Four best years? See Weekend Magazine Ninety-four Years Snappy Of I IJ tEIgJ j 1Ia 1 Partly to mostly sunny Ter- * peratures between 17 and 20 Editorial Freedom degrees. Vol. XCI V-No. 125 Copyright 1984, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Friday, March 9, 1984 Fifteen Cents Ten Pages Camp us gays sttil waiting for policy By GEORGEA KOVANIS Second of a two-part series On a cold day in December 1982, members of Lesbian and Gay Rights on Campus (LaGROC) protested on the diag demanding that Univer- sity President Harold Shapiro guarantee the University would not discriminate on the basis of sexual preference. Today - almost 15 months later - there is no such protection for gay students. SHAPIRO REFUSED the group's initial request to add a non-discrimination clause on sexual preference to the Regent's bylaws and he hasn't decided yet whether to issuea weaker form of protection for gay students in a presidential policy statement. LaGROC members have made a few attem- pts to pressure Shapiro into making a decision during their more than year-long wait, but adopting a University policy on gay rights is a potential risk, and Shapiro has moved cautiously. Last year LaGROC members charged that the University was reluctant to adopt a non- discrimination policy because it could jeopar- dize military research on campus. Administrators feared that with a discrimination policy for gays, the University would have to ban military recruiters from campus because they discriminate against homosexuals. The federal government has warned other schools which have banned recruiters that much of their federal funds could be cut off. But this year, LaGROC members say the main obstacle is the unwillingness of Univer- sity regents to back a non-discrimination policy. Some regents say they are reluctant to sup- port a policy for gay students because they question if such protection is necessary. UNIVERSITY Regent Thomas Roach (D- Saline) said he is concerned that a policy statement would encourage members of the University community to ,advocate homosexuality which he is not comfortable with. Roach said he is uncertain whether he would support a policy statement because he is "not sure that it is necessary." Although Roach says students should be free to do what they please in private, it's a dif- ferent issue for the University to adopt a policy supporting homosexuality. See CAMPUS, Page 5 Military, research protesters file assault reports By ERIC MATTSON Two demonstrators arrested Tuesday during a sit-in to protest Pentagon- sponsoreg research have filed assault reports against a graduate student and a campus security official, an Ann Ar- bor detective said yesterday. One of those demonstrators could also face assault charges, the detective said.. THE TWO demonstrators were arrested along with nine other students who were staging a sit-in at an East Engineering Building laboratory to protest research which is sponsored by the Department of Defense. The protestors were arrested for trespassing shortly after they pushced their way into the laboratory at about 1.2:30 p.m. Police said yesterday that they would investigate all three reports before presenting them to the city prosecutor. If the prosecutor feels there is enough evidence for a conviction, he will ask a judge to issue a warrant for arrest, they said. Two of the reports, filed shortly after members of the activist group the Progressive Student Network were dragged by police from the laboratory were made by protestors Tom Marx and John Hartigan, said Ann Arbor City detective David Sahalke. MARX, A University graduate, con- firmed yesterday that he had filed an assault report with the police shortly after his arrest, but declined to name whom he had filed the report against. He also declined to describe how he was allegedly assaulted. Hartigan, a University student, was See PROTESTERS, Page 5 Committee rejects aid to Nicaragua WASHINGTON - President Reagan failed yesterday to win Senate com- miteee approval of a request for $93 million in emergency military aid for El Salvador and $21 million more for Nicaraguan rebels. Reagan had asked the Senate Ap- propriations Committee to provide the money as amendments to two sup- plemental money bills, but the panel rejected the Nicaraguan amendment and delayed until next week a vote on the El Salvador amendment. The vote dealt a sharp blow to Reagan's plan sent to Congress only hours earlier to rush military aid to the Nicaraguan rebels and to the Salvadoran army, which is fighting Marxist insurgents. The committee was also expected to consider Reagan's proposal for $93 million in emergency military aid for El Salvador. The president had proposed attaching the military aid request to two unrelated bills passed by the House on Tuesday. The committee approved $200 million for low-income energy assistance after rejecting the $21 million package for the Nicaraguan rebels. Reagan proposed linking the $93 million for El Salvador to a bill that would send emergency food relief to Africa. Despite Reagan's defeat, the ad- ministration could try to revive the $21 million proposal when the bill reaches the Senate floor. Daily Photo by TOD WOOLF America must take notice of the lessons learned from the civil rights move ment: Clark says beliefin. principles key t10 chanhge Reagan ... suffers loss in Senate committee Earlier yesterday, House Speaker Thomas O'Neill denounced the president's rmilitaryaid proposal as a "back-door approach" to obtain the money. White House spokesman Larry Speakes said the administration settled on the maneuver after exploring various options for quickly resupplying Salvadoran government forces who are See SENATE, Page 2 By MARK SMALLWOOD Fighting for principles is the only way to change the future, former attorney general and civil rights activist Ramsey Clark told a crowd of 200 in Rackham Assembly Hall last night. Americans shouldn't