C I bt LIt 3tUn Ninety-six years of editorial freedom Ann Arbor, Michigan - Thursday, November 7, 1985 IatiQ Vol. XCVI - No. 46 Copyright 1985, The Michigan Daily Student is the vwtim ofracial vandalism at library By DAVID ROTH When history doctoral candidate Scott Wong went to the graduate library last week, he discovered someone had broken into his fifth floor carrel and written "You Die Chinaman" on the wall. He also noticed a Chinese-English dictionary was missing from the carrel. It was later returned to library officials with the words "Die chink, hostile Americans want your yellow hide" inscribed inside the cover. "TO ME, THAT takes it to a dif- ferent level because I'm an American," said Wong. "It is impor- tant that people realize that 'American' is simply a term of citizenship, not of skin color." Wong fears the racist display is the act of one or more Caucasian American students who believe "they are the only real Americans.". University Department of Public Safety officer Tim Shannon said an investigation of the incident is still open, but there are no suspects. It is unlikely this case will be solved, he added. (THE GRAFFITI incident is) not going to get solved unless we have a suspect," said Shannon. "Obscene, racist or otherwise very disturbing" graffiti is reported "maybe once a week," according to William Shurtliff, head of photoduplication and building ser- vices for the library. Shurtliff said graffiti falling into the obscene category does not seem to be common. Nor is it common for carrels to be broken into, he noted. "IF THERE WERE a trend, I think a lot of people would know about it, in- cluding me," Shurtliff said. However, no records of such reported incidents are kept on file, he said. Wong noted the irony of the incident occurring the same week the Univer- sity released its figures showing an overall minority enrollment increase from 11.3 percent to 12 percent, the See STUDENT, Page 3 Ten Pages Reagan redefines SDI goals Ups an dow nsDaily Photo by JAE KIM Members of the Chi Phi fraternity and Delta Delta Delta sorority teeter-totter in the Diag yesterday to raise funds for children's cancer research. Bill threatensdecrease in aid to colleges, students, and research WASHINGTON (AP) - President Reagan redefined his goals for the proposed "Star Wars" shield defense system yesterday, saying he would deploy the space shield unilaterally if other nuclear powers can't agree on a worldwide nuclear defense and disarmament program. "If we had a defensive system and we could not get agreement on their part to eliminate the nuclear weapons, we would have done our best and we would go ahead with deployment, even though, as I say, that would then open us up to the charge of achieving the capacity for a first strike," Reagan said in an inter- view less than two weeks before he meets Soviet leader Mikhail Gor- bachev in Geneva. THE PRESIDENT'S comments ap- peared to negate the terms he laid out in an interview with Soviet journalist last week in which he said he wouldn't deploy a defensive system until offen- sive missiles had been dismantled. But Reagan denied there was any in- consistency in his separate descrip- tions of his policy. "The terms for our own deployment would be the elimination of theoffen- sive weapons," Reagan said to the Soviets. "We won't put this weapon - this system - in place, this defensive system, until we do away with our nuclear missiles, our offensive missiles . . . And if the Soviet Union and the United States both say we will eliminate our offensive weapons, we will put in this defensive thing in case some place in the world a madman someday tries to create these weapons again." But yesterday, he told the White House correspondents of western news agencies that if the U.S. research program he calls the Strategic Defen- se Initiative were to come up with an effective system to defend against nuclear attack, the United States would call a meeting of all nuclear powers to "see if we cannot use that weapon to bring about . . . the elimination of nuclear weapons.' IF THAT conference failed to gain an agreement for mutual use of the defensive system, Reagan said, "we would go ahead with deployment." Earlier yesterday when asked if he meant to give the Soviets veto power, in effect, over deployment of the proposed defensive weapons system, Reagan replied, "Hell no." Reagan also said in the wide- ranging discussion that he suspects but can't prove the defection and sub- sequent return of Soviet masterspy Vitaly Yurchenko and two other Soviet citizens were part of "a deliberate ploy" by the Kremlin in the days leading up to the Nov. 19-20 Geneva summit. THE PRESIDENT said he was per- plexed by the three cases, but "we just have to live with it because there's no way we can prove or disprove" that the cases were or- chestrated. Contrary to recent reports from in- telligence sources, Reagan said the information Yurchenko provided "was not anything new or sensational." As recently -as last week, U.S. in- telligence sources were crowing over what they called the gold mine of in- formation from Yurchenko, who defected to the United States three months ago and returned to the Soviet Union yesterday. Reagan also made these points in the half-hour interview: " There is every indication that Gorbachev is "a reasonable man," and that gives Reagan hope he can convince the Communist Party chief the United States has no expansionist aims and genuinely wants to ease the distrust with which the two super- powers regard each other. *oHis goalat the summit will be to "eliminate the distrust" between the superpowers, not to negotiate a new arms control agreement. By KYSA CONNETT A balanced-budget amendment currently being debated by Congress could have severe consequences for higher education, according to University and national financial aid officials. "This amendment has to be treated as a serious issue," said Thomas Butts, the Univerity's Washington lobbyist and assistant to the vice president for academic affairs. THE AMENDMENT, dubbed the Gramm-Rudman bill after two of its Republican sponsors in the Senate, Phil Gramm and Warren Rudman, could force drastic cuts or total program eliminations in student aid, institutional aid, and research funding, according to the American Council on Education (ACE). Other groups, such as the Consumer Bankers of America say the bill will force banks to end their par- ticipation in the Guaranteed Student Loan Program, which would literally wipe out the government's largest student aid program, ACE's assistant director for congressional liaison, Lawrence Zaglaniczy said. The bill has been