E Nityaa t Ninety-six years of editorial freedom 1Et1i Vol. XCVI - 'No. 122 Copyright 1986, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Monday, March 31, 1986 Ten Pages Students look for summer subletters By EVE BECKER With just under five weeks left before final exams end, students trying to sublet their apartments for the summer terms are getting desperate and settling for low prices and loose contracts. The Daily's annual summer sublet sup- plement begins on Page 5. 'Students are looking for sublets later than usual this year, said Joe Rumsey, assistant director of the Housing Information Office, but the number of students seeking summer lodging has remained constant. RUMSEY said her office has posted about 300 notices advertising sublets, although many more locations are subletted through word-of-mouth. In addition, some students simply give up looking for subletters because it's such a buyer's market. Because there are about one-third as many students enrolled during spring and summer terms as during fall and winter terms, it's possible to get a room for less than $100 a month;, "Everything gets more negotiable the closer we get to the end of winter semester," Rumsey said. Rumsey said students hoping to sublet their apartments should make careful arrangements with both the See TENANTS, Page 7 Students may sue Meadow over election By MARY CHRIS JAKLEVIC Three members of the Michigan Student Assembly, including former Student Rights party presidential candidate Jen Faigel, said yesterday they plan to sue members of the Meadow party, the Michigan Review, Students Proud of Campus Knowledge (SPOCK), and possibly the assembly itself. The students say their names and social security numbers were illegally revealed when Meadow party members displayed assembly documents to the Engineering Coun- cil, the Daily, and employees of Kinko's copying. Faigel's signature and those of Law School representative Eric Schnaufer and MSA military researcher Ingrid Kock were displayed on a form which was submitted to MSA by the "Marxist Group" so that group could be officially recognized by MSA. The form was later used on a poster put up around campus by SPOCK, although the social security numbers were crossed out to make the posters. Schnaufer said he and the other students whose names appeared on the forms will meet- this week to decide if they will take legal action. Schnaufer cited the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, also known as the Buckley Amen- dment, which restricts information the University may disseminate about a private citizen. Also over the weekend, the assem- bly released election results for LSA representatives and four referenda questions on the ballot. Representing LSA next year will be: Kimberly Washington, John Cac- chione, John Fitzgerald, Ashish Prasad, Ken Cohen, and David Newblatt, all of the Meadow party; Lisa DeYoung, Kathleen O'Connor, Rebecca Felton, Hillary Farber Michelle Fischer, Michael Margolis, Susan Carter, Lisa Russ, Matt Tucker, Ken Weine, Ed Kraus, and Deborah Weisman, all of the Student Rights party. Three of the four ballot*referenda were approved. They mandate MSA approval of a code of non-academic conduct, urge student organizations to divest funds from organizations with holdings in South Africa, and to request that each school set its own college government fee. Proposal C,which asked if the University should allow firms suppor- ting terrorist activities to recruit on campus failed by a margin of 53-47 percent. Daily Photo by SCOTT LITUCHY Balancing act Ann Arbor resident Dave Cloutier does tricks on his bicycle at the corner of East University and South Univer- sity on Friday afternoon. Opening of Tally Hall may cut Union's business By MICHAEL LUSTIG Businesses in the basement of the Michigan Union are getting nervous about the impending opening of Tally Hall, which will contain at least 20 restaurants and as many as 15 shops. The mall, scheduled to open June 26, could mean a drop in business for the Union shops because they are only three blocks away from Tally Hall. FRANK CIANCIOLA, director of the Union, said he expects the MUG's business to drop slightly when Tally Hall opens. In the long run, however, the mall's impact on the MUG will be minor,'Cianciola said. "The MUG was designed to be more than a place to get a burger. It's a place to meet a cross-section of the University, a place to hang out," he said. Cianciola said Tally Hall will force the Union businesses to gear their operation more toward studen- ts, the Union's primary customers, but there are curren- tly no plans to expand the variety of food services of- fered in the MUG. "We're not preparing for anything specific right now, but we are always looking for possibilities," Cianciola said.. PATRICIA MORRISSEY, manager of Great Places Travel in the basement of the Union, said she doesn't think her store will be seriously hurt by Tally Hall. Initially, though, she feels the overall business in the Union might slow down because people will explore the new mall. The mall, located on East