Ninety-four Years off Editorial Freedom :1- E 131ai1 Turquoise Sunny, with a hih of 54 degrees. Vol. XCIV-No. 113i Copyright 1984, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Wednesday, February 15, 1984 Fifteen Cents Ten Pages A Embattled MSU chief Mackey Rosey Daily Photo by DOUG McMAHON Linda and Gretel Metzger sell Valentine's Day roses at the University Flower Shop in Nickels Arcade yesterday. February 14 is traditionally one of the biggest days for florists, and yesterday the line of people exte :ded all the way out the door. USSR buries Andropov resigns By LAURIE DELATER Caught in a cloud of controversy, Michigan State Univer- sity President Cecil Mackey announced yesterday during a special meeting of the board of trustees that he will resign. Mackey, 55, told the trustees he plans to step down from his $102,700-a-year post no later than June, 1985, but some trustees hope to place a new president in office. within six months, according to trustee. Blanche Martin. IN HIS STATEMENT to the board Mackey said he decided to resign prior to the recent media hype about his embattled administration and a secret meeting in December when four trustees reportedly discussed ousting him from office. Mackey, president since 1979, submitted a letter of resignation to board president Barbara Sawyer Jan. 27, but she asked him not to resign at that time. According to Ron Tenpas, president of the Associated Student Union, "there had been speculation and rumor on campus for some time that (Mackey) was looking for another position." DURING yesterday's "well-engineered" meeting, which drew a crowd of 150, the trustees passed without debate a resolution to accept Mackey's resignation and expressed support for the president during the remainder of his ad- ministration, Tenpas said. But Martin said the president's announcement was over- due and that the board will meet within two weeks to adopt a procedure for selecting his successor. The trustees want to find a replacement for Mackey as soon as possible to avoid a lengthy lame duck period, he said. MSU Vice President Jack Breslin is a possible candidate for interim president or replacement, although Martin said the trustees are divided on the issue. MACKEY, who headed Texas Tech and University of South Florida before coming to MSU, has sparked controversy sin- ce his appointment. Faculty and students have criticized his firm leadership style and administrative decisions, expecially budget cuts made in 1980 and 1981. When three of MSU's trustees who originally approved of his appointment left the board last year, Mackey's support from the school's top governing body began to erode. Bobby Crim, one of the newly-elected trustees, is an outspoken critic of Mackey. The other critics, Malcolm Dade and Patrick post Wilson, were supposedly present at the clandestine meeting two months ago. MACKEY first got into hot water in 1979 when he tried to bring the alumni association, then an independent group, back under the university's wing. The effort dragged into a two-year battle between Mackey and the association's executive director Jack Kinney. At the end of 1981 the alumni association became part of the university again, and Kinney resigned six months later. Sin- ce then alumni gifts have increased dramatically, fulfilling one of Mackey's goals as president, said Charles Webb, current director of the association. Another of Mackey's goals - reducing the school's budget - brought him under fire from faculty and students who said he should have allowed more input from them when making budget cuts and resructuring departments two years ago. AND WHILE he was criticized for not listening to their concerns, Mackey issued a gag order, shortly after assuming his post, requiring faculty and administrators to speak to him before they talked with legislators and trustees. In another of Mackey's controversial first moves he spent $85,000 to renovate Cowles House, the president's official home on campus. The improvements included $12,000 for a new Steinway grand piano. And the university paid almost $17,500 to upgrade Mackey's private box at Spartan Stadium. At the same time, students and faculty assailed Mackey for not paying enoughrattention to athletics, Tenpas said. Although Mackey hired George Perles to coach the football team, there was speculation that Mackey authorized a $175,000 out-of-court settlement in order to entice Perles to come to MSU instead of coaching the Philadelphia Stars, a USFL team with whom he had already signed a contract. Even more recently, Mackey has been blamed for the poor handling of former band director Stanley DeRusha's resignation under charges of sexual harassment. DeRusha plans to sue the university for breaking a questionable agreement between himself and the trustees that the allegations against him would not be publicized. Mackey, selected to replace Clifton Wharton after an 18- month review of 250 candidates declined to discuss his plans for the future during the meeting yesterday, saying. his private life will be as private "as my public life has been public." MOSCOW (AP) - The Soviet Union buried Yuri Andropov at the Kremlin wall yesterday in a ritual Red Square state funeral. The Communist Party's new leader, . Konstantin Chernenko, delivered the eulogy and then conduc- ted his first meetings with world Chernenko spent 30 minutes with Vice President George Bush, who represen- ted President Reagan at the funeral. Bush said Chernenko agreed there was a need for the two superpowers to "place our relationship upon a more constructive path." THE 72-year-old Chernenko, who has not had extensive foreign policy ex- perience, also met with Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany, Prime r Officials disagree over Navy r shelling From AP and UPI WASHINGTON - Three top Reagan administration officials disagreed yesterday about why U.S. Navy guns off Lebanon would be fired in the latest confusion surrounding the gover- nment's public justification of the shelling. "There's very definitely been a shift in emphasis to make it clear that we will be providing supporting fire to the Lebanese armed forces," Navy Secretary John Lehman said. "It is not linked to specific fire at the Marines" in Beirut. BUT THREE hours later, Pentagon spokesman Michael Burch -told a briefing, "We are not providing fire in r direct support of the Lebanese armed forces." White House deputy press secretary Larry Speakes called ,Lehman's statement "incorrect" and said Navy guns would only shell to protect the Marines or other Americans in Beirut. See U.S., Page 3' Minister Indira Gandhi of India, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain and other leaders who gathered in Moscow for Andropov's funeral.. Speaking to reporters after the 30- minute meeting, Bush said the tone of the discussion was "excellent," but did not give him ground to make any predictions about a possible resumption See BUSH, Page 5 U.S.