Monday Multiplying morning clouds will produce scattered thunder showers this afternoon. High in The State News the mid 80s. Tonight will he humid and warm, low in the VOLUME 73 NUMBER 112 MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN 48824 'IP board approves tuition hike for fall By DENNIS PETROSKEY State News Staff Writer Harden warned that a downturn in the A tuition increase of about $100 per student for the upcoming Michigan economy could cause a 1 to 1-and- academic year was approved Friday by the MSU Board of one-half percent cut in moneys given to Trustees. The increase was part of the recommended budget guidelines MSU, saying it would be a "near catastro¬ approved by the board. phe" for the administration. The recommendations for a $2 per credit increase for freshmen and sophomores and an additional $2.50 per credit for juniors and higher'than previous years. seniors. However, he said this year's increased appropriations probably Freshmen and sophomores carrying an average credit load next will not fare as well against inflation as lesser increases did in the year will pay about $1,200 and juniors and seniors $1,300. past two years. President Edgar L. Harden said there is an apparent trend to GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL students will have a $3 direct more of the state's budget toward private schools and social per credit increase in tuition next year. services. The budget guidelines also called for a 7 percent increase in the He also warned that a downturn in the Michigan economy could base budget for faculty salaries. All faculty are to receive a 3 cause a 1 to 1-and-one-half percent cut in moneys given to MSU, percent salary increase, with merit raises to be given at the discretion of the deans, according to the approved guidelines. saying it would be a "near catastrophe" for the administration. Student wage rates were also increased effective Sept. 10, HARDEN ALSO SAID he regretted the current situation in which will hike the minimum wage for students to $3.10 per hour. which students and parents pay 30 percent of the cost of education The new wage rate meets the federal minimum wage which will go at MSU. The University has always maintained a student should into effect Jan. 1, 1980. pay only between 22 and 24 percent of the cost of tuition, he said. Approval of the budget guidelines followed a presentation to the Tuition rates have increased 91 percent in the last eight years, board Thursday by Roger E. Wilkinson, vice president of business and finance, and Provost Clarence L. Winder. Harden said, and they are going to prevent many young people TOWNSHIP DECLARES PETITIONS INVALID from being able to afford higher education. Wilkinson said MSU's appropriation from the state Legislature failed to keep pace with the rate of inflation for the third Norman Abeles, spokesperson for the faculty affairs committee, told the trustees Thursday night that faculty members believe the Annexation battle consecutive year. begins 7 percent increase for faculty salaries is "insufficient" given the inflation rate and MSU's already low salary standing in HEARING THIS, TRUSTEE Aubrey Radcliffe, R-East Lansing, said, "I'm confused. I hear these rumors about us doing so well at comparison with other Big Ten Universities. The faculty scaled down their initial demands after hearing of the Legislature, but all we are really doing is just maintaining." Wilkinson conceded that Radcliffe's statement might be the appropriation from the Legislature, he said, but still wanted a By DEBBIE CREEMERS Grebner said, adding that if there was, registered elector has moved away, the (continued on page 12) State News Staff Writer many politicians would be in trouble. clerk must notify the elector through mail accurate, but said state appropriations in the last three years are Over 600 letters addressed to persons at his or her registered address, stating the Grebner and his attorney, Richard Kin who signed petitions seeking an election to kade, said the State Boundary Commission source of the information. If the elector annex parts of Meridian Township to East is "not interested" in the petitions. does not ask for continuation of registration Lansing were mailed to empty MSU Kinkade said he has been told repeatedly within 30 days it can be cancelled. Hiring practices attacked residence halls Thursday. The letters, which Meridian Township Clerk Virginia White said were sent out to determine "if they really lived there," were sent to people who signed petitions in East by a Boundary Commissioner that the issue is not in the commission's jurisdiction. Grebner said he letters sent out. was disturbed about the "If someone goes to Europe for the summer, you don't cancel their voter registration," Grebner said. "It's interest¬ ing that they want students so much that they're willing to strip them of their rights Akers, North Hubbard and parts of South THE STATE LAW states that upon to keep them." by MSU board member By R.W. ROBINSON in the executive management level as support of his claim. Hubbard, East and West Holmes, McDonel and East Owen halls during spring term. Ingham Grebner County accused Commissioner Mark township officials of attempting to remove those voters from receipt of reliable information that a icontinued on page 12) only seven are Iraqi authorities State News Staff Writer Out of 30 positions considered executive level, registration rolls. held by white women and two by black men. The spirit of affirmative action is being violated by the hiring "If Meridian Township is proposing to practices used for filling University executive management level Radcliffe said inclusion of the two black men in the count was remove from voter rolls everyone who positions, Trustee Aubrey Radcliffe, R-East Lansing, said Friday. misleading because neither will be here in September. signed petitions, they are playing with fire Executive management level positions include assistants to the James B. Hamilton, assistant provost, will take a one-year leave and are going to get burned," he said. does not know whether he will president, vice presidents, assistants to the vice president, assistant vice presidents and consultants to the president. "There is not a uniformity of procedure in filling these beginning Sept. 1, and said he return to his position in charge of special programs. HAMILTON SAID HIS leave has absolutely nothing to do with Grebner added that he found it "fascinating that township officials who cried a few- weeks ago that those students were so crush attempted positions," Radcliffe said at the board's affirmative action important to them are now trying to say committee meeting. the $3.5 million lawsuit filed against the University by Christine they are not eligible to sign petitions." Lack of a specific procedure allows racism and the "buddy Wilson, the former director of the Office of Supportive Services. Meridian Township sent a letter to the coup by rebels system" to run rampant throughout the "top brass" of the Lloyd M. Cofer, former assistant to the prsident, will not return State Boundary Commission last week, due to recent retirement. University, he said. charging that the petitions were illegal and Radcliffe said the University's inclusion of these two names on asking the commission to rule on the RADCLIFFE CITED THE low number of minorities and women the list shows that there is a lack of commitment to affirmative annexation attempt, Ingham County at¬ action by those at the top of the administra- torney Peter Cohl will issue an opinion on By ALY MAHMOUD the request Tuesday. Associated Press Writer University Affirmative Action Officer BEIRUT, Lebanon — Iraqi authorities executed 34 plotters, jailed 250 and were hunting 6U' assistant provost Lou Anna Simon, said "it's not fair to say that because there is an absence of minorities at these levels that the white THE TOWNSHIP CLAIMED the an nexation method used by Grebner was invalid. Township attorney David Vander- down others after crushing an attempted coup allegedly aimed at aligning Iraq with the U.S.-sponsored Mideast peace process, according to reports reaching Beirut Sunday. The official Iraqi News Agency said the alleged plot to topple President Saddam Hussein males at this level don't have a commitment was masterminded by five members of the country's ruling Revolutionary Command Haagen said the law Grebner followed to affirmative action." Council. All were arrested, it said. allows petitions to be filed with a county appointment criticized IT MUST BE understood that those at this level serve at the "pleasure of the clerk, but offers no guidelines for the clerk to determine if petitions are valid. The township also said Grebner paid The IN A report said an unnamed would have put Iraq in the American "foreign quarter" inspired the coup attempt, which "chariot." A Kuwaiti newspaper charged Egypt was president," she said. petitioners for their work, which it cited as behind it. But some diplomats here specu¬ By DENNIS PETROSKEY State News Staff Writer executive level positions without a black. Radcliffe said Banks' appointment would Simon also said she understood Radcliffe's concerns about affirmative action and said a violation of a 1943-44 state attorney general's opinion. The letter also cited lated the coup bid was actually aimed at halting Iraq's drift toward the West under Arts center Newly-appointed MSU assistant provost set a poor example for the University's Hussein. commitment to improving its record of her comments were not meant "to minimize several "failures" associated with existing Robert F. Banks was criticized at the Board his concern." State Boundary Commission laws and said of Trustee's meeting Friday for a poor track record in hiring blacks and minorities as dean of James Madison College. hiring and promoting minorities and He said he was concerned about the wo- Radcliffe then questioned Simon about why Dr. Ralph W. Bonner is no longer Meridian was not correctly identified on petitions as the "Charter Township of sa THE KUWAITI NEW SPAPER said 34 supporters of the Al-Siyas five chief naming gets Trustee board "violating the spirit of our commit¬ considered an executive level employee. Meridian." conspirators were executed in the Iraqi Aubrey Radcliffe, R East Lan¬ sing, opposed the appointment of Banks because no one on the staff of 28 persons he ment to affirmative action." Fellow Boardmember Jack Stack, R-Al- Bonner was assistant vice president and director of the Department of Human Grebner said township officials were grasping at straws. capital of Baghdad last Wednesday. It said these included ranking members of Iraq's heavy debate headed was a minority or black. ma, accused Radcliffe of using "McCarthy- He said the 641 signatures collected were ruling Baath Socialist Party and army Relations. He now serves director of that officers. By DENNIS PETROSKEY ite tactics" to prevent the selection 189 over the requirement, and that the 1978 Radcliffe questioned how the administra¬ of office. The authoritative Beirut newspaper An State News Staff Writer Banks as provost. law he used states the county clerk must Nahar said Hussein, who replaced ailing The proposed naming of the recital hall in Stack rebuked Radcliffe for failing to Trustee John Bruff, D Fraser, chairper validate the petitions. He called the 1943 Presiden Ahmed Hassan el-Bakr two weeks the State Center for the Performing Arts in son of the board, said "we're the ones that opinion "antique." present evidence to support his criticism of honor of Margaret Piwart McGoff met with the make up of the top-level administrative made the change, not Lou (Anna Simon). "There is nothing in Michigan law ago, "got wind of the plot in good time to We took Harden's decision." forbidding the payment of circulators," crush it, but he chose to give the plotters disapproval