Ninety-eight years of editorial freedom Vol. XCVIII, No. 109 Ann Arbor, Michigan -Monday, March 14, 1988 Copyright 1988, The Michigan Daily Groups plan response to Doily Photo by JOHN MUNSON Michigan's All-American Gary Grant, playing in his last home game, drew rave reviews from both Ohio State Buckeyes (above) and ap- preciative fans (below). Morin' West Tournament sends 'M' to Salt Lake City 'code' By STEVE KNOPPER Members of several student groups gathered in a closed meeting last night to coordinate their opposition to Interim University President Robben Fleming's pro- posed anti-harassment policy. The University's Board of Re- gents are expected to vote on Flem- ing's proposal this week. MSA Student Rights Committee chair Mike Phillips said the groups - which include the Michigan Stu- dent Assembly, the United Coalition Against Racism, and the Latin American Solidarity Committee - are developing a proposal of their own, in which a board of students and University employees would judge accusations of racial and sexual harassment and apply appropriate sanctions. ALLsMEMBERS of the Uni- versity community - including University administrators and faculty - would be under the board's juris- diction, said Phillips, who expressed opposition to such a plan. Also under discussion are precon- ditions for supporting the adoption of such a plan. These include de- manding the "disciplining" LSA Dean Peter Steiner, who was accused by many earlier this year for making remarks they said were insensitive to Blacks. Steiner and several col- leagues have since maintained that the remarks, addressing minority en- rollment, were taken out of context. Phillips said that MSA would not approve any proposal issued by the groups if they include sanctions for non-academic behavior. "FOR FIVE years, we've been fighting to stop a code. This is a policy we don't think should exist, no matter who has power," Phillips said. In a related development, the University's Affirmative Action Of- fice released a draft document Friday containing the specific procedures for student hearings and punishments under Fleming's proposal. The draft - which elaborates on the hearing procedures in Fleming's original document - calls due pro- draft cess a "flexible concept," and main- tains that an adequate system can be set up by the University. The details of the process are "procedural," said Office Director Virginia Nordby, and do not require the approval of the re- gents. FLEMING'S proposal, released two weeks ago, would set up a panel of two students and one faculty member to judge guilt or innocence in student harassment cases and de- Several campus groups are developing a proposal in which a board of stu- dents and University- em- ployees would judge accusations of harassment and apply sanctions. By PETE STEINERT Michigan has not faired well in the Southeast, Midwest, and East Regionals over the last three years in the NCAA tournament. So what the heck? Why not try the West? The Wolverines (24-7) drew the No. 3 seed in the West Regional of the 64-team tourney, it was an- nounced yesterday. They willface 14th-seeded Boise State in their tournament opener Thursday in Salt Lake City. Arizona - who defeated Michi- gan at the Great Alaska Shootout last November - grabbed the No. 1 seed in the West; and North Car- olina, the No. 2 seed. "I don't really have a lot of reac- tion," Michigan coach Bill Frieder said. "You just have to get ready for who you're going to play and then go from there. Everybody's going to have tough games in the NCAA tournament." In Frieder's three previous tour- nament appearances as coach, the Wolverines have bowed out in the second round each time. Boise State, winner of the Big Sky conference, posted a 24-7 record during the regular season. The Bron- cos are led by guard Chris Childs and forward Amell Jones. "We got film on them," Frieder said. "My guys (assistant coaches) are starting to look at 'em." "Who knows?" Terry Mills said. "We mighttget called back tonight (last night) to watch it." Frieder refuses to look past Boise State and ahead to a possible second- round matchup against either Florida or St. John's. "I'm not even think- ing about that," the eighth-year coach said. Michigan is one of five Big Ten schools in the tourney, joining Pur- due, Illinois, Indiana, and Iowa. The Hawkeyes own the No. 5 seed in the West Regional. Dolly Photo by JOHN MUNSON Seniors help Blue blast Bucks, 95-76 cide the punishment. Although MSA and other student groups have consistently opposed academic sanctions, the Black Stu- dent Union said last week that Fleming's proposal was not a code, and should be judged as a racial ha- rassment policy. UCAR has also said it supports sanctions if they apply to adminis- trators, faculty, and students, but it has made no formal statement about Fleming's policy. IN FACT, Fleming's document may have pitted the student groups favoring sanctions for racist behavior against the groups opposing any sanctions. Phillips said, "A lot of people are jumping on Fleming's boat. Those minority groups are selling themselves short - they think that just because they say (Fleming's proposal) is not a code, it's not a code." According to MSA officials, Fleming's proposal infringes on due See PROPOSAL, Page 2 By SCOTT SHAFFER The Gary Grant era of Michigan basketball came to an end on Satur- day in a game that spanned nearly the entire range of human emotion. The final score read Michigan 95, Ohio State 76, but it was the intense emotional display that is sure to be remembered by the sell-out crowd years after the point totals are forgotten. It mattered little to the 13,609 fans that they were not seeing vin- tage Grant. They gave him three standing ovations throughout the day and serenaded him with chants of "Gary! Gary!" in the games' waning moments despite the fact that he See GRANT, Page 10 Pfarty looks to common students By RYAN TUTAK The Common Sense party says I the Michigan Student Assembly should represent the "average" stu- dent, and not merely those who are politically active. Common Sense will be compet- ing with one other party and ten in- dependent candidates for assembly seats in the campus-wide elections March 22 and 23. The party's presidential candidate Cheryl Tilles, chair of MSA's bud- get priorities committee and an LSA junior, resigned from the election campaign yesterday after admitting to altering dinner receipts charged to MSA. If elected, she said she will defer her seat to the party's vice- presidential candidate Ricky Ne- meroff, an LSA junior. Nemeroff said MSA should ad- dress the "common" and "day-to-day" needs of students before passing res- MSA REP QUITS PRESIDENTIAL RACE: Tilles charged with fraud, resigns post By RYAN TUTAK Michigan Student Assembly presidential candidate Cheryl Tilles resigned as chair of the assembly's budget priorities committee yester- day after admitting to altering dinner receipts charged to MSA. Tilles, an LSA junior, had taken some committee members to a local Pizza Hut on March 4. The total cost of the dinner was $11.53, but she, requested reimbursement for $41.53 to include the costs of a cal- culator she bought for the office. INSID. Tilles ... drops out of race The receipt for the calculator was lost, she said. MSA Treasurer Alexandra War- ren, a business school junior, said Tilles knew MSA had separate reimbursement forms to fill out for lost receipts, since she had used them before. "Why wouldn't she come up and tell us that she forged the receipt?" MSA vice-president Wendy Sharp, an LSA senior, said. "I think she's trying to find a way to justify it, and she can't." Tilles said she regretted not fill- ing out the separate reimbursement form, but that it was not intentional. "If had remembered to do it, I would have done it," Tilles said. "I wasn't even getting all of my money back (by requesting $41.53). If I knew how to get all of my money back, I would have used the other forms." Warren also found five other al- ready reimbursed dinner bills Tilles had submitted earlier in the year. One bill was from the Escoffier restaurant for $40.14, and another MSA ' MSA should afrm te comvih me~nt to humran rights it made by sp n oi g E a v~ e k ai vote aist the CIA ecrut n resoluiivon. '::Bruce Cockbniw rock's unsung hero. .AIM. V and English departments. The party members said many student interests are ignored because MSA is not in touch with its con- _. 4 .