:1 Ninety-six years of editorial freedom kat1 . . ........ Vol. XCVI - No. 123 Copyright 1986, The Michigan Doily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Tuesday, April 1, 1986. Eight Pages ConclInvst a ouncil investigates protester policy By ROB EARLE The Ann Arbor City Council last night agreed to further its in- vestigation of the role of the police in responding to protests. The council discussed a proposal submitted by councilmembers Lowell Peterson (D-First Ward) and Jeff Ep- ton (D-Third Ward) that called for four changes in the city's policy toward demonstrators. The proposal would: require the University or other organizations requesting special police response to file a written request prior to the time the police are needed; forbid police to videotape protests; forbid police officers from stopping protests unless they present a clear threat to peace; require the city to train police of- ficers in handling demonstrations. "I WANT to set up a policy that permits an officer to make a decision that is not tied to the heat of the moment," Epton said. Councilmember Larry Hahn (R - Fourth Ward) rejected the need for such a proposal, saying that he is pleased with the police department's handling of protests. Mayor Ed Pierce agreed with most of the proposal, but said he thought videotaping was helpful in keeping a record, both of demonstrator activity and police response. POLICE CHIEF William Corbett said Ann Arbor police officers already receive the training Peterson and Ep- ton called for as part of the 440 hours of training required of police officers in Michigan. Pierce suggested that he and a representative from each party on the council ask University officials if the first section of the proposal is accep- table. During questioning by coun- cilmembers, Corbett said that police officers are sent in when University security and public safety requests it, but that the officers. involved are .not under University security jurisdic- tion. "THE UNIVERSITY Department of Public Safety does not direct our people," Corbett said. "We rarely provide the kinds of personnel they would like to see." Corbett also pointed out that it is illegal for the police department to keep political information on in- dividuals. Corbett advocated the use of videotapes, saying they protect not only the police, but the protesters in cases of police misbehavior. But Peterson said videotaping stifles political dissent. "When people are videotaped, it tends to chill their expression" (of their political views), Peterson said. Daily Photo by PETE ROSS Still life Dani Jeffries, Art School senior, relaxes between classes outside the Art School on North Campus yesterday. Parties may clash in C. 0 O pcomngMS sesios 1R By WENDY SHARP The mudslinging election may be Dover, but problems may just be beginning for the Michigan Student Assembly. The election duel between, can- didates from the Student Rights Party and the Meadow Party resulted in a draw. Meadow Party members, Kurt Muenchow and Darrell Thompson received the -presidential and vice- presidential posts respectively. Yet the upcoming assembly consists of 25 Student Rights members, 15 Meadow Graduate student to run for Congress party members, and eight indepen- dents. SOME ASSEMBLY members believe having a Meadow Party president and vice-president coupled with a majority of Student Rights representatives may cause conflicts among the assembly. "If personal conflicts don't get in the way, then issues can be worked out," said Mike Margolis, elected LSA representative from the Student Rights Party. "A couple of months down the line there will be an effective MSA because there is a good, strong group of people, but it will be a tough beginning." Meadow Party member and elected engineering school representative Dave Vogel echoed Margolis, saying that the assembly needs time to unify. "There will be a lot of compromising within different factions. MSA has to stop the in-fighting and settle down," Vogel said.. MUENCHOW predicted that party affiliation differences will not affect See STALEMATE, Page 2 Ensian check-off.to be listed on SVF By ROB EARLE Students registering for classes this term will be able to order their 1987 yearbooks by checking a box on their Student Verification Forms at CRISP. The 1987 Michigan Ensian will appear on the SVFs for the first time ever this year in a-n effort to boost yearbook sales and call attention to the Ensian. Students who wish to order a yearbook simply sign the form and turn it in at CRISP. They will then be billed for the Ensian on their fall tuition statement. ACCORDING to Nancy McGlothlin, administrative associate to the board for Student Publications, the idea to put the Ensian on the SVF came from other colleges. The board oversees the financial operations of the Ensian, The Daily, and The Gargoyle, a campus humor magazine. McGlothlin said only two Big Ten schools, Michigan State University and Ohio State University, don't use a similar system for distributing yearbooks, and neither school produces a yearbook any longer. See CRISP, Page 3 Muenchow ... predicts unity By ROSE PURELLI A University graduate student has infor- mally announced plans to run for Congress in the August Democratic primaries. Although Deane Baker, president of Rackham Student Government, thinks his chances for victory are slim, he said it is im- portant for a candidate who is opposed to sen- ding aid to the Contras, a Nicaraguan rebel group, to run against Congressman Carl Pur- sell (R-Ann Arbor). Pursell supports Contra aid. BAKER WILL face University