The Michigan Daily--Wednesday, July 14, 1982--Page 3
WOULD OPEN CRITERIA TO PUBLIC
Council tables art fair
By KRISTIN STAPLETON
Legislation which would, according to its sponsor,
require the three groups involved in the art fair to
submit to Ann Arbor City Council their criteria for
selecting participants, was tabled Monday night by
the council.
The reason for the decision to table the resolution
was a disagreement over the wording and intent of
the measure, council members said.
LARRY HUNTER, the resolution's sponsor, claims
that it is meant only to make the criteria for the selec-
tion of art fair participants available to the public.
"The public has a right to know," Hunter, a
Democrat, said.
Edward Hood said he and the other Republicans on
the council tabled the motion because they believe
the resolution is an attempt to involve City Council in-
the selection process.
"It (the resolution) said that the City Council
should require criteria and review that criteria,"
Hood said. "Anytime you are establishing or
reviewing criteria in any way, you are acting as a
judge," he added.
HUNTER SAID his resolution only calls for the
groups to make their criteria accessible to the public.
He said that if other council members interpreted the
'review' in his resolution to mean that City Council
should become part of the evaluation process, then
"they don't know how to understand English."
Asked if he would object to a resolution which only
required the art fair groups to submit their criteria to
the council, Hood said, "I don't see anything wrong
with that." He insisted, however, that Hunter's
resolution involved more than that.
Hunter said he introduced the resolution in respon-
se to charges by a group representing Jon Lockard,
an Ann Arbor artist whose application to participate
in this year's art fair was rejected.
THE GROUP, calling itself the Committee for the
Salvation of the Human Experience in the Visual Arts
resolution
(SHEVA), claims that the Acceptance Committee of
the Ann Arbor Street Art Fair, Inc. is not accountable
to the public, although it uses public funds in the form
of city services.
According to Leslie Kamil-Miller, co-chairperson
of SHEVA, the group became concerned about the
public accountability of the art fair groups after
representatives of the Ann Arbor Street Art Fair, Inc.
refused to reveal the reason why Lockard was rejec-
ted from the fair.
Lockhard accused the Acceptance Committee of
rbeing racially biased, but Richard Brunvand of the
Ann Arbor Street Art Fair, Inc. denied the charge.
Brunvand claimed Lockard's work was judged by
the same criteria the committee used to judge the
work of all other applicants.
Kamil-Miller said SHEVA would like to see that the
criteria, as well as the composition of the Acceptance
Committee, are open to public scrutiny.
Air conditioning
In a desperate attempt to stave off this summer's unbearably high temperatures, Joe Lower moves some of his fur-
niture outside yesterday to enjoy the breeze for free.
Search
contunues
for illegal
cable TV
hookups
By GREG BRUSSTAR
Ann Arbor Cablevision has met with
little success thus far in its efforts at
nabbing cablevision pirates, a company
official said yesterday.
Two weeks have passed since the
cable company decided to search out
and prosecute illegal hookups, but
nobody has been prosecuted for
violations as a result of the search, ac-
cording to Ann Arbor Cablevision
General Manager Robbie Blair.
"WE ARE involved in looking into
illegal hookups in two apartments. Two
(cable) boxes have been vandalized
there in the past two weeks," Blair
said.
The search for illegal hookups is a
tedious process, Blair said. "We have
an auditing staff of 14 who go house-to-
house" to detect illegal cable connec-
tions, he said.
"It's something you have to do to stay
in business," Blair said. "We have
reworked many of the boxes and put
new locks on many of them," Blair
said.
HOOKING into either a cable pole or
a wire installed for paidsubscribers are
among the ways people illegally use
cable. Others break into convenience
boxes located on th e sides of houses
legally wired for the service.
The cable company offered amnesty
to all illegal subscribers who turned
themselves in to the company. It ended
June 30. Blair said that about a dozen
people'used the grace period to sub-
scribe after admitting that they had
been illegally hooked into the system.
Blair said that they are not concen-
trating the search for cable pirates in
any certain area, but that servicemen
check adjacent boxes during servi&
operations.
The servicemen do not have to enter
the bouse in which the cable service is
being used illegally, Blair said.
'U' study explores teen values
By BARB MISLE
Alternative lifestyles may have
become increasingly popular in the last
decade, but many teenagers still hold
traditional views on marriage and the
family, according to two researchers at
the University's Institute for Social.
Research.
The study, conducted by A. Regula
Herzog and Jerald Bachman, revealed.
that 80 percent of high school seniors
surveyed planned on getting married,,
but at a later stage in life. The students
also tended to view sex roles more*
equally.
HERZOG AND Bachman collected
their data at high schools nationwide
from 1976 to 1980.
The females were not as liberal as the
males, however, when it came to non-
traditional values onsex. According to
the study, many more males had fewer
objections to the idea of extra-marital
relationships or sex with more than one
partner.
"This came up fairly consistently,"
Herzog said, "that women were more
liberal in equal sex roles and equal pay,
but males were more liberal in regards;
to sexual morals."
Herzog and Bachman also found that
many of the seniors were in favor of
traditional sex roles once married. the
majority said they would want the
husband to work full-time and two-
thirds of the seniors objected to a
mother with pre-school aged children
having a job.
THE MAJORITY of the females sur-
veyed indicated they wanted careers in
addition to raising a family, and those
who, were career-oriented said they
would postpone their marriage until
career goals were attained.
In addition, 25 percent said they wan-
ted to wait at least five years after
graduating from high school to get
married.
Religion and education played a part
in survey results, according to Herzog
and Bachman.
The two researchers found that those
seniors with stronger religious
backgrounds were more likely to view
marriage more traditionally, while
those who came from higher income
-families or who had mothers who
worked were more likely to be in favor
of sexual equality.
Herzog said she expected the studen-
ts' answers to be more clearly defined,
either liberally or conservatively.
"Perhaps it's a reflection of the times,"
she said, "These different issues aren't
clear to any of us."
Survey results cannot, however, be
used to predict actual behavior, accor-
ding to Herzog. "The data was taken
from people who have had no real ex-
perience with these kinds of relation-
ships," she said. "What these kids will
actually do is quite different."