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Vol. XCVI - No. 42
Copyright 1985, The Michigan Daily
Ann Arbor, Michigan - Friday, November 1,
1985
Twelve Pages
Illini host
Bo's boys;
no roses
.for loser
By BRAD MORGAN
This year, the shoe is on the other
foot.
One year ago this week, Michigan
was 4-3 and coming off a 26-0
shellacking at the hands of the Iowa
Hawkeyes. Illinois was only 5-3, but
the Fighting Illini were coming off an
impressive 34-20 win over Purdue and
appeared ready to make a move in
the Big Ten.
ILLINOIS came into Ann Arbor a
prohibitive favorite, but Michigan
promptly gave the Fighting Illini a
swift kick pulling off a 26-18 upset. For
a downtrodden Wolverine team, it
was one of the few highlights of the
1984 season.
This year, the roles are reversed.
Illinois started out as one of the
* nation's top ranked teams, but losses
to USC, Nebraska and Purdue have
knocked it out of the top 20. Michigan,
on the other hand, has made its well-
documented meteroic rise from ob-
scurity to the upper echelons of the
national rankings, and there is
nothing Illinois would like more than
See BLUE, Page 12
* University
presidents
dicuss aid
for blacks
:in S. Africa
LSA
to
guarantee
a dission
By ERIC MATTSON
The college of LSA will guarantee
some incoming freshmen a place in
University graduate schools when
they are admitted as undergraduates
in an attempt to encourage students to
broaden their education.
LSA Dean Peter Steiner, the main
proponent of the program, said he
came up with the idea because too
many students base their curriculums
on what they think will look good to
admissions counselors in graduate
schools.
STEINER SAID the "Preferred Ad-
missions" program is designed for
"students who are obsessed with
potential admission to graduate
programs. This will relieve some of
that tension." Steiner hopes the new
program will allow students to take
courses that they otherwise might
ignore.
Under the program, which is still in
its preliminary stages, freshmen who
plan to go on to a certain professional
school would be guaranteed ad-
-mission to that school provided they
maintained a good academic standing
and met criteria that has yet to be
defined.
Steiner said the program is the first
of its kind in the country, and predic-
ted that other schools will follow suit.
"I think we're way ahead of the
crowd on this one," he said. "In this
case, I think we're innovating, not
copying."
ANOFFICIAL at the American
Association of Collegiate Registrars
and Admissions Officers said she had
not heard of similar programs at
other universities. "I think it's a neat
idea if they can get it to work," she
See STEINER, Page 5
Daily Photo by SCOTT IITUCHYI
Spiderman?
LSA sophomore Andrew White publicizes his Halloween party in front of the Union yesterday.
By KERY MURAKAMI
with wire reports
Providing scholarships to black
South Africans is one alternative to
divestment in trying to help blacks in
South Africa, 13 university presidents
said in a meeting in New York earlier
this month.
Among those attending was Univer-
sity of Michigan President Harold
Shapiro.
"FUNDS are needed to ensure a
steady increase in the number of
black South Africans attending South
African universities as un-
dergraduates and postgraduates,"
Stuart Saunders, vice chancellor and
principal of the University of
Capetown in South Africa, said at the
conference.
He said each student would need
about $2,500 to attend his university in
1985, far above what most South
African blacks can afford to pay.
Susan Lipschutz, a philosophy
professor and assistant to Shapiro,
said the University has awarded four
full scholarships to black students
from South Africa since 1981; one of
whom graduated last year.
SHE SAID, however, there has been
no discussions about expanding its
program or beginning support for
See SHAPIRO, Page 5
RSG turnout exceeds expectations
By MICHAEL LUSTIG
Only 91 of over 3,600 eligible voters cast their ballots in
the two-day Rackham Student Government elections
which concluded yesterday, exceeding by 31 the number
of votes cast in last winter's elections.
Six positions were up for election this fall; two seats in
each of three divisions. Five write-in candidates and only
one of two filed candidates were seated last night.
VICTORIOUS in the physical sciences and engineering
division were Edward Hellen, a physics research
assistant (26 votes), and Alice Haddy, secretary for the
Graduate Employees Organization (19 votes).
