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Speaker
stresses
Jensen forces
GOP primary
economic
equality
f or
Blacks
BY LIZ ROBBOY
Joseph Madison, cited by Ebony
Magazine as one of "50 Leaders of
the Future," delivered a potpourri of
humorous anecdotes, historical
lessons, and a powerful tribute to Dr.
Martin Luther King at Rackham au-
ditorium Saturday night.
Madison, a special advisor to the
president of the Service Employees
International Union and talk show
host on Detroit's WXYT-AM, began
his speech with a sober reminder to
the almost all-Black audience that
"people have struggled a long time
for you to sit in Rackham audito-
rium, to attend this University, and
to enjoy this holiday."
Madison then switched his tone,
saying many Blacks on this campus
and around the world are doing the
Michael Jackson "moonwalk" - that
is, "giving the impression of going
forward when you are really going
backward."
He rhetorically asked the audi-
ence of about 100 if they knew that
Blacks in Detroit spent 95 percent of
their money outside of their commu-
nities, but non-Black Americans
spent only 5 percent of their money
in Black communities."
BY NOAH FINKEL
Perennial Ann Arbor mayoral
candidate Paul Jensen will face in-
cumbent mayor Gerald Jernigan in a
city-wide Republican primary elec-
tion on Feb. 20, City Clerk Winifred
Northcross announced Friday.
The winner of the primary will
face Democratic candidate Raymond
Clevenger in the general mayoral
election April 3.
Mayor Pro Tem Jerry Schleicher
(R-Fourth Ward) said the city-wide
primary election will cost Ann Arbor
$10,000 to $12,000 based on esti-
mates made by the City Clerk's of-
fice.
The decision to hold a primary
came after a week of confusion
stemming from a city requirement
that a candidate must submit at least
50 petition signatures from each of
the city's five wards. The maximum
number of signatures a candidate can
submit on the nominating petition is
350.
Schleicher said requiring more
signatures eliminates less serious
candidates, but he was uncertain of
the rationale behind a petition limit.
"I have some concern about how
serious a candidate (Jensen) is," he
said.
Jensen originally submitted 397
signatures. He was allowed to strike
names from the petition to reach the
limit, but struck off the wrong 47
names and ended up short seven sig-
natures in one ward.
KAREN HANDELMAN/Daily
Joseph Madison, special advisor on civil rights and WXYT radio talk show host, makes his
"Tribute to Dr. King" speech at Rackham Auditorium.
He cited several other statistics
for 1988, including:
-50 percent of all movie tickets
were purchased by Blacks, yet very
few Blacks star in or direct movies.
-Blacks spent $79 million on
chewing gum, yet Wrigley doesn't
have one Black person on their board
of directors.
"And you wonder why your
neighborhoods look the way they
do," he said. "And you wonder why
you don't get the best education in
your schools."
"Instead of 95 percent, why not
spend 50 percent on your community
and 50 percent in their community?
We must fight for economic justice,"
he said.
Throughout the evening, Madi-
son praised King for his courage,
perseverance, and commitment to
justice. "You cannot sacrifice justice
for security," he said, meeting the
eyes of individual crowd members.
"There are students on this campus
who won't get involved with the
Black movement because they think
they are blessed with the opportunity
to come to this campus, who in the
face of injustice will not participate.
But what good is your security if
there is injustice?"
Madison also talked at length of
the importance of "giving back" to
one's people. Do not, he warned the
audience, just come to this Univer-
sity and then "leave your folk be-
hind."
The city election commission de-
cided to let Jensen on the ballot even
though he technically violated the
amendment.
"The rule doesn't say what should
happen if he goes over the maxi-'
mum, so under the circumstances, it
was best to let him on the ballot,"
explained City Attorney Bruce Laid- ;
law, a member of the city election
commission. The commission is the
body responsible for certifying
candidates for city races.
The Ann Arbor City Council
passed the City Charter amendment
after Jensen forced citywide primaries
for the 1985 and 1987 mayoral races,
though he collected less than 15 per-
cent of the Republican vote each:.
time.
Jensen has repeatedly run for a
variety of public offices, but always
unsuccessfully. He has been dis-
avowed by the Republican party.
"(Jensen) has created great embar-
rassment to the party," said Washte-
naw Republican Party chair Kevin
Kraushaar.
College Republican chair Navid
Mahmoodzedegan said, "He's just
someone trying to find a way to of-
fice. He's not a credible Republican."
Jensen, who has no phone, could
not be reached for comment.
