The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 21, 1986 - Page 3 Coalition posts signs condemning By REBECCA BLUMENSTEIN Responding to the recent surge of racist incidents on campus, a coalition of student groups is putting up posters and pushingrfor a new University course on racism and sexism in an attempt to "fight racism on all fronts." "Racism and bigotry are hazardous to our social health and will not be tolerated on this campus," reads a poster circulated by the United Community Against Racism (UCAR). The group, which is funded by the Michigan Student Assembly,BLSA Student Government, the Black Student Union and the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation originally formed last fall. MSA AND HILLEL provided fun- ding for the 500 posters, which have "gotten a pretty favorable response," according to Howard Jacobson, an LSA seniior and the coalition's foun- der. Jacobson added, however, that the life of posters around campus often proves short. Jacobson originally came up with the idea for the coalition from an in- cident last November where anti- Chinese slurs were found in a Chinese student's carrel at the graduate library. HE THEN approached MSA President Paul Josephson, who agreed with his plan and gave it MSA's support. According to Josephon, all student groups were asked to participate in the forming of the coalition. "It is more like a committee of MSA, not a separate student group," he said. MSA has since actively worked with UCAR in putting together a proposed non-credit University course to be required for all freshmen. In ad- dition, University President Harold Shapiro created a task force agianst racism at the end of fall term. UCAR MEMBER Matt Tucker, who is also chairman of MSA's academic affairs committee, said he is one of two students appointed to the task force. "We want the efforts of UCAR and the task force to work together," Tucker said. Susan Lipchutz, an assistant to President Shapiro, refused to disclose more details about the task force, but Josephson said Shapiro initially failed to appoint student members. "WHEN I asked him, though, he said that he just forgot and made two student positions" Josephson said. As far as the required course goes, Josephson said, MSA and UCAR 0 'acism within a month "plan to present a detailed proposal to the presidential committee on racism, and within two months to the regents. Although there are many stumbling blocks, I have yet to meet someone in the ad- ministration who is against the idea." "The desire is there, and it's not totally unrealistic to try to have the course for this fall's freshmen," Josephson added. LSA sophomore Alan Weiss said UCAR "wants to provide support for trying to get" things done at the University about racism. We want to provide a place for people to go for support, and ideally would like to foster com- munication between different minority groups," he added. WARNING: RACISM AND BIGOTRY ARE HAZARDOUS TO OUR SOCIAL HEALTH AND WILL NOT BE TOLERATED ON THIS CAMPUS! UCAR (UNITED COMMUNITY AGAINST RACISM) MICHIGAN STUDENT ASSEMBLY /HILLEL The United Community Against Racism is distributing 500 of these posters across campus. Ballot dispute opens RSG seats By MICHAEL LUSTIG Twenty-nine disputed ballots delayed Rackham Student Gover- nment officials from announcing the winners of three representative seats' in this week's Rackham elections. All voters were required to show their student ID cards before voting. The cards were then verified on a master list of all Rackham students. iRegents approve housing (Continued from Page 1) The most significant increase is the cost of an economy triple. The 9.8 per- cent increase brings this year's cost up to $2,298.44 over last year's $2,547.02 per person. "THEY PAY more in total because if there is a third consumer, there is an increase in utilities," said David Foulke, assistant director of housing. Regent Thomas Roach (D-Saline) expressed concern for students living in a triple because they "decide to economize as much as possible." The percentage increase for a triple is twice the percentage increase, of a double room. Roach questioned the logic of increasing the percentage cost of a triple at twice the rate of a double, when "instead of having two people in a double you have three people in a double." ALONG another line of questioning, regents Roach and Dean Baker (R- Ann Arbor) asked Hughes whether the University should consider building additional housing. Hughes said the residence halls are operating at 102 percent capacity, allowing 42 percent of returning students to live there. Ann Arbor's vacancy rate is 0.79 percent, one of the lowest rates in recent years. If off-campus housing vacancy rates remain the same "there's going to be a point where we come back to you and talk about what to do. We don't think there is as much student housing off campus as there was," Hughes said. BAKER said, "I don't think we should be particularly