The Michigan Daily - Thursday, September 4, 1986 - Page 7B
Students unhappy over role in
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changes in the rules.
In June of the same year, the regen-
ts also passed bylaw 7.05 which said,
"Student participation in University
decision-making is important to the
quality of student life at the Univer-
sity and shall be encouraged."
The regents made no formal
guidelines for this participation,
however, leaving its implementation
largely to the discretion of the
University's vice president for
student services.
Advisory committees
Since then, the University has con-
sidered the proper role of students in
decision-making mainly to be on ad-
visory committees. Because there is
no formal University policy on ap-
pointing students to committees,
student leaders have complained that
administrators who disagree with
MSA's point of view can stack a
committee against students.
As an example, Josephson points to
a University committee formed last
fall to review the University's policies
on classified research. The policies
have been controversial since their
implementation in 1973 because they
prohibit classified research that could
be used to "endanger human life."
Some students and University
researchers have argued that resear-
ch funded by the Department of
Defense-a prime source of federal
research contracts - violate these
guidelines.
Students opposed to military
research on campus were concerned
when the review was ordered and
angered when President Shapiro ap-
pointed a student from the
,engineering college to serve on the
review committee. MSA protested,
claiming that their constitution gives
them sole prerogative in appointing
,students to University committees.
Shapiro, however, argued that
engineering students would be direc-
"t~ly affected by the results of the
,review, and other administrators said
the University does not recognize the
MSA Constitution. The Regents by-
laws, which govern the University,
give MSA power to appoint students
to several specified committees such
as the University Council, but do not
mention ad-hoc committees like the
guidelines review board.
Another example, according to
Faigel, is a committee set up by
Henry Johnson, vice president for
student services, to examine the
University's policies on rape. "There
were no students on the committee,"
Faigel said. "They let us (MSA's.
women's issues committee) write up
an alternative proposal to the
executive officers, and they incor-
porated it into their report. But that
was only because we had a strong
working relationship with Johnson
on other issues. They never consulted
us in person before they wrote the
report."
Faigel said this may have been the
result of a confrontational at-
mosphere between Johnson and
students concerned about rape. The
review was spurred by a sit-in of
Johnson's office after he was quoted
in Metropolitan Detroit magazine as
saying that the University's ad-
ministrators do not discuss the rape
problem on campus because it would
hurt the University's image. Johnson
said he primarily wanted experts
from the University's counseling cen-
ter on the committee because they
would be respobsible for implemen-
ting the program.
Committees are powerless
Students were further upset when
the committee recommended, and the
regents approved, a rape center with
a staff and budget smaller than
students said was needed. In addition,
the committee and the regents did not
increase money for such preventive
measures as improved lighting and
more frequent service of the Night
Owl van system around campus.
"Committees can be valuable and
have been valuable, but they're
basically powerless," Faigel said.
'They only play an advisory role.
"Ad hoc committees serve a pur-
pose. Unfortunately, they do not serve
the needs of students," said
Josephson. "They advise. They do not
set policy for the University. Students
and faculty may agree on an issue but
if the appropriate vice president
doesn't agree, the policy is going to
be discarded."
Johnson attributed student
frustration to different attitudes on
students bring to committees.
"Students have more of a stake in the
outcome," he said. "Non-students are
more concerned about the means.
They're going to be held accountable
for the progress because they have to
implement it. Students can say we
need to spend more money, and
everyone will agree. But afterwards,
students go back to their student
things. We have to figure out where
this money is going to come from."
Dissatified as advisors
Regardless of how effective com-
mittees arein affecting University
policy, students say they are
inadequate as a primary source for
student input. In addition to being
usually outnumbered by faculty and
administrators, student leaders say
students- are inhibited from par-
ticipating.
"There are some good committees
like the University Council,''
Schnaufer said, "but on most com-
mittees, little attempt is made to
solicit the feelings of students."
"Students are not used to
challenging adults," he said.
"They're not used to viewing them-
selves as equals in the University
community. And changing attitudes
on committees is nearly impossible
because non-students have vested in-
terests. Faculty are concerned about
their careers, and administrators are
interested in preserving their own
authority."
Administrator is satisfied
Johnson maintains, however, that
he has gotten "very helpful student
input, at least in the committees I've
been on," and denied students are
singled out on committees. He
acknowledged, though, that students
are inherently at a disadvantage.
"Students on the average have less
time to devote to the dialogue and
control of a committee," Johnson
said. "Being a student is a full-time
job. Non-students see serving on
committees as past and parcel of
their jobs.
"I don't see new students on the
committee as being any different
from new non-students, it's all part of
being the new person on the block.
They're somewhat hesitant towards
moving up to full-speed on what we're
talking about."
Johnson doesn't see any solutions to
this disadvantage, however. "It's all
part of being a student," he said.
One solution, Schnaufer says, would
be for MSA to hold seminars to train
students to become stronger ad-
policy-i
governing boards of the state's
universities, and would be unlikely to
pass, said Richard Kennedy, the
University's vice president for state,
relations, and its chief lobbyist in
Lansing.
"I've seen this idea thrown out
about a dozen times since I've been on
the board and I'd be willing to bet this
goes the same way the others did,"
said Thomas Roach, a Democrat
regent from Saline.
The student regent idea could
receive a free ride, however, from
recommendations the Governor's
Committee on the Future of Higher
'Committees can be valuable and have
been valuable, but they're basically
powerless.'
