Ninety-eight years of editorial freedom Vol. XCVIII, No. 91 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Wednesday, February 10, 1988 Copyright 1988, The Michigan Daily Report* increase minority recruiting By MICHAEL LUSTIG An extensive study by a Univer- sity health sciences faculty task force is focusing on how schools related to the field can improve their minority student representation. The Minority Student Recruit- ment Initiative in Health and Bio- log ical Sciences Task Force de- veloped when "we realized that we didn't have the types of enrollments we thought we should," said Phar- macologist Peggie Hollingsworth. The task force intends to "increase the number of minority students en- rolled in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs so that mi- nority student enrollment is propor- tionate to the minority population," the report read. Nineteen people within the health science schools - Medical School, the Schools of Dentistry, Nursing, and Public Health, College of Phar- macy, and LSA - comprised the task force. The group wants to ac- complish their goal of increased mi- nority representation within five years for professional programs and seven years for graduate programs. Hollingsworth, who chaired the See HEALTH, Page 5 MSA ratifies own code proposal By RYAN TUTAK The Michigan Student Assembly voted last night to support a n alternative proposal to Interim President Robben Fleming's proposed code, after a heated one- hour debate that left some minority representatives doubting the plausibility of MSA's alternative. The alternative proposal, that passed with a 20-8 vote, suggests that students not be punished with academic sanctions for non-academic behavior. Fleming's proposed "Discriminatoy Acts on the Part of Students," would permit probation or expulsion if a student was found guilty of harassment. MSA's proposal called for the establishment of an Office o f Discrimination Prevention and Awarenesss where students can report acts of harrassment, or get assistance for legal action through the exisiting civil courts. The office would be organized by a board of three students, three faculty members, and three administrators. "THE MAIN problem at the University is that you can't identify whose committing the incidents of harasssments," said Student Rights Committee Chair Michael Philips, an LSA junior. "With this office, people can go and report it. . . this gives them an outlet. The administration keeps blaming the students but there are a lot of other people doing the harassment." Although some MSA members insisted that two-thirds of the student board members be minoritites, other MSA members.resisted the idea of setting quotas for s t u d e n t particiapation. Delro Harris, chair of t h e minority affairs committee, said that not including stipulations of hiring a certain number of minorites was "ludicrous," and that MSA was violating -the United States Affirmative Action policy. BUT PHILLIPS disagreed. "Legally, you cannot set quotas about who you are going to hire," he said. "That's reverse discrimination. See MSA, Page 7 Daily Photo by KAREN HANDELMAN Rolling in the dough Sandia Lopez rolls out dough at the Wildflour Whole Grain Community Bakery on Fourth St. In its 13th year the bakery relies on volunteers to bake the large variety of natural products that they sell the restaurants and regular customers. Small town Iowa caucus resembles a family get-together BY KENNETH DINTZER Special to the Daily VICTOR, Iowa - Reverend Jesse Jackson describes the caucus process as a "neighborhood get together," but in the little town of Victor, Iowa, the nominating process is more like a family meeting. With an exact population of 1,092 citizens divided among three precincts, the caucuses in Victor appear to represent everything positive about the democratic process. The 56 Democrats who showed up to vote at the Knights of Columbus Hall comprised a record turnout for this traditionally Democratic town. Pat Foley, the youngest caucus-goer, explained the high attendance: "with the economy as depressed as it is in Iowa you'll get one of the biggest turnouts in history - and you' 11 see more farmers and elderly." ROY WIEBOLD, a local farmer, has had to take a factory job to keep his farm afloat. He said that while choosing a candidate was important, he was more concerned about the issues part of the caucus. In this part, after the delegates were chosen, caucus-goers presented, discussed, and voted on resolutions. Taken from precincts throughout. Iowa, th e se recommendations were evaluated and presented by state party leaders for possible inclusion in the party's national platform. It is here, in sometimes heated debates, members of this town expressed their needs and demands to the government - it is here they have a chance to speak and be heard. Wiebold said, "there are three main areas of interest to people around here - the environment, agriculture, and education. Also the budget deficit; it's a real threat." Traditionally, winning in Iowa is important for a successful presidential campaign. Wiebold takes this responsibility seriously. "I get a lot of literature, I