The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, June 17, 1980-Page 3
Local Scene
Election law change could
affect Regent appointees
By BONNIE JURAN
State Attorney General Frank Kelley said lester-
day the state legislature is free to amend the
Michigan Election Law to require gubernatorial ap-
pointees to the ruling boards of three major state
universities to run for the seat in the next general
election.
The appointees, nominated by. the governor
following the resignation or removal of a board
member, currently remain in office throughout the
duration of their predecessor's term.
BOARD MEMBERS at the University, Michigan
State University, and Wayne State University serve
eight-year terms. Two of these members face re-
election every two years.,
Kelley's opinion follows two recent, controversial
appointments by Gov. William Milliken - that of
former Gov. George Romney to the Board of Trustees
of Wayne State, and former State Highway Com-
mission Chairman Peter Fletcher to the board of
Trustees of Michigan State. -
The attorney general issued his opinion at the
request of state Sen. William Faust (D-Westland),
who is currently sponsoring Senate Joint Resolution
K to provide the legislature with the power of "advise
and consent" over all university ruling board
designates, according to Faust's committee aide Bob
Reinshuttle.
REINSHUTTLE ADDED that Faust asked Kelley
to issue the opinion after receiving inquiries on the
matter, particularly those of state Sen. Jack Faxon
(D-Detroit), chairman of the Senate education com-
mittee.
According to Education Committee Clerk Sandy
Hunginville, Faxon had tentatively planned to amend
Senate Joint Resolution K to include the clause con-
cerning appointed board members.
She said as a result of the decision handed down by
Kelley, she believes Faxon will be able to introduce
the resolution as a statute, enabling him to forego the
process of introducing it as a constitutional amen-
dment.
ACCORDING TO assistant Attorney General
Eugene Krasicky, Kelley reached his opinion after
discovering the wording of the state constitution "left
it up to-the legislature" to decide the duration of the
term of aboard appointee.
He said the current method by which the governor
appoints board members to serve the balance of their
predecessors' terms is not referred to specifically in
the constitution.
The attorney general's office determined,
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Confusion
surrounds
selling of
bus tokens
in Union
By JOYCE FRIEDEN
An official at the Ann Arbor Tran-
sportation Authority says he is having
trouble convincing officials at the
} Michigan Union to sell AATA bus
tokens, but the Union's interim director
says she was never contacted about the
matter.
AATA has been selling the books of
bus tokens since December 1979. While
riders normally pay fifty cents to ride
the buses, the token books sell for 35
cents per ticket.
"WE'RE NOT making a profit (on
the. token books)," AATA Marketing
Coordinator Ron Ricciardi said. "This
is a public service."
Ricciardi said there are 15 outlets, in-
cluding AATA's Fourth St. office,
where customers can purchase the
books - eight in Ann Arbor and six in
Ypsilanti. He added that an AATA
customer service representative went
to the Union to see if they would sell the
tickets, but a Union representative
"said they weren't interested."
The customer service representative,
who asked not to be identified, said she
spoke with a woman "who I was told
managed the front lobby area of the
Union." She said the woman expressed
interest in selling the tokens, but
"didn't like having people from off the
streets loitering in the building."
Suzanne Young, who has served as in-
terim director of the Union since last
July, said yesterday she was never con-
tacted about the matter. "I would be
glad to cooperate (with the AATA),"
Young said.
} The Union's main desk currently sells
Greyhound bus tickets and limousine
tickety.t petroit Metropolitan Airport..
Daily Photo by DAVID lARIS
DENIS LEE, DIRECTOR of the Medical Illustrations Unit at the University Medical Center, has used his sculpturing
talents for nearly ten years to create plaster, clay, and silicone rubber prostheses. With one exception, Lee is the busiest
medical sculptor in the nation.
MEDICAL SCULPTOR HAS UNIQUE GIFT:
''Prof rebuilds bodies
By NICK KATSARELAS Lee's office is split into three areas: an area where he
Thousands of people every year lose fingers, toes, sees his patients; his study, about which are scattered dif-
breasts, or other bodily parts, often from cancer, fires, or ferent anatomical molds; and a room where, with the help of
household accidents. The physical deformities leave their an assistant, he molds, carves, and tints the rubber
victims shy and withdrawn. Children become the objects of replacements. The prostheses serve no functional purposes,
playground taunts; adults, the objects of public gawking. As and are worn primarily for cosmetic reasons.
a result, the victims often suffer from more painful A hand sculptured by Lee, an assistant professor .in
emotional scars. plastic surgery, looks and feels like s real one, from the cold,
Denis Lee's job is to replace those lost parts, and with clammy texture to the shape of the fingers, the ripples of the
some luck, restore some of the self-esteem the victims often arteries, and the detail of the pores.
lose. HE SEES MORE than 300 patients a yesr, which, with
LEE IS DIRECTOR of the Medical Illustrations Unit at one exception, makes him the busiest medical sculptor in the
the University Medical Center. For nearly ten years he has nation. Nesrly half his patients are women who have lost
used his sculpturing talents to create plaster, clay, and breasts from cancer. The other half consists of children and
silicone rubber prostheses, ranging from ears and eyes to See UNIVERSITY, Pa e 14
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