:1-l 1311tt] n iEai14 Ninety-six years of editorial freedom Vol. XCVI - No. 115 Copyright 1986, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Thursday, March 20, 1986 Eight Pages Guid line review explores many options By ROB EARLE Last in a two-part series The committee evaluating the University's classified research guidelines will release its report next month after hearing proposals ranging from banning secret research altogether to not restricting it at all. One of the most hotly debated issues is the University's prohibition on research which could incapacitate or destroy human life, one of the key provisions of the research guidelines passed in 1972. ACCORDING to a source close to the committee, which has held only two open meetings since it was for- med last November, support for and opposition to this provision is about equal, both among committee mem- bers and in the University com- munity. Opponents charge that the provision is too vague and unfairly restricts the content of research projects. Groups such as Campus Against Weapons in Space and the Michigan Alliance for Disarmament, however, say the restriction should be extended to non-classified research as well. A DRIVE in 1983 to extend the rule to incude non-classified research was; rejected by the Board of Regents, despite support from the Michigan Student Assembly and the faculty senate. Ingrid Kock, the assembly's military research advisor, said the review of the guidelines affords a new opportunity to get the extension, and MSA passed a resolution earlier this year recommending just that. One compromise that has been suggested is to make the guidelines more specific by singling out weapons research. Prof. Phillip Converse, chairman of the review committee, said that idea has been reviewed by the committee but no decision has been reached. The review of the guidelines began, after the University rejected a proposal by political science Prof. Raymond Tanter to study informal means of arms control. Tanter's proposal violated a section of the guidelines which prohibit research that cannot be published openly one year after the project is completed. THAT provision is under intense scrutiny, especially because 44 projects with classification restric- tions equivalent to Tanter's proposal have been approved. Two of these projects are going on now. Kock said this inconsistency shows a fundamental need to exercise more restraint on classified research. But Howard Finkbeiner, former assistant to the University's vice president for research, said that although the 44 projects could have generated classified material that would have violated the University's policy, in each case it was established that the project would not produce such material. CONVERSE said the committee has heard arguments both to extend the one-year rule and to shorten the time requirement, but speakers at the two open meetings held by the com- mittee overwhelmingly supported retaining the current rule. See COMMITTEE, Page 2 Member quits, berates lesbian/gay task force By SUSANNE SKUBIK A member of the University's Task Force on Sexual Orientation resigned Tuesday, saying the group is inef- ficient and has not done enough. Judy Levy, one of 20 community members appointed to implement the presidential policy of non- discrimination against homosexuals called the 18-month-old task force "unwilling to fight the anti- lesbian/gay bigotry" on campus. RUTH ADDIS, the University Housing Program Director and co- chairwoman of the task force, disagreed. "From my experiences with other University task forces, I can say that for a relatively newly formed group, it is progressing as could be expected." Jim Toy, a coordinator of the lesbian gay programs in Counseling Ser- vices and a member of the task force, also defends the group's progress. "We issued a poster stating the policy, and had it approved and printed. Now we're working on a brochure on the nature of sexual orientation discrimination and what recourse its victims have," he said. "We have done not a little or a lot." The presidential policy, which the task force is charged with implenting, was declared the "official policy" of the University by University President Harold Shapiro March 21, 1984. It adds sexual orientation to the list of factors like sex, race, and national origin which should be irrelevant in University employment practices. But Levy said the poster and brochure were not enough. In her resignation letter, Levy recounted her attempts to push the task force to stronger actions. She urged the group to generate University support for national legislation for lesbian/gay civil rights and amendment of the regents' bylaws to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in all University ac- tivities. The task force was unrecep- tive to her proposals, she wrote. Addis said such measures are not the purpose of the task force. "For many of us the group has a very clear purpose: that people know about the (policy) statement," she said. "Members of the task force may per- sonally believe that other legislation should exist, and may be working on that in other committees," she said. The group's purpose, however, is work at the University level, not the state or national level, she said. Levy said the work at the Univer- sity level is inadequate. "Lesbians and gay men at the University of Michigan cannot afford to have any illusions that the task force is fighting on our b'ehalf," she wrote. "In order to implement the presidential policy, they need to do that with a great amount of enthusiasm, strength, and militance, and not with monthly meetings of sheer talk," she said. Hitched !Associated Press Prince Andrew kisses his bride-to-be Sarah Ferguson yesterday morning after the announcement of their engagement. 