Ninety-four Years of Editorial Freedom cl ble Lit 43U Iai1t! Nordic Sunny and warm with a high of 30 degrees. VoI. XCIV-No. 126 Copyright 1984, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Saturday, March 10, 1984 Fifteen Cents Eight Pages r Gay activists protest silently before visiting Shapiro 's office Fighting won't halt Lebanese peaee talks . Frm APand UPI By SHARON SILBAR After an hour-long silent march, a gay rights group went to University President Harold Shapiro's office yesterday, where spokeswoman Molly Adams declared, "We won't be silent anymore, and we will be back." When a secretary told the 13 female members of the Queers Action Committee that Shapiro was out of town, the women sat in a circle on the floor holding hands. AFTER ABOUT 10 minutes, the group stated their demand that Shapiro issue a statement forbidding discrimination against homosexuals by the University. "We're tired of waiting for Shapiro," said QuAC member Cathy Godre. "A lot of things are holding up (the passage of the policy), but he is the man who is holding us up." The group gathered on the Diag at 2 p.m., with brown paper bags over their heads to symbolize the isolation of gays on campus. The bags were covered with drawings of closets and slogans such as, "My friends tell faggot jokes and I can't come out," and "I am a faculty member who can't come out." THE ONLY sound during the protest was the beat of a cof- fee can which Adams used as a drum, as they walked from the Diag to the basement of the Fleming Administration Building, which houses the Office of Affirmative Action. The group then left the office, walked through the Diag, down South University and then back up to Shapiro's office. QuAC and members of the Lesbian and Gay Rights on campus (LaGROC) group have been asking for a statement forbid- ding discrimination for more than a year now, and although Shapiro said last October that he favors the statement, he has yet to formulate one. Last week, an impatient group of 55 gay activists marched to Shapiro's office chanting, "Two, four, six, eight, tell Shapiro we won't wait," to protest the University's tardiness in drafting a policy. BEIRUT, Lebanon - Mortar and grenade battles raged yesterday in the heart of Beirut and its southern suburbs as leaders of Lebanon's warring sects prepared for peace talks.At least two deaths were reported and 14 injuries. The fighting, only three days before leaders of opposing factions were to meet in peace talks in Lausanne, Swit- zerland, was the heaviest since a ceasefire was announced and the May 17 Israeli-Lebanese peace accord was canceled. 4.mFractional leaders, however, continued a preparations for the talks despite the fighting. PRESIDENT Amin Gemayel, of the Phalangist Party, has called on op- position leaders to meet in Lausanne to discuss power-sharing between Christians and Moslems and, greater Moslem representation in the Cabinet. Battles between Moslem militiamen and the Lebanese army erupted just af- Daily Photo by CAROL L. FRANCAVILLA ter dawn and continued throughout the Members of the Queers Action Committee demonstrate yesterday for a University policy against day, with at least two shells exploding discrimination based on sexual preference. in the Manara-district where the tem- porary U.S. Embassy is located. Gemaval ,.. faces opposition THE BATTLES spread from the "Green Line" dividing the city's Christian and Moslem sectors to Beirut's southern suburbs with See FIGHTING, Page 3 Controversial poll ranks 'U' 3rd America's top, 10 universities? Undergraduate Graduate I. riCeto . Hrvard 2. Harvard 2. California (Rorkoy) 3.* Mihigmn (Ann Arbor)3. Mtulgo (Ann. Arbor) S. StnodS.Safrd b. California (Berkeley) 6. Chko 1. Wis on in (Mdson 7. Princeton 9. Chmpo 9. Wiscnsin (Madison) 10. UCLA 10. UCLA By GEOFF JOHNSON The University of Michigan offers the third best education in the nation - bet- ter than Stanford, better than Berkeley, and quite a bit better than the Univer- sity of Chicago. At least so says Jack Gourman, a' controversial political science professor in California, who rates the nation's colleges and universities every! two years. WHILE CAMPUS officials say they are happy with the University's 3rd place ranking, they are hesitant to give Gourman's methods such a high grade. "It's marvelous to have Michigan recognized as one of the top three, ahead of a couple of private in- stitutions," said Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Billy Frye. But Frye went on to say, "It is not known as one of the most reliable tests." One of Gourman's most startling ratings comes in education schools, where he called the University's the best in the nation. In September, after a long review which frequently questioned the quality of the school, the University's regents voted to reduce its budget 40 percent. "EVEN DURING a time of crucial review, I am pleased to see us ranked as one of the top five," said Carl Berger, dean of the school, "But as a researcher, I question the way in which he arrived at his numbers," Berger ad- See CONTROVERSIAL, Page 2 PSN: Willing to continue sit-ins t By ERIC MATTSON Progressive Student Network mem- bers say they will continue to use civil disobedience to get defense research off campus,' despite the University's tougher stance against their actions. In a sit-in Tuesday, police arrested 11 PSN demonstrators for trespassing Engineering Prof. George Haddad's research laboratory. Police arrested the demonstrators soon after they made their way into the lab in a scene very different from last year's 48-hour sit-in, where the University took no action against the protesters. BUT PSN members say the group is willing to risk further arrests to force the administration