from three speakers at the structure at MSU and suggested he act time to incriminate themselves fully." Board of Trustees meeting Friday. more responsibly in the future. A1 Nahar said an unnamed Arab power The speakers said naming the hall in was behind the coup bid. It identified the honor of McGoff, wife of Panax newspaper LOU ANNA SIMON, assistant to the five alleged ringleaders as Deputy Premier publisher John McGoff, would contradict president for affirmative action, had earlier Adnan Hussein al-Hamdani, Baath labor the University's stand toward the govern pointed out that top level executive man¬ agement positions have a low turnover rate. Trustees give approval official Mohammad Ayesh, ranking Council member Ghanem Abdul-Jalil, Education ment of South Africa. Gary Bennett, spokesperson for the However, she also said there is no formal South African Liberation Committee, said Minister Mohammed Mahjoub and former policy on including affirmative action cri¬ Council Secretary-General Mohey Abdul- John McGoff was a "propagandist" for the teria in the selection of persons to fill these positions. to vice presidential post Hussein Mashadi. The five will be arraigned before a South African government. He cited an alleged $11 million loan received by McGoff Banks' appointment was approved by a revolutionary tribunal of six judges, An from South African officials and attempts 5-3 vote by the board. Radcliffe, Michael Nahar said. bv McGoff to purchase the Washington Star Smydra, D East Lansing, and Blanche Kenneth W. Thompson, currently vice president of business and finance under Cecil Mackey at Texas Tech University, was approved as MSU vice president of operations The reports, which said a total of 250 newspaper as support for this statement. Martin, D-East Lansing, all opposed the appointment. by the Board of Trustees Friday. persons had been arrested, could not be otherwise confirmed. Even major develop "I VIOLENTLY DISAGREE with Smydra said he has grown tired of Mackey, who will take over as president of MSU Aug. 4, recommended to the board that it accept Thompson's appointment and create the new position. mentsin Iraq's secrecy shrouded leadership naming the hall after a McGoff," he said. Radcliffe's repeated disapproval of the lack are often difficult to verify. "No building should be named for a member of minorities in University positions, but Thompson, 37, will receive $58,000 per year beginning Sept. 1 and be involved in of the McGoff admitted that based on the number of policy making in the areas of planning and finance, Mackey said. family." THE INA REPORT late Saturday, Rennett volunteered the name of Steven women and minorities in top positions, Mackey also said Thompson will help him develop a new organizational structure tion could justify the appointment of a Radcliffe had a right to be concerned. during the coming months. Mackey said he plans to present proposals for changes in quoting a Council communique, said: "The Biko as more appropriate for the recital the administrative organization later this fall. plotters received funds from a foreign hall, "if the University wants to name the white male as assistant provost for aca hall after someone related with South demic personnel, especially following a SMYDRA SAID HE could not support Thompson has worked with Mackey at three previous universities: Florida State quarter and funneled instructions from it... Africa." report earlier in the day that showed only the appointment of another white male into University, the University of South Florida and Texas Tech. The plot was hatched to place.Iraq in the chariot of the American led surrender plan Biko, a leader in the black liberation two of the 30 top executive management a top administrative position, given the Thompson received a bachelor's degree in linguistics from Capitol University in which serves the interests of Israeli Zionism movement in South Africa, was allegedly level positions at MSU are held by blacks. current distribution of minorities and Columbus, Ohio, and a master's degree in education administration from the University women in those jobs. of South Florida. and the forces of darkness." beaten to death while in prison in Pretoria BOTH OF THESE administrators will be But not all Arab diplomatic sources here in the fall of 1977. Provost Clarence L. Winder defended his Icontinued on page 12) 'continued on page 12* leaving shortly, he said, leaving top . (continued on page 12) 2 Michigan Stote News, East Lansing, Michigan Monday, July 30. 1979 BASQUE OF TERROR' WAR mPUCATED Bomb blasts kill five, injure 113 Bv MIGUEL FERNANDEZ AMONG THE WOUNDED An anonymous caller told a road stations and airport termi¬ In the northern Basque area, ; Associated Press Writer were at least seven foreigners, Spanish news agency that the nal they were unable to warn terrorists shot and killed two MADRID, Spain including two Americans, the bombs were planted at all three all of the hundreds of travelers national police officers Satur ; — Bomb blasts at two Madrid railroad officials said. They identified sites by the Basque guerrilla in time. day in Bilbao and a paramili stations and the Madrid airport the Americans only as Eugene group ETA. Police said the call tary civil guard officer Sunday • and Theresa de Nattei and said received about 30 minutes Train service was stopped near San Sebastian. Three ' Sunday killed four persons and was wounded at least 113 others in they were injured at the airport before the bombs went off, and for 6-and one-half hours at the highway patrol officers were 1 railroad stations but flights at shot and wounded Sunday near ! FoCUSiWOHLD the war of terror being waged by Basque separatists, officials as they were waiting to board a flight to San Francisco. although police began evacu¬ ating passengers from the rail¬ Barajas were not suspended. Pamplona. reported. Three police officers also slain in weekend attacks Kurdish guerrillas step fight were MAHABAD, Iran (AP) — Kurdish up autonomy villages throughout Iranian Kurdistan. by snipers in the northern Basque provinces. Jackson urges Carter to oppose An explosion at the Atocha guerrillas who have stepped up their war Qazi's claim of independence" appar¬ against troops of the revolutionary government in recent days appear to ently leads the government to doubt the Kurds are willing to settle for autonomy railroad station in the heart of Madrid killed two persons and drove scores of bloodied and U.S. investment in South Africa have control of hundreds of square instead of secession. choking passengers from the miles of the breathtakingly beautiful In the past week, a total of 30 building just three blocks from SOWETO, South Africa (AP) Roman Catholic Church in BUT ON SUNDAY, after ing petroleum from coal — a mountain region of northwest Iran. government soldiers and Kurdish guerril¬ the Prado Museum, city offi — American civil rights activist Soweto, a huge black township visiting areas throughout the method developed under this We've got independence, but we are las have been killed and scores of cials said. Jesse Jackson led thousands of outside Johannesburg, to hear country, he said, "We shall country's synthetic-fuel pro¬ willing to compromise and settle for wounded near the town of Marivan, 90 They reported one person, a cheering South Africans in the Rev. Jackson's words of gram SASOL. South Africa is a appeal to President Carter to, miles south of here, reports said. Danish woman, was killed in black power chants Sunday and support for the black cause in No. 1, do not allow the Ameri leader in the field. autonomy within post-revolutionary Marivan's 30,000 residents evacuated the the blast at the Chamartin told them he would urge Presi South Africa. Jackson said he spoke with Iran," said Amir Qazi, one of the leaders can government to engage in railroad station and one person dent Carter to oppose U.S. "Amandla!" "Power!" — Carter about South Africa of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. town to protest the arrival of government — any relationship with this The armed Pesh Merga guerrillas are security forces and set up tent cities on perished in the explosion at investment in this white shouted the man testing the government on SASOL or any shortly before his visit here and the outskirts. Barajas International Airport. minority-dominated land. microphone. The building shook other project until there are had been in touch with Carter the only authority in many towns and All three bombs went off be A crowd of nearly 4,000 with the reply. human rights for our people." aides last week. Jackson was tween 1 and 1:15 p.m. one of those who took part in packed into Regina Mundi The United States may have WHEN JACKSON TOOK an interest in buying South Carter's "domestic summit" at 'Soviet oil production to dip' — congress member the stage, he again and again led the crowd in shouting African technology for produc¬ Camp David earlier this month. WASHINGTON lieves Soviet oil (AP) — The CIA be¬ production will begin to couraged gloating dicament." over Moscow's pre¬ Hearings on DC-10 black-power slogans — "I Am Somebody!" — and was mobbed by blacks who carried him from TEST I MOW RESUMES TODAY drop next and, within three years, This also means a cut in worldwide the church on their shoulders. year crash begin today They put him the roof of Bundy awaits fate will turn Moscow from an oil exporter fuel supplies — which in turn means on a oil upward pressure on prices," he car, where he led them again in into an importer, a Wisconsin more said. clenched-fist salutes. congress member said Sunday. CHICAGO (API — Under a cloud of reports that some DC-lOs We may be seeing the peak Aspin said the CIA thinks Soviet having operational problems after returning to the skies, the Jackson, former adviser to MIAMI (AP) — His lawyer says Theodore Bundy has a mental of Soviet are National Transportation Safety Board begins hearings today to the late Rev. Martin Luther disorder. A psychiatrist says it's a problem with authority figures. oil production right now," said Rep, Les production could plummet by one-third in the next six years. help determine the cause of America's worst air disaster. King Jr., is on a tour of South Bundy says he has passed into "the realm of science fiction." Aspin, D-Wis. Soviet production hit a Africa that has stirred record high of 11.7 million barrels a day TheCIA says that at the very best, the All 138 U.S.