The Michigan Daily-Thur sday, Jlt1n l8,'1T9'$1'P '1'I AATU urges activism (Continued from Page 3) and their landlord reached the city's first private rent control agreement. Two years after the tenants had decided to withhold rent, Ann Arbor District Court Judge George Alexander signed an order that reduced the rent charged for the last two years, and con- trols the rent to be charged through 1982-83-regardless of who the future tenants are. THE AATU is considering a major campaign to put a rent control proposal on the ballot in this year's election, but "we can't pass rent control without the help of the students," Cohen said. This is one example of why students should register to vote in Ann Arbor, he said. "You have to realize ... you're here for four years; your concerns are here. "A good chunk of your money, or your parents money, or the money you're borrowing (to go to school) is going to housing," he continued. "To get your money's worth, you should pursue your rights (as tenants)." CRITICISMS that rent control lowers the quality of housing are unfounded, Cohen said, explaining that rent control does not mean rent freeze. "It provides for annual rent increases to cover increases in taxes" and other landlord costs, he said. "And it provides incentives for capital im- provements, (guaranteeing) a reasonable return on the landlord's in- vestment." Generally, tenants have more rights than they know about, but still fewer than they need, AATU members say. And, although today's Ann Arbor tenan- ts are better-educated about their rights and resources, they need to be more active in pursuing those rights, they say. The AATU provides information on legal questions concerning housing (many leases are illegal, members say), and it also acts as a counseling and referral service. AN UNIDENTIFIED HOSTAGE flees from the Security Trust Co. Bank in Rochester, N.Y. after the bank was taken over by a gunman yesterday. It is believed that the hostages ran from the bank as a SWAT team moved in the rear of the bank. The gunman was killed by a special-weapons marksman after a three-hour killing spree. N.Y. gu man ki1 S ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP)-A gunman cuta swath of terror through two blocks of a quiet neighborhood yesterday, killing three people, wounding seven and taking hostages inside a bank before police shot him to death, authorities said. The killings spaned three hours before a police marksman killed the gunman, identified as William Bernard Griffin, 37, of Rochester, as he tried to stop a hostage from leaving the Security Trust Co. on Rochester's west side. A police spokesman said the incident began when Griffin walked into the home of his mother and stepfather and opened fire with a shotgun, killing his mother and a hired wallpaper hanger and injuring his stepfather. Police identified the dead as Griffin's mother, Gracy Grif- fin Anderson, 66, and Thomas Cariola, 67, of nearby Greece, N.Y. The man walked outside the house and shot a workman, then wounded at least two more bystanders as he ran up the street toward the bank, authorities said. "HE WAS WALKING fast with a rifle over his shoulder," said Scott Daitz, 27, of Greece, N.Y., who was delivering potato chips to a bar across the street from the bank. Daitz said the gunman entered the bank and then, "a whole bunch of people came running out of the bank in all direc- tions-just scattering." His partner, Billy Winkler, ran across the street "to help get them out of there," Daitz said, but then a motorcycle policeman came up and "a shower of shots began." AT LEAST EIGHT people were believed trapped inside the bank after the gunman entered, police said. Police said at least two officers were wounded as the gun- man exchanged gunfire with police at the scene before a special-weapons team was called just after noon. Police used a garbage truck to shield one officer as he was rescued at the scene. Once police entered the bank, they found another teller had been shot to death inside. Mayors ask for equitable funding for cities LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - The nation's mayors, in a rare bipartisan vote yesterday, demanded parity with the defense budget in the distribution of federal funds. They said the military was flourishing at the expense of the cities.- After five days of partisan bickering, the mayors ended their annual convention on a harmonious note by removing inflammatory rhetoric and then ap- proving the resolution. "THE U.S. CONFERENCE of Mayors calls upon the administration and Congress to recognize that the national security of this nation includes both the military defense and the social defense of this coun- try," the resolution said. It asked President Reagan and Congress "to fulfill the constitutional responsibility of insuring the domestic tranquility, by giving domestic concerns parity with military concerns, and by funding urban programs adequately to meet the needs of the nation's cities." The resolution had been fought by Reagan ad- ministration and Republican Party lobbyists, but it was carried by a 70-41 vote that indicated some Republicans departed from the party line in favor of a mutual plea for help for the cities. MAYORS VOTED MORE along North-South, Sun- belt-Frostbelt, and economic lines than party lines. Among the resolutions approved was one asking that the cities be assured fair treatment if Reagan makes good his plan to turn current federal grants in- to block grants to the states. The mayors also asked Congress "to ensure that urban programs are treated equitably in comparison to other federal programs in the fiscal 1982 budget." ALTHOUGH THE parity resolution had its harsher language removed, it noted that more than 27 percent of the federal budget goes to military spending, while only 6.8 percent helps the cities. "We're saying the military is being emphasized at the expense of the poor, the working poor, the middle class and the cities of America," said Mayor George Athanson of Hartford, Conn. "You can't separate domestic from foreign policy." He said that in the budget cuts the mayors discussed, "we have forgotten humanity, we've forgotten people, .. Richard Carver, Republican mayor of Peoria, Ill., spoke against further amendments to weaken the resolution, but he argued briefly that "it is inap- propriate to pit the Department of Defense against the urban programs." Mayor Coleman Young of Detroit was elected vice president, putting him in line for the presidency next year. Mayor Richard Fulton of Nashville was elected chairman of the advisory board.