4 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, April 12, 1985 Panel rejects WASHINGTON (AP)-The U.S. Civil Rights Com- mission on yesterday repudiated the concept of com- for President parable worth-equal pay for jobs of similar profit from di value-and urged federal agencies and Congress to THE REP( do likewise. ployment Opj "The implementation of the unsound and civil rights en misplaced concept of comparable worth would be a worth, and ti serious error," the commission said in a statement. concept when THE EIGHT-member panel voted 5-2 to adopt a In addition draft report recommending rejection of comparable pass legislati worth and reliance instead on "the principle of equal Proponents pay for equal work.".rpbnnt The vote followed 2 hours of heated debate fueled equity, belie by Commissioners Mary Frances Berry and Blan- tributed to d4 dina Ramirez, who disagreed with the report. Com- women, such missioner Francis Guest abstained. jobs and wag The commission's decision angered feminists. employers on Judy Goldsmith, president of the National sibility and w Organization for Women, characterized the panel's Commission majority as "right-wing ideologues" who speak "only commission n comparable worth IN BRIEF Reagan and the business interests who scrimination." ORT recommends that the Equal Em- portunity Commission and other federal nforcement agencies reject comparable hat the Justice Department oppose the it arises in court. 1the report says Congress should not on that makes comparable worth the etting public or private wages. of comparable worth, also called pay we historical discrimination has con- epressed wages in fields dominated by as nursing and clerical work. They say es should be re-evaluated by individual nthe basis of skills, education, respon- orking conditions. ners Berry and Ramire charged that the made its recommendations without con- ducting interviews, fact-finding or field in- vestigations to find out how comparable worth is working in states and cities that have adopted it. "The report is filled with internal inconsistencies and a lot overblown statements," Berry said, while Ramirez called the document "weighted with rhetoric that summarily dismisses the concept in the absence of an investigation which might define its usefulness." The commission report acknowledges that some sex-based discrimination does exist, and "strongly endorses the right of women and men" to assert their claims through the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But the report-based on two days of consultations with experts-concludes that an estimated 36-cent- per-dollar wage gap between men and women results largely from factors that have nothing to do with discrimination. High school students protest administrator's ouster (Continued from Page i) Norah Bixby, a drama teacher in charge of the morning announcements, dedicated Elvis Presley's "You're So Young and Beautiful" to Graham before joining the protest. Bixby said Graham, who had planned to retire in June, was asked to take a sick leave because of problems with the senior class. She said several other administrators were just as responsible I The fourth annual Exploring Gay Issues Conference for parents, relatives, and friends of lesbians and gay men who seek a better understanding of the gay experience. Law Club Lounge (entrance on State-St. nearest S. University) Saturday, April 20, 1985 9:00 am - 7:00 pm This conference is co-sponsored by P-FLAG/ Ann Arbor (Parents & Friends of Lesbians and Gays) and the Human Sexuality Office (U-M Counseling Services-Special Programs). It is also supported in part by contributions from: LSA, MSA, Lesbian/Gay Law Students, Lesbian Network, Michigan Gay Undergrads, Guild House, Nectarine Ballroom, Chosen Books, Gay Liberation Front. The conference will be wheelchair accessible. Further provis- ions for the differently abled will be made available upon prior request. out. that." 'U' saw~ polio cure (Continued from Page 1) Hunein Maassab, one of those par- ticipants and who now is a professor in the department. THE RESEARCHERS worked out of the now defunct Polio Vaccine Evaluation Center on Catherine Street and in the School of Public Health. Their work was conducted over a one- year period at an estimated cost of $7.5 million. But Francis' ties to Salk went back much further. Salk had been a student of Francis' in 1939 'at New York University and together they had researched an influen- za virus. Salk then went to the Univer- sity of Pittsburgh. In 1942 the two men teamed up again on influenza research at the University of Michigan. But five years later Salk returned to Pittsburgh to begin work on a vaccine for polio. In 1954, Salk forwarded his samples to