. . . ,,. . . ,.. SPORT U Denny Felsner, 'M's hockey star Michigan Hockey preview Wolverine football coverage OPINION 4 ARTS Bob Mould: A Fungus among us 8 Columbus didn't discover America Ninety-nine years of editorial freedom Vol. C, No. 23 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Monday, October 9,1989 The MicniDa Homeless head to D.C. rally Ann Arborites join 250,000 protesters in Washington by Tara Gruzen Daily City Reporter WASHINGTON, D.C. - Susan Hoffman is an Ann Arbor homeless woman with multiple sclerosis. She is 25 and confined to a wheelchair. Hoffman now lives in the Women in Transition House on N. Ashley. She moved there three weeks ago after looking for housing for two years. She said when she went to the Ann Arbor Housing Commission, its members said they had to house the elderly before they could house her. Chris Egleston is 45 and has lived a large part of his life on the streets. He has a college degree. Egleston said he has spent many nights walking across the Diag in the middle of winter looking for somewhere to sleep. After a while, he figured out which buildings in Ann Arbor he could sneak into for the night. Although he now lives in Sycamore Meadows, a low-income Housing and Urban Development project in Superior Township, Egleston has spent a lot of time liv- ing in homeless shelters. "Shelters are an undignified, bar- baric approach to human beings, Egleston said. "In the affluent soci- ety in which we live everyone has an economic right to a home of their own." Hoffman and Egleston were two of the 250,000 homeless people, families, and friends who shouted, "We want housing now!" at the National Housing Now Rally Saturday in Washington D.C. Two busloads of people from Ann Arbor drove to the rally to join in the struggle for more affordable housing. Among those who went from Ann Arbor, two-thirds were homeless. Prospect Place, a shelter in Ypsilanti for homeless families, sent four mothers, a grandmother, and 10 said Hicok kids to the rally. Because of difficul- low-up coordinator. She said the ties in finding low-income housing, program is designed to be for only many of the current residents at 30 days but its coordinators haven't Prospect Place have been living been able to find places to which there for up to three months, said people can move. Valerie Ackerman, the shelter's fol- See PROTEST, page 7 _ ___ _ _. _ _ a _ V _. Weekend plane crash kills three A by Karen Akerlof An East German demonstrator cries in pain as police arrest him in Daily Staff Writer Sergeant Dennis Watkins of the Pittsfield town awned by Dr. Regunberg downtown East Berlin Saturday night. Thousands of demonstrators By late yesterday afternoon, the wreckage ship poTce. l e airport was busy Saturday, of demanded democratic reforms during E. Germany's 40th anniversay from Saturday's plane crash at Ann Arbor Airport Randy Trager, the local Federal .lAviation airport staff. Because ni the sound we e festivities, that killed three Chicago men had been cleared Amnsrto ersnaieadafyn n lns w e nanab agrwr Y away. structor at the Aviation Center, said Dr. aware of the crash until they received a phone Aside from a few police barriers facing a field Regunberg received his flying license just three informing them that the plane had gone down P ro -of freshly-turned dirt on the corner of State St. weeks ago. Trager said accordg to his preliminary in o s r r h e t . ao T r co n to i " ng to other not call n. ves- protestors arrested* in East G BERLIN (AP) - East German police arrested hundreds of people during pro-democracy protests in East Berlin early yesterday, and also broke up huge weekend demonstra- tions in five other major cities. In East Berlin, citizens cheered protestors from apartment balconies. Numerous injuries were reported Saturday as police swinging trun- cheons repeatedly charged demonstra- tors. Police in East Berlin swept through courtyards and beat on apartment doors looking for demon- strators. They moved in ranks and zig-zag patterns to divide and trap the marchers. The protests, coinciding with the visit of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev on East Germany's 40th anniversary, were the largest since a workers' uprising was put down by the Soviets in 1953. ermTany Gorbachev's reform policies have make him popular among ordinary East Germans and many chanted his name and called for his support. Despite the growing unrest and the exodus of East Germans to the West, East German leader Erich Honecker said during lengthy talks with Gorbachev that he would stick to his hard-line course. Honecker said the hopes of pro- ponents of reform were "built on sand." In all, more than 15,000 people protested in the capital, Leipzig, Dresden, Potsdam, Jena and Plauen, according to West German television and witness accounts. The Hessischer Rundfunk radio station in Frankfurt, West Germany, said yesterday that 700 people were arrested in East Berlin alone, although witnesses said that the See GERMANY, page 2 and