Page 8 -The Michigan Daily, Thursday, September 10, 1987 To many racism on campus went to' far I Fleming chose damage over possible injury (Continued from Page 7) In the Michigan League, the regents vote to give jailed African' National Congress leader Nelson Mandela an honorary degree, which is one of UCAR's 12 demands. ' March 20: Students sitting-in at the Fleming Building move outside and chain the doors to bar any access. The action ends when students realize that employees have entered the building through under- ground steam tunnels. Nearly 50 student leave the sit-in and march to the Michigan League were the regents are meeting. The students ask to be heard, but the regents recess the meeting and proceed to the Fleming Building. The students follow Shapiro and the regents to the building attemp- ting to bar their entrance. They demand to meet with Shapiro, and at 11:15 a.m. he agrees speak with them. During the meeting, Shapiro agrees to hold two more meetings the following week. March 22: Reverend Jesse Jackson arrives on campus to meet with Black student leaders who have asked him to come and help ease the tensions on campus. Jackson is scheduled to meet with Shapiro the next day. March 23: BAM III members call off the scheduled meeting with Shapiro, saying they want to await the outcome of his talks with Jackson. Jackson meets all day with faculty members, students, and other administrators as well as Shapiro. Shapiro announces the fruits of the negotiations at a rally in Hill Auditorium. He announces six resolutions to increase Black student and faculty enrollment: -the creation of the Vice Provost for Minority Affairs position, -an annual budget for the Black Student Union, -the appointment of a Black senior administrator to the Office of Affirmative Action, -budgetary incentives to attract and retain Black faculty and admin- istrators. -the weighing of affirmative action accomplishment as part of performance reviews for each depart- ment, and -the creation of a standing com- mission to advise the president on racial affairs. In a speech following the disclosure of the resolutions, Jackson says he is pleased with the outcome of the negotiations. Although many see Shapiro's resolutions as a step forward, the battle is not completely won. Two more racist fliers will appear in Mosher Jordan Hall before the end of March. And students will discover that commencement key- note speaker Mike Wallace is, him - self, guilty of a racist incident six years ago. Protests ensue. Doily Photo by KAREN HANDELMAN Turning away A group of University graduates turn their backs on last spring's commencement speaker Mike Wallace due to racist remarks he made six years ago. BAM to continue protests (Continued from Page 6) for other people to judge. There were certainly critics - everybody from the vice president of the United States on down criticized me. They said I was much too easy on students. We had very deep tensions caused by the Vietnam War, which I thought was wrong too and by racial injustice which I have long felt was wrong. I felt then, and I still feel, that you can't subdue protest by force. Things will get out of hand occasionally. As I used to tell the regents sometimes you have a series of bad options, and the question is which is the least bad option. D: You're saying a little damage is better than calling in the national guard and risking lives? F: Yes, I would rather incur some damage and get it over with than bring in the sheriff. You'd get some windows broken, but life would go on. We'd get called names by people who'd say we had no guts because we didn't throw any students in jail. The end result was we didn't have anybody killed. We didn't have any buildings blown up. From our stand point we came out ahead. But there were a lot of people who disagreed with me. D: Didn't some students feel your methods frustrated any pro- gress on the issues they were advocating? F: Yes, I know they felt that way. That was, by and large, because people who wanted to change the University were fru- strated because they couldn't bring it about. (My tactic) wasn't well done from their point of view because it didn't allow them to (Continued from Page 6) A M O N G the fall plans for dances, discussion, educational and support groups for Asian students, Lin said that a major UMASC project will be examining University admission policies for a possible "cap" on Asian enrollment that is now a common "and unfair" practice at many universities. Although the endless acronyms may seem confusing to new students, it is important to remember only that minority student activism will probably be a powerful campus force come fall. And while the names may change, many of the sentiments are the same - most notably student activists' opinions of the admini - stration. Described repeatedly as "slow," "non-commital," and "say - ing one thing and doing another," the administrations actions will be the deciding factor in most minority groups' fall plans.. "We would hope that they will be as responsive in a non-crisis situation as they were in a crisis situation," said Ransby. "We hope response won't come only from people screaming at their doors." FROM O T O naew W~ved in a opene d st. nth5 agb -l e5s o busy fon have dor Whe he "" t Since theour shelv nee t eye Yth aeyill get off )NE NEWCOMER... ANOTHER! [J bring about their desired objectives. It wasn't always well done from the regents standpoint; the regents sometime found it very hard to sit and wait with me. D: Last winter there was a rash of protests on campus. Do you see the University moving into another period of heavy protesting? F: People know numbers are effective, so the protest were not surprising. It did look like there were more protests last year. although if the racial thing hadn't come along, I'm not sure if it would have been thought of as more. D: So you don't foresee the BAM III movement being as disruptive as the original BAM movement in 1970 when students broke windows and trashed a couple of the libraries? F: Well, it didn't certainly (winter semester). My impression is that while the degree of rhetoric is as high, tactically it is not as serious as it was in 1970. I think (disruptive protesting) is less likely' because you don't have anything like Vietnam which is unsettling to the whole student body. You do have the racial issue and that's an ongoing, unsettled agenda. But, clearly-the administration has taken a lot of steps to try to deal with that. D: Do you have any advice for President Shapiro or the future president on how to deal with protest? F: No, I never give advice to other people on how to del with these things. Profs: Past protests had more unity (Continued frou Page 2) agrees with Eldersveld that more reaction could be expected if a proposal which was more clearly a code received approval. 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