'U' decision on gay rights to focus on military issue Page 7-Thursday, February 17, 1983-The Michigan Daily Dorm leaders urge (Continued from Page 1) approve the proposal, and if gays on campus push for enforcement of the by- law, the armed forces could be forbid- den from recruiting on campus. WHILE THIS situation is hypothetical, law schools across the nation have already faced the military in similar conflicts. One such incident flared up at the University of Pennsylvania Law School when school officials decided they could bar recruiters from campus facilities because Army recruiting practices violated their non-discrimination laws. The Army did not take this sitting down. The Judge Advocate General of the Army threatened to withdraw all military contracts - including resear- ch grants - from that university, under a statutory provision dating back to the Vietnam era which allows the military tor withhold funds from any school barring recruiters. THE PRESIDENT of the University of Pennsylvania suggested the law school reconsider their policy, and the ban was lifted, but gay rights activists at Penn are not happy about it. .University law professor Theodore St. Antoine said that new Army regulations will limit the withdrawal of funds to the individual unit which bans them from recruiting. If, however, the action is campus-wide, then "the University would be cut off," he said. :A similar situation occurred at Wayne State University, but the results were a little different. According to WSU law school dean John Roberts, the niilitary is forbidden from using law sdhool facilities to recruit. RECRUITING HASN'T changed at Wayne State, though. Roberts said that the only change in the program is that students have to arrange their own in- terviews, instead of doing it through the law school. Only about five students a year will be affected, he said. Roberts is not pressing the issue, however. If the issue went to court, "the Army would win," he said. The University of Syracuse law school, like Wayne State, has prohibited recruiters from using its facilities. "(THE BAN) will not have a significant effect on our national recruiting," said Capt. Johnny Whitaker, a Pentagon spokesman. "In terms of overall numbers, it wouldn't have been cost effective to have pur- sued this through the courts." Captain Larry Pippins, Army Recruiting Area Command for Ann Ar- bor, said "in terms of actually actively recruiting on campus --we don't really do that." Most of the recruitment that goes on in the campus area, he said, goes through the ROTC program. "Mainly we act for the University as a referral service," Pippins said. "ROTC graduates who didn't get a commission from the Army or students who have decided for whatever reason that school is not for them come to us," he said. Poli fl tl N. i . SOeS Stockwell evacuated Stockwell dormitory residents evacuated the building just before 7 p.m. last night after smoke was repor- ted in a hallway. Ann Arbor firefighters found an overheated motor in an elevator shaft. There were no injuries. Pedestrian robbed A woman was robbed at noon Tuesday while walking on the 200 block of North Main. Police yesterday said a male suspect in his mid-forties ap- proached the woman and demanded money. After removing the cash from her wallet the suspect fled on foot. -Halle Czechowski COLONEL ROBERT Shellenberger, chairman of the Air Force Officers Education Program, said he does not think the Air Force is going to change its policy in the foreseeable future. "ROTC is an academic program which is essentially the same as a department, but we're not under any school or college," he said. ROTC is also an academic program which discriminates against homosexuals, and would probably be affected were the University to amend its by-laws. "OUR CLASSES are open to anybody at the University," Shellenberger said. "Certainly that would include any students, but not necessarily as a part of our program," he said. The goal of the ROTC program, whether Army, Air Force, or Navy, is to commission officers into the respec- tive military division, said Shellen- berger. "They would have to be in com- pliance (with military regulations' barring homosexuals)," he said. "It is a moral question," he said. "It is important to promote the image of the military. You should not have to fear having these " people lead your nation (in a time of crisis)." Colonel Courte agrees. "(Homosexuality) is something that is not regarded by society as normal. There are problems within the military, where we really have a 24-hour day en- vironment. People live very closely and become very involved with each other, particularly in a field unit. Because of the nature of the military service, homosexuality cannot be tolerated," he said. -} Ifire alarm By JODY BECKER It's early Saturday morning, and dorm residents are fast asleep. Sud- denly a fire alarm rips through the building, waking the students. Instead of running out of the building, however, some residents bury their heads and try to get back to sleep, con- fident the alarm is just a prank. TO COMBAT this, a number of residence hall presidents, worried that residents would ignore a real fire alarm, have asked the University's housing director to install safeguards on fire alarm boxes. In a letter to Housing Director Robert Hughes, the student housing leaders said "Each time the fire alarm is pulled, fewer students evacuate than the last time.. . a real fire could result in a great tragedy." "(THE LETTER is) another attempt to formally give (Hughes) an oppor- tunity to recognize and take action on this persistent problem," Markley Hall President John Gould said. Gould said University officials have not acted because the cost of a deterrent system, such as glass boxes around the fire alarms is too high. Hughes was unavailable for comment. "Actually, I think any cost would be small considering the lives that might be saved," Gould said. DAVE FOULKE, manager of housing security, said installing glass boxes over fire alarms would cost the Univer- sity more than $30,000 plus labor for an average of 12 alarms per building. Foulke said he supports the housing committee's rationale that "no price tag" can be placed on fire safety safeguards measures, but resists funding an examination to see if the glass covets would be effective deterrents. "The single best thing to prevent false fire alarms would be to cut out drinking," he said. "Ban keggers and progressives. FOULKE SAID there is a significant relationship between dorm hall parties and false fire alarms, and banning drinking would have "a most dramatic effect" in reducing the number of false alarms. Last weekend both South Quad and Markley Halls were plagued by false fire alarms. In the Markley incident, the prankster called the Ann Arbor Fire Department before sounding the alarm4 Fire Dept. Sgt. Dave Wilson said only 60-70 percent of the 1200 residents evacuated. "It's pretty damn scary," Markley resident David Evans said, "you worry about the one time it might be real Most guys on my hall don't get up." Stockwell Hall President Leslie Stead said that while "(False alarms) aren't as big a problem here, the boxes should be less accessible to people just goofing around." Stead said she signed the let- ter because she believes most people feel saving "even one life" is worth the cost of a deterrent system. 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