Americans are not included in the
program, and are thus exempt from ,
TOP funds. Since the University
considers Asian American students,
as a "nonunderrepresented minority,"
Moody said, they are not included in
the program, yet still listed as one of
the mandate's successes.
Although the University adheres
to the federal definition of
"minority," when applied to TOP,
Asian Americans are systematically'
excluded.
"The concept of nonunderepre-
sented minorities should be abol-
ished," said LSA senior Jennifer Liu,
member of the University of Michi-
gan Asian Student Coalition. "It pits
Asians and Asian Americans against'
other minorities by forcing them to:
compete for resources. It is ex-
tremely destructive and counterpro-
ductive."
Moody, however, said the Office'
of Minority Affairs makes an effort
to address Native American and
Asian American concerns by hiring ,a
workers who represent both respec
tive groups.
Mandate
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student pressure subsides.
UCAR member and LSA junior
Lisa Parker views the mandate as
administrative public relations ma-
neuvering.
"UCAR does not accept the man-
date as an effective way to create an
anti-racist community at U of M,"
Parker said. "The concept that Dud-
erstadt keeps talking about - striv-
ing for ethnic diversity on campus
- is glossing over the real prob-
lems."
"The problems that exist here are
institutional. To attempt to create a
diverse campus without altering the
institutions - the admissions pol-
icy, for example - is simply cos-
metic," she said.
But University officials say the
mandate does directly address racial
problems on campus. Officials con-
tend that many of the initial gains of
the mandate involve increased fund-
ing as well as publicity of minority
programs where commitment of
people and resources had previously
been made - well in existence be-
fore the mandate.
'For example, Duderstadt's plan to
increase minority student enrollment
comes two years after the Michigan
legislature passed an act to "increase
the participation of underrepresented
Americans in post-secondary educa-
tion [Public Act 219, 1986]."
Also, the University is one of 13
institutions statewide to participate
in the state-sponsored
King/Chavez/Parks educational pro-
gram, designed to encourage minor-
ity students to pursue a higher
education.
The state program focuses on 7th
to 11th grade minority students and
informs them about college oppor-
tunities as well as financial support
at all post-secondary levels.
This program appears partly re-
sponsible for an increase in minority
enrollment for the fall of 1988. To-
tal minority enrollment was up 15
percent (4,199). Asian American en-
rollment is now at 2,024, Black at
2,011, Hispanic at 824, and Native
American at 132.
One example of an effort to retain
minority students is an orientation
program in the College of Engineer-
ing.
"For the past five to six years
incoming freshmen minority stu-
dents in engineering have been given
extensive instruction in math, com-
puters and success skills in July and
August," Associate Dean of Aca-
demic Affairs for Engineering Erdo-
gan Gulari said.
"The mandate has expanded the
scope of the program to twice its
size since last year."
Department of Political Science
Chair Jack Walker views minority
faculty recruitment as mostly a mat-
ter of funds.
"There's no magic in it," Walker
said. "You simply have to spend
huge amounts of money. The atti-
tude of the administration is, 'if you
can come up with someone, we can
come up with some money.'"
Attracting minority faculty -
another goal of the mandate - is
implemented, in part, in the Target
of Opportunity Program. The pro-
gram takes 1 percent of the general
budget and awards the funds to any
University department actively hir-
ing a minority.
"Target of Opportunity finan-
cially is helping the college to make
better offers to minorities so we can
compete with the other colleges and
other industrial firms. We can go af-
ter candidates even if we don't have a
programatic need at the moment,"
Gulari explained.
For Fall 1988, TOP has resulted
in the hiring of 19 new Black fac-
ulty, despite no new Hispanic or
Native American faculty, and three
minority faculty have since left the
University. Latino students on cam-
pus view the administration's lack of
progress in this area as "foot-drag-
ging" and a "discouraging sign."
Administrators say three separate
offers were made to candidates. But
Socially Active Latino Students As-
sociation member Elsa Barboza, an
LSA senior, said the administration
failed to cooperate with students
during the search.
"As long as there's no student
input into minority recruitment and
hiring, the administration remains
unaccountable to students-and makes
the mandate's promises extremely
difficult to keep in check," she said.
Asian American and Native
American students are also concerned
with the University's hiring prac-
tices.
Though 11 Asian American fac-
ulty were hired for Fall 1988, Asian
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Equity: A Challenge of the King Legacy
Wednesday, January 18
7:00-9:00 pm.
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Sunday, January 15
Keynote address:
The Honorable Willie Brown, Speaker
California House of Representatives
4:30 p.m..Hil Auditorium
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Monday, January 16
Plenary session:
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The Honorable Mayor,
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