Francis. THOUGH SALK had determined the vaccine was safe and effective in preliminary tests in 1953, the official confirmation was kept quiet until after Francis completed the follow-up research. "The doctors did not want to arouse high hopes, so talk about the research as Graham for the mix-ups. Brownlee said that he talked to "I JUST think she's being used as a student leaders yesterday morning. He scapegoat by a number of people," said students agreed to return to school Bixby said. She declined to name ad- and urge their classmates to do the ministrators who were responsible for same. But they didn't. Graham's ouster, but she said that "I At 1:30 p.m., student council presid- think it goes all the way up." ent Rose Varga and more than 100 Graham was unavailable for com- students were will sitting in front of the ment. school, holding picket signs to protest Wiley Brownlee of the school superin- Graham's leaving. tendent's office declined to discuss the Varga said students who missed class details surrounding Graham's yesterday will recieve unexcused ab- resignation, saying only that "she ap- sences, but will not be suspended. plied for a sick leave and she was gran- -Brownlee confirmed that no students - ted a sick leave." will be suspended for the protest, and Bixby said that Graham has a history even said the action was "quite an of medical problems, but that she would educational thing and they did it with a not have left had she not been forced lot of class. We're proud of them for NOT ENOUGH ROOM IN YOUR TRUNK? 8 1 I jug Advertise in CLA lSSIFIE team was kept quiet until the men were certain of the results," remembers Harlan Hatcher, president of the Unive- rsity in 1955. He said phone calls from as far away as Europe and Asia flooded his office the day of the announcement with people wondering whether the reports about the vaccine were true. ACCORDING to the 1965 book by Richard Carter, Breakthrough: The Saga of Jonas Salk, polio had killed thousands of people around the world each year and left tens of thousands more crippled. Children were hit har- dest by the virus. Francis' wife, still living in Ann Ar- bor, said polio victims were "children who lost the use of their muscles, children who could no longer sit up, and children in iron lungs. Word that Salk had developed a means of preventing those casualties rocked the world. And the scientific community was shaken again two days later when on April 14, Salk reduced from three to two the number of recommended shots of the virus. Within hours of Francis' announ- cement, the National Institute of Health officially licensed the Salk vaccine, ac- cording to 1955 newspaper reports. DURING THE summer of 1955, 21 million vaccines were given, primarily to children and pregnant women. Adults were charged $4.20-$6 for the shots, not including doctor fees. Children were innoculated for free. While the vaccine was being tested, only one child died after receiving the shot.. But news articles from that time attributed the death to tonsillitis, which the child had contracted two days after innoculation.. Salk pioneered research on polio cures, though the disease has been traced back 3,000 years. Hieroglyphics etched on a stone tablet describe the disease and Egyptian mummies have been unearthed that have one leg shor- ter than the other. IN 1909, Austrian researchers discovered that polio was transmitted through a virus. But little more was known about the disease until 1940 when Dr. Jaboc Heine, a famous German bone specialist, recognized the disease was the result of damaged or destroyed nerve cells. Shortly afterward, Swedish doctor 0. Medin documented early symptoms of polio. Today, polio has virtually been wiped out among children. Francis died in 1969, 14 years after his team of researchers confirmed Salk's findings. The newest of the School of Public Health buildings on campus is named in his honor. Salk is still continuing his research at teh Salk Institute at San Diego. But the memory of what the two researchers accomplished remains a vivid image in University officials who were on hand for the famous annou- n cement in 1955. One of those is former LSA dean Haber, who chokingly says, "I hope I am still young enough to sit in on such a meeting when they announce: "We have a found a cure for cancer.", 7sa ide 1 Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports Retail sales hit seven year low WASHINGTON-Retail sales plunged 1.9 percent in March, the steepest drop in more than seven years, the government said yesterday, but analysts were split over whether the decline was a sign of growing economic weakness or simply a one-month fluke. Only construction supply firms and clothing stores showed improvement overall