The Michigan Daily-Thursday, June 5 1980-Page 3
. Local Scene i8mi
RENOVATION PLAN DUE WITHIN THE MONTH
Union plan further defined

By BONNIE JURAN
An informal committee currently "hammering
out" concrete suggestions on proposed renovations to
the Michigan Union will most likely issue its final
report within the month, according to Interim Union
Director Suzanne Young.
The group's recommendations will be reviewed by
the University's executive officers and students who
were part of a task force which worked on the Union
renovation plan last year, she said. The informal
group's proposals will elaborate on last February's
program statement issued by the present Union
management.
IF APPROVED by the executive officers and the

students, the recommendations could be presented to
the University Regents by their July meeting, Young
said. If the Regents approve toe plan, she added, the
next step will be the hiring of an architect, who will
determine the most economical and physically
feasable renovations.
According to the October, 1979 report of the task
force-which, in addition to students, included
faculty, staff,'and alumni members-a main priority
of the revitalization project should be ensuring that
the Union becomes "the center of student com-
munication and activity on this campus" once again.
Reviving a "student-oriented snack bar similar to the
former Michigan Union Grill (MUG)" was one

method suggested to achieve that goal.
The informal committee is currently determining,
with the assistance of University architect Fred
Mayer, items such as the number of customers it
would like the food service to accommodate, and
whether seating for the service should be on multiple
levels, according to Young.
THE FOOD SERVICE, which will most likely be
situated on the Union's ground floor, would serve
natural foods, grill items, salads, and soups, she ad-
ded.
The ground floor, designated as a "high activity
market place," would also include an enlarged
University Cellar bookstore and a cluster of shops
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V Bullard,

Daily Photo by DAVID HARRIS
WORKERS BEGIN TO MODIFY this area at the police station to prepare the site for new computer equipment. The area
will require air conditioning, a fire control system, and general renovation.
New computer system. to aid

Gotowka,
Schwartz
will run
for offices
By ELAINE RIDEOUT
Democrat Perry Bullard announced
yesterday he will run for a fifth term as
state representative of Ann Arbor's
53rd district in the November elections.
In other November races, Helen
Gotowaka has announced she will
challenge incumbent Carl Pursell for
the Republican nomination for the U.S.
House of Representatives Second
Congressional district seat. Also,
Democrat Elizabeth Schwartz has an-
nounced her intention to oppose 16-year
Republican incumbent William Delhey
for the Washtenaw County Prosecutor's
position.
BULLARD SAID his campaign will
call for more citizen involvement and
more effective cooperative leadership,
which he termed "the challenge facing
our democratic process in a time of
limited resources.
"I think my record of achievements
demonstrates my ability to provide ef-
fective leadership," Bullard added.
Legislative reforms sponsored by
Bullard include: the state Freedom of
Information Act, the Auto Lemon Law,
tenants rights legislation prohibiting
eviction -without due process, and
several solar- and wind-energy incen-
tive proposals.
BULLARDIS also currently involved
in a state-wide petition drive aimed at
putting the Smith-Bullard Tax Reform
proposal on the November ballot. The
proposal, if approved by voters, will
eliminate the use of property taxes for
school finance with a shift to a state-
wide income and business property tax,
Bullard explained.
Bullard said he considers adequate
financial aid for students of primary
importance. "Adequate financial aid
for loans and work study are of extreme
importance in this time of extensive in-
flation," he said, adding that such
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pollce in local
By MITCH STUART
The newest addition to Ann Arbor's police force will
categorize, sort, and keep track of all crime information in
the city 24 hours per day, do the job better than any of its
predecessors, and never utter a single complaint about the
massive workload.
The addition: a $200,000-plus computer system which
Police Chief Walter Krasny said he hopes will be in full
operations by Sept. 1.
THE COMPUTER SYSTEM, which will be housed in a
climate-controlled room currently being constructed at
police headquarters, will provide a data base containing in-
formation on all aspects of crimes occuring in the area,
Krasny said.
The key to the system is its ability to provide access to tie
information in numerous ways, explained Sgt. Steve
Prussian, one of the department's two computer experts.
Police commanders will be able to request information
that is categorized by time of day, location, type of crime in-
volved, and numerous other classifications, he said.
KRASNY SAID THE new type of accessibility to infor-
mation will make crimes that occur in patterns easier to
solve.
The department has been preparing for the new computer
system by developing computer programs, designing new

crime-fighting
forms, and holding personnel training sessions to "get the
most out of the system," Krasny said.
"When we get all through, we hope to have a. pretty
sophisticated operation," he added.
ANN ARBOR IS not alone in its desire to update its
methods of fighting crime. Jackson, Warren, and Sterling
Heights are other southern Michigan communities conver-
ting their crime information retrieval methods from a state-
based computer to a local-based system.
The equipment switchover is being funded by federal
grants administered by the state Office of Criminal Justice
Programs.
"They (the cities) are being taken off the state system
because it wasn't efficient," explained Hank Verkaik, coor-
dinator of the Law Enforcement Management System
(LEMS), the project's official title.
"BIG MAINFRAME STYSEMS are very inflexible. What
we tried to do was develop some software for local law enfor-
cement departments," he said.
In the past, cities similar to Ann Arbor have used the state
data network for all their data processing. Now, however,
advanced technology has made it possible to "tailor" com-
puter systems to individual cities at a relatively reason-
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