4 Page 2-- The Michigan Daily - Thursday, April 18, 1985 Doctorow awards 1985 (Continued from Page 1) different from the traditional single prize award. Winners Suzanne Pierce and Martha Levitt were awarded $150 and $100, respectively. Other non-Hopwood winners included Dennis Harvey, for the Kasdan Scholarship in Creative Writing ($1,500), and Michael Sherrier, winner of the Arthur Miller Playwriting Award ($1,000). I Shov Mid TWENTY-TWO Hopwood awards were presented in all, four in drama, five in essay, nine in fiction, and six in poetry categories. The largest monetary prize went into a "special award" category for poetry. Doctorow said "writing is a form of prayer, aimed to cause (chaos) over 60 years, before the Holocaust, and before the second World War." DOCTOROW warned about how bad things will get if nothing is changed. He calls writing a prophecy, and says writers themselves are "prophets," whose purpose is to end the "delineation" of our houses, our airpor- ts and our Chuck E. Cheeses'." Six of the 22 Hopwood winners were enrolled in the English department's new project called the Master of Fine [opwoods Arts in Creative Writing. The 2-year program, founded in the fall of 1983, involves graduate students who are serious about their writing and wish to spend many hours with visiting professors, writers, and critics. Richard Tillinghast, who teaches the poetry division of the program, said the MFA is divergent from the Hopwood program, but that because of the program's intensity, many of the par- ticipants are well prepared for the Hopwood contest. He said that there has been a surge of interest in creative writing in the last few years. "In a lot of places, enrollment in writing is rising, while enrollment in literature is falling," he said. This year will mark the first class to graduate from the program. w how you feel with ... higan Daily Personals 764-0557 Cal. students boycott classes for protest IN BRIEF R I I . A NEW COURSE THE RUSSIAN SHORT STORY PROFESSOR JOHN MERSEREAU, JR. DIVISION 466 - RUSSIAN 458 SPRING HALF-TERM MAY 8 through JUNE 28 T and Th 1-3 p.m. 3306 MLB In English NO PREREQUISITES This course in designed to acquaint students with the best Russian short fiction of the 19th century and will include works by Pushkin, Gogol, Lermon- tov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Gorky, and others. In addition to analysis of individual works, the course will explain the evolution of Russian fiction from Sentimentalism through Realism. A background knowledge of Russian history and culture will be provided. Grades will be based on three take-home exams, in class discussions, occasional quizzes. Attendance is required. For more info. call 764-5355 (Continued from Page 1) were arrested at Sproul and the ad- ministration buildings were released yesterday. But 28 of those arrested are still being held on charges of resisting arrest and giving a pseudonym to police. Many of the demonstrators iden- tified themselves to authorities as Steven or Stephanie Biko. BIKO, A SOUTH African student who was murdered in police custody in 1977, has also had the Sproul building name in his honor by the protesters. Many of those released yesterday have already returned to the steps of "Steven Biko Hall." "I could cry this morning," said An- drea Prichett, one of the protest's organizers who was released from police custody. "I thought this morning was, well, just another statement made." She paused. "It's only just the beginning." Campus sources have estimated that a student boycott of classes, whichwas unanimously supported by an organization ofsgraduate teaching assistants, kept a third of the student body away fromclasses yesterday. BUT MANY of the students may have merely been extending Berkeley's up- coming four-day break, which starts today. Protesters say that they will remain at the site of the demonstration despite the scheduled vacation. Some teaching assistants even set up "tutoring booths" to encourage studen- ts to observe the class boycott. "If they need to learn math, they can Jlo it here," said one of the tutors in the math booth. "We want students out of class, and there is no reason to be in class." ADMINISTRATION officials still assert that the demonstration is illegal, but they have not as yet decided whether to take action against the protesters. "If it is determined that they are still violating the terms of the statement (issued by Berkeley Chancellor Ira Heyman), they will be subject to arrest," said university spokesman Ron Kolb. "But we have no confir- mation that the police are moving in just yet." Assistant Director, for Public Relations Thomas Debley said that the university doubted the effectiveness of the class boycott. "If a teacher fails to meet his or her classes, that is a serious breach of duty ..," Debley said. "But Ihaven't heard of any teacher doing that or anyone with a complaint that a teacher has done that." Daily Californian staff writer Michael Shapiro filed a report for this story. Cornpiled from Associated Press and United Press international reports Riots topple Lebanese govt. BEIRUT, Lebanon-Lebanon's "national unity" government fell apart yesterday with the resignation of Prime Minister Rashid Karami and his Cabinet as 29 people died in a savage 15-hour street battle between rival Moslem gangs. Karami, calling the worst fighting of the year "a dark night during which love, peace and justice were sacrificed," plunged Lebanon into another deep political crisis by quitting. "How can we justify what happened to our capital, Beirut? No one can justify this," Karami said in an emotional address over Beirut radio. The Syrian-supported government's fall was prompted by 15 hours of furious street battles in mainly Moslem west Beirut. In Washington, State Department spokesman Bernard Kalb said the resignation "comes at an untimely moment." Researchers say AIDS spreading ATLANTA-AIDS is spreading beyond the known risk groups to the general population, two researchers said yesterday, but they differed over how easily the deadly disease can be transmitted through heterosexual con- tact. "This is a general disease now," said Dr. Robert Redfield, an infectious disease specialist with the Walter Reed Institute of Research in Washington, D.C. "Get rid of the high risk groups-anyone can get it." Dr. Walter Dowdle, director of the Center for Infectious Disease at the CDC, agreed that the virus is spreading to the general population, but said there "are factors that indicate it's not going to be explosive." Dowdle said transmission of the virus is difficult enough that it is not likely to spread quickly through the general population. Until now, AIDS, an affliction in which the body's immune system becomes unable to resist disease, has been largely confined to homosexuals, intravenous drug abusers, and hemophiliacs, according to the federal Cen- ters for Disease Control. Satellite rescue attempt fails CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.