Page 4-Sunday, November 12. 1978-The Michigan Daily LOOKING BACK THE WEEK IN REVIEN Four Democrats and one Republican were victorious in Tuesday's election. Moving clockwise from the bottom left they include: Incumbent Regent Paul Brown of Petoskey; Dr. Edward Pierce, the state senator-elect, from Ann Arbor; incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Carl Pursell, who received two- thirds of the vote in his election win over Earl Greene; incumbent state Rep. Perry Bullard; and incumbent Regent James Waters of Muskegon. the Senate giving Michigan one of the most liberal teams in that body. The voters also returned Governor William Millikento the state House. If the Governor serves his entire term he will have held the office longer than anyone in the state's history. Speculation abounds that because Milliken is one of the most popular Republicans in the nation he may seek higher office. Milliken buried his opponent Democratic state Senator William Fitzgerald 56 per cent to 44 per cent. Fitzgerald had sought to discredit Milliken and win the election by continually taking the Governor to task for the. PBB scandal. But the voters returned the governor to office with the largest plurality he has ever received. Congressman Carl Pursell was returned to Washington by the voters. He received 66 per cent of the vote in a landslide victory over Ann Arbor City Councilman Earl Greene. Greene's name almost did not appear on the ballot after he barely got enough signatures in time to qualify for election. Pursell had received most of therendorsements before the election and was heavily favored by the unions, somewhat of a rarity for a Republican in Michigan. It was a long wait for Dr. Edward Pierce but the Ann Arbor Democrat finally won an election Tuesday. After two unsuccessful attempts at the U.S. Congress seat currently held by Pursell; Pierce was elected to the state Senate. Pierce defeated his Republican opponent, University associate professor C. William Colburn. Pierce had gainedsnotoriety in the early 1970s when he left a successful medical practice to open a medical clinic in Ann Arbor. Pierce and Representative Perry Bullard, who was re-elected to the stateHouse of Representatives were both aided by an extremely heavy student voter turnout, which occurred largely because of Proposition D. Democratic incumbents James Waters and Paul Brown were re-elected, to the University Board of Regents. Waters had been running behind former state Senator Republican Gilbert Bursley in the early election returns but he eventually pulled ahead. Both Brown and waters have served for eight years as Regents and if they serve the full term they were elected to on Tuesday they will be Regents for eight more years. Both Brown and Waters have agreed with the Univesity position against divestment of stock holdings in American companies doing business with the apartheid South African regime. Engin School to move north In this time of high inflation and ballooning cost of living when taxpayers have asked the state to limit taxation the University has had difficulty convincing the state legislature it needs more revenue from Lansing than it is getting. It has been especially difficult in recent years for the University to get state funding for capital expenses. In 1974 the college of Engineering realized if they were going to complete plans to move the college to North campus it had better not rely on the state for funding. In that year the school decided to undertake a Capital campaign. An ambitious goal of $20 million was set. On thursday morning College of Engineering Dean David Ragone, Capital Campaign National Chairman James Knott, and University President Robben Fleming announced the goal had been exceeded by $80,000. The campaign represents the largest fund-raising goal ever reached by a school or college at the University. The drive was bolstered by several large contributions from industry and foundations including General Motors, the Herbert and Grace Dow Foundation, and the Henry and Margaret Towsley Foundation. It is expected that by 1981 Engineering students will be attending classes and laboratories on North Campus in four buildings yet to be constructed. MSA V.P. resigns I r I Democrats gaia The voters of the state of Michigan agreed with Robert Griffin Tuesday. Michigan's senior l senator, a man who has served 22 years in Congress eventually moving up to the position of Senate minority whip, told the voters in April; of last year that the Senate was in need of new blood and that it would be unfair for the voters1 if he continued in office. Griffin said he was ] tired. Although he later changed his mind he had already convinced the voters and on election l day Griffin was defeated by the former 1 the Farm Labor Organizaing Comnittee, al Alpha Hernandez, a legal aid attorney from tl border town of Del Rio, Texas. Cuevas and Germanatta discussed' 'd problems of migrant workers across the cou try, while Hernandez concentrated on ti brutality of the U.S. Immigration Service, at its denial of basic human rights. n in '78 election President of the Detroit city Council Carl Levin. Levin, considered liberal in his approach to the nation's problems was making his first attempt at state wide office. He won the election with 53 per cent of the vote, winning in traditional Griffin strongholds like the Upper Peninsula and Detroit's northern suburbs. Levin claimed in the campaign that his experience with the federal bureaucracy on the local level will give him a unique perspective. He will join freshman Senator Donald Reigel in Prop Dpasses The reaction of local bar owners and 18 to 20 year olds to the approval of Propisiton D by 55 per cent of the state's voters was