Incumbent Continued from Page 1 councilmember Liz Brater (D-Third Ward). Brater said Jernigan has not shown enough involvement in com- bating the city's problems. "I think he's been a do-nothing mayor." But councilmember Thomas Richardson (R-Fifth Ward) disagrees. He said his Democratic council peers want Jernigan "to take a Coleman Young-like role in a government that wasn't made to be that way." Jernigan agrees with the Republicans interpretation of the mayoral office. He said the Demo- cratic view of the position calls for micro-management on the part of the mayor and he disagrees with this in- tel:pretation of the city charter. ."They (the Democrats) want to go downtown and run the city," Jerni- gan said. "The city charter specifi- cally states (the city administrator) runs the city." Jernigan works about 20 hours a week as mayor. He is also an in- vestment analyst for the University. Jernigan considers crime and the landfill two of the biggest issues facing the city. Although he consid- ers crime a major problem, he said that the city has taken steps to alle- viate it. He said the city's crime rate was increasing by 17 percent a year when he took office and the rate has plummeted to two percent this year. When the crime problem wors- ened at the corner of Liberty and Maynard last summer, Jernigan as- signed more police officers to the area. He also pushed for more police foot patrols in the downtown area. "We think we have a lot of po- lice in the evening, we can't have a police officer all of the place all of the time," said Jernigan. A heavy police presence may be more difficult with the eight vacan- cies that currently exist in the police department. City officials do not plan to fill those vacancies until the city's budget problem is alleviated. The city currently faces an esti- mated budget deficit of $2.8 million. The city council is asking voters to pass a ballot proposal which would allow a raise in city property taxes. aJernigan said the vacancies in the police department and fire depart- ment, currently numbering 13, will stay vacant if the override does not pass. The Michigan Daily - Friday, March 31, 1989 - Page 5 Soviet space probe Phobos II damaged MOSCOW (AP) - Officials worked around the clock Wednesday to restore contact with a space probe circling the Martian moon Phobos, but hopes were fading that they could save the $500 million project. A commission has been formed to determine the cause of the failure of Phobos II and present its conclu- sions in a week, said Sergei Zav- gorodny, an official at Glavkosmos, the Soviet space agency. In an interview with the newspa- per Izvestia, Glavkosmos head Alexander Dunayev said scientists were awaiting the commission's findings before taking further action. Scientists at Moscow's Space Research Institute, which developed the project to explore Mars and Phobos, its biggest moon, met throughout the day Wednesday. One expert emerged and gave a gloomy assessment of the future of the spacecraft, whose companion probe Phobos I became lost in space in September after a ground con- troller sent an erroneous computer command. "The situation is bad and hon- estly, there are fewer and fewer hopes. Chances to regain contact with the probe are very small," said Alexander Zaknarov, a project scien- tist. A Soviet TV commentator sug- gested that Western news reports claiming the problem was "catastrophic" were exaggerated and cited successful studies by the craft of solar radiation and the surface of Mars conducted before the communication failure. The report on the evening new program "Vremva" featured detailed maps of the Martian surface taken by the spacecraft. Ground control has received spo- radic radio signals from the un- manned spacecraft, but no regular contact, Zaknarov said. 11 Izvestia said the problem occurred Monday when ground controllers" were trying to re-orient the spacecraft, to take photographs of the Martian- moon. After the maneuver, it said., controllers were unable to contact the craft despite repeated attempts. Loss of Phobos II would be a se- vere setback for the $480 million international Phobos project led by the Soviet Union. Twenty-two countries and the European Space Agency have contributed technology or experiments to the project, and the Untied States was helping track the two craft with NASA's Deep Space Network. Loss of communications appar- ently would prevent Phobos II from dropping two small landing craft onto the surface of the Martian moon. Soviet news reports in Jan- uary said the spacecraft was to ap-" proach the moon next month tc analyze its soil with a laser and thet release two landers. 