Ninety-eight years of editorialfreedom Vol. XCVIII, No. 48 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Monday, November 16, 1987 Copyright 1987, The Michigan Daily More than 19 die in Denver jet crash DENVER (AP) - A Continental Airlines jet with 81 people aboard flipped on its back while taking off from Denver's airport in a snow- storm yesterday and skidded along the runway, killing at least 19 people and injuring 54 more, .authorities said. "We counted 18 dead outside the plane, and there are several dead in the fuselage," said Stapleton Interna- tional Airport spokesperson Richard Boulware. Twenty-one people walked away from the crash, officials said. The DC-9 twin-engine jet, Flight 1713, was carrying 76 passengers and five crew members from Denver to Boise, Idaho, said Continental spokesperson Ned Walker. Walker said the flight originated in Okla- homa City, and the crash took place shortly after 2 p.m. Rescue work was hampered by falling snow and ice, visibility was poor and some survivors were still trapped inside the plane more than four hours after the accident, authori- ties said. "Many people are survivors at this point," Walker said. "It's too early to speculate on anything that could have occurred (to make the plane crash.)" National Transportation Safety Board chair James Burnett and nine See AIRPLANE, Page 3 Blue traps Illinois Webb, in. 17-14 Second-straight road win sealed in last :43 By RICK KAPLAN Special to the Daily CHAMPAIGN - Phil Webb turned the corner for Michigan on Saturday. The fullback's two-yard touch- down run turned a potential loss into a last-minute 17-14 Wolverine win over Illinois. The rush also turned the Wolverine bowl express towards Florida. For the second straight week, Michigan came away with a pulsat- ing, come-from-behind road win. A team that three weeks ago appeared inept away from Ann Arbor, and seemed headed for an early winter vacation, the Wolverines (7-3 over- all, 5-2 Big Ten) are now in position to play in a New Year's Day or Jan. 2 bowl game. THE UNLIKELY comeback against the Illini was culminated by a most unlikely Wolverine. With 43 seconds left in the game, Webb, a fifth-year senior whose playing time has been limited recently, took a pitch from quarterback Demetrius Brown on third-and-one at the Illinois two-yard line. Illini cornerback Chris Green burst into the Wolverine backfield and got a hand on Webb's left ankle. Webb broke Green's grasp, then beat the rest of the Illinois defense to the left corner of the end zone. "I saw the cornerback coming," Webb said. "He committed too soon. He went. for the wrong leg so I just kicked my leg out and went for the corner." Webb's narrow escape was a mi- crocosm of the Wolverines' after- noon. Michigan trailed 14-7 entering the fourth quarter. With Illinois' de- fense controlling the game and Michigan's offense floundering, the Wolverines' chances on Pork Day at Memorial Stadium appeared slim. "We did not play well," said Michigan head coach B o See 'M', Page 10 -Associated rress Keith Jones' flight gave the Illini a key first down against the Wolverines Saturday in the second quarter. Greg Turner plowed in from the one for a touchdown two plays later. Michigan won the game 17-14. Forum tells of jobs Party seeks 'change in assembly focus for grad. By ROSE MARY WUMME About 30 undergraduates attend a conference Saturday morning aim at encouraging Blacks, Hispanic and American Indians to apply graduate school in engineering a sciences. Students talked with facult administrators, and graduate studen - including Vice President f Student Services Henry Johnson a Rackham Graduate School Dean Jo D'Arms - about what gradua schools could do for them. Only 17 of the 33,000 students 0.05 percent - currently enrolled engineering doctoral programs acro the country are Black. America Indians make up less than 0.1 perce and just 1 percent are Hispanic, sa Martha Conley of the Nation; Consortium for Graduate Degrees f Minorities in Engineering. engineers L Minority enrollment in ed engineering masters programs is ed better, but not much. Of 23,000 s, students enrolled, 345 are Black, 311 to are Hispanic, and 24 are American nd Indians, Conley said. "We can do better. We have to if .y, we are going to compete in our its increasingly technological society," or said Frederick Gregory, the second nd Black man in space and pilot of the hn space shuttle Challenger in 1985. te Gregory told the undergraduates, "You are America's future and what - you make of yourselves is what in America makes of itself." Sss He added, "Our leadership among an technical fields is threatened. The nt foreign competitors are closing the id gap. How youprepare yourselves al today will determine whether for See JOBS, Page 2 By ANDREW MILLS The Change party sees some serious problems with the Michigan Student Assembly - problems with how it works and how it is perceived ff MMMI I I Elections by the student body and the administration. Change is one of five parties campaigning hoping