predictable. "The Archie Bunkers who prompted Proposal D are going to be surprised when they find out it's going to be as effective as a screen door in a submarine, it won't hold water," said Bill Mar- zonie, the manager of Don Cisco's. In the wake of the passage of Proposal D, Mayor Louis Belcher asked the city attorney to draft a lenient city liquor law, students at Western Michigan University had already star- ted a petition drive to get the amendment reversed on the 1980 ballot, and state Represen- tataive Perry. Bullard said he was going to draft legislation which will aim for civil, rather than criminal, penalties for possession and consumption of alcohol by 18 to 20 year olds. When the proposal goes into effect East Lan- sing and Ann Arbor will have more stringent penalties for the possession of alcohol than for possession of marijuana. Several opponents of the ballot referendum announced intentions of challenging D in federal court. It is unclear whether drinking is a right or a privilege and any court challenger may turn on that definition. Teach-in on Mexico A teach-in on Mexico, sponsored by the Ann Arbor Committee for Human Rights in Latin America, ran for three snights last week in Schorling Auditorium. Speakers focused on a multitude of problems affecting Mexicans and Mexican-Americans, in particular the sup- pression of their political power. The featured speaker was Hector Marroquin, formerly a radical student leader in Mexico, who fled to the United States in 1974 after being labeled a subversive and a terrorist by his government. Marroquin is currently seeking political asylum in the United States, and Wed- nesday night he detailed the problems he is having in obtaining asylum when he is con- sidered a Communist opponent of a friendly government. Also speaking Wednesday night was Juan Jose Penna, one of the founders of Raza Unida (a Chicano political party based in the South- west), and Julia Preston, a freelance journalist who discussed the womens' movement in Mexico. On Tuesday two American professors, James Cockcroft from Rutgers and Sheldon Liss from the University of Akron, spoke on past and current political repression in Mexico as well as the involvement of U.S. intelligence agen- ciesin that country's affairs. Of particular interest were the revelations Liss made concerning the active role the FBI has taken in infiltrating organizations which threaten U.S. economic interests south of the border, including labor and student groups. Capping off the teach-in Thursday night were Fernando Cuevas and Paul Germanatta from When an elected representative finds thg her views on issues are in the minority then are two things she can do: stay and fighto quit. This week Michigan Student Assemble Vice-President Nancy Smith resigned: "Instead of trying to change the world b working on state, national, and world wid issues, I think MSA should try to work on afe problems on campus and get sometiing done; said Smith. "Not that those issues oreh important, it's just that we can't do mucht change them. Many assembly member disagree with me on this. Smith also attacked the Assembly for tryin to increase student involvement with tli University selection process. "It's the Regents' job to choose the . ne~ president, and if they ask for MSA input the should give it if they want, or forget it," sai Smith. "Trying to take away the power.of t Regents to make this choice ofgoing on an og trip " She also criticized the Assembly's inability obtain crucial publicity for running studei buses to North Campus at late hours. According to several MSA member possible nominees for Smith's replacemei include Sean Foley, Dave ILaverty, Ji, Allmand and. Kate Rubin. The new vic president will be elected from 1\SA ranks an will serve until the next campus-wide election, beirMtcbzlan rA , 420Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Eigh ty-Nine Years of Editorial Free om LXXXIX, No. 58 News Phone: 764-055: Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan Vol. i2 *The U So z W HEN PRESIDENT Carter assumed office he vowed to doggedly attack violations of human rights wherever they may occur. But throughout his alleged campaign against human rights violations, the President has been very selective about who he criticizes; he has denied the existence of political prisoners in the U.S.; although he has verbally denounced certain offenders of the United Nations code of human rights, many of his policies toward those countries have remained virtually unchanged.' mnd the shah It was generally said - and believed - that the arms were needed for Iran's external defense. But events over the past few months have shown that the arms were actually needed for internal defense - to keep the shah in power. The shah, who enjoys his current position as a result of an American CIA aided ovethrow of the constitutionally elected government in 1953, put Iran under military rule this week in order to restore some semblance of peace. The shah's opponents, who have been venting their frustration in the streets and have effectively shut down ... ,. .. _. . ., L ., .. ... 