-registered DC-lOs were grounded after the crash of hostility No fiction is the jury that will consider this week whether to in April and slipped to 11.3 million barrels Russians will be producing 10 million an American Airlines wide-bodied jet May 25 that killed 273 among many of the country's recommend Bundv's death for bludgeoning and strangling two persons shortly after takeoff from O'Hare International Airport. whites. Florida State University sorority sisters. Testimony in a a day in May. barrels a day in 1985, but if luck isn't with When he arrived 10 days ago, The hearings, expected to last about two weeks, also come after pre-sentencing hearing resumes today. But the chairperson of the House them, production of only 8 million is very a court controversy over who should be allowed to testify about he said he would tour South Much has been written about the 32-year-old Bundy, whose intelligence oversight subcommittee dis¬ likely," the Wisconsin Democrat said. the crash. More than 50 witnesses are scheduled to appear before Africa "with an open mind" and boyish looks belie the record of a man who was convicted of a the board in suburban Rosemont. said he had not decided kidnapping, two slayings and three savage beatings and is charged On Thursday, a federal judge refused to order the board to open whether to oppose American in two more deaths. the hearings to aeronautical experts hired by relatives of the investments here. Dr. Emmanuel Tanay, a Detroit psychiatrist who examined Internal struggles divide Italy's Red Brigade vicitms who were aboard American Airlines Flight 191 Bundy, said the former law student had a "pathological when it crashed. need to defy authority. This ROME (AP) — Italy's Red Brigades letter containing the dissidents' charges. supplies him thrills." terrorist a bitter underground is showing signs of internal struggle as Brigade dissidents say the leaders of the urban to Police sources say they have no reason doubt the authenticity of the docu¬ Board tery spokesperson Ed Slat also said Thursday that Rafshoon s influence on decline "In a certain sense, Bundy is the producer of a play Mr. statements already had been which attempts to show that ment, which is said to have been WASHINGTON (API He may guerrilla group are "Stalinists" who have taken from more than 100 — After more than a have been joking, as he often does various authority figures can be circulated for debate in clandestine cells President Carter's chief image in separated from the rest of the move¬ eyewitnesses to the crash, add year as private. manipulated, set against each of the terrorist movement for some surgeon, Gerald Rafshoon's influence is ment." ing that the panel had no plans But it is clear that Rafshoon is not the other and placed in a position of months before dissidents leaked it to the declining and his impact is difficult to detect. They also claim the leadership mis¬ to call them to testify in person. internal conflict. The New York-born dominant figure on the staff he was once handled the newspaper. advertising man, soon made out to be. "Mr. Bundy does not have the kidnapping and murder of to depart the White House staff, apparently former Premier Aldo Moro last year. According to the document, the dissi¬ The much-debated cause of has not lived up to his depicted role of a capacity to recognize that the When Carter first summoned his former The split became public knowledge last dents, like their leaders, accept the the crash has never been for price of this thriller might be his powerful backstage manipulator. campaign advertising man to the White own life," Tanay said. week when the leftist Rome newspaper necessity of armed struggle" but they mally determined by authori¬ "The president's image is suffering. You're House staff, the president's rating in the polls Lotta Continua — Continuing Struggle — differ sharply with the leadership over ties. The evidence at the hear the president's image man. How come?" stood at the lowest point of his presidency. During pre-trial hearings, a ings will be weighed by the Tallahassee police officer testi¬ received and published the 20-page tactics. Rafshoon was asked at an off-the-record After more than 12 months of what one board for about three months fied that Bundy told him after session with Senate press secretaries last news columnist likes to call "Rafshoonery," before it makes a final decision week. his capture last year in Pensa- the president is five points lower in the on the "probable cause"of the cola that he "felt like a vam¬ "I've done a bad job," he said. Associated Press-NBC News poll. air disaster. pire." 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Most said police were notified of the incident at 1:40 p.m. Several state police unitY victims gled. were stabbed, beaten or stran¬ Red Cross the maximum is counting were sent to security Overcrowding has been a problem at prison in this community less than 20 the prison, and recently, a group of miles southwest of Boston. inmates filed suit protesting conditions. Richards said the hostages were held in cellblock No. 9. being The suit was thrown out of court earlier this month. on you. Michigan State News. East Lonsing, Michigan Monday July 30, 1979 3 Ingham County approves establishment of an EDC to aid business growth A county Economic Development Corp., EDC because it would promote construction of Liaison for Inter Neighborhood Coopera which can assist businesses in obtaining of "fast food" restaurants which will "scar tion, said his organization opposed the EDC low interest loans for expansion or develop the enviornment." because of shrinking "open spaces." ment, has been approved by the Ingham "1 don't find businesses like that attrac The tive or productive, nor do the people I original idea behind the EDC, Dersch County Board of Commissioners. said, was to encourage businesses to move The EDC includes the entire county represent," he said. back into the cities as part of urban except Lansing, Mason and Delhi Town Disagreeing with Thomas, Hoisington renewal. ship, which each have one of their own. said businesses must be encouraged to Businesses could pay "considerably less" expand in order to keep money in the The idea has backfired, however, because interest on loans because they would be county. business is being encouraged to move into borrowing money through the county said Eckhart Dersch, MSU associate profes "semi rural" areas such as Meridian Commissioner Steven L. Thomas, sor of resource development and president Township, he said. R-Okemos. Loans would have to be approved by the local municipality involved, the Board of Commissioners and the EDC Board of Directors, said Commissioner Tom Hoisington, D Lansing. Thomas, citing has occurred in Meridian the development which Township, said he Shapiro to take post was opposed to the establishment of an as U-M's president Groups enforce health act By The State News sue to and United Press International One of the University of Michigan's own administrators was appointed president of the school Friday, ending a 10-month nationwide search. includes the Nursing Home Act — is also available to the department, Grams said. Harold Shapiro, current vice president for academic affairs at U-M, will become By JAMES KATES State News Staff Writer "The claim of insufficient staff or money provides no legal basis for disregarding the president of the state's oldest public university on Jan. 1, 1980. requirements of state law," Grams said. Shapiro, 43, is nationally known for his research and writing in the fields of economic Charging the state Department of Public Health with a "dereliction of duty," several Reizen said Grams' comments "revealed his naivete." forecasting, public policy analysis and econometrics. He will be the university's 10th public advocacy groups Friday announced a suit to force implementation of the Nursing Home Reform Act of 1978. "He left out one vital fact," Reizen said. "That is that the Legislature has not funded president since 1817. thin dime for the program." The suit requires the department and its director, Dr. Maurice Reizen, to make the one A graduate of Princeton University, Shapiro will receive a salary of $75,000 a year, The supplemental appropriations bill, expected to be signed by the governor this week, necessary transfer of funds and personnel to enforce the act. The act is designed to assure making him and incoming MSU President Cecil Mackey the highest paid public officials should provide "at least a start" toward implementing the bill, Reizen said. About competent care, guarantee personal rights and protection against arbitrary transfers and in Michigan. $630,000 has been appropriated for the program for the coming fiscal year. Robert E. Nederlander, chairperson of the U-M Board of Regent's presidential discharges for Michigan's nursing home patients. Milton H. Grams, a board member of the Lansing chapter of Citizens for Better Care, selection committee, said 240 applications were reviewed before the choice was made. called the department's inaction "blatantly unlawful." BI T THE GROUPS' hopes that the money could be obtained through other sources is unrealistic, Reizen said. "We felt he was the most qualified of all of the people we interviewed," Nederlander "Such disregard for the people of the state of Michigan and the decisions of our elected "Transfers from one line item to another are frowned upon by the Legislature," he said. said. "He is the most qualified man in the country." representatives cannot go unchallenged," Grams said. Gov. William G. Milliken had promised sufficient funds for speedy implementation of "I would ask Mr. Grams if he wanted us to pull the money from programs for crippled Shapiro succeeds Robben W. Fleming, who announced his retirement Dec. 14,1978 to children, or programs for environmental quality. become head of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in Washington. Fleming, who the act after signing it last November, Grams said. Reizen, citing a lack of funds and "It seems they're shooting at the wrong target." became U-M president on Jan. 1,1968, officially ended his duties on Jan. 2, 1979. Since personnel, has not put the law into action. then, Allan F. Smith, U-M law professor and former law school dean, has been serving as Among charges leveled by the groups were that Reizen had failed to: • appoint a Nursing Home Task Force as required by the law; interim president. GRAMS SAID REIZEN had told the advocacy groups he would not take action on the law until passage of the supplemental appropriations bill providing additional state • act upon the groups' requests to authorize access to nursing home facilities: SHAPIRO HAS BEEN at U-M for 15 years. He joined the faculty in 1964 moneys for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30. • prescribe content for written contracts as well as complaint procedures for nursing as an home patients; and assistant professor of economics before becoming chairperson of the economics "That excuse doesn't wash," Grams said. "A supplemental appropriation was only one of the alternatives available to the department." • instruct the department to hold public hearings on proposed rules under the law. department. He has been vice president for academic affairs since 1976. Reizen could have sought authorization to transfer funds for enactment of the law, or Reizen said he would take steps to put the law into action as soon as funding is Shapiro said he considers higher education to be in a transitional state. could have transferred up to 20 employees under provisions of the department's budget available. "The immediate years ahead will certainly require some innovative adaptation to the bill, Grams said. "All of these steps depend on the existence of the necessary personnel in the changing environment in higher education, but I am confident that our faculty will make A $1.2 million appropriation for implementation of the Public Health Code — which department." he said. "Currently, they don't exist." whatever transition is necessary without losing sight of our long-standing commitment to excellence," Shapiro said. The search for a new president began in September of 1978 when Fleming announced COUNCIL HAS ONE MORE POSITION TO FILL his plans to take the Washington post. The regents reportedly met last Monday night and selected Shapiro from among four other top candidates. U-M is the third major state-supported university to name a new president within the Fifth nominee to utility board considered last few months. Besides MSU, Eastern Michigan University has also named a this year. Lansing City Council will get another four nominees have been rejected by the council's Committee of the Whole on of work for the City of Lansing, Lang¬ chance to fill a vacant Board of Water and council. Thursday, said he hoped he could "put 35 worthy said. The firm performed a $4,000 Light seat when it considers the nomination The council approved the nomination of years of water utility experience to work study for the Board of Water and Light for the board." early in 1978, he said. Recreational of Virgil Langworthy tonight at 7 on the Antonio Benavides, director of the Cristo 10th floor of City Hall. Langworthy, a water utilities engineer