Ninety-five Years of Editorial Freedom Lttv 1E~ai1r Pseudo Cloudy and cold with highs near 20. Vol. XCV, No. 87 Copyright 1985, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Wednesday, January 16, 1985 Fifteen Cents Ten Pages Searches with easier ruling court By THOMAS HRACH with wire reports The Supreme Court yesterday made it easier for public school officials to search students for drugs and weapons. By a 6-3 vote, the court said school teachers and administrators do not need court warrants nor the same justification police officers need before searching a student. Searches of students are justified "when there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that the search will turn up evidence that the student has violated or is violating either the law or the rules of the school," Justice Byron White wrote for the court. THE COURT'S decision was handed down in a case which stems from the search of a student's purse at a Piscataway, New Jersey high school. University officials said yesterday that the ruling will ap- ply only to public high schools and middle schools and will have no effect on students at the University. John Heidke, associate director for housing, said the supreme court decision will have "absolutely no impact" upon the University's dormitory system. According to Heidke students living in dormitories have a binding agreement which allows the opening of dorm rooms by university employees only in the cases of safety hazards like fires. "I CAN'T see at all how the decision would effect the University right now," said Walt Stevens, director of Safety. "We never had any difficulty with this kind of situation." Jean King, chairperson of the Washtenaw County ACLU, said the decision was another attempt to make students second class citizens. Though King admitted that yesterday's decision would not effect university students, she did say it lowered the due process rights of students. "The decision fits into a pattern which makes students less than full citizens," said King. ANN ARBOR School Superintendent, Richard Benjamin, refused to comment on how the Supreme Court ruling would alter the city school's policy about searching students. The New Jersey controversy arose when, on March 7, 1980, a 14-year-old girl was caught smoking in a restroom at Piscatway High School. The girl, identified in court records only as T.L.O., was taken by a teacher to a vice principal's office because smoking in non-designated areas was against school rules. THE GIRL, questioned by assistant Vice Principal Theodore choplick, denied that she had been smoking and said she never smoked. See COURT, Page 3 Associated Press Capitol idea The stand for President Reagan's Jan. 21st inauguration takes shape on the west front of the U.S. Capitol yesterday. Security precautions are also in the works. See story, Page 2. LANDERS SAYS WOMEN PREFER TOUCHING Sex experts hit surve I.i' CHICAGO (AP) - Cuddling and gentle touching may be terrific and even sweeter than sex, as an Ann Landers sampling of American women suggests, but it could harm relationships and lead people "to be boring," some sex experts said yesterday. "I think this...will get us back into the Victorian age,"said New York sex therapist Ruth Westheimer. "It's dangerous to say a high percentage of women do not expect sexual activity but expect only caressing. Caressing has to be a part of the sexual experience." THE POLL results could give people permission "to be boring, to just roll over in bed and go to sleep," said Jim Petersen, who writes the Playboy Advisor for Chicago-based Playboy magazine. "That's unfortunate," he said. "Lust is an honorable condition. Sex is a wonderful pastime. It is not something men foist upon women." Landers reported in her column yesterday that, in a sampling of more than 90,000 American women, 72 percent of the respondents said they would be content to be held and cuddled and forgo the sex act. Of those, 40 percent were under 40 years of age. AMONG those responding was a Columbus, Ohio, woman quoted in Tuesday's column as saying, "I am under 40 and would be delighted to settle for tender words and warm caresses. The rest of it is a bore and can be exhausting." But a woman from Helena, Mont., said in the column, "To say that touching and tender words are sufficient is like settling for the smell of freshly baked bread and ignoring the nourishment it provides. Such people must be crazy." Landers said in an interview on NBC's "Today" resuus show that her mail shows "there are a lot of angry, unfulfilled women out there." LANDERS also said that from previous letters she anticipated the direction of the reader reac- tion-which generated the second-largest volume of mail she has received to any of her columns. She said it was second only to the time she asked her 70 million readers worldwide to clip a column about nuclear war, sign it and send it to President Reagan. Critics said the method of Miss Landers' research as well as the results present problems. Landers asked her 70 million readers worldwide to respond to only one question: "Would you be content to be held close and treated tenderly, and forget about 'the act?' Answer YES or NO and please add one sentence:~I am over or under 40 years of age." See LANDERS, Page 2 Landers ...women are 'unfulfilled' Gov't. downplays drop. in. retail sales WASHINGTON (AP) - Retail sales slipped slightly in December, buttthe nation's factories were humming to a sharply faster beat and analysts said the two government reports together spell more relief for the economy. Except for sagging business in new- car showrooms, the December decline of 0.1 percent in retail sales reported yesterday by the Commerce Depar- tment would have been a 0.5 percent in- crease -- even after the raw figures were adjusted downward to account for the Christmas shopping season. FOR all of 1984, retail sales were up 10.4 percent over the previous year. The Federal Reserve's industrial production report, meanwhile, showed that output at the nation's factories, mines and utilities shot up 0.6 percent in December, the biggest increase in five months. "The two pieces together are just confirmation