Ninety-eight years of editorial freedom Vol. XCVIII, No. 77 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Thursday, January 21, 1988 . I Copyright 1988, The Michigan Daily I Imb Blanchard address focuses on education By ANDREW MILLS Special to The Daily LANSING - Focusing his attention on the future of Michigan's workers and children, Gov. James Blanchard announced a series of programs last night in his State of the State address that would focus resources on, among other things, job retraining and improving the lot of school-age children. Harping on the state's past economic success - six years of balanced budgets and "half a decade of economic growth" - Blanchard promised to deliver a budget to the legislature that is "lean" and "solid", but balanced. Details won't be available until Monday when Blanchard announces his budget proposal, but t h e Michigan Skills Fund - "the largest state-funded worker retraining program in America" - will be a prominent part of that budget. UNDER BLANCHARD'S }proposal, the Fund would provide a $100 million revolving fund to give businesses interest-free, short-term loans to retrain up to 250,000 employees. The governor also pledged to "raise the standards of our educational system" and announced a major education package aimed at the K-12 years in school to help children "stay in school" and "learn in school." Blanchard avoided mentioning state funding for higher education in his speech, which Sen. William $ederburg (R-East Lansing) called a "big gap." Sederburg speculated that state colleges and universities would receive a very limited funding -increase, "at most one to two percent"." SEN. MAJORITY Leader John Engler (R-Mt. Pleasant) also said it was "very unlikely" that colleges and universities will get all of their requested increases. But Engler said, "We will hope to adjust it (the governor's proposal for appropriations) upward as we have in the past." Engler was critical of the governor's speech because he said there was "very little specific" in it. "It's not what's said.., it's what's delivered," Engler said at a press conference after the speech. "It's action that counts." Engler said that many of the initiatives Blanchard announced last night had been .'Bidenized from Republican programs that have See JOB, Page 2 Students' 09 punishment proposed Report: U' should act on, WJJX case Do*ly * ^oto by JOHN'"".J" WCBN DJ Arwulf Arwulf ends his address to the Campus Broadcasting Network Board of Directors with a flourish as WCBN Publicity Director Henry Hardy and Programming Director Jeanne Gilliland, both seated at table, applaud. Administration, directors clash By STEVE KNOPPER The students responsible for air- ing racist jokes on WJJX last February will be required to publicly apologize, perform community ser- vice, and go on probation if the University implements recom- mendations written by two officials. If the students make other bla- tantly racist remarks while on probation, they would be suspended or expelled, according to the report released yesterday by Interim University President Robben Flem- ing. Law Prof. Sallyanne Payton, one of the officials dispatched by former University President Harold Shapiro to review the incident, said she ex- pects Fleming to endorse the panel's recommendations. BUT FLEMING said his ac- tion will hinge on the future of his recently drafted policy to deter stu- dent harassment and discrimination through academic punishment. He has not specified a timeline for im- plementing either document. The committee's report, he said, will become part of the "debate" over his drafted document. And the debate rages on. Attorney Jonathon Rose, who represents LSA senior Ted Sevransky and LSA sophomore Peter Gonzalez, the two students involved, labelled the re- port's findings a "farce." BOTH GONZALES and Sevransky have already apologized publicly and performed community service, Rose said. He criticized the report for "inventing 'punishment' that deliberately mimics what the individuals have already done." "Ignorant, foolish speech is only cured by enlightened and informed speech," Rose said, "not by censor- ship." But Payton countered, "The Uni- versity is required to maintain an appropriate environment for learn- ing." Under the First Amendment, she added, "assault is not protected. Fighting words are not protected... There are behaviors that are suffi- ciently off the scale." THE REPORT, prepared by Payton and Vice President for Gov- ernment Relations Richard Kennedy, said the material in question is so blatant "that it cannot be seriously argued- that the participants did not know that it was racist, sexist, and offensive. They understood that not only the racist but the sexist mate- rial was offensive." The report said the officials de- veloped ad hoc procedures to deal with the students because the Uni- See FLEMING, Page .2 over non-students on By KEVIN S. VINEYS Members of the Campus Broadcasting Network clashed with University administrators last night over demands to limit the number of non-student mem- bers of campus radio stations. About 80 people jammed a conference room in the Student Activities Building to hear the CBN Board of Directors and ad- ministrative representatiyes at- tempt to hammer out an agree- ment allowing a limited number of non-students to participate in the operation of on-campus radio stations WCBN-FM and WJJX- AM. At press time, the meeting was still in progress with no resolu- tion in sight. Frank Cianciola, Director of the Michigan Union, said up to 40 percent of staffers at the cam- pus stations are non-students. This, he said, violates CBN's constitution, which allows for only a "small fraction" of non- students on staff. "(CBN) was originally founded to be run as a student organiza- tion," Cianciola said. "They should be giving priority to stu- dents." Cianciola sent a memorandum to the CBN Board of Directors Jan. 13 calling