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… embassy openings EAST LANSING (UPI)-Arab and Jewish students clashed at Michigan State University yesterday over the historic opening of embassies in Egypt and Israel. An estimated 50 Arab students…

… the countries. A FIST FIGHT between an Arab student and a Zionist student broke out at one point, witnesses said. Sami Esmail, a spokesman for the Arab students who himself has spent time in an Israeli…

… said. The Arab students marched in the bitter cold near the student union building chanting "the people united will never be defeated," while the Zionist students chanted back "Stop and talk peace with…

… shoppers, it's Christmas shopping as usual, despite economic conditions. JERUSALEM (AP) - The Israeli government yesterday expelled to Lebanon two Arab mayors from the oc- cupied West Bank of the Jordan…

… and Palestinians warned the expulsion would "heighten tension." Israeli troops shot and wounded 11 Arab youths in the last two weeks when dispersing Palestinian demonstrations. "The gulf that separates…

… Arabs and Jews will widen," said Bethlehem mayor Elias Freij. Jewish residents of the West Bank welcomed the move. The expulsion ended a seven-month fight by the mayors, who were initially exiled to…

… Lebanon in May,.hours after Arab terrorists attacked Jewish set- tlers in Hebron, killing six. Daily Photos by MAUREEN O'MALLEY SHOPPERS (ABOVE) GET in some early Christmas shopping at Kiddieland on Main…

… See MOSCOW, Page 2 By PAM KRAMER' Some 500 students were rather skeptical of the "new, improved" CRISP yesterday morning when the class registration system was shut down for two hours due to an…

… equipment failure. But by 3:30 p.m., students with 3 p.m. appointments were going through the com- puterized registration, and University Associate Registrar Tom Karunas said he did not anticipate any…

… problems in catching up com- pletely. CRISP workers told studen- ts who had to leave before the system was repaired to leave an envelope with their course requests or to have their Student Verification…

… Forms stamped-allowing them to register later without having to reschedule an appointment. ABOUT 100 students left en- velopes, Karunas said, and CRISP workers estimated about 200 people opted for the…

… Engineering, waited an hour to register for classes. "It really went fast (CRISP) once they opened the system back up," he said. "They're catching up really fast. "THE students who left may hold us up a little…

… when they come back to CRISP next week, but I think we'll be able to handle it," Karunas said. The new computer ter- minals, wired directly to a Data Systems Center central computer, process students…

…-2 a.m. service By STEVE HOOK After a week of meeting with angry North Campus residents and student leaders, University administrators an- nounced yesterday that late night bus service to North Campus…

… Apartments. For two hours after midnight, campus buses will pick up students every 40 minutes. This revised structure meets a proposal that 13 North Campus residen- ts brought to President Harold Shapiro…

… students who don't live on North Campus, as well as those who do. They see yesterday's agreement as a shot in the arm for student activism. "I'M JUBILANT," exclaimed Jim Gold, a resident advisor at Bursley…

…, Syria declare merger From AP and UPI DAMASCUS, Syria-Libya and Syria, separated by 700 miles, proclaimed their merger into a single Arab nation yesterday and vowed to "liberate Palestine" and oppose…

… economic, political and military" merger aimed at uniting Syria's 9 million people with Libya's 3 million in an anti-Israeli front dedicated to "Arab revolution." BUT GIVEN THE failure of previous Arab unity…

… fierce tank and air attacks on the vital Iranian port of Khorramshahr but both sides agreed to accept an offer by Moslem nations to mediate a cease-fire in the five-day-old war. Iranian students aren't in…

… reiteratedIraq's conditions, which include Iranian recognition of Iraqi sovereignty over the entire Shatt al-Arab waterway and return of the Persian Gulf islands of Abu Mousa and the Greater and Lesser Tunbs…

… to "Arab sovereignty." A high Iraqi official in Baghdad said "we refuse any mediation that does not recognize our national sovereignty over the Shatt al- Arab and the borderlands.! hd." TeU.N. Security…

…." PILLARS OF SMOKE rose from the burning Iranian al center of Abadan, and Iraq claimed the city's fall was J to imminent. But reporters who reached the disputed Shatt al-Arab waterway on the Iraqi side…

… and frustrated," Kennedy said. Pakistani Foreign Minister Aga Shahi, above, is the head of a 40 nation Islamic council which will attempt to mediate an end to the five-day conflict. Students examine…

… Union." Masvuk ex- See SOVIET, Page 7 A Northern Michigan University student is worried that his peers might vote for the Tisch tax-cut plan. They believe, he said, that a reduction in property taxes…

