Ninety-nine years of editorialfreedom Vol. IC, No. 54 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Tuesday, November 22, 1988 Copyright 1988, The Michigan Daily Faculty code sent to panel Grab a Garg DAVID LUBLINER/Daily LSA senior Mark Davalos hawks copies of the new edition of the Gargoyle humor magazine on the Diag yesterday. Gargs will be on sale the rest of this week and after Thanksgiving as well. See review, Page 5. Bush picks cabine mem bers BY NOELLE SHADWICK The University's faculty government has still not come to agreement over the administration's proposed faculty discrimina- tion and harassment policy. A motion to approve the proposed policy with modifications failed to pass in a straw vote yesterday, 27-23 with one abstention, at the faculty Senate Assembly's monthly meeting. The motion was referred to a drafting committee which will work out specific points of contention in the policy and report to the assembly Jan. 9, for further debate, said Social Work Prof. Beth Reed, chair of the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs. THE MOTION to appoint a drafting committee to examine the policy passed unanimously. Reed said SACUA will appoint the committee next week. The proposed policy outlines procedures for dealing with accusations of discrimination or harassment made against faculty and staff members. The Senate Assembly has tabled the policy twice, while proposing many revisions. But faculty revisions do not guarantee actual changes in the policy by the administration. "We can't be sure that anything we propose will get into the document," Reed said. MANY FACULTY members say the University should formulate a policy to pro- tect faculty and staff against discrimination and harassment. Others, however, are concerned that the policy may infringe on professors' academic freedom - the right to speak their minds on any subject. But yesterday, assembly members debated how to change specific points in the policy, and indicated that the policy is nearing accep- tance. For example, Medical School Prof. Peter Smouse, who has opposed the policy in the past, said the most recent version is "getting closer" to an acceptable policy. "We've al- ready said that we favor and need a policy," he said, adding that it needs work in several ar- eas. FACULTY MEMBERS said the draft- ing committee should consider several points in the policy - defining academic freedom, protecting against false harassment and ensuring that the policy protects students and administrators, in addition to faculty mem- bers. The current policy would provide for a monitoring committee to check the progress and effectiveness of the policy once it is im- plemented. Currently, the University has no single policy to handle complaints of dis- crimination or harassment made against fac- ulty. Such complaints are specified in several different faculty and staff guidelines. Pesticide use safer' at 'U' BY NOELLE SHADWICK Setting pheromone-traps and mulching are two of the environmental safeguards the Uni- versity has implemented in its move away from chemical to natural pest control. The move to natural pest control is part of the University's effort to protect the commu- nity from poison and pollution, members of the plant and business offices told the faculty's Senate Assembly yesterday. "The University tries to use insecticides as infrequently as possible," said Douglas Fasing, director of plant operations. Every year, bugs called scales and elm-bark beetles attack magnolia trees and elms around campus, and every year the University must either spray insecticides or use other methods to curb the damage caused by the bugs, Fasing said. See Pests, Page 2 Washington (AP)- President-elect George Bush reached again into the Reagan Cabinet yesterday to retain Dick Thornburgh as attorney general and Lauro Cavazos as secretary of education. He also named former White House aid Richard Darman for "perhaps the most difficult job," budget director. Thornburgh and Cavazos, like Treasury Secretery Nicholas Brady, were late additions to the Reagan team. Bush told a news conference that "in all likelihood" those three will be the only direct holdovers. They join James Baker, the former treasury secretary whom Bush has chosen to be secretary of state, as conerstone Man faces rape c har e BY NATHAN SMITH An Ann Arbor man was arraigned yesterday after allegedly raping a woman in his parked car in the Maynard Street parking structure early Sunday morning, Ann Arbor police said. Omar Rabahi, 35, demanded a preliminary hearing yesterday in 15th District Court on a charge of third-degree criminal sexual conduct, police Lt. Dale Heath said. He said the hearing has been scheduled for Nov. 30. At