Election '94

The Candidate

Their Issues Their Proposals

COMPILED BY JENNIFER FINER

Party: Libertarian

Complete privatization

of the educational sys-
tem and vouchers.

Occupation: Private

practice physician
Residence: Grand Rapids

Name: Gumecindo Salas

Party: Democrat

A. Special education. B.
Funding for schools. C.
Adult education.

Residence: East Lansing

Name: Carol Thomas

Party: Democrat

Residence: Southfield

Name: Sharon Wise

A. Address challenges of
changing technological
age. B. Providing teach-
ers with tools to im-
prove their skills.

A. Improving the quality
of educ,ation. B. Teach-
ing students to com-
pete.

Party: Republican

Occupation:

Party: Libertarian

Occupation: Video

State Board of Education*

Name: Erwin J. Haas

Name: Emily H. Salvette

Business owner
Residence: Owosso

The complete privatization of the
educational system. An intermedi-
ate step would be a voucher sys-
tem, allowing parents and students
free choice of where they will
spend "their" educational dollars.

A. Continue to seek more effective
ways to educate those needing
special education programs. B.
Fight so all schools receive suffi-
cient funds to maintain a quality
school program. C. Ensure all who
need additional education will have
the opportunity.

A. Actively seek improvements,
welcome change and constantly
strive for higher standards. B.
Build educational bridges beyond
school fences and establish com-
munication links and coalitions be-
tween teachers.

A. Supports schools of choice,
merit pay for teachers, support for
classroom teachers, charter
schools, voluntary prayer and
bringing new technology to class-
rooms. B. Give young people skills
they need to compete in today's
job market and global economy.

A. Serve students and
faculty. B. Change
speech code. C. Keep
costs down.

A. The university's first commit-
ment should be to learning, not
perpetuating itself as a bureaucra-
cy. B. As with past speech codes,
the current conduct code and the
Diag policy limit the rights of stu-
dents. Repeal them. C. Decrease
the high ratio of administrators to
teachers.

Develop the model uni-
versity for the nation
and world to follow.

Continue providing the university
with the excitement. energy level
and resources to continue its
transformation to better serve a
rapidly changing society. We must
continue our commitment to the
achievement of an environment
that nourishes and sustains diver-
sity.

production company
owner
Residence: Ann Arbor

Name: James L. Waters

Party: Democrat

Occupation: Senior
director of law firm
Residence: Muskegon

Michigan State University Board of Trustees**
Enhance MSU's and
Name: Don Nugent
grant philosophy of re-
Party: Republican
search and education.
Occupation: Fruit grower and
food processor
Residence: Frankfort

Name: Colleen McNamara

Party: Democrat

Occupation: Executive
director of Michigan Cable
Television Association
Residence: Lansing

Name: Paul Wartner

Party: Republican

Continue to be a leader among our
nations land-grant universities and
remain true to its founding mission
of accessibility and the extension
of knowledge to all citizens of
Michigan.

A. Make better use of
technology. B. Make
college more afford-
able.

A. Technology to serve students
and to extend the classrooms to
homes and businesses. B. Ensure
parents don't have to mortgage
their retirement to pay for tuition
and provide a greater variety of tu-
ition funding.

A. Funding. B. Give
parents a voice.

A. Make quality and funding of
MSU a top priority. B. Ensure par-
ents have a voice on issues such
as campus safety, tuition costs and
quality of instruction.

Occupation: Retiring state

senator

Residence: Portage

* No response from Candidates Claris quart aid David H. Raaflaub.
d not be reached.
Rebecca Jo Flora and Selina

Michigan Board of Regents

Name: Gary R. Bradley

Party: Libertarian

Occupation:

Independent businessman
Residence: St. Johns

Name: Andrea Fischer

Party: Republican

Wayne State University Board of Governors***

A. Decrease the univer-
sity reliance on state
funds. B. Re-emphasize
the teaching function. C.
insure forums are open.

A. Concentrate on increasing the
use of endowments. B. Make
teaching ability as important in
tenure decisions as research abili-
ty. C. Academic forums open to
debate from all viewpoints, rather
than the present emphasis on po-
litical correctness and speech
codes.

Highest priority— re-
view university's overall
financial situation.

A. Explore means by which the
university could keep costs in
check and tuition at reasonable lev-
els, including privatization, fewer
layers of administration and in-
creased time for professors teach-
ing undergraduates.

Occupation: Principal at

Miller, Canfield, Paddock &
Stone
Residence: Birmingham

** No response from candidates Benjamin Bachrach, Joel Ferguson
and Mary J. Ruwart. Kristen Hamel could not be reached.

Name: Alan Amen

Party: Democrat

Occupation: Executive
director of financial aid for
C.S. Mott Community
College
Residence: Dearbom Heights

Name: Diane Dunaskiss

Party: Republican

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Party: Republican

Occupation: Insurance

company partner
Residence: Grand Haven

A. Support for new de-
velopments. B. Against
U-M speech code and
domestic partnership is-
sue.

A. Focus efforts on maintaining the
academic excellence while provid-
ing support for new developments
and heightened technology. B.
Against providing benefits to
same-sex partners of U-M faculty
and staff.

* No response from Candidate Paul .Brown.
Kevin Carey and William Quarton could not be reached.

Outlines three goals to
accomplish as WSU
governor

Maintain excellence in education at
Wayne State, restore the urban
campus and create a values-based
education system that will ensure
every student learns the skills nec-
essary for success in today's job
market.

A.University funding.
B.Sever the tie be-
tween government
and some economic
functions of the
school.

A. Seek funding of educational ac-
tivity through partnership with
business. B. "When government
becomes involved in the perfor-
mance of some economic func-
tions, it treads where it shouldn't."

Occupation: Special
education teacher
Residence: Lake Orion

Name: Brain Richard Wright

Name: Dan Horning

A. A shuttle to take students to
their cars, which can be parked
blocks away, at night. B. Compared
to other state universities, WSU
has the smallest endowment fund.

Party: Libertarian

Occupation: Technical writer
for a software
company
Residence: Farmington Hills

*** Candidate Leon Atchison could not be reached. Thomas W. Jones would not participate.
No response from Edward Haroutunian.