NIgtaneel Ninety-eight years of editorial freedom Vol. XCVII), No. 102 Ann Arbor, Michigan-- Thursday, March 3, 1988 Copyright 1988, The Michigan Daily House approves new civil rights bill WASHINTON (AP) - The U.S. House of Representatives over- whelmingly passed a landmark civil rights bill yesterday that would broaden protections for women, mi- norities, the elderly, and the handi- capped. President Reagan has vowed to veto the measure. The Civil Rights Restoration Act, considered by many lawmakers the most significant civil rights measure in 20 years, was sent to the White House on a 315-98 vote. The Senate passed it by an equally lop- sided 75-14 vote in January. Both chambers passed the bill by the two-thirds margin needed to override a presidential veto, but it was unclear whether the huge mar- gins would hold up following Rea- gan's vow yesterday to reject the measure. The restoration act was designed to reverse a 1984 Supreme Court decision that narrowed the scope of four major civil rights laws which were meant to prevent taxpayer fi- nancing of discrimination. Supporters of the act said hun- dreds of discrimination complaints had been dropped or restricted since the decision. "We have suffered for too long in waiting for this great and important day." said Rep. John Conyers (D- Mich.). Reagan said the bill "dramatically expands the scope of federal jurisdic- tion over state and local govern- ments and the private sector" and "poses a particular threat to religious liberty." But opponents claim the bill goes far beyond restoration. Like Reagan, they complained that it is too intru- sive into the private sector and reli- gious organizations. "The wording of the law is going to bring about unintended conse- quences like you could never imag- ine," said Rep. George Gekas (R- PA). Alumni still want FinalUs t Bo Wiite ' s ab ilities questioned By STEVE BLONDER The controversy over who willa succeed Michigan Athletic Director Don Canham when he retires in June has taken a new turn, with promi- nent alumni threatening to organize against the University's Board of Regents. The regents are scheduled to meet Saturday morning in closed session and authorize Interim University President Robben Fleming to offer the job to a second candidate. HEAD FOOTBALL coach Bo Schembechler, who turned down the athletic director job on Monday, re- mains the No. 1 choice of many athletic department members and many prominent alumni who retain strong ties to the athletic depart- ment. Former Wolverine football player Clayton Wilhite has emerged as one of the two finalists for the position. The Saginaw native currently heads the D'arcy Masius Benton and Bowles advertising agency in St. Louis. His office said he. was on va- cation until Friday and unavailable for comment. Both prominent alumni and per- sonnel in the athletic department said Wilhite is not qualified to be an ath- letic director, especially at Michigan. "His peers don't like him. If you are interviewing for a job and 10 out of every 10 guys don't like you, you shouldn't be hired," said Associate Athletic Director Don Lund. "While he makes a good appearance, many of the players who played with him do not feel kindly toward him." RUSS OSTERMAN, an alum who still has a strong involvement in the Michigan athletic department, concurs with Lund's assessment. "He's not what you would con- sider to be highly qualified as an athletic director, or even as a candi- date," Osterman said. "He lacks ex- perience, and I would certainly raise my objections to it." Other prominent alumni went so far as to call Wilhite "stupid" and "unintelligent." One of Wilhite's administrative assistants in St. Louis, who re- quested anonymity, disputes this negative image of Wilhite. "He is extremely bright, articu- late, and deals well with people. He's an excellent administrator. His character is excellent; his integrity outstanding. He's a triple 'A' guy," the associate said. REGENT Thomas Roach (D- Saline) expressed his support for anyone who had gone to school at Michigan. "I have a high degree of confi- dence in anyone who was trained at Michigan. That's a plus for anyone," he said. The other person mentioned as a candidate is North Carolina Athletic Director John Swofford. Swofford said, yesterday he had not talked with anyone from Michigan in "quite some time" and was doubtful that he would take the job if offered. "I just don't know. I have not talked with anyone, and I'm very happy at North Carolina," he said. But Regent James Waters (D- Muskegon) said on Tuesday that Swofford was not oneof .the final candidates for the position. ALSO DISCOUNTED was the notion that the regents had of- fered Schembechler the position as "a token," knowing that he wouldn't take it due to the stipulation that he retire from coaching. "The regents offered Bo the ath- See ALUMNI, Page 10 Gary Grant is fouled driving to the basket. The senior had another of his typical nights: 24 points, nine assists, four