Ninety-five Years Of Editorial Freedom :1-1 La 4t an i Ia1l Ummm... Clouds and fog expected, showers possible. Highs in the 40s and breezy. ol. XCV, No.1118 Copyright 1985, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Thursday, February 21, 1985 Fifteen Cents Eight Pages 'U' doctor testifies in lawz~ quad arson trial By JERRY MARKON and ERIC MATTSON A specialist in burn medication testified yesterday that "it is possible" a former law student accused of arson lit his room on fire, but the defense rgued that the doctor's testimony "doesn't help the fact-finding process at all." In the intra-University hearing, Dr. Jai Prasad said that former law student James Picozzi, 25, had burns on the left side of his body when he was admitted to University Hospital after the fire nearly two years ago. PROSECUTING attorney Peter Davis asked, "If a person had been using a cigarette lighter with his left Sand, lit gas on fire, and it had flared up at him, would he receive the same bur- ns?" Prasad replied affirmatively. Defense attorney Mark Gombiner said the doctor's testimony failed to prove anything. "Personally, I don't care what Prasad says," Gombiner said. "There's a million and one possibilities." Picozzi has testified that he was K wakened the morning of March 8, 1983 y the sound of the fire being lit. He said he jumped out of bed, threw on his clothes, and tried to escape through the, door. When he couldn't make it through' the flames, he said, he ran to his win- dow and stood on the ledge. AFTER 10 minutes of shouting for help, Picozzi slipped from his third story perch, breaking his back in the fall. Picozzi said he received the burns when he tried to escape through the door, where the fire was set. Gombiner cross-examined the doctor and tried to show that Picozzi could not have lit the fire since the hair under his left armpit was not singed, but Prasad said the armpit could easily have been shielded. . IN EARLIER testimony, the man who Picozzi first accused of setting the fire denied any prior knowledge of the incident. Ned Miltenburg, 34, a- former law student, acknowledged that he did not like Picozzi but denied that he had set the fire. Picozzi, who now lives in New Haven, Conn., had tried to transfer to Yale Law School partly because he had been harassed repeatedly by his classmates. One of the keys to his defense is that a fellow student may have disliked him enough to set the fire. ALLEN SILBER, one of Picozzi's at- torneys, asked Miltenburg to name the !people who did not get along with Picoz- zi. "It would be a long list. He was not well liked," Miltenburg replied. Miltenburg said Picozzi's manner and his alleged abuse of the law school grading system irked a number of law students, but he denied harassing See ARSON, Page 2 Students jailed for trespassing By KERY MURAKAMI While most University students will be heading home or to the sandy beaches of Florida this weekend, two members of the Progressive Student Netework will be sitting in jail for trespassing at Prof. George Haddad's engineering laboratory last May. Judge S.J. Elden of the 15th District Court yesterday sen- tenced Nancy Aronoff, an LSA senior, and Ingrid Kock, an LSA junior, to a 12-day jail term after they rejected alter- native sentences of 56 hours of community service or fines of $120. _ A THIRD PSN member, Amyanne Angelstro, was senten- ced yesterday to do community work. Seven other PSN mem- bers go on trial March 7. All were arrested last spring for blockading the entrance to Haddad's lab in an effort to vocalize their demands for guidelines on non-classified research conducted at the University, publication of all research paid for by the defen- se-department, and an end to Haddad's defense-funded research. "Going to jail would be like hitting my head against the Protesters set fire to wall," said Angelstro after the sentencing. "This way, I'll have a clear record after I serve the sentence, and I'll be able to do it again from a clean slate." ANGELSTRO is not a University student, but a member of the PSN who lives in Detroit. Tom Marx, a former University student who was one of the protesters arrested last spring, said Aronoff and Kock rejec- ted the fine because "It's a discriminatory element of our justice system. If you can pay you go free, if you can't you go to jail. Also, it doesn't make sense to pump money into