and the regents to take another look at defense research, Julia Gittleman, an LSA junior, who was arrested in Tuesday's sit-in, said there are "about 20" other PSN mem- bers willing to be arrested to shut down University labs performing research supported by the Pentagon. LSA sophomore Mara Silverman, who was also arrested on Tuesday, said 'I don't see any problem with running out of students who are willing to put themselves on the line.' - Lee Winkelman PSN member the sit-in was a success "because it's bringing back the issue of military research. "The fight is going to continue to get military research off campus," she said. PSN MEMBERS do not all agree on what that means, with some flatly demanding that the University refuse to accept contracts from the defense department, and others arguing that guidelines for the research would be an acceptable first step. The University has guidelines prohibiting classified research which might harm human life. Over the sum- mer, the regents voted down similar guidelines for non-classified research, which makes up the vast majority of DoD projects at the University. The faculty and the administration had supported the proposal, and PSN members such as co-founder Tom Marx viewed the vote as a sign that conven- tional means would not work on the issue. "WE THINK that we have to work within the system," Marx said, "(but) we were forced into civil disobedien- ce." Marx, who was also arrested in Had- dad's laboratory, has filed an assault report against a campus Safety Officer, and an assault report was also filed against him in connection with the sit- it, police said this week. If PSN continues the sit-ins, they are unlikely to reach the size of last year's protest in Engineering Professor Thomas Senior's radiation laboratory, when 26 members blockaded the lab. AS THE group has grown, keeping actions a secret has been an increasing problem. Lee Winkelman, a junior majoring in social philosophy, said PSN will try to limit the number of people in the group will know of planned actions, cutting down the chances of leaks. "Some of the: details can be withheld," he said. An attemped sit-in at the laboratory of Engineering Prof. Theodore Birdsall failed in February, because University security' officials heard of the plan beforehand. WINKELMAN said civil disobedien- ce is necessary, because the ad- ministration is unlikely to reopen the issue of defense research without the See PSN, Page 5 By SUSAN MAKUCH Billy Frye felt the heat last night, but this time it had nothing to do with budget cuts, "smaller but better," or the five-year plan. Well, maybe it had just a little bit to do with it. The vice president for academic af- fairs and provost was subjected to many a bow-tie joke and chiding about his humble beginnings at the Billy Frye "Fry" sponsored by the University Ac- tivities Center as part of Michigras. THE PUN-filled evening began with every "fry" take-off imaginable - from the dinner (fried chicken and french fries) to an appearance of the Daily Photo by DAVID FRANKEL Billy Frye, vice president for student affairs and provost responds to a crack about himself at last night's "Frye fry," held in the Michigan Union. Frye gets fried by fam' ily and frien ds musical troupe the Friars for a little en- tertainment. Bob Foreman, executive director of UAC and emcee of the roast, began with a little background on the "fryee." "Billy was born in Georgia," Foreman said, "but he overcame this handicap by going to high school with Jimmy Carter and Bert Lance. Billy was third in his class, but they were the only three in the class." Vice President for State Relations Richard Kennedy talked about Frye's career at Piedmont College. "Piedmont is now an airline," he observed. Both Foreman and Kennedy com- See FAMILY, Page 5 TODAY We are driven TUDENTS WITH A knack for advertising have a chance to win $3,000 and see their ideas used to Dog days IN A TIGHT race for New York City mascot, the dog has taken a slight lead over the worm, but King Kong, the pigeon, and the cockroach are still in contention. "I think 'King Kong should be the mascot because he will protect our city," a youngster wrote Mayor Edward Koch, who invited public suggestions last week. Out of 150 nominations, the dog holds a 13-12 lead over the worm, followed by King Kong with nine votes, and the pigeon, the cockroach, and the apple with seven each. In one more bit of evidence that cavation company, Samuelson's latest find was a 1957 Cadillac - buried 10 feet beneath a parking lot. "It was pretty well crushed," he said. The car has probably been sitting underneath the lot for about 20 years according to Ed Trudel, of Lowell, Massachusett's Division of Planning and Development. Trudel said the site was turned into a parking lot when fire destroyed a bowling alley, pool hall and restaurant. Trudel said the car was probably aban- doned in an underground garage when the lot was built, and stayed in park for a long time after. "The only thing really left intact was the front section where the engine is, said Jim Nollet of Macomber Builders of Boston. The car wasn't Also on this date in history: * 1953 - A panel of professors speaking to the Univer- sity's Student Citizenship Program, condemned in- vestigations aimed at weeding, out communists in education. Philosophy Prof. Henry Aiken described the country's mood as a "fear of the intellectual in general." * 1965 - The Office of Student Services confirmed that there would be no more restrictions on the hours of juniors in University housing if they were over 21 or had parental permission. * 1970 - The Central Student Judiciary demanded that LSA Dean William Hays lift the suspension of Robert Par- I i .I