cl bic Mit tian Ninety-six years of editorialfreedom Ann Arbor, Michigan - Tuesday, November 12, 1985 BItiQ Vol. XCVI -No. 49 C Univ. of aryland leads in violent crimes By MELISSA BIRKS with wire reports The University of Maryland's College Park campus led all other major colleges in the nation in repor- ted violent crime in 1984, it was repor- ted yesterday. FBI crime statistics showed there were 53 violent crimes reported to university police, including four rapes, 13 robberies, and 36 aggravated assaults. THE UNIVERSITY OF California at Los Angeles and Michigan State University tied for second with 45 violent crimes reported. Here at the University of Michigan, there were 43 reported violent crimes in 1984, according to director of cam- pus safety, Leo Heatley. These figures reflect only crimes that occur on property that the universities own. In the FBI report, the violent crime category includes murder, rape, rob- bery, and aggravated assault. AT MICHIGAN in 1984, there were 13 reported incidents of aggravated assault, 17 cases of criminal sexual conduct, and 13 robberies. A robbery, Heatley said, is "for- ceable taking of property" and must involve contact between the victim and the assailant. Of the 17 reports of criminal sexual 0 conduct, three were labeled as first degree, meaning the incidents in- volved "sexual penetration with aggravating circumstances resulting in injury to the victim and with a weapon involved," Heatley said. The FBI report does not include cases of assault and battery, 95 of which were reported at the University last year. ALTHOUGH College Park had more reports of violent crimes, the University of Michigan actually posted more cases of property crime. Heatley said that the last year there were 1,895 cases of property crime on the Ann Arbor campus. That includes 1,720 felony larcenies, 128 burglaries, 24 car thefts, and 23 arsons. See VIOLENT, Page 3 opyright 1985, The Michigan Daily Eight Pages SALK DISCUSSES CURE Polio vaccine commemorated By STEPHEN GREGORY Dr. Jonas Salk, whose discovery of a vaccine for polio was announced at the University 30 years ago, yesterday said some parts of the world still lack his cure. As many as 500,000 people around the world currently suffer from the crippling disease, which has been vir- tually eliminated in the United States, Salk said during a celebration of the anniversary of his medical achievement. "(POLIO) CAN be eradicted this year," he continued, "It's just a matter of applying the knowledge that we now have." Salk reminisced about the day in September, 1952 when he received the results of blood tests on a group of children who had been immunized with his then experimental vac- cine containing the polio virus. "It was clear we had demonstrated a rise in an- tibodies," he recalled. He was a researcher in epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh when he discovered what he thought would be the answer to the crippling disease. SALK ASKED his mentor Dr. Thomas Francis at the University of Michigan to run a series of field tests to follow-up on his research. It was after those experiments that Francis told media representatives from around the nation at Rackham Auditorium on April 22, 1955, "We have found a cure for polio." Salk said it meant a great deal "to bring the work to a conclusion so that the benefits I felt when I immunized my children could be felt by others." His vaccine has since been upgraded so that patients are injected with antibodies to the disease rather than its virus, Salk said. Salk, was a nominee for the Noble prize of his discovery, but did not win it. Asked during an earlier press conference. ce if he was bitter about the decision, he said, I had a great opportunity and experiences, and that was a reward in it- self." Also, he added, he had not expected to win and was therefore not disappointed. SALK SAID that there still is no clear cause to the post- polio syndrome, which involves recurring symptoms of polio in patients who suffered from the disease before the vaccine was made available. He also compared his achievement with those health challenges facing the medical community today. Polio was "unavoidable," Salk said, because the virus could be picked up even through indirect contact with an infected person. In contrast, he said individuals can take certain steps to avoid contracting the two most prevalent health problems today, cancer and AIDS. Cancer researchers would be better off to devote their time to studying the causes of the disease rather than an overall cure, Salk said. "When there is a hepatitus vac- cine," he said, "then liver cancer caused by it can be prevented." Similarly, he pointed out the best way to prevent lung or bladder cancer is to abstain from smoking cigarettes. "Are we going to sit back and wait for the biological scientists to come up with something that will keep us from having to exercise our own will?" Salk said, stressing that man has not yet learned to prevent many of his own health problems. And he expressed his hope that in the future scientists can-develop a universal vaccine that "contains as many different antigens for as many different diseases as possible." Daily Photo by DAN HABIB Dr. Jonas Salk discusses in Rackham's East Conference Hall yesterday the evolution of the polio vaccine he discovered 30 years ago. .......... ......