C I br 01ik i'mrn Ninety-six years of editorialfreedom 43 ttii Non-Profit Org. U.S. POSTAGE PAID Ann Arbor, MI PERMIT NO. 13 Vol. XCVI - INo. 98 Copyright 1986, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Tuesday, February 18, 1986 Eight Pages Middleton, winprimai JOSEPH PIGOTT sororities from expanding. By J"The housing situation is inapt Incumbent Jeanette Middleton easily at this time, and with restrictiv defeated Donna Richter last night in the laws, the Greek system will not b Republican primary for the Third Ward flourish to its potential," sai City Council election race. Ausman, rush chairwoman In April, Middleton will run against Panhellenic Association. The as Democratic contender Susan Contratto for governs University sororities. the ward's City Council seat. Sophomore Alpha Epsilon Pi In the Fifth Ward, Phil Spear defeated Mike Noorily said he voted for N Paul Jensen, 376 votes to 31. Spear will be because he did not like the way pitted against Democratic incumbent wanted to rezone the area. Doris Preston in the April election. "THE ISSUE is something we d TENSIONS between area residents and at the fraternity, because it is 1 students over a controversial zoning issue the zone. We want to makes marked the third ward primary, people get out and vote," said Noo Richter, a member of the planning Panhellenic officially endors commission, has opposed rezoning area dleton and asked all Sororities an homes from family to group housing, a nities in the ward to encourage th policy which students say would prevent bers to vote. many of the area's 24 fraternities and Panhellenic president Mar Spear rtes propriate ve zoning e able toi d Susan for the sociation member Middleton Richter discussed ocated in sure that Drily. sed Mid- d Frater- eir mem- ,y Pfund defended student interests in the neigh- borhood. "It's our neighborhood too. I think that we're just students showing concern for the neighborhoods," she said. TO ENSURE that her sorority, Alpha Gamma Delta, was aware of the issue, the whole house registered to vote together, Pfund said. Middleton stood firm in the face of criticism for her vote to rezone the Collegiate Sororis house in her district. "I don't think that there will be an influx of greek houses, but there is a perception that it is going to happen," she said. Middleton also remarked that her margin of victory shows that people think she is doing a good job on the City Council. "It makes me feel like all those long hours on council were worth the while," she said. N- W'"- 1I Daily Photo by PETE ROSS LSA juniors June Kirchgatter and Mary Pfund fill out forms before voting in the City Council primaries yesterday at East Quad. Norris resigns as MSA committee chairman By REBECCA BLUMENSTEIN The Michigan Student Assembly's minority affairs committee chairman, Lawrence Norris, resigned last night. The assembly's steering committee asked Norris to resign last week, in part because of conflict of interest charges stemming from his work/study job with the University administrator in charge of minority affairs. SEVERAL assembly members had ex- pressed concern that holding the MSA post and the work/study job posed a conflict of interest because MSA and the ad- I ministration frequently clash on minority issues. But in a statement announcing his resignation, Norris said the reasons for his departure "do not stem from the recent allegations against me, but from the fact that I want to devote more time to my academics." "The only reason I didn't resign before was that I didn't want to resign in a cloud of controversy," Norris said. The steering committee last night dropped all of the charges it made against Norris, including conflict of interest charges and allegations that Norris did not devote enough time to non-black minority concerns. ERIC SCHNAUFER, personnel chairman of the assembly, said Norris's resignation was the result of a compromise to salvage MSA's image. "Lawrence Norris had a choice between resignation and removal," he said. "It's an example of two parties swallowing their pride for mutual in- terests." MSA President Paul Josephson and Vice President Phillip Cole declined to comment. Instead of forcing the issue to go before the entire assembly, the steering commit- tee, which is composed of MSA's committee chairman and executive officers, accepted Norris's resignation. "It removed a cloud from both minority affairs and MSA," said Schnaufer, who is on the committee. IN ITS statement, the committee formally dropped all charges against Norris and apologized for the allegations. "We have not found sufficient evidence of your guilt and failure on the charges outlined in the Steering Committee memoranda of Feb. 16, 1986," the statement said. In addition to the conflict of interest charges and the claim that Norris was not doing a good job as Minority Affairs Com- mittee chairman, the memoranda criticized Norris for allegedly threatening Cheryl Bullard, MSA's former administrative coordinator, for revealing his work/study job with Niara Sudarkasa, associate vice president for academic affairs. Bullard resigned 10 days ago. NORRIS maintained his position that the original charges surfaced because he is black. .I felt that I was treated wrongly, and that racism had a lot to do with it," he said. "Black people are just controversial in a white society, and I wasn't going to reign until MSA admitted that they didn't have enough evidence against me." On Sunday, Norris encouraged "all of my black brothers and friends at U of M to secure our MSA funds so that we can put it to better use for ourselves," in a 14-page let- See MSA, Page 8 Dartmouth trustees back handling of protests HANOVER, N.H. (AP) - Dar- tmouth College trustees capped a week of turmoil over the Ivy League school's South Africa-related invest- ments by declaring yesterday that they support the college president's handling of the conflict. "We wish to emphasize that the policies followed by President (David) McLaughlin and other mem- bers of the college administration have the support of and in many in- stances were initiated by this board," the trustees said in a statement released at a news conference. "We believe that these policies are in the college's best long range interests and President McLaughlin continues to have the support of the board of trustees." The statement followed