3. ,. .,xA - A . . Smith Canham's big business Letters to the Daily y1 Perhaps most disconcerting, operations in tne 011 industry, to a however, has been the President's large extent are portrayed by the shah whole-hearted support of the Shah as religious reactionaries who want to Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran - a return the country to a 14th century man who has overseen some of the most mode of living by the Koran. repugnant and methodical violations of W hile the shah's opposition has a human rights anywhere in the world. strong religious fiber, many forget the In the West, the shah has generally social egalitarianism which is so much been considered a democratic a part of the Islamic religion. modernizer. For years he has been Moreover, the National Front, portrayed in the American press and comprised of many western-educated byU.S. Leaders asareformer, popular intellectuals, engineers, among his people for distributing land businesspersons and workers ask only to the poor, and capitalizing on Iran's for a return to a constitutional huge oil reserves to create one of the democracy. The all have one common most stable economies in the Mideast. goal, however, the end of dictatorship The most pertinent facts about Iran, by the shah. however, were never broadcast very How often have we heard that the loudly: the 60 per cent illiteracy rate; goal of U.S. foreign policy has been to the fact that three out of five rural make the 'world safe for democracy." families are either landless or nearly Clearly, no one can believe that the landless; there is only one doctor for people of Iran now live in a democracy about every 3,000 persons. Yet, Iran is where the government works for the one of the world's leading arms betterment of all. If we still believe in importers, second only to East the basic principles of our foreign To the Daily: The Daily's Saturday editorial, "Canham's Big Business," was most welcome! How often do we hear about the financial solvency of the athletic department? It turns out that we pay for that success: Mr. Canham governs our access to athletic events and facilities according to profitability and not necessarily with regard to the needs of the university community. The Track and Tennis building, used alternately by varsity teams and by University Tennis Club members, offers a specific case in point. Poorly designed to begin with (no need was originally forseen for women's lockers!) this facility is being mismanaged and misused now. The track and the tennis courts cramp each other for space, creating safety hazards which are further aggravated by piles of miscellaneous equipment stashed in odd corners: high hurdles, rolls of matting, a weightlifting machine, etc. On a given morning, one pays one's four dollars or more per hour for a court, only to discover that the noise of heavy maintenance machinery being driven around the periphery makes it impossible to concentrate on the game. Meanwhile,' with interesting illogic, a serious tennis teacher of my tennis players and runners are barred altogether from the building, in order that it may be rented out for such activities as a cheerleaders camp, or a pre- football-game alumni brunch, or even (in one instance) a mortician's convention! Of course: the athletic department makes more money from these invasions than it does from the regular users. Perhaps we should also evict students from classes in Angell Hall, in order to host a Rotary club meeting there? Why don't we invite a convention of taxidermists to occupy our laboratories, on the same principle? President Fleming described the general problem very well the other day: the athletic department does not work through the same channels as the rest of the university. Thus Mr. Canham proceeds to spend last year some $600,000 over the usual amount for stadium renovation, and expects to be ablt to do so without clearing it with the administration beforehand. The technicalities of his "procedure" or of his "understanding" with Vice-President Brinkerhoff are entirely without interest. In this time of widespreak cutbacks in academic funding, sloppy accounting on such a scale is simply inadmissable. Are people university control: the, tail wagging the dog, and we are paying for it every day. -Duncan Robertson Department of Romance Languages Poor journalism To the Daily: As a student, concerned about the situation in the Middle East and, in particular, the future of relations between the Palestinian and the Jewish people, I was angered by the poor journalistic style exhibited by the Michigan Daily staff in the report of the speech given by Dr. Jim Zogby, national director of the Palestine Human Rights Campaign. The article of 10/21/78 clearly represented how, in the face of a controversial situation, the speaker could be misrepresented while the essence,'of his speech was left totally untouched. In a situation as crucial as the one existing in the Middle East, which has grave implications, not only for the Arab states, Israel, and the Palestinians, but for the entire world, we cannot afford to lose faith in the credibility of the press to report the news as accurately and as clearly as possible. are accentuating the divisive forces that already exist within the Arab world. Made clear by the Camp David talks, the leadership of the three countries most actively involved in the negotiations - the U3., Egypt, and Israel - have failed to realize that there will never be a true peace without the Palestinian people's irput. As of today, their official leadership, the PLO, has not been recognized. In doing so, they are failing to deal with the issue that is going to be a determining factor to peace in the Middle East - the recognition of the Palestire people's right to the lard to which they have historical and 'religious ties. (Doesn't ths sound familiar? Could it be that they are another Semitic people who also want to feel that they have-a place which they can call "home?" Ironic, isn't it? Have the Jews forgotten so soon whit their national movement was fighting for?) They want to be:a first-class citizens which includes, among other things, freedom of expression, the right to build homes, vote, 'and move freely inside and beyond their city. Until this goal is reached, the Americans, Egyptians, and Israelis can sit down and "shmooze" together; all they