Copyright 1985, The Michigan Daily 3ktigan Ninety-six years of editorialfreedom Ann Arbor, Michigan - Tuesday, October 29, 1985 1Eai1 Vol. XCVI -No. 39 Ten Pages Shapiro hopes to find new VP soon By ERIC MATTSON University President Harold Shapiro said yesterday he hopes to find a successor to Billy Frye, vice { president for academic affairs and provost, before Frye leaves next May. Shapiro has appointed an eight- member committee to help him find someone to take over Frye's post. The committee, which consists of six faculty members, an administrator, and a student, will hold its first meeting tomorrow. FRYE ANNOUNCED last month that he will give up his position as the second-highest ranking administrator at the University to become the dean of the arts and sciences at Emory University in Atlanta. Shapiro's appointment of the ad- visory committee is the first step to picking Frye's successor. Susan Lip- schutz, assistant to the president, said the University has already placed ad- vertisements in The New York Times and the Chronicle of Higher Education announcing the position opening, and a steady flow of ap- plications is coming in. Shapiro said lie picked the members of the committee from nominations from all over the University on the basis of "their experience at the University and their ability to give wise advice." "MY HOPE is that we will have a new vice president this spring," he said. Committee member Robert Green, a doctor in internal medicine, said the , president has told him that he wants See SEARCH, Page 6 Shapiro appoints reiwpanel Sorority blaze Daily Photo by JOHN MUNSON Fire inspector Bob Harris looks at wires where an electrical fire started last night at the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority house. See story, Page 5. Only two run for RSG By JERRY MARKON University President Harold Shapiro has appointed an ad-hoc committee to conduct the comprehen- sive review of the University's guidelines on classified research or- dered by the Board of Regents last summer. The committee, which consists of eight faculty members, two ad- ministrators, and two students, has not yet set a date for its first meeting, according to Vice President for Research Linda Wilson, who organized the selection process. IN A LETTER to committee chair- man Prof. Phillip Converse, who is the director of the Center for Political Studies, Shapiro outlined a charge for the committee that is based on regen- tal concerns. "The regents believe that many significant social, economic, and educational changes have occurred in the 14 years since the design of the present guidelines and it is essential that they be reviewed in light of these," Shapiro wrote. Specific problems with the present guidelines, Shapiro continued, include a time limit of one year on restrictions of publication of research results, ambiguous wording in the section that - prohibits research that could lead to the destruction of human life, and vague methods of implementing the policy. THE committee must "balance the sometimes conflicting demands of the traditional academic imperatives and values and the needs of our society for access to our researchers," Shapiro said. "The role of research in our society is multi-faceted." Converse said yesterday he found Shapiro's letter "really not very in- formative - it's only the beginnings of a charge." Although Converse initially said he "really knows almost nothig about the present guidelines," he later added that he has carefully observed the guidelines in approving research proposals at the center. "Obviously I have some familiarity with the basic application of them, but I really haven't rubbed against them in a practical sense," he said. "I'VE REALLY just accepted them as a physical limit - like saying its 62 degrees outside today - and I haven't sat back and said if I'm going to redesign them, how would I do it.?" Converse and other committee members said they preferred to wait until their first meeting - which Shapiro and Wilson will attend - before elaborating on how the com- mittee will conduct its review. But several committee members said they had barely read the current guidelines, and others, including the two students, expressed reservations about research that could threaten human life. See SHAPIRO, Page 6 By MICHAEL LUSTIG With elections tomorrow and Thursday, only two people have announced their candidacy for six available seats on Rackham Student Government. The two declared candidates are running for the physical science and engineering seats. The open seats are in education and biological and health science divisions. RSG VICE President Thea Lee said she was dissatisfied with the number of candidates who applied. "If people are upset about what RSG is doing, they should get involved," she said. The open seats will either be filled by write-in can- didates or by the graduate student government, according to Lee. Edward Hellen, a graduate student in physics, is run- ning for a seat because he wants to have "a voice in the University." As yet, Hellen has no major plans for the graduate student government, but wants to have his say on the issues that are being discussed. FRED BARNEY, the second declared candidate, has three issues he would like the RSG to address. He wants to change the Graduate Employees Organization because . he says it "doesn't represent anything." Barney, a graduate student in statistics, says that very few people attend the GEO meetings and questions why he should have to pay dues to an organization that, according to him, does nothing. Barney also believes that a University code of non- academic conduct should be implemented. See TWO, Page 3 VV" . . t "}t "r."}.h. }.".." " 1.. " ... .........": ................ .:v..:~ : : "":::.."...: : ... ......".. V. . . V . . . . . ... . .......... . .. : ::V ":"'L h :4V...."":::":::"..1"::LV:6 .:...: . ::.":: Students respond to nmandatory vaccination By MICHAEL GLARUM Nearly 1,800 of the 2,700 students who received hold credits for failing to get measles innoculations have been vaccinated. Only 843 students will be unable to register for winter classes. This dramatic increase in the num- ber of responses has caused Univer- sity Health Service to consider can- celling its vaccination set-up at CRISP during winter registration, said Judith Daniels, assistant direc- tor of clinical operations at Health Service. But the Michigan Department of Public Health yesterday initiated a four-day vaccination clinic in the basement of the Health Service building. The clinic runs until Thur- sday and is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Many of the students who received hold credits were the victims of their own bureaucratic errors, said Judith Daniels, University Health Service assistant director of clinical operations. CIA research hi~ts campuses .;; . M". .; . .. .. :.r "..; A".1 w "- ryv- .f " .r "1 :. ...... Jii t" .".Y' tY"t":".: :::: ....