Washington between Division and State streets, will have a ground level food court containing 22 to 25 restaurants around a common eating area, a retail level for 11 to 15 shops, and a parking structure with spaces for 600 cars. Other private entrepreneurs are also concerned about the impact of Tally Hall. Mike Watassek, owner of Jacques Patisserie on North University, said he hopes th the mall will bring more people to Ann Arbor, even though he is concerned that his business might suffer. Watassek said he suspects that the quality of food ser- ved at the mall will not be as good as his. He said he per- ceives the mall as a place where "high school kids will hang around and get burgers and soda." JULIE SMITH, manager of Mrs. Peabody's Cookies, See MALL, Page 7 . .. ....... Hole-y. A2 Cit council candidate patches *area potholes By MARTIN FRANK City Council candidate Dave DeVarti, armed with a half-ton of cold patch gravel, shovels, road flags, brooms, construction gear, and eight volunteers, set out Saturday to patch up the potholes in Ann Arbor's Fourth Ward. "Patching potholes will demonstrate my commitment to improving road conditions," said DeVarti, a Democratic candidate who has consistently accused Republicans of neglecting the city's streets. CITY ELECTIONS will be held on April 7. DeVarti estimated that he and his crew, which in- cluded several students, managed to fix 60 percent of the ward's potholes in a four-hour session that lasted until around 2 p.m. Starting at Dominick's, a restaurant and bar on Monroe Street that is owned by DeVarti's father, the "pothole patrol" headed up Oakland Street, where they filled 10 potholes. THE VOLUNTEERS stuck to side streets such as Hoover, Hutchins, and East Madison, avoiding major thoroughfares so thev would not disrupt traffic. See DEVARTI, Page 7 TODAY- 82 students sign complaint letter against Prof Tanter By NANCY DRISCOLL Eighty-two students in political science Prof. Raymond Tanter's class, "The Arab-Israeli Conflict," have signed a letter of complaint against Tanter, which they plan to present to the chairman of the political science department today. The letter charges that the course is too pro-Israeli and that Tanter patronizes his students. "THE DIRECTION of the course, in terms of the material being covered in his lectures, is wholly inadequate," the letter says. "While claiming to be unbiased and 'even-handed,' he con- tradicts this ideal by dealing with only one side of the issue." "Questions or points that the students bring up are often responded to with comments regarding their in- validity or irrelevancy," the letter, said. "As a consequence, many students walk away from lecture feeling patronized, abused, insulted, or ignored. Attendance to his lectures has been dropping as a result of such treatment." Both Tanter and John Kingdon, chairman of the political science department, declined to comment. THE LETTER cited a recent incid- ent when Tanter "felt cornered" by students' questions. Herallegedly responded by singling out a student in See STUDENTS, Page 7 Court arraigns protesters today By MARC CARREL The first of 39 of 118 protesters who were arrested inside Rep. Carl Pur- sell's (R-Ann Arbor) local office 21/2 weeks ago will be arraigned tomorrow on charges of trespassing. The protesters were arrested over a four-day period beginning March 14 as they demonstrated against Pur- sell's support for President Reagan's plan to send $100 million in military ' and humanitarian aid to the Nicaraguan Contras. The aid bill, which was rejected by the House of Representatives, passed the Senate last week and will return to the House fo another vote later this month. The demonstrators met at East Quad on Saturday to discuss the "legal implications of being arrested," said Dean Baker, Rackham Student Government president and one of those arrested. According to Dmitri Iglitzin, a third year law student who is being arraigned today, most of the protesters will plead not guilty. Iglit- zin added that no protesters have lawyers yet, but will start to get them today. "A lot of attorneys have volun- teered their services for no fee," Iglit- zin said. He added that he thinks most of the students will go to Student Legal Services first. Mark Weisbrot, another graduate student protester, said he believes the charges would be dropped. "Let's put it this way," Weisbrot said. "They're not going to put 118 people on trial. In the past, Pursell has always dropped charges. I don't believe he's willing to attract more publicity for his support of terrorism in Central America." Daily Photo by JAE KIM. City Council candidate Dave DeVarti receives help from volunteers as he fills potholes along Oakland Street Saturday. M-M"% Good news THE NEWSPAPER delivery boy brought the best news possible to Nancy Halvorsen. Along with The Columbus Dispatch, Steven Rumbalowski, 13, dropped Idaho fried W HERE ELSE would frozen potatoes get french fried by the truck load? A tractor-trailer rig INSIDE GREAT GREEKS: Opinion applauds the fund- raising success of Greek Week. See Page 4. I C