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Smells, stars fill
CRISP room
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exceptions. One year, a particularly
creative and outraged student managed
-to transcend the usual screaming and
door slamming and put his fist
through a box of time schedules
instead, Giggey recalled;
-the wait-listers. "Some (students)
have you wait-list the whole book
almost," said operator Harriet Brown.
An unofficial and informal poll of
CRISP employees sets the record at
14 to 15 wait-listed classes for one
student. LSA senior Colin McCarthy
said he has come close to the record.
McCarthy said one semester he wait-
listed 10 or 12 classes which he had
his girlfriend, his roommate, and his
brother help him sit in on for the
first few days of the semester.
"It seems everyone at the
University wants the classes I want
to get into," McCarthy said. "I
always seem to go last, no matter
what. I'm used to it. It doesn't bother
me," he said;
-Jamie Morris. The man seems
capable of single-handedly making a
CRISP operator's day. Michigan's
star tailback, besides being
Michigan's career rushing leader, is
also a registration favorite. CRISP
workers describe Morris as "a lovely
person," "so pleasant," and "the
nicest." On request, Morris has
given autographs and autographed
pictures of himself to CRISP
employees, they said.
"I was so excited I could hardly
get anything done" when Morris
came to my terminal, remembered
one operator;
-the emotional CRISPers.
Emotional outbursts are not unusual
at CRISP, said Neil Hunter, who
works the printer. "It's an emotional
and traumatic experience for some of
them," Hunter said. Many operators
recall frustrated students getting very
upset during the process;
-the "don't you remember me's?"
Some students just can't get it
through their heads that this is an
anonymous, impersonal school.
"These kids will say, 'Hi don't you
remember me' and it's difficult to tell
them (no)," said Hunter, who rips
print-outs for thousands of students
each year.
Hunter does remember a few
names, however. He says students
named Michael Jackson, Elizabeth
Taylor, and Tammy Baker have all
picked up schedules at his printer
port.
Many CRISP employees say their
job is satisfying. Terminal operators
are "doing something for (students)
that (the students) want very much,"
said one employee.
The job does have it's non-
obvious pitfalls, however. "If you
were allergic to leather, you'd have
trouble," warned a worker who
identified herself as "Esther."
"A thousand leather jackets come
through here," she said, noting that
the smell of all that leather
sometimes bothers her allergies.
Smell, it seems, plays a key role
in identifying some students. Esther
noted that morning CRISPers
generally smell better than afternoon
CRISPers.
Disney-like monorail
may transport locals
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by an AATA board member. But the
idea, which called for 15 miles of
monorail tracks, never progressed
passed the initial stages.
It may be another decade before an
actual proposal is made.
The monorail's funding and size
have not been discussed.
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- Thursdays 6:30-7:30 pm (Jan. 7, 14, 21, 28, Feb. 4)
- Saturdays 10:30-11:30 am (Jan. 9, 16, 23, 30, Feb. 6)
Cost: $20 for five sessions. Classes held in the Genyokan Dojo
in Ann Arbor, 749 Airport Blvd. (behind the State Rd. K-Mart).
For information, call 662-4686.
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Compiled from Associated Press reports
City recovers from oil spill
PITTSBURGH - School closed for 20,000 pupils, and 15,000 sub-
urban residents were without water yesterday while crews scrambled to
jury-rig water supplies three days after a million-gallon oil spill on the
Monongahela River.
"This is a nightmare come true," said May's Manor nursing home
owner Joyce May as she moved 37 elderly patients out of a steam-heated
building where the Robinson Township Municipal Authority was forced
to cut off water.
"We've had to wash down some of the elderly patients with cold water,
and it's terrible," she said as the patients were led to a gas-heated building.
The Robinson Township authority, with only a 24-hour water reserve,
closed its Ohio River water intake Sunday, a day after a diesel fuel tank
collapsed.
Accused kidnapper appeals for
release of German hostage
DUESSELDORF, West Germany - Abbas Ali Hamadi appealed yes-
terday for the release of a West German held in Beirut, and denied any part
in seizing the hostage he allegedly intended an ransom for his imprisoned
brother.
It was the first day of his trial on kidnapping and other charges, which
is being held in a heavily fortified courtroom that was converted from a
police gymnasium in the 1970s for trials of the Baader-Meinhof terrorist
group.
Hamadi's brother is Mohammed Ali Hamadi, a 23-year-old Shiite
Moslem accused by the United States of leading the gang that hijacked a
TWA jetliner between Athens and Rome in June 1985.
Feds charge 25 with bribery
of EPA asbestos inspector
NEW YORK - Twenty-five demolition company executives were
charged yesterday with bribing a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
inspector to refrain from checking sites where asbestos was being re-
moved, authorities said.
In all, $170,000 in bribes were paid by officials of 23 companies that
are responsible for the majority of asbestos removal and disposal in New
York City, New Jersey, and New York's Long Island, said U.S. Attorney
Andrew Maloney.
The defendants were motivated by "hypocrisy, greed and exploitation,"
said Raymond Maria, a deputy inspector general for the federal Depart-
ment of Labor. The unidentified inspector also faces charges, said Mal-
oney.
Banks drive up dollar values
NEW YORK - Central banks swooped into foreign-exchange markets
again yesterday to purchase large amounts of dollars, yanking up the de-
pressed currency's value in a stunning gain that incited a broad-based rally
on Wall Street.
But experts questioned the stock market's New Year's stamina, coming
only a few months after its collapse. Some predicted the dollar and stocks
would weaken quickly if international coordination to defend the U.S.
currency eased.
The impact of the dollar's rise was felt acutely on Wall Street, where
the Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks gained 16.25 points to
2,031.50, a net gain for the first two trading days of 1988 of 92.67
points, or 4.7 percent. In early trading the Dow Index was up nearly 50,
but profit-takers eroded the gain.
EXTRAS
Leap second makes hours of
trouble for phone company
DETROIT - Michigan Bell Telephone Co. took about 31/2 days to
make up one second.
The company's computer-operated telephone time service wasn't
adjusted at 7 p.m. Thursday - midnight New Year's Eve, Greenwich
Mean Time - to account for this year's "leap second."
The adjustment is needed to synchronize the world's steadily running
atomic clocks with the ever-slowing rotation of the Earth.
But people who set watches or synchronized activities by Michigan
Bell's time signal were one second off during the weekend.
"We thought the change was automatically in the (computer's)
program. We manually added the second at 10 a.m. today," Michigan
Bell spokesperson Kara Kuchinic-Wittenberg said Monday.
The one-second discrepancy was noticed immediately by
Communications Electronics Inc. of Ann Arbor, which supplies satellite
delivered programming to broadcast stations.
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