HENRY KISSINGER See editorial page . E Nineiy Years of Editorial Freedom 1EaiIl FLAKEY, See Today for details Vol. LXXXX, No. 69 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, November 29, 1979 Ten Cents Ten Pages plus Supplement. Tenure By ADRIENNE LYONS and JEFFREY WOLFF Second in a five-part series After a decade in which "affirmative action" has become a household phrase around the University, women and minority academics have made little progress entering the ranks of the tenured. Members of the two groups have been kept from those ranks in part by the declining availability of tenured positions. But conversations with minority and women faculty members and University administrators reveal a variety of subtle mechanisms that make the tenure process particularly difficult for nonwhites and women. STATISTICS FROM the University il gains sb administration show women represent fewer than six per cent of the Univer- sity's 1,300 full professors - virtually the same proportion as in 1970 - and 17.4 per cent of the 610 associate professors, as compared to ten per cent in 1970. Since 1974, the proportion of minority (black, Asian, Native American, and Hispanic) full and associate professors has been moving upward - but slowly. It has increased by less than two per cent since 1974, and there are currently only 125 minority full and associate professors. Promotions to full and associate professor are almost always accom- panied by tenure, while lower ranking assistant professors rarely have tenure. Y ow for women, HIRING, PROMOTION, and tenure decisions fall largely under the jurisdiction of the faculty of each department and/or college. And power "The powerful positions (at the University) are held by men and the decisions are made by men,'s says Joyce Friedman, professor of Com- QapQQOa Qaaoa tinority faculty WOMEN AND minorities often find discipline. Since they are in the themselves outside this informal minority, this places them at tlhe system. "Women so far have not been periphery of the power structure of plugged into the 'Old Boys' Network' to their department." any measurable extent," said Muriel This can affect minority tenure Ross, full professor of anatomy and decisions, Uzoigwe says, since "tenure former co-chairwoman of the may be weighted on the side of what the Academic Women's Caucus at the department considers to be its main Medical School. priorities." GODFREY UZOIGWE, a University But William Cash, assistant to the full professor now teaching African president and a professor in the School history in his tenth year here, says, of Education, as well as a lecturer in "Minority faculty I have talked to do the Psychology Department, stresses not complain about overt racism but what he sees as the objectivity of the emphasize differences of ideology, ap- tenure review. Cash says in his work on proach, direction, and emphasis of various faculty review and executive their particular disciplines. Minority committees, he has observed that faculty often differ from their white evaluators limit themselves to "the colleagues in what they consider to be the mainstream of emphasis of their See TENURE, Page 5 in the University's departments and colleges is still wielded almost solely by white males. Only the School of Education and School of Nursing have women deans, and department chairs and executive .committees are still almost exclusively the domain of white males. puter and Communication Sciences and co-chairwoman of the Academic Women's Caucus. In such a decentralized process, the "Old Boy's Club," through which hiring and promotional decisions are influen- ced by personal acquaintances can play a prominent role. New LSA- SG meets; election certified By DAVID MEYER A proposal to replace the LSA Student Government (LSA-SG) preferential voting system with a simplified plurality system was passed in the college elections held last week. The results of the election were certified yesterday by the Central Student Judiciary. Five non-binding proposals also were approved while another, calling for a raise in the mandatory college gover- nment fee from 50 cents to 75 cents was defeated by approximately 2-1. THE NEWLY-ELECTED LSA-SG members met yesterday for the first time to meet one another and become familiar with LSA-SG procedure and the LSA administrative structure. New LSA-SG President Dan Solomon said in an interview that LSA-SG would not be immediately concerned with the results of the six non-binding ballot issues but would first deal with the in- stitution of a constitutional change in voting procedure. Solomon said the results of the other six proposals would be used later "as guides when we discuss those issues." During the LSA-SG meeting, former officers delivered farewell speeches. Former president Bob Stechuk's urged that the 17-member government pursue new avenues to expand its influence in- to more traditional administrative powers. Stechuk also emphasized the need to increase LSA student awareness of its government. New council members reiterated this in- terest in increased LSA-SG publicity. The new council members also said they would be interested in working on the issues of student involvement in LSA-SG, tenure and University invest- ments in South Africa. Carter: End Iran conflict peacefull a"uiu AN IRANIAN STUDENT defies President Carter's retaliation promises in a speech to thousands from outside the U.S. Embassy in Tehran where 49 American hostages have been held for the past four weeks. AtarcticaOcra kills 257, 2 American From Reuter and AP President Carter warned Iran last night of grave consequences if American hostages were harmed and strongly defended his decision to admit the deposed Shah for medical treat- ment. Carter told a nationally broadcast press conference he was determined to resolve the crisis through peaceful and diplomatic means, but gave no sign he thinks the crisis is nearing an end. "OUR DETERMINATION may be even more sorely tried" in days to come, the president said. Carter vowed that his administration "will persist in our efforts until every single American has been freed." He added: "Any claims raised by Iran will ring hollow while innocent people are bound, abused and threatened," and again warned Iranian leaders of grave consequences if the 49 Americans held hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran are harmed. "For a government to applaud mob violence and terrorism - actually to support and in effect participate in the taking and holding of hostages - is un- precedented in human history," he said, adding: "We hold the government of Iran fully responsible ... CARTER PLEDGED that the United States would never yield to blackmail. And he said the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran by Islamic militan- ts "shocked the civilized world." "There is no recognized religious faith on Earth which condones kidnap- ping," Carter said. "There is no recognized religious faith which con- dones blackmail. From Reuter. All 257 people