Speaker condemns ;Israeli militancy By LAWRENCE ROSENBERG The United States has changed its policy of dealing with conflict be- tween Palestinians and Israelis from a "stand-offish" mediating role to one of increased militancy, said the second speaker a week-long discus- sion series on Palestine and the Middle East. Stephen Green, an a u - thor/researcher and freelance writer who has been published in The Na- tion and The New York Times, spoke about "Taking sides: Amer- ica's Secret Relationship with a Militant Israel" to more than 50 people last night in Rackham Amp- itheater. The series of talks is sponsored by the Palestinian Solidarity Com- mittee. Green said he feared the possible consequences of another Arab-Israeli conflict. "The next Arab-Israeli conflict will not be fought in the *deserts - it will be fought in the cities, resulting in thousands of civilian deaths. The Middle East is probably the world's most dangerous tinderbox." He cited Lebanon and the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the West Bank as relatively small examples of how devastating a full- fledged Arab-Israeli war could be. Green is also concerned about the increased build-up of nuclear weapons in the Middle East. "The United States has a long-standing tradition of not wanting nuclear weapons to spread around the world," he said. "Now we've let Israel get nukes that can be utilized in a Mid- dle Eastern context." Green added that the effectiveness * of the role of the United States in Israel has deteriorated. "We can't be both the mediator and the armer of Israel," he said. However, Green's outlook for the future of the Middle East was opti- mistic. "Fifty years from now, I see an Israel at peace with their neigh- =bors with a joint car production implant with Syria, a four-lane high- way into Jordan, and a Palestinian state." The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, April 6, 1988- Page 3 MSA appoints 12 new chairs to committees Doily Photo by ROBIN LOZNAK Down and dirty Workers from Michigan Electric dig a ditch next to West Engineering. They will be working through the sum- mer to run cables to all buildings on central campus which have computers.; Dukakis leads delegate count By RYAN TUTAK The Michigan Student Assembly officially transferred the control of its external power last night from the old representatives to the new by appointing chairs to 12 of its 13 committees. But the nomination for the most debated chair - the Minority Affairs Committee chair - was tabled by a 16-14 vote because one of the candi- dates, new Rackham school representative Chris McAuley, was - absent from the meeting. MORE THAN 20 constituents came to support the other candidate and current chair of the Minority Affairs Committee Delro Harris, an LSA sophomore. Many representatives from minority groups on campus - in- cluding the Black Student Union, the University of Michigan's Asian Student Coalition, the Asian American Association, and the United Coalition Against Racism - endorsed Harris because they said he is equally aware of all minority is- sues on campus and has needed experience on the assembly. Art school senior Curt Kim said he is impressed with Harris because he is equally concerned about other minority groups as well as Blacks. "THERE'S a need in that posi- tion for someone who is sensitive to and and has a strong position on be-' half of minority students even when it's not popular," said business school graduate and BSU executive board member Todd Shaw. Harris' position entails commu- nicating with campus minority groups about MSA's agtivities, as well as informing MSA about those groups' events. But some MSA representatives said Harris has only done half of his job by not sufficiently informing MSA of his work with minority groups outside the assembly. "MY CONCERN is that the minority community knows he's doing a lot. But he's not conveying it to MSA," said LSA representative Zach Kittrie, a sophomore. "Delro's presence at (MSA) steering committee meetings were not regular (this term)," said LSA sophomore Sara Riordan. "But if that's a weakness that Delro has dis- played in the past, I think that he can correct it in the future." Riordin, former chair of the as- sembly's communications commit- tee, said that chairing