Ninety-eight years of editorialfreedom Vol. XCVIII, No. 34 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Tuesday; October 27, 1987 Copyright 1987, The Michigan Daily Weine to fill MSA Dow slide Jones average VP post tonight By ANDREW MILLS Michigan Student Assembly President Ken Weine will nominate LSA Senior Wendy Sharp tonight to fill the assembly's number two post, following last week's resignation of Vice President Rebecca Felton. Sharp was recommended especially for her experience dealing with University faculty as well as the assembly. Sharp covered the pro- ceedings of the assembly in 1986 for The Daily. Sharp said she has already met with representatives and is excited at the prospect of her new role. Officials forsee no opposition to Sharp, who awaits approval by the assembly. She met with the steering committee at their weekly meeting Sunday night and said there was a "good, positive feeling" among its members. See SHARP, Page 2 5 156 NEW YORK (AP) - The Dow Jones industrial average suffered its second-largest point loss ever yesterday, falling 157 points and wiping out most gains made after last week's staggering 508-point plunge. The selling followed a record loss on the prime Hong Kong exchange, which lost one-third of its value on the first day of trading in a week. Tokyo, London, and other foreign markets also had large losses. Investors appeared to be unmoved by deficit- reduction talks between President Reagan and congressional leaders that were called after last week's market panic. In Washington, Reagan met for nearly an hour with congressional leaders. Participants said there was no discussion of specifics on such subjects as possible tax increases or spending cuts, but there was an agreement on the importance of their task. "It's a slow fade, sinking into the sunset," said Dennis Jarrett, a technical analyst for the investment firm of Kidder, Peabody & Co. Analysts said the market was still reeling from the history-making plunge Oct. 19, when the Dow industrials fell a record 508 points. In six days of seesaw trading, the Dow dropped about 450 points. The value of all U.S. stocks yesterday fell $203, billion to $2.23 trillion, or 8.4 percent, a one-day points evaporation of wealth exceeded only by the $503 billion drop one week earlier. The Dow average of 30 industrials fell 156.83 points to 1,793.93 yesterday. "It was panic and it's still to some- degree continuing," said Morton Brown, research director for Edward D. Jones & Co., a St. Louis-based brokerage company that serves small investors in 38 states. Trading volume on the New York Stock Exchange continued at a heavy pace. A total of 308.82 million shares changed hands, which made yesterday the sixth busiest session on record. The New York and American stock exchanges, 'the Chicago Board Options Exchange, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Chicago Board of Trade, and the Midwest Stock Exchange announced they would close two hours early throughout the week, a policy begun late last week to cope with the heavy trading. There was violence yesterday when a Florida investor who reportedly suffered heavy losses in the market killed one broker and critically wounded another in their Miami brokerage office. The man then shot and killed himself, police said. On a brighter note, the Commerce Department said that a 0.5 percent drop in consumer spending last month, the first decline since January, was accompanied by a 0.7 percent increase in personal income, the biggest advance since February. Two pointsDolly Photo by DAVID LUBLINER Denny Rosenberg of Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity participates in a slam dunk contest sponsored by the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity yesterday. Proceeds will go to The American Heart Association. 'U' Council to meet despite internal dissent By MARTHA SEVETSON For the first time since dissent splintered the University Council last May, students, faculty mem- bers, and administrators will meet today to address their task of writ- ing a code of non-academic conduct. But most members of the nine- person panel are not expected to show up, according to Council Co- chair David Newblatt. The board has not met since the majority of members - none of them students - passed a resolution declaring themselves incapable of writing a satisfactory code. The gap between student and administrative views on the code stretches wider than an inability to agree who should write a code. The 15-year-old fight centers on the need for a code, an authorization to punish students' behavior outside of the classroom with academic sanc- tions. After many failed attempts to impose behavioral guidelines, Uni- versity President Harold Shapiro put the conflict in the hands of the council three years ago. Shapiro and- other University officials still believe the council is the proper mechanism to create a code. Last summer, with no concrete results and a statement from the student members calling the council "a facade of democracy" Co-chair Shaw Livermore to called for the council's dissolution. Livermore said the council was inherently incapable of agreeing upon a set of guidelines, and' h e would return only at the direction of Shapiro or the University's Board of Regents. Livermore has not re- ceived feedback from either. But Council Co-chair David Newblatt, who reconvened the panel after four months of inactivity, insisted the council can write a sat- isfactory code. "We were making a lot of head- way before we put out our state- ment," said Newblatt, an LSA