KOREA See editorial page C I .he Sir igan tti FLURRIES See Today for details Ninety Years of Editorial Freedom Vol. LXXXX, No. 70 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Friday, November 30, 1979 Ten Cents Twelve Pages Students press for more involvement in the system By HOWARD WITT and MICHAEL ARKUSH Third in a five-part series Do undergraduates have enough voice in determining which professors will be granted lifetime job security? To many University professors and administrators, the answer is a definitive "yes." They maintain that students have adequate opportunities to express their views in tenure cases. MANY STUDENT leaders, however, complain that they have no votes in the tenure process and no guarantees that student opinions are considered when faculty members go behind closed doors to decide on tenure and promotions. "The departments jealously guard the privilege of deciding on tenure. "Students don't have any real ability to be involved. They can't vote on promotions, they can't speak to depar- tment executive committees, (which ®n_ ._. _.__ _m ... .-- ....u,_.. __ ..® ........__..._ .. _ , t * . A ,I a _,° Stechuk's assessment of the situation. "It's easy to misunderstand the dif- ference between student involvement in the tenure process in an important way and actual student voting. Students are involved because (course and teacher) evaluations are weighed quite heavily," Frye says. He adds that he strongly favors student influence in tenure decisions in the form of evaluations, but strongly opposes student votes. THE BATTLE lines over student in- volvement in the tenure process have stood drawn in a similar manner for the past several years, but some direct con- frontation on the issue could occur in See STUDENTS, Page 12 Frye ... satisfied with system They don't want to allow students to participate," says Bob Stechuk, whose term as president of the LSA Student Government (LSA-SG), just ended. are often involved in tenure decisions), and no one will discuss specific cases with us." LSA Dean Billy Frye disagrees with ... wants student votes Brown vs. Board of Education reopened TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - The historic Brown vs. Board of Education case, which began here 28 years ago and led to the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 ban on racial segregation in schools, was reopened by a federal judge yesterday after a group of parents complained schools are not yet integrated. U.S. District Court Judge Richard IRogers ruled that a group of black parents who asked him to revive the case have a continuing legal interest in seeing that the court's desegregation order is properly carried out. 'The parents contend that Topeka schools remain racially imbalanced, and they cite figures that some schools have as much as 70 per cent minority enrollment.. SCHOOL OFFICIALS deny that they have failed to carry out the Supreme Court's order and say recent federal in- vestigations have dismissed charges of segregation in Topeka schools. The original 1954 Brown decision struck down a 1949 Kansas law that allowed racial segregation of school children in some cities. In the early 1950s, Kansas was one of four states that permitted segregation, while 17 states and the District of Columbia required segregation. In the decision, then-Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote, "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal," and therefore in violation of the equal protection clause of ftle 14th Amendment. ATTORNEYS FOR the school beard argued that parents should file a new lawsuit to pursue their claims rather than reopen the Brown case. But Rogers said the federal courts never closed the case and said he could find "no substantial prejudice" to the school board in permitting the parents to press their claims under the original case. But Rogers said that if the courts find See DESEGREGATION, Pige 2 Mexico.. refuses to adnut Shah. MEXICO CITY (AP)-The Mexican government said last night it will not let the shah of Iran back into the country because the "situation has changed radically" in the U.S.-Iranian crisis and harboring the deposed ruler is not in Mexico's interest. "The government of Mexico will not be in a position to renew the visa of the shah on Dec. 9," Foreign Minister Jorge Casta- neda said in a statement to reporters, so it makes "no sense for Daily Photo by DAVID HARRIS Ode on the Arb Crystal snow-the stark, white, winter dress of trees, Hanging on the boughs where so recently clung leaves. COCKROACHES D-igusting Pests 'bug' ityresidents him to return to Mexico." Cas- taneda refused to answer reporters' questions. U.S. officials, surprised by Mexico's decision not to read- mit the deposed shah of Iran, were trying to assess the im- pact of the move. ,STATE DEPARTMENT officials said it was not clear from the terse statement issued last night by Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castaneda what Mexico had done or what it might mean. Neither the shah nor his chief w spokesman, Robert Armao, was available for comment. Armao's private phone had been disconnected. THERE WAS NO immediate com- ment from the Carter administration. Castaneda's statement said: "In the current moment the situation has changed radically. The world is facing a real crisis, described by U.N. Secretary-General Mr. Kurt Waldheim as a threat to international peace and By CATHY BROWN He's a night stalker. Waiting until you've turned out the lights to emerge, he crawls over your counters and into your cornflakes. Perhaps you re familiar with the culprit, for he and his friends frequent several local homes and apartments - and in greater num- bers since the bottle bill took effect. He's the cockroach, and he's a com- mon plague in Ann Arbor. AS WELL AS the inconvenience of all those beer cans to return after the par- ty, the state's three-year-old bottle bill has provided another problem - an in- crease in roaches. According to George Roache of Roachie Exterminating in Ypsilanti, "The bottlestare brought from home in bags and they (shoppers) transport roaches back that way." He explained that roaches cling to the bottles and when brought to the store, they get out and climb among the shelves, into other food. But he added that most grocery stores are treated monthly with insect For many party stores which aren't regularly visited by exterminators, however, roaches have caused real problems. This year's apartment hunters should also be aware of the bacteria-spreading pests for, according to Jim Sandlin of Orkin Extermination Service in Wayne, "you can find them in any house or building," apartmentsyincluded. Roache and Sandlin reported that they get calls from students plagued with roaches. security. "Faced with this new situation, the government of Mexico has