I The Michigan Daily - Thursday, March 8, 1984- Page 5 MSA places code on ballot I By MARCY FLEISHER The University's pr9posed code for non-academic conduct has turned into a political battle between student government leaders and administrators, but what do students - the main group that will be affec- ted by the guidelines - think? During the Michigan Student Assembly elections March 26 and 27, students will be asked to indicate whether they support the proposed code. THE ASSEMBLY voted unanimously Tuesday night to include two questions on the proposed non- academic code on the election ballot. The first question would ask students if the Univer- sity and MSA should support the proposed guidelines, and the second would ask if there should be a special student vote to approve the code before the Univer- sity can enforce it. MSA also unanimously approved a proposal that would allow the Public Interest Research Group in Michigan (PIRGIM) to hold their elections along with the MSA election. If PIRGIM's state board in Lansing approves the measure tomorrow, it will , be the first time the student body will have the opportunity to vote for the group's seven board members. IN PAST years, only PIRGIM members have voted in their elections. Although last year the group distributed ballots through their newsletter, the poor turnout from that attempt - less than 300 ballots WERE RETURNED - caused PIRGIM to try to reach more students through the MSA elections. "Our goal is to let the students know that PIRGIM's board of officers are democratically elected and are supposed to represent all students," said Amy Gibans, the University's PIRGIM coordinator. A more visible PIRGIM election will also force group members to work harder on campaigns and feel more responsibility for the position, she said. The deadline for students to submit proposals for the election is Saturday. Students demand role in code revisions (Continued from Page 1) students who are charged with repeated violations harsher punish- ments. Rowland approves of the second revision but she is asking for more changes that must be made, such as omitting the section allowing the University to punish students for par- ticipating in protests or demonstrations that disrupt University activity, in or- der for her to accept the code. But Herbert Hildebrandt, Chairman of the faculty governing board, says that the proposed rules on student only need to be reworded, not omitted "I THINK (that section) has to be redrawn," said Hildebrandt, a business communications professor. "I think (the wording) is too severe."' University officials also made several technical changes in the wor- ding of the code which has been modified four times since it was first drafted in the spring of 1983. But code opponent Eric Schnauffer, a graduate student, said most of the Beating the odds AP Photo Stormie Jones, the girl who received the world's first simultaneous heart and liver transplant three-and-a-half weeks ago, sits with her mother at a press conference yesterday in the Pittsburgh Children's Hospital. changes haven't been real concessions, but merely moves to appease students. Schnaufer is vice president of a group called "No Code" that formed this year to protest the proposed rules. "STUDENTS HAVE had very little input," Schnaufer said. University of- ficials "are making gratuitous changes for propaganda purposes. The repressive parts of the code remain." Communications Prof. William Colburn, who chaired the committee that wrote the initial code, said students have had a significant role in drafting the code and added that their criticism has been helpful. Colburn's attitude has mellowed since last week when he ac- cused student leaders of "stonewalling" the code. "THE STUDENTS who are against (the code) are making good argumen- ts," said Colburn. "The people opposing (the code) are providing a temendous service to us in reworking the document. It's really getting tested hard." Colburn said University officials will meet today to set a date for a public hearing on the code. Code opponents are also scheduling a series of events, includling a teach-in next Wednesday, to inform students about the code. COLUBRN SAYS he supports Rowland's recommendation to have only four members on the Hearing Board. Rowland also said an MSA represen- tative should participate in the process of revising the code. "No Code" mem- bers go a step further and say that the University should turn the code over to students to make all the revisions. "'No Code' doesn't want to negotiate with the University as long as the University controls the revision and approval process. 'No Code' can agree to a student code only if students con- trol it,"-Schnaufer said. ONE PROBLEM code opponents have faced is obtaining copies of the guidelines to distribute to students. If students could actually read the code, Schnaufer sayd he is confident they would reject it. MSA and "No Code" members asked Affirmative Action Officer Director Virginia Nordby to print 10,000 copies of the code to pass out on campus. This year- 2cJJBhmimi®r@ C®Dih®U, IN In a letter responding to their ,,uest, Nordby gave MSA 25 copies of the code and said the same numer would be put on reserve for students at the Undergraduate Library. Vice President of Student Services Henry Johnson said requesting 10,000 copies was unreasonable. "We're thinking in terms of hundreds." Campus gays push for 'U' policy (Continued from Page 1) "The gay movement is so much stronger than the average straight person could fathom, and the joys of being gay are almost stronger," Mack says. "The straight person will never experience the jubilation of coming out against such odds." Even though it might not end inside comments or the subtle discrimination, gays on campus are pushing for an end to anti-gay attitudes in University hiring and promotion decisions. IN DECEMBER 1982, the Lesbian and Gay Rights on Campus (LaGROC) group asked the regents and University President Harold Shapiro for a policy prohibiting discrimination based on sexual preference. Today they are still waiting. Gays say the policy is needed to show that the University does not regard them as pariahs. "It acknowledges the presence of gay people," said Naomi Braine, a sophomore in the Residential College. Without a policy statement, Braine says, slights against campus gays may be ignored because they do not stand put as a visible minority. "WE'RE invisible; we don't turn lavender when we come out. There's R nothing that marks us as being gay. We don't have six fingers or four toes," she said. If Shapiro and the regents do not ap- prove a policy it will mean -"that homophobia is okay at the University of Michigan" says Molly Adams, a mem- ber of the Queers Action Committee (QuAC), a campus gay group. Gays who haven't come out lack the support of groups like QuAC and LaGROC, and the sense of isolation can be extreme, especially in dormitories. "YOU THINK 'If I come out, no one's going to love me,'" says Kate, who lives in an all-women dormitory. Few straight people know she's gay, Kate says, but their reactions are generally negative when they find out. "It's kind of an incredible experience to see this look on a person's face of repulsion and disgust. They're afraid of you," Kate says. "If people on my hall figure this out, I'm sure I'll have a lot of rejection." FOR SOCIAL reasons, Kate finds she sometimes has to hide her sexual preferences. "You're walking around 10 feet off the ground because you're in love,'and people just assume it's a, man," she says. Rejection of gays can sometimes take a nastier turn too. Kate said someone once threw a snowball at her while she was walking across the Diag arm-in- arm with a female friend. Mark (not his real name), a business school senior said he was "ostracized by a lot of people," when he, was a freshman living in Mary Markley, with pranks by hallmates such as taping a Playgirl magazine to his door. RUTH MENDELSOHN, a former University student had a more serious experience when she lived in East Quad. During Thanksgiving break in 1980, she said a poster advertising a lesbian tea was burned off her door while she was in the room. "One morning I came out of my room and it was burnt off my door. There were (only) charred remains," she said.. "IT WAS scary when I considered that if it had caught, I could have been killed in a fire," she said. Putting up posters, insignificant as it may sound, can be a major problem for gay groups. 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