4 Page2 -The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, January 6, 1988 Smells, stars fill CRISP room (Continued from Page 1) 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 (Continued from Page 1) 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. HEALTH FITNESS FOR - BEGININERS LEARN AIKIDO: THE WAY OF HARMONY. An introductory course taught by Sensei Takashi Kushida, 8th degree black belt from Japan. Two classes start in January: - 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. AIKIDO YOSHINKAI* ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HOSPITALS VOLUNTEERS Please call 764.6874 for additional info. Venture into High Tech and add to the Human Touch Help Patients with the Healing Process Learn about the 150 rewarding volunteer opportunities INFORMATION SESSIONS Thursday, Jan. 7, 7PM-8PM Monday, Jan.11, 7PM-8PM Rm. 2A201 Amphitheater University Hospital Thursday, Jan. 14, 4PM-5PM Rm. 2C208, University Hospital INIVERSY !_N EDICAL MICHIGAN Lj CENTER IN BRIEF 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. If you see news happen, call 76-DAILY. Vol. XCVIII - No.66 The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967 X) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms. Subscription rates: September through April-$25 in Ann Arbor; $35 outside the city. One term: $13 in Ann Arbor; $20 outside the city. 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