cl bic Sir 43au E~aijj Ninety-six years of editorialfreedom Vol. XCVI - No. 61 Copyright 1985, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Monday, December 2, 1985 Ten Pages Misconceptions surround AlS causes - .r , , ~Michigan with 95 reorted ases of ATTD the possibilit that nn ATTIDS ,i tim micht By VIBEKE LAROI First in a series One freshman engineering student said he thought he could catch AIDS if someone with the disease touched a doorknob after yawning or crying and then he touched the same doorknob. "If I touch the same doorknob and bite my nails, then I could get AIDS and die," said Kenneth Gordon. Gordon said he also believes colds can be contracted by touching doorknobs infected people have grabbed. "I don't think (AIDS) is that different (from colds) because it's a body fluid it's a big risk." While Gordon and his buddies used to crack jokes about contracting the disease, he said it is becoming less of a joking matter as the disease spreads into the heterosexual population. Gordon's misconceptions about Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome are not un- common. Many members of the University community are undereducated about the risks involved with AIDS, a virus which breaks down the body's immune system, leaving it vulnerable to infections and other diseases. SOME of the common myths about AIDS include the belief that it can be spread through casual contact and that it is a "gay disease." Charles Fallis, a public affairs specialist with the Centers for Disease Control in Atlan- ta, said "there has been no case of AIDS transmitted through casual contact." Although gays and bisexuals constitute the majority of the AIDS cases, currently 73 percent nationally, the remainder of the vic- It I touch the same doorknob and bite my nails, then I could get AIDS and die.' - Kenneth Gordon, engineering freshman tims include intravenous drug users, hemophiliacs, recipients of blood tran- sfusions, and heterosexuals who have had intercourse with an AIDS victim, Fallis said. THE DISEASE, of which 14,519 cases have been reported in the United States, can only be contracted through blood and semen, Fallis said. It can also be passed from mother to child at birth. AxA1ci,p LI01 JR16U db V Al O, ranks 18th in terms of severity of the disease in the population, he added. New York and California are at the top of the list in the number of AIDS cases reported. Currently University Hospitals is actively- treating eight suspected AIDS cases, about :half of which are from the Ann Arbor com- munity, according to Dr. Stephen Ross, a University Hospitals infectious disease specialist. ROSS and other hospital officials refused to disclose whether any of the patients were members of the University community., University officials say they fear the con- sequences of a student or professor contrac- ting the disease because of the misinfor- mation spread through jokes and uninfor- med people. Engineering freshman Gordon typifies the reaction of many dormitory residents to p11 ywI W.cL md.AJ V1CL11n mJgnL live on the same floor. GORDON said if anyone found out about. the person's disease, that person would "have no choice but to leave" the residence hall. "No one would want to live with him around," he said. "I wouldn't. You all share the bathroom." "I'm not sure I'd want to (live with an AIDS victim)," Gordon said, because "they (medical experts) don't know anything yet. So why take the risk." David Jackson, an LSA senior and mem- ber of the Michigan Gay Union, said he feels a lot of people on campus assume that you can get AIDS by sitting in the same room as a gay person, using the same restrooms, swimming pool, dishes and silverware, or by giving blood. See DOCTORS, Page 6 Israel to , U.S. on spy case From AP and UPI JERUSALEM - Israel made a belated and conditional apology to the United States yesterday over the Jonothan Pollard spy case. It promised to punish culprits and disband a secret intelligence unit if an investigation finds that the U.S. Navy analyst was recruited to spy for Israel. The apology was issued in the name of Prime Minister Shimon Peres and delivered to U.S. AmbassadorThomas Pickering in the hope of defusing the controversy, officials said. The announcement fell short of a full admission of guilt, but said that any Israeli espionage directed against the United States "was wrong, and the government of Israel apologizes for it.", "SPYING on the U.S. stands in total contradiciton to our policy," Peres told the Cabinet in a report later read to reporters. "Such activity, to the extent it did take place, was wrong and the gover- nment of Israel apologizes." PERES said an inquiry was under way into allegations that surfaces af- ter the arrest Nov 21 of Pollard, a civilian U.S. Navy intelligance analyst charged with selling secrets to Israel. ."The government of Israel is determined to spare no effort in in- vestigating this case thoroughly and See PERES, Page 5 No. 1? Cagers halt Wreck in ugly tip-of By TOM KEANEY Special to the Daily SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - Ugly. Dirty. Downright filthy. Wallowing through the mire, the Wolverines slid into a 49-44 victory over Georgia Tech in the Hall of Fame Tipoff Classic in Springfield Mass. on Saturday. VICTORY IS usually a thing of beauty. But on Saturday, victory was ugly, really ugly. If it wasn't Mark Price chucking airballs (two, count 'em, two) at one end of the court, it was Michigan's starting front line at the other, cashing in for all of four field goals, zero each for forwards Richard Rellford and Butch Wade. If it wasn't the Wolverines' shooting eighteen percent in the first half, it was Georgia Tech's shooting 29.6 per- cent for the game. OOOH, UGLY. Very ugly. The details are sordid. Take the fir- st half, for instance, which saw Tech take a 25-17 lead into the intermission. Antoine Joubert came out looking squeaky clean in the first half, can- ning two jump shots in the first 2:39 of play. But then the Wolverines made a mess of things. IT TOOK Michigan over