Ninety-eight years of editorial freedom xi-i vrvin n,., QA e. Ann Arbor. Michigan - Wednesday, February 3, 1988 Copyrigtgn198;o Theichiganrwad. Vol. A%-Vlll, NO. tl0 English dept. to amend major By LISA POLLAK The University's English Language and Literature Department Monday voted to require undergraduate English concentrators to take one upper level course about literature by women and people of color, said Associate English Dept. Chair June Howard. Pending approval by the LSA Curriculum and Executive Committees, the requirement will apply to new concentrators beginning this fall. Neither Howard nor LSA Assistant Dean for Curriculum and Long Range Planning Jack Meiland anticipated problems with the proposal's implementation. A majority of voting English Dept. faculty approved a proposal to change the concentration requirement made by the department's curriculum committee - a group of about 15 headed by Howard - fall term. The proposal states: "Students concentrating in English will take at least one upper- division course emphasizing literature by men and women of one or more North American minority cultures or ethnic groups, such as Afro-American, Latino, Asian- American, Jewish-American, or Native American; or the anglophone literatures of Africa, Asia, or the Caribbean; or the literature of women, including women of color." The English Dept. will develop new courses to fulfill the requirement, Howard said. She added that some courses - such as those in women's and Afro-American literature - already satisfy the intent of the proposal. The requirement is a response to racial tensions on campus as well as trends towards diversity in teaching English literatures nationwide, Howard said. "The department wanted to be responsive to the racist incidents and challenges made to the University over the last year... we wanted to See DEPT., Page 5 BSU Steiner decry fliers BSU calls for federal probe into incidents Py Daily Photo by KAREN HANDELMAN Rev. Robert Wallace, left, of Ann Arbor's First Baptist Church, and Bill McAninch, co-chair of Neighbor to Neighbor, speak out against aid to the contras in Nicaragua at a press conference at the First Methodist Chur- h in Ann Arbor yesterday. Neighbor to Neighbor is a national group concerned with issues in Central America. Arias supports U.S. intervention in Central America, Pursell says By JIM PONIEWOZIK Members of the Black Student Union announced yesterday that they would ask the U.S. Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation to investigate the possibility of white supremacist groups operating on campus. BSU's decision was spurred by the discovery Monday of racist fliers posted around campus. The fliers, which stated they were distributed by a group called "Students for White Supremacy," said Blacks are intellectually inferior to whites and belong "hanging from trees." The BSU statement also called for "an acceleration of the implementation of a racial harassment clause" under which members of the University com- munity could be punished for racist acts. BSU President Jeff Williams, an LSA junior who read the statement on behalf of the group, stressed that BSU did not favor a "code of general behavior" such as the one proposed by former University President Harold Shapiro. But Williams added, "No one has the right to engage in assault and battery with racist motives." BSU, working with the Black Law Students' Alliance, is in the process of composing a list of suggestions for the clause to present to Interim University President Robben Fleming, Williams said. WILLIAMS said t h e investigation should be conducted with co-operation from the University, but should not be managed by the administration. The statement said BSU members "have reason to believe that there is a presence of white supremacist groups on campus," based on information the group received from the Michigan Civil Rights Com- mission. Williams said the commission reported that such groups may have been involved in similar flier incidents on campus last spring, and said copies of a racist flier circulated at Couzens last year were also found at three other Michigan colleges. Black Law Student Alliance member and second-year law student Charles Wynder said Monday's incident was part of a "pattern" of incidents, including another racist flier distribution at Mosher-Jordan last month and last spring's inci- dents. LSA Dean Peter Steiner also issued a statement yesterday. condemning the fliers, which, contained a photo of him with a halo drawn over his head. "I have just seen and am appalled by theracist flier now circulating o campus," the statement read. "It is, as (Interim University President Robben) Fleming said, evidence of a sick and/or corrupt mind." Fleming issued a statement decrying the flier Monday. The text of the flier was precede by the headline "Dean Steiner was right," referring to controversial statements Steiner made last September concerning the University's affirmative action pol- icy. Some students and faculty charged that his statments implied an increase in minority enrollmeni would decrease the quality of the University. But Steiner, who has said hil statements were taken out of contexi and were not meant to imply Blacks are inferior to whites, said, "An) association of me with such ar obnoxious set of views is offensiv to me and is one I wholly repudiate. By PETER MOONEY Secretary of State George Shultz has said that Os- car Arias, president of Costa Rica, recommended U.S. military intervention if Nicaragua pursues expansionist policies, Rep. Carl Pursell (R-Plymouth) reported Monday. "Send in the Marines," Arias said when asked how the United States should respond if Nicaragua threatens its Central American neighbors, Pursell said. Pursell, who represents Ann Arbor in Congress, met with Secretary of State George Shultz and Presi- dent Reagan at the White House last Friday. Pursell was answering a question about his position on Contra aid during a Chamber of Commerce luncheon at We- ber's Inn when he reported his conversation with Shultz. In a tape of the luncheon speech, played at a press conference held yesterday by opponents of aid to the Contras, Pursell said Shultz asked Arias what to do if "(Nicaraguan President Daniel) Ortega continues his expansionism?" "You know what Arias said to him? 