… have to pay more in tuition than they gain through property tax cuts, suggested Marie Stevens, a student affairs adminstrator at Western Michigan University. Nystrom's problem and Stevens' response were…

… just part of the ex- change prompted yesterday by discussion of several tax reform plans at a statewide "student leader" conference. Almost 150 student government of- ficials, leaders of campus groups…

…, student newspaper editors, and student affairs administrators gathered for the conference, held yesterday at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti. THEY CAME FROM each of the state's four-year colleges…

… graduate student in Psychology . Can undergraduate student in Horticulture, Plant Science, Landscape Architecture or Natural Resources O a Geology major O a Business Administration major whose interest is…

… banking Oa graduate Dental student in Pedodontics O a woman residing in/Cheever Henderson House O a resident of St. Clair, Michigan O an Engineering student who is a resident of Muskegon, Michigan O a…

… Rouge, Michigan O a member of Tau Beta Phi O a member of Phi Gamma Delta or Delta Gamma Oa member of the inter Cooperative Council of Students O a veteran or descendant of a veteran O a child of a priest…

… ordained in the Episcopal Church canonically resident in Michigan STUDENTS'SEEKING financial aid find 19 categories of restricted funds listed on their application .forms. These are just some of the dozens…

… was told Iraw had "limited objectives" in the war. The Iraqis have said they want the Iranians to renounce sovereignty over part of the Shatt al-Arab and three Per- sian Gulf islands. In Moscow, Soviet…

… against Saudi oil fields or on oil traffic in the Persian Gulf. Iranian officials have made threats of expanding the war if other Arab nations help Iraq. ' alums offer financial ai d to hand picked few…

… AP Photo SOLDIERS ESCORT A wounded Iraqi away from the site of the Iranian attack on a nuclear research center in Iraq. By STEVE HOOK Are you a graduate student of the Protestant faith whose loyalty…

… aside for your borrowing needs,. THEY ARE KNOWN as "restricted funds:" Alumni donations that are reserved for student loans-and are deliberately reserved for students who fall into specific categories…

… science and active on the Michigan Student Assembly. You graduate. You begin making money, and you want to make a contribution to the University. But you do not want your con- tribution to fall into just…

… University distribute its available financial aid resources. By matching qualified students with available restricted funds, the demand for other funds decreases. "'There are a million situations in which…

…-paying Arab businessmen have for two years been investigating a U.S. senator, six congressmen and 13 state officials, of- ficials said yesterday. Sources said the FBI used hidden cameras to film most of the…

… meetings at which undercover agents handed high public officials a total of nearly $1 million in cash. IN RETURN, the public officials allegedly promised to help a supposed wealthy Arab businessman in his…

… handed over an undeter- mined amount of money. E Run for your psyche Does jogging improve one's outlook on life? Possibly, according to some researchers. The Institute of Mental On the inside A student…

… BENET It was early one afternoon in April two years ago when the 23-year-old University graduate student finished her shift at work. She was tired, and when a co-worker she had known for more than a year…

…, including Michigan, he added. "Standardized tests reflect the cultural and economic background of the student and "proceed to perpetuate those inequities," Nader said. "If you want to do well on these tests…

…-you must come from an affluent background." In addition to lacking accuracy in predicting future academic performance, Nader attacked the tests as having deeper, more subtle psychological effects on students…

…. Students who did poorly on the tests "internalized their test scores as a measure of their self-esteem . . . of their self- worth," Nader said. HE ALSO ARGUED that "the tests are given a widly exag- See…

… disputed Shatt al-Arab waterway, where it claimed Iranian artillery fire, destroyed Iraqi oil installations and a gas refinery at al-Faw. Months of sparring along the borders exploded last week after Iraq…

… canceled a 1975 treaty putting 60 miles of the Iran-Iraq border in the middle of the Shatt al-Arab waterway that provides both nations access to the Persian Gulf. Iraq now claims sovereignty over the eastern…

… warplanes struck 11 t Students: Anderson won war of words var Iranian airstrips with a loss of two Soviet-made Mig jets. A top Iranian military official said "several" air bases were attacked, ° and a…

…, ad- ding that nine ambulances rushed to the Tehran's Mehrabad Airport im- See FULL-SCALE, Page 2 Fema-le S. Quad, resident'. jabbed with knife By MAUREEN FLEMING A University student, stabbed Friday…

… lock was stuck-a' common _occurence at South Quad. See S. QUAD, Page 2 John Anderson and Ronald Reagan debated Sunday night, but the movie Midnight Express got most University student's votes. The only…

