4 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, March 11, 1987 Stdnt disadvantaged (Continued from page 1) new professors than in a profession such as clerical help, where the University has been more successful in recruiting minorities. Because of the relatively low turnover rate in, faculty, the Uni- versity cannot put as much pressure on departments for quick change, said Affirmative Action Director Virginia Nordby. "You have to take a longer term view," she said. NORDBY ALSO pointed out that the Affirmative Action office's budget has been cut by 15 percent over the last five years, and the year before that, in 1981, the office's budget was slashed by 17 percent to clear up money for creating a new position to oversee the University's overall recruitment and retention program for minorities. Nordby said she hopes to get back at least some of that money. Despite slow progress, Nordby says that the University's efforts have prevented the numbers from dropping even more. She noted that, compared to the University's so-called "peer institutions" - mostly Ivy League Think You re tPregnant? Free Pregnancy Tet Completely Confidential Pregnancy Counseling Center 529 N. Hewitt, Ypsilanti Call: 434-3088 (any time) schools and public universities such as the University of California- Berkeley - the University's numbers aren't so bad. "I think that we're very much outhin front, which is by no means to say that we don't have a long way to go," she said. But Mario Borunda, a worker in the Affirmative Action office at Harvard University, said that leading a handful of other schools is nothing to be proud of. "All the universities are doing so poorly in this area that 8 or 9 percent (minority faculty) is going to rank you up the ladder. And those are abysmal figures to have," he said. Currently, about 9 percent of the University's faculty are minorities. One reason many students and faculty members are disappointed by the University's efforts to recruit black faculty members is that "there aren't many black professors for black students to look up to," McGee said. But the real problem goes further than that, McGee and others say. SOCIOLOGY PROF. Aldon Morris said, "It is not simply a question of increasing black faculty. It's a package deal. You recruit black undergraduates; you recruit black graduate students; you recruit black faculty." The problem eventually becomes circular, Morris said. Noting the I by lack of drop in black enrollment in University graduate schools, he said, "This University is not doing what it should be doing to train the next generation of black and mi- nority professors." More importantly, Morris said, the dearth of black faculty members at the University robs all students, black and white, of exposure to a broad education. Recruiting black faculty members is "crucial to the mission of the University, not just black students," he said. Students, faculty members, and administrators all seem to agree on that point, but critics of the administration charge that the Uni- versity simply pays lip service to the virtues of "diversity," then channels its resources into other areas. Although they admit that the University should be doing more to recruit minorities, Nordby and other University officials emphatically deny those charges. They say that they are in fact extremely frustrated by the University's slow progress. "I see it as a slow process. We have tried everything we can think of," said Regent Thomas Roach (D- Saline)..He added that the regents and the administration welcome constructive suggestions on how to do better. NORDBY SAID it is dif- ficult, if not impossible, to quickly black profs increase the number of black faculty members at the University because of the low number of available applicants. The University bases its goals on the number of minority Ph.D. candidates coming out of a given field. Thus, the goals in a field such as physics, where there are very few black Ph.D.s, are lower than the goals for hiring in a field such as sociology, where there are more black candidates. Morris said that while the University makes some efforts to attract minority faculty, it "is not doing anything that departs from routine to recruit black faculty. I don't know of any bold or vigorous efforts." "There are associate professors out there who are qualified to come to Michigan, but they are not recruited," he said. "I was not vigorously recruited by the Uni- versity of Michigan." One suggestion Morris made was for departments to be less strict in hiring people for specific areas. Often when a position opens up in a department, there are few minority candidates who fit that specialty. There may be many, however, who fit into a similar or related specialty. Tomorrow: The perspective of minority high school and junior high school students. ( S IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press reports U.S. plane reportedly downed TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - A U.S. registered DC-3 airplane piloted by an American was shot down by the air force after it entered Honduran airspace on an apparent drug mission, the government said yesterday. All three people aboard were killed. The plane was probably carrying narcotics from Columbia to an unknown destination, said a statement issued by the, armed forces yesterday night. The aircraft was shot down at 11:30 p.m. Monday in western Honduras after failing to answer repeated requests to identify itself or to land on a specified airstrip, the statement said. No drugs were found in the burned wreckage "but it is believed the cargo was thrown out by the crew shortly before the plane was intercepted and brought down," the statement said. Vatican condemns artificial births, surrogate motherhood VATICAN CITY - The Vatican warned against "unforeseeable and damaging" consequences of artificial procreation yesterday, condemning surrogate motherhood, test-tube births, cloning, and experiments on living embryos. In setting out the Roman Catholic church's position on rapidly developing techniques of fertilization, the Vatican also called for laws against embryo banks, attempts to fashion animal-human hybrids and the planting of human embryos in artificial and animal uteruses. It left the door open to research on fertilization techniques in use or development that neither substitute for marital intercourse nor result in deaths of "spare" embryos. Walsh wants immunity delay WASHINGTON - Lawrence Walsh, the independent counsel investigating the Iran-Contra affair, asked Congress yesterday to wait at least 90 days before granting limited immunity to key witnesses. He vowed to challenge in court any attempt to act sooner. "The danger is substantial," Walsh said, that his probe would be compromised by any effort to move quickly to grant immunity to former National Security Adviser John Poindexter or his fired aide, Lt. Col. Oliver North. Key lawmakers in the House and Senate have said in recent days they hoped to move quickly to grant limited immunity from prosecution to Poindexter and North in order to compel their testimony. Babbitt declares candidacy MANCHESTER, N.H.- Former Gov. Bruce Babbitt of Arizona, drawing applause when he criticized "amateurs in charge of the White House," declared his candidacy yesterday for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination. Moving quickly to try to separate himself from his rivals for the nomination, Babbitt proposed increasing the tax on Social Security benefits for higher-income Americans, capping the mortgage interest deduction, and writing new rules for world trade. The 48-year-old former governor also pledged he would "never trade anything of value for a hostage," even if it meant some would be killed. "For years we've heard courageous words about terrorists from a president who sends them missiles forrasomand then he pleads am- nesia when he's called to account" Babbitt saidi EXTRAS Frustrated moose makes money for Hereford herder SHREWSBURY, Vt. - A lovesick bull moose's courtship of a Hereford cow brought him nothing but fame, but the cow's owner hopes to find fortune in the unconsummated affair. Larry Carrara says he hopes to cash in on the fact that his farm was the site earlier this winter of the moose's much-publicized, 76-day vigil at the side of Jessica the cow. Carrara and his spouse Lila say they've hired a lawyer and book publisher to exploit the fruitless romance. The couple has recently filed a copyright claim for the cow-and- moose logo that adorned shirts, hats, and bumper stickers they sold when the moose drew national attention before leaving in mid-January. They've formed a corporation to market moose products and registered a name for the moose as a trademark with the Library of Congress. When the moose drew media crews and curious spectators, most reporters who chose to give the animal a name chose "Bullwinkle," after the moose of cartoon fame. But "Bullwinkle" was already copyrighted, so Carrara has renamed the moose "Josh." Vol. XCVII -- No. 109 The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967 X) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms. Subscription rates: September through April-$18 in Ann Arbor; $35 outside the- city. One term-$ 10 in town; $20 outside the city. 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