Ninety- nine years of editorial freedom Vol. IC, 'No. 122 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Wednesday, March 29, 1989 Copyright 1989, The Michigan Daily Pres. plans 'women's JESSICA GREENE/Daily Hit me! First-year LSA students Debby Wachs (front) and Heather DeGarmo court cars to spray them during yesterday's storm agena BY FRAN OBEID Citing the University's poor record in attracting women faculty and students, President James Duderstadt presented an "Agenda for Action" to address women's issues yesterday before a packed audience of about 200 people at the Michigan League. The "Women's Agenda for the 1990s," a report prepared by a Uni- versity ad hoc Committee on Women's Issues and submitted to the president in December, prompted Duderstadt's presentation. Duderstadt said a permanent presidential advisory committee on women's issues, to be made up of students, faculty, and staff, is cur- rently being formed. The number of women faculty who are hired and retained is unac- ceptable, Duderstadt said, citing a one percent decline in the number of female assistant professors in the last year. Presently, 28 percent of assistant professors and 19 percent of associate professors are women, while only eight percent are full professors, he said. "It is clear that over the last 10 years the University has lost ground for women of color in tenure and in tenure-track positions, particularly in LSA," Duderstadt said. Duderstadt compared the new agenda to the highly-publicized Michigan Mandate, which aims to increase minority recruitment on a campus. One of the goals of both the agenda and the mandate, he said, is to increase the number of women minority faculty. But some question the effective- ness of both the agenda and the mandate. In fact, Duderstadt yester- day acknowledged the mandate's lack of specifics. Some members of the audience said yesterday that Duderstadt's plans to address women's issues were just as vague. Julie Steiner, director of the Uni- versity's Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center, said she was pleased that Duderstadt acknowledged recent events, but said "he didn't ar- ticulate specific needs." However, Steiner said the women's agenda could be positive because the advi- sory committee will be able to sug- gest specific actions to the president. Others say the mandate has failed in several cases. They point to the LSA executive committee's decision earlier this year to reject a Black woman candidate for a faculty posi- tion despite the unanimous recom- mendations from two search com- mittees. Duderstadt has refused to get involved in individual cases, but said he would hold departments account- able for their overall recruitment record. "If he's not responsible for deci- sions of those who are doing the re- See Faculty, Page 3 MSA clears rep. on most charges BY ALEX GORDON An ethics committee last night cleared Michigan Student Assembly representative Zach Kittrie of seven of eight charges involving ethics vi olations. The committee's repor also found little evidence for an ac cusation that several of Kittrie's violations were racially motivated. The committee did find Kittri guilty of the charge that h "overstepped his authority when voting on the Board of Student Pub lications." It proposed that Kittri "be publicly admonished for this be havior." t Kittrie, an LSA junior, said the public release of the report repre- sented such public condemnation. - Law Rep. Kevin McClanahan, t chair of the ethics committee, said - although Kittrie was found guilty on s one charge, for the most part the ac- cusations were "totally outrageous e and totally erroneous." e "I'm glad that I've been cleared," n Kittrie said, after hearing the report. - He added that he felt the report was e "accurate in assessing my sincerity - in trying to represent students." Earlier this semester, Advice Magazine Computer Consultant Bruce Belcher compiled an investigative report on Kittrie's be- havior under the guidance of MSA president Mike Phillips, an LSA se- nior. Phillips denied at the time that the report was an official investiga- tion. But many assembly members thought the report was politically motivated and said it violated the MSA constitution because the as- sembly had not authorized it. Last night's report directly con- tradicted most of the original charges. Two of the charges accused Kittrie of misrepresenting himself to members of Senate Advisory Com- mittee on University Affairs and the Civil Liberties Board. But the com- mittee interviewed members of both SACUA and CLB and found the original charges to be unfounded. Phillips, however, said that he "talked to the same people... and someone should question why these people changed their story." McClanahan went on to tell the See MSA, Page 5 Environmentalist runs in Third Ward Past councilmember vies for Epton's spot BY KRISTINE LALONDE Republican City Council candi- date Donna Richter has seen the Ann Arbor Z Elections 89 Li Third Ward from many different an- gles. In 1962, she lived there as a Uni- versity student. From 1980 to 1986, she served as Ann Arbor Planning Commissioner. In between, she viewed the ward from the perspective of a graduate student, mother and community activist. The candidate for the Third Ward council seat says this gives her a "unique perspective" on the ward. But Richter's perspective on the Third Ward is not her only "unique" quality. Before this election she was not a member of a political party. Party politics, she said, interferes with decision-making and city is- sues, and her emphasis on the issues - not the politics - will help her See Richter, Page 5 BY NOAH FINKEL Nelson Meade said he still has "unfinished business" to take care of Ann Arbor Elections 89 Li in Ann Arbor. Meade, who represented the Third Ward on the Ann Arbor City Coun- cil from 1971 to 1973, is the Democratic candidate to succeed Democrat Jeff Epton as the Third Ward's councilmember. The election will be held Monday. While a council member, Meade said he concentrated on providing services for his ward's Southeast area, which contains some low-in- come housing projects. "I'd still like to provide more services for that area that is still un- derserved," he said. Meade said he left the council in 1973 because the time commitment conflicted with his job in the Uni- versity School of Public Health's See Meade, Page 5 Donna Richter Nelson Meade ...Republican City Council candi- ...Democratic City Council candi- date date Key Soviet leaders face defeat in free election I I MOSCOW (AP) - At least 37 key Communist Party and govern- ment leaders went down to embar- rassing defeats in the Soviet Union's first multicandidate election, accord- ing to results trickling in yesterday. The losers in balloting for a new national parliament included a candi- date member of the ruling Politburo, the premiers of Latvia and Lithuania, and 27 Communist Party leaders from major cities, regions and re- publics, according to results obtained from interviews and various press reports. The humiliation was greatest for officials who ran unopposed on the ballot and still lost because more than 50 percent of the voters crossed out their names. Activists in cities from Leningrad to Kiev waged "cross-out" cam- paigns urging citizens to vote against certain officials by blacking out their names on the ballots. Izvestia reported yesterday what it called the "sensational" result that no one was elected in 168 electoral dis- tricts where there were only one or two candidates because so many citizens voted against them. In the weeks prior to the election, activists carried posters in Kiev il- lustrating ballots with several names crossed out. The defeat of so many top Com- B-ball fans find Seattle unreachable BY GIL RENBERG Following the Wolverines' Southeast Regional victory over the Virginia Cavaliers last Saturday, many students decided they would trek to Seattle to watch Michigan compete in the NCAA Basketball Tournament's Final Four. So before dawn on Monday, a large crowd of stu- dents began to gather in front of the Athletic Depart- ment ticket office; each was prepared to pay $55 for a ticket to the three games this weekend. The University was allotted 2,000 tickets for the tournament, said Al Renfrew, the Athletic Depart- ment's ticket manager. He said everyone who wanted a ticket was accommodated. But once they had obtained their tickets, many stu- dents discovered there was no way to get to Seattle. Seats on most direct flights were already booked, and the few seats still available cost up to $1,100. Inexpensive airfare to Seattle has been hard to find because students had less than a week to book their flights. To get a discount, most airlines require that passengers reserve seats at least a week in advance. - Um m e