Law school
newspaper
obtains new
office space
By PETER MOONEY
The Law School Student Senate
last night voted unanimously to
grant the student newspaper, The
Res Gestae, office space on the
seventh floor of Hutchins Hall.
The newspaper will now occupy
room 700B, which had been used
for conferences by five law student
organizations: the Jewish Law
Student Union, the Lesbian and
Gay Law Students, the Computer
Law Society, Student Funded
Fellowships, and the International
Law Students. The organizations
will continue to use an adjoining
room as office space.
The Res Gestae occupied an
office on the fourth floor of
Hutchins Hall, but it was informed
last week that law school
administrators will take away its
office space and give it to two new
employees and one current
employee. The newspaper's new
.office was assigned by the student
senate.
Senate President Reggie Turner
said he was frustrated by the short
notice the senate was given to find
office space for the Res Gestae.
Senate Secretary Jeff Winick
reported that the newspaper may be
allowed to move back to the fourth
floor next semester when the
Institute for Continuing Legal
Education moves into a new
building. "This is likely to be a one
semester move for the RG," he
said.
Winick also complained that the
student senate was not given
advance warning about the
administration's plan to evict the
newspaper.
He rejected the administration's
explanation that late notice was
given because it was trying to find
an office elsewhere for the
employees who will replace the
newspaper. "They should have let
us know that this was a
possibility," Winick said.
The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, December 9, 1986 - Page 3
Wright named
House speaker
WASHINGTON (AP) - House
Democrats yesterday selected Jim
Wright of Texas, their majority
leader for the past decade, to become
the chamber's 48th speaker.
Wright accepted the unanimous
nomination of his party colleagues
with a promise to quickly move a
legislative agenda that will include
- but not be dominated by -
investigation of the Reagan
administration's Iran arms sales.
Democrats "hope to demonstrate
to the American people ... that we
Democrats have our act together,
and that we can govern," Wright
said.
The speaker of the House holds a
constitutional position in line of
succession to the presidency after
the vice president. Wright's
nomination requires ratification of
the full House on Jan. 6, when the
100th Congress convenes.
Democrats will hold a 258-177
majority, and party allegiance in
such a vote is nearly absolute.
Wright, first elected to the
House in 1954, will succeed
retiring Rep. Thomas O'Neill Jr.
(D-Mass.), who held the speaker's
post for the last 10 years of a 34-
year House career.
The Democrats, in their open
party caucus, also unanimously
chose Rep. Thomas Foley (D-
Wash.) to move up to become
majority leader. Rep. Tony Coelho
(D-Calif.) was picked as whip in
the only contested election.
House Republicans, meanwhile,
reinstated their seasoned leadership
team of Minority Leader Robert
Michel of Illinois and Minority
Whip Trent Lott of Mississippi.
Wright said the House will
move quickly to establish a special
committee "to get all the facts of
the Iranian arms misadventure on
the table."
But Wright said Congress should
not allow the Iran fiasco "to
preoccupy us, nor to paralyze us,
nor to distract us from the
important work we have to do."
Wright promised speedy action
in January to again pass the clean-
water legislation vetoed by
President Reagan after the 99th
Congress adjourned, and said a
highway construction bill was also
on the early agenda.
He said achievable objectives for
new Congress included legislation
to cut the trade and budget defecits,
welfare reform, and more help for
farmers.
Soon after the caucus recessed,
Wright told reporters he was ready
to use a tax increase if necessary,
and slow the military buildup, to
help tackle the chronic high budget
defecits.
Associated Press.
On guard
An armed Honduran soldier watches the helicopters used to ferry 700 Honduran troops from central Honduras
to the border with Nicaragua over the weekend. The Honduran troops searched yesterday for stragglers of a
Nicaraguan force that pulled back after a cross-border raid, a military source said.
BiN] adlopts research report
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contracts be open to public
inspection, and that all project
results be published within a year
after the project's funding expires,
except under extraordinary
circumstances. These rules would
be extended to cover all types of
research, not just over secret
research as covered by current
guidelines.
Supporters of the proposal claim
these changes will reduce the
amount of classified research
sponsored by the defense
department.
"The net effect (of the majority
report) will reduce classified
research and military research. The
current defense department policy is
incompatible with our rules.
Classified research would virtually
end," said RPC chairman George
Carignan, a research engineer.
C A R I G N A N said student
representatives might have blocked
an amendment that expressed
opposition to potentially harmful
research, but which did not have an
effective enforcement mechanism.
The amendment endorses the policy
of openess as an effective means of
ensuring that researchers will not
work on secret weapons research for
the Department of Defense.
The students on the RPC wanted
the end-use clause to be a regental
policy covering all research, rather
than an amendment.
Caplan said he didn't think that
idea had been sufficiently addressed
during the RPC's discussions, a
sentiment that prompted his and the
other student's resignations. The
other students who resigned are
physics graduate student Michael
Massey, biochemistry graduate
student Marisela Velez, and MSA's
military research advisor Ingrid
Kock.
"If the regents have the courage
to realize that people don't want
weapons research, we could rally
around that point," said Caplan.