read all the national papers and magazines. I've watched all the political debates including the one in New Hampshire," he said. In the end he decided to choose Illinois Senator Paul Simon, based on his policies and his chances of winning the general election in November. AFTER THE voters arrived and exchanged greetings, they divided into the three precincts that comprise the town. Each group of people moved to a corner of the large, wooden floored meeting hall. The voting for presidential candidates went quickly, without much discussion. "Most of them have their minds made up when they get here," Wiebold said. At each of the three precincts, Rep. Richard Gephardt of Missouri and Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis did well, with a few votes for Simon and Tennessee Senator Albert Gore. One woman raised her hand to vote for former Colorado Senator Gary Hart, but her friends started laughing and hissing so she withdrew the vote. One precinct consisted of only six people. Gary Read, his wife Marlene, his father Marvin and his mother Perah sat at a small table with their Reverend Ken Bartelt and his wife Mary. The group carefully went through the caucus process, mixing Robert's Rule of Order with gossip about their neighbors. Mary explained the low turnout for their precinct: "Our farmers are out milking their cows and counting their pigs. I bet we're the smallest precinct in the world." AT FIRST COUNT, Gephardt won four votes, but after a few words of persuasion Gary Read managed to convince his father to vote for the Missouri Congressmember. Perah remained uncon- vinced and cast her vote for Dukakis. See DELEGATES, Page 2 Minority internships Program fights health care gap By JIM PONIEWOZIK Minority students interested in working in the health care field have a chance to pick up some practical experience - as well as about $200 a week - through the School of Public Health's Summer Placement Opportunity Program in Health Service Management. The program, now in its third year, is intended to help rectify the underrepresentation of minorities in the health care field, said Richard Lichtenstein, director of Health Service Management and Policy and administrator of the internship program. Nationally, minorities comprise less than 2 percent of health care employees, and increasing the number of minorities in health care would not only benefit the employees themselves but also their patients, Lichtenstein said. "Members of a given population subgroup can help meet the needs of that particular subgroup better... they understand the culture better and they can relate (to patients) better,"he said. The program allows 14 students a year to do administrative work with various health care organizations in the Detroit and Ann Arbor area for a ten weeks during the summer. Lichtenstein stressed that the interns are not simply assigned clerical or "gofer"-type work. "The students are given professional level jobs and given professional responsibilities," he said. The program also allows the interns a chance to have a direct impact on the operations of the organizations where they are assigned, as was the case with Kris Manlove, a business school senior who interned with the program two years ago. Manlove was assigned to make an efficiency report on the reception area of Mott's Children's Hospital. As a result of her recommendations, the hospital administration reorganized the area and hired a volunteer information clerk to assist an overworked attendant at the re- ception desk. Her internship "helped me develop a lot of confidence," said Manlove."I got to see the inner workings of the hospital.". Interns in the program are usually assigned long-term projects rather than day-to-day work, Lichtenstein said. The projects include analytical work in which interns try to devise ways to make the programs more efficient and cost-effective. See MINORITIES, Page 5 Doily Photo by JESSICA GREENE U.S. envoy goes to Israel for peace talks Blasting graffitti A sandblaster strips "What a WANKER" off a wall of the Graduate Library Monday. 'U' art museum stimulates learning JERUSALEM- The army said yesterday an Israeli officer shot and wounded a 16-year-old Arab protester, and Arab reports said another youth died of beating injuries. A Jewish settler was being investigated in the fatal shooting of a demonstrator. Shamir, who met Murphy at his home, reportedly rejected Foreign Minister Shimon Peres' suggestion that the two meet jointly with the U.S. envoy. Murphy arrived from Cairo after m ;. inotvia nn'cina TTiccn -and By ERIC LEMONT A trip to the University's Museum of Art is ' becoming a popular way for faculty and students alike ' to incorporate art into their regular curriculum. Communications Prof. Hillary Cohen took her "Media and the Arts" class to a special exhibition on serial art at the University's Museum of Art last term. from prehistoric Asian ceramics and sculptures to modern day American and European drawings and photographs. "Some students, either from never being in a musuem or coming from cities with many museums, feel that a University musuem would not have much to offer," Cohen said.