The Michigan Daily - Thursday, November 14, 1985 - Page 3 :." ." ....... "......"s.."..."......." ..a.."" . .. " .t*********.. . *.."...".....__.____ ........._. ... Sudarkasa k calls for A spirit of Td tC 7 (Continued from Page 1) Sudarkasa said. Her report on recruitment that was published last spring was never made public. She commented that a lot was lost by not making the report public. "We made the impression that there was something to hide, but there really wasn't." Her next report, on retention, will not be out until at least December, she said. It was expected out earlier. ACCORDING TO Sudarkasa, the report is overdue because "I did not correctly assess what goes into a retention report. Retention is more difficult than recruitment because one has to look at a variety of social and academic issues," Sudarkasa said. Sudarkasa has recently sent out a questionnaire to 3,000 students, minorities and non-minorities. She also expressed desire to form a group of students who will help with the publication of such a report. She said she hopes the questions will provide her with student input. She and the Michigan Student Assembly have encountered difficulty in defining exactly what a student task force, which Sudarkasa wants to establish, will entail. According to Sudarkasa, MSA wan- ts a committee rather than a "task force." cooperation' Wolfe parodies college athletics By MATTHEW BENSON Three Ann Arbor ministers yester- day taped copies of a petition regar- ding U.S. Policy in Central America, signed by nearly 1,000 local residents, to Congressman Carl Pursell's office door. The petition, which has been cir- culating for about two weeks, asks that an "Ordinance Establishing Initiatives for Peace in Central America" be put to a city-wide vote in April. If passed, the ordinance would require the city clerk to notify local legislative representatives that the citizen's of Ann Arbor oppose military aid to Central America, and support the right of self-determination for those nations. REVS. JIM LEWIS, Don Coleman, and Nadean Bishop, who represent the coalition for Peace in Central America which organized the petition drive, said they posted 95 pages of signatures on Pursell's door as a symbolic re-enactment of Martin Luther posting his 95 theses for reformation on a church door in 1517. The group said the action was an ef- fort to show Pursell (R-Ann Arbor) the support they are receiving from other Ann Arbor residents. Pursell, however, was in Washington yesterday, and two of his staff members inside the office did not come to the door when Lewis and Bishop knocked. "WE HAD no way of knowing what might have resulted had we asked them in," said Cindy Hutchins, an Ministers tape petition to door (Continued from Page 1) down. I think things are funny. Some things that others find very depressing I laugh at." Following his comic monologue, Wolfe spoke about his upcoming novel Bonfire of the Vanities. Bon- fire is Wolfe's first novel. OFTEN, HE put on a pair of white glasses, saying that he was going to read from the manuscript. He never did, choosing instead to describe several characters, ex- plaining one scene with bravado. assistant to Pursell. "We need to maintain atcertain degree of decorum in this office, and we've had difficult experiences with demonstrators in the past." Coleman said that the coalition originally was formed to educate people about Central America. "We came up with the ballot petition as an active and effective way of doing that." "We thought of asking a city council member to sponsor the resolution..." Coleman said, "but we wanted to keep the campaign on a human, grass-roots level." The group must gather almost 4,000 signatures by Jan. 6 to get the proposal on the ballot. As he was prepared to finally read a scene, he announced that his time was up and proceeded instead to a question and answer session. "I was using the threat as a prop," Wolfe said. "I was baiting the audience. No one really wants to hear a manuscript read. It's very dry. '" SUMMING UP the scene, Wolfe said, "Hell hath no fury like a husband whose wife cuts him off from his true lust. And if she ac- tually catches him, the anger recedes and he drowns in a nearby pond of sentimental guilt." Speaking about the pitfalls he discovered in writing a novel, he said, "We don't live in a plausible age. What if twenty years ago someone wrote that small groups of armed people could freeze the world by taking over old people's cruises, dusty embassies, or airplanes? He would have been scoffed at." DETROIT 41AK1 & TRAVEL SHOW FRI. NOV 15-SUN., NOV 17 COBO HALL FRI. (5-10 pmi SAT (Nx)-10 pm), SUN. (Nxx-6 pm) MEET SUZY CHAFFEE AND SEE HUNDREDS OF SKI & TRAVEL EXHIBITS, SHOWS AND BOOTHS, PLUS: * FREESTYLE SPORTS SKI DECK SHOW, PRESENTED BY DUNHAM'S SPORTS OUTFITTERS * FASHION PREVIEW '86, PRESENTED BY THE BAVARIAN VILLAGE SKI SHOPS * SKI WORKSHOP DEMOS * VACATION PLANNING CENTER * WARREN MILLER SKI FILMS * AND MUCH, MUCH MORE WIN A FREE SKI VACATION TO VAIL COURTESY OF HAPPENINGS- Highlight Yehuda Amichai, Israel's leading poet, will be giving a poetry reading (in English) on campus tonight. Amichai is the author of a number of books of poetry and prose. He will read at Hillel, 1429 Hill St., at 8 p.m. Admission is $2.00. Films Alternative Action - Putney Swope, 7:30 & 9:15 p.m., MLB 4. Cinema Guild - Citizen Kane, 7 & 9:15 p.m., Aud. A, Angell Hall. Cinema II - Blackmail, 7 p.m.; Destiny, 8:30 p.m., Natural Science Bldg. Ethnographic Film Series - Les Maitres Fous; Trobriend Cricket. 