IA Weekend Magazine: Special issue The '88 Election Guide Ninety-nine years of editorialfreedom Vol. IC, No. 42 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Friday, November 4, 1988 Copyright 1988, The Michigan Daily Blue in need of jug for roses BY MICHAEL SALINSKY A game, the Michigan defense's pride, the Little Brown Jug, a Rose Bowl bid - all these will be on the line when Minnesota invades Mich- igan Stadium tomorrow (3:30, televised by ABC). Minnesota has yet to win a conference game (0-3-2, 2-4-2 overall) and the oddsmakers don't even feel the game is really on the line (Michigan is favored by 30) - but history and Bo Schembechler say differently. When Minnesota last visited Ann Arbor, they knocked off an undefeated, second-ranked Mich- igan team in a huge upset, 20-17. "Don't think this isn't going to be a tough game," says Schem- bechler, Michigan's head coach. "It's a very similar situation (to 1986). They came in. We were highly favored." LAST YEAR in Minneapolis, the Golden Gophers threw another scare into the Wolverines, taking a 17-7 halftime lead before falling, 30- 20. Darrell Thompson, rushed for 157 yards in the first half and 201 yards overall, the only back to ever break the 200-yard mark against a Wolverine defense. That's where the defense's pride comes in. "If they let it happen again, I swear I'm gonna tackle him," Schembechler said, referring to Thompson's 98-yard run last year. Touted as a possible Heisman candidate, Thompson is only fourth in the Big Ten in rushing. His average gain per carry is down a full yard. But that doesn't stop Schembechler from worrying. "Of all the backs in the conference, he's given us the most problems." THOMPSON says he doesn't See Jug Pg 11 Bush confident of win Vice President George Bush told several thousand supporters during two stops in Michigan that he almost feels sorry for his Democratic opponent, Michael Dukakis, and the challenge he faces. "I'd hate to be my opponent, going all over the country telling everybody how bad everything is," the Republican presidential candidate told a cheering, mostly student crowd at a rally at Catholic Central High School in Lansing. "He's got a problem: He can't get elected unless things get worse and they won't get worse unless he gets elected." Bush's brief appearance in Lansing followed a stop in Grand Rapids, where he was joined by Gerald Ford in the former president's hometown. Bush's visit was his second to the Republican stronghold of Grand Rapids and his sixth to the state since the GOP national convention. It followed a visit to Detroit by Dukakis on Tuesday as well as two separate Michigan surveys that showed the Massachusetts governor pulling virtually even with Bush. Bush continued his assault on what he said were Dukakis's liberal views. "I represent the mainstream views and values and they are your values. If I win this election it will be a mainstream manddte, a rejection of the failed liberal policies of the past," he said. "As for taxes, let the other side raise those - hold the line on taxes." A handful of hecklers in the high school gymnasium chanted, "U.S. iout of El Salvador," and held a sign reading, "We are pro-life. We oppose the many murderous policies of Reagan-Bush." ROBIN LOZNAK/Doily Touche Physiology graduate student Ruth the Coliseum. Both are members every Thursday. Wood (left) and LSA junior of the University's Fencing Michael Weinberger fence in Club, which holds practices I Date{ BY LISA WINER The media have given the thre rapes" committed last month in much attention, and as a result, ma are frightened they may become a next victim. But this type of rapist does not them their greatest threat. A much greater threat to them a they know. The FBI reports that of all the ported nationally, 80 percent are "ac rapes" - those committed by acq friends, neighbors, dates, co-work members, service people and oth A rape: A victim knows. e "stranger In Ann Arbor, acquaintance rapesc Ann Arbor 65 to 80 percent of all criminal sexua any women (the phrase used in Michigan to descri stranger's This fact is not obvious to women the culture in which they live perpet present to myth that acquaintance rape is not "re "Anyway you cut it (rape) is st ire the men scary," said Julie Steiner, director of versity's Sexual Assault Preventi e rapes re- Awareness Center. "It is no more sc cquaintance it's a stranger rape than when it's an; uaintances, tance rape." ers, family- Ms. Magazine conducted the firs er people a wide survey of date rape on college c hidden comprise in 1985. Dr. Mary Koss, a psycholog 1 conduct fessor at Kent State University; Ohio, be rape). female students if they had had sexua because course against their will through the us uates the threat of force (the minimal legal defini al" rape. rape). Of those who answered yes, o ill really percent then identified their experience x the Uni- The study also concluded that "one in ion and 12 men admitted to having fulfilled t ary when vailing definition of rape or attempted acquain- yet ,virtually none of those men ide themselves as rapists." t nation- "(The acquaintance rapist) doesn't. -ampuses stereotype of the crazy man with a ba problem'. y pro- his head jumping out of the bushes with a asked knife," said Steiner. 4 l inter- eof or Women who have been raped by an ac- tion of quaintance often blame themselves for having nly 57 been assaulted, and so have another reason to s rape. believe they haven'ttruly been raped. Women' n every encounter questions like, "if you didn't know he pre- this guy, why'd you go back to his apart- d rape, ment? Were you drinking?" said Steiner. ntified "It's never the person's fault who was fit the raped," emphasized Steiner. ig over See Rape, Page 2 Speaker:'88 race ignores issues BY DONNA IADIPAOLO The most disturbing part of this year's presidential campaign -espe- cially within the past few months - is the blatant avoidance of issues vi- tal to minorities, said University of California-Irvine Prof. Bernard Grofman in a speech yesterday. Sponsored by the University's political science department, Grof- man presented his political criti- cisms to about 30 faculty and stu- dents in a speech entitled "Race and Politics: Electoral Institutions and Their Political Context." - Grofman said today's political climate is "extremely polarized amongst racial lines in a way that has not been the topic of much me- dia coverage." But he faults both parties for de- liberately avoiding important minority issues in an attempt not to alienate white voters. P "You never see Dukakis cam- paigning in the ghettos," said Grof- man. Avoiding such pressing issues in an attempt to appeal to the "status quo" will hurt the country, he said. "For me it's frightening," said Grofman. "The polling booth is one of the few places left where you can express views, and support candi- dates, and send a message that you can no longer say in public." Grofman cited the South as a re- He said, for instance, that Mississippi has changed from being a stronghold for the Democratic party, to now being the third-most Republican state in the country. Similarly, he cited another political-racial sway in Chicago. Despite the recent influx of minori- ties in that city, for instance, he suggested that white ethnics who once were traditionally Democratic have deserted their party. 'The polling booth is one of the few places left where you can express views, and support candi- dates, and send a message that you can no longer say in public.' -California-Irvine Prof. Bernard Grofman Consequently, within this elec- tion, Democrats are trying to "woo the white voter" by becoming less associated with minority, specifi- cally Black, issues. Grofman pointed out certain campaign tactics used by the Democrats, such as only allowing Dukakis to speak in certain areas and focusing less attention on Student groups BY ANNA SENKEVITCH Yesterday afternoon, a group of about 50 people picketing outside the Student Publications Building de- manded an immediate reversal of 4 N.. xwhat it condemned as racist and sex- ist Michigan Daily news coverage.