"Some activities of 'U's 'premier' student society In WeekendMagazine: offending Native Americans - Little Feat's latest Ninety-nine years of editorialfreedom Vol. IC, No. 17 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Friday, September 30, 1988 Copyright 1988, The Michigan Daily PursellPollack vie for fun ds |||| BY MICHAEL LUSTIG An old cliche says, "Money makes the world go 'round." No one knows that better than someone running for elective office. In recent years, the cost of running for office has spiraled ever higher as candidates buy up TV advertising and hire image consultants. In several heated U.S. Senate races in 1986, some candidates spent over $10 million to get re-elected. State Sen. Lana Pollack, a Democrat running for Michigan's Second Con- gressional District seat, has raised over $500,000 in her campaign so far and hopes to have $750,000 by November, said Dale Evans, her spokesperson. He added that he expects Pollack's opponent, Republican incumbent U.S. Rep. Carl Pursell, to raise $1 million by Election Day, even though, Evans said, "(Pursell's) ineffectiveness" as a legislator "has hurt his fundraising." The growth of political action com- mittees, which are set up by corpora- tions and allow them to donate money to political campaigns, has also changed political fundraising efforts. In recent years, PACs have proliferated, pumping more money into campaigns. Busi- nesses, interest groups, labor unions, and individuals can set up a PAC to do- nate money. Both the Pollack and Pursell cam- paigns say they dislike PAC money. Gary Cates, Pursell's press secretary, said Pursell puts more importance on individual contributions, and Evans said Pollack is "uncomfortable with calling up people and asking for money." But according to records obtained from the Federal Election Commission, as of August 1, Pollack had received $92,377 in PAC contributions - about 27 percent of her total campaign in- come. Twenty-nine percent of Pursell's money has come from PAC donations, according to the FEC. Pollack's biggest donors have been labor unions, women's political groups such as the National Organization for Women and Emily's List, and several environmental groups. Support from the women's groups has been largely unsolicited, Evans said, because those groups have one underly- ing goal - to get more women elected to national office. Currently, 23 of the See Funds, Page 2 'U' officials to discuss faculty code BY ALYSSA LUSTIGMAN The proposed faculty discriminatory harassment pol- icy is supposed to go into effect this Saturday, but nei- ther faculty nor administrators know if it will. The pol- icy, tabled at this month's faculty Senate Assembly meeting, will be re-evaluated today. "We don't know if the policy will go into effect (Saturday)," said Mary Ann Swain, chair of the ad hoc committee that drafted the proposal. "It is under discus- sion." THE FACULTY SENATE supported the intent of the policy, but some members disputed the language of the current draft, saying it could infringe on free speech in the classroom, producing a "chilling effect," on academics. The faculty tabled an endorsement of the policy for a month, allowing more time for comment and possible revision. University officials will be discussing whether or not the policy will go into effect Saturday, without a faculty endorsement, Swain said. Some faculty members met yesterday at a forum to discuss the policy, during an open chapter meeting of the American Association of University Professors. ASSOCIATE VICE President for Government Relations Virginia Nordby, one of four speakers on a panel, reaffirmed her support for the proposal, which would cover all employees on the University payroll. She compared it to the student discriminatory acts pro- posal passed last spring. "We can't have a student policy with teeth and have no policy for everyone else," Nordby said. The goal of the proposal, she said, was to assimilate and clarify existing policies for dealing with harassment, as well as standardize the procedure. Panel speaker Thomas Lenaghan, the vice chair of the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs, also supported the proposal. "THERE IS A CRUCIAL defect with the present (policies)," he said. "It's too easy to scoop things under the rug," he said. But though SACUA endorsed the new policy,'Lenaghan said the current draft was "not as clear as it needs to be if it is to be effective." The AAUP, which hosted the panel, supported the intent of the policy, said panelist Wilfred Kaplan, execu- tive secretary of the campus chapter. But faculty should be given a greater role in the formal complaint process, he