Airport Dr., there were few signs of the crash. The crash, which occurred Saturday at 12:07 p.m., took the lives of pilot Daron Regunberg, a physician; his brother, Attorney J. Regunberg; and Attorney Theodore Schuld. The three men are suspected to have been heading to the 1 p.m. Michigan-Wisconsin foot- ball game, because football tickets and a Michigan cap were found amid the wreckage, said Trager said Dr. Regunberg had flown slightly more than 70 hours before Saturday, almost all of it on two-seater "high-wing aircraft," a differ- ent type of plane than the four-seat Piper Cherokee 180 Regunberg was flying on Saturday. "I think that he got in a plane that was a little too much for him - a little bit over his head," Trager said. The plane had "more things that whizz and burr and click," he said. The Piper is registered in Illinois, but was not galton, . e cause of the crash was a stalled spin." As the plane made a tight right hand turn to line up with the runway, it appears the left wing began to go faster than the right, the air "burbling" under that wing instead of creating the necessary lift. The aircraft stalled, and the right wing tip and fuselage hit the ground, he said. Dr. Regunberg could have pulled the plane out of the stall easily, Trager said. "It is a ma- neuver we practice (in flight instruction), but when you panic it only serves to.exacerbate the situation." Sister City representatives to officiate in 1990 N by Hunter Van Valkenburgh Representatives of 17 national ci- ties with sister cities in Nicaragua met at Ann Arbor's First Baptist Church Saturday to organize and prepare for the upcoming national elections there. The representatives, during a day- long meeting sponsored by the Ann Arbor Sister City Task Force, de- cided to apply to two U.S. govern- mental bodies for project funding. The attenders also decided to draft icaraguan guidelines for observing Nicaraguan sister cities based on rules supplied by the Jimmy Carter Center in Atlanta. Like the Carter Center, the sister-city groups will be in Nicaragua as official observers. Ann Arbor - one of the cities represented - has had a sister city relationship with Juigalpa, Nicaragua since April 1986, when citizens voted almost two-to-one to establish it. Since then, local delegations to national election Juigalpa have established personal and cultural ties and the task force has promoted health projects such as sending a new garbage truck and making improvements to the local health clinic. The Ann Arbor task force is one of more than 90 such groups in the U.S. During Saturday's meeting, Gainesville, Fla.-Matagalpa group member Paul Doughty said the U.S. press is biased against the Nicaraguan government and tends to rely on the U.S. government's ver- sion of events. He criticized the press for not re- porting on the Nicaraguan elections, tending to quote U.S. officials who were not present, and ignoring the reports of observers from the European Community and the Organization of American States. Doughty, who observed the Nicaraguan elections in 1984 - See SISTER CITY, page 2 'M' 24-0 victory - fail0s to thr11 Bo by Adam Benson Daily Football Writer 24-0 victories would be fine for other schools, and most of the time, > Michigan would accept such a size- able difference. But Saturday's seemingly lop- sided win over usually weak Wis- consin did not reflect the trouble the Wolverines had with the Badgers.. The offense struggled to move the ball against a team they had scored 111 points against in the last two seasons. The ground game was in-, consistent, excluding Tony Bolest 46-yard run into the end zone.. Quarterback Elvis Grbac had his worst outing of the season. ,. NIL Chemical engineers earn more than others, survey says by Ken Walker Chemical engineering graduates earned the highest starting salaries - $32,949 per year - of last year's graduates from all four-year universi- ties, according to a recent survey per- formed by the College Placement Council, Inc. Engineering graduates finished ahead of petroleum, mechanical, and civil engineers, who received average salaries of $32,789, $30,490, and $27,046 respectively. Graduates with degrees in ac- counting ($25,223), human re- sources ($22,842), business adminis- tration ($22,450), and hotel and restaurant management ($19,657), came next. Dawn Oberman, a statistical ser- vien -,ntciaigt fnr the cnnncil_ -aid placement office did not provide salary information for this year's survey. The survey is funded by the members, who receive the results in return. Oberman said employers uti- lize the survey information to set competitive starting salaries. Deborah May, the University of Michigan's director of career plan- ning and placement, said the place- ment office here uses the survey to advise students about what kind of starting salary they could expect in different careers. However, she cau- tioned against reaching false conclu- sions from the survey's results. For instance, May pointed out while graduates in technical areas