cl bic LEan Eatly Ninety-six years of editorial freedom Vol. XCVI - No. 97 Copyright 1986, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Monday, February T7, 1986 Ten Pages New 'U' hospital move succ By STEPHEN GREGORY Emergency aid stations designed to handle cardiac arrests, seizures, and nausea lined the route along which University Hospital employees pushed and wheeled more than 350 patients across a connecting bridge to the new Main Hospital Friday. But the stations went unused - a sign of the smooth transfer that was over in five hours, about four hours ahead of schedule. "It was just a sea of people," said Sally Sample, associate director of the new hospital who observed the move. "We were very fortunate," said Alla Gains, a hospital administrative assistant. The move, originally scheduled for Jan. 4, had been postponed until Friday because the hospital violated state fire codes, and failed to obtain proper certification for its medical gas system. State officials confirmed that the new hospital complied with the regulations and obtained approval to open last week. Gene Schmitt, a lieutenant of the state Fire Mar- shall's Department, said the hospital last Wednesday received word that its fire walls, smoke barriers, smoke detectors and sprinklers met the standards of the state's fire code. In addition, Dennis Kirkwood, an assistant hospital director, said the state notified the hospital that its gas; system had passed state regulation last Tuesday. The hospital had originally failed to obtain certification proving that gases such as oxygen and nitrous oxide were correctly connected to their respective systems. With these problems solved, the hospital began the delayed move at 8:04 a.m. on Friday. Opal Glenn, a 66- year-old resident of Detroit, was the first patient wheeled into the new building. Glenn, along with all other intensive dare patients were moved first. Some of the more seriously ill patients required as many as six hospital personnel to accompany them, according to Nancy Foram, a hospital nurse. Mable Craig, chair of the patient move committee, was, responsible for coordinating the 200 nurses, doctors, and other hospital employees who volunteered to aid in the move. Only 70 of the 200 actually helped transfer the patients; Craig said. Most of the remaining 130 helped guide relatives along the route, made sure the path was free of obstructions, and oversaw the various "command posts" along the route. Staffers who did move patients were also responsible for watching intravenous bottles, and pushing monitors, and other equipment, Craig added. Jenny James, a director of nursing at the hospital, said that most patients went through the "move path" in, groups of three supervised by one nurse. "Any unstable patients," however, were attended in- dividually by separate nurses, she said. "It went fine," Robert Coppola, a heart transplant patient, said of his 12-minute move from the old hospital. "I was treated really well," he added, referring to the attention he received from the two nurses who accom- panied him. "They were trying to make the move as comfortable as possible." Coppola said he prefers his new accomodation to his former "tiny" room, which offered him a view of ven- tilation exhaust pipes at the old hospital. "These rooms are gorgeous," he said of his new room. Gains coordinated the emergency stations the route that employed the remainder of the volunteers. See AID, Page 3 GOP primary for City Council set for Doily Photo by DAN HABIB Antoine Joubert eyes the court while Iowa's Ed Horton pursues him during Saturday's basketball game at Crisler Arena. The junior guard led Michigan with 19 points and five assists. Blue guns ow n Hawks,82-66 By BARB McQUADE Michigan's deadeye accuracy led to a 13-point explosion in the second half Saturday, as the Wolverines shot down Iowa, 82-66 at Crisler Arena. All five of Michigan's starters scored in double figures, shooting 66 percent, 70 percent in the second half. In the end, the Hawkeyes were no match for that attack. George Raveling. "We're using rifles and those guys are using missiles. It's tough to fight in that kind of warfare. It's kind of like the United States versus Libya." Michigan's guards certainly weren't diplomatic, sparking the onslaught. Antoine Joubert led all scorers with 19 points, and Gary Grant tallied 18. The pair scored.28 of their combined 37 points in the second half. "We shot the ball well from out- side," said Michigan head coach Bill Frieder, whose team stands in the first place in the Big Ten at 10- 3. "Joubert and Grant made some big, big baskets at crucial times. "They have to play well if we're going to be a good basketball team because teams are going to sag on Roy (Tarpley). They have to shoot well." "Everyone's keying on Roy so that makes it that much easier," Joubert pointed out. "When the guards penetrate we can hit one See WOLVERINES, Page 8 The Republican primary for seats on Ann Arbor City Council from the Third and Fifth wards will be held today. Polling places will be open from 7a.m. to 8p.m. Below is a summary of the Third Wards candidates and issues. A report on the Fifth Ward can be found on Page 3. By SUSAN GRANT Donna Richter, a member of the Ann Arbor Planning Commission, is challenging incumbent Jeanette Mid- dleton in today's Republican primary for the Third Ward's seat on City Council. The winner of today's election will represent the Republican ticket in next April's City Council race against Third Ward Democratic candidate Susan Contratto. The local Republican Party has pledged its support to Middleton, who was elected to city council two years ago. But Richter believes she