a preliminary hearing, the prosecution must show that they have sufficient evidence to warrant a trial. Third-degree criminal sexual con- duct involves rape using physical force but no weapon. St The woman left the nearby Nec- re tarine Ballroom shortly before 2 fry a.m. Sunday when she was allegedly ho See Police, Page 3 ab members of Bush's new Cabinet. The president-elect said yesterday, "I will keep my commitment to bring in lots of new faces." Bush swore in Cavazos, 61, the first Hispanic-American to serve in a Cabinet, in September as sucessor to William Bennet at the Department of Education. Bush had promised to appoint a Hispanic to his own cabinet if elected. Thornburgh, 56, former governer of Pennsylvania and onetime head of the Department of Justice's criminal division, replaced the embattled Edwin Meese in August. Bush said Thornburgh's priority as the nation's cheif law enforcer will be "combating the scourge of drugs." Darman, 45, was deputy White House chief of staff and then deputy treasury secretary under Baker before taking a job with an investment firm last year. He has worked in six cabinet agencies: Defense, Justice, Commerce, State, Treasury and Health, Education and Welfare. Bush also got some private advice from former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford, who headed a commission that has made reccomendations for the next administration. Bush rejected a General Accounting Office report that dismissed his "flexible freeze" proposal for cutting the budget deficit. The report said that tax increases as well as military and Social Security cuts would have to be considered. Anti-racism groups protest fraternity actions BY ANNA SENKEVITCH Between 100 and 150 people, representing at least nine student or- ganizations and the University's Concerned Faculty, marched from the Diag to Kappa Sigma Fraternity to tell the fraternity the anti-racist community will not tolerate racist acts occuring at its house. And they demanded that the Uni- versity - which recently approved a student anti-discrimination and dis- criminatory harassment policy which does not apply to any off-campus group, including fraternities and sororities - must take responsibil- .ity for harassment committed by all students. The mix of students, faculty, and Ann Arbor residents gathered in front I of the graduate library and heard LSA junior Susan Rhee tell once more her account of the events of a party held Oct. 7 at the Kappa Sigma house, where she and five other Asian American students were racially harassed by a white male guest. When the six people left the party, the man remarked, "The chinks are leaving, ah-so," and bowed his head with his hands clasped. He immediately disappeared into the house, and was never found or identified. Since thefi, Rhee and members of the University of Michigan Asian Student Coalition have discussed the incident with Kappa Sigma Vice President David Wigler and President Ron Bauer, and on Nov. 10 began informal mediation with Kappa Sigma members through the University Affirmative Action Of- fice. During those talks, UMASC de- manded a statement from the frater- nity saying Kappa Sigma does not condone racist acts like the one on Oct. 7 and a formal apology from See Protest, Page 2 i DAVID LUBLINER/Doily udents chant and carry signs yesterday in protest of racist marks allegedly made by a guest of a Kappa Sigma aternity house party last month (above). People in the use (right) react to the protest, which was attended by out 200 students. DAVID LUBLINER/Dolly I Ecology group wants mandatory recycling BY DAVID SCHWARTZ Ann Arbor households will be forced to recycle their garbage if a mandatory recycling ordinance - proposed last week by the Ecology Center of Ann Arbor - is approved by the Ann Arbor City Council. The introduction of the ordinance was precipitated by an impending need for more landfill space in the city. Unless the city receives permission from the dumping) because of the limited capacity at the landfill, and they agreed." University Director of Plant Operations Russell Reister said the University must now dump its waste in South Lyon, Michigan, northeast of Ann Arbor. The additional distance from the University to the dump has increased the cost of disposing the University's waste, Reister said. Although the city now has a voluntary will: number one, impress on the public the sense of urgency that really exists in dealing with solid waste; and number two, it will help in starting to alleviate the solid waste problem," Garfield said. Paper, cardboard, metal, and brush are a few types of recyclable materials. Despite Garfield's optimism about mandatory recycling, Ann Arbor city officials were less enthusiastic.