AIStudents may wake up one day and find the 'U' can w hold them responsible for their actions outside class. Ninety-eight years of editorial freedom Vol.XCVIII, No. 88 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Friday, February 5, 1988 Copyright 1988, The Michigan Daily 'M' Purdue to battle for first 'place Sunday Democrats seek new Contra aid By GREG MOLZON Purdue at Michigan. It's a to- tally different game this year. It's a different season, with some different players, at a different time of the year, and with a different set of consequences for the winner and loser. Purdue head coach Gene Keady" even said so. "It's a new year and a new league race. It's going to be ex- citing and interesting to see if we can stay with them," Keady said. Stay with them? What's he talking about? Purdue, which visits Crisler Arena on Sunday (4 p.m., ABC-TV), returns four starters from a defending Big Ten co-champion that has been ranked as high as No. 2 in the country this season. "I KNOW (Michigan head coach) Bill Frieder will laugh at. that," Keady said, "but they beat us last year very badly with a lot less talent than they have this year." Ah, yes. That memory still lingers - LAST YEAR. : Purdue came to Ann Arbor on the final day of the season needing only a victory over the fifth-place Wolverines to clinch an outright Big Ten championship. The only prob- lem was that Michigan didn't cooperate with the Boilermakers' plan. The Wolverines sent Keady and his squad reeling out of town with a 104-68 thrashing of the highly- ranked Boilermakers. Not only was it an embarrassing loss on national television, it virtually ruined and ended Purdue's season. AS KEADY said, "In fact, Michigan ruined my whole damn summer." That's because the loss enabled Purdue's hated rival, Indiana, to tie the Boilermakers for the conference title. That tie led to the Hoosiers' selection as the No. 1 seed in the Midwest Region of the NCAA Tournament, while Purdue became the second seed in the East. In turn, Indiana had the advan- tage of playing in its home state at the Hoosier Dome, and Purdue had to head to Syracuse. The Hoosiers ended up advancing to the Final Four and winning the national championship. Purdue suffered another stunning loss in the second round to Florida, 85- See PURDUE, Page 12 WASHINGTON (AP) - Con- gressional Democrats who dealt a severe blow to President Reagan's Central America policy set out yes- terday to produce an alternative that will sustain the Nicaraguan Contra rebels while stimulating regional peace efforts. "We will make sure those we lured into this battle are not left high and dry," said House Speaker Jim Wright (D-Texas). He promised to bring a new package of purely hu- manitarian aid for the Contras up for action within three weeks. The House, with only a dozen Republicans in the majority, voted 219-211 Wednesday night to kill Reagan's request for $36.2 million in new aid for the rebels fighting Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista gov- ernment. The package included arms, radios and other logistical military support as well as food, clothing and med- icine. Weapons and ammunition ac- counted for only $3.6 million of the total but were at the root of the opposition. Despite the death of the presi- dent's package, the Senate went through the motions of a debate yesterday that gave senators an op- portunity to speak and vote on the issue. Vice President George Bush, the Senate's presiding officer, and Mi- nority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kan.), interrupted presidential campaign swings in Iowa to attend the session, which Contra backers apparently be- lieved could serve as a forum for their views. PurseII vote irkis meany By MARINA SWAIN Reaction was mixed yesterday re- garding U.S. Rep. Carl Pursell's (R- Plymouth) -vote for continued aid to the Contras in Nicargua. The vote was not enough, however, to overturn Wednesday's 219 - 211 decision in the U.S House of Represenatives against further See POLLACK, Page 2 Rabbit hunting Daily Photo by ELLEN LEVY Engineering sophomore Alicia Zastempowski "uncovers" her VW Rabbit after Wednesday night's heavy snowfall. Students woke yesterday to face uncovered cars and slippery sidewalks as they ventured out to classes. Rent control proposal gains spot on city ballot By PETER MOONEY A rent control proposal was placed on the city's April 4 election ballot, and a University student ended his campaign for the City Council's Third Ward seat, said Deputy Ann Arbor City Clerk Herb Katz yesterday. Obtaining a space on April's ballot is a victory for the tenant advocacy group, Citizens for Fair Rents, who collected about 5,400 signatures last year. 3,882 were required by late December to put the proposal up for a vote in the city elections. The