said. Under the latest proposal, which was proposed in June and revised in September, a formal complaint would be investigated by a panel of three people: a representative of Affirmative Action, a representative from the accused's administrative or academic unit, and an official from personnel. Faculty members from the Dearborn campus who at- tended the panel expressed their concern over the lack of faculty input, particularly from Dearborn, into the docu- ment. Associated Press The space shuttle Discovery takes off from the Kennedy Space Center yesterday. Shuttle Discovery blasts off CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Space shuttle Discovery carried the American flag back into space yesterday after a 32-month absence, its five astronauts riding a 700-foot tail of flame from rockets meticulously redesigned after the Challenger disaster. "Everyone certainly stood tall today," said Kennedy Space Center director Forrest McCartney as Discovery settled into orbit, 184 miles above earth. Mission Control said the ship was "performing nominally." Six hours after lift-off the crew accomplished the main mission of its flight, release of a satellite that will give NASA nearly constant communication with future shuttle missions. It was the first launch since the Challenger explosion shocked the nation and stopped the manned space program in its tracks. "We sure appreciate your all getting us up in orbit the way we should be," Discovery's commander, Navy Capt. Frederick Hauck, told Mission Control. "We're looking forward to the next four days - we have a lot to do and we're going to have a lot of fun doing it." Lift-off was the first and most important milestone, but more was at stake than simply getting into space. The 2 1/2-year grounding of the shuttle fleet set back the nation's satellite delivery capability, and the release of the communications satellite was the main order of business in orbit, several hours after launch. The giant Tracking and Data Relay Satellite is a $100 million twin of the craft that was destroyed aboard Challenger. Launch, at 11:37 a.m. EDT, came only after NASA waived weather guidelines to allow for flight through some lighter than usual Florida winds. The 98-minute delay simply heightened the tension as NASA unveiled a spaceship that underwent more than 400 modifications since the Challenger flight. Just how well the Discovery's booster rockets performed in their new design awaited detailed analysis. But J.R. Thompson, who directed the work from the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama said; "From everything I see, everything looks great." ROBIN LOZNAK/Doaily No, it's not preacher Mike Don't you recognize it? We didn't either, but members of "Big M Enterprises" want Willy the Wolverine, who plugged himelf on the Diag yesterday, to be our campus mascot. "He's so cute," said one student. Big M hopes you'll think the same about their Willy pens, t-shirts, etc... uf ashion. re the dyes lies BY KATHERINE BEITNER How come everyone's so mel- low all of sudden? There has always been an earthy contingent maintaining the spirit of the sixties - but now campus is swarming with flower children. Which ones are real and which aren't? Will the real earth people please identify themselves? This is getting really confusing. Now, they're selling tie-dyes at Ulrich's. Hundreds of these colorful shirts with the word Michigan sprawled across them have been sold this fall, said Ulrich's supervisor And will the real 'earth people' please stand up? who are really earthy don't care what they wear." O.K., fine. There were a small core of people on campus who have always been earthy because they wore what they genuinely wanted. But now, are we are being in- vaded? Looks like she's got some good karma going. LSA senior Gail Belenson ex- plains, "Materialistic people realized they were standing out on campus and think now they're more real. They're not any less materialistic. They'll still vote for George Bush." Some feel that earthy attire has evolved to be a prestige symbol of its own. "The tie-dyes of today are clean and well established, almost like they have an alligator on them," said LSA senior David Kalt. It appears that several students i s f t s U.N. peacekeepers win 1988 Nobel Peace Prize OLSO, Norway (AP) - Soldiers on the front lines of the United Nations' 40-year quest for peace won the 1988 Nobel Peace Prize yesterday for steadfast duty in the cross fire of the world's conflicts. In Jerusalem, peacekeepers broke open bottles of champagne to celebrate the prestigious award as the word was passed by radio from outpost to outpost. "We are here to keep the peace.