with the Snell Environmental Group in Rey Community Center, on July 16, but rejected Lansing nurse Mary Scodeller at the same meeting. Earlier, the council had Langworthy told the committee worked briefly for the board in the 1940s before moving on to other engineering he I'VE FACED THESE kind of situations before," Langworthy said when asked options Lansing, is the fifth in a series of persons turned thumbs-down on nominees Horace positions. He joined Snell in 1977. about a potential conflict-of-interest prob¬ nominated to the board by Lansing Mayor Gerald W. Graves. Three of Graves' last Bradshaw and Diane Buckel. Langworthy, who was interviewed by the Snell, a consulting firm specializing in water utility design, has done "quite a bit" lem. "If there were a vote on awarding a contract I would have to abstain." As have other nominees, Langworthy scarce, little leisure claimed he was not ready to make a decision The scarcity of recreational resources and the overabundance of leisure time are on the board's possible buy-in to nuclear becoming increasingly important issues, said Louis Twardzik, MSU Department of Parks Oil-heating homeowners beware — generating facilities. committee that he had But he told the no "frightening intuitions" against the use of nuclear power, and Recreation Resources chairperson. These will be the major issues facing students completing the department's recently initiated doctoral program, he said. and that his buy-in decision would be made kind of Ph.D. nickel-per-gallon increase foreseen "For the foreseeable future there will be an increasing demand for our strictly on the grounds of cost-effective¬ graduate," Twardzik said. ness. Some board members have suggested Graduates will have to deal with the scarcity of recreational resources, such as By United Press International indicating a tight supply situation is The outlook is brighter for natural gas that the utility buy a share in either the wilderness land, he said. Homeowners with electric or gas heat possible, said David Abshcar of Amoco Oil cutomers. Midland nuclear plant under construction How much wilderness land should be preserved is an issue which must be thought out should have no problem keeping warm this Co. Conservation may be needed to get "We're confident on the natural gas by Consumers Power Co. or Detroit objectively, taking into consideration area residents as well as visitors and private winter, but those using oil are walking a through the winter, he said. Edison's Fermi II plant near Monroe, in investors, he said. situation," said James Woodruff, director of tightrope with high fuel prices on one side order to supply bulk power for Lansing "If there's one thing that I would like to say that the graduates of this department the gas division of the Public Service and the chance of a hard winter on the The impact of OPEC increases and the during the coming decade. would bring to an issue, it would be a sense of objectivity as opposed to a knee jerk Commission. other. possible need to buy oil on the spot market Langworthy, who worked with nuclear reaction," Twardzik said. to cover demand might spell higher prices, With the nation's largest gas storage reactors while a member of the Naval "It's not that our students don't have some personal interests and biases as we all do," "The system is sensitively balanced," he said. capacity and adequate local production, Reserve, told the committee he had an he added, "but I think they're well enoueh educated as objective observers and scientists state energy chief David Froh said of Michigan's natural gas supplies have never to be able to take on the issues the way they should be_ objectively." "Maybe it will be up another nickle per "understanding" of nuclear power. heating oil supplies. "We could have been threatened, he said, The public, he said, tends to get gallon and it could be more than that," he refinery failures or a very cold, early icontinued on page 9) Department graduates will also have to help educate people in ways to use leisure time, winter, then we'd see shortages." said. "hysterical" over technological issues. "I don't think the level of public he said. Froh said that although he would not understanding is very good," he said when There are people all over the country sitting in rooms with nothing to do because they predict the exact amount of price increases asked about an upcoming poll to obtain don't know how to use their leisure time, Twardzik said. for home heating oil, current rates of 70 to public opinion on the nuclear buy-in. "Going People will have to be educated about what is available, so they can effectively use 80 cents per gallon could rise to 85 cents to the polls to have the public help you their leisure time, rather than allow it to be soaked up by television, he said. per gallor by winter's end. Fun and games offered make a decision is not a good way to run a steamboat." Twardzik said demand for Parks and Recreation Resources Ph.D. graduates to increase as people try to increase the quality of life through recreation. is bound "I think our companies believe that we will have enough heating fuel," said Robert Peebles, associate director of the Associ¬ ated Petroleum Industries of "If we have a Michigan. bad winter it may be tight, at Ingham County Fair COMPUTERS FOR PERSONAL GAIN? and it still might be tight," he said. The Ingham County Fair promises to be much better than "fair" as country music, . Current estimates will not reach federal are that oil companies inventory targets, midway rides, animal exhibits and a demolition derby highlight the six day event. Entertainment and special attractions get underway at the fairgrounds in Mason Lax security irks data center today with a tractor pull at 1 p.m. By United Press International center, the Department of Social Services health and welfare unit County residents will compete for awards in such classifications as food, photography and dressmaking. Admission is $1.25. Lax security at Michigan's eight government data processing in Lansing, found a variety of security problems. Unauthorized personnel could enter the complex without a pass, Corrections Tuesday is children's day with contests, prizes and reduced ride rates until 5 p.m. Wednesday is Ladies' day with demonstrations in flower arrangement and food centers raises the possibility of tampering or criminal activity involving the giant computer system, state auditors say. auditors said, and people signing in at a security desk failed to show identification. State officials who oversee the $70-millioh-a year system It preparation. contend they lack enforcement power and can do little about the In addition, the auditors said, written passwords required to was incorrectly stated in Wednesday's State News that Laura Weir, a participant Horse racing will also start Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. and will continue throughout potential for wrongdoing other than to "be concerned." gain entry to computer terminals were not kept confidential or The state auditor general's office said it knows of no computer in the MSU high school science honors the week. changed periodically, making it possible for unauthorized persons crimes against the state so far. But one official said "there is real to use them. program, was experimenting with bacteria Country and Western fans are sure to be pleased Thursday when Billy "Crash" which cause colon cancer. The story should Craddock performs at the fair for two shows along with Dave and Sugar at 7 and 9:30 danger of some of the computers being manipulated for personal The security problems were noted throughout the system, the have said the bacteria may possibly be a p.m. gain. auditors said. "Maybe it's happened already, but we don't have any way of cause of colon cancer. Bluegrass groups will take the stage Friday at 7:30 p.m. to provide foot stomping "Nearly all the data centers have similar sorts of problems," one music while knowing about it," the officials said. auditor said. "The people who run them basically are doing a good competing for prizes. Recent auditors reports on the state computer centers, which In Friday's State News, Nancy Elliott "Disaster" will strike the grounds Friday when "the World's Greatest Wreck," — a handle everything from welfare payments to driver's licenses, job, but there are problems we feel definitely should be corrected." demolition derby — takes center stage. William Nash, director of the health and welfare center, said he was incorrectly identified as the director of speculated on a number of potential abuses involving the has taken steps to tighten security but cannot guarantee that the investments and trusts at Scudder, Stevens The CATA busline will provide free transportation to the fair on the route between computers. and Clark, MSU's investment firm. Elliott is Unauthorized persons who gained access to the system could computer system can be made tamper proof. Lansing and Mason. Starting at 1 p.m. and continuing to 10 p.m., buses will leave the the University's director of investments corner of Michigan and Grand avenues in Lansing. place themselves on welfare rolls, purge criminal records or obtain "There's no way we can develop anything that's 100 percent and trusts. In addition, the story should The bus will not travel through East Lansing. illegal tax refund checks, auditors said. foolproof," Nash said. have stated that 13,696 shares of IBM Corp. "People design computers and people will figure a way to use stock were sold valued at $962,144. A RECENT REVIEW of the state's largest data processing them if they want to." G€ Opinion VIEWPOINT: THE DRAFT Divested stocks needed unloading or reinvestment Acceptance of the draft Five more companies with holdings in South Africa were crossed off MSU's investment list last The effects of divestiture seem anticlimactic, compared to the fears instilled by opponents of the ultimate contradiction divestiture. We are still a high-ranking institution of week, as part of the University's second phase of By BOB I.ATHROP true. But wouldn't it also be true that not quit a job when dissatisfied with it? divestiture. MSU's investment firm, Scudder, higher learning. We have, since divestiture, While my comments are directed at Jeff slavery maintains public contact with Where else can you be put in jail for voicing Stevens and Clark, unloaded stock in five major received indirect support from other schools which bigotry, authoritarianism and everything that dissatisfaction? Not in a democracy. Salisbury's viewpoint of July 25, they also have followed in our path of divestment. And we else that democracy is not supposed to be? But you most assuredly can, and probably companies, investments that brought the University pertain to the debate, at large, that has That certainly wouldn't be a rationale for would, in the U.S. military. less than a quarter of a million dollars in dividends. have yet to hear complaints from any University begun recently concerning the draft and the "becoming a part of it," as he proposes we That brings to mind Jeffs reference to The small returns brought by the withdrawn department claiming that divestiture has affected many inconsistencies and contradictions that are immediately apparent in Jeffs all do in regards to the draft, so slavery the military making its own rules and investments should support the arguments that have University revenues for research development. would no longer go "uncontrolled." regulations under an all-volunteer force. These were the arguments against divestiture, viewpoint but not so apparent in the been espoused by divestiture proponents all along. general media. If he truly believes that by being drafted The military has always made and enforced Divestiture is not spelling doom for MSU's financial which, in the wake of several University stock sales, Jeffs