for our view that the economy did touch bottom in October and has been growing at a pretty healthy rate since then," said Robert Wescott of Wharton Econometrics in Philadelphia. WHILE the government was plugging two more pieces into the economic puzzle, the nation's largest See RETAIL, Page 2 Violence in Lebanon possible after Israeli withdrawal JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel said yesterday that the withdrawal of its troops from Lebanon could provoke a wave of violence and appealed to the United Nations and the Beirut gover- nment .to move into vacated areas before fighting starts. "There is indeed a danger of massacres in Lebanon," said Prime Minister Shimon Peres. He told high school students in the northern town of Yoqnam that Israel wanted to avoid bloodshed, but "I don't know if we will succeed." THE ISRAELI Cabinet approved a three-phase withdrawal plan Monday that will begin in five weeks. Israeli troops have occupied southern Lebanon since the invasion of 1982 and Peres said Monday the last Israeli 'There is indeed a danger of massacres in Lebanon.' - Shimon Peres Israeli prime minister transferring authority in the south. THE U.N. Security Council dispat- ched 6,000 peacekeepers to southern Lebanon after a 90-day Israeli invasion in 1978 and it would have to approve any redeployment of U.N. forces north of the Litani River. The Security Council can act only on a request by the Lebanese government and any decision would require the ap- proval of the Soviet Union, which is Syria's main political and military backer. Beirut has rejected previous Israeli proposals to expand the U.N. force's role, saying its own army should have sole authority and that the Israeli plan would partition the country. THE FIRST planned withdrawal of See ISRAEL, Page 3 troops should leave Lebanon "by the summer." But other sources said the pullback may stretch into the autumn. Some Israeli officials said the phased withdrawal could also lead to a confron- tation with Damascus if Syrian forces in eastern Lebanon move into areas evacuated by Israel in the second stage of the withdrawal. "IF THE Syrians move south this will cause a dangerous escalation. They know that," said a senior official, who spoke on condition he not be identified. "It's not a warning or a threat or anything like that. It's a statement of fact." Israeli troops will leave the Mediterranean port city of Sidon in the first stage of the pullback, and Israelis feel-Shiite and Sunni Moslem militias as well as Palestinians could fight for con- trol of the city. Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin met U.N. Undersecretary General Brian Urquhart to outline the withdrawal plan. He also urged that U.N. peacekeeping forces and the Lebanese army take control of areas Israel evacuates. 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The council is charged with revising the rules of the University community - the out- of-classroom rules of conduct which govern faculty and students. PROF. C. WILLIAM Colburn, former chair of the council, and Affirmative Action Director Virginia Nordby, former councilmember and adviser, will answer questions about the policy making panel's past as well as discuss goals for the new council. "What I'm personally interested in hearing, particularly from Nordby, but also from Colburn, is what are the (discipline) problems" the revised rules would address, said Lee Winkelman, one of three students on the panel and acting chairman. Some students have insisted that many of the discipline problems such a conduct code could address - such as arson, theft, and assault - are better handled through the criminal courts. ADMINISTRATION officials, on the other hand, say that an internal judicial system would be more expeditious than trying a student through the legal system. Donald Rucknagel, one of two faculty mem- bers on the board, said he also wanted to discuss the goals of the council. "Basically, what we're trying to find out is 'what's the problem?"' he said. "'What are we trying to cure? What are we trying to fix?"' 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TODAY- Recycle me Ann Arbor's Ecology Center is rapidly expanding its recycling program and plans to have curbside pickups once a month throughout the city by April. The free program collects string-tied newspapers in five-inch think bundles, glass bottles sorted by color, tin and aluminum cans, and used motor oil. Mon- Hello, Coke? A city building in Fayetteville, N.C. was supposed to be closed and empty at nights and on weekends, but swit- chboard computer records showed that hundreds of calls, some within seconds of each other, were being placed from two telephone extensions.It wasn't a burglar. It was just two computerized Coke machines trying to phone home. City of- ficials couldn't figure out how anyone was getting into the city Sanitation and Fleet Maintenance building after hours to place the hundreds of local calls, all to the same number according to the compute printout. "It was on a Saturday, a computer system that automatically called another com- puter at the company each day, reporting how many bottles of soda had been sold. This allowed the distributor to know when the machines needed to be refilled without making unnecessary stops. From midnight until early in the mor- ning the two machines tried to report their inventory, but if they were answered by a busy signal they would disconnect and call again-and again. Johnson said the system was- discontinued last week, after it was discovered that the machines had a "manufacturer's flaw." T -ln rnIr 1, "terrorized a 15-foot section around the table. We needed a snow shovel to clean up the mess," Gary Cochran, owner of the Beau Jacks restaurant, said in a Detroit Free Press report published Sunday. The amount of food that landed on the floor is in dispute. "Certainly they threw some cracker crumbs and some pieces of (peanut-butter- and jelly) san- dwich on the floor," Scharg said. Jim Horn, spokesman for the Civil Rights Commission, said the case was under in- vestigation and confirmed Scharg and Surnow filed a com- plaint Wednesday. I I I