Ninety-five Years of Editorial Freedom cl be Lit9 an3U ThfllQ Madras Sunny and warm with highs in the low 60's. r WyL. XCV, No. 153 Copyright 1985, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Friday, April 12, 1985 Fifteen Cents Eight Pages Josephson, Feusse 0 In S election By AMY MINDELL VOICE candidates Paul Josephson and Micky Feusse captured the top two posts of the Michigan Student Assembly in this week's election, which had one of the highest voter turnouts in history. Election officials estimate that 6,000 students - about 18 percent of the student body - voted. ALL THREE ballot proposals were endorsed by a majority -of the students, and will be used as guidelines in future decisions made by MSA. Josephson, the assembly's newpresident, and his running mate Feusse received 2,186 votes. MUM (Moderates of the University of Michigan) can- didates Kevin Michaels and Tom Salvi earned 1,623. MOVE candidates Alex Diana and Casey Whitehead received 156 votes. VOICE (Voice Our Interest and Concerns in Education) took a total of 17 seats on the assembly. MUM won 12. Three of the remaining seats went to independents and four were handed over to write-in candidates. The winners for LSA representatives are: Homer Thiel (VOICE), Myron Marlin (MUM), Kristen Van Dekerkhove (VOICE), Rollie Hudson (MUM), Matt Tucker (VOICE), Judith Salzberg (MUM), Debbie Kohnstamm (VOICE), Rebecca Felton (VOICE), Steve Heyman (Indep.), Vebo Prasad (MUM), Ed Kraus (VOICE), Mary Ann Nemer (MUM), and DarrellThompson (Indep.). They are listed in order of votes received. IN THE RACKHAM School of Graduate Studies VOICE won three seats; Kathryn Savoie, Daniel Melendez-Alvira, and Ivette Perfecto. MUM received two; Virginia Ward and Steve Krawcz.yk. i MUM members Rick Frenkel and Michael Sovel captured seats for the College of Engineering. Walter Downs of VOICE nabbed the third spot. Over 20 per.- cent of engineering students voted in the election. Karen Kim, John Burr, David Lovlinger, Krista Stapleton, Scott Crawford, Margaret Phillips, can- tured the seats in the schools of education, architec- ture, art, library science, physical education, ant music respectively. THE DENTAL school'had a three-way tie for its one seat. JOSEPHSON credited his victory in part to the support received by LSA students. He said second- place candidate Michaels "concentrated on the College of Engineering." Josephson and Feusse were the youngest MSA leaders in recent history. Both are sophomores with junior credit standing. Josephson said the first thing he would do as president is to secure the 37-cent increase in student fees from the Board of Regents next month. HE SAYS HE will remain in Ann Arbor during the summer and intends to "keep an eye on the code, and possibly continue working on minority recruitment increases and retention if (Black Student Researcher Roderick) Linzie stays." See VOICE, Page 3 Columbia protest continues Daily Photo by SCOTT LITUCHY Pioneer High School drama teacher Norah Bixby chats with students yesterday during a protest of a school official's ouster. More than 200 studen- ts missed classes to join the demonstration. ioneer students blow *off class fo- By ERIC MATTSON j More than 200 Pioneer High School students boycotted classes yesterday to protest what they said was the forced resignation of a twelf th grade adviser. The students said Martha Graham, 61, is being used as a scapegoat for several problems the senior class had this year, including scheduling the., Wrom 'and homecoming' dances on Jewish holidays and charges of racism in a student election last summer. THE PROTEST began outside the school at 7:30 a.m. after students lear- ned that yesterday would be Graham's last-.day. At first the protesters were primarily seniors but later they were Bloomfield teachers fired over age ls' BLOOMFIELD HILLS (UPI)-Three teachers at a prestigious private elementary school who used bagel symbols to identify applications from Jewish students will lose their jobs when the school year ends. The symbols were discovered by an eight-member committee appointed by the Cranbrook Educational Community to investigate charges of discrimination against Jewish children. IN A REPORT released Wednesday, he committee said the symbols were used only during the 1981-82 school year and only by three teachers responsible for admitting students to the junior kin- dergarten class at the Brookside School. Cranbrook Educational Community operates three schools in the affluent Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills-Brookside, Kingswood and __ See TEACHERS, Page 3 r protest joined by underclassmen. By the day's end, however, most of the students had returned to their classes and only about 25 remained on the school's front lawn. Junior Julia Winters said that Graham had given students control over many of their activities, and that some of the blame for this year's problems lie with those students. "It wasn't really her that screwed up, but the people under her," she said. SEVERAL members of the faculty supported the protest, and some even joined the students during their free time. By KERY MURAKAMI Special to the Daily NEW YORK - The protest of Colum- bia University students continued to gain momentum yesterday, peaking with a march of more than 100 suppor- ters of black Manhattan District Attor- ney candidate Vernon Mason through Harlem to the steps of Hamilton Hall. As many as 500 students and non- students have been blocking Hamilton Hall - a Columbia University building which houses administrators' offices and classrooms - since last Tuesday. The protesters are hoping to force the university to divest its stocks from American companies doing business in South Africa. THE SCHOOL has $39 million in- vested in such companies. Although cheers and a poor, microphone system muffled speeches by the demonstrators, yesterday's protest reached a high point when about 600 "Down with Apartheid" in unison. Yesterday's