it ani4at7 Ninety-eight years of editoria freedom Vol. XCVIII, No, 82 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Thursday, January 28, 1988 Copyright 198'8 The Michigan Daily Some UCAR members laud sanctions By STEVE KNOPPER Interim University President Robben Fleming has recommended that the admin- istration fight racist speech and actions with academic sanctions. Many student ac- tivists counter that administrative sanc- tions would threaten freedom of speech. Even the United Coalition Against Racism - a student group that has de- manded University action against racial ha- rassment - has consistently criticized Fleming's drafted document to deter dis- criminatory behavior through academic punishment. But anti-racism group opposes 'code' BUT yesterday several UCAR members said they do favor sanctions against stu- dents who perform racist acts. "As far as I'm concerned, if somebody attacks somebody else - either racially or sexually - they should be expelled," said UCAR member Pam Nadasen, an LSA ju- nior. Nadasen said the anti-Martin Luther King fliers found last week at Mosher-Jor- dan and the airing of a song called "Run, Nigger, Run" over WCBN campus radio were examples of racial attacks. But she said Fleming's proposed "code" is not acceptable as it stands. "The pro- posal should apply to faculty and adminis- trators as well," she explained. Fleming's document, released two weeks ago for "community review," out- lines sanctions such as academic probation or suspension against students who ver- bally or physically harass others. PANELS set up by the University's 17 schools and colleges would judge whether students are guilty, the document said, and deans would be granted power to enforce the guidelines. Faculty and staff members, under current Bylaws of the University's Board of Re- gents, can be dismissed for misconduct, which includes discrimination and harass- ment. Most of the regents, the executive offi- cers, and several deans and professors have praised the document, calling it a "first step" toward combatting discriminatory behavior on campus. But UCAR has joined the Michigan Student Assembly in opposition to the draft. "We're really happy with the stances that UCAR and LaGROC (Lesbian and Gay Rights Organizing Committee) have taken," said MSA President Ken Weine, an LSA senior. "They realized that Fleming has taken their demands and turned them into his demand." See UCAR, Page 2 Points to be scarce as Illini battle 'I' By JEFF RUSH Got time for a few points? Even if you have time enough for two 20-minute halves of basketball, you're not going to slip in too many points on Lou Henson's Fightin' Illini (4-2 Big Ten, 14-4 overall, ranked No. 14 nationally). Illinois, known throughout the Big Ten for its tough brand of de- fense, once again is giving oppo- nents problems putting the ball in the basket. The Illini, who come to Crisler Arena tonight at eight, are attempt- ing to lead the league in fewest points allowed for the fifth straight' season. They held opponents to 70.2 points per game last year, and have allowed only 68 ppg this year. "At Illinois we're very proud of our defense," Lou Henson has said in the past. On that university's list of accomplishments, defense ranks r right behind the professor who twice won the Nobel Prize in physics, and ranks right ahead of the fact that most Chicago politicians graduated elsewhere. But enough about graft in the See 'M', Page 7 Panel easily confirms Kennedy WASHINGTON (AP)- Anthony Kennedy's Supreme Court nom- ination sailed unanimously through the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday and went to the Senate floor for an expected swift confirmation. Majority Leader Robert Byrd, D- W.Va., a committee member, said he would be willing to waive procedural requirements to allow a Senate vote Friday or next Monday on President Reagan's selection of the federal appellate judge from Sacramento, California. The committee's action was praised by Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese with the president saying it "gives us con- siderable confidence that the nation will soon have full court." Reagan said: "I look forward to a positive vote soon by the Senate that will bring this distinguished and scholarly legal mind to the court." Before the 14-0 vote, senators praised the 51-year-old Kennedy as open- minded, an advocate of the constitutional right of privacy, one who respected Supreme Court precedent and a judge with an ex- pansive view of constitutionally protected liberties. But liberal senators also said Kennedy's former memberships in clubs with few women members, and some of his more than 400 decisions, showed an insensitivity to women and minorities. These lawmakers ex- pressed hope, however, that Kennedy would change his views on the job. "We learned that Judge Kennedy is a case-by-case judge," said Sen. Patrick- Leahy, D-V t., whose comments summed up the liberal position. "Nor, it appears, does he have an agenda to reverse scores of important Supreme Court decisions. Rather, Judge Kennedy has respect for many of the major rulings that the court has handed down in the last three decades." Despite the unanimous vote, there were moments of acrimonious debate at the committee meeting - not about Kennedy, but over the defeat of Reagan's first nominee for the high court vacancy, Robert