the system we're protesting. As Aronoff and Kock spent their first night in the Washtenaw County Jail yesterday, a group of 50 supporters held a candlelight vigil on the front lawn of University President Harold Shapiro's home on S. University. THE GROUP stood for about 15 minutes holding lit can- dles, singing peace songs, and drawing peace signs in the snow before knocking on Shapiro's door. Wearing a sweater and complaining of a cold, Shapiro stood in his doorway and told the protesters that he would not See SUPPORTERS, Page 3 Reagan 's .1 The sensual Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, and other movie greats of the 1950s grace the hottest-selling posters at local stores, winning the test of time over contemporary music artists like Michael Jackson. STARS' IMAGES CONTINUE TO SELL Monroe, Dean top local post By STEVEN LEIKEN If poster sales say anything about campus tastes or trends, University students prefer the-1950s. Marilyn Monroe and James Dean, two movie stars of that era, have seen rising popularity on campus. This year the two lead the best-selling list of per- sonality posters in major area bookstores and poster shops. "People are still interested in Marilyn Monroe and her movies," says Nancy Miller, an employee at the Movie Poster Gallery on State St. She says Elvis Presley is also popular because he still has a lot of faithful fans. And among recent stars Mel Gibson is a top-seller. ' MONROE devotees can buy originals at the Gallery, such as a set of lobby cards for "Gentlemen Prefer Blonds," one of her top films. These cards typically run around $300 for a set and thus the major buyers are not students. But Miller says students are definitely sales interested in Monroe and frequently buy six-foot personality posters, which sell for the more affordable price of $6. At Logos on South University, James Dean sells twice as many posters as Monroe, who is the second top seller. Andy Dryden, a buyer for Logos, says that the two stars have been campus favorites among both men and women for the last six years. But University Cellar patrons favor Monroe posters-the doorsize black and white posters are especially hot sellers. James Dean, Clark Gable, Charlie Chaplin, and Albert Einstein are also popular. CATHY FARRINGTON, a University Cellar employee, says that those who buy Monroe, Dean, and other per- sonalities are long-term buyers.. "Most people won't buy rock stars in future years," she says. Pop Star Michael Jackson doesn't sell posters like the older stars because the market - See CAMPUS, Page 2 '86 budget By KATIE WILCOX Portions of President Reagan's proposed 1986 federal budget were bur- ned on the Diag yesterday as a church group held a lunch-hour Ash Wed- nesday demonstration. "These ashes are symbolic of the destruction this policy will lead to," ex- plained Dixie Logan-Cockell, a member of the Episcopal Church of the Incar- nation. ASH WEDNESDAY marked the first day of Lent, a time when Christians prepare for Easter by focusing on sin and repentance. "Lent is a season for taking a good hard look at our own ac- countability;"Logan=Cockell said. Traditional Ash Wednesday ceremonies involve burning the palm branches used to celebrate Palm Sun- day and rubbing the ashes in the shape of a cross on a person's forehead. Yesterday's ceremony on the Diag featured the reading, of Biblical passages and the burning of the por- tions of Reagan's budget dealing with MX missile, aid to contras in Central America, and the "Star Wars" space weapons plan. The Rev. Jim Louis then placed ashes on the participants' foreheads in the sign of a cross. Louis said he was using "legislative pressure and prayer to move the coun- try into another direction." He said Congress should make drastic changes in Reagan's proposal. "Out of ashes come new life, new policy,' new refor- ms," Louis said. Daily Photo by DARRIAN SMITH The Rev. James Lewis of the Episcopal Church of the Incarnation holds a burning match to the defense sections of President Reagan's proposed 1986 budget tn the Diag yesterday. Ashes were rubbed on the foreheads of suppor- ters to tie defense spending in with the Christian holiday, Ash Wednesday. S. . . . . . . ....................... . . . . . *.. : ... SN V. .: w~ r'AVy rosW~VVv . . s . . . . . . ...-.*:%V.. . . . . ..'~ n:Y.. . . . .\. ... ) xs. . ,kr<+ :. )" s .. 7fY h. s.:"~ \.