Ninety-nine years of editorial freedom Vol. IC, No. 88 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Thursday, February 2, 1989 Copyright 1989, The Michigan Doily CBS chooses four students for panel BY LISA FROMM On "CBS This Morning's" broadcast from the Uni- versity tomorrow morning, one of the longest seg- ments will be a live panel discussion with four Uni- versity students. The panel includes John Kolesar, wide receiver for the football team; Marc Selinger, editor of the Michi- gan Review magazine; Audrey Wright, president of the Black Greek Association; and Nicole Yakatan, a resi- dent director at South Quad. They "just struck me as a representative sample of the University," said segment producer John Costello. The four students were chosen from an original pool of "about 200-300," of which about 16 were in- terviewed in-depth, said CBS News Producer Lisa Saunders. "I think we have a wonderful cross representation - a complete political spectrum from liberal to con- servative," Costello said. Costello said he did not choose students to represent specific groups or organizations, such as the Michigan Student Assembly, because "there were so many groups with a legitimate point of view, there was no way to narrow it down to four groups." But some MSA members have criticized that ap- proach. "I definitely think someone from MSA should' have been asked because we're the elected student rep- resentatives," said MSA rep. Nick Maverick. Members of the United Coalition Against Racism expressed concern that CBS News did not ask UCAR for a representative, although Costello has referred to Wright - who is a member of UCAR - as the panel's "UCAR rep." "The major point of criticism is that CBS shouldn't choose who represents us," said UCAR steering com- mittee member Kim Smith. "They did not come to UCAR for a representative. To not get a representation of the anti-racist struggle is irresponsible journalism." But Costello said UCAR will be shown in a pre- taped four-minute segment about racism on campus. He later added that Wright does not represent any spe- cific group. Costello failed to give a clear explanation as to what makes a student a "representative" of a group. Wright said she sees herself as "representing the liberal voice of the University...I hope they didn't choose me because I am Black but because of the is- sues I feel strongly about as they relate to Black stu- dents on campus." Originally, the panel also included a representative from the Daily. On Tuesday night, segment producer John Costello told Daily opinion page editor Betsy Esch that the panel included herself, Kolesar, Wright, and Selinger. But after they discussed the segment's issue, "John Costello said that he was going to reconsider the deci- sion to include me, because he wondered whether I would be representative of enough students," Esch said. See CBS, Page 2 City opposes halfway house BY NOAH FINKEL The Ann Arbor City Council voted to oppose a state plan to use the Varsity House Motel as a halfway house for 120 to 160 pris- oners last night during a special council session. Halfway houses hold soon-to-be- released prisoners who work or look for employment in the daytime and remain under supervision at night. A halfway house at the Varsity House, next to Denny's restaurant on Washtenaw Avenue, would be Ann Arbor's third. The other two house a total of 14 prisoners. The state's halfway house plan has many opponents, who have ar- gued that this particular house would contain too many prisoners and would be located t9 close to homes, businesses, and a day-care center. The council approved 9-0 a reso- lution sponsored by Mayor Gerald Jernigan that calls for the state to: -opcrate with full public partici- pation on decisions regarding the lo- cation of correctional facilities; -insure that all inmates at the halfway house are residents of Washtenaw county and did not commit violent crimes; -insure that there is no large con- centration of prisoners in such low security facilities in a single com- munity; and to -insure that halfway houses be located at least 1000 feet away from schools, day-care centers, and resi- dential neighborhoods. The resolution does not bind the Department of Corrections since the city has no legal authority to block plan ALEXANDRA BREZ/Doily Sacred Music, Sacred Dance Tibetan monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery at the Rackham last night. perform a ritual prayer for peace and environmental purification Search of tanker crash continues ABLINE, Texas (AP) - Air Force personnel used numbered flags yesterday to map a wreck- age-strewn area where a fuel-laden tanker crashed, but the investigation may be hampered by the lack of a flight data recorder and the apparent loss of many maintenance records.; All 19 people aboard the KC-135A Stra- totanker died when it crashed on takeoff Tuesday about a half-mile south of a Dyess Air Force Base runway. The KC-135A tanker, based at K.I. Sawyer Air Force Base in Michigan, stopped at Dyess en route