The Michigan Daily-Friday, April 8, 1988-Page 3 Search for new U $Pres. debated By STEVE KNOPPER As the University's Board of Re- gents winds down its search for a new University President, members - of their advisory search committees continue their duties with little *knowledge of the search's progress. The three search panels - alumni, students, and faculty - have been reviewing candidates and recommending cuts to the regents since they were created last summer. BUT THE committees' work may soon be finished. The regents ~ may select a replacement for former President Harold Shapiro as early as next month, Regent Paul Brown (D- ~ . Petoskey) said. nThe regents, however, are under Sn i ~sp c noobligation toupdate the commit- S g Q tee members on decisions they make LSA juniors Marianne Ray and A in private. During the Next few weeks studeni This lack of information among group members has been frustrating, WE said LSA senior Dave Newblatt, 3tADo chair of the student advisory com- mittee. "(The regents) have made no promises either way," he said. "We only have their assurance that our views will be taken into account. e ps We have no formal authority or By DAVID SCHWA RTZ anything." The campus chapter of Women's Newblatt said having three decen- Action for Nuclear Disarmament traliZed committees is "cumbersome" hopes to force the University to end because there is "no communication, all weapons research on campus by We really have such little control hitting the administration where it with what's going on - it's rather hurts most - in the wallet. surprising." Newblatt said students, During a noon rally on the Diag *faculty, and alumni should meet to- today, WAND members will ask gether, along with the regents, in students to sign a petition pledging narrowing candidates. not to make any donations to the BUT MANY say the system University until the controversial will lead to a better University Pres- research is prohibited. . ident. The regents used a similar They will then present the peti- system in 1979 before selecting tion to the University's Board of Shapiro Regents during the public comments The regents must make all final session of its Apri 14meeting. decisions to keep the process stable, DVN A ERO , o- some panel members said. "We coordinator of campus WAND, said 0agreed to participate in the process," the group is "trying to get the word said alumnus Lawrence Lindemer, out, to mobilize people on campus" former regent and chair of the alumni in order to fight the weapons re- advisory committee. "I don't have search taking place at the University-. any sense that no one's paying Information about military re- attention to us." search has been less publicized since Regent Deane Baker (R-Ann Ar- bor) said the panels have been "very useful, vy helpful, veryconstruc-Posi *smoothly with smaller, separate ad- it's particulaily cumbrsome... In j 3 trIjcjIOj some ways, it's an advantage be- cause you have a better relationship ByADE IL witha salle grup.Offensive speech should be re- stricted, even in a society that values Farnuers fIn First Amendment rights, said Law f Dean Lee Bollinger and Law Prof. i'eig ~ Sallyanne Payton at forum las t .7 night. Both Bollinger and Payton said ~ cornthey advocate some type of Univer- EDMORE, Mich. (AP) - In the sity conduct code to deal w ith corn-rich Midwest, where farmers are racially, sexually or otherwise always scouting out new markets for offensive speech, akin to the policy their surplus crop, .two Michigan approved by the University's Board *men have developed what they of Regents last month. believe to be a first - a corn- University graduate student and burning furnace. United Coalition Against Racism While there are furnaces on the member Barbara Ransby, and market that burn a combination of Howard Simon, executive director of wood chips and corn, the two the American Civil Liberties Union furnaces developed by Jerry Vaughn of Michigan, were also slated to of Edmore and Scott Merchant of speak at the forum, but neither at- Ithaca are believed to be the first tended. Organizers say that they fueled solely by corn. never got a firm commitment from After monitoring prototypes Simon and that an unexpected emer- during the winter, the two men gency prevented Ransby's appear- believe they've worked out the bugs ance. and are now awaiting approval from NEVERTHELESS, the fo- Underwriters Laboratory, which rum, entitled "The Regulation of 0 conducts product safety certifications. Racist Speech and the First Amend- POLICE NOTES Mich. Senate to vote on marital rape law Doily Photo by KAREN HANDELMAN kmanda Carlson wait their turn to register for classes at CRISP yesterday. ots will register for spring, summer, and fall classes. btoldrally to protest research oj 'We are trying to get the word out, to mobilize people on campus' in order to fight the weapons research taking place at the University. - Devon Anderson, co- coordinator of campus WAND the regents voted to change the re- search guidelines last April, Ander- son said. Formerly, the guidelines prohibited classified research deemed harmful to human life. "We're getting people to sign something saying they won't donate money until guidelines are rein- stated," Anderson said. She said re- ra campus strictive guidelines against weapons research should be imposed, and that they should cover all research, not just classified research. Anderson said WAND is begin- ning to fight back against the change in the research guidelines. "Now we're in the position of creating awareness and arousing public inter- est," she said. THE SPEAKERS at the rally will be UCAR steering committee member Barbara Ransby, University Physics Prof. Daniel Axelrod, and WAND member Sarah Cooley. Cooley said she plans to give specific examples of research which she believes should not be taking place on campus. Cooley said the priorities of the University are faulted because they value weapons research over more important social concerns, such as education and racism. By VICKI BAUER The