viewpoint boils down to an argu¬ "the average American" (not an 18-year-old its own rules and regulations, regardless if to have faded away. ment for a drafted military as opposed to an male, by the way) "can at least have some it was under the draft system or the status. Rather, it has prompted the University's seem all volunteer force. One of his major voice in the operation of the military forces all-volunteer concept. These rules and investment firm to sell stocks from several We must commend the University for continuing a arguments is that "... military conscription . . .," then it's obvious he has never spent regulations are called the Uniform Code of companies that were not providing the University a program of prudent divestiture, a pullout that maintains public contact with the military much time talking with the veterans of Military Justice. Here the irony abounds. return on its investment anyway. apparently is also turning out to be economically . .Taken literally, I suppose that may be those military forces. Where else can you And since when were military forces not Since the University initiated its divestiture beneficial to MSU. Not only is the University being ever controlled by professional soldiers, rid of stocks from pro-apartheid corporations, but draft or no draft? program, it has pulled stocks out of seven I honestly have trouble understanding corporations where its stocks were either losing also it is discovering that those investments how a drafted citizenry would keep the money or not turning a profit. Divestiture may have supposedly so crucial to the University's existence military from "losing touch with its citi¬ are not so crucial after all. In fact, many of them have begun as a moral response to South African zenry." It's my personal opinion that the lost money. military long ago lost touch with the apartheid, but is turning out to be a method of American citizen, draft or no draft. Ask ridding the University of unprofitable stocks. Prudent divestiture has taken on a new meaning Eddie Slovak's widow or the human LSD Perhaps Scudder, Stevens and Clark should have for the University. It is indeed wise to sell stocks that guinea pigs or the Vietnam vets who are evaluated the worth of these stocks long ago. Then offer no economic benefits. Divestiture may even refused psychological help for the horrors have helped Scudder, Stevens and Clark to reassess maybe the long and emotional debates surrounding they experienced. divestiture would have settled earlier, and a the actual value of some of MSU's most controversial Jeffs (and the country's) ultimate con¬ stocks. tradiction, though, becomes apparent when divestiture program implemented sooner. he would .. advise my own son to do the same . . ." (flee to Windsor) while urging other "decent young Americans" to do Dayton Hudson proposal exactly the opposite, join the military. His proposal for controlling the "American War Machine" is to "become a part of it." In other words, acquiescence and acceptance. begins its second round Well, times are indeed different. There is no Vietnam. The insanity is not before us each evening. We won't be going to Windsor. We're staying. We're going to make the Last week the Dayton Hudson has a strong legal case utilizing the Dayton Hudson's stubbornness military responsive to our needs and three-way agreement if the mall to see its mall completed, whether Corp. announced its intention to aspirations. And acquiescing is not in the once again submit site approval site is approved. Unfortunately, it is in East Lansing or Lansing plan. the issue may ultimately be settled Township, must be equaled by Lathrop is graduate student in education plans for a new mall in East a Lansing. The decision, although in court. those who oppose its construction. not surprising to persons familiar Our views on this new revela¬ The citizens of East Lansing with the controversial mall topic, tion concerning the construction of should not allow this corporation VIEWPOINT: THE DRAFT has generated new confcern from the mall have been fueled by to rearrange the zoning and all citizens opposed to the con¬ Dayton Hudson's new-found cun commercial structures of their struction. Considering voter re¬ jection of last November's mall ning. Its decision to reintroduce its mall proposal coincidentally comes city. We must admit we see a Draft opponents should proposal, we feel the mall is not in at a time when MSU students — humorous bit of irony in this entire the best interests of the residents the persons greatly responsible for controversy. Dayton Hudson, at of East Lansing. The corporation has revised its defeating last fall's proposal — are not aware of this new develop¬ ment. It seems Dayton Hudson has the opening of its new store in Lansing Mall, proudly stated its motto is "You fight issue realistically campaign strategy in hopes of new never get a become more sophisticated in its second chance to make first good By HENRY SOSA controlled by "professional soldiers at all appropriate funds for the military is very finding the formula necessary for a levels." attune to public sentiment (too much some It has Speaking realistically, we are probably the mall's construction. campaign to build the unwanted impression." Nothing could be going to lose the fight against the draft. • The top level is in fact civilian, the say). changed its views on the proposed mall. more true. Draft articles in the July 25 opinion page commander in chief is a popularly elected • Conscription is by far not a means of size of the complex and the provide much needed insight as to why this United States President. maintaining public contact with the mili¬ • The vast majority of the over 2,000,000 tary. Our tax paying, and the civilian important strip development is so. An article by Jeff Salisbury urged men and women in the all-volunteer government that administers the military question. However, its most dra¬ and allocates taxes is middle America's matic change of heart concerns the "Support the Draft; get involved and stay military are not "professional soldiers," in touch with the military." Though a which the drop out rate to civilian life contact with the military. location of the mall. should indicate. As long as pro-draft arguments firmly pacifist. I tried hard to understand the logic It is rumored that the corpora¬ supporting this truly unique pro draft • Present recruitment goals, which are entrenched in facts are fogged by argu¬ tion has options to purchase a by and large being met, show that ments like Salisbury's, they cannot be dealt argument. Patent inconsistency throughout the viewpoint however, left me colder than approximately one out of six of the total with. sizable tract of land on the western a Marquette, Mich, winter. male population (18 years of age) volunteer The second argument that day was edge of U.S. 127 in Lansing To start with, Salisbury's admission that for military service, significant representa¬ anti-draft in the form of a letter by the Township. For several reasons, had he been drafted he would have "moved tion for "middle America." esteemed ASMSU executive director, such as incentives East Lansing to Windsor," followed by a pro draft • Service in the military, draft or Steven Wachsberg. He attempted to point could offer, that site would be volunteer, provides no voice for "middle out a flaw he perceived in an anti-draft not argument and a defense of the American beneficial. But it is war machine, does not leave him any America". I'd get very edgy if on any given viewpoint by Fran Herwitz, saying that "as more a political students not immune" to the draft. motivation, we believe, that standing as a conscientious objector. It does day military personnel democratically chose we are give him firm footing as a hypocrite (other a course of action. Wachsberg stated further that "any causes Dayton Hudson to consider apt descriptive nouns are interchangeable). • A "drafted military" is no "microcosm of revival of the draft will be universal." this new possibility. The pro-draft argument he advocates is America" as a whole, only of the 18 to 26 Herwitz wrote a strongly worded anti- as contradicting as Salisbury himself. age group which is vehemently anti-draft. draft appeal. What Wachsberg attacked as If Dayton Hudson decides to Several points of clarification leave his "one • The notion that the military can "make a flaw strikes me as a difference of opinion. build in Lansing Township, East Both are anti-draft, yet Wachsberg ap¬ point plan for the draft" ridiculous: and enforce its own rules and regulations Lansing residents will have to bear • The military forces of the United States without regard to public sentiment" is false. parently fails to realize when you plan on the burden of a major retail center are not and have never been strictly Congress, which has the sole authority to winning a fight, never attack people who near their city without agree with you. having any In view of the many pro-draft arguments, of the tax benefits. The inevitable traffic and pollution problems a Wachsberg should vote his well-paid time to fighting and eliminating them. mall would create wherever it is Wachsberg's opinion that any draft will built, coupled with the very real be universal smacks of idealism that is The State News an possibility of unlimited strip devel¬ potentially dangerous to the realistic goals opment in the future, would threaten the serenity of East Amtrak's service Monday, July 30, 1979 he is obligated to achieve as the student administrator of ASMSU. The anti-draft fight is an uphill battle but not an all or Lansing. It could be, and most Editorials are the opinions ot the State News Viewpoints, columns nothing fight. The vast majority of Ameri¬ probably is, an attempt to coerce East Lansing residents to approve the mall proposal. partially restored Several weeks ago, we editorialized on the poor condition of Amtrak and letters are personal opinions Editorial Department cans over 30 favor the draft resumed. If a referendum on the draft were held tomor¬ row, we'd lose by 60 percent because there Editor m-Chiet V Robmsc Kim VonderVeer aren't enough involved or affected. According to James R. Ander¬ passenger service. Specifically, we cited the fact that not enough money Monogmg Editor Sheila Beachum Photo Editor In any case, if we students oppose the Entertainment & Book Edit >r Bill Holdship son, coordinator of the Citizens for was being allocated to this potentially beneficial operation. Now [t Opinion Editor Michoel Megerion draft, let's do it realistically, work together, Sports Editor David Janssen a Livable Community, the group seems that Amtrak may be given the go-ahead it rightfully deserves. Janet Holtmann Layout Editor FoulaM Mohr and most importantly, leave the lines for that successfully defeated the Paul Cox Last week the House of Representatives passed a $2.7 billion Chiet Copy Editor Sondro Sweeney compromise open. Wachsberg and myself construction proposal last Novem¬ authorization bill giving Amtrak more money than it requested. MicheleMcElmurry represent the interests of many students; our primary obligation is to keep them ber, an agreement was signed Although the bill, if passed by the Senate, requires a 20 percent cut in Advertising Department excluded from the draft. between Dayton Hudson repre¬ current Amtrak routes, it nevertheless increases the possibility of Ron MacMillon Asst Advertising Manager Soso is ASMSU representative tor the College ot sentatives, East Lansing city better passenger rail service in the future. officials, and his organization prior Routes seldom used in the past, such as the New York to Kansas to last fall's election. It stated that City run, will be canceled. And more funds will be allocated to the Dayton Hudson would abandon its popular trains. The bill calls for the