Yuri who? See Editorial, Page 4 C I tic Ninety-three Years of Editorial Freedom 1E34ai1 Mellow Increasingly cloudy today with a delightful high in the 50s. Iol. XCIII, No. 61, Copyright 1982, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, November 18, 1982 Ten Cents Ten Pages Senate committee upproves divestment measure By BARRY WITT A state Senate panel yesterday assed a measure that would prohibit' the University from maintaining its South African investments. The Senate Judiciary Committee ap- proved the measure to bar all state educational institutions from investing in companies that work in the racially- segregated nation. THE UNIVERSITY has refused to divest from more than 40 U.S. com- panies working in South Africa, where apartheid practices deny civil rights to lacks. University Regents and ad- ministrators have threatened to ignore the bill if the full Senate votes it into law because they feel the state does not have the authority to control Universtiy investments. The University's legal of-; fice maintains the Regents have See SENATE, Page 3 UAC cancels speech by radical rabbi By KENT REDDING A Viewpoint Lecture featuring radical Rabbi Meir Kahane has been cancelled after the University Ac- tivities Center (UAC) decided they did not want to give the rabbi a forum for his advocacy of anti-Arab violence. In their weekly meeting Tuesday night, UAC's executive committee decided that given the violent nature of Kahane's beliefs, as well as a series of posters UAC members believed violated the lectures neutral forum, they would not ask the rabbi to speak in AnnArbor. ORIGINALLY, the Viewpoint Lec- tures Committee of UAC had intended to sponsor a series of lectures on the Middle East, representing both sides of the issue, according to Chairman Paul Galleberg. But members of UAC's executive committee were alarmed when they found out the views of Kahane. Recen- tly Kahane tried to legitimize the slaughter of Palestinians in refugee camps in Lebanon and has advocated the deportation of all Arabs from Israel and the complete annexation of the West Bank. "We were under the impression that he was the founder of the (Jewish Defense League)," said UAC president Jayne Harper. "We were not under the impression that he advocates violence. Once that was brought to light, we had a lengthy discussion." THE RESULTS of that discussion led to the 16-3 vote in favor of cancelling the lecture, according to Harper. Although the vote was not binding on Viewpoint Lectures, according to Galleberg, he said he agreed with the decision because of the controversial postering campaign. Posters put up around campus by an anonymous group publicizing the event and picturing a clenched fist within a star made it appear as though UAC was taking a stand on the issue, when it was only trying to present a neutral forum, Galleberg said. "A CLENCHED fist I do not see as being neutral," he said. "We envisaged representing many views on the Middle East." Had it not been for those posters, Galleberg said he and his committee would have wanted to have the lectures anyway. "The idea behind the forum was that violence is a factor in the Mid- dle East;" he said. "The right wing militant view is a factor in the Middle East Equation." See UAC, Page 5 Daily Photo by DEBORAH LEWIS Redirection Blues Progressive Student Network members Tom Marx, left, and Steve Austin, right, join in a chorus of an original ballad, "The Redirection Blues," yesterday in the Diag to the accompaniment of Network member Marcy Berman's guitar. Prof. says_'U' blacks mistreated By JACKIE YOUNG In the wake of last week's news that the University has fallen even further behind in its efforts to attract and keep more black students, Prof. J. Frank Yates yesterday said the University isn't doing enough for the minority students it does manage to draw. "The problems that the University of Michigan faces are similar to problems of other universities around the coun- try," Yates said in a noon lecture on strategies for black education in major universities: THIS University should "do whatever is necessary to remove all of the statistical performance differences between minority and majority studen- ts," said the psychology professor, who also is the chairman of the executive committee of the Coalition for the Use. 'The fact that the (black) students aren't learning indicates that as faculty, people are not doing as good a job as they should or could.' -J. Frank Yates CULS Executive Committee Chairman Problems for black University students are often a result of an inadequate scholastic background, ac- cording to Yates. High schools are not preparing them properly for academic life at the University, he said. "The student cannot recover once he realizes he's studying wrong." Another problem, Yates said, is that blacks don't always receive proper counseling on career opportunities. The 1981 LSA Minority Task Force Report showed that nearly 50 percent of the major concentrations declared by minority students were in the social sciences. THE REPORT also stated that there were no minority students graduating that year with degrees in the physical and quantitative sciences. See PROF, Page 3 Regents t~o vote on- $43 million state aid request of Learning Skills. Yates said that in the 1980-81 academic year, only 20 percent of the minority students in LSA had grade- point averages above 3.0. In that same year, he said, 60 percent of the white students in the school topped that mark.' Much of the problem, he said, could be solved by more faculty involvement in the problem." "THE FACT that the black students aren't learning indicates that as a faculty, people are not doing as good a job as they should or could," he said. It's a bird, it's a Meteor treats city to plane, it's ... fiery celestial show By HALLE CZECHOWSKI All over Ann Arbor Tuesday night, people reported seeing a bright light streak across the sky. E.T. returnng for a visit? No, just a fireball meteor. A fireball meteor, such as the one spotted zooming across the city's nor- rnally