Ninety-seven years of editorial freedom VOLUME XCVII - NO. 108 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN - TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1987 COPYRIGHT 1987 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Faculty votes for increased hirings By MARTIN FRANK The LSA faculty yesterday voted 25-21 to recommend that James Duderstadt, University Vice president for Academic Affairs and Provost, spend $1 million on hiring new faculty members. Duderstadt, however, last night said he will not implement the faculty's recommendation. He said the money - part of an initiative to improve the freshman and sophomore years - should be used to finance "creative approaches to improving underclass education." Duderstadt also said that simply gadding $1 million to the $64 -million LSA budget would not :make as much of a difference as 'specifically spending it on new :ideas. The motion, drawn up by English Prof. Bert Hornback and :held over from the February faculty :meeting, expressed concern that :LSA departments would- get so -involved in bidding for the See DUDERSTADT, Page 3 Student admits he sentI By JERRY MARKON A freshman student has admitted he slipped a racist flier under the door of a Couzens Hall lounge in January, angering black students who were meeting in the lounge and triggering a ,dorm-wide forum on racism. The 19-year-old student, whose name was not revealed, has been evicted from Couzens, and barred from using University housing again, University officials an- nounced yesterday. He has 30 days to leave the dorm. The student's case will now be reviewed by the three-member panel investigating racist jokes recently broadcast over WJJX, a University radio station. According to panel Chairperson. Richard Kennedy, University vice f lie r president for government relations, the panel will recommend to President Harold Shapiro whether to further discipline the student. Shapiro will make. the final decision. Kennedy said the three panel members will meet with University attorneys later this week to determine if the panel can legally take further action against the student. He would not comment about possible punishments. The flier distributed by the student, a facsimile of an Ohio hunting season notice, declared "open season" on blacks, used racial slurs, and then listed "regulations" on how the hunt should be conducted. It is one of a series of recent racist incidents on campus; See 'U,' Page 3 Daily Photo by SCOTT LITUCHY And there is the art museum RC sophomore Anne Hooghart (left) shows a chilled group of prospective students and parents around campus yesterday. Black students call retention efforts limited By EUGENE PAK Second in afive-part series "Open it up or shut it down" For 13 days in 1970, this was the rallying cry of University community members who boycotted classes during the Black Action Movement strike. The movement, a response to low black student enrollment (below 3 percent) and inadequate minority support services, effectively shut down the University and prompted the administration and the Board of Regents to pledge funds for improving these areas. This first major push paid off. University black student enrollment peaked at 7.7 percent in 1976, but by 1983 it had fallen to just 4.9 percent. The second major initiative came in 1984 when anthropology Prof. Niara Sudarkasa was appointed associate vice- president for academic affairs, in charge of minority affairs. She initiated major improvements in financial aid and instituted more personalized recruitment practices. Black enrollment now stands at 5.3 percent. Many argue the scope of these efforts is too narrow. For example, an overwhelming majority of black University students from Detroit attended either Cass Tech or Renaissance, the top two - out of 22 - Detroit public high, schools. 'Thisinhibits racial mixing here because the students from these predominantly black schools naturally socialize with their old friends. So while University administrators say they are "bucking a national trend" of decreasing black student enrollment, others say the increases are miniscule. Sociology Prof. Aldon Morris said i "When we get one-tenth of a percent increase, it's all over the papers... and the University gives the impression that .l percent is something to really get excited about. "T HIS reflects a lack of a real commitment when you think about the discrepancy between 5.3 percent and the 10 percent promised during the BAM strike." The more pressing area, in the minds of most students, is keeping black students here. Forty percent of the 1979 black freshmen left within six years without a University degree. Roderick Linzie, a sociology doctoral student and Minority Organization of Rackham member, said that for some time the University's approach has been on black recruitment, while retention has been de-emphasized. Both students and administrators agree financial aid is the key to retention. Certainly both white and black students face financial difficulties in paying for a University education. But for black students - about 85 percent of whom are on some form of need-based aid - the problem is more pressing. Many students argue that the University offers attractive financial aid packages during their first year at the- University, but inadequate packages in subsequently. "The University promises false hopes," Ernie Robinson said at a Black Student Union (BSU) meeting about financial aid. "After your freshman year... over the summer you receive a financial aid package different from the year before, although your family's financial situation is the same as it was before." But Robert Holmes, assistant vice- president for academic affairs, said the amount the University receives from the federal government (two-thirds of all aid) varies from term to term, so the financial aid office makes an"informed guess" on how much students and their families, must contribute. In order to determine this contribution and receive aid, the University must' follow rigid federal guidelines. Administrators argue the University's own financial aid contribution is one of the best in the state, and University President Harold Shapiro has suggested that the financial aid problem is not as severe as believed. Currently the BSU and Holmes are working together to find long-term solutions to the the financial aid problem, See 'U,' Page 2 .. ... ......... .... ...... r :. . .w>" t:.. . . . . .