-- '---!". M .: :: : :d i : :":JY: : :V: : : 5: V : :: : ... .V::. .V. .. :..: ."6... .. .. .._....--". -- "-----_a.. .._.ea..._____. ......... ._._. .c.e._._ Votersm defeat biflliking porn with exploiaton CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Voters soundly defeated a controversial law that would have sub- jected pornographers to civil lawsuits on the grounds that their product amounts to sexual discrimination, election officials confirmed yesterday. About 100 people who had been counting paper ballots by hand in a school gymansium since Thursday finally finished their tabulation, finding a referendum on the issue lost on a vote of 13,031 against to 9,419 in favor. Alfred Gerardin, election supervising auditor, said 1,931 of the 24,381 who voted in the election left the pornography question blank. The measure needed at least 15,000 yes votes to be approved. Voters in Cambridge, the home of Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, also were selecting nine city coun- cilors and six school committee members. The controversial proposal defines pornography as "a systematic practice of exploitation and subordination, based on sex, which harms women." Explicit photos, as well as anything defined as dehumanizing to women, would be con- sidered pornographic. COERCION of participants, traficking in por- nography and assaults or attacks due to por- nography also would be subject to civil penalties. A spokeswoman for the feminist Anti-Censor- ship Task-Force, which opposed the proposal, was cautiously optimistic before the vote. "I think people in the organization as well as people who are watching ... are feeling pretty strongly that the referendum is going to lose," said Janice Irvine. "It (defeat of the question) would send a really clear and strong message that this ordinance is more dangerous to women than pornography," she said, adding the law sould be enforced in a "very conservative way." It will end up being used against women," she said before the results were in. "All someone has to do is claim that they have been offended and convince a judge. We think the first kinds of material that will be gone after...is women's material." ............. ................ .................... ..":.....:":.....r..r...:o:::.::r......................... ..........................ti..... I Administrator observes gains of iwmen first hand By LAURA BISCHOFF When Barbara Newell first visited the University in 1940 she ran up the steps of the Union in pouring rain to ask for directions. Because she was a woman, however, she was told to en- ter the back door of the all-male club. But when Newell returned to the Union twenty-seven years later, she walked straight through the front en- trance, not as a student but as an assistant to University President Profile the institutuion which aren't very glamorous but make a difference in the quality of life," she says matter- of-factly. Hiring practices are more fair now, she explains, and University activities and facilities - such as the Union - are no longer off-limits to women. "We've got a long way to go in em- ployment," she says, leaning back in a sofa in the Union. "There are more women in administrative positions now than there were fifteen years ago, but they seem to be stopping at middle management, which is discouraging." AT THE UNIVERSITY, the only woman to be appointed as vice president besides Newell is Linda Wilson, who was installed this fall to head up research programs on cam- pus. But Newell points to a shift in enrollment patterns that show more women are moving into the law, medical, and engineering professions. She anticipates a comparable shift in See SCHOLAR, Page 2 Daily Photo by JOHN MUNSON Robben Fleming. It was a position she held three years before becoming the first woman to step into a vice presidency of the University - a feat unmatched until this fall. LAST MONTH Newell, now a visiting scholar at Harvard at the age of 57, was honored as one of the foun- ders of the University's Commission on Women. While she was here, she spoke to the Daily about the advan- lNewell ... pioneered women in education cement of women in higher education. The 'tall dignified woman who cleared a path for women in the upper echelons at numerous universities, says she is pleased at "visible im- provements" in the attitude of higher education toward women but disap- pointed that women haven't made greater strides. "There have been basic changes in Go 'M' A jogger runs down Observatory Street yesterdav, keeping his hands warm with 'M' gloves. - F TODAY Scarlet And gray blues ,TN OUR CONTINUING PREVIEW to the football Busy bee M ACON Telegraph and News General Manager Billy Watson promised to put on a bumblebee costume if the Macon, Georgia newspaper ever achieved a goal of selling 100,000 copies in a day. Guess what happened? The sale of 103,228 copies last Dancing for Jerry's Kids WHILE THE FOLKS DOWN IN Columbus are learning to be better farmers, students in Ann Arbor will be dancing the night away this weekend to raise money for Muscular Dystrophy. The 10-hour dan- -INSIDE GRADUALISM: Opinion looks at the latest minority enrollment figures. See Page 4. I i I