Set in the biological sciences division were two write-in
candidates, Biology teaching assistant Margaret Reeves
(26 votes) and Rackham student Lianna Barbar (25
votes).
Education division write-in candidates seated are Doc-
toral candidate George Junne (6 votes), Steve Ruffins (2
votes).
RSG President Dean Baker said last night he was
pleased with the turnout, citing the improvement over last
fall's numbers.
"More people may have voted because RSG has gotten
involved in more controversial issues," said Baker, poin-
ting to their resolution last month condemning the visit of
See FIVE, Page 2
'THE CARRIER'STARS'U'STUDENT
'U' alumni produce
* new horror movie
By KERY DUFF
town doctor that h
It's dark, and cold, and silent. And the disease.
most of all it's frightening, a scariness OFF THE scre
that makes even the softest whisper resources school
send shivers up and down your spine. tes
Mist from the low-hanging trees otescue hs
billows out at you as you travel down Fortescue has
the dirt road. And, as if on cue, a for the film, bu
pumpkin moon rises. career began, he
YOU COME upon a white painted student here at th
house opposite cornfields. And sud- In fact, he rea
denly the silence is broken by wind sider auditioning
whistling through the rows of corn. friend, who was
You do nothing but watch as a man talkedhim En ai
and a younger woman run up to the tescue really did
house and bang frantically on the part since he was
door. series of 3,500 pro
Then the image disappears. A He surprised hi
director yells "cut" and noisy chat- During filming
ter fills the country air of Manchester, an average of 12-
a small town about 25 miles from Ann got time off if the
Arbor. to shoot a scene w
SWAN Productions, an Ann Arbor 'I can't wait u
company run by University hour day really
graduates, is responsible for the while," he said.
scene. AFTER WORT
Filming for "The Carrier" a cmltd ot
psychological horror film about acompleted, Fort
small town plagued by deadly disease the University for
was recently completed. It's then is transferrir
scheduled to be released in May. University.
In the scene just described, Jake,
the main character, runs to tell the See 'U' GI
TODAY-
he is "the carrier" of
en, Jake is a natural
[ junior, Greg For-
taken a semester off
at before his movie
was just an average
e University.
ally didn't even con-
for the part until his
auditioning himself,
er the audition, For-
n't expect to get the
the third to last in a
spective stars.
mself.
g, Fortescue worked
hours-a-day and only
company happened
ithout him.
until it's over. A 14-
gets to you after a
K for the movie is
escue is returning to
r the winter term and
hg to New York State
R ADS, Page 6
Dow
building
chamber
collapses
By NANCY DRISCOLL
The roof of an underground
utilities chamber adjacent to the
Dow Engineering Building on North
Campus collapsed yesterday after-
noon, forcing the evacuation of hun-
dreds of students and faculty and the
cancellation of classes.
No injuries were reported in the
incident, according to campus
security officer David Dupuis.
Associate engineering dean
Charles Vest said the building will
reopen today.
THE CHAMBER housed air-
conditioning, electrical, and other
utility equipment that provided ser-
vice to a basement area of the Dow
building in which a library, study
area, and computer laboratories had
recently been constructed.
"Structurally, the room appears
to be destroyed, but we don't know
what damage was done to the
equipment," Vest said.
Construction project superinten-
dent Mike Sweitzer said he suspected
See ENGIN, Page 2
Daily Photo by SCOTT LITUCHY
Construction supervisor Mike Sweitzer and a passer-by survey damage yesterday from the collapse of a roof
at the Dow engineering building on North Campus. The collapse caused the evacuation of hundreds of students
and faculty, but no injuries were reported.
Rolling out the barrel
THE KANSAS CITY ROYALS won the series and
put the barrel, not the ball, back in Susan Richar-
dson's court. Two weeks ago, the 30-year-old cashier
made a deal over the phone - and on the air - with
David Lawrence, a disc jockey at WDAF Kansas City.
Flunking with style
MANY FAIL driving tests, but 89-year-old R
Johnson of Oakland, Calif., flunked in style'
ramming his car through a window of the Departm
of Motor Vehicles State Police Serueant Robert R
INSIDE-
LOOKING BACK: Opinion looks back at the
week in review. See Page 4.
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