increased funding of new passenger plans for a mall and sell the equipment needed for more efficient operations. DOONESBURY by Garry Trudeau property if voters rejected the The bill also gives Amtrak funding for three years. That agency's construction proposal. That same administrators will now be able to make future plans for improvements OKAY, THAT BONGS US UP , AND TTMsmE THAT YOU 70 THE L0N6, HOT SUMMER BECAME 50METHNGOFA PETTY promise was even included in without having to meet congressional approval. It is now quite possible OF S3. THAT'S WHEN YOU W YOUR COUEAGUES, THEY promotional literature distributed that Amtrak will be able to provide efficient and dependable passenger WERE SENT TO WASHINGTON ™£S ttffiElNAWEOFYOU.BUT KmT THAT DID NOT LESSEN YOUR - to East Lansing voters TO OMR RESURRECTION by the train service to gas-starved motorists. _ \ nanr/mr*d rr ikirpe-Aacrj rCTTY, RJGHT? \ corporation last fall. Recent developments concerning energy and government may have Now it seems that Dayton possibly contributed to the generous Amtrak authorization. Newly Hudson has reneged on its prom¬ deposed Transportation Secretary Brock Adams said last month he ise. Anderson has said his wanted at least a 43 percent cutback in Amtrak service. His expulsion group will not remain silent if East from the Carter Cabinet did not allow him to see his wish fulfilled. Lansing officials decide to approve President Carter's energy speech may have also helped the House to mall plans in their city. The East view Amtrak with more compassion. The mood of the nation seemed to Lansing City Attorney, Dennis favor Carter's proposal to upgrade passenger rail operations. McGinty, said Anderson's group Americans may soon be riding the rails once again. Michigan State News East Lansing, Michigan Monday July 30, 1979 5 GOAL TO REDUCE MEDICAL COSTS Sparrow buys hospital The removal of 90 of Provincial Hospital's beds from use would Provincial Hospital of Lansing has been sold to Edward W. Sparrow Hospital in an effort to reduce hospitalization costs in the provide the best answer to the overbedding problem, according to the Michigan Department of Public Health. Lansing area, Provincial officials recently announced. F. Karl Neumann, president of Sparrow, said $3,748,000 was Provincial will cease all patient services and officially close Tuesday. Sparrow will assume possession of the facility on paid for Provincial. The purchase of the facility is part of a major building project Monday, Aug. 6, said Joseph M. Epling, Provincial Hospital administrator. which will add a new west wing to Sparrow and include renovation Provincial is an acute care general hospital at 1226 East of existing facilities, Neumann said. All beds will be cleared out of Provincial and it will become an ambulatory care center as part of Michigan Ave. in Lansing, directly across the street from the project. Sparrow. Since 1973, it has been owned and operated by Provincial House The total cost of the project will be $32 million, $4.2 million of Inc., a Lansing based health care firm with 19 nursing facilities in which will be spent on Provincial, he said. Services at Provincial included a Family Practice Department, Michigan, including four in the Lansing area. Provincial was sold in order to reduce costs associated with providing physician services for persons without a personal overbedding in Lansing area hospitals, officials said. physician, and a Cancer Treatment Center. Provincial also offered services in obstetrics, gynecology, According to the Michigan State Plan for Hospital and Medical Facilities Construction, the Lansing area has 86 excess beds in use urology, podiatry, and surgery, in addition to use of a pharmacy in its and laboratory. hospitals. Violent prelude to rock concert spurs investigation in Cleveland CLEVELAND (API — A city councilmember says he wants an gangs picked fights and administered beatings, officials said. investigation of the violent prelude to a rock concert that left one Gunfire killed Joseph Wente, 19, of Cleveland, and wounded person dead, dozens battered and some 75 people arrested. four others, authorities said. Police reported nine people were New Air Force Academy cadets, appearing like notes on a musical scale, go over an obstacle course The World Series of Rock concert at Municipal Stadium brought stabbed, none seriously, and at least 75 people were arrested on during a 10-day training program in Colorado Springs, Colo. 65,000 rock enthusiasts, mostly young people, into downtown charges ranging from robbery to disturbing the peace. Cleveland, where a mixture of drugs, alcohol and petty crime "Where you have a mob, you are going to have a large amount of erupted into gunfire, beatings and robbery, police said. trouble," said Police Chief Jeffrey Fox. "It's not a very enjoyable The eight hour concert later Saturday, featuring rock singer routine to go through. When you have a mixture of alcohol and LAW ICR VOWS TO MOVE FOR MISTRIAL Ted Nugent and the groups Aerosmith, Journey, Thin Lizzy and drugs, you're going to have combustion." AC-DC, was patrolled by 300 private and city police and was free of major disturbances. As thousands of early arrivals settled in for a night of partying Another in the series of concerts is scheduled for Aug. 19. "We'd better have a better system of security at concerts," Councilmember James Carney Jr., whose ward was said turned into a Ex-Panther to get second trial prior to the fourth annual event, robbers struck repeatedly and battleground in the pre dawn hours of the hot and humid day. OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - the man stopped arguing at one charges ended with hung for three years, "It might be nice to have people downtown, but the profits On a spring night five years point, pulled a gun out of his juries. After returning voluntarily aren't worth the costs," he said Saturday. "Concerts should be ago, a slender black street¬ pocket and shot Kathleen When Newton came out of in 1977 from self-imposed exile 'Suntan Slasher' either totally banned, or concerts promoted by persons with a poor track record — with persons getting killed — should be banned." walker an was working her turf on Oakland street corner when Smith in the throat. She died in a coma two months later. She was 17. prison in 1970, he saw the gun-toting radical Black Pan in Cuba, Newton was acquitted of the assault charge stemming she got into an argument with a ther Party he helped mold turn from the Callins beating, but Carney called for a council investigation of security arrange¬ man. Black Panther co-founder to a program of peaceful re¬ was sentenced to two years in ments and permit requirements for such gatherings. sought by police No one paid much attention Huey Newton goes on trial for form. Fortune failed to take a prison on a related weapons Police said they did not know the circumstances of the death or to the man or the fight. After the crime a second time today. similar turn for him. charge. He was freed on two other shooting incidents, including one that left a 20-year-old all, it was their business. But a He was tried for Smith's mur¬ In 1974 he was charged with $130,000 bail pending appeal. man hospitalized in satisfactory condition with a wound in the couple of people who were der last February but the jury PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — Police armed with a composite sketch abdomen. there said they recalled that deadlocked at 10-2 for acquittal shooting Smith, pistol-whipping But in 1978 he was in jail of the "Suntan Slasher" searched in two suburban Detroit counties his tailor, Preston Callins, and again after a Santa Cruz bar and a mistrial was declared. last week for the naked man who slashed three women and a girl. It will be Newton's sixth assulting an Oakland police fight. Charges were eventually A 58-year-old woman was hospitalized in fair condition with six officer during a barroom brawl, dismissed. court contest in 12 years. stab wounds suffered in the two-hour slashing spree Tuesday. He also was cited for three Man claims responsibility for Newton took the stand in Officials said the other victims were not injured seriously. misdemeanors. Aiameda IN 1968, HE was convicted of County Superior Authorities worked up a composite sketch of a long-haired killing an Oakland police offi¬ Before Smith died, Newton Court in February during his attacker as well as a photo mockup of his red Chevrolet pickup cer, but his voluntary man¬ left the country and his sup¬ last murder trial, but the truck with "Deluxe 10" written on each side. were Oakland County Sheriffs Deputy Gordon Walker said police stopping and questioning anyone who resembled the sketch. 20 killings over the last year slaughter verdict was over¬ turned on appeal. He spent 22 months behind bars before two porters lost $42,000 cause bail be¬ he failed to show for the preliminary hearing. They did prosecution's case death blow when a suffered a key witness admitted she lied when she said Police also re-interviewed victims and witnesses and had them POUGHKEEPSIE, their home in Wassaic, about 70 respondence begun when he subsequent trials on the same not see or hear from him again Newton was the killer. miles north of New York City. was in prison. look through Michigan State Police files of known criminal sex (AP) — Police in several states offenders. checked their files for unsolved State police found the body of State police said Sunday they his wife, Claudine Eggers, 78, "There are suspects, but no major suspect at this time," Walker slayings Sunday after a paroled had notified authorities in other said. "I can't comment on any leads." Deputy Michael Searing said a team of 10 detectives from five police agencies has received no reports of other stabbings since murderer claimed he killed 20 people over the last year, including at least eight in dead of multiple stab wounds. Fischer was paroled from parts of the country about Fischer's claims and that war¬ rants have already been issued Tanker truck hauling gasoline New Jersey's Trenton State Tuesday afternoon's spree. The attacker was dubbed "The Suntan Slasher" because of his well-developed tan. California and several in New York City's Bowery section. Prison in June 1978 serving 25 years for the 1953 after for two deaths in Oklahoma and Arizona. consumed by fire, 10 injured Oakland County Sheriff Johannes Spreen said the man was Joseph Fischer, 50 — saying murder of a 16-year-old boy in "We're just waiting for described as between 5-feet-9 and 6-feet tall, weighing about 160 "I'm tired of running" — turned Belleville, N.J. He spent the DETROIT (UPD — A tanker truck loaded with freeway entrance ramp and ignited. authorities from the other A motorist, Gary Zmyjewski, 23, leaped from pounds, and with curly, blond, shoulder-length hair. himself in to New York City final four years of his term in 9,000 gallons of gasoline slammed into a freeway Three of the victims reported their assailant was nude while the authorities Friday. He told jurisdictions to check their files guard rail and caught fire Sunday, injuring the his car to warn approaching motorists of the the prison's psychiatric hospi¬ and notify us of anything fourth said he was wearing only a T-shirt, officials said. them he had killed his wife at truck driver, six motorists and three firefighters. accident. Three cars were destroyed by fire but tal, officials said. pending," said State Police Lt. None of the injuries were serious and their occupants escaped with minor injuries. "We could be sitting on a Thomas Neilson. authorities were able to extinguish the blaze Zmyjewski suffered second-degree burns on mass murderer here," said several hours after the early morning crash. his back and hands, authorities said. In addition to the murders in John Crodelle of the Stati Oklahoma and Arizona, Cro¬ However, it