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SHARP, who as vice presid
would .chair the assembly's steer
commiee, a group of the assemb
committee chairs and execut
officers, sees a need for more cc
sion and "better communication'
the steering committee and in
assembly. She wants to "mak
difference." One item on her age
is establishing a mandatory Uni'
sity course on racism, sexism,
classism.
"If there is better communical
in MSA, MSA will then hav
strongerdvoice with the adminis
tion and more validity with
students," she said.
Both Weine and LSA represe
tive Hillary Farber, who initi;
approached Sharp for the posit
noted her experience in dealing N
the faculty. Sharp also covered
faculty for The Daily last ti
which, according to Weine
Farber, is one of her strong poi
since some of the vice preside:
job entails dealing with Univer
administrators.
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Sharp's energy and time commit-
ment made her a good choice for the
job.
"Wendy is familiar with the
campus issues that MSA deals with
and, from her past experience
(covering the assembly for The
Daily), she can give a fresh perspec-
tive to the assembly's work," Weine
said.
Politically, Sharp says she shares
Weine's views on many campus
issues.
"IF I RAN (for the office last
March), I would have run with Stu-
dents First," she said. Weine and
Felton, who resigned for personal
reasons, carried the Students First
party to a landslide victory last
spring. The party ran on a platform
that opposed a proposed code of non-
academic student conduct, and en-
couraged the assembly to get in-
volved with both campus and non-
campus issues.
Weine decided to go outside of the
assembly and nominate Sharp
because, he said, "she is someone
familiar with MSA issues, yet
coming from the outside, she can see,

Sharp
... nominated asassembly VP
our strengths and weaknesses."
Weine also said that to elevate a
current representative could interfere
with projects that representative is
working on.
"The work that committee chairs
do is essential, critical and can't be
sacrificed for the vice presidential
position," Weine said.
Sharp resigned her position at the
Ann Arbor News in order to take the
job.

By MELISSA RAMSDELL
A fire caused by a discarded
cigarette broke out in East Quad's
Madrigal Lounge yesterday morning.
Capt. John Schnur of the Ann
Arbor Fire Department said the
cigarette butt caused some paper
trash deposited in radiator to burst
into flames. Residents were evacu-
ated and a maintenance worker put
the fire out with an extinguisher
before the fire fighters arrived.
Building Director Deba Patnaik
ruled out the possibility of arson,
saying, "It was definitely not inten-
tional, just carelessness." He added
that the holes of the radiators will be
covered up.
Schnur said the department's fire
prevention bureau will follow up the
incident to make sure the building's
radiators are cleaned out and all hole
are covered. "It is impossible to tell
who caused it," he said.
Some Residential College classes
being held in East Quad classrooms
were interrupted and students eating
lunch carried their trays of food
outside during the evacuation.

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Budget.. ive-month lapse
If your Student Budgetis

Reagan bans Iranian imports
WASHINGTON - President Reagan moved yesterday to ban all
U.S. imports from Iran, citing "the increasingly bellicose behavior" of
the government of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in the Persian Gulf.
Reagan said in a statement that he also was directing actions
necessary for a ban "on the export to Iran of 14 broad categories of U.S.
products with potential military application."
Reagan had been weighing such steps for several days after a team of
advisors in both the national security and economic areas had
recommened them.
In asking the State Department and Treasury Department to take
action "as soon as possible," Reagan was using authority granted under
a section of the International Security and Cooperation Development
Act.
Reagan pins debt on Congress
WASHINGTON-President Reagan and congressional leaders talked
yesterday in an effort to reduce the federal budget deficit, saying they
needed to bury past differences and take action to reassure the nation's
shaky financial markets.
"We have to betserious. All of us have to be serious," said House
Speaker Jim Wright (D-Tex.).
But tensions continued as Reagan resumed his verbal attacks despite
a supposed "truce" agreed upon at the meeting, blaming Congress for
the huge deficits during his presidency.
"I set out to try and eliminate the deficit when I first came here, but
unfortunately the Congress has the last word about spending money and
they have been more willing to spend than I would have been," Reagan
said.
Authorities continue with
Milford fire investigation
MILFORD, Mich. - Investigators rejected a report yesterday that
criminal negligence charges were being considered in the deaths of three
volunteer firefighters during a practice fire.
Any talk of criminal charges in Sunday's fire is premature, said Mil-
ford Police Lt. Dale Mallett, who spoke for the town's fire department
at a news conference. The Milford Fire Department is investigating the
deaths with help from the state and other agencies.
Mallett said a state fire investigator quoted in a copyright story in
The Detroit News wasn't qualified to make the statement.
Mallett declined to comment about specific facts about the fire.
"At this point, we don't know what went on. We're still conducting
interviews with firefighters (who were) on the scene. There are as many
as 40 to 50 more interviews to do," he said.
Refusenik reaches Israel
TEL AVIV, Israel - Vladimir Slepak, a pioneer among Jews trying
to leave the Soviet Union, landed in Israel yesterday and said "a simple
strength, a holy strength" sustained him during his victorious 17-year
struggle.
He fought.longer than almost any other Soviet Jew to leave the
Soviet Union and is considered a leader among refuseniks, or Jews who
pressed for the right to emigrate despite Soviet refusals and KGB
harassment. He had struggled to keep information flowing to the West
in the darkest hours of the movement.
Slepak stressed that the West should not grow overly optimistic o-
ver his release and the visas granted recently to other leadng Soviet
Jews.

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investigation into the nature of the
breakup."
Officials are also uncertain
about the specifics of the breakup
and the future of the council. The
administration that appointed the
council has seemed content to let
the group function independently
until it receives formal word that
the panel has folded.
"I think thatd U' Council is the
appropriate mechanism," said Vice
President for Student Services
Henry Johnson. "The council
should write whatever is to be
written. I would hope it could get
about doing that in such a way that
at least the three primary con-
stituencies agree."
Johnson said the impetus for a
code is even greater now, with
security and housing reports of
sexual assault and racial harass-
ment, but he believes the responsi-
bility is in the hands of the council.

Newblatt agreed that the council
must address these issues
immediately. "The administration is
now making statements to the
effect that they want to see some-
thing done about sexual assault and
racial harassment," he said. "I think
these are problems students agree
cannot be solved with a code. I'd
like to talk about what are our
possibilities and alternatives."
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The Telefund
Announces
a $10 million
Celebration
UM students, especially current
and former callers, are invited to
Dooley's
Tuesday, October 27
after 9:00 pm
to celebrate another milestone:
$10 million for the Campaign
for Michigan Fund.

EXTRAS
Wow, it's two am., and I
see Jesus Christ on the
ceiling . .
It's two o'clock in the morning. You've just finished watching
Letterman, and it's time to begin your homework. As you contemplate
your chances of having Crime and Punishment read by 9 a.m., you are
overcome with "a feeling of intense calm, followed by a profound
conviction that the universe is one and that you are at one with it."
Sound familiar? No, it's not a caffeine high, but what two Canadian
psychologists have dubbed the "Two A.M. Wow" effect.
Researcher Michael Persinger told Omni magazine that "Two A.M.
Wows" are really "microseizures" of the brain that occur late at night -
or during periods of extreme relaxation - when the brain ceases to
produce a chemical called serotonin.
Persinger found the psychological effects more interesting than the
biological ones. His subjects "reported experiences of intense
meaningfulness - one even saw a figure of Jesus Christ."
Wow, man. And you thought Dostoyevsky was heavy.
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