a committee is "a big job," and Harris may not have had time to fulfill all the responsi- bilities of his position. SHE. SAID she would vote for Harris next week but would like to see the committee co-chaired so the responsibilities can be shared. In other nominations, LSA ju- niors Christine Fulton, Lisa Russ, and Susan Sharman were appointed co-chairs of the Women's Issues Committee; LSA sophomore Sara Riordin to the Student Rights Committee; Kittrie to the External Relations Committee; LSA junior Jennifer Kohn to the Academic Af- fairs Committee; LSA sophomores Brian Bard and Tina Meldrum to the Peace and Justice Committee; LSA junior Robert Bell to Communica- tions. with Colorado, MILWAUKEE (AP) - Michael Dukakis won the Wisconsin primary last night, quelling Jesse Jackson's momentum in their grind-it-out struggle for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination. The Massachusetts governor also celebrated a narrow victory in Colorado caucuses marked by a slow and controversial count, adding to his slender lead in the competition for delegate to the Democratic National Convention. Returns from 30 percent of the Wisconsin precincts showed Dukakis gaining 47 percent of the vote, to 31 =percent for Jackson. Gore trailed with 16 percent, while Simon had 5 percent. In Colorado, the Democratic caucuses were held on Monday night, but significant returns were not reported Wisconsin wins until yesterday by the state Democratic Party. The slow count brought sharp criticism from Jackson, who accused state Democratic chair Buie Seawell of being "biased and politically unethical" and "deliberately controlling the process" by remaining as party chair after publicly supporting Dukakis. But Wisconsin loomed as a far more important test than Colorado in the see-saw Democratic struggle, par- tially because it offered more delegates -81 compared with Colorado's 45. Democratic rivals invested heavily in time and money in their bid to claim the support of Wisconsin's large blue collar vote and gain fresh mo- mentum for the rest of the primary season. Dukakis led Jackson in the national delegate count, 692 to 683. It takes 2,081 to claim the Democratic nomination. 'U' AIDS authority stresses education By DANNY WONG Calling AIDS a "novel plague," School of Public Health Dean June Osborn said yesterday that people should understand the AIDS virus and treat its victims with compassion. "The key is not to react to AIDS like our an- cestors did with the plague, but instead to re- spond with compassion," Osborn said to about 50 faculty members, public policy experts, and students in the University's School of Business. Osborn, a nationally renowned expert on AIDS, said, "We know how the disease spreads. Knowledge to avoid disease is as powerful as any vaccine." Osborn said more than 57,000 people in the United States have died from AIDS. That number does not include carriers of the virus. - She said this estimate is expected to rise five- fold by 1991. Although homosexual men are at the highest risk for contracting the disease, the numbers of heterosexual men and women is increasing dra- matically, she said. Osborn discussed scientific facts associated with the contraction and transmission of the virus. The only proven ways of contracting the disease are "sex, blood, and birth," she said. Dispelling AIDS myths, she said people can- not contract the disease from mosquitos, casual kissing, sharing toothbrushes, or toilet seats. Osborn said the disease has no cure and is al- ways fatal. Osborn said so far the greatest strides have been made in the prevention of the spreading of AIDS - pinpointing means of transmission and offering methods of prevention. TH IST What's happening in Ann Arbor today Speakers Prof. Samuel Mukasa - "Intrinsic Isotopic Heterogeneities in the Upper Mantle: Evidence fromAlpine Peridotite Massifs," 12:00 noon, 4011 C.C. Little Bldg. Salim Tamarei - "Israel's Control of the Occupied Territo- ries," 7 p.m. Rackham Amphithe- ater Hugh Woodin - "Large Car- dinals, Determinacy, and the Nature of Independence," math dept., 4 p.m. 3201 Angell Hall. Robert Lifton - "Beyond Genocide: Directionsof Hope", West Lecture Hall, Med. Sci II bldg, noon. Parallel Computing Weekly Seminar - Advanced Computer Architecture Laboratory, 