I Page 2 - The Michigan Daily, Thursday, October 30, 1986 Inquiring Photographer By LESLIE BOORSTEIN IN BRIEF Question: "What is the meaning of Halloween?" Jeff Burke, LSA soph- om ore: It means spending six weeks looking for a costume for a party and taking it off an hour after you get there because you've already spilled beer on it, Andrea O'Polka, LSA Craig Bridgeport, LSA freshman: ,It means freshman: Halloween is a getting as much candy as time to laugh at your fears. humanly possible, having a A good way to do that is by good time, and raising a lot dressing up, looking ugly, of hell. and scaring people. Pete Greb, engineering sophomore: It means scaring the crap out of all the little kids. It also means going to Halloween parties, eating lots of candy, and brushing my teeth. Tamara Bigelow, LSA freshman: The main purpose of Halloween is to relieve stress and make dentists rich. To rage in a big way. Virgil Gutierrez, LSA freshman: Originally it had religious meaning; people dressed up as saints. But somehow, over the years, it got warped into dressing up as monsters and just being scary. Thomas Myers, busi - Elizabeth Skinner, Kashaun Collier, LSA ness sophomore: It LSA freshman: When I sophomore: Halloween means having a good time, was a little kid, it meant means nothing to me. I eating a lot of candy, and getting a lot of candy, but think it's the creepiest time lots of people getting fat. now it just means having a of year, and I think it's bad good time. for little kids. Weston Woo, engineering sopho - more: Halloween means partying in the cemetaries , and that's it-just PARTY, PARTY, PARTY! COMPILED FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS Lawyer opens Hasenfus case MANAGUA, Nicaragua--A government prosecutor yesterday opened the case against U.S. mercenary Eugene Hasenfus by presenting documents found after Sandinista troops shot down his Contra supply plane. The prosecutor, Ivan Villavicencio, handed evidence one piece at a time to the court secretary, including a card Nicaraguan authorities say gave Hasenfus access to restricted areas of Ilopango military airport in El Savador. Neither Hasenfus nor his Nicaraguan lawyer, Enrique Sotelo Borgen, was in court. Presentation of evidence by the presecution and defense to the special political tribunal trying the first American captured in Nicaragua's 4 and 1/2 year war was to last eight to 12 days. Hasenfus' lawyer told The Associate Press in a telephone interview that once the prosecution presents its case, the tribunal has to notify him in writing so he can respond in writing. It was not clear whether he would be allowed to present defense arguments in person. Hasenfus, a 45-year-old former Marine from Marinette, Wis., is charged with terrorism, conspiracy and violating public security. If convicted by the three-member tribunal, he could face up to 30 years in prison. Social Security wastes millions on disability exams WASHINGTON - The Social Security Administration wasted millions of dollars on unnecessary medical exams and tests in its zeal to knock a half-million people off the disability rolls from 1981 to 1984, a congressional panel charged yesterday. The government allowed private physicians hired as consultants "to overbill and overscheudule examinations," and let them mark up lab fees by 300 and 400 percent, said a report by a House Government Operations subcommittee. The'spiraling use of the medical consultants "was a major factor in the three-year disability nightmare" that ended when the Reagan administration, under pressure from Congress,-governors and the courts, halted the disability reviews in 1984, the report said. Of the 500,000 people who lost benefits during those years, 291,000 won them back on appeal. Sun may affect ozone layer NEW YORK - An unusual peak of solar activity may have caused the recent decline in the Earth's protective ozone layr, andthe ozone may be returning now that the sun's activity has subsided, says a study to be published today. The findings argue against the contention that ozone depletion is due primarily to man-made chemicals, including the chlorofluorocarbons used as refrigerants and aerosol propellants. Interest in changes in the ozone level has intensified in recent months following the discovery of a pronounced depletion of ozone over Antarctica, suggesting that atmospheric ozone destruction may be more severe than previously realized. Upjohn heir faces prison LANSING, Mich. - More than three years after Upjohn Co. heir Roger Gauntlett pleaded no contest to criminal sexual conduct with a stepdaughter, the state's top court yesterday upheld a prison term which had been imposed on him in place of chemical castration. The Michigan Supreme Court, affirmed Gauntlett's five-to-15 year sentence by refusing to hear an appeal. "We are not persuaded that the questions presented should be reviewed by this court," the seven justices said in their one-paragraph decision. Gauntlett, great-grandson of Upjohn founder W.E. Upjohn, refused to discuss the court decison, saying, "Thank you, I have no comment." The 45-year-old South Haven resident has been free on $100,000 bond during his attempt to bring the case before the high court. But; Kalamazoo County Prosecutor James Gregart said he'd start immediately on the two-to three-week process to have Gauntlett report to prison. Reagan campaigns for Republican control President Reagan crusaded for continued Republican control of the Senate yeaterday, while Democratic challengers in some of the nation's closest races were buoyed by fresh poll results and newspaper endorsemsnts. In Alabana's bizarre gubernatorial race, Attorney General Charlie Graddick signaled he was considering dropping his write-in candidacy. Graddick, a conservative former Republican who lost the Democratic nomination on a court ruling earlier this year, has been running a distant third in public opinion polls. As the candidates headed into the final week of campaigning, the Federal Election Commission reported that the Republican National Committee and GOP House and Senate campaign committees have raised more then $225 million since the beginning of the two-year election cycle. That's nearly four times the $57 million reported by their Democratic counterpart committees. 1I 14 I I UNFAIR JOB ADVANTAGE: A KINKO'S RESUME. Stand apart from the crowd with a sharp-looking professional resume from Kinko's. inko s Open 24 Hours 540 E. LIBERTY 761-4839 They Dare To Be Free! . The Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry Presents: A SYMPOSIUM ON SOVIET JEWRY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 7:00 P.M. FREE ADMISSION RACKHAM AMPHITHEATER The Panel: " Sister Rose Thering -internationally known human rights activist * Rabbi Gerald Teller -Head of United Hebrew School, Detroit * Glenn Richter -national Chairman of Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry " Leonid Maken- Linanev -Russian emigre and ex-prisoner of conscience Open Discussion Of: * The Personal experiences of our panel members " The effect of US-Soviet relations on Soviet Jewry " Refuseniks- who they are and why they are denied permission to emigrate " What we as American citizens can do to help Experts ask for more AIDS funding WASHINGTON (AP) - The National Academy of Sciences, lamenting "woefully inadequate" federal programs to cope with America's new health threat, called yesterday for creation of a National Commission on AIDS. The prestigious academy, in a major report on the increasing problems of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, said the only way to avoid a health catastrophe in this country is to launch "perhaps the most wide-ranging and intensive efforts ever made against an infectious disease." These programs would include sex education in schools, efforts to get people at high risk of getting AIDS to change their sexual habits, blood screening to identify those infected with the AIDS virus, rehabilitation for drug abusers, and testing the idea of providing disposable syringes to addicts who refuse treatment, the panel said. A panel of experts convened by the academy said the nation should be spending about $2 billion annually by 1990, most of it new federal money, in a multi-pronged effort to thwart the deadly disease. Shocking Stalin film premieres in U.S.S.R. MOSCOW (AP) - The cinematic shocker of the season is an allegory of Stalin terror and its effect 50 years later. 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