1£.ail Ninety- nine years of editorialfreedom Vol. IC, No.111 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Tuesday, March 14, 1989 Copyright 1989, The Michigan Daily Schroeder diagnoses failings of poliics BY MICHAEL LUSTIG The 1980s will be remembered as the decade when people stopped accepting bad news, U.S. Rep. Patricia Schroeder said last night. People "don't believe in doom and gloom," Schroeder, a Democrat from Colorado told about 300 people in the Rackham Auditorium. "We broadcast happytalk 24 hours a day." This is illustrated by the proliferation of bumper stickers saying "I r this" and "I r that," she said. Schroeder reached this point after a brief history lecture. The United States, she said, produced many great world leaders in this century, but this stopped in the '80s. "Now, we're paying for it," she said. Schroeder cited a letter that President Franklin D. Roosevelt once sent to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill where Roosevelt said, "I'm so glad I lived in this decade with you." She then asked the crowd who they were glad to be living with, "and I hope it isn't Cher or Madonna." Her personal choice, she said, is Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who has taken the initiative in arms control and international relations, accepting proposals that U.S. leaders never thought the Sovi- ets would. See Schroeder, Page 2 'U' must report drug convictions to keep federal funds BY NOELLE SHAD WICK Faculty, students, and staff members who are convicted for drug-related crimes in the workplace and are receiving federal funds will have to notify the University beginning this Sunday. If an individual does not provide this in- formation, the University could face penalties including: termination of grant or contract payments, suspension from receiving any federal funds for up to a year, or in extreme cases, department - which would prohibit the University from receiving grants or con- tracts from any federal agency for up to five years. The national "Drug-free Workplace Act of 1988" requires University employees receiv- ing federal funds -including research grants and financial aid - to notify the University within five days of a conviction for a drug-re- lated crime and for the University to notify that person's sponsoring federal agency within 10 days after the first notification. Most controlled substances are covered by the law, but alcohol and tobacco are not. The law does not mandate that employees who report convictions be terminated or lose their funding, but requires employers to "take appropriate personnel action against such employee up to and including termination" or require the employee to enter a rehabilitation program. "If a person has been convicted and wants to be rehabilitated that person would not be fired," said Virginia Nordby, executive assis- tant to the president. The Drug-free Workplace Act differs from a similar law which the Department of De- fense initiated in October because it places emphasis on a drug-free workplace as opposed to a drug-free workforce. However, some confusion surrounds the law's definition of "workplace" and whether a crime committed on University property by an employee, but not within that employee's laboratory or office, should be reported. The University is still discussing how to define workplace, but for now will interpret it to mean the laboratory, office, or area where the employee actually performs the work, Nordby said. The "Drug-free Workplace Act" is part of the larger Omnibus Anti-Drug Legislation signed by former President Ronald Reagan in 1988. All students receiving financial aid fall under the jurisdiction of the Omnibus legislation, but only work-study students and Pell Grant recipients fall under the Workplace Act. The exact implications for the other finan- cial aid students have not been determined. See Drugs, Page 2 U.S. Rep. Patricia Schroeder discusses a range of issues, from her run for the presidency last year to the recent rejection of a Con- gressional pay raise last night. Party aims to broaden BY TARA GRUZEN Second in a four part series Fourteen women and seven minorities are vying for Michigan Student Assembly seats with the Student Power party. Students in the Schools of Medicine and Art MSA elections '89, are running on the ticket. A member of the Rainforest Action Committee wants to serve on the assembly under Student Power. And a Greeks for Peace member is on the party. With members of so many different groups on the party, Student Power presidential and vice presidential candidates Julie Murray and Ahmar Iqbal say their party will be representative of University students. Student Power members say they will be more in touch with the concerns of various student organizations because members of the assembly will have first-hand experience with these groups. "We can't deal effectively with these issues until there is representation," Murray said. "We need to break that glass ceiling that exists and get women to be leaders again." Murray said MSA must represent students by working harder to decrease