aboard an Air New Zealand DC-10 jet, including 12 Americans, were killed when the plane slammed into the side of a volcano in the Antarctic yesterday, a U.S. Navy spokesman said . The announcement that there were no survivors came after a three-man rescue party flew to the crash scene on the slopes of 11,300 foot Mount Erebus aboard a U.S. Navy helicopter from the nearby U.S. Antarctic base at McMur- do. "EVERYBODY ON that aircraft has died," said a spokesman for the U.S. Antarctic Survey in Christchurch. "We have it confirmed there were no survivors." The rescue party reached the scene{ after severe turbulence prevented earlier helicopter attempts to land. THE DC-10, which was declared lost by Air New Zealand last night, was carrying a crew of 20 and 237 passengers who had paid $359 for what was supposed to be a scenic 11-hour flight from Auckland to the Antarctic and back. Airline officials said the jet had com- pleted its sightseeing run and was on its way back north to New Zealand when radio contact was lost. Wreckage was found 2,500 feet up Mount Erebus. THE AIRLINE Passengers Association (APA), a private lobbying group based in Dallas, called on President Carter to order an immediate investigation into the crash. "Because of the accident-marred history of the DC-10, it is imperative to know immediately whether structural or design deficiencies caused the ac- cident," the APA said in a statement. The APA was prominent in urging the grounding of all American-operated. DC-10s after the Chicago crash in May of an American Airlines DC-10 in which 273 people were killed. See ANTARCTICA, Page 5 "There certainly is no religious faith on Earth which condones the sustained abuse of innocent people." CARTER TOLD the nation that the 49 hostages held at the U.S. Embassy are being kept "in inhuman and degrading conditions." Mansour Farhang, an Iranian em- bassy official in Washington, denied the hostages had been mistreated. The president told a questioner that his decision to admit the former shah into the United States for treatment of cancer and gallstones was proper and had helped save the former leader's life. "I TOOK the right decision ... I have no regrets about it," he said. Critics have said the administration bowed to pressure from former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and See CARTER, Page 5 Iran n ames new foreign s " minister TEHRAN (Reuter) - The ruling Iranian Revolutionary Council last night named a new foreign minister to replace Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, whose often conciliatory statements on the Iranian-American conflict were frequently contradicted by revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. A council spokesman said Sadeq Qot- zbadeh, the head of the state radio and television, will replace Bani-Sadr, who was appointed acting foreign minister in the new administration formed on November 6, and will retain his post of acting economics minister. NO REASON WAs given for the new appointment. But Foreign Ministry of- ficials said it reflected the Revolutionary Council's opposition to Bani-Sadr attending a United Nations Security Council debate on Iran this weekend. Qotzbadeh told the official news agency Pars that no decision had yet been made on whether he should attend the Security Council meeting. The ministerial change did not represent any foreign policy shift, he said. "The foreign policy of the Islamic Republic is the same that Imam (Ayatollah Khomeini) has determined and which will be pursued decisively," Qotzbadeh said. Policy makers ignore world population problem, expert says By SARA ANSPACH It is possibly the foremost problem in the world today, and eventually has the potential to destroy human civilization. And yet,' notes a leading authority on population control, the threat of the world population explosion is subtly ignored by the world's major policy-makers. "In the last presidential election har- dly a word was spoken (about the population issue)," said Dr. Roy Greep, professor emeritus at Harvard Medical School and former director'of the Ford Foundation's worldwide project in reproductive biology and contraceptive development. ADDRESSING A crowd of about 100 in the Union's Pendleton Room yester- day, Greep said he predicts next year's presidential candidates also will ignore the politically and religiously sensitive issue of worldwide population control. "It's sad, but that's the situation," he said. The present world population is estimated at about 4.3 billion, Greep said. "The explosion is going to go right on," he said, estimating the figure will reach 6.3 billion people by the end of the century, "and from then on God only knows." Although disagreement exists over the earth's carrying capacity, Greep said, little doubt remains that the growing number of human beings puts' an enormous strain on the environ- ment. The extinction of wildlife, destruction of major forests, dwindling food supply and depletion of non-renewable resour- ces are direct results of the rising human population, he noted. GREEP SAID a "catastrophe" could occur through continued growth, and See POPULATION, Page 2 Doily rnoto b yLI AKLAU NOTED FERTILITY expert Dr. Roy Greep spoke about fertility control and human welfare before an audience of 100 in the Union's Pendleton room yesterday. _____________________________________________________________ I I U I to make additional copies. A 30-minute time limit for checking out the document has been imposed, but most of those seeking the report still are forced to wait for it. Be- sides curiosity about faculty salaries, a strain of disclosure mania abounds on campus. "I had one lady who asked me if we were going to publish the names of the people who take it out," a library worker reported. And Wednesday, a man who said he was a reporter for the Ann Arbor News called the Daily and asked if there were plans to publish the grade point averages of all Michigan football players and Daily staffers. One way to pore over your profs' salaries and skip the crowds is to read them in the Daily, which will publish fh i.. liefhnfn- rac an this term F] i I i i 1 1 i A stance. The Customs Office graciously informed him that yesterday. Instead of the he could learn more about the action by including the num- struct to greet the first fl ber with his inquiries. But the intended hash recipient does bong. Paul Griffith takes not plan to pursue the matter. "I'm going to let it slide," he sized pipe, which reportec said. n his appetite. Snow: to smoke or to snort The season's first snow gave creative sculptors a chan- On the inside ce to pay tribute to this campus's druggish ambiance Sen. Edward Kenne shadowed by the Iranian feature on Arturo Vivanti proverbial snowman kiddies con- akes, the college set made a snow a figurative toke from the over- dly altered neither his psyche nor E dy's campaign has been over- crisis, on the editorial page. . . a e's fiction reading Tuesday night, iAcnnth,,PreCR AllTRiig Ten _ I i i I