The Michigan Daily-Saturday, June 12, 1982-Page 3
500,000 EXPECTED TO ATTEND
N.Y.C. readies for anti-nuke rally
NEW YORK (AP)- Crews set up a stage in Central
Park and transit officials remapped bus routes and
laid on extra subway cars yesterday as the city gir-
ded for an expected onslaught of 500,000 people at a
nuclear disarmament rally.
If attendance estimates for today's march and
rally hold up, it would be one of the biggest protests in
the nation's history and the largest ever held here.
ACTIVITIES WILL begin with a march past the
United Nations and north to Central Park. Organizers
said at least 150,000 people, led by 10,000 to 30,000
children, would take part.
On Central Park's Great Lawn, police estimated as
many as 500,000 people would gather to hear dozens of
speeches, along with performances by Linda Ron-
stadt, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, and Chaka
Kahn. Sunny, fair weather was forecast.
All of this amounts to a _traffic nightmare, and
police warned that Manhattan would be impassable
to vehicles for much of the day.
OFFICIALS AT the Port Authority of New York
and New Jersey, which runs the city's airports and
bus terminals, said yesterday they had seen no
noticeable influx of people.
But 2,000 buses were expected to arrive by this
morning, parking in lots in the outer boroughs and
New Jersey. Three hundred volunteers were
assigned to usher them onto public transportation
bound for the United Nations.
The rally is the biggest in a series of events held to
mark the United Nations special session on disar-
mament, which began Monday.
YESTERDAY, more than 8,000 people filled the
Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the world's largest
cathedral, for an international religious convocation.
It was an elaborate religious service involving
"literally every faith from all over the planet Earth,"
said Bishop Paul Moore of the Episcopal diocese of
New York.
Participants ranged from Metropolitan Filaret of
the Russian Orthodox Church to Grand Father David
Monogye, a Hopi spiritual elder. Islamic, Buddhist,
Christian and Jewish leaders also took part.
DR. AVERY Post, president of the United Church
of Christ, said, "We come to worship, to cry out to
God for life and peace. We come to be a represen-
tative voice of all the children on earth."
Although Police Commissioner Robert McGuire
said he did not expect disorderly conduct at today's
demonstration, 5,000 police-the largest force ever
assembled for a single event here-were assigned to
the march and rally.
A total of 4,000 volunteers were enlisted for the
protest, which was organized by a coalition of groups
such as the Women's International League for Peace
and Freedom, the International Association of
Machinists and Aerospace Workers, the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference and scores of
smaller groups.
The biggest recent gathering in New York was on
the Great Lawn last fall, when an estimated 400,000
people came to hear a Simon and Garfunkel reunion
concert.
Daily Photo by DEBORAH LEWIS
The chain fences surrounding the shaded lawn in front of Angell Hall proved weak barriers, unable to contain the
energy of these schoolchildren yesterday.
Pla y*g finish es campus manhunt
Officials
at WSU
extend
negotiation
deadline
By LOU FINTOR
Wayne State University officials yes-
terday extended the deadline for
faculty wage concession negotiations,
giving negotiators more time to reach
an agreeent which would prevent the
layoff of tenured faculty.
WSU administrators stated this week
that they would request a declaration of
financial emergency from the board of
governors and begin laying off tenured
professors if an agreement was not
reached with the American Association
of University Professors - the WSU
faculty's union.
ADMINISTRATORS originally set 8
a.m. yesterday as the deadline for an
agreement, but extended the deadline
until Tuesday after an all-night
bargaining session failed to produce an
agreement.
Administrators said they needed
more time to study the impact of
declaring "financial exigency. With
such a declaration, layoffs of tenured
faculty can begin.
If the administration asked the board
of governors for a declaration of finan-
cial exigency, they are expected to ap-
prove it.
"I would say that enough board
members would approve it, but I don't
think it would be unanimous," said
Murray Jackson, a member of the
Wayne State University Board of
Governors and a University professor.
According to Wayne State's AAUP
President Norman Kopmeyer, the
threat of 'financial exigency" has not
changed the bargaining position of the
union, but has hurt negotiations.
"It's a threat which can only impede
bargaining," Kopmeyer said. "I think
if that deadline had not been there we
could have reached agreeement in a
couple of days," he added.
"We are saying we will give up $2
See WAYNE, Page11
By FANNIE WEINSTEIN
Some University males escaped un-
scathed, but others lost more than their
shirts by the time Playgirl left campus
yesterday.
Representatives from the magazine
came to Ann Arbor this week seeking
both clothed and not so clothed models
for its October and November issues, to
be titled "Playgirl Comes to the Big
Ten."
THE THREE-woman judging com-
mittee, consisting of Playgirl Talent
Coordinator Linda Horwitz, her
assistant, and Playgirl's photo editor,
conducted interviews at Ohio State
University last week and currently is
looking for models at the University of
Wisconsin.
Although roughly 200 males
auditioned at OSU, less than half that
amount turned out for Monday's
tryouts at Campus Inn. Horwitz at-
tributed the difference in turnout,
however, to the fact that OSU was still
in regular session.
"We had as successful a turnout as at
OSU, even though we had fewer people
show up," she said. "U of M produced a
different kind of guy. Just as good, but
different."
"ALL THE guys we interviewed were
good-looking, really expressive of their
lifestyle," Horwitz said of the Univer-
sity's men. "We were looking for prep-
py types, also a wide variety of looks."
"There was nothing special about it
at all . . . It was very natural," said
Mark Gibney, a political science
graduate student selected to appear in
the magazine.
Gibney, who posed clothed at the Law
Quad and nude at home, said most of
his friends didn't mind his Playgirl ex-
posure, although his girlfriend did
become upset.
"THIS HAS seemingly provoked a lot
more reaction than I would have
thought. It's been the reaction of people
I know that's caused problems," he
said.
"I believe I would do it again," Gib-
ney said. "I didn't think of it asa means
of exploitation or any type of por-
nography or any type of comment on
my personality."
Those who weren't selected by
Playgirl seemed to take it in stride.
"ACTUALLY, I wasn't going to ac-
cept it even if I got it," said Andy Huf-
fman, a graduate engineering student.
"I wasn't inspired to go down and take
my clothes off."
Ironically, Huffman's friend, who
gave him $15 to attend the interview
and then filled out an application him-
self just for fun, was chosen. His friend
refused the chance to pose, however,
Huffman said.
Playgirl's man hunt drew little
protest.
SeePLAYGIRL, Page 10