The Michigan Daily - Thursday, September 26, 1985 - Page 3 Reagan, Shevardnadze to confer Daily Photo by DARRIAN SMITH Freshmen Mark Kolan, left, and Chris Zalek study in a Couzens dor- mitory lounge. Kolar said that he thinks it's unfair that the dorm is the only one on campus to have a keg policy. Couzens quiets down fom prior rowdiness, WASHINGTON (AP) - President Reagan, preparing to meet tomorrow with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, is 'ready to discuss in detail "any serious proposal" the Kremlin might make about reducing nuclear weaponry, the White House said yesterday. However, the administration made it clear that real bargaining should be reserved for the Geneva negotiations. "I DO THINK the place for the real negotiations is in Geneva," said Vice President George Bush. "In seroiusness, that's where it should be negotiated." Reagan wil confer for two hours tomorrow with Shevardnadze, who meets today in New York with Secretary of State George Shultz. There are reports the Kremlin is preparing to offer a 40 percent cutback in nuclear weaponry. "WE WILL, of course, study any new Soviet ideas carefully and hope they will make possible the serious negoiations we seek," said presidential spokesman Larry Speakes. Speakes, who appeared to be trying to dampen expectations of any sudden progress on arms con- trol, said, "I'm sure that a two-hour meeting is not time enough - if the guy walks in and says, you know, 'Hey, I'm going to cut 40 percent, what do you want to do?'. It won't work that way." However, Speakes said that in both the Shevar- dnadze meeting and in the November summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Reagan "is prepared to discuss in detail any serious proposal the Soviets make on arms control. BOTH SPEAKES, at a news briefing, and Bush, posing for pictures in his office with former Secretary of State Alexander Haig, professed not to be concerned with assessments that the Kremlin is winning the propaganda war leading up to the summit. "I don't see any indication of that," Bush said. "We are not at all concerned on the Soviet propaganda blitz that has taken place over the last several months," Speakes said. HOWEVER, he disclosed that a national Security Council panel met Monday to discuss the "public diplomacy" leading up to the two-day summit meeting between Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva, Swit- zerland, starting Nov. 19. Some decisions were made at the session, but aides decclined to say whether U.S. strategy Is being shifted to counter Moscow in pre-summit public relations campaign. Rejecting Shevardnadze's proposal for "Star Peace" to counter the U.S. program of "Star Wars" missile defense, Speakes said, "We see no linkage between the Soviet porposal of peaceful effective strategic defenses research, which both of our countries are conducting." SHEVARDNADZE in a Tuesday speech to the United Nations General Assembly, coined the "Star Peace" expression in a bid to portray Moscow as a peace-seeker. Diplomats saw the rhetorical flourish as raising the ante in the superpower public relations. Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, nicknamed Star Wars because of its reliance on futuristic weapons, is a multibillion-dollor project he says can lead to a missle defense system that would make nuclear weapons obsolete. The Soviets have branded the program an effoit to gain military superiority and it has become the key sticking point in U.S.-Soviet arms talks now being held in Geneva. (Continued from Page 1) nings before being referred to Jackson for further reprimand. RA Mitch Reno said he has had to deliver a second warning to only onetresident. Four other RAs refused to discuss the issue. Residents say they are limiting par- ties to a small group of people and keeping their drinking behind closed doors in order to avoid trouble with the RAs. "The RAs tend to act like police of- ficers when they're on duty," said Kimberly Clum, an LSA sophomore who compared the current situation to living last year in Couzens. ON DUTY RAS walk through the hallways and ask residents whose doors are open to turn down the volume of loud stereos, Clum said. RAs generally don't disrupt a party in progress if the door is closed, she ad- ded. Such was her own experience recently when she was charged with violating the alcohol policy. "It was a weekday night and I was in my room, with the door about half open," she said, relating the incident. "Sitting on my desk was half a can of Chinese beer, that I wasn't even drinking at the time. Two RAs, who were walking down the hall, noticed this and gave me a verbal warning." But the same RAs walked right on by a closed door down the hall, she