Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, October 18, 1989 Storms postpone shuttle launch CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Rain offshore, not demonstrators or mechanical problems, stopped the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis and its nuclear fueled cargo yester- day. "It looks like the local weather is not going to cooperate, we're going to call it a day," launch Director Bob Sieck told the five astronauts who had been lying on their backs in At- lantis' cabin for three hours. Atlantis' mission - already de- layed for seven years by budget and other problems - is to carry the 6,700-pound Galileo space probe into orbit, the start of its 2.4 bil- lion-mile, six-year trip to Jupiter. The $1.5 billion Galileo is the most expensive and sophisticated unmanned spacecraft ever built and is expected to give scientists their best and closest look at another planet. Protesters had tried to block the launch in court because Galileo's two electrical generators are fueled IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports Columbian paper bombed BOGOTA, Colombia - A car bomb wrecked the Vanguardia Liberal Newspaper building in northeastern Colombia yesterday and killed four employees of the paper, which had joined in a condemnation of cocaine barons. The Vanguardia Liberal is the main daily of Northeastern Colombia. The newspaper's publisher blamed drug traffickers for the bombing in Bucaramanga, a city of 400,000 people 175 miles north of Bogota. He said he did not know whether the paper could continue publishing. "Although I can't identify the perpetrators, I can say that, basically, they are the same group of drug traffickers that have carried out these types of attacks in the past," Alejandro Ramirez said in a radio interview. Four journalists were assassinated by unidentified gunmen last week in the cities of Medellin and Monterria. Officials say motorists are 'high' on a variety of drugs BIRMINGHAM, Mich. - Drunken drivers get all the attention, but motorists also face the menace of drivers high on marijuana, cocaine and other drugs, federal officials say. The National Transportation Safety Administration estimates 10 per- cent to 22 percent of all drivers are under the influence of a drug other than alcohol. Still, only 55 to 60 Michigan drives are convicted each year of operat- ing a car under the influence of drugs, compared to roughly 25,000 drunken driving convictions annually, according to the Secretary of State's office. Robert Larin, a Birmingham attorney who specializes in drunken driv- ing defenses, said the low conviction rate doesn't accurately reflect the number of drivers who are high on drugs. "With all the drugs they're finding in Detroit, I've got to believe there's a lot of drivers out there who are using them too," he added. State Democrats favor sales tax hike to finance schools LANSING - Voters primarily concerned with equity between rich and poor districts should vote for a school finance plan raising the sales tax by 50 percent, three top House Democrats said yesterday. The lawmakers released a staff analysis of the impact of two compet- ing school finance plans, Proposal A and Proposal B, on per pupil spend- ing equity through the 1993-94 school year. Breaking with Democratic Gov. James Blanchard, who strongly sup- ports Proposal A, they said Proposal B was best in the long run on that basis. Proposal A would raise about $400 million for education. Proposal B would boost the sales tax to 6 percent, raise about $350 million for Michigan's public schools and offer about $1.5 billion in property tax re-' lief as well. Both will be on the Nov. 7 ballot. Voters can choose between either, support both or vote against both. If both gain a majority, the one with the most votes would be the winner. 4. 0 M 4 HO r Commander Donald Williams (left) at the Kennedy Space Center yesterday following the scrub of the launch of Atlantis. Williams is followed by fellow astronauts Shannon Lucid and Franklin Chang-Diaz after the weather called a halt to the controversial flight, which was to carry the Galileo space probe. by highly radioactive plutonium. But the promised protests at the They feared an accident during launch site did not materialize. There launch, like the explosion that de- were also no intrusions into the re- stroyed the Challenger, would release stricted airspace around the launch the plutonium into the atmosphere. site. NASA said it will try again today at 12:50 p.m. EDT. The launch "window" - determined by the rela- tive positions of Earth and Jupiter - extends until 1:19 p.m. I BOOKS Continued from Page 1 In addition to Twain and Carroll, the other four authors being highlighted in the library - exhibit are William Shakespeare, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, and Walt Whitman. Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice was banned or protested countless times because of the portrayal of Shylock, a villainous Jew. As recent as this year, the Shakespeare Festival at Stratford drew criticism for its production of that Shakespeare play. Rousseau's Les Confessions de J.J. Rousseau was banned in 1928 by United States Customs officials, who viewed it as injurious to public morals. During his lifetime, most of Rousseau's non-musical works were also contested shortly after publication. In 1935, the Soviet Union banned all of Rousseau's works, before lifting the ban a year later. Kant's Die Religion Innerhalb der Grenzen der blossen Vernunft was banned by the Prussian state as soon as it appeared. In addition, Kant was forbidden to write or lecture on religion. All of his works were banned in the Soviet Union after 1928. Whitman's Leaves of Grass was banned because his poetry drew intense opposition for its supposed immortality. "Here be all leaves but fig leaves," said Wendell Phillips, the infamous Boston District Attorney. In 1881, he threatened criminal prosecution for this edition, which was later withdrawn. This display will run through Oct. 31. i <. 1 MSA Continued from Page 1 names of three remaining students to submit to Duderstadt by tomorrow's filing deadline. It will be up to the University to actually choose the students who will serve on the advisory commit- tee. Langnas stressed that MSA was not given enough time to thor- oughly interview interested students, and added she is "trusting" that the people who have come forward are qualified. Representatives generally agreed that Duderstadt's proposal was not the best way to solicit true student input, but the assembly agreed to appoint students anyway because it didn't want to miss the only oppor- tunity for involvement. Campus Governance Vice Chair Ori Lev and Langnas both supported Students' Rights Committee Chair Nick Maverick's proposal to con- vene an open forum in which admin- istrators and faculty could discuss the policy with students. Student representatives nominated include: Susan Rhee, Ron Wheeler, Nick Maverick, Jeff Gauthier, Del Sanders, Frank Matthews, Pat Bach, and Tracey Ore. Langnas said she approached the campus groups she felt would be most affected by the anti-harassment policy. ,. Read Jim Poniewozik Every RCAwo M2?DII A41 "9I 9-jrgo rcNmn IRCTR Bill may change helmet law LANSING - Motorcyclists no longer would be required to wear hel- mets unless they are 18 or younger or are riding in a populated area under a measure approved yesterday by a House panel. Supporters said the bill, approved by a subcommittee of the House Transportation Committee, would require helmets only in those ares and by those riders where it could do the most good without infringing on others' freedom. "After all, this is America, the land of the free. People here are a little wilder than in Europe or the Soviet Union," said Jim Rhoades, of Garden City, a member of American Bikers Aiming Toward Education. But Secretary of State Richard Austin said the state's 20-year-old mandatory helmet bill has given the state a motorcycle fatality rate 25 percent below the national average and should be kept intact. EXTRAS More George Washingtons found on Mount Rushmore GRAND RAPIDS - While his parents viewed a videotape about how Mount Rushmore was carved, 10-year-old Jeremy Geerdes played in the dirt on the grounds of the national monument last August. But the Forest Hills fifth-grader learned his own history lesson as he and a new friend, 12-year-old Ian Kenning of Ottumwa, Iowa, the home- town of Radar O'Reilly, unearthed three small, plaster busts of George, Washington dating from the construction of Mount Rushmore, from 1927-41. The busts were the work of sculptor Gutzon Borglum, who also carved the four presidential faces into the mountain. Produced before 1941, the smaller models were sold to raise money and given as gifts by Borglum to encourage interest in his project. While Geerdes and his parents were pleased with his find, it also has complicated his life. "Now I don't know whether I want to be a basketball player or an ar- chaeologist," he said. 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