The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, November 13, 1985 -Page 3 Air fare wars heat up for Thanksgiving MSA not CIA urges 'U' to charge NEW YORK (AP) - Two airlines ined three competitors yesterday in a Thanksgiving fare war, and the carriers reported a surge of queries and bookings for the steep discounts intended to fill empty holiday flights. "It's been very heavy. There are some markets selling out rapidly," laid Linda Johnson, spokeswoman for American Airlines. She said Florida routes were practically booked for the 60-hour period covered by American's offer. United Airlines spokesman Chuck Novak said the number of phone calls to its reservation centers was up 50 percent. "The volume of calls has increased drastically, I'd say by 15, 20 percent," said Jim Ewing, a spokesman for Delta Air Lines. "We've got to put supervisors on the phones." American was the first to offer the sharply reduced fares Monday. United and Delta quickly followed with their own plans, and Northwest Airlines and Eastern Airlines an- nounced their sales 24 hours later. American and Eastern offered discounts of up to 85 percent on round- trips in the 48 continental states from Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28, through noon Nov. 30, when passenger traffic traditionally is light. Thanksgiving eve and the following Sunday have been heavily booked for months. United matched American's offer on all routes on which they compete. United, American, and Eastern require round-trip bookings with payment within three days of making reservations. The sale deadline is Nov. 26 and tickets are nonrefun- dable. Delta cut fares to 100 U.S. cities by 70 percent but offered the discounts on round-trips through midnight Nov. 30. In addition, it is offering the discounts for the three days after Christmas. protesters By AMY MINDELL The Michigan Student Assembly reinforced its opposition to charges levied against protesters at CIA recruitment meetings last month by calling for the administration to drop the charges. The assembly based last night's decision on testimony by protesters and witnesses, who said that the demonstrations were peaceful, legitimate and democratic. "The University said it supports and defends all students' rights - protesters and non-protesters. That is why we have to call them on this," said MSA member Kathy Savoie, a Rackham graduate student. The resolution "deplores the repression unleashed by the Univer- sity administrators" by calling the police, reading the trespass act, blocking the entrance to the Career Planning and Placement Center, and refusing to answer questions about the incident, according to MSA mem- ber Daniel Melendez, who introduced the resolution. "Shapiro has to realize that he works for me, and not me for him, and I am getting a little pissed off that he won't give us the information we ask for," said Steve Heyman, a represen- tative from LSA. Twenty-six demonstrators were arrested last month at CIA protests in the Student Activities Building. HAPPENINGS- Highlight Author Tom Wolfe will speak tonight at 8 p.m. in the Rackham Lecture Hall. Wolfe has written a number of books, including The Right Stuff, a national best seller in 1979, which won the American Book Award for general nonfiction. The lecture is free and open to the public. Films Cinema Two - Jakob Von Gunten, 7:30 p.m., MLB 3. Mediatrics - For Your Eyes Only, 7:15 & 9:30 p.m., Natural Science Bldg. Michigan Theater Foundation - The World According to Garp, 7 p.m.; Hotel New Hampshire, 9:30 p.m., Michigan Theater. Performances Arts Foundation of Michigan - "Inside Westside," 7 p.m., Fisher Theatre. Music - Recital, piano department, 8 p.m., Recital Hall. Music at Mid Day - Sharon Kleinhuizen and Woodwind Quintet, 12:15 p.m., Pendleton Rm., Union. UAC - Laughtrack, stand up comedy, 10 p.m., 'U' Club. University Music Society - Vienna Symphony Orchestra, 8 p.m., Hill Auditorium. Speakers Biology - David McClay, "Cell Recognition: Changes in