-. 'A A M. : Z.Yf}; VVni'ii':f L :V. .J E ' :.Y...t." .:;. .::t::""t':' .'. Ytt::t th:i.JJ:::"::".Ar:"!":\'.""": v.Oeri O C' } :" v4; .Yh'{t :J ... Y:,.}{T.r;;: . .:"'":"~:,t. }, . By JERRY MARKON- with wire reports News that a Harvard University faculty member accep- ted money from the Central Intelligence Agency to fund a conference on the Middle East has aroused opposition from his colleagues. IT HAS also raised questions about the CIA's role in the academic arena. And while the University hasn't received CIA monies in several years, administrators speculate that there could indeed be agency funds circulating on campus. "They've got fronts all over the place, I assume - but we just don't know," said James Lesch, the University's director of research, development, and administration (DRDA). "Although we've never uncovered anything like that, there's a possibility that one doesn't know when one is ac- cepting CIA money," added Wono Lee, a University spokesman. THE SITUATION at Harvard, however, is a case of direct CIA funding. Prof. Nadav Safran, director of Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies, received about $45,000 for a two- day conference on Islam and politics earlier this month. This week, seven faculty members associated with the center asked Harvard to prohibit such funding. THE FACULTY members argued that CIA funding is inappropriate in sensitive areas of study such as the Mid- dle East, where scholars must be free of what could be perceived as special ties to the U.S. government. Connections between the CIA and the center "may result in reduced access to research sources, a suspicious or even hostile attitude on the part of foreign governmen- ts, academic institutions and individuals, and even the possibility of physical harm," they said in a letter to A. Michael Spence, Harvard's dean of faculty. Harvard officials are still investigating the matter. The Associated Press this week quoted Lesch as saying that the University accepted $50,000 in CIA money last year, but Lesch says this information is inaccurate. ACCORDING TO both Lesch and David Plawchan, the DRDA official who handles CIA proposals, the University has not accepted CIA research money for several years. Plawchan said the last CIA-funded research project on campus - industrial engineering Prof. Daniel Teichroev's research on computer software - ended in 1981. In addition, Plawchan said, psychology Prof. Eugene Burnstein had received $69,000 from the agency for a See HARVARD, Page 2 By AMY MINDELL NOTE: University alumnus Stanley Kubacki and his wife Sophia were among 12 Americans held hostage by Palestinian terrorists who this month seized the Italian cruise ship, the Achille Lauro. The Kabackis, who reside in Philadelphia, returned to Ann Arbor last weekend for Homecoming. While they were here, they spoke with Daily Profile staff writer Amy Mindell about the hijacking. Before 70-year-old Stanley Kubacki details how his dream cruise became a nightmare he lights a cigarette and jokingly requests "something stronger than coffee." The story the Philadelphia common Pleas judge is about to relate is one he has told over and over, to frien- ds, reporters, and government of- ficials. The stout, white-haired man is patient, and unemotional, as if he is recalling scenes from an old movie rather than a tragedy witnessed first hand just three weeks ago. IT IS ONLY when his wife Sophia, a tiny woman, admits to waking up with crying spells in the dead of the night and to switching on the television set, radios, and all the house lamps during the daytime that Kubacki confesses it is difficult to forget the hijacking. "It was so unreal . . . my wife said, "I just can't believe that this is happening to us,'" he says, remembering the fourth day of what should have been a beautiful 16-day Mediterranean voyage on the Italian cruise ship, the Achille Lauro The couple was among about 50 (mostly elderly) passengers who had chosen not to join an excursion in Cairo that day. Having visited the Egyptian pyramids during previous vacations, the Philadelphia couple decided in- stead to enjoy a restful afternoon aboard the ship. They were en- joyng lunch in the vessel's dining room when they first heard gun shots, then pained moaning, on the deck outside. SECONDS later, two men armed with automatic rifles burst into the dining, room, spraying bullets through windows and walls. The diners and the crew serving them dropped to the floor. While the terrorists aimed their guns at crouching people, a voice over the ship's public address system ordered everyone else on board to gather in the dining room. Minutes later, the remaining passengers and. about 350 crew members joined the hostages. See CRUISE, Page 6 Protesters present ' case to city council By PHILIP CHIDEL Nine student protesters presented testimony to the Ann Arbor City Council last night accusing city police of brutality and of conserving the University's image at the expense of individual rights. Reading from a prepared statement, LSA junior Claudia Green accused police of "brutally at- tacking" protesters. She said the "police brutality was not provoked by the protesters, but was rather an element in and a result of a situation manufactured by the University administration and the Ann Arbor police." GREEN CITED three examples of alleged police misconduct. She said that on October 17, the date of the Today Show's visit, two students with tickets to the event were harassed, "both verbally and one physically, but a police officer for their attempt to display a banner bearing a political message." Also on Oct. 17, two other students were removed forcibly from the en- closed seating area for carrying political signs, she said. On Oct. 23, the second day of CIA protests, four students were arrested for disorderly conduct without being See ACTIVISTS, Page 5 Preston ... supports gun ban TODAY Daylight stopping time spent nearly three hours on a trip from Philadelphia to New York City that was supposed to take an hour and 53 minutes. Guard gators Battling bouncers STEVE BELCHER would rather smile than fight, but that doesn't mean he's a pushover: He just might be the toughest bouncer in the country. In INSIDE - MISUNDERSTANDING: Opinion examines reactions to recent campus.protests. See Page 4.