had to pon- der all the essential factors of its duty to protect before anything else the vital interests of the country. It has reached the conclusion that it would be contrary to those interests to renew the tourist visa granted to the former shah." MEANWHILE, THE United States filed suit against Iran in an inter- national court yesterday, appealing for immediate action to free American hostages held by Islamic militants in Teheran. In an urgent appeal to the Inter- national Court of Justice in The Hague, the Carter administration called for a ruling that the American hostages be freed and the grounds of the U.S. Em- bassy in Teheran be cleared of the mob that seized the compound on Nov. 4. In a letter to the international court, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance also asked the court for unspecified "in- terim measures of protection" for the hostages. See MEXICO, Page 6 p o incnn c'n ,nnnhoC rinn't nnnfn m rh nncan . fflA fflV fl -- wisun, s ruacueo uun L pose Luo mucn bee KU nAUE, rage 9- f a threat. IRAN ReOligions contrasted Ira n 's A 2Dems may attempt to change city election date By JOHN GOYER Ann Arbor's Democratic Party last night considered trying to change the date of city elections from April to November, an action which members of both parties said would benefit the Democrats. The move would require the approval of city voters. A majority vote by the Republican-dominated City Council or 5,000 signatures on a petition would be required to place the question before the voters. THE DEMOCRATS took no action on the change last night. The November date is better for the Democrats, Republicans and Democrats said last night, because more voters traditionally turn out in November, drawn by the national and state contests. And Democrats, who outnumber the GOP locally, usually benefit from high turnouts. Republican Party officials said yesterday placing the local elections in November would obscure the local issues. "I THINK there are a lot of people here who call themselves Democrats and would vote Democrat in a national election," Council member Edward 'See CITY, Page 5 By KEITH RICHBURG The current showdown between the governments of President Carter and the Ayatollah Khomeini exemplify fun- damental contrasts between Islam and Christianity, according to Prof. Ali Mazrui, noted Africanist and director of the University's Center for Afro- American and African Studies. The differences in the two dominant world religions - rooted in the dissimilar circumstances of their foun- ders, Jesus Christ and Mohammed - have put the Christianized western world on a collision course with the Islamic states of the Third World, Mazrui said yesterday at a colloquium on Iran in the old Architecture and Design Building. FOR EXAMPLE, Mazrui explained how in Christianity, there is a notion of mercy and forgiveness that does not exist in Islam. Among Muslims, as among traditional Jews, there "is the idea of accountability in justice" - an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. That one difference would explain why Americans were willing to accept the pardon of former President Nixon as an act of mercy, while Iranians are obsessed with the idea that the former Shah must be returned to Iran to face justice, Mazrui said. It was that obsession - that the shah be returned to answer to charges of crimes against the people - that led Iranian students to seize the American embassy in Tehran and continue to hold 49 Americans hostage until the shah is extradited. "SAYING 'LET'S forgive the shah' or 'Let's forgive Nixon' is easier in a religion that says turn the other cheek, than in a religion that says you pay for your crimes," Mazrui told his audience. "The shah is their Nixon, (the man) at the top, guiltier of far greater crimes See RELIGION, Page 2 By JULIE SEL "Fifteen hundred Iran were summoned by the S dered and tortured. This of Iran' means to Irani Iranians justify the U playing host to the Shah? So asked Sadri Khal tears, last night at the N Auditorium before a grou people, as he concluded. Iran" panel discussion various religious groupso "THAT IS WHY you he on your television sc Khalessi, a doctoral statistics at the Univers that Iranians are terror Iranians are not terrorist they have been oppress you had undergone all I tortures, all the system ments, it's why they wan the world will hear," he s case explained BST KHALESSI WAS one of three guests ians a month on the panel. Also speaking were hah to be mur- professor K. Allin Luther of the Depar- is what 'Shah tment of Near Eastern Studies and ans. How can Professor William Schorger, a Jnited States professor of anthropology and director " of the Center for Near Eastern and Nor- essi, close to th African Studies. atural Science The audience was also close to tears, up of some 100 by the time he finished. Luther opened a "Focus on the talk with a note that he had been sponsored by asked to speak by campus ministers, to on campus. "shed a little light on the subject, ear these cries rather than influence the growing reens " said anger over the current crisis." student in sity. "It is not , BUT A QUESTION from one obser- rists, by God; ver quickly reminded the audience that s. It's just that 49 Americans are being held in Iran. ed too long. If "How seriously do the Iranians the systematic specifically, and the Islamic people vatic debauch- generally take the Ayatollah Khomeini, t to make a cry now that he has declared religious war aid. See IRANIAN, Page 5 I U ________________________ U - 7 I &PA'tow 1b' pw Per a ems r ape ' 4 the service come from WSU, Lawrence Institute of Technology, University of Detroit, and Wayne County Community College. Actually, the hot line is a recorded message which informs interested callers that they must call another number if they want to talk to "live" coun- selors. Campus freaks Like every other business around, the world record packaging industry wants into the college market. With the first Guinness Book of College Records and Facts, to be Swiggett Prize, and Michael R. Gutterman Award contests should be in the Hopwood Room in Angell Hall by then or not at all. H Did F.D.R. have cancer? Franklin Delano Roosevelt may have been secretly suf- fering from cancer when he died of a stroke in 1945, says a Dartmouth Medical School surgeon who has made a life- long study of FDR's health. Rumors flew during the 1944 camnaign that the nresident (shown here in 1932) was ill. On the inside The demand by Iran that the deposed Shah be tried by an international court may signal the beginning of a trend in trials involving ousted leaders, on the editorial page ... a review of the play Richard III in the Guest Ar- tist Series on the arts page .. , a story on tonight's MSU- Michigan hockey contest on the sports page. H On the outside I , ,I