last month, government figures showed. But compared to a year ago, major retail chains, from Sears, Roebuck & Co. to J.C. Penneys Co., reported generally mediocre sales in separate figures released in New York Thursday. K-Mart was among those finding pre-Easter sales fairly strong. Despite the March plunge, economic analyst Ed Friedman said, "It is unlikely this consumer retrenchment will turn into another recession. Jobs are still being created fast enough to keep total income-and spen- ding-growing, though slowly," he said. Retails sold $110.5 billion worth of merchandise, $2.2 billion less than February's record high and the first decline since August, the Commerce Department said. Israel continues withdrawl NABATIYEH, Lebanon-The Israeli army withdrew yesterday from this market town and hostile Shiite Moslem villages around it, and hundreds of Lebanese streamed into the streets to celebrate an end to nearly three years of Israeli occupation. "We are celebrating freedom," Mohammed Mrouweh shouted over the din of chanting neighbors and honking horns on the town's main square. "We want to tell the whole world that Lebanon belongs to the Lebanese alone." In the pullback, Israel relinquished control over about 115 square miles of territory and betwen 60,000 and 70,000 people, the military command in Tel Aviv said. About 772 square miles of south Lebanon-a fifth of the coun- try-still are occupied by Israeli soldiers, who invaded Lebanon in June 1982. Israeli military sources, who spoke on condition they not be indentified, said the pullback meant some Israeli border settlements would again be within range of guerrilla rockets. The withdrawal was the second in a series that begin Feb. 16, when the Israelis left the southern Lebanese port of Sidon. Blood-clottinMtreatment ma protect hemophiliacs from AIDS PITTSBURGH-Hemophiliacs should delay in having children because their risk of contracting AIDS and passing it on to their offspring may soon be eliminated by a new heating treatment for blooding clotting concentrates, an expert said yesterday. Dr. Peter Levin, medical director of the National Hemophilia Foundation, said researchers believe acquired immune deficiency syndrome will be eliminated among hemophiliacs because of the new treatment, which kills the AIDS virus in the concentrate before it is given to patients. "We hope that ittwill be behind us in hemophiliacs in three or four years. After an incubation period is over, no one with hemophilia will any longer be at risk," Levine said in a telephone interview. So far, there has been only one reported case of AIDS in the child of a hemophiliac. Researchers at the Centersof Disease Control and the Institute Pasteur in Paris have discovered that the AIDS virus is heat sensitive and can be killed in blood clotting concentrates used by hemophiliacs, who lack naturally produced clotting factors, Levine said. The scientists plan to present their findings Tuesday at an international conference on AIDS held by the CDC in Atlanta. Proposed Soc. Security cuts could force 650,000 into poverty WASHINGTON-Social Security and other cuts proposed by President 'Reagan and Republican senators in a compromise budget would plunge 650,000 Americans-most of them elderly-into poverty, the Congressional Budget Office said yesterday. Under the compromise budget agreed to last week by Reagan and Senate Republican leaders, Social Security and other cost-of-living adjustments would be limited to a 2 percent increase next year. In the following two years, the.2 percent cap would still apply unless in- flation topped 4 percent. The non-partisan budget office, in the first independent study of the com- promise, said two-thirds of the new poor would be the elderly as a result of the cost-of-living changes in Social Security;railroad retirement, military retirement and civil service retirement benefits. The cost-of-living adjustments are central to the Senate-Reagan budget, which attempts to cut $52 billion off the nearly $230 billion deficit in fiscal 1986. India to probe anti-Sikh riots NEW DELHI, India-In a bid to avert a new confrontation with Sikhs in Punjab, the Indian government yesterday ordered a judicial investigation into the anti-Sikh riots that followed the killing of Prime 'Minister Indira Gandhi. It also agreed to lift the ban on a militant Sikh students' union and to release some Sikhs arrested in Punjab on suspicion of seditious activity. Home Minister Shankarrao Chavan announced the moves in Parliament two days before the threatened start of new agitation by Sikhs seeking greater self-government in Punjab. Vol. XVC -'No. 153 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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