11:30 a.m., 175 ATL bldg. Hossein J a d v a r - "Computerized Detection of Mycardial Ischemia During Cardiac Stress Induced by Trans-Esophageal Atrial Pacing," 4 p.m., 1017 Dow Bldg. Richard Stone - "Karmarkar's Algorithm: V aria- tions on a Theme", 4 pm, 241 IOE Bldg. Prof. Vaclav F a b i a n "Interactions in the 2-way Analy- sis of Variance," dept. of statis- tics, MSU. 4 p.m. 451 Mason Hall. Vernon Brooks -"Neural Basis of Motor Learning" 12:10- 1:00 pm Rm 1260 CCRB. Geraldene Felton - "Social Policy Issues in Health Care: Im- pact on Black Americans," spon- sored by School of Nursing. Mich. League, Hussey Rm, 2 p.m. Kathleen Adler - "B erthe sins," Ann Arbor Friends Meet- inghouse, 1420 Hill St, 7:30 p.m. Rudolf Arnheim - speaking about Germany during the Weimar Republic, 4 p.m., Henderson Rm, Michigan League. Meetings LSA Student Government - Weekly meeting, third floor chambers in the Michigan Union. 6:00 p.m. Furthermore Mutual Respect Forum - All Sexual Orientations (gay males, lesbians, bi's, and straights), 8:30-10:00 p.m., Rm 443 Mason Hall. A casual discus- sion. Film - "Saul Alinsky Went to War," Alinsky in action organiz- ing local minority groups into co- hesive power blocks to confront Eastman Kodak in Rochester, N.Y. Noon, Rm. 1046 Dana Bldg. Free. Bob Franke - sings at the Ark, 8:00 p.m. Residence Hall Repetory Theatre - "Succes?" and "I Know You Are, But What Am I?" 8 p.m. Pendelton Rm, Mich. Union. Gilbert and Sulivan Soci- ety - "The Gondoliers," April 6- 17, Mendelssohn Theatre, preview performance tonight, 8 p.m., $3. UAC Laughtrack - comedy with Joel Duncel and Danny "the Wild Man" Ballard, 10:00 p.m. U- club, $2.50. Open Mike Night - East Quad Halfway Inn, 9:00 p.m., show up early to play or perform. University Lutheran Chapel - Chapel Council Meet- ing, 7:00 p.m., Contemporary- Pulitzer Continued from Page 1 temporary style. "We're thrilled for Bill and de- lighted to have a colleague win such an award," said Boylan, who called Bolcom a "versatile composer." Bolcom's many other works in- clude symphonies, string quartets, operas and concertos, but he said he has fun writing jazz, ragtime, and South American music. "I have my foot in both worlds and I write for now," he said refer- ring to his musical taste. Bolcom was born in Seattle in 1938. He studied at the University of Washington, Mills College and the Paris Conservatoire. He received a doctorate of music from Stanford University in 1964. Before joining the University faculty in 1973, Bolcom taught at the University of Washington and at Queens College, was visiting critic at the Yale University Drama School, and was the composer in residence at New York University. He was recently resident and composer with the Detroit Sym- phony. Since coming to the University, he has taught composition as well as a class called "Words and Music for Poets and Composers" with English Prof. Richard Tillinghast. He also led a seminar called "Music Business of the Composer." He currently teaches composition part-time. Bolcom said he came to the Uni- versity because of the music depart- ment's welcoming atmosphere; he made good friends with the music staff, and he found Ann Arbor "impossibly pleasant." Bolcom has recorded numerous albums of American popular music with his wife, Joan Morris, a mezzo- soprana and adjunct assistant profes- sor at the University School of Mu- sic. The couple tours America and Canada, performing 40 to 50 con- certs a year. Bolcom saidtouring makes up a large part of his career. "She sings classic American popular songs, the ones everyone knows, and I play the piano." The couple will have two albums out in May. Rama Kotesnikov, a student of Bolcom's, said he was impressed with Bolcom's award. "I'm very proud to be his student and I think he deserves it," Kotesnikov said. Bolcom said winning the Pulitzer prize probably won't affect his life too much. He said the past few days have been hectic because of all the publicity he has gotten. "Nothing has changed...I just had a weird weekend." TIM TOMOVE?" DON'T PANIC! Look for the "Moving So Soon?' pages April 8th in the Weekend Magazine Sprin $1 Days Lease any apartment between April 1 and April 30, 1988 for $100. (Applied to September rent) ! 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