-All the planning, rehearsal, and makeshift tools went for naught yesterday, as Discovery's astronauts failed to awaken a sleeping $85 million satellite and had to abandon it as useless space junk. The effort concentrated on bringing the space shuttle close and tugging on a lever suspected of causing a total power failure on the Syncom satellite. That was done, but still the satellite did not respond. Astronaut Margaret Rhea Seddon twice brushed the shuttle's mechanical crane against the satellite and hit the master switch with a handcrafted "flyswatter" tool. "We have now proven it wasn't the lever arm," an official said laer. Ms. Seddon had only six minutes to accomplish the task, because after that the satellite could not be positioned properly for its mission to provide Navy communications. When the period was up, Mission Control ordered the shuttle to leave. "The window is closed," Mission Control said. "Perform the separation maneuver." Democrats consider alternative to Reagan s Contra aid plan WASHINGTON-House Speaker Thomas O'Neill said yesterday that Democrats are considering a proposal for Red Cross refugee assistance to Central America as an alternative to President Reagan's plan to release $14 million for the Contra guerrillas fighting in Nicaragua. The House will vote next Tuesday or Wednesday on Reagan's Contra aid' proposal, and O'Neill said a count of Democrats shows the plan will be defeated. And in the Senate, sources who spoke on condition of anonymity said Republican leaders were looking for a way to sidestep any showdown vote at all. A proposal under discussion by Sen. Richard Lugar, (R-Ind.), chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, and Sen. David Durenberger, (R-Minn.), chairman of the Intelligence Committee, would call for a statement of sup- port for the Contras, but end all military assistance. But Majority Leader Robert Dole, (R-Kan.) said he believes the $14 million will be approved without change. Refund delays spur income drop WASHINGTON-After-tax incomes fell sharply in both February and March as computer-caused delays deprived Americans of $6.7 billion in federal income tax refunds in the two months, the government reported yesterday. The declines in disposable income sent consumer spending tumbling 0.5 percent last month, the biggest decline in more than a year, the Commerce Department said. Economists tended to discount the weakness reflected in the tax processing foul-ups. They predicted that consumer spending and disposable incomes would both bounce back later this spring when the tax refund checks finally get delivered. Butkthey saidethe ripple effect would make economic activity appear weaker during the first three months of the year than it otherwise would have been. 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ICELANDAI JOSTEN'S -,,4 GOL#D RIG0 0A0SALE MSA supports protesters at Berkeley and Columbia b (Continued from Page 1) that there is a tide of student protest that has been building and building. It means even more solidarity in the movement.eRight now we are so happy (about the endorsement). " ALTHOUGH members of the Moderates at the University of Michigan (MUM) Party said during the campaign that MSA should avoid political issues, the resolution passed unanimously Tuesday. ''I was about to raise a feeble 'nav.''' said Rackham representative Virginia Ward, a MUM member. "But we were not going to give any money to them. The letter could only do good." "You have to stand up for what you believe. It's not cool to be complacent," said LSA representative Vebo Prasad, also of MUM. He stressed the fact that the vote did not involve appropriating money for the anti-apartheid protests. MSA PRESIDENT Paul Josephson said he wasn't surprised that the vote was unanimous, because "no matter their ideologies, people know that apar- theid is unjust." He added that the issue directly concerns University students because the fact that the University still has some money invested in South Africa "indirectly says that students here support apartheid." Josephson said MSA members may speak against apartheid and for com- plete divestment at Thursday's meeting of the University regents. The Michigan Alliance for- Disar- mament is planning an anti-apartheid rally at 1 p.m. at Elbel Field on Satur- day. It is in solidarity with a march on Washington this weekend, according to Janice Michaels, MAD's coordinator for the rally. The Washtenaw County Coalition Against Apartheid will be handing out information about apartheid tomorrow in the Diag. "We will be trying to promote awareness about the apartheid and our group," said Scott Horner, LSA sophomore. "Few people know what the apartheid is. I wear a button that says 'Art against the Apartheid' and people constantly try to read it, but no one understands it." Also tomorrow there will be an anti- apartheid protest in the Diag at 12:30 p.m. I I Jr? -" I " . b L.>JI J?' Aj J,95 J- P lizJl v-9 r-Ar 3 1P :A ->y hJ~e 3tcbtgan 1auitg Vol. XVC - No. 158 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. Sub- scription rates: through April - $4.00 in Ann Arbor; $7.00 outside the city. Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan. Postmaster: Send address changes to The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109. 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