The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, October 29, 1985 - Page 5 Fire at Kappa house causes little damage By EVE BECKER and LENA HERNANDEZ An electrical fire last night on the first floor of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority located at 1204Hill St. caused little damage, fire officials said. The fire started when the heat from a water pipe wore away the insulation from electrical wires and caused them to short, said Bob Harris, an in- spector for the Ann Arbor Fire Depar- tment. The fire was discovered at 7:13 p.m. by the house chairman, Ann Curtiss. Fire department captain Dean Kapp said the electrical shortage started in the back of a wall baseboard. The wall was then opened up with an axe to see if the fire had .spread to other areas. "There were no flames, there was just smoke seeping in through the floor," Curtiss said. "The fire department was here within five minutes. I think the damage is minimal because we caught it in time," Curtiss added. Ann Arbor Police Sgt. Harry Jinkerson confirmed that there was little damage caused by the fire. There weren't any flames and the fire department didn't have to pump any water, he said. LSA sophomore Jennie Campbell expressed concern for her sorority house during the fire before she knew the actual extent of the damage. "We're kind of worried. They're chopping down the walls. We know it's serious if they're chopping down the walls," she said. Activists appeal to Council mom" Word Processing 101. (Continued from Page 1) clearly informed of the disturbance they were creating prior to their arrest, she said. More protesters spoke after Green, each giving examples of alleged harassment by the police. Thea Lee, a graduate student in economics, was at the Diag for the Today Show with fellow economics graduate student Dean Baker. She claimed that they were not allowed to return to their seats in the Diag with a political sign they were carrying. She said the police officiers "physically dragged and pushed us to the edge of the en- closure where campus security of- ficers grabbed my ankles and pulled me the rest of the way out of the en- closed seating." Lee added: "There were no laws violated as far as I could see unless there's a law in the Ann Arbor city code about walking and holding signs." LSA SENIOR Chris Faber summed up the presentation in a speech en- titled "The Use of the Ann Arbor Police 'as an Instrument of Political Repression." He accused the police of helping the University "maintain and project a particular political image to the nation." "Their actions clearly demonstrate that they are interested in protecting the University's interests even at the expense of an individual's First Amendment right of free speech," he said. An Ann Arbor community group, Citizens for Handgun Control, also spoke to the council, presenting a proposal for the banning of handguns within Ann Arbor city limits. Donald Duquette, chairman of the organization and a law professor at the University, hopes the proposed ordinance would become a law in time for Christmas. Larry Hahn, (R-Fourth Ward) doubted that the ordinance would pass. "I don't think there's a problem severe enough that it would require an ordinance," Hahn said. However, Doris Preston (D-Fifth Ward) was more optimistic. She said she was "very supportive of the con- cept," and she believed that the proposal would get the necessary six votes from the councilmembers for passage. There is a grim reality of college life that vou max or may not he acquainted with. Txping No. make that hours of tping. Precisely why vou shouki consider a Macintosh. With programs like.Mac'Write" and.Microsoft Word. you can compose.edit. move paragraphs. and change t1pe sizes and styles with one finger.Which can come in very hands: Eispeciallv if thats the wax you tpe. ? 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The Cognitive Science and Machine Intelligence Laboratory (CSMIL), which was established just a few weeks ago, brings together experts from LSA, the College of Engineering, and the School of Business Ad- ministration. CSMIL will conduct research into the interaction of such fields as robot design, human thought, neuro- psychology and electrical engineering. All of these disciplines are encompassed by cognitive scien- ce, the study of human thought processes. Psychology Prof. Gary Olson, the newly appointed director of the laboratory, said the scope of CSMIL's activities will depend on the resources that are available to it. The laboratory is a collaboration among the three colleges within the University, Olson said. "They in turn have contributed resources into get- ting it launched. "We also have money from the vice- president (for research)," Olson said. CSMIL WILL be engaged in many area of research, not all of which has been determined yet. Olson and an executive board of six - two representatives from each of the colleges involved - are currently meeting to determine the exact areas into which the laboratory will dwell. Though all the details have yet to be worked out, Olson said there are some specific projects in mind. "Our mission obviously is to stimulate intellectual activity in the areas of cognitive science and machine intelligence," Olson said, "things that have to do with thinking and cognition, both in humans and machines." "WE'RE VERY interested in ar- tificial intelligence and cognitive psychology. Principally some aspects of philosophy and linguistics and robotics and all kinds of other fields we might get into as well," Olson said. A chief aim of the CSMIL will be to bring together experts in the various fields to help each other understand areas outside their own specialties which might be helpful in their work. "Our main mission is not just to help psychologists do their work or to help computer scientists do their work, but to have psychologists and computer scientists say, 'Hey, we're interested in the same problem, let's work together on this," Olson said. EXAMPLES OF that are already in progress Olson said - "For example, computer vision," - in which com- puter scientists and visual psychologists work together to build machines that can receive and under- stand visual information. "The idea is to bring those people together," Olson said. Olson said that the intent of CSMIL was not to create machines capable of original thought. "IT'S QUITE unlikely, at least in the forseeable future, that human thought is going to be replaced by computing," Olson said, "but com- puting can really help human thought." CSMIL will be aided by a new Xerox STAR computer system. 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