steals, and four rebounds. Three WolVerines score 20 In 10567 ildcat whipping By SCOTT SHAFFER Bill Frieder's Wolverine basketball camp opened for business a few months earlier than usual, with Northwestern receiving a painful 105-67 lesson last night. Head counselors Glen Rice (25 points, 10 rebounds) and Gary Grant (24 points) provided much of the instruction, but Frieder had plenty of other skilled staff members available to demonstrate proper hoop techniques to the last-place Wildcats (7-18, 2-13 in the Big Ten). The Wolverines, (23-5, 12-3), proved to be sloppy hosts, however, by allowing their guests plenty of garbage time at the end of the game. As the clock wound down, the players seemed to become more concerned with helping some of the reserves pad their statistics than with the score of the game. "We were trying to get everyone in the scoring column and we almost did it," said Rumeal Robinson. Only two of the 12 Wolverines (Mike Griffin and Bob Tait) failed to score a basket. "We had a couple of lapses right at the start of the second half and then towards the end where they got a See VAUGHT, Page 9 Complaint lodged over flier By JIM PONIEWOZIK Rosalyn Dunlap-Gist, a secretary at Univer- sity News and Information Services, has filed a harassment complaint with the University Af- firmative Action Office, saying she felt "vulnerable and threatened" by a flier she received in the mail last week, which she said mocked the work of a well-known Black author. The flier contained a poem, written in an ex- aggerated imitation of a Black dialect, signed "Paul L. Dunbar, Jr., Ann Arbor, Michigan," apparently in reference to Black poet Paul Lau- rence Dunbar. Dunlap-Gist said she believes the author used a false name. Dunlap-Gist said she felt intimidated by the poem, titled "If Duh Dean Don't 'Pologize," which referred to remarks made by LSA Dean Peter Steiner that some students and faculty members called racist. "I WAS VERY UPSET when I opened it and read it," Dunlap-Gist said. "I was shaking... then I got mad as hell." Dunlap-Gist said she decided to report the in- cident to the media after filing the harassment complaint because, "I felt, the sooner known, the better." Nordby receives. insulting' poem Virginia Nordby, director of the Affirmative Action Office, said she also received a copy of the flier in the mail last week. "(The poem) was quite an insult to a distin- guished Black poet and an insult to Black indi- viduals in the way they were portrayed," Nordby said. DUNLAP-GIST SAID she believes the flier was sent to her to harass her for having written a letter, printed in the Feb. 15 issue of the Daily, which suggested that the University's Board of Regents change anti-discrimination bylaw 14.06 to read, "'It is the policy of this university not to discriminate."'" "I felt that it was an attempt to intimidate me because I had taken a public position on issues that the writer or sender did not agree with," Dunlap-Gist said. She said she did not know of anyone who would have mailed her the flier. Dunlap-Gist said she did not consider the flier a joke. "This is serious business as far as I'm concerned," she said. The Affirmative Action Office reported the incident to the University Office of Public Safety and Security, which is investigating it. Campus Security Director Leo Heatley said campus secu- rity has not identified any suspects in the inci- dent. HEATLEY SAID security would compare the flier to other race-related fliers recently dis- covered on campus to see if the incidents may have been connected. The flier was the latest in a series of race-related fliers that have been found on campus over the past year. Security has not yet established any link be- tween the fliers. Nordby said the sender of the fliers must have had access to University facilities, because both fliers were sent through campus mail. Last month, several fliers claiming to be from a white supremacist group and calling Blacks "inferior" to whites were found posted through- out campus, and fliers mocking Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech were slipped under the doors of four Black resident staff mem- bers in Mosher-Jordan residence hall. Daily Photo by JOHN MUNSON No nukes Bill Caldicott, a former pediatric radiologist at Harvard Medical School, speaks about the arms race last night at Rackham Auditorium. See story, Page 5. U2 9wins albu-m of Student lobbyists visit DC to ask for more financial aid By ROSE MARY WUMMEL Ten University students travelled to Washington, D.C. earlier this week to join about 350 college stu- dents in speaking out against President Ronald Rea- gan's proposed education budget and lobbying Tom Butts, the University's full time lobbyist in Washington D.C., said after talking with aides and congressmembers in several offices this week, "People have volunteered that students were effective, well-pre- pared, and made a good presentation. Universally, it xxifc v r n nc,, * the rear 0 (;ramMY