said, despite loud music and evidence that a party was proceeding inside. Some residents say they now attend parties in other residence halls or elsewhere on campus because of the restrictions. Vaughn Alliton, president of Couzens dorm council, said "I go out to parties, bars, frats" largely because the keg parties he en- joyed at Couzens last year have been ruled out. Fed. judg WASHINGTON (AP) - The Reagan administration, with an op- portunity to appoint nearly 100 federal judges, is trying to screen out can- didates who are "going to get on the bench and make social policy," a Justice Department official said yesterday. But Grover Rees, a University of Texas law professor brought in by At- torney General Edwin Meese to head the selection process, denied that the aministration is seeking commitmen- ts by judgeship candidates on how they'll rule on future cases. RESPONDING to criticism from some congressional Democrats who maintain that candidates are being interrogated on how they would deal with such issues as abortion, busing prospects and school prayer, Rees said: "We do not ask for judges who will rule a cer- tain way. This picture that we've somehow putting a bunch of ideological drones on the court simply doesn't wash." The Justice Department has filed a friend-of-the-court brief in two pen- ding Supreme Court cases, involving Illinois and Pennsylvania, in which it seeks to overturn the landmark 1973 court ruling in the case of Roe vs. Wade. By a 5-4 ruling, the high court ex- panded its interpretation of the 14th Amendment to include privacy rights which guaranteed women a con- stitutional right to an abortion. Sub- sequent court rulings have severely narrowed attempts by states to may face screening restrict abortions. I'VE NEVER asked for anybody's position on abortion," Rees said, and I've had people tell me that they believe that abortion ought to be legal, and those people still get selected by our process." "I never ask ask anybody point blank, 'Do you think Roe vs. Wade was rightly decided?" he said, "not because I think it would be immoral to do so or not because I think that would be irrelevant to someone's con- stitutional philosophy." "You can't tell what somebody's constitutional philosophy is by staying at the slogan level, by saying, 'Oh, are you for judicial restraint? Oh, good, well you're on the bench!' You've got to talk about the great cases, just like in law school," Rees added. So far, Reagan has chosen 207 of the 761 federal judges. President Carter filled 245 judgeships during his four- year term. ME" Campus Hispanics lack cohesiveness, students say (Continued from Page 1) M University solely because of their minority status. "Some people say 'You're here because you're a minority,' " she said, adding that non-minority students sometimes resent University services aimed at helping minority students find post-graduation jobs. SOME TYPES of discrimination aren't as subtle, said Perfecto. "When the Latino Studies Program was started at the University last year, on the sign advertising the program, someone wrote derogatory terms on the sign," she said. The word "spic" was one of the words which found its way onto the poster. Not all Hispanic students have been faced with discrimination, however. "I NEVER even thought about being discriminated against until I came (to the University) and people talked about it," said Ophelia Mar- tinez. Yet discrimination is but one of the problems Hispanic students face while orienting themselves to the University community. "Many times (integration) is more problematic, especially because of the pressure to assimilate," said Vic- tor Tores, minority student serices' Hispanic representative. "IN MANY cases, students are coming from a different culture - family structure, food, customs, and the languages are different." As a result, students are often torn between the mainstream and their own culture. "There's a push-pull ef- fect, a tug of war to assimilate and to maintain a cultural identity so that you can still go home and feel comfor- table," he said. Frausto, who is from Jackson, ex- perienced those feelings. She is the first child in her family to attend college and although her parents, who are from Mexico, are supportive of her, she said they still don't have a complete grasp of her experiences. "I CAN'T really explain things to them," she said. "I have (Medical College Admissions Tests) coming up, but they really don't understand the impact of that. I say the test lasts all day and they say 'Oh well, study hard.' " "Sometimes it's hard when you go home and think, 'Oh, I have a Mexican culture, too,' " she said. Ara Martinez also agreed that holding to one's cultural ties can