a week of arrests and suspensions stemming from student actions on both sides of the divestment issue. THE COLLEGE arrested 18 studen- ts Feb. 11 when they obstructed the removal of a shanty erected on the college green as a symbol of the op- pression of South Africa blacks. That evening, a school disciplinary board ordered the suspensions of 12 students who attacked a shantytown on the green in January. McLaughlin, a corporate executive with no experience as an educational administrator when he became Dar- tmouth's 14th president in 1981, has come under fire from both faculty and students for running the school more like a business than a college. IN A LETTER printed in the student newspaper Friday, some students and faculty members called for his immediate resignation. They accused him of disregarding faculty votes, showing bad faith in dealing with faculty and student organizations, and using force rather than dialogue in dealing with anti- apartheid protests. In early January, an eight-member faculty committee said many faculty members consider McLaughlin's ad- ministration "insensitive to and not knowledgeable about educational concerns." "The sentiment seems practically universal among the faculty that it has been frustrated in its attempt to play its traditional . . . proper and necessary role" in governing Dar- tmouth, the report said. Daily Photo by PETE ROSS Debatable LSA senior Jeff Evans speaks against campus protest at a debate bet- ween College Republicans and members of the Latin American Solidarity Committee in Bursley's East Lounge last night. 2 Israelis captured insouth Lebanon BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Guerrillas captured two Israeli soldiers in Israel's self-proclaimed security zone in south Lebanon yesterday, and Israeli troops swept north out of the zone in search of the men. The Israeli military command in Tel Aviv said two Israeli soldiers and a Lebanese militiaman were missing after being ambushed by guerrillas in south Lebanon. The command said two Israeli-allied Lebanese militiamen were reported killed. Timur Goksel, spokesman for the U.N. peacekeeping force in the area, said 600 Israeli troops moved north with the support of tanks and helicop- ter gunships, storming 15 Shiite Moslem villages. Helicopter gunships strafed suspected guerrilla hideouts, he said, and many of the Israeli assault units were ferried in by helicopter. THERE WERE no immediate reports on casualties from the Israeli advance. Lebanese security sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said guerrillas of the Syrian-supported National Resistance Front umbrella group ambushed the Israelis near Bint Jbeil four miles north of the Israeli border inside teh security zone at 1 p.m. The state-run Beirut radio quoted U.N. sources it did not identify as saying four Israeli troopers were killed and four were captured by guerrillas near Bint Jbeil. BUT OFFICIALS of the U.N. In- See GUERRILLAS, Page 3 Peace march 'U' student joins 9-month cross-country adventure By AMY MINDELL Margie Winkelman's friends say ghe is a "doer," not a sitter. Since coming to the University, her in- terests have involved her in issues in- cluding environmental concerns, rape prevention, and Zionism. She is Pro fi*e a familiar face at organized rallies on campus and helped put together last '-year's Take Back the Night march. Winkelman says a sense of respon- sibility motivates her ambition. Today she will take her ambition on the road. For the next nine months, Winkelman will march from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. with 2,500 others to protest nuclear arms. "THE FIRST thing everyone asks is if I have good shoes," Winkelman laughs. She raises one foot shod in a shiny leather sneaker. "I do," she says with a smile. Those shoes will cover many miles - about 3,200 - during the march, which will wind through 16 major cities, including Las Vegas, Omaha, Neb., and Pittsburgh. Winkelman, who couldn't convince any of her friends to accompany her, is the only University of Michigan student going on the march. "No one was crazy enough to go but me," she says. In view of the University's reputation as a center of student ac- tivism, that fact surprises her. SUCH INDEPENDENCE worries her, and Winkelman reluctantly ad- mits if the march is terrible she can "take a bus home." But enthusiasm overcomes fear as she describes the marchers' goal. The final stretch of the march will take Winkelman up the steps of the Capitol to present lawmakers with millions of signatures gathered to show nation- wide support for complete nuclear disarmament. A sense of responsibility provokes Winkelman to embark on the journey. She wants to remind people of the danger nuclear weapons present, and to make the world safe for the gran- dchildren she hopes to have. "It's easy to push the threat of nuclear weapons out of your mind and say, 'Who am I to change anything?' But it's important to remember that even if you are a little person you can make a difference - especially if there are enough little people together," she said. "The march is a way for me to take responsibility." WINKELMAN first read about the march in Mother Jones magazine during winter break. The march seemed like a way for anyone to make an important statement, she said. After looking into the march, she found it was planned to the smallest detail and presented the idea to her parents. According to Winkelman's brother Steve, a high school senior, their See STUDENT, Page 2 TODAY Blanchard busters MY TA wRS' 1U T nrru A De 1 ,ma yh a convention. Evans said he and other College Republicans dispute Blanchard's handling of state finances, despite recent news of a $117 billion surplus for fiscal 1987. They also say the state has lost jobs because of Blanchard's policies. Evans could not provide details of whether he and his collegues will nlan an anti-Rlanoheai amnnian on r inr hit hP Memorial Hospital to root for their heroes - and laugh at the stunts like a fifth-inning prank on pitcher Phil Regan. The Cub reliever, who was known for sup- posedly throwing spitballs, had a cooler of water delivered to the mound by Ferguson Jenkins and Bill Hands. Met right fielder Ron Swoboda brought back memnries of a diving cateh in Game 4 of the 1969 World - INSIDE BRAINWASHING : Opinion looks at CIA abusiveness. See Page 4 I i