The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, June 16, 1982-Page 3 ILLEGAL HOOK-UPS TO BE PROSECUTED Cablevision pirates beware By FANNIE WEINSTEIN The loss of almost $750,000 in potential revenue is forcing Ann Arbor Cablevision to begin prosecuting residents who are using illegally hooked-up cable services, according to Cablevision's general manager. "Theft of service is a problem in the cable service all over the country," said Robbie Blair. "We want to stress to the people of Ann Arbor that it's illegal to tamper with our property." TEN THOUSAND residences-roughly a third of which are occupied by students-receive Cablevision, according to an audit of homes hooked up to the service. However, seven to ten percent of the 33,000 homes in the potential market receive the service illegally, Blair estimated. Hooking into a cable pole or a wire installed for paid subscribers are two of the ways people illegally use cable, Blair said. Others break into convenience boxes located on the sides of houses wired for cable, I , Whin Yesterday's strong winds combined with this store a chore for this brave shopper. faculty coM (continued from Page 1) framework under which salary in- money av _ ~In retur creases already negotiated will be meyer sai deferred." Faculty salary increases at least a now will be based on a sliding-scale and emp formula which will take into account members, enrollment figures and state ap- may hav propriations, Kopmeyer said. future." THE FACULTY'S 1912-83 fiscal con- tract calls for more than 8 percent in ALTHO wage increases beginning September 1. ment wei The institution's 82-83 fiscal budget of tained by more than $147 million-$2 million less " Throug than this year's-includes an estimated the barga $44,000 in student tuition revenues and laid off," almost $100 million in state ap- be issued propriations. unit;" "We are expecting an enrollment loss " Tenure of almost 10 percent," said WSU other Uni President Thomas Bonner. He blamed or disco the decline on the area's high unem- "training ployment rate and less financial' aid not to exc he added. "It's just a point in fact. People have gone illegally into our electronics and our property and started hooking themselves up," Blair said. IN ADDITION to the loss of revenue, illegal hook- ups also can cause maintenance breakdowns due to tampering with cable wires. The city ordinance prohibiting the illegal connec- tions, which became law in 1976, states, "no person shall make or maintain an operating connection to public utility or cable television facilities without the permission of the owner of such facilities." Violation of the ordinance is punishable by a fine of up to $100 or 90 days in jail.. No prosecutions have occurred under this law, however, according to city attorney Bruce Laidlaw. CABLEVISION is giving violators until 5 p.m. on June 30 to become legal subscribers. "We're going to allow everyone the chance to come in on it," Blair said. "We prefer to have people as legal customers. We don't intend to prosecute, but to hook up people legally," he added. Those who ignore the notice, Blair said, will be prosecuted within several weeks of the June 30 deadline. Other area cable television companies also acknowledge that illegal hook-ups are a growing problem and intend to prosecute. "All I know is that based on the stolen equipment we've had in the past and things of that nature, our loss of revenue is about $250,000 a year," said Chet Parks, general manager of TCI Taft, a Ypsilanti cable company. TCI Taft, which purchased Six Star Cablevision last February, services 18,000 homes in the Ypsilani area. Prosecution of persons who have illegally con- nected TCI cable wires could began within four or five weeks, according to Parks. 'U'coed fraternity returns to rushing only men By SUE THAYER After a controversial decade of coed cohabitation, the local Theta Xi frater- nity will return to males-only status this fall - despite decidedly mixed reaction from house members. Faced with both the possible ex- pulsion of the chapter from-the national Theta Xi organization and declining membership, Theta Xi's Michigan alumni board - composed of 12 alumni and two house representatives - voted this spring to revoke the fraternity's ten-year-old coed policy, according to TH SCOTT board member Bob Wolf. "Most members wanted to stay coed," said Andrea Basile, on LSA alking sophomore. "For the past ten years, the house thrived because of the women." John Green, an LSA sophomore, said he may not return to Theta Xi this fall, in s sinceheis"uncomfortable with normal fraternities." ay transfer THE FRATERNITY'S coed ex- tect against perience has been a rocky one, accor- nior" faculty ding to Roger Seekman, a senior mit who has majoring in engineering. The Univer- ff. "This sity chapter, which began accepting d until these females ten years ago as part of a coed to the most housing experiment, has been plagued atus" with controversy since 1979, when the Ity members national organization passed a 20 percent of resolution prohibiting its chapters from dding that it rushing female students, $eekman t few checks said. though the The house located at 1345 Washtenaw, e based on a '%as put on suspension last July for not evenue, base complying with natioml rules on mem- ent increase bership and was threatened with gotiations. suspension by the national overnors ap- organizatioin. the first reaction of the nt and next house to. the ruling was "screw the ty members nationals - we don't need them," said o accept or See THETA, Page 1 Daily Pjhoto by ELZABEt 1dy tunnel front archway on Cass Avenue in downtown Detroit to make wa promise on concessi ailable to students. * A faculty member ma n for the concessions, Kop- seniority rights that pro d the agreement guarantees layoff to the next "most sen "minimal increase" in salary member from the same u oyment protection for faculty been targeted for layc "especially in programs that procedure will be repeate e to be discontinued in the rights have been offered1 junior member on layoff sta Kopmeyer said that facu UGH final details of the agree- will be guaranteed at least2 re not released, a copy ob- their 8 percent increase, a the Daily shows that, will be reflected in the firs h July 1, 1983, "no member of of the fall term. Even aining unit (faculty) will be remaining 90 percent will 1 and "no notices of layoff will formula for University r to members of the bargaining salary will reflect an 8 perc for the purpose of future ne d professors reassigned to Although the Board of G versity units due to reductions proved both the agreeme ntinuance will be granted year's WSU budget, facul leave" at full pay for a period will vote in September t eed one year; reject the agreement.