se- nior. "That indicates the fact that we can work together and come to agreement." Newblatt said three students have been appointed to the council, but he was uncertain how many faculty members and adminigtrators would return. "We'll get as many people as possible, and we'll see where we stand," Newblatt said. He plans to ask the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs and the President's Office for new appoint- ments to fill the shoes of Liver- more and other council members Students learn facts about sexual assault By ELIZABETH ATKINS Aggression. Coercion. Sex role stereotypes. Force. As part of "Acquaintance Rape Day,'" about 35 students learned about these elements which accompany date rape at a workshop last night sponsored by the University's Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center. Two SAPAC volunteers - Marya Mogk, an LSA junior, and Brian Dietz, a first-year law student - facilitated the workshop which included a "brainstorm" of facts vs. myths, a lively discussion, and videotapes of acquaintance rape scenarios. "Awareness can prevent you from getting into dangerous situations," Dietz said. Eighty to 90 percent of all rapes are committed by someone the victim knew. The facilitators presented the "elements" which are always present when acquaintance rape occurs: force, sex role stereotypes taken too far, vulnerability, lack of communication, and social situations. Mogk said rape is the "sexual expression of aggression" and because our society encourages aggression in men, sexual assault exists. Dietz added that society encourages sex role stereotypes which equate aggressiveness with masculinity and compliance with femininity; these stereotypes encourage rape. "Becoming aware of these elements make people analyze relationships between men and women," Dietz said. Also, the facilitators presented a "force continuum" chart which, See TALKS, Page 3 ,1 who refuse to attend. But SACUA Chair Harris McClamroch said he is pessimistic about replacing Livermore and other faculty representatives. "SACUA has to make a deci- sion about whether it is the personalities involved, in which case we can find replacements, or whether there's an underlying, deeper problem," McClamroch said. "I've got to do a little bit more See PANELS Page 2 Human rights activist murdered SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) - Two men with silencer- equipped handguns killed the pres- ident of the Salvadoran Human Rights Commission yesterday as he left his home to take two of his six children to school, official sources said. As the children stood some dis- tance away, the assailants shot Herbert Ernesto Anaya point-blank in a small parking lot, a police source said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but a spokesperson for the human rights commission blamed it on rightist death squads linked to the military. Anaya's father, Rafael Lopez, told reporters his son was being watched by unidentified men and had received several anonymous death threats because of his work with t h e commission. Anaya was the fourth member of the commission, an independent private organization made up of lawyers and other professionals, to be assassinated since 1980. D ry - Doily Photo by DAVIDLUBLNER Pictured from left to right, Jim Mellin (president of Sigma Chi), Paula Rodriguez, Steve Edmondson, Andrea Zanotti, and Tony Angelotti attend a non-alcoholic happy hour sponsored by the Sigma Chi Fraternity. The fraternity served pop and pizza in an effort to promote a campus wide campaign for National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week. "U' lobbyist warns of federal financial aid cutbacks By DAVID WEBSTER If the U.S. Congress and President Reagan do not work out a responsible deficit reduction plan by November 20, federal student aid for 1988 could fall $1.4 billion below this year's level of $19.5 billion, said Tom Butts, the University's lobbyist in Washington. Speaking at a meeting of the Michigan Studeni Assembly's External Relations Committee last night, Butts said the most threatening factor to education funding is an automatic sequester, which is known as the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings II, which would subject al- most all education programs to an 8.5 percent cut. The House of Representatives and the Senate have Park rangers to patrol downtown By STEVE KNOPPER The downtown area will be patrolled by three Ann Arbor park rangers, according to a resolution passed by City Council, 6-4, in a special session last night. Councilmember Kathy Edgren (D-Fifth Ward) speculated that Mayor Gerald Jernigan, a Republican, would veto the passed ordinance in coming weeks. The park rangers will patrol Main St., State St., S. University St., and the Kerrytown area from 11:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. every day until January that skate-boarders, bicyclists, and vandals were harassing citizens downtown, Edgren said. "I think it's a great idea," said local merchant Mary Reilly. Since regular police officers are toe expensive to be used for this purpose, she said, the park rangers will give citizens a "sense of security" downtown. Parks and Recreation Department head Ronald Olsen said the new program will be a "piece of the pie' toward solving the downtown problems. "It's not the solution tc s f t r 1 INSIDE The racist attack in the East Engineering building should be examined in the context of labor relations. OPINION, Page 4 The University Players production of The Contrast revives the eigh- teenth century theatrical tradition. :>.,,a