~~~....... . ... ..... .......... ..v......... ... ...........v............. .. . . . .. . . . Cit council questions police ' chief By CARRIE LORANGER Ann Arbor Mayor Ed Pierce and city councilmembers questioned city police chief William Corbett on the increasing crime rate in Ann Arbor at last night's council meeting. Corbett said the increase in crime - particularly burglary, robbery and auto theft - is due to an increase in drug use and outsiders from other cities who come to Ann Arbor to steal. "People steal and rob to buy narcotics," said Corbett. He also attributed the problem to prison overcrowding. People are set free to be looked after by understaffed parole officers. Corbett said the solution to the city's crime problem is to have more visible police officers. If criminals see a police car in the area, he said, they will be less tempted to commit a crime. The number of Ann Arbor police officers has remained* constant at 180 over the past three years while the figures for robberies, burglaries and car thefts have gone up. Police officials have asked for 52 more additional officers, patrolmen, and administrative assistants in next year's city budget. Corbett said there is no one cause for the increasing crime rate. He said responsible factors include population growth, increasing drug use, prison overcrowding, and easily available firearms. Councilmember Jeff Epton argued that these conditions have been characteristic of Ann Arbor for the past 20 years. "This doesn't make sense to me at all," said Epton. 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Lorne Brown, a Phi Beta Sigma member and forum organizer, said, "It is time that influence was channeled in positive directions." The speakers said Black Greek members serve as role models. "(Black Greeks) should be able to lend more of a helping hand to the black community on campus," said Alan White, an architecture junior and Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity member. Liates its role Thomas LaVeist, a sociology graduate student and Phi Beta Sigma member, said, "We represent a great potential to do a lot of good and our influence far outweighs our numbers." Greg Hardin, a graduate student in social work and psychology and Alpha Phi Alpha member, said, "We are Black Greeks with an African heritage. Our behavior, values, and attitudes must reflect that heritage." "Your role is to promote academic excellence and scholarship," said Ruby Beale, a business school lecturer- By MARTHA SEVETSON The Central Student Judiciary last night granted an injunction to hold a question regarding PIRGIM funding from the March Michigan Student Assembly ballot pending a hearing scheduled for Thursday. The referenda question would ask students to choose either a positive checkoff system or a refundable fee system to finance the Public Interest Research Group in Mich- igan through the assembly. The referendum was held because Sonia Schmerl, an assembly member who voted against a proposal to rescind the question last week, was not a voting member under MSA's compiled code. Schmerl was elected to represent the School of Public Health, but she is currently enrolled in Rackham. The assembly vote on the proposal last week ended in a tie, and MSA President Kurt Muenchow broke the tie against rescinding the question. The hearing Thursday will determine where the vote stands and consequently whether remains on the ballot. LSA sophomore and chair of MSA's Budget Committee Ashish Prasad said CSJ does not have the power to take a question off the ballot. "It seems to me that MSA is the body to decide what questions go to the students," Prasad said. In addition, Prasad said that the assembly's constitution allows the president to vote in all matters which, if confirmed by CSJ, would keep the vote at a tie. Bruce Belcher, chair of MSA's Rules and Elections Committee, said that the judiciary body has the authority to decide whether the vote passed or failed, and consequently determine the status of the referendum. "It's not clear whether or not Kurt Muenchow has the authority to vote," Belcher said. "He did not vote until he was told it was a tie." The referenda question, initiated within MSA, is the second ballot question regarding PIRGIM. INSIDE The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service's policy toward illegal aliens is unfair. OPINION, PAGE 4 The Ann Arbor 16 mm film festival kicks off its 25th year of competition tonight. ARTS, PAGE 5 Michigan hockey player Brad Blue party: MSA needs to interact with students MSA to pass petition slamming aid cuts By PAMELA FRANKLIN The Michigan Student Assembly must have closer contact with students if it wants to be taken seriously, say the Blue party candidates in this year's election. "MSA seems to believe that if you can just publicize all the good work at MSA, people will change their mind about MSA," Vogel said. "To MSA representatives that approach makes sense, but that's just not true." Klukoff, editor in chief of The Michigan Review, and Vogel, its By DOV COHEN Postcards protesting President Ronald Reagan's proposed cuts in student financial aid will be passed out at a Michigan Student Assembly table in the Fishbowl today. The President's budget proposal for Fiscal Year 1988 would cut however, is not expected to pass, said Joan Huffer, an assistant to U.S. Sen. Donald Riegle (D-Mich). The President's package includes $600 million in income-contingent loans. The payment schedule, but not the total amount, depends on the student's income after graduation. This presumably would MAA4)nP7 .1 E ,..