The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, November 1, 1988 - Page 3 : ...:: . . :,: .... :: .:.:::: :::.: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... .. . ~ ..*~ . . .**...................................::::...::. . . . . . . . . . .... ................................................................. . . . . 2nd district race heats up BY MICHAEL LUSTIG With just a week left in Cam- paign '88, the eyes of the nation are turning to Michigan, and focusing on U.S. Rep. Carl Pursell, and his challenger, Lana Pollack. Democrats have high hopes for Pollack, a state senator from Ann Arbor since 1982, as one of two candidates in Michigan who they be- personas humor Quayle GRAND HAVEN, Mich. (AP) - Dan Quayle deflected a barb initially aimed at himself to reject Michael Dukakis' comparisions to other lib- eral politicians at a high school rally yesterday. "Michael Dukakis finally fessed up this weekend... Now he says, 'I am a liberal,"' Quayle said. But the Republican vice presiden- tial nominee went on to dispute Dukakis' statements that Dukakis was liberal in the tradition of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John Kennedy. "The governor of Massachusetts is having a little bit of an identity cri- sis," Quayle said. "If he dresses up like a moderate, he'll scare all the liberals... if he dresses up like a con- servative, nobody will elect him. If he comes as himself, he'll scare America." lieve can unseat an incumbent Re- publican representative. "Lana Pollack has a very good chance in this race. She's one of our top challengers," said Howard Schloss, a spokesperson for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Republicans also have high expectations for Pursell, who has represented Michigan's Second Con- gressional District since 1976. Pursell "has run an excellent campaign," said Steven Lotterer, a spokesperson for the National Re- publican Congressional Committee. "We expect that he'll be re-elected." Michigan Democratic Party Chair Rich Weiner said Pollack "has made a forceful case to voters that she's the better candidate." He said he expects the race to go "right down to the wire." But Spencer Abraham, the Michi- gan Republican Party chair, doesn't think the race will be that close. "The race is going pretty well for Carl Pursell," he said, adding, "It doesn't make much sense to sacrifice the seniority" Pursell has gained after 12 years in Congress. National groups have also jumped into the fray, bringing endorsements and money. So far, the two candi- dates have spent over $1 million, the most for a Michigan congressional seat this year. bor unions, women's groups, and environmental organizations. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce endorsed Pursell, said Mike Mallie, the group's senior political affairs manager, in part because the it ap- proved of his stance on "free enter- prise." Pursell was the only Michigan congressional candidate to receive an endorsement from the Chamber, he said. While Pollack is "a credible chal- lenger," Mallie said the endorsement "alerts companies, political action committees, and small businesspeo- ple that here's a candidate that's been good to us." The Chamber of Commerce does not give money to candidates, he said. "Lana Pollack's going to win," declared Ellen Malcolm, president of EMILY's List (Early Money Is Like Yeast), which raises money for Democratic women candidates. Pol- lack is one of only nine candidates EMILY's List has been helping dur- ing this election, she added. The local campaigns are not slowing down this final week. The two candidates will appear at a debate sponsored by the League of Women Voters at the Ann Arbor City Coun- cil Chambers at 7:30 tonight. It will be their second public appearance to- gether. candidates. Pollack has fought an uphill bat- tle, campaign spokesperson Dale Evans said, because "anytime yoo take on an incumbent, you have a challenge." Evans predicts a victory in a close race, and said the campaign will in- crease its TV advertising while con- tinuing to attack Pursell's record. Dukakis,... pushes rights BY THE ASSOCIAT EDPRESS Michael Dukakis carried his late campaign declaration of liberalism to California, testing his appeal to women with vowed support for comparable wages, affordable child care, parental leave laws, and women's rights to have abortions. He shook his head as he said Quayle had told a 12-year-old girl last week that the law should require her to bear a child if she were raped by her father and became pregnant. Quayle last week told an 11-year-old girl in Illinois that in such a circumstance, she should have the child rather.than an abortion. Dukakis summarized his case by saying the Republicans had "been on the wrong side of every issue of special importance to American women." JOHN MUNSON/Daily I must be leaving Ann Arbor resident Dee Dorsey rakes leaves out to the curb in front of Barton Drive yesterday. The city, which period- ically picks up leaves, wil be by today to clear away the last vestiges of fall. 44 x . .i!.. - ._.