The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, December 8, 1993 - 3 Toy trains, *chug Mside barbershop window By JOE DURRANCE FOR THE DAILY When passersby look in the win- dow of The Dascola Barbers on East Liberty Street this month, they will see much more than just people getting theirhaircut. DavidDascola,partowner and avid model train collector, has been proudly presenting his model train dis- play in the barbershop's front window every holiday season for more than 25 years. The trains run through apanoramic town that could be Anywhere, USA. Dascola works on the details of the display between haircuts. His blue- and-white-striped cap reads, "South- ern Michigan Railroad" identifying him as the engineer of the tiny trains. A close look in the window reveals many painstaking details that Dascola created in the fictitious town. In the back of a pickup truck are deer, freshly bagged in a hunt. A tiny dog is relieving himself on a tiny fire hydrant. The MSU women rage against attacks By MEGAN SCHIMPF DAILY STAFF REPORTER Anger, not fear, has spread through- out three Michigan State University residence halls following two assaults in the showers there last week. "People are more pissed off than scared because there's really nothing you can do about it," said first-year student Elisa Hankenson, who lives in the residence hall adjacent to one where an attack occurred. "You don't know what to do to prevent this from happening. We're expected tojust take it and accept it. It's kind of frustrating." Last Tuesday, a 19-year-old woman was grabbed in the buttocks while show- ering at 9:30 a.m. She elbowed the attacker, grabbed her robe, and at- tempted to chase the man before he escaped, according to a report pub- lished in the Lansing State Journal. The previous day, another 19-year- old woman was grabbed in the groin while showering at 9:15 a.m. The same man is believed to be responsible, said the Lansing State Journal. The attacks have raised concerns about safety on campus. "The whole thing sucks - you can't feel safe on campus any time you're walking around just because you're female," Hankenson said. First-year student Caroline Sober said the attacks have made her question people's behavior. "I don't think about people being that rude, but I guess they are." Peeping incidents have also oc- curred in other dorms on the campus. "One girl in my math class was talking about when she was washing her face one morning and there was a guy standing in the stall behind her," said first-year studentTy Mericle. "She screamed and he ran out." In response, locks are being in- stalled on bathroom doors. The Uni- versity of Michigan took the same ac- tion three years ago when. bathroom attacks were reported in residence halls. "It might be a hassle, but it would offer more security," Sober said. Hankenson's floor had a meeting to vote on the locks, which were sched- uled to be installed yesterday. The campus police have released composite sketches of the suspect, but have not apprehended him yet. ELIEHLIPMAN/Diy Dave and Bob Dascola play with the model trains on display at their Ann Arbor barbershop. Batmobile and the Joker Van and all the vehicles from "Back to the Future 2" and "Dick Tracy" can be spotted around the miniature town. There is also a small Pizza Hut restaurant in the display. A few years ago, Dascola asked Domino's Pizza to help out with some charity work, and Domino's refused. "Now my display has Pizza Hut in it," Dascola said. One box car has an actual A&P advertising slogan from the 1940s that reads, "You can whip our potatoes, but you can't beat our meat." Dascola added with a laugh: "That campaign lasted for about five min- utes." Dascola said of the display,"It takes about 10 hours to put it all together. This isn't a project, it's my toy." Before the trains, the Dascolas dis- played a miniature Michigan March- ing Band and stadium in the window. Dascola owns and runs the barber- shop with his brother Bob. It was opened in 1932 by their father, Dominic, who still cuts hair in the shop. I .Astronauts repair Hubble's lens Two spacewalkers fix one section of near-sighted telescope SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) - NASA's high-altitude repair crew installed replacement parts to fix half of the Hubble Space Telescope's nearsightedness yesterday and then rested before going out to complete the job. Even as they exulted that "we won the division and we are now in the playoffs," NASA officials cautioned against taking suc- cess for granted. The result of the repairs by the Endeavour's crew should be a telescope that will live nearly up to the original promise of getting crisp images, and detailed scientific data from the faintest and oldest bodies in the universe. NASA suffered its greatest embarrass- ment not long after the April 1990 launch of the Hubble when it had to admit that the main 94.5 inch-diameter lens had been ground to the wrong specifications, leaving the tele- scope blurry-eyed. "I have to keep emphasizing, it will be six to eight weeks until we have the ability to measure whether we have total success, par- tial success, or whatever," said Hubble pro- gram scientist Edward Weiler. "Let's not de- clare total success." Two spacewalking astronauts on the space shuttle installed a new camera whose mirrors compensate for the flaws created by the