7 p.m., Lec. room 2, MLB. Eyemediae - The World of Buckminster Fuller, 8 p.m., Kerrytown Concert House. Hill St. Cinema - Simon, 7 & 9 p.m., 1429 Hill St. Major Events - The Roches, 8 p.m., Michigan Theater. Michigan Theater Foundation - The French Lieutenant's Woman, 7 & 9:15 p.m., Michigan Theater. The Video Yearbook - Showing of last year's video, 10 a.m., ground floor, Union. Performances Major Events - Concert, Michael W. Smith and Kathy Troccoli, Hill Auditorium. School of Music - Craig Solvie, trumpet recital, 8 p.m., Recital Hall. Speakers ARK - Nancy Vogl, 8p.m., 637 S. Main St. Ann Arbor Libertarian League - Bette Erwin, "Political Preference and Psychodynamics," 7p.m., room C, League. Biology - Erich Staedler, "Chemoreception in Some Phytophagous In- sects," 9a.m., 1053 Natural Science Bldg. Biostatistics - Victor G. DeGruttola, "Multivariate Linear Models for Longitudinal Data: Resistant Methods and Influence Analysis," 3:30 p.m., M4332 SPH II. CRLT - Robert B. Kozma, Using Computer Simulations in the Classroom, 4:30 p.mm, room 2219, SEB. Chemistry - Yael Barshad, "Electron Diffraction Study of Super- sonically Generated Clusters," 4 p.m., 1200 Chemistry. Engineering - Joel Levine, "Methane and Carbon Monoxide in the Troposphere, 1950 & 1985: Some Photochemical Considerations," 4 p.m., 2231 Space Res.; M.B. Pursley, "Frequency-Hop Packet Radio Net- works," 4 p.m., 2031 East Engineering Bldg. Finance Club - J. Bistsch, Paine Webber, "Corporate Internships," 4 p.m., Wolverine Room. Japanese Studies - Brown bag lecture, "Working in Japan: Student Experiences," noon, Commons room, Lane Hall. Linguistics - Steven Dworkin, "On the Frontier of Diachronic Phonology and Diachronic Morphology," noon, 3050 Frieze. Marketing Club - P. Douglas, Quaker Oats, "Brand Management," 4 p.m., Michigan Room. Medical Chemistry - Eddy Esmans, 4 p.m., 3554 C.C. Little Bldg. Mus. Anthropology - Jeffrey R. Parsons, "Regional Archaeology in Iceland: Implications of the 1985 Eyjafjordur Survey," noon, room 2009, Music School. Ophthy/Psychology/Physiology/Bioengineering - George Siegel, "ATPase in Retina and Brain," 12:15,2055 MHRI. Residential College - Peter Witteveen, "Glimpses Outside Tokyo: Teaching in Rural Japan 1984-85," 7:30 p.m., room 126, East Quad. Russian and Eastern European Studies - Richard Clogg, "Contem- porary Greek Politics," 4 p.m., room 200, Lane Hall. University Alcoholics Anonymous - noon, room 3200, Union. Western European Studies - A. Richard Turner, "Poetry and Power in Italian Renaissance Landscape," 8p.m., Rackham Amphitheater. Meetings College Democrats of America -7 p.m., Pond rooms, Union. Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship - Why Christianity? 7 p.m., Hen- derson room, League. Regents -1 p.m., Regents' room, Fleming. University Council - 4 p.m., room 3909, Union. Miscellaneous Computing Center - Workshop, Laura Bollettino and Richard Conto, "Microcomputer Communications with Kermit," 3 p.m., 1013 NUBS. Department of Romance Languages - Workshop, History of Rhetoric, 8 p.m., W. Lecture room, Rackham. HRD - Workshops, Managing Change, 9 a.m.; Job Search, 7 a.m. Hillel -Poetry reading, Yehuda Amichai, 8 p.m., Hillel, 1429 Hill St. Hillel Foundation - Poetry reading, Yehuda Amichai, 8 p.m., Hillel. His House Christian Fellowship -Bible study, 7:30 p.m., 925 E. Ann St. Michigan League - International Night, India 5 p.m., cafeteria. Office of Admin. Sys. - Workshop, Introduction to Wang Glossary, 1 n M 0 CONTINENTAL AIRLNES &ThMark MSA may reduce funds if new group is formed (Continued from Page 1) The assembly defines constituent contact as sending out mailings to constituents, sponsoring discussions with students, and forming liasons with individual school or college governments. MSA is also planning two ballot questions that will ask students whether they approve of the Board of Regents imposition of a mandatory fee for students to fund the Univer- sity's computer expansion. THE REGENTS in September voted to charge all students $50 next term and 100 each term thereafter to nearly triple the number of computers around campus. But MSA members Steve Heyman thinks the decision was made without sufficient student input. Heyman, who chairs MSA's Legislative Relations Committee, said the University rushed the fee to the regents, forcing "students to pay the price for the University's poor planning." "Because the Administration con- trols the information at this Univer- sity we're at their mercy when they want our input," Heyman said. ALTHOUGH HE is not opposed to the concept of a computer fee, Heyman said he will attempt to per- suade the regents to postpone next term's fee if enough students vote for more input in University computer decisions. Douglas Van Houweling, the University's Vice-Provost for infor- mation technology and the man who presented the computer fee plan to the regents, said yesterday the Univer- sity's Executive Officers will "pay close attention to what the students tell us, but that doesn't necessarily mean that we'll do what they want." Van Houweling acknowledged that the process was hurried, but he said that waiting any longer to approve the computer fee would have dealt a -serious blow to the University's technological capability. He pointed to the Computer Policy Committee, a student committee that will be formed within the next several weeks as an example of student input into University computer policy. "I've been interested in student in- put from the very beginning, and for- ming this committee is the best way to do this," Van Houweling said. Correction The student pictures on page 3 of the Daily yesterday was LSA sophomore Julie Raden, a member of the cast the campus production of Evita. 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