-, f! 17....,...fI .....eerie: -- "At tnis point, rursed campaign r 'LV , C t1-11 T~h T A~xK~hT t ' Most of Pursells contributions press secretary Gary Cates said, "our Lloyd Bentsen campaigned in nis "Today may be Halloween, but have come from business and profes- strategy will be to hold the line." He home state of Texas defending jobs Gov. Dukakis won't be getting his sional groups, while Pollack has re- said Pursell will continue to "widen there and claimed his ticket promised scare until Nov. 3," Quayle said. ceived most of her support from la- the gap" in support between the two the most of them. Computer virus infects campus THE LIST What's happening in Ann Arbor today Speakers SOLIDARITY: "Revolution in Nicaragua" - Gary Ruchwargerand Susan Lebell, Guild House, 7:30 pm. Regents Forum - Held by MSA External Relations Committee, in Anderson Rms. A,B,C,D of Michigan Union at 7 pm. U of M Regent can- didates will attend to discuss their platform, questions from audience will be taken. U of M College Democrats Guest Speakers - U.S. Senator Carl Levin and State Senator Lana Pollack will appear at Michigan Ball- room, 12 noon-1 pm. "Instantons and Geometric In- variant Theory" - Prof. Karen K. Uhlenbeck, University of Texas, Rackham Amphitheatre, 4 pm. "Comission Feminil Mexicana: Advocates for Justice" - Eliza- beth Salas, U of M Law School, Rm. 116, Hutchins Hall, 4 pm. "Goal-Directed Natural Lan- guage Processing Against Am- biguity" - P. Wu, 1500 EECS, 4-5 pm. "Mural Painting in Italy Dur- ing Fascism" - S. Weber, Tappan Rm. 180, 5 pm. "The Selectivity of Drugs" - A. Albert, C.C. Little, Rm. 3554, 3-4 pm. "Retin A: Current Status" - C. Ellis, C.C. Little, Rm. 3554, 7:30- 9:30 pm. "Trans-membrane Signaling in Nerve Cells" - S. Fisher, Chrysler Center Aud., 7:30 pm. "The Superconducting Super- collider--What & Why?" - G. Kane, Chrysler Center Aud, 9 pm. "Long-Term Consequences of Withdrawal from Chronic Am- phetamine Treatment" - P. Paulson, MHRI Rm. 1057, 12:30 pm. "Two Years in Old Canton: Reflections of a Fulbright Ex- perience in China" - A&M Bailey, Lane Hall Commons, 12 noon. "The Religious Significance of Jewish Law" - Law Prof. Joseph Weiler, will discuss "Why Mitzvot? The religious dimension of Jewish law.", Hillel, 7:30 pm. Meetings U of M Women's Lacrosse Club - Practice, Elbel field, 9-11. U of M Fencing - Practice, Hill Coliseum, 7 pm. Tagar: Pro Israel Student Ac- tivities - MLB B 110, 7 pm. WAND - 2209 Union, 7-8:30 pm. Rninforet Acetion Movement (SEDS) - 219 Angell Hall, 7 pm. Founding meeting, all welcome to join. Lesbian and Gay Rights Orga- nization Committee (LAGROC) - 3100 Michigan Union, 8 pm. U of M Archery Club - Coli- seum, 7-10 pm. For more info call 764-4084, or Archery @ UB. Semester at Sea - International Center, 4-5 pm. TARDAA - 296 Dennison, 8 pm. Shotokan Karate Club of Michigan - CCRB Martial Arts Rm., 7-8:30 pm. German Club - 25 Angell Hall, 6:15 pm. Furthermore Teeter-Totter-A-Thon - Fight Children's Cancer! 48 consecutive hours on the diag! Sponsored by Tri- Delta and Chi Psi. All proceeds go to Mott's Children Hospital. "Drop-In Storytimes" - Ann Arbor Public Library, 4-4:30 pm in Meeting Rm. and 7:30-8 p in the New Conference Rm. of the Main Library. Jonathan Richman - Rounder Recording Artist, 7:30 & 10 pm. Alvin's, 5756 Cass, Detroit (WSU campus). Tickets $9.50 in advance. Ableism and Differently Able People - D.Topp, Disabled Student Services, Alice Lloyd, Red Carpet Lounge, 8-10 pm. Visiting Writers Series - Stephen Sandy, reading from his work, Rackham E. Conference, 4 pm. Public invited, free admission. Revolutionary History Series - Early Struggles of the American Class, B118 MLB, 7-8 pm. Presented by SPARK, a Revolutionary Com- munist Organization. Indian- and Pakistani- Ameri- can Student Council: Indian Movie NISHANT - Video View- ing Rm., MLB, 7 pm. Free Admis- sion, English subtitles. Islamic Coffee Hour - 1003 EECS, 12:30-1:30 pm. The Summer