The other amendment passed by
the RPC formulates a review
procedure, under which the RPC
will make sure that project
proposals comply with the majority
report's guidelines.
McFarlane says Reagan
approved Iranian deal
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Campus cinema
Scanners (David Cronenberg),
MTF, DBL/7:00 p.m., Mich.
They are out there. They look just
like you. Some are good, some are
evil. And they can all make people's
heads explode in graphic technicolor.
From the director of The Fly.
*The Dead Zone (David
Cronenberg, 1983), MTF, DBL/9:00
p.m., Mich.
Definitely one of Cronenberg's
subtler efforts, this flick stars
Christopher Walken as a psychic who
must stop presidential candidate
Martin Sheen in order to before he sets
off a nuclear holocaust. Based on the
novel by horror-miester Stephen King.
Performances
Clair Ross-Michigan Union
Cultural Programs, 8 p.m., Michigan
Union Pendleton Room, (764-6498).
Harpist Ross will play selections
from his new recording. Don't miss
. him.
University Band and Campus
Band- School of Music, 8 p.m.,
Rackham Auditorium, (763-4726).
. Eric Becher conducts the University
Band while Eric Rombach leads the
Campus Band in this joint concert.
U-M Flint Percussion
Ensemble- "Sound of Bells,"
Michigan Union Pendleton Room,
(764-6498).
The sound of Glockenspiels,
Marimbas and other instruments will
fill the Union in this special holiday
concert.
Fred Koller- 8 p.m., The Ark,
(761-1451).
Come and see this very witty
songwriter from Nashville perform
tonight.
Speakers
Nesha Z. Haniff-"Successful
Caribbean Woman: We Had the
Courage and the Vision," Center for
Afroamerican and African Studies,
noon, 109 West Engineering.
Joyce Chesbrough,
Ernestine Spruce, Kathy
Eckroad, and LeRoy Cappaert-
"Juigalpa, Nicaragua: Ann Arbor's
Sister City," 12:10 p.m., Ann Arbor
Public Library, 343 South Fifth Ave.
Ernst Katz- "Rudolf Steiner's
Thought: A Christmas Lecture," 8
p.m., The Rudolf Steiner Institute,
1923 Geddes Ave.
Judith James Wood-
"Children and the Law," National
Organization for Women, 7:30 p.m.,
Unitarian Church, 1917 Washtenaw.
Meetings
Spark Revolutionary Class
History Series- 7 p.m., 345
Mason Hall.
Furthermore
"Breathe Easy: You Can
Create a Smoking Policy That
Works For Your Workplace"-
Washtenaw County Health Dept.,
8:30 a.m., Ann Arbor Inn, (973-
1488).
The University of Michigan
Panhellenic Association
Annual Fashion Show- 3:30
p.m.-5 p.m., Tally Hall, Liberty and
Maynard, (662-3442).
Creative Writing
Workshop- 7 p.m., 1412 Mason
Hall, (996-2396).
Interviewing for the
International Student- Career
Planning & Placement, 4:10 p.m.,
International Center, (764-7460).
Send announcements of up-
coming events to "The List,"
c/o The Michigan Daily, 420
Maynard St., Ann Arbor,
Mich., 48109. Include all per-
tinent information and a con-
tract phone number. We must
receive announcements for
Friday and Sunday events at
least two weeks before the
event, and announcements for
weekday events must be
received at least two days
before the event.
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hearings yesterday, "The puzzle's
coming together and the result does
not justify dismantling of the
republic or (the removal of) the
current occupant of the White
House."
"If anyone expected that this
committee was going to come up
with the evidence to justify top-
pling this government or im-
peaching this president, they're
looking at the wrong set of facts."
Durenberger added. "There isn't that
kind of evidence around this in-
vestigation."
McFarlane, who had testified last
week in secret before the Senate
Intelligence Committee, testified
publicly yesterday before the House
panel saying the president gave his
authorization for the indirect ship-
ment of "small levels of arms to
Iran for the purpose of strength-
ening elements against terrorism."
.McFarlane did not mention any
other country by name, but Israel
has been identified as having sent
UM News in
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STUDENT
ACCOUNTS:
Your attention is called
to the following rules
passed by the Regents
at their meeting on Feb-
ruary 28, 1936: "Students
shall pay all accounts
due the University not
later than the last day of
classes of each semester
or summer session. Stu-
dent loans which are not
paid or renewed are sub-
ject to this regulation;
however, student loans
not yet due are exempt.
any unpaid accounts at
the close of business on
the last day of classes
will be reported to the
Cashier of the University
and
American arms to Iran during the
summer of 1985.
McFarlane said the president
gave oral authorization for the
transfer of U.S.-supplied weapons
to Iran in August 1985.
"The decision followed con-
sultation and advice by the president
with his cabinet officers - the
secretary of state, defense, the chief
of staff, the director of central in-
telligence, myself," McFarlane said.
Asked about the transfer of
profits from the arms sale to the
Nicaraguan Contra rebels, McFar-
lane said the president "did not
know of and did not approve such
actions."
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