be difficult. "You kind of lose (culture) completely. At the University there's really no exposure to cultural things. You have problems deciding which culture to adopt and you end up not adopting either totally." "YOUR VALUES become up- dated," Martinez explained. "I have more Americanized ideas (than my parents) about relationships and sex roles." She, for example, believes that women should be equal partners in relationships and have the right to work outside the home. Although this experience is com- mon to many students, Martinez' parents worry that her Americanized values are a sign that she is losing touch with her heritage. "They say 'You're losing your heritage, you're forgetting who you are,"' she said. SOME STUDENTS join Hispanic campus groups to maintain ethnic traditions. As a freshman, Frausto was leary of getting involved in ex- tracurriculars because she didn't want to shortchange her studies or ruin her chance for medical school. But her desire to keep in touch with her heritage inspired her to get involved with the Socially Active Latino Student Association (SALSA). She is now president of the organization. BELONGING TO these groups sometimes awakens Hispanic studen- ts to their heritage. "At home I never spoke Spanish as much as I do here," said Ofelia Mar- tinez. "When I came here, I was in- terested in knowing people from my own ethnic group. I was embarrassed that I didn't know the language that well." She said that bi-lingual people at the Unviersity helped her to improve her knowledge of the language and her cultural ties. CULTURAL differences are at the heart of current issues facing Hispanics on campus. Hector Delgado, a graduate student and member of the Puerto Rican Association, said that the University is not "a terribly inviting place" for minorities because the Universitys insensitive to the needs of minorities, activities aren't diverse enough, and the University needs more faculty, students, and staff. Hispanic faculty and staff role models are a definite asset to education, say some students. "The fact that you can see someone else cares and has already made it," helps students achieve goals, Ara Martinez said. Role models, however, are scarce. University Affirmative Action reports state that less than one percent of the instructors on campus are Hispanic. LANGUAGE barriers are another issue with which Hispanic students must contend. Some students, according to Car- mina Sanchez, a graduate student who is a member of the Puerto Rican Association, grow up in Puerto Rico in a Spanish-speaking environment. And even though they may be taught GET INVOLVED JOIN the UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN chapter of the AMERICAN CIVIL English as a second language while in school, the quality of that instruction can be inadequate. Such a concern prompted Sanchez' group to send letters to University deans, asking for help in finding a solution to the language barrier problem. BUT ADMISSIONS counselor Dave Robinson said cases such as this are rare. "When we see a language problem, we have the student take a test that makes corrections for that." Robinson said that the test, called the Michigan test, is given to all students who may have encountered language problems on other tests. He said the exam does not have the time constraints of other standardized test, and that it also focuses on the student's potential to master English. 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F.....s:.o . s...o rti . ...,.: HAPPENINGS Highlight The INTI-ILLIMANI, a Chilean Folk group, will perform at the Power Center at 8 p.m. tonight. This performance is part of a national tour celebrating the release of the group's new digital instrumental album "Imagination." Films MTF - The Killing Fields, 7 & 9:30 p.m., Michigan Theater. AAFC - Radio On, 7 p.m.; Quadrophenia, 9 p.m., MLB 4. CG - Psycho, 7 & 9 p.m., Auditorium A, Angell Hall. C2 - The Third Generation, 7 p.m.; Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Yr 2000, 9 p.m., Natural Science. Hill St. - Siddhartha, 7 and 9 p.m., 1429 Hill Street. Peace Corps - Fate of the Forest, 7:30 p.m., YMCA, 350 South Fifth Avenue. Meetings MSA and Alpha Phi Alpha - Minority Student Forum, 7 p.m., Trotter. HOUniersity AA - meeting, noon, 3200 Mich. Union. AAUP - Meeting, discussion, "An Update on Health Care Options," noon, Conference Room, League. Intervarsity Christian Fellowship - Meeting, 7 p.m., Henderson Room, League. Rugby Football Club - Meeting, 7 p.m., Tartan Turf. Miscellaneous Progressive Zionists - meeting and movie "peace Conflict," 7:30 p.m., Room 126 East Quad. a His Hnge Christian Fellnwshin - Bible Studv. 7:30 n.m., 925 E. Ann --e .' '>: "4- . t : }., :: .