the Sea Ur- chin During Gastrulation," noon, 5732 Medical Science II, Jacob Weiner, "Size Variability and Competition in Plant Populations," 4 p.m., Rm. 2, MLB. Chemistry - John Barker, "Analytical Methods Applied in Laser Photochemistry Experiments," 4 p.m., 1200 Chemistry Bldg., David Allen, "Prediction and Measurement of Copolymer Microstructure," 4 p.m., 1200 Chemistry Bldg. Committee for Women - Shirley Clarkson, "Effective Lobbying," noon-1:30p.n 2151Art & Architecture. Communication - Jack Lessenberry, "Unreported Aspects of Reagan at Bitburg," noon, Marsh Sem. Rm., Frieze. Computing Center - Bob Blue, "Working with Magnetic Tapes," 7-9 p.m., 1013 NUBS. Dentistry - Dennis Turner, "Horseradish Peroxidase (HRP); Ap- plication as an Intracellular and Intercellular Tracer," 4 p.m., 1033 Kellogg. Epidemiology - Thomas Francis, Jr. Memorial Lecture, Reuel Stallones, "The Epidemiology and Prevention of Disease," 3 p.m., Aud., SPH II. International Appropriate Technology Assn. - Robert Grosse, "Health-Care Systems in China," 7p.m., International Center. Matthaei Botanical Gardens - Libby Hodges Oliver, "Colonial Arrangements Throughout the Year," 7:30 p.m., Botanical Gardens Aud. Physiology - Horace Davenport, "3 Scurvy Questions," 4 p.m., 7745 Medical Science II. Psychiatry - Robert Rose, "Psychoendocrinology of Stress: What's Clear and Murky in 1985," 10:30 a.m.-noon, Child Psych. Hosp. Aud. Russian and Eastern European Studies - Brian Silver, "Political Beliefs.of Soviet Citizens: Sources of Support for the Regime," noon, Lane Hall Commons Rm. Strategies Against Poverty - David Hollister, "Political Advocacy for Social Change," 12:15 p.m., 4070 Frieze Bldg. Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry - Zvi Gittleman, "Soviet Policy: Domestic and International, and its Effect on Soviet Jewry," followed by candlelight march, 7:30p.m., Hill St. Cinema. William W. Cook Lecture on American Institutions - Making Gover- nment Work Better, Alice Rivlin, "An Aggressively Moderate Platform," 4 p.m., 100 Hutchins Hall. Meetings Dissertation Support Group - 1:30 - 3 p.m., 3100 Union. Ensian Yearbook - 7 p.m., 420 Maynard St. Undergraduate Political Science Assoc. - 7 p.m., 6th floor, Haven Hall. International Center - Information meeting for London Summer Comparative Health Care course, 3 p.m., International Center. Michigan Gay Union - 9 p.m., 802 Monroe. Recreational Sports - Cross-Country Ski Club, 7 p.m., 451 Mason Hall. Science Fiction Club - Stilyagi Air Corps, 8:15 p.m., League Student Counseling Services - Adult children of alcoholic parents, 10:30-noon. Miscellaneous Ark - Open mike night, hootenany, 8p.m., 637S. Main. Canterbury House - Liberation Eucharist, 5 p.m., 218 N. Division St. Career Planning and Placement - Pre-Business (MBA) Day, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m., 2nd fl., League. Guild House Campus Ministry - Beans and rice dinner for charity, 6- 7:30 p.m., 802 Monroe. Lord of Light Lutheran Church - worship, 7:30 p.m., 801S. Forest St. Michigan Freshman Connection - CRISP Workshop for feshmen, 7-9 p.m., Blue Lounge, Stockwell. Muslim Student Assn. - Islamic coffee hour, noon, Rm. 3, League. Office of Admin. Sys. - Workshop, Introduction to Wang Glossary 1-5 p.m. Red Cross - U. of M. - OSU blood drive competition, 1-7 p.m., East Quad. SODC - Workshop, Getting Your Committees to Work, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m., Welker Rm., Union. Daily Photo by DEAN RANDAZZO Don' cry for me LSA sophomore Jocelyn Check drums up support for the upcoming show "Evita " yesterday on the Diag. Check is the publicity chairperson for the show. Finally, after 75 years, comet wasn 't worth wait (Continued from Page 1) March or April), get into their cold cars, drive 20 miles into the country to get away from the light pollution of Ann Arbor only to discover that it's cloudy out. Then they will have to get up the next morning, and the next, and so on (until it is not cloudy)." Loudon said