economist Don Grimes in the primary. Baker said as a congressman he would fight to raise the minimum wage to $5 an hour and to restore the progressive income tax, which he said "Reagan has done a lot to evade." Progressive income tax is graduated according to income rather than a fixed percentage of in- come. "I'd like to see us have a candidate who will not hesitate to challenge Pursell on these issues," Baker said, and added that he would like the United States to stop providing military aid to support a dictatorship in El Salvador and "let the country live in peace." Baker, who must file to run in the primaries by June 4th, has not made any definite plans, but said he has received support for his nomination. "I'm in no hurry to decide for cer- tain, but I have not heard any good arguments against it at this point," he said. AN ECONOMICS doctoral candidate, Baker said he is a qualified congressional candidate because he has knowledge of U.S. foreign and domestic policy. "One thing that would make anyone feel qualified is seeing Pursell once. He has no knowledge on many issues," Baker said. He added that he has given many issues "a lot of thought" and is prepared to make a "greater contribution than Pursell is prepared to make." Baker said that his chances of winning the Democratic nomination in the Conservative Second Congressional District, which includes Ann Arbor, Livonia, Plymouth, Jackson, are "very remote" and "involve a lot of luck." He thinks the campaign will, however, "bring awareness to the district so two or four years down the road a Democratic candidate could run and win."See GRAD., Page 3 Israeli prof. recalls his-6 Day WE By AMY GOLDSTEIN Most people associate the late 1960's with Vietnam protests, burning draft cards, and long hair. But for Tel Aviv University Prof. Ephriam Ya'ar, it was a time of patriotic frustration. While his fellow Israelis were fighting the Six Day War in June of 1967, Ya'ar - a middle-aged man who Profile frustrated that they were here rather than there." As president of the University's Israeli American Student Club, Ya'ar received a telephone call from the Israeli consulate urging him to keep in contact with the small group of Israeli students on campus after the war broke out. "All of; use in principle are in the Israeli reserve forces," he said. Speaking with a Hebrew accent, Ya'ar chooses his words carefully as he describes one of the most frustrating aspects of the 1967 war - the restricted flow of news about the events in the Mideast. "It was a very serious feeling here that all the Arab countries were going to attack, and we didn't have any information (about) how well the defense forces were able to sustain such an attack," he recalls. "I remember walking along the Diag and I met some Arab .friends. Some of them were laughing and teasing, saying 'Well, what about the famous Israeli courage? How come you let...the Arab countries play around with you, and you are doing nothing about it?"' Ya'ar says. "And then, of course, came the war." Ya'ar wanted so badly to go back to Israel for the war that he tried to trick Israeli authorities. Thinking.that he might be able to go back to Israel if the authorities thought he was a doctor, he called the Israeli consulate and identified himself as Dr. Yachtman Ya' ar. The woman who answered the telephone at the consulate, however, must have known the trick - she asked Ya'ar if he was an M.D. or a Ph. D. "I said, unfortunately, a Ph. D., and she said, 'We don't need Ph. D.s just M.D.'s," Ya'ar remembers with a slight laugh ONLY two Israelis, who were both physicians taking their residency at the University, went back to Israel for the war. In retrospect, Ya'ar says that among his most vivid memories of the ir anxiety university is the shift in the mood of Arab and Israeli students as the war progressed. At the outset of the war, "there were no more than 15 or 40 Israeli students on campus and there were probably ten or more times that amount of Arab students, from all Arab countries," he said. At first, the Arab students seemed confident that Isreal would lose the war, Ya'ar explained. "During the days before the war, Arab students were always in large numbers on the Diag, and whenever one of us walked through, they were always teasing, and saying 'Well, what happened?"' WHEN Israel won the war, however, the climate on the Diag changed for Ya'ar. Fewer Arab students frequented the Diag and he no longer heard the teasing questions. Although associations'with the war in the Mideast dominate Ya'ar's memories of Ann Arbor influences his life in the Mideast. "There was a strong sense of af- See TEL AVIV, Page 2 is in the United States as a visiting professor at the University of Califor- nia in Riverside - was working toward a Ph.D. in social psychology here at the University. During that time, Ya'ar longed to return to his homeland to aid in the fighting. "EVERYONE was prepared to go back and help," said Ya'ar referring to himself and other israeli students. "There was a strong sense of solidarity, and people were so Daily Photo by DEAN RANDAZZO Tel Aviv University Professor Ephriam Yachtman Ya'ar discusses his experiences as an Israeli University of Michigan student during the '60s. TODAY- Hash Bash Nightmare homework -INSIDE OBSTINANCE: Opinion looks at President Reagan's refusal to negotiate with the Soviets. N ELEMENTARY school principal will hit the roof because she challenged her students to read. Sue Merritt dared 480 fifth and sixth grade students at Curtis Elementary School to r for 1 million minutesbetween Ot 1 .w98. nd