-Soviet negoiuatons pOssible By SUSAN ANGEL The Soviet Union's new leader, Kon- stantin Chernenko, will be more willing to negotiate with the United States than his predecessor, Yuri An- dropov, according to University rof says Political Science Prof. Alexander Yanov. In the past Chernenko has been "one of the most ardent proponents of deten- te," Yanov said. See BETTER, Page 5 ASA holds meeting to hear gay students views By MARCY FLEISHER Michigan Student Assembly mem- bers tried something new at last night's regular weekly meeting by inviting two students to share their experiences being gay.. MSA's "Gay Rap" was a move by Assembly members to improve their ties with gay students at the University, said Julia Gittleman, volunteer coor- dinator for MSA. ALTHOUGH other minority groups keep in regular contact with MSA, in Physicist criticizes nuclear Policy the past, gay students have not, said Gittleman. Last night was a step toward bridging that gap, she said. "Our purpose is to give a message to the gay community that they are being represented in MSA and to also give the message to the straight community that gay people are important to MSA," said Diana DeVries, an LSA sophomore who works at the University's human sexuality office. DeVries and' LSA senior Greg Prokopowicz, who works in the human sexuality office and is a leader of the Michigan Gay Undergraduates, posed several questions to the group members such as how they would react if they found out their mother were gay, to challenge their opinions on gay-related issues. "The goal of this rap program is not a discussion or a debate," DeVries told the group. "Try to tailor (the informa- tion) to a personal experience to find See MSA, Page 3 ...... . ... 1::: J, .......................... By PETE WILLIAMS Is Reagan planning a nuclear war? That is the question Prof. Michio Kaku, a guest speaker from the City College of New York, addressed in front of about 40 people at the Rackham Am- phitheater last night. Kaku, a professor of nuclear physics who has done extensive research on nuclear arms, said that the only thing the Reagan administration is afraid of is public opinion in the event of a nuclear strike. "THERE IS only one thing our president fears more than hydrogen bombs, only one thing he fears more than the Soviet Union," Kaku said. "The one thing he fears the most is the American people." But Reagan is -not the first to ad- vocate a first strike advantage. "Deterrence has never been our national strategy," Kaku said. Kaku used various examples in recent history - including the Vietnam conflict and the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima - to show that the United States defense system is dependent on a first strike advantage. See PROF., Page 2 Nobodyn Daily Photo by REBECCA KNIGHT Nobodyfor president Wavy Gravy, who rose to fame as the master of ceremonies at Woodstock, pushes his "Nobody for President" campaign and recalls his travels around the country yesterday night in his speech at the Michigan Union. See story, TODAY- Faculty upholstery H ERBERT HILDEBRANT might have been king. He also could have been chairperson, chair- creature or speaker, but the faculty's Senate Assembly finally decided to call the business administration professor "chair" in a unanimous vote. Monday's vote by the faculty was meant to eliminate the venerable but sexist title of "chairman" of the assembly. Nurshing Prof. Cheryl Easley suggested the titled used in the black University students. An award of $50 will go to the best paper in the graduate/professional and undergraduate category on any topic related to the Afroamerican and African experience. The essay, which should be no more than 6,000 words, may be drawn from a wide range of fields including: anthropology, history, psychology, urban plan- ning, education, economics, health, literature, art, sociology, music, political science, and law. Papers should be typed, double-spaced, with one original and two copies. The title page should include name, class, address and .telenhone number. The essay must be in to the CAAS office $14,000 to $20,000. Four teenagers found the pot, containing $5, $10 and $20 gold pieces dating from 1870 to 1897, when they were working in a crawlspace under the kitchen Friday. "I was at a meeting out of town and I didn't find out until about 10:30 Friday night," Poehling said Monday. "I couldn't believe it, I am lucky." Poehling, president of the La Crosse Plumbing Supply, said he thinks the coins were hidden by the man who built his 18-room house 120 years ago. "The strange thing about the home is Mons Anderson, the gentleman who built the home, was a large merchant in La Crosse. When he died in 1905 he had lost his forune and speak at state universities. "Communism is an ideology out to subvert the basic principles of this country," he said. Also on this date in history: "1949 - The Engineering Honor Council found six studen- ts guilty of violating the honor code by cheating on their final exams. " 1956 - University researcher Thomas Francis began work on a $287,000 grant to develop anti-polio drugs. * 1972 - A fire broke out in a restroom in the Ad- ministration Building from an ignited pool of spilled oil. A similar attempt was made in South Quad, making the two I I I 1 1