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..\...............:::S:. .l.SSii..*, "'. 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These conferences began after Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein issued the "Pugwash Manifesto" which called on all citizens to recognize their moral reponsibility to solve world problems. Pugwash, Nova Scotia in Canada was the site of these first meetings. The local Pugwash chapter is only two years old, but its members have been planning the simulation talks for a year-and-a-half. THE SUMMIT, billed as "an alternative to understand U.S.-U.S.S.R. Relations," is the climax to a series of arms control lectures given by University professors since January. According to the game's coordinator, Vishram Jalukar, a senior biology major, the talks are expected to take into account the variety of problems that actual negotiators face. Each student will adopt the character of a leading American or Soviet arms negotiator or become a member of a control group. The negotiators will debate issues parallel to those being discussed by the Americans and Soviets in Geneva, Switzerland, in the actual arms talks. POLITICAL SCIENCE Prof. David Singer said that the simulation, although not the first or most sophisticated to be held at the Univer- sity, is special because it is timely. Singer hopes that the games will make students think about the arms race. "The more University students think about, know about, and care about nuclear weapons, the better for everyone concerned," Singer said. "If we don't pay attention, we will all become victims of ignorance and indifferen- ce." Although he thinks the simulation is a good idea, Singer said it isn't the most effective method of increasing arms control awareness. "SIMULATION AND role playing increase the interest in the problem but it is ambiguous. Students often come away thinking that what they learned is accurate. But in reality, gover- nments are not made up of people who only negotiate for an afternoon. "The students must realize that government officials are not part of the solution, but part of the problem," Singer said. Still, the participating students are looking See STUDENTS, Page 3 Singer ... advocates "Mock Salt Talks" r. *V . t . .5 VVS~Vsss....ss . . .. ... .:.. . . ...:....:::. ::.: .c:;:*: :::..;::AVr:.v::::ctASS ......::.:t,:.Snr +. v ..,(., m "Wi lV f .y.r... . . . .r~. . . . . ..a k,, V. .... . : . . . .;..Y.'. .:.'..A>t.V. "ttVflASV**'? : SSSSi.VS"SV.V.V : SS....AVVASS.f. 4..VAV..:.:A uS~jttASSat TODAY Dwippies E GOT THE, IDEA from hearing Abbie Hoffman speak, when he said to test authority and to take power into your own t_-3_ ) ...:3 U :- - T1: 11. T A a night was the third night. "They just got enough members there to allocate the money," said council president Glenn Barba, an LSA sophomore. "Our hall has a really high sen- se of unity," Dietz said "we call ourselves the Dweeb Hall." Frost is an honors house. Barba said that he "is not bent out of shape or anything over this, but it sets bad precidents for other halls. They could have voted to allocate our whole budget to themselves, and according to our constitution there is nothing we can do." Barba said he intends on making some amendments to the constitution (concerning any trouble," said Mary Jane Eickholt, who lives across the street from Prince but has never met him. "If he wanted to come over for coffee, he would be welcome." Prince, star of the hit movie Purple Rain, bought a large ranch style home by a secluded lake in Chanhassen, Minn., a quiet Minneapolis suburb in 1981. Two years later, he painted the cream-colored house purple, his favorite color. "I didn't think here was much neighborhood reaction to Prince until he painted his house purple and that freaked everybody out" said one neighbor, who snoke only on condition that Breaking the bank P OLICE SAY A 13-year-old boy left a downtown Buffalo, N.Y. bank branch frustrated because a teller apparen- tly could not understand what was meant to be a-holdup note. Police said the boy, who was not identified, Tuesday handed a teller a note on which he had drawn a smiling. face, while the boy's older stepbrother watied outside. The teller did not understand the note, police said, and sent the boy to another window. The boy, apparently frustrated, -4 . ] 1 Y 1 1 4. a 14. i i I