… THE STUDENTS watching the televised debates, most said they felt This story was written by City Editor Patricia Hagen and Kevin .Tottis with files by Lorenzo Benet, Claudia Centomini, A ida Eisenstat…

… Department's fiscal 1981 budget, but he was drawn into the burning topic of interest on Capitol Hill-allegations that one senator and seven representatives have been implicated in the FBI's "Arab Scam…

…" operation. The investigators posed as rich Arabs with lots of money to distribute in return for immigration and business favors. No indictments have been returned in the case, but the eight names were…

… more jobs for men than for women. -Congressional approval is needed to register women. By JOHN GOYER Mud has begun to fly in the city's Second Ward as two Democrats - incumbent Earl Greene and student…

… will be more productive on council. Stephanopoulos began campaigning in late October saying that Greene has been an ineffective council member and that a student should represent a ward made up mostly of…

… students. SHE GAINED the support of two City Council members, Leslie Morris (D-Second Ward) and Ken Latta (D-First Ward), and the mud began to fly. Elected officials traditionally withhold endorsements…

… student and advisor to Stephanopoulos' campaign. "We've registered God knows how many new voters and we have a huge core of volunteers - and we have them out there working," Abrams said. But, according to…

…. Women between the ages of 25 and-29 currently account for 12.5 per cent of the nation's college population, and, they comprise four per cent of the University student body, according to Census Bureau…

… statistics. Among students pursuing a master's degree, the level of returning women is 17 per cent. Although the figure for University professional students dipped to an average of three per cent, the…

…. McKinney went on to say that ad- mission standards for older students are the same as those used for the traditional undergrad. High school or former college GPA and exposure to a college preparatory…

… three, was cited as a "shining example" of the EONS (Educational Opportunity for Nontraditional Students) program by the program's director, Marilyn McKinney. Through EONS, Waterman was accepted into the…

… Greene edges student challenger Canadians return Trudeau to ower FromAPandUPI TORONTO - Liberal Party leader Pierre Trudeau scored the greatest election comeback in Canadian political history last night…

… Greene edged student challenger Stacy Stephanopoulos for the Democratic nomination in the Second Ward City Council Sprimary last night. Greene won by just 3.7 per cent of the vote, garnering 399 votes to…

… clerk's office, at his victory party at Bacchus Gardens Greene said, "I'm very happy. We worked a strategy which worked with students but didn't appeal only to students. I want to relate to all people…

…. Part of our strategy was to work hard in 2-9 (theBursley Hall precinct). A lot of students voted for us." Greene won in precinct 9 by more than two to one. With 37.6 per cent of the Fifth Ward vote…

… made strong bids to register students and campaign in the University dormitories in the 80 See PRIMARY, Page 5 Lalonde received only 12 votes after a low key campaign. Following her victory last night…

… students out to vote in the Second Ward. "I don't know that anything went wrong," Stephanopoulos said. "We tried to get students to turn out," she added. "WE LOST. but we won. Unfor- tunately, we didn't win…

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… commission is tilted toward the Third World. Two nations represented - Algeria and Syria - form part of the radical Arab bloc and Sri Lanka is a longstanding member of the non- aligned movements. Venezuela is…

… Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski met with 300 student leaders from across the country - in- cluding Michigan Student Assembly (MSA) President Jim Alland - in Washington Friday to discuss the rein- statement of…

… registration as "very mixed." Campaign workers for Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) invited the visiting students to a reception at Kennedy's Washington headquarters, but Alland said he did not attend it. He added…

… ending up at the Federal Building downtown, an ever-expanding roup of high school and University students and area residents waved banners criticizing the draft and promoting pacifism. THE DEMONSTRATION…

… join in protests with students who were grade schoolers when the nation's campuses erupted in opposition to the Vietnam War. "Suddenly this is very personal," said an uniden- tified woman at a protest…

…, support for the president ran high. Sixty-seven per cent of those questioned in a random telephone survey by the Ohio State Univer- sity student government said they backed draft registration. And 63 per…

… suggest reinstituting the draft, however. "IT'S KIND OF a deja vu for me," said the Rev. Richard Dannenfelser, Brown University's assistant chaplain, as about 300 students packed a campus auditorium…

… Iowa Civil Liberties Union told about I50 students at the Drake University campus in Des Moines. By ALISON HIRSCHEL A list of "less than six" finalists for the job of University vice-president for…

… search had been run any differently. The presidential search involved in- dividual faculty, student, and alumni advisory groups working with the Regents, who made the final decision in July, after a ten…

