Ninety-nine years of editorialfreedom Vol. IC, No. 38 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Monday, October 31, 1988 Copyright 1988, The Michigan Daily 'M' sweeps defending ice champs BY RICHARD EISEN SPECIAL TO THE DAILY SAULT STE. MARIE - Prior to Michigan's weekend series against defending national champion Lake Superior State, Michigan hockey coach Red Berenson said it wasn't going to be a "Mission Impossible" for the Wolverines to win a game in the Lakers' rink. The Wolverines beat the Lakers twice, 5-4 in overtime, and 3-1, Michigan's first series sweep ever in Norris Ice Arena. Mission accomplished. "Every season we've had some highs, but this (sweep) is a definite great achievement for the Michigan hockey team," Berenson said. "For us to come up here and win two against a team that won the national championship is really a great feat." The victories were Berenson's second and third against Lake Superior in his five years as Michigan coach. Michigan left winger Ryan Pardoski scored Friday night's game winner with two minutes 37 seconds left in the overtime period. Pardoski took a pass from Randy Kwong at the blue line and backhanded it toward the net. Lakers goalie Bruce Hoffort misplayed the puck, which rolled into the net. "Coach says whenever you get over the blue line, just shoot, and anything can happen," defenseman Alex Roberts said. "He was shooting at the net to get a rebound; it was a fluke shot." Berenson said: "I thought the team deserved to win and I thought we were the better team each period. I thought our team should have won without overtime." Michigan (4-1-1) received most of its offensive support Friday from co-captain Todd Brost, who scored his first career hat trick. Brost scored a shorthanded goal from 15 feet out at 14:13 into the game. The Lakers took the lead on goals by Pete Stauber and Mike de Carle, two of the top three scorers from last year's team, but then Brost took over again, scoring on a pass from co-captain Myles O'Connor. The Wolverines went up in the second period, 3-2, when right winger Jim Ballantine knocked in a rebound of a Brad Turner shot. In the third period, Brost extended Michigan's lead to two on a power play. "(Brost) played great tonight. He played like a captain and scored big goals for us," Berenson said. "He's a leader for us, he played like one, and that's what it's all w ,about." h See Sweep, Page 11 Aid on way to sister city BY LAURA COUNTS Everything - including the kitchen sink - was loaded into a 60 foot trailer of supplies destined for Juigalpa, Ann Arbor's Nicaraguan sister city, on Saturday. In addition to the sink, twenty volunteers packed $300,000 worth of medical equipment, clothing, and educational materials. "For a country in as bad shape economically as Nicaragua, the amount of aid being sent down is crucial," said Nicaragua Medical Aid Project member Don Bessy. Juigalpa, a central Nicaraguan city of 33,000, is not near the Hon- duran border, where most of the clashes with Contras have occurred, but there have been Contra attacks close to the city, said Gregory Fox, a member of the Sister City Task Force. Although these supplies are not direct aid to civilian victims of the war, Fox said, "everyone in Nicaragua knows someone who has been killed." Fox, who has been to Nicaragua three times, said, "Juigalpa is fairly developed by Nicaraguan standards." However, the regional hospital in Juigalpa is poorly lit due to lack of money for fluorescent lighting, he said, and food often has to be cooked outside over fires because the stoves do not work properly. The Sister City Task Force has sponsored many events, such as bringing the Mayor of Juigalpa and later regional hospital Doctor Xavier Luna Mena to Ann Arbor. But the biggest project so far was the donation of a "tren de See City, Page 2 Inspiration Asociated Press The Rev. Desmond Tutu visits the squatter community of Tentedorp in the far northern Cape Province Saturday. Tentedorp's 500 citizens have been theatened with removal by the local Port Holloth town council. State reacts to 'U' budget BY SUE ELLEN CHRISTIAN The University's proposal for an 8 per- cent increase in state funding for the 1990 fiscal year has a better chance of passing than past budget requests, say state and University officials. The proposal is a "more reasonable re- quest" than previous ones becausethe pro- posed budget is based on the state's growth rate and not the University's projected needs, said State Sen. William Sederburg (R-East Lansing), chair of the Senate Higher Education Appropriations Sub- committee. If state appropriations are increased 8 percent, the University's tuition would in- crease 8.9 percent. The current tuition for in-state undergraduate students would rise to $1,568 from $1,438. "Michigan's proposal, personally, is the most reasonable than in past years. In past years it was a wish list," said Sederburg. "They'd submit it, and they'd know we can't do it." According to Robert Holbrook, interim vice president for academic affairs, Gover- nor Blanchard's forced rollback of the 1988-89 tuition increases made the regents change their approach. Blanchard had threatened to deny all state funding to the University if the proposed 12 percent tu- ition increase for in-state undergraduates was not reduced to his 10 percent limit. "We started out knowing