Bork. Bork was so much on senators' minds that Sen. Arlen Specter, R- Pa., kept referring to Bork in his remarks when he meant to say Kennedy. The most vivid statement came from Sen. Gordon Humphrey, R- N.H., who said he was looking for a reason that Kennedy was cautious during his confirmation hearings, in setting boundaries on the right of privacy. Humphrey said he concluded Kennedy "was being ultra-careful .... with the entrails of Robert Bork still on the floor" and "still dangling from the chandeliers." "Judge Kennedy didn't want his guts ripped out by the senators on this committee, senators, some of whom in the debate over the Bork nomination, wittingly or unwittingly, functioned as front men for powerful lobbying groups opposed to Robert Bork." Contra protest Daily Photo by JOHN MUNSON Matt Palm, an LSA sophomore, leads a group protesting U.S. aid to the Nicaraguan Contras out of the Diag towards Huron and Main. The marchers, upon reaching the center of town, distributed fliers protesting Contra aid. See story, Page 3. 'U} gets dk By DAVID SCHWARTZ The University Medical Center will receive a federal grant of about $11.2 million for expanded diabetes research, U.S. Rep. Carl Pursell (R- Plymouth) announced yesterday. The University Diabetes Research and Train- ing Center (DRTC), which will receive the fund- ing, hopes to use the grant to improve medical treatment of diabetics and to further the research for cures of the disease. In addition, the DRTC will try to implement a better information net- work within the University so important data can be more easily found and transmitted between de- partments. The grant will be supplied by the National Institutes of Health in Washington. The House of Representatives' Labor, Health, and Human tetes research grant 'This...center represents an impor- tant step forward in the search for new treatments and knowledge about diabetes.- -U.S. Rep. Carl Pursell Services committee, of which Pursell is a mem- ber, allocates funds to the NIH. "This research and information transfer center represents an important step forward in the search for new treatments and knowledge about diabetes. Its placement at the University of Michigan is another form of national recognition for the out- standing efforts undertaken at the university," Pursell said. The DRTC was founded 10 years ago to link the research and treatment fields of diabetes re- search. "The center has been restructured under the new grant to include more departments to help in the battle against diabetes,"said Douglas Greene, DRTC director. "The purpose of the grant is to support a multi-disciplinary, interdepartmental center to study problems related to diabetes," he said. Although the exact amount of the grant has not been confirmed, the NIH is expected to accept the $11.2 million figure within the next few days. The final figure hinges on the United States budget passed by Congress, Greene said.j Israeli unrest grows over beating policy, McInerney speaks on making books, films By JEFF ARCHER The only thing worse than trying to get a book published is trying to sell it to the movies, author Jay McInerney told about 400 people last night at Rackham Auditorium. The up-and-coming author of Bright Lights, Big City, read from his forthcoming book and related.his experiences in the publishing and movie-making worlds. McInerney described his trying experiences with helping to make Bright Lights, Big City into a motion picture. He said he struggled for years with Hollywood executives who hadn't ever read his book but published, Bright Lights, Big City, often referring to what he called, "the impossible nature of books." He said only 15,000 copies of his book were made, but when Hollywood executives decided to make a movie of it, sales increased. He said he wonders how many books manage to stay in existence, but he discovered the answer is "Hollywood." "It's really amazing that books ever manage to find the readers," he said. McInerney said he felt the effects of this committee-run film industry. when it was proposed that his book JERUSALEM (AP) - Newspa- pers published reports yesterday of soldiers beating Palestinians and one quoted a trooper as saying he was or- dered to club Arabs at random, not just rioters as Defense Minister Yitshak Rabin has declared. Soldiers in the occupied Gaza Strip hit and kicked members of a CBS - TV crew who filmed other troopers arresting and striking a Palestinian. The army apologized. In an Arab neighborhood o f Jerusalem, police armed with assault rifles and clubs fired tear gas and. rubber bullets at about 75 young Arab protesters. "Somebody there will get his head smashed. We'll break their bones," Associated Press reporterSergei Shargorodsky heard a policeman say. The officers entered only the edge of the neighborhood and the protest ended without casualties. Palestinians began rioting Dec. 8 in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which Israel captured from Jordan and Gaza it did not identify as saying soldiers vied for the "privilege" of leading detainees into a detention camp. The liberal daily said the op- portunity was used to beat Arabs despite orders that forbid beatings af- ter a protest has ended or an arrest made. Ralin announced the beating pol- icy last week, saying blows were more humane than bullets in stop- ping riots.