Gay rights proponents *appeal t Shapiro 1or support By SHARON SILBAR .Members of a campus gay rights W group will meet with University President Harold Shapiro today to present their case for a University policy opposing discrimination against homosexuals. - Member of Lesbian and Gay Rights ,on Campus (LaGROC) are pushing for ran amendment to University by-laws -hat would bind the University to non- discrimination on the basis of sexual .orientation. THERE presently are no legal chan- nels through which gays can file grievances against the University, -although LaGROC members say com- plaints abound. "Wherever gay people lack legal rights to protection, their vulnerability to discrimination is especially acute," iaccording to a report LaGROC has submitted to the administration. The executive officers have asked Virginia Nordby, the University's af- frmative action director, to examine the possibility of adding sexual orien- tation to, the present University non- :discrimination policy. Nordby refused comment on the results of her study, but LaGROC members with whom she as met, say Nordby probably is recom- mending against a revised University policy. RATHER, LaGROC members say, Nordby probably will recommend that Shapiro issue a presidential policy statement - a move with less impact than a policy approved by theRegents. Although such a statement has not yet been offered to LaGROC, the groups says that Nordby has been pushing the advantages of that action in their discussion with her. Donovan Mack, a LaGROC member, said that a presidential policy would be insufficient. "There is no clear in- dication as to why we could not have a by-law change," he said. "Our proposal is not for a presidential policy statement. Our proposal is for a by-law change." THE MAJOR objections to a Regeo- tal policy center on University contacts with outside agencies. Such a policy could have negative effects on Univer- sity ties to the military and subcontrac- rs working on campus. The military issue has created con- Joversy at several law schools, which brohibit discrimination against omosexuals and have banned the iilitary from recruiting its students on 1ampus. The military does not allow homosexuals in its ranks. If the University adopts the non- -iscrimination policy, it would have to nswer to the potentially contradictory S Sractice of allowing military recruiters nd ROTC programs on campus while Maintaining a policy that would outlaw discrimination based on sexual preference. With a strict policy, the University .lso would face the possibility of losing over $5 million in military research projects. The Pentagon already has threatened to withdraw research gran- -s from schools that ban its recruiters, * and several law schools have backed down under pressure from the defense- department. The Michigan Daily-Friday, April 1, 1983-Page 7 Pot law proponents say avoid Hash Bash By KRISTIN STAPLETON On the eve of Ann Arbor's annual Hash Bash, critics of an effort to repeal the city's lenient $5 pot law said yester- day that students should stay away from the affair because it only fuels the anger of the repeal's supporters. The Hash Bash "draws undue atten- tion to what the repeal supporters are trying to get across," said Scott Prosterman, the head of a group that opposes a change in the pot law, at a press conference in City Hall. PROSTERMAN and other members of the Committee Against Decriminalization attacked the ballot proposal because it puts the issue of marijuana laws back into the hands of a politically vulnerable city council. Once the pot law is taken out of the city's charter, the city council might impose an excessively strict law if it were supported by a vocal minority of citizens, the critics warned. Leslie Morris, the Democratic can- didate for mayor, said the debate on the marijuana law is a waste of time. She said "a truce" had been declared since passage of the $5 law nine years ago and that proponents of the repeal - in- cluding her Republican opponent, Mayor Louis Belcher - are only trying to stir up old problems. Read and Use Daily Classifieds = INDIVIDUAL THEATRES Sth A. ato LibeAy 701-700 $2.00 WED. SAT. SUN SHOWS BEFORE 6 PM AP Photo Fire flow Molten lava starts to pour through the open doors of a restaurant near the slopes of Volcano Etna yesterday. The Sicilian volcano has been spewing lava since Monday. ledical students object (Continued from Page 1) - male students who fail to register for the draft, according to Diane Samples, director of financial aid at the Medical School. 'We are not requiring it of students," Samples said, "but we simply distributed the forms and told them if they want to submit it they can and then if the law is implemented there won't be any delay in their aid." Samples' request is more drastic than any steps the University's two other financial aid offices have taken. OVER 50 percent of medical students receive financial aid, but only about 100 are draft-age males. "I object strenuously to complying with the law," said fourth-year Inteflex student Anthony So. "Why should (the medical school) be the first ones to comply with the changes, it seems premature to me. "Doctors are dedicated to the preser- vation of life, not war. If efficiency is what they want, then they should have proceeded as if it was clearly voluntary or at least accounted for conscientious. objectors. IT SEEMED to me that we were supposed to complete the forms or we wouldn't get-aid." Third and fourth year Inteflex ;students are the first medical school classes to be affected by the Selective Service Act. The directors of the law school and main financial aid offices are not changing their procedures until it is certain the law will be enforced. WHETHER the law is enforced depends on the final outcome of a recent Minnesota federal court ruling which temporarily blocked enfor- cement of the law. Colleges nationwide are unsure if Judge Donald Alsop's decision affects all students or just those in Minnesota. A final decision is not expected for another month, attor- nies in the suit said. Harvey Grotrian, director of the University's main financial aid office, said he thinks the chances of the law being enforced this year are slim. "We have made a judgement to do business as usual. If the medical school feels compelled to request aid applicants for next year to sign com- pliance statements it is their prerogative," he said. "Requesting statements as a precaution is a lot of administrative work since only a few students will be affected," Grotrian said. If the law does go into effect, Grotrian said his office will mail statements to students during the summer. The financial aid office at the Law School has taken the same position. to draft law Patricia Whitesell, the law school's senior financial aid officer, said she is certain the law will at least be delayed significantly. A BILL approved by the House Sub- committee on Postsecon dary Education last week would delay the law for seven months. The Department of Education also announced last week a set of revised rules that would not require students to submit a copy of their Selective Service acknowledgement letter, but only make them sign a statement of draft com- pliance, indicating whether or not they have registered. Medical students who comply with Samples' request and submit their acknowledgement letters would be doing more than the new rules would require. SAMPLES SAID her request was made before the revised rules came out. She also said because of the small number of draft-age males in the medical schools, he request has not had that big of an effect. If the Minnesota court ruling applies nationwide the medical school's request for students to comply with the law could put them in contempt of court, said Jim Miller, an attorney for the Minnesota Public Interest Group, one of the parties in the suit. Miller said asking students to comply with the law is "coercion" and a request is not voluntary when the student knows there is a law requiring them to do so. Nationwide close to 96 percent of draft-age males have registered, leaving only 400,000 who have not com- plied. 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BUT HE agreed that while the un- dergraduate program is not much dif- ferent from any other in LSA, the department "has needs and concerns that are different than any other depar- tment in a large college." Professor Mark Pilkinton said that LSA is the driving force behind the change, as his department does not seem interested in making a move. "Apparently LSA is interested in sen- ding theater somewhere else, more than theater is interested in going." Pilkinton said he thought part of the problem might be that the functions of the theater department are not under- stood by administrators and other LSA departments. HOLBROOK said the review wa "'the sort of review that goes on all th time," and that he did not believe tha "anyone feels threatened by thi review." 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