pleased with the housing facilities as they are" and rate in erea se voters were also required to put their names, ID numbers, and division numbers on the ballot. Several of the ballots were unsigned and on others, suggested building University-owned students forgot to put their division apartments. numbers. Some ballots were disputed -ButHughssiebecause the students' names did not But Hughes said he has been reluc- appear on the master list. tant to propose additional housig BECAUSE of the questioned because of the cost involved ballots, one of the social science and Hughes said he is pleased tha the both physical science and engineering amily ousing commi as en representative seats remain unfilled. an about-face and increased their Incumbent Mark Weisbrot retained rates in order to provide capital im- one of the social science seats with 66 provement programs. In the past the oe ofthia sen sets with committee focused its efforts on votes. Within a few votes of each kenng rateslo other are Institute of Public Policy Candidate Erik Stalhandske, with 54 votes; incumbent Mark Greer, with 51 votes; and Institute of Public Policy challenger Eric Norenberg, with 50 votes. In the Physical science division, in- cumbent Gus Teschke and write-in challengers Sonja Pettingill and Alison Barry are all tied. No vote count was released for this race. Vice-president Thea Lee, over- whelmingly re-elected to he. position on the RSG, said the vote is "a solid endorsement of our policies of the past year" and that graduate students favor RSG's involvement in inter- national issues and supporting progressive speakers. "WE LEARNED what grads are in- terested in," said Lee. She added that many students asked her to try and get the Rackham building opened for use on Sundays. Lee said, "We didn't realize many people thought we weren't com- municating," and said thatnif more people were involved in RSG, com- munications would improve. With the endorsement of their past policies, Lee said the RSG will continue its in- volvementdin current issues and in bringing speakers with a wide range of views to campus. She also said, "We don't want to disqualify ballots where students just left off their division numbers." She was uncertain as to what will happen to the other ballots, and said that a decision will be made on their validity at the RSG's March 3 meeting, or possibly before. Bart Edes, who lost to Lee, congratulated the victors, but said "A three to four percent turnout cannot indicate the political leanings of graduate students." Only 248 of the nearly 6,00o Rackham students voted. Edes said one of his and his running- mate, Peggy Kuhn's weaknesses was that Lee and RSG President Dean Baker have been at the University longer. He'also said that Baker and Lee were able to motivate their frien- ds. This is "a rather significant and heartening change of attitude," he said, adding that the residence halls have consistently instituted im- provement programs. Case in point is the installation of 83 computers and four laser printers in the dorms. A total of two hundred terminals will be in place by next fall. SAT scores will continue to improve (Continued from Page 1) Zajonc's study focuses on the num- ber of siblings the student had at bir- th, because he said, the first years of a child's life are the critical period for developing verbal skills. The SAT slump of the '70s coincided with an increase in the size of families into which the tested students were born. In 1963, the beginning of the decline students on the average had 1.5 siblings born before them and the Iowan fined in football riot IOWA CITY, Iowa (UPI) - The University of Iowa student charged with inciting a riot at last year's Iowa- Michigan football game has been fined $100. The riot charge was dropped again- st sophomore Robert Pellati of Glen- view, Ill., in exchange for a guilty plea to disorderly conduct, Johnson County authorities said. Police said he incited students to tear down a goal post at Kinnick Stadium following Iowa's 12-10 win. average SAT score was 490. By 1980, however, the average student had become the third family child, with scores falling to 455.5 The SAT score of a student is depressed by about 15 percent for each sibling alive at birth, Zanonc said. This effect is the same for both sexes, he added. This trend reversed in 1980 however, and test takers are now coming from smaller families. Zajonc predicts this trend will through the 1990s. In 1979 the average newborn was the second child of the family. These children will be tested in the late '90s. The report predicts that in 1986 there will be another three to four point rise in the SAT average, and the average could rise to as much as 510 or 515 by theturn of the century. Hunter Breland, of the Education Testing Service, also found a correlation between performance on the test and family size, but he questions Zajonc's findings. 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