that, although Halley's is a fairly bright comet, comets just as bright appear every couple of years. This sentiment is shared by Freeman Miller, professor emeritus of astronomy. Explaining why so much 'hype' is given to Halley's Comet, Miller said that besides the fact that it is a fairly bright comet, and that it does things (". . . it erupt's pieces of its tail . . ."), the most im- portant thing is that it comes back every 74-76 years, "so you can plan for it." BUT MILLER added that "most of us are playing it down, because it's not going to be spectacular from the point of view of the public." Miller advocated against spending money on any "so-called telescopes" to see the comet, advising instead the use of binoculars, which give a larger field of view. Miller also stated that "it's a good time to go South (March or April), and if you do, (seeing the comet) is an extra added benefit. But I wouldn't recommend going down South just to see the comet. . . I think it would be quite disappointing." Miller, will be heading to Chile, and from March to May will be a serious observer of the comet at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. HALLEY'S COMET, Loudon said, is like any other one, consisting of both a head and a tail made of gas and dust. At the center of the head is a nucleus, the only solid part of the comet. The nucleus is made up of frozen water, frozen methane, frozen ammonia, and rocky dust. Comets have orbits which are very elliptical, or cigar shaped. Our sun is just inside the orbit of Halley's Comet. It spends most of the time far from the sun, but periodically comes in close - in Halley's case, every 75 years. It is close enough to the sun that the frozen material is heated up and tur- ned into gas. That gas, and the dust that was trapped are released, for- ming the head and tail. ONE MISCONCEPTION about comets is that they flash across the sky; that would be a meteor. Comet comes from the Latin phrase for "hairy star," which is what a comet looks like - a fuzzy star with a tail. Although the comet's tail can be 50 million miles long, it is thinner than a television's picture tube, said Loudon. Halley's Comet was named for Sir Edmund Halley, who discovered that comets follow the laws of nature and that the comet named for his reap- pears in our sky every 75 years. Although there is confusion over the pronunciation of Halley's name, Loudon said that it either would have rhymed with valley or Molly, not Bailey. Thanks to Halley's predictability, many nations are sending spacecrafts to meet and photograph it. According to Miller, the U.S. couldn't afford to send one, but the European Space Agency (the Western European ver- sion of NASA) will send theirs the closest to the comet, while the Japanese are sending two crafts, as well as the Russians in collaboration with the French and Hungarians. The Russian crafts, VEGA 1 and VEGA 2 (VEGA's a Russian acronym for Venus-Halley) contains equipment produced by the International Science Steering Committee. One member of that committee is Tamas Gombosi, an Associate Research Scientist at the University of Michigan Space Physics Research Lab. Gombosi participated in the design of electronics and software for the craft's television cameras and rotating pointing platform. Gombosi, who worked with defining measurements and requirements, pointed out that, "I participated in the design, but I'm no engineer. I did not do the design itself." No" LOOK* 0 We realize that the papers are gone by early morning. Unfortunately for the late risers, The Michigan Daily can't afford to print more than 10,000 copies. So, please, share your paper or put it back in a rack when you're done reading it. TTHANK YOU TALK WITH THOSE WHO HELP MINORITIES AT THE 'U' CAMPUS MEET THE PRESS PRESENTS MINORITY STUDENT LIFE AT THE UNIVERSITY WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1985 KUENZEL ROOM, MICHIGAN UNION 4 p.m. - 5 p.m. Hear a Panel Ask Questions and Ask Your Own all £w__ .. I A .. ia -J