…- addressed the problem as "the un- . Kahane's hardline speech willingness of Arabs to recognize a 1st mild protests against his Jewish state in any size or form." Yet, ifter a bizarre mcident in Kahane said he…

… dispute in Israel. Kahane said that the man who had threatened to Arabs already living in all those areas , possibly Nazis, but gave no could continue living there if they f his identity or whether he…

… unsympathetic to students who wait in freezing weather at the Washtenaw bus stop. Math Prof. Morton Brown noted, "Every time I go by, I see a field of red noses waiting for the bus." Sniff, sniff. QI work of…

… Union message. In no time, students were out on the Diag, chanting timeworn slogans such as "Hell no, we won't go." nuclear war) are not recognized by federal law, the questionnaire said.-The questions…

….S. warns against hostage punishment MSA may dole out $15,0001 to revamp flishb owl' By MITCH STUART Fifteen thousand dollars in student funds - taken from Michigan Student Assembly fee assessments - may be…

… student funds at tonight's meeting. The proposed changes include a permanent coffee bar and a seating area in the Southeast corner of the Fishbowl. President and Chief Financial Officer James Brinkerhoff…

… support in Egypt's battle to liberate occupied Arab lands from Israel. The statement added that hospitality and loyalty are historic Egyptian traits. Sadat said the shah would settle here permanently. White…

… surgery to remove his cancerous spleen, but this was simply a desire "not to change things" rather than fear that the exiled monarch's presence will further isolate Egypt from other Arab countries or…

… become much harder to find. "Students ought to have it together by mid-April, before exams," she added, "because it's going to take much more See RENTAL, Page :1 traveling near the speed of light…

… disputed Shatt al- Arab waterway. In an interview at the foreign minister, Hammadi made no mention of a 1975 Algiers agreement that set borders along the Shatt al-Arab until abrogated by President Saddam…

… she started to keep a tally on a sheet of paper. The tally bore out her suspicions. Students were constan- tly interrupting each other during their arguments, but men were interrupting women for…

… the Association of American Colleges, outlined her evaluation of the status of women in academia during a University conference on the problems faced by women graduate students. The conference…

… student faces special problems while ad- justing to life at the University. Margaret Grisby, now a professor at Howard University in Washington, was one of the few blck students living in a University dor…

… place to live in a house off campus. HERB MARTIN, a 1978 graduate who is not in a clinical psychology graduate program, said the black experience at the University may be different from a white student…

…. Tension between the two Arab neigh- bors.built up as a result of their conflic- ting positions on the Iran-Iraq war and Syrian charges that Jordan was sup- porting Islamic fundamentalists trying to…

…<.... v.. .. w.. .... ..... ..- ...<. .,s '.e'a{i ....> M.-IM SAID takes top LSA-SG BY CHARLES THOMSON Sue Porter and Margaret Talmers of Porter Talmers elected the Student Alliance for Institutional…

… Development won by more than a two- " " to-one margin the presidency and vice- in highest turnout ever presidency of the LSA Student Gover- neti lcin edls ek nment in elections held last week. Turnout for the…

… election was the for the council were elected. One of the SAID, student input into budget cutting heaviest in LSA-SG history. Of the more independents, Mark Bonine, received decisions. than 2,300 ballots…

… approximately 16 per- Porter attributed her victory to SAID that she saw a value in the diversity of cent of the 13,000-plus member LSA party campaigning and organization. views which she thinks will be student…

… the 1,500 valid ballots. was really solid." Student Alliance for Better Represen- BESIDES CAPTURING the THE SAID campaign emphasized tation, said he thought the new counci: executive positions on the…

… student student involvement in future ad- members would work well together anc } government, SAID candidates ministrative budget-cutting decisions, said the views of the council members dominated the…

… candidates who lost were SABRE candidates. Yesterday Adams dropped a lawsuit he had filed with the Michigan Student Assembly Central Student Judiciary in which he claimed that the LSA-SG elec- tion code had…

… association spokesman said. Students with previous archeological experience have been invited to join an international team on a dig of the impor- tant medieval city of Northhampton and the Anglo-Saxon cemetery…

… in Norfolk. Experienced volunteers, the spokesperson added, will receive free room and board for their efforts. Interested students can contact the society at 35 screaming Blue zealots. "Tradition…

… orientation programs. "WE ARE NOT doing this, as a public relations gimmick," explained University Director of Orien- tation Don Perigo. "We want to make the parent a better support system for the student…

