The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, October 29, 1985 - Page V Protesters plead not guilty in court By CHRISTY RIEDEL Demonstrators arrested during last week's protest against the Central In- telligence Agency yesterday entered pleas of not guilty at their arraign- rments in 15th District Court. A pre-trial conference for the protesters has been set for Nov. 12. AT THAT time, the defense and prosecution will review the case, said Nancy Francis, an attorney for the demonstrators. She added that a trial date or another pre-trial conference could be scheduled at the meeting. .~, Hugh McGuiness, a protester charged with trespassing, said that the group of demonstrators is meeting regularly to play its defense strategy. And although they have not made a final decision on lawyers, the Univer- sity graduate student said protesters hope the American Civil Liberties Union will agree to take the case. McGuiness said he is optimistic that the ACLU will take the case. By calling in police to deal with demonstrators, the University in- fringed upon the rights of protesters, he said. Three or four of the demonstrators didn't show up at yesterday's arraignment because of schedule con- flicts. Francis said alternate dates will be set for them. The arraignments were originally scheduled to begin today and continue into next week, but were rescheduled *because of lawyers' complaints that the demonstrators' rights to an arraignment "without unnecessary delay" were violated. Death penalty barbaric, public defender says By CHRISTINA HASNAH The death penalty is unreal, barbaric, and is becoming ritualized, a Florida public defender told a crowd of about 50 people gathered at the Friends Meeting House last night. "Prisoners on the death row are dehumanized into ob- jects," Susan Cary said. She gave a lengthy description on the lives of prisoners at the Florida State prison. "PRISONERS facing the death sentence live in a six- foot by nine-foot concrete steel cage, 24 hours a day, seven days a week with hardly any contacts from the outside world." Prisoners are also tortured and raped behind prison walls, she added. Cary described the pain that criminals and their families feel at the hour of the execution. In many cases, children of the prisoners feel that it is their fault that their parent is being executed. It is an unbelievably traumatic experience for children, she said. CARY SUGGESTED that both parties, the criminal and the victim, be brought together for an attempt at recon- ciliation. The aim would be to create an atmosphere of open communication where they could clear up the issue of the crime and eliminate the negative, destructive feelings that could poison their lives for years to come. . Washtenaw public defender Lloyd Powell said that some people think the death penalty is right because it helps keep the streets safe from crime. "The Washtenaw Public Defender's office is trying td find a way to keep criminals longer in prison," Poweil said. Cary strongly feels that the public would not want a. death penalty if they knew how it works. The State of Michigan, which abolished the deatli3 penalty in 1846, may face a public referendum on the issue in November 1986. Cary hopes that the state's citizens do not restore the death penalty. "It is wonderful to live in a state where people don't kill," Cary said. She received her law degree from Florida State Univer- sity and currently works in the West Palm Beach area. : The forum was co-sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee and the American Civil Liberties Union of Washtenaw County. Daily Photo by JOHN MUNSON Susan Cary demonstrates how electrodes are strapped to the heads of criminals receiving capital punishment last night at the American Frien- ds Service Committee Meetinghouse. to Soviet sailor jumps shsi twice, defection try bleve BELLE CHASSE, La. (AP) - A Medvid, has been on the ship since he Soviet freighter. drugged. returning Medv d to the freighter. I Soviet sailor twice taken back to his ship after apparent defection attem- pts appeared "anxious" to a U.S. government doctor who examined him, officials said yesterday as the State Department renewed demands to question the man in a "non- threatening environment." "We wish to interview him in ap- propriate surroundings to determine his true intentions," White House spokesman Larry Speakes said in Washington of the sailor who had twice leapt into the Mississippi River. HE SAID the administration officials were discussing the situation with Soviet officials in Washington and aboard the