40 more By PHILLIP LEVY On the eve of the Congressional vote on sending $100 million in aid to the Contras in Nicaragua, more than 100 protesters rallied against the bill at Rep. Carl Pursell's local office near Briarwood Mall. Forty were arrested. None of the 40 were arrested at similar protests earlier this week, so the total num- ber of protesters who have been arrested on charges of trespassing since last Friday is 118. ALL OF THE demonstrators were released after being processed at City Hall. A spokesman for Pursell, a Republican said the congressman made up his mind on protesters the issue lMarch 11 and plans to vote in favor of President Reagan's proposal to send aid to the rebels fighting the Sandinista gover- nment in Nicaragua. Shortly before 7 p.m., when the building that contains Pursell's office was scheduled to close, co-owner Doug Roberts asked the protesters gathered in the hallway "will it be the same routine?" They responded with laughter and affirmation. AT 7:30, Ann Arbor police arrived, and the protesters in the building were read the Trespass Act, then handcuffed by the police. They were led down a walkway and greeted by cheering and singing supporters, despite the bitter cold. arrested at Pursell's office Melissa MacKensie, a second-year graduate student in the School of Natural Resources and one of those arrested, said she came because it was the most effective way to let Pursell know how she feels. "Our consciences won't let us sit back and watch what's happening. This is our only avenue to solve the problem," she said. MacKenzie was a Peace Corps volunteer in Costa Rica from 1981 to 1984. She became interested in Nicaragua at a Thanksgiving dinner in 1983, when she spoke with the U.S. Ambassador there. When he said, "You can't negotiate with the Nicaraguans; they're all liars," she, resolved to find out the truth about the situation. SHE concluded that the Sandinisat gover- nment is popular in Nicaragua.. Fellow protester Jim Burchfield, who served in the Peace Corps in Guatemala, agreed. He called the Contras "a group of thugs and hoodlums and not a legitimate political force." Burchfield went to Washington to meet with Pursell in February. "He listened but he didn't hear," he said. BURCHFIELD said he was participating in the protesters at Pursell's office because "I don't want more people to die." Pursell's office was closed today as it has been all week. A Washington spokesman for Pursell said the office would reopen "when Holocaust survivors recall the faith that helped them endure By MELISSA BIRKS Three Holocaust survivors who yesterday evening recounted their experiences in German concentration camps said faith in God helped them survive. "We survived. Our belief was our strength," said Abe Pasternak, who was 18 when Hungarian Nazis took over his hometown of Transylvania. "Prisoners who never prayed stood with us while we prayed, or stood guard and asked us to pray for them." PASTERNAK, Agi Rubin, and Alex Ehrmann all live in the Detroit area. They each gave a 20-minute presen- tation during the final event in the Seventh Annual Conference on the Holocaust in the Rackham Am- phitheater. Rubin was 15 when she and her family were transported to Ausch- witz in crowded box cars. She lived through most of the ordeal with frien- ds who she said gave her the courage to continue. She added that even in the worst of 'I realized everything I'd heard is true: They're burning people. They're gassing people.' - Holocaust survivor Abe Pasternak we are able to get our people in safely." Pursell's inaccessibility and lack of responsiveness has aroused the ire of the protesters. "He's not representing his constituents and I'm mad as hell," MacKenzie said. Protesters said people in the Ann Arbor area are opposed to Contra aid, citing a recent poll that showed public sentiment running two-to-one agianst the aid. The Latin American Solidarity Commit- .tee, an organizer of the protests at Pursell's office, had a meeting planned for last night to discuss their plans for protest after today's vote. Experts examine .S. taxes, welfare By ALLYSON RAYNES Welfare experts meeting at the University yesterday said too many elderly Americans depend on Social Security benefits when they should be receiving money from for- mer employers and other retirement plans. Experts on American welfare and taxes met on the final day of the fourth annual Presidential Library Conference on North Campus. Former President Gerald Ford chaired the conference, which was designed to promote dialogue between experts and the public. INSTEAD OF private pensions, home ownership, and personal savings, Social Security has become the primary source of retirement income, said Wilbur Cohen, for- mer Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. See PANEL, Page 3 when the prisoners ate snow to com- bat their thirst and working in front of the crematorium where she assumed her parents died - her "faith in God never left." "WE BELIEVE in God in spite of everything," Rubin said. "It's the only comfortable thing we can live with." ..Ehrmann began his presentation explaining that, "I have not had the chance to go through education you can go through. Mine was cut short." Ehrmann dropped out of junior high school because of anti-Semitic discrimination. He finished elemen- Auschwitz in the middle of the night. "I SAW the flames of the crematorium, and I still didn't want to believe it," Ehrmann said. "We star- ted marching and it started to get morning. I heard dogs barking, I saw suitcases in a pile of branches. Then I heard babies crying. I realized everything I'd heard is true: They're burning people. They're gassing people." All three lecturers told of lining up in front of Josef Mengele the Nazi scientist who decided with a wave of his hand which prisoners were fit to work and which would die. Daily Photo by PETE ROSS Journalist Dusko Doder, a Washington Post Moscow correspon- dent, tells an audience in Chrysler Auditorium that both the Soviet Union and the United States try to manipulate the press. See story, Page 3. times - including a "death march" tary school before beging taken to TODAY- Medical matchmaking. M EDICAL STUDENTS can start regaining weight and sleep again, now that they know where they will be spending their ..--- -------a,n.. A "+n nr.n n4"n n bound student said, "It's very scary to work all these years and then have your life reduced to a com- puterized lottery." Drinks and good cheer were found aplenty at the Nectarine and medical student Nick Saenz said he coped with the pressure just before the announcement by being "sufficiently inebriated at the time." Saenz, who will be practicing general surgery' at HarvarI TTniversitywsurn nlarlpdwith hsfic n fPat+ affair with a co-worker, customer, or client, according to Srully Blotnick, a New York research psychologist. "Women want a better idea of who they're getting in- volved with," Blotnick said yesterday. "They say that it takes longer to get started with someone they meet on the job, but that the relationship lasts longer." Last year 55 percent of the women surveyed said they had had an nffij rnmanc. cnmnared tn 17 nercent in - INSIDE- PENSION PLAN: Opinion looks at pension plan's investments in companies that do business in S.A. See Page 4. I I I