0 Page 16 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, May 4, 1984 While we tContinuedfromoPage15) 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 6 a Compassionate care: A Mercy nurse If you're looking for a challenging education that prepares you for a satisfying career in nursing, look no further. 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