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TO DECIDE WHETHER DISCRIMINATES AGAINST MALES
High Court to judge rape law
From AP and UPI
WASHINGTON - The Supreme
Court agreed yesterday to judge the
constitutionality of statutory rape laws.
The justices said they will decide
whether California's statutory rape
law, similar to those inmost states, im-
permissibly discriminates against
males.
THE LAW makes it a crime -
punishable by up to eight years in
prison - for a man or boy to have
sexual intercourse with a consenting
female not yet 18 and not his wife.
Females cannot commit a crime under
the law.
The justices were told that the law is
based on "remnants of the exploded
myth of intrinsic male superiority."
"The statute blames the male even
though the female, may be older, more
mature, or herself the sexual
aggressor," said lawyers for a young
Sonoma County, Calif., man facing
statutory rape charges.
IN OTHER action yesterday, the
nation's . highest court ruled
unanimously in another California case
that states are free to give residents the
right to demonstrate peacefully or cir-
culate petitions in a privately owned
shopping center.
The owner of the Pruneyard Shopping
Center in Santa Clara, Calif. brought
the free speech case to the high court.
He appealed the protections the state
Supreme Court ordered for the
reasonable exercise of speech and
petitioning in privately owned shopping
centers.
The owner said efforts by some high
school students to gather signatures
protesting a U.N. resolution on Zionism
violated his property rights, which have
federal constitutional protection.
IN AFFIRMING the California
ruling, Justice William Rehnquist took
note of a Supreme Court ruling in 1972
that the First Amendment does not
prevent a private shopping center from
barring distribution of certain han-
dbills.
However, he said for the court, that
ruling does not "limit the authority of
the state to exercise its police power or
its sovereign right to adopt in its own
Constitution individual liberties more
expansive than those conferred by the
federal Constitution."
The high court rejected the owners'
argument that the students' activity
amounted to an unconstitutional taking
of property without compensation.
THE COURT, expected to wind up its
1979-80 term around the end of the mon-
th, also made it more difficult for con-
sumers to get product information from
the government by ruling unanimously
that the federal Consumer Product
Safety Commission cannot release in-
dustry-supplied information before
deciding whether it's accurate and that
public disclosure is fair. The decision
blocked release of secret safety reports
on television sets.
The court also agreed to decide the
scope of mentally retarded persons'
"right to treatment."
Council OKs study*
on bad intersections
By ELAINE RIDEOUT
City Council gave its unanimous
approval to a three-party agreement
between the Ann Arbor Transportation
Authority (AATA), the city of Ann Ar-
bor, and the Michigan Department of
Transportation that would put into
motion a Fuller-Geddes preliminary
engineering study at last night's special
session.
The study, already approved by
AATA, would examine engineering
WHAT A
COMBI NATION
feasibility for a three-part plan presen-
ted to council at last week's regular
session by city engineer Leigh Chizek.
The project provides alternatives for
three problem areas, namely the
Huron-Glen intersection, the Broad-
way-Wall intersection, and the Fuller
roadway that currently bisects Fuller
Park.
AMONG THE alternatives con-
sidered by the Urban Area Transpor-
tation Study Committee (UTAS) upon
completion of a Huron Valley corridor
study are:
" widening Glen into four lines;
* making Glen one-way southbound;
" construction of a new intersection
at Huron and Washtenaw Place;
" making some of the streets leading
into the Broadway-Wall intersection
one-way;
" replacing or constructing a new
Wall Street bridge in another location;
and
" creating a new roadway either ad-
jacent to the present road or across
Fuller Park toward the University
Medical Center.
COUNCIL ALSO heard a review on -
the status of the installation of the siren
warning system presented by City Ad-
ministrator Terry Sprenkle.
Sprenkle said there are a total of 19
sirens currently mounted on poles in
the city. Of these, he said, nine are
operational, six are awaiting connec-
tion by the electric company, and four
are in the process of being wired by the
city Radio Shop.
He promised council that by June 30,
all 22 units will be in operation, adding
that an additional five units, fundable
under the current 1980-81 budget, will
be put into operation as soon as
possible.
Sprenkle also notified council that the
procedures for the activation of the
siren warning system have been
modified to be activated upon the
sighting of a funnel cloud within the
limits of Washtenaw County.
"They (the sirens) will no longer be
based on arbitrary limits of miles,"
Sprenkle said, "and will be in operation
during daylighthours and at night."
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