attached to legislation to raise the national debt over $2 trillion. This legislatin is considered urgent because Treasury officials predict that the gover- ment will default by Nov. 14 without it. CONFLICTS in the two houses over the content of the balanced-budget amendment have delayed the legislation. Both the bills set decreasing deficit levels for the next several years and require Congress to meet the targets. Under the Senate version, the president would automatically administer the cuts if the deficit limits aren't met. Under the House version, it would result in automatic across-the-board spending cuts. The House and the Senate left a conference committee on Friday in disagreement. Sen. Bob Packwood (R- Oregon), leader of the Senate conferees, said that there would " ... have to be some give" on both sides in the search for a compromise and suggested Senate Republican leader Robert Dole, House Speaker Thomas O'Neill and " ... someone who speaks for the president," See BUDGET, Page 5 Ban of pet use won't hurt research bill, backers say n71 I I Lee Katterman, the editor of The Research News, produced a documentary entitled "Men's Music" that won this year's Detroit Press Club award for the best college radio documentary. Radio show studi es male roles By KERY MURAKAMI Special to the Daily LANSING - Proponents of a bill which would ban the use of dogs and cats from animal shelters in biomedical research yesterday denied that their measure would crip- ple research in the state. Opponents of the bill, including University researchers, testified before the Senate's Committee on Higher Education and Technology last week that banning the cheap source of lab animals would raise the cost of research ten-fold. They said universities and other research in- stitutions would have to begin raising or buying more expensive, specially- bred animals for research. BUT JOHN McCardle, director of laboratory animal welfare for the national Humane Society, told the committee yesterday that similar laws in three other states, including Massachusetts, have not hampered researchers from competing for federal research grants. Susan Schermann, president of the Michigan Federation of Humane Societies, also testified yesterday that the bill is not "anti-research legislation," but rather designed to curb the overpopulation of pets. Schermann said selling the cats and dogs to researchers contributes to the overpopulation problem because "it's a cheap, easy way to get rid of the animals. It eliminates the need to develop solutions." Schermann added that the largest suppliers devote little resources to such solutions as trying to find the owner, or finding someone to adopt the animals. IN ADDITION, Schermann said researchers buy healthy, sociable animals; those easiest to adopt. Selling the animals, she said, con- tradicts the whole idea of having shelters. "They're supposed to be san- ctuaries, not warehouses," Scher- mann said, "People are reluctant to bring their pets in because they're afraid they might be used for resear- ch." More than 50 people who testified yesterday supported the bill, but one who spoke against the legislation was Richard Pierce, a Southfield veterinarian who served on the state Humane Society's Board of Directors for over a decade. Pierce said he appreciated the idea, but charged the ultimate goal of the bill's proponents is to ban all animal research, an idea he called "absurd." "This bill is a stepping stone to their ultimate goal," he said. SCHERMANN denied the charge, saying they opposed only unnecessary animal research. Pierce also asked whether it is "more humane to euthanise specially- bred animals, than to euthanise pound animals who are going to be euthanised anyway?" About 3,000 more animals would have to be bred to make up for the loss in pound animals. But Schermann testified that pound animals differ from specially-bred animals because they're not raised for a research environment. MCCARDLE ALSO said yesterday researchers can find alternatives to the animals, such as using videotapes to demonstrate surgery on dogs and cats, without actually operating on the animals for every class. "Alternatives are available," he said, "but having this cheap source of animals are a disincentive to finding these alternatives." But Sen. Henry DeMasco (R-Battle Creek), one of the bill's supporters, said, "If I were having open-heart surgery, I don't want the doctor to See SUPPORTERS, Page 5 By MELISSA BIRKS If some folk songs are seeds of change, then men's music may redefine what it means to be a male. At least that was University employee Lee Katter- man's purpose behind an hour-long radio documentary he produced. The program, called "Men's Music," is a compilaton of songs written by men in protest of the "macho male" stereotype. THE SONGS were performed at a six-day conference about men and masculinity held at the University in 1983. The radio station WEMU asked Katterman, who is editor of the University's science magazine, The Research News, to compile the songs, a project for which he received this year's best college documentary award from the Detroit Press Club. Katterman found that much of men's music has its roots in feminist music, songs about civil rights struggles, and other social protest tunes of the past. The folks songs, Katterman says, attempt to raise the question in the listener's mind about the roles men play and whether they assume the roles by choice. "THE MALE stereotype is that a man works hard, brings home money for the family, and deals with cer- tain things in the home like the discipline of the children and maybe mowing the lawn," he explains. "It doesn't have to be that way. Men can be just as kind and nurturing as a woman can - and it's not a See DOCUMENTARY, Page 5 WE TODAY Glory days be returned shortly, Ms. Shanahan said recently. However, the next flag to arrive belonged to a car dealer in Louisiana, she said. She returned the 48-star flag and the car dealer's flag and was told again that the county's giant flag was in the mail. Meanwhile, commissioners have decided the problem will be z~nA isbyflvirnn nn mollpins n n m W.nct An tc. and +th put off payment of her debt by climbing onto the roof Tuesday instead of last week when the weather was really bad. "I'm a good sport, but I'm not a martyr," said Maschoff, who chose to occupy the roof in a down coat with mittens in 35-degree temperature. "I was not going to sit in the rain." Last spring, when the !,cgneiatin'Qs mhgbrshin stood at RR. s~he bt that INSIDE SOUTH AFRICA: Opinion on "pyramid of divestment." See Page 4. HALF Mt Detroit Imae n reare to storm I '.