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ned to the cafeteria twice since the
illnesses occurred. This is the first
suspected case of food poisoning in the
residence halls since 200 students
caught the "Markley Plague" after a
meal last April at that dorm.
-Maria Gold
Austin urges
voter registration
"Encouraging people to vote is the
name of the game," said Secretary of
State Richard Austin at the Michigan
Student Conference on Voter
Registration.
Individual votes do count in elections,
said Austin. "I lost a Senate hid by 43
votes" and those votes still haunt him
today, he said.
Austin told the group of 50 students,
gathered from colleges around they
state, that President Nixon lost the 1960
presidential race to President Kennedy
by only 115,000 votes.
Students should "never get too busy
to neglect the political arena," said
Austin, encouraging college students to
get involved in the voting process.
"Students don't realize how impor-
tant voting is," said Michael Thomas,
an engineering student from Henry
Ford Community College who attended
the conference. Students should speak
out and tell politicians how they feel
about financial aid and tuition, said
Thomas.
Austin said the burden of voting and
registration lies with the individual
citizen. Many voters lose the right to
vote when they move because they fail
to have their new address sent to the
proper state registrar. This may be
done at the Secretary of State's office
while making the required address
change on a driver's license.
Austin commended the conference's
were away
goal of registering 25,000 voting age
students in the state before October 9,
which is the voter registration deadline
for the November general election.
The conference was sponsored by the
Public Research Group in Michigan
(PIRGIM), the Michigan Collegiate
Coalition, and various student gover-
nments across the state. The conferen-
ce was held last month at Whitney
Auditorium in the School of Education
Building.
-Andrew Eriksen
PSN hearings
continue
Members of the Progressive Student
Network, arrested last March for
trespassing, moved closer to trial with
a hearing in 15th District Court on May
1.
The ten students and one former
student were arrested when they refused
to leave a laboratory in East
Engineering while staging a sit-in
protest.
Protestors claimed that Prof. George
Haddad's research was being conduc-
ted primarily for military purposes and
they demanded that the project and all
other defense research on campus be
halted.
District Judge S. J. Elden granted
PSN's attorneys access to handwritten
notes taken by the police officers who
dragged the protestors out of the
building. Elden said he did not know
whether such notes existed, but he
allowed defense attorneys to check any
notes against the official police reports
for discrepancies.-
Defense attorneys also said that
because Prof. Haddad was not the
owner of the lab, he may not have
had the authority to have the
trespassers removed.
A final pre-trial hearing was set for
May 17 at 3:30 p.m.
- -Peter Williams
Council faces budget
Ann Arbor City Council's biggest an-
nual project got under way April 16
when City Administrator Godfrey
Collins submitted the proposed 1984-85
general fund budget.
At a meeting on April 26, Council
grilled department heads in a 6-hour
marathon budget review session.
Police Chief William Corbett defended
his department's vehicle maintenance
and overtime costs in the first of three
budget review sessions. The next one is
scheduled for May 9.
At the same meeting, Gerald Jer-
nigan (R-Fourth Ward) said the city
should cut its budget by eliminating
councilmembers' salaries of $5,500 and
the Mayor's salary of $10,750.
The proposal is sure to meet op-
position from Democrats, many of
whom say the income is necessary to
help pay their rent. Some members also
said cutting the salarieswould mean
only wealthy people could serve on
Council. "We want to make it possible
for people of all incomes to serve on
Council," said Lowell Peterson (D-
First Ward).
Also, Council finally passed the in-
famous kitty litter ordinance. From
now on, all kitty litter must be double-
bagged and clearly marked before it
gets thrown in the trash. Refuse collec-
tors had voiced concerns about
toxoplasmosis, a disease that can be!
transmitted by cat feces.
Amidst some controversy, Council
also passed a site plan for a mini-
arcade in the 700 block of North Univer-
sity. The project faced opposition from
Peterson and Jeff Epton (D-Third
Ward) because it may force established
business such as Campus Jewelers to
relocate.
- Eric Mattson
Worms steal Apples
Seven Apple computers, display
models of the computers sold by the
School of Engineering, were stolen
from the Micro Computing Education
Center on April 12 or 13.
There were no signs of forced entry,
said Sgt. Harold Tinsey of the Ann Ar-
bor Police Department. He said a key
may have been used to enter the room.
The computers are valued at an-
proximately $17,000, said University
security officer Timothy Shannon.
The display, located on the third floor
of the School of Education Building,
now has only one demonstration com-
puter. Employees at the center said the
others may not be replaced until the in-
vestigation is completed.
- Marla Gold
Lease snafu resolved
A dispute between 29 students and the
University Housing Office over a
typographical error in dormitory leases
for next fall has ended quietly, with all
but three of the students signing new
leases containing the correct price of
the rooms.
The three remaining students, who
earlier threatened to sue the University
if their leases were cancelled, have
found an apartment off-campus.
"We figured it out," said LSA fresh-
man Chris Else, one of the three.
"We're paying $300 each, $900 total a
month (in the dorm). We figured we
could get a place for $500 a month, plus
food, and that saves us a lot of money."
Else and his roommates Joseph
Roberts and Jim Gambill reconsidered
after learning that the incorrect lease
they signed on March 5 for a South
Quad triple would be voided. "We didn't
want to live there anyway," Else said.
A March 22 letter from Housing In-
formation Director Leroy Williams in-
formed 110 students that the price listed
in the leases they signed for next fall
($2194.46) should have read $2452.10.
The students were given until April 3 to
sign new leases.
By that deadline, 81 students hr d
complied with the request. Twenty-six
others signed the new leases in respon-
se to a letterof April 6 which said that
the original leases had been voided and
that the resulting spaces would be filled
by new students.
"I'm pleased that the majority of the
students realized at some point in time
that this office made a mistake,"
Williams said yesterday.
"This will never happen again," he
added. "I'll read over every lease
myself if I have to."
- David Vanker
Women march against
rape
More than 600 people rallied at the
Federal Building and marched through
Ann Arbor's streets on April 20 in the
fifth annual Take Back The Night
demonstration.
The evening opened with songs,
poems, and speeches addressing the
danger of rape and society's treatment
of rape victims. Women were en-
couraged to fight sexual assault
through legislation, education, and
physical force, and a karate club
demonstrated self-defense techniques.
Men were allowed at the Federal
Building rally, but when the marchers
took off on their trek through campus
and residentialpareas the men were ex-
cluded. "The purpose is for women to.
go out and walk without male escorts
and be safe," said organizer Pam
Schorr. "If there were men it would be
less empowering."
The Ann Arbor Coalition Against
Rape, which sponsored the rally and
march, wants to "generate publicity
about the issues surrounding rape,"
said organizer Barb Gormley.
- Ingrid Kock
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