'Send in the Marines.' That's a direct quote from George Shultz," Pursell said. Arias, in addition to the presidents of El Salvador and Honduras, supports aid to the Contras, Pursell said. Pursell Press Secretary Gary Cates said the infor- mation was not intended to indicate Pursell's position on Contra aid. He was just "relaying remarks that were made," Cates said. A State Department spokesperson said he could not confirm that Shultz made the statement. Shultz was unavailable for comment. Arias received the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize for a plan he developed to resolve the conflicts in Central America. The plan calls for an end to aid for all insurgencies, in the region, said Costa Rican Ambassador to the United Nations Emilia Barish. Barish questioned the assertion that Arias sup- ported intervention by the Marines: "Those could not be his views," said Barish. "The peace plan doesn't talk about the Contras, but is against all military insurgencies and military as- sistance," said Barish. She said it also calls for the an end to aid for rebels in El Salvador. See LOCAL, Page 7 Recovering addict makes a comeback By KRISTINE LALONDE Halloween night, 1983, was a particularly wild night for Arch Wright. He drank heavily, smoked pot all night and did a few hits of acid. He was snorting about one gram of cocaine every hour, which can be enough for five people for Profile one night and could have been fatal. "The last 6 months that I was using, my life was pure hell. It was a vicious circle on a daily basis for me to find enough drugs to just make it through the day. It was completely out of control," said Wright. He remembers the fall of 1983 as a time when his professional ski racing career was dwindling. Even his friends, who also used drugs, were startled by such extremes of a friend who routinely used two to three grams of cocaine a day. The party lasted all night and into the next day. At one point, Helps others fight Wright said he felt his heart palpitate and his chest tighten. "I had every reason in the world to be able to look at my problem objectively and say 'This is ridiculous, you're sinking yourself,"' said Wright, whose addiction continued for four months until another dramatic night of cocaine use at a New Year's party. TWELVE years earlier, at age 11, Wright began downhill ski- racing in his hometown of Boyne, Michigan, an area known for its ski resorts. That same year, his battle with drugs and alcohol began. "I remember from the very beginning, the first drink that I had, the first pot that I smoked, I just loved the feeling. It felt like it released all of my inhibitions, that I could do anything I wanted," he said. "It was the beginning of a long- lasting love affair with it. In the end, of course, it was fu just craved getting h Wright's drug talent for skii simultaneously. overachievers often because the rush similar to winning a "I see alcoholism all the time, especi setting, so it's sadf same time I know help available," hes DURING his so high school, Wrig skiing talent won into Burke Mt. Vermont, a private racers which is des national and Olymp At the time it was academy for high-s the world. At Burke, wher 11 useattend, Wright trained intensely for up to six hours per day and attended ll out addiction. I classes. The private, disciplined high." atmosphere allowed little free time; addiction, and Wright rarely drank or used drugs ng developed during this time. He said But when the school year ended n become addicts in June, Wright went to his summer from drugs is home in Lake Charlevoix, Michigan frcomedrugsn and each day, he said, was a blur of n competition. drinking and partying with friends. n and drug abuse THE SUMMER he turned 16, rally in a campus Wright was initiated into the world for me but at the of cocaine. The drug, he said there's a lot of brought him to a new level of said. . sensation and addiction, and he ophomore year in loved it more than any other drug. ;ht's exceptional But when he returned to Burke in him acceptance the fall, he again had to control the Academy in addiction. school for Alpine During his senior year, a coach at signed to develop Burke suspected Wright's drug use pic caliber racers. and talked to him about addiction. the foremost ski After the confrontation, Arch qui school students in completely for two months in the Sonly 40 students See ADDICT, Page 2 Daily Photo by DAVID LUBLINER Arch Wright, a senior in the University's Business School, is a former drug addict who once competed nationally in downhill ski races. Volunteers earn money in anti-flu medication study Groups criticize Rosenboom decision 1 By ALYSSA LUSTIGMAN For once, getting sick may not be so bad. Doctors at the School of Public Health are offering students who have contracted Type A-influenza $130 to participate in a study through University Health Services. The infected participants are being used as a testing group for a drug to fight symptoms of the flu. side effects, but about five percent of the population cannot take Amantadie. Rimantadie is already licensed for use in several countries, including France and the Soviet Union. In the study, half of the students will receive Rimantadie; the other half will receive a placebo. The By VICKI BAUER Many women active in fighting rape and sexual assault in the community are angered at a decision this week to dismiss sexual, assault charges against University Prof. Thomas Rosenboom without a trial injury. Rosenboom is continuing with counter suit for defamation , character against the student an University, sexual assault counselo Kata Issari. The activists say the ruling i