peaceful skies, is a slow-moving, nusually bright meteor. It's so slow, it can travel across the heavens for four to five seconds, according to Eric -Blumenthal, an Ann Arbor amateur astronomer. This particular meteor was bright blue and green, he said, with orange sparks flying from its tail. AND BECAUSE the meteor was about half as bright as the moon, a lot of people noticed its 9:30 p.m. "flash" ap- earance. "I thought it was some kind of fireworks," said Chris Harris, who saw the meteor at his home near Briarwood. "It was just a red spot that suddenly appeared, and then it was gone," said University student Pat Douglas, who was in the Arboretum taking pictures of -the stars for his photography class. Mike French, an Ann Arbor .firefighter, was looking out the fire station window when he saw a huge "fireball," headed north. "It was yellow-orange. I thought it was fireworks," he said. "It was a distinguishable round object. It wasn't small, this thing was actually roun- ded." THE FIREBALL was seen in four states, according to Jim Loudon, staff astronomer at the University Exhibit Museum. The spectacle so impressed J.P. McCarthy of WJR radio in Detroit that he asked Loudon to talk about the phenomena on his Wednesday morning show. More than 300 people called in saying they, too, had spotted the fireball. A meteor is a piece of rock, usually from a comet, which burns when it en- ters the earth's atmosphere to create a brief, brilliant flash. Although Tuesday's meteor seemed to hit the ground over the horizon, Loudon said there is little chance this happened. See AREA, Page 2 By JIM SPARKS and BILL SPINDLE University administrators will ask the Regents this week to request an ex- tra $17.6 million in state aid to fight in- flation, and an additional $25 million which they say Lansing owes because of steadily decreasing appropriations. At their monthly meeting today and tomorrow, the Regents also will vote on a plan to establish a Center for Molecular Genetics, and on a proposal to close the Institute for the Study of Mental Retardation and Related Disabilities. THE REQUEST for additional aid, drafted by Vice President for Academic Affairs Billy Frye, asks for $17.6 million to make up for inflation and to help the University hold down tuition. Beyond the $17.6 million, ad- ministrators are asking for $25 million to fill University coffers they claim have been emptied by declining state aid. In the request, Frye suggests the state pay the $25 million over three years, starting with a $10 million in- stallment next year. Frye says the $25 million represents only a fraction of a $60 million total caused by declining state aid. The rest of the $60 million "deficit" would be handled through a combination of budget cuts within the University and increased private donations, accor- ding to the request. THE MONEY is needed to keep tuition in control, boost financial aid programs, improve University salaries, and help finance capital main- tenance projects, Frye said. Frve ... state must share burden Approval of the request would bring the University's total share of the state's financial pie to $320.5 million, or $27.6 million more than it was this year. The Regents will also vote today on a plan to establish a Center for Molecular Genetics. Planners of the center say it probably would place the University among the top 10 schools in the nation in areas such as DNA research. THE PROPOSED center would coor- dinate the efforts of the 40 faculty members currently working on niolecular genetics research, bring in "name" researchers, and seek out fun- ds from corporations and the state. The proposal does not specify any See REGENTS, Page 5 ents were treated to sights much like this fireball meteor Tuesday night. TODAY Singing praises MICHIGAN IS NOT only going to blow away Ohio State on the playing field this weekend, they also have the opportunity to drown out their Men's Glee Club in the concert hall. The University Men's Glee Club will be appearing with OSU's club in OSU's Mershon Auditorium, at 7:30 p.m., Friday. Tickets can be reserved by phoning the Mershon estimated 16 to 18 million pitting themselves against the mighty weed-will be won by only about 4.5 million of the starters, if last year's Smokeout record is to be repeated. The Cancer Society said sucking lemon drops, munching pumpkin seeds, apple slices, sunflower seeds, carrot sticks, unbuttered popcorn can help the valiant to weather with- drawal symptoms-jitters, increased anxiety and aggression, to name just three. Some 1.5 million will be wearing red plastic bands passed out by the Cancer Society. "Every time you feel like smokin', snap this instead," says actor Larry Hagman, Smokeout chairman, on a Smokeout television commercial. F reveal the type of tree involved, NOAA offficials said. But they did say that the trees grow in the Canadian province of Alberta. Dust serving as nuclei for snowflakes increases snow formation, and dust from these particular trees ap- pear to make the most efficient nuclei. In addition, these dust nuclei allow snow crystals to form at much higher temperatures than usual, according to the weather experts. In commercial snow-making operations, for example, water sprays must be cooled to nearly zero degrees Fahrenheit before snow will form. But Schnell found that introducing dust from the leaves of. these trees allowed crystals to form nearly up to 32 degrees. That could save a Also on this date in history: * 1920 - The junior literary society on campus headed a drive to collect funds to be given to needy European college students. In a letter to the head of the organization, former food administrator Herbert Hoover described the "general spirit of h9pelessness and the terrible physical sufferings of the student classes in the central European countries." * 1954 -- Novelist John Dos Passos spoke at Hill Auditorium and told students that the problem facing their generation was to adapt their institutions to a rapidly changing industrial world and still perserve individual liberty. m i I l