CIA nixes
request to
return to
campus
By STEVE KNOPPER
Although Law School Dean Lee
Bollinger invited the Central Intelli-
gence Agency to reschedule law clerk
interviews a week after student pro-
test forced their cancellation in Feb-
ruary, the CIA refused to reschedule
the interviews and will not return to
campus until fall.
While protesters viewed the can-
cellations as a victory, Bollinger said
the University allows organizations
of all kinds to interview students for
jobs. The demonstration restricted
the rights of students to interview,
he said.
Bollinger said he contacted the
CIA the week after six of eight
* scheduled interviews were cancelled.
After the protest, he said, faculty
members met to discuss the protest,
and whether or not the CIA should
return.
"At the moment, our policy is
that the CIA is perfectly admitted to
come in at the school," Bollinger
said. "There may be reasons why we
should change that, but (because of
the policy) I told them they were
"welcome to return."
Sharon Basso, a spokesperson for
the CIA in Washington, D.C., said
the interviews were not rescheduled
because interviewers "had other
places to go on their schedule."
Since the law clerk program was not
related to the agency's regular re-
cruitment, she said, there are fewer
interviewers, and they have busier
schedules.
The CIA will conduct its regular
interviews in the fall, she said.
Protesters say the CIA is a law-
less organization which sponsors
covert, often destructive activities.
Others argue that it is a legitimate
organization sponsored by the U.S.
government, and should be allowed
to interview at national campuses
like any other company.
Rackham graduate student Phillis
Engelbert, who has participated in
several anti-CIA protests on campus,
said she was unaware of Bollinger's
invitation. "If they had come back,
we would have been there protest-
ing."
At the second protest of CIA re-
cruiting this year, students taunted
candidates for the law clerk program
by shouting questions to them,
0 pounding on doors and file cabinets,
and slipping fliers under the door
while they were being interviewed.
Art exhibit
dispels
. stereotypes
of women
The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, April 12, 1988- Page 3
Coalition seeks
to publicize
'U
arms research
Daily Photo by DAVID LUBLINER
Interim University President Robben Fleming mingles with student guests at an Open House held at his home
yesterday afternoon. About 200 students dropped by the Fleming home to munch brownies and rub elbows with
administration officials.
Fleming opens doors; students
rub elbows Wit
By STEVE KNOPPER
Suppose the University's Interim President in-
vites you to his house to wander around wherever
you please for an hour and a half. Here are your op-
tions:
-hob-nob with the University's big cheeses -
like Vice Presidents James Duderstadt and Henry
Johnson - who happen to be standing around the
house;
-grill Interim President Robben Fleming about
student codes of non-academic conduct;
-admire old paintings of the University and
wonder how the University's "White House" has
survived all these years;
-or simply hang out with Fleming and his wife,
Sally, talking about the '60s, when the two lived in
the house during Fleming's first reign as University
President.
ABOUT 200 students chose one or more of
the above yesterday during the Flemings' first open
house since he left the University in 1979. Though
many of the bookshelves are still bare because the
Flemings plan to leave the house as soon as the
new president assumes office, students seemed im-
pressed by the home's elegance.
"I never expected it to be this big," said LSA
junior Kim Oser. "I didn't expect all the curves and
everything. It doesn't look this big from the out-
side."
The students, rotating in and out of the house,
explored the many paintings, books, and large
plants, knocking over an occasional lamp in the
process. Fleming's den contained a prominent
h 'U bigwigs
Smith-Corona manual typewriter, with a computer
modem stashed away on a shelf.
DUDERSTADT spent the afternoon intro-
ducing himself and his wife, Anne, to entering
students. He joked about the food, the University's
Board of Regents debate about a new athletic direc-
tor, and presidential toilet paper.
Sally Fleming said the students who visited
yesterday appeared more calm than students of the
'60s, who held periodic protests at the President's
House. "They're an interesting, well-behaved
group," she observed, reminiscing about '60s, when
students staged mass protests over the Vietnam War
and for civil rights. "I remember just streams of
people coming through."
President Fleming, speaking while the number
of students gathered around him grew from three to
25 in half an hour, said times have noticeably
changed. "You were very different individuals in the
'60s," Fleming said. "In the '60s, as turbulent as it
was, we would not have had the kinds of (racist)
fliers spread around as we do now."
"I've puzzled about that a great deal," Fleming
said. "But then it dawns on me - you really don't
know the civil rights movement. You don't have
that experience. They did."
But for the most part, students and officials
avoided controversial issues - though a few people
asked Fleming for the inside scoop on the new ath-
letic director. Fleming said he knew, but wouldn't
say.
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
A watchdog group - which
formed after the University's Board
of Regents repealed former research
restrictions last April - has deter-
mined that at least 15 weapons re-
search projects are currently being
conducted on campus.
Members of the Coalition Ag-
ainst Weapons Research are presen-
ting their findings at today's Re-
search Policies Committee meeting.
Before last year's guidelines changed,
the RPC reviewed classified research
projects. Currently, the board serves
as an advisory board to Vice Presi-
dent for Research Linda Wilson.
THE PROJECTS under
CAWR's fire include research for the
U.S. Government's Strategic De-
fense Initiative and research of
chemical weapons, according to
documents released by the coalition.
CAWR members - students,
faculty, religious leaders, and Ann
Arbor residents - said they found
that some professors, including En-
gineering Prof. Terry Kammash,
conduct research for SDI. Kam-
mash's four research projects center
on x-ray lasers and electron beams.