99 ROBIN LOZNAK/DaIly Lila Green, good humor ambassador to U of M Good humor lightens classroom BY ANN MAURER AND MATTHEW SHANKIN What do you get when you cross a witty, enthusiastic woman with a classroom filled with toys - and 34 professors? If you guessed an adult pre-school, you're not far off the mark. This is Humor 101, a workshop that teaches University lecturers and professors how to lighten up the classroom atmosphere by using humor as part of the "educational diet." "I think our professors are experiencing a hardening of the attitudes" said Lila Green, the founder and teacher of the seminar. Green works as a program con- sultant at University Hospitals. "I believe everyone was born with a sense of hu- mor, but on the way to a PhD it gets hammered down," she said. Green's seminar, given three times a year, draws faculty members from English to Aerospace Engin- eering. The workshop offers alternative methods of teaching practical ideas - such as drawing cartoons and telling personal anecdotes to add drama and excite- ment to the classroom. "Sleeping students don't learn," she said. "When you're getting bored, they're getting bored." Instructors need to tap into their humor resources, said Green. "Look for humor and it will find you," is a motto Green lives by. Green thinks there is a minimal correlation between joke telling and a good sense of humor. "To make a baby laugh do you tell it a joke?" adding that it's more important to be lighthearted. The workshop is not intended to be a comedy show; participants should expect to be enlightened rather than entertained. Her ultimate goal is to teach the faculty to lighten-up. But she cautions "I don't analyze humor to death, because as Mark Twain once said,' when you dissect a frog, you may learn a lot.... but you wind up with a dead frog'" Class Continued from Page 1 planations of the origins and persis- tence of the inequalities associated with racial and ethnic social cate- gories. -Exposure through literature or other means to the experiences of peoples of color in this country. -Discussion of the ways in which students encounter racism and ethnic discrimination and their effects in various spheres of their lives, and of how change can be brought about. Cftiin. The Executive Committee will also be presenting a proposal, requiring students entering the Col- lege in the fall of 1991 and thereafter to receive credit for at least 3 hours of course work dealing with race and other issues diversity in modern so- ciety. -M41 B IL U lE I I x f 1 - !^'' A I rFrA A&1I Spring concert UAC/Amazin' Blue present Satrday, April I, 1989 Michiga Union Ballroom 8:00 p.m. " .~w ijd REt51IAUKA N l "24 YEARS EXPERIENCE" ---CHEF JAN TOP GOLD MEDAL WINNER JUDGES SPECIAL AWARD SPONSORED BY MICHIGAN RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION MICHIGAN CHEFS DE CUISINE ASSOCIATION BLUE RIBBON WINNER BEST CHEF AWARD IN WASHINGTON D.C. Szechuan-Hunan-Peking DINE IN OR CARRY OUT SERVICE V... 1201 S. University 668-2445 - Open 7 days a week 11am -l10pm The University of Michigan ElSCHOOL OAF MUSIC Thursday- Dance and the Related Arts. Sunday Tickets: $4, phone 763-5460. March 30- Studio A, Dance Department April 2 Thursday-Saturday, 8 p.m. Sunday, 2 p.m. Opera Theatre-The Marriage of Figaro (in English), by W.A. Mozart. Gustav Meier, music director/conductor; Jay Lesenger, stage director. Tickets: $7 & $10, general admission; $5, students with ID. Available at MI League Ticket Office, phone 764-0450. Thursday-Saturday, 8 p.m. Sunday, 2 p.m. University Players-We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! by Dario Fo Barry Goldman, director. Tickets: $7 general; $5, students with ID. Available at MI League Ticket Office, phone 764-0450. Thursday-Saturday, 8 p.m. Sunday, 2 p.m. U. Ticks available at Michigan Union Ticket Office Friday March 31 Ticks:$2.00 Call 763-TKTS for more info Women's Glee Club, Madrigal Group and Harmonettes- Rosalie Edwards, director. Works of Purcell, Dello, Joio, Debussy, and Casals, plus "A Salute to the '60s" and Favorite "M" Songs. Tickets: $5, general admission; $3 students and seniors, at the door. r Rackham, 8 p.m. ONAT Outstanding Film of 1987- London Film Festival Official Selection-1987 Cannes Film Festival USA PREMIERE of a film Produced by WIM WENDERS written, composed and directed by Zulfu Livaneli based on a novel by Nobel Nominee Sunday April 2 Percussion Ensemble. McIntosh Theatre, 4 p.m. FREE Jelinek-Gurt Duo- # . Jerome Jelinek, celo; Joseph Gurt, piano. Beethoven, Sonalta in G Minor, Ginastera, Pampeana No. 2, Debussy, Sonate, Brahms, Sonata in F Major. Recital Hall, 4 p.m. FREE YASHAR KEMAL presented by the