i-etaftanedo Ninety-eight years of editorial freedom Vol. XCVII, No 62 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Tuesday, December 8, 1987 Copyright 1987, The Michigan Daily f v.... Women evicted for slush fund By DAVID SCHWARTZ housing office at the Student Activities Three West Quad residents will be evicted Building to protest. "A few people are getting from their rooms for organizing and blamed for the action of the whole hall," said contributing to a "slush fund" used to buy first-year LSA student Bryan Traynor, who is alcohol for parties, and for refusing to turn in not a resident of Williams, but is concerned someone who posted a derogatory flier, their that a similar incident could arise in his house president and vice-president said house. yesterday. The protesters accused Resident Director Andrea Walker, Beth Stoner, and Natalie Ratnesh Nagda of unfairly singling out the Halich, sophomore roommates in West Quad- three women because of his poor relationship Williams House, were told yesterday by with them. University Housing Director Archie Andrews The protesters said that their residence staff that they must terminate their dorm leases by has known about the slush fund since the the end of the term or move out of the house beginning of the term, and that signs for the into other University housing, said house vice fund were posted openly in the bathrooms. president Susan Brown, who attended the They said Nagda took action against these meeting. three women because he believed they had Both Andrews and West Quad Building been harassing him with a flier. Director Alan Levy refused to comment. The flier announced a party in the women's Assistant Housing Director John Heidke said a room and said that money from the slush fund slush fund used to purchase alcohol is a would be used to buy alcohol for the party. violation of state law and grounds for The flier also included a picture of Nagda with eviction. line through him, similar to the logo from the Upon hearing of the eviction, about 45 movieGhostbusters, and the letters FYR, West Quad residents, most from Williams which residents interviewed assumed to stand House, gathered yesterday in front of the See STUDENTS, Page 3 Daily hoto by DANA MENDELSSON West Quad residents Bryan Traynor, a first-year LSA student; Jerome Mychalowych, an LSA sophomore; and "Juan Litvak, an LSA sophomore, protest the eviction of three West Quad women at the Student Activities Building. Gorbachev arrives in America for summit WASHINGTON (AP) - Soviet of Soviet-American relations, ques- leader Mikhail Gorbachev, setting 'tion of reducing strategic offensive foot for the first time on American arms," Gorbachev said. soil, said yesterday he hopes to hear The While House summit opens "new words" about prospects for today, highlighted at 1:45 p.m. by cutting long-range strategic weapons the signing of a treaty to eliminate at his White House summit this intermediate-range nuclear weapons week with President Reagan. (INF), the first-ever agreement call- The Reagan administration rolled ing for the destruction of an entire out the red carpet for Gorbachev and category of atomic arms. his wife Raisa, and in a welcoming The shorter range weapons do not statement the Soviet leader wished pose a threat to the United States, "peace and well being to all Ameri- but are targeted on Soviet and West- cans." ern Europe. Strategic arms can be "At the center of our discussions fired across the world and are consid- with the president of the United ered the most serious nuclear threat. States will be the pivotal questions A strategic arms pact eluded Rea- gan and Gorbachev at their summit in Iceland last year because of differ- ences over the U.S. Star Wars mis- sile defense plan. While there are signs of a lessening of Soviet objections to Star Wars, American officials say there is a lot of negoti- ating ahead before the two leaders could sign a strategic weapons treaty at another summit in Moscow next year. "On behalf of the people and the government of the Soviet Union, I wish to assure all Americans that we sincerely want better relation be- tween our peoples and countries," Gorbachev said. Commuter plane crashes; all 44 people abo HARMONY, Calif. (AP) - A Pacific Southwest Airlines commuter jet carrying 44 people crashed yes- terday after crew members reported hearing gunfire in- side the plane, and all aboard were feared dead, federal officials said. The four-engine jet en route from Los