Page 2 -The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, November 8, 1989 MSA Continued from Page 1 of other commissions could be chal- lenged in similar ways. - Julie Laser, a former assembly member and Peace and Justice chair, said the commission embraced issues that affect students as members of a larger world community. "We don't live in an ivory castle," she said. SHOWER Sntinued from Page 1 -We don't have much of a problem in the, summer," said Fox, who sug- gests the problem is tied in to a wa- ter-usage problem. Although Mary Lou Madrigal, building facilities manager at Stookwell, said she hasn't received any formal complaints, tenants re- port that there is a problem. im used to it, so I dash to the side to avoid it. Sometimes you're nd that awake, though. When I'm washing my hair it happens and it's really painful," said Sook Kim, LSA ffirst-year student, who lives on the fifth floor of the building. "I just adap ted to it. I have quicker reflexes noV" Residents on other floors reported no problem with the temperatute of the water, but they did notice a prob- lem with the water pressure, sug- gesting the problem is specific to one area of the building. "It (the pressure) was messed up at the beginning of the semester," said LSA sophomore Wendy Wal- ters, who resides on the second floor. "The temperature is good now, but the pressure just drops." Residents at the apartment com- plex report a water-temperature prob- lem. 'If somebody's in the shower, I can turn on the faucet and really bum them out," said Dave Hocher, a ju- nior'in the School of Engineering. 'Though he hasn't formally com- plained, Hocher said it's known 4ri4g the tenants that there is a piiAem with the water temperature in'the building. w INMADIRECTR DOUG USHER/Daily University retiree Edwin Taylor shows Business School senior Paula Colombo how to use the polls at the Union. Voters in Ann Arbor cast their ballots yesterday on Michigan Proposals A and B, which aimed to raise money for school finance. MAYOR Continued from Page 1 Barrow closing to within eight per- centage points with 14 percent of voters undecided. However, Barrow was out of tow at the time and seemed slow to capitalize on his gains. Young brought out his big guns over the weekend anyway. appearing at rallies with the Rev. Jess Jackson and signer Aretha Franklin. Barrow hammered away at Young's leadership style and its re- sults but was largely ignored when he talked about the city's main is- sues: crime, schools and creating new jobs. In declining to debate Barrow, Young said his challenger had no record on anything because he had never held elected office. Young's campaign theme, "The Right Stuff," focused on his 16 years of accom- plishments in office. In declining to debate Barrow, Young said his challenger had no record on anything because he had never held elected office. Young's campaign theme, "The Right Stuff," focused on his 16 years of accom- plishments in office. Detroit mayoral candidate Tom Barrow ended up losing to Mayor Coleman Young yesterday in a landslide vote. Early returns showed Young breezing towards his fifth terms as Detroit mayor. With 15 percent of the precincts reporting, Young led Barrow by a 57 to 43 perecent margin. The nonpartisan race was a more competitive rematch of the 1985 campaign. I IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports U.S. bishops fight abortion BALTIMORE - The nation's Roman Catholic bishops yesterday said no Catholic can responsibly take a pro-choice stand on abortion, and they urged public officials to fight abortion. The resolution was approved overwhelmingly on the second day of the« fall meeting of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. The 300 leaders of the nation's 53 million Roman Catholics also elected Archbishop Daniel Pilarezyk of Cincinnati as president. Pilarczyk, like his predecessor, Archbishop John May of St. Louis, is a social and, theological moderate. The resolution on abortion said Catholics should give "urgent atten-' tion and priority" to the issue in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court rul- ing in July giving states more authority to regulate the procedure. "No Catholic can responsibly take a 'pro-choice' stand when the: 'choice' involves the taking of innocent human life," the resolution said. Member of Medellin drug cartel sentenced to 15 years DETROIT - A convicted member of the Medellin drug cartel, extra- dited from Colombia to the United States last month, was sentenced to 15: years in federal prison and fined $25,000 yesterday. Bernardo Pelaez Roldan jumped a $200,000 bond and fled to his home-' land following a 1983 indictment. In March 1984, he was convicted in absentia in Detroit of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 300: kilograms - 660 pounds - of cocaine. U.S. District Judge Ralph Freeman denied two defense motions to postpone the sentencing. Defense attorney Richard Lustig of Birmingham asked that Pelaez be returned to Colombia because of improper extradition procedures, and that: the time he has served in prison since his 1983 indictment be credited to: his sentence. "The defense motion for credit for time served is premature," Freeman said, adding that such a motion must go to the Justice Department and not' to the sentencing court. Bush claims a successful beginning for his presidency Washington - President Bush, in an election-anniversary news con- ference, claimed a successful start for his presidency yesterday and voiced: hope that the return of $567 million in frozen assets to Iran will lead to: freedom for American hostages in Lebanon. "I carry the fate of the hostages with me every single day," Bush said. He said he hoped the release of the Iranian funds would get "the under- brush cleared out." Separately, the State Department said that release of the money was, not linked with the hostages in any way. Expressing satisfaction with his record in international and national af- fairs, Bush said he had seen the greatest surge towards democracy in at least 40 years. Bush brushed aside criticism - most recently from former President Jimmy Carter - that he has responded too cautiously to changes sweep- ing the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary, East Germany and elsewhere in Eastern Europe. Suit claims car, bridge unsafe TRAVERSE CITY - The family of a woman who died when her subcompact Yugo plunged off the Mackinac Bridge is claiming in lawsuits that the bridge and car are unsafe. Leslie Pluhar of Royal Oak was driving across the bridge Sept. 22 in blustery weather when her car careened over the side and plunged 170 feet to the Mackinac Straits below. Her body and the car were recovered eight days later. A state police report issued Monday said Pluhar was speeding when; her car veered off the bridge. The lawyer for Pluhar's estate claims the car's instability in high winds and design flaws in the bridge caused the accident. Cady said he mailed suits Monday to the Michigan Court of Claims against the state of Michigan, its Department of Transportation and the Mackinac Bride Authority, and to Macomb County Circuit Court against Yugo of America, Inc., the engineering firm that designed the bridge, and the dealership that sold Pluhar her car. 'EXTRAS Presley's digs to be dug MEMPIS, Tenn. - One thing the people at Elvis Presley's house never run short of is rumors, so they're putting out the word early that the digging set to begin tonight at Graceland is nothing sinister. Crews are resealing the basement wall, that's all, said Todd Morgan, a: spokesman for the Presley residence and its souvenir center. The three-story, white-columned home, called Graceland, draws 600,000 tourists a year. Rumors that Presley, who died 12 years ago, was alive set off a flurry of reported Elvis sightings last year. Whenever construction projects get under way at Graceland, the phones start ringing, Morgan said. "The simplest of household chores at Grace- land become international headlines," he said. Morgan said work crews resealed the basement's back walls earlier this year and now need to move around front where they easily will be seen from Elvis Presley Boulevard. The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. Subscription rates: for fall and winter (2 semesters) $28.00 in-town and $39 out-of-town, for fall only $18.00 in-town and $22.00 out-of-town. The Michigan Daily is a member of The Associated Press and the Student News Service. ADDRESS: The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. 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Photo: Jersifer Dunetz, Amy Feldman, Julie Hoinan, Jose Juarez, Jonatharn Liss, Josh Moore, Samantha Sanders, Kaenneh Smolter, PROPOSALS Continued from Page 1 4 percent state sales tax to 4.5 per- cent, putting $285 million into the current public school funding for- mula and setting aside another $115 million in grants that schools could have applied for if they implemented certain "quality programs." Its main criticism from oppo- nents was that it merely pumped more money into a system which al- ready has produced funding inequities, and that schools already ineligible for state aid wouldn't ben- efit from any new money unless they qualified for a slice of the qual- ity money. Proposal B would have raised the sales tax to 6 cents on the dollar, but also slashed property taxes by 38 percent for homeowners and 23 per- cent for businesses. Every school district would have received more Read Jim Poniewozik Every money than its current level with the $350 million it would have gener- ated for schools, but a state wide millage pool would have allowed poorer districts to share in growth by richer districts. It also would have capped taxes a school district can levy on its residents. Opponents of that plan say that the property tax relief didn't consider future increases in property value, a factor in determining property tax rates. CONFUSED?? Need help with your FUND RAISER? A t ' M Classifieds' GREEK GAB can help you make the MO$T of it!! 764-0557 The new Nat inal Bestseller from -- . 'S i :'a - ~"Bravo Eco!" se *-The New York Tunes ".as sensational and thrilling ..as Raiders of the Lost Ark:' v 4, :" Th Wa..nt-".oR BokW'Sd.E '~' T Nxx - - '":'t~fig:'