0 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Sunday, March 31, 1985 Law discriminate * NEW YORK (AP) - In the eyes of the law, single people are often less equal than married couples. Lifestyles other than marriage are an increasing fact of American life. Cen- sus data show that the number of one- parent households increased by 175 percent from 1960 to 1983, one-person households by 173 percent, and households of unmarried couples by 331 percent. In that same period, the num- ber of households consisting of married couples with children grew by just 4 percent. STILL, homosexual couples, heter- osexual couples living out of wedlock, divorced people and unattached singles continue to face legal obstacles and discrimination in the job market, in finding a place to live, in adopting children, getting loans or in pursuing their chosen lifestyles. A just-published 109-page handbood by the American Civil Liberties Union, "The Rights of Single People" Bantam Books, $4.95, details what rights un- married people have, and how the law has been scrambling to catch up with the changing realities of American life. "Because people are selecting alter- native ways of living together, these questions have begun to occupy courts and state legislatures. That is the s agains reason for this book," said Mitchell Bernard, chairman of the ACLU's Equality Committee and a co-author of the new handbook." HERE ARE some of the issues ad- dressed by the book: Q: Is cohabitation unmarried people living together - against the law? A: Yes, in 13 states : Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Illinois,. Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia. The laws are rarely enforced, however. Q: Can a landlord refuse to rent to a single person because he or she is single t singles or divorced? A: Yes, in about half the states. Q: Can an employer advertising for job applicants specify a preference for married or single people? A: It varies from state to state. The federalvEqual Employment Oppor- tunities Act passed in 1964 doesn't prevent discrimination based on marital status, but many states have outlawed such advertising. Q : Can a private employer discriminate against an unwed parent? A: No. This is one area the Equal Employment Opportunities Act gives nationwide protection. Nielsen urges strong 'U' ties to business (Continued from Page 1) LSA sophomore Jennifer Faigel met with Nielsen a few weeks ago to discuss women's issues. She said Nielsen wasn't terribly receptive to her ideas. "I didn't get the impression that he was sincere," she said. "He was sort of patronizing . . . I didn't come away with the feeling that we really got through or accomplished anything," she said. NIELSEN was non-commital about doing something concrete to combat sexual assault on campus, Faigel said, although he recently endorsed having a University-sponsored rape counseling center. Nielsen will fight for students on at least one issue: tuition. Since he atten- ded the University in the early 1970s, inadequate support from the state has forced administrators to forego new devopments at the University and raise tuition tremendously. "I think the cost of education is becoming astronomical for students and their families," he said. ALL THE regents say virtually the same thing, so Nielsen's position on tuition isn't surprising. What is unique about his approach is that - unlike other regents - he believes*the Univer- sity should expand its contractual relationship with industry. "Frankly, I think we should do more business-related activities," he said. Nielsen listed three reasons for ex- panding the amount of research private business pays the University to con- duct. First, he said, students helping perform the research would be better educated and more marketable when looking for jobs if they had more hands- on experience. Nielsen also said doing less basic research would give.students a better understanding of specific fields. BUT THE University, which engages primarily in basic research, has held off from greatly expanding its contrac- tual relationship with corporations to avoid possible conlicts between cor- porate and intellectual interests. Alfred Sussman, the University's vice president for research, said "in particular cases, we could bolster our income by that means." But he added that there is also a "potential problem" in letting University researchers do too much work exclusively for private fir- ms. If the corporation forbids publication of research findings, for example, it contradicts the University's principle of intellectual freedom. IN ADDITION, most private firms want to sponsor applied research, not basic, he said. "We are a diversified university with research that goes on that is often not appropriate to business," he said. And Sussman questioned whether ex- panding private research contracts would bring in enough money for the University to reduce dependence on state appropriations as much as Nielsen would like to see. Though an attorney, Nielsen has had experience in finance. He served as finance chairman of the Livingston County Republican Committee, and former treasurer of the Livingston County Bar Association in addition to his numerous other positions in the Republican party and local service groups. IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports British block shipment of missile production furnaces to Soviets LONDON-The British government has blocked a shipment of furnaces to the Soviet Union that would have allowed the Russians to produce a heat- resistant material to boost their nuclear missile technology, the Trade Department said yesterday. A department spokesman confirmed that authorities took action Feb. 8, in line with Western efforts to halt the export of high-technology equipment with potential military applications to the Soviet bloc. The shipment contgained vacuum induction furnaces that Trade depar- tment officials decided the Soviets could have used to make carbon-carbon, a highly heat-resistant compund used to coat missile cones. Warheads of existing Soviet missiles do not have very effective heat resistance, according to British press accounts of the blocked shipment, and because of that, can wobble and go off target when re-entering the Earth's atmosphere. The British, in line with most U.S. allies, have bnned the sale of strategically sensitive material to Eastern bloc countries. S..Africa sees tenth day of riots JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Police used tear gas and rubber bullets against black protesters yesterday on the 10th straight day of unrest around southeastern industrial cities. The new violence came on the even of funerals scheduled for five blacks killed in clashes with police. A spokesman at national police headquarters in Pretoria reported at least 10 outbreaks of voilence in Zwide, Veeplaas and Kirkwood townships near Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage on the southeastern coast, and in a township near Cradock, 110 miles to the north. Trucks were reported set ablaze, and