Some of the nearly $1 million in
U.S. Department of Defense funding
for Kammash's four projects comes
from the Strategic Defense Initiative
Office, documents distributed by the
coalition say.
Kamm ashydenied he was conduct-
ing weapons research, saying it was
a "misconception" held by oppo-
nents of weapons research. "We're
working. on the development of
power for peaceful purposes only -
no weapons," he said.
C A W R formed last April after
the University's Board of Regents
repealed research guidelines that pro-
hibited all classified research at the
University that could kill or iaim
human life.
Currently, no such restrictions
exist for either classified or un-
classified projects. The Classified
Research Review Panel, which con-
sisted of one student and two faculty
members, was dissolved when the
old guidelines were repealed, leaving
no formal review of research pro-
jects.
CAWR was formed with the goal
of informing the University com-
munity about research taking place
on campus, said member Jackie
Victor, an LSA senior who is also
an RPC representative.
"WITH THE old guidelines,
there was a mechanism for exposing
research that was potentially harmful
to human beings. Now that mecha-
nism has been done away with," said
Coalition member and physics grad-
uate student Edward Hellen.
To review the research projects,
CAWR members obtain written
proposals submitted by professors to
the Division of Research Develop-
'All of the research that
we have picked out is very
likely to be used to kill or
maim humans.'
-Tobi Hanna-Davies,
CAWR member
ment and Administration. CAWR
then solicits University professors,
whose names are kept anonymous,
to read the proposal descriptions,
looking for projects that deal with
weapons research.
In order to learn more about the
projects, coalition members then at-.
tempt to conduct interviews with
professors who they believe are do-
ing weapons research.
Coalition member Daniel Axel-
rod, a University physics professor,
said a "gray area" exists between
defining regular research and
weapons research, which makes dif-
ferentiating between the two diffi-
cult.
BUT AXELROD said the pro-
jects identified as weapons research
by CAWR clearly deal with weapons
exploration. "As the philosophers
say, 'Just because there's twilight,
doesn't mean you can't tell the dif-
ference between night and day,"' he
said.
Coalition member Tobi Hanna-
Davies, an Ann Arbor resident, said,
See Research, Page 7
By VERONICA WOOLRIDGE
The photograph showed two
proud-looking men having a conver-
sation in front of a flashy sports car.
The caption was their dialogue:
"Man, you're looking good!" said
one. "Yea, I'm on the rag!" the other
answered.
The photo, entitled "If Men
Could Menstruate," was part of last
Saturday's exhibit on "Socialized
Sexuality" sponsored by Residential
College students Laurie Shapiro, a
junior, and sophomore Jennifer
Weaver as part of their Women's
Studies 240 class project.
About 250 people viewed the ex-
hibit, which included images of sex-
uality from the media and student
photography. Texts by various au-
thors offered insight into issues of
gender, race, class and sexuality.
Weaver and Shapiro said they
wanted to present different media
images of women in an effort to
dispel the stereotypes that perpetuate
violence and sexist attitudes against
them.
Visitors were vocal in their reac-
tions to the images, both positive
and negative. Weaver said she was
especially surprised by the number
See Exhibit, Page 5
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CORRECTIONS
Physics Prof. Daniel Axelrod, speaking at Friday's Women's Action for
Nuclear Disarmament rally, criticized a research project being conducted in
S the Pharmacology Department, not a project by Biological Chemistry Prof.
Isadore Bernstein.
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What's happening in Ann Arbor today
Bursley residents raise $500
to aid hospital's Burn Center
By ALYSSA LUSTIGMAN
After reading about four-year-old
Cecilia Cichan - the only survivor
of the Northwest Flight 255 that
crashed and killed 156 people last
summer - students from Bursley
Residence Hall decided to donate
$500 to the University Hospital's
Burn Center where Cichan received
treatment.
The 21 residents of Bursley's 5th
Lewis raised the money last fall by
collecting cans and holding a draw-
ing for a football autographed by the
Michigan football team.
They presented the donation last
Saturday to Dr. Jai Prasad, co-direc-
tor, and to Leora Bowden, director of
social work, at the Burn Center last
See Burn, Page 7
Speakers
Cynthia Wrentmore, R.N.
-- Coordinator of the Communica-
ble Diseases Program at, the
Washtenaw County Health Dept.,
speaks on "Let's Talk About the
'A' Word: AIDS," Ann Arbor Pub-
lic Library, 12:10-1:00 p.m., ad-
mission is free.
Prof. Yao Wenbin - Senior
Fellow of Beijing Institute of In-
ternational Strategic Studies,
"Sino-Soviet Relations," Lane Hall
Commons Rm., 12:00 p.m.
Yury Polsky - Political sci-
ence Ph.D student speaks on "New
Trends in Soviet Television,"
12:15 p.m., MLB Conf. Rm., 3rd
Floor.
Karl Turekian - Yale Univer-
sity prof. speaks on "Degassing of
the Earth" A4:00, ni A. 4001C_ C
Schools," 7:00 p.m., 100 Hutchins
Hall.
Society of Christian Engi-
neers - Year end meeting, party.
Everyone welcome, 11:30 a.m.,
1014 Dow Bldg.
T A R D A A - British Science
Fiction Fan Club, 8:00 p.m., 296
Dennison Bldg.
Amnesty International -
Group #61, monthly meeting,
7:30 p.m. in the Michigan Union.
Furthermore
Concert - Early Music Ensem-
ble directed by Edward Parmentier
presents a program including
motets by Bach, Schutz, Gesualdo,
and works for wind and mixed en-
sembles. At the School's blanche
Anderson Moore Hall at 8:00 p.m.
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