Job Search - Ca- reer Planning and Placement Center, 4:10-5 pm. Deciding Your Career Part I. (Jrs/Srs.) - Career Planning and Placement Center, 4:10-6 pm. Employer Presentation: Mer- cer-Meldinger-Hansen, Inc. - Michigan Union Terrace, 5-7 pm. Women's Crisis Center - Reg- istration period from Nov. 1- 11, for community organization work. For more info call 761-9475. Performances BY ED KRACHMER As the weather gets colder, the flu plagues unsuspecting human victims across the country. This fall, how- ever, dreaded viruses have attacked computers in Ann Arbor. University computer consultants are noting the arrival of "computer viruses" - programs which are de- signed to attack computer storage de- vices, installing themselves within other applications. The viruses wreak havoc at pre- scribed times upon all programs with which they can come in contact. Similar to organic viruses, com- puter viruses are contagious. Once a virus has attached itself to a disk, any disk with an application program which comes into contact with the infected disk can also become in- fected. Currently, less than one percent of the floppy disks in the Computing Resource Center (CRC) are infected, said Jim Sullivan, a manager in the Public Facilities division of center. . Reports of computer viruses at the University, which began coming in late this summer, have been limited to Apple Macintosh software. The viruses have caused problems with computer start-up and laserwriter printing, said Phil Santini, a com- puting consultant at the center. The Michigan Terminal System (MTS) is immune to the virus be- cause it operates on a completely different type of file handling system. However, said Sullivan, MTS pro- gram files which users can store on their personal floppy disks may in- deed have the virus. Hard disk systems, which are the typical high-capacity storage device used by individuals, are susceptible to viral infection, Sullivan said. The virus can infect a multitude of appli- cations on the hard disk. Documents, such as word proces- sor files, are typically unaffected by viruses, Sullivan said. To safeguard against the virus, the CRC office in the School of Educa- tion has a copy of the program "Vaccine" available for public use. The program can be added to most applications' start-up disks. For students whose floppy disks may already be infected, Santini rec- ommends not using the disks if at all possible. If necessary, Santini said, one may be able to safely copy doc- uments from an infected disk to a t°f f 5 f 4 fat '-j< Y J 2 '3Gr 1" r ~ 41', /e clean disk without trouble, although he warned that there is a risk in- volved when one inserts an infected disk into a computer at the same time as a clean disk. Santini said the only way to in- sure removal of the virus from a har disk system is to completely re-for- mat the hard disk. Walesa decries closed shipyard WARSAW, Poland (AP) - An month-old government of Prime In an interview with The Assoc- infuriated Lech Walesa vowed yester- Minister Mieczyslaw Rakowski, iated Press, Walesa denounced the day to fight government plans to who has pledged to get rid of unpro- decision as Rakowski's "personal close down the Lenin shipyard, the ductive and inefficient enterprises. provocation... against the birthplace sight where the Solidarity trade un- The decision was announced while of Solidarity." ion was born. The state-owned shipyard in Gdansk is being closed down Dec. 1. It is the first big industrial plant to be singled out for closure by the CORRECTION A headline in a story in yester- day's Daily incorrectly represented a Friday rally. Speakers at the rally opposed Proposal A, a measure which would stop tax-funded Medi- caid abortions. CLASSIFIED ADSI Call 764-0557 the shipyard was closed on the eve of All Saints' Day and caught many workers and Solidarity activists by surprise. The yard reopens Wed- nesday. Rakowski, who took office Sept. 27, was a firm supporter of the Dec. 13, 1981 martial-law crackdown on Solidarity. AFFORDABLE WEEKEND FUN. Crystal Mountain Ski Weekend just per person group rate Includes two nights lodging in an area motel, day and night skiing Friday through Sunday. Great Times with Good Friends Get your friends together and en- joy 22 downhill slopes or 26 kilometers of cross-country trails. Plus nightly activities, entertain- ment, heated outdoor pool and more! All you need is a group of 20 for our special rates, with extra sav- ings for the organizer. With a group A An 6. .- Meet Your Deadlines N I