Ni-eeetga/fredo Ninety-seven years of editorial freedom k a PVOLUME XCVII - NO. 128 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN - TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1987 COPYRIGHT 1987, THE MICHIGAN DAILY Jernigan ousts Pierce from mayor's seat Democrats retain control of council Doily Photo by SCOTT LITUCHY Whitney Hoth, an English teaching assistant, leads GEO picketers in a chant outside of University President Harold Shapiro's house yesterday. T* 3 ral eier By MARTIN FRANK A political scien and ANDY MILLS anonymous, said th Over 200 teaching assistants rallied in front of enough time to com University President Harold Shapiro's residence and in If GEO's proposa Regents' Plaza yesterday afternoon as a show of students will be attra strength. The University and the Graduate Employees the University's und Organization enter mediation today in Detroit. fected. Carrying signs saying "We can't afford rent - can Philosophy and we live here?" the demonstrators blocked the sidewalk Schwartz said the L on South University outside Shapiro's house and contract demands)a forced passing pedestrians into the street. The TAs give them to us." took advantage of passing traffic and encouraged cars, GEO members including three University vehicles, to honk in about the legal rami support of the GEO. foreign TAs who a A spontaneous cry of "strike, strike, strike" once letter that TAs we rose from the crowd, drowning out speeches by par- department chairper ticipants with a megaphone. See today nce TA, who asked to remain e union has given the University e up with a fair proposal. als are not met, he said, graduate acted elsewhere and the quality of dergraduates will be adversely af- Political Science TA Justin University "knows (the union's are fair. They just don't want to distributed informational fliers fications of a strike, the plight of re here under a visa, and a form re encouraged to send back to sons at their alma maters advising- LSA, Page 2 By CARRIE LORANGER and JERRY MARKON Republican city councilmember Gerald Jernigan was elected Mayor of Ann Arbor last night, narrowly upsetting Democratic incumbent Ed Pierce. But Democrats will retain their 7-4 majority on the Ann Arbor City Council. Jernigan won 52.5 percent of the vote, compiling 10,196 votes to Pierce's 9,203. His suprising victory, combined with victories by Republican candidates in the Fourth and Second Wards, leaves council with six Democrats and four Republicans. The Democrats will have enough votes, however, to appoint a Democrat to Jernigan's empty Fourth Ward seat. Both mayoral candidates at- tributed Jernigan's victory to Pierce's inability to reduce the city's rising crime rate. Jernigan said his first priority as Mayor will be adding more police officers, which is opposed by Pierce and other Democrats. "We're going to have a little bit more sayin what goes on," Jern- igan said. "We're not going tosit back any more. Republicans are going to start working hard." Jernigan, who works as an in- vestment analyst at the University, pledged to establish regular meet- ings with University officials. The new mayor predicted that he will work well with the council's Democratic majority. As a coun- cilmember, Jernigan helped fashion bi-partisan compromises on city budget issues. Although Jernigan can now veto all council actions and resolutions - except appointment of city officers - he said last night he probably will not use this power. The mayor needs eight council votes to sustain a veto. Pierce, who is Ann Arbor's best- known politician, responded to his defeat tearfully, but he thanked Ann Arbor voters for supporting him in previous campaigns for Mayor, city council, and state senator. "I've lost many times before, and it's not the end of the world," Pierce said. The See VOTERS, Page 3 Jernigan . s new mayor S Fhleicher ... wins Fourth Ward r Threat of TA strike concerns students QpeningDay By STEVEN TUCH If the Graduate Employees Organization and the University do not reach a contract agreement tonight, undergraduates may be forced to choose sides in the month- old conflict. Students taking classes with striking teaching assistants can only wonder about their grades and the fate of finals. Those with non- striking TAs must decide whether or not to cross GEO's picket lines. GEO President Alice Haddy is encouraging people to honor the strike. Both the Michigan Student Assembly and the LSA Student Government presented resolutions to the administration this week supporting the teaching assistants. The student governments endorse all the major demands of the GEO, including a limit on class size, paid training for new TAs, a living wage, and granting of full tuition waivers. "What the GEO is asking for is not only for the graduate student. That picket line is there for the undergraduate student too," said Ken Weine, MSA president. "The strike is to raise and set the standards of TAs in the classroom." "We think (undergraduate) support is great," Haddy said. "We would like (students) to support it however they can. "If our situation is improved as TAs, we would be better teachers. Therefore the undergraduate student serves to benefit indirectly." Haddy said. See STUDENTS, Page 2 Dental school dean 'dec lines 2 term Yankees topple Tigers in opener By BARB McQUADE Special to the Daily DETROIT - The weather was cold and so were the Tigers' bats, as the New York Yankees iced Detroit, 2-1, in 10 innings yesterday in the season opener at Tiger Stadium. Claudell Washington scored the winning run on Rickey Henderson's two-out double into the gap in right-centerfield. Washington had reached first on a two-out pinch-hit single and advanced to third on Wayne Tolleson's base hit to right. Tigers starter Jack Morris, who yielded nine hits in nine and two- third innings, suffered the loss. Dave Righetti recorded the win for the Yankees. The left-hander pitched the last three innings, allowing one hit while walking three and striking out three. Willie Hernandez finished for the Tigers. See MORRIS, Page 8 INSIDE Readers found last week's "God is Dead" editorial offensive. OPINION, PAGE 4 Decadence is more than it is cracked up to be. ARTS, PAGE 5 The Michigan baseball team hosts Wayne State in a double- By EVE BECKER The School of Dentistry will be headed by an interim dean and a transitional committee for the next two years. This follows Dean Richard Christiansen's recent an- nouncement that he will not seek a second term as dean. "I think the opportunities in other areas are just too com- pelling," Christiansen said. He plans to continue teaching, re- searching, and building interna- tional oral health programs with the School of Dentistry. Christiansen, whose five-year term as dean of the dental school expires in July, has decided to concentrate on teaching and devel- oping international dental programs Instead, a transitional committee led by interim-dean Dr. William Kotowicz, partial denture prostho- dontics professor and a member of the school's executive committee, will govern the school. The transitional committee began meeting two weeks ago, al- though Kotowicz will not officially assume the interim-dean post until July. Joseph Regezi, dentistry and oral pathology professor and mem- ber of the transitional committee, said there will be "interesting changes" coming from the com- mittee. He declined to elaborate because he said the committee is still in the formative stages. Kotowicz said the committee will start by "sort of going back Daily Photo by SCOTT LITUCHY South Quad residents watch the opening day baseball game between the Tigers and the Yankees in the Kelsey House lounge yesterday. Tigersga draws studets away from c 14 By SCOTT BOWLES Before Jack Morris fired in the first pitch of the 1987 Detroit Tigers campaign, University students were already in mid-season form. "Let's get some beer, quick!" shouted one student from a small group gathered around the television in South Quad's Kelsey Lounge. In the Opening Day clash with the New York Yankees, Detroit fans relegated to lounges instead of asses to TV Most of the Kelsey residents were home team fans, but the group was not without dissent. "I'm for the Yankees," braved LSA freshman Jim Selberfein. He was assaulted with a chorus of boos. "I live right outside of New York. I like the Tigers, but if I have to pick one, it's gotta be the Yankees, even though the Tigers have a better shot at winning. The Yankees always find a way to choke," Selberfein said.