Ninety-eight years of editorial freedom Vol. XCVIII, No. 131 Ann Arbor, Michigan Wednesday, April 13, 1988 Copyright 1988, The Michigan Daily MSA SCBN urges student Hijackers release 12 manager By RYAN TUTAK The Michigan Student Assembly last night unanimously passed a resolution demanding that the University administration not interfere with the Campus Broadcasting Newtork and that it allow CBN to ap- point a student general manager. "We insist that CBN retain its authority and hire its own (student) general manager," said MSA's Student Rights Committee Chair Sarah Riordan, an LSA sophomore, who co-introduced the resolution. The resolution is a response to a letter that Vice President for Stu- dent Services Henry Johnson mailed to CBN General Manager Paul LaZebnik last week suggesting that the CBN Board of Directors post- pone the selection of next year's general manager. The University administration told Johnson and Union Director Frank Cianciola to investigate other ways of operating CBN, the gov- erning board of campus radio stations WCBN and WJJX, Johnson said. One of these alternatives could involve appointing a "professionally trained" general manager, according to the letter from Johnson. Johnson could not be reached for comment yesterday. LSA junior Emily Burns, one of two students applying for the job, criticized the University's efforts to control CBN. "The University is taking away one of the most valuable experiences that is offered," she said. MSA's Communications Committee Chair Robert Bell, an LSA junior who co-introduced the resolution, said the University's proposal to appoint a general manager at CBN is representative of its larger goal to kill student expression on campus. The University is also regulating students with the recently approved. Policy on Discriminatory Acts, he said. "If (CBN) is not student led, it's not student run," Bell said. In other business, the assembly passed a resolution reiterating its demand for the resignation of LSA Dean Peter Steiner after a two- month investigation of his "series of racist comments." Also, LSA sophomore Delro Harris was reappointed chair of the Minority Affairs Committee. R U' conceals researchmethods Plane refuels; departs for A lgeria -Associated Press Tiger hurler Frank Tanana pitched the home team to a 4-1 victory in the first game of the year at Tiger Stadium. Tigers top Texas in ho-me opener, 4-1 LARNACA, Cyprus (AP) - A hijacked Kuwaiti jumbo jet took off for Algeria yesterday afternoon after hijackers freed 12 more passengers in what they called a gesture of good- will. The blue-and-white Boeing 747 left Larnaca at 1:17 a.m. Wednesday (6:17 p.m. EDT yesterday) with three members of Kuwait's royal family still among the hostages. About 40 people, including the six to eight hijackers, remained aboard the Kuwait Airways jet. It was commandeered eight days at Mashhad, Iran. It was subsequently allowed to land at Larnaca because it was running out of fuel. One of those freed said three members of Kuwait's ruling family, Fadel Khaled al-Saban and his sisters Anware and Ebtesam, still were on the plane, said Dr. George Olympios at Larnaca General Hospital, where the freed hostages were taken. A nurse at the hospital said the freed hostages "seem to be OK. There weren't any visible injuries." She added that they were very tired. Earlier in the day, the hijackers said they had donned "death shrouds" and had renamed the jetliner "the plane of martyrdom'." The 12 passengers walked off the aircraft at 10:25 p.m. (3:25 p.m. EDT) and got into three ambulances as the flashing lights from the plane and the emergency vehicles illumi- nated the runway. After the released passengers left the plane, a hijacker told the tower they were two Palestinians with Jor- danian passports and 10 others of unannounced nationality who were sick, poor, or whose families had numerous children. Calling the release a "goodwill" gesture, the hijackers said the Jorda- nian nationals were freed as a "present to the uprising in Pales- tine," the 4-month-old Arab rebellion in Israeli-occupied territories. The hijackers have demanded that Kuwait free 17 pro-Iranian terrorists, all but one of them Shiites, con- victed for a chain of bombings there in December 1983. Kuwait refuses. Speaking in classical, Koranic Arabic, they said: "We have decided '(We have renamed plane) the plane martyrdom. the of - Hijackers of Kuwaiti plane By MIKE GILL Special to the Daily DETROIT- Last year the Detroit Tiger's regular season ended with Frank Tananna handling a tap to the mound to give the Tiger's the American League East crown. And today, as the Tiger's opened their home season defense of the title, it started the same way as it ended - Frank Tananna. The hometown hero this time snared a shot off Texas Ranger lead off hitter, Oddibe McDowell, to officially announce the new season. And the results were the same as that fateful day last October - a Tiger victory, with Tananna masterfully handling the batters, double play help from the Bengal infield, and a 50,000 plus crowd going home happy. The crowd.also received a les- son in the 4-1 Tiger win thanks to See Tigers, Page 9 to wear the death shrouds under our clothes and that either all our 17 bro- thers come back to us or else we shall meet, in our shrouds, in the