a } b 4 . ..;. !. ...:....:::.:::; ; ;. -:-: --:::: :.:":,::. : .:: , :." . .~*'#/ a ~ ,N.,~~ . . . ..~\ N~~tto OPINION 4 ARTS 7 SPORTS 11 Michigan defensive coordinator Lloyd Carr applies for Wisconsin job Parental consent laws and abortion The Breadshop: Worth your dough £ kidiaulaBil Ninety-nine years of editorial freedom Vol. C, No. 64 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Wednesday, December 6, 1989 TO Conservatives take control atMSA Coalition takes 8 of 9 LSA spots in error-filled election by Karen Akerlof Conservative Coalition candidates Dufrane. Daily Staff Writer said their party won because of its Even Choice candidates acr U LSA representative winners eed the. Sciarrota, Joe (CC) Dufrane, Kyle (CC) Slaven, James (CC) Shackman, Joshua (CC)' Duncan, Stu (CC) Maquera, Dave (CC) 1979 199 207 I 210 213 216 211S75 Fey, Ingrid (Ch) Reily, Rob (CC) Hayes, Heidi (CC) The Conservative Coalition notched a major victory in last week's controversial Michigan Stu- dent Assembly elections, according to election results validated by the Central Student Judiciary's Election Court late Monday night. Conservative Coalition won eight of the nine LSA representative positions and secured a plurality on the 48-member assembly. The coali- tion's victory raised suspicions among rival Choice party candidates that their party was hurt by Election Director Michelle Putnam's fum- bling of the elections. The student court decided to vali- date the election results despite the objections of several candidates and the admission that 19 ballots were missing the names of some candi- dates. . Failed Choice candidate Jason Krumholtz, calling the election a "sham," said his party will contest the validity of the election before a higher court of Central Student Judi- ciary. organization, and said they were sat- isfied with the legitimacy of the election. "It was a fair election because there were mistakes around, but the people who campaigned the hardest won," said Conservative Coalition winner James Slaven. "We got out there and got the students," said coalition winner Kyle ' a Suiawa agtSjJ A . * coalition did a good job publicizing their party before the campaign. "They had a hell of a lot of people," said defeated Choice candidate Jen- nifer Van Valey. Four Choice candidates' names were left off some ballots, including the name of the only Choice candi- date elected, Ingrid Fey. Only one of See ELECTIONS, page 5 Coalition gets mandate from frustrated 'U' student body Engineering (2004 Total Points) Michael Donovan (CC) Bryan Mistele (CC) Sreenivas Cherukan (CC) Rackham (977 Points) Corey Dolgan (Ch) Tun Thwin (Ind.) Gene Kavanatsky (CC) 636 605 366 319 247 144 Business (40 Votes) Peter Speer (CC) Physical Education (5 votes) Brian Movalson (Ch) Public Health (12 votes) Paul Oppendisano (Ind.) Music School (54 votes) Laura Sankey (Ch) Medical Schodl (11 votes) Sundar Ramasamy (CC) 29 Votes 4 Votes 12 Votes 35 Votes 11 Votes by Josh Mitnick Daily MSA Reporter Students on campus have issued conservatives a mandate. The Conservative Daily Coalition scored a News Analysis decisive victory by winning 14 of 20 contested seats in assembly presidency along with six other seats. While MSA's spring presidential elections are usually considered more important than fall balloting, last week's voting will prove to be a pQ- litical watershed for the assembly. In March, MSA President Aaron Williams defeated three other candi- dates with only a 31 percent plural- ity, facing a factionalized opposition that splintered moderate and liberal See ANALYSIS, Page 5 Where figures are in "points", candidates were ranked by voters in order or preference last week's Michigan Student Assembly elections. The voting fol- lowed last spring's elections, when coalition candidates captured the Ex-E. EAST BERLIN (AP) - Former Communist Party chief Erich Ho- necker and other members of his ousted leadership were placed under house arrest yesterday, and the gov- ernment disarmed the Communist Party's private army. Angry East Germans, swept up in a near-frenzy aimed at rooting out past corruption, surrounded police headquarters in several cities to halt the further destruction of secret po- lice documents that could be used in prosecutions. Under Honecker's hard-line rule, the secret police was the main instrument for keeping people under control. Communist Party leaders ap- german leader arrested E. German gov't disarms private Communist party army pealed for calm to avoid "anarchy and chaos" in East Germany, which in the past two months has