events were also highlighted with news that South African Bishop Desmond Tutu saluted the students for their protest. Accor- ding to Daniga Boloyii, a Columbia student and sit-in leader, Tutu thanked them "on behalf" of the victims of apartheid. The Nobel Peace Prize win- ner reportedly said "It's heartwarming to see students fast, put their bodies where their mouths are." "BUT I want to express my hope that violence will be avoided," he told Baloyii during a phone conversation from his home in Johannesburg. "(Columbia University President) Michael Sovern has said that Bishop Tutu supports the administration," said Baloyii, "but (Tutu) said that he sup- ports us." The upbeat day, despite periodic rain that forced protesters to seek shelter underneath a tarp, was a carry-over from .the night before, said Tanaquee Jones, one of the protest's student leaders. LATE WEDNESDAY night, New York State Supreme Court Justice Bruce Wright - issu d 'a 'temporary restraining-grder baering police from arresting protesters until Monday. As long as students are "not in any way disruptive, interfering, blocking, or hindering any activity" at Colum- bia, the university is prohibited from "taking any action against the students peacefully congregating and sitting in on the exterior steps of Hamilton," the order said. "We took one more gun away from the administration," said Randolph Scott-McLaughyn, an attorney for the students. "(Administrators) have im- plied that police action was still -a possibility," he said. A PREVIOUS restraining order issued last week stated that students could not block entrances to the Berkeley protesters call for divestment building. Administrators have threatened to charge the protesters with contempt of court and disciplinary hearings. "Our concern was that in 1971 studen- ts did the same thing but Columbia called the police in and began beating (protesters) with billy sticks," Scott- McLaughyn said. See TUTU, Page 5 By MICHAEL SHAPIRO Special to the'Daily BERKELEY, Calif. - On the second day of their occupation, anti-apartheid protesters vowed to remain on the steps of a University of California Berkeley building until the school's regents agree to discuss their demands - including complete and immediate divestment of all university funds in- vested in South Africa. Forming spontaneously after an anti- apartheid rally at noon Wednesday, the occupation continued all night with about 50 protesters camping on the steps of Sproul Hall. RALLY organizers predicted that the occupation would grow after the student senate Wednesday night ap- proved a tresolution which supported the sit-in and endorsed the demon- strators' demands. Thedemonstrators were also en- couraged by the endorsement of the United People .of Color, a coalition which represents third world groups on campus. Yesterday morning the oc- See BERKELEY, Page 5 See HIGH, Page 2 THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY: 'U' saw new cure for poo By NADINE LAVAGNINO Students and world famous scientists packed into Rackham Auditorium grew quiet. Hundreds of reporters aimed their microphones and cameras at the, man who stood at the podium. Excit- ment mounted as the crowd waited to hear a miracle announced. At precisely 10:20 a.m., the man at the podium, Dr. Thomas Francis, then chair of the University's Department of Epidemology, boomed, "We heave found a cure for polio." THAT WAS 30 years ago today, when Francis called the Salk vaccine "safe, effective, and potent" protection again- st the crippling disease, virtually unknown to the present generation. The announcement was followed by a wave of emotion. "Some began to cry, some began to scream," recalls William Haber, dean emeritus of LSA who was part of the audience in Rackham when world history was made. "Every time I think of that moment I get a lump in my throat," he adds. Frenzied reporters stampeded to the third floor of Rackham, where a special bank of telephones, wire, and teletype machines were installed. Among the throng of reporters was Charles Kelsey, a dental student and a photographer for the Daily. "I remem- ber being in this mass of aggressive professional newsmen who were pushing, shoving, and shouting, he says looking back. Shortly after the an- nouncement, a special edition of the Daily appeared on the streets. Under Francis' direction, a team of 120 scientists had compared blood sam- ples of elementary students given the Salk vaccine with those of students who had been given placebos. University students in the epidemiology depar- tment worked on the research, said See 'U', Page 2 1955 DAILY PHOTO BY CHUCK KELSEY On April 12, 1955 at Rackham auditorium, Dr. Thomas Francis (left) and Dr. Jonas Salk (right) call the new polio vac- cine "safe and effective" toward combatting the crippling disease. TODAY Mistaken identity The last sound from Steven Farkas' violin was anything but music to his ears. Police, nervous who evacuated the terminal and blew up the case. Deputy police chief Keith Farraway said Farkas asked. police for' $5,000 to replace it, but got something less. Frisky fryers W ild chickens are driving Al Stadtler of Seattle wild, resident offered vodka-soaked grain, hoping to get the chickens tipsy enough to catch, and Stadtler put chicken feed inside: a dog trap. Nothing happened. Stadtler said he had checked with state agriculture officials, Washington Fbathered Fanciers and Progressive Animal Welfare Society without getting any help. "I even asked the Seattle Police Department SWAT special weapons and tactical personnel for advice, and they said, 'Forget it,"' he said. 46T).- - - 4- . ..:.... .« .,,.., . a- --) evidence room apparently have taken a liking to c, - fiscated marijuana and cocaine, nibbling through p1 .stic and manila envelopes to get at the drugs, polir - said. Wilhelm said one mouse was a victim of the traps set station earlier this week. "They seem to be partial to the marijuana," he said. m I I I