there was no point in asking the state for $50 million," Holbrook said, referring to last year's funding request. The regents are projecting an increase "now rather than eight months later and not pretending these issues don't exist," he said. The proposed appropriations are 2 per- cent above the state's expected growth rate, which is expected to be 6 percent next year, Holbrook said. See Request, Page 2 Kids trek for treats on campus BY TARA GRUZEN The Goblins out for Halloween in the dorms and Greek houses this year are not all University students. Although the same ghouls from years past have been haunting cam- pus this year, many of them are much smaller. Ghosts, witches, and vampires ranging in ages from 6-12 have been prowling the University this Hal- loween season while participating in trick-or-treating programs set up by many fraternities, sororities, and dorm organizations. Sisters in Stockwell Transmitting Ethnic Relations, the minority coun- cil in Stockwell, organized a Hal- loween party for children from As- sociation for Kids with Social Learning Disabilities and Arrow- wood Hills Co-op, a group set up for low-income families, for the first time last night. Many Stockwell res- idents transformed their dorm rooms into ghoulish trick-or-treating sta- tions, to which the children came for candy. However, in some dorm halls, the trick-or-treaters, dressed in every- thing from a Ragu can to a censored sign, were nothing more than some University students trying to have some fun and get some free candy. Tom Costantino, an LSA first- year student who organized trick-or- treating on one East Quad hall, said, "We did it to bring back memories of our childhood and to have a good time with the other people on our hall." In addition, many fraternities and sororities organized Halloween pro- grams for underprivileged children. Pi Beta Phi sorority, with the help of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, brought 42 children to their house Thursday, a large increase from the 25 that visited last year. The chil- dren, who came from a low-income housing center in Ann Arbor called Hikone, painted their faces and ran from room to room trying to get as much candy as possible. But watch out tonight - not all of the fun is over yet. South Quad, which is hosting trick-or-treating for the Peace Neighborhood Center, is just one place that will continue to be haunted by howling children. Profs: vampires symbolize evil BY DAN COLE The American fascination with vampires stretches far beyond Halloween costumes and fake fangs, University professors say. "The vampire taps a deep religious and symbolic reservoir in many people," said Communications Prof. Jimmie Reeves. "The perversion of the symbols of communion, the drinking of the blood and so on, accounts for much of the myth's lasting power." Reeves thinks vampire enthusiasm took hold in America in 1979, with the premier of German director Werner Herzog's film "Nosferatu, the Vampire." The film was shown Saturday night at the Modern Language Building. Prof. Frank Beaver, chair of the communications department and a nationally known film expert, believes vampire movies reflect greater societal fears. "The vampire is a metaphor for the evil that lurks in . society," he said. "In vampire stories, you have a frightened and deluded group of people being victimized by a force largely beyond their control. "We are fascinated by the vampire because he is a horror greater than anything we can imagine for ourselves," he said. History Prof. John Fine thinks people still believe in vampires, but more so in Eastern Europe than in America. Fine is the author of "In Defense of Vampires: Church/State Efforts to Stop Vigilante Action Against 'o Vampires," an article that appeared in the East European Quarterly in 1987. " See Fright, Page 5 Grcphic SWING sets course of action Parents want to end Halloween parties BY TARA GRUZEN The definition of feminism must encompass the fact that all women's struggles are not the same, agreed the 40 to 45 participants at the second annual Student Women's Initiative Group conference. The conference, held at East Quad on Saturday, was designed to cultivate specific projects aimed at further- ing the roles of women in the University, as well as form task forces to work on each. Women at the predominantly white-attended meet- feminism. We have to include a large networking pro- gram in our organization to avoid this." The women attending the conference discussed the fact that because the group is now unrepresentative of the female population, SWING faces inadequacies both in being able to recognize issues pertaining to all women and in developing projects to further those is- sues. To institute these internal changes, SWING mem- bers said they will implement the projects of their new BY SUE ELLEN CHRISTIAN Some local parents would like to see an end to Halloween parties in Ann Arbor elementary schools, but decisions to plan alternative events or cancel the celebrations have been left to individual schools, said school administrators. available. The strongest objection voiced by parents, including members of the Word of God interdenominational Christian community, is to teachers who dress up in witch costumes. "I don't have a problem with my son participating in classroom par tipe- said 1Word of God adminkitra.