seen the ouster of its long-time leaders, mass pro-democracy protests, the historic opening of its borders and promises of free elections and other reforms. The Interior Ministry said the government was disarming the "fighting groups," the Communist Party-run militia based in the na- tion's factories. The ministry said the weapons taken away included automatic rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and anti - aircraft guns as well as armored per- sonnel carriers. The ministry said it was taking charge of the weapons. Western estimates said the militia counted 3,000 active members, but could draw on reserves of 500,000 people. A day earlier, the militia officers urged the rank-and-filed to break their oath of loyalty to the Communist Party. The militia is under the party's direct command. Saturday, in Czechoslovakia, the army began disarming the Commu- nists' paramilitary People's Militia, which was created 40 years ago to protect the workplace from counter- revolutionaries and later guarded the Communists' monopoly on power. Also on yesterday, East Ger- many's top lawyer, Wolfgang Voger, was arrested on suspicion of "criminal extortion," the official ADN news agency said. Voger for years handled spectacu- lar East-West spy and prisoner swaps, and was a confidant of Ho- necker. He also represented a top- ranking fugitive East German offi- cial, Alexander Schalck-Golod- kowski. Johnson to become first vice pres. for External Relations by Noah Finkel the question "how do we interface with (state resid Daily Administration Reporter needs and how can we use our resources to f ents') fulfill Long-time Vice President for Student Services Henry Johnson will soon become the University's first Vice President for External Relations. Though Johnson said he and President James Duder- stadt have not yet nailed down the specifics of the newly-created post, he said the "general thrust of the job will be working with constituencies outside the Univer- sity." The job will consist of working with "pockets of people" that have or want to have a relationship with the University, he said. Johnson, who has been at his current post since 1972, said one of his primary roles will be answering them?" Because of the uncertainty in details on what his job duties will be, Johnson said he could not comment fur- ther on his job description. Johnson said he began contemplating the move last July after Duderstadt asked him about it. He agreed to the move early this fall. The decision coincided with Duderstadt's announce- ment at his State of the University Address that the Of- fice of Student Services and the Office of Research will soon report to Office of the Provost and Vice President Academic Affairs, rather than directly to the President. See JOHNSON, page 2 Johnson Bundle up in style Lisa Ellman an LSA sophmore shops in the basement of the Union for sweaters. With the temperatures dropping the sweater sale at the Union serves a good purpose for procastinating students. Communications *chair leaves MSA Czech republic names government with non-Communist majority by Josh Mitnick Daily MSA Reporter Michigan Student Assembly Communications Committee Chair Laura Sankey announced her resigna- tion from the committee and the assembly at the beginning of last night's MSA meeting. In an emotional farewell, Sankey cni chP mnc rPCivnin¢ for nersoal1 The two main things that Sankey wants to devote more time to are set- ting up a student government inside the Music School and fighting anti- Semitism on campus. Sankey, who has served on the assembly for a year, had just been overwhelmingly re-elected as Music School rep. last week. I SA ren Tohn Pnlih . member PRAGUE (AP) - One of Czechoslovakia's two republics named the first government in 41 years dominated by non-Commu- nists, and talks began with opposi- tion leaders on their demands for a new national government. Leaders of the Communist-con- trolled labor organization took the About 2,000 demonstrating stu- dents chanted "Resign! Resign" as Ladislav Adamec, the Communist premier, met with dissident play- wright Vaclav Havel on demands for a new Cabinet to replace the Com- munist-dominated one chosen Sun- day. Jiri Dienstbier, spoksperson for government "a step in the right di- rection," but said its composition still was not an accurate reflection of public opinion. The parliamentary commission investigating the police violence Nov. 17 that started the nation's peaceful revolt, said yesterday that ousted Communist Party chief Mi- los Jakes and Miroslav Stepan, the ?; ;