a sense of dependency: "It would be un- fortunate if students came to use the wake-ups as a crutch." Pilditch shares that concern. "Just the other day a student ex- plained that he was late because he did not get his wake-up call," he said. 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Supplementary required materials are available at the Office of Financial Aid. 4 AN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports 4 Senate passes budget resolution LANSING-The Senate yesterday narrowly approved a balanced budget resolution which could put the nation one state short of the number necessary to force the first constitutional convention in nearly two centuries.: However, there are strong indications the resolution, which cleared the Republican Senate on a 19-12 vote, will face tough going in the Democratic- controlled House. As it stands now, the resolution calls on Congress to adopt a proposed amendment requiring a balanced federal budget and send it to the states for ratification, or to call a constitutional convention for that purpose. Thirty-two of 34 states necessary to force action have approved similar resolutions. Michigan would be the 33rd. A convention would "potentially risk our Constitution," said Sen. Gary Corbin, a Clio Democrat opposing the resolution. "I guess I'm willing to live: with our Constituion." Court excludes biased juries :i' LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Hundreds of death-row inmates may get temporary reprieves because of a federal appeals court ruling that states have uncon- stitutionally excluded people from juries soley because they would never vote for capital punishment, legal experts said yesterday. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals deciding an Arkansas case Wed- nesday, said its opinion - covering only cases deciding the issue of guilt or innocence and not penalty-could affect hundreds of people on death rows nationwide. In its 5-4 decision, the St. Louis-based court said that when a trial court ex- cludes from a jury those people who can under no circumstances vote for the death penalty, it denies the defendant his Sixth Amendment right to be tried by a panel representing a cross-section of the community. The decision allows the state to use a "death qualified" jury only in the'' penalty phase of a capital trial, or to turn the decision on punishment over t,, the trial judge. Most states already divide death-penalty cases in to guilty and penalty phases. The 8th Circuit includes Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Mississippi; Nebraska and the Dakotas. As of Dec. 20, there were 67 death-row inmates in those states. Nationwide, there were 1,464, according to the American Civil, Liberties Union. Polish policeman denies murder TORUN, Poland-A lawyer for a secret police captain facing the death penalty in the death of a pro-Solidarity priest said yesterday his client didn't' mean to kill the cleric and demanded the murder charges be dropped. Capt. Griegorz Piotrowski, charged with directing the kidnapping, beating, and murder of the Rev. Jerzy Popielusiko, could haye shot the priest with his revolver but did not, lawyer Janusz Ilasz told a Torun court in-- his final arguments. "Piotrowski may have hit the priest with a club but did not intend to kill him. If he had wanted to do that he could have shot him with his revolver." Ilasz demanded the prosecution drop murder charges against Piotrowski and charge him only with kidnapping, an offense carrying a maximum 10- year prison term. The prosection Tuesday demanded the death penalty for Piotrowski as a "cold cruel criminal' guilty of premeditated murder. Popieluszko, whose sermons in support of the outlawed Solidarity uniori angered the comminist government, was abducted and killed Oct. 19. His'. bound and gagged body was retrieved from a reservoir on the Vistula River near Torun Oct. 31. Botha offers freedom to activist CAPE TOWN, South Africa-President P. Botha announced yesterday.' that the government would free black activist Nelson Mandela if he agreed to renounce violence. Mandela, South Africa's most prominent opponent of white minority rule, has served 20 years of a life sentence..' The offer to free Mandela and other imprisoned members of his African National Congress, the ANC, appeared to be a significant move away frorh' prevailing white opinion. However, initial reaction by blacks suggested Mandela was not likely to accept it. Mandela's lawyer said: "I can't imagine his looking at his own release to the exclusion of what he believes in. Mandela talks about the ANC while Botha only talks about the man, Mandela." Mandela, 66, was sentenced to life in prison for planning sabotage against the government. Even though he is allowed to communicate with only a small group of people, he remains the effective leader of South Africa's 22-million black majority and the 73-year-old African National Congress. Economic indicators fall slightly WASHINGTON-The index of leading indicators, a sensitive economic: barometer, dropped 0.2 in December, the government reported yesterday, x but a White House spokesman said the economy remains 'excep- tionally strong." It was the fifth setback in seven months for the index, the kind of trend that often points to a new recession. Another report yesterday showed new fac- tory orders down 0.7 percent, suggesting the economy still has a long way to go to regain strength lost in the second half of last year. The leading index ended 1984 only 0.9 percent ahead of where it was a year. earlier. In sharp contrast, the index gained 16 percent in 1983. But a third report yesterday showed sales of new houses surging 3.1 per- cent in December, a healthy response to lower interest rates that economists hope will be duplicated in the auto and appliance industries. Vol. XCV -No.101 The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967 X) is published Tuesday through Sunday during the Fall and Winter terms and Tuesday through Saturday during the Spring and Summer terms by students at the University of Michigan. 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