1£ ir rn ai Ninety-nine years of editorialfreedom Vol. IC, No. 130 Ann Arbor, Michigan -- Monday, April 10, 1989 Copyright 1989, The Michigan Daily Fisher to be named 'M' coach today BY STEVE BLONDER AND ADAM SCHRAGER Michigan interim basketball coach Steve Fisher will be named head coach at a press conference scheduled for 11 a.m. today at Crisler Arena. Athletic Director Bo Schembech- ler did not interview any other candidates before offering Fisher the job. Terms of the deal were not available last night, but most Michigan coaches have one-year hand-shake agreements. The University's Board of Re- gents is expected to approve Fisher at its April meeting. Fisher and Schembechler were unavailable for comment. "I don't think anybody knows who the next head coach is going to be," Michigan assistant Brian Dutcher said. "The only people who know would be Bo, (Associate Ath- letic Director Jack Weidenbach), and Steve. Steve would be the only one who would tell me and I haven't heard a thing. "If (the naming) is happening to- day, then it is great, not only for him, but for Michigan basketball as well." Schembechler had made it clear throughout the Wolverines' NCAA tournament run that he would not make any decision until the tourna- ment had ended. Schembechler and Fisher met twice last week to discuss the coaching vacancy, once on Wednes- day and again on Friday. "Steve Fisher is a class person, See Fisher, Page 12 Students protest JNF dinner BY DIMA ZALATIMO About 150 angry pro-Palestinian protestors shouted "Shame! Shame!" at guests arriving at the Jewish Na- tional Fund's $150-a-plate dinner last night. "We are protesting the JNF be- cause of its discriminatory land policies," said Nuha Khoury, a member of the Palestine Solidarity Committee and Rackham graduate student. Khoury said the purpose of the demonstration was to show soli- darity with Palestinians in the occu- pied territories. The protesters also took issue with the JNF's selection of Univer- JESSICsity President James Duderstadt as outside Ann Arbor'Honorary Chairperson. LSA first- See dinner, Page 2 Members of the Palestinian Solidarity Committee protest the dinner sponsored by the Jewish National Fund last night Campus Inn. About 150 people protested the dinner, but were countered by about 20 pro-Israel demonstrators. JNF hosts 'tree of life' awards dinner BY FRAN OBEID Several University officials attended the Jewish National Fund's "Tree of Life Award Dinner," honoring U.S. Congress member Carl Pursell (R-Plymouth), at Ann Arbor's Campus Inn last night. Members of several local pro-Palestine groups, however, protested University offi- cials' attendance outside the event, saying they were favoring one side of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Though President James Duderstadt's name is on the event's program as one of the Hon- orary Chairs, he did not attend. Instead, the President addressed alumni groups yesterday during a televised satellite hookup. Assistant to the President :Shirley Clark- son said earlier in the week that "the President had never planned to go to the dinner - his name should not have been on the program." But JNF staff member Howard Ingram said yesterday, "No name appears on the program unless there was agreement." Ingram would not say whether the Presi- dent intended to join the dinner. Khoury, one of the protesters outside the Campus Inn yesterday, said the PSC was protesting the dinner because they wanted to make people aware of the JNF's policies. "They (the JNF) are taking lands that be- long to Palestine and they are giving and de- veloping them to benefit only the Jewish cit- izens of Israel," said Khoury. About 150 people, mostly students, protested the JNF dinner. About 20 people counterprotested in sup- port of the JNF. "The protest that PSC is doing is unfair - it doesn't look at all the facts. The JNF has no policy of favoring Jews over Arabs," said Tagar president, Keith Hope, a LSA se- nior and counterprotester. University Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Charles Vest, also listed on the program as being on the dinner commit- tee, did not attend. Vest was also present at the alumni satellite linkup. University Regent Deane Baker (R-Ann Arbor), and Vice President for Research Linda Wilson, however, both attended the JNF din- ner. "I'm here to honor Carl Pursell," said Baker. "He has been a strong supporter for the University in obtaining research funds and for several of the schools." Wilson said she went to the dinner because she works with Pursell and agreed that "he has been a good supporter of the Universities activites." Political Science Prof. Raymond Tanter, who teaches a class on the Arab-Israeli con- flict, said people came to the dinner as indi- viduals and