telescope's misshapen main mirror. A second team, Kathy Thornton and Tom Akers, was set to install a tricky device that intercepts incoming light and corrects it before it hits three other Hubble optical instruments. The mirrors are in a 7-foot-high telephone booth-like box that weighs 640 pounds. It will be slid into a space now occupied by a high- speed photometer. That instrument will be brought back to Earth. It will take six to'eight weeks to orient the telescope, recalibrate its instruments, fine tune the position of the new mirrors and get the photograph that astronomers call "first light." "Let's all think about this and let's not declare total success until success is really there for the optics," Weiler said. Hubble's guidance and power systems were replaced during two earlier spacewalks, on Sunday and Monday. "Every day it's becoming more and more like 'Can you top this?"' Mission Control told the astronauts as they wrapped up their spacewalk of six hours and 47 minutes. In less than two turns around the world, crewmembers Jeffrey Hoffman and Story Musgrave deftly pulled out Hubble's old cam- era and slid in the new one, a 620-pound unit the size of a baby grand piano. When Hoffman installed the new magne- tometers near the very top of the four-story telescope, two sides of the box came off in his hand. Mission Control thought at first of put- ting a "baggy" over it, then decided to install pieces of insulation from the cover of a tool in the cargo bay later in the flight. As each part was installed, engineers on the ground conducted tests and proclaimed that all electrical connections had been properly made. Before going to sleep about 11 a.m. EST, Mission Commander Richard Covey radioed Mission Control: "We know we've been incredibly lucky so far. We hope that our luck holds out and that tomorrow goes as well as today did." AP PHOTO Astronauts Jeffery Hoffman, left, and Story Musgrave repair the Hubble telescope on Monday. A CULTURAL ICON REMEMBERED... Penn may have first female president in Ivy League Judith Rodin will likely replace Sheldon Hackney at a university grappling with racial issues PHILADELPHIA (AP) -Behav- ioral psychologist Judith Rodin has been tapped to become president of the University ofPennsylvania and the first woman to head an Ivy League school. The 49-year-old Yale University provost and 1966 Penn graduate was selected Monday by a university search committee. If approved by the board of trustees as expected Dec. 16, Rodin will suc- ceed Sheldon Hackney, appointed by President Clinton to head the National Endowment for the Humanities. Rodin said Monday that universi- ties must address the onslaught of the information age. "You need to choose what your academic goals are and then choose the technology to match," she Write for the Daily. 'You need to choose what your academic goals are and then choose the technology to match, not the other way around.' - Judith Rodin, University of Pennsylvania president-designate said, "not the other way around." After graduating from Penn, Rodin went to Columbia University, where she earned a doctorate in psychology in 1970. At Yale since 1972, she served as chair of the psychology department and dean of the graduate school. She has written extensively on eat- ing disorders, jealousy and the links between psychological health and physical well-being. Penn's next president will lead the university's struggle to balance free speech with basic civility and ease ra- cial tensions. Earlier this year, a white student was charged with violating the school's racial-harassment policy for calling five Black women making noise outside his dormitory "water buffalo." The women later dropped their complaint. Also this year, university officials decided not to discipline nine students who dumped thousands of copies of the student paper because they believed the school and paper were insensitive to Blacks; a racist bomb threat was phoned in to a building that houses mostly Black students; and nearly 40 Black students received telephone threats. The racial-harassment policy is be- ing revised. Rodin refused to discuss the issue Monday, saying it would be presump- tuous to do so before her confirmation. Penn, with nearly 22,500 students, was founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1740. I U NON-STOP OPIES. AP PHOTO Shanti Stark lights a candle at an Amherst, Mass. memorial to musician Frank Zappa, who died Saturday of prostate cancer at age 52. N r? Student groups 0 Law Club, office hours, Michi- gan Union, Room 4124, 12-2 p.m., 4-5 p.m. Q Lutheran Campus Ministry, Jesus Through the Centuries study/discussion, 6 p.m.; Evening Prayer, 7 p.m.; 801 South Forest Ave. U Marxist Study on Current Events, MLB, Room B129, 7 p.m. U Ninjutsu Club, IM Building, 331 Thompson St. Q Self-Defense, classes, CCRB, Room 1200, call 996-1454 for details, 9-10 p.m. Q Shorin-Ryu Karate-Do Club, everyone welcome, CCRB, Room 2275, 8:30-9:30 p.m. Q Students of Objectivism, meet- ing, MLB, B 120, 7 p.m. Q Tae Kwon Do Club, regular workout, CCRB, Room 2275, 7-8:30 p.m. dents, International Center, 3 p.m. Q The Mycenaeans Go to Court, sponsored by the Kelsey Mu- seum of Archeology, Tappan Hall, Room 180, 4 p.m. [ Women as Insiders in the For- eign Policy Process, sponsored by the Women's Caucus, Hutchins Hall, Room 218, 4 p.m. Student services VScp i