… had deposited his first check from the Libyans, the president's AP Photo brother denied to him having received any money from the Arab nation. SEN. BIRCH BAYH (D-Ind.), chairman of a special…

… recently declared they will escalate "the armed struggle" against Israel because of the recent car-bomb assassination attem- pts that maimed two Arab mayors of the occupied West Bank. An Israeli government…

… eastern half of Jerusalem and its settlements on occupied Arab lands captured in the 1967 Middle East War. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on Sunday denounced the European proposal as "a surrender to…

… (tell a person to do a specific thing)," Roth added, "because it's-bad counseling." In contrast to CARD, however, the U.S. Student Association announced yesterday it would call on those required to…

… Michigan (PIRGIM) is currently attempting to educate students about conscientious objection Besides offering handbills and pamphlets, PIRGIM hands out cards for students to fill out and return. PIRGIM then…

… files the cards as an indication of the student's anti-war belief, and sends copies to the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors in Philadelphia for it to file as well. "We've given out about 500…

… constant at 10.5 per cent, Ann Arbor campus minority enrollment decreased from 10.4 per cent to 10.3 per cent. THE REPORT indicated that minority attrition rates may be improving. Of the black students who…

… whileAsian American and white rates were 31.3 and 29 per cent respectively. For freshpersons who entered a year later, in 1976, the figures look somewhat brighter. Students who entered in 1976 (and will…

… expected that some of the students who entered in 1976 will still withdraw, these attrition rates are likely to be higher when computed after the class has graduated. But since fewer students drop out in…

… members already implicated. Civiletti also defended the FBI again- st suggestions of entrapment in its in- vestigative methods, which involved use of agents posing as representatives of Arab investors…

…." But despite student disappointment, some people on campus are very happy about the lack of snow and the decline in traying. University food supervisors and managers in the residence halls say the…

… is wor- se off than Attenborough believes, said Viewpoint will be conducting surveys of students over the next few months to determine what kind of lecture series, if any, they would attend. Viewpoint…

… investigating the debris for clues the guards said. Daily Photo by PAUL ENGSTROM Scholarly sculpture Art student Chris Ramsay poses next to his term project yesterday outside Auditorium D in Angell Hall. The…

… Israel desires to live in peace with Arab and Palestinian neigh- bors, "We shall reserve security. "IT IS INDEED a prerequisite to keep the peace in the mid-east. Our neighbor should have autonomy," Begin…

… "peace, real peace for Jew and Arab alike." He also made an appeal to American Jews to "let the voice of the Jewish community in the U.S. raise its mighty voice again ... to make an appeal to the Soviet…

… confusing class announcement blasting the pass/fail grading system, more than 1,700 first- and second-year Spanish students will have an extra two days to decide if they want to take their language courses…

… pass/fail. The confusion arose after Spanish teaching assistants read an announcement in class earlier this week that discouraged students from selec- ting the P/F grading format. THE OFFICIAL LSA…

… som of the course. P or an F, unlike stan no effect on a student's simply determines whet] ted for the class. pass/falcot i system is translated LSA REQUIRES either two years of college nnouncement…

… said, "If language courses or four years of high school k, you must maintain a language classes if a student wishes to graduate 1 times." with a B.S. or A.B. degree. caused the majority of If a student…

… throughout Wolfe outlined several reasons for his op- for a poor performance position to the pass /fail system: " "The pass/fail students tend to be non- nent will be read in the contributors to the class…

… cap- tured the major Iranian border town of Qasr-e-Shirin, 300 miles to the north. The Iraqi invaders also surrounded the city of Abadan and the port city of Khorramshahr, across the disputed Shatt al-Arab…

… organization, was formed in 1975 by a diverse assortment of members including students, doctors, lawyers, and engineers. L5 is the name of a point in space. The "L" refers to Lagrange, a 16th century…

… registration F YOU HEAR a knock on your door during the next few days, it could be just someone hoping to sign you up-to vote. Students from various organizations around campus, such as the Michigan Students for…

… Anderson campaign and the Michigan Student Assembly, have formed a voter registration drive. Today's volunteers will be stationed at the Fishbowl from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and near Auditorium A in Angell…

…. Occasionally, however, a par- ticular case sheds light on the mysterious tenure procedure. Students who believe a professor should have been awarded tenure may stage protests and demand in- vestigations, or the…

… Beirut, Lebanon, said his country's goals were: redefinition of part of the Iran-Iraq border; protection of the Arabic- speaking minority in southern Iran; and the return to Arab sovereignty of the islands…