rkialanai Ninety-nine years cf editorial freedom Vol. IC, No. 105 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Monday, March 6, 1989 Copyright 1989, The Michigan Daily Feminist scholar offered tenured law position Bomb holds scare up BY FRAN OBEID Catharine MacKinnon, a well- known feminist legal scholar, was recently offered a faculty position with full tenure from the Univer- sity's law school. "I haven't made any decision about it," said MacKinnon, but she added that she considers Michigan "a good University and a good law school. The initiatives taken by the University and by the law school on racism are positive indications about the quality of the school." The offer is significant because the University usually does not offer tenure until the professor has taught for at least one semester. Feminists who argue that legal systems are bi- ased towards males often have trou- ble getting tenure, said members of the Women's Law Students Association (WLSA). MacKinnon has taught at seven law schools in the last ten years. Law School Dean Lee Bollinger called MacKinnon "a first rate scholar and teacher. She has intellectual commitment to an area of interest to many students as well as faculty." Bollinger said that because of previous commitments, the earliest MacKinnon would start if she came to Michigan would be 1990. "I think it's a tremendous step that the law school has made a per- manent offer to Catharine MacKin- non," said law student Holly Fech- ner, who is WLSA's representative to the faculty meetings. "It's terrible that it has taken the top law schools this long." On leave from Osgood Hall at York University in Toronto where she is a tenured professor, MacKin- non is presently a visiting professor at Yale University Law School, where she received Ph.Ds in law and political science. ' Her research has had a profound impact on the legal view of sexual harassment. MacKinnon has worked to implement local laws throughout the country which define pornogra- phy as violating women's civil rights. MacKinnon has written four books and 20 articles that have in- fluenced women's civil rights. At- torney Andrea Dworkin, who visited the University in November, collab- orated with MacKinnon on their book "Pornography and Civil Rights: A New Day for Women's student, trip MacKinnon ...feminist legal scholar Equality". Their controversial book is used in many pornography cases. MacKinnon is continuing to work on pornography issues and "ways to get the harm of pornogra- See Scholar, Page 2 BY STEPHEN SCHWEIGER Approximately sixty University students met with an unexpected delay on route to Cancun last week when a passenger on their flight made false bomb threats, forcing the pilot to land the plane. On February 25, American Trans Air flight 309 departed for Detroit at 7:30 a.m. and landed in Indianapolis one hour later after Anthony Pierson, a Rochester Hills resident, made two idle bomb threats. "Before takeoff the flight attendant asked Pierson to remove his portable movie camera from the aisle. He said in a sarcastic manner 'be careful with it, there are plastic explosives in the case,"' said first- year LSA student Israel Assa. Assa was sitting directly across the aisle from Pierson and witnessed the conversation. Then, Pierson yelled out "We are going to die," as the plane started down the runway. LSA sophomore Adam Abensohn was also sitting near Pierson. "He was very rude to the crew from the See Bomb, Page 3 Moral, legal battles over L divestment continue w BY PATRICK STAIGER Two small shacks, pieced together from bits of plywood, have marked the center of the University campus for three years. During that time, a local anti- apartheid group, the Free South Africa Coordinating Committee (FSACC), has had to field criticism over why it chose to place its symbol of the fight against apartheid on the pavement of the University Diag. Recent events seem to have removed the University from the South African controversy. Last October, the University Board of Regents announced they would divest all of the University's holdings from American companies doing business in South Africa. For twenty years, student and local anti-apartheid groups demanded the University divest from the South African operating companies. The FSACC shanties served as a symbol of those demands. In December, the University divested its last shares of the affected stock: 12,000 shares of Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (3M) stock worth $75,000, according to University Investment Officer Norman Herbert. Then, the state supreme court ruled last week to end the state's long six-year court battle with the University over a state law which had required all state Universities to divest from South African operating companies. The regents sued the state in 1983 because they said the law inter fered with their constitutional autonomy from state control. The court said it saw no reason to continue the state's appeal of a January 1988 court decision in the University's favor, as the regents had since chosen to divest on their own. These shanties on See Divest, Page 2 South Africa. Tibetan riot in China leaves 11 dead, many injured BEIJING (AP) - Police and Ti- betan protesters traded gunfire in Lhasa yesterday after an illegal Bud- dhist parade turned into a riot, leav- ing 11 dead and more than 100 in- jured, the Xinhua News Agency re- ported. Hundreds of Tibetans demanding freedom from Chinese rule smashed windows, looted shops, restaurants and hotels and vandalized police cars ggpj-.4 in Lhasa, the capital of the disputed region, the state-run news agency said. The violence came on the first anniversary of another anti-Chinese demonstration in which 24 people were reported killed. It also came five days before the 30th anniversary of a failed uprising against Chinese rule that led to the exile of Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. Xinhua, reporting from the Lhasa, said early today that one po- lice officer and 10 other people were killed in the riots. Among the in- jured were 40 police officers and more than 60 rioters. It said "separatists" fired at police officers and "the police were forced to fire shots as no other means to stop the rioters." The report said the disturbance began at noon when 13 Buddhist monks and nuns began an illegal parade in the Barkhor marketplace area of central Lhasa. It said they waved banners and shouted "independence for Tibet." They were joined by several hun- dred people who began throwing stones at a police station in Barkhor, Xinhua said. About 6 p.m. (2 a.m. EST), about 600 rioters emerged on East Beijing Street, smashing windows robbing more than 20 restaurants, hotels and shops and setting fire to furniture. Xinhua said the rioters made four attacks on government and Commu- nist Party office buildings, smashed traffic control posts and lights and damaged more than 20 police vehi- cles. It was unclear from the Xinhua report whether police or protesters fired first. Medical workers who tried to res- cue the injured were attacked, it said, and one ambulance was damaged and the driver injured. LSA faculty to discuss education on racism BY MARION DAVIS The LSA College Executive Committee and a group of faculty members will present separate pro- posals for a graduation requirement on racism today at the monthly LSA faculty meeting. Although they were drafted by different groups, the proposals are similar in some ways. Both proposals allow for the re- quirement to be satisfied by any course or courses that meet a funda- mental set of criteria, which includes an analysis of the concept of race. Both proposals also allow for in- dividual departments and programs to develop and staff new courses within a structured framework that may sat- isfy the requirement. But, despite the similarities, there are major differences between the two. The faculty proposal, for exam- ple, requires each student to take at least four credit hours of coursework dealing with race, whereas the LSA College Executive Committee pro- posal calls for three hours. Program in American Culture, Latino Studies, current or past teachers of the curse, LSA faculty at large, and students would represent the Baker-Mandela Center and Michigan Student Assembly. But under the LSA College Executive Committee proposal, the LSA Dean and the Executive Com- mittee are responsible for the desig- nation of courses which will satisfy the graduation requirement. k4, ROBIN LOZNAK/Daily Michigan left-winger Jeff Urban ties to get off a shot before being taken to the ice by Bowling Green's Kevin Dahl during the first period of the Michigan-Bowling Green CCHA playoff series at Yost Ice Arena last night. Dahl drew a penality on this first period play, but his team won in triple overtime 3-2, ending the Wolverines hopes for a league title and virtually ended hopes for a NCAA bid. BGSU outlasts Icers in Triple Overtime I n<>r':'; ' '? Inc' .