Michigan Senate should ap- prove a revision of the 1974 rape law that would allow married women who are raped by their husbands to take their case to court, Jan Ben Dor, co-author of the rape law, said yes- terday. Ben Dor joined Libby Pollard, the assistant prosecuting attorney for Washtenaw County, to discuss "Rape and the Court System." The session was the last of a weekly se- ries about sexism in society, spon- sored by the Sexual Assault Preven- tion and Awareness Center. Though the State House of Rep- resentatives unanimously passed a bill to include marital rape in the law last week, Ben Dor said she is concerned about the bill's chances of passage in the Senate. CURRENTLY, 18 other states prosecute marital rape. Ben Dor spoke of the history of reforms made in rape law, adding that the marital rape bill has a better chance of passing today than it did in 1974 - when there were no women in the State Senate and only three women in the State House of Representatives. "We had no one to speak for women's issues. It was entirely up- hill," she said. Ben Dor, with the help of Uni- versity law students and Affirmative Action Office Director Virginia Nordby, met in Ann Arbor's St. Andrew's Church in 1973 to revise the law. "We were tired of watching women get raped twice - the second time in the court system," Ben Dor said. ALTHOUGH the marital rape provision was initially part of the proposal to reform Michigan's Rape in 1974, the state legislature decided to exclude it from the law final revi- sion. The revised rape law, "Criminal Sexual Conduct (CSC)," defines four degrees of sexual assault rather than the old "Carnal Knowledge" law which defined rape only by sexual penetration, Ben Dor said. 1/2 OFF MAC LASER PRINTS SELF-SERVICE KINKO'S 540 East Liberty 1220 East University Michigan Union The 1974 law "at least expresses that rape is a crime," said Pollard, who spoke about the steps a rape victim must go through to bring the case to court. UNDER CSC, a victim's past sexual activities are banned from the trial and they must no longer prove nonconsent or use of force in the rape, Ben Dor said. CSC sends 800 to 1,000 con- victed rapist to jail a year rather than 50 to 100 sentenced under the old law, Ben Dor said. "Many women and children vic- tims are glad they took their lives into their own hands," Pollard said, encouraging victims to come forward and prosecute. "They often get a feeling of em- powerment. Taking action can have a positive effect," Pollard said. A rape victim, male or female, must undergo a series of procedures before getting the case to court, Pollard said. AFTER. REPORTING the rape to the police, the victim must undergo a pelvic exam where doctors look for semen, blood types, and in- juries. The judge ultimately decides if the case is a crime or not, Pollard said. "We will give the defendant the opportunity to make a statement. It locks him into his story and makes a stronger case for the prosecution," Pollard said. "We are not advocates for the victim - otherwise we would lose our credibility," Pollard said about the role of the prosecutors. "We have to appear more objective." But the Court Accompanyment Program (CAP) - a group of vol- unteers-who provide help for the victim throughout the trial - offer a victim support, said Clara Steinzar, the coordinator for CAP who at- tended the seminar. Graduate Nurses: Set Sail to Port Huron Hospital! 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Bollinger, a First Amendment scholar, said that he is not persuaded by many of the traditional arguments against a policy that attempts to somehow regulate speech. These in- clude: .that completely free speech facilitates a useful discussion of the issue at hand; -that open discussion will get at the truth of a matter; and -that it is impossible for someone to judge what is offensive and what is not - too great a gray area exists. HE SAID the risks of imple- menting a policy that might be vague in its definition of what is "offensive," "outrageous," or "beyond the pale" are outweighed by the risks of not having any policy at all. "I see (offensive speech) as bad behavior," he said, "It's a bad act... it produces harm. I have an intuition that the society is strengthened by" having bad behavior restrained, he said. "I think it's possible for us to say as an institution (there is) certain behavior that occurs... that we ought not to allow." BOLLINGER IS in favor of dividing up the University into dif- fering forums - where the most free speech would be enjoyed in parks, streets, and on the Diag, and where tighter regulations would be placed on speech in such places- as class- room buildings and dormitories. Difficulties arise, he admitted, when one tries to assess what pun- ishments should be laid down for what acts. Payton said that the adoption of a policy by the University administra- tion would act as a deterrent to racist or otherwise offensive speech. "IT IS... part of the Univer- sity's own responsibility to set and enforce a standard of conduct to al- low people to know what is expected of them," she said, adding that it will be effective by virtue of its ex- istence and not necessarily through imposing sanctions. "In a well run community this behavior does not exist - that's the bottom line," she said. l -- _- O 0 0 J1 C[ 0 0 0a ( O - -c Bath Break-ins Ann Arbor police are investigat- ing a break-in Wednesday in the 500 block of E. Jefferson., Sgt. Jan Suomala said. A transmitter worth $200 was reported stolen. Two break-ins were reported to police in Mary Markley residence hall, Suomala said. The first, occuring on April 1, resulted in the theft of $255 worth of compact discs. A second break-in occured on April 3. Suomala said the suspect entered a room through air vent covers in the ceiling and stole $880 worth of framed prints. Police are also investigating a break-in that occured between April 1 and April 4 at the University's Schol of Art, 2000 block of Bonisteel Drive. 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