ten minutes to get another basket, and the mud-meisters were to only get four the entire half. Suffice it to say, the Wolverines' 17 points in the first 20 minutes did nothing to earn the awe of the sellout crowd in the Springfield Civic Center or the admiration of TV viewers ever- ywhere. Fortunately for the Wolverines, however, the Yellow Jackets gave a spotty performance themselves in the first half. IRONICALLY, it was Price, pre- season all-everything, who was the guru of grime for Georgia Tech. The senior guard clanked in at zero for six from the field, with five tur- novers by halftime. All in all, it was an unattractive 20 minutes of basketball. A real dog. Not See WOLVERINES, Page 10 Daily Photo by SCOTT LITUCHY Antoine Joubert puts up a jumper over a Roy Tarpley pick on Georgia Tech's Tom Hammonds as Richard Rellford moves into rebounding position in Saturday's 49-45 Michigan win. The win moves the team's record to 3-0 and may vault the Wolverines into a No. 1 ranking in the polls. " " " 'rw'iirrrrsrvr~v -+".'v-iiiciii: i i iii Y ii 'i "'"'i i "'"'" r " " " " " " " .. " ....... "" : e i ' ti. .4b . .T. .e . .. . ".. d.4 :".Li " " i " " i :" i ." "~i i i i ti i " i w i i:". i:::".". .:: i". iii ii i i _ s "i " :" . i".".".::'.:::: :' ::'. . ' y' :" L ::i Half in poll . are unaware of apartheid By United Press International Half of Michigan residents surveyed in a recent Detroit News poll were unaware of apartheid - the South African government's policy of discrimination against nonwhites. Those familiar with the issue remain evenly divided about the debate over divestiture as a means of applying pressure to the South African government to change its policy. THE FINDINGS from a statewide survey of 753 people conducted by The University's Institute for Social Research come at a time when the Michigan Legislature is debating a policy of divestiture for state-administered pension funds. See STATE, Page 5 Most crimes unreported, Justi0ce dlept. study says - ''-x.:i isii ii .555i 2:2%-:2:5i :5555552-555555 5555i55 ss i ss:- -:ox .:......:-:.:.:.:.:...:....:. .:.:-:.:'".:.:*.*.:i isisi--- Voice -of"Buliwini LOS ANGELES (UPI)-Bill Scott, popular television series, "Rocky and the voice of cartoon characters His Friends," which starred a flying Bullwinkle the moose and Mountie squirrel named Rocky and his Dudley DoRight, died Friday of a sidekick moose, "Bullwinkle." heart attach at his suburban home in THE CARTOON show began in 1959 Tujunga. He was 65. and spun off several other programs Scott was best known as the head until 1973. The shows are now in writer, co-producer and the voice of reruns. several cartoon characters on the Although the show never received e die good ratings, it enjoyed a hard-core following. The networks talked of reviving the program in the mid- 1970s, but nothing came of it. "It was a show that affected people, especially smart kids growing up," Scott said in a 1984 interview. "I guess that's who the audience really was." See CARTOON, Page 5 WASHINGTON (AP) - Two thirds of America's crime victims don't call the police, and people are more likely to report car thefts than rapes or other types of assault, the Justice Department said yesterday. The department's Bureau of Justice Statistics said only 35 percent of some 37.1 million crimes in 1983 were repor- ted to police. THESE FINDINGS, gleaned from twice-a-year interviews with 129,000 randomly selected people age 12 and older, showed that nearly 70 percent of motor vehicle thefts are reported while less than half of rapes and other violent crimes are reported. Among other things, the report may give impetus within the federal law enforcement establishment for upgrading and improving the quality of crime statistics compiled by and reported by the FBI. In fact, Steven Schlesinger, director of the bureau, the statistics-gathering arm of the justice Department, revealed recently that a wide-ranging plan to improve the FBI's Uniform Crime Report is being evaluated by the Office of Management and Budget. AMONG OTHER things, a revam- ped FBI crime reporting system would rely more heavily than in the past on statistics that indicate the types of people who commit crimes rather than merely showing the volume of reported crimes. In the report released yesterday, based on an analysis of statistics gathered during the Census Bureau's survey of some 60,000 randomly selec- ted households, the department found that: Only 48 percent of some 6 million violent crimes such as rape, robbery, and assault were reported to police. " Completed crimes are more likely to be reported than attempted crimes. " The proportion of crimes reported to police increases as the value of property theft or damage goes up. " Women and blacks are more likely then white men to tell police they were victims of violent crimes. " Teen-agers and under-educated people are less likely to report crimes. The findings pretty much mirror the conclusions drawn from a similar study a decade earlier, Schlesinger said. "Each year, about two-thirds of personal and household crimes are not reported to the police," he said in a statement. "If crimes are not repor- See FEW, Page 5 w. TODAY was not impressed with Carter, 35, of Cincinnati. She was caked in mud and hadn't slept in 24 hours while Carter was clean and rested. He made a comment she didn't like about how the damage assessment team was doing its job, Landerfield said. "The last thing I needed was someone telling me how to do my job," she said But they discovered they both enjoyed teasing world's champion duck calling contest in Stuttgart, Arkansas, Saturday, defeating a field of 39 state and regional champions from 16 states and Canada for the title. Ronnie Wright of North Little Rock was second, and Johnny Mahfouz of Stuttgart, who said he prac- tices about 10 minutes a day on his calling, won the Mi- -.r .: 2+n+i- + r nl y r.. +h a T i n ---T -v,^ -. INSIDE- DRUG SCENE: Opinion looks at substance abuse among college athletes. See Page 4. FAA A. A. A..m. e..... L..an... Imrka na. t i