tuition. Student Power's position regarding tuition is "extreme," she said. Iqbal said he and Murray would send out a questionnaire to students asking their opinions on a possible union of students. If tuition continued to rise, students could vote to unionize, which would give them bargaining power to fight rising tuition, Murray said. Such a vote would require a two-thirds majority and half of the student body to participate, Iqbal said. Acting upon her motto, "You have to take a stand somewhere," Murray also said she supports the faculty proposal for a required class on udent Power racism. "It's there for people to re-evaluate their ideas," she said. "However, I wouldn't support a class where you would have to be politically correct to get an 'A."' In their party platform, Murray and Iqbal stress that only through education about racism can people start to understand the problems minorities face. Student Power also supports the March 21-22 student ballot proposal to give the Public Interest Research Group in Michigan direct student funding. Murray said it would be possible for students who don't support PIRGIM to get their money back and she would want to set up accessible places for them to get the money if they so desire. "PIRGIM is supported by many students and we should support organizations that students support," she said. Student Power would also try to get the University to ke more responsibility for safety, Murray said. IMW I } } T -- Murray MSA presidential candidate... For more coverage of the MSA elections see story on the debate, Page 3. Shuttle blasts off despite delays* CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) - Discovery's astronauts, safely in or- bit yesterday after a weather delayed launch, set free a $100 million satellite to complete a globe-span- ning network that will let future spacefarers call mission control at almost any time. The 2.5-ton Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, its double parasol- like antennae folded, slipped clear of Discovery's cargo pay at 4:10 p.m. EST and floated into space. At a critical moment in the de- ployment, an unexpected electronic signal momentarily jammed a com- puter used to deploy the satellite, but then, just as mysteriously, the ma- chine cleared up and appeared nor- mal. Mission confirmed that the data on the ground showed that the com- puter was functioning normally. An hour after the development, TDRS' powerful first-stage rocket was to fire and send the craft toward a new, higher orbit. A second-stage rocket, set to fire at 10:23 p.m. will carry the satellite toward its work station 22.300 miles over the At- lantic Ocean. Deployment of the satellite came 6 hours, 12 minutes after Discovery leaped from its seaside launch pad and raced out of view across a clear Florida sky in a launch that marked See Shuttle, Page 2 'U' Council discusses speech policy sanctions BY JOSH MITNICK The recently-reconvened Univer- sity Council, the panel that proposes campus conduct rules, considered possible sanctions for the Univer- sity's free speech policy yesterday. The discussion focused on sus- pension and expulsion, and whether they should be used as punishments for students, faculty, and staff mem- bers who break the University's free speech guidelines. "I can envision circumstances where someone repeatedly takes over the microphone or interrupts a speech and you say, 'Look, we've got to do something here,"' said So- cial Work Prof. Tom Croxton, sup- porting such sanctions. "If it's blatant and repeated, ex- pulsion with a whole array of due process safeguards should be in place," he added. Director of Academic Programs and Services Eunice Royster said such harsh penalties can have differ- ent effects for faculty, staff mem- bers, and students. "For students, it is easier to get into another univer- sity than for faculty to get another job," Croxton pointed out. But Rackham graduate student Corey Dolgon said he opposed such penalties. "It seems unfair to me for someone to be forced off the University campus, just like it's a little extreme to fire someone," he said. -'=''U' Council Dolgon speculated that if suspen- sion and expulsion are included as sanctions, it would be difficult to get the Michigan Student Assembly to approve the council's proposal. MSA - which has traditionally op- posed sanctions for student non-aca- demic conduct - and the faculty's Senate Advisory Committee on See Council, Page 2 The contours ELLEN lEVY/Daily Jacqueline Royer, second year graduate student in the School of Architecture works on her model entry for a contest to design a performing arts center (to be built at Clemson University). She has been working on this for almost six weeks. Deadline is March 31. Polling sites and hours to be increased for MSA elections BY TARA GRUZEN After an hour and a half of debate over the Voting will also take place at the Medical School, although this was decided before the dential candidate Ahmar Iqbal said in an inter- view that he also supported the extra sites. MSA members. Thus, CSJ acted basically as a mediator