took officials until mid-afternoon to Estranged husband kills wife, Police Bureau of Criminal In¬ vestigation. delle said Fischer claimed to have committed five or six clean up the scene. The truck driver, identified by police as Roger A dozen fire trucks were sent to the scene. One truck was set ablaze by the flaming gasoline and demolished. Fischer was being held with¬ murders in the Los Angeles Ball, told investigators he was cut off by a four children, then shoots self out bail on second-degree murder charges in his wife's area, three around San Fran¬ cisco, "numerous" murders in passing motorist on Interstate 94, causing him to swerve and hit a guard rail. Senior fire chief Michael Purcell said Zmyjew¬ ski would be recommended for a citation for The tanker flipped over — shearing off its top heroism "because he risked his life to warn the death. Police said the couple the Bowery and single murders BAY CITY (UPI) - A man miles north of Bay City. "Then he shot himself in the married last year — against her in Cooperstown, N.Y.; Port — and caught fire, police said. The truck was other drivers, knowing that the tanker would recently separated from his Killed were Benware's es¬ head." children's wishes — after a land, Maine: Hartford, Conn.; destroyed and gas spilled about 1,300 feet down a probably ignite. wife forced his way into the tranged wife, Diane, 28; sons Weldon Benware and his Newark, N.J. and New Mexico. courtship based upon cor¬ family home Sunday, fatally Jeffery, 9, Weldon, 8, and father were rushed by ambu¬ shot the woman and his four Jason, 4, and a daughter Ele- lance to Bay Medical Hospital, sleeping children, then turned thea, 3, authorities said. but both died a short time after the gun on himself. Benware broke in through arrival. Benware and the other State police said Thomas the front door of the two-story children were dead at the Benware, 33, and one of the frame home at about 12:30 a.m., scene, police said. children died at a local hospital struggled briefly with his wife The slayings apparently shortly after the shooting ram¬ in the living room and then shot stemmed from the couple's her to death, troopers said. domestic problems. Benware, page, which occurred in rural Fraser Township about "He then went to the chil¬ who was believed to have been 14 dren's bedrooms, shot the four a house painter, separated from children all in the head with a his wife about two weeks ago, .22-caliber rifle," State Police said State Police Detective Trooper Greg Somers said. Harry Haranda. Researcher to give talk All Monday Night Rock N Roll Pitcher Beer Special World renowned environ¬ No cover charge mentalist, Jun Ui, sometimes called the "Ralph Nader of Japan," will speak at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday today in 223 Natural Resources Draft and Drink Specials Bldg. Contests and giveaways. No cover Jun Ui, from the University of Toyko, is well known for research on mercury and other Wednesday heavy metal water pollutants. Shot n Pop, Martinis 6 Manhattans Special Top 40 Disco. No cover Woman held Thursday Punk Rock-New Wove Live bonds, 4 for 1 beer special n your new life together by in stabbing registering your preferences in Friday and Saturday china, crystal, silver, flatware, A 36-year-old Lansing woman No cover charge linen and kitchen needs Courteous, was being held by Lansing " police Sunday, in connection well-informed sales people will be with the stabbing death of happy to provide needed assistance. Willie D. Hammond, 31, also of Lansing. Sundown Special! Gifts purchased for you will be Police said Juanita Thomas Every afternoon from 4 p m. until 8 p. m. recorded to avoid duplications was jailed on an open charge of Rock ' n Roll, Pitcher Beer Special, Doily Food Specials, murder early Saturday morning No Cover Charge following the stabbing, which occurred about 4:30a.m. at 5913 S. Waverly Road. A warrant will be sought by For All oges more welcome anytime. information coll 351-1200 Jacobsoris police today, officials said. Monday, July 30, 1979 Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan CLARION WORKSHOP Entertainment Emshwiller discusses science fiction Science fiction has also moved away from technology to Bv JANET HALFMANN State News Staff Writer include the social and behavioral sciences. This movement and science fiction's expanding audience have brought women into stories, a group of men — CONCERT CA T SHORT In one of Carol Emshwiller's recent including a psychologist — are searching for the Abominable the field in larger numbers, Emshwiller said. Snowman. But what they think is the Abominable Snowman Today in a list of the top 10 science ficiton writers, many of them are women, whose excellence lies both in terms of quality turns out to be women in huge fur coats. and commercial success, Emshwiller said. "I get people in a situation that really means something else," Flack: don't shoot the piano! Because Emshwiller was what she calls "the typical woman" said Emshwiller who came to MSU to work with participants in who let her husband talk her out of fixing up a writing space in the Clarion Workshop for science fiction writers. The story is written humorously, but "with a sad realism the garage while he bought a camera costing three times as attached to it," she said. much which he "might" use in his career, she finds it Writer in residence Emshwiller spent her mornings at MSU "encouraging and exciting when she sees other women going out and being something." By REGINALD THOMAS the audience, and he also sang a leading three hour sessions in which the 20 workshop members That is why she is particularly excited about this year's State News Reviewer duet with Flack that was well critiqued their colleagues' work. Afternoons were filled with Clarion Workshop, where over half of the participants are Roberta Flack is in her 10th received, and demonstrated his individual conferences. women, many with children. year as a recording artist and rich, powerful voice. Emshwiller said she tried to teach science fiction students at After Eric did his thing, MSU the plot and structure skills which she learned at similar Workshop participants, who were selected on the basis of her ninth year on the road. submitted manuscripts, are "very serious" and have a "lot at During this time, she has Flack came back to perform workshops in Milford, Pa., more than 20 years ago when she was beginning her writing career at the age of 28. stake," McClintock said. performed on many a good and "Disguise," a tune on her The seminar costs over $1,000 for tuition, fees, room and bad piano. But the piano used at newest LP. Flack left the stage, "Most of the people are here to learn basic structure and plot, board. only to be brought back by the and need it badly," she said. "It is one of the big weak spots." Long's Restaurant Saturday night appeared to be a little too crowd's standing ovation. She She compared her function to teaching finger exercises on Students spend their mornings in class and the rest of the much for Flack to bear. then explained that she could the piano. day and night writing and talking shop. Roberta Flack came onstage not perform on the badly-tuned In her own writing now, Emshwiller uses plot in a "pop art" The students also socialize, which is an important part of the piano, and ended the first show sense. "I can use it in very free, dumb ways because I don't take ready to perform what should workshop, McClintock said. have been an excellent show. with "The First Time Ever I it seriously," she said. "All of a sudden they are in a situation where everyone is a But instead she left the stage Saw Your Face." But even though Emshwiller may use plot facetiously or at writer," he said. "It is a great relief, release and source of to the disgruntlement of some This reviewer was told that times not at all, she said her work is still very structured". satisfaction, but at the same time causes some anxiety." audience members when she Flack's piano was tuned before She approaches writing as a poet would, concentrating on As one permanent resident of Owen Graduate Center could no longer accept the the second show, and the lady style and structure, and everything is very concentrated. remarked about the shop-talking writing occupants, "they're sound of a badly tuned piano. really cooked. And it is not hard Emshwiller is one of six professional writers who came from the ones who talk to each other." Flack opened with the jazzy to believe, since Flack seemed all over the country to work with Clarion participants. The workshop participants are not required to turn in any "Feel Like Making Love," be definitely headed for an excel¬ Students are exposed to diverse writers in the six-week writing, but they felt "a lot of personal pressure to get things fore slipping into the ever lent performance. intensive seminar. This is because science fiction itself has out," McClintock said. lovely sounds of "Killing Me Flack's band played with broadened to include many different kinds of writing, according ease, while her back-up group to Clarion coordinator James McClintock, MSU professor in Many of the participants, ranging in age from 19 to 45, are Softly." Both of these tunes were done with excellent vocal — which features Eleanor Mills Lyman Briggs College. already published writers. The Clarion Workshop was founded 12 years ago in Clarion, control, as Flack revealed the off Norman Connors' This Is "People in the workshop should be exposed to different Your Life album — provided Fa., by science fiction writers Robin Scott Wilson and Damon power and smoothness of her points of view," he said. excellent background harmony. Science fiction, more commonly called speculative fiction Knight. Both writers are involved in this year's MSU workshop as are A. J. Budrys, Tom M. Disch and Kate Wilhelm. From there she went into the Hopefully, Flack and company today, has become very close to other kinds of writing, he said. This year's workshop, the seventh held at MSU, will run upbeat "Why -Don't You Move will be returning to Lansing "The whole culture's attitude about what is real and unreal In With Me" from her Blue soon so they can finish the has been given a jolt," McClintock added. through Aug. 11. Emshwiller is the author of "Joy in Or Cause" (1974) and has Lights In The Basement album. concert they began. Emshwiller agreed, stating, "It is very hard for writers to She performed one other tune, And when she does return, it say something striking. The materials of experience have had stories published in several science fiction and literary a narrative about a young girl might be advisable to bring her magazines. gotten very strange." who is in love with herself, own piano. Lansing doesn't before giving the stage to Eric, need another short and sweet a male solo artist who is touring performance. Roberta Flack has too much to offer for State News Richard Marshall roller disco star! with Flack. Eric performed two tunes that were warmly accepted by something like Saturday night's first show to occur again. Roberta Flack, Saturday night. sans piano, performs at Longs You, too, can be a Jammin special are Butler — "the recognized king By Bill Butler and Elin Schoen wheels. And — let's face it — of the eight-wheeled mania" — Pocket Books, 118 pp. it's a hell of a lot cheaper than a is a great place to begin. As Three MSU at actors Hope College $3.95 Reviewed by BILL HOLDSHIP Now, this book about disco roller skating is really impres¬ Corvette. Hey, I'm what's no fool. I know happening in the world Butler explains in the book's preface: "Jammin' is likely to make you not only a roller disco star, but the hottest item in any of cool, and I know where this "It's been a disappointment," they knew an actor who could for six years, Martinez held an sive. It's relevant to our time, disco crowd!" And