for the implemen- tation of an "operating plan" made up of an all-student staff. Failure to do so, the memo read, would result in the reduction or suspen- sion of broadcast hours. Non-stu- dents now make up 10 percent of the WCBN staff. Students and non-students working at CBN called the act "an ultimatum." "I feel like a gun's been put to our heads," said Jeanne Gilliland, acting program director at WCBN: Many of the people attending the meeting were students not af- filiated with CBN, but who came to voice support for the radio sta- tions. "WCBN is the kind of station I'd want my kids to grow up lis- tening to," said Chas. Dayringer, owner of Dayringer Bakery in Ann Arbor. Board members said they had received over 100 letters in sup- port of non-student staffers. Members of CBN said that most college radio stations rely on a significant number of non-stu- dents as staff. "What it comes down to is who has the time (to be in- volved)," Gilliland said. L. WCBN Board members also said that CBN has an obligation to involve the community, as required by the Federal Communications Com- mission and CBN's constitution. Henry Hardy, Publicity Direc- tor for CBN, accused the adminis- tration of clouding the issue by focusing on an act committed last semester by a non-student radio host. The host, Chris Daley, played an allegedly racist song entitled "Run Nigger, Run". He was re- moved from the air following a complaint to the Affirmative Ac- tion office of the University. Cianciola said that the Daley incident was the first time he had heard of the large proportion of non-students at CBN. Even the numbers, however, were a subject of debate. Kevin Gilmartin, an administrator on the CBN board, said he derived the numbers by comparing a staff list to the student directory. Several students complained that it was not an accurate figure. The move to restrict the cam- pus stations to students mirrors a similar incident in 1978, when a parent complained that her son could not get on the air because of the large number of non-students. : Shiites end siege of Palestinian camps BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Shiite Moslem militia withdrew yesterday from all positions ringing Palestin- ian refugee camps in Beirut, ending a nearly 3-year-old siege. Syrian troops immediately rolled into buffer zones around the Chatilla and Bourj el-Barajneh shantytowns to enforce the newly established peace between guerrillas of Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization and militia of Lebanese Justice Minister Mabih Berri's Amal. Reporters saw Amal irregulars pull away in trucks and jeeps from sandbagged positions and earth- mounds surrounding the two camps, home for an estimated 30,000 ref- ugees. The move came to enforce a decis- ion declared by Berri on Saturday to lift the military blockade in what he called a unilateral initiative to end the so-called "camps war" that had killed more than 1,600 people and wounded 3,600 by Lebanese police count. Berri said his move was a gift to the "heroic people" who have been protesting Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Most universities enforce conduct code v By STEVE KNOPPER The "code" - rules to govern students' non- academic conduct - is a four-letter word to many University students who say it would restrict their freedom. But most American colleges al- ready have a code and are surprised that the Uni- versity of Michigan doesn't have one. "A university needs to have a set of regula- tions to govern behavior on campus," James Studer, Michigan State University's assistant vice president for student services said. "I frankly don't understand how the University of Michigan has been able to get along without some sort of rules of behavior." He added that every other Big Ten university already has such rules Student activists here have protested code pro- posals for the past four years, hoping to post- pone such rules indefinitely. "Other students are being punished by being under oppressive regimes," said Michael Phillips, chair of the Michigan Student Assembly's student rights committee. "Freedom has to reign somewhere." Interim University President Robben Flem- ing's draft, which he released last week for "community review," would impose strict pun- ishments on discriminatory behavior and sexual harassment, in addition to physical assault. Fleming has not specified a timeline for the pol- icy's implementation. Most other universities, however, do not specifically mention sexual assault in their poli- cies, though they have provisions under other rules that could deal with such offenses. Officials from several colleges around the country said their policies were undergoing review in order to discuss these issues. Fleming's draft, in a sense, proposes a similar review of the University's current policy, adopted in 1973. The Rules of the University Commu- nity, denounced as unworkable by former University President Harold Shapiro in 1984, do not address problems of sexual and racial discrimination. The current policies at other Big Ten schools and the University of California-Berkeley are more restrictive than the 1973 rules and similar to Fleming's proposal. The policies all govern See ALL, Page 2 City Council passes resolution against a By MELISSA RAMSDELL The Ann Arbor City Counc voted Monday to formally oppos Senate Bill 339, which would perm all four-year universities in the star to deputize their campus security o campus police confuse the public and create a lack tion for il of accountability, guns." e "I just don't want too many peo- But co it ple with guns and badges running Middleton te around town," he said. separate p f If Ann Arbor Police patrol the campus de U niversity rimrnnsiFntnn eaiA citi- znnlt and force giving campus security ouncilmember Jeannette (R-Third Ward) said a olice force would help the cal with crimes such as as- .ht,,, ... ' . .,. :. ,: