Ninety-five Years of Editorial Freedom Litn :43 ttiLI Meltdown Sunny with a high in the 50s. Vol. XCV, No. 125 Copyright 1985, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Sunday, March 10, 1985 Fifteen Cents Eight Pages Ferris St. freezes tuition;'U decision uncertain By ERIC MATTSON Officials at Ferris State College in Big Rapids, Mich. voted unanimously yesterday to freeze tuition for the next school year, but it is too early to know whether the University of Michigan and other state schools will follow suit. Ferris State's decision comes more than three months before the State Legislature is likely to approve funding for public colleges and universities. Most state institutions wait until it is clear how large a slice of the budget pie they will get before setting tuition.. IN ANN ARBOR, administrators said the Board of Regents will probably wait until May or June to set tuition. Robert Sauve, assistant to the vice president for academic affairs, said the University would like to let students know what tuition will be before they go home at the end of winter term, but the See STATE, Page 2 Measles hit East Quad Three cases confirmed By CHRISTY RIEDEL Three cases of measles have been confirmed at East Quad, following an outbreak of the disease on the medical campus before spring break, health and dorm officials said yesterday. Two of the three cases were confirmed Friday. The third person contracted the virus last month. Assistant Director of Health Ser- vices, Doctor Robert Winfield, the physician who treated the cases at East Quad, said that he suspects the two out- breaks may be linked. According to Winfield, one of the vic- tims may have contracted the disease when he was visiting University Health Services before spring break while one of the medical campus cases was being treated. Winfield suspects this student then infected his roommate and friend in the dorm. IN AN EFFORT to contain the diseaseKurt Weigle and Barry Mac Dougall, the two students still afflicted with measles, have been confined to their dorm rooms until Monday or Tuesday. Meals are brought to them and special stalls have been set up for them in the bathrooms, they said. Mac Dougall said that he and Weigle have been told to drink lots of fluids and to take aspirin for the fever symptoms. "There's not much else you can do for measles," Mac Dougall said. Winfield said that the students are being treated for rubeola, which is to be distinguised from rubella, or German measles. IN RESPONSE to the outbreak, Health Services gave students the op- portunity to get free immunizations at East Quad yesterday. Sherrie Gorelick, coordinator of patient and public relations at health services, said free measles shots will be offered Monday in the Anderson Room- of the Union from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for students who See MEASLES, Page 3 Rock roundthe c ockaily Photo by DAN HABIB Rockar oundte clock Art school senior Sherry Letavis and LSA senior Philip Mazarkis (center) lead the remaining couples yesterday in the final hours of a 24-hour dance'marathon in the Michigan Union's Pendleton Room. The event was expected to raise over $2,000 for tfe Millions Against Multiple Sclerosis campaign. PROTESTERS PLAN RETURN TO WALLED LAKE Williams protesters released from prison By DEBORAH HAUSLER they had filed similar appeals. pamphlets there for two years," said Foltz. "They haven't people in jail for a few minutes in the driveway of a cruise As~ th lt fti wr rm But all five were released Friday, apparently at the phased me. I haven't changed my views." Foltz said missile factory." I ntye last mem uers uo ier gruup were rewaseu rom prison this weekend, the demonstrators arrested at a firm. involved in nuclear weapon production vowed to continue their protests. Thirteen protesters were sentenced to indefinite jail ter- ms after the protest which would end only if they promised not to repeat the protests at Williams International Corp. in Walled Lake, Mich. The firm is a major manufacturer of engines for cruise missiles. ONE PROTESTER opted to perform community service rather than face jail. Seven others were released when they appealed the constitutionality of the indefinite terms, and three of the remaining five were to be-released Friday after request of Williams. Among those released were University students Brian Larkin and Ken Jannot. Carfon Foltz, a 78-year-old resident of Pontiac who ser- ved 92 days in jail, said the sentence "accomplished what we set out to accomplish." r "THE LONGER we stayed in jail the more the issue heated up,'' he said, adding that the protesters had been released because of public pressure applied to Williams. Officicals at Williams could not be reached for comment yesterday. The 92-day sentence has not dimmed the enthusiasm of Foltz and the other protesters. "I'll be out there vigilanting at Williams again. We've been praying-and passing out protesting is necessary in order to change the path of nuclear build-up. ANOTHER PROTEST against Williams is already plan- ned for Monday, April 8. Foltz will be there but first wants to "take a little vacation and charge my batteries for a while." Another protester, Mike O'Neill, a Residential College junior, jailed for 28 days, said the jail terms served by the protesters have "only made certain people's commitments a lot stronger." Foltz said, "The fact that we were released is a recognition by Williams Corp. that indefinite sentences are questionable." He expects a favorable ruling on the appeal. "I do think we focused attention on the injustice of holding Carter Cortelyou, an LSA junior released through the ap- peal, said "I think Williams has learned they're not going to influence people through the use of indefinite sentence." "If we change Williams' mind about the use of the legal system in actions, I believe in time we can change their minds about the actions themselves," Cortelyou said. The protesters said nuclear weapons should be abolished and vowed not to be influenced by legal threats. "To those who feel what we are doing is hopeless, the decision Friday by Williams to release those in jail shows their suscep- tibility to public pressure;" Cortelyou said. Couple mixes dorm life with marriage Residents nominate most offensive ads By LAURA BISCHOFF If you hear a man singing opera while wandering through the corridors of Betsy Barbour residence hall, take note: it's live, not Memorex. From the first floor shower or Room 108, his rich falsetto resonates down the hall to the cafeteria and living room of this all women's dormitory. Profile THOUGH the opera singer lives in Betsy Barbour