i e t By STEVE BLONDER p
An art exhibit focusing on the
E x h i rape of women as well as the rape I
of America begins an early s
celebration of April as Rape la
Prevention Month. n
"Rape: Images and Issues" is a U
compilation of 36 works created t
im a g es through a wide range of media. The u
exhibit, running this Sunday a
through Saturday at the Slusser 1
Gallery in the School of Art, is part p
of an opening reception for Rape
Blacks question 'U c
(Continued from Page 1) While many say this delay reflects m
Studies Program. indifference, Duderstadt said he v
MANY STUDENTS say that wanted to elicit suggestions from a
student and faculty input is the many groups and units that will d
necessary, but the administration be affected by the position. d
has the power, resources, and DEPARTMENT decentral - a
responsibility to formulate and ization hinders minority faculty and
implement policy. student recruitment because efforts s
' But the key executive spot for by each school, department, and 0
minority affairs has been vacant University office vary in intensity. c
since late January when Associate Sudarkasa's position was created in f
slice-President Niara Sudarkasa left 1983 to help coordinate these c
to assume the presidency of Lincoln efforts, but many argue a
4 University. decentralization is only an excuse.
Sudarkasa announced her "When they don't want to assign
resignation last October, but a blame to a problem they always cry
formal search committee was 'decentralization,"' Morris said,
formed only in February. "but I say the main values of the
According to Duderstadt, an University are very much
interim to the position should be centralized. I would argue that the
named by the end of this term. value of having black student and
The Michigan Daily - Friday, March 13, 1987 -Page 3
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revention Month.
The exhibition is facing funding
roblems, as organizers are $2,000
hort of the necessary $6000. The
ack of monetary support, despite
umerous sponsors from the
University community, may be due
o "people being disturbed and
insure about the art exhibition,"
according to Julie Steiner, director
of the University's Sexual Assault
Prevention and Awareness Center.
The exhibition of works by 19
women is sent to universities
throughout the country, and will be
accompanied by a series of dis -
cussions and workshops focusing
on sexual assault by members of
the University community.
According to Associate Dean of
the School of Art Mame Jackson,
the exhibit consists of "a group of
visual images responding to a
difficult societal issue."
Programs held in conjunction
with the art exhibit include panel
discussions about dealing with
sexual assault, the premiere of the
Citizen's Advisory Committee on
Rape Prevention's newly-produced
educational videotapes, and
discussions involving methods of
rape awareness and education.
Steiner said a wide variety of
programs are being presented to
attract varieties of people.
"The people who come to an art
exhibit are not the same ones who
will come to a film or a discussion,"
Steiner said.
Two years ago, University
groups tried to bring the art exhibit
to the School of Art, but failed due
to what Steiner termed "the lack of
heightened awareness of sexual
assault on campus."
The series of discussions and the
art exhibit is sponsored by a broad
coalition of University and local
offices. Members of the Michigan
Student Assembly and PIRGIM
also support the exhibit.
ommitment to racial diversity
ninority faculty is not a centralized
alue, and that this is the problem
s opposed to some sort of
ecentralized power structure that
oes not know what various units
re doing."
Many factors affecting black
taff and student recruitment lie
utside the University's direct
ontrol. Dependence on federal
:nds for financial aid is one often-
ited example, as is the "dry
cademic pipeline" from which
..
blacks are recruited.
But Royster said the University
has used this as an excuse for 17
years.
"How many years have we
known that there hasn't been a
pool? Hell, we've known there
hasn't been a pool long enough to
develop one," she said.
THE UNIVERSITY has
begun some high school outreach
programs to predominantly minor -
ity schools, but these are still in
their early stages.
Roderick Linzie, a sociology
graduate student, said, "What the
University should be doing, since it
is a state - not private -
institution, is helping to take
students from whatever situation or
level they are in and help them
along to a higher achievement level
(rather) than having an elitist
institution where you take only the
good students and make then a little
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Dean Baker, Pursell's former
opponent for the House seat, said
weekly protests at the Federal
Building sponsored by the Latin
American Solidarity Committee
(LASC) have persuaded Pursell to
change his voting habit and vote
against further funding of the
contras.
' "It just shows that our years of
protest have proven effective,"
Baker said.
Cates denies the protests have
had any significant influence over
"Pursell's vote. Members of the Ann
Arbor Sister City Task Force are
!writing a letter to Pursell thanking
him for the vote.
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