to a training mission. It was scheduled to refuel some F-16s in the air before flying to Hawaii and then to Guam. The plane was carrying military members and their dependants, as well as 30,000 gallons of jet fuel, officials said. Air Force workers yesterday mapped out about two square miles of scorched grassland and woods around the crash site with red flags, said Master Sgt. Al Dostal, a Dyess Spokesperson. "Once it's staked out, it can snow and these flags have numbers. They can still see where things are," Dostal said. Sam Matta, an Abilene justice of the peace who spent Tuesday at the site to record deaths, said the plane was in many pieces, the largest of them the tail section. There were "a bunch of small pieces every- where," Matta said. "There's a few big sections, 10 to 12 feet long. There's a big wing, pretty badly burned." The last two bodies were found Tuesday evening. As of yesterday afternoon, they were still being held at Abilene as military officials made arrangements for autopsies and returning them to relatives. Names of the dead were being withheld until the last families are notified. The flight manifest showed 17 passengers from Sawyer, and two from Dyess, Dostal said. Seven were crew members, four were active duty military members, four were retired military, and four were dependants, including a boy about 7, he said. Officials said members of the military, re- tirees, and their dependants are allowed to take routine flights if space is available. the state's plan for the halfway house. Councilmember Terry Martin (R- Second Ward) said the resolution is an "expression of the feelings of city council... its a chance to kick up its heels." Other council members also fa- vored the resolution, but with reser- vations. Larry Hunter (D-First Ward) said he was opposed to the "warehousing" of prisoners in such a large facility, but stressed that the city council should not oppose all halfway houses. Hunter, along with many other councilmembers, condones halfway houses for their role in prisoner re- habilitation. Kathy E gren (D-Fifth Ward) supported dIe resolution, but played down the concerns of some commu- nity members who feared the halfway house would bring increased crime. "What (the Department of Corrections) is trying to do is en- hance security by centralizing" the area's halfway houses, Edgren said. Edgren and Liz Brater (D-Third Ward) questioned the need for yester- day's special session to approve the resolution. Edgren accused the mayor of "shameless political opportunism of the worst kind." Jernigan deemed the charge "unfortunate." His Republican col- leagues defended him, calling the is- sue a bipartisan one and praising the mayor's strong leadership on the opposition to the halfway house. Jam to benefit tropical forests BY BRIAN JARVINEN Two of Ann Arbor's more popu- lar pop bands, Big Box of Nines and The Iodine Raincoats, will play tonight at the RAM JAM, a special concert at The Beat to benefit the Tamdopata Wildlife Reserve in Peru. The Rainforest Action Move- ment (RAM), a community organi- zation formed by a group of Univer- sity graduate students last fall, orga- nized the concert. RAM limits its activities to Ann Arbor, but shares information with the national Rain- forest Action Network. The group earmarked the proceeds of tonight's benefit for the reserve, which will use the money as it sees fit. Possible uses include purchasing more land to increase the buffer zone Congress members don't want pay raise WASHINGTON (AP) - House Speaker Jim Wright abruptly changed tactics on a 50 percent congressional pay raise Tuesday, promising to schedule a House vote if members demanded one in a confidential survey. "If the members want it, yes, of course," Wright told reporters, but said that he doubted members would contradict what they've told him privately: let the raise become law without a vote. The Senate is scheduled to vote on raises this week, and an Associated Press Survey showed at least 88 senators favored rejection, with six indicating support and six undecided. The Senate vote would take on new meaning if a House vote were to occur, because only rejection by both houses would stop the raise from becoming law Feb. 8. "I don't think there will be a vote," said House Majority Whip Coelho (D-Calif.), who is directing bipartisan negotiations on a package of outside income restrictions - including an end to speaking fees and campaign finance reform. Opponents seek. to 11 - l T A 10CR JUl WASHINGTON (AP) - Oppo- nents of the partial merger of The Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press asked a federal appeals court yesterday to delay the business deal until a legal battle over the agree- ment is resolved. Michigan Citizens for an Inde- . merger nization's motion said. "It will re- sult in the elimination of approxi- mately 500 jobs, the publication of a single paper on weekends, in- creased circulation prices and proba- bly higher advertising prices as well." The newspapers would suffer OWN, e aft" i, "° '