heaven of eternal happiness." The jetliner was commandeered April 5 after it took off from Bangkok, and-was diverted to the norhteastern Iran city of Mashhad, where 57 passengers were released. By DAVID SCHWARTZ The Jniversity's research guide- lines allow information provided by sponsors to be kept confidential, but Division of Research Development and Administration officials indicated yesterday that more information is being kept secret. The announcement that methodology used by researchers might also be kept confidential at a sponsor's request was announced at the monthly meeting of the Research Policies Committee. The RPC acts as an advisory board to Vice Presi- dent for Research Linda Wilson. The disclosure surprised some RPC members and aroused concern in others. Wilson expressed concern that limiting the disclosure of researchers' methodology might be hampering their ability to completely publish their results. "We don't usually generate results which we cannot share because we are in the business of discovering and disseminating knowledge," she said. Wilson indicated she would have someone from her office look into the impact of including the method- ologies - known as protocols - as information that may be confidential. The research policy, which was approved by the University's Board of Regents last April, has been im- plemented by the Office of the Vice President for Research. The implementation of the policy' may allow companies sponsoring campus research to keep information confidential for up to five years. According to Wilson, information leaked to rival companies could result in a loss of competitiveness for the{ sponsor. Sponsors would not want to. con- duct research at the University be- cause other institutions do not have restrictions against secrecy, she said. "If the University sets different See Research, Page 2 Women seek careers in By VICKI BAUER Third in a three part series Kirstin Fazzari hopes to be an astronaut flying for the Air Force some day. And the first-year LSA student is making her start as a cadet in the University's ROTC Air Force. More women than ever are join- ing the Reserve Officer Training Corps program with the intention of pursuing a career in the military - rather than just getting a free educa- tion and serving the four year mini- mal obligation of service - said Alicia O'Rourke, assistant professor of military science at the University Army ROTC. "The military has been tradition- ally a male world. Women are new. The opportunity for women to move up is very good," she said. O'ROURKE, a member of the Part 3 Army for 13 years and the only woman officer in the University's Army ROTC, said that because of the success of women officers today, the numbers of women joining the military with lifetime career plans are steadily increasing. "Most men know someone who has been in the military - their dads, uncles, or brothers. Most women don't (know other women in the military). There are more women in the military today who can act as mentors. Now it's easier for women to see themselves in that environ- ment." At the University, 22 of the 94 cadets in Army ROTC and 23 of 108 cadets in Air Force ROTC are women. Of the 163 midshipmen in the Navy ROTC, 11 are women, 3 of whom are in the Marine Corps. The ROTC program trains stu- nilitary dents to be officers in the Army, Navy, Marines, or Air Force. Mili- tary officers must have a college de- gree as opposed to the enlisted mili- tary members who do not need a college education. "MORE females are coming into the program for the commission than the men. They are joining for the gold bar on their shoulder. That's what they want," O'Rourke said. Kelly Pastva, a midshipman in the ROTC Marine Corps and senior in the School of Engineering, hopes to work as a logistics officer next year - a position in which she See ROTC, Page 3 Foreign student educates others By LISA POLLAK s It's a conflict that 19-year-old Anita Lee isn't always sure how to reconcile. As one of the University's 336. "international" undergraduates, the Hong Kong native and first-year LSA student wants - just like anyf student wants - to fit into and un- derstand American student life, the Profile Johnson nixes plans for Dag Vietnam Day By MARINA SWAIN A request for a May 7 celebration on the Diag honoring Vietnam vet- erans was rejected yesterday because it would violate a University rule which restricts Diag rallies and demonstrations that use amplified sound from noon to 1:00 p.m. Henry Johnson, Vice President for Student Services - who had fi- nal authority over the decision - said he rejected the request because of the rule and because he said the cele- bration, which would feature live bands, might disturb students study- ing in nearby libraries. "They can have that kind of all day gathering some place else," Johnson said. "We have a policy which speaks to the amplification of sound (to only be permitted) from 12:00 to 1:00 (p.m.)," he said. LOCAL ACTIVT T have and organizer of the celebration, said the Student Organization Develop- ment Center granted his request in January to use the Diag for the fes- tivities. When Dolgan tried to confirm the reservation several weeks later, he said he was told that he could no see Vietnam, Page 3 a sah tea customs and slang, the styles and culture. n