with 120 women, he's in- terested only in one, according to the d6rm's resident director, Trish Hof- fman-Ahrens. And that one woman is her. She and Ray-the shower singer-are married and are spending their first year together in the dorm. It hasn't been easy, but it's a.lifestyle Trish en- joys and her husband tolerates. KNOCKS ON THE DOOR of their tiny apartment, countless phone calls, and the small problems any RD must con- tend with every day intrude upon their privacy. Trishysaid she doesn't mind the in- terruptions, but admits that "sometimes it cuts into the 'Oh yeah, I remember who I married' time." "If anyone feels the strain it's Ray," she said. "I'm used to living here now because I was here last year. TRISH, 26, WORKED as Barbour's RD last year and decided to reapply for the position after discussing the matter with Ray. The University's housing of- fice permits the spouses of an RD to stay in the dorm, but besides Trish only two other RDs have tied the knot-and ohly she supervises a single sex dorm. Yet the couple opted for the living arrangement, deciding that the finan- cial advantages of free room and board were just too good to pass up while they are enrolled in the University's School of Music. "It's not the most ideal way to start off a marriage, but it's helpful to them economically, and they have a real sen- se of humor about the whole thing," siad Leslie Ford, a resident adviser in Betsy Barbour. THE COUPLE'S WEDDING last Sep- tember fell on the same day students moved into the dorm. Ford and the other staff members redoubled efforts to give Trish two weeks off for a honeymoon. But Trish said that she and her 23-year-old husband felt as if they had acquired a family of 119 children overnight when they returned. Some of the residents even call the couple "Mom and Dad." And the women of Betsy Barbour say they enjoy having a man about the house. "He's a Mr. RD-he has to put up with everything his wife has to put up with," said Mary Miller, the other RA See NEWLYWEDS, Page 3 By CARRIE LEVINE Local residents have nominated a movie theater, a billboard, several adult bookstores, a restaurant, and a bridal shop as prime examples of advertising used by businesses to "depict women and/or children in a negative or victimized role." The nominations are part of a contest sponsored by the Citizen's Advisory Council on Rape Preven- tion (CACORP) that encourages citizens to pick out instances of exploitive and suggestive adver- tising in an attempt to "further the understanding that advertisements to which we are exposed on a daily basis contribute to the sexual victimization of women." EXHIBITS OF the advertisements nominated will be on display in the Fishbowl and the Union between March 11 and 18, where the public is in- vited to cast their ballot for the ad they believe to be the most offensive. The contest winner will be announced at a banquet at the Ark on March 17. CACORP members say they also wish to recognize city residents who have made significant contributions to ending violence against women and children. It also recognizes area organizations which have furthered this goal. Among the nominees for this aspect of the con- test is a University School of Social Work professor, Beth Red, who plays an active role in agencies concerned with violence against women. The Family Law Project, another, nominee, is an organization of lawyers and law students who volunteer time to help sexual abuse or rape vic- tims. OF THE LOCAL advertisements nominated, two are no longer in existence. The State Theater received the most nominations for their displays of posters promoting X-rated midnight movies which were hung in plain view of young children attending other movies in the theater. But since Kerasotes has taken over the theater, the X-rated movies have been discontinued along with their ads. Another ad nominated, one displayed by Conlin Brides' Showcase on Washtenaw Ave., was only run on a one-time basis and will not be used in the future, according to Kitty Randall, manager of the store. The ad said that when a woman puts on a wedding dress, "You know she means business." "That ad was saying other things in a woman's life are not serious," said Cheryl Stevens, coor- dinator of CACORP. She said she felt the ad im- plied that "the only time a woman means business in when she gets married and raises a family." "I'M SURE Doris (Conlin, the owner of the shop) didn't mean that ad offensively," Randall said. "She's very conscious of women's rights." "I think it's just one of those things that no one realized would be considered offensive," Randall said. A third nominated ad, the logo of the Oyster Bar and Spaghetti Machine restaurant on Huron St., was actually drawn by a woman, according to owner Greg Fenerli. Although he realizes the ad has generated some bad publicity for his business, Fenerli said he isn't going to find a replacement. "It's been around for 12 years and I'm not about to change it," he said. Betsy Barbour RD Trish Hoffman-Ahrens finds married life in a dormitory difficult but enjoyable as she juggles time between her husband and her residen- ts. Prositi tute safetyD O NE OF NEW YORK'S newest laws has been used to discourage the world's oldest profession. Police in Manhattan said Friday they have issued tickets in recent weeks to scores of "johns"-men who pick up prostitutes-who fail to buckle their seatbelts. The state's seat belt law. which went into effect in Januarv. stop the car and charge the prostitute with loitering for the purpose of prostitution. If the driver does not have his belt on-as is amost always the case-the driver is issued a summons for violating the new state seat belt law. Jaws III it's like Jaws, only with large snapping turtles," Huston said. "He wants small-city scenes and shots of a small-town courthouse." Although Brouhard said he would not have more details about the movie until the end of April, "he sounded like he thought it was really ready to go," she said. Kissing bandit IA22-year-old woman was being held in Atlantic City, New Jersey on charges she robbed men after slipping a kissing bandit was seen about a block from a Boardwalk casino. A search warrant was issued for her apartment and an unknown quantity of drugs were seized, police said. The drugs were to be analyzed by the state police laboratory, of- ficials said. Detective Sgt. Richard Andrews said victims of the knock-out drugs have reported $52,000 worth of jewelry and cash missing. Santos was charged in one incident in- volving three Greensboro, N.C., men who met a woman in a casino hotel's lounge, brought her back to their room and I 3 II