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Transplant patient
continues to improve
From staff and wire reports
The 39-year-old suburban Detroit ac- receiving a gunshot wound to the head.
countant who underwent a heart tran- Between 1968 and 1975 University
splant last week at University Hospitals surgeons performed seven heart tran-
is continuing to recover without com- splants. The procedure was suspended
plications, said a hospital spokesman because of the low success rate, but the
yesterday. recent development of new anti-rejec-
"The patient continues to progress tion drugs has increased the chances
satisfactorily," said John Woodford of for survival.
University Health Science Relations, Heart transplants, which cost about
adding "he's doing very well." $57,000, may be performed regularly at
ACCORDING TO Woodford, the University Hospitals as long as donors
patient, whose name has been withheld are available for transplants, accor-
at the request of his family, is able to sit ding to Dr. Douglas Behrendt, one of
up as well as walk around his hospital the members of the surgical team.
room. While the University's heart tran-
A team of surgeons spent two-and-a- splant patient is on the road to recovery
half hours Tuesday performing the UCLA's first heart transplant patient
transplant - the first at the University since 1969 died Friday from a pancreas
in nine years. The patient suffered from disorder developed after the operation.
cardiomyopathy a condition that The patient, a 15-year-old girl who
weakens the heart muscle. The donor also suffered from cardiomyopathy
heart came from a 17-vear-old boy who received the transplant Feb. 22.
had been declared brain dead after
Reagan to dock federal a
for delinquent student loans
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Students participate'
in annual sublet ritual
By SUE BARTO
Summer sublet. Say it slowly and
succinctly and you're likely to send
the nearest Ann Arbor winter tenant
straight for the extra strength Ex-
cedrin. The annual summer sublet
has many students scrambling for
cheap housing and others holding opt
Not everyone is willing to settle for
half the rent, however. "Nobody wan-
ted to pay my price," said Carol
Shapiro, who pays $250 per month for
a one-bedroom apartment. Shapiro
said she has gotten two offers of about
$150, but is holding out for at least
$200.
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WASHINGTON (UPI) - President for top dollars. t vni i can get, apro sa .
a yesterday returned to one of his One student was trying to beat the "I won't pay more than $50 for an
Reaganstrdaygnetredetown s system by selling the remainder of apartment I'm not living in."
favorites campaign themes - waging her own 12-month lease and searching But most of the people lingering
war on waste, fraud and abuse in for a cheaper one. around the bulletin board at the
government agencies, warning civil Last week, Susan Smela got an offer University Housing Information Of-
servants who owe money on student of $120 a month for her room in a fice Friday with notepads in hand
loans that their July paychecks will be house where she paid $190. She hopes were the die-hards who have waited
to find another home for May to for a good deal and will probably keep
Reagan said one in 10 student loans is August for around $60. "I just couldn't waiting until the price is right.
in default, enough money to provide pass it up," Smela said. The subletter "We're gonna be picky," said Helen
"WE CAN, we must and we will go af- was "desperate" and Smela had a Gonzalez, who is looking with a friend.
ter the cheaters who profit from the friend to stay with while she looked The two are willing to spend around
system at the expense of honest citizens around, she said. $60 a month to "live with people we
sylik te yoreeslie b the rules But yesterday, Smela was still like."
likthe presidentvowed b looking. "Hopefully, I'll make some One of the better deals in town is a
"Tens of thousands of federal em- money off this," she said. room in a fraternity house, where the
p"Tyees have beesndsene o n tei Others have avoided the hassle by average cost for a double occupancy
student havebeen Threneginget ontheirlast asking a lower price and accepting room is $65 a month. They aren't the
chance to pay up before finding their the loss. In other words, ads that read most glamorous spots on campus, but
July pay p ber," Reagan war "price negotiable" actually meant most of them are taken.
Jey "Call it enforced repayment ,"I'll take whatever I can get." "It's a good time," said Alpha
ned. cuts iterReagan Generally, the most tenants should Sigma Phi member Darin Wilson.
through cuts itike-home pay. -... denounces waste in government expect to get from sub-tenants is half Wilson said the house is full for the
delinquents through computer mat- Our administration is determined to get the rent, said Norma Barbour of first time this spring. Alpha Sigma
ching of civil service polls and the list of this monster under control," he said. Maize and Blue Properties, which Phi, like at least ten other frater-
loanrecipients. Edwin Dale, one of Reagan's owns eight apartment buildings in nities, rents rooms to males and
IN HIS weekly paid political radio spokesmen, said rooting out the spen- Ann Arbor. Barbour said the number females, members and non-members.
speech, this week from Camp David in ding abuses in financial aid and other of sublets seems to be on par with the Wilson attributed this year's success
Maryland, Reagan recited a litany of areas will result in more efficient use of last few years, but they haven't com- to increased fraternity membership
abuses in federal spending and said federal money on other worthwhile piled any data and even when they do which attracted more of their friends
they are "like an unchecked cancer. projects. itwill only bean estimate, to seek summer housing.
British lawyer discusses american law at conference
By ANDREW ERIKSEN said Bennett, referring to the impact moot court trial involving a Yesterday's program included a
that television has had on the judicial hypothetical malpractice suit. Well- speech by Milwaukee attorney Robert
"The american trial lawyer uses too system. known trial lawyers from around the Habush bn "The Right Way to Adver-
much law-speak," a British atto5rney "Visual projections used in the court country participated in various stages tise on TV." Sample commercials from
told 1,000 American lawyers at Hill room are better in the United States of the trial ranging from jury selection tion Tx s c eras from
Auditorium Friday. than in Britain," he said. to closing arguments. A question and
Citing a case in which an American Bennett explained that the process of answer session followed each stage.
lawyer said a girl was "slightly jury selection is different in the two
pregnant," London attorney Patrick countries. British lawyers are not s
Bennett said, "I like using good old- provided with as much information M an cut at M cD on ald's
fashioned English or American. about prospective jurors as their
Bennett contrasted the English and Aemrican counterparts, Bennett said. One man was injured and another Dooley's on a routine liquor inspection.
American legal systems at the 35th An- Bennett had reservations about the arrested after the first kicked in a plate While one trooper attempted to treat
nual Advocacy Institute sponsored by process because lawyers are allowed to glass window facing the alley at the the injured man, the second man
the Institute of Continuing Legal dismiss a prospective juror withing Maynard Street McDonald's last night. assaulted the officer. The second
Education. The two-day program ex- giving a reason. Witnesses said the two men were trooper subdued and arrested the 20-
plained new developments in law and "The guardian of common law is the walking down the alley when one of year-old Ypsilanti man.
demonstrated new skills to lawyers common jury," explained Bennett. them "just decided" to kick in the win- The injured man was taken to the
from all over the country. "There may be cheaper and quicker dow, which caved in and cut his leg University Hospital for treatment. No
The american court system has ways but there is not safer way ... than "likea guillotine." A witness noticed he further information was available last
realized that we live in an age con- the common jury," said Bennett. was bleeding profusely and sought help night. - Sue Barto
trolled by that "cornucopia of trivia," The two-day program also included a from state troopers who were at
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