Angeles to San Francisco went down on a ranch near Harmony at 4:14 p.m., the Federal Aviation Administration said. There's airplane parts and body parts and luggage all over a 15-mile area. I don't know how anyone could have survived," said rancher Bill Hartzell, on whose property the jet crashed. There were 39 passengers and a crew of five aboard ird feared dead the flight, said PSA spokesperson Jeremy James. FAA spokesperson Fred Farrar in Washington D.C said it was believed none survived the crash. He identi fied the plane as PSA Flight 1771. "Just west of Paso Robles, the crew reported gun shots in the... plane," said Drucella Andersen,; spokesperson for the National Transportation Safet Board. "The plane crashed near Templeton." The FBI sent agents to the scene, said burea spokesperson Fred Reagan in Los Angeles. "We too have at least heard the reports of gunfire, said Reagan. 1- a y U Daily Photo by DAVID LUBLINER Alexander Cockburn, a columnist for the dissident magazine The Nation, lambasted the media for its coverage during the Reagan Ad- ministration to an audience of 300 at Rackham Ampitheatre last night.- Jourina lists seenas too easy on Reagan Faculty discusses racism, values 'By MICHAEL LUSTIG LSA faculty members departed from their usual monthly meeting format of quickly approving resoL. tions yesterday, and spent more tin an hour discussing racism and how the faculty can combat it. A speech by LSA Dean Peter Steiner and a discussion that for- lowed stressed that to begin a change, individuals must first look at their own values regarding what constitutes racism. "I mean each of us - including me, and including you: this is true for Blacks as well as white, for Jews as for Christians as for Muslims. Until we each start treating it as partly our problem, we will not maximize our efforts to deal with it," Steiner said. The faculty is in a position t_ "see if we can contribute to the pr cess of doing something constructive to improve the situation," Steiner said. John Cross, associate dean for faculty, echoed Steiner's position, and he mentioned all-day sit-ins on racism and personal values held by other schools, like the School of Social Work and the College of Ar- chitecture. But he said a similar ef- fort would be impossible for LSA, which has 17,000 students and 700 faculty members. Cross said one solution would be for departments to have their own teach-ins, and added that he would help organize them. He mentioned Martin Luther King Day in January as a possible date for teach-ins. Cross also asked for faculty to give him suggestions and ideas on how he might develop other recruit- ment and retention programs. "To talk about race and racism is not racist," said Vice Provost Charles Moody. "I'm glad that Peter (Steiner) said that it is everybody's See LSA, Page 2, By KEITH BRAND Columnist Alexander Cockburn, holding nothing back in a speech last night at the Rackham Ampitheater, blasted the U.S. media for its coverage during the Reagan administration. Cockburn, who writes for the dissident magazine The Nation, as well as occasional columns for the Wall Street Journal, spoke to a crowd of about 300, who seemed to enjoy his pointed barbs at the likes of President Reagan, Oliver North, and even NBC newscaster John Chancellor. Citing the media's downplay of the Iran/Contra affair and what he called its overuse of the White House version of stories, Cockburn lambasted the press for what he called irresponsible reporting. The columnist stressed that he wants people to look at media techniques and to guard against them, for example, what he calls the "bogus parallel", when the media attempts to link two separate ideas to make a point. He cited press reports that recent Haitian violence was a caused by aggression from both the left and the right sides of the political spectrum. "Why don't the journalists look at who's dead. Gee, a labor organizer. Oh, a typical victim of the left," Cockburn said in the sarcastic style he used throughout the speech. The audience responded to many of his points with laughter.. See COLUMNIST, Page 2 Council, police chief discuss false reports By STEVE KNOPPER Ann Arbor City Councilmember Jeff Epton (D-Third Ward) and Chief of Police William Corbett debated one-on-one during last night's council meeting over an arrest three said the assault doesn't occur, Corbett countered. "It is a matter of law that it is very difficult to disturb the peace of a police officer," Epton said. "It yx( \ ...