shut their eyes to injustices, such as Civil Rights violations, but they should speak out or protest for social change, he said. CLARK POINTED to the success of nonviolent demon- strations during the 1960s Civil Rights movement. The Civil Rights movement "taught us an enormous lesson. It showed that the law can be used for social change when the people want it." And today, it is still vital for blacks and minorities to fight for equal rights, he said. "Equality has never been more important than it is today and in the immediate future," Clark told the predomrinantly white audience at the third Warner-Lambert lecture spon- sored by the college of LSA. See CLARK, Page 5 GEO to enforce TAs mandatory union fee* : , Cronkite to don 'U' cap and gown By SUSAN MAKUCH Most of this year's graduating class were mere toddlers when Walter Cronkite tearfully announced the assassination of President Kennedy. Now, 20 years later, the class of 1984 will hear that famous voice in person when Cronkite speaks during commen- cement ceremonies April 28 at Michigan Stadium. CRONKITE signed off from CBS Evening News almost three years ago, but that hasn't kept him out of the public eye. He has hosted documentary television features, raced sailboats and, on occasion, spoken at graduation ceremonies. CRONKITE WILL receive an honorary doctor of laws degree during his Ann Arbor appearance. "He's been nominated for an honorary degree for a long time now, but this is the first year that he could fit our commencement date into his schedule," according to Jim Shortt, assistant to President Shapiro. Shortt said that the commencement speaker is chosen from those persons receiving honorary degrees. The veteran newspaper and television reporter served as United Press International's war correspon- dent in Europe during World War II. He moved on to broadcast journalism in 1950 when he joined CBS News. Since then, Cronkite has virtually become a national treasure. Although he is gone from the CBS Evening News, he still remains one of the most trusted people in America. Cronkite will be able to add his honorary University degree to the multitudes of other accolades he has received such as the Peabody award, the Presidential Medal of Honor, along with several Emmy awards. By THOMAS MILLER Teaching assistants who haven't paid mandatory dues to the Graduate Em- ployees' Organization, the TA's union, will receive notices today warning them that they could lose their jobs. And University officials say they will back up GEO's threat. UNDER GEO'S contract with the University ratified last year, the University must comply with GEO's request to fire a TA who hasn't paid union dues, said Colleen Dolan-Greene, the University's assistant director for personnel. All TAs must pay GEO's mandatory fee even if they are not a member of the union. Currently about 600 of the Univer- sity's 1,700 TAs have not paid union dues, said GEO treasurer Rick Matland AFTER 'TAs receive, the warning notices they will have 10 days to pay the fee and by March 25 the Union will ask .the University to fire non~paying TAs, said GEO President Celeste Burke. "We've done everything we can do to reach everybody," Burke said. Many TAs who aren't members of GEO say that paying mandatory dues, which range from $24 to $60 a term depending on how many hours the in- dividual teaches, is unfair. LAST WEEK, a group of angry TAs started petition drive to make the fee voluntary. The group, Graduate Students for an Open University, has gathered half of the 560 signatures needed to force GEO to vote on the mandatory dues requirement, said Julie Goldberg, one of the petition organizers. See GEO, Page 7 Cronkite ... speaking at graduation TODAY Getting the picture T HE MICHIGAN Ensian, the University's award-winning yearbook, is beging its 1985 edition and wants to capture the faces of all potential graduates for posterity. Varden Studios will be on campus through March 16 to take senior portraits for next year's book. Take the first step toward senior-hood and sign up now for anappointment by calling the Ensian office at 764-9425 between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. or visit the Ensiannffice in the Student Publication R11iia seconds to allow for the listener's answers. Side 1, entitled "Uh-huh," begins with "Just tell me how you feel," and goes on to such queries and comments as "Mmmm," "Why do you think that is?" "Yes," "Why did you stop," "Uh- huh," and "Is that what you really want?" There's more of the same on Side 2, which is entitled, "Yes, go on" and ends with "That's all we have time for now." Mulfeld, who says he's been seeing a therapist "for a long time - long enough to get his rap down," is offering the tape by mail order. He hopes to have it in Los Angeles stores in time for "all the people in town because of the Olympics." No Ann Arbor sales plans have been announced, but look for it around the weather. Want to move into the high-rent district? Try Pitkin County, Colorado, where Aspen's ski lodges push the median home value up over $200,000. The guide covers all 3,137 of the nation's counties, from the biggest - Los Angeles County, population 7,500,000 - to the tiniest - Loving County, Texas, population 91. Gynecologists will be flocking to Geary County, Kansas, where the birth rate of 42.6 births per 1,000 women is tops in the nation. The book can be purchased from the Government Printing Office in Washington, where Census Bureau officials hope it will make one list the book doesn't contain - the bestseller list. C- " 1950 - City officials learned that a new census ruling counting students as part of the city's population would bring an additional $100 per student to the city in state aid. " 1970 - In an unprecedented disciplinary action, LSA Dean William Hays suspended a student who was accused of violently disrupting a General Electrics recruiter's visit to campus. On the inside. i E i I