can overcome her disadvantages with six years of work on the city's planning commission. "Because I have a planning background and the experience and knowledge that a city council member needs to judge the city, I can help the city through this critical growth stage," Richter said. The contest between Richter and Middleton hasn't focused so much on city council experience or party sup- port, as it has on a controversial zoning issue that affects group living arrangements such as sororities and fraternities in the Hill, Lincoln, Olivia, and Cambridge Streets area. On this issue as well, Richter seems to be the underdog. As a planning commission member, Richter last Jurie voted against allowing Collegiate Sororis to occupy a house at 903 Lincoln. The sorority wanted to purchase the house and today build a 4,400 square foot addition despite opposition from the neigh; borhood North Burns Park Association. The planning com- mission and-the city council ultimately approved the sorority's move into the- house, but the homeowners' association sued, saying group occupancy was illegal. Until 1984'a house in that area could not be converted to group use unless it contained more than 5,000 existing square feet - excluding unihabitable spaces like the attic and basement. But that year, in the processes of clearing up language in some zoning laws, the word "existing" vanished and "unihabitable spaces" was changed to include floor space. No one knew about this change until Collegiate Sorosis petitioned for the conversion. According to the tax records, the house at 903 Lincoln measures 3,400 square feet, but the Planning Dapar- See ZONING, Page 5 "We just don't firepower," said Iowa have the head coach MSA officer refuses to resign; blasts assembly Philippine armed forces chief resigns By KERY MURAKAMI Lawrence Norris, the Michigan Student Assembly's minority affairs committee chair, told the assembly's steering committee yesterday he will not resign his post. He also en- couraged black students at the Un- viersity to withdraw their funds from MSA. Norris was asked by the assembly to resign last week for a variety of misconduct charges, including his holding a work/study job with the Un- viersity's chief of minority affairs, administrstor. MSA'S LEADERS believe Norris's job with Niara Sudarkasa,the Univer- sity's associates vice president for academic affairs, may be a conflict of interest with his work for the assem- bly. They also charged Norris with not representing the interests of minority groups other than blacks, and physically threatening former MSA administrative coordinator Cheryl Bullard. The steering committee-which is made up of MSA's executive officers and committee chairs-delayed until tomorrow afternoon their decision on whether to recommend Norris's dismissal to the full assembly. In a 14-page letter given to the steering committee yesterday, Norris wrote that he feels MSA has not been concerned about the interests of black students on campus. FOR EXAMPLE, he said MSA leaders never seriously discussed a 20-page report on minority retention and recruitment written by Roderick Linzie, MSA's minority researcher. Norris also wrote that he opposed several of the report's recommen- dations, including the grouping of minority services in one University office. "Rather, black people and issues must infiltrate every office from the President's to MSA," he wrote. MSA President Paul Josephson said he supported centralization in order to See NORRIS, Page 2 MANILA, Philippines (UPI) President Ferdinand Marcos yester- day announced the resignation of Ar- med Forces Chief Fabian Ver as hun- dreds of thousands of Filipinos jam- med a downtown park to protest Mar- cos' fraud-tainted re-election. Ver, Marcos' cousin and his most trusted aide, was acquitted in December of conspiracy in the 1983 murder of opposition leader Benigno Aquino, husband of presidential can- didate Corazon Aquino. Hours after Marcos was proclaimed winner of the Feb. 7 elections by the Marcos' controlled Naitonal Assem- bly, Aquino outlined a seven-point plan of non-violent protest, including strikes, during an address to a crowd estimated by reporters and police to number between 250,000 and 1 million. Marcos has been under heavy pressure from Washington to replace Ver as head of the troubled 250,000- member military, which is fighting internal corruption and a growing communist insurgency. The President said he planned to meet U.S. special envoy Philip Habib today to discuss the election, which President Reagan said was marred by widespread fraud. He acknowledged, "It has already become evident, sadly, that the elec- tions were marred by widespread fraud and violence perpetrated largely by the ruling party." See AQUINO, Page 3 Marcos... accepts resignation TODAY- Innovation W HAT CAN you do with a picture of Libyan leader Moammer Khadafy, a Barbie doll, and a Hostess Ding Dong cake? A team of Purdue nniversiy studntsed e to n extra step to remove the cap from a tube of toothpaste and by showing a bit more "team spirit," said Vernard Foley, one of three judges. "The team also used a more precise method to squeeze the toothpaste onto the bristles," Foley added. "Because the contest was so close this year, we had to take some of these things into consideration." The winning entry included a spring engineering. "You can brush your teeth in a jiffy." Tipsy test A MUNICIPAL judge, frustrated by people who lurch drunkenly into his courtroom, bought a por- table breath-testing machine for on-the-spot sobriety - INSIDE PRO-LIFE:Opinion criticizes the methods of anti-abortion protesters. See Page 4. DAU A a.. iw.. - .L. U. ........ i . I I I I I