4 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, October 3, 1985 Question: "Do you think that sit-ins, such as the one in Carl Pursell's office, are an effective means of causing political change?" Thomas Chamberlain, Alumnus: Yes, and they could be more effective. It's better than fire-bombing his office. It's a means of get- ting attention to the issue. More people should do it. Mike Caulk: I think it's a start. Sit-ins encourage those who already have an opinion, but it takes more than that for people who don't hold that opinion. It's more irritating to the op- position. David Bailey, LSA Fresh- man: I'd say so. The only way to get through to someone is to be on their doorstep. Do it again and again until you get the point across. Dave Swastek, Alumnus: I think they can be, depending on the situation and on how it's handled. It also depends on if you are getting a reac- tion and who you are sitting- in against. Christie Bogdan, LSA Junior: It's an effective way of getting a cause noticed, but I don't know if they necessarily cause political change. Beth Davidson, LSA Senior: Jeff Beyersdorf, Natural Wendi Zazik, LSA Fresh- Perry Cabean, LSA Anthony Adams, Graduate No, because they are not Sciences Senior: It depends man: Sometimes they prove Sophomore: I feel all sit-ins Student: Sure, because taken seriously by anyone on how they are composed. to be effective, but in other can do is show the public's usually they involve a large important enough to make a If they're disruptive, they situations they don't. It awareness. I think, though, amount of people and any decision. 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Power outage cancels classes (Continued from Page 1) resume today. The signs announcing the class can- cellations were greeted with reactions ranging from disbelief to joy. "I'm glad. It's a nice surprise," said LSA sophmore JoAnn Mattson. "I LOVE IT," said LSA junior Dan Linesman, "I hope MLB B116 bur- ned." Not everyone was lucky enough to have their classes cancelled, though. Dozens of signs appeared on doors throughout the day, notifying students of alternate rooms in other buildings. As LSA senior C.J. Stoyka lamen-. ted: "Why couldn't it be University- wide?" TO THE professors and staff who use the MLB, problems such as this are nothing new. "I'm not surprised," said professor of Slavic languages Ladislav Matejka, "it's such a lemon - the whole building. No air, sometimes too hot, sometimes too cold. It's just im- possible." Jeff Vahlbush, a teaching assistant for Great Books, said there was a similar power failure in August. "It was a hard blow to those people who had tests," Vahlbush said. IN BRIEF COMPILED FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS AND UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL REPORTS Israelis insist PLO bombing won't mar peace process JERUSALEM - Government leaders insisted yesterday that the Israeli bombing of Palestine Liberation Organization headquarters in Tunisia on Tuesday will not seriously damage efforts to revive the Middle East peace process. "There is no political price to pay, and there will be none," Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, interviewed by Israel radio, said from New York where he is attending the U.N. General Assembly session. "There is general recognition in the world of the fact that Israel did what is necessary. It certainly has the right to strike at the terrorist organization that attacks citizens both at home and abroad." The Reagan administration today sharpened its response to Israel's bombing of a PLO facility in Tunisia, calling the raid understandable but deplorable and contrary to U.S. objectives of a peaceful Middle East. Tunisian officials criticized the United States for failing to warn them of an Israeli air attack on the PLO headquarters. West German calls for ban on 'Star Wars' research BONN, West Germany - Former Chancellor Willy Brandt said yester- day that West German scientists should not join in research on President Reagan's proposed 'Star Wars' space-based anti-missile defense system. "I would rather, with our limited means, concentrate on . . . the peaceful uses of space," said Brandt, chairman of the opposition Social Democratic Party. In an interview with the Associated Press, the West German statesman also called on Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to use their summit meeting in November to announce a new aid program for Africa. "If they said we are ready, both of us, to use some small percentage of what would otherwise go into armaments to bring water to Africa ... that could mean a good deal," Brandt said. Brandt, who will receive the Albert Einstein Peace Prize at a Washington ceremony next month, was interviewed as a debate was growing in the West German capital over the role this ally of the United States should play in the Reagan adminstration's 'Star Wars' program, officially known as the Strategic Defense Initiative. French, Soviets discuss arms PARIS - President Francois Mitterrand and Mikhail Gorbachev, discussed the possibilities of "a serious, real redudction" in armaments yesterday, six weeks before the U.S.-Soviet summit. Mitterrand's spokesman said the president and the Soviet leader also touched on the Reagan administration's 'Star Wars' research program for a space-based defense system in their first private meeting. Gorbachev is in France for four days, on his first visit to the West since taking over as Kremlin leader in March. He repeated Soviet opposition to the space-defense plan in his arrival statement, speaking of the need to prevent "an arms race in space and end it on Earth." Mitterrand told Gorbachev that "too many conflicts, suffering, attacks on the dignity and rights (of man) are afflicting men today," presidential spokesman Michel Vauzelle said. On Tuesday, Reagan invited France, Canada, Britain, West Germany, Italy and Japan, to meet him in New York Oct. 24 to discuss the upcoming Reagan-Gorbachev summit. Mitterrand refused the invitation. Chrysler offers cut-rate loans DETROIT - Starting today, buyers looking for 1985 cars will find cut- rate financing only at Chrsyler Corp. dealerships. The No. 3 automaker is running its 7.5 percent financing through Satur- day, making it the only player in the cut-rate game for three days. Special financing deals offered by General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and American Motors Corp. expired yesterday, the same day many 1986 cars officially went on sale. Chrysler is hoping its three extra days of sales activity under its incen- tive program will raise up its market share and steal some sales from GM and Ford. Its share of the industry has already risen to almost 14 percent so far in 1985, compared with about 12 percent a year ago. For the last six to seven weeks, carmakers have been offering programs through their finance subsidiaries, slashing interest rates' down to about 7.5 percent on an annual basis. S. African students skip classes JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Thosands of black students boycot- ted classes on the first day of the new school term yesterday, in a protest against apartheid. Police reported scattered, isolated, rioting but no deaths. In Soweto, the nation's largest black area, southwest of Johannesburg, students roamed the dusty streets as soldiers aboard armored personnel carriers took up positions in schoolyards. No students attended classes at 174 of the 7,000 black schools in South: Africa, and attendance appeared to vary from 5 percent to 95 pecent at others, said Job Schoeman, spokesman for the national Department of Education and Training. He said it was impossible yesterday afternoon to know how many of the 1.73 million black students in South Africa joined the boycott, which also protested the deployment of police and army units in black areas torn by 13 months of riots against white rule. Studentstrikes became a popular form of protest against apartheid in early 1984. Ehie icht aun 1Ba i Vol XCVI- No.21 The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967 X) is published Monday through Friday during the Fall and Winter terms. Subscription rates: September through April - $18.00 in Ann Arbor; $35.00 outside the city. 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