that alone is By ROSANNE SINGER whole roller skating craze be¬ State News Staff Writer he said. "Their artistic stan¬ play Starbuck in The internship with the Tyrone it's informative, and I can well worth $3.98! gan. It began when everyone's Chance, which often plays a dards are so far ahead of their Rainmaker, they suggested Guthrie Theatre from 1974 to hardly wait until the movie is favorite cheesecake — Linda Jammin' explains everything large part in theatrical careers, management setup." Gary Martinez. As it has turned 1975 while a master of fine arts released. Ronstadt — wore hot pants and there is to know about the has led three former MSU After Hope College, Horn is out, Martinez does not portray student at the University of Roller disco is our latest roller skates — introducing roller disco scene in vivid Performing Arts Company considering several possibili¬ Starbuck, although he has been Minnesota. He appeared in a national craze, and it seems to cheek chic — on the cover of her detail. There is an entire chap¬ members Hope Summer ties. He has a brother who cast as the father. H.C., In The small part in the PBS produc be a logical progression. Like ter devoted to diagramming the to Living In The U.S.A. album. works in Boston and is pres¬ Rainmaker: as Erronius in A tion of School for Scandal — an disco dancing, roller disco will "Anatomy of a Skate." All the Repertory Theatre in Holland for the summer season. Phil ently setting up interviews for Funny Thing Happened on the episode in the Theater in undoubtedly soon be absorbed 'Cause I know I haven't listened to that record very much, but I latest roller disco dances are ? " V- Horn who worked in the Fair- Horn. He may also contact Way to the Forum and as the America series — and toured 22 into our culture and become a have received countless hours included here, including re¬ friends involved in television fool, Feste, in Twelfth Night. the title role in gional styles. Other chapters B* Ml Butter* Bin Schow child Theatre ticket office from states as unique lifestyle all its own. And of pleasure looking at its cover. 1978 to 1979 now functions as and movies in Los Angeles Martinez has been pleased Everyman. it probably won't be long before Soon after the release of include "The Right Clothes To Director of Public Relations for where he grew up. Or he may with the Hope Theatre exper¬ Martinez hopes to continue we have roller disfco anthems Linda's record, I began to see Wear" (see the latest DEVO the Hope Theatre. Mark Voland return to a Los Angeles res¬ ience and terms it the "best working in regional theater which proclaim — in much the roller skates and hot pants all album cover); "Etiquette of the Attitude does. Once you feel and Gary Martinez. PAC actors taurant where he worked and directing situation I've worked where he said there are enough same vein as "Boogie Oogie over the place. Several weeks Rink"; "How To Become A confident, looking confident will last Macheath and Mr. has received an offer to be in during the last five years." people to reach. Although he Oogie" that "Everyone must Disco Dazzler in One Minute naturally. seen as — ago, Olivia Newton-John re¬ come Anjj it works Peachum in Three Penny assistant manager. Until June, Martinez was a has performed small roles in roller skate! There will be no vealed a lot of what's behind Flat"; "How To Shake Your the other way, too. Adopting Opera, are performing with the "Acting is what I do best," doctoral student at MSU with a two movies, Alex in exceptions to the rule!" that squeaky-clean image for a Booty" ("You can shake it to the that I'm-the-best look will help Hope acting company in three said Mark Voland whose father dissertation topic on medieval Wonderland and Pretty Maids There are several advan¬ roller disco article in People left, to the right, or anywhere you to feel you are the best!" roles each. is also an actor. "Ever since I liturgical drama. Although he All in Row, and worked in in between"), and the proper Armed with this knowledge, I a tages to this. For one thing, it magazine, which also featured Horn entered MSU in 1976 as can remember I read reviews has completed two years of commercials out of can only mean that disco Roller- way to get up in case you feei fully prepared to get out Minneap¬ Cher letting it all hang out. And a PAC actor after auditioning arid mixed with actors." classwork he does not know olis, Martinez finds this media vJl is right around the corner. should happen to fall on your there and score my first four- speaking of letting it all hang for theater department chair¬ This summer Voland is per when he will finish his degree. unsatisfying. Secondly, it creates an excel¬ out, roller skates have become booty. cheeked Linda clone. person Frank Rutledge in Long forming as Pseudolus in the When Martinez arrived at "It's financially lucrative but lent alternative to the fuel the standard (and only) apparel There is even an extensive Yes, indeed. This roller disco Beach, California. He spent two musical comedy, A Funny- MSU in 1977, he had received a not very creatively challeng¬ shortage (boy, they've sure of recent Penthouse pets and "Glossary of Terms" which is really some hot patootie. As years as an actor while also Thing Happened on the Way to fellowship for the MSU Team of ing," he said. fooled us!) if everyone is on Playboy playmates. Yowza! defines such items as "Step: Bill Butler so poetically puts it taking theater management the Forum: as Noah in the Four, a group of theater stu¬ After Hope Theatre Martinez skates. And since it's athletic in Now, it takes no genius to get changing the position of your — "Get up and get jammin'! classes. drama, The Rainmaker: and as dents who tour Lansing schools will return to his 100-acre farm nature, roller disco can rapidly the message. Besides, there's feet by picking them up and You will sur vive. You will "I lost interest in acting Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth with an educational dramatic in northern Minnesota, where be absorbed into the culture. placing them in a new position," sur vive. As long as you can always been something rather quickly," Horn said. "By Night. He received the Hope show. He remained with the he intends to concentrate on After all, the current summer strangely sexual about roller just in case you didn't know disco skate, you'll know that my second year, I had pretty Theatre job offer after partici¬ Team of Four for one year, music and musical composition. fashion trend of every hip skates, especially in its associ¬ what it meant. But my very you're alive!" And that quote much stopped going after major pating in statewide auditions touring 35 area schools with All four Hope Summer American male and female un¬ ation with music. Let's face it. favorite chapter is the one alone demonstrates that Jam¬ roles." held at MSU this past year. The Energy Show. Repertory Theatre produc¬ der the age of 30 makes them Melanie's classic line about entitled "The Disco Look," in min' is one of the literary Like Horn, whom Voland met From 1978 to 1979 Martinez tions The Rainmaker; A Funny look like they're apparently "I've got a brand new pair of which Butler encompasses it landmarks of our time, ranking During his third year, from while a student at California all: 1978 to 1979, Horn received a taught acting for non-theater Thing Happened on the Way to ready'to run a 440 relay or play roller skates, you've got a right beside the Memoirs of State University, Voland en¬ majors and appeared in such the Forum; Starting Here, in the NBA finals. The thought brand new key" was almost — "Contrary to what the fash¬ Richard Nixon (why didn't graduate assistantship in the tered MSU as a PAC actor in shows Much Ado About ion magazines tell us, clothes Fairchild ticket office and spent as Starting Now; and Twelfth of everyone dressed in Adidas though not quite — as sugges¬ someone shoot that man?) and the fall of 1976. Since that time, Nothing. Chekhov and Friends Night, play through August. T-shirts, boxer shorts and rol¬ tive as Donna Summer's don't make the disco star. The Joy of Brain Damage. four months of that year train¬ he has become a familiar local and Three Penny Opera. The final offering, Twelfth ler skates while moving to a "Oooooh! Aaaaaah Eeeeeeee!!" ing in management in New face in such roles as Orlando in "I think I've pleased the York City. Night, opens August 3. Per¬ disco beat in just too wonderful So — like I said — I'm no fool. As You Like It and Archer in audiences," he said. "I wish formances run Monday through for words. I was pretty good on skates as a While in New York, he met The Beaux' Strategem, both for audiences would keep challeng Saturday and begin at 8:30 p.m. But — most importantly — kid, and I'm going to get John Tammi. Hope Theatre the 1977 Summer Circle season; ing the actors to do a better Student rush tickets go on sale roller disco provides a new another pair while the getting's artistic director who told Horn as the broadly comic Dogberry job." at half price fifteen minutes source for scoring with the foxy still good! And if you're at all to contact him when he was in the 1978 PAC production of A member of Actors Equity prior to curtain time. ladies. All you're going to need interested in this new "where- back in Michigan. When Horn Much Ado About Nothing: and in the near future to pick up it's-at" craze, Jammin' by Bill returned to MSU in March, as the murderous philanderer however, the Hope Theatre Macheath in the 1979 PAC actors had been hired for the itoccepted ' summer so he thought the box production of Three Penny- office staff had also been se¬ Opera. Voland, who received his O'Wr \cBuvanv I lected — that is until he master of fine arts degree in .^y Medium Pizza | received a call and a job offer from the theater. June, said he is happy with the ^ at the Regular I training he got at MSU. Price get the I Having completed his master "I'm glad I left Los Angeles Identical Pizza TREE of fine arts degree, Horn left for Hope College in June, only because I would never have j gotten the chance I've had three weeks before the acting here," he said. "Los Angeles is iupon per ordei 8 13 79 I company arrived. not a stage town." 2830 E. Grand River ' "The job was the kind of Immediately after the Hope 2 blks. west of Frandor I thing that requires six months Theatre season, Voland will go before the actors get there," he delivery west of Harrison I to Los Angeles to spend some said. time with his family. After that 485-4406 J As director of public rela¬ the future is uncertain. tions Horn handles publicity, "I've been going to college advertising, promotion and acts straight for nine years without as liaison person with the Hope a break," he said. "I'm thinking g .. (Delivery Available) No checks Theatre Guild, a volunteer or¬ of getting a job outside the ganization. He also sets tours for the Children's Per up theatre to make Maybe I'll go to some money. Germany for a A Vj r Buy any LARGE Pizza for the I Looking professional formance Troupe connected few months. $ ] with the Hope Theatre, booking their three shows, Snow White He said he does not feel much urgency about pushing ahead the ^ '487-6655 r PRICE a small of | in a new career begins with frames and the Seven Dwarfs. Jack and the Beanstalk and The with his theatrical career. "So much of it is fate, chance haiRcatteRS ■ PIZZA! from: Great Electric Story Box. "I had set a goal of 18 children's bookings and we're and something you cannot con trot," he said. "I don't really think I'm going to come into my 1417/j E. MICHIGAN AVE. Imusi hove 1203 coupon # or Grand River ? coupon per order 2830 E. Grand 2 blks. west of 8/13/79 River Frandor 0 Brookfield Plaza behind Co-Optical stoe LANSING, MICHIGAN ■ delivery east of delivery west of Harrisonj already 30 now," Horn commercially until I'm