to win seats on the assembly in campus-wide elections to be held Wednesday and Thursday. The assembly is "ineffective and out of touch with the student body," said LSA candidate Bryan Case. He attributes much of this to misguided attention. The party would like to see media attention focused on the "real workhorses" of the assembly, the twelve committees, instead of on the Tuesday night meetings. IN THE party's view, it is the committees that fight the proposed code of non-academic conduct and lobby for financial aid reform, but they receive little attention and consequently are not recognized by the students. Change views the assembly as completely unresponsive to the opinions of the student body. "MSA has become increasingly inward looking," Case said. "We want to explode that." Change does not stand opposed to dealing with non-campus issues, if that is what the student body desires. See CHANGE, Page 2 Daily Photo by GRACE TSAI Change candidates Dan Tobocman, Debra DeRuyver, and Bryan Case want to "bring MSA back to the students." The three are candidates for the MSA elections to be held across campus Wednesday and Thursday. i I Regent Baker was envoy, paper reports Students oppose protest policy By MARTHA SEVETSON University Regent Deane Baker (R-Ann Arbor) met with U.S. Education Secretary William Bennett last August to discuss the University's presidential search, according to a Detroit Free Press article yesterday. According to the story, unnamed sources in the Department of Education identified Baker as the representative who spoke with Bennett. Baker said he "will neither confirm not deny that we met with any candidate or any person concerning the search for t h e president of the University of Michi- gan. Bennett's press secretary Loye Miller told the Daily last week that two people associated with the search process met with Bennett in July to discuss qualities inherent in a university president. Miller refused to identify the representatives. Miller said he had the impression the representatives wanted Bennett to consider the presidential position, but See FREE, Page 3 By JIM PONIEWOZIK A proposed University policy on freedom of speech fails to adequately protect the rights of student protesters, several students said at a forum Friday. The statement from the University Civil Liberties Board (CLB) was released in September and replaces the original set of guidelines drafted by the board in 1977. If the statement wins approval from the executive officers and the faculty, it will serve as the official University policy on freedom of speech. The forum was held to gauge student reaction to the proposal and the prospects for approval by the Michigan Student Assembly. Although student approval is not required to ratify the proposal, the CLB would prefer to have it. The MSA Student Rights Committee recently drafted a resolution calling the statement vague. The statement, like its predecessor, gives individuals the right to speak or perform on campus without interference, but emphasizes that students have the right to protest such events. The CLB statement leaves enforcement of the guidelines to the University administration. THE STUDENTS at the forum, mostly from the Michigan Student Assembly, argued that the statement could allow the use of academic sanctions against demonstrators. They fear a scenario in which student protesters are prosecuted in court for their protest and also punished by the University. The University could expel or sus- pend a student or put a hold credit on a student's account if academic sanctions are allowed. "If you removed academic sanctions from over the heads of students, that would be a step forward," said MSA Student Rights Committee chair Mike Phillips. Members of the CLB affirmed their opposition to the use of such sanctions. The CLB has opposed a code See STUDENTS, Page 5 Baker ... may have approached Bennett Holocaust hero receives award INSIDE By STEVE BLONDER Special to the Daily DETROIT-sRaoul Wallenberg, the "righteous gentile" and University graduate, received the Holocaust Memorial Center's prestigious Righteousness Award last night. Wallenberg reportedly died in a everyone to prevent a second Holocaust. Lantos said that in order to prevent a second Holocaust, the Jews must abandon the silence they maintained during World War II, and the Jewish community must get "going beyond itself." Jews must also be as "concerned for violations of human rights anywhere as with be so easy to achieve. When the people of a so-called democratic state, in free and open elections, elect Kurt Waldheim as their president; when the people of Japan swimming in an ocean of prosperity... are devouring anti-semitic literature; when the Saudis and the others rxe continuing their anti-Israel tirade; that Jewish wnnonanP ' and PpmPtrinn . dam rona MSA candidates should take re- sponsibility for removing their campaign posters after the election. OPINION, Page 4 Arts talks with feminist author Marge Piercy. ARTS, Page 7 i i