ship, which sits anchored under guard in the Mississippi River downstream from New Orleans. The seaman, identified as Miroslav wa forcibly returned to it Friday by U.S. Border Patrol agents after jum- ping into the river from the freighter for the second time. Speakes refused to say whether President Reagan had ordered the ship held in U.S. waters pending resolution of the dispute. Asked about the way the case has been handled, Speakes said the president has received "a rather detailed report to indicate there was difficulty in determining his inten- tions because of the interpretation problems there. Once the matter was examined closely, then State Depar- tment officials were alerted." STATE Department spokesman Bernard Kalb said the United States will make no move toward defection proceedings until the sailor is inter- viewed at a location away from the Later, the State Department said a U.S. government doctor examined Medvid on board the vessel. The doctor found Medvid "anxious" during the examination but said he had only a minor injury to his left arm, the department said, adding that there was no evidence he was It added that the examination did not satisfy the department's condition that he be interviewed in a "non- threatening environment." Also yesterday, a national organization of Ukrainian-Americans criticized Border Patrol agents for "It should have been obvious to im- migration officials that if the mae jumped ship twice, he certainly did not want to go back to the Soviet Union," said Myron J,.asylk, a spokesman for the#Ukrainian Congress Committee of America. LAST TWO DAYS! e Sced t $e o\( o , N CV edaPaul Susalla oca Art Carved Rep. Now taking orders. Two candidates run for Rackham seats . 'I. Y' . h. Y a i4 4 R . A k, H1 S.i k .w V 4. (Continued from Page 1) "PEOPLE have an obligation to the niversity and all should be honorable and responsible," he said. "Those that are not should be kicked in the butt, including the faculty." He says that a code will help instill mutual respect throughout the University community. Teaching assistant tuition waivers are another issue Barney wants the RSG to address. Currently, tuition ,;aivers for TA's are tax-exempt. But 0 for several months last year, TA's had to pay taxes on their waivers. Barney said the University needs to set a policy in case teaching assistan- ts lose their tax-exempt status again. HE ALSO thinks the RSG's resolution earlier this month condem- ning Vice President George Bush's visit was inappropriate and wants to issue an official apology. However, not all graduate students are upset with the RSG's resolution. "RSG seemingly doesn't do anything for us, so why bother with it?" said one TA who refused to be identified. Most teaching assistants said they handle complaints and problems through the GEO and saw the RSG as a way to expand social horizons by meeting people in other departments. Graduate students will be able to vote at the Union tomorrow and Thur- sday from noon until 8 p.m.; at the LSA building from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; and at the North Campus Recreation Building from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Correction The winning float in the Homecoming parade was built by members of the Triangle fraternity and Gamma Phi Beta sorority. The sorority's name was omitted from yesterday's Daily. ..Im$t ; .,., -APPENINGS- Highlight Elie Weisel, the author of more than a dozen books and one of the most respected Jewish voices in the world today, will speak tonight at 8 p.m. at Rackham Auditorium. Weisel's speech, sponsored by the Hillel Foun- dation, will draw upon general and Jewish sources, weaving together contemporary events, ideas on building a moral society, as well as the Jewish and human condition. Films MTF - Android, 7 & 9 p.m., Michigan Theater. CG - All That Jazz, 7 & 9:15 p.m., Aud. A, Angell Hall. AAFC - Contempt, 7 p.m.; Sweet Smell of Success, 9 p.m., Nat. Sci. Auditorium. Performances University Music Society - Munich Philharmonic, 8 p.m., Hill Auditorium. Speakers Chinese Studies - Brown Bag Lecture, David Shambaugh and Jay Bowen, "Trends in the Social Sciences in the People's Republic of China: Field Observations, 1983-85," noon, Lane Hall Commons Room. Psychiatry - Stanley Prusiner, "Cerebral Amyloid, Scrapie, Prions, and Alzheimer's Disease," 4 p.m., South Lecture Hall, Med Sci II. Business Administration - Charlie Jett, "Career Management," 4:15 p.m., Hale Auditorium. Meetings Rugby Football Club - Meeting, 7 p.m., Elbel Field. 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