not to represent the University. "I'm proud to take part of this enterprise. I don't speak for the University. If Pro-Arab students had some function, I'd be happy to take part as well," said Tanter. More than0 drawn to More than 100 protesters defend fetal rights BY TARA GRUZEN SPECIAL TO THE DAILY WASHINGTON, D.C. - People are misguided in thinking that a fetus is not a human being, said anti- abortion activists counter-protesting yesterday's rally to defend abortion rights. "Four thousand lives are taken each day (by abor- tion). It's worse than the Holocaust," said Laura Pen- - nesather, a resident of Virginia and one of about 100 anti-abortion activists attending the march. "If I have to die to stop abortion, that's fine." Pro-choice ralliers, who marched past the scattered " group of anti-abortionists, chanted, "Pro-life, who are they kidding? They're pro-war and anti-women." - And as the yelling started to get louder, the anti- 4 abortionists responded, "Equal rights for unborn chil- n fA dren." n "It's not just a mother anymore. There are two R people now," said anti-abortionist Tom Ehart, a resi- dent of Greenbelt, Maryland. He said because he had - relatives killed in World War I and a grandfather in a Nazi concentration camp, every human life is sacred to him. He added that although thousands of people at the rally believe women have the right to kill their babies, many strongly disagree. Among the literature that the anti-abortionists tried to distribute to the marchers, was a pamphlet that Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators rallied in Washington D.C. to show supprt f traced the developmental landmarks of a fetus. See Protest, Page 2 D.C. for rally Pro-choice supporters rally in D.C. BY LAURA COUNTS AND TARA GRUZEN SPECIAL TO THE DAILY WASHINGTON, D.C. - Echoing through the streets of the Capitol yesterday, the voices of more than 600,000 pro-choice demonstrators chanted, "We will never go back again." During the march, sponsored by the National Orga- nization for Women, pro-choice activists called on the nation to defend abortion rights and fight for women's equality. More than half of the marchers were college stu- dents from around the country. Later this month, the Supreme Court will hear Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, the case that could overturn the 1973 Supreme Court ruling Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion. "It's ridiculous that we would want to roll back to decades ago when abortion was illegal," said Univer- sity of Michigan nursing school junior Lisa Wallace, one of the large number of University students who participated in the march. "It's already happened in Michigan with Propositon A." "If we're not going to fight who will?" asked Jackie Kadanoff, an RC senior. Two buses from the Ann Arbor NOW chapter and one bus from the Ann Arbor Tenants Union brought University students and Ann Arbor residents to the march, which started at noon yesterday. Catherine Brighton, a student from Smith College in Massachusetts, said over eight busloads of students - most of the student body - came to the march. She asked, "How could we responsibly not be here?" Pat Nolen, a finance junior at University of New Hampshire, shouted, "The Supreme Court should mind its own uterus." Carrying signs with slogans such as "Keep your laws off my body" and "Rapists make lousy fathers," banging pots and pans, dancing, and singing, the protesters marched from the Washington Monument down Constitution Avenue to a rally at the Capitol Building. "I will make it my job to make sure we have safe, clean abortions," said actress Whoopi Goldberg, one of Associated Press or abortion rights. South U. melee may result in more INSIDE city/University communication LSA faculty members oppose ed- ucation. BY KRISTINE LALONDE Those who rushed onto S. University Ave. after Monday night's NCAA cham- pionship, did more than celebrate Michi- gan's first national basketball champi- onship. They did $78,000 worth of dam- } age to the area's businesses, according to O *,L A ai iior:t~ T. NA- TITd 0 rA-...f the scene. City officials said they want the Uni- versity to foot the bill for the damages to city property and overtime. But University President James Duderstadt said the Uni- versity will not pay. Pete Pellerito, the University's senior Many city council members and the mayor have said they want the University to contribute more money for services such as fire and police protection. The University, which owns 17 percent of the city's property, does not pay property taxes. Pih it nfi ir ni IUniversrity nd-t See Opinion, Page 4 lives up to its name. See Arts, Page 9 Dead Calm1 Michigan's men's tennis estab- lished itself as the favorite in the Big Ten this weekend.