a school in Veeplaas was torched with gasoline bombs. San Salvadoran rebels attack power plants on eve of election SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador-Leftist guerrillas dynamited electric towers and blacked out eastern provinces yesterday on the eve of national elections and dismissed President Jose Mapoleon Duarte's offer to resume peace talks as a political ploy. Residents and electric company employees said the eastern provinces of Usulatan, San Miguel and La Union were without power yesterday following a guerrilla attack on three major line towers near Nueva Granada, 52 miles east of San Salvador. Electric power to San Salvador was erratic and rebels also dynamited line towers near Zacatecoluca, 26 miles southeast of the capital, officials said. Guerrilla attacks have intensified as a prelude to today's voting to elect 262 mayors and a new 60-member legislative assembly that is widely regar- ded as a referendum on Duarte's first 10 months in office. Duarte announced Friday that regardless of the election outcome, he would resume stalled peace talks with the guerrillas. Kidnappers release British exec. BEIRUT, Lebanon-Kidnapped British business executive Brian Levick was released unharmed yesterday, his 16th day of captivity. British Embassy officials said Levick, 59, managing director of the Coral Oil Co. Ltd. in Lebanon, was freed at about 10:15 a.m. by a little-known group called the Khaibar Brigades. The group has claimed several of the nine recent abductions or disappearances of foreigners in Lebanon. "He is in good health," said embassy spokesman Francis Gallagher. 'He was asked to say that he was held by the Khaibar Brigades." The group's name apparently comes from a town in what is now Saudi Arabia that rejected the Islamic prophet Mohammed in the seventh century and later was overrun by Moslems. The group has not offered any ex- planation for the kidnappings. Army officer gets hero's \burial WASHINGTON-Maj. Arthur Nicholson, whose killing by a Soviet sentry was decried by Vice President George Bush as murder in the line of duty, was given a hero's burial yesterday and eulogized as someone prepared to give the Soviets "the benefit of the doubt." The eulogy was delivered by Col. Roland LaJoie, Nocholson's commander in East Germany, who said the slain liaison officer was intensely interested in bettering relations between the superpowers. He said Nicholson had volunteered for the liaison job, in which soldiers are "routinely subjected to a severe test of strain and pressure... Nick not only passed the test, he set the standard." He said Nicholson frequently sought contacts with Soviet officers as a way for the two sides to get to know each other better. "He, more than any of us, was prepared to give them the benefit of the doubt," LaJoie said. On Friday, as Nicholson's body was returned from Germany, Bush said, "We can only hope the Soviet Union understands that this sort of brutal in- fernational- behavior jeopardizes directly the improvement in relations which they profess to seek." 14 I r 4 I' Daily Photo by MATT PETRIE Neal Nielsen, the youngest member of the Board of Regents, wants to fatten University coffers with increased research contracts from private firms. 'Reagan" greets patrons to picketed S (Continued from Page 1) family bought the State, Campus, and Wayside theaters last December. Next, a man dressed as Ronald Reagan stepped from the car, evoking rounds of applause. AFTER REAGAN, came the Con- tras, who walked arm-in-arm with the president proclaiming mutual brotherhood. In all, about 10 members of the Pinkertons theater troup emerged from the automobiles. "We're concerned about people thrown out of work, about the growing disparities between the rich and poor, and the maltreatment of labor," said the person portraying Rich Kerasotes, who identified himself only as a graduate student at the University. "We want people to focus on what we're saying, not how we're saying it". Slade School of Fine Arts, University of London Painting and Drawing for Credit of Non-Credit Through The University of Michigan School ofArt ART IN ENGLAND July 1- August 8, 1985 - OPEN MEETINGS - Tuesday, April 2, 12:30 Wednesday, April 3, 12:30 Art & Architecture Building, Room 2213, North Campus NOT ENOUGH ROOM IN YOUR TRUNK? Advertise in CLASSIFIEDS Sell your lofts, furniture, carpets and other white elephants before you leave. ; YEAR END SALE ApriI 3 & 17 I want my ad in: Q April 3 QApril 17 tate Theatre Responding to the presence of the contras, "Reagan" said, "The connec- tion to the contras is that our policy in Central America is a continuation of our policy with working people in this country. There is a system at work here. Kerasotes firing the projec- tionists and replacing them with minimum wage workers, Reagan in firing the air traffic controllers, in his military expenditures which deprive people of social services, and the U.S., supporting the war against the people of Nicaragua. All of these things are a part of a system in which fewer and fewer people are controlling the wealth and power and more and more people are being forced to live at or below sub- sistence." RESPONSES to the action varied, most people kept going right on into the theatre. Some stopped to talk, and many just watched. Said one movie- goer "It's great. I hope they're having some effect." Amy Kehoe, an LSA sophomore said, "the show is on this side (of the picket- line) and it's real." One of the picketing union members, Mike Bott thought thaf "It's nice to see young people get involved, with other young people. There's an old traditional alliance between students and working people." BOTT, A union member, has been picketing along with other members of Local 395 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture Machine Operators (IATSE) since December, when the theaters changed ownership. Union members were fired by the buyers, even though they had contracts with the former owner extending into mid-1986. The picketers have been protesting the attempted union-busting by Kerasotes and the fact that now, unskilled, non- union employees are running the projectin equipment. Their inexperience often results in film showings of poor quality or outright cancellation of the showings, the, fired projectionists say. The union members feel that the money Kerasotes is not making through lost patronage (due to . the pickets, high prices, and poor showings) would be enough to keep employing the former technicians. IATSE is withdrawing its complaint from the National Labor Relations Board in anticipation of an unfavorable decision. WHEN depositions were previously taken by the NLRB, the projectionists did not have enough information about what was going inside the theatres. They now hope to regroup with newer and stronger evidence. Anr-ino tn Marin rennan nne nf r. r 0 Jbe fiSi 14n1a~ Vol. XVC - No. 143 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 andSummer terms by students at the University of Michigan. 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