-Jen Faigel, former MSA
Presidential candidate
naking
Brown, (D-Petoskey).
"How can we preserve a great
University if we're guided by
questions of politics rather than those
directly related to education,.
academic freedom, or research?"
Brown asked.
Nevertheless, student leaders feel a,
student regent would open a line of
communication between students and
the regents. "Students are physically
removed from policy-making on this
campus," said Faigel. She pointed.
out, for example, that the Univer-
sity's executive officers - the
president, and five vice presidents
make decisions on a committee's
recommendations in closed meetings.
"Administrators sit in their offices
eight hours ahday andhthey're it)-
sulated from the rest of the campus, =''
Faigel said. "And the regents are
even worse; most of them live outside
Ann Arbor. They only see the campus,
twice a month when they have their-
meetings."
Student regent at Wisconsin
Josephson's idea is based on
policies of several other universities
that have students on their governinge
boards - for example, the University.
of Wisconsin. The student regent,
Wisconsin Student Assembly co-
president John Schenian, has drawn
mixed reactions from students, said
Lisa Baker, editor of the student
newspaper, the Daily Cardinal. In
January, Baker said, Shenian caused
an uproar among students when he
supported a tuition increase.
"If this idea is going to work, we're
going to have to demonstrate that we
can make responsible decisions,"
Schenian said. He added that
although his appointment has helped
empower students, his vote is only
one of eight on the board.
Because of this, students
acknowledge that even if a student is
placed on the board, it would not
mean the end of student pdlitical
protest. "Just because we have one
student on the board doesn't change;
things," Schnaufer said, "the ad-
ministration is still committed to the
status quo."
vocates of student interests.
"But even if we did," Schnaufer
said, "the problem would still remain
that students are at a disadvantage on
committees, and even if the commit-
tee solicited strong student input,
students don't have any authority."
The only University policy over
which MSA has veto power is on adop-
tion of a code of conduct. "Even with
the council," Schnaufer said,
"Shapiro and the regents can just
bypass by-law 7.02."
Student regent pushed
The move to put a student on the
University's Board of Regents began
last summer when Josephson began
contacting and receiving informal
support from such notables as State
Representative Perry Bullard (D-
Ann Arbor) and several aides of Gov.
James Blanchard.
Getting a student on the board,
however, would need a state con-
stitutional amendment, requiring the
support of two thirds of both houses of
the state legislature. Such a move
would face sharp opposition from the
Education made last fall. The com-
mittee called for a change in the
state's practice of electing members
of the board, saying that most voters
are uneducated and uncaring about
the election.
The committee said the Governor
should appoint members to the board
because he could better judge a can-
didate than an uninformed electorate,
If this were to be passed, Josephson
said, the governor could agree to ap-
point at least one student to the board
every two years.
Student regent unlikely
But even Josephson conceded the
idea is unlikely to pass, and it would
take several years of lobbying before
it becomes a real possibility. The
University would strongly oppose the
idea, Shapiro said, because it would
violate the University's state con-
stitutional autonomy from the state.
"In all the years I've been on the
board, the Democrats have never got-
ten together to discuss the party line
or how the governor would feel about
this or that issue," said Regent Paul
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Shapiro said in 1984 that any code
would not be used to discourage
dissent, but refused to bar using the
code when students violated the
freedoms of others-such as stud-
ents who want to be interviewed by
the CIA.
Violates civil rights
Rose pointed out that any Univer-
sity code would violate civil rights as
double jeopardy, because the Univer-
sity would be able to act against the
accused in both the civil and Univer-
sity courts. A provision that would
remain constant through five
revisions of the original code draft
states, "a student may be accountable
to both the civil authorities and the
University...disciplinary action at the
University will not be subject to
challenge (because) a criminal
charge involving the same incident
has been dismissed or reduced."
Administrators contend that
without this provision, the University
would have to stand by helplessly if a
dangerous student slips through the
court system.
Rose, though, said a code is un-
necessary because "there's nothing in
what I've seen in past code proposals
that can't be done through the civil
courts, which have evolved over a
long period of time to ensure the
rights of the accused."
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been serving a life sentence in a South
African prison since 1962 for his role
in trying to overthrow the South
African government, could not have
attended commencement.
University administrators and
regents said then that honorary
degrees are considered more a part of
the commencement ceremony than as
a conferring of an honor.
-Some regents, such as James
Waters (D-Muskegon), however,
began reconsidering the policy after
such incidents as the all-night vigil,
and the regents last April ordered a
review of the University's honorary
degree policies. A review committee
was fromed this summer to consider
the policies.
Supporters of giving Mandela the
degree said it may help obtain his
release, and the policy discriminated
against those whose actions brought
the wrath of those they were
protesting.
Pension fund links
Another more obscure issue
relating to the University and its
economic ties to South Africa is the
University's faculty and staff's pen-
sion fund.
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Currently, all faculty and staff over
35 years old and who have worked at
the University for over two years are
required to invest 5 percent of their
salaries in a pool of investments
called the Teachers Insurance and
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Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-
CREF). The University then doubles
the faculty investments in the
program with its own funds. TIAA-
CREF, anti-apartheid activists say,
holds $6 billion in investments in com-
panies that do business in South
Africa.
Faculty and staff last year con-
tributed about $15 million to the
program, and the University added
another $31 million. Anti-apartheid
activists, however, say they have not
addressed this issue mainly ;because
they were preoccupied with other
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