signatures were challenged in January by Citizens for Ann Arbor's Future, a coalition of Ann Arbor landlords, because some people signed the petition twice or were not registered to vote in Ann Arbor. ALTHOUGH City Clerk Winifred Northcross certified that 27 percent of the rent control signatures were invalid based upon a 10 percent sample, 46 percent would have to be found invalid to keep the issue off April's ballot. But Tim Pope, a Citizens for Ann Arbor's Future member, complained that Northcross "used a flawed statistical procedure to place it on the ballot." The group had suggested that the city clerk take a larger sample than 10 percent. Rent control advocates plan to begin a "full-fledged" campaign aimed at getting renters and students - two groups which traditionally have low turnouts in city elections - to vote for the proposal next April. "WE'RE CONTINUING our work with other campaigns to register voters," said Citizens for Fair Rents member Vicki Wilson. She said the group is cooperating with several Ann Arbor political campaigns to increase student and tenant election awareness and voter registration. Another change in the city election involves Dan Rosenberg, a Third Ward Republican Candidate and LSA junior, who ended his darkhorse candidacy last week. DESPITE his official pullout, Rosenberg's name will still appear on the election ballot. Rosenberg said the city election rules did not give him enough time to change his mind about running, after he turned in his signatures. In addition to the rent control issue - that will appear on the ballot as Proposal C - three other proposals will be on the ballot. Proposal A would increase the number of signatures required to put a city council candidate on the ballot from 50 to 100, and from 100 to 250 for mayoral candidates; Proposal B requests a 1 mill tax increase for Parkland Acquisition; Proposal D requests a 2 mill increase in taxes to finance street repairs from 1989 to 1991. Students, plagued with tickets, cope with city parking crunch By MOLLY FINLEY LSA senior Mark Perrin drove to Village Corner one day last week to pick up "some Sudafed and some Kleenex" for a flu he was fighting. He circled the block four times and had no luck finding a place to park. The only spot he found was a paid- permit only space in the South Forest/Church Street parking structure. As a last resort, he parked there. He was in the store for "less than ten minutes," but when he returned to the structure, a police officer was writing him a ticket and preparing to tow his car. Perrin, who already had six unpaid parking tickets, said he told the officer that he'd pay the ticket "if he'd just back up and not tow the car." When the truck started to leave, Perrin ripped up the ticket, jumped into his car and drove away. This incident, though an extreme case, reflects the difficulty many students have when trying to park in Ann Arbor. It's almost impossible to find spaces that are close enough to classes, and tickets are written moments after a car is illegally parked. Only 20 spots are available between East Engineering and Dennison, and three of these are only 30-minute parking. These 30- minute spaces can't accommodate students going to classes. Amy Loftus, LSA junior said, "It ta3es less time to walk than to drive around looking for a space." Betty DeWolf, Administrative Assistant of University Parking Operations, said the University maintains 19,216 parking places - including 7,240 spaces in nine University parking structures. But many of the rest are reserved for the University Hospital. The University keeps no statistics on how many students own cars. But Max Smith, University parking systems manager, said that about 600 students buy parking permits See CITY, Page 3 CBN board to protest Daily Photo by ELLEN LEVY Syracuse University Sociology Prof. Gary Spencer addresses students on the use of the term "JAP" last night in the Pendleton Room of The Michigan Union. Spencer told the packed audience that the term is a sexist, ethnic slur. Prof. decries JAP as a slur WJJX review By STEVE KNOPPER Sallyan The Campus Broadcasting Net- to alleg work's Board of Directors, objecting WJJX 1 to "inaccuracies" in an executive re- reporte port recommending a review of reviewe WJJX campus radio, decided faculty, Wednesday to write letters to Uni- Sev versity administrators protesting the the revi plan ne Payton, was in response gedly racist jokes aired over ast year. Kennedy and Payton, d that the station should be ed by a committee of students, and administrators.. eral WJJX officials have said iew is unnecessarv hecause By LAWRENCE ROSENBERG Gary Spencer, a Syracuse University sociology "JAPS" could easily be identified by two characteristics - dress and attitude. The mode of dress that most