'U' to pick interim dean BY STEVE KNOPPER The College of Engineering could receive a temporary dean as early as next week, according to a letter re- leased by Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs Robert Holbrook yesterday. Current Dean Charles Vest was selected as the new Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Tuesday, and is scheduled to begin his new position Jan. 1. The Uni- versity's Board of Regents will most likely approve Vest's appointment, and an acting dean will fill the gap until the University completes a search for a new dean. Chemical Engineering Prof. James Wilkes, a member of the En- gineering school's faculty executive committee, said the four current as- sociate engineering deans - Erdogan Gulari, Daniel Atkins, Lynn Conway, and Walton Hancock would "do a good job" as acting dean. "A great deal of momentum is being built up in the college, and it's essential that we don't lose it," Wilkes said. ,Vest held Gulari's current post as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs before he was appointed interim dean, then dean in 1986. But University President James Duder- stadt; the previous dean, had been promoted directly from his spot as a nuclear engineering professor in 1981. Gulari was out of town and un- available for comment yesterday. Holbrook met with the committee yesterday to discuss candidates for acting dean, Wilkes said. To find Vest's permanent successor, Holbrook said he would appoint a search committee of five engineering faculty members, two students, an alum, and a faculty member from another department. The new dean, said Engineering senior Karyn Walack, should be "someone who is more willing to change." She said the school needs more updated technology, professors, and classes. Aerospace Engineering Prof.t John Taylor said the new dean should emphasize pressing social issues, such as technology in medicine, peace, and war. "I hope that the new dean would be sensitive to those kinds of issues," he said. Holbrook proposed a similar search to the one in 1986 that re- sulted in Vest's appointment as dean. Aerospace Engineering Prof. Robert Howe, chair of that commit- tee, said the 1986 process went "smoothly and relatively fast.:. I don't think we really had any prob- lems." But others say the process should represent more students. For exam- ple, junior Brian Rashap, president of the student Engineering Council, said the search should contain both an undergraduate and a graduate student, because the two programs vary. JESSICA GREENE /Doily Better to give William Standler, 2 and 1/2, donates money to the Salvation Army. The campus service group Circle K is collecting the funds. Nabisco faces possible takeover t C 1 t t f NEW YORK (AP) -The possibility of a corporate breakup loomed yesterday over RJR Nabisco Inc. after Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. agreed to buy the food-and- cigarette giant for a record $24.53 billion, but the buyout specialist said there would be no "wholesale" selloff. After an exhaustive bidding free- for-all overseen by a special RJR directors committee, Kohlberg triumphed over an RJR management group led by chief executive F. Ross Johnson late Wednesday. Kohlberg's package of cash and securities was valued at $109 a share for each of RJR's 225 million shares, making it the biggest takeover agreement in history. RJR's directors accepted the bid over an apparently higher offer from Johnson's group valued at $112 a share or $25.2 billion. They said both offers were nearly the same but Kohlberg's offer would give shareholders a 25 percent stake in the acquired company, compared with a 15 percent stake offered by Johnson. Securities analysts surveying the aftermath of the chaotic takeover auction for the Atlanta-based RJR said they were awaiting more details of thes securities portion of Kohlberg's bid to emerge before voicing any conclusions. Nevertheless, many said it wasc certain Kohlberg would have to sell at least part of RJR's wide-ranging food operations which include Nabiscos crackers, Lifesaver candies, Del Montey fruits -and other valuble brand names-s to service the enormous debt acquired' to engineer the deal.S The RJR acquisition will more than quadruple the company's existingc debt of $5 billion to $22.3 billion.s But the amount of equity in thef acquired company is estimated atd about $7.4 billion, for a debt-to- equity ratio of 3-to-1. In terms ofE leveraged buyouts, that is considereda low. RJR's stock price rose about 66t percent during the 5-week takeover The Michigan Daily - Friday, December 2, 1988 - Pagq% More than 200 charged in U.S.- Italy drug scanda: WASHINGTON (AP) -- More than 200 people being made in Palermo, Bologna, and Florence were charged in a multimillion-dollar heroin impor- tation and cocaine distribution operation involving One of those arrested in the police roundup was:1 taton nd ocane istibuionopeatin ivoling Giuseppe Gambino, a nephew of Carlo Gambino, thy'" Sicilian Mafia figures and the Gambino crime family late reputed head of the Gambino crime family. in New York, the FBI and Italian authoritiesd dy announced yesterday. A complaint filed in Manhattan against 28 people. A total of 68 people were charged in the United alleged that the organization "obtained cocaine in the tos dital oy,68 seoplemwerechargd ingr thee-yitad U.S., transported the cocaine over to Italy, exchanged States and 133 in Italy, stemming from a three-year the cocaine for heroin, so the cocaine was sold in, FBI undercover operation in which agents traveled to Italy, and the ,heroin was sold in the U.S.," U.S.: ; Italy and posed as interested buyers who discussed Attorney Rudolph Giuliani said. making major drug purchases, the FBI said. "They found the best market for their product As of midday yesterday, 59 people had been Giuliani added. arrested in the United States and 20 in Italy. Giuliani and James Fox, assistant director of the" Substantial amounts of imported heroin were sold . FBI's New York office, said 14 of the 28 charged in" to the Gambino Mafia family in New York, which New York were arrested. If convicted, they could face allegedly arranged for nationwide distribution, accor- a maximum penalty of life imprisonment and up to? ding to a complaint filed in the case in Philadelphia. $4 million in fines. Some of the heroin was passed to buyers in pizza parlors. The FBI said the operation developed from what,a originally were independent criminal investigations in Arrests were made in Baltimore; Buffalo, N.Y.; Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia. They grew into . Miami; Newark, N.J.; New York; Philadelphia; San a coordinated effort when agents found links between Francisco; and Rockford, Ill. In Italy, arrests were many of the targets of the separate investigations. AIDS Day forum stresses need for caring doctors BY KRISTIN HOFFMANAtre n d s" Nov AIDS patients, after testing posi- A I S198 .* :x tive for the deadly disease, are often Oct.1988 ostracized by their family and friends, " 0l1 988 [ose their jobs and homes, and de- sin c e-19 8 1 velop debilitating diseases. 47,845 AIDS cases were J11 They have nowhere else to turn but reported nationwide to their doctors. These medical between 1981 and professionals, therefore, must be 1987. Less than a year ; ready to be supportive and caring - later, in October 1988, DEC omething most doctors aren't trained 74,566 cases had 98 for been reported. 18 Dr. Carol Kaufman, an assistant Last month the dean at the Medical School, criticized total rose to 76,764.,. the medical community for poor care As of Nov. 14, . and lack of responsiveness to the Washtenaw I needs of the three predominant County had 37 classes of AI:DS patients - gay men, reported cases. National drug abuses and prostitutes. Source "You don't learn this in Med ContyPubic School. No one's going to teach it to Health Division -- you," she said. Kaufman was one of six speakers at an observation of 1L World AIDS Day at the Medical....------------ - ---- - --- oca School. (Washtenaw County) She discussed the need for health Daily News Graphic care professionals to educate them- for a year told his family that he had to groups and universities across the selves on the issue, and not to be leukemia. He added that some people state. - fearful of caring for patients with the who test positive even commit sui- Hayner, who is still sexually ac disease. cide. tive, said therd are many ways to have: "I've heard med students say that He said that at the time he was di- a satisfying sex life and not pas gay men don't deserve the sae care agnosed, you were considered a dirty along the disease. He said that inter- as donAIDpatients because they person if you had AIDS. He recalled course is out of bounds, but intimacy as other AIDS phis anger toward doctors who were mutual masturbation, the uses of oils bd i themid e e not able to "fix" it. He knew that and massages, as well as fantasy ar dents and Residents who was in the prevention and education were being all ways to have a satisfying sex.life. adenca eaddressed, but not help and care for Deidre Brown, who works with audi ne . n - _T -- - - _ _-- , 1 , 1 . Health care professionals have a those wno already had the virus. Clear House, a chemical dependency minimal risk of contracting the virus, To fill that void, Hayner started the program in Ypsilanti, told the grouw but Kaufman reports that ignorance Friends of Persons with AIDS, a local about her history as a drug abuser anq d fe till wid d support group that works to provide AIDS patient. An IV drug user for 19 Kafearn added tt it's difficult food and clothing, and is working on years, Brown said she shared many afon otosdodel wthattrmdifafill shelter. Hayner speaks three or four needles and had many sexual patients at all, especially those dying times a week about his life and AIDS See AIDS, Page 10 from AIDS. "These are people who- are young, who were healthy, and are going to die," she said. Rick Hayner, who was diagnosed with AIDS in 1986, told the audience of about 120 that he received his test results over the phone, and that no -; counseling services or medical refer-. C A rals were given. Hayner said he was in a state of panic for three days, and * THE DAILY Get Your Officially Licensed CLASSIFIEDS Wolverine RacdioCap Rose Bowl Special 129.95 ARE A GREAT white hat with custom embroidered wo(verinm logo! WAY T GET100% cotton construction WAY TO GETone size fits all! 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Or that kicking back in the Michigan Stadium is a great way to get away from the crowds? These are just a couple of the 34 uncommon fea- tures investigated by an equally uncommon class, Practical English 329. For a corporate project, one sec- tion of the class compiled a guide describing unusual things to do in Ann Arbor, ranging from undiscovered study spots to unconventional museums to funky jazz concerts. "A unique guide for a unique class," is how LSA senior Lance Howard sums up this semester's efforts. What makes this class unique is that the project was conceived and executed by a self-taught student class. It took six weeks of frustration, patience, confusion and compromise, but these entrepreneurs finally pro- duced 5,000 copies of their guide. The class democratically chose this project out of 40 other proposals which included a soap opera and an Asian-American art catalogue. According to RC senior Natasha Raymond, the unique guide to Ann Arbor was the "most feasible and exciting idea." "After the four years many of us spent learning about Ann Arbor, we want to give something back to the other students," she said. "We want to make it eas- And then the fun began. The class explored nine ar- eas of interest: bars, musical clubs, restaurants, muse- ums, exhibits, shopping areas, recreational facilities, athletic events, and "private spots." From this, they abstracted the most unheard-of characteristics of 34 interesting places. The fact that the class was self-taught was the biggest strength and also the biggest weakness of the, project, the students said. Reliance on one's peers- added to the positive, supportive atmosphere and an overall sense of commitment and cohesion. But, the lack of a professor to make decisions often led to dis- putes among students. "Once it got so bad I got a migraine and walked out of the class," Raymond said. According to LSA junior Mimi Spalding, she learned the most from public relations and the interac- tion with her peers. Others gained valuable experience from the practical business aspects of the project and from peer editing. And yet for others, learning about Ann Arbor's